The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 13, 1925, Page 6

S\ Page Six % sR RRR vasa THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (In Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $2.50 three months { $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, lilinols ¥, 7a a WILLIAM F, DUNNE a MORITZ J. LOEB... Editors Business Manager Entered as second-class mall September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Ohi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879. Advertising rates on application, —=—— <i 290 China on the March From Canton to Pekin the Chinese nation has risen against im- perialism. That we are learning, thru the unsatisfactory medium of cap- italist press correspondents, of a great historical event--a drive for complete freedom from foreign capitalist dominations on the part of the largest single nation in the word—cannot be doubted. The Pekin government demands the disarming of all troops of the imperalist powers and the withdrawal of their gunboats, the students and workers of Shanghai, in a meeting where 50,000 as- sembled, adopt a resolution for a general and nation-wide strike if the murderers of their comrades are not punished, the:Chinese sea- men strike and tie up all foreign shipping. The Chinese people, 443,000,000 strong, are on the march. Behind them stand the 160,000,000 workers and peasants of Soviet Russia. Since the Russian revolution in 1917 there has been no event of such supreme importance to the hundreds of millions of enslaved colonial peoples and to the world’s working class. We can, however, withont any exaggeration, say that the beginning of the end of. im- perialism in the Far East is in sight. . The immediate question is: Can the imperialist powers reconcile their bitter antagonisms and present a united military front to the Chinese liberation move- ment? Is it to be peace in the Pacific or war? The Riffian Advance The Riffians are attacking the French expedition forces in Morocco along a sixty mile front as Pemier Painleve arrives on a tour of inspection. The French have been forced out of a number of their strongholds and are evidently retiring in many sectors. The remarks of Painleve, quoted in dispatches, shed much light on the attitude of French imperialism. He said: The day that the Riffiane renounce thelr proclaimed Inten- tion of taking Fez and -acoept an honest peace with normal economis relations . + «+++ France will be ready to make these enemies our collaborators. This is quite clear to us and the sturdy fight the Riffians are put- ting up shows that they too are clear on the matter. It means that if the Rifflans will surrender their country to the French exploiters “normal economic relations,” that is, the unhampered robbery of them, will continue. They will be “allowed” to submit to any kind of servitude the French imperialists desire to enforce. This is what is meant by accepting the Riffians as “collaborators.” The Riffans have had plenty of experience with the concrete application of this policy, first by Spain and then by France. They are fed up with it and while-probably having no knowledge of “the role of colonial peoples in final stage of capitalism” from the theo- retical standpoint, they are damned good shots and have very definite ideas as to who the enemy is. These hard riding, close shooting, Koran reading dark-skinned tribesmen are giving French imperialism the fight of its life and we are for them. New Light on Centralia The recent affidavit signed in behalf of the I. W. W. by two resi- dents of Centralia, detailing the part played by Judge Wilson, who tried the defendants in the famous case, in the conspiracy of busi- nessmen and the lumber barons preceding the raid on the I. W. W. hall, would, under ordinary circumstances, entitle the convicted men now in Walla Walla peniteniary to a new trial. But in the present state of affairs, with the lumber interests in control, only mass pressure can get results. The affidavit states plainly that Judge Wilson openly invited violence against “radicals” and that “he expressed enmity for the WwW. WwW.” This was the man who administered “impartial” justice in the Montesano case to the workers who defended themselves and their hall from an armistice day mob led by chamber of commerce hench- men. It is almost six years since the Centralia defendants were ar- rested. They have been in jail all of this time. In labor circles there has never been any doubt of their innocence; a labor jury selected by the Seattle labor movement attended the trial and branded it asaframe-up. The cases of these workers, legally under thesjuris- diction of the state of Washington, is actually a case of national im- portance. The late President Harding evidently thought so because he made a special journey to Centralia and laid a wreath.on the graves of the lumber trust tools whom his masters sent to their deaths, 4 Surely there is some way by which national interest can be aroused in and focused on this crime of Washington capitalism and these working class fighters released. The signing of this affidavit indicates a revival of the effort on behalf of the Centralia defendants and the DAILY WORKER can be depended upon to give the campaign all the publicity possible. Brookwood college is to have a class in discussion on the topic ' “The Labor Movement as a Career for Students.” This gives a valuable slant on the contribution of this institu- tion, run by as choice a collection of mush-and-mill liberals as was ever collected on one spot, to labor thought. If there is one thing the labor movement does NOT need it is young men who are looking for careers. The Landis award gang and their handpicked crew of union wreckers are on their last legs in Chicago. This is the meaning of the decision Of the building trades unions to refuse to work with non-union workers furnished by the employment board of the bosses. “Oil Industry Cheered By Drop in Crude Output”—Headline in capitalist press. Capitalism has to sabotage its own productive machinery it ap- pears, (et a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. $3.50 six months | Labor Temple. | Satustan The Enslavement of China ARTIOLE V. HE war of 1914 was brought to Asia and made a world war for two reasons: 1. Great Britain was détermined to crush Germany—wipe her out as a great power: This could not be done without-taking from Germany her col- onial possessions, 2, Japan, quite aside from her in- terests as an ally of Great Britain, wanted to remove Germany—hey most active, efficient and therefore, most dangerous commercial competitor. Germany’s semi-military alliance with China gave Japan an additional in- centive. The conflict over fixing the blame for the beginning of hostilities in China has raged all over the world. Some authorities denounce Great Bri- tain, others Japan, The truth is that it was @ joint enterprise of two thieves who had to get rid of a poach- er on thelr fleld of enterprise before they could settle the major question of which one should be supreme. 'N view of the hostility of the British dominions towards the Anglo-Jap- anese alliance, the arrangement has always been a dangerous one for Great Britain, Only the emergency of the great war made it possible for the purposes of the alliance to be ful- filled without an inter-empim crisis. Let us look at a few documents. On August 24, at the time Japan came into the conflict: a correspond- ent urged in the London Times that British commercial interests should “take advantage of every opportunity which may present itself for divert- ing German commerce to our advan- tage.” (Quoted by Gilbert Reid in “Ohina, Captive of Free.” Page 45.) ARON KATO, Japanese minister for foreign affairs, speaking in the Diet on September 4, said: Early in August the British gov- ernment asked the Imperial govern- ment for assistance under the terms of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. The Japanese government therefore re- solved to comply with the British request, and if necessary to open hostilities against Germany. ‘WO weeks before Baron Kato had made the statement quoted above, the London Times had said: It should be sald et ance that the Japanese intervention has not taken place without full ognsultation with Great Britain, Five weeks later the (September 25) Times stated further: We appealed to our ally In the terms of the treaty, and she has answered that appeal with the loy- alty we have-learned to expect of her. Japan had no desire to enter the war. She has done so, the em- peror and his ministers tell us, BE- CAUSE SHE COULD NOT BREAK HER PROMISES. (€mphasis ours.) UT according to a diplomat, author of “The Fall of Tsingtao” under the pen name of Jefferson Jones, who was in Tokio at the tite and in pos- session of the facts, Japan on August 2, told the British government that she was willlng “to put In force the Anglo-Japanese alllance.” Five days later, August 7, the Bri- tish ambassador in Tokio “handed to the foreign office at .Tokio a request that Japan join in the European war.” So far the record. shows that the opportunity to proceed against Ger- many in China was welcomed by both Great Britain and Japan. One was ready to ask aid; the other was wait- ing anxiously for the, request, waiting anxiously that she asked to be asked. UT there are other references whose evidence is still stronger in support of the contention that the declaration of war on Germany by Japan and the seizure of German leased territory by military measures which violated every known rule of international law, was a joint con- spiracy on the part of Great Britain and China, directed at both Germany and China. K. K. Kawakami, himself a Japanese and defender of Japanese foreign pol- icy, writing in the Atlantic Monthly for November, 1914, said What caused Downing Street to Invite Japanese co-operation is not clearly known to the outside world. But the Japanese press /s in all probability, right, when it says that Japan and England were obliged to WEST VIRGINIA TAILOR STRIKE IS EXCEPTIONAL American Women Fight Bravely for Rights. NEW YORK, June 11—(FP)—A bitter fight of members of Journey- men Tailors’ Union Local 350 against the National Woolen Mills of Parker- eourg, West Vigginia, is being brought to the attention of unionists all over the country. Emmanuel Jacobs, general organ- izer of the tailors in New York, says that the company organized about 15 years ago and asked the union to organize its plant. For 15 years the business grew until the concern was worth $1,000,000 and had retail stores in many cities. An All American Strike Suddenly on January 24, 1925 the firm locked out the union and declar- ed that those who wished to return would have to come back to an open- shop. The remarkable thing about the lockout, which is now a strike, is that the majority of the workers are native Americans, 75 per cent of them women, Jacobs asserts, and they have remained out over 18 weeks without a single break in their ranks. Strike benefits of $6 to $7 cannot support them but their solidarity is exemplary, Jacobs says. Even a severe injunction against picketing and all strike activities has not scared the workers. College Training and Union Label The president of the company com- mitted suicide recently, during the strike and possibly because of it, ac- cording to the strikers. Strikers also say that the president’s son returned from college with 100 per cent plus Americanism and open shop ideas which he immediately attempted to put into effect in the union shop. The company is now sending out letters to its stores that it will have the label of the United Garment Workers on its clothes soon, Jacobs states. Work is being sent out from Parkersburg to independent shops. In Baltimore the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers’ Union refused to accept work from the National Woolen Mills because of the tailors’ strike. ‘The Journeymen Tailors, Local No, 1, is conducting a vigorous organiza- tion campaign in New York. About 75 per cent of the tailors are Italians, so three Italian organizers are kept busy in addition to Jacobs. act promptly In order to frustrate the German scheme to transfer Klaocho to the Chinese government before Germany was compelled to surrender it at the point of the sword. Had Germany succeeded In carrying out this scheme she would still have enjoyed, in virtue of Ar- tlole Five of the Klaochow conven- tlon of 1898, the privilege of seour- | ing In some future time “a more suitable territory” In China. This ‘wae exactly the condition which the allles did not want to see establish- ed In China. If, on the other hand, Germany was forced to abandon Kiaochow by the arbitrament of the sword, China would no longer be under obligation to “cede to Ger- many a more sultable place.” EST some of our readers get the mistaken impression from the last sentence quoted that Japan took Kiao- chow so that China would be relieved of the necessity of ceding to Germany “a more suitable territory,” in other words, that Great Britain and Japan went to war on Germany in China for China’s good, let us see what Japan actually did. To attack Tsingtao the Japanese landed troops at Lungkow—not @ Bri- tish or German but a Chinese port and marched them 150 miles across Shantung peninsula—Chinese terri- tory. Bodies of Japanese troops made detours, occupying cities and towns of the province wide of the direct line of march. Wherever they went, the Japanese assumed control of the country, means of communication, posts and telegraphs; and subject- ed the Chinese population to many hardships, indignities and depriva- tlons, which were observed and re- ported by American and British missionaries in that region. (Thomas F. Millard, “Our Eastern Question,” Page 107.) Japan then, made war on China as well as on Germany; made war on a neutral power just as Germany did in the case of Belgium and in co-opera- tion with the troops of the same gov- ernment, that» made the violation of Belgian neutrality a pretext for war on Germany. MARTIAL LAW IN OKLAHOMA CITY AS UNION MINERS BATTLE SCABS AND IMPORTED COMPANY GUNMEN (Special to The Daily Worker) HENRYETTA, Okla., June 11.—The bitter and continuous warfare which for weeks United Mine Workei flared into Open last night. is been going on between the rank and file members of the, rn have been trying to organize the non-union mines, ie As a result the to is under martial law with state troops Patrolling the streets with fixed bayonets. The union miners virtually took possession of the town after company. gunmen had attempted to prevent non-union miners being solicited by union men to line up against the bosses, Andrew Meitus, a scab, is known to be perhaps fatally injured and many others are hurt, The troops of oceupation are tho: se of Company E of Okmulgee, called out after midnight wnge the town was in the hands of battling miners. CHICAGO LABOR DEFENSE FORCES TO MEET FRIDAY | The Chicago conference for La- bor Defense and Relief will meet Friday, June 12, (today) at Greek Workers’ Hall, 722 Blue Island Ave., 8 p. m. sharp. Arrangements will be made for a monster m meeting to wind up the national conference of all Labor Defense organizations on June 28th. Temple Hall has been secured and Bishop William Montgomery Brown, Alexander Howatt and Scott Near- ing, well as William Z. Foster and C, E, Ruthenberg will be the speakers, In addition there is the matter of getting full returns on the new de- fense coupons. just sent to alé bran- ches, All delegates are expected to bring in the names, addrei and former military unit of all ex-serv- ice men in or friendly to our move- ment for the fortherance of the Crouch-Trumbull agitation, Settle- ments of all outstanding accounts are also urged. ae Art Shields Will Address New York Worker Correspondents NEW YORK.—Art, Shields of the Federated Press will” speak this Sa- turday evenings Junev6th at the it ing of New York Workers Correspond- ents at 108 East Ith street on the subject: “The Federated Press and How to Report Labor News.” Admis- sion is free. The class begins at seven o'clock, Five thousand subs for Red Week. Red Week of June 15 to 21, “MOTHER” BLOOR BLAZING RED.. » TRAIL THRU MORMON TERRITORY SATL LAKE CITY, Utah, June 11—Ella Reeve Bloor, veteran Cém- munist, who is making a coast to coast tour in behalf of the DAILY WORKER arrived here yesterday and Is to address a mass meeting tomorrow In the ® Comrade Blooriitt be in Ogden a on Friday and in. Springs on NORWAY HOPES FOR U.S: AID IN ARCTIC SEARCH OSLO, Norway, June 11. — Nor- wegian friends of Captain Roald Amundsen still were hopeful today that the United States will aid in the search in the polar region for thc missing Amundsen-Ellsworth Nortl Pole flyers. There is a possibility a sea expe- dition may go north prepared to re- main all winter in the Arctic and be equipped with sledges to search for Amundsen. It would be desirable that hydroplanes be included for re- connoitering. } This was brought out today in com- ment by the Norwegian newspaper Tidens, which discussed the refusal of Secretary of the Navy Wilbur to allow air craft to join the several re- lief expeditions. Living Newspaper Composed by New York Young Workers NEW YORK, June 11.—The Young Workers League of District New York has arranged a living newspaper for Friday June 12th at 105 Eldridge St., to begin at 8 p. m. sharp. This is the first time in the country that any unit of the League has ar- ranged such a rich educational pro- gram of Leninism. Below is a list of the articles that will be read. Lenin and Imperialism, the National and Peasant Questions by Jack Stachel; Lenin and the Party by Will Herberg; Lenin and the Comintern by S. Don; Lenin and the Trade Unions by J. Rubin; Lenin the the Russian Revolution by H. Fox; Lenin and the Youth by Herbert Zam. — Editor Her- bert Zam, All workers are invited to attend this reading of the living newspaper and to acquaint themselves with the teachings of the greatest leader of the World Revolution, with Leninism. Every sub youyget during Red Week of June 15 to 21 is a sub to nal ety RITING in the New Republic, March 8, 1920, John Dewey says: Japanese troops overran the prov Ince lore they made any serlous attempt to capture Tsingtao. It Is only a slight exaggeration to say that they took the “Chinese” Tsinan before they took the German Tsing- tao. But why did Japan overrun Shang- tung province and seize Tsinan? Be- cause Tsinan was the terminus of the Tsinan-Tsingtao railway. We quote Millard again: Japan’s selzure of the entire Tsin- an-Tsingtao Rallway was not a nec- essary military measure, as was pre- tended but was a POLITICAL move. The seeming acquiescence of Great Britain with this move give it added Importance. These considera- tlons make thle question very signi- floant to Chin: nd also significant to all foreign Invest its existing In China now, and !those which may hope to get.a legitimate foothold In China hereafter. (Emphasis in the original.) . REAT BRITAIN had the single purpose of disposing of Germany permanently .as .a_rival in China and of wiping out the,,German empire. Japan cared nothing about crushing Germany in Hurope.nor did she feel an enmity towards. Germany as a na- tion. We have referred before to the whole affair as a ‘“‘cold blooded” plan conceived so far as Japan was con- cerned, without animosity towards anyone but China. This is borne out by the manner in which the attack on the German for tificatiohs at Tsingtao was conducted: From an Oriental standpoint the slege of Tsingtao will always stand- _out as remarkably free from hat- red. During the operations, Japan- ese officers sent many messages In- to the Tsingtao garrison, wishing thelr German friends and former tu- tors luck and safety during the slege. They placed courtesy fore- most, Instead of indulging in re- crimination such as usually goes on between the German and British officers and troops. General Kamlo- and his officers did not desire'to hu- millate the defeated German. offi- cers. The messages that were Inter- changed during the slege and after- RN tsetse ria By Wm. F. Dunne wards were couched In the most courteous language. (Jefferson Jones, “Fall of Tsingtao,” Page 87.) S late as December 1, 1921, the seizure of Shangtung was defend- ed by K. K. Kawakami. Written at the time of the Washington confer- ence and published later as part of “Japan’s Pacific Policy,” the article entitled “The Shangtung Dispute,” says: . To establish her claim to Klao- chow, China should not only have deolared war, but should have taken it from Germany by force of arma. But as China was neither capable nor willing to drive Germany from Klaochow, Japan had to undertake that task. Had China been actively engaged on tl Ide of the allles, there might have been some force In the plea that she preferred to re- sume the Garment rights for her- self. But China never did this. Jap- an and Great Britain attacked and took the German colony. China’s hope for direct restitution of Klao- chow was totally destroyed when on May 20, 1920, the Berlin government notified Peking that by virtue of the Versailles treaty, Germany had re- nounced In favor of Japan all rights and interests. China was plainly told by Germany that she must ne- gotiate with Japan If she wanted to recover those rights. APAN had taken Germany’s former leasehold by force and in viola- tion of the elementary rights of the Chinese nation. Yet she was not satisfied and she would not be satis- fled until the richest sections of Chin- ese territory were subjugated as Korea had been. She proceeded to consolidate her new holdings and the manner in which she did it, without any hind- rance from the champions of democ- racy in the western world is another interesting chapter—interesting to American workers because of the part played by the Wilson government as well as that played by the rising Chin- ese liberation movement of students, workers and peasants with which Jap- an came into conflict—a force with which she had not reckoned. The next article will deal with these events. 10,000 JERSEY PAINTERS FIGHT AGAINST POISON Sprayin Moshines and Bad Scaffolds to Go By ARTHUR SHIELDS, (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, June 11—Ten thous- and unioa painters of New. Jersey have launched a campaign against poisonous. materials, the menace of the spraying machine and bad scaf- foldings. The first health agreement is like- ly to be signed by District Council No. 19, comprising the painters in Bergen and Passaic counties and will be similar to. agreements drafted by the health bureau and in force be- tween the painters’ union and the master painters’ associations in New York City and Rochester. Fight Against Spraying Machine. The spraying machine must go, say the New Jersey painters. Abolition, not regulation, is the union’s program m the advice of scientific experts of the health bureau who have shown that regulation of this mechanism does not in practice safeguard the painters. The spray machine, now coming into wider use, is used by em- ployers to save labor on large-surface jobs. The paint is literally sprayed and the air is filled with flying par- ticles of paint materials for mapy feet around the machine, In the case of lead paints, it has been found that the air in the vicinity of the spraying machine contains. 27 to 83 times as much lead ag. would poison a man. An important phase of the present campaign is,,the education of the BURNED BODIES OF 17 MINERS BROUGHT FROM WRECKED WORKINGS STURGIS, Ky.—Seventeen bodies of. miners. killed In the explosion which wrecked the shaft of tne Ken- tucky ‘Coal company’s mine No. 9 were found at the four hundred foot level, more 'than a mile and a quar ter back of the mouth of the shaft, and brought to the surface. The bodies were terribly burned. An explosion in the same mine killed 62 men eight years ago. union members in health and safety measures, Leaflets explain danger- ous materials and symptoms of poi- soning and union members receive forms for reporting accidents and suspicious work materials, as well as medical forms to be given to physi- clans to assist in proving an occupa- tional disease. Workers are assisted in taking the practical steps need- ed to get what is coming to them un- der the compensation law and are specifically instructed that the New Jersey Occupational Disease law that went into effect July, 1924, allows cer- tain compensation for lead, wood ak cohol and benzol poisoning. Monthly conferences are held be- tween the workers’ health bureau and the health committee of the New Jer- sey Painters’ State conference. The New Jersey health campaign repre- sents a union of industrial health ex- perts and organized workers and promises substantial gains in health and safety for painters. Heat Wave Hits London, LONDON, June 11.—The heat wave which brought suffering to New York and other American cities last week descended on London today. TELLS OF SHANGHAI CONSULAR BODY’S AUTOCRATIC BEHAVIOR - BEFORE PRESENT STRIKE BEGAN SHANGHAI) China—(By Ma‘ INBAD yf The consular body of Shanghai has again felt the necéssity for the sending of an urgent telegram to the diplo matic body of Peking informing it that “lives and porperty of foreigners” in Shanghai have ‘again been endangered. The cause of this_action according to the local newspapers is as follows: A foreign launch was proceeding up the river Sunday night which was incidentally very dark, One of the Chinese gunboats challenged it, think- it to be an opium runner. The boat ignored the command and attempted to > _ proceed on its way. The crew of the gunboat convinced of its suspicions opened fiire immediately with the re- sult that the launch was well-riddled with bullets and one of the party on board, a Britisher, was wounded. This was the incident which occas- joned the alarm on the part of the lo- cal consular body. There are several aspects of “the case which it would be in order to mention here, In the first place it is obvious even to the novice on the question of military or naval law that tho British la pant ear a Fc nominally, Chinese territory, the Chi- hese gunboat had full jurisdiction over this area; hence, the launch should have arrested its course and declared its identity. Failing in this { measure the boat was, early Bed on with the resulting injury to’one of the passengers, ; : Another interesting fact is that there are no less than 18 British, American, Japanese, li and French strewed up and the” river the presence of which makes any prehension for the , tia liren ‘and peogaclir aes oe ae |