The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 17, 1925, Page 6

Page Six EE THE DAILY W ORKEI Published by the DAILY WORKDPR PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Ill, Phone Monroe 471 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Ymail (In Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months 2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chloago, Iilinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL n WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Il, under the act of March 3, 1879. THE DAILY ‘WORKER ARTICLE VIII. AVING forced China to sever di- lomatic relations, the next step was to get her to declare war, Premier Tuan Chi-Jui was in favor of war. He was under Japanese in- fluence and wanted China to enter the war as one of the allies and not as a follower of America, He was sup- ported by influential Chinamen who had either been educated in Japan, who had been or who were ministers ie 290 Advertising rates on application. e = eect Threatening Mexico In his note to the Mexican government which is to all intents and purposes an ultimatum, the secretary of state intimates that an- other revolution is brewing in Mexico and threatens intervention in the event of its occurrence. He speaks further of the intention of the “American government to support the government in Mexico ONLY so long as it protects American lives and rights and lives up to its international engagements and obligation.” (Emphasis ours.) This can mean nothing else than a last warning to the Calles regime that it must carry out the orders of Wall Street without] reservations, that its work of smashing unions and evicting peasants) must be carried on more energetically. Undoubtedly the intention is also to intensify the warfare on the Communists whose influence is especially strong in the Tampico oil region and among great masses of the agrarians. It requires only a few organizational measures to make of Mexico an actual protectorate if the Calles government accepts the dictum of the state department. For those of the Mexican workers and peasants who believed honestly that the policy of compromise and attempted conciliation of Wall Street followed by Calles would give them a breathing spell in which to build up their organizations, the Kellogg note brings} bitter disillusionment. The unions of the workers and peasants| have been weakened systematically by the bureaucracy of the Mexi- ean Federation of Labor in line with the policy handed them by the} A. F. of L. officialdom at El Paso. Mexico faces a crisis and unless this threat of armed intervention unites the populace in resistance to the demands of Wall Street, she will cease to exist as a nation. It may be that the sharp tone of the note, brutal in disre. gard of even the polite usages of capitalist diplomacy, will awaken not only Mexico but the republics to the south to the danger of the imperialist avalanche that is now moving steadily toward the equa- tor. Here is a new issue for the All-American Anti-Imperialist League and its sections in the Latin-American countries. The German Situation It is hard to say how much of the bankruptcy of great firms like the Stinnes concern, which is now shaking Germany, is due to the failure of the Dawes plan and how much to the manipulation by American fifanciers with the end in view of extending their con- trol of German industry. For the workers, however, who are thrown jobless into the street in a country where jobs are at a premium, these speculations matter little. With them it is a question of living. The social-democrats had their day of power; they bowed to the allied imperialists, rejected an alliance with the workers’ and peas- ants’ government of Russia and made war on the working class. So servile were they that the masses preferred the monarchist Hinden- burg in the election following the death of Ebert. It is now apparent to thousands of workers that monarchists and republicans, social-democrats and industrialists, have nothing for the workers except misery added to misery. The Communists alone have fought uncompromisingly for a workers’ and farmers’ government—for working class power. That there is much hopelessness among the German working class is obvious.. Nothing else accounts for the desertion of the unions and the rise of fascism. This hopelessness must be overcome and the rebuilding of the organizations of the workers carried on with new energy and determination. This sounds like a platityde, but it is a simple statement of the elementary necessities of the German situation. German capitalism has created the conditions for its overthrow bnt unless the workers have the will to fight and conquer first their own apathy and next their class enemies, the breakdown of German capitalism means only greater suffering for ‘them. This is the present role of the German Communist Party—re- organizing and inspiring the German workers and peasantry for new efforts and to new struggles. Every day get “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. The Nova Scotia Strike The striking miners of Nova Scotia reached the limit of their patience when the British Empire Steel corporation, which had been starving them to death by refusal of credit in towns controlled by the trust, prepared to defy the 12,000 strikers and run their mines with guards of gunmen. ” The miners, once they began, seem to have been very thoro and workmanlike. They took the New Waterford powerhouse and as this is written they are still holding it, shutting off the source of power for the mines. y There seems to have been some bloodshed, but in this instance most of the casualties were on the side of the company and its thugs. No worker will take exeeption to this very happy outcome of the heroic struggle waged by the coal diggers. The mines are still closed, the powerhouse is not functioning, but troops are on the ground and more are on the way. It is probable that the next dispatches will tell of wholesale arrests and general terrorization of the strikers. This is the way of capitalist government and the only way it could be properly answered in this case would be by a general strike of Canadian workers. If the Canadian labor movement is unable to initiate such a movement then the least it can do is to hold monster protest meet- ings in every city and bring pressure on the government for the with- drawal of troops and the quashing of all indictments that will be brought against the strikers. We send our heartie’t greetings and wishes for victory to the Nova Scotia miners with a feeling of gladness that such militancy as they have displayed is in the labor movement of the ‘continent, that it cannot be stamped out by the combined efforts of traitorous union officials and the persecutions of the capitalist government. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. ft ih to Japan—Tsao Ju-Lin, Lu Tsung-Yu and Chang Tsung-Hsiang. President Li Yuan-Hung was opposed to the declaration of war and the Young China party, while theoretically in favor of war was afraid of the rise of the militarists they felt would re- sult, and opposed it for that reason. T is essential to keep im mind that between the United States and Japan a struggle was going on all the time to secure a predominating in- fluence in China, A correspondent of the New York Tribune put it this way on April 12: It is understood that the principal question confronting the Pekin gov- renment at this moment is not whether China should enter the war, as this virtually has been de- cided, but whether China should continue to align herself with the United States and follow this coun- try’s lead, or should Join the en- tente alliance under the leadership and direction of Japan. If a decision following the latter court it Is believed here tha’ obtain contro! of China’s army and military resources, and estbalish a ‘would prove dangero: seml-protectorate ovér China that would make it diffloult for elther China or the other powers to Induce Japan to surrender after the war. ou YAT SEN made his opposition to the declaration of war public on March 7, in the following open let- ter to Lloyd George: + +++ T have been approached by prominent English to consider the question of China Joining the allies, After carfeul study | come to the conclusion that It would be disastrous to both countries should China break her neutrality. For CHina Ie yet an Infant. republlo and as a nation she may be likened to a sick man just entering the hospital of constitutionalism. Unable to look after herself at this stage, she ni: careful nursing and support. The fore China cannot be regarded as an organized country. §She.is held in- tact only by custom and sentiment of a peace-loving people. But at once, should. there arise discord, general anarchy would result... , Should China enter. the ward It to her na- tional Ilfe and injurious to the pree- tige of England In the Far East. The mere desire to get China to join the allies is to Chinese minds a confusion of the inability of the allles to cope with Germany, Just now comes Premler Tuan’s report to the president that the entente powers are coercing China to join the allies. Already the question has raised bitter dissensions among our statesmen. Discord now may evoke anarchism which will arouse the two strong but perilous elements In +> (Continued from page 1) the immediate severance of diploma- tic relations with Britain. Kuo Min Tang Wants Action. Speaking to a students’ union meet- ing here today, George Hsu Chien, Kuo Min. Tang (People’s Party) lead- er and former minister of justice, urg- ed that a Chinese army be dispatched immediately to Shanghai. Labor and student resolutions de-| mand the immediate return of all} British concessions and the abroga- tion of all treaties. The strike situation at Shanghai was unchanged. Conference Deadlocked. Foreign and Chinese delegates in conference here continued deadlocked over the thirteen Chinese demands made to the powers in connection with the shooting of ten Shanghai stu- dents» May 30, by foreign settlement police. No further reports of trouble in the Yangtze valley were reported. A British gunboat was rushing to Kiukiang, upper Yangtze port, scene | of rioting, Saturday, to take aboard | foreign missionaries. It is reported that the foreign au- thorities have decided that they will | withdraw their troops from Shanghai, but gradually. Whether this is a trick | to get the strikers back to work is | not yet, ascertainable. The strike is | costing $3,000,000 a day at the very least. It is learned from Hankow that one | of the wounded Chinese shot down by the British Saturday, has died of his wounds. This makes the total at Hankow, nine killed. *ee Peking in Huge Strike Demonstration | PEKING, China, June 15.—Chinese students, merchants, shopkeepers and | workmen in the largest demonstra- |tion made here during the present troubles today went to the foreign of- fice and demanded that the Chinese government sever relations with Great Britain and instruct the tuchun of Hankow forcibly to take posses- sion of the British concession there. The British legation has sent a lengthy reply to the Chinese note of protest.over the shooting of a num- ber of Chinese last week during an attack on the British concession in Hankow, The-reply ignores the fact that the Brjtish are interlopers in China. Refusing to admit that any respon- sibility rests on the British authori- ties, the reply cites a previous warn- ing against allowing the anti-British agitation to go unchecked and asks that energetic measures be taken to check such agitation. The China Press, an American newspaper, admits that the biggest thing in the situation is the unifica- tion of all the military, political and students with the workers on a radi- cal program of anti-imperialism’ which may force the Peking government to abrogate all treaties thrust upon China by the powers when China was helpless. The strike continues, with more than forty ships tied up in the har- bor. The cotton mills, are closed, with 60,000 operatives idle, and the shops and native banks are closed, refusing to do business with for- eigters. . imperialists Getting Nervous. LONDON, June 15.-~ The foreign powers today looked upon) the Chin- ese situation as “serious,”)the Brit- ish foreign office said, and another Birtish warship is being sent to Han- kow. Eight Chinese rioters were kill- ed at Hankow several British marines and the ernment has made an China, anti-forelgn: fanatlos and the Mohammedana, 'N the light of later events this let- ter should not be*taken too liter- ally. Sun Yat Sen was not concerned over the loss of British prestige in the Far East except insofar as that pres- tige served to curb the ambitions of Japan. He feared also that the hos- tility to foreigners that a declaration of war would arouse would be used as an excuse by Japan to intervene for the “protection of foreigners” and to bring “stability.” President Li Yuan-Hung resigned as he saw that it was inevitable that China could not resist the pressure of the allied: government much longer and his place was filled by Feng-uo- Chang. August 14 President Feng de- clared war. It was done without sanction of parliament and was solely the act of the militarists—the tuchuns—who had formed a provisional government in Pekin after the members of parlia- ment had been intimidated and a num- ber of provinces under military rule had declared their independence. The dissolution of parliament had been demanded. by the council of tuchuns, some bribed by French, some by British and some by Japanese money, Wu Ting Fang, acting premier, refused to sign the mandate with these words: “You may take off my head, but I will sign no such mandate.” He resigned, a willing tool of the mili- tarists was appointed and parliament disbanded. IVIL war began. Chang Hsun, the blackest reactionary among the Chinese Workers Call for Wa The Enslavement of China . tuchuns, took Pekin and restored the monarchy. A few days later he was defeated by the army commanded by: the ex-premier, Tuan Chi-Jul. A. constitutional government was set up at Shanghai and Tuan Chi-Jui became, premier without a parliament. The Chinese republic. was dissolved in civil strife. China was once more at the mercy of outside foes and her allied advisors were now quarreling among themselves to decide which should take the first huge chunk of her territory, UT Japan had the advantage and in her trickery she had the assist- ance of France, A note sent by the French ambassador at Tokio to the Japanese government reads in part: ‘The: government of the French. re- public Is disposed to give the Jap- anese government its accord In reg- ulating at the time of the peace ne- gotitalons questions vital to Japan concerning Shangtung and the Ger- man islands on the Pocific north of the. equator, It also agrees to sup- port the demands of the imperial Japanese government for the sur- render of. the rights Germany pos- sessed before the war In this Chinese province and these islands, ‘APAN managed to maintain her influential position in Peking dur- ing all the welter of bribery, civil war and intrigue: When It was evident that the unit- ed urging of the American, British and French governments, and the influence of Individual foreigners would bring China into the war, Jap- anese diplomacy made a character- BRITISH LABOR CABLES CHINESE WORKERS CONGRATULATIONS FOR THEIR FIGHT ON IMPERIALISM LONDON, June 15.—A cablegram was sent by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress to the “Chinese workers,” congratulating them upon “their determination, to fight International capitalism and to secure improved industrial conditions.” It expressed abhorrence over “the appalling industrial conditions im-| posed in Chihese factories,” and said the council was confident that the} stand of the Chinese workers will result “in the firm establishment of a) militant industrial organization in China and will do much to bulld up a Swales, and the as: test to Great; Britain against the in- cident. 2 Se 30 The powers are in “complete ac- cord” and while there are, no plans for immediate intervention, represent- atives of the powers aré in negotia- tion in Peking, the forélgn office said. However, the foreign office is evi- dently worried over the tidal wave of anti-British sentiment rising in China, and is far—in spite of dts words— from being in “complete accord” with Japan, which is trying to charge all responsibility to Britain... The British foreign office is like- wise irritated by the claim that the Sikh police in the international set- tlement at Shanghai is under “Bri- tish control.” They say that it is traé|that there is a large proportion of ‘British offi- cers, but the police of the settle- ment are controlled by the Interna- tional Municipal Council, which hap- pens to have at present as chairman— an American, Sterling Fessenden. The British foreign office also re- minds the world at large that Ameri- cans fired on the Chinese during a | powerful bond of unity between eastern and western trade unionism.” The message was signed by the chairman of the general council, A. B| secretary, W. L. Citrine. fight in which one of the white guard “volunteers” had been wounded. Ce Kuo Min Tang Armies Rule Canton CANTON, China, June 15. — The Yunnanese, who thoroly looted the city before they were driven out by the armies of the Kuo Min Tang, are scattered and in flight, hiding in all sorts of corners. So detested have the mercenaries made themselves in the minds of the Canton workers, that when Chinese civilians find anyone speaking Yun- nanese, they beat them and throw them in the river. The Kuo Min Tang volunteers, which are practically Red Guards, are in full control of the city again, and are welcomed on every hand by all except the foreigners and the reac- tionary merchant class. From Hong Kong it is learned that the British government is trying des- perately ito stop the strike move- ment and has suppressed the Chinese labor paper published there. Never- |theless, the Hong Kong seamen are striking today. BLEEDING COOLIE AND CLASS CONSCIOUS STUDENT TO TURN By SINBAD. SHANHGAI, China, (By Mail.)— A friend was telling me Of a condition which exists in Annam, Indo China. The police are French and when & foreigner overpays (7?) a rickishaw coolie, it is the rickishaw coolie that gets brutally beaten. This, a very common occurrence, characterizes the attitude of the for- eigner in China. It'sthe same old story repeated over and over again. The continual oppregsion, inhuman brutality and self-superiority, not to mention the most important of all, a systematic economic, imperialism all combine to create tha,pressure which someday will find an, outlet. That it finds an outlet is inevitable; as in- evitable as the result produced by air pressure on a piston. New China Not the Old China. China is not what she was 20 years ago. The great student class of China and incidentally the Chinese students of the mission schools included have come to the realization that the for- eigner has too long been permitted to create havoc and perpetually drain China's resources in, the form of un- just punitive burdens, etc, And what is morg, important the greater proletarian class, the milliong of enslaved coolié are algo, but more slowly, coming’t®' tho 6 real: ization. : “What Right Mave You?” A few years ago when the foreigner was walking on Chinese from the | nrc ‘ IMPERIALISM UP SIDE DOWN would step off into the ‘gutter and give the foreigner the right of way. Now one feels the difference. The foreigner is no longer the “for- eign devil,” no longer an uncombat- able supernatural being. Now he is looked straight in the eye and the ex- pression on the face of the Chinese is an unspoken question, “What right have you?” Five years ago it was passive, sub- missive. Sadly, much of that submis- siveness exists today but there also exists that questioning of rights. Five years from now it will no long- er be the passive submissiveness, no longer the questioning of rights, but the stern, power-backed demand. half dead, is dazedly wondering why he was struck: His wonder changes to hate. And when China gains her free- dom from foreign imperialism it will be the bleeding coolie and the class- conscious student who will have fought side by side for that freedom, Deny Scott Appeal. SPRINGFIELD, lll., June 15—The su- preme court today denied the motion of attorneys for Russell Scott to set aside a previous order and reconsider the petition for’a writ of error and supersedeas, Seott is sentenced to hang in Chicago July 17 for the mur- der of Joseph Maurer, loop drug store clerk, who was shot and killed dur- ing an alleged -up perpetrated by } " Detroit Y. W. L. to Have Picnic on the Longest Day in Year DETROIT, Mich., June 15.—At last swimming, on the longest day in the season when daylight lasts till 9:30. The Young Workers’ League of De- troit will celebrate with a picnic on Sunday, June 21, at Cass Lake, in Dodge Park. Sports, swimming, games, songs await you! Lunches and refreshments will be served out there, Meet us at the House of the Mass- es, at 9 a. m., sharp. Fare including admission is 50 cents. Don’t forget— we meet on Gratiot, corner St. Aubin. It'you have an auto, bring it along— we will pay for its use on that day. Joseph Kisil, Committee Chairman. Cenchis Explain Why They Were Ill So Often ,As a preliminary to docking teach- ers’.pay for sick leave, the board of education thu their accountants, Grif- fenhagen and association, accused the teachers of Chicago of playing hookie. Their alibi is that teachers have abused the part reductions in teach- ers’ salaries during illness by tak- ing wholesale holidays during the school term. As an economy meas- of illness, when there are doctor's bills, medicines and what-not, teach- ers are to receive no wages. The Chicago Teachers’ Federation explain the seemingly undue absence of teachers during this last winter in the following way. With the board of education lined up behind the new superintendent in a continuous at- tack upon the teachers, with the new rules and regulations and economy schemes that have been directed at the teachers thruout the entire win- ter, is it any wonder to anyone that it has resulted in undermining the health of many teachers ahd made them easy prey for the flu and other ailments. In addition, the board of education economy program kept the classrooms so poorly heated the Ln asd were ill with minor colds oftener this year than any other. Storm Wrecks Mason City. MASON CITY, Ill, June 15—Mason City today began extracting itself from the twisted mass of house roofs, trees and demolished automobiles which a wind storm late Sunday picked up as it might so many pieces of paper, whirled skyward, then dropped with. reckless abandon, im- periling the lives of scores, serfously. In Annam, the coolie, bleeding and |” injuring one and bruising a dozen others... Nee 'YORK.—The Evening’ ‘World of June 2 states that “virtually all Ireland is now facing famine, fol- lowing thirteen months of almost con. tinual rain, The famine, whicf at first threatened only the western seaboard, has struck inland,” The capitalist press of this country denied that there was any famine on the western seaboard. Now it admits that the famine is, striking inland and threatening to engulf the whole coun- try, At first 750,000 worke: «1 pease ante were starving—now all'the work- ers and poasants face tho Worst hun ger that has attacked the cotintry, By Wm. F. Dunne Istic maneuver, The Chinese gov- ernment was advised by Japan to declare war ae one of the allies, and not as a separate nation. This ‘was a scheme to detach China from the United States, which power had never formally Joined the allies, and attach her to the allies, thereby making her a part of and subject to the private agreements made among the nations composing the 1 iance. (Democracy and rn Question,” Thomas F, Millard, Page 131,) HE budding Chinese republic was blighted, civil war stirred up, Chinese territory given. to Japan, and China once more réduced to-the status of a dependency. The forbodings of Sun Yat Sen had been fulfilled. All promises that. China would have an equal place at the peace table, the promise of finan- cial assistance, the promise that Chinese territéty should remain in- violate, all were forgotten. Each great power now began to look around.for some Chinese “general” who could be bought to fight for their Chinese. nation, and humilated the Chinese in every possible manner while the land was seething with civil war and the his- tory of this period is of importance as showing the long series of insults @n- dured by the Chinese and which are now remembered as grievances which still exist as long as foreigners enjoy extra-territorial rights in China, These incidents will be treated in ure they recommend that at a time |- the next article, r on British Imperialists Japanese Halt Law Which Would Wipe Out Schools HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 15— Counsel for 146 Japanese language schools have entered suit against the governor, attorney general, and super- ntendent of public instruction, charg- ing that the enforcement of the ter- ritorial law is contrary to the con- stitution of the United States and the treaty between Japan and America. A temporary restraining order against the enforcing of the law, which taxes the schools to such an ex- tent that they would be forced to dis- band, was granted, and further argu- ments will be heard. Shepherd Defense Scores Victory in Germ Murder Trial The -defense scored an important victory:in the trial of William D. Shep- herd, charged with slaying “Billy” McClintock, today, when Dr. Amanete Rongetti, the witness who on Satur- day testified that Shepherd talked to him about taking up a course in bac- teriology, failed to identify the de- fendant in court. The state's forces were completely taken by surprise. Foreign Exchange i NEW YORK, June 15.—Englant pound sterling demand 4.85%; cab! 4.85%. France, franc demand 4.80; cable 4.81%. Belgiu, franc demand 4.73%; cable 4.74%. Italy, Mra demand 3.89%; cable 3.90. Sweden, krone de- mand 26.73; cable 26.76. Norway, krone demand 16.88; cable 16.90, Den- mark, krone demand 18,92; cable 18,- 94. Germany, mark unquoted» Shan- ghai, tael demand 77.00; cable 78.00. Hope Springs Eternal. NEW YORK, June 15.—J. P. Mor- gan and company and other Wall Street bankers, thru the protective committee announced that it was still hopeful that the Soviet Union would settle with American bankers holding ~All Ireland Is Now Facing Famine ~ | tifty million dollars worth of Russian bonds bought when Russia was der the czar. ° League Favors Austria. VIENNA, Austria, June 15.— The jJeague of nations has released eight een million dollars of the fnternation- al loan for the electrification of the Austrian railroads. The league will hold sessions to discuss improvement of Austria's economic condition. | Five thousand subs for Red Red Week of June 18 to 21,” on the work of relief in ‘this country. On June 27-28, the committee is ar- ranging a famine relief tag day. Every worker of New York who wishes to show class solidarity with their brothers in Ireland must do his ut- most to make the relief fund as largo as possible. Men, women and children are starving in Ireland, can get no milk. There is.no fuel, 'Thir- teen months of continual rain have flooded the flelds, the oat and potato crop is ruined. Despair faces the Whole working population, , Workers of New York, make this tag day a success, Show the workers and ‘| peasants of Ireland that you are stand. The Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ | Famine Helet Commo {6 carrying} ty. Contribute liberally! ing by them. Show your class solidart- Cena. teem share of the natural resources of the~ The allied governments browbeat ©