The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 7, 1926, Page 3

WORKING CLASS LEADS FIGHT T0 LIBERATE CHINA Comintern Chinese Revolution (Spectal to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, U. 8. S. R., Deo. 5.—The question of the Chinese iberation movement Is still belng discussed by the enlarged executive committee of the Communist International meeting here. fn Thursday’s session, the chairmanship of Kolaroff (Bul- garia) the representative of the Chi- ness Communist Party, Tan Ping Hslang summed up the debate on China. Pointing out that the main task of the Chinese revolutionary movement was to consolidate the achievements so far won, he warned against the still existing danger of foreign inter vention. He declared that the task of the Chinese Communist Party in the ensuing period was to secure for itself the leadership of tha proletariat, Proletariat and Bourgeolsle. During the further development of the national revolutionary movement, Tan Ping Hsiang said, there are two important existing tendencies: One is the aspiration of the prole- tariat of China to continue the lead- Ing role and the other is the effort of the big. bourgeoisie to sieze this role from the hands of the working-class.” " Capitalists Divided. The division of forces among the Chinese bourgeoisie, the speaker sald, are the deeply conflicting interests between industrial and commercial capital on the one hand and the con- flict between native and foreign capl- tal on the other) At the same time the petit-bourgeoisie is opposed to the big bourgeoisie, native and foreign alike. : It is this correlation of forces, said Tan, which allows the proletariat to maintain the hegemony of the national Wberation movement together with the common interests and aspira- tions that the working-class of the cfly has with the peasantry. The jatter, he sald, are playing an in- creasingly larger part in the revolu- tion and are realizing the community of interest between the country and the city. The proletartan movement must come closer to the peasantry and to gether fight the landlords on the basis of agrarian demands, without which it is impossible to consolidate the revo- Intion in China. It is necessary, the Chinese delegate stated, to confiscate the lands of the big owners and reac- tionaries, lower leasehold rents, and seriously fight the money lenders. The Chinese Communist Party must also formulate a clear economic pro- gram for industrial labor demands, in- tensify activity In the towns and vil- Jages and among the working youth and to forward the political education of the soldiers in the national armies, he said. In conclusion, Tan Ping Shiang wel- comed the statement of the Kuomin- tang party of Wednesday, in which their representative declared the wil- lngness of the people’s party to co- operate with the Chinese Communist Party in a united front that will as- sure the success of the Chinese libera- tion movement. Tchitcherin Arrives in Berlin to Confer on German Relations Discusses under FEW WREATHS PRECEDE-KRASSIN’S URN TO TOMB; INSTEAD MOSCOW-—While 20,000 bared their heads, while airplanes circled above, while the Soviet hymn for the dead rose and swelled through the Red Square, as cannon boomed a salute, and as members of the Red Army stood at attention, the urn containing ths ashes of Leonid Krassin, Soviot envoy to Great Britain, who died re- cently in London, was placed in a niche in the wall of the historic Kremlin, close to the tomb of Lenin. President Kalinin of the. Soviet Ua- fon officiated and then stepped to one side while masons put in its place a slab of black marble, bearing tho name of Krassin in large letters, be- MONEY IS DEVOTED TO CARING FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN dates July 15, 1870—Nov. 24, 1825. Barlier a special train had arrived from the British border, the engine decorated with red and black stream- ers and pulling two coaches. These contained Krassin’s daughter and the urn and representatives of the Soviet | government who had met his ashes at the border. In the procession from the train to the Kremlin, few wreaths preceded the bier, which was carried by pro’ ment officials. Their absence wa’ counted for by the fact that 25 roubles appropriated for the funeral had been mostly turned over to the fund for Homeless Children, as a wor- ac- neath which, in smaller type, were the words, Leonid Borisovich, and the (Continued from page 1) forces and develop);their influence and numbers, Losovsky concluded. John Pepper..(America) declared thatnreNrentie’ strike wasdefeated the struggle yielded positive ‘political re- sults: It showed that only Communist Party and the Communist Internation- al are capable of fighting and bringing the struggles of the workers to vic- tory and that victory under right wing leaders is impossible under present conditions in England. Workers Understand ‘These lessons, he said, are actually umderstood by the British workers and thousands more will join the Commun- ist Party. Accordingly,, the British miners’ strike is the greatest labor event in recent years. The left wing of the labor movement in Britain, as a result, is better organized and pos- sesses @ firm leadérship in the minor- ity movement and the Communist Party, he concluded, * Ina spirited speech, Smeral, (Czeche- Slovakia) analyzed all the questions connected with the British strike that closely affected the workers of other countries. He said that unless the fight of the British workers was close- ly bound up with the struggle of the colonies and unless the western Euro- pean proletariat is ready to give its whole support, it is impossible to de- feat British capitalism, Colonies Important. The backbone of British imperial iam, he declared, would be broken, not on the Thames, but on the Yangtze, the Nile and the Ganges. However, the Huropean proletariat, with the ex- ception of the workers of the Soviet Union who gave magnificent example of proletarian solidarity and exerted all possible effort, failed to do every: thing in its power to secure victory for the British workers. ~ ‘This fundamental lesson, Smeral went on, must be carefully taken stock of by the Communist Parties that the mistake be not repeated especially today, on the eve of more intense in- ternational capitalist reaction and the preparation for intervention against the Soviet Union. ~ Crisis Approaches. The British Empire, he pointed out, ig entering on a period of the sharp est economic social crisis, the world bourgeoisie, finding itself in the most dificult situation, will use all means to find a way out: consequently the great danger of another world war. The proletariat, he concluded, must be prepared in this emergency to fight for power, to support the Communist International and to protect the Soviet Union, the powerful anti-capitalist stronghold where the proletariat is constructing socialism, Murphy Reports. At Thursday's session of the plenum ‘|Murphy (Hngland) reported on “The BERIAN—Tchitchertn, the foreign growing, as shown by the fact that one of the things to be discussed at Yhis-meeting will be Germany's desire to obtain airplane landings in Soviet territory for her projected Berlin Tokio aerial route, Brom this ‘capital, Tehitchern will yo to. France for conference with Briand, and also expects to meet Aus ten Chamberlain, FILIPINOS THREATEN - TO ASSEMBLE BOARD SCRAPPED BY WOOD MANILA, Deo, 5.—In an effort to force Governor General Wood's hand, Manuel Quezon and Manuel Lessons of the English Strike.” He declared that the general strike and the lockout of the miners were the most profound and most far-reaching events in the history of Great Britain for a hundred years. The conflict had {ts reactions thruout the whole world. There were wholesale disturbances of world economics and profound disturb- ances of British capitalism, There was an extensive manifestation of interna- tional solidarity of action by the work- ers of the Soviet Union, The working clasg of Britain has definitely stepped upon the path leading inevitably to- wards social revolution, The mining crisis is the most im- portant part of the general crisis of British imperialism, The crisis in the coal industry has not been liquidated, but intensified, and is the forerunner of greater struggles, It had a profound affect upon national finance, it accent. uated the decline of British foreign trade, {t weakened the “bond of the empire,” and thereby greatly affected British foreign policy, everywhere, especially in the far ast, where Brit- ain was compelled to make a change in tactics towards the Chin reyolu: tion, Therefore the heroig miners’ struggle was an ally of the national Uberation movement in China, Muss phy said, Capltallet Dictatorship, ‘There been a great change in class relat in Great Britains An thier tribute to the man whose mem- ory was, being honored, The Lessons of the British Strike dated their position in support of the bourgeoisie, but great masses of work- ers have moved leftwards, towards the Communist Party, Party Doubles, The Communist Party has more than doubled its membership since the general strike, The minority move- ment has grown extensively. The in- evitable endeavors of the British bour- geoisie to develop plans for the trusti- fication of’ industry and extensive plans for rationalization as well as the loss of markets, accentuate the strug- gle of the classes and increase the difficulties of the ruling class, which will now attack the workers more fiercely, said Murphy. Summing up the perspectives and tasks of the Communists, the speaker pointed out again the effects of the struggle: it has increased the inequal- itles of capitalist development, it has accentuated Britain’s decline as a world power. The labor trade union bureaucracy in Britain and interna- tionally has been consolidated as the active agency of the big bourgeoisie for the Americanization of Britain and Europe, International Tasks. The tasks of the Communist Inter- national are to intensify the struggle for international trade union unity, to internationalize the great national in- dustrial struggles in the various coun- tries, to concentrate the energies of the Communist Parties upon the work, in the trade unions. The task of the British Communist Party is to lead the struggle of the masses, to prepare them for the impending wild on- slaughts upon the unions, relentlessly to expose the bourgeois policy of the labor leaders, to concentrate the strug- gle upon the political task of over- throwing the government and carrying the masses forward to the final re- volutionary crushing of the bour- geoisie by the dictatorship of the pro- letariat, said the speaker in conclu- sion. Militia Bureau Wants Bigger Appropriation to Build Nat’] Guard WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—The re port of Maj. Gen. Creed C. Hamilton, chief of the militia bureau, is charac- terized by propaganda for increased appropriation for the national guard. He bemoans the fact that the strength of ‘the guard has decreased from 177,585 in June, 1925, to 174,969 in June, 1926. Hamilton blames lack of adequate appropriation for this. He wants more money so more men can be enlisted. TRE DAILY WORKER’ ¥: U, S-FILIPINOS ORGANIZING FOR FFREEDOM FIGHT Plan Federation of All) Groups By VIVIAN WILKINSON, NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—Unification of }150 organizations representing 20,000 Filipino students, workers and busi, ness men in this country was planned at the third quarterly the Atlantic held here, To Counteract Propaganda. To counteraet propaganda against Philippine fidependence and to look after the economic and social welfare of the Filipinos in this country is the purpose of the®new national organiza- tions, to be known as the Philippine Federation of ;América, according to Jose L, Gonsales, secretary. ‘“Practi- cally every, Filipino in thjs country is a member of one of the 150 associa- tions we plan to unite,” he said. Stir (Up. Trouble. “Conflicts, either real or imaginary, between the»smohammedan Moros and the christian Filipinos are due to a systematic campaign to create trouble,” declared Prof. I. Panglasique, a delegate to the convention. “As a member of the educational survey board, I spent several months among the Mofos and. found them friendly and hospitable. Missionaries to Biame. “The American missionaries, in their attempt to convert the Moros to christianity, are among those respon- sible for stirring up ahy trouble that may exist. But even if a missionary should sponsor Philippine national in- dependence while he is in/the field he is forced to speak against it in this country. The pastor of my own church was forced to resign for stand- ing for such independence.” Higinio Mendoza, president of the convention and himself a Moro, de- clared: “There is no political con- flict betweén the Filipinos and the Moros, Any trouble which may have arisen is die to missionary interfer- ence in the'political life of these peo- Philippine Federation ; | ple.” “Political independence which does not improve *the economic conditions of the people ‘as a whole is not worth fighting for,” said Norman Thomas of ‘}the League for Industrial Democracy. “The Cantonése have developed an economic policy: along with their po- litical revolution,” Three delegates were elected to rep- resent ¢hé*Philippine Federation of America at the Philippine conference, which will be held under the auspices of the Fellowship of Reconciliation next February in; Washington, D, C. Those elected’ vere J. Rodriquez, M. Osmina and Prof. I. Panlasiqui. ° For Independence. The following resolution was passed unanimously by the convention: Be it resolved, that we give our un- qualified adherence to the policies of our official representatives in the gov- ernment, that»we favor immediate and absolute independence. The next convention of the Philip- pine Federatidm of America will take place next January 8 and 9 in Brook- lyr, New York; The DAILY WORKER, convention of | The Farmers’ morning’s Issue of The DAILY WORKER. Watch for Section will appear regularly In every ivi The Vanguard of Interpreters Among Farmers By JOHN B. CHAPPLE (Orpiacacgien.s in‘America has reach- 4 ed the stage where the entire farming population—with the excep: tion of the capitalist, bank-financed, machine-operating and “hand” hiring farm plutocrats—is feeling the lash. In Montana farmers forced a pint of castor oil down the throat of a deputy sheriff trying to evict a farmer from his mortgaged farm. Instances of those sporadic farm “revolts” could be multiplied by the hundreds. The trek of starving farmers to the cities, where they begome the victims of a different but no. less vicious kind of exploitation, is so apparent that only the most rabidly capitalist farm pa- pers cover their é: and see no evil. Even such comic-opera farmers’ friends as Senator Capper of Kansas admit the farmer is not getting his fair share of the national income, while statistics vividly and indisputa- bly show how farm costs and taxes have been going up while market prices for what the farmer has to sell are below the cost of production, ALF-WAY and transition measures which the farmer devises to de- fend himself are legion. There is the movement for centralization of cream- erios and cheese factories, under farm- er control; the Canadian wheat pools, the central agency of which disposed of 190,000,000 bushels of wheat this year; the disposal of 150,000,000 union- labor Washington apples by the Farm- er-Labor exchange; the whole produ- cers’. and consumers’ co-operative movement. Lenin himself has empha- sized in his pamphlet “About the Co- perative Societies” the importance of co-operation with regard to the transi- tion to a new order “in the simplest, easiest, and for the peasants’ (farm- ers) most attainable manner. Present day American co-operatives are impo- tent only insofar as they fail to un- derstand—again using Lenin’s words —“such fundamental problems as the class struggle, the conquest of politi- cal power by, the working class, and the overthrow of the rule of the ex- ploiting class.” A further proof of the importance of the co-operatives is the fact.that consumers’ co-operatives in the Soviet union today, have 11,000,000 members operating 53,466 stores. That some American co-operatives, at least, are fully aware of their stra- tegic position is evidenced by the sub- ject of a talk by George Halonen of the Co-operative Central Exchange of Superior,. Wisconsin, before the na- tional co-operative congress at Minn- eapolis in November, Halonen spoke on the relation of the co-operative movement to the general labor move- ment. And finally, among transition phenomena, stands the Farmer-Labor | party, so directly emphasizing work- ing class solidarity that its candidates were supported by Communists in four states in the general election. The Vanguard 'N this critical period in American history, a vanguard of interpreters mong the farmers has arisen. Born ut Of then ——semt.economic condi- tions, sensitive to the changes going om about them, they are furnishing the drive which is massing the farm- ers and linking them ith the advance guard of the labor movement, They are men, usually, who have experien- ced several environments. A national- ly-known farm organization leader, the speaker of the assembly in a state legislature, was a lumber slave in the northwest and a miner when his union stood up under fire and shell. “We've read of the fall of Babylon and of Rome, We know about the re- volution in France and about what has happened in Russia. When people are deprived of a living they rebel,” he has publicly declared. A town chairman farm leader was wire chief in a telegraph office in a large city with forty men under him. He went out With the men in the na- tional telegraphers’ strike, was black- listed for years, and is now a militant farmer. A real estate broker in the Twin Cities, closely associated with the farm produce commission houses, re- tired to a farm, Seeing life from the new angle, he is fired with hatred for his former associates and the system of exploitation under which they oper- ate. The health of an insurance official in Berlin broke down. He is now an |}American farmer, putting his know- |ledge of economics into poetry to fire the hearts of men who hate annem |given up. And so on and on—here, there, everywhere, thruout the exploit- ed agricultural regions of North Amer- ica, are these “spots of fire. Face Serfdom. ANY farmers are on the border- line of serfdom, Twenty years ago their spirits were high. They began clearing their quarter sections with vigor, Today their eyes are glazed and their cheeks sag. Hope has been pulverized in the grist mill of toil. ir masculine women have tremb ling chins and curse because they {have given birth to children who must take their places in an earthly hell These are the people owned by their mortgages and their cows—serfs as completely as any feudal subject of a manor-lord, Among these people this vanguard of interpreters is at work, explaining invigorating. Behind the glazed eyes of the lean-jawed, grey-haired men who sit silently at the farm meetings, fire is smouldering. These gnarled hands know how to grasp a sickle. They listen, checking the words of the interpreters with life as they have known it, A surging wave of tremendous pow- er is slowy vapisicaiane momentum, PROGRESSIVE FARMERS’ ORGANIZATION HOLDS CONVENTION IN MINNEAPOLIS TO ADOPT REAL PROGRAM OF RELIEF MINNBAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 5.—The will geet in national convention here Progressive Farmers of America Monday for the purpose of creating a national council of the organization and to outline a program of action to change economic conditions of the farmers in the United States. Conditions Worse. “Conditions on the farms of America are becoming steadily time goes on,” reads the convention ganizations and groups. scale. The mortgage holders have taken the place of the feudal barons of Europe and great numbers of free born citizens have been reduced to the level of peasantry, “Thousands of farmers have been forced to leave the land and enter into competition with the unorganized workers of the cities, thereby reducing the wages both receive to the starva- tion point, Are Misrepresented. “While these conditions obtain in the country’s greatest industry-—agri- | culture—the. politicians and business men are making confusion worse con- | founded by talking about farm relief from congress. “People presuming to speak for th farmers are frequently those whose principal occupation has been to ex-| ploit the tillers of the soil. No True Volce. “But the true voice of the farmers has not been heard because there is No proper organizational vehicle to give expression thereto. To find such a yehicle and to force a powerful) weapon for the emancipation of mil- worse as call to local councils and affiliated or- “Farmers as a class are descending the economic lions who make their living out of the soil, a national conference of the Pro- fressive Farmers’ of America is con- sidered necessary and desirable.” Business Conditions in Philippines Good; U. S. Takes All Credit WASHINGTON, and economic conditions in the Philip- |pine islands were better during the |past fiscal year than any time since }1915, according to the report of the | bureau of insular affairs The bureau gives credit for the good onditions to the administration of the United States in the Philippines. “It is all due to the enterprise of the gov- ernment,” the report says. It points out that there has been very little private initiative in the islands and |that there has been no outside capital |invested for a period of ten years. ! 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