The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 26, 1925, Page 6

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Washington Blvd,, Chicago, Iilinols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DU MORITZ J, LOE Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- r cago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879, ‘Advertising rates on application. <a 250 — Resins and War American businessmen make up more than a third of the dele- gates to the convention of the International Chamber of Commerce now in session in Brussels. ; Seymour Gilbert, agent-general of reparations under the Dawes plan, and an important cog in the House of Morgan machinery, holds the chairmanship of the transfer committee—the most im- portant body at the gathering having as its function the recom- mendation of measures for the control of commodity exchange be- tween the various countries. The premier position of American imperialism in world affairs is typified by the numerical strength of the American delegation. In 10 years—from 1914 to 1925—the United States has changed from a posttion of semi-isolation and non-participation in European af- fairs to that of military adventure in the world war and domination thru international loans which is expressed by the Dawes plan. All over Europe are American financial advisers whispering in the ears of and giving orders to rulers. When persuation fails there is always the threat of a stoppage of credit—enough to bring the most recalcitrant ruler into line at present. Some day the threat of denial of credit and the foreclosures of House of Morgan mort- gages will be challenged by some desperate ruling class and then the war drums will begin,to boom. Businessmen are businessmen when the normal measures of cap- italist production and exchange prevail. But we have passed thru the period of peaceful development of capitalism, the struggle is for the re-diviston of the world and the businessmen of yesterday are the militarists of today. American capitalism can no more colonize Europe by peaceful methods than it could take the land from the Indians without war. It is of no importance that American financiers appear as advocates of peace at such conferences as we mention. Their policy is one of financial conquest, the American government is their government and will either make war for the finance-capitalists or be replaced by a government which will. Far from being an era of peaceful readjustment the present period is one, of preparation for slaughter on a scale hitherto unknown. Imperialist war is business competition carried to its logical conclusion. The Employers’ International King Albert of Belgium yesterday opened the third congress of the International Chamber of Commerce in Brussels. This congress is attended by 780 delegates, all leading figures in the various capitalist countries and persons whose views are listened to with attention by their governments. Whatever decisions this conference arrives at, will become the written or unwritten laws of the governments to which they owe allegiance. The delegates aim to bring about international harmony in business and to reach agreements that will contribute to the stabilization of business and the increasing of profits. These profits must be made at the expense of the working class who produce all wealth. The International Chamber of Commerce of the capitalists cor- responds to the trade union international of the workers) But whereas the bosses have unity, the workers have not. The employers are joined together in a mighty organization to solve their mutual problems and fight the working class. The workers are disunited and the reactionary leaders fight unity as vigorously as do the cap- italists. The present meeting of the employers’ congress in Brussels should give added impetus to the movement for international trade union unity sponsored by the Russian and British trade unions. The Dawes plan for Germany was sponsored at the Rome meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce. The workers of all lands must meet and adopt their plans to bring the world under the rule of labor and abolish the kind of business which is only legalized robbery. It is very unpleasant for the 200 members of the French Com- munist Party who are in jail following raids made on their homes by the Painleve government in its efforts to stop resistance to the war of conquest in Morocco, but the French government by this action has centered the attention of the working class and the peasantry on the| war-—exactly what the Communists were trying to do. _ Painleve is going to demand that parliamentary immunity be taken from the Communist members of the chamber of deputies and in all probability his demand will be acceded to by the servile agents of French imperialism in the chamber, including those disguised as socialists. In the meantime the French army meets defeat after defeat and the spirjt of rebellion grows in the French colonies. The French Communist Party is writing a glorious page in working class history. It is giving to the workers of all the world @ brilliant example of the Communist application of the principle of solidarity with the oppressed masses in the colonial countries. “Seabby Bill” Lee’s conference between railroad eapital and. la- bor is indefinitely postponed. He blames the hot weather for the postponement. The fact is, that Bill smells so badly to the brother- hood membership that any one of their officers attending the con- ference would have thereby signed a warrant for this political execu tion. American business has 250 delegates at the International Cham- ber of Commerce meeting in Brussels, yet there is no outery against internationalixm on the part of our patriots. . But if the American workers had 250 delegates to the Communist International what a nightmare our 100 per cent Americans would have! The Soviet government is floating an internal-loan of 300,000,000 Tubles, Ie own banks will subscribe the entire amountyawithout any trouble. The international bankers who thought they could starve Russia financially did not think straight. ‘ { The Enslavement of China ARTICLE Xil. E have traced the development of foreign intrigue in China from the 40’s to the period of the world war. We have seen that all the great pow- ers pursued the same course in China —that of weakening and dividing the Chinese nation, of insisting on the right of foreign missionaries and businessmen to privileges far in ex- cess of those enjoyed by the Chinese themselves; when outbreaks occurred after the patience of the extremely patient Chinese had been exhausted, the foreign powers used these out- breaks as an excuse to increase their military forces and for additional de- mands upon the Chinese nation. The Boxer indemnity forced from China by united action of all the great powers in 1900, and guaranteed by for- eign control of the customs revenues, was the first great blow struck at Chinese sovereignty by the imperialist nations acting as a bloc. From this period on the rise of Japan, with the increasing influence of Great Britain becomes the factor of chief import- ance in China, have seen that Japan and Great Britain succeeded in eliminating czarist Russia and Germany and that as a result of the these adventures Japan has become the foremost im- j Derialist power in China with Great Britain as her principal imperialist rival and the United States acting as runner-up because of her increasing interest in the Pacific. China was brought into the world war by promises made by the allied nations; these promises were to the effect that all the grievances of the Chinese would be heard and adjusted at the peace conference. In this in- trigue the United States played a leading role, UT imperialist promises are made to be broken and having been led into the world war with the result that the Chinese militarists at home gained the upper hand over the Chi- nese republican movement and civil war tore the nation to bits, the Chinese found that the peace .confer- ence was not for supplicants but for aggressors. Japan, not China, was the oriental power to whom the western imperialists catered. Japan received from the peace con- | ference an endorsement of all her acts of robbery in China. Under the Ver- sailles treaty, without consultation with China, Japan received the spoils of war in Shangtung. In other “words, the territory that Germany had held only by lease, became by this treaty the possession, of Japan with the Peace conference acting as the proc- urer. HE portion of treaty dealing with this question is in articles 156, 157, 158. In reading these sections legal- izing the most brazen robbery of all those bloody thefts perpetrated in th« name of “democracy” during the world war, it should be kept in mind that the territory and properties mentioned belonged, not to Germany, but ‘to China. The agreement, as tho no such country as China existed, is made be- tween Germany and Japan. Article 156 read in part as follows: Germany renounces in favor of Japan all her rights, titles and privileges .... All German rights in the Tsingtao-Tsinan-fu railway, Md Me Chinese learned. their lesson. | Japan’s, Powerful Position in China (From Lansbury’s Weekly, London.) Italy in secret agreements made in 1917. The decision to legalize these secret agreements was made by Lloyd George, Clemenceau—and Woodrow Wilson. The Chinese delegates made des- perate efforts to secure a modifica- tion of these articles. According to Thomas F. Millard they made the fol- lowing proposals: | China would assent to have the German concessions in Shangtung veded directly to Japan in the treaty of peace, thus saving Japan's “face” in the matter, Japan to promise, same also to be written in the treaty, to restore Shangtung and Tsingtao to China in two years. China would™ agree to repay Japan for all expenses Incurred by Japan in the military. operations re- quired to take Tsingtao from Ger many. (New York Times, July 25, 1919.) The Japanese and their supporters gave these concessions no considera- tion. They had received, blow after blow} ‘rom the democratic, mations allied with autocratic Japan, they had been given complete proof of the hollow- ness of imperialist promises and con- crete demonstrations of the determina- tion of all the powers,to take their pound of flesh from bleeding China. In a speech delivered in New York City on July 25, 1919, a representative of the Chinese republican govern- ment in Canton said: ¢ We hope our defeat will serve to arouse the sentiment of all, China, including its branch lines » Its subsidiary stock ..... mines, plant and material for the exploitation of the mines, are to remain acquired by Japan The German state submarine cables from Tsingtao to Shanghai and from Tsing Tsao to Chefoo... are similarly acquired by Japan... Article 157 says in part: The movable and immovable prop- erty owned by the German state in the territory of Kiaochow as well as the rights that Germany might claim are and REMAIN ac- quired by Japan .... (Emphasis mine.) RTICLE 158 is the most amazing of all. It is an admission of the utter illegality of the whole proceed- ; ing but takes the necessary steps to | make appeal against it on this ground to the end that she will depend upon herself and that her sorrow will be her national salvation. The war started as a conflict of right with might, but | do not see that the end of the war justifies that idea. Germany is crushed, but there is another Germany in the Far East, and perhaps this will not be the last war, for there will surely be another if justice is not done now. HE president of China also voiced the new spirit in an interview pub- lished in the New York Times, Jan. 17, 1919: * Some western people hold the view that it would be a great bene- fit to China if the railroads, present and prospective, could be interna- tionalized until such time as China could take full control of all the- leased zones and con ions, and most powerful interests in America is shown by the interesting revela- tions made by Paul S. Reinsch con- cerning his visit to the United States while minister to China under the Wilson administration: “Among great private organizations I conferred with members of the Na- tional City Bank; J. P. Morgan and ; tion of Manchuria have very friendly pany of New York; Kuhn, Loeb and company; the General Electric and American Locomotive companies; the Standard Of] company of New York; the International Banking corparation and the American International cor- poration; the Chase National Bank; the SiemsCarey company; Pacific Development corporation, and the Continental and Commercial bank of Chicago,” ODAY the Chinese masses are in revolt but they are hemmed in by the imperialist web wovén during the last 75 years and strengthened during the world war. Only on the west and north has a breach been made in it where Soviet Russia appears, more powerful than czarist Russia ever was, but playing a different role— that of a militant champion of the op- pressed Chinese masses, an enemy: of world imperialism. The map appearing with this article shows the dominant position of Japan since her acquisition of the territories formerly held by czarist Russia and Germany. It wjil be noticed that she controls. the entire sea-coast of China with the exception of the port of Hong Kong which is a British sphere of influence. North-eastern China is under her control but the Chinese Eastern, railway with its terminus at Vladivostok is operated jointly by the Chinese and Soviet governments. Mongolia and the more northern sec- relations with Soviet Russia, id bie valley of the Yang-tsze is a scene of rival operations for Bri- is at. Shanghai, at the mouth of this great navigable river that the center of the present movement against the foreign powers is located. Canton is the stronghold of the Kuo Min Tang. With the explanations given the map makes {t easy to understand why the Chinese liberation movement is directing its energies first against Japan and second against Great Bri- tain. The map also shows the extremely tish and Japanese imperialism and it | By Wm. F. Danne has on hand in attempting to dislodge Japan from her pre-eminent position in the Far East. It will also be seen that could the imperialist powers come to an agree- ment and make Japan their agent, the task of subjugating the Chinese na-: tion, for a time at least, would not be so very hard. But Japan is already too powerful to suit Great Britain and the United States, Neither is Japan willing to fight the battles of her two principal rivals. ~ Meanwhile the Chinese liberation movement and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics grow in power. 'N the Far Hast there are many con- fiicts in progress: First, the drive against China’ by the imperialist nations opposed” by the Chinese liberationists and Soviet Russia. Second, the conflict between Great Britain and Japan, Japan and Amer- ica, America and Great Britain for control of China and the pacific, Third, the conflict between Soviet Russia as the representative of the workers and peasants of all the world, and world imperialism. None of these conflicts follow a straight line. There are advances and retreats, temporary alliances and breaking of alliances, minor and ma- jor alignments and a play of forces that at times makes understanding difficult. But under all the intrigue and ma- neuvering is the clash of the two great forces in this imperialist era— that of a ruling class striving to hold | its privileged position and that of the oppressed masses, yellow, white and black, fighting for power to determine their own destiny in a world where the dictatorship of the working class in Russia points the way out for the masses of all the wofld. (This is the last of this sertes of articles. The next series will Be call- ed: “China’s Fight for Freedom” and will deal with the rise of the Chinese Itberation movement and its meaning company; the Guaranty, Trust com- MELLON PLAN T REDUCE TAX ON RICH ANNOUNCED Saves Millionaires Over $300,000,000 a Year (Special to The Daily Wortkéry” WASHINGTON, D. C., June. 24.— The United States surtax on High In- comes Is certain to be cut drastically in the next session of Congress, chair. man Green, of the house ways and means committee announced here. The tax will be cut $300,000,000. Green who Is following out the wishes of secretary of the treasury Mellon and President Coolidge, sald. The surtax maximum will be cut to 25 per cent. Mellon does not desire to send his plan for reduction of taxes on higli incomes directly to Congress, since it is known that Mellon is head of the aluminum trust and a multi-million- aire and will frofit by the cut, but Mellon has conferred with Green. Senator Smoot, another wealthy man, who was involved in the Teapot Dome oil scandal, also conferred with Green. The bill reducing the millionaire’s taxes will be known as the Green- Smoot bill. At a hearing of the ways and means committee, Mellon will advocate the passage of this ey Finance Committee Tables McAndrew’s Teachers’ Wage Cut tough job that American imperialism Furriers in New York Hold Big, Wonderful Union Demonstration (Continued from Page 1) the call of the new joint board to cease work at four o'clock and come to Cooper Union. Such mass gather- | history of the union. Under Kauf- mann rule meetings were held only when necessary to deceive the mem- bership or collect money. Forward Attacks the Union. minutes, Webster Hall in an overflow meeting, then Astoria Hall, obtain other halls, many hundreds, disappointed in faii- ing to get in. i fer the working class.) CLASH OF RADIO INTERESTS HITS McMILLAN TRIP ings were never before known in the Wilbur Calls Halt to Low Wave Equipment WASHINGTON, D. C., June 24.— Secretary of the navy Wilbur has con- But the new administration repre-| firmed reports that he ordered the sents the masses who, within fifteen] U- S. naval officers with the Mac- surrounded Cooper Union | Millan artic expedition, now at Syd- from all sides, immediately packed | fey, Nova Scotia, to abandon the trip unless Donald B. MacMillan, the com- then—unable to} Mander, agrees to use the nayy’s radio turned away in|} equipment. Second to MacMillan in command is E. F, MacDonald of Chicago, multi- Yesterday’s Forward attacked the | millionaire who owns a radio corpo- union for calling she meeting, saying, | ration in Chicago. This radio com- “Why was it necessary to break| pany manufactures low wave length agreement, strain relations with the} radio sets and it was these which bosses, give up several hours work | MacMillan had intended using. just now?” . Wilbur ordered the destroyer Put- But, inside the halls, the question | nam to Sydney to deliver the navy'’s became clear: the trade,” declared B. Gold, manager of the joint board. test the strength of our organization. We are surrounded on all sides. one side is the infamous Kaufmann organization committee, from whom we took their fat jobs and stopped their graft; on the other side is the yellow Forwards, and on the third side is the Manufacturers’ Associa- tion, which wrote us a few hours af- ter the Forward’s article appeared, declaring that we broke the agree- o'clock, but since this is the first time, they forgive us for the crime.” And It Showed Them! “We say to all enemies of the Fur- riers’ Union, we do not break the ment by calling this meeting at four | impossible. The situation was exactly the same as if a landlord, having oc- cupied the premises of a rival, had then demanded and received all deeds to the property which the rival in turn had forced a third person to give him. The article reads; Germany shall hand over to Jap- an, within three months from the coming into force of the present treaty, the archives, registers, p' title deeds and documents of every kind, wherever they may be, re- lating to the administration, whether civil, military, financial, judicial or other, of the territory of Kiaochow. Within the same period Germany shall give particulars to Japan of all treaties, arrangements or agree- ments relating to the rights, title or privileges referred to in the two preceding articles. It will be noticed that China is not even mentioned in these, three ar- ticles, HE demands made in these three Coming eaarene articles had all been conceded to | THE NEGRO AS AN. PRESSED PEOPLE THE WORKERS MONTHLY By WM. F. DUNNE { likewise be-internationalized as a temporary measure. the point of view of China, however, A VERY DIFFERENT POLICY. RECEIVES GENERAL ENDORSEMENT, name- ly that, with the view of preserving | her territorial f » all rail- roads, | id zones should revert to he AND COMPLETE NTROL, IN- TERNATIONALIZATION BEING UNTHOUGHT OF, -— It is this spirit thats finding ex- pression in the strikes aud demonstra- tions against foreign o 1 of China, today, actions participated in by all sections of the Chinese- population. AMERICAN imperialigm seems to prefer to fight Jagan and Great Britain after they have secured con- trol of China rather than to enter into active competition with them for ter- ritorial concessions. This is the only theory that explains the manner in which American diplomaey became an instrument of British and Japanese domination in China during the world Japan by Great Britain, France and| war. That it was dicta by the! there, ( ‘ The meeting ended with a tremen-. ns dous demonstration of complete soll- ooo TCO MM | arity of all the workers with the IN THE JULY ISSUE OF OUT ABOUT The finance comfttes of the board |®éreement; but remember that the of education voted to table Superin- furriers are united and powerful enuf tendent McAndrews’ revised teachers’ |‘ meet all attacks and battle for bet- salary schedule which came up before | ter conditions. We called this meet- them. Action was postponed until |g to show you the strength and next fall. power of the union membership.” Other speakers were Fanny War-- Bho anayedllvngas tlh rng bee shafsky, Sorkin, Wexler and Eleston. gued that the school funds showed a|5¢veral agents of Kaufmann tried to |, obstruct the meeting by heckling, but when the speaker called out to them: “Howl louder, brothers, you have to eration fought the schedule on the show Kaufmann you he earning grounds that the large bulk of the ” teaching force of Chicago would bo|*otea vue ot ite hanes ware given a cut. in wages whereas the T lutl principals would receive so large an ‘wo Resolutions. | increase as to make it {mpossiblefor| TWO resolutions were adopted: the board’s funds to cope with the in--| First, demanding a special conven-| creased cost. The schedule has go |tion, with new elections in order to many loopholes there 1s ho telling |@iiminate the destructive consitution- who will be made to suffer to make |*! *mendments which the Kaufmann up the deficit. Favoritism under the |™achine smuggled thru the last con- new schedule {s not an improbability,.| Y@ntion. Second, a pledge on the part of every member to stand by the new administration for a clean union and protection of the interests of the workers, Oy, surplus of $17,000,000, Miss Haley of the Teachers’ Fed- Write the story about your shop —Order a bundle to distribute new joint board. Harvester Co, to Open New Plant. HAMILTON, Ont—It {§ said that the Internationa tor. Company of Canada will soon open a large ‘ine, Sait, BONe Meee. “We wanted to prove | radio equipment, which is of standard whether we have with us workers of] wave length, to MacMillian. It {s thot that clashing interests “We wanted to] of radio manufacturing companies, an- xious to secure the advertisement of On having their equipment used on the expedition to the north pole, form the basis for the disagreement. In a later statement Wilbur said he had no objection to the short wave radio equipment being taken along, but thot that both should be carried on the expedition. ns \ Italy to Bargain with U. 8. WASHINGTON, D. ©, June 24— On Thursday negotiations begin be- tween representatives of the Italian |governmaut, and secretefies Kellogg and Mellon, and Senator Smoot with regard to the settlement of Italy’s debt to hte United States. The Mussolini representatives will plead for more lenient terms on the ground that Italy's financial con is bad, and the Coolidge nm will bring the threat of withdrawal of private credits to bear* to force payment from Italy. Portugal Also Has “Interests.” — LISBON, June 24.—Measures. look- ing to the safety of the Portuguese community at Macao, China, to which the general strikes of Shanghai, Can- ton and Hong Kong have spread, were under way today, ‘ae The ministerial council approved the sending of the cruiser Carval Hoa- raujo to protect Portuguese interests. . City Politicians More Power, John A. Watson, legal aid to John B. Fergus, was appointed special counsel forthe city to lead the fight of the Chicago politicians for a legis- lative reapportionment thru court ac tion, Ne a Seek Iron In White fi Sekt MOSCOW—An expedition of the In- stitute for scientific exploration of the | North has started for a trip from Leningrad to the-region Kobdo on the White Sea for investigation of iron formed at the bottom and on the:const of the White Sea, Another new Sub—Makee an —_— | | |