The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 12, 1925, Page 11

of the party, @ committee from both | The Slave Treaties of ‘China and the U. S. By A. IVIN (Pekin). ieee present movement in China which was provoked by the brutal shooting down of unarmed demonstra- tors by the British police in Shanghai, demands not only that the victims, not only that the British and Japanese consuls be removed and the ambassa- dors of Japan and: Great Britain re- called, and that guarantee be. given that there shall: be. no repetition of such use of firearms; besides all this the demand has been made that all treaties in which China has not .qual rights should be annulled. This is not. merely the result of.‘a momentary ex- asperation.” | In ‘the course of the past year, the slogan “‘Down,.with-the slave treaties!” ichv¢ame..into: being, al- most at the}exaet‘moment..when..the agreement between China and the So- viet Union was signed, has seized one province after the’other, one stratum ' of society after’thé other, and at the time of Sun Yat’Sen’s funeral its for- midable echo resounded thru hundreds of Chinese towns. Anyone who has followed the labor movement in China, in whose memory the seamen’s strike in Hongkong ang last year’s strike in Shamin is still fresh will see nothing unexpected in the unanimous movement of the pro- letariat of Shanghai and in the echo which it finds in the other provinces. Finally, the student movement, which not only equals, but exceeds in numbers, the “national movement in 1919,” is simply the logical develop- ment of the anti-imperialist agitation which was given a specially glaring expression in the end of last ' year and the beginning of this, also in the struggle of the students of Futshen in connection with the assemblies of stu- dents and with the demonstrations on. “the day of national humiliation.” Hill THE YOU CONDUCTED - BY THE cs All Members of the Young Work- ers League: Dear Comrades:—In accordance with the convention regulations the following is a list of the delegates to the third national convention of the Y. W.L, to be held in Chicago, Oct, 2, 1925. These are distributed according to districts on the basis of the average dues bought over ‘the required months. Fraternally yours, John Williamson, National Secretary. No. Members 1 to 50 1 89.6 2 620.6 3 139.8 4 27.6 5 56.6 6 7 8 9 District 153.3 103.3 : $50.6 179.1 12 fhe — 1,822.1 - *# To All Cc. C, C.’s and Branches of the YW. Oo AS groups in the Jeague have formulated and agreed upon the following basis of convention assessment which should be collected immediately and for- warded to the national office prior to the national convention, hia) Philadelphia, $125.00; Baltt- more, $35.00; Bethlehem, gion and the Class Struggle” at the Freiheit Ugend Club at Biltmore Hall, Sept. 12th at 7 p. m. Sie Bete eal All are invited 2 ee 4 igo immense historical significance of the bloodshed in Shanghai and the movement arising therefrom, con- sists in the fact that the imperialist powers are faced for the first.time by an ultimatum from the whole Chinese people which peremptorily demands relations on the basis of equal rights. The Chinese question has. become. one of the main questions of international diplomacy, especially insofar ag it is at present inseparable from the ques- tion of the Soviet Union.. The Chinese toy militarists, the. Chinese bureau- crats and bourgeoisie hardly suffice to form a thin upper, stratum over the enormous mass of the Chinese toilers. This makes the chaNenge which China in the name of the whole of Asia, of: fers to capitalist Burope and America; |; all the more impressive: and danger+|' ous. The contents of the collective notes of the ambassadors of England, Japan; America, France and Italy in reply to the note of protest from the Peking goyernment, as well as the attitude of the local imperialist officials and of the American religious missions, show that all is not well with the united front of the imperialist powers against China. is a most remarkable fact that, in spite of the substitution of Anglo- American “co-operation” for the An- glo-Japanese alliance, the greatest dif- ferences of opinion are to be expected. not between Great Britain and Japan, but between Great Britain and the United States. The semi-official press of the United States condemned the action of the English police in Shang- hai in a more or less decided manner. The comparatively mild tone of the notes referred to is explained to a large extent by the “beneficient in- fluence” of the American representa- tive, a fact with which official circles in China are being carefully acquaint- WORKERS DUNG WORKERS LEAGUE $15.00. O. CHOMMIOT | Sic ccee ; Buffalo, $45. 00; Erie, $20. 00; Albany, $10.00; Syracuse, $10.00, and Binghampton, $10. 5. meer dl par rete Ta eesesreess 100.00 6. (Cleveland) . ~ 7. (Detroit) .. Detroit, $100.00; Grand Ra- pids, $25.00. 8. (Chicago) 9. (Superior) 12, (Portland) .... Portland, $30.00; Northport, $10.00; Winlock, $10.00. 13. (Los Angeles) . Los Angeles, $100.0 land, $20.00; San Francisco, $30.00. “2 Unorganized ......... Bepitice wie’ $0.00 Hanna, Wyo., $25.00; Cen- terville, $10.00; Denver, $15. * 50.00 Every district’ ‘must immediately make preparations to raise the al- lotted. assessment.* Individual assess- ments, entertainments, picnic oe any other desirable means may: be used. Fraternally yours, = Young Workers League of America, John Williamson, ‘National Secretary. 350.00 Freiheit Ugend Club Meeting. Dr. Baumstein’ will speak on “Reli- 2032. W. Division St. on Saturday, |. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the young Jewish Pry ips ea Min Lew, ed, tho not of course from official sources. The Italians and more es- pecially the French, who are very ready to place obstacles in the way. of their English friends, are endeavoring, tho also secretly, to emphasize. that there is 4 distinction between them- selves and. the latter; the same ten- dency can also be noticed in the Jap- anese, who have already had the op- portunity of convincing themselves of the serious consequences which. the Chinese boycott would have for them. America’s. attitude however. will be of predominant significance. MERICA’S interestednéss in China’s fate is shown in the most obvious way in the work of the Am- erican missionaries. as upholders, of civilization, ‘whose schools, hospitals and other’ institutions . for education and welfare’ work. cover. the. whole of China with a close network and serve as the chief means for.the American- ization of China, . It is not to be won- dered at that Washington has up to the present paid incomparably more attention to the opinion of the Amer- ican missionaries: in China than to that of the American merchants who are in favor of the “open door.” The missionaries who are better acquaint- ed with the attitude of mind of the Chinese masses, obstinately defend the traditional “liberal policy” of the United States, The Pekin correspondent of the Chicago Tribune expresses indigna- tion at the “ingratitude” of the Chin- ese to America, which is expressed among other ways by the students’ strikes in the educational establish- ments financed by the Americans as well as in the refusal to study the bible. The correspondent glorifies the depth of the christian spirit of the missionaries who, regardless of the insults offered them, have actually or- ganized a “society for reconciliation” HE leading article in the Pravda of July 10 points out that at the present stage of English plans for in- tervention against the Soviet Union, important circles of the German bour- geoisie are getting more and more in the tow of English imperialist policy. In reply to the warnings of the Soviet press that Germany’s entering the league of nations meant an attempt to draw it into the anti-Soviet bloc, Ger- many declared that it was by no means a case of any change in Ger- many’s policy, that it. would not re- nounce its political independence and sovereignty and that its friendship with the Soviet Union. remained un- shaken. Nevertheless for some weeks te most audacious, systematic anti- Soviet campaign has been carried on in Germany which’ is also reflected in official German policy. Under the pre- ‘| text of the verdict in the Moscow fas- cist trial, some German papers com- mit themselves to use a tone towards the Soviet Union which is by no means reconcilable with friendly re- lations. The Pravda further points out that even a German observer, the lawyer, Freund, could not but agree that the public prosecutor had sueceeded in proving the guilt of the accused, The whole fuss about the Moscow “con- sul” trial proves to be an artificial, irresponsible press maneuver which strongly contradicts all true national interests of Germany, bY much greater importance is the recognition’ by .the Frankfurter Zeitung which wrote on July 4 that there can be no doubt that England is the greatest efforts to draw Bc into the anti-Russian policy thru the guarantee pact. It will now be easy for the most naive to under- the press maneuver was necessary and why they wished to surpass England in the anti-Soviet Indian cotton mills, has decided to re- | artificial, hypocritical indignation of a duce the wage sof workers by 20 per | Berliner Tageblatt and the language cent, with regard to the Soviet Union which for the “study of the question of re- scinding the treaties in which China has not equal rights.” In the present movement’ the Amer* ican missionaries, in view of the men- acing indignation of the whole coun- try and of the general strike im all educational establishments, have found it to their advantage to come forward with letters of assent and resolutions. More than that! There are already a whole number of declar- ations of..such influential American educational establishments as the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A. the so-called Pekin University..(missionary univer- sity), the Tsin-Khua College, ete, in which a “revision of the unfair treat- ies which were forced upon China” is demanded. 5 . } Gage this of course does not mean that the American, missionaries and pedagogues, i, e., the most active agents of American imperialism, have suddenly turned into anti-impertalists. They must however out of fear lest they should be washed away forever by the national movement, swim with the stream which they themselves only yesterday called Bolshevist. The American formula: “Removal of the treaties in which China has not equal rights, by way of evolution!” will pass into the archives, and the question of the immediate revision of these treat- ies will become acute and will demand a direct and clear answer. The mis- sionaries themselves, tho of course unintentionally, are driving the gov-\, ernment of the honorable Coolidge, te the wall, by forcing him to solve the dilemma, either unequivocally to pro- nounce in favor of the revision of the treaties, i. e., to meet the Chinese peo- ple as the Soviet Union hag done, or, together with Great Britain to pro- nounce against revision, and thus fin- ally to destroy the legend of Ameri- can liberalism which in Asia has been so laboriously created. THE GERMAN BOURGEOISIE IN THE TOW OF ENGLISH IMPERIALISM’ was unworthy of an independent peo- ple, become comprehensible. The German nationalists whose slo- gan until recently was hatred of Eng- land, appear today as pitiful mercen- aries of English imperialism, the thoughts of revenge are sold for the advantages which it would gain by playing the part of _a gendarmerie against the Soviet Unfion, If Germany wishes to preserve a paramount pros- | pect of independent development, it cannot sell itself body and soul to English imperialism. But in this case they should not play the part of an obliging, over-hasty vassal. We once more decisively declare: We will not let ourselves be bartered! With the same decision we declare that it is our unchanging firm wish to develop our economic relations to Ger- Many in every way. Only those who are struck with blindness, fail to grasp what promising prospects this co-op- eration which England and her agents in-Germany are trying to destroy, opens to both peoples. Many Foreigners Barred WASHINGTON, Sept. .11.—(FP)— Because hundreds of thousands of men and women in Italy and other coun- tries have‘ been unable to get into the United States as immigrants under the restricted quota during the past year, pressure to secure entry as visit- ors has increased. A book of instruc- tions to American consuls has been issued by the visa office in the state department, requiring rigid examina- tion of the claims of applicants for visas that they propose merely visit- ing in this country. Small Cyclone Hits Peoria. PEORIA, Il, Sept, 11—-Damage estimated at $250,000 was done by the second miniature cyclone which swept Peoria during ‘the night, nine persons were injured and considerable dam- age wrought by the one which swept the city so suddenly during the after- noon, while the second started a big blaze in the wholesale district. i ns