The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 2, 1925, Page 3

ped y ‘2 cial crisis in France, ZINOVIEY REVIEWS EVENTS IN CHINA, CHINESE WORKERS ARE MOST IMPORTANT WORLD FACTOR (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, June 7.—(By Mail).—Today’s leading article in Pravda, official organ of the Russian Communist Party, is written by Gregory Zinoviev, president of the Communist International, and points out the historic significance of the Shanghai occur- ences. The movement which started with modest economic demands such as the 10-hour day, has now developed into a demand for the evacuation of China by the foreign troops, and in a few days was transformed historical significance. The Chinese workers have into a political event of world not only grasped the problem of the relation of economics to politics, which the Russian work- ing class came to realize in the course of a struggle that lasted decades—-but also the question of the relation of Chinese eco- nomics to international politics and to the policy of bloody im- perialism. In spite of mass shootings and in spite of the brutality of the British and Japanese imperialists, the movement is steadily spreading, and the workers of Shanghai are rapidly assuming the na EN leadership of the Chinese mass- es. It requires no prophet to foresee that much blood will be shed yet in Shanghai, and that the cry of the 400 million Chin- ese, “Away with the imperialists from China!” will become ever louder. / The Imperialists’ Alternative. Imperialism which cannot exist without plundering the colonies and semi-colonial lands, is facing the prob- lem, either the greater exploitation of the colonies or acceleration of the Proletarian revolution at home. The intensification of colonial ex- Ploitation will accelerate the prog- ress of the national liberation move- ment in the Hast, thereby facilitating the proletarian revolution in the im- Perialist states like England. The world historical significance of the Shanghai happenings consists in the very clear demonstration of this truth. At a moment when the Chinese workers are passing from very mod- erate economic demands to the slo- gan: “Away with the Imperialists!” they are becoming the most import- ant factor in the international prole- , tarian revolution. Rapid Loss of Imperialist Power. The relative revolutionary import- ance of the British proletariat was for a long time small because there were in its ranks many imperialistic elements as well as a petty bour geois resistance against the idea of Proletarian revolution The revolu- tionarizing process that has now set in among the British proletariat is organically connected with the de- cline of British imperialism. The growing self-consciousness of the working class in the colonial and semi-colonial countries and the de- cline of the imperialistic spirit among the workers of the imperialist states, are two parallel symptoms of one and the same process. Powerfulness of the Chinese Proletariat. The Chinese proletariat counts only 6,000,000 out of a population of 400,- 000,000, But it becomes obvious that the Chinese working class can be- come the leader of the great national liberation movement when we take the following facts into consideration: 1, The Chinese working class can- not be infected with imperialist ide- ology; on the contrary, it is com- Pelled by the objective situation to assume the leadership in the struggle of the Chinese people against impe- Tialism. 2 The vanguard of the Europ- ean proletariat, led by the Comintern, recognizes the great significance of the Chinese proletariat and floods its way with Leninist light. »-* 3 The first victorious proletarian The Need te By B. BORISOFF. THE Chicago Daily News recently » > gontained the following significant ogee e in the news cable of its Lon- Correspondent, John Guntner: “Additional interest was lent to the Chinese question today by the return to London of Sir Esme How- ard, British ambassador to the United States. He is expected to inform the British cabinet about recent conversations he has had with Secretary Kellogg of the Amer- ican state department, regarding the American attitude toward armed in- tervention in China, “Altho the demand of such jingo | Mewspapers as the Mail and the _ Express must be discounted, there is no doubt in official British quar- _ | ters that ‘negotiations for some sort ‘of concerted intervention &, the powers may soon be necesvary The situation is rendered especially seri- ous in the view of British officials "by three distinct factors. The first of these is the responsibility of Soviet Russia for Chinese riots. The revolution, the Union of Soviet Re- publics, is a mighty support for the revolutionary movement in all de- pendent countries. , 4. There are in the most important centers of China considerable groups of the proletariat, 200,000 in Shanghai for instance. 5. The overwhelming majority of the Chinese people are directly in- terested in the overthrow of their im- Derialist oppressors, and ever greater masses are taking up the fight against world imperialism, 6. The Chinese peasantry is com- ing to the aid of the working class. Communist International Was Correct These points also apply to India, Java, etc., where the movement will take a course similar to that in Shanghai. The plenum of the Com- intern was perfectly right when, fore- seeing the change of the course of the proletarian ‘revolution, it declar- ed that the revolutionary events in the East would develop more rapidly than was expected and that no partial stabilization of capitalism in the West could halt the victory of the prole- tarian revolution for a long time. The lightning of the revolutionary’ movement in the East lights up the darkness of black reaction in all other countries. The demand of the Shang- hai workers that the foreign troops evacuate China will re-echo not only in Moscow and Leningrad, but in every capital thruout the world. The 3ritish Trade Unions are beginning to fulfill their international prole- tarian duties. Proves Stabilization of Capitalism Only Temporary. The more brutally the capitalists exploit the workers of their own country the sooner will the European proletariat break with its “European provincialism” and the more atten- tion will they give to the revolution- ary movement in the colonial and semi-colonial countries. © A few weeks ago the plenum of the Comintern gave an analysis of stabilization. The latest events show clearly how relative the political sta- bilization of the present world situa- tion really is. The Moroccan war, the Shanghai happenings, the growing unemploy- ment in Great Britain, the election of Hindenburg, the Bulgarian events, the symptoms of a financial crisis in France, etc., show that capitalism is doomed to death and that the interna- tional proletariat, under the leader- ship of the Comintern will be its grave digger. Your neighbor would like to read this issue of the DAILY WORKER. Be neighborly—give it to him! THE DALLY WORKER ~—- International Proletariat Will Be t T i € all go to show that capitalism is doomed to death and that the internatio: be its grave digger.” GREGORY ZINOVIEV, President of the Communist International. F risco Drive for Aid (Continued from page 1) listen to the cries of the workers and students of China at Shanghai and other parts of China? “They are carrying on an unprece- dented strike, “What are they struggling for? They are struggling for their emanci- pation from the yoke of the Janaese mill owners at Tsingtao and Shanghai, The strike has since spread to other factories and other parts of China where conditions are very bad. “American workers! Do you know that the bosses in these factories have the right to BEAT UP the workers? The strikers demand that CORPORAL PUNISHMENT in the factories shall be abolished. “Little children six years old are employed in these mills. Just think of that, you American fathers and mothers! The strikers demand that this terrible practice be stopped. Horrible Conditions, “The strikers—men, women and children—want a few cents more a day increase in wages. Children are now getting as little as $3.00 a month for 12 hours a day, with only an oc- casional holiday, and no Sundays off. These awful conditions were publicly admitted to prevail by an investigat- ing committee at Shanghai a few months ago. The mill owners them- selves had half of the members of this committee. The manufacturers are making huge profits, “The owners refused to make even these slight ocncessions! Instead, they called upon the soldiers and po- lice to arrest and beat up the poor, unfortunate strikers. Many of the workers were murdered and great numbers arrested. Their leaders were courtmartialed and some of them shot in cold blood. “The students of Shanghai, aroused by this terrible injustice done to their fellow countrymen, came to their sup- port and demanded their release. For this simple request for justice, the students were fired upon by the po- lice of the foreign concessions and mercilessly slaughtered. Cry of the Far East. “On the pretext of restoring order at Shanghai, the governments of the great capitalist powers sent their war- ships and landed their marines to crush the Chinese workers. Because of these oppressive measures the workers and students thruout China protested by calling sympathetic ANTI-IMPERIALIST NIGHT OF MEETINGS IN NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK CITY,—The Work- ers Party in New York has planned an anti-imperialist night of open air meetings for’ Thursday, July 2, as follows: > Union Square and 14th St. The meeting at Union Square will start at 5:30 p.m. The speakers will be: Oliver Carlson, Israel Amter; Juliet S. Poyntz; William Weinstone; Re- becca Grecht; Jack Stacnel; Charles Krumbein; Joseph Manly; John Jampolsky; Joseph Brahdy; Benja- min Gitlow ahd Siskind, Meeting at Harlem, 110th St. and 5th Ave. Start at 8 p. m. Speakers: A. Markoff, J. S. Poyntz; L. Landy; Jos. Brahd: Benjamin Gitlow; G. Siskind; Sadie Amter; J. Codkind, J. Mins; D. Benjamin. Meeting at Harlem. 110th St. ‘and Prospect Avenue. Start at 8 p. m. Speakers: S. Darcy; |. Amter; S. A. Pollack; J. Padgug; E. Shafran; Carl Brodsky; E. Elston; J. Zack; J. Chorova. Meeting in Brownsville. Stone and Pitkin Avenue, Start at 8 p. m. Speakers: Fanny Warshefsky; A. A. Trachtenverg; E. Mit- nick; Benjamin Liftschitz; Rebecca Grecht; |. Potash; Chas Mitchell. ng in lamsburg. Grand Extension. Starz at 8 p. m. Speakers: S$. Nesin; Geo. Primoff; B. Levy; William Weinstone; Fish- bein; M. Gordon; J. Stachel; Spar- er; G. Powers; °C. Miller; O. Carl- son. s strikes. Hundreds of thousands, even millions, including all have joined strike. é “This unprecedented strike voices the outcry of the workers of the Far East for emancipation. These work- ers comprise a large section of the world’s working glass, “Workers of America! Can you re- main untouched by -this tremendous demonstration of solidarity? Your working class brothers and sisters of China are suffeting unparalleled ag- onies. Can you remain cold and indif- ferent? You have often complained that Chinese labor has been willing to accept low wages and bad conditions, classes, in, this great general Scene of War in North Africa HE above map shows the scene of the struggle of the Riffians in North Africa to maintain control of their Republic in the, face of the invasion of the French army, brot about by the Painleve government, tool of the French bankers, The Riffians have captured many the invaders across the Quergha River, shown above, north of Fez, thi blockhouses from the French, driven and are now attacking ital of French Morocco. to China thus undermining your own standards. Backward China to the Fore! “That period is over! Today these hitherto backward workers are de- manding not only higher wages, but they are asking also a standard of living like that of the workers in other countries. Most important, the movement for the organizaiton of the Chinese working masses is spreading in that country like wildfire. The mili- tant struggle of these Chinese work- ers should get the utmost support of every American union man and wom- an as well as that of the millions who are unorganized, even here in Amer- ic “We, the Unionist Guild, composed of Chinese living in America, are deeply concerned with the terrible sufferings of our .fellow-workers in China, On their behalf we most earnestly appeal to you, workers of America, and to your organizations, for sympathy and co-operation with the oppressed workers of China, and urge you to give them your utmost support in their struggle for freedom and a better world, a struggle which is equally yours. They Must Not Fail! “Should the workers of China fail in their struggle because of the lack of co-operation and assistance from abroad, then they will be all the more tightly bound with the chains of cap- italism, Then the capitalists of the entire world will quickly take advan- tage of the defeat of these Chinese workers to enlarge their plants in China and by operating them at tre- mendously low wages there, thus use the defeat of the Chinese workers to break down the living standards of the workers everywhere in the world, including America, “The sufferings and struggles of the workers in one country are the con- cern of the workers in every other country. <A defeat of the workers in China now would be a térrible blow to the world’s labor mvement. “Workers of America! You are comparatively well off. Your organ- izations are strong. You can do much to help your struggling brothers and sisters across the Pacific. Already the British workers have demanded that their government keep out of China. You must do the same. “Act—and act quickly! Pass reso- lutions demanding that all American soldiers and sailors be withdrawn immediately from China! Send cop- ies of the resolutions to the president at Washington and to the newspapers. Get action from your central bodies on the matter. Time 4s precious! Act at once! “Yours for a strong international labor movement and a better world, “The Unionist Guild, Per Alice Sum, General Executive Secretary.” TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO IN IMPERIALIST ATTACK ON CHINESE The Chicago Tribune, in its “25 Years Ago Today” column publishes the following: “LONDON—The powers are said to have agreed that Russia and Japan shall provide 12,000 soldiers each, Great Britain, 10,000, France, 8,000 and Germany, the United States and other powers 6,000each to protect foreign rights in the Boxer uprising in Chi But time changes everything. Russia instead of being one of the worst oppressors of China, as in 1900,, is today under Soviet rule the one great ally of the Chinese peo- ple. Train Wreck in Russia MOSCOW, June 30.—Seven persons were killed and thirty two injured in a train wreck near Novonikolaievsk today. Grave Digger of World Capitalism ek Brie Moroccan war, the Shanghai happenings, the growing unemployment in ‘Great Britain, the election of Hindenburg, the Bulgarian events, the symptoms of a finan- nal proletariat, under the leadership of the Communist International, will chase Ras Os ave pel MORE SHANGHAI CHINESE KILLED THAN PREVIOUSLY ADMITTED, SAY DISPATCHES SENT VIA MOSCOW (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., June 7.—(By Mail.) —The latest tele- grams from China point to a further sharpening of the situation in Shanghai. So far forty-two eighty-five wounded. The Japanese, British, and literally hunting upon Chinese chase as upon a peculiar sporting game. and American troops fired for¢— no reason at all upon the work- ers; the result was eight killed, eleven severely wounded and a large number slightly wounded. Vicious White Guard Nearly Lynched Workers’ Organizer. The limits of the foreign quarter are guarded by machine guns. The volunteer troops repeatedly attempt- ed to attack the Chinese section, but they retreated before the Chinese po- lice, who only with difficulty managed to save the captured volunteers from lynching. The strike movement is spreading. Not only the workers but all office employes as well as the Chinese busi- nessmen, banks and students are in- volved in the strike. The workers of the electrical power station had been forced at the point of the gun to stay at their work and were re- tained in the building, but they finally succeeded in disarming the guard and to flee. Four Chinese, twenty Japanese and a number of British textile mills, with a total of 40,000 workers are involved in the strike. With the exception of the Bulletin of-the newly formed Trade Union Cuncil, the entire press is laid still. The whole port is tied up. Strike Spreads to All Elements. The total number of strikers reach- es about 125,000—a number unparal- led in the history of the Chinese la- bor movement. Hundreds of Chinese living in the foreign section have moved to the Chinese quarters. The anti-imperialist movement is spread- ing thruout China. Numerous demon- strations took place in Nanking, Han- kow, Hangchu and other towns, In Peking there took place many mass meetings in which tens of thou- sands and workers participated. The student body sent telegrams to the British and Japanese labor organiza- tions with an appeal for support in their struggle against imperialism. The professors of the National Uni- versity of Peking are accusing the Chinese government of a lack of en- ergy, and demand the recall of the British and Japanese consuls from Shanghai, the punishment of the for- eign police, the compensation of the victims’ families, an official expres- sion of regret on the part of the guilty foreign powers, and the restor- ation of Chinese sovereignty over the concessioned section of Shanghai. Even the Y. M. C. A. Protests. Even the American Y. M. ©. A. is- sued a statement stigmatizing the bestiality of the imperialists, and pointing out the need of revising the foreign treaties that enslave the Chin- ese people. Yesterday being the anniversary of the anti-Japanese strike of 1918, the | occasion was commemorated by a/| mass meeting comprising some thirty | thousand workers and students, who issued an appeal to the nations of the | whole world, and also sent telegrams | to the labor party and to the Com- munist Party of Great Britain, | Two Notes of China Ask Redress. | In answer to the note of protest of | the Chinese government, the foreign diplomatic corps responded with a note in which they attribute the guilt for the blood bath to the workers and workers have been killed and American volunteer troops are workers, and look upon this Yesterday the Japanese PEASANTS’ INTERNATIONAL GREETS SPOKESMAN OF CHINESE GOVERNMENT (Special te The Datly Worker.) MOSCOW, U.S&.S.R. —(By Mail) —The Peasants’ International has sent a greeting to the representative of the Chinese government as fol- lows: Tohisexcellency, Mr. Li-Tiao-Ae Minister plenipotentiary of the Chinese Republic in U. &, S, R. Highly esteemed minister pleni- potentiary: On behalf of the Second Plenary Session of the Peasants’ Interna- tional the presidium of the Interna- tional Peasants’ Council herewith tenders to you its profound grati- tude for the kind and prompt deliv- ery to the heroic Chinese people and peasantry of the condolence of the Peasants’ International on the oc- casion of the death of the greatest revolutionary and leader of the Chi- nese people in its fight for the com- plete emancipation of China, the immortal Sun Yat Sen. The pre- sidium of the Peasants’ Interna- tional at the same time assures all the Chinese patriots that it will lend Its utmost support to secure the fulfilment of all the just de- mands of the Chinese people in the nearest future, and that it unites its voice of protest with ali the Chi- nese organizations against the re- cent sad events at Shanghai. We are convinced that hundreds of millions of the. tolling peasants of China, under the banner of the P ints’ International, will carry) out the behests of the greatest Chie { nese patriot Sun Yat Sen. Long live the free and united , Chinese Republic! On behalf of the presidium of the International | Peasants’ Council—DOMBAL bins GOROV. Pertts =s students that took part in the demon- stration. The Chinese government thereupon sent a still more energetic note with the categorical demand that all the prisopers be freed; in this note it was also pointed out to the foreign powers that the bullet holes in the backs of those shot furnish the best evidence against the guilty ones. Riffian Drive Pushes French Beyond Ouezzan (Special to The Daily Worker) EL ARAISH, Spanish Morrocco, June 30—The Rifflans have pushed the French back before Quezzan, and! have occupied a portion of the town,! The Moroccans have also broken the French lines south of Ain Maatut, Bitter fighting continues on the entire Morocean front, especially in the up- per Leben Valley, 4 As heretofore, the French communi- |que makes no mention of the number ‘of French casnalties. of the Hour—Organization of “Hands Off China!” Committees second is the absolute impotence of the Peking central government. The third is the impossibility of inter- vention without vast ramifying in- ternational complications.” UCH is the story—brief, yet elo- quent; important, too, because thru the mouth of the Dialy News corre- spondent speaks the British foreign office, War is in preparation—we are told; war upon the masses of China rising against the oppression of foreign mi- perialism; war against Soviet Rus- sia—the “instigator” of the “riots”; and in the perspectve—“vast ramity- ing complications’—again war, this time among the imperialist interven- tionists unable to agree upon the divi- sion of the booty, Our “own” bourgeoisie and the American ruling class are deeply in- volved. Without its consent and par- ticipation other imperialist powers will hesitate to take action, It has such vital economic and political in- terests in China that it could not stand idly by while-British and Japa- nese imperialists prepare by armed intervention to divide the “Chinese pie.” Therefore the American battle- ships are in the Chinese ports, there- fore the American marines are already upon Chinese soil establishing “or- der” by the invasion of Chinese unt- versities and confiscation of “Bolshe- vik propaganda.” To be sure, this despicable war of American imperial- ism against the Chinese people is rep- resented as necessary “in the inter- ests of peace,” for the protection of American citizens and property in China, To be sure, American impe- rialist power tries to appear as the “friend” of the Chinese people and sympathetic to their legitimate aspi- rations to assert their sovereignty, But it will not be able to hide its true face very long. For it has become the dominant imperialist power of the world. It stretches its golden tenta- cles out to every nook of the globe, eagerly seeking to gain colonies and dependencies—a fleld of application of its enormous gold reserves, In China it seeks to outmaneuver its rivals, the British and Japanese imperial- ists, and it is opposed to the lbera- tion of China because it knows that free China will seek its ally in Soviet Russia, No lying declarations of the American capitalist press in favor of the right of thé*subjected people to self-determinatioh® can cover up the fact that the American imperialism is the most dangerous enemy of the oppressed millions of Asia struggling for freedom. T is the historical task of the Workers (Communist) Party to fight and to conquer the giant of American imperialism, In the course of this struggle it is the historical mission fo the party to be the cham- pion of the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggl@ against the world imperialism. It is the duty of the Workers (Com ist) Party of Amer- ica to help the Chinese masses in their struggle inst forei rialism by fighting our “own” impe- rialism, whose hand is stretched out to China. Our, ht must be a revo- lutionary fight..-We must remember what Lenin sali concerning the fail- ure of the 6 democratic oppor- tumiat leaders €é° carry on a revolu- ‘ tionary struggle against their “own” imperialism: “. . . Ome cannot become recon- ciled to this, that in words they (the opportunist leaders, B.) condemn im- perialism but in fact they do not carry on a revolutionary struggle for the liberation of colonies (and de- pendent nations) from their impertal- ist bourgeoisie: this is hypocris This is the policy of the agents of the bourgeoisie in the labor movement (labor) lieutenants of the capitalist class), That—English, French, Hol- land, Belgian, (ete.—party which in words is, hostilg to imperialism, but in reality does mot carry on a revolu- tionary struggle within the colonies for the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, which does mot render help systema- tically everywhere to the revolution- -] ary work whith has alreday begun in the colonie: into them , Which does not import ‘ms and literature for the ry parties in the colonies, of scoundrels and traitors, the standard by which wil) red the actions of our party ERE verbal condemnation of the deeds of American imperialism in China is not sufficient. Resolutions of protest alone will not stop armed intervention. The American imperial- ism will not dare to use its armed forces to crush the Chinese workers and peasants in their struggle for na-! tional independence only if it will know that the American workers are ready to oppose such intervention by & revolutionary struggle. When English imperialism was pre- paring to intervene in Soviet Russia during its struggle against the Polish bourgeoisie in 1921 the English work- ers formed “Hands Off Soviet Russia” committees and threatened with a gen- eral strike. This stopped the inter- vention. It is the duty of the Ameri- can workers to act likewise in support of the struggle of the Chinese workers and peasants. It is the duty of our party to urge the formation of “Hands Off China” committees in which all working class organizations will unite in order to oppose militantly Ameri- can intervention in China, Will the American workers respond? We must have faith that they will. To be sure, there will be opposition on the part of the reactionary labor bureaucrats, on the part of the oppor- tunists—the agents of the bourgeoisie in the labor movement. But it is just in the struggle against such opposi- tion that we awaken the class con- sciousness of the workers and expose the treacherous character of their op- portunist leaders. On the other hand, the truly militant leaders of the work- ers will not fail to respond to the call, and this struggle will draw them closer to our party. HE other question is whether it is hot premature to propose the crea- tion of “Hands Off China” committees at the present time, There can be no doubt that the im perialist powers of Britain, Japan and the United States contemplate sert- ously armed intervention in order to crush what they term as “Chinese riots.” There can be no doubt that these “riots” are in reality the begin- ning of a revolution sweeping the en- tire Chinese nation. Our party must rise to the situation and