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Page Two > nations of the world. S to the nations which treat us on the footing of equality, we declare, as we have stated in our manifesto, on the Sino- Russian Agreement, that only Soviet Rus- sia deserves the name of an equal partner. The Soviet Republics have untarily abrogated the unequal treaties with China, but they have concluded with it treaties on the basis of have helped the Chinese peoples in their great movement for the cancellation of other Soviet Russia overthrew the imperialism of the czarists; moreover, leading the oppressed peoples of the world united struggle against world unequal treaties with in the * * * * imperialism, not only vol- equality, and countries. will treat us it has been friendship. president to the Central Executive Com- mittee of the Union of Soviet Repub- lics, we are sure that in the expression in his will referring to the nations which consider us as their equal, he meant the Soviet Republics. therefore, continue hand in hand with the Soviet Republics to struggle against imperialism for the realization of the na- tional revolutionary movement. As to the other nations of the world, those that equality will certainly meet friendship on our part. For equality is the key to friend- ship: Without equality there can be no From the letter of our This party should, on the same footing of Chinese Fight for Revolution’s Victory | (Continued from page 1) Pei-fu, no similar militarists shall suc- ceed them. Furthermore, our Presi- dent aimed not only at the overthrow of the militarists, but likewise at the overthrow of the imperialists, who dre their masters and instigators. Tuan Chi-Juil’s Opportunity After the war between the Chihi and Anfu militarists in the autumn of 1920, Tuan Chijui by his expressed opinion seemed to have become con- scious of the troubles of China, trou- bles caused by the conspiracy between the militarists and the imperialists. He had the opportunity of doing the right thing for the country at the time when he assumed the office of the chief ex- ecutive. The President of our party was sincere in his desire to co-operate with Tuan Chi-ju to secure the inde- pendence, the unity, and the peace of the country. He went personally to the north for this purpose and, if Tuan Chijui had as sincerely co-operated with the Kuomintang by accepting the proposal of our president to cancel the unequal treaties and call a national assembly, we are cortain that the im- portant tasks of the nation would have been realized and the develop- ment of the national revolution great- ly accelerated. But the sincerity of our president, his desire to put an end to civil war, to abolish the semt-colonial position of China, to unify and pacify the country, was not met with the same sincerity and desire on the part of the chief executive. On the contrary, the pro- visional government of Peking meekly and humbly accepted the demand of the diplomatic corps to respect the un- equal treaties as a condition for a de facto recognition of the Peking gov- ernment which has thus sacrificed the interest-of the nation in the interest of 8 clique. While our presffent insisted upon the calling-of a national assembly, the. provisional-government in utter disre- gard of the wishes of the people, con- voked the reorganization conference by appointment. When our president ‘went even so far as to give up his Proposal for the convocation of the preliminary conference which was to convene amational assembly, provided that the chief executive would con- sent/to Include into his reorganization conference representatives of the peo- ple, and of public organizations, the provisional government disregarded even the magnanimous act of our president and only included into the special committee some individuals of certain organizations and even these were given no vote. Such actions of the provisional gov- ernment were flagrantly in contradic- tion to the aims of our president to Secure co-operation in the interest of the.people. This party, therefore, de- elared that the provisional govern- ment in Peking was still following in the old track-of the Peiyang militarist clique and was acting contrary to the interests of the people. For its exist- ence it relies not upon the support ofthe people but upon the support of imperialism and militarism and it can never co-operate with this party in any of the tasks of the national revo- Intion. It is self-evident that the members of our party had to be instructed not to participate in the reorganization conference, or to co-operate with it. Proposed Bogus National Assembly But this is not all. Our party urged the reorganization conference not to perpetuate more crimes by fabricating rules to convoke a bogus national as- sembly, for it has not been authorized by the people and was given no man- date by the people to settle any of the national affairs. But the Peking pro- visional government disregarded our warning and proceeded to formulate rules for the convocation of a national assembly, and continued to strengthen its connection with the imperialist powers. The provisional government has not only been repeatedly selling the interests of the people to the im- perialists but it showed slavish loyalty to them by killing and wounding stu- dents on the day of our national dis- grace. Hopeless to Co-Operate This party, therefore, must solemn- ly declare that the co-operation be- tween the Kuomintang and the pro- visional government has become hope- less and that hereafter there is no other course left to us but to continue the national revolutionary struggle with all our might. The principal tasks in this struggle, as the last will of our president charg- es us, is the cancellation of all une- qual treaties and the calling of a na- tional assembly within the shortest pe- riod of time. ‘The last will of our president charg- es us also with the duty to call upon the people of the country and those nations of the world which consider us as their equals to co-operate in the common struggle. In order to recover our rights and freedom and to free ourselves from ‘the oppression of the militarists and imeprialists, the peo- ple, especially the workers and farm- ers, should unite. The people of China must under- stand that the Kuomintang has but one aim and that is to struggle’ for the interest of the people. Therefore, we must unite-under the national revo- lutionary flag and together carry on the struggle to a successful end. Abrogation of Unequal Treaties As @ the nations which treat us on the footing of equality, we declare, as we have stated in our manifesto on the Sino-Russian agreement, that only Soviet Russia deserves the name of an equal partner. The Soviet Republics have not only voluntarily abrogated the unequal treaties with China but they have con- cluded with it treaties on the basis of equality, and have helped the Chinese people in their great movement for the cancotiation of unequal treaties with other countries. Soviet Russia over- threw the imperialism of the czarists; moreover, it has been leading the ep- pressed peoples of the world in the united struggle against world imperial- ism. From the letter of our president to tht central executive committee of the Union of Soviet Republics, we are sure that in the expression in his will eferring to the nations which conside” us as their equal, he meant the Soviet Republics. This party. should, therefore, con- tinue hand in hand with the Soviet Republics to struggle against imperial- ism for the realization of the national CANTON FORCES TIGHTEN LINES TO DRIVE OUT IMPERIALISTS CANTON, China, July 10.—With conditions hourly growing more menac- ing, Canton was practically out off from the outside world today, All boats between Canton and Hong Kong ceased running on account of the Chinese crews joining the strikers and the Chinese telegraph service has been discontinued between Canton and Hong Kong. Communication be- tween the two cities was confined to radio communication from the foreign gunboats here to defend foreign imperialist interests. MONTHS’ SUBSCRIPTION to the DAILY WORKER For $1.00 ANTI-LABOR MAIL ORDER HOUSE GOES INTO BANKRUPTCY Bankruptcy proceedings were filed in federal court against Philipe- born’s, a mail order concern, the petition placing the liabilities at more than $1,000,000 with assets of $750,000. The petition filed by attorneys re- presenting three creditors, alleges that the affairs of the concern are in a bad way, that it is hevily in- debted to banks, brokerage houses and merchandise concerns and has been making payments to preferred creditors to the detriment of others. The working conditions in this plant were recently exposed by the Young Workers League as being extremely bad. revolutionary movement. As to the other nations of the world, those that will treat us on the same footing of equality will certainly meet friendship on our part. For equality is the key to friendship; without equality there can be no friendship. Root Cause of Civil Wars This party has time and again de- clared before the world that the prin- cipal cause of the civil wars in China lies in those militarists who willingly serve as the tools of imperialism and who rely upon it for their existence. The big miiltarists usurp political pow- er, exploiting and cheating the people and preventing unification on any lines whatever; while the smaller militar- ists hold possession of province, or part of provinces, in the name of the principle of federalism. Whatever the high sounding names under which they like to parade, they only perpetuate civil war in China. The object of the Kuomintang is to eradicate the cause of the evils in China. It is, therefere, determined to unite the people to fight those militar- ists who usurp political power and use it in the interest of imperialism against the interest of the people; to fight the smalier militarists who hold the provinces in their clutches, as well as those militarists who have constant- ly undermined the revolutionary gov- ernment. In a word, this party will struggle together with the people to get rid of all obstacles in the way of the national revolution, Such are the tasks arising from the present political situation and these tasks can be settled only in accord- ance with the will of our president, Plenary Session of the Central Executive Committee of The Kuomintang. Canton, May 21, 1925, South Side Branch Holds Three Street Meetings Tonight The South Side Branch of the Workers (Communist) Party will con- duct three street meetings tonight on the south side, Meetings will be held on the corner of 32nd and State Sts., 30th and State Sts. and 35th St, and Wabash Ave, This is the first time this year that meetings have been held on the cor- ner of Wabash Ave, and 36th St. Sepakers will be J, Louis Engdahl, Karl Reeve, D, B, Early, Paul Cline, Victor Zokaitis and George Miller. Hear English Evidence, ST LOUIS, Mo., July 10—The six congressmen who conducted an in- vestigation of corruption practiced by federal judge English reassembled here to hear final testimony before drafting a report. Impeachment may follow, Another new Sub makes another Communist, DAWES DOCTORS INBERLI FOR SECRETMISSION U. S. and British Bank Heads Plan New Loans BERLIN, July’10.—Considerable ex- citement was catised today in German banking and finanrtal circles following the visit here last night of Benjamin Strong, governor of the Federal Re- serve bank of New York, in company with Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England, Their unexplained, visit to Berlin was reported to be in connection with the Dawes plan, and extensive German credits in the American and British money markets. ; The two important figures in Brit- ish and American financial circles were met at the: station by President Schacht of the Reichsbank. They proceeded immediately to the Hotel Adlon, where it-was evident the visitors wished their arrival to be un- noticed. Their arrival and meeting with Pres- ident Schacht brot to mind the recent report of S. Parker Gilbert, on the op- China Hails Soviet Rule! The Uniou of Soviet Republics alone recognizes the Chinese Republic as an equal among the This is clearly set forth in the manifesto of the plenary session of the Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Kuo Min Tang Party adopted on May 21st, copies of which have just been received in this country... This interesting section of the manifesto, which urges an aggres- sive struggle to achieve the complete victory of the Chinese revolution, reads as follows: Glass censorship, supported eration of the Dawes plan in its first hat he six months. New York bankers have been nego- tiating a series of German municipal loans recently and several others have been projected, but there has been no open discussion of another govern- ment loan in either London or New York, BRITISH FAKE YELLOW PERIL TO FIGHT RUSS Use Race Prejudice Against Soviets (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, July \10-—Although the British government has been forced to withdraw for the time being from a war move against Soviet Russia, it is known that the diplomatic efforts of Britain are going on ight and day to try to surround Soyiet Russia with a 1d to attack the sof the Soviet ‘ive. The hypocrisy of lsh propagan- da can be seen in''the fact that the British government @efinitely unites with monarchist and oriental Japan, at the time it circulates,propaganda thru the Anglo-Saxon world to the effect that the coming imperialist war is a race question, with the yellow peril as the bogey man, to drag the ignorant occidental peoples into action against Soviet Russia. Ny Apparently it is quietly ignored that not only is Imperialist Japan a color- ed nation, but that Soviet Russia is populated largely by the. white rac- es. By sending out such propaganda Britain hcpes to gain anti-Soviet sup- port from America, Australia and such other capitalist countries as can sway their masses'on such fake is- sues. onbsicanndiiamatiie: N. F, Employe Asks More Pay. WASHINGTON, July 10—Luther C. Stewart, president of the National Federation of Federal Employes said last night that at the Boston co» vention next September, every effort will be made to place government sal- aries on a better basis. “Much misin- formation is disseminated about gov- ernment employes drainging the na- tion’s purse,” he said. fallacy is current and we shall com-| bat it.” Bourse Closes In Protest. BERLIN, Germany, July 10—The bourse will close the exchange for 24 hours as a protest against the reich- stag’s decision to differentiate be- tween old and new holders of paper mark state loans, and ot grant the lat- ter revaluation of only 2% per cent, compared to five per cent for old loan subscribers. Freighter Goes on Reef NEW YORK, July 10.—The freight- er Thomas D. 8,000 tons, loaded with lumber for west coast, went on a reef in Hast river early today and may be a te wreck. She carried a crew of sixty men, ee ‘Thousands of Filipinos Homeless MANILA, P, L, July 10.—Two thou- sand persons were made homeless and hundreds of buildings were blown down in a typhoon which swept over amarines province, Island of Luzon, today. “No greater | China and India. at home. * * other countri class. gressional elections. chine, to maintain Wall Street' of representatives. “Liberal Japanese Workers Take Smash at Rockefeller’s Anti-Sovietist Count By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, let American workers ponder well the fact that Count Michmasa Soyejima has been defeated for re-elec- tion to the House of Peers in Japan because of his anti-Rus- sian sentiments, and because of his prediction of a future war between Japan and the Union of Soviet Republics. This decision must be accepted as one of the first re- sults of the effective use by the Japanese workers of the limited franchise forced from a reactionary ruling class that was the last to withdraw its troops from Soviet soil. re, * @ Only the well-to-do workers in Japan are allowed to vote because of the high property qualifications. Young workers are barred by-an age limit set excessively high, Japanese labor is now fighting to have workers over 25 years of age allowed to vote. Then there is the heavy hand of the master by brutal prison, penalties, against all forms of militant working class propaganda, Yet in spite of all these obstructions, the Japanese workers have struck at the anti-Sovietist, Count Soyejima, who has been four years a member of the Japanese House of Peers and is considered so safe that he is allowed to deliver a course of lectures at Rockefeller's Standard Oil University of Chicago, where only the most reactionary viewpoint on foreign affairs is allowed to trickle across the collegiate forum. The defeat of Count Soyejima raises the international solidarity of the Japanese workers, who showed their mettle last May 1, in the inspiring International Labor Day celebra- tions held in all the great industrial centers of the land. speaks well for the future of the quadruple entente of labor that must develop in the orient, the Soviet Union, Japan, It It raises clouds of gloom for both native oppressors and foreign imperialists. When the Japanese workers take their stand with the workers and peasants of the Soviet Republics, that means that they will also stand with labor in China and India. It means that Japanese aggression in China will have small chance of success, altho supported by the great impe- rialist powers of Europe and the United that Japan will hesitate in making war on China, just as the British Empire is now halting its offensive against the Union of Soviet Republics, fearing its threatening working class tates. It means What is good for the workers of England, Japan and ; solidarity with the Soviet Union and the Oppressed nations, is also good for the American working While the campaign develops over the land in support of the twin demands: “Stand by Soviet Russia! Hands off China!” it is well for the workers and farmers to look far enough ahead and study the possibilities of next year’s con- Coolidge is working hard, thru the republican party ma- rip on the senate and house and “progressives” hover about, like jackals seeking sustenance, to take advantage, if they can, of any growing worker and farmer unrest. It is certain that the issue of “Bolshevism” will be raised again in the elections next year. That does not seem to have bothered the Japanese. It should not trouble America’s workers. They must accept the label and wage the revolu- tionary class fight against their class enemies. results of the poll in November, 1926, are announced, let it When the also be said that American workers and farmers have sent some of their “Count Soyejimas” into retirement, as another step ahead toward their conquest of all power thru the over- throw of the capitalist dictatorship that is making the cry against Soviet rule the major issue of the hour. PACHED UP PLAN A “Partial Solution’’ Found for Problem NEW YORK, July 10—An alleged |paftial solution of the building trades |war which had imperiled $25,000,000 ‘in construction in six leading cities jwas effected today at a conference of contractors and representatives of the operative Plasteres’ and Cement Finishers’ International A\sociation. A working agreement was signed under which the plasterers will re- turn to work pending arbitration of their jurisdictional dispute with the Bricklayers’ International Union which precipitated the crisis. The contractors agreed to employ mem- bers of the plasterers’ organization on all construction jobs pending settle- ment of the inter-union controversy. Contractors represented at today’s meeting are engaged in construction in Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Wash- ington, Miami and New York. Watch Paterson Silk Mill PATERSON, N, J.—(FP)—Pickets are watching the plant of Kravitz Silk Co., broad silk manufacturers, to pre- vent the mill's reopening with new workers at reduced scale under that provided by the Associated Silk Work- ers Union. The mill shut down for an unspecfiled period last week. Teor: 1 , Beginning Saturday, July 25 ‘The First American Serial Publication of an Historical Document RUSSIA. TODAY The Report of the British Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia. CONTRACTORS AND MOTHER BLOOR PLASTERERS IN| REACHES OHIO ON HIKE TRIP Is Hitching Cross Coun- try for Daily Worker “Mother” Ella Reeve Bloor has now reached Qhoi on her hitch-hiking tour from coast to coast addressing mass meetings and securing subscriptions to the DAILY WORKER. Mother Bloor who left Chicago on her birthday, June 8, will cover regu- larly assigned dates in Ohio, and will then hitch-hike to the steel and coal towns of western Pennsylvania, be- fore proceeding to New York. “Mother” Bloor has not paid one cent railroad fare since leaving Los Angeles. American Fund Elects Officers NEW YORK.—(FP)—New officers of the American Fund for Public Sery- ice (known as the Garland fund) are Scott Nearing, president; Robert Morss Lovett, vice-president; Morris L. Ernst, treasurer; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, secretary, taking the place of Roger N. Baldwin who held the posi- tion since 1922 when the fund was or- ganized. The committee of applica- tions thru which pass all applications for appropriations and loans is com- posed of Lewis Gannett, chairman, Scott Nearing and Roger Baldwin. SUB OFFER NO. 2. MONTHS’ SUB AND TWO BOOKS: STATE AND REVOLUTION 2 THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LENINISM All For $2.00 ($2.50 in Chicago) ; hy WOODHEAD COMES BACK FORANEW ~ DOSE AT U. OF ¢. British “Don’t Permit Chinese to be Unjust” . By STUDENT CORRESPONDENT. H. G. W. Woodhead, imperialist extraordinary and minister of British capitalism in China, delivered a lec- ture on Wednesday, July 8, in favor of extra-territoriality, to the students in Leon Mandel Hall, University »of Chicago, and then walked out into the hallway only to find that the Chi- nese had stolen a march on him and were there in force, distributing oto all who came by twelve pages of mimeographed matter prepared especially for the occasion, and’ re- futing im advance all of his ‘argu- ments, Something Like America. ‘Woodhead’s only point thrugut the lecture, was that the Chinese law courts are sometimes venal and that some of the punishments are unjust. He almost succeeded in convincing the audience that a man with money stands hardly more thance of being convicted of murder in China than a gunman in Cook county, and that some of the punishments inflicted are as capricious as those of Judge Bu- sick in Sacramento, And Woodhead claimed that because of these abuses, in isolated cases, the British had, a right to set up their own courts, as also the French, Germans, Ital- jans and Japanese, and administer their law in their own way, on Chi- nese soil,,wherever a foreigner was one of the litigants, or was accused of crime. 4 The literature distributed by the Chinese at the doorway cited many cases in which Judge Busick seems to have influenced the white courts in China, for their justice friendly towards the white capital- ists, and very harsh on the Chinese laborers. is very Guileless Students Trust U. 8. ° Imperialism. Along with the pamphlets, a cover- ing letter was extended to those who heard Woodhead’s lecture which, after politely thanking the institute members for sympathetic attention to China’s problems, pointed out grace- fully that Mr. Woodhead did not know what he was talking about. It wound up with a naively trustful remark that the “traditional policy of the U. 8. government of fair treatment” would undoubtedly prevail. It was signed by Lung C. Lo, president of the Chinese Students’ Alliance; The letter, it is reported on the cam- pus, was drawn up before news reached here that American marines and bluejackets were vigorously ing their bayonets against the Chinese - on Chinese soil, in defense of Rocke- feller’s interests (including his ‘}church) in China. What effect this would have had on the students in Rockefeller’s own university, is, of course, a matter of dispute. Can’t Nick a Wood Head. The questioning of Woodhead at this, his second lecture, revealed the same complacent faculty for misinter- pretation that he exhibited at his first speech, last week. When a stu- dent asked, “If the British think that the Chinese law is unjust to them, why don’t they get out of China? Doesn’t China belong to the Chinese?” Woodhead blandly replied; “Why my young friend, I have been telling you for some time now, that the British don’t permit the Chinese to be unjust to them; we have extra- territoriality in China.” And he said not a ward about China belonging to the Chinese. Evidently that is one of the things that people of our sort never speak about, don’t-you-know, And That Was That. Another question was, “Why are the English so unjust to the Chinese?” This one Woodhead solved happily, from his own point of view, tho it is doubtful whether his answer was cal- culated to soothe the feelings of a Chinaman who is being prodded with a bayonet to.make him become’ a Christian. i Woodhead sald, “The English’ are not any more unjust to the Chinese than are the French, the Italians or the Americans.” And that.was that. ~ MacMillan Off to Greenland WASHINGTON, July 10.—The Mac- Millan arctic expedition left Hopedale, Labrador, yesterday afternoon and is om route to Disko Island, Greenland, said a radio dispatch to the navy de- partment today. oh tira! ETHIOPIAN HOTEL Turkish Coffee Shop and’ >“ys Restaurant = 1216 Wylie Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Proprietors: Abdul Rasuel Sydney Franklin chgies _ —By Lenin —By Stalin * | ; a

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