The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 16, 1925, Page 6

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Entered as second-class mail September 21, 19: cago, lil, under the act of Mar , at the post-office at Chi- 3, 1879, Advertising rates on application. === <a 290 a Gagging Central Labor Camella The American Federation of Labor convention, whose delegates holding the real power are officials of national and’ international unions, and who hate the remnants of rank and file expression pro vided by the city central labor bodies like poison, took another crack at, the membership when they authorized the executive council of the A. F.of L. to take over the property of central bodies whose charters have been revoked. This is a move against the left wing tivities of a number of central bodies which, because of their closer relations with the union membershp, are more responsive to its wishes. It is‘axiomatie that what steps have been taken towards building a militant labor move- ment and arousing political consciousness among the organized work- ers have been taken by central labor councils. This has been followed hy the threat to revoke their charters and after some difficulty they have been whipped into line. The proposal to confiscate their properties (many central labor bodies own labor temples, office furniture, libraries, etc.) is designed to strengthen the hands of the’ conservative elements and give them additional argument against insurgent action. The decision itself is proof of the fear of A. F. of L. officialdom of the growing left wing movement. A few years ago this issue could not have been raised because the only difficulty the executive council had with central councils was that they occasionally took the wrong side in jurisdictional disputes and had their charters revoked. But these incidents were only family squabbles without any difference in political policy. Today the revolt of central bodies always centers around some issue like support of a labor party, amalgamation, syfhpathy for Soviet Russia, the presence of Communists as delegates’ from local unions—all of which are fundamental questions for the American labor movement and which indicate an entirely new trend of thought and action in the ranks of organized labor. This is the real important thing in connection with the latest at- tempt of the A. F. of L. officialdom to hamstring and gag the union membership. ; No Agreement at Locarno The line of division at Locarno becomes clearer as the prophets of an early settlement are forced to explain in more detail ‘the cause of the continual delay in reaching an agreement. Germany is willing to sign the security pact as it affects the French and German frontiers provided no reference in it is'made to her eastern boundaries. The capitalist press which has been’ devoting columns of space to the more or less minor differences over the Rhine- land territory and trying to conceal the nub of the whole question— guarantees for the states on the Russian border, Poland in ‘particular —is unable any longer to pervert the truth with platitudes. Germany has so far refused to agree to a united front against the Soviet Union that would be implied in the signing of a’ document recognizing the present eastern frontiers and unless the allied im- perialists can get her consent to this, the whole scheme for confront- ing Soviet Russia with a steel wall, which was to have been consum- mated at Locarno, falls to pieces. In the meantime, both Germany and Poland seem'to have been driven much closer to Soviet Russia, as evidenced by the new treaties recently signed by them. Our impression is that the allied governments are now engaged in a last minute effort to save their faces and bring home from Locarno some kind of an agreement that can be hailed as a victory, for their diplomats. Unless the German government representatives make a right about face and Poland is whipped into line or bribed by a huge loan from Wall Street, the Locarno conference will have failed of its object—to close the gap between the counter-revolution- ary forces of western Europe made by the refusal of Germany to allow allied troops to march across her territory for a joint offensive with Poland against the Soviet Union. Gold Movements and the Working Class The new movement of gold from London to New York is further corroboration of what we have been saying of the continual decline of British industry. British imports increased last month more than $30,000,000 over the preceding fiscal month, while her exports decreased $1,515,- 000 making a net increase in the adverse trade balance of $31,515,000 for the month. 3 The exports of heavy industry (iron and steel and kindred products) decreased $1,110,925 emopared with the ‘same month last year, and the textile exports dropped $922,355. ° ‘Coal exports de- clined, $10,391,000 compared with last September. For the first six months of 1925 British imports increased over the same period last, year by $281,082,985. During the same six months exports declined by $50,190,275. rar, ee These figures are conclusive proof that British industry no longer dominates the world markets. Even in ‘her own colonies serious inroads are being made by the products of ‘native industry and American firms. Britain is no ‘longer paying her obligations\in Seeemntines she has to pay in gold. Shattered British industry is not an attractive investment even for “patriotic” Britons and liquid capital will continue to leave Great Britain for the United States where the surplus of gold is causing the financiers to sit up nights devising schemes to prevent a wild inflation, Foreign loans with their accompanying military adventures and increase in armaments, militarization of the American working There is a veri of tragedy for the working class in the follow- ing paragraph ented from a capitalist news service dispatch under a Panama dateline: With the arrival of the troops yesterday afternoon virtually all disorders cease’ altho a crowd returning from the.funeral of a striker who killed by Panama police Saturday attempted to hold ‘%_ a mecting. “They were easily dispersed by the Amatiean soldiers. , Wal “— ‘rules in Panama. M £ ARTICLE Vv. “ILE MacDonald was doing the dirty work for English imperial- ism in Bulgaria noted in the conclu- n of the last article, the tories were preparing quietly but effectively to discredit the Soviet Union among the British working class, It was in the name of social-pacifism, ‘Peace gu rth, d carried on the plot with the nloody Zankoy government against the workers’ and peasants’ govern- ment of Russia. It was in the name of social-paci- fism again tat MacDonald de- nounced that masterpiece of capitalist trickery, thé forged Zinoviev letter. as a Bolshevik conspiracy” against the British working class, which was starving fo death quietly. Just as the tories had calculated, the labor party lost the election and, having eased the empire thru a severe inter- national crisis, MacDonald was set aside to await a period when his ser- vices would be required again. / The world knows now that the Zinoviev letter was forged, the Bri- tish trade union delegation to Sov- et Russia satisfied itself that this was she case, but jonald to this day 1as said not one word to indicate that he knows it the case. In other words, he prefers to office by his silence than to aid the workers’ and peasants’ government of Russia by telling the truth. Saklatvala fought thru the labor party campaign in which the forged Zinoviev letter was an issue and he would have had some _ interesting things to say about it. No such first- hand testimony is wanted by either the British or American imperial gov- arnments. EANWHILE, the tory British gov- ernment is getting ready for out- good will to men,” that Mac-; id the British foreign | right suppression of the working ‘lass. A dispatch to the New York Times of October 5, says in part un- der a London date line: How a_ newspaper ' spoiled the game of the crown law officers in dealing with .the “Reds,” was re- vealed.today by Sir William Joyn- | Son-Hicks, the home secretary, in a speech at Liverpool. The utterances of Saklatvala “and Tom Mann had been brot to his at- tention and he discussed them with the attorney general and public prosecutor. ‘They decided that as the speakers were gétting more vio- lent each day, it would be better to wait a week or two till they had completed their series of speeches already announced. Then a certain newSpaper published their plan and, said Sir William, ‘from that mo- ment neither Mann nor Saklatvala opened his mouth in public.” Tom Mann and Saklatvala are Com- munists and it May*be argued that such ‘secret preparations apply only to acknowledged revolutionists. The MacDonald argument runs something glong this line when he blames the Communists for the government's ve meastires. But Sir Will- son-Hicks knocks this social- ist-pacifist argument for a row of Japanese ash cans, The dispatch con- tinues: Then\the speaker took up a de- fense of blessings he bestowed on a society known as an organization for the maintenance of supplies. This society, with Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, the late ambassador to Paris, as president, and on the ex- ecutive such men as Lord Jellicoe and Sir Francis Lloyd, the general commanding London during the war, has been formed to draw up lists of men ready to maintain pub- lic supplies and necessaries In case of such an emergency as a general strike. Sir William, writing to a correspondent who consulted him about it had stated that the govern- ment considered it its duty to main- tain supplies at such a crisis and had made plans long since to do so, but could see no harm in such a private organization and: would be glad to use its services. ‘T must be remembered that this open announcement of the recruit- ing and endorsement of extra-legal an- ti-working class, forces was made in Liverpool where a few days before 3,000 British fascisti had been sworn in by the chief constable of the city and the statement made publicly that this force would act in strikes and other emergencies “as a separate force under their own officers.” The British capitalist press is not a unit in support of this assault on the fabric of bourgeois democracy which had so successfully fooled the workers up to a short time ago. The London Daily News eomments as fol- lows on the strike breaking scheme of the home secretary: We cannot conceive any enter- prise likelier to provoke a breach of the peace or to incite the rapid de- velopment of class war. If a Liver- pool watch committee enrolls the fascisti as police what is to pre- vent a labor watch committee from enrolling volunteers to form a labor defense corps, Which labor politi, cians of advanced views regard as the only possible answer to self- constituted strike breaking organiz- ations? The Ulster volunteers created the Sinn Fein volunteers and the Sinn Fein volunteers produced the Irish _ reWolution and dragged the name of Britain in the dust. Nhat Saklatvala Symbolizes - UT the preparations foe a mass murder of striking workers go for- ward merrily. The Liverpool confer- ence of the labdr’' party under-the leadership of the.MacDonaldites fail- ed to take a militant stand against the legalization of British fascism al- tho the labor press declared it to be a paramount issue. The Sunday Worker for September 27, makes the following detailed ex- posure of the government's planis: It means that scabbing and black- eae are to be publicly elevated the dignity of a patriotic duty; that any sort ofttrade unionism, or labor politics, that moves\an inch beyond lickspittlé™ subservience to the boss is tosbe officially regarded and (with or without the constitu- tion) treated asia crime. That any sort of savagery, brutality, and im- pudent insult from any and every sort of hooligan will be applauded as “patriotism” and “loyalty” pro- vided it be'.directed against the best and bravest. in the labor move- ment. preven Maintenance of Famine. It is, called “The Organization for the Maintenance. of Supplies”—"“O. M. S. for short.” While its nominalfunction is to maintain under. government contro! essential public:» services of food, heat, light, transport, and sanita- tion in the event of a general strike, its real function is evident from the very qualification introduced. It is to crush every workers’ struggle that promises to reach success, and while filling the bellies of the bosses secure perma- nent famine and misery for the working mass. A Military Force. It will be a force raised, recruited, By William F. Dunne and equipped to use force. Its “Class A” (there are five classes) is to be recruited from men of military age, with military! ex- perience. , It will be commanded by military men, and in addition to un- Specified duties, this class will fune- tion to_ “protect men willing to. work,”” “It is intended at present to re- cruit up to 30,000 of this class in London alone.” Mussolini Out-Scabbed. Other classes will run trains; trams, power. stations, gas works, road vehicles, and messages. Wo- men are to-be roped in for clerical duties. Flying squads of well-disciplin- ed men will be organized to “take on duty at places where rough fighting is to be expected.” Its council (impudently described as non-political) consists of men of title, rank, and wealth, who not only never have, but are never likely to have, the smaHest grain of sym- pathy for labor rightly struggling to be free, ‘And. the whole scheme we are told “has the approval of the gov- ernment.” Soe eee symbolizing both the British working class as a whole and its advance guard, the Commun- ist Party of Great Britain cannot be permitted to expose with facts, fig- ures and flery eloquence such startl- ing evidences of the desperation of ‘the British rulers before American audiences of workers, citizens of a “friendly power.” Baldwin, Joynson-Hicks, Kellogg and Coolidge unite against Saklatvala and all he stands for. (To be /eontinued.) ‘ The Working Class as the Leader of the Chinese Struggle for Freedom By TANG SHIN SHE, nO will have the leadership in the event of a Chinese national re- volution? This question has played a great role ever since the commence- ment of the present struggle for free- dom, just as this was the case in Russia before October 1905. * It was only possible to raise this question because up to now in China the class antagonisms had not made themselves very much apparent. A national re- volution always bears a bourgeois character; but in the midst of present- day world capitalism, which has al- ready developed to its highest stage, to imperialism, the young Chinese bourgeoisie cannot achieve merely a national rewolution. It has been said on the other hand that the national revolution is not the affair of the working class, and that the latter, owing to the fact of its weakness, would be unable to undertake the leadership. The United Front. The Chinese Communists have de- clared right from the outset, that the working class must take part in the national revolution, because national liberation from the domination of foreign imperialism must precede the emancipation of the proletariat. Even if the working class is weak, it can neverthless, in relation to the Chinese bourgeoisie, be regarded as a con- siderable force. Hence, only the work- ing class in China can take over the leadership of the national revolution. How right the Communists were in their view has been’ proved by the recent events of China. ‘T is necessary to call to mind the reasons for the outbreak of the present struggle for freedom. Already in: February of this year there com- menced in Shanghai the strike of the textile workers against the foreign imperialists, and which was followed in April by the strike in Tsingtao. Bulgarian EDITOR’S NOTE:—The follow- ing appeal has been issued by the Communist Party of Bulgaria to the workers o£ the entire world and re- veals a continuation of the bloody reign of terror inaugurated by the Zankovy government. It gives the lie to the press reports that the Bulgarian fascist government com- muted the sentences of those doom- ed to die and {s in reality murder- ing thousands of workers in the prisons, “a 8 Ww: are warning..the world prole- tariat, peasants and public opin- ion that at this moment plans are be- ing perfected by the military league, fascist bands and the Zankov govern- ment for new mass murders of the workers and peasants in Bulgaria, Death lists are made and hellish plans devised for carrying them into ef- fect. : The regular prison crews are re- placed by cut-throats. On September 25, 1925, in Varna, three men sen- tenced to death whose sentences, had been “officially” commuted were mur- dered in prison by the fascist sentries placed there for that purpose, ‘We appeal to the world proletariat, to all intelligent and conscious work- ers to come to our aid and with quick‘ action against» the hangman and tcher Zankoy, to prevent this new mass I | The murders have not stop! lor a single day, Jn the 15th of May the Japanese sarried out a blood bath among the ‘hinese working class in Shanghai, md on the 23rd of May the Chinese ‘eudal military leaders, at the com- mand of the Japanese, did the same thing in Tsingtao. This was followed by the shooting down of Chinese on the part of the English in Shanghai on the 30th of May. It is therefore clear that the present struggles for freedom were commenced, and will be continued, by the working class. The bourgeoisie and the petty bour- geoisie have been compelled to fight under the flag of national revolution, tor the emancipation of the Chinese people from foreign rule. Workers Leadership. But every day the counter-revolu- tionary character of the Chinese bour- geoisie becomes more and more appa- rent.. They. declared at first that the area of struggle must be limited to Shanghai, and, that there also the fight should only’ be directed against the English police in the foreign quarter of the town. The workers, however, extended the strikes so that today the movement already extends right through the .lower Yang-tze valley from Shanghai to the upper Yang-tze at Sz-chuen, through the Hoang-Ho up to Honan, and through he Che-kiang district to Canton and Hongkong. Meanwhile the bourgeois lave again opened their shops and offices in Shanghai, which amounts to a sabotage of the struggle for free- dom. The working class, driven by necessity, agreed to the re-opening of the shops and offices, but on condi- tion that the English and Japanese were boycotted. Thereupon the bour- geois came forward with the argu- ment that English trade in China only amounts altogether to 1 per cent, and that the Chinese merchants, by boy- cotting the English, would do more damage to themselves than to | the latter. As a matter of fact the boy- cott can only be carried out under Butchery HIS appeal comes to od the danger whichis ‘based upon the following facts: A Telegrams from Sofia to foreign newspapers gave great publicity all over the world régarding the com- mutation of sentences of death to life imprisgnment of hundreds sentenced by court martial. It was evident that this was done only to pacify public opinion abroad. The announced re- vocation of death sentences was mere- ly intended to paeify the growing de- mand from the ¢ivilized world that public hangings of) the victims of the white terror cease. « When the ttwo-yéar history of vio- lence of: the Zanktov government is considered, it is no surprise that un- der the veil of m&gnanimity the re. vocation of the death sentences would be meaningless and they would con- tinue under other forms and the vic- tims, who could not defend their mur- ders would be recorded as having committed suicide, attempted to es- cape, etc. The Varna case proves that this diabolical conspiracy is al- ready being carried into effect. ew recent threats of Zankov in the national assembly indicate that it igs not a matter of murdering only those previously sentenced who have had thelr senten¢es revoked, but that there impends A” general extermina- tion of all those,who dare oppose or have in the sed the Zankov regime and who, not already pass- ed under the butcher's knife in the a the control of the workers and by the strike of the seamen and transport workers. ‘OW the bourgeoisie is quite openly appealing for support to the tools of the imperialists, the Chinese mili- tary rulers. Chang Tso-Lin in particu- lar is fulfilling with the greatest care these instructions to suppress the strikes and dissolve the fighting or- ganization, At the end of July he caused numerous fighting groups to be dissolved in Shanghai and Tientsin, and in Mukden even the group of the Kuomintang. The imperiglists in China are 'mak- ing use of every means in order to crush the struggle for freedom. Al- though they all stand in one united front against the Chinese, they are attempting, one in this way and an- other in that, to suppress the move- ment for freedom. The English are proceeding ‘with the most brutal means, whilst the Japanese, who were the main originators of the unrest, are attempting to cast all blame from themselves and to win the sympathies of the Chinese. The Chinese bourgeoisie, the tool of the imperialists, at the instigation of the Japanese, is only opposing the English. The workers called a meet- ing for the 30th June in Peking in which a resolution was adopted con- demning the action of the bourgeoisie. The workers are demanding a fight against the English and Japanese imperialists, and not against one party only. Thereupon, on the 18th of July, the bourgeois convened a meeting in Pekin, which again op- posed the demands of the workers and only proposed the boycott of the English. The yesult of this was a collision, regarding which the bour- geois papers naturally reported that the people with the red flags were the cause of the\ disorders. Communists’ Program. N the same day the Communists issued the slogan: “Fight against | kw&n. Still Rages massacres of September, 1923; Sep- tember, 1924 and April, 1925. The communication from Sofia that new lists are being prepared is evidence that the threat of Zankov—‘Terrible bloodshed will agai ncome to the suffering Bulgarian land”—were not for a distant future, but for the pres: ent. That is the reason for the hasty adjournment of the session. It was sary to give the rulers time to “work.” General Russev not long ago declared that he hag received “au- thentic reports” about the peasants and Communists who, are again “hatching something,” and soon too, so’the government should take meas- ures. It is well-known that such pro- nouncements by Gen. Russev always heralds new butcheries by the gov- ernment. HE democratic leader, Liapchev, by his conduct also heralds the com- ing slaughter. Only recently in his paper Preporetz,; he. suggested a change in the cabinet. It is an open secret that he hoped to come to power after the fall of aZnkv. But he now proposes to postpone the change in the cabinet for a few months until “neces- sary work” is done, this necessary work being the “cleansing” of Bul- garia from Comunists ane revolution- ary peasants, This position of Liapatise is sus- tained with demonstrative support of Zankov at official and unoflicial meet- ings. This delay means new murders, with the consent active assistance the tool of the Japanese and against the betrayer of the people, Chang Tso- Lin,” and put forward the following demands: 1. Abolition + treaties. 2. Disarming of the military rulers who donot wish to fight against the imperialists. , 3. Guarantee of freedom of speech and press, and right of combination. 4, Abolition ef the unequal treat- ment of women in the jurisdictional, political and economic sphere. 5. Abolition of the Likien system and other taxes.: 6. Fixing of 2 maximum amount of landed property. which can be held; any landowner possessing more than this quantity must give the same to the poor peasants and small holders; establishment-éf a maximum rent for land; abolition of the present custom of paying taxes on land several years in advance. 7. Unrestricted freedom for trade, unions, right; of’ strike for the woyk- ers; establishment of a minimum wage according to prices of food; le- gislation for the, protection of labor. 8. The right of the workers and peasants to possess arms for their own defense,’ 9. Deposit “ofa ‘definite sum in a bank for educational purposes. 10. Convocation of a real national assembly. HESE demands represent the new fighting program of the Commun- ists for the national revolution. The last horrible blood bath which took place on the 12th of August, in Tient- sin was the first onslaught on the part of Chang Tso-Lin and his crew in the struggle against the Chinese proletariat. The workers in Tientsin have again turned against the Jap- anese and against Chang Tso-Lin. The of: the unequal lanswer was the blood bath. Tientsin is known to be the headquarters of Chang Tso-Lin in inner nghai- When Chang ‘ Tso-Lin left of the democratic leader. It is our duty to give broad pub- licity to the preparation of this new blody crime and.to urge the parties, trade unions;, co-operative societies, leagues for human rights, and other bdies f wrkers and: humanitarian peo- ple to take action by means of the press, mass meetings. and protests to the Bulgarian and other governments and to arrange demonstrations in front of Bulgarian tegations in order to prevent this new bloodshed jntend- ed by the sy fascist govern: ment. By all means, and With inexhaustible |” energy we mugt ptrive to bring about such decisive actions because every lost moment brings death to hundreds, an dthousandsvof, victims of this un- exampled borders a twee Tientsin on 20th of July, he did it mainly as a result of the slogans is- sue¥ by the Communists on the 18th of July. The dissolution of the fight- ing organizations in the different dis- tricts of China and the prohibition of the Kuomintang in Mukden men- tioned above—all this took place after the 18th of July. Shanghai, Tientsin and Tsingtao are the most important industrial centers in China, In Shang- hai there are Chinese, Japanese and English textile factories. In Tsing- tao they are mainly in the hands of es Japanese, and in Tientsin these ctories are, for the greater part, owned jointly by Japanese and Chin- ese. As regards the Chinese propriet- ors, the only -difference is that the Chinese factories in Shanghai are mostly in the hands of the bourgeoisie while those in Tientsin are in the hands of the military rulers. In most cases the textile factories in Tientsin belong to members of the party of that military ruler who exercises the greatest power in the locality. Previ- ously they belonged, for the greater part to the. Chili people (the party of Wu-Pei Fu), today to the Aufuists (Tuan She Sui party) and Chang Tso- Lin. The factories of Tientsin are, therefore, to be regarded not only as economig factors, but also as political ond personal-political factors. Hence, the oppression of the workers is par- ticularly brutal. In Tientsin there are, in all, nine textile companies with 400,000- spindles and 20,000 workers. The facts given above enable us to judge for ourselves in whose hands lies the leadership of the national re- volution. Not only can the bourgeoisie not take over the leadership itself, but it is already counter-revolution- ary; it is the faithful henchman of the imperialists. Today only the pet- ty bourgeois and the peasantry and the students who have sprung from the peasantry can take part in the fight, and then only as the auxiliary forces of the workers. | Providence Toilers Hold Benefit Affair . for Chinese Relief PROVIDENCE R. I, Oct. 14.—The Russian Branch of the Workers Party and the women’s progressive organiz- ation of Providence, R. I. recently had a benefit affair for the Chinese strike relief. As a result they have gent to the International Workers Aid, 1533 W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill, the sum of $38.45. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study’ it. Send. for a catalogue of all Com- munist literature. International Labor Defense Ball - The New York section of the International Labor Defense is ar- ranging a grand costume ball on Saturday, October 17, at the Lyceum, 86th St. and Third Ave. in order to riase funds for defense. The need of funds for the defense of the class war prisoners is growing daily. The International Labor Defense protects all victims of the class struggle, who are sent to the capitalist prisons, The organization has’ a large number of cases on hand—the number is still growing. Hence, in addition to enjoying one of the finest balls that have ever beer arranged—and ‘every comrade, will be doi ment, For further’ Intormation apply Labor Defen N city. ere will be dancing and refreshmente— great service to the working class mover to the secretary of the International New York Section, Rose Baron, 799 Broadway, Room