The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 25, 1925, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER ‘ Ei \ Page Six THE DAILY WORKER V4 Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 2113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill, Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL fan oi WILLIAM F, DUNNE < ESSE lees aber fea eee Aae Peas Hea ea ea SRE BWotered ay second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- MORITZ J. LOBB.... cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. ———$_— Bp 290 Advertising rates on application. —— oS It’s a Family Affair There is a lockout on at the Cuneo printing plant. ‘“Majah” George L. Berry, president of the International Printing Pressmen’s Union, .is supplying scabs to the firm, tho members of the union of which he is chief are involved. That is bad enough. But in order to complicate matters State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe is supplying the Cuneo plant with uni- formed and plain clothes officers to prevent the locked out workers 3 on the picket line from performing their duty. It happens that Cuneo * is Crowe's brother-in-law. The Chicago Tribune recently carried an editorial entitled “This is a tough town.” We agree but the kind of toughness the Tribune objects to is not strikebreaking or the spectacle of a public officer using state funds to further the interests of his own family, publicly and brazenly. ‘ We are not concerned with the moral phase of the matter. There is nothing moral about capitalism. Public decency cannot be expected under a system which legalizes the robbery of the many by the few; a system under which the parasites grow fat while the producers live on the borderland of want. What we are concerned with is the fact that the workers who have the power if they only exerted it, allow the employers to install their political tools in office, so that the state machine can be used effectively against the workers. Many workers do not believe in independent class political action. They still believe that the democrats and republicans can serye them. They still believe that there are good fellows in both parties and that the problem is to pick out the good fellows. This fond hope has proven to be an empty dream. Incidents such as the one mentioned above should convince t workers that not only must they organize on the industrial field b' they must also raise the banner of a labor party on the politic field. The workers must be broken away from the capitalist politic moorings. The policemen’s club has more propaganda for a labot party in it than a six column theses—to thé worker whose cranial encasement is tickled by itsend. __ Crowe using the state’s attorgs ’s police to,help out his brother- in-law is a good lesson for the pressmen in ‘wp of voting for Editors Business Manager Adopted at the Second Enlarged Executive of the Peasant International To the Peasants of the Colonies and of the East: of Turkey, Persia, Egypt, Algeria, Palestine, India, China, Corea, Jap- an, the Negroes of America and Africa and all opressed by the capitalists and large landowners, Brothers, Comrades! — In October 1928 there assembled in Moscow for the first time in world history the representatives of the peasants of 40 nationalities from all countries of the world and decided to form an Inter- national Peasant Council. Its aim is to build a centre for the defense of the interests of the peas- antry, to close the ranks of the peas- antry for the struggle for freedom from the century-long slavery to the landowners, to establish a close con- nection between the peasants of the whole world, to unite the peasants who are fighting for their national and economic freedom with their brothers, the workers, and to deter mine the further methods of the struggle. Not only the peasants of the West answered the appeal of the Interna- tional Peasant Council, but also the peasants of the East. And to-day, after one and a half years, delegates have come to the conference of the International Peasant Council from Turkey, Persia, Egypt, India, China, Corea and Japan. Representatives have also come from the American Negroes. The peasants of almost every coun- try in the world were represented at this Congress. In these countries there are various religious beliefs. And these peasants belong to the most divergent parties. Many of them be- long to no party at all. T majority. of them are poor Sgptrsie there are peasants of tern the middle class amongst them. In fact ere are even, well todo peasants mongst them for whom the foreign oke has become unbearable and who have stretched out their hands to their poorer brothers, They are all here, for they are sons of the soil. They have all been united by the recognition of the fact that in the colonies and in the Hast, from Turkey to Japan, from Kashgar to Java, from Algeria to the Cape of Good Hope, the peasants form 80 per cent to 90 per per cent of the population. They have grasped the fact that the whole burden of /the taxes falls upon them, the peasants, that tho the cost of their labor, that the arm- ies are formed from’ the peasantry and then flung at each other for mu- tyal destruction in the ‘interests of the large landowners and capitalists, and that the large Idndowners have seized all the best land for themselves. And while the peddants work with sweat and blood for ‘the benefit of the foreign exploiters, the overfed parasites, the officials and landowners, the conditions of the ‘peasants them- selves differ in no way from thoso of animals, In the best case the peasants re ceives enough food to prevent him from dying of starvation, In the worst case he is condemned, to die of star- vation. But he must giye here a third, there a half, in other places two thirds of his Jabor to the landowner. And every time Ke seeks to better his lot, he is threatened with monstrous judgements. Thousands of peasants are shot )foreign soldiers, or by their own bro’ ers who are thrust, into the impei ialist armies by force. India, Algeria, Monocco, Tunis an Corea are groaning under the yoke foreign bayonets. In the so-called dependent states like China, Perst: ARMY AUTHORITI )I WORKER, AND BOOKS FROM CROUCH OLDIERS RALLY 10 COMMUNIS ES TAKE DAILY whole state revenue ‘is made up at} Egypt and Siam, the capitalists be have just as though they were at home. In America the Negroes are depriv- ed of almost all human rights. — Comrades, Brothers! — How long shall this state of affairs last? How long will the peasants who form two thirds of humanity, yields up their work and the work of their wives and children and their whole lives for the benefit of a small group of exploiters? These are the questions which peasants of the Orient and the Co- lonies put to themselves here. In the Peasant Council however, they deter- mined that an end must be put to such an order of things! But is it easy to bring this about? Is it easy,,for istance, to drive the foreign exploiters out, the English from Egypt and India, the French from Morocco and Algeria, the Jap- anese from Corea, the Dutch from the East India? Is it easy for the Negro to become a citizen of the United States with equal rights? Is it easy for the Chinese peasants to take back the land wrested from him by the foreignors? Is it easy forthe Per- sian and Turkish peasants to with- draw the concessions obtained from them by force or by the bribery of officials? Is it easy for the Oriental peasants to take the land which be- longs to them away from their feudal masters? Or is it easy for the peas- ants to free himself from the taxes, from forced labor, from forced _milita- ry service, from forced participation in the execution of his brothers peas- ants? Brothers, Comrades!—You all know that that is a difficult matter. But the peasants of the East and of the Colonies are not fighting alone. You are not isolated. The first Workers’ anr Peasants’ Soviet Republic exist- ing in the world has become a refuge for you. The class conscious workers with the revolutionary working class. They dimly perceive that they are victims of imperialism, They may not call it by this name, but they know |that they are subjected continually to senseless oppression. Then again, the “Ignorance is the strongest weapon used as an instrument of oppression. soldiers live together in large bar-|. racks and an idea once planted will || spread rapidly. of the whole go hand in hand with the Soviet ‘Republic. The workers in the countries the governments of which oppress you will rise togethér with you. peoples. Victory is only possible if there is unity amongst the workers, when the peasants in all countries and in whole world rise against their explgiters and enslavers. And for this purpose not only a firm unity between’ the peasants of one land is n tries, Who, however, is to devote himself to this? The International Peasant Council. The International Peasant Cow ™must unite the peasants of the whole world. There must be no Country in the world without its representative in this Council. z If there are no peasants unions or associations in your country, then create them. Organize defense “committees for the struggle against the oppressors in the country! Link these committees up into a single peasant union in your untry! Affiliate this union to the ternational Peasant Counsil in Mos- yw! \ ‘ end your delegates to us to dis- is the general work together with peasants of all other countries it Council how you are strug- interests of the men in the army are rj PROFESSED CHRISTIANS’ SHOWN AS HYPOCRITES; MISSIONARIES Look to the Russian comrades who have given an example of how the peasants must free themselves from the large landowners and oppressors. Look to the example of the Trans caucasian Republics and to that of the Mohammedans of Turkestan, look at the first Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic, see how the freedom of all nations is assured in a great union of ary, but an alliance of the workers and peasants of all coun- to report to the International glihg against the oppressors or how Appeal to the-Peasants of the East and the Colonies you think to struggle against them, what hinders your struggle, how can we help you put an end to the im- measurable suffering of our peasants brothers in the Orient and the Co- Jonies, Long live the, Unity fo the Peas- ants of the Orient and the Colonies! Long live ‘the Liberation of the Peasants of the East and the Colonies from foreign exploiters and their own landowners! . Long live the Alliance of the Work- ers and Peasants of the whole World! Long live the International Peasant Council, the General Staff in the struggle for the Liberation of the Peasantry! The Presidium of the Plenum of the International Peasant Council 4 ESOLUTION UPON THE REPORT AND ACTIVITY OF THE PRES- IDIUM OF THE INTERNA- TIONAL PEASANT COUNCIL (Proposed by comrade Grecio in the name of the French, Italian, and Chechoslovakian delegations and adopted by the Second Enlarged Executive of the Interantional Peas- . ant Council.) The Enlarged Executive of the In- ternational Peasant Council finds that the work carried out by the Pres- idium and the Secretariat in the last 18 months is fully in accord with those resolutions adopted at the first Congress. The work of penetration into the peasant masses still under the influence of the bourgeiosie was carried out by the Presidium with great success. Under its leadership, ever larger and larger masses of the peasantry swing towards the Red Peasant International and express the wish to fight hand in hand with the workers against the capitalists and the junkers for the establishment of a Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic. AGENTS OF IMPERIALIST POWERS By this one factor the men are kept capitalist politicians. a in submission. A case comes::to 4 vi SS AAS aR It looks Bad for John mind: A staff sergeant was arrested j HONOLULU, (Delayed).—We are waiting as patiently a9] ana confined in the guard house. He g The Chinese have finally gotten the British imperialists com-| possible for the time when the court will free us so‘that we may| has considerable service to his credit erletely isolated in the protracted struggle between the masses of the| CONtinue our work for the cause. Impe' alist injustice and aad. ce cg Pri coal pb pea egestas eand-the-eapitatists over the exploitation of China. cution has. not in the Jeast deterred us from our pl Instead, any rights at all, He had to ask a The Japanese have settled with the Shanghai strikers and Britain wre Bienes Bb ew ae binge Bayt sir ae ping private to find out about simple points feels that she has been left holding the bag, with nothing in it. That the PI Pp P f of military law. . ¥ 7 . f f ? e radical cut in our sentences not only shéws-that im- Riiirllea: Wak Ghtaeiante is the way the situation looks. perialism feels the mass sympathy for us, but that they are afraid By PAUL CROUCH AND WALTER TRUMBULL, (Special to The Daily Worker) | SHANGHAI, China, August 3.—The Christian missionaries | in China are proving true to their role of agents of imperialism. Though put to the test by the appeal of the “Christian general” Feng Yu-hsiang, addressed to all the “professed Christians” of the world, the Christian churches of the imperialist nations are silent, while their missionaries in China are openly hostile to the movement for Chinese liberation. This is seen by their stand in the convention of 200 foreign had ‘ ae : sa F Race, color and religi di i ‘ 4 3 Britain was the head and front of the imperialist raid on China.) of that sympathy. The continuance of the demands for our frees! are eee a Sis ics Waa Christian missionaries and educators at Kikungshan, in the pro- At first Japan and the United States were playing at united front) dom and the mass meetings in protest of our sentences as they| ly. Here is the strongest barrier for | Vince of Hogan, where they defied the request of the Chinese with England. ‘The unity was more apparent than real. Japan| now stand, is further cause of alarm by authorities. the organizer to break, Once brok-|Z0vernment and declared that ?———————_______- and the U. 8. had their own games to play. The, U. 8. did not The,Honglulu papers carried the quotations below in yes-|¢H, all will be clear sailing. The sol-]they-would stand upon the un-| bodies of the dead and the injured lay stand to lose much thru the dumping of the extra-territorial laws and other millstones which foreign imperialism has hung around the Chinese neck. What the United States really wanted more than anything else was a market for her goods and Chinese good will for her capitalist burglars. By holding aloof from the British end of the imbroglio Wall Street expected to come out of the mess without getting badly mussed up. Britain angled vigorously for an agreement with the United States for common action against the Chinese. But the Chinese aided by their powerful friend, Soviet Russia, was able to prevent the highwaymen from getting together. As the situation stands now, British ships are boycotted and so are British goods. British consuls and missionaries are being given the bum’s rush out of several large cities in China and every- thing English is looked upon with scorn thruout the celestial republic. This is fine. 7 At home a left wing leader—not so very left at that—John Wheatley, has called for a workers’ defense army of 10,000,000 to guard the interests of labor against the coming caitalist offensive! The fascisti are organizing on one side in defense of capitalism. - On the other side the workers are organizing to overthrow it. Yes--it looks bad for John. Sigman’s Political Death Warrant The New York garment workers, members of the I. L. G. W. U., who refused to recognize the illegal Joint Board presided oyer by the faker Sigman, gave the employers and the yellow socialist leaders _.a lesson that thye may not soon forget, when 35,000 of them marched ; from the shops last Thursday afternoon in a demonstration against , the united front between the employers and the Sigman machine to discharge garment workers who acknowledge the leadership of\the _ lawful officials of Locals 2, 9 and 22 united under the banner of the Joint Council of Action. After Sigman and company summarily suspended the execu- ” tives of the three locals from their positions for holding a May Day meeting and committing other similar “high crimes and midemean- ors” against the gospel of yellow socialism, the employers took a hand in the game. They began to discharge those workers who re- fused to recognize the edicts of the autocrat Sigman. Then the workers called a halt. It was a bold decision. But in times of crisis there is no room for shillyshallying. The Joint Action Committee called out every cloak and dressmaker in New York in protest against the collusion between Sigman and the em- loyers. The employers were to be given a warning that they must keep their hands out of an inter-union struggle. Sigman was » to be shown that he was deposed as head of the Joint Be “mass referendum of the rank and file. At least forty thousand workers responded to the ¢; rd by a i, This “means that the demonstration was a tremendons succes Sigman mitted that 30,000 came out. Already fifteen of the forty shops that had discharged anti-Sigman emplayes on Sigman’s orders have taken back their employes and made terms with the Joint Action mittee. This is the beginning of the end of Sigmanism in the tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Unions). | terday’s editions: tence imposed on Paul Crouch by an ‘army court martial, be- fore Federal Judge William F. Rawlins. The army lawyer is fighting the petition of Fred Patterson, attorney for Crouch, which seeks to free the soldier from the Fort Shafter guard house on grounds that his court martial was unfairly and improperly conducted.” Books Are Confiscated. Colonel Brown is quoted as saying: “I can conceive of nothing more in- jurious to army discipline than such propaganda, This is revolutionary propaganda from within, where sol- diers are supposed to protect the country against violence, rather than foster it; propaganda of the most dan- gerous sort. “In the case of Walter M. Trum- bull, an associate of Crouch sentenced to serve one year in jail, Patterson withdrew the petition for his release stating that the action was because of reasons he did not desire to make public at this date. “Meantime the case of Paul Crouch goes on and a decision on the case is expected Monday. If the case is de- cided on favorably, the Trumbull case will again be taken up, but if an un- favorable decision is made the Trum- bull case will be taken tp in San Francisco courts.” ‘The statements of Colonel Brown show how much Communist propagea- da is feared by authorities and also shows the importance of work with- in the army. A large number of men in Fort Shafter are favorable to our cause, We hope that the publication of our case has helped in establishing to a far greater extent the solidarity of the workers. Is it too much, to hope that we have caused some per cent of doubters to join the ranks? It is in- deed fortunate that our case has re- ceived the attention of the capitalist press to the degree that it has, Thru this medium we have reached peo- ple that otherwise would never have known just how narrow and impe- rialistic the representatives of the government are. We have received the last package “Colonel Frederick M. Brown, aring for the U. S. Army, yesterday defended the three-y prison sen- i of books but with their usual stupidity * and arrogance the officials confiscated them. We had them for about two days before they were considered “dangerous” matter to be in a guard hdusge? cell room. “The other men might read them and turn Red,” the prison officer is reported to have stat- J ' ed. “Might read,” ing! They would have read them and been fur- ther convinced that twe|were right. The books will be returfled to us so that we may carry with us to Alcatraz, ; *One book in pai we would like to have. “Ten days that Shook the World,”.by John Reed, Also any books written by Lenin. All letters are welcome to us as it is a great help for one in prison to know that there is still a group or num- ber of groups carrying on the work. Withhold DAILY WORKER, Comrade Trumbull says that tho a professional musician, he is by no means an artist. He has been able to struggle up to the position of first clarinet in the 21st Infantry band but that organization can, hardly be call- ed an example of musical perfection. However, he is perfectly willing and would be very glad to try to play in the Y, W, L, orehestra when he comes to N. ¥., which of course, we both hope will be soon. Our task of building and enlarging the party is tideed, hard, slow and trying but we ie ‘antage of being able to look back for inspira- tion and guidance ‘to many noble leaders, With this guidance and in- spiration we bis ed every en- ergy for the e: of the party. ‘t is our intention to*join as soon as sossible and to make‘members of our vospects in Hawafi, “Even tho in jail we have gained synipathizers for the cause, Some can béxalled prospects in every sense of ‘the word. Our work within the guardhouse is at present, practically haited. The authorities have confiscated all copies of the DAILY WORKER and Young Worker which were formerly permit- ed. They contained articles concern- ing our case and valuable material for reference dealing with problems of the party. We have not received any copies of either pgeper since the’ confiscation of those we had, Did you read an article in the Young Worker regarding an American Union of . Soldiers, Sailors, and Ma- rines? If so, what do you think of it? Organization work in the army is very important. “We believe that it is work that should be taken up by the party and the ‘Young Workers’ League. Oe si Soldiers Are of Workers, ‘There are several special problems to be considered ealing with men in the army, In first place, the dier is supposed to compensate ‘him- self for his position of servitude by reflecting that other races are his ‘inferiors. Communism must be. in-| touced and this idea eradicated. /Army officials showed their fear of Communistic ideas by having. all books on socialism, and subjects that might cause an interest in Commun- ism, taken from the library and read: ing rooms shortly after our arrest, The importance of thé fight by. the oarty against imperialist militarism cannot be overestimated, The Workers Party should lead the Negro race in a fight for economic emancipation! What do you think of an interna- tional language (Esperanto or Ido) as an aid to our propaganda and to break down national barriers? In Hawaii there is an ideal field open for the propagandist. Most of. the land is in large plantations, em- ploying Filipino, Chinese and Jap- anese labor. Wages are exception- ally low and living expenses are quite high. Of course, these races live very cheaply because of their choice of food. Clothes cost a laborer more than any other item. Exploited Workers in Hawaii; Then there is the non-existence of voting privileges for these three races. The Hawaiian tho having the vote, has the same problem facing him that the American Indian has to face, He is facing extinction. Also, very few Hawaiians own any land of value. Ve The Filipino is, with other races in Hawaii, really a slave no matter how a person views his status. Wild and fantastic tales are told to him in or- der to induce him to leave his native, land and come to Hawaii to work for American plantation owners. His dream bubble is short-lived tho, Grim reality soon banishes his illusions. who dares think aloud, Hawaiian War Maneuvers, One purpose of the Hawaiian ma- neuvers was to impress these slaves, and the people in their home land, with America’s great strength, To one who has studied military science tho, the whole thing was a gigantic farce and the laugh was on imperial: , ist America. The underlying purpose. Was apparent to all thinking and \in- formed people. Comrades, your interest makes Jif more worth living; while in prisot The knowledge that we have bi of value to the ca means that de- Spite our personal fate, imperialist militarism has lost in its efforts pte ie The Maniapit case is a good example | of the treatment accorded a laborer’) eqaul treaties of violence forced upon China by the imperialist powers. Christians Tell China to Go to Hell. Both the Chinese government and the Students’ Union had requested the christian missions to take a stand in favor of recognition of the sovereign- ity of the Chinese government by reg- istering their schools with the Chin- ese government educational depart- ment, and to make the study of christian doctrines a voluntary and not a’compulsory subject in such schools, The convention of christians re- fused both requests and declared they would stand upon the privileges of independence from Chinese supervis- ion granted them by the unequal treaties with the christian imperialist powers. This is seen as a scornful reply also to the appeal of General Feng Yu-hsiang, which puts the “pro- Yessed christians” of the world to the test. The DAILY WORKER gives Feng’s appeal in full as follows: “TO ALL THE PROFESSED CHRISTIANS OF THE WORLD.” By Feng Yu-Hsiang. (The Christian General of China.) “The cruel episode’ which took place on May 30 at Shanghai has been repeated at Hankow and at Shameen, in Canton time and‘again. We Chin- ese have been butchered ruthlessly by British police and troops. “To put the situation in brief, the British have flagrantly disregarded the sovereignty of China and have treated the Chinese people as tho the latter were lower than hens and dogs, “What has happened in Shanghai had its origin in the cruel killing of a Chinese worker by the managers’ of certain Japanese-owned Canton mines there. ¥ British are “Grieved at the ‘unfortunate tot of their fellow citizens, the students con- ducted a lecturing campaign, but the British police took action without any justification and fired upon the un- armed students. As a result, the injure Communism by persecuting us, We are grateful for your kind let- ters and the books we are sorry. that we cannot read the latter now. However, the day is not far~distant when capitalism will no longer be able to keep tis from our chosen work. = . With comradely greetings, and best wish@s for the success of your work for the emancipation of mankind thru e revolution . aa ént to us, tho in a pile at Hankow and on the Sham- een in Canton. “The British authorities of both places went further in their high-hand- ed policy and gave orders to the mar- ine forces to bring machine guns into operation, resulting in even greater casualties. “Such dark and cruel deeds are in- deed unprecedented. Alas, for a long time has Great Britain boasted of be- ing christian. Now the British are engaged in perpetrating relentless and inhuman acts by means of their su- perior equipment of machine guns and cannons. Labor has Answered—Christians are Silent. “Not only is this a stain upén chris- tianity, but it is also a disgrace to humanity at large. Overwhelmed with indignation and grief, the people thru- out this country are unanimously pro- testing with all their might. “Citizens of friendly nations have shown ‘their sympathy with us and not a few Britishers and Japanese have in the interest of justice made declarations supporting our move- ment, “The Red International of Labor Unions and labor parties of various nations are particularly enthusiastic in their offers of assistance to our people. “We christians have always been known as a class of people who al- ways insist on justice and righteous- ness, the support of which has been recognized as our unshirkable duty. . Feng Naively Trusted Missionaries. “Unfortunately, concerning the pe: sistent. massacres in China, nothi: has been heard from foreign missions up to the present, In my humble opin- ion, you must have entertained the sincerest sympathy for the suffering of the workers and must have regard- ed the recent massacre of innocent Chinese people as wholly unjustified, byt, as you are under the overpower- ® pressure of imperialistic govern+ ment, I presume you cannot see your way freely to give expression to your righteous views, for fear of incurring the displeasure of your respective governments and the hatred of the capitalistic class which may cause damage to your own position, “Of course, due allowance must be made for your reticence in these cir- cumstances, but, in the interest of justice and righteousness, 1 cannot elp addressing to you a few words of friendly counsel