The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 5, 1926, Page 4

f f t Page Four ‘ vi THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER f Published by the DAILY WCRKER PUBLISHING CO. 4118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, I. Phone Monroe 4713 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IIlinols J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE foe asain MORITZ J, LOEB. Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Ohi cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. i 290 Advertising rates on application. Tammanyite Is Willing Scab. In face of the widespread endorsement of the British strike by the,rank and file of intelligent labor in America we have a reminder from John J. Coughlin, secretary of the Central Labor Council of | New York, to the effect that the old line leadership is still as vicious as eyer and insists upon its inalienable right to‘scab at any time and.any place upon any group of workers here or ‘abroad that wage a decisive struggle against their capitalist masters. That specimen, in order to get in the limelight’in the reflected glory of the great upheaval in Britain, announces to the press that “we will not refuse to handle goods or raw materials to be shipped to the British Isles.” A servile lickspittle of Wall Street and ornament of Tammany Hall, he speaks only for himself and his kind and certainly not for the 700,000 organized workers of New York who will have something to say about whether they scab upon the British workers or not. Coughlin has no power either to call or stop a strike. @ mere political time-server and his opinion is a total zero as far gs its effect upon the labor movement is concerned. Two of a Kind The American ruling class lackeys have no monopoly on stupid- ity. Mr. John M. Glenn, secretary of the Ilinois Manufacturers’ Association, who regularly issues hysterical manifestoes to the kiwanians and rotarians to the effect that the American Federation of Labor is conspiring to undermine the government and that Mr. William Green is a dangerous red, delighted some of the Chicago bourgeoisie by exhibiting at luncheon a Britisher who is as dull as himself. Mr. Gilbert Frankau, who writes astounding drivel and calls himself a novelist, was the attraction. Frankau, a “self-confessed” tory, stated that he is in the United States to offset the pernicious doctrine of other Britishers who have visited these shores, partic- ularly those disseminated by the prolix novelist, Mr. H. G. Wells, whom he accused of plotting a Bolshevik uprising in “Merry Eng- fand.” Frankau evidently is not aware of the fact that Lenin referred to Wells, just after an interview with that worthy, as an “abominable philistine.” r After applying his tory magnifying glass to Wells, the guest of Mr. Glenn then included in his category of Bolsheviks that senti- mental aristocrat, Lady Cynthia Mosley, and wound up with a similar attack on Arthur Henderson, king’s minister during the late unpleasantness in Europe, for fomenting revolution and giving ‘Americans a “bad opinion of Britishers.” : We extend condolences to the British workers for having to endure a bit longer the vapid ravings of such as Frankau. We promise them, however, that if they take care of their Frankaus in proper style, we will eventually put the Glenns to work at some- thing befitting their mentality—tho it may be difficult to discover Just what they are fitted for. ° Not Speaking for France The New York Times is greatly agitated over the quibbling and delay encountered in congress over the question of the French debt settlement. So anxious is that publication for this country to agree to the terms of France that some are prone to accuse it of French propaganda. Says the Times: “France desires to arrange for the payments due to the United States as quickly and honorably as possible. In face of that attitude it will not do for the senate to cast suspicion upon the transaction.” The Times, the foremost spokesman of finance capital in this country, reflects the anxiety of the House of Morgan to dispose of the debts so that further loans may be floated, thereby releasing some of the enormous surplus that must be used for investment capital or ‘eause the stagnation of the currency system. Tt has not suddenly become an ingrate and abandoned its exalted patriotism to the ruling ¢lass of the United States in order to defend the interests of France. Its altruism is fraudulent and its propa- ganda has as its objective the placing of the brand of the dollar upon the workers of France. Ireland Still Unconquered Refreshing indeed was the visit to Chicago of General Frank Aiken, commander-in-chief of the Irish republican army, and his public address at Orchestra Hall the other night where he told a thousand of the American sympathizers of the Irish republic that the masses of Ireland are still unconquered—and unconquerable. The monstrous treachery of the renegadé “free state” Irish, who have sold out to the British government and who carry on a cam- paign of assassination against those Irishmen in whose breasts there atill flames the passion for freedom from the oppressor, ‘has only still further incensed the masses. General Aiken brought welcome news when he said the Irish republican army “has not lost a soldier”— mheaning that for every man tortured to death or quickly dispatched ‘by the British minions there is another who takes his place. The blood that Connelly and his associates shed ten years ago ‘this last easter has not been shed in vain and it is to be hoped that (the present labor crisis in Britain, in which Connelly would be fight- fing were he here, will enlist the support of the republican forces of Areland who will help smash the bestial imperialism of Britain. FOUR PAGES TODAY Owing to technical difficulties in obtaining the proper size paper The DAILY WORKER appears with only four today, and may possibly be limited to this size the | 2a of the week. This difficulty in receiving proper size paper is not ‘confined to our office but affects all users of print paper. THE DAILY WORKER © J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, Editor. MORITZ J. LOEB, Business Manager. He is: By KARL RADEK, HE imperialist forces have again interfered in the fight of the peo- ple’s armies against Chang Tso Lin. Whereas Chang Tso Lin’s victory over Kuo Sung Lin was the result of the help which Chang Tso Lin received thru Japan’s interference, all the im- perialist powers are meddling in the more serious fight which is now tak- ing place near Tientsin between the armies of Chang Tso Lin and the peo- ple’s armies, Chang Tso Lin is try- ing to effect a landing in the rear of Feng Yu Hsiang’s armies in the har- bor of Taku. It is a matter of course, that the people’s armies prevent’ this by firing on the transports of Chang Tso Lin’s soldiers, Tt is also a matter of cotirse that they try at the same time to prevent any ships entering Tienstin for, during a time of war, it is impossible to be certain on what ships there may be some of Chang Tso Lin’s troops. The imperialist powers have protested against this by appealing to the Boxer protocol of 1900, in which China pledged itself to grant them: free en- try to Tientsin and to guarantee them a connection with Peking. | The note of the imperialist states threatening armed intervention unless Feng Yu Hsiang ceases to take meas- ures to prevent Chang Tso Lin land- ing, is a direct support of Chang Tso Lin, for it is evident that the people’s armies which are fighting both against Chang Tso Lin’s troops which are at- CHIMLI WAR-LORD BETRAYS FORCES OF KUOMINCHUN Aids Chang Gain Con- trol of Peking The following dispatch from the Imprecor Agency in Moscow shows how the Chinese national army was betrayed by Wu Pei Fu, Chihli war lord, and his generals and were forced to evacuate Peking and also the rea- son Japan's insistence on the fierco bombardment of Peking by Chang Tso-Lin, Manchurian military dicta- tor: se MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R., April 16.— (By Mail.)—The pvacuation of Pek- ing by the national army has been completed in absolute order. The na- tional army was ‘the victim of treachery. The troops of Tien Wei- Chin, supporters of Wu Pei-Fu, failed to come to the assistance of the na- tional army in a ‘bitter struggle against the troops under Chang Tso- Lin as had been agreed upon, At the same time the ninth divi- sion which consisted of troops which a year ago formed’the personal body- guard of Tuan Tchi-Hui, abandoned its positions to the east of Peking. The main bodies of the Mukden troops and the army of Wu Pei-Fu will not enter Peking according to a mutual arrangement until the political situa- tion in Peking has been finally cleared up. At present it is difficult to judge the situation which has been created in any detail, altho the domination of Chang Tso-Lin who is actually in|: power in Peking, is a clear fact. ‘Chinese political circles are firmly convinced that the determined attack of the Mukden troops on Peking was due to pressure from Japan which wishes to see Peking taken by Chang Tso-Lin and the regime of Tuan Tchi-Hui restored. Peking is in a panic for fear of plunder by the advance guard of the Mukden army, which has many Rus- sian white guardists ‘in its ranks. It Ts supposed that Tuan fs at pres- ent in hiding in the Japanese embas- sy. ‘There are signs to show that the diplomatic corps is making prepara- tions to move to some other place where a central government with Tuan at its head is to be formed. It has been discovered that Tuan has appropriated $500,000. intended as wages for his personal bodyguard. The money in question was not hand- ed to the finance ministry but to Tuan personally. Chinese Circles are indignant at the cyncism of thé dip- lomatic corps which thus handed over money belonging to China to the militarists and now declares that this money did not belong” to the diplomatic corps and that the corps has therefore no interest in the af- fair, According to reports of the Japan- ese agency “Nippon Dempo” Tuan Tchi-Hui will in the next few days once again appear in the political arena, Up to the present the situation of Wu Pel-Fu is not yet clear. Ac- cording to reports of a Chinese agency negotiations will take place shortly between Chang Tso-Lin and Wu Pei- Fu. ‘The People's Tribune, the organ of the Kuomintang which appears in the English language, writes that the aim of the imperialists which was to an- nihilate the national forces, of hina has not been achieved. ‘opi situation caused the nati army to rétreat in order to maintain its fight- ing force, and it will still play:an im- portant role in the struggle ,of the Chinese people for its emanélpatiog. tacking from the north and against the troops of Chang Tso Lin’s agent, the former governor of the province of Shantung, which are attacking from the south, would be, in a catas- trophic position, should Chang Tso Lin’s troops appear in their rear, Hae allies’ note represents a diplo- matic victory of British imperial- ism. British imperialism is encounter- ing two chief obstacles in its endeay- ors “to restore order in China.” The first is the fact that it finds it difficult to make up its mind to tie its own hands by involving its forces in the fight in China. The second is its fear of diplomatic isolation, British im- perialism is trying to gvercome the first obstacle by support{ng the coun- ter-revolutionary forces of China itself. at There is not the slightest doubt that both Chang Tso Lin ang Wu Pei Fu are at present enjoying Bngland’s sup- Port; it is indeed by no,means out of the question that an agreement has been concluded between them and Great Britain and Japan which, in case of a victory over the people's armies, would allow Chang Tso Lin to proclaim the independence of China, in which case north and central China would be united under the rule of Wu Pei Fu. This would imply England's consent to Japan actually taking, possession of Manchuria under the cover of Chang Tso Lin’s rule, whilst-in north and central China Wu Pei Fu would have to guard the interests of both Great Britain and Japan, (Continued from page 1). of the Liberties Union, told him the injunction was being applied for, and to wait, but promised that writ or no writ the meeting would be held; that Garfield wouM be opened up. “There'll be no meetings in Gar- field’ Donaldson was growling out- side. But John Larkin Hughes, at- torney for the Liberties Union, was even then getting the writ signed in Jersey City and was speeding to Gar- field. Donaldson pretended he counldn’t read it when the paper was thrust into his hands. But soon he threw up his palm and the hall doors were opened. A deputy kicked one worker in the stomach as the crowd streamed in, and the man who first opened the doors was taken if ‘thé patrol wagon to the police station. But the meeing was on. Nimmo had ducked when he heard the writ was coming. After the songs and cheering quieted Bailey opened the meeting and Holmes began. He praised the strik- ers for the brilliant victory they had gained by discipline and peaceful measures. The complete victory of the strike was in sight, he assured them. . Their fight was known from coast to coast and support would stream in from all sides till their de- mands were granted. Welsbord Arrives Robert Dunn spoke and was follow- ed by Norman Thomas, both on $10,- 000 bail from Nimmo’s Riot Law. Then the strikers went wild; for Albert Weisbord, strike leader, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn were seen coming. “This meeting marks the end of the reign of terror in Garfield,” declared Weisbord. “A union meeting will be held in the park outside tomorrow and picketing begins next ‘week. The workers are showing their power.” se Amalgamated Helps PASSAIC, N, J., May 3.—(FP)—Sid- ney Hillman, president the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers Union, was the principle speaker at the United Front Committee meeting at Walling- ton, the day before Garfield was open- ed up. Hillman praised the strikers’ solidarity and assured. the 14,000 workers and their families of the sup- port of the great clothing workers’ union. i Amalgamated support is being shown by great truck: loads of food. The second big batch of supplies they have forwarded includeg,10,000 pounds of sugar, 3,600 cans of pork and beans, 3,000 pounds of navy beans and 2,400 cans of evaporated milk.» “* + ‘PASSAIC, N. J., May 3—(FP)— Newspapermen grilled, Sheriff Nimmo of Bergen county againgas to who was paying his 100 depuitieg—they of the sawed off shot guns whe are boarded in the Forstmann and Huffmann mills. “I won't say,” said Nimmo. “Is the mill paying m?"” “L-won't say.” a “Is the county paying, them?” “Look here,” cried ‘Mame, “at the proper time the bill ll be paid by the proper people.” “Ig that the mill?” But Nimmo was off the interview. e@ & PASSAIC, N. J. May 3.— Albert Weisbord issued the following state- ment as the Textile strike of 16,000 workers entered its fifteenth week: “The more the strike has progress- ed in Passaic and in Bergen Coun- ties, the more it has become clear how thoroughly and completely the mill owners control the available po- litical machinery. When matters have gone to such extremes that mill owners pay for county officials then it is about time that every decent citizen of New Jersey who cares any- thing at all for civil Ii es or demo- cratic government 8) protest most vehemently against the dictatorship which the mill ownergjave established Mass Power of Strikers Wins in this community, It must now have become exceedingly ‘that these S regards the impossibility of iso- lated action’ on the part of Great Britain, it came very much into prom- inence during the last fight for Can- ton, Great Britain had sounded the other powers as to whether they would agree to her taking action which might lead to an armed cam- paign against the government of Can- ton. — As, however this action would above all have required a prolonged blockade of Canton, which would have meant serious injury to the shipping and trade of Japan and the United States, neither Japan nor the United States showed any great desire to sup- port Great Britain. The most recent note, however, bears the signature of the United States.as well. The Amer- ican agency “Associated Press” states that the United States is actually in- clined to interfere, éven with armed force, if the situation demands it. Any intervention of this kind on the part of the United States would imply an approach of American to British Policy and indirectly to that of Japan. The editor of the China Weekly Re- view and the China correspondent of the New York Times,” who is known as an American expert in the affairs of the Far East, ascribes the fact that the United States is obviously becom- ing reconciled to imperialist interven- tion, to the influence ‘of local Ameri- can industrial and commercial circled which, alarmed by the events in Shanghai, have all along, exercised pressure on Washington and de- manded that strong measures be mill owners, most of them of the Ger- man kaiser type, desire to institute and have already succeeded in doing so to a large extent, a state of affairs which means the crushing not only of every attempt on the part of the workers to get.a decent American standard of living but also to get a decent American standard of government. Nation-Wide Support “Not only the entire working class must now rally to the side‘ of the strikers because of the justness and reasonableness of the economic de- mands which the strikers are making, but every decent and honest-element in this country must come to see in this struggle between the strikers and the mill owners, a Struggle between autocracy and democracy, In rallying around the strikers cause, these de- cent elements in our community, must make these mill owners whose foreign born concepts of Americanism resem- ble czarism, realize that the, strikers must win this fight and a union be established in Passaic. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! ment is on the advance. burst into red flame of revolt. securing more splendid features, subscriptions, t HENRI BARBUSSE, greatest writ- er in France, has written “The Crier” Appearing for the first time in Bng- lish in Bvery Saturday. every workers’ library can ‘ Outside of Chicago In Chicago be had as a premium with Kix moni’ 400 Rte oneha=“*4g9 @ Yearly sudsoryption to A bust of LENIN by the Three month: Enclosed sub to the Dally Worker, tp Thé:Thitd ‘Annual National Builders Campaign THE DAILY WORKER. . (April 15 to July 4) HB biggest subscription drive ever attempted by the first American Communist daily comes at a time when the American Labor Move- Passaic is a battlefrofit; the Furriers are on strike—the infamous Miners’ Strike settlement left smouldering embers of discontent sure to The drive to build The Daily Worker is part of advance—to be of greater service to: Labor, To make The Daily Worker of even greater interest and value to workers new features are being added. And while The Daily ‘Worker is 4.60 2.00 ‘Three months. 2.60 THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, It, FOP sosmnsmmne MONTHS NRC crsensncsererenmsssonsnrescnssoretnemneeereenqnanenntes : AAA PCOD AiSssnesnntentnitininr iam City sesenvenbtsvesaomcanaersnerinsevnsntennes taken against the revolutionary forces of China, This eminent connoisseur of condi- tions in China warns the American government that any such interven- tion would provoke an outbreak of hatred against the “foreigners,” that is the representatives of the imperial- ist powers, E are convinced that the Ameri- can expert is right. Breat Britain has nothing to lose; she is already re- garded as an enemy by the masses of the people in China. But the Unit- ed States have enjoyed considerable sympathy just because they have avoided a pronounced imperialist pol- icy, The United States of America is risking its moral influence in China in the interest of a few thousand mer- chants who are alarmed by the revo- lution. I doing this, the United States is playing into the’ hand of the Jap- anese imperialists. It is to be expect- ed that the American circles which, under Senator Borah, protested most vehemently against imperialist machi- nations in China at the time of the Shanghai affair, will also object now to a policy which in the long run will be to the detriment of the represen- tatives of the imperialist: powers. T is not only the united front of the Chinese, counter-revolution, but also the united front of international im- people's armies. The enlarged execu- tive committee of the Communist In- ternational has raised. a voice of pro- test against the threat to blockade Canton. The situation has now be- Destroy 60,000 Copies of the May Issue of the American Mercury CAMDEN, N. J., May 3.—Sixty thou- sand copies of the May edition of the American Mercury, edited by H. L. Mencken, “were destroyed on the ap parent order of the editor because they contained an article entitled “Sex and the Co-Ed,” purporting to be an expose of collegiate undergradute life. These copies had been run from the press of the Hadden Craftsman here, which publishes the magazine, when @ man reported to have been Mencken himself, rushed into the pressroom and ordered the machines stopped. He then ordered the plate containing the story taken down from the presses, the type broken up, issued an order that all of the 60,000 copies be burned and warned that any employe of the printing establishment who attempted to leave the building with a copy of the magazine would be dismissed in- stantly. The presses were held while a substitute story was set in type, and the entire edition reprinted. come more acute, British imperialism may now succeed in doing in north China what it failed in the conflict with Canton. Not only the Commu- nist parties, but every labor party which is an enemy of imperialism, must raise its voice in a decided pro- test agdifist, this attaack. HE greatest responsibility falls on the British labor party. It can, if it wishes, be a powerful force, It ought to understand that it is not merely a question of protesting against a blow aimed at the Chinese revolution, is is a question of opposing the preparations for a great imperial- ist campaign. May the British work- ers clearly understand that armed. in- tervention on the part of the imper- jalist powers’ in. China will rouse a gigantic popular movement! If Brit- ish and other merchants. Hving in China are seriously affected by this movement, the imperialists will em- bark 6n a tremendous agitation to at- tack China on a broad front. Even should, the imperialists suc- ceed in coming to an agreement with regard to an attack on China, they of the spoil on the morrow, The whole far east represents a powder magazine. Anyone who strikes a match near this powder magaine is which will not be limited to the far east. The situation demands the ae- tive intervention not only of all friends of the Chinese revolution but also of all enemies of a new imperialst war. East Youngstown, Ohio, Changes Names to that of Steel Mill Head (Special to The Daily Worker) EAST YOUNGSTOWN, O., May 3— The name of East Youngstown is no more, This town will now be known as Campbell, Ohio, after the presi- dent of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company. The steel masters are competing with each other nam-. ing towns after themselves, Insofar as the steel workers are concerned the change in name means nothing to’ them for the town has always been! owned by the Sheet & Tube Company. Building Trades in Capital ‘ Demand Higher Wage Scales WASHINGTON — (FP) — Concrete’ rodmen in Washington are on strike; for a wage increase from $8.50 to $9.60: a day. Foremen’s pay is.a dollar higher. Union carpenters and mill- men are talking strike, as their wage increase ultimatum expires May L More than two-thirds of the steam ‘The American Worker Corn respondent is out! the new American new advantages are being offered with Red. Cartoons The Daily Worker. . “Of Wy, An unusual ‘book for $6.00-—In Chicago, $8.00 ys and Means," sent free on request, st, will | tell you how to win these. ‘ ang shovelmen have won their $2 increase in pay, giving them a $12 day. The first American pub. Sd lication of proletaria se8 art—and— i noted young proletarian sculptor G. PICCOLI. ’ The Imperialist Attack on Chinese People will be quarreling about the division ; in danger of causing an explosion -