The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1925, Page 3

A 4 f r CZECHO-SLOVAK WORKERS’ MISSION) TO SOVIET UMION IMPRESSED BY POWER OF WORKERS AND PEASANTS MOSCOW, JU. S. S. R.—(By Mail.) —The Czecho-Slovak workers’ delegation that is visiting the Union of Soviet Republics have been greatly impressed by the power that the workers and peasants have in the running of the Soviets. These workers, most of whom are members of the social-democratic party, in- dignantly repudiated the social-democrat in Soviet: Russia who are on trial for aiding the counter-revolutionists in their attempts to destroy the first socialist state in the world. In the following statement to the workers of the Trans- Caucasian Soviet Republics of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaid- jan, the Czecho-Slovak workers’ delegation points out that they were satisfied with the solution of the problem of national mi- norities and were also convinced that it was the workers and peasants who guided the state and determined its economy, and promised the Trans-Caucasian workers and peasants to spread gira Mh cai etme ter tN ca Nese the truth about the Soviet gov- ernment when they return to Czecho-Slovakia: “We, have,visited your. countries to find out how:far the statements of the international bourgeois press are true when they declare that a Communist reign of terror exists in Georgia, that anti-Soviet elements are tortured and manhandled in-the Soviet prisons, We consider. it to be our duty to publish the results, of our stay in the Trans- Caucasian, Soviet Republics and to declare our attitude to those state- ments of the:press. Have Complete Freedom. / “We have had absolute and com- plete freedom of movement, we have visited shops and factories, clubs, schools, villages and workers’ meet- ings. We have held discussions with workers, peasants, trade unionists and government officials; wé have dis- cussed for days with the imprisoned leaders of the anti-Soviet insurrection which took place in 1924, with social- democrats, national democrats and social revolutionaries, with one-time .Anembers of the menshevik party, who ow are working together with the Soviet government. Everywhere we were convinced that the workers and peasants of Soviet Trans-Caucasia have finally won their hard fought freedom. Workers’ and Peasants’ Rule. “The governments of all those na- tional republics consist of workers and peasants of the particular na- tionality, who at the same time lead all the political institutions, direct the factories and control the economic in- _Stitutions, co-operatives, etc. Each worker feels himself as the owner with his fellow workers of the shop in which he works and he is therefore @igng his utmost to raise the level ot production and thus the level of the whole economy of his country. “We have come to the conclusion that the Georgian .people are as in- dependent in -every respect as the other nationalities of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and that the national question has been solved in a way only, possible in a socialist state. There is not the least trace of any suppression of any national minority, on the contrary, the Russian people who. are, economically, cultur- ally and numerically stronger than the national minorities which were oppressed under the dominance of the ezar and which were compelled to remain backward, assist the cultural and material development of these minorities in every way and helps them to take a part as equal workers in the cause of the socialist construc- tion of a new world. Denounce Capitalist Papers. “The reports of the bourgeois press about alleged suppressions of national minorities, about the alleged terror of a small group of Communists over the overwhelming majority of the population are malicious slanders in- tended to prepare the way for an armed intervention against the Soviet Union’ to ‘conquer its natural’. re- sources. The Communist Party en- joys ‘the’ unlimited confidence of the masses and arriés out the’ policy favored by the vast majority of the people, that is @ say, favored by the workers and peasants, “The achievements of the Trans- Caucasian Republics in social progress are such that:-they could never have dreamed of them, under the bourgeois and menshevist regime. Economic Improvement. “On the economic field we have ob- served a feverish activity which has not only: leadto a recovery of the PE ADAM is a Eien MR i Ci lA Mehr act Ae ata EE A ee Me AY htc A eT EARL R. BROWDER will speak on “WORLD UNITY OF THE TRADES UNIONS” at the regular monthly meeting of the Trade Union Educational League Wednesday Evening, December 2, 8 P. M. st Division St. Chicago. atari pre-war standard but which has built new factories.and électric power sta- tions which can compare and com- pete with the best modern works con- structed by European technique. With the development of industry, the situa- tion of the working class is improving also, wages increasing, etc. “The building of workers’ colonies, and cultural institutions has reached powerful proportions. Intellectuals and scholars have the widest pos- sibilities of exercising their capacities. “The Soviet Union represents a tremendous step forwards and in the future it will remain the signpost for all the oppressed peoples of the world. Your yourig socialist land has many enemies, above all the foreign cap- italists and the political parties under their influence. And to these belong the rest of the social-democrats, the social revolutionaries, etc., ten of whom are serving sentences in the Tiflis prison, “We must say that In comparison with the prison regime in Czecho- Slovakia, that in Tiflis prison is more like a sanatorium than ,a prison. Denounce Georgian Mensheviks. “We socialists declare that we have nothing in common with these people, they are as far removed from us as the capitalists. They do not belong to the right wing of the working class, but to the left wing of the bourgeoisie. This has been recognized. by their one-time comrades who haye. returned to the ways of Marxism and to the ranks of the working class, and who have torn themselves loosé from the enemies of the Soviet Union abroad. For. us, socialist workers,"'the eight hours of discussion whith''we had with the arrested leaders of the in- surrection were decisive, when their spokesman,.the Prince Andronikasch- vili, the leader of the national demo- cratic landowners’ party.and the fac- tory owner, Kavaschischvili, said that they wished to continue the discussion with us in the name of the mensheviki upon the conditions in Georgia under the menshevist regime. ‘These people are dead for the international working class movement. They ‘were far more dangerous for the Georgian proletariat than the capitalists and the Georgian proletariat was right in flinging them aside, out of the way of socialism. “A free Trans-Caucasia is advancing with firm steps. The intrigues of the international bourgeoisie are shatter- ed against the firm alliance of the workers and peasants. We estimate your powerful trade unions particular- ly highly. They are a decisive factor in the economic life of your country and they represent the best school of socialism. “We see that you regard yourselves as members of the great international proletarian family and that therefore you are anxious for the unification of all trade unions into one powerful in- ternational proletarian family and that therefore you are anxious for the uni- fication of all trade unions into one powerful international world league to serve as a weapon of victory in the struggle against international cap- italism, | ; “Long live the Soviet Union, the first socialist land in the world!” Signed: Tatirok, Kaspar, Derfler, Bachmann, Minartschik, Bodova, Ko- petzki Vaschniyovski, Krazl, Pezlar, Laske, Wunderlich. Section One Meet Tonight. Section 1 meets tonight at the dis- trict office, 5972 Buclid Ave. at 8 p. m. Every member must attend his sec- tion meeting, Don't fail to be there. Jarge the machine T A a ~— ~— Aen Vl ba S ~=— Q WA —, —w it Yale Se \m e e |S Aa [Fo RA ~*~ [4 HE DAALY WORKER PROPHETIC PAPYRUS Found on the Mummy of Tutaunkamen LABOR IN THE FAR EAST By L. HELLER. Labor in the Far East by, L.~ Heller is the series of very excel- lent articles on the labor move- ment of the Far East which has been received by the Trade Union Educational League, the North Am- erican section of the Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions. You will find an instalment of this series each day in The DAILY WORKER. The first appeared yesterday. To- day we print the second instal- ment which tells of the revival of China’s labor movement in 1924.) oe ARTICLE Il, The New Political Situation and the Revival of the Labor Movement. T will be recalled that in the au- tumn of 1924 Peking was the scene of a coup d’etat in which the Chihli clique suffered defeat. Wu-Pei- Fu, the erstwhile almighty dictator, was forced to flee to the Yan-Tse- Kiang valley, and Tuan-Tzi-Jui took over power. This new government has “been maintaining itself only by grace on Cham-Tso-Lin and Feng-Lu-Hsiang, the heads of two hostile military groups, between which it has been very cleverly balancing. There lies the weakness of the present govern- ment, which has no considerable mil- itary forces of its own, Yet, its very military weakness is the source of its political strength. Just because Tuan-Tzi-Jui has no army of his own, Chan and Feng, who are not strong enough to capture the entire power, RUSSIANS EAGER FOR AMERICAN FARM METHODS Machinery Ch anges _ Country Life Machinery is revolutionizing the Russian countryside, Donald Ste- phens told a Chicago audience gather- ed to hear of his year with the Rus- sian reconstruction farms near the Black sea, The organization has a concession of 16,000 blacksoil acres on a rail- road from the Soviet government, with buildings and live stock. The 25 Americans, men and women, comprising the unit, haye put Amer- ican farm machinery on the estate and have run the farms on large scale lines. They have raised $75,000 in America and Stephens and Harold Ware, the leader of the unit, are bacq in the western hemisphere to raise another $75,000. The addi- tional sum is needed for more equip-' ment, to meet. notes on some equip: ment obtained on credit and to en- instruction and maintenance work among the Russian farmers. Demonstrate Machinery. The estate is crowded with peas- ants every Sunday, Stephens said, de- manding demonstrations of the ma- chinery and the modern system of tractor plowing and harvesting. An impressive object lesson was af- reconcile themselves with Tuan-Tsi- Jui who is dependent upon both of them. es The disappearance of Wu-Pei-Fu and of his fosterling, President Asao- Kun, who .was extremely hostile to- wards the J@bpr movement, and their replacement by the “weak” Tuan-Tsi- Jui government, has created a favor- able situ: that was promptly uiil- ized both by the labor and the nation- alist movements. The Tuan-Tsi-Jui government syles itself as temporary, thus indiregtly recognizing its “ille- gal” ‘Tsi-Jui in the past has been thé chief of the Japanofile Anfu clique, hateful to the people as was clearly demonstrated during the stormy years of 1919-20. However, Tuan-Tsi-Jui is a very clever politi- cian, and from the very first days of his coming to power he began to talk of a “National Assembly” that was to |harrowed while establish a “lawful” government while trying, at the Same time, to win over the sympathies of the public for which purpose he appealed to the sup- port of the Kuomintang party ap- pointing some members of the right wing of that party to certain govern- ment positions and inviting to Peking the leader of Kuomintang, Sun-Yat- Sen. HIS, of course, was merely a chess move. There could be no agreements between the reactionary Tuan-Tsi-Jui and the revolutionary Sun-Yet- Sen on the fundamental questions of home and foreign policy. Nevertheless, as a result of the new situation, the Kuomintang party, whose political activity is centered in the Kwen-Tung province in the South, Toohey Meetings. Cardell, Pa., Dec. 1—Pat Toohey, youthful leader of the striking an- thracite coal miners is coimng to Car. dell to speak at a meeting on Dec. 4 at 6 p. m. at Cardell Hall. Working men and women of Cardell let us give this young fighter a hearty welcome. Come-and bring your friends. at * 8 PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 1—The workers of, Pittsburgh are making great preparations for a fine mass meeting for! Pat Toohey, young leader of the striking coal miners, when he comes here to speak on Dec. 5 at the Labor‘Lyceum, 34 Miller St., Pittsburgh. Everyone get busy and see that a bigotrowd is there to wel- come him! © EE) tractors kept the ground plowed and the Russian peasant after one shallow plowing trusted to providence. yt the rains held off and finally they sowed at the latest possible moment. So did the Ameri- cans. Soon the American machine- tilled fields were green with the sprouting wheat while the peasant acres remained a sterile brown. The reconstruction farmers showed the way out of the recurring drought- famine disasters, Excellent Yield. The Americans produced 24 bushels an acre last year. The United States average yield is 12 to 13 bushels. The Russians are glad to get from 6 bush- els up. The reconstruction farmers expect to better the 24-bushel yield next year, ty What do you'éarn? What-are con- ditions in yout*shop? How do you live? Write a story for The DAILY WORKER. obtained an opportunity to appear on the national arena. Sun-Yet-Sen came north and in the course of several months, with the aid of appeals and manifestos in connection with the struggle over the political character of the future National Assembly and of the conference that was to precede it, he carried out tremendous propa- ganda work in Northern and Central China, noticeably strengthening the nationalist Movement in Peking and Shanghai, This enlivening of the political movement had its immediate effect also on the labor movement. The railwaymen’s and miners’ or- ganizations that had been driven un- derground, began to grow and expand, the recently closed workers’ schools. and courses were re-opened, and new ones established. The propaganda and organization activities carried out during the early period, as future de- velopments have shown, were not in vain; immediately the unfavorable weather had passed and a new warm wave appeared in the political at- mosphere, the seeds sown two and more years previously, began to blos- som anew. The labor movement put down after the crushing of the Pek- ing-Hankow strike, again revived. More than that, the beginning of 1925 was marked by the development of a strong movement on the part of the most numerous and backward section of Chinese labor—the textile work- ers. 7-2. © The next instalment will tell of the textile workers and their struggle against the capitalist offensive. Rosa Raisa’s “Madame Butterfly” Gives View of U. S. Navy in Orient The overfed and underdressed bourgeois audience that came to the Chicago Civic Opera on Sunday after- noon to enjoy the light opera of “Ma- dame Butterfly,” a light opera, were given a jolt. Rosa Raisa’s interpretation of Cho- Cho-San, the delicate sweetness of her voice, the charm of personality in de- picting the suffering of the little maid of the land of chrysanthemums and cherry blossoms, poignantly and very realistically, brings home a sidelight on American imperialist invasion of foreign nations, this time in the Orient. In this story taken from the book of John L, Long, the little Japanese maiden Cho-Cho-San, known to her friends as “Butterfly,” is wooed and won by the American Lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton of the U. 8S. navy. He affects a marriage with her, which he knows is not binding. Then he de- parts for America with a promise to return when the “red robins nest again.” In three years he is again sent to this Japanese port. This time he brings his American wife with him. When he arrives he finds a wife and baby waiting for him. The inevitable tragic outcome. The little Japanese wife kills herself, Irene Pavloska’s interpretation of Suzuki, the servant and friend of Ma- dame Butterfly and Charles Hackett’s portrayal of the depraved soldier of the American dollar were also admir- ably done, Take this copy of. the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop Page Three INTERPARLIAMENTARY COMMUNIST GATHERING AT B RUSSELS PLANS TO DISCUSS PROGRAM OF ACTION BRUSSELS, Belgium.—(By Mail.) —Communist members of parliament from England, Germany, France, Belgium, Poland and other countries participated Communist Interparliamentary C in the opening session of the ongress called to discuss many important pieces of legislation that will come up in their respec- tive parliaments for ratification. On the agenda of the congress, the Locarna “peace” pact was the main point, and then followed the question of tariffs, customs and commercial agreements, the 8-hour day, and the p Ceara Maier tiie fact question of Alsace and Lor- raine. The first session of the congress in which Comrades Overstraeten and Jacquemotte of Belgium, Cachin, Marty and Huber of France, Stoecker Heckert, Hoernle and Hoellein of Ger- many, Saklatvala of England, Wolti of Switzerland participated elected a number of committees that will draw up resolutions on the Communist pol- icy on. tariffs, customs and_commer- ial agreements, on the question of Alsace and Lorraine, Locarno peace pact and other important issues, Comrade Overstraeten of Belgium opened the sessions welcoming the delegates to the Interparliamentary Communist Congress and outlined the important mission that the con- gress had to perform in building up@ uniform opposition and program for the Communist fractions in the vari- ous European parliame bodies. FINNISH FRACTION OF WORKERS PARTY UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON YOUTH WORK During yesterday's session of the national convention of the Finnish Language Fraction of the Workers (Communist) Party the question of the Young Workers (Communist) League was discussed. Comrade Nat Kaplan, member of the Natonal Executive Committee of the League réndered a short report on the situation in the league and its immediate tasks and then presented the following resolution in the name of the National Executive Committee which was unanimously adopted by the convention. The Young Workers (Communist) League. :, The national convention of the Finn- ish Language Fraction of the Work- | ers (Communist) Party after hearing | the report of the Young Workers | (Communist) League places on record | the following: | (1) The convention greets the start | of mass work of the league and| especially agrees that by concentra- | tion on a deep-rooted economic-trade | union work, application of the united | front tactic, the building of a mass workers’ sports movement in this country and the complete reorganiza- tion of the league on thé basis ‘of shop nuclei, will the league be put well on the road towards becoming the mass organization of the young workers of | this country. | (2) The convention endorses the Policy of the league in drawing new élements into the active posiitons and work of the league, from all parts of the league membership, especially | from the members in the heavy indus- tries and in establishing closer con- | tacts between all districts of the or ganization, (3) The work among the agricul- tural youth must be started. The con- vention calls upon the league to in- tensify its work in the rural sections of this country and to win the work- ing youth on the farms to the revolu- tionary youth movement. (4) The Young Workers (Commun- ist) League is a reservoir of strength for the party and the best support of the party in its work, In this regard the educational work of the league \must be intensified more than ever, The convention declares that there courses and a national league training school (in which active comrades from the districts can be trained in the league center for two or three months and then return to their digs) tricts and apply their training in the) work.) ‘ The convention pledges itself to rem! der moral, material and every poi ble assistance for the launching 0 such a school, (5) The Young Pioneers League (the Communist children’s movement must be built up under the leadershi | _ |of the league and the entire se pf ist’ children’s) movement must hew close to-the international line, The Communist children’s move- ment must be helped thru the publica- tion of children’s literature, thru ma- terial help, thru the attraction of party members for the work, etc. (6) The convention pledges itself to render all possible assistance for the creation of a powerful workers’ BPorts movement on a national scale in this country along class lines. Max Goldstein Urges CHILEAN PRESS EXPOSES ‘BLACK JACK’S’ MOTIVES Denounce ‘Impartiality’ of Americans SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec, 1.—General “Black Jack” Pershing’s methods and “impartiality” in the Tacna-Arica dis- pute between Chile and Peru are the subject of indignant criticism by the Chilean newspapers who reveal his moves as an attempt to throw the plebiscite to the Peruvians. Augustin Edwards, who owns a chain of newspapers in Chile, is ex- posing the “impartiality” of Pershing and the marines that are there ostens- ibly for police duty; but mainly to see to it that the plebiscite will go the way that the American nitrate interests demand. Resentment, is reaching such a high pitch in Chile that it is expected that Chile may refuse to proceed with the Tacna-Arica plebiscite. Scientific Expedition Carries Libyan Queen’s Jewels Across Sahara QUARGLA, Morocco, Dec. 1—The Anglo-American expedition arrived safely at the French military post of Ouargla, where it received a telegram congratulations from the Algerian government yesterday for what is re- garded as one of the most important discoveries in Algerian history after a hard tussle in a sandstorm on its trip across the Sahara desert. The expedition, which arrived yes- terday, brought safely through the storm the first part of the treasure of the tomb of the Libyan queen, includ- ing the skeleton, jewels, the sculp- tured canopy and the diadem. All is of unusual beauty and interest. The Algerian government is sending an armed guard for the treasures. When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor- row—show them what the DAILY WORKER says about it Workers on to Victory in His Last Message (Special to The Daily Worker) BUCHAREST. (By Mail.)—In ,the first days of his hunger strike, which he began with the intention to draw the attention of the working class to the Roumanian conditions, Max Gold- stein wrote a long letter to one of his fellow-fighters, This letter, a won- derful example of revolutionary con- sciousness, ends with the following sentences: “I know that I will be blamed. My enemies will condemn me because it appears as if I did not want to tarry my heavy cross, all the terrors of my tortures to the end. I know that a revolutionary has no right to suicide. You, however, must know that after everything that I have suffered I am useless for the struggle, helpless, and unable to do anything useful for the working class. There remains nothing else to do for me but to resolve to leave life with a long and yelling scream of protest, What shall I say to you this last moment, to you who has still his whole fighting power, who will certainly experience the happiness of victory? “On the day after the victory, when the red flags of the triumphant work- ers will rise high above our poor tor- tured country, when you march along our graves with your flag, then re- member that our whole life has been devoted to its last breath to the strug- gle for the liberation of the workers, It is not our fault that we could not bear the yoke of terrible sufferings to the last, the yoke of sufferings which made us perish, and that we were not able to reach the aim with our vic- torious flags. The working class, the only and eternal conqueror of human history will be able to unfold and proudly wave this flag on the ruins of the collapsing bourgeois society.” Fire Sweeps Wamac. CENTRALIA, Ill, Dee, 1, —~ Ap proximately $10,000 damage resulted from a-fire which swept Wamac, two miles south of here lasc night. Two large resideuees in the center of the conflagration were totally destroyed and adjoining properties were \ damaged. Build the DAILY WOR is an urgent need for creating district « \