The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 4, 1925, Page 12

dein \ The Rise O By ALFRED WAGENKNECHT EB cannot tell by what circuitous routes the delegates from the Rail way Workers’ Union of North China, or the Javanese delegates arrived in Canton, but they came via under ground and for the sufficient reason that the Javanese workers active in the labor movement were being de- ported and imprisoned, and in north China the heads of leadera of the Rail- road Workers’ Union were being cut off to discourage organization. So the ‘Transportation Workers’ conference meet a bit secretly, in the inne? city of Canton, The soft thud, thud of the rickshaw coolies’ bare feet brought us to a gate, and then we walked thru endless narrow streets to an upstairs, where, despite lan- guage difficulties, (three Chinese dia- lects, Russian, German, English, Spa- nish, Dutch and Tagalog) there was adopted, after days of debate, a mani- festo which now proves to have been a revolutionary forerunner of all that is happening in China today. HIS conference took place just a year ago. The manifesto has to now never been published in America. It is a document well worth the at- tention of all workers who-today have their eyes upon China and undefstand- ingly discuss with their fellow-work- ers in the shops the onslaught upon international imperialism made by this eastern people. MANIFESTO Of the Transport Workers of the Orient addressed to the toiling masses of the East, to the prole- tariat of Europe and America and to the Workers’ and Peasants’ state—the Union of Socialist So- Viet Republics. Adopted June 24, 1924, Canton China. of the young but growing labor movement of the East an event has occured which is pregnant with im- portant consequences, In the territory of révolitionary South China, in Can- ton, representatives of transport work- ers from South and North China, from Java, and Philippine Islands gathered in conference called by the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions. We, the representatives attending this conference declare the following: Since the world imperialist war six years have elapsed. All the promises made by the big capitalist govern- ments to the oppressed nations of the East, whose mzfn power, raw materials and other necessities were taken in order to help win the war, were not only not fulfilled and the promised independence not given, but instead, in almost all the colonies and semi- colonial countries, the imperialists strengtened their administrative op- pressive apparatus, have increased their military punitive forces on land iy The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois. Dear Sir: Mr. Wm, F, Dunne’s articles on have found them exceedingly true and enlightening. China has champloned a worthy struggle for ultimate freedom and Independence. As ! understand Mr. Dunne is going to start with another series of articles about China In a very short time, this merely goes to show your earnestness and richness of details which are rather rare In the present newspaper world. | beg to congratulate your achievements and pray for your success, For a more universal dissemination and systematized manner of presentation to many of those who have not had the opportunity of reading your paper | wish to offer a humble suggestion. you have already such similar plane in mind in which case it would only be a Joyous mental coincidence, What | would personally like to find Is to see thie series of articles and what more Mr. Dunne is likely to write go Into press again in a booklet or pamphlet form available for general distribution, with an ardent anticipation and best of work and success, R the first time in the history |. CHINESE EDITOR THANKS US FOR OUR ARTICLES ON CHINA THE CHINESE STUDENTS’ MONTHLY 1 have been reading the last few instaliments of There is nothing more valuable at the present time than a reliable and unblased source of information about the conditions in China and I sincerely believe that your paper as a whole and the special columns given exclusively to the affairs of | am, yours very truly, and water and have assumed a more high-handed colonial policy, In this respect there is no difference of a substantial natura between the policies of all the imperialistic states. The oppression of Korea by the semi- feudalistic and wmilitaristi¢ govern- ment of Japan; the oppression of Bri- tish India by the so-called labor gov- ernment of England: which is in fact a bloc of labor aristocracy and liberal bourgeoisie transacting the affairs of British financial capital; the oppres- sion of the Philippine Islands by “de- mocratic” America} the oppression of the islands of East India by Holland and the united oppression of China by aH the imperialists, all have the same exploitative aim, all bring great suf- fering to the oppressed peoples, de- priving them of the possibility to live and develope freely, In those few colonies where the im: perialists have implanted “democra- tic” institutions of government pat- terned after their own forms of state power, these institutions are mainly a plaything in the hands of governor Tae dee Rs amar! f Organized Labor in the Far East generals appointed by these impertal- ists. There, thesé gov¥eriér-generals can, by a stroke of the pen, afihihilate all the decisions, passed by the yery “democratic” institutions introduced by the imperialists as tho for the beii- efit of the colonial people, hayes imperialists of England, Amer ica, Japan and France, which hare so treacherously betrayed the peaples of the colonies and semi-colenies dur ing the war and which have shown such cynical contempt of the promises made at the close of the war, are again, because of the growing unrest, attempting to persuade the colonial peoples that they will be given inde- pendence as soon as the subject na- tions can show that they are ripe for sélf-government. But what the imperialists mean by the term, “ripe for self-government,” ig never explained. However, every attempt on the part of the subject na- tions to accomplish actual independ- ence and begiti governing themselves, is called restlessness and instability by the imperialists and force is ap- AN IRISH REBEL | June 27, 1925 the “Enslavement of China,” and to the facts as well as interesting cause for a people in their hard Maybe As a reader may ! be privileged In closing | wish you again the Frank Liu, What a Life! plied to break the will of the people in their strugela fo? indepetidenca, This was the case in 1919 in Mndta when General Dwayér shot to death, with machine guns; the people of Put: jab. This was the case in Me 1919 when the Japanese militarists mas: sacred the Koreans while they were peacefully demonstrating for inde pendence, Tolling masses of the Hast, revolu- tionary proletariat of Europe and America, Union of Socialist Soviet Republics! !—We, the representatives of the transport workers’ of the orient declare, that for us.the bast proof that the peoples of the East can and_.will govern themselves. lies in the. very fact that they are leading a revolution- ary struggle for independence. The imperialists will not grant independ: ence to any subject peoples voluntar- ily, further declare that the tolling masses of the colonies and semi- colonies will achieve their national, economical and political independence as @ result of organized struggles against world imperialism, native feu- dalists, militarists and capitalists who compromise with the imperialists. Such organized struggle of the co- lonial peoples against imperialism in this historical period when the world proletariat organized in revolutionary parties and led by a revolutionary center against the strongholds of cap- italism necessitates the formation of militant people’s parties in the colo- nies, consisting of workers, peasants, intellectuals and non-propertied clas- ses in the cities. Such parties will not only unite the struggling forces for independence inside of the colon- jes, but will bring the colonies into closer contact with each other and also will bring the national revolu- tionary movements of the Hast in con- tact with the world’s revolutionary labor movement. « i Toiling masses of the East! — We call upon you.to organize. yourselves into labor and tenants unions! | Wé call upon you to assist in the organiza- tion of people’s parties’ for the strug- gle against imperialism and for inde- pendence. We call upon all transport workers organizations in the colonies and semi-colonies of the East, to amal- gamate their unions, to affiliate with the revolutionary transport workers of the world. We call upon them to carry on extensive organrzation cam- paigns, so that the present organiza- tions may become a real power in the — against capitalism and imperial- sm, Long Live the struggle of the op- Pressed peoples of the East against imperialism! Long Live the united front of the tolling masses of the East and the revolutionary proletariat of the world! Down with the oppression of one nation for another! What alifel ~~ The ricshas in China went on strike and the foreign gentleman can no more ride on their backs.