The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 4, 1926, Page 3

Remranaves sine wba . ‘ ee reeereeeeneenemmnraremenerner erenmenete enemy roms nyo rerno eae vera ensue STATEMENT OF POLICIES MADE BY KUOMINTANG Manifesto on Freedom of China Issued (Special to The Dally Worker) CANTON, Nov. 2—The Kuomintang representing all of the liberation forves of Ching, has issued a mani- festo propounding and clarifying the demands and objectives for the free- dom of China, s All civil wars shall be stopped, says the manifesto, declaring that “in the light of-evil consequences entailed by incessant)civil wars no person can Te- main insensitive to the pain caused by them”, Away With High Taxes Exorbitant taxes, the statement says, and communications shall be re- stored at once, Other demands made include: free- dom of speech and liberty of assem- bly shall not be denied; bandits who have been terrorizing the people shall be exterminated; justice shall be the | same’ for rich and poor, and all re- strictions imposed by the government to the contrary shall be abolished; the admimistration of the people shall real- ly represent the people, so as to pre- vent corruption, These demands, says the manifesto, ere for the immediate program of reconstruction and must go into effect immediately. Fundamental Policies. In fundamental reconstruction, the Kuomintang advocates the formation of a National Assembly, really repre- sentative of the people, for the pur- pose of forming national government policies. districts thruout the country form or- ganizations in order that they will be read when the assembly is reel vened. "Policies for the establishment of a wopsolidated government, stipulation of'the district system; amelioration of the internatiofal relations; im- provement of economy, and develop- ment of communication facilities shall be decided by the assembly. Relief For Jobbers. ‘The program includes a cplonization project to relieve the distress of the mnemployed, developing of national re- sources, construction of more railroads and more highways. The manifesto closes with the fol- Jowing: “But as the advocacies of the Party are generally for the inter- ests of the people, the people them- selves must strive hard, with the back- ing of this party, before the traitors gan be eliminated, China unified and.) peaceful days ours. Remember that the success of thé Party: means the emancipation of the people.” J Misbehavior Denied. HANKOW, Nov. 2.—The chamber of commerce here has sent a telegram “to the chamber of commerce at. Pek- ing youching for the good behavior of the Canton troops when they occupied the city. The commerce chamber de- nied categorically the lies printed that the Southern troops had committed murder here against the populace and northerners. The people of Hankow welcomed the Cantonese and staged welcoming af- fairs for them. “Peace and tranquility reigns here”, fhe Peking body was told. ON THE GREAT BRITISH STRIKE fo 25 CENTS : THE BRITISH STRIKE It's Background—It's Lessons cause he thought she was Mving a , —By Wm. F. Dunne BRITISH RULE IN INDIA. By Shapurji ‘Saklatvala ws > os ; 10 Cents _ WHITHER ENGLAND ne —By Leon Trotsky The manifesto urges that} a sluggish liver as the ad has it, but river of molasses. He supports “Czar” carpenters’ union, and {s opposed to every progressive measure, sive members of local 62 would like to discover some kind of medicine that would purge their former president of his reactionary ideas. ‘pave GOLDSTEIN is with us may judge by the name. once a socialist, alleyways than Woodrow Wilson's 10 Cents | David were expelled from, the socialist , Cloth—$1.76 | sradstreet, Since the K, K, K, went Cuban Workers Suffer Worst from cathe Si to THE DALLY WORKER \ Page Three Hurricane Here isa scene in the working olass quarter of Havana showing workers wading thru the streets to bring food to their marooned families. The brunt of the hardships fall upon these toilers of the Cuban capital and only In a small way inconvenience the idie“Americans who happened to be in Havana for a drink at the time the storm struck the city. PRIMO DE RIVERA CHANGES HIS | MIND ABOUT THE PLAN TO CALL A SPANISH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY 4 (By a_ Spanish Worker.p MADRID, (By Mail.)—The idea of convoking a national assembly has created a difficult situation for Primo de Rivera’s government. The pur- pose of it intended to-give personal satisfaction to King Alfonso XIII. The thing has provoked consequences contrary to the intention. old Spanish political leaders, which until now have been inactive, have start- | ed an open campaign of opposition to the assembly, The leaders of the parties have notified Alfonso that they will break with the crown the mo- ment he signs the decree for con- vocation of the assembly. Alfonso Hesitates. This attitude of the monarchist leaders obliged the king to postpone é@igning the decree. The convocation was already announced for the 10th of October. But immediately after the meeting of the cabinet at Sah Se- bastian, ft was officially stated thra a press “communique” that the de- cree was going to be thoroly studied. and consequently could not be signed for a month or two. The postponement has created a new reason for hostility between the king and Primo de Rivera. After hay- ing announced that the national as- sembly will soon be organized, the decree has not appeared in the offi- cial journal “La Gazeta.” But what is more significant is that in the last public speech of Primo de Rivera, he said the convocation of the assembly was not really urgent, while his newspaper “La Nacion’ ex*| pressed the same idea. No doubt de Rivera will try to con- vince the king of the need of the as- sembly. But if Alfonso’s fear of the old party politicians inclines him not to approve of it, Primo de Rivera will go on as dictator without any assembly. Socialists in Dirty Fix. The socialist party amd the Union General de Trabajadores are in & ri- diculous position. The socialist party was the only political party defend- ing the convocation of the national assembly. Their leaders started a campaign all over the country for it. monarchist+¢ While all bourgeois parties were hos- tile to it, the socialists were used by Primo de Rivera, who offered them forty seats in the assembly. They were its most enthusiastic partisans. Notwithstanding this, a great ma- jority of the party and the masses of the U. G. T., have demanded a con- ference to ‘discuss if both these workers’ organizations should partt- cipate in the assembly. ‘The Socialist leaders’ attitude has left them quite ridiculous. They have publicly shown their collaboration with Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship in the hofe of getting the reward he is now unable to deliver. The Military Question. The repression against the artillery has made more acute the hostility be- tween Primo de Rivera and the vari- ous military groups. In order to stop this continuous conspiracy of the mili- tary against him, de Rivera is plan- ning to grant an amnesty to all the artillery officers condemned for the seditious movement in September. But this amnesty will not release, of course, the hundreds of workers {m- prisoned in Spanish prisons. The Economio Situation. By persecution and imprisonment of the leading militants of the working class, Primo de Rivera “ended” so- cial struggles. But the economic sit- uation is worse every day. ‘The cost of living has risen by 17 per cent. The deficit in the budget exceeds 1,280,000,000 pesetas. The gilitary budget has been increased, The total state debt is about 19,000,- 000,000 pesetas. The peseta remains low on exchange and unemployment is enormously increased. CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) this person, who: is misrepresented ab president’ of loval 62 and represented as ‘a “well-to-do'property owner” was relleyed of nervous indigestion thru imbibing copius draughts of this med- icine, 2 2 & HE carpenters say that the former president of locaf’62 may not have politically he is as sluggish as a Hutcheson, general president of the Progres- *# @ again, David is a catholic, as you He was you might judge by hi sbook, “A Nation of Fatherles» Children,” which has littered more fourteen points, David wag expelled from two socialist parties with a lady who got in bad with her husband be- Jekyll-Hyde life. After this lady and party they took to saving the morals of the’ United States. Perhaps on the heory that it “takes a thief to catch a hief" ‘ ) _* * HW ‘business paid and soon we find Goldstein. listed for $30,000 in into the thing on a larger scale the firm of Goldstein and Avery sang low. Goldstein is“a member of the Knights of Columbus, and heing somewhat lit- erate, he been handed a job of proving that Calles and the Mexican vernment are under the direction of ussia and, dut 40 corrupt the morals of Mexico’ According to Goldstein, there is sQmething left after the priests have ‘beef on the job for cen- tures, HE principal reason why Goldstein is slandering Mexico is the exist- ence of a “million-dollar fund” to fight the Calles government. Goldstein is attracted to’ money as a yellow fly is attracted to cow dung. Goldstein's boxing-glove nd’e seems to symbolize the cupidity of every miser since the mythical, Whang, the Miller. So we find htm speWwitig his venom at Mex- ico as the r ade used to spew it at the socialist party before that or- ganization eatned Goldstien’s envy. i 1H supreme court of the Knights of Columbus—the catholic ku klux klan—has published two booklets un- der the editorial supervision of the apostate Goldstein, Goldstein quotes every decent person and every pro- gressive organization in the United States that defends the Mexican gov- ernment against the catholic church, ‘He praises Mussolini and criticises William Green of the A, F. of L. for ving lip service to the fight against fascism, The Knights of Columbus denied that they eulogized Mussolini at their Philadelphia convention, but Golstein spills the befins, * igh, i GENATOR JAMES WATSON of In- dtana} @notorious kluxer, was not under fire from Senator Reed's com- The |. BRAND DUKE CAN NOW DRINK HS OWN CHAMPAGNE American Workers Are Supporting Dimitri |: NEW YORK, Nov. 2—Miss Audrey | Pmery, American heiress, is engaged to marry Grand Duke Dimitri of Rus- sia, according to a cabled announce- tent from Biarritz, France, made pub- lic today by Miss Emery’s sister, Mrs. Benjamin Moore of Soysosett, N. Y., Miss Emery has been abroad for sev- eral months, living with her mother, Mrs. Alfred Anson, at Biarritz. The news of her engagement came as a complete surprise, Mrs. Moore said. Wealthy Heiress. Miss Emery is the youngest daugh- ter of thelate Thomas Emery of Cin- cinnati, and: heiresg to a part of the large fortune, estimated at $40,000,000, left by him. She is in her early twenties. Her mother maintains a home at 5.East 68th street, New York City. Grand Duke Dimitri is 34, the only son of Grand Duke Paul of Russia, and grandson of Emperor Alexander MI of Russia, Since the revolution in Russia he has been a champagne salesman. Recently he has been liv- ing in Paris as the representative of “Czar Cyril 1, of Russia,” the title assumed by Grand Duke Cyril, who ig now in ‘exile in Germany, Agree With Steam Engineers WASHINGTON—(FP)—An agree- ment between the Steam & Operat- ing Engineers and the Machinists gives to the engineers undisputed con- trol of the charge and operation of en- gines, regardless of their motive power. To the machinists it assigns control of the building, assembling, erecting, dismantling and repairing of engines and machinery of all descrip- tions used in any kind of service, booklets. He quotes Watson approv- ingly to the effect that land is worth $400 on the American side of the bor- der and only $4 on the Mexican side, So catholic and K, K. K. can unite itt| their common hatred of the Mexican people who have freed themselves from the papal opium joint! The knights or “nits” are gnashing their ie teeth in rage because the government refused to intervene in Mexico at their demand. Coolidge did not think it wise to act so openly under papal in- structions. Now the wily David is helping them spend the millions. or ‘T may seem strange to some readers that an apostate Jew should be ke- lected by the catholic church as their principal lay preacher. It certain}y seemed strange to many Irish catho- lic workers, and still does. The Knights of Columbus is an anti-Irish organization, During the fight for an Irish republic since 1916 until after the civil warbetween the republicans and free staters ended in defeat for the former, the Knights of Columbus lent the aid of its official organ to the British government. During all this time the pope never raised his voice in behalf of his Irish flock, fre ‘© Irish workers in America con- tinue to support of Knights of Columbus and the Italian pope, while they blather their heads off against England. This renegade Goldstein has fallen so low that ff he wanted to visit his bit he would need the wings of to fly up to it. Mex- ico will suffer no more from Gold- stein’s slandéts than a woman of good character would from the ranting of a wage = Send The DAILY WORKER ju MUSSOLINI IS wees HELPING SMASH BRITISH STRIKE But Miners’ ‘ Solidarity Defies All Foes (Continued from page 1) ship. It also shortens the time for return for another cargo.of a com modity for which the British govern ment is paying the highest transpor- | tation rate in the histofy of shipping. italian Deserters, In one month 349 deserters were listed in the office of Leon R. Fouch, assistant commissioner of immigration for Baltimore. Most of these desert- ers were from Italian ships, During’ ‘the first months of the coal strike nearly every Italian ship calling here or,t Hampton Roads for a “scab” coal cargo lost members of its crew thru desertion, It was directly due to this situation that the Italian government revived certain old maritime laws, some of them discarded as inhuman genera- tions ago, to govern the lives of mem- bers ‘of the Italian merchant marine. der these laws Italian sailors suffer from. a discipline as sevére as mem- ers of battleship crews about to enter into actual navel battle, Lengthy prison terms, with short rations and hard labor, now face those who quit ships. Consular+Responsibility. Count C. C. Torneilli, Italian con- sul at Baltimore, is responsible for this returm to Ita! ancient sea laws. He asked his government to use puni- tive measures when Baltimore's police told him they could not lawfully in- terfere with the ‘shore leave of sea- men who are guilty of desertion only “This desertion from our ships is weakening the morale as well as the man strength of the Italian merchant marine,” the Italian consul told a newspaper reporter, Postponed Departure, Several Italian ships, ready to sail with “scab” coal ca actually had to postpone their departure from Bal- timore and Hampton Roads because of wholesale desertions from their crews. These deserting seamen tél] stories of coercion and ill-treatment ab their ships. They declare that Italy’s sailors, like hundreds of thousands of other Italian toilers, are waiting the day when the wor of that op pressed dand will rise in their might and sweep away the hated fascisti. Crushing of union labor and com- pulsory service aboard fascist-con- trolled ships result in many sailors fleeing from the “sailortown” sections of these ‘ports to inland cities, where they are soon at home with fellow- workers from their native land. Take Desperate Chances. Desperate because the quota of em- igrants’ assigned to Italy has been absorbed for at least eight more years, these enemies of fascism take des- perate chances, Some of them do not get shore leave, The Italian gévernment’s re- strictions are making that more dif- ficult. The number of watchmen on many Italian ships in these harbors has been increased. So Italian sailors, determined to flee from the capitalist dictatorship of Mussolini, sometimes risk their lives. Often they gain their freedom. But that was not the luck of Om- berto Gregorio and Salvatore Pine. These two Italian sailors leaped over- board from the Italian steamer Golaba as she lay in Hampton Roads a few weeks ago. Their companion, Jose Rojo, a Span- jard, was pulled out of the water in an exhausted condition, He had @ Hfe-belt and bundle of clothing tied about his waist, While swimming in the harbor he signaled a Newport News-Norfolk ferry steamer passing near him, The crew, with the aid of a fishing stitack, came to his rescue. Met Watery Grave. But his two Italian companions dis- peared, Government officials be- eve they met a watery grave. Roj& was put back on the Colaba and placed tn irons and under guard to stand trial in Italy under the an- clent tyrannical laws which are now being enforced on Italian seamen. But Italy and Spain are not the only two countries whose ship cap- tains are having trouble with their drews. A A few days ago a number of the diplomatic corps of Serbia, Croatia and Slavonia made a speciad trip to Baltimore frém Washington to induce Le crews of the Jugo-Slav steamer ‘ojvoda Putiik to sail with her. These saflors had rebelled against the captain's order that they must remain on board during the ship’s stay here. A number, it is reported, Mad learned about the valiant fight of Britain's miners and refused to sail with a “seab” coal cargo. The Captain Wept. ‘With tears in his eyes, Captain Vas- silakis of the Greek steamer Anna Vassilakis, plead with Baltimore's police to round up half his: crew. the crew of thirty men demanded shore leave. fused they made threats. fourteen men leaye to go ashore for three hours, which his family owns, Every member of When the captain re- So he gave But they never came back, City de- tectives reported that five men, an- swering descriptions of Greek sea- men, had pw Single-fare tickets at the Union Station for Buffalo, New | York, - ‘ By Upton Sinclair |. by Uptom Sinciair) Copyright, 19 XII Bunny thought this over and then summoned his nerve, and | went back to his father. ‘Look here, Dad! If you’ve got five jhundred for a joke with Eli Watkins, I want five hundred for | something serious.” . | Dad looked alarmed right away. He should not have told | Bunny about that money! “What is it, son?” | “I've been to see Mr. Irving, Dad,-and he’s in trouble, he jcan’t get a teaching job anywhere. They’ve got him’ black- listed. You see,’ he has to mention that he’s been teaching at Southern Pacific the last two years, and the people write to en- quire about him, and he’s convinced that somebody in the uni- versity is telling them he’s a red.” | “I shouldn’t wonder,” said | fault.” “Yes, it is, Mad! I was the one that dragged him out and made him talk fo me.© 1 thought I could keep it to myself, but they had sonre one spying on us “Well, son, is he trying to borrow money from you?” “No, I offered him a little, but he wouldn't take it. But I know he needs it, and I’ve been talking about it with Harry Seager, and with Petér Nagle they know some of the labor men in the city, and they think there is a possibility of starting a labor college here. We all agree that Mr. Irving is the ideal man to run it.” “A labor college?” said Dad. “That’s a new one on’ me.” “It’s to educate the young workers.” . “But why can’t they go to the regular schools, that are ree,” “They don’t teach them anything about labor. At least they don’t teach them anything that’s true. So the labor men are founding places where bright young fellows can be fitted to take their part in the labor struggle.” Dad thought it over. “You mean, son, it’s a place where a bunch of you reds teach Socialism and such stuff.” “No, that’s not fair, Dad; we don’t propose to teach any doctrines. We want to teach the open mind—that has always been Mr. Irving’s idea. He wants the labor men to think for themselves.” Byt that kind of talk didn’t fool Dad for a moment. “They'll all turn into reds before they get through,” he said. “And see here son—I don’t mind your, giving five hundred to Mr. Irving, but it’s gomg to be kind of tough on me if I’m to spend my life earning money, and then you spend it teaching young people that [ haven’t got any right to it!” : And Bunny laughed—that was the best way to take it. But he thought it over—more and more as the years passed—and he Saree how that shrewd old man looked into the future and read life! Dad “But that’s not your CHAPTER XIII The Monastery I j Bunny was studying and thinking, trying to make u i mind about the problem of capital versus alee It had bacon clear to him that the present system could not go on forever— the resources and wealth of the country thrown into an arena, to be scrambled for and carried off by the greediest. And when you asked, who was to change the system, there was only one possible answer—the great mass of the workers, who did not have the psychology of gamblers, but had learned that wealth is produced by toil. In the very nature of their position, the workers could only prevail by combining; and so, Whether they would or not, they had to develop solidarity, an ideal of brother- hood and co-operation. Such was the fundamental faith of all “radicals,” accepted the doctrine joyfully, as a way of escape from the tangle of commercialism,and war. Labor was to organize, and take over industry, and rebuild it upon a basis for service. The formula was simple, and worthy of all trust; but alas, Bunny was being forced to realize that the reality was complicated. The makers of the new society were not able to agree upon plans for the structure, nor how to get the old one out of the way. They were split into a number of factions, and spent a good part of their energies quarreling among themselves. Bunny would have thought that here in Southern California at least, the labor move- ment had.enemies enough in the. federation of the employers, with their strike-breaking and spy agencies, their system of blacklist and persecution, and their politicians, hired to turn the law against the workers, But alas, it did not seem so to the young radicals; they had-to make enemies of one another! Just now they were in a fever over the Russian revolution; a colossal event that had shaken the labor movement of the whole world. Here for the first time in history the workers had got possession of a government and what were they making of the chance? The capitalist press of the world was, of course, portraying Russia as a nightmare; but the Soviets continued to survive, and every day of survival was a fresh defeat for the newspaper campaign. The workers could run a government! The workers were running a government! Just look! So, in every country of the world, the labor movement be- came divided into two factions, those who thought’ the workers in their country could follow the example of the Russians, and should organize and prepare to do it; and those who thought that for one reason or another it couldn’t be done, and the attempt was madness. This great division showed itself in every faction and school of thought. The Socialists split into those who want- ed to follow Russia and those who didn’t; the Anarchists split in the same way, and so did the “wobblies”; even the old Hine labor leaders divided into those who wanted to let the Soviet fovernment alone, and those who wanted to help the capitalists .to put it down! ’ For Bunny this struggle was embodied in the Menzies fam- ily. Papa Menzies was an old-time Social-Democrat from abroad, active in the clothing workers’ union. Of his six chil- dren, two daughters had followed their mother—an old-time orthodox Jewess who wore a dirty wig, and kept all the feast days in the home, and wept and prayed for the souls of her lost ones, stolen from the faith of their fathers by America, which had made them work on Saturdays, and by the radical, movement which had made them agnostics and scoffers. Rachel and the oldest boy, Jacob, were Socialists like their father; but the other two, Joe and Ikey, had gone over to the “left wing,” and were clamor- ing for the dictatorship of the proletariat. (To be continued.) and Bunny Attack Minimum Wage | ORIGIN OF THE WORLD VANCOUVER~(FP)— British Col- | A New Book umbia lumber barons are fighting the By Alphonse Guerten provincial minimum wage act, under! Origin of § cles P which a minimum rate of 40c an hour . New th me has been fixed. About 40% of the 35 CENTS A COPY employes in this indus! are orlen- hire o said ra Published by the authey at 542 N, State St. Chi th ‘ Pedi’ ‘ tals and the act is aimed to drive them out,