The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 25, 1925, Page 2

of Socialists “Withdraw Page Two ~ bs THE DAILY RIFFIANS MASS TROOPS FOR NEW. TANOUT ATTACK Support « of Cabinet (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, France, June 23.—Disord- ers and fist fighting broke out on the floor of the chamber of deputies this afternoon, following a speech by Premier Painieve wherein he de- clared, “French Communists are working in co-operation with Rus- sian Communists to ald the Moors in their war against Spain and France.” The sitting was immediately sus- pended by President Herriot. The session was marked with disorder thruout. M. Franklin Boillon attacked the Communist leader Clamamus, who defended himself. Twenty deputies milled around this pair, engaged in the fighting. ose FEZ, French Morocco, June 23.— The Moroceans fighting the French invaders, having recaptured the Bi- bane fortifications, after wiping out the entire French garrison of 1,000, and capturing the largest French out- post, Ain Medouina, are concentrating troop against Tanout. If the Riffians capture Tanout, they will force the French to retreat across the Ouergha river, and will be within striking dis tance of Fez, the capital of French Morocco, The socialist party, in a caucus to- day, voted 111 to 12 to withdraw its formal promise to support the Pain- leve ministry. The socialist however, may continue to support Painleve as an independent party. Painleve, to prevent a crisis, must now look to the center parties, and a part of the right wing of the chamber for support if ‘he is to stave off a crisis. PARIS CHINESE STUDENTS FACE DEPORTATION PARIS, June 22—Chinese Commun- ist students may face deportation as a result of the raid on the Chinese legation, the French foreign office in- dicated today. ‘ “The French government cannot tolerate such incidents as yester- day's,” the foreign office states. “Altho the Chinese legation has not complained and altho the French government will respect the princip- les of China’s territorial rights in its legation, the French government will make a complete investigation of the Chinese Communist activites in France.” One Chinese was arrested when police interrupted the disturbance at the legation. A hundred of the stu- dents had raided the place, impris- oned the jnitor and forced the Chi- nese minister to sign documents af- firming sympathy for the strikers in China, favoring Chinese freedom from foreign rule and objecting to the use of French armed forces in China, See Danger to Trade Monopoly. MOSCOW.—The “Torgovo-Promjsh- lannaia Gazeta” (Commercial and In- dustrial Journal”) has raised the ques- tion of drawing private capital to take part in the exportation work. The paper is combating the opinion of some state organs, which find that the admission of private capital to the exportation work is dangerous to the monopoly of foreign trade. Your neighbor would like to read this issue of the DAILY WORKER. Be neighborly—give it to him! GET PRESBYTERIANS OUT OF DANGER OF GOING TO HEAVEN NEW YORK, June 23—All Amer- icans have been ordered to leave Canton, because of the strong anti- imperialist feeling, according to a dispatch received today by the board of foreign missions of the Presbyterian church. The message was sent by its secretary in China, 0. W. McMillon. MUSSOLINI GETS POWER TO FIRE NON-FASCISTS Fascist Secretary Is for Exiling Aventines ROME, June 23—Whatever shred of independence the fascisti felt like al- lowing the representatives of the Ital- jen factions opposed to fascism was torn away, when Mussolini, pushed thru two bills; one giving him power to discharge all state employes whose ideas ran counter to those of fascism and another giving the government the right to enact by decree, jurisdic- tional regulations affecting the courts of justice without the consent of par- Mament. Even judges are not immune from discharge provided some fascist tu- chun comes to the conclusion that his mind is not fit for the blackshirt straightjacket, or provided some fas- cist assassin needs a snap job. Kicked Over Murder. The laws were passed with the aid of a little more than half the votes in the chamber. The Aventine oppo- sition was absent and a few former fascists spoke in opposition. Musso- lini had sent out urgent calis to all his supporters demanding their pres- ence in the chamber to cast their votes for his decrees. Mussolini explained that the oppo- sition to the murder of Matteoiti ren- dered the laws necessary. Several fascisti deputies resigned rather than approve the laws and one voted un- der protest. The law gagging the newspapers remains as at present. The fascist newspaper Cremona Nuova, organ of Roberto Farinacci, secretary of the fascist party, de- mands the exile of the leaders of the Aventine opposition. They should be given the same treatment as was meted out to'Sig. Donati, the editor of the Catholic paper, Il Popolo. The fascists quit behaving like Fransise- fan monks and act like real tigers, Farinacci safd. They must put fear into the hearts of their enemies. Fascist Secretary Urges Exile of Opposition Leaders ROME, Italy, June 23—The finan- cial difficulties and the wheat crops are the two most important internal problems and the foreign debts, and the “security” pact with Germany are the most important foreign matters to be considered, Premier Mussolini de- clared following the adjournment of parliament until autumn. In his newspaper, Cremona Nuova, Roberto Farinacci, secretary of the fascist party, demands that the lead- ers of the Aventine opposition be ex- iled. He urges more violence against the fascistis. To Murder Bulgarian Students. SOFIA, Bulgaria, June 23. — The military prosecutor at the opening of the “trial” of Communists here, ask- ed the death penalty for 27 university students. Both men and women are among those accused. Protest Lisbon Deportations. LISBON, June 23.—The Portuguese labor party has protested to the prime minister against the deportation of thirty alleged revolutionists. THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LENINISM By |. STALIN, An important work on Communist theory and practice during the period that Lenin lived and led—the period of Capitalist Imperialism. This book issued for the first time in this coun- try, is written by a close co-worker of Lenin, at present secretary of the Russian Communist Party and a figure in the International Communist Move ment, Attractively bound, with a frontis-piece (photo- graph) of the author, 35 CENTS, THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill, GREAT BRITAIN AND UNITED STATES IN SECRET MOVE (Continued from Page 1) which must do something of the sort if it hopes to halt the uprising with force. Yet any alienation of the Chinese masses in the north from Chang Tso- lin, would leave the student leaders and workers, to be championed by General Feng Yu-hsiang, the military leader who recently declared that his army was ready to sacrifice for na- tional liberation, * es 8 Canton General Strike on Tight. CANTON, June 23.—Shameen, the artificial island which is the Canton foreign settlement, to day was in a state of siege. Two gunboats, one British and one French, held com- manding positions in the creek separ- ating Shameen from the city. All ap- proaches to the island were fortified with piled up sandbags and quick firing guns. A fresh contingent of French sailors arrived this morning and took up quarters in Shameen, The general strike is continuing, under the Kuo Min Tang (people's party), the present ruling faction in Canton. Anti-imperialist feeling is especially strong against Japanese and British nationals and interests. The Americans are reported receiving better treatment. * ee Crisis Acute at Hong Kong. HONG KONG, June 23.—The strike situation became more effective here today when delivery workers of the dairy farms joined the walkout, en- dangering fresh food supplies for the foreign settlement and native quarter, Government control of food and fuel, as well as vehicles for distribution of supplies, was inuagurated when the authorities issued a proclamation today placing emergency regulations in effect. All mails, telegrams and cables are censored, both English and Chinese. The Chinese staff of the Metilda hospital, struck this morning, British Crews Quit. Crews) of several British vessels walked, out-today, Street car motor- men and conductors were lined up with the strikers almost to a man. Coolies at the newspaper plants here quit work and the printing staffs were expected to follow them, Volunteer white guards were mobil- izeh at the foreign colony to protect the settlement against attacks of strikers. (Continued from page 1) eral hundreds of night inhabitants. Immediately everyone stood his ground ready to counter the attack, waiting forthe alarm to be sounded. Without previous discipline, every member was in his place, a disciplin- ed” level-headed soldier; faces were tense and bodies alert and ready to spring into action. Then the word was passed ‘around that it was a false alarm. The tension relaxed; the si- lence was broken, and laughter and merriment again resumed their sway over the gathering. Once a woman screamed; and at the weird note, again everybody sprang to their feet, and each one grabbed a chair, a bottle or whatever missile or utensil happened to be nearest him or her. Then we were told it was simply a case of nerves and the boys and girls again resumed their play. Outside Patrol—And Inside Sentries. And let me not forget to mention the brave guard who patrolled in relays in front of the union head- quarters, in the night, all night long on the watch for unwelcome gang- sters. And those who were down in the cellar, with all doors and win- dows barred, sweltering in the heat and with the unwholesome air of many persons breathing in unventilat- ed places. These brave soldiers, with the first faint glimmerings of dawn, when re- lief came, were pale and tagged, but the spirit of hope and courage and inspiration was with them all, After a night so spent they were ready for a hard day's toil, and on the morrow again the night watch. And so it goes. Some work by day and watch our headquarters by night; and those who are unemployed, stand guard all day, and oftimes all night too. Some of our members have not seen the inside of their homes for a week; others who live in furnished rooms, have given up their rooms and stay at the headquarters all the time. Some of them have come specially from out of town— from the Catskills and camps, where they have been spend- ing a short vacation, or recuperating health, to guard what is theirs—what is so dear to them, the home of the union, and see that gangsters do not route them out, Gangsters Steer Clear. With such a spirit, we cannot lose, we cannot fail to win our fight with the joint board. The rank and file is with us 100 per cent. And the gang- sters dare not come within a mile of Coming Guard Union Against Sigman i TO COMBAT RISING CHINA Chang Tries Martial Law, SHANGHAI, China, June 23.—Be- fore proclaiming martial law in Shanghai, General Chang Hstch-liang, son of the Manchurian militarist Chang Tso-lin, left the city “rapidly and secretly,” leaving no public ex- planation of his going. His martial law proclamations for- bid public meetings, printing of pro- paganda literature favoring the libera- tion of China from foreign imperial- ism, forbids cartoons and posters oi such subjects, provides ,for the con- fiscation of all arms and ammunition the censoring of letters, telegrams and cables and inspection of, ships arriv- ing and leaving. It threatens the exe- cution of any violator of,the decree, Yet it is being violated wholesale, and it is a question rhe er his troops can enforce the edict\ against the angry masses. The ptrike still is most effective. obs A local comprados, aii¥ed bi foreign interests to dicker with strikers try- ing to get them to break the strike, was chased into the,river and drown- ed. A white guard,Britisher in the machine gun corps, was mussed up with a meat chopper yesterday and sent to the hospital. * * China’s Foreign Office Spunky. PEKING, China, June 23.—¥ollow- ing the return of the diplomatic dele- gation from ShangHai’ and its report to the diplomatic corps, the Chinese foreign office awaits the return of the minister of foreign affairs with the findings of the Chinése delegation re- garding the Shanghai incidents. It will then issue a further statement. The Chinese foreign office, altho virtually unsupported by the present Tuan Chi-jui government, is staunchly upholding the demands of the Chinese delegation that future negotiations cover the question of the “rendition” of the mixed court, Chinese repres- entation in the municipal administra- tion of the foneign ‘settlement in Shanghai, amelioration»of labor condi- tions and the dismissal lof tne secre- tary of the municipal council, who is responsible for the activities of the Shanghai police, ee 8 Chinese Kill gan, Agent. LONDON, June 23.—The Japanese customs commissioner was reported killed and two otherg-injured today when striking Chinese stoned the Jap- anese consul, according to advices from Chin Kiang, us, fearing or rather ‘surmising the fate that would: surely be theirs if they ever attempted'-to rush us, as they did Locals 2 and 9 « The joint board can take whatever action they may see fit, they will not have the supportipf the members; for that we already fave. The head- quarters is ours, and) we intend to keep it, and we hereby serve notice on the joint board, # t they cannot override the will ofthe membership and suspend the executive board of our local, without ..hyme or reason. We will not stand for, At. Passing Workers Cheer. Even the passing),,.crowd is sym- Pathetic, when we explain to them what has happened; and urge us to put up a good fight; and not to “lay down” or “give up” the laurels we have won, at the behest of corrupt union officials. Members of Local 22, help in this fight! Do not take the orders of the joint board, nor recognize the officials whom they have placed in charge of the local, against your wishes. Do not give them any moneys, and there- by help to strengthen them in their fight against us, which is a fight against you persi lly, against your local, against the utive board you have elected; ‘ainst, all you stand for in the movement, Be on your guard against the cor- rupt officialdom and their hirelings. This is your fight. No sacrifice on your part is too it. We must win. Victory is ours, if you but determine to do your share to make it ours, New Power Battle Near. WASHINGTON, June 23.— For a prize as great as the $57,000,000 pow- er development at ara Falls, N. Y., says the psath of Electrical Workers and Operators, two groups of super-capital—Morgan & Co, and Dillon, Read & Co, who recently bought the Dodge , Motor Co., are struggling. This prize is the Cono- wingo dam on the Sijsquehanna river, near the Pennsylvania-Maryland line, where power possibilities rival those at Boulder Canyon or Muscle Shoals. Operate on Sheffield, “NEW YORK, June 28—James R, Sheffield, ambassador to Mexico,’ will enter St. Luke’s Hospital tomorrow to undergo @ minor operation. Hospital officials declined to duscuss the nature of the operation. Give this, copy to your shop-mate. School Sheet Poisons. Children’s Minds With Its Lies About China By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL., asee the Chinese situation is being seized upon by the forces of reaction as an excellent opportunity to spread more propaganda poison against the Union of Soviet Re- publics. There is nothing unusual about this. That is their task. It is the task of the workers to see that they do not suc- ceed. . ° * ° ° Every worker, therefore, is interested in knowing the kind of capitalist dope that is being injected into the minds of his children in an seeking to prejudice them against the triumphs of labor in Russia. How this is done becomes very evident in reading’“Cur- rent Events,” which claims a a circulation than any other school paper in the world.” It is not only used by the teachers as a text, but is widely read and studied by the children themselves, who are urged to subscribe to it. * * * . This sheet devotes nearly a column in its June 15-19 issue to developments in China, putting into its headline the following: “Russian Bolsheviks Are Stirring Up Feeling Against Foreigners in China,” and then in the text, “The Russian Bolsheviks seem to be responsible for much of the present unrest in China.” Thus the capitalist rulers of the nation’s educational system seek to blind the children to the horrors ‘of the for- eign industrial system imposed on the Chinese, against which the workers of China are now revolting. * 7 «* * It would not do to tell American school children that boys and girls, in China, even at six years of age, are sent into the mills, owned by foreign capital, where the bosses have the right to “beat up” the workers. The strikers demand that corporal punishment be abol- ished and that their wages be increased. The child workers now get as little as $3 per month, working 12 hours per day, with hardly ever a holiday and no Sundays off. The mill owners, who reap huge profits, do not deny these conditions. An investigating commission, half of which consisted of spokesmen for the employers, admitted the truth of these charges. Yet the bosses rejected the demands of the work- ers. When the strike resulted, the police and foreign troops, joined by U. S. marines, came in to shoot down the workers, on the usual pretext of “restoring order.”. The warships of foreign powers, from all parts of the orient, have been rushed to Chinese ports. Among these are many American warships flying the stars and stripes, to which American school children are forced to pledge allegiance. * * * * None of these simple truths, showing that the present growing struggle in China, developed directly out of the eco- nomic conditions against which the workers rebelled, found their way into “Current Events,” the poisoner of the minds of America’s school children. It is world imperialism that creates these conditions. Communism offers the cure for and the escape from them. This propaganda sheet of the barbarous profit system, that feeds on children, here in the United States as well as in China, will only succeed in discrediting itself thru its rank erversion of facts. The students in China are among the est fighters for the workers. There is slowly and painfully springing up in America’s schools, from the bottom to the top, a similar reveling body of students, who will de- velop their fight side Sy side with labor, whose numbers must rapidly grow. eoeee The only truth that appears in “Current Events” is that the Russian Bolsheviks, “Would like to see all nations under the saime form of government as that in Soviet Russia.” But this wish is not confined to Russia. It is the wish of militant labor everywhere. So the school children of to- day, as they grow up, especially the boys, will refuse to be- come cannon fodder to help keep the Chinese workers, men, women and children, in slavery to foreign capital. Rather they will extend their fraternal hand of comradeship across the broad Pacific with the earnest hope that the children in both countries will strive to throw off the chains of cap- italist oppression.in both countries, That is what the sheet, “Current Events” fears. But even its fears will come true, in spite of its efforts to spread misinformation in the schools of today. The victory of the workers will prove the futility of this malicious capitalist propaganda. White Guards Enlist Mere Boys wr “WORKER anteere ee ee eee BUSINESSMEN SAY ‘BUY HERE’; BUT THEY DON'T They Live Far Away from Dirt and Noise , 5 (Continued from Page 1) sen. The smoke and noise won't hurt them, they are used to it, and they sleep so well, because they are so tired after working a 10 to 12 hour day. Rules of Worker Correspond- ent’s Contest. Every two weeks the © DAILY ‘WORKER will give a prize of $5.00 ‘worth of literature to the worker who sends in the best Worker Correspond- ent story during that period. This prize may be selected from any books or pamphlets in the catalogue of the Daily Worker Publishing company or may be applied to DAILY WORKER ‘or Workers Monthly subscriptions. 1. The first contest commenced June 15 and ends June 27. New con- tests will be closed every second Sat> urday thereafter. 2. The contest is open to everyone with the exception of paid employes of the DAILY WORKER and of the Workers Party and its sections. 3. Manuscripts recetved up until? June 27 will be entered in the first contest. Stories received subsequent» ly will be considered during the nex contest. 4. The stories must deal with act~ ual events affecting workers. 5. Manuscripts must be written lege .|ibly on one side of paper, with one- half inch between lines if in hande writing. Type written copy is prefer- red but not essential. 6. Stories are not limited as ta length but those of 500 words or less will receive preference. 7. Only news stories, that is dealing with what has happened or what is about to happen will be cons sidered. 8. Subject matter is limited only ta that of a working class nature, buty stories dealing with events and struge gles of workers in places of employ- ment and in and by labor unions wilt be given preference. 9. While literary merit in the stor- ies is of course desirable, it will not be considered in determination of the best story. Those who have had lity tle school education or no experienca in writing will thus have an equef chance with experienced writers. The story which best meets the following requirements will be declared the winner: (a) Is the story of interest to the working class, either locally or na- tionally or both? (b) Has the writer done a good Job in gathering the essential facts?’ (c) Will the printing of the story secure benefit to the working class? (d) Has he shown ability to esti- mate and emphasize the most import- ant facts? (e) Will the printing of the story increase the effectiveness of the DAILY WORKER or the Workers Party or the left wing in general? 10, All stories submitted for the contests must be addressed: “Worker Correspondents Editor, the DAILY WORKER. 11, The name and address of the writer must be sent with each story. If the writers do not want their names printed in the DAILY WORKER they should write at the beginning of their story: “Do not use my name.” (Continued from page 1,) ergetically the viewpoint exposed in the note of the ambassador of the union to his excellency the Chinese foreign minister, on February 25, and more particularly to lay stress on the fact that the unhampered enlisting ac- tivities in Chinese territory on »the part of agents of Netchayeff’s force working under the patronizing atti- tude and with the support of Chin- ese authorities, is altogether inad- missible and is in flagrant contradic- tion with the mentioned Article VI of the agreement of May 31, 1924, and the set of notes, as well as all the conventional status which was estab- lished thereafter and, obviously, with the existing friendly relations be- tween the Union and China. Children Enlisted in White Guard “However, apart from this question of a general nature, this embassy may be permitted to call the attention to the peculiar aspect of the case under consideration which renders the mat- ter particularly odious. Indeed, those enlisted were youths under age, who were lured by false promises and had no clear idea of what they were do- ing; these youngsters were torn away from their families and left to them- selves at an age when they should have found themselves under the di- rection of their parents’ authority, THE NEGRO AS AN OPPRESSED PEOPLE By WM. F. DUNNE IN THE JULY ISSUE OF THE WORKERS MONTHLY OUT ABOUT JUNE 25 “In any civilized state such en- rolling activities are liable to be pun- ished as a criminal offense. In the given case, however, it was effected thru the participation of Chinese agents and patronized by military au- thorities, who gave the youngsters thus lured to enlist corresponding documents preventing the parents’ ef- forts to find their children. Soviet Ambassador Asks Return of Children. “Naturally, such acts cannot be tol- erated quite apart from the question as to the army and the purposes for which the enrollment was carried thru, Consequently, whereas all the demands stated in the above men- tioned note of February 25, regarding the enlistment and maintenance of white guards in the Chinese territory remain valid, the embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics feels it its duty to insist that in the particular case treated above there will be adopted urgent measures, namely that the military authorities be enjoined to immediately return to the parents all their enlisted children regardless of the latter's wishes, that all further enlistment be ceased and all persons implicated in these unlaw- ful activities be legally prosecuted. “This embassy would appreciate an early reply on the part of the minis- try of foreign affairs to the matter dealt with above.” The above memorandum was sent on the 22nd of May. { Write the story about your shop —Order a bundle to distribute SHAM CONFAB OF SOCIALISTS HAS FAKE PROGRAM , By WILLIAM WEINSTONE (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, June 23.—Norman Thomas was nominated for mayor, Harriet Stanton Blatch for controller and Joseph Beardsley for Boro presi- dent by the sham fusion conference of the socialists late Saturday night upon a platform of the usual reform socialist and class collaborationist demands. y In their traction program, the so- clalists adopted the plank of munict- pal ownership of traction with con- trol in the hands of a board composed representatives of the chief political parties. This means that the social- ists propose the management shall in the hands of representatives of capitalist parties with the socialists sitting in the board. The slogan of the socialists in this proposal is typi- cal of the middle class ideology “keep the traction out of politics,” The rest of the program consists of similar effete reformistic demands, The whole platform breathes the spirit of conciliation and collabora- tionism. y Change Rules of Labor Exchanges. MOSCOW,—A regulation has issued, revoking the former of compulsory hiring of labor thru labor exchanges, The hiring be made thru the labor exchanges well as without them. In register the number of ployed, the employer must give sary statistical information, Fs Hy {