The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 28, 1925, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER [/NTSUISKY [25 me soe | CHENG, CHNESE | Published by the DAILY WORKER. PUBLISHING CO. | | 418 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, I. Phone Monroe 4712 | (Continued frofyimagé 1) | U ee a step in the right ,diregtion; that) only. a mass Communist ,Party can By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): lead the working class in the final bat-| U tle for the abolition of the rule of cap-| italism. These are “the facts, that) J LEFT WING GEORGIAN MENSHEVIK LEADERS POLISH TERROR now supeonr sover| | STATE MURDERS shevik party since 1905 have: pub- "ished a decleration in which the Seamen’s Headquarters) tet: wing of the Georgian mensne- |Botdin Charged with de, $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months block the conspiracy of ithe capitalists and the labor fakers to put the Com- Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Illinois munists out of business. i ous MNGDAHL. — A ea Tells Communists to ee ' i Aid Flood Victims | ()X2.t ow readers trom Denver! in Shanghai Raided | ‘eretine russian revolution, ana» | Killing Provocateur ee fe = MORITZ J. LOEB Colorado, wired in, asking us to ter of the Russian revolution, and In tered as second-class matl September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- te by! which the menshevik standpoint of oes (Special to The Daily Worker) hcg inal: gil alehanmarthctd (Special to The Daily Worker) (Special to The Dally Worker) ‘Advertising rates on application.| WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 26— Com-/is entitled “British Constitutionalism| SHANGHAI—(By Mail)—-A letter! abandoned and the one-time party WARSAW, August 26—Comrade cago, Lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. Ramsay MacDonald for the Nation. It the reconstruction of capitaliem Is <== | rade Lantsutsky’s latest letter to the|and the Coal Settlement.” MacDon-| addressed to the DAILY WORKER by| comrades are appealed to to leave | Botvin a young shoemaker has been Business Manager <a 209 Soviet Recognition One of the favorite arguments of the American taitalists op- posed to recognition of the Soviet Union, is that no country that has up until now established formal diplomatic relations with the workers’ republic, has benefited from that relationship. But Motosada Zumoto, noted Japanese journalist and Japanese commissioner to Siberia during the world war, thinks otherwise. In ‘a statement to a newspaperman he said: immensely from recognition of Soviet Russia. economic necessity for Russian recognition. rights on the Russian coast worth 150,000,000 yen anually. obtained pulp, furs and other goods requisite for continuance of Japanese industry. With Russia the gain was chiefly political, but| with us it was economic. “Reports that Japan regretted the recognition policy because of alleged subsequent invasion of Communist agitation are without Japan awaits with interest the report of the in- We believe they foundation... . vestigators dispatched to Russia by Mr. Hoover. will find it economically desirable for the United States to recog- nize Russia.” The press agents of the capitalists whose interests are not vit- ally affected by non-recognition of Soviet Russia and the yellow socialsits and labor fakers will not find it easy to answer this calm and convincing statement of the Japanese publicist. The Russian market is looked upon with greedy eye by the manu- facturers of the world and the raw resources of the Soviet Union are equally coveted. Only recently France consummated a gigantic business deal with Moscow. Those are the things that make the die ti-Soviet ranters in the United States sit up and take notice. Communist propaganda in capitalist countries does not depend in the least on whether a particular country recognizes the Soviet Union or not. The capitalists don’t recognize the Soviet Union because they have any desire to help the workers’ republic along its thorny path. Neither does the Soviet Union seek trade and diplo- thatic relations with capitalist powers for any other reason than material ones. The Soviet Union would rather deal with workers’ republics than with capitalist republics. deal with the czar than with the executive committees of the hai U.S. S. R. Facts are stubborn things. Soviet Russia or not. Every day for the Workers Party. A Socialist Liar Joseph Sharts, the editor of Miami Valley Socialist, is reck- oned to be about as decent as anybody can be and st#l remain a member in good standing of the socialist party. when it comes to treating Communism or dealing with Communists, a socialist is as incapable of telling the truth as a pole cat is of emit- ting an agreeable odor. Writing of a recent election campaign in Toledo, Ohio, the editor of the above named sheet stated that the Communists failed to get into the race for mayor of the city. This is his comment: (the Communists) were never anything but a back door annex: to the capitalist machine. Having failed to keep the soeialists off the final ballot, they will now throw their strength to one of the repub- licans.” When Sharts, wrote these words he knew he was lying. There is not one single instance in the history of the Communist movement in this or any other country, where a section of the Communist Inter- national, or any section of a national Communist Party, affiliated “Japan has profited There was urgent Japan secured fishing The latter would rather We believe that the United States will be obliged to recognize Russia. The task of turning the United States into a Soviet Republic belongs to the American working class. They will perform thatduty, whether the United States recognizes ‘sub? for the DAILY WORKER and a =n But it seems that Communist fraction in the Polish Selim, written from jail, is as follows: “Dear Comrades. The co dergoing awful hardships Sult of the unceasing rains... The fields and hundreds of villages are drenched with rain. The fields have destroyed many factories, mills, looms and work- shops. 'The/ranks of the unemployed have been swollen by hundreds and thousands of unfortunate beggared victims, “The dire conditions of the peas- ants and workers are day by day be- coming worse and worse. Thousands of peasants’ homesteads have been de- stroyed during the last few days and its families deprived of dll . shelter. Dire necessity and famine are already sharpening their teeth and stretching out their claws for new victims. “This tragic picture can not but move the onlooker. Rack your brains for new methods to aid the victims of the existing system. The propertied classes, lavishing millions on engines of destruction, have never worried their heads to safeguard the country against the elementary misfortunes, as a result of which the present flood has caused so much harm. When the country is overflooded, when famine and poverty are most mercilessly knocking at the door of the working masses—the organized labor must first of all demand that , the govern- ment show most urgent aid to those suffering from the flood. “I know that the betrayers of the la- bor movement, the Polish socialist party, will most hypocritically declare, that forsooth, the condition of these victims is not all the same for them. But what they will say, and how will they recant to the independent cam- paign raised by us? I deem it most necessary that our fraction in the Seim begin a campaign and likewise apply to the Communist Party of Po- land and to the Comintern to aid the victims of the flood, With Communist Greetings, Lant- sutsky. UNITED FRONT CONFERENCE IN N.Y. ON FRIDAY Extra - Territoriality; What Does It Mean NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—It's an old game. In'Yhe parks the workers must “keep off the grass.” In the country the people can barely step off the road without finding a sign “Private! No trespassing!” The various unions send out frantic calls: “Strike On! Keep out of this city.” é The workers of Europe, and_ still more those of Asia, find they are not | wanted in America. And now the workers of China find that they have less rights in their own country than the rankest with the C. I. ever supported a capitalist party on the political field | “foreigner” backed by a couple of an- or an employer on the industrial field. Shart’s knows this, but hig| cient treaties and modern machine chagrin against the Communists is so great that he throws all dis- cretion to the winds and exposes himself asa common and clumsy liar. Traitors to the working class find short shrift in the Commun- ist movement. The socialists are mad because the Communists refuse to let them bury the class struggle. The socialists want to be respectable. They want to appear in the eyes fo the capitalists as “safe, sane guns, Extra-territoriality.. It's an old game. The regular American name for it is “Keep off the earth.” Show Your Solidarity. But we say “Keep your hands off China” you Eastern capitalists and their lackeys. ald, who is one of the leaders of inter- national socialism, deplores the sur- render of the tory government to the threat of a general strike. “There :is a gripping doubt at our hearts about the price in cash and ‘psychology, which we shall have! to’ pay” says MacDonald. What MacDonald is wor- ried about is not that'the’ bloated coal owners are compensated at the ex- pense of industry as a whole, but "be- cause the government surrendered to the threat of a general strike, s. 2-8 (0 quote MacDonald further: “The prospect was undoubtedly appal- ling, and the sections which believe that governments only yield to force and that direct action against society —that is‘ the revolutionary method— offers great prospects for improve- ment inj working class conditions nat- urally feel that they have accomp- lished a great triumph, They are now able to say that a threat of direct ac- tion wrung ten million pounds from the taxpayers. They overlook the fact that as striking as trade union unity was the unity of public opinion.” Pies on} HE last sentence is sheer nonsense. Public opinion so-called was divid- ed between sympathy for the miners and opposition. The class conscious section of the working class and its press were’ for the miners. All the capitalists and their press were against them. The few who favored a compromise did soon grounds of expediency. The “public opinion” that MacDonald talks about is not worth a tinker’s damn to the workers. If the miners depended on it instead of on their own power combined with the millions of other. workers, they would be down in the, mines now chewing the cud of defeat, as they did when they were betrayed. by false leaders in 1921. | ve 248 AT Mr. James;Ramsay MacDon- ald, the pet of; the tory biscuit manufacturer, Alexander Grant, is ac- tually doing is: biddingzagainst Stan- ley Baldwin for the job,of running the empire. -MacDonald effect that if he were in Baldwin’s:place he would not surrender in ‘the face of a threat of direct action. . Baldwin, he says, “handed over the honors of war to those who may be ineclinded to toy with révolution.” In his article in the Nation this slimy does not let slip the opportunity to.take a slam at the British Trade Union Delegation’s report on Soviet Russia. He sneers at the “fairy tales abont ‘the idyllic conditions of Russia and the rouged and powdered’reports of untrained and credulous investigators.” © © Merce HAT a nauseating & hypocrite! Fortunately, MacDonald is dig-| |ging his own political grave and. be- fore long even the British: ruling class will have no more use for him, be- cause the capitalists only use labor leaders while they have a following. Even at the labor party conference MacDonald was defeated in the vote on the “Zinoviey letter” for which MacDonald was more responsible than any other person in Great Britain. The workers will deal with MacDon- ald. ‘ “Dress Well” Campaign Forerunner to Wage Cuts Clothes do not make‘the man, saith the bard, but the ‘clothing dealer the general secretary of the Chinese Seamen’s Union, Bruce Chen, appeals for help from the American working class In the hard, uphill fight being waged against the foreign imperialists by the Chinese workers and students. The letter announces that the reac- tionary, foreign-controlled municipal council of Shanghai closed the doors of the Chinese Seamen’s Union head- quarters in Tien Dong road and arrest- ed the leaders of the union after ad- ministering severe beatings. The Chinese seamen have been on strike since two months ago when they tied up Chinese ports in protest against the fatal shooting of Chinese workers and students taking part in a peaceful demonstration for the strik- ing textile workers of Shanghai, Foreign Conspiracy. Chen reports that Shanghai con- tinues under the strictest military dic- tatorship with foreign troops constant- ly on duty. “At the present time,” Cheng writes, “Great Britain is con- spiring hand in hand with the Ameri- cans and Japanese in an intrigue to force the most powerful Chinese mili- tary general, Chang Tso Ling—an ex- Manchurian bandit—to overthrow the present national government, which is sympathetic to our present struggle against foreign imperialism.” “Already this puppet general has tried to force us back to work at the point of his soldiers’ bayonets. We rely upon the intervention of the work- ers of the world to bring this plot of foreign capitalists to failure.” Casualties. Enclosed with the communication were some two dozen photographs of dead and wounded Chinese workers and students who were shot during the Nankin road massacre on May 30th. In this attack, led by British troops, 41 Chinese,were killed and 120 wounded. In a similar shooting on June lith in Hankow, 15 were killed and 60 wounded. In Shameen, Canton, machine gun and three-inch rifle fire from gunboats moored in the Pearl river killed 80 and wounded 400. Fire Starts in Garage; Destroys Toilers’ Homes MONTREAL, Can., Aug, 26.—A fire started in a garage on Ontario street near the corner of Saint Denis street threw the crowded Hast end of the city into a panic today. Men, women and children fled from their homes in their night clothes at the approach of the onrushing flames which de- stroyed blocks of houses. Firemen came rushing to the scene from all sections of Montreal but the water pressure in this proletarian sec- tion of the city is very poor and this coupled with the high wind seriously hampered their work. Omaha Boosts Labor Defense, OMAHA, Neb.—Workmen’s Circle branch 626, Ladies’ Radical Club and Interpartisian Club held a joint picnic at Elmwood Park, Omaha, on Sunday, August, 23, at which a raffle was held for the benfit of International Labor Defense and the ICOR. The picnic was pronounced a great success, over $80.00 being raised to be divided equally between the two organiza- tions. Harry Chudacoff, 2860 Cuming street, won the box of silverware. The arrangements committee in charge of the picnic wish to thank ll those who helped make the affair a success. the Second International as the lat- ter has no place for revolutionary Marxists. The old menshevik-Karabl pub- lishes a letter in which he declares that the sentence in the prosecution against the Georgian ineurgents Is Justified, but nevertheless welcomes the clemency shown and expresses the hope that the action of the mem- bers of the committee will be fol- lowed also by others who will then give up the useless fight against the Soviet power. POLISH TERROR AROUSES TOILERS OF SOVIET UNION Large Protest Meetings Held Thruout U.S.S.R. MOSCOW, Aug. 26—The execution of Botwin, the new attack against Lantsutsky, the mass arrests and the hew wave of white terror in Poland have called forth the greatest indig- nation in the Soviet Union. Every- where from Leningrad to Tiflis, from the Ukraine to Siberia, mass and shop meetings have been held and sharp protests adopted against the unexpect- ed system of provocation and the white terror. The mass meeting called by the Red Aid in Moscow was particularly stormy, Dombal analyzed the situation in Poland and pointed out that the external and internal po- litical situation was so desperate and coupled with the-fall of the Zloty and \the &pproaching economic crisis that the large landowners and capitalists had.no other method but to hold down the revolutionary uprising by terror and provocation, Revolutionary work- ers who had fied from Poland describ- ed the horrors of the Polish prisons, the tortures and murders, a weapon of the Polish bourgeoisie in its strug- gle-against the revolutionary workers jand peasants. The resolution of the mass meeting demanded the release of Gibner, Knievski and Rutkovski, and greeted Comrade Lantsutsky, A telegram of protest was sent to the Pélish minister of justice. |Novelty Workers to «Hold Organization ~ Mass Meetings in N. Y. (From a Worker Correspondent.) |. NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—An organ- ization drive is among the unorgan- zed. novelty workers in New York City, according to a statement just issued to DAILY WORKER corres- pondent, by the executive board of the ‘Intarnational Jewelry Workers’ ‘Union, Local 17. Mass meetings, to organize the jew- elry and novelty workers are being called for the following days. Tues- day, Sept. 1; Tuesday, Sept. 8; Tues- day, Sept. 15, and Tuesday, Sept. 22. All weetings will take place at Royal Hall, 85 East 4th street, and will start at 8 p. m. sharp. Conditions, in the novelty trade are unbearable. Workers are known to be on the job forty-eight and fifty hours a week, and it is not an uncom- mon practice for the workers'to take work home. Most of the men in the trade are working piece work. Wages are very low and it is said by some of the shot. The courtmartial In Lvov hur ried at top speed to execute the sen- tence which was dictated by the “higheat considerations.” Within three hours after the verdict was brot in, and in dead opposition to law, My- lord the democratic president walved the: petition for pardon, presented by the council for defense, Comrade Botvin’s bullet caught the bourgeois landowning band on the raw spot, “The tragic death of our best worker’—thus spoke the Republic on the murder of the provocator, Czekh- novskl. Manufactured Many Plots. Without a doubt Czekhnovski was their best employe—even as Green and tens of other of the foulest figure- heads of the czarist secret service were the best friends of the czarist regime, Czekhnoysky and the role Played by him in the many trials, wherein he betrayed so many prole- traians to hard labor and death—he and his role are still to be remem- bered. Czekhnovski’s swift career began with the Baginski and Vetcherkevitch trial, under the direction of his “teach- er,” Piontkevitch, the chief of the sec- ret service. No methods were too dirty, no forgeries too foul, to be used ag weapons for Czekhnovsky. It was he who suddenly “exposed” the most unbelievable “Bolshevik” plans, “plots,” “committees” and nuclei, You see, he did not visit Lvov in vain. “On the eve of his departure from Warsaw,” writes the Republic, “Czekhnovski conferred with Piontke- vitch.” And further on, the Republic hints — “The Communists killed Czekhnovski, fearing that he would expose them during the Lyov trial for the attempt to assassinate the presi- dent.” And it follows, Czekhnoviski’s “su- periors” were thinking of a “plan for a wonderful provocation” to prove the complicity of the Communist Party in the attempt on the president’s life. Foulest of Spies. Czekhnovsky is. unworthy neither as unit nor as a personality. In the per: son of this foulest of provocators we see a whole system. Czekhnovsky, Troyanovsky, Luschak (see the Engel €ase) there are notable representa- tives—the signs of dissensions and symptoms of the degeneration to which the gendarme system of the Polish landowners and bourgeois is slowly but surely sliding. The secret of this mad haste, raised against young, bold Comrade Botvin, lies in this very close connection be- tween the Czekhnovski’s and the sys- tem which begat them. Socialist Defend Spy. The whole of the trial took place in an atmosphere of unheard of provoca- tion. All the newspapers, not exclud- ing the Polish socialist party—Work- er, raised their voices in a common howl against the murder fo their “most faithful servant.” A most touching union in defense of a provo- cator against a worker-Communist. This never occurred during the whole existence of the czarist regime, Botvin has been shot. The Polish bourgeoise, with this bloody death sen- tence, signs its accordance and full solidarity with the system of provoca- tion. The Polish bourgeoisie has taken this system under its material wing—safeguarding and legalizing it. Next on the causg list we have the case of three other comrades heart and soul attached to. the cause of the workers and peasants: Gibner, Kniev- —— J workers that the pay they now re- ceive is half the 1920 scale. All jewelry workers are urged to come to the mass meetings. SOVIET UKRAINE OPENS LANGUAGE COURTS 10 and conservative” people who would not cause the ruling class any] A chain is as strong as its*weakest | knows that if you buy more and bet- @iscomfort, but are willing to wait patiently until capitalism passes|link. At present the workers’ rights |ter than you need it*will make him 6ut of its own accord, peacefully, which it would not do, of course. {#"° iconic in China more than ‘er pie wel oe a S dese fy i Hy . anywhere else. “Our Dress jucceed cam- _.__, The socialists of all — have made a united front with the!” Workers of New York—Protest | paign has created a mation-wide con- MEET NEEDS OF PEOPLE —— capitalists. The Fifth: fongress of the Communist International | against the scabbing of America on| sciousness of dress that is not only Payroll Bandits Get $11,000. “declared that the socialists did not constitute the right wing of the|the workers’ strike in China, Come |Teflected in incre: les,” declares! KHARKOV, Ukraine, Aug. 26— | CLINTON, Ind., Aug. 26.—In a brief . bs fi 1 5 ‘working class movement, but the left wing of the bourgeoisie. This |to the United Conference called by| Pres. R. EB. Bigelow to the 12th an-| +1) Upraine Central Executive Com- |*2uing sun battle, five bandits held is as true of the American wing of international socialism as it is ben More Tiga ehh eee nbeass eal Ret bape <email ie mittee of Soviets has resolved’ to Ue oie oak ere tast tee ea th saa > . “Han China—Sta: OV! \ “of the more important parties in Europe. Keri Which will be yi a ce abo men of Affairs everyaiileré suggest to eet Minor special Russian local | .ca5ea in an automobile with an es ing Friday, August 28, 8 p.m,, at| their confreres and’ @iiployes that a Jewish, ane "hioiah ae toe pErcidithnbarctgas anal ernie Soviet Russia is the only power that has any real influence in| Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Ave-| certain amount of thought given to , bs cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad. thei t Greek. In these courts the entire u ye China today, declares a» student of international affairs. He is|™® N: ¥- Paper oni rade Gnas. *°*| proceedings would be conducted In *Put a copy- of the» DAILY obliged to admit that in this case honesty was the best policy, and tt Next time the posts a factory the respective national tongues, the honesty was on the side of the Soviet government. nf canbe. order that all overallé:must be clean-| Meeting the needs of the population WORKER in ‘sean pocket“ when WASHINGTON, Aug. 26—Daniel F.| ed and pressed once @ week and that| °f the national minorities. you go to your union meeting. Steck, democrat, today increased his | no business suit should be worn more The French gov hai ed the i 2 pea said oo a a/Brovch port over to tho Boviet prroruoent, Tack ts the-ecaeateh les seesohes eel et tags aaa’ tee AN INDEPENDENT SYRIA Is aie OF > ti Well & Succeed campaign hi ad P jon. Jand will not welcome this news. With the recount complete in 67 sion convert among the eplover GENERAL REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT ine"nee ic, ia anon tt Salt enee'ts| GROWING TO SERIOUS PROPORTIONS The Syrian revolt against French rule is not serious says|‘isures were: Steck, 275,518; Brook-| tion deny it, a campaign seems to be Premier Painleve, but the Syrians are quite conceited about their | Mtt 263,970. petting under war aeeenccome® : LONDON, August 26,—The revolt of the Druses tribes against the French administration in Syria has assumed very serious proportions according to ski and Rutkovski. Their trial was postponed only owing to the “Accus- ed’s state of health.” Badly wounded, they underwent such a fierce beating, even as Comrade Botwin received after his arrest, But the three com- Trades, wounded as they were, hage also been murdered by the Polfeh white terror state, j Polish Workers Aroused, The Polish proletariat most worth- ily defended. itself against the bour geoisie and their bodyguards—trom the Polish socialist party. The self defense of the working class against the provocators has met with the sympathy of the masses. After the | death of Czekhnovski 80 red flags sud- denly appeared on telegraph poles and ' different houses, and many slogans were written on the walls—“Death to the traitors”—“Praise to the heroes,” The Warsaw Echo after the arrest of these three comrades did not cou- fess in pain: “It is most necessary that the attitude of Iron street and dis- trict (the “East End” of Warsaw) be A total of 6,929 ballots has been| tion with the clothing manufacturers success 80 far. challenged, of which 5,119 votes were | for Wage cuts in the men’s garment » cast for Brookhart and 1,810 for Steck. | ‘dustry. . wy " "is : y ‘a a Central News dispatch from Vienna today. most decisively stigmatized. Mrs. J. P. Morgan died and even the stock tickers did not stop, sis BRET dahene tk mM Predicts: Parkdt i The Druses leader, Sultan Atrach Pasha, has declared he will reject any | districts constantly interfere py not to mention the wheels of industry. COLWY Mahs., “Aur, 30-2 Pie ats ie dikaiag offer of mere autonomy and will fight to the bitter end for complete Syrian |the means in their power, against tho i 4 : » Ang. 26. SAULTE STE, , Mich., Aug. | independence. \ | in the execution of their duties, planes, one from Colby, and the other | 26-—Unless rain. ches the Upper ereby widing the criminala in their Another shakeup is promised for the Chicago police department. | fy. Interviewed at his headquarters in Medjel, Atrach Pasha said, “The i ” m Platt City, Nebr. are scouring | Peninsula and the northern extremi- a wae ’ Chief Collins has ordered a large consignment of flivvers. _wosterm Kansas today tor two cowboy: | tics of the lower , the most de- eee Ie no longer merely focal but It Is the beginning of a general raval pocthacaanil ! dressed bandits who late yesterday | structive forest fi ‘years are ex.| ton In Syria. We shall not be satisfied with autonomy for the Druses tribes. escape.” ‘Not only “Iron street and district,” it the whole of the Polish proletar- declares its most energetic protest it the foul methuds of the Pok | shot and killod, a policeman at Platte | pocted to make hed@Way today, Mark We demand an independent Syria, If France makes further attacks rebellio City Tare in escaping, shot to| Craw, district stateyconservation offi- | W!!! blaze out over the May | Syria, It is better to die free than to We f f j : } L | Get a member for the Workers Varty and a new gubscription| for the DAILY WORKER, death Pratt, sheritl, at Colby. cer at Traverse Clip, predicted, | In bondage.” i) #6 . ? . G \ ie: prov Epes ereeeieelleeennges near bet ii selec