The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 11, 1926, Page 6

—— Page Six ~ re T HE*,DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING [O. 1f13 w. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per vear $3.50 six montha $2.50 three months i $2.00 three months Address ali matl and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Hlinols J. LOUIS ENGDAHL \. \ditors Business Manager WILLIAM F, DUN: MORITZ J. LOEB. Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1) Advertising rates on application. ey “Hands Off China!” Seven British naval officers were killed in China by soldiers un- der the direction of a Wu Pei Fu leader, and Britain, instead of aeting in her accustomed way when her agents in foreign lands are interfered with, laid the fatality to “brigands” instead of to China or’any of the warring factions. There is more than one reason. One is that England is not in a position to tackle China alone and her diplomats have not yet suc- ceeded in roping in the United States and Japan on a united front military campaign against China. Wu Pei Fu is on the British payroll and it is one of- the most ironical instances in ancient, modern or current history that the bul- lets that killed the British naval men were purchased with funds supplied by the British government. This is another reason. When Lee Stack, British sirdar in Egypt, was killed in retalia- tion for the reign of terror he initiated there, the British government insisted on several Egyptian heads and a heavy indemnity. The Egyptians paid because they could not help it. They paid in heads and in money, The situation has changed’since then to Britain’s disadvantage. British influence and prestige in China were never at a lower ebb. The most wide-flung imperialist power has one foot on a polit- ieal banana peel and another one in an economic grave. At home, a strike is shaking the industrial structure to its foundations and a punitive expedition against China with the object of setting up the British puppet Fu in Peking would be regarded with a jaundiced eye by the British working class. It is doubtful if the “labor” privy councillors and the other right wing bootlickers of monarchy and eapitalism would be equal to the task of working up working-class enthusiasm for a war against the liberation movement in China. Japan has her own iron in the Chinese furnace and Chang-Tso- Lin is the Mikado’s smithy. Uncle Sam covets the Chinese market and is not crazy about be- coming the goat of disappointed John Bull. The one cementing factor in the whole situation that would bring those imperialist brigands together is fear of the influence of Soviet Russia which has gained in the Orient in inverse ratio to the decline of imperialist influence. Capitalist editorial hacks and tin-can-headed liberals see no difference between the foreign policy of the Soviet Union and that of the czar. We refer those gentlemen to the Chinese masses. They know. It is safe to say that the Chinese situation is charged with T. N. 't. ‘The Chinese liberation movement stands in a fair way of being successful in disposing of the military tools of foreign capitalism, Wu Pei Fu, Chang-Tso-Lin and lesser generals. Should the Cantonese and Feng’s armies be able to form a junction and establish them- selyes at Peking, a government could be established with a sufficiently reliable foundation to weather the stormy days that must’ imevitably intervene before a stable government can be expected. With a mighty and friendly neighbor stretching from ‘the Chinese frontier to the Baltic and from Archangel to the Black Sea, and with friendly states to the southwest, friends of Chinese freedom and human freedom in general have every reason to be optimistic. One word of warning to the American working class! The Chicago Tribune, the most powerful daily newspaper in America, at least from the point of view of circulation and territory covered, in its issue of September 9, called for intervention in China to block Soviet influence. We do not mean to infer that the Tribune plea will bear immediate fruit. But the American workers must be on their guard and every man and woman who wishes to see a mighty people free themselves from the stranglehold of imperialism should raise the slogan: “Hands off China!” Patriotism and Graft Harry M. Daugherty, one of the most notorious ex-attorney gen- erals that ever held a seat in an American cabinet, one of the “Ohio gang,” patriot by profession and grafter by trade, is now sitting in thé dock, while twelve American citizens, no doubt a “jury of his peers,” listen to the evidence presented with the object of showing that Daugherty and a former alien property custodian divided $441,- 600 between them, which was their compensation for facilitating the ‘transfer of the American Metal company to the lawful owners. Daugherty was once one of America’s most sterling patriots. He was.the moving spirit behind the infamous injunction that helped smash the shopmen’s strike, It was under his regime that the raid against the Communist convention was pulled off by stoolpigeons of the perjurer William J. Burns in 1922. To give a complete list of Daugherty’s crimes against the working class would. take up too “intch space: Fortunately, no other tuchun of capitalism in recent ‘American history is better hated by the American workers, and if they do not enjoy his present discomfiture, christianity must have dragged the guts out of them, Daugherty’s confederate in graft is Colonel Thomas W. Miller. Now, let us enumerate some of Miller’s sacrifices’ on the altar of , patriotism. Miller is a founder of the American Legion, a member of its na- tional executive council from the outset and recently elected for two years; head’of Fidac, the international federation of war combatants, and a member of the Battle Monumeuts Commission of which John J. Pershing is the head. Here is a man who’deserved well of his country. At least so thot the colonel. And he went to it. An even split ont of $441,000 is not to be sneezed at. If the wages of sin is death, the wages of the kind of patriotism that ‘capitalism’s flunkeys profess, is graft. The more graft that is to be expected at the end of their patriotie rainbow the more voei- ferously they express their pure-souled and altruistie devotion to their country. Daugherty and Miller in the dock are no more yenal in prineiple than their prosecutors. The latter did not yet have the opportunity Daugherty and Miller had, or-else they did not get caught. Capitalism and corruption are as iigeparable as a pole-cat and his smell. 290 are ready either to defend their country or defraud it, BRITISH SWALLOW) DEFEAT AS FIGHT BETWEEN FRIENDS Center War Actions on Canton Government (Special: to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, Sept. 9, — Three Brit- ish officers and four marines killed and two officers and thirteen marines wounded is the score the Chinese un- der General Yang Sen, a subordinate of the reactionary Wu Pei-fu, took when the British tried to recover two British ships the Chinese had seized at Wanhsien, far up the Yangtze and 400 miles west of Hankow. Just Between Friends. Cables from the British foreign of- fice say that the British government regard the affair as “an act of local brigandage” and will make no formal complaint to the Peking government. This is due to the fact that the clash was with the reactionary troops of Wu, who shares power with Chang Tso-lin at Peking. How many Chinese were killed by the British when the gunboats bom- barded Wanhsien without regard for the population being non-combatants, is not yet reported and may never be known, Wu Completely Smashed. Meanwhile, Wu Pei-fu, with hig army whipped and mostly gone over to the Cantonese forces, is retreating northward almost alone from Hankow, now thoroughly controlled by the Cantonese, Wu may find a cold wel- come from his ally Chang Tso-lin, who is none too friendly and may not wish any general without an army for an ally in the future, The flagship Hawkins bearing Vice- Admiral Alexander Sinclair, comman- der of the British naval forces in China, is reported rushing to Hankow from Weihaiwei. British Back New Militarist, Other British war action is believed to be behind Marshal Sun Chuan-fang, Chinese militarist dominating Shan- ghai and much of the lower Yangtze. Sun has threatened to attack the Can- tonese under General Chang Kai-shek unless they retired toward Canton within twenty-four hours. Sun is now the imperialists’ best bet in Central China, but the Canton- ese had already warned him that he is the one to do the withdrawing, and to get out of Kiangsi province or suf- fer an attack, The Cantonese also demanded that the British withdraw their recently placed troops and warships from Can- ton’s wharves, where the British are again starting violence against the strike pickets. The British consul- general insultingly replies with a de- mand for an explanation why Great Britain is treated “as if it were at war.” The Kuomintang at Canton has re- solved to intensify the strike and boy- cott of the British to Hangkong, se * Feng Returns to China. MOSCOW, Sept. 9. — The press re- ports that General Feng Yu-hsiang, commander of the Kuominchun army, is ending his visit to the Soviet Union and is returning to China, Here are several scenes of the two wooden coaches on a Northwestern Railroad Labor Day by an oncoming locomotive travelling As the old Greek philosopher put it, our capitalist politicians | engineer of the jofliding engine, but the coroners’ jury, hi responsible for the. five deaths and more than. fifty splintered to bi { “CRRA ts cwsrmr oe ce ITO — 2. cel (OL, CARMI A. THOMPSON, the business man-politi- cian whom President Coolidge selected as his per- sonal representative to investigate conditions in the Philippine Islands, will soon be back in the United States | Teady to make the report that was already written for {him when he started on his heralded journey to the Far Bast. The Thompson Mission is no ‘idle pleasure trip. For | weeks, amd even months, the newspapers have been |full of it. Why is it that we find ourselves reading so much about the distant Philippines? Important develop- ments are taking place which American workers and farmers cannot afford'to ignore. Indeed, the masses of the American people in general will find their interests directly affected. ‘When the Thompson Mission was appointed last April some naive Filipinos assumed it was going to investi- gate the brutalities of Gov.Gen. Wood's regime. Noth- ing of the sort happened. The presidenit’s representa tive has not really investigated anything. This is ap- parent from the speeches made by him to Filipinos who flocked around him 't@ demand independence from U. 8. imperialist rule, These speeches are exactly the same as those he-made in the United States before leaving. Praises Reserves; Forgets Independence. Col. Thompson has had much to say of the tremendous iron, coal and other: resources of the Philippines—es- pecially rubber. He has had not a word to say of Philippine indepen- dence, altho the correspondent of the Chicago Tribune wrote back to his paper on Aug. 20, that “the longing for independence is the most distindt impression received by Col. Thompson and his party.” In the midst of the Thompson tour Gov.-Gen. Wood ve toed for the second time a bill passed by both houses of the Filipino legislature calling for a referendum vote of the Filipino people on the question ‘of independence. The Moro Melodrama. Meantime, some jtheatrical demonstrations have been staged at Jolo and other places in “Moroland” for the purpose of giving the impression that the Moros hate the rest of the Filipinos and love American imperialism. Moroland embraces all of the vast acreage suitable for rubber-growing. Newspapermen on the ground declared unanimously that {the Moro “anti-Filipino” demonstra- tions were planned by appointees of Gov.Gen, Wood. The whole business is plainly to pave the way for separation tof the valuable Moro provinces from the rest of the Philippines under rigid dictatorship of American officials xppointed from Washington, This is in line with the provisions of the Bacon Bill now before congress. What is really alt the bottom of all this maneuvering in the Philippines? The American masses, who, together with the natives of far-off lands, are always eventually called upon to pay in-teil and blood for the dazzling for- eign adventures of the American ruling class, must un- derstand what is gaing on. Every serious foe of im- perialism—whether he be worker, farmer, student, or ven small business man—must consider the situation with misgivings. The Urge to Empire. American capital’has made huge profits in foreign in- vestment under colonial conditions. Thanks to big busi- ness and speed-up production in the United States, Wall Street has more capital eager for export than ever be- fore. Also new markets are wanted, and new sources of raw materials for American industry. The Philippines; ‘which take in 1,500,000 acres of the finest rubber-growing land in the world, loom up as a natural field for iitense exploitation. The Philippine Mslands are only 650 miles from the mainland of China..; Sudden attention to the Philippines foreshadows imperialist maneuvers in China itself, one of ithe greatest potential treasure houses of the world. If there is a war between the United States and Japan it will not be due to “the immigration problem,” as we are told by clever propaganda, It will be because of the struggle for imperiatigt domination in China. America in the Philippines is a rifle pointed directly at the heart of the Orient. Rubber Makes a Difference. ; The Philippines have been an American colony since 1898. Rubber, and ‘the general advance of American im- perialism, have now made the islands a key position of empire. Everywhere. one sees signs that Wall Street ind Washington are preparing to exploit their Pacific solony up to the hilt. But this implies, the implantation of an out-and-out 7 When Crash of Antique Coaches Brought Death slow speed. The railroad official that the disaster took as-toll, decided that the ancient wooden WHAT PRICE RUBBER? [rst Haccke The Facts About the Thompson Mission. STATEMENT: OF THE ALL-AMERICA ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE. on “Last Words colonial system along classic lines. The cheapest of cheap labor must be secured (which will incidentally have the effect of forcing down labor standards at home). The Filipino laws which limit landholdings to 2,500 acres each and thus protect the small farmer, must be changed . to make way for big U.S. corporation-owned plantations CHAPTER Il. and estates. (Firestone asks for 500,000 acres!) Fili- pino resources must be put at the disposal of Wall|THE STRUGGLE OVER OUR GEN- Street. The Filipino legislature must be deprived of all EALOGICAL TREE. power; the remaining liberties of the Filipino people must be destroyed. American imperialist ous must be (Continued from previous issue.) tightened and perpetuated. Wall Street Demands. It is therefore not strange to bear American capi- talists declaring on all sides that ‘they cannot invest their ambitious dollars in the Philippines without being guaranteed colonial conditions thi ‘The Jones Law, passed by Congress in 1914, promised: independence to the Philippines. It is now Semanted (that the Jones Law be repealed. Now we can understand President Coolidge's famous “Roxas letter,” declaring that ‘the Filipinos are “not ready for independence.” Now we can. understand the president's last message to congress, Urging more powers for the American governor-general in the Philippines. We can understand the Kiess bills and tthe Bacon bill which ‘will come up. before the next session of congress. And we can understand why Carmi So Ri ecntie was sent to the Philippines. Why Thompson Travéls.” The purpose of the Thompson Mission ds plain. First of all it is to lay the Wiasisfor repeal of the Jones law or its conversion into® a'’dead ‘letter, Secondly, it is ‘to destroy the’ Filipino legislature as an effective instrument and to arm.the governor-general with new powers. This is expected..to.result in laws favorable to American capital. - It is also expected to lead to the crushing of the Filipino independence move- menit. Finally, the purpose of the Thompson Mission is to pave the way for passage of the “rubber-heeled” Bacon bill designed to subdivide tthe Philippine nation and cre- ate a new Ulster in the Philippines. Not Wal! Street’s Business, We do not deny that the Moros (400,000 out of a popu- lation of 11,500,000) are entitled to special consideration. Their present status was fixed by the United States con- gress. It should be changed so as to give them full voting rights in the Philippine commonwealth, with a system of local autonomy. What the Bacon bill pro- poses is itheir segregation under the absolute rule of an American directorate appointed from Washington. In any case the status of “Moroland”.ie the business of the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands and not of the United States. American labor, the necessary enemy of Wail Street in the United States, has nothing to gain from American imperialism. For the great masses.of the American peo- ple, continued domination of the’ Philippine Islands means only new dangers, new sacrifices, new hardships. Abraham Lincoln once said: . “No mation that enslaves another can be itself free!” Hands Across the Pacific. American labor must rally’ around itself all anti-im- perialist elements and take the lead - in carrying for- ward this mighty principle. - : We must stretch out our hands to the Filipinos strug- gling for liberty and prepate to“fight shoulder ito shoul- der with them. We must pierce the hypocritical’ pretensions of de- mocracy masking Wall Streét rule ‘and imperialism. We must expose the elaborate -—program of outrage that is summed up in the Thompson Mission. In the face of imperialist moves: to tighten the net of oppression about the Philippine Islands let us thunder out the demand: Immediate, complete and’ ee independence for the Philippines! The Filipinos want their independence. bor must demand it. We propose the calling or a nation-wide conference to be participated in by all those standing for Filipino in- dependence. ALL-AMERICA ANTIIMPERIALIST LEAGUE, (United States Section.) Manuel Gomez, Secretary. | White Terror Butcher Kills Cuban Workers (Continued from page 1) tive are expelled from the country.” Jailed by Hundreds. “What happens here, dear friend, is horrible. Today the daily press and the police ‘discovered’ an im- aginary plot to assassinate Macha- do and Zayas Bazan, and as a re- sult of this ‘discovery,’ union men are jailed by the hundreds. The citizens are interned in the military ‘barracks, while the foreigners and some naturalized citizens are de- ported, or held on the warships for deportation or god knows what. “Two days. ago, an active union man, of the bratherhood of railroad workers, was; mortally wounded, in the dark, as*hé*was entering his home at nigtit!’Death 4s expected at any moment! !**°" ~~ More ‘Assatsinations. “Since the disappearance of Lo- pez (secretaty Havana federation of labor, whose ‘story ‘was previously told by Fed | Press), two more active union, m n.grom Camaguey All these attempts have a common object—to save man’s privileged posi- tion in Nature, to widen as much as Possible the gulf between him and the rest of the mammals, and to con- ceal his real origin. It is the familiar tendency of the parvenu, which we so often notice in the aristocratic sons of energetic men who have won #& high position by their own exertion: This sort of vanity is acceptabl, enotgh to the ruling powers and th churches, because: it tends to suppo; their own fossilized pretensions to vine image” in man and a special vine grace” in princes. The zoolo- gist or anthropologist who studies, our genealogy in a strictly scientific spirit takes no more notice of these tendencies than of the Almanach de. Gotha. He seeks to discover the naked truth, as it is yielded by the great results of modern science, in which there is no longer @ny doubi that man is really a descendant of the ape—that is to say, of a long extinct anthropoid ape. As has been pointed out over and over again by distin- guished supporters of this opinion, the proofs of it are exceptionally clear and simple—much clearer and simpler than they are in regard to many other mammals. Thus, for instance, the ori- gin of the elephants, the armadilloes, the sirena, or the whales, is a much more difficult problem than the origin of man, When Huxley published his power- ful essay on “Man's Place in Nature’ in, 1868, he gave it a frontispiece show- ing the skeletons of man and the four. living anthropoid apes, the Asiatic orang and gibbon, and the African chimpanzee and gorilla, Plate Il in, the present work differs from this in giving two young specimens of the orang and the chimpanzee, and rais- ing their size to correspond with the other three skeletons. Candid com- parison of these five skeletons shows that they are not only very like each other generally, but are identical in the structure, arrangement, and con- nection of all the parts. The same 200 bones compose the skeleton in man and in the four tailless anthro- poid apes, our nearest relatives. The same 300 muscles serve to move the various parts of the skeleton, The same hair covers the skin; the same mammary glands provide food for the young. The same four-chambered heart acts as central pump of the circulation; the same 32 teeth are found in our jaws; the same repro- ductive organs maintain the species; the same groups of neurona or gangli- onic cells compose the wondrous structure of the brain, and accomplish that highest function of the plasm which we call the soul, and many still believe to be an immortal entity. Huxley has thoroly established this profound truth, and by further com- parison with the lower apes and le- murs he came to formulate his impor- tant pithecometra principle: “What- ever organ we take, the differences between man and the anthropoid apes are slighter than the corresponding differences between the latter and the lower apes.” If we make a superficial comparison of our skeletons of the an- thropomorpha, we certainly notice a few salient differences in the size of the various parts; but these are purely quantitative, and are due to differ- ences in growth, which in turn are caused by adaptation to different en- vironments. There are, as is well known, similar differences between human beings; their arms are some- times long, sometimes short; the fore- head may be high or low, the hair thick or thin, and so on. These anatomic proofs of the pithe- coid theory are most happily supple- mented and confirmed by certain re- cent brilliant: dis€overies in physiol- ‘ogy. Chief amongst these are the fa- mous experiments of Dr, Hans Frie- denthal at Berlin, He showed that the human blood acts poisonously on and decomposes the blood of the lower apes and other mamnials, but has not that effect on the blood of the anthro- American la- and one from } at) Spiritus have |Poid apes.* disappeared, potthe disappearances From previous transfusion experi- being surrow by the same cir- |™ents it had been learned that the af- finity of mammals is connected to a certain extent with their chemical blood-relationship. If the living blood of two nearly related animals of the same family, such as the dog and fox, or the rabbit and the hare, is mixed together, the living blood-cells of each species remain uninfluenced. But if we mix the blood.of the dog and the rabbit, or the fox and the hare, a struggle for life immediately takes place between the two kinds of blood- cells, The watery fluid or serum de- stroys the blood-cells of the rodent, and vice versa. It is the same with specimens of the blood of the various primates. The blood of the lower apes and lemurs, which are close to the common root of the primate stem, has a destructive effect on the blood of the anthropoid apes and man, and vice versa, On the other hand, the human blood has no injurious effect when it is mixed with that of the an- gar sxberp ste hin mystery as that of Lopez. * “The Auguit’ n Sorned of ‘La Se- off the sowlggiat. Be the crime of publishing some cartoons con- demning the horrible executions of working men, Any one seen with a copy is placed under arrest.” Hang Sixty Workers, Sixty Canary Islands farm laborers were hung, literally lynched, after the disappearance of a Camaguey army colonel hacienda owner who never paid his wor! ‘The men were fore- ed to sign a note saying they were tired of living and were committing suicide, A grim fact that the Cuban work- ers make much of is that president Machado was a butcher until he be- came president and has the middle train that were|enger of one hand missing as a re-|thropold apes. have blamed the] «uit, ey ~~ al = anit @Baches are more RR «Ry RN te anos Toth Januney, 00h Cienaa) ~ an - ibe today, a deatienenn (Te Be ata tema om SUES | [ ” +