The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1926, Page 1

—, ¢., J - | The DAILY WORKER Raises the Stendard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ul. No. 241. Py Sor a) ko \ ~h,, @ 4° By T. J, O'FLAHERTY Een so fs said that Premier Hertzog of South Africa spit out the king’s English like a truck driver when he stated ‘his position before the British empire conference now sitting in Lon- don. The South African declared that his country would insist on being in- ternattonally recognized. It will take all the diplomacy, champagne and the glamor of Buckingham Palace’to keep the discontented mombers’ of the do- | minions from speaking frankly. Hert- og made it quite clear that he wants no part of the union jack in the South American flag. Not that-he intends to secede. No, no. Perish the. thought. But you can never tell what« may , happen. “ ° i 8 botad little credence can be attached to the average news story is well pzemplified in the press reports sent from London prior to the convening jn the empire conference. Everything was going to be peaceful, and King of Canada, Cosgrove of Ireland and | Hertzog of South Africa would calmly | He down with the lion. No responsible ; person would make predictions as to | what position those gentlemen may stand on, because they are capitalist politicians with an admirable regard | for the safety of their political hides. But a blind person can see that, the countries those three represent hang | to the motherland by a slender and ; weak string. ’ OW the works of men and mice | “aft gang agley” is again demon- strated in Angland’s misfortune wit! Locarno. Sir Austen Chamberlain was honored by the king for clinching the Locarno pact, which was designed to weaken France on the continent. Eng- land’s campaign to get Germany into the league of nations had the same object, Now Frahce turns dround and flirts with Germany with the object of forming a combination which would be Subscription Rates: 8» THE DAILY WORKER. | Entered at Second-class matter Lichen 21, 1923, St the Post Office at Chicago, Mitnois, under the Act of March 3, In Chi Outside . Y om, ALL THE WER NEW. OF The STRUGGLE TO. LIBERATE CHINA Communications Eat Cut In view of the ‘operations. of | Gen. Fan Chu | in Honan, Warlo A CANTON, China — The commander-in-chiet of the Cantonese armies, General Chiang Kai-shih, has issued a | manifesto to all foreign nations, of which the following is a part: “The present Northern expedition, by si $8.00 per year. Peking-Hankow Rail-| Warlord Wu Pei-fu’s Military Strength. -siu's' troops} seeing the rapid progress of peed | Wa Pei-fu's} Northern Expedition since the | ¥Allies” -have been defeated fall of Changsha, Warlord Wu's ‘Commander of Cantonese iin Warns Foreign Powers of War orders to “lead, is to comply with the demands of the by mail, $6.00 per year. TROOPS. In Hapeh eh General Liu Tso-lung's ‘aith In The Kuomintang Hankow report states that IN THE fight. which I am under stronger from a military and commer-/ Chinese people for national revolution and the achieve- cial point of view than any eyer formed on the continent.of Europe. And.we gather that the | ile abe Ser manophobe, Poincare, is hd the _Degotiations with Germany, tho he | cannot keep from snarling across the Rhine occasionally, ETHER be- the negotiations develop into a hard and fast alliance is in the lap of history, America is a actor. li seems ‘that the United | States does not see its-way clear just now how far it should go against its greatest commercial rival, Great Brit- ain, The United States and England put Germany on: her feet, but capi- talist nations are notoriously thank- less. It ig rather amusing to see the nation that was saved from the “ter- rible Han” by the United States em- brace the aforesaid “Hun” while Amer- ican legion delegates to their next convention in Paris, are forewarned that five thousand French girls will meet them on the dock with hands outstretched, not to embrace, but to demand alimony. BY the time the discussion over the nativity of Columbus is finished it may develop that he was an Es- kimo. Hitherto the Italians have claimed him and the Irish have built his monuments. Then along comes a German society and puts in a claim for the discoverer of America. Now come ‘the Spaniards, who claim that they paid for his berth. This- is the penalty of greatness. Christopher would be better pleased, tho, if such 2 desire to do him honor during his Mfetime was more pronounced than the desire to carve his scalp, GENE V, DEBS is dead and the working class in all lands will sor- row. “Whatever disagreements other * sections of the revolutionary move- »‘m@pt flad with Debs, they were over ‘tactics, methods to be used in the task of overthrowing this robber sys- tem, Debs hated capitalism thoroly and religiously, He was ® man of great courage and-never hesitated to take a stand because of any conse- quences to himself. He sacrificed a comfortable career in the labor move- ment for the sake of his opinions and wore out his body on the platform and sapped his nerve force in jail, for the cause, JN recent years Debs was not able to accommodate himself to new revolutionary strategy that was born out of the womb of the Russian revo- lution. It was a pity that he was not eble to accept Lenin's invitation to visit the Soviet Republic and see a workers’ state in action. MWl-health prevented him making the journey and also the pressure brought to bear on him by the political pawnbrokers who. have been Using the old man’ tige for the past few years as a fig leaf to cover the nakedness of tue | woclalist party, . ween France and Germany will | feet. § of freedom and equality for China. that help our national revolution wit |, “Those countri ‘joe: ‘treated we the mést friendly na- | tons. _ Those countries that hinder jour national revolution wilk be ex- | pelled by four hundred millions of | people; , | “Since the industrial reformation, in- ternational imperialism is struggling and arming for colonization. The op- |pressed people cannot free themselves |of this distress.\ The loss sustained | benefits they get. Therefore the uni- fication and independence of China means the permanent peace of ,the world. “The crimes of the Jraitor Wu Pet- fu have reached their day of reckon- ing. Therefore 1 dare to lead the revolutionary armies to externtinate the traitorous and dangerous militar- ists and then to achieve the unifica- tion of China, - Signed: —CHIANG KALSHIH, com- |Mander-in-chief of the National Revo- lutionary Army, at Changsha, August 22, 1926." 7 JEWELRY UNION IS UP AGAINST COMPANY UNION — Ni YORK, Oct, 22.—The Amal- gamat Jewelry Novelty Workers’ Union, Local 17, of the I. J. W. U., with offices at 701 Broadway, is en- gaged in negotiations with employers, Bosses Try Trick, | The manufacturers ,are | fighting against the demand for union’ recogni- tion, and it is suspected that they have, no intention of reaching an agreement, only entering negotiations in order to furnish an excuse later that they were willing to settle, but the union demanded too much. This view is strengthened by the fact tl some of the firma have threatened discharges, and ome shop has forced the workers to strike, The bosses, who. ‘refuse to recognize the union, nevertheless are organizing their own , association 2 apt the union, | ~ Offer Company Unien. This association is using “many tricks. It offerg higher wages than the union demands, with the string attached that there shall be no unton but the fake company union they will furhish. It offers steady — to any- one who will scab, Demands are for a t4hour Week, a week's probation, unton control of em- ployment, time and a half for over- — |by the oppressor nations exceeds the! Pt ON THURSDAY T. inst., telegrams were the Commander-in-Chief Committee of the Ki " the Headquarters of Central Military and e military and political = = SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1926 —_” PU: BL Publisked Daily oxeept Sentay nya ar by THE Fc neat io jeago, ISHING CO., 1118 W. ama R —- OUR NATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY WUCHANG AT NOON 26TH AND HANKOW ON THE SAME DAY At three o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday’ the 28th ftom the Temporary Camp of e Front by the Central Executive ig, the Nationalist Government, tional Revolutionary Army, the CAPTUR AFTE! Academy as well as General Chiang Kai-shih, te Commander-in-Chief of the ' Natiowal Revolutionary Army, hes arrived at Yangliutung, where he is making his headquarters. He is leaving for ‘ to-morrow, of the National Revolutiogary, troops having ee will soon be ke ee How the Official Organ of the Kuomingtang Announced the Great Victory of the Armies of National Liberation The CANTO * GAZETTE. " Tees EEKLY EDITION FOR SATURDAY, * SSR HONHUEAGR ee toctnnret | ae'Ccig! Mis SOR te: 0 Neves SEPTEMBER 4, 1926, | 4.0. THE CANTON GAZETTE, CANTON, CHINA, WEEKLY EDITION FE+E*AR=+8 BR awe WUCHANG AND HANKOW CAPTURED | Gen. Fang Poon-je To Mobilize His after conferring AT. otam.* " with ‘ various tions to the effect that our National pace troops captured Wuchang at noon on Thursday the 26th inst. ia h The rebel troops looted Wuchang before they took to A national movement for the commemoration of the lite and work of Eugene Y. _ Memorial meetings Debs was an activ James P. Cannon, secretary of I. L, D,, has just sent a special letter to all sections,of the organization calling for the arrangement of special memorial meetings. radical and labor Facsimile of the First Page of the tela Gazette. Aiands Off. China! . All Workingelass Organizations and Lovers of Freedom: The Chinese people have broken the chains “of slavery they have worn for centuries, have overcome forthe most Tt the interna] dissensions fomented the imperialist robbers of the great ern powerg and Japan, the im- peridtist power'of the East, and are uniting in a victorious struggle for national liberation. The Chinese masses under leader- ship of the Kuomingtan, the party of Sun Yat Sen, the great leader whose death is mourned by the oppressed Masses everywhere, and the Com- munist Party of China, have made tremendous strides since the opening of the modern phase of the Chinesd revolution in 1911, HE Chinese trade union move- ment, taking mass organizational form in 1922 with the strike of Hong- kong transport workers, and stecled since then in many bloody but suc cessful struggles against British, American and Japanese capitalists and their armed mercenaries, em- braces now the vast bulk of the Chi- nese workers. [s NGHAL-STUDENTS HO LONGER OVERAWED WITH EXECUTIONERS’ PARADE SHANGHAI, Oct. 22.—So alarmed were the foreign consuls and trad- ers In the foreign concessions in Shanghai when the recent anniver- sary of the 1925 strike arrived that a special execution squad was paraded thru the streets to over awe Chinese demonstrators, The corners of the French conoes- sion were barricaded with barbed wire, Mounted Sikh police patrolled the native settlement adjoining the foreign concession. Special police detachments of Chinese, British and Japanese were on duty. ~ In spite of these precautions many thousands of Chinese students and other demonstrators marched or crowded the streets untli driven off, The mass meetings sent tele- poring ite per cént rai arte apa ‘of | grame to the Canton government division work: nd appealing for aid In the fight for | nition 4 ri, China's liberation, The Chinese peasantry, mercilessly |robbed by the militarist tuchuns and the imperialists alike, has organized d now a network of peasant organ- izations, working closely with the trade unions and the Kuomingtang, covers the south, central and south- western portions of their country. Great numbers of the students have thrown theme6lves with courageous zeal into the fight for freedom and act as organizers and teachers of the masses, HE armies of national liberation, composed of peasants and work- ers, are the spearhead of the Chinese revolution. Supported by the Chi- fiese masses, the armiés of national Jiberation have driven the traitorous ellieg of imperialism from the most decisive sections of China. In the south the Canton government, the ral- lying center df the revolution, has established itself firmly and now symbolising, «the consolidation of China under the Kuomingtang. ie The allies of Great Britain, Wu Pel- fu and Sun Chuan-fang, following the bloody massacre of Chinese workers at Wanhsien, have been crushed by the mighty wave of anger aroused ,by this imperialist: outrage. oe in the north Chapg Tso-lin, financed ‘by Japan, still holds Peking and tries to stir up strife with the Soviet Union, which alone of all the nations has extended a friendly and helping hand to the Chinese people, Not only does Japan encourage Chang to warsupon the Soviet Union but so kewise do the other imperial- iat powers including the United States, They hope to kill two birds with one stone—to again have an ex- cuse for invading the Soviet Union and at the same time involve China tion movement “could be drowned -in blood, ‘The victories of the armies of na- tional Mberation and the rapid con- solidation of the country behind, the armies, under @ government ing itself on the workers pensants, has driven the im) it powers to frenay. ‘There are aiigoments and re-align- ments, frantlecefforts to bring about t intervenvion (Great Britain and moves north and west to Wueliang, |- in a war in which the national libera- statement by the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party of America. Italy) and war fleets of France, Italy, America and Japan are in readiness in Chinese ports to repeat the bloody work of Shanghai and Wanhsien. HE struggle of the Chinese masses is the stuggle of the toiling masses the world over. It inspires and strengthens the oppressed of all lands, It {s today a sword driving straight at the heart of world imper- jalism and as such must be supported with all their energy by workers and farmers everywhere. The workingclass must not and will not allow the Chinese revolution to be drowned in blood. The workingclas’ must not and will not allow armed intervention, in China to be the beginning of another offensive against the workers’ and peasants’ government of Russia which can mean nothing but another world war, LL power to the revolutionary Sttuggle of the Chinese masses! A united front of the toiling masses of the world against imperialism! Demfnd “Hands Of China!” Demand the immediate\withdrawal of all armed forces from China! Full support for the struggle of our Chinese brothers and comrades! Long live the workers’. and pea- sants’ government of China! ~ MEET QUEEN®F “BLOOD SHED” LAND Have sent following telegram to Loring Pickering, head of the North American Newspaper Alliance, New York: . “We have your telegram inviting us to meet the queen of Roumania and appreciate the democratic spirit of her majesty In wishing te meet American & ists. “Unfortunately we 3,000 miles away., We haven't the fare to come to New York and It appears that her majesty hasn't the fare to come to California. “Assure her majesty, however, that we shall be with her In spirit and shal) tell our Pasadena audi ence what we think of her govern. ment—the most infamous and blood- soaked in Europe. é In due course we oxpect to learn Troops In Kiangsi General Fang Poon-jen, form- er Tupan of Kiangsi, and now Commander of the 11th National Revolutionary Army, left Can- ton and proceeded to Hunan I! L. D. Organizes Nation-Wide Memorial lif eetings for Gene Debs was begun today by International Labor Defense, of which n | Warlord Wu Pei-fu’s orthern Troops in Hupeh Discouraged Shanghai, August 26.—The chief reason for the capture of Yochow from Wa Pei-fu's Northern “Allies” by the Reva- lutionary forces from the South the} was due to the fact that only the Debs thru the holding of Debs in all the large centers of the country e member and supporter, Au phe om will be intewe to parti The I. L. D. intends also to publish @ special Debs memorial number in| the December number’ of its official journal, the Labor Defender which will contain an apprectatién-and trib- | ute to his work, especially on behalf | of the class war prisoners. The No- vember issue of the Labor Defender, | just off the press contains a special | supplement sheet, suitable for fram- ing, with a striking picture of Debs at the height of his powers and a tribute to his memory by James P. i issue Consists of Two | Sections. SECTION ONE. Price 5 Cents WORKER “ND “HANDS OFF CHINA!” im | SHANGHAL MAY BE ENCIRCLED BY CANTONESE Sympathizers Cut Rail Lines North and West (Spectat to The Dalty Worker) SHANGHAI, October 22-—Chinese sympathetic to the Cantonese armios are reported tearing up the railway between Shanghai and Nanking, also on the ShanghatSoochow Hine, the last causing wrecks ef troop trains being, sent to aid Sun Chuanfang hold Shanghai against the attack from the south by Cheklang troops. Foreigners Worried. The foreign population of Shanghai is in a turmoil day and night, with rumors of uprisings by Shanghai Chinese and attempts to eut off Shanghai from Sun Chuanfang’s only hope of reinforcements, the nerth. The confusion is such that few facts can be sifted out. It is reported ghat Sun’s troops, sent south to oppose the Chekiang forees, have driven them back from Kashing, 72 miles south of Shanghai. Bight miles further, at Wangtien, the Che kiangese are forming a new defense lime. The Chekiang governor Hela Chao, is said to have sent a telegram to Dr. V. K. Ting, mayor of Shanghai. who is really commanding Sun's troops, asking for peace. General Situation Against Sun. This reported victory of Sun, how- ever, is only one phese of the gen- eral situation which is! against him. General Sun, himself, has disap- peared, nothing definite being heard from him since he fied from Kiukiang last week, when that city fell to the Cantonese. The Cantonese, after thelr position, are supposed to slowly pushing down the Yi Meanwhile, sympathizers in Shani and to the north, are harrying Sun‘e remaining loyal troops. There are strong bodies of Chekiang troops Sun cannot. truest in Northern Kiangeu, and it is not improbable that Mayor Ting’s “victories” obtained by send- ing troops south, may weaken the northern and western defenses of | Shanghai itself. Propagandists Follow Army. Everywhere the Cantonese advance, a special corps of propagandists fol low up the military victory educating the people to the program of the na- Cannon. silenced. Débs, symbol of the class of the pre-war period, is From Woodstock to Atlanta, one questioned his courage and 8S A RAILROAD worker he was early drawn into the organised la bor movement. He was a tireless or ganizer and rapidly won leadership in the Brotherhgod of Locomotive Fire- His popularity got him into old arty politics and he was even sent vr a term to the Indiana state legis- ture, Altho not yet a socialist, Debs isioned an all-inclusive organization of ratiroad kers and led the heroic that her majesty has come to-ber: row American dollars to be used in enabling Roumanla to slaughter Revolutionary Toil to Carry on lis Struggle Where Debs Left Off Statement of the Workers (Communist) Party tional revolution. EUGENE VICTOR DEBS is dead. A voice that ceaselessly pleaded the cause of the working class for half a century is best in the American working gone. Debs did not spare himself as labor's recognized standard bearer be me the capitalist foe. No ty loyalty struggle towards that end im the strike of the American Railway Union in the closing decade of the tast cen- tury. It was as strike leader that he was sent to the Chicago bastille of the Marshall Fielde and the George M. Pullmans, later being sentenced to serve a term in Woodstock jail by the notoriously corrupt judge, Peter Grosscup. It was at Woodstock that Debs got acquainted with his firat Socialist literature. He later joined with Victor L. Berger and Morris Hil quit in the organimtion of the so claliet party ag againet the eocialist labor party led by Daniel DeLeon, In the quarter century that followed Debs was five times the socialist can didate for president, His personal in the class struggle. Russian workers groping toward freedom. “Did you really think we would ald such a course or were you care- jesd In compliing your list of celeb- ritles? .“Mary Craig Sinclair, Upton Sin- clair" ae Sn Carol’s Throne Rights Gone for Good, BUCHARBST, Oct, 21—Prince Car- ol’s recent conversations with Queen Marie concerned family affairs only and had nothing to do with the ro nunciation of Prince Carol's rights to the throne, which is “irrevocable,” according to an offichal commanique | issued rig J Peas nec cai tle a doa be. appeal carried far beyond the borders of the organized socialist party. EBS rebelled at the narrow con- fine’ of craft unionism and joined the movement in 1905 that launched the Industrial Workers of the World. in this he showed that he was not em tirely free from the DoLeon attitude toward the trade unions, seeking to parallel the political organization with revolutionary Industrial organ izations of the workers. Here he clashed with the Berger-Hillquit lead ership that demanded’a not too mil- {tant activity within the American Federation of Labor, In fact, Debs was nearly adways at (Continued on page 2) Thi