The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1925, Page 6

Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Vashington Blvd., Chicago, Il, Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES vail (in’Chiéago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): year « $4.50 six months. | $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months 2.50 three months | $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to ‘AILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois J, LOUIS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F. DUNNE { MORITZ J, LOEB.....0... i-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, UL, under the act of March 3, 1879. Editors one Business Manager watered as seco Advertising rates on application. Pisesivetion in the Steel Industry The Central Labor Union of Gary, Indiana, announces its inten- tion to renew a drive for organization among the 65,000 steel workers there as its part in the general organization canipaign slated to start in September by the American Federation of Labor. We do not question the sincerity of the Gary Central Labor Union. It probably has.a real desire to organize the slaves of the steel trust but such airmeuncements have become a commonplace since William Z. Foster organized the steel workers in 1919 and the move- ment collapsed due to the ignorance, cowardice and treachery of the officials of the international unions composing the American Fedeta- tion of Labor. $60,000 was left in the treasury of the committee for organizing the steel workers after the strike was over. This was handed over to ) a re-organized committee (Foster had become too “radical” for the fakers) headed by William Hannon of the International Association of Machinists, and a new campaign announced. Meetings in Gary and other steel towns have been held by this of the result of the labors of its “laborers.” But if the committee in charge of the new drive is really after results this time, and if the Gary Central Labor Union is determined to give life to the work of organization there is at least one thing they should NOT do: Begin their campaign by a denunciation of the “reds.” The steel workers, largely Negroes and foreign-born workers, are already suspicious of the union officialdom; the foreign-born workers . for the most part have some acquaintance with the aims of the so- ‘called radical elements and approve of them. To begin the organ- ization work as Hannon did, by declaring that the radicals were to have nothing to do with it, is to convince the most militant and there- iE DAILY WORKERThe Stru ™ Te formation of the anti-bolshevik | front on the part of the imperial-| ists for the purpose of annihilating the Soviet Union and colonizing China completely, and further, the brutal | dictatorship of Tuan She Sui aed Tsang Eso Lin in Peking, render it | necessary to convert the idea of na-| tional revolution into deeds. The front | of the national revolution is directed | against the foreign imperialists and against their Chinese lackeys; the | military rulers and the cempradores | (agents of foreign firms and banks). The revolution in the year 1850, un-| = | der the leadership of Hung Shu Tzuen | expressed the indignation of the South | | Chinese peasants who were complete- }ly suppressed by British and French imperialism. The Boxer rising in the year 1900 was the expression of the indignation of the Northern Chinese people who were heavily oppressed by German, Japanese and Russian impe- rialism. Today the wholg of the Chin- ese people is crushed and enslaved by | international imperialism. HE revolution which broke out in 1850 lasted altogether for 15 years. That it failed is only due to the fact that on the one hand, the manchu government at that time co-operated with the English against the revolu- tionaries and on the other hand, be- cause the leader, Hung Shu Tzuen, wished to introduce christianity into China and had himself nominated as emperor in Nanking, and that a great portion of the people were not in agreement with him. The reason for the defeat of the Boxer rising is to committee from time to time but the general impression, voiced in | pe attributed in part to the leaders of these columus once before, is that a maximum of one steel worker | the movement (the emperor's widow brought into the union for every $1,000 expended is a liberal estimate | 404 the Manchu princes), who were WORKER 4 +fact that it was a purely anti-foreign movement, which not only opposed the suppression by the foreigners, but was against allsdntercourse with for- eigners whateven.’ Owing to its weak- ness the Manchu ,government was overthrown in 1911. The present movement is not sim- ply an anti-foreign movement, but is directed against the imperialists, against the exploiters and oppressors of the Chinese people, no matter whether they be foreigners or Chin- ese; in fact the Chinese will co-oper- ate with such peoples who treat China as an equal, such as Soviet Russia, and also with the suppressed peoples of all countries, T the beginning*of May, on the Ist, 4th and 7th) there were serious encounters between’ the Chinese peo- ple and the Tuan She Sui and Tsang Tso Lin cliques.’ ‘The imperialist lack- ey Tuan She Sui had restricted and partly forbidden’ the “labor celebration of the Ist of May, the observation of the day of freedom, 4th of May (on this day in the year 1919, the Peking students revolted against the govern- ment of Tuan She Swi-as a result, new ideas regarding® freedom penetrated into the minds of the people inmesh- ed in the teachings of Confucius) and the anti-Japanese day, 7th of May (this is directed against the 21 de- mands submitted by Japan in 1915). As a result, on the 7th of May in- dignation broke: out against the gov- ernment. In the collision with the police two students were killed, many wounded and many arrests were made. This partly led to the strug- gle in Shanghai. The bourgeois papers in Germany reactionary and acted in a stupid and frivolous manner, and in part to the Against the Bloody International Imperialism in China characterize it as an anti-foreign movement and state that the lives of Atrocities of (Continue from Page 1) all concessions that had been grant- ed. Encouraged by this support, the Japanese exploiters, taking advantage fore most necessary elements among the steel workers, that the new |of the weakness of the Chinese gov- car>aign is just another attempt to organize something to sell out |@™ment and acting just as they pleas- n the bosses offer the highest price. In Gary there is already a small group of militant steel workers aging to the union. ed, flooded the factories involved in the strike with their police forces and and spies. The Chinese workers have They joined the union in order to help |done everything in order to preserve (it. there is no doubt of their sincerity and the Gary Centra] |the peaceful character of their move- or Union could do no better than to entrust them with the organ- | ™¢"t on campaign in this district. » > This would be the very best way of dispelling the general suspic- They have given the Japanese mili- tary clique no occasion for them to resort to the use of weapons. Never- among the steel workers. It would also give’a rank and file char-| theless, the bellicose clique of Japan- r to the organization committee that it sadly lacks. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subseription | for the DAILY WORKER. § Brave Businessmen in China Seventy Chinese workers and students have been killed and more than 300 wounded by the troops of Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan and the United States in order to break the strike of the textile workers in the Shanghai mills—éwued by Japanese capitalists—and to crush the movement for ndfional independence. The Chinese governmest has protested against these outrages and made certain demands. The “American” attitude in China is interesting. We publis¥ the following so that our readers can tell without trouble just hAv much interest American workers and farm- ers have in ‘supportiyg our imperialists in China in their war on the hinese masses: Chinese Strikers’ Demands. 1, Cancellation of the state of emergency in Shanghai. 2, Release of the arrested Chinese, 3. Suspension of punishment of the offenders pending inves- tigation, 4. Compensation to the fami- lies of the dead and wounded and also for the damage sus- fe department at Wash- as follows: e urge the American gov- ent to co-operate energet- lly With the other powers and idopt the strongest attitude and ‘representation to the Chinese tained by laborers, merchants government to suppress the law- id pragga: lassness directed against for- Seen high, in our opinion, is 6. “Rendition” by the mixed K court. ly to the long exist 1 political conditions ted by Soviet propa- 7. Reinstatement of strikers. 8. Improvement of labor con- ditions, 9. Chinese participation in the municipal administration. 10. Retrocession of the muni- cipally-built roads outside the foreign concession, 12. Chinese liberty of speech, publication and assembly. 13. Dismissal of the secretary of the municipal council. that China he held sponsible for all loss operty, and business 2 the present situation, ute observance of the ex- eaties is essential until d thru orderly processes ed by the Washington vence.” * Youldn’t it be a fine thing if we workers went to war for a| Workers of ‘Tsindao and protested yirate crew that demands battleships as an answer to the demands of the Chinese people as set forth above, for the punishment of mur- ps and the privilege of running their own affairs? We publish the following Chicago news item with nishes its own comment: The council finance committee last night voted to recommend that the salary of Corporation Counsel Francis X. Busch be raised from $10,000 to $15,000 a year. The committee voted down requests for small increases in salaries of minor employes of the city. t reactionary leaders of the International Ladies’ Garment Union will soon need the entire New York police force to themselves from the membership. Lt is an old saying that those the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.” Western Progressive Farmers’ convention has adopted « tion demanding the release of Chouch and Trumbull. Who e farmers were in ee in the weather and the price eats “ wit # he A Ramet ese militarists, on the 29th of May, carried out a blood bath among the workers of Tsindao, which in its cruelty can only be compared with the action of the czar when he caused the Petrograd workers to be shot down on the 9th of January, 1905. dust as this bloody. “Sunday in Petrograd provided a political object lesson to the working class and brought the prietariat of Russia finally on the road of revolution, so the blood bath carried out on the 29th of May in Tsindao is rousing the million masses of the Chinese workers and awaken- ing to action the powerful revolution ary forces of this people which have hitherto slumbered. HUGE wave of indignation har swept over the whole of China ‘on account of the shameless firing up on the peaceable crowd of workers. Already on the next day, the 30th of May, a huge crowd of people, num- bering many thousands, among them being the revolutionary students from 23 colleges, marched thru the streets under the leadership of the Commun- ist Party along with the Kuo Min Tang Party, to give expression to their burning indignation and to pro- test against the provocative insolence of the imperialists. The Chinese democracy and intel- ligentzia, hand in hand with the work- ing and peasant masses, in the same way as the leading intellectuals of the rest of the countries of the East, have for long been conducting a self- sacrificing struggle against interna- tional imperialist oppression. It is a matter of course, that the volleys fired the belie? that It was not for nothing that the revo- in Tsindao have aroused the intel- lectuals of China and, in the first Dlace, the student youth, As if by mutual agreement, the Eng- lish and American police in Shanghai at the same time as the Japanese gendarmes fired on the unarmed work- ers in Tsindao, undertook the task of firing upon demonstrators who ex- pressed their sympathy with the against Japanese militarism, which in “Sndependent China” causes the work- ers to be fired upon with an unheard of insolence such as it would never have ventured to do in Japan itself. lutionary trade unions of Japan en- ergetically protested against the’ new unexampled acts gf violence in China on the part of their government. * ‘ Workers, peasants, soldiers, worki Support with all your energi } bodies. foreigners are endangered. The or- gan of the foreign minister, Strese- mann, Die Zeit had an article un- der the title: “China’s Hostility to Europe.” Certain circles even speak of a Boxer rising. The nationalists will probably make use of the occa- sion in order to take active part in the anti-bolshevist front, with the aim of thereby, perhaps, being able to satisfy their great longing for col- onies. ‘HAT lies behind this fight against imperialism? The Chinese wish to abolish all unjust treaties. The ‘| occupation troops and warships must immediately leave China. All areas in the possession of foreign powers shall be given back unconditionally to China. In short: The Chinese people wish to shake off the yoke of slavery; they wish to live as brothers with equal rights along side other peoples. The imperialists. are al- ready concentrating their warships and troops in China. They do not wish to be deprived of their spoils, on the contrary, they wish to en- slave the Chinese people completely. The weapons of the imperialists in China, apart from the one-sided treaties, are: Christianity and opium. By means of the unjust treaties they suppress the Chinese people economi- cally and politically; with christian- ity they stupify the minds of the Chinese; *with opium they poison their In spite of the fact that re- volts against the imperialists have often been crushed, the people are not intimidated. In every province, in every district, anti-imperialist and anti-christian societies have been founded. It is no longer necessary to furnish reasons to the Chinese people why they should fight against impe- rialism. But they must be shown the (Continued from page 1 Y this cruel and brutal act the for- | pened, war would commence. It is eign capitalists are seeking to| wonderful, however, how far we can take full vengeance for their defeats; | agree on words—so long as the words they are seeking to compensate them- do not mean anything. selves with the blood of the workers and students for ‘the unsuccessful at- tempt to crush the resistence of the trade uniohs and destroy the trade union movement, | The international imperialists are making use of the Chinese generals in order to conduct, mong themselves the armed fight for the carving up of China, the throttling of the Chinese workers and peas: its and the appro- priation of the A hhest portions of China. Yet when the working mass- es rise up to fight for their rights, a touching unanimity makes itself ap- parent in the 4 of the world bandits. At a oi when the working class, of all countries, without excep tion, has issued the slogan: “Hands off China!” the robbers of the inter- national stock e: nge, in defiance of this demand of the world prole- tariat draw the sling around the neck of the Chinese pec ple still tighter. A detachment of 2,000 English, American and Itafian soldiers have al- seady been landed in the harbor of Shanghai. Not content with this shameless violation’ of the independ- mee of the Chinese republic, the in- ernational imperialists are concen- rating warships the Chinese har- ors and are preparing to land fresh roops. ise Lo host means the commencement of acts of war and the beginning of a new bloody war Uf Upen armed inter- vention. Whilst Frénch imperialism is conducting a war in Morocco, the Eng- lish, American and Italian imperialists are making war on China. The excesses of English, American and Japanese imperialism in China and the war being conducted by French imperialism in Morrocco, is a signal to the working class of the whole world, that a new danger is ap- proaching; the indisputable growth of aggressiveness on the part of world imperialism in the colonial and semi- colonial countries...» This wnited front of aggressive im- perialism must be opposed by the iron, invincible front of the European and American workers and peasants Not Freedom for Others. It is the same with the right of free speech. Everybody believes in it but nobody has ever seen it. Every- body wants to say what he wants to Say; so everybody believes in free speech for himself. But not for the other fellow. The constitution, to be sure, is sup- posed to guarantee this right to all; but when a man has served a few years in prison for exercising ~the right, it is small comfort to him to re- flect that they did not jail him con- stitutionally. That is why it is necessary to have such a conference as this. You work- ers have to defend yourselves, ‘The constitution, lovely as its sentiments are, was not made for you. You are workers. You are American labor; and, in spite of all the pretty words on our statute books converning the right of everybody to the free expres- sion of his opinion, anyone who hon- estly esponses the cause of labor in America is quite likely to land in jail. Like to Talk About Liberty. This is not anything against the constitution. It is not anything against anybody. It is simply a state- ment of fact about life in America; and if we intend to go on living in America, it is up to us to look these facts in the face. In a few days now, the Fourth of July orators will be turned loose upon us. All of them will extol lib- erty; and ninety-nine out of a hun- dred will hasten to add that by lib- erty they do not mean license. That used to give me a good deal of trouble, in the days when I was an orthodox preacher and still believed devoutly in words. It does not trouble me so much these days; for I have learned that it is not the word but the meaning behind the word which counts. I know now that the word, liberty, refers to the thing that I want to do, and license to the thing that the other fellow wants to do. And in capitalist America, we should have intelligence enuf to see labor is and the suppressed peoples of, tha} most emphatically the other fellow. East. r HE recent evetits in China bear eloquent witness as to the uninter- rupted growth of the national libera- tion movement and of the prominent role of the working class in this move- ment, of the new and unexampled driving force whieh the development of the revolution’ im the countries of the East has attained. The stronger the pressure whiéh world capital ex- erts upon the workers of the West, the more favorable are the prospects which open up for this movement of the suppressed million’ rfiasses of the East, who from the other end are un- dermining the rule of capitalism, which is suppressing with, equal ruthlessness the working masses of the West and of the Bast, ° ° Ng women and peasant women! the fight of the Chinese workers! Protest, fight against the danger of a new war, which is being eagerly instigated by the capitalists of the bourgeois countries! Organize campaigns of protest aga inst the abominations of international imperialism in China, Morocco and other countries, demand the withdrawal of foreign troops from China, Morocco and all the otherrcolonial and semi- colonial countries! por Long live the international revolution, which will ‘bring, liberation to all the prisoners and slaves of capital of the East and of the West! The Executive Committee of the Communist Intern: 1, The Executive Bureau of the Red International of Unions. The Executive Committees of the Young Communiat (atarnational, . +e hive * tl mt | The vexatious difficulty which calis for such a conference as this is ex- plained by the fact that the world is divided into classes—the master class and the slave class. While this is the case, the masters will have all there is of freedom and the slaves tyranny only. When the workers once become conscious of their position and power, labor will no longer be denied free- dom. That, to me, is the significance of this conference. It is a sign that American labor is waking up; that it is no longer content to be counted out, and that the recognized right of Americans to express thoir opinions must include the right to express op- inions about the labor problem, Making Thinking a Crime, But We have not reached that point y We have laws in many of our states today which make the presen tation of certain theories a crime. This is tantamount to making think- ing a crime: for unless one's mind is open to examine all theories upon any question, nothing which can prop- erly be called thinking can occur, These laws are.not all directed against labor. In the Episcopalian church and in the state of Tennessee they are trying to abolish the human hinge orb oes and put the first chap- ter of Genesis in its place. I do not think they can do it ways and means with which it must be fought. This task has been under- taken by the party of Sun Yat Sen, the Kuo Min Tang, and the Commun: ist Party of China. The fight in Shanghai is the signal for the com- meement of the national revolution in ‘ina. HE London Times published a lead- ing article in which the shootings in Shanghai are described as a great mistake. It urges that the decisions of the Washington conference regard- ing China shall be carried thru as speedily as possible, in order to pacify the population. On the one hand, the imperialists, in order “to protect their fellow countrymen,” dispatch numer- ous warships to China and strengthen their forces there, and on the other hand they seek to weaken the move- ment of the Chinese people by pacify- ing them with honeyed words. The lackeys of the imperialists, Tuan She and Tsang Tso Lin, have several times sent protests to their masters on account of the shootings in Shang hai. In the whole of China, however, sympathetic + strikes have already broken out for the fighters in Shang- hai, It is no longer a question of a struggle in Shanghai, but of a struggle thruout the whole of China. Mussolini is endeavoring to extend his robber policy in China. At the beginning of this year he sent a thou- sand troops to guard the Tientsin- Peking line. In addition, he demand- ed that a piece of territory be granted for the establishment of an aeroplane station on the coast in the neighbor- hood of Tientsin. If this last should be granted to him, it would have the Same consequence as resulted when Germany leased Kiautchou as a nayal base. For the other imperialists would come and likewise demand So far, at least, no one has ac: foniy one set of rights. tually been put in jail for presenting the theory of evolution in geology and biology. It is only when you pre: sent the theory of evolution in social- ogy that there is much danger of-2 prison term, i Theories about god are still fairly safe, but theories about human labor are extremely hazardous. Lot of peo- ple think that I would not have been tried for my theological theories, bu: for the economic ones. os Must Honor P.'l Liberty. gele in Shanghai and Its Significance! 3 By Tap Shin Reis ts wett sea se A aeroplane stations. In the prea, struggle in Shanghai the I troops haye fired upon the Chines people just as bravely as the others Italy will therefore use this opportun ity in order afterwards to find sur port for its policy among the oth powers. i 1 is interesting to note that the Americans have now thrown aside their mask. As is known, they came forward as the “protectors” of China and only acted out of. “benevolence.” Not only has the American consul in the province of Fukien had numerous arrests carried out among the stu- dents on account of their participa tion in the anti-christian movement, while on his instructions the goverm or of Fukien has caused several stu- dents to be shot, but in Shanghat the Americans ‘are also arming for tr fight against the Chinese. i The imperialists are once again ‘ ing to,cast the blame for the fig’ Shanghai upon the Soviet g jment. The Times writes that chan delivered a speech in Peki: the Soviet Union and the peoples the east. This is a fact; but the new comes ‘rather late; for Karachan de livered this speech in March. The Ametican ambassador already in April lodged a protest against this with the Chinese government; for Karachan did not deliver his lecture in a Chin- ese university, but in an Ame! high school which the ‘Amertcant Sa founded for propaganda purposes out of the money received on account of the Boxer indemnity. Karchan went there on the most urgent request” the students. 5 The slaves can only win their free |dom by a bloody struggle. This. strug: Bishop Brown Addresses Defense Con fit. |The ants and the bees and the bea: gle has already begun. I summarize them as the right to be human. How, then, about cur right to be revolutionists? That is an easy prob- lem. If human beings are by nature revoluticnary, that settles it: and the Che thing that distinguishes man from the brutes is that man is revolution- ary. Man Must Improve. * » That may sound like a large state- ment, but no one can possibly deny The brutes are all conservative. That is'just one phase ‘of the situa- |°S do*some marvelous things:, by tion which calls for this conferenee; and the inauguration of a national movement for labor defense. {donot need, to tell you that my heart. is with you. I do not know, in all America, of any holier work than this. For la- bor is human life; and unless we haye { examine them, generation after ~ eration, and you will notice t are forever doing ‘the same which their ancestors did, any .. Same way which their ancestors. ; them. rik Only when you get to man, do full liberty to face the problems:of |e the opposite principle conspic- human life, no politics, no religionyne prayers and no god in the skies: ean possibly be of any uge to us. I shall not presume to advise you as to what this conference should do. It is my hope only that you face the facts: for when man once discovers the facts of his existence, he can not help acting intelligently.. it De You-may believe in human rights: but that will be of small help to you unless you discover what human rights are. There is utter confusion upon this question today. Preachers will tell you that you have no right to do wrong: which means, if it ha» any meaning at all, that you have no right to do anything which they think is wrong. Lawyers will tell you that you have no right to disobey the law. That does not mean much, either, for law- yers seem to be the last people on earth to understand what lay is. They think that legislature makes laws, but every. scientist knows better than that. Men can not make laws, All that men can do is to find out what the laws which actually govern hu- man life are: and if the statutes they devise are in accordance with these real laws, then it will do very well to call them laws. But if they are out of harmony with natural law, it must presently be discovered that they are not laws at all. ‘Water expands when heated. That is a doing of nature, a natural law: and if the United States congress should enact to the contrary, nature would not be seriously embarrassed. ‘Neither would you engineers and fire- men. After one or two experiments, at least, you would quit trying to run your engines on ice instead of coal. Can't Balk Natural Laws. Water has aright to expand when it is heated, and no legislature can take that right away. It has a right to run down hill, It has asright to be wet. It has no right to stretch its legs be- cause it has no legs. That is not ajan orderly. way right which it can exercise: and’ the only rights which anything has are the rights which it can exercise—the rights which nature gives it as the re- sult of the evolutionary processes to which it owes its being. That is about all I wanted to say. In order to find out what our rights are, we must consult the doings of nature which are the laws that ac- tually govern us. But those laws, we must remember, may or may not be on the statute boo! T am 4 law abid- ing citizen. I stand, as every man of sefence and scientific philosopher must, for utter obedienec to law: but I am not fool enuf, when I want to know what the laws are, to the proceedings of some fool ture. I observe human nature instead! for I know uously at work. Man cannot live’in the way his ancestors lived. He ¢an hot do things in the way they aid them. It is not in his nature to ¢o anything of the sort. He must im- prove on ancient methods. He must change things. It is the law of his being. He may be sentimentally cone servative, and he may try religiously to stick in the mud--he may even hate the forces which are constantly driving him on—but he progresses in spite of himself. x _ || We Shall Be Revolutionists, Shall we, then, be revolutionists? le answer is, we shall, because ws are law-abiding citizens and we cat not change human nature. When we know the truth, the truth will make us free. Until we become conscious of the laws that really govern us, » shall of course have all sorts ; trouble. ‘ oe I am a Communist: I do not call” it an outrage that any legislature should attempt to keep me frpm being a Communist. The poor legisla does not understand. I am a munist because it is the law of my nature to be a Communist. To believe that a legislature has the power to turn me into anything else is as suy erstitious as to believe that a prie has the power to turn me into a fish. The capitalists declare, for in- stance, for “Individualism,” and then Proceed to organize the most | collective society that the world ever known, They declare for con servatisin id they ride in the violently revolutionary They prate profoundly of the sacred © old institutions—of god and ms native land—but they have set new gods, making the old conceptions no lenger possible: have revolutionized the country so the fathers would never recognize it; ahd they have almost utterly ed the institution of the home. Workers Must Finish the Jo They, haye not done tl t iy: for when no know what they are doi con not be orderly. But done them; because, under cumstances, it was human do them, even tho they had to do: in confusion and strife and hate they had only been lousy © had only known the laws of | ing, we might have had all th \ ress without so much traged: shed’ tears that. It is up to you wot ously to finish the job less intelligent revo! seiously began. You have t tage of knowing that you” tionists. You know that mi