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* LW THE DAKLY WORKER Page “Trew Imperialists Prepare New Tortures for Workers of All Countries | SPELL the workers in all parts of the world that the imperialists who are oppréssing and robbing China, are preparing new tortures for the proletariat in their own coun- tries! We are convinced that the International Transport Workers’ Federation will give its utmost moral and material support to the Chinese proletariat which is car- rying on a life and death struggle.”—-From the Appeal of the Chinese Union of Railwaymen to the International Transport Workers’ Federation. SHANGHAI TRADE UNION COUNCIL 450,000 MOSCOW WORKERS IN GREAT DEMONSTRATION FOR THE LIBERATION OF CHINESE PEOPLE MOSCOW, June 12—(By Mail)—Today and yesterday num- e@rous mass meetings and protest demonstrations devoted to the events in China and against the acts of the imperialists took pee in Moscow and Leningrad nion. and in most towns in the Soviet Over 450,000 people took part in today’s public meetings in Moscow, which were powerful and enthusiastic demonstrations of solidarity with the struggle of the peoples of the Orient for their freedom. Strike Relief Fund Grows Daily The interest of the working class of the Soviet Republic for the struggle in China increases day by day. Apart from the 50,000 roubles which the central committee of the Soviet trade unions have contributed for ‘the strikers and for the families of the victims in Shanghai, the metal work- er, textile worker and mining unions have each allotted 10,000 roubles. Today the Red International of la- Yor unions devoted 5,000 roubles in the name of the Western European working class. Yesterday alone, the Leningrad trade unions collected 2,500 roubles in the shops. Well-known Russian party leaders. and representatives of the brother parties, amongst them Katayama, Se- mard and Kolaroy and representatives of the German, Chinese, English and American comrades spoke at the meetings. Zinoviey made a speech in a dis- trict meeting upon the events in China } and declared: Zinoviev Exposes Second International “In yarious parts of the world events are happening: which will be developed in the future on an inter- national scale. One of the events is the Morocco war, Renaudel and Jou- haux have the insolence to repeat to the working class in 1925 what they said in 1914, but at present it is much more difficult to lie than it was in 1914, for today everyone understands that a small and menaced people struggling for its independence and itself menacing no one has been at- tacked. “It is an undisguised imperialist robber act. Ten years have gone since the outbreak of the war; ten million people were murdered and France in Particular has suffered most, despite this, however, the French bourgeoisie is supported in its imperialist action by the mensheviks. French Party Has Many Liebknechts “This small test is prophetic for the action of the Second International in BRITISH UNIONS CABLE CHINESE UNIONS THEIR COMPLETE SOLIDARITY LONDON, June 30.—The general council o fthe Trades Union Con- gress has telegraphed to the Chin- ese trade unions: “The General Council is confident that the united stand the Chinese workers are making will result In the firm establishment of militant industrial organization in China, and will do much to build up a pow- erful bond of unity between east- ern and western trade unionism.” case of an attempt by the bourgeoisie to begin a second world war. At the same time the French events show | that if there existed a Liebknecht in | the imperialist war, in the coming world war hundreds of Liebknechts will exist. The French brother party is acting in a way worthy of a section of the Comintern. “The events in Shanghai are in themselves not tremendously import: ant, but on a world scale they are a smaller preliminary action for greater events. The six million young Chinese working class put up today demands like the eight hour day, for the,aboli- tion of child and female labor and for a Sunday rest, such demands as were put up by the English working class 60 and more years ago. “At present the stream of the work-. ing class movement and the stream of the national revolutionary move- ment flow together and this united stream is becoming ever more stormy. Almost the whole Chinese people with the exception of the Mandarins and the reactionary generals, is joining in this movement for ¢reedom. Proletariat Must Lead “It is becoming ever clearer that the proletariat will lead this move- ment because there is no other power outside the working class, no matter how weak and unorganized this latter WORKERS OF MINNEAPOLIS HOLD PROTEST MEETING AGAINST RULE OF IMPERIALISM IN CHINA, AFRICA »- MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 1.—Under the auspices of the All-American Anti-Imperialist League, a monster protest and indignation meeting will be held on Sunday evening, July 5, 7 p. m., at Washington Square (Seven Corners). The meeting is called for the purpose of protesting against the e ment of China, lave- The workers of Minneapolis are going to show their resentment against the exploits of the imperialis in China, in India, and Morocco. The follow- ing speakers have been secured for the mass meeting: John Gabriel Hath- away, Carl Cowl, W. Woo and SPI ‘er from the 1. W, W. All workers in Minneapolis are urged to attend this great manifestation. may be, which can lead the struggle for freedom to its end. “One does not need to be a prophet in order to see that after the Shan- ghai mass murder, the Chinese work- ing class will feel the desire to arm itself in order to defend itself actively at the given moment against the im perialist attack. “Our generation will experience how the national revolutionary move- ment for freedom will become a direct part of the world revolution. Shanghai Movement Led By - Communists “We observe with the greatest pride that the movement in Shanghai is being led by the young Communist Party and the Young Communist League. At the present in China nu merous spontaneous fighting organi- zations are springing into existence which will probably in the immediate future set up a definite program. “The Chinese proletariat will not be satisfied with the 10 hour day, it will demand the eight hour day. The de- mand for a unite@, free and inde- pendent China with a freely elected National Assembly as the provisional government for the leadership of the anti-imperialist struggle will grow louder. “When Chinese delegations travel to Europe to report there to public opinion the real situation, the Euro- pean workers must send delegations to China. English Unions Do Their Duty “The English trade unions are car- rying out their proletarian duty. They are protestimg against the acts of their bourgéoisie in China and for the first time since the days of the Chart- ist movement they come forward as internationalists. “Unfortunately all the European workers by no means understand the significance and extent of the struggle for freedom of the toiling masses of the East. The awakening of the mas- ses in the East is the essential condi- tion for the freedom of the proletariat of the West. “The events in Shanghai, in Mo- rocco and in the Balkans are clear Proofs for the correct estimation of the world situation by the Comintern. ‘The partial defeats in the West are being compensated for in the Orient. i “The Chinese events are the fore- hoding of the world revolution, the in- troduction to powerful happenings which our generation will experience and in which it wil Istruggle.” A MILLION ON STRIKE THROUGHOUT ALL CHINA MOSCOW, June 9.—(By Mail.) — The total number of workers on strike in China has reached 1,000,- 000. In Shanghai alone there are 260,000 work. on strike, and the strike here is almost The press is stopped. On June 6, the strike spread to the territory of the French concession, which until then was spared by the move- ment. The French police tried to force the businessmen to open their shops, but in vain. With the aid of the police force the managements of the textile factories are keeping the workers at work. The t raph company offered its employes a three-fold wage and diverse improvements if only they would abstain from striking, but the employ ruck work none the less. British Shoot Children. Yesterday a British troop of vol- unteers shot upon a group of chil- dren who were throwing stones at the trams commuting between the foreign section and the Chinese quarter. The result was one eight- APPEALS TO WORLD’S WORKERS SHANGHAI, China, June 12—(By Mail)—The Trade Union Council in Shanghai addresses an appeal to the international proletariat thru the Red International of Labor Unions and the Amsterdam Trade Union International in which, after a detailed description of the bloody events, it says: “The imperialist press spreads the most senseless rumor as tho the Chi- In this manner public opinion is to be truggling only against a small group of ex- s which pursues a policy of economic and national enslavement of the Chinese people and a policy of bloodletting. “We are convinced that the movement which expresses the national and revolutionary feelings of the Chinese people will find its support from the international proletariat, and that the latter will support the Chinese people in its struggle against the imperialists, nese had risen against all foreigners. deceived. In reality we are ploiters of various national masses of all countries. “The Trade Union Council of Shanghai appeals to you in the name of 220,000 strikers” y' joy killed, and many children wounded. The Chinese workers, students and businessmen formed a joint committee to carry on negotiations with the representatives of the for eign powers, and put up the follow- ing demands: Punishment of the guilty police officials; compensa- tion to the families of the victims; the recall of the British and Japan- ese consuls in Shanghai; abolition of the mixed and consular courts; immediate release of all prisoners; the granting of the demands put up, by striking workers of the Japan- ese textile mills, and the formal ex- pression of regret by the British and Japanese governments. The Chinese government issued a communique declaring that it will carry om the negotiations with the foreign powers in an energetic man- ner and .that it will in: on the fulfillment of the above demands. A mixed commission of the foreign powers is expected to arrive in Shanghai today for the purpose of investigating the causes of the mas- sacre. Karakhan Gets All Protests. The Soviet ambassador Karakhan, in hig seniority position in the di- plomatic corps, is receiving numer- ous telegrams of protest against the arbitrariness of the foreign imperialists, with the request to transmit these protests to the for- eign representative: The j-imperialist movement is vall. over the country- Mass demonstrations and protest meetings are reported from Wu Chang, Kai Fong, Fu Chu, and other pla A foreign battleship has been dispatehed to Kiu Kiang, where the pplice headquarters were demolished. In South China, particularly at Canton, excitement reigns. At Pe- king, about 2,000 speakers and stu- dents address mass meetings daily. Deputations are steadily pouring in- to the capital from the provinces to express their protests at the for- eign legationg. The intellectuals have joined the movement. Even Foreign Schools Join. All schools and universities in- cluding the missionary schools and American colleges formed a joint protest union in whose name tele- grams of protest were sent to the British parliament, the labor party, to the American and Japanese peo- ples, and to the famous scholars and men of letters in Europe and America. nce in attitude of the on. the one side, and of Britain and. Japan on the other, is becoming ever sharper. While the United States, which 0 took part in the intervention, are not ad- verse to settling the conflict peace- fully, Great Britain is adopting a the common foes of the toiling most irreconcilable attitude and is obviously trying to provoke a sec- ond Boer rebellion as in -1900, in order to furnish a pretext for com- plete foreign control of China, ‘ALL CHINA CONTRIBUTES TO SHANGHAI STRIKERS ————__._.._.. MOSCOW, June 13. — (By Mail.) —Monetary collections are taking place for the strikers in Shanghai thruout the whole of China. The Peking government has given 100,- 000 dollars. The university profes- sors a half month’s wages, and even the Manchurian generals with Chang Tso-lin at the head, who wish to utilize the situation to extend their influence in Shanghai, have donated great sums. The movement is spreading over the whole country. The Shanghai sailors have demanded that the sailors’ union in Hong Kong should commence a strike in solidarity. In the center of Manchuria, Muk- den, strikes have broken out. The Chinese students in the Japanese high schools of South Manchuria have carried out a great anti-Japan- ese demonstration, On the border of Manchuria and Korea, in An-Tung, a collision has taken place between the Chinese custmos police and the Japanese police, The latter killed seven Chin- ese: In Hankao demonstrating workers and students attempted to force their way into the British conces- sion guarded by the British police and marines, the latter met the demonstrators with rifle fire whilst the British warships anchored in the river directed machine gun fire upon the demonstrators, Trial Opens. In Shanghai the trial has begun against the seventeen Chinese stu- dents arrested by the foreign police. The court is a mixed one under the chairmanship of the American rep- resentativ The inspector of the foreign po- lice, Everson, who gave the order to fire, stated in evidence that he had received instructions only to fire in case of necessity, but should shooting take place then he was to shoot to kill, A British missionary who gave evidence, declared that the shoot- ing was necessary, but the Amer- ican missionaries Anderson and Klyn, declared that the demonstra- tors only blocked the streets, of- fered no resistance and could have been peacefully managed. They statde further that the police fired without occasion and without warn- ing over a hundred shots, Se SSR RES EAA ane ee es NE a DO Oe NR a ROE TED PES SRE SS SRR SG ILENE SM iis APR ES Et So ’ RED INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE CALLS |. W. W. MARINE WORKERS TO AID CHINESE PROLETARIAT The Red International Affiliation Committee, representing the Red International of Labor Unions in its relations with the Industrial Workers of the World, today issued the following ap- peal to the Marine Transport Workers’ Industrial Union No. 510 of the I, W. W.: Pa * @ Fellow Workers of the Marine Transport Workers: For thirty days the workers of the entire world have been watching the beginnings of an against their oppressors second only in impor sian revolution of November, 191 oppressed, exploited and outrage war for freedom from foreign} imperiaMsm. The great imperialist powers wyfo ruthlessly crush the workers’ org@n- izations whenever possible in England, France, Japan, Italy and Americ! and whose power to oppress the peo ples of the Far East is nursed by the profits wrung from workers in the home countries, are savagely shooting down hundreds of Chinese workers and students in an attempt to maintain their brutal domination in China. Without China as a victim, the im- perialist powers would be lacking a market for export of capital and com- modities, a field for intensive ex- Ploitation of rich resources and un- limited cheap labor power—an ad- vantage world imperialist capital uses to the full in disemploying and op- pressing the working class of the home corfntries. Fellow Workers! The Chinese Sailors’ Union has appealed for aid in the struggle for liberation of China from the rule of the same capitalists who bitterly exploit you! The Chinese proletarians are striking by millions! An oppressed people is in revolt led by 6,000,000 fighting workers of the| Chinese proletariat! Do not fail to stand by to aid the Chinese tasses in their hour of agony and trial as they face the combined forces of world capitalism! Join with the marine workers in a bond of action everywhere to aid the Chinese workers! Form committees of action in every port in the world together with the marine workers of the Amsterdam Transport Workers’ Federation and the Red Transport Workers of the Red International! Block every shipment of arms to those who murder and oppress the Chinese | enemies! Unite your ranks for action in the world battle against imperial- ism! Enforce the demand: “Hands Off China!” e REO INTENATIONAL AFFILIA- TION COMMITTEE. CHINESE SAILOR’S UNION SUMMONS HELP AGAINST ‘CIVILIZED BARBARIANS’ SHANGHAI, China, June 12 (By Mail)—The Chinese Sailors’ Union © ha sued an appeal declaring: “Our lives are subjected to the whim of the imperialist bandits. We do not fear to meet our deutes in a voluntary struggle for the free dom of China. We can no longer tolerate the shooting down of Chin- ese with the bullets of civilized bar- barians, and we appeal to the whole people to join in the struggle for freedom.” upheaval of oppressed people ance to the Rus- In China, 443,000,000 people d, are commencing an historie Russian Workers Are Generously Assisting the Chinese Strikers MOSCOW, June 15 (By Mail)— vessful collections in aid of the strike in Shanghai are reported from various towns in the Soviet Union. The All-Russian Trade Union Council which allotted 50,000 gold roubles to the strikers the day before yesterday, has today despatched a@ similar sum to Shanghai. Red Aid Sends Cash, The International Red Aid has sent 30,000 roubles to China and has issued an appeal to the workers and peas- ants of China in which it promises in the name of its five million mem- bers to support the struggle of the Chinese people for a human existence against the united attack of imperial- ism, with all the means at its disposal, In the same spirit the women’s sec- retariat of the Communist Internation- al sent greetings to the Chinese fight- ers and called upon the Chinese wom- en to take an active part in the strug- gle under the leadership of the revolu- tionary organizations of the Chinese proletariat and the Communist Party. [ SOVIET RUSSIA DOES THINGS SO DIFFERENTLY MOSCOW, June 10.—(By Mail.)— The following characteristic episode is reported from Viadivostok: The assistant captain of a British ves- sel which was being laden with Soviet goods at Viadivostok, order- ed a Chinese porter chained on board the ship because he suspect- ed him of having stolen a pack of cigarettes. The news caused great indigna- tion among the workers of Viadivos- tok, and several thousands of work- ers gathered in the port and de- manded that the captain release the Chinese worker. But in vain. He was finally freed thru the in- tervention of the Soviet port au- thorities who made it clear to the captain that such action was into- lerable in a Sowiet port. The assist- ant captain wilf not leave the port but is held and will come up for trial before a Soviet court. Tell other workers what hap. pens in your shop. Write a story and send it in to the DAILY WORKER. Order a_ bundle to distribute there. ~ N. Y. NATION JOINS IMPERIALIST OPPRESSORS OF MOROCCO J By KARL REEVE cick more the New York Nation, in printing an article in the June 24 issue, entitled, “The Moroccan Ad- venture?’ by its Paris correspondent, Robert Dell, proves itself the garbage pail into which is thrown the senti- mental clobberings of the defenders of world imperialism, This article is an apology for the invasion of Morocco and a dennciation of the gallant fight ofthe Riffians for freedom from the exploitation of French imperialism. Abd-el-Krim, whose native army has inflicted defeat after defeat on the fo- feign foe, is characterized as “much like a robber baron of the middle ages.” Dell then tries to show that the rap- Ing of Morocco by the Painleve gov- ernment is a very altruistic maneuver. If the nation editors read the United States government reports sent out by Herbert Hoover's department of com- merce, which is keeping an eagle eye on Moroccan proceedings for the bene- fit of the American bankers—it would not so brazenly print such asinine, nonsense. N article on Morocco in the June } 15 issue of the U. S. commerce reports plainly states why the French bankers are freely spending tne blood of the French workers to retain their “African ye “The importance attached by Europ- ean powers to the rentention and dey- elopment of their colonies and protec- torates is again illustrated by recent events in Morocco,? says this report “France in particular, in recent years, has been depending more and more on its possessions as sources of raw material for its industries.” The French capitalists, Robert Dell notwithstanding, are interested in Mo- rocco because of the lumber and agri- cultural products, and principally the phosphate mines, which form the basis of much of the profits of the French bankers as this report shows. After giving numerous statistics to show that the French busin men depend upon French Morocco for their raw material, and to an increasing ex- tent for a supply of cheap labor, the report concludes, “All these develop- ments are undoubtedly proving im- portant factors in assisting France to reduce its dependence upon foreign supplies of raw material.” After this exposure by the United States imperialistic government of the reasons for the exploitation of Moroc- co the claim of the Nation that France has enetered Morocco for the Moroc cans own good, sounds false even to capitalistic ears, ‘aha 2 “It might not be easy to define the advantages that France derives from the protectorate over Morocco—it is perhaps am expensive luxury—but there is no doubt at all about its a vantages to Morocco,” naively states the Nation's correspondent, in the face of well known facts, such as the above, which prove quite the contrary. HE Nation follows the French so- clalists in openly lining up with the imperialists who are attempting to plunder the natural resources and the workers of a foreign colonial na- tion. We regret that we have to rob you, and that we are ruling you at the point of the bayonet, against your will, We regret our murder rule ly we are doing it for your own good is the song sung to the Rifflans by the imperialist Painleve government; French socialists and now the Nation, in true La Follette style, readily join- ing in the chorus. The Nation regrets that the French Communists have thrown discord into this robber chorus. “The government is anxious to end the the war in Mo- rocco, for which it is not responsible, says Dell. This is a direct mistatement of the facts. Althou the Nation declares Marshal Lyautey was “kind to the Lyautey, the military dictator of Morocco, ruled by methods remi- niscent of the rule of Maj. Gen. Leon- ard Wood in the Phillipne islands on behalf of American imperialism. The Pali out to the ihsoctaile policy of conquest inleve government = the fixing when the time became “ripe.” ing the Algecira: Spain and England. against the Riff Republic was on. vading the matter of faci uergha Valley.” has never the Riffan asked France ir time after time hi the frontier. Even after Mr ey {. of the Poincare and Herriot govern: ments Lyautéy was given definite per- mission by the Poincare and Herriot government to attack the Rifflans That is, after the Spanish troops had been déefated with the aid of guns supplied Krim by the French, for the purpose of driving the rival Huropean imperi* alists out of Africa, and thus smash- agreement’ with 8 is well known, the time became “ripe” for France to attack the Riffians after France had comme to an agreement with England that France was to have a free hand in Morocco and in return France was to leave Egypt to Britain, This was only a paper” agreement, and Britain is not sorry to see France's predicament. But Painleve gave the order to attack (even tho Dell declares Painleve “in- capable of such conduct”) and the war The French press, and in America, sheets like the Wall Street Journal and the Nation, have kept up a smoke sereen of talk about the Riffans “in- As a _the frontier between the Riff Republic and French Morocco ’en definitely fixed, and negotiate with him de Chambrun launch: ed his attack along the Oouergha, Abd el-Krim again and again expressed his willingness to negotiate for peace. But Krim refuses to accept a rebbers' peace—he will accept an armistice on- ly on the basis of French recognition that the Rifflans are henceforth going to rule their own Republic. As for France's “kindness” to Moroc- cd, it is only necessary to reflect that Gen. de Chambrun has been placed in charge of several thousand troops whose sole purpose is to terrorize the French Morocean natives who would have deserted the French protectorate and joined the Riffans ere this had it not been for the French bayonets. Krim's recent success North of Fez, where he captured a dozen French | blockhouses, including the Bibane for- tiflcations, and to the west, where his troops surrounded Ouezzan, show that Krim is sométhing more than a “rob- ber baron.” /Krim is the leader of the movement to drive the foreign imperi- alists from Africa, just as the Kuo Min ' Tang party jof Sun Yat Sen is leading the drive the Chinese masses for liberation. follower of MacDonald in ~the MacDonald who pur- sued the{imperialistic policy of plun- der and murder in the Sudan, declares ‘The only alternative to resisting Krim bypforee, was the evacuation of Morocco, =a Painleve government has te natn ieee admitted that the French workers are Prepared for this course and Painleve fears the French workers, throwing hundreds of them in jail for advocat- ihg the withdrawal of the French from Morocco. Painleve realizes that the French bankers are fighting for the very existence of their colonial pos- sessions in Africa. The French workers are tired of the slaughter, and led by the Communist Party of France, are making their pro- test against the rape of Morocco ring round the world, Already Painleve is suppressing meetings against the Mo roccan invasion, in a manner that is not exactly “democratic,”. and has asked that the parliamentary immun- ity of the Communist deputies Doriot and Marty be revoked, in an attempt to silence their protests in the cham- ber of deputies. Even Dell admits, “If the Moroccan campaign goes on much longer, there may be a very serious agitation and @ general demand for peace at any price.” Even as the words were writ- ten, much to the chagrin of the bank- ers, the socialists and the Nation, the French workers were rising up and demanding that the “principle of self determinat'on” be applied to Morocco. Dell, of course, is inisgnificant as an individual. But Dell, the Britisn 1.L. P, socialist, is expressing the his- toric role of the Second (Soolalist) International, Dell is using his pe Ae a for the imperialistic bankers, under the guise of sentimental “democratic” terms. Just as during the world war, the socialists betrayed the workers, so to day, the socialists are betraying the workers. HE French socialists have voted the credits with which Painleve it to carry on the imperialistic war, they have allowed the French workers te be thrown against the Rifflans in Mo rocco to be slaughtered, They haw shamelessly given up every principle for which they once stood and haw once more demonstrated their alle giance to the bourgeois camp. “Public nervosity has been increas ed by the absence of any informatio about the French casualties—due, understand, t6 the refusal of Marsha Lyautey to give such information, says Dell. And the French socialists, realizin that Lyuatey gets his orders fror Painleve, and that Painleve receive his orders from the French banker: are doing their utmost td appease thi “nervosity’, by mouthing phrases while they fall in with Pah leve's imperialistic course, The Moroccan invasion once mor demonstrates that the Communists a the only group which leads the figt of the workers against im ism, and that the socialists are thinly disguised. ; me Pe em ay

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