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EF <> 190 THE DAILY WORKER: Se WORKER ORR ESP ONDENTS OF NOVY MIR TO START LIVING NEWSPAPER HERE The first issue Sof the living news- paper “published by the Chicago Novy Mir worker correspondents will see the tight tonight at 8 p. m., at the Workers’ House, Division St.. It promises to be a novel affair. All who understand Russian are urged to attend this new venture in labor Journalism. Soviet Russia Second Motherland to Asian Thinkers, Says Indian why honest endeavors of the govern- ATTACKING CANTON; KUOMINTANG LEADER ‘EXPLAINS UNITED FRONT CANTON, China, September 9—(By Mail.)—Previous to the murders of Mr. Liao Chung-kai the Kuomintang government was engaged in the military and financial consolidation of the province. In this work the government has met with a stern opposition from part of the Cantonese army ‘under 1902 W. |General Liang Hung-kai and other smaller militarists, likewise from poli- tians and officials who thrive on corruption and chaos. Some Kuomintang members being themselves connected with the dis- obedient soldiery and corrupt politicians, had ‘supplied the opposition with a slogan of anti-Communism, the same as Ma Soo did during the struggle with Generals Yang Shi-min and Liu brn Ve BDSG ats aE wan, This slogan failed then and it way out directly to Shanghai, it can- not“be said that the problem of the export of silk from Kwangtung has been completely solved. failed now. Even merchants fail to understand The Hugarian Persecutions Unless the American workers, in co-operation with the workers ed the statesmanlike rape of Panama, in 1908, was a very remarkable man. He committed statesmanlike crimes in all countries, make it quite clear to the Hungarian hangman | oaingt a number of other Latin-Am- Horthy that he cannot slaughter with impunity the flower of the|erican’ countries, got a lot of publici- Hungarian working class, the world will soon see carried out in Hungary an exhibition of bestial cruelty against the working class equal if not surpassing the recent bloody orgy of the Zankov gov- ernment in Bulgaria. According to information supplied by the International Labor ty as the only ‘man in the United States who could tell “good trusts” from “bad trusts,” sent federal troops to break a strike of anthracite coal miners, and won the Nobel peace prize. Accompanying his little Pana- ment to put an end to banditry in uni- MOSCOW, Sept. 15.—(By Mail.)—| form, to~ corruption of officials and Mr. Brahanzakuna, very well-known exhortions by all sorts of irresponsible Indian writer who arrived lately to| politicians, should be branded as Com- Leningrad, said to’ a ‘representative | munism, of the press: Hong Kong Merchants Counter- “I came here, first’ of all, as a Revolutionary, Hindu, feeling thatvit is my duty to} Opposition found favor with certain express to the Russian Academy of} sectionss of merchants in Hongkong Sciences our deep gratitude, because | who, facing ruin thru the strike, re- India is indebted go much to your! sorted to desperate academy, which has not only en- measures of crushing the Canton government, be- Nationalst Leader States Kuomin- tang Position. When Mr, Hu Han-min, Kuomintang leader, asked why imperialist tools used the slogan ““anti-Communism,” he answered that it is due to the crimes of imperialists and foolishness of reactionaries. “‘They know that Communism cannot be practiced in China and our government has never put Communism into practice, but im- Defense to Tun Darty Worxsr, Horthy’s police have ‘arrested sey-|™4" adventure, Roosevelt issued a eral members of the independené socialist party, who are scheduled for trial before an extraordinary court martial. None of our readers have to be told the dreaded significance of such a trial. It means murder and nothing else. Those workers are guilty of a most heinous crime in the eyes of the capitalists. They have tried to organize their class. They have endeavored to forge a weapon that would free the workers and peasants from the grip of the executiorier Horthy. For this crime they must die, unless the workers of the world make it clear to Horthy that ‘he will pay thru the nose for every injury he inflicts on the leaders of the Hungarian workers. Among those in the toils of Horthy’s gunmen is Mathias Rakosi, former peoples’ commissar in the Hungarian Soviet government and later on secretary of the Communist International. No doubt Horthy will be more than pleased to swing Rakosi on the scaffold. And it should not be forgotten, that Horthy’s bloody regime is sup- ported by the dollars of Wall Street. In fact, an agent of the House of Morgan, has direct charge of the financial affairs of the Hungarian government. The hand of Wall Street can be seen in a new orgy of persecutions started against the workers of Hungary. The American workers should rally to the call of the Interna- tional Labor Defense to come to the defense of their comrades in Hungary who face the gallows for their loyalty to their class. They should rally to them as they did in defense of Tom Mooney and Billings, Sacco and Vanzetti and other victims of the capitalist class in America. The hand of Wall Street is stretched out across thousands of miles to snuff out the lives of our Hungarian brothers. We hope that the Amerian workers will not stand idly by and allow the capitalists to murder the flower of their class. Tue Darry Worker urges its readers to actively co-operate with the International Labor Defense in making the mass meetings and demonstrations against the new Horthy persecutions a success. | Save Rakosi and his comrades from the gallows! Poland Gets It in the Neck at Locarno France hasone rather well at Locarno but it has been by sac- rificing her Polish ally. France gets a promise of security for her eastern frontier guaranteed by Great Britain and Italy. Poland gets nothing except a knowledge gained by experience that France has been using her to bring pressure on Great Britain and Germany. Says the correspondent of one of the big capitaist sheets which has been, like the rest, spreading optimism about the Locarno, out- come: ie The Poles held out to the last for a definite declaration from Gee many that the frontiers would not be admissible pf arbitration, How” ever, Foreign Minister Skrzynski finally accepted a declaration with respect to the Versailles treaties as the equivalent to the special com- «mitments which Germany refused to make. According to the declarations made the league of nations must first agree that Germany is in the wrong in any dispute arising with Poland before France can come to’Poland’s assistance. With Ger- ,many in the league backed by Great Britain, with the rebuilding of German industry a major necessity for Great Britain to enable her to play Germany against France, Poland has what is called in the vernacular, “a fat chance” of getting anything but sympathy from her ally in, for instance, a dispute arising over the Silesian coal fields. Poland ig caught again between the German and Rusgian pin- cers. As a tool to be used against Soviet Russia much of her useful- been destroyed. Enthusiasm for acting as the shock troops of western imperialism ‘against Soviet Russia is bound to wane as a result of the double-crossing which was her portion at the hands of the allies. I{ is probable that the Polish delegates would have raised more hell at Locarno t they did had not the posterior portions of For- eign Minister Skrzynski been still smarting from the spanking “banded out by Morgan’s diplomats at the first sign of Poland’s inten- lion to throw a monkey-wrench into the “peace-making” machinery in Locarno. American Imperialism i in sheicg In the relentless campaign to dominate the world Wall Street is to make a hundred million dollar plunge into. Liberia, on the west coast of Africa. This vast sum is to be expanded under the direction of Harry 8. Firestone, head of the tire.and rubber con- cern that bears his name and is one more step in thedevelopment of # crude rubber monopoly that will challenge the supremacy of the British who now control about three-fifths of the present available “supply¢in the world, while the United States, tho: producing very little crude rubber, consumes four-fifths of the world’s ‘supply. © Tho the United States leads the world in the production of auto- mobiles, American capitalism was not sufficiently vigilant in seeur- ing control of the raw material for this important auxiliary, wth the result that Great Britain has sufficient. monopolistic control of rubber to establish a mechanical system of restriction of output in order to keep up the: price and help pay her enormous war debts. The rapid rise.of the price of rubber products during the past year us a result of British restrietion has caused a near-erisis. Hence the mad scramble on the part of American capital to develop the preduetion of crude rubber, A survey recently con- ducted in the Philippine Islands shows vast ‘potentialities there. American finance capital is to take care of that development. This is closely followed by the sudden philanthropic desire on the part of this country’s financiers to bring the blessings of civilization to the inhabitants of the dark continent (providing they live in the potential rubber growing belt not already Controlled by British or Dutch). They are to be regenerated to, the, tune of one hundred significant statement, which has been called “a new stage in the Monroe Doctrine.” It declared that if the United States was to continue protect Latin-American states,” it had the right to exercise an international police power over them. Expressed Imperialist Era This doctrine was a timely expres- sion of the policy of imperialist ex- pansion on which American capital- ism had already entered, Panama was an outstanding. instance, The fact that today, 22 years later, American soldiers are patrolling the familiar streets of the City of Panama, with fixed bayonets, proves that the doc- trine was no mere chance phrase, but characterized a whole epoch of con- scious aggression. . It was the war with Spain, and the acquisition of the Philippines and Hawaii, bringing American capitalism face to face wth new problems in the Pacific, that made the Atlantic-Pacific canal an “immediate necessity of Am- erican foreign policy.” And necessity knows no law—certainly no law of any dinky little Latin-American state! U. S. Gets Canal Zone Vigorous pushing of the negotia- tions for lease of the territory of the Canal- Zone follawed as a matter of course. Possession of the Canal Zone was necessary “to assure the safety of the canal,”—and ‘no doubt the rest of Panama was made a United States protectorate to assure the Canal Zone. And subsequently, of course, the en- tire Caribbean area had to be brought under the American sphere of influ- ence for the same reason. In much the same way, Great Britain has been gobbling up gverything in sight in the eastern hemisphere for generations, “to assure the'route to India.” There is much truth in such claims. The economic and military problems of imperialism are interconnected. Once we grant the initial justification of imperialism we must expect to be led far afield, into brutal and bloody enterprises, for the sake of Wall Street. 5 Advance in Caribbean The building of the Panama canal and the advance of the United States in the Caribbean went naturally hand in hand with the development of new political policies in what has been called the larger Canal Zone, that is, the West Indies, Mexico, Central Am- erica, Colombia and Venezuela. Some of these policies, which have been Pretty definitely formulated, are the establishment of protectorates, the supervision of finances, the control of all possible canal routes, the. acquisi- tion of naval bases and coaling sta- tions, and the policing of “disorderly countries.” Porto Rico had been ac- quired at the close of the war with Spain and Cuba had become a pro- tectorate, the terms of which were defined by the Platt amendment. Panama was brought into the imper- ial system, and the Dominican re- public later came under the financial supervision of the United States; President Taft landed and maintained a body of marines in Nicaragua, and Proposed to place both that country and Honduras under financial super- Vision; President Wilson went fur- ther and assumed the administration of Haitian affairs, leased from Nicara- gua for’a term of 99 years a naval base on Fonseca Bay, and purchased the Danish West Indies (now the Vir- gin Islands). Monroe Doctrine is “Gospel of Grab” Today, Amerjcan aggression is re- spected and feared thruout Latin-Am- erica, The Monroe docttine has be- come ‘the symbol of American im- perialism in the western world. It is jungle. “to7 riched Indiology with great perialists like to accuse us of Com- works | jieving that the latter was supporting but tried to spread ithe knowledge: of | the strike. India amongst broad masses. For this purpose, the academy, many expenses,has published famous Sanskrit Di¢tionary which is the only dictionary of its kind in the world, and also other books on San- skrit language. . in spite of} kai gave evidence One of the assassins of Liao Shung- that Hongkong the bmerchants paid to assassins $10,000 in advance for the murder of each of thesgroup of prominent members of the Kuomingtang and the government and.if assassination would be suc- “It requires, indeed, a.ereat love for | cessful they promised to pay $40,000 and interest. in India to start such } more, enormous work notwithstanding many material difficulties. achievement and equally great sacri- fice. The murder of Mr, Liao Chung-kai, It was a great} most honored and beloved by the peo- ple, has exhausted the patience of the government. Since the 25th of August “The hot sands of Central Asia | the government carried out measures buried the past glory of India, but. calculated to free the city and prov- the Russian Academy of. Sciences ince from the banditry in uniform opened it for the whole world.- Let and. without, from assassins and cor- us hope that the academy will act in| rupt politicians and put an endeto all the same spirit in the future and contribute to a closer approachement between India and all Eastern nations | Liao Chung-kai are either arrested or and Soviet Russia, Which appears now | are being hunted down by government every | agents. as a second motherland for thinking man in the East.”, se 8 Revise Circus Program. MOSCOW, Oct. 15.—Tlie art sec- tion of the chief board ef political | being systematically disarmed. Up to education has worked out a plan to} date the whole of Liang Hung Kai’s per-}army has been disarmed by govern- divide the repertory of circus formances into three parts: 1. Demonstration of beauty. ' y 2. Training of animals. 3. Clownish tricks and satire. It is also suggested to organize a new kind of Soviet pantomime. was also decided to do away with all) cy of consolidation of the province. “thrilling numbers.” Window Glass Shop Shutdown Throws Men Out on Streets By Worker Correspondent MONESSEN, Pa., October 16—Two | fronted in view of a tremendous op- physical | self is charged with complicity in the malicious rumor-mongers. Those implicated in the murder of The chief organizer of the murder has been caught in his native village by. troops of General Li Fuk- linvand-he is to be delivered to the authorities. The bandit soldiery is ment troops and- Liang Hung-kai him- murder, The government officials declare that they intend to put an end to what they term “counter-reyolution- ‘sts” and pursue relentlessly the poli- Counter Revolution Prevents Trade. The correspondent of this service at Canton has ,been assured by the Canton governihent officials that n regulations of any sort restricting shipping or foreign trade have been either adopted or approved by the government, They point, however, to the difficulty with which they are con- COUNTER-REVOLUTION INCHINA °° lore CHINA hundred men were thrown out of Position on the part of the people to work at the American.Window Glass |, resumption of northal relations un- company at New Eagle, Pa. for an|+i some sort of restitution has been indefinite period. ~.-—---- COMRADE BOTVIN Their bullets found his brain, The brain whose only ve" Was of the class for whi " Mreamedi For which he fought. « He sang—O heart of ri He sang his way to di “Down with the boutgedisit,” cried With his last breath, Fell riddled with their tia 5 © comrades, workers, How with his bleeding Sn he points To liberty! —Henry George Weiss. -)made for the incideht of 28rd of June. | They further claim that they are do- ing their best to hasten resumption of normal relations, but that stubborn- ness of Hongkong in its demand for intervention is adding fuel to the flame of popular opposition to the re- night of Sept. 25th, cleaned out all counter-revolutionary troops, arrest- ed those implicated in the murder of. Mr. Liao Chung-kai, and when. people one of the three central watchwords|awoke on the morning of the 26th of American foreign policy. The fight to get the United States | anywhere on the streets. government permanently out of Pan- there was-not a soldier to be seen Perfect or- der reigned in the city, This was most ama is thus a fight against the whole | unusual in Canton. policy of American imperialism. Am- Relations between the merchants erican workers, whose interests are|and workers in Canton seem to be diametrically opposed to those of the | very cordial and even friendly, judg- Wall Street clique that rules our gov-|ing by many conferences they had in ernment, must recognize imperialism | recent days, where they always come for what it is. They cannot afford to|to a full understanding in matters believe “the pretty fairy tales taught | affecting their common interests. in school for the purpose of con-| As regards rural districts, since the vincing ‘future cannon fodder that the | disarming of unruly soldiery, the U. S. government is. an angel of| struggle in the districts has consid- peace and has never ‘been imperial- erably subsided and ‘hope is being ex- istic. These stories are about ag true | pressed in authoritative circles that as the statement that Panama is a’ with the suppression of counter-revo- free country. Class-conscious work- | lution there is no reason why condi- ers will make common cause, not with tions will not become absolutely the profit-hungry Wall. Street gang, | normal. but with the oppresse countries under the peoples of the of American imperialism. -In the concrete case of’ Panama, they must demand the in- stant withdrawal of all American troops, the abrogatidn of the vicious treaty of 1904, and the abandonment of all claim to a protgotorate over the republic, ‘ Plantations are to be established, American homes, hospitals and stores axe to spring up and the inhabitants are to-be taught to appreciate the blessings of capitalism. Then, instead of dwelling in darkness and worshiping their dead ancestors they will be taught the religion of humility, subserviency, and be permitted to slave on the “model plantations” and live in company houses while producing rubber for the glory of the American benefactors. When they die they will receive their reward as Paul TeFargué said “with pay checks on the bank of heaven.” f This first hundred million signifies a momentous step in Ameri- can policy. Tt means that Wall Street is firml¥ established in Africa, there to contest the imperialist aims of other nations, par- ticularly Great Britatm. Thus another point of ¢ is created that will involye Africa in the coming world confli¢t, wh the diplo- mats can no longer gain advantages over their gentlemanly conferences. with them, This is considered as a million as a starter, which amount is to be used to. conquer the| serious step forward in the direction of the general settlement, ¢ rivals a Strike Intensified, A delegation of various classes of people is to proceed to Peking within a few days for the purpose of co-op- erating with Peking in a foreign pol- icy of China. It is understood that this delegation will transfer local griev- ances arising from the Shameen inci- dent in Peking and will there deal The strike, strange to say, is be- coming more serious, owing to strengthening of strike organizations and large sums of money dafly coming in from all sources, especially from the Chinese ‘overseas. It is hoped that with the departure of the dele- gation new developments in the strike situation may be expected. Very much depends no a sane atti- tude of Hongkong. Unfortunately, it still demands intervention in Canton, d of pursuing a policy of recon- ciation and mutual understanding. The blockade seems to have affect- ed Canton very little as concerns rice and firewood, both being cheaper than before the strike. Th, export busi ie Amport and sumption of normal relations. . Counter Revolution In China. The army, in the short hours of the munism and instigate Chinese reac- tionaries. They have two objects: first, to detract sympathy of the world away from us. Since the Russian rev- olution, imperialists never tired carry- ing on propaganda against Commun- ism. “Whatever the imperialists hate and want to undermine they first of all ac- cuse as being Communistic or as in- stigated by Communists. Sympa- thetic strikes after the massacre in Shanghai and other places were ac- cused of being the result of Commun- ist intrigues and telegrams to this ef- fect were sent to the peoples of the world in order to discredit the nation- al movement in China. Comrade Trotsky rightly laughed at the imper- ialists, calling them the best propa- gandists of Bolshevism in China. Nevertheless they consider this the only weapon to undermine us. “Secondly, the ‘imperialists by bringing the anti-Communist slogan to China try to smash our united front against imperialism. It is a great danger to imperialists that Chinese people are concentrating revolution- ary forces to attack imperialism. Altho imperialists have bitter hatred towards the national revolutionary government, they dare not resort to armed intervention, Not becatise they do not want it, but because they are not in a position to do it. There- fore, the next best thing for them is to use Chinese militarists and reac- tionaries to undermine us. Communists in United Front. “The stupid Chinese counter-revo- lutionaries do not understand why Chinese Communists join the ranks of the (Kuomintang Party. The anti- Communist slogan was used by Chan Lin-pak, by Liu Chen-wan and Yang Shi-min and again by murderers of Mr. Liao Ching-kai. They were all in- structed by imperialists to under- mine the revolutionary government and divert it from the struggle against imperialism, ~~~ “Imperialists were happy when they saw that some. ignorant members of our party were endangering the united front against imperialism. Time and facts determine who are revolutionary and who not revolutionary, At pres- ent, the dividing line between revo- lutionary and counter-revolutionary is whether one fights against or sup- ports imperialism. If one does not stand on this side of the line, he must stand on the other side. If anybody wavers and doubts, he thereby helps the enemy. There are people who are conscious agents of imperialists and there are also those who are their unconscious tools. “Those people who at this moment discuss Communism and anti-Com- munism, while we have not as yet achieved one-tenth of our national revolutionary work, are consciously supporting imperialism.” Mu Han- min concluded by saying: “We should hereafter deal with opponents of na- Hoogiian seriously and _ energetic- ally.” Wrap your lunch in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch) to your shopemate. : Progressive T Trade Unionists will be held ; THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22; 8 -P. M. Our Readers’ Views Help Negro Workers Organize, To the Editor of The DAILY WORKER: | Every class conscious worker is enthusiastic from the suc- cess of the Workers» (Communist) Party in gaining’ sympathy of the toiling masses, The capitalists live in constant fear that their days’ are counted. Millions of workers, who be- lieved childishly the false promises during the last war, are angry at the master class and their labor mislead- ers that instead of enjoying the prom- ised freedom they suffer from greater exploitation than ever before, The Negro workers must work in order to make a living, they must take care of their’ families, just as their white brothers. The prostitute capi- talist press spreads hatred among the white workers against the Negroes coming from the southern States, that they are responsible for cuts in wages, higher cost of living, and worse work- ing conditions. This is a hundred fold lie. —¢ The Negro workers are brot over here by the same capitalists who throw mud at them. They receive the same wages as the white workers do, and the workers get their wage cuts because they. are unorganized, which would happen also if the Negoes were not here, The racial hate is brot into the hearts of both races from their early ‘childhood. The history teaches us that the most hated, most persecuted and exploited slaves are the first ones to rise. No wonder that the Negoes are awaking. | The ku klux klan is also different to- day than it was during and after the Civil War. At that time those barbar- ians lynched only Negoes and those white workers who sympathized with them. Today to their lynching. pro- gam are added the foreign-born, cath- olics, Jews and organized workers. They try to destroy the labor move- ment. Many foreigners were organized already in Europe. The hate of the American-born against them strength- ened their revolutionary spirit. The Negroes were held in ignorance, they had no school, couldn't read and write, they were taught that the white race is the supreme one, that it must keep the Negroes down, No matter how the slaves were made to believe that slavery is given to them by god, they always rose when their oppressors raved the most, During the war all. colored colonials and slaves were needed to beat the Germans. Their tyrants became their friends, they were even promised that after the war is over and the Germans de- feated that Africa will be turned back to the black race, Also in the United States the hate against the for- eigners and Negroes disappeared. Here also were the Negroes promised that Africa will belong to them after the war is over. They were bitterly disappointed. The big powers not only kept the African colonies but England grabbed all the German colo- nies, and the exploitation and tortur- ing of the cblonial slaves was started anew and worse than before the war. All colonial slaves rise. China, says: China to the Chinese! The Kuomin- tang party is organized and has its official organ even in this country. China refuses to remain a colony of foreign capital, Morocco, Syria, Tri- .poli, Egypt, India, are rising against their British, French, Spanish and Italian oppressors. This all has a great influence upon American Negroes. We are enthusi- astic that those most hated and per- secuted slaves come along to fight side by side with the white workers against the common enemy capitalism. Without the 12,000,000 Negroes there will be no victory for labor, The first Negro Labor Congress will meet Oct. 25, 1925, in Chicago, Tl. Said congress has its official organ, The Negro Champion. Every Com- munist who is working with Negro workers must do his duty and help them to organize. Their refeat is our defeat, their victory is our victory, their freedom our freedom. Rise you slaves, you have nothing to lose but your chains and a world to gain—Anthony Halamek, Cleveland, at NORTH-WEST HALL, ’ CORNER NORTH AND WESTERN- AVENUES SPEAKER: J. Louis Engdahl, Editor of Daily Worker Subject: The A. F. of L. Convention, and : the Left Wing Movement. Everybody Welcome——Admission Free Auspices of the Trade Union Educational League, Local Chicago