The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 4, 1926, Page 9

CANTON TELLS THE WORLD By MANUEL GOMEZ, ORDS no less than men are creatures of history. That explains why one man’s utterance will now and then seem to have cofme out of the throats of millions. Scarcely ts such a word or phrase utter ed, when it fills the world with its importance. . How else shall we account for the unmistakable magic of two short paragraphs in the interview which the youthful Cantonese commander, General Chang Kai Shek, gave out on November 22nd thru the Associated Press? Those two paragraphs have already been repeated, from one end of the world to the other, yerywhere great masses of people have been thrilled by them, ee The interview as a whole was of great significance, for it was a blunt exposition of the concrete meas» tires which the allied national revolutionary forges of south and northwest China propose to take, for ‘the unification of China and the rooting out of im- perfalist strongholds. But the paragraphs referred to above do not confine themselves to the Chinese situation. Listen! It is the Chinese revolution speaking: “This revolution purposes the downfall of im- perialism, not as it is confined to China alone, but our opposition to it must spread to other countries under imperialist yoke.” It is not strange that the whole world should feel the impact of those words, A waiting and respons- ive audience has been created for them by the same historic forces that gave them utterance, - The Chinese “revolution proclaims itself a part of the universal revolution, No one is gurprised—for history has been moving forward rapidly, particylarly in China. Yet we must realize that we are in the presence of some- thing new. Dr. Sun Yat Sen set the feet of the Chinese revo lution upon this path before he died. He saw be- yond the borders of his native land, and recognized the importance, for China, of the revolutionary work- ing-class movement as embodied in the Communist International and the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics. More and more it became plain to him hat the Communists were enemies of imperialism, against which he too was obliged to struggle. His Alase WHI and “testamient,which is read to this day at every Kuomintang meeting, counsels the party to remain faithful to the alliance with Soviet Rus- sia. Nevertheless, Dr. Sun tended to see the alliance as an isolated thing—something between China and Soviet Russia, or between China and the Commu- nist International. He glimpsed but did not suffici- as Tony the Dinker By LOUIS BLUME. (A dinker is a worker in a shoe factory who éhops out straps, etc., with a die on & wooden block). The dinkers in a shoe factory have a rotten job. Yl! show you how to dink. , The business is to cut up leather with a die. Spread the skin on a wooden block and hit the die with a 12-pound hammer. When you dink out 72 pieces—count them while you are cutting—that’s five cents. : After a few weeks your muscles get tuned to the job. It’s mechanical. You never hit your fingers by mistake. You feel how much to move the die for the next cut. . Tony says he is a dinker. I think he is a fiend. Anyone who tries to make $30 piece-work is a fiend. Watch Tony. Keep an eye/on him. (For $30 a week he becomes a fiend.) This is why Tony has been so successful. Let - him give you a few pointers. | (By Tony’s Press Agent) Copyright | In every morning ahead of time. Stay’ a little later, Not too late. Finish up the job in the morning by yourself, secretly scare the rats, before the boss comes in. This way always busy, never wait for a job Chip a piece off this end of lunch time. : Eat lunch, remember always keep count. Keep get to keep count lunch time, then something ; bad will happen. You will forget to start wore Never let it happen. Remember this, and remember what te fom Chip a piece off that end of lunch time, The foreman comes In, He wastes your timé “ Never mind; soon move on. Mt this point Tony broke. He lost contre, Hie ently grasp the fact that other colonial and sem’ colonial peoples were also engaged in struggle against world imperialism, Sympathizing whole heartedly with these peoples in their struggles, he still failed to give a clear lead which would come vert them into conscious allies. Chang Kai Shek’s public statement makes Canton, together with Moscow, a leading center in the worldwide movement for the emancipation of all the oppressed. + The transformation of the Kuomintang from a narrowly nationalist» party. to. what, it-now. repre- sents is a great story in: itself, one which is too little known, but which cannot be gone into here, The party has taken a greater and greater interest in the struggles of other victims of imperialist op- pression. More than a year ago it issued the call for the formation of an International Association of Oppressed Peoples, and at the present time it is became human. This from Tony: “The foreman is a nasty little man. him, Listen to what he says, always: I could kil! ‘Squeech, squeech, squeeze ’em in; Poosh, poosh, push ‘em in! (Ah, son of a b——!) ‘Squeech, squeech, squeeze them in; Poosh, poosh, push ’em in! (How much? Five cents a case). "Get ‘em in, get "em all in; another one here, an- other one there, . Squeeze ‘em in!’“ ; Tony said this again, because he knew he made up a great poem. ‘Then he called over Bennie, . “Hey Bennie come here. Get hold of this end of fhe block! Help me turn it over, Here feel how rough it is. What for you say? Ah, Bennie, my life fe in this block, Just once... Pasg your hand over %, Benl Know what! I love it, like myself.” ei’ : one of the prime movers in_the World Congres Against Imperialism which is to take place at Brus- sels, Belgium, beginning January 2, 1927. Chang Kai Shek’s statement is a re-affirmation of the same general policy. It. becomes a public policy of the Canton government, boldly stated before the world by an oustanding government representative. There is nothing new in the idea that colonies and semi-colonies cannot be kept forever under the heel of imperialism. But General Chang’s statement is predicated upon the assumption of world upheaval One must understand it in the light of a whole geries of contemporary happenings—in Morocco, in Egypt, in Syria, in Arabia, in Turkey, and in India, It is put forward not theoretically but militantly, as an expression of the will to struggle. A leading : member of 4 national-revolutionary government {ig speaking, a generalissimo with an army at his backt Definite strategic possibilities therefore présent themselves, appealing to millions who have been held in subjection and pointing the way to emancti- pation for many small peoples who have sometimes jooked upon their cause as hopeless, Lenin’s mighty slogan; “Workers and subject peoples unite!,” comes again forcibly to mind when reading the words of General Chang. China is a country of 440,000,000 people, making up one-fourth of the human race. A strong and une ified China, freed of the shackles of imperialism— that is something that every imperialist power dreads and every enemy of imperialism must hope for. neoens If the policy expressed by Chang is maintained, , General Chang’s interview will have the effect of | enormously increasing the influence of the Chinese ' reyolution upon all colonial and semi-colonial peo- ples. The great movement which has sprung up in the Near East, particularly as exemplified by the ‘Arab peoples, will draw closer. But the most de cisive effect will be upon those subject nations that are contiguous to or nearby the territory of China— such nations as Korea, French Indo-China, Burma, India, the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines. In all these countries support*for the Chinese revolution will develop by leaps and bounds. And in all of them nationalist leaders will spring up who will begin seriously to study alliances which may help them win their way to freedom. * es @ « TeiJonroR nofo’ saw (The second and concluding part of this ar ticle will deal with China and the Philippine Islands, treatfhg the movement for Filipino independence in the light of Chang Kai Shek’s interview. It will appear in next week’s maga- zine section-of The DAILY WORKER.) _ BEADS Small beads of sweat Glisten on the bronze Rolls of muscle That lunge with the swing Of the blaéksmith’s blows, sn octpeindiacted, And the blue sparks it Dance .. .- On Sundays, he Counts his beads, Fumbling them Between stumpy fingers, Looking quite stolid In his tame strength. ‘Nere he to cease Fooling with beads On holy days, His bulging muscles And the beady sweat Could assume a more Victorious -glisten. —Oscar Ryan. The Accounting. From our hearts they have taken the blood, From our brows they have rung the sweat, But between the blood and the tears We sing of a tyranny’s death. From our life they have taken the joy, = In prison they’ve thrown us to cower, But between our birth ond our death WIll come the accounting hour. {The prison, the torture, the lash, Are as fuel on a blazing fire, As heeding not the blood and the tears, We mount to our heart’s desire. By ALBERT 4, CHAMBER®