The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 16, 1926, Page 2

| ] Page Two BORODIN TALK ON NEW CHINA Hankow Workers Vote Kuomintang Support (Special to The Daily Worker) HANKOW, Dec. 14.—A huge crowd estimated at 300,000 gathered in Han- kow to listen to speeches by Mrs. Sun Yat Sen, widow of the famous Chi- nese emancipator, Eugene Chen, for eign minister of the Kuomintang gov- ernment, General Borodin, adviser to the government and numerous Kuo- mintang leaders. Borodin was the chief speaker from one of three platforms. Speaking in English, interpreted by a ‘Chinese student, Borodin urged unification of the Ohinese masses under one gov- ernment, the Kuomintang, whose headquarters have now been removed te Wnehang. He urged the workers to consoli- dete their unions, backed up by the Nationalist government. He then ealled for a showing of hands in sup- ‘port of the revolution. The immense erowd was unanimous. “Charter of Slavery.” It ts impossible, he said, for the na- | Gon to progress until it is freed from imperialist oppression. The unequal ‘treaties must be abrogated. “This charter of slavery was in- herited from a corrupt and degraded } and prostituted dynasty,” he charged, ‘amd was responsible for China’s pov- erty. Better Land Policy. He pointed out that labor, indus- (try and finance are vitally interested ‘in helping the Nationalists to solve | the land questions. The “300,000,000 farmers constitute the nation’s pur- chasing power,” he said, and it is ne- cessary to establish them upon trade basis and thus secure their prosper- ity. How are they to abrogate the “slav- ery charter?” The only way is to unite under the Nationalist govern- ment, which had been establjshed in Canton. “Sweet Words.” “The sweet words of the imperial- ists did not fool us there,” said the general, “and we must not allow them to fool us at Wuchang.” Hankow people must Nationalists, who are making Wu- chang the test case of the National- ist revolution, which will show that they have the ability to consolidate their position against their enemies or be destroyed, he said. Borodin then asked all those who were prepared to support the new peo- ple’s government in Wuchang to raise their hands. There was unanimous assent from the tremendous crowd. DEVER DECLARES STREET CAR FARE MUST BE RAISED Those who are backing Mayor Dever for a second term have received a jolt when it was pointed out that the mayor has already put himself on record as favoring an increase in street car fares. The record Hes in the proceedings of the Barr committee of the state legislature in its hearing conducted at the Palmer House on Nov. 29. “Absolutely,” He Says. When Senator John Daily asked | Mayor Dever if a raise in fares was |mecessary, the reply was: “Absolute- ly, absolutely.” The mayor went on !wecord as saying that, to provide for @mortization of the capital account ‘of the lines, an increase in fare was mecessary. He said: “We are doing something inherently dishonest when we do not add to the fare something for the retirement of the capital in- debtedness.” The mayor’s supporters had hoped that he might slide thru the alection or at least the primary fight while still juggling the traction problem in the air and thus not arouse any strong Opposition from aggrieved factions, See Vote Chances Drop. Now, it is gleefully pointed out by his opponents, he has not improved his political chances by hinting to the strap-hanger that he must pay more than 7 cents for the opportunity to grab at a strap. American Legion, Here Fights Move to Ban Poison Gas in Warfare (Special to The Daily Worker) ATLANTA, Ga., Deo, 14.—Students of Agnes Scott College for Women at Decatur, a suburb, will not hear Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead of Boston speak on international peace. The ‘reason’ is that the president cancelled her invi- tation at the request of the American Legion, which objects to “the people she runs around with.” It is clearly indicated that the preju- dice comes largely because Mrs. Mead favors recognition of the Soviet gov- ernment. She is vice-president of the National Council for Prevention of War, “ ¢ 1 support the{ ment of capitalism, and ignores the Trotzky States Position Continued from Page 1.) imported from abroad), present con dition of the industrial equipment of the U. S. S. R. is the best evidence of the dependence of the country on the world economy. The completion of the process of our economic res- toration means the beginning of our bond with the world economy and the necessity of importing foreign equip- ment, The industrialization in the coming period means more and not less dependence upon world capital- ism. While Capitalism Exists. Naturally if world capitalism ‘is overthrown the U. S. S. R. will con struct within a decade more machines than now, but while capitalism ex- ists we must not ignore the division of labor which prevails in*the world economy. If we ignore entirely the pre-war development of Russia and try to produce everything ourselves, our development will retrogress and become slower. The isolated social- ist state is the fancy of publicists or resolution mongers; only metaphysi- Clans can advance the theory of so- cialism in one isolated country and ignore the fact that we are increas- ingly entering the circle of world economy, he said. Trotsky contended that Stalin’s as- sertion to thé effect that the construc- tion of socialism means the conquer- ing of the bourgeoisie of one’s own country is unconvincing; we are not dealing with the proletariat versus the bourgeoisie pf its country but with the competition of socialist economy versus world capitalist economy. Our revolution constitutes part of the world proletarian revolution, hence the impossibility of demanding an ab- solute guarantee of the possibility building socialism in one country which will achieve socialism only thru the proletarian world revolution. Trotsky concluded his remarks by saying that these questions will arise again in the future at congresses and plenums of the Comintern. Bukharin Replies. Bukharin, who was met with a tre- mendous ovation and the singing of the International, pointed out that Trotsky has not yet recognized the incorreetness of the theory of perma- nent revolution. About Trotsky’s re- mark that Pepper was the inventor of a peculiar U. S. S. R. “Monroe Doc- trine,” Bukharin retorted that if we could achieve the building of social- ism as well as America built capi talism, then very well. Trotsky does not recognize the fact that imperial- ism aggravates the irrégular develop- fact that our own socialist base is growing with the growth of our de- pendence upon the world economy. Trotsky Forgot. When Trotsky opposed Stalin’s statement that the victory of social- ism means the conquering of our country’s bourgeoisie he forgot that Stalin spoke of the “economic” vic- tory and not only the political whi is an accomplished fact. Economi ally we are driving the bourgeoisie from smail and big commerce and neutralizing the new capitalist peas- antry. *But the problem has not yet been achieved. Zinoviev’s speech on the extension of the inner party strife towards the International is the preparation, for a still intense factional struggle, | Buk harin stated. The German opposition the strongest of all, wants “official” support of the former Russian oppo- sition. (Laughter). The speaker emphasized that th taunt of the opposition about failu to recognize the international charac- ter of the revolution was a calumny against the party. The opposition is silent on the main question: wheter we can successfully build socialism. The three most important problem are: capitalist wars and the Comin- n, capitalist world economy and the S. S. R., home difficulties of the U. 8. S. R. The first problem con- sists in the fundamental contradic- JUGA-SLAV QUEEN FORCED TO LEAVE; BUCHAREST COURT BUCHAREST, Dec. 14.—Altho the king’s . condition is not -growing materially better, his daughter, Marie, queen of Jugo-Slavia, has been prac- tically ordered to leave the country. The reason for this\is that she has been agitating the Roumanian court for the return of ex-Crown Prince Carol. he Mother Helps, Her mother, Marie of Roumania, is said to be partly responsible for the departure of her royal daughter. The elder Marie has ambitions of her own regarding the dynastic future of Rou- mania and is reported to be now «amak- ing a bid for a regency in case of Ferdinand’s death, in some quarters is reputed to be only a matter of weeks. But the real cause of the expulsion of the Jugo-Slav queen from the bed- side of her father is the maneuvering of Jon Bratianu, the real ruler of Roumania who caused Carol's expul- sion from the country and who {s alike opposed to Carol as the next king and Queen Marie as a regent, - There are rumors that Marie is at- tempting now to form a bloc with Premier Averescu to make herself part of the present regency board and to extend her po Ss. to Plenum tion within the capitalist world, In spite of our relative dependence we are growing less dependent every day The world revolution is a long irregu- lar proce: and the permanent paral- lel existence of socialist and capital- istic states is impossible. Two Economies. The second problem is the depend- ence of our economy upon the capi- talistic economy, Exports, imports, credits, concessions all mean certain dependence but the tempo of our de velopment is more rapid than in capi- talistic countries and will remain more rapid even if we imagine the worst case, full economic blockade, because our trump card is our cor rect relations between town and coun- try. Our difficulties may grow but they are not insurmountable. Zinoviey wrongly asserted that we forget the laws of the world market: these laws never were absolute. Zino- viev himself forgot the existence of the foreign trade monopoly. Zino- viev, quoting Marx’s statement that a revolution in Europe without a revo- lution in England will be a storm in a teacup, ignored that Marx said this in 1849 since which time a different Situation Has arisen. Can Build Socialism. As to the third problem whether it is possible or impossible to build s6- cialism under the given conditions, the essential question, Bukharin said, is whether our own forces can conquer the bourgeoisie and build socialism in spite of the backwardness of our coun- try. Lenin answered this clearly by saying that “our country has every- thing that is necessary towards the building of socialism.” There fs no middle line—either we or the social- democrats are right. Bukharin gave a number of exam- ples which showed that the economic progress of the U. S. S. R. was grad ually winning over the peasants, and pointed out that the apprehensions of the opposition about the kulak peas- antry have failed to materialize. He remarked that the grain deliv eries for the current October-Novem- ber were 85 per cent higher than last year. The opposition is entirely mis- taken because of its wrong estimation of class and economic forces. The bogey of a “Thermidor” in the U. S. S. R. where the workers are holding supreme power, big industry and com- merce and are running planned pro- duction, is absurd. The danger of decay of the Com- munist Party bound up with the bu reaucratization of the state apparatus would be promoted by the policy of high prices as advocated by the op- position itself, he said. Zinoviey wrongly accuses the Comintern 6f overdrastic anti-left measures that he himself supported and extolled in the open letter, to.the German Commu- nist Party. Today the danger is sreater ofthe ultraleft tendencies degenerating . into counter-revolution ond therefore the Comintern cannot allow this. The Comintern criticizes the rights more sharply than Zino- viev. In his conclusion, Bukharin charged the opposition with supplying a full platform for all opposition elements in the Communist Parties. The Com- munist Parties are at present consol- idating their forces, maturing, and ad- vancing towards Bolshevization in the belief in the possibility of the revolutionary development of the U. S. S. R.. They will overcome the factional strife in the Comintern and, under the leadership of the Commu- nist International, will achieve our im and task under all conditions. (Stormy applause). TOWN AROUSED OVER TACTICS OF FOUNDRY CO, BAST BRIDGEWATER, Mass., Dec. 14—Public feeling here is running high against the Old Colony Foundry company following the fight between snembers of ‘the Iron Workers’ union and scab employes, started by hired gangsters, and resulting in the serious infury of one striker and the arrest by company-controlled police of fifteen others. The city’s populace is lining up with the union workers because of the tactics used by -the company against the workers. The company locked out the unionists when they refused to accept a proposed wage de- crease of from 25 to 50 per cent re- cently posted, Some fifty guards, Including seven deputy sheriffs, patrolmen sent from Brockton and state officers, were placed around the company plant fol- lowing the fight. Charles L, Nutter, president of the company, is also a member of the city council, and is using his official posi- tion to attempt to break the strike. Strikebreakers had been imported from nearby cities, Dut they were hastily shipped out of town by the company following the clash, because of the anti-scab sentiment in the city. The city council, urged on by Nut- ter, appealed to the governor to send troops to the scene “to protect the city against violence,” but the governor ig- nored the request. An injunction has been issued by Judge Dillon of superior court in Broektofl against picketing, but the in- junction ig ignored by the workers. The foindry employed about 60 workers. The lockout has been in ef- fect since Noy. 24 f = THE DAILY' WORKE WFISHORD SCORES New York Times Does Not Eulogize Defenders of Workers’ Interests By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. | D, IND. LABOR OFFICIALS Try to Break Up His Meeting There SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec, 14—A meeting arranged here for Albert Weisbord, well-known leader of the Passaic strike, was broken up» thru the action of President Gustav Jena of the Central Labor Union, who pre- vailed upon the directors of Union oe not to permit the meeting to be | held. y After taking the déposit for the | | | meeting, the union officials, at the last moment, declared that the meet- ing could not be held, The crowd | that came for the meeting was duly | indignant and went to another hall, | where an enthusiastic meeting was held, Assails Officials. The labor official’s action was | Freie Gemeinde H. scored by Weisbord in his speech and he was cheered when he told his} audience that the officials could, by starting a drive to organize the large body of unorganized auto workers in | this city, render far greater service to labor than by breaking up meetings of leaders who had demonstrated their ability to advance unionism by ac- tually leading the Struggles of the workers, eee ‘ Passaic Leader Will Ex- plain Tactics Thursday, Dec. 16, is the date of the Chicago lecture of Albert Weis- bord, the leader of the Passaic strike. His subject will be “The Passaic Strike and What ,it Means to the American Workers.” The meeting has | already created great interest among. the workers and tickets are being | sold in advance. The admission is 25c, The meeting will be held at the Mirror Hall, 1136 N, Western Ave, To Explain Tactics, Albert Weisbord is expected parti- cularly to bring cut the methods pur- sued in so successfully organizing the textile workers. Hithérto, very little | organization has existed in this field | and the Passaic example shows that organization work can be done when given the proper leadership, Not only | that, but the Passaic strike stands | out in the labor history as one of the best battles fought by the workers. An example which will be an inspira- tion for the future. | Just how this was possible in the very heart of the stronghold of the textile trusts, Albert isbord will ex- plain in his lecture ‘Thursday, sea'¢ Cities Where Weisbord Is Scheduled to Speak The following is the schedule of Albert Weisbord’s speaking tour: Kenosha, Wis., Wednesday, Dec. 15, German-American Hall, 665 Grand avenue, Chicago, Ill, Thursday, Dec. Mirror Hall, Western and Division. Gary, Ind., Saturday, Dec. 18, Milwaukee, Wis., Sunday, Dec. 19, |, 8th and Walnut 16, stree St. Paul, Monday, Dec. 20, Labor ‘Temple, 416 N, Franklin St. Minneapolis, Minn., Tuesday, Dec. 21, Unitarian Church, 8th and La- Salle. | Superior, Wis., Wednesday, Dec. 22, Tower Hall, corner Tower and 13th. Duluth, Minn. Thursday, Dec. 23, Liberty Hall, 22 Ave. North and Su- perior Sts. Fargo, N. D., Dec. 28, Cambridge Teachers Urged to Join Union BOSTON, Dec. 14.—Arguments for Cambridge women teachers to join the American Federation of Teachers, affiliated with the American Federa- tion of Labor, were advanced by John Van Vaerenwyck, president of the Massachusetts State Federation of La- bor, in an open discussion held by the teachers on the advisability of their unionizing. is The women teachers have been vic- tims of a salary schedule that gives men teachers a much higher rate for the same work, Two Harvard professors, John Brower of the education department and Thomas N. Carner of economics, urged the teachers 40 affiliate with professional associations. LONDON PRESS ALARMED BY WAR CLOUDS IN HEAR EAST AND FRENCH BORDER LONDON, Dec, 14-—War clouds were prominently discussed in to- day's issue of the Westminster Ga- zette, This newspaper carried a Gon- stantinople dispatch stating that the Turks are building ships, adopting the automatle rifi ablishing mo- bile coast artillery and preparing to take steps to counteract the Italian pact with Albania, A Paris disp: jeclared that ‘two battalions of “ iis” have been sent to the French Rivera from Lorraine to reinforce the Franco-Italian frontiir guards, RK OMINENT and extended space is given by The New York Times to record the death of Joseph H. Steinhardt, whose only claim to fame is that he was the typical “successtul business man” that brings joy to the golden capitalist heart of America, He is heralded a8 one “who rose from a pushcart peddler’s lot to the presidency and sole ownership of the produce firm of Steinhardt & Kelly, doing an annual business of $15,000,000.” It is not necessary to point out again that such instances are rare, even in New York city with its teeming miillions in continuous swirl, battling against the plunge in- to poverty. The much advertised “100 Neediest Cases,” featured by The Times at each holiday period to exploit the charitable instincts of those who have, is sufficient tes- timony to the degradation of the lowly under the profit system in the nation’s metropolis. eee Yet there is no inconsistency in the policy of The Times that ap- plauds Steinhardt, the multimillion- aire fruit profiteer, and then seeks alms for the helpless poor, the vic- tims. Steinhardt is held up as the American ideal toward which all should strive. In the mad scram- ble, the millions gradually learn that riches for all under capitalism is unattainable. It is to keep as many as possible from discovering this fact that the kept press instinc- tiyely spreads the propaganda made possible by the death of Steinhardt, one of the “successful ones.” That ig supposed to lash the struggling ones to new effort, to win the masses to practice the “economy,” that means the saving of every pos- sible penny in order that they may grow into the promised millions of dollars; to dope all labor into ¢on- tentment in toiling the long work- day On the fake theory that. the harder one works under capitalism the quicker will be the reward in towering riches to be won. The Steinhardt story is supposed to keep labor contented and striv- ing. But the casualties of the strug- gle are always large and capitalism organizes its charities to take care of its own victims, fearing that pov- erty, disease and general wretched- ness, running sores of the profit social system, might rouse too gen- era] discontent. i Thus the New York Times be- comes the 100 per cent defender of the social order that gave it life and keeps it strong. se @ The Steinhardt story starts off duplicating that of tens of millions of other immigrants coming to these shores, Steinhardt came on from Tauberbischofsheim, Germany, when he was 13 years of age. He walked the streets, slept on the park bench- es, .starved, hunted any job that helped provide food, clothing and shelter, The story says that he earn- ed 50 cents selling apples and the cornerstone was laid for the $15, 000,000 produce firm of later years. The fruit business in New York City is not a philanthropic enter- prise. It is a hard-fisted money- making business, selling cheap goods at high prices, always keep- ing the supply well below the de- mand in order to extort as big profits as possible. This was the game that Steinhardt played suc cessfully for years, He made money. The New York Times glories in money-making and go it lauds Stein- hardt on the occasion of his death, ee Among the millions who started out just like Steinhardt, upon their arrival in this country, were the two workers from Italy, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzétti. They also slept on park benches, wandered the streets, starved and hunted jobs, They finally establish- ed themselves, but not as budding capitalists, but as members of the working class, fighting the cause of labor, The success of Sacco and Vanzetti, in the struggle that they followed, can best be measured by the vicious bitterness with which The Times and its class hates them, going to the extreme of using its power in an effort to put them to death. The Times regrets the death of Steinhardt. It would glory in the double*murder of Sacco and Van- zetti, because it knows that as working class fighters Sacco and Vanzetti have been as successful in BIG BUSINESS } | BACKING FIGHT ON GAS TREATY Senators Follow Orders of Manufacturers. By LAURENCE TODD. WASHINGTON, Dec, 14.-Wads- worth of New York, Reed of Penn- sylvania and Bingham of Connecticut were the three republican senators who opened the attack on the Geneva treaty outlawing the use of poison gas and bacteria in war, wifen that meas- ure came before the senate for rati- fication. Wadsworth is chairman of the - mittee on military affairs, and Has strong fascist tendencies. Teed of Pennsylvania is spokesman for Secre- tary Mellon’s industrial group’and was an officer in the world war. Bing- ham, likewise, held a job in the war, and is establishing himself as a hard- boiled business imperialist, The pending treaty is being resisted in the United States by the chemical manufacturers and the officers in thé chemical warfare service, who have induced the American Legion to re- verse its previous attitude and oppose the treaty, — ephedra Saturday, December 18 their sphere as Steinhardt proved to be as a capitalist class profiteer. 49 . Sacco and Vanzetti did not try to teach the impossible escape of the workers from the terrors of cap- italism. thru becoming capitalists. They taught the workers to organ- ize and achieve their common eman- cipation thru the abolition of cap- italism, That was their crime. Millions of workers thruout the United States are organizing and building their power. They are fighting their battles more and more intelligently, according to the know- ledge gained thru many bitter ex- periences, Pt This is true in New York City as everywhere else. Only in New York the workers display a greater desire for unity; a keener class spirit in waging the struggle, against which the New York Times fights energe- tically, enlisting all possible allies. A concrete instance of this is to be found today in the valiant strug- gle of the New York membership of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment’ Workers’ Union, standing solid and militant for the triumph of organized labor, Against this membership imbued with the spirit of the class struggle, there is array- ed not only the exploiters and their press, of which The Times is typi- cal, but also the labor officialdom and its press, with ,the Steinhardt mental twist that seeks an escape from capitalism without the aboli- tion, but rather thru accepting and collaborating with the capitalist so- cial order, Thus The Times pours encomiums upon the heads of the Sigmans, the Beckermans, the Hill- mans and the Cahans, just as it eulogizes the dead millionaire fruit merchant, all defenders of the same profit system, But they are all helpless indeed against rising labor, struggling up- ward as a mass and determined to win ep, ma: The class line is being drawn sharper and clearer, American la- bor is learning how to fight. LAWYERS ATTACK | irs Si? Ne Yor EACH OTHER IN OIL CASE CLOSE (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec, 14.—Bitter at- tacks, involving personalities of the opposing attorneys aM the evidence ang testimony presented, marked the summarizing arguments in the crimin- al trial here of Albert B. Fall and BE. L. Doheny, whose fate in connection with the conspiracy to defraud the government in the naval, oi] leases soon will be placed with the jury. Owen J. Roberts, government coun- sel, scathingly flayed the two main points of the defense, that Doheny was prompted by patriotic motives in seeking the Pearl Harbor leases, and that the notorious $100,000 was a “loan” to the former secretary of in- terior, who granted the leases. Hogan is Excited, Frank J, Hogan launched an attack upon the government attorneys, at- tempting to show that they were “con- spiring” to send Fall and Doheny to prison, “Gentlemen,” he said, “you have just listened to as wholesale and vicious vilification as ever polluted the atmosphere of a court room,” he shouted. “You have heard it from the lips of a man niade desperate— desperate by the fact that in tha past week he has seen his case collapse before him, You have seen him ho lessly trying to rebuild it shreds of his own oratory.” Business—Not Patriotism, Roberts in summarizing the rn- ment's case pointed out there " Needle Trades Union (Continued from page 1) individuals in the trade union move- ment by issuing bonds of denomina- tions running from $25 to $500. The bonds will be vouched for by the union and all trade unionists are urged by the board to purchase as many as possible in the shortest pos- sible time. The joint board of the New York Furriers’ Union has passed a resolu- tion offering its help to the cloak- makers and proposing joint action be- tween the two unions in the interest of the struggle. was no fear of war with Japan when the plot to get the ofl leases was en- gendered by Doheny. “This was busi- ness,” he said. “Not patriotism.” In reviewing the evidence of the “little black bag,” Roberts said: Do- heny, a partner in the bank of Blair & Co. could Have telephoned that bank and had an order sent to the Riggs bank in Washington to gay Fall the $100,000, But this was fot done. The money could have been traced. He for his son to de liver the money, so that no one but his own blood would know. It was concealed because both men knew that if the transaction became public they would be rufned. What would you say if I sont cash to a judge be- fore whom I was trying a case?” SEND IN A SUB TODAY. ‘Why not @ small bundie of The DAILY WORKER sent to you regular ly to take to your trade union meetina? t i 4, nyt ‘ i +o+ PREACHERS PREACH WHILE STATESMEN STEAL By Arthur W. Calhoun In which Calhoun brings “Imperialism and World Poli- ties,” a book by Professor Monnon of Columbia Univer- sity, to your attention, This is not a review. The writer simply excites your curiosity about it. Students of Com- munist theory will be inter- ested to put this book side by side with Lenin’s theory of imperialism and see what happens, o tt. + PRICKED INTO ACTION By C. A. Moseley A short story of a young man who became a strike leader, the part his young wife played in egging him on, A constructive tale. Also “Proletarian Odes” by the same writer. +++ WHEN HELL BROKE LOOSE By T. J. O'Flaherty When the devil and his guests learned from a new comer that Dawes won the Nobel peace prize they went ma and killed the man who told the tale. You will meet many of your old historical acquaintances here, includ- ing Woodrow Wilson, Queen Elizabeth, Warren G, Har- ding and Napoleon. ++ > CHINESE LESSONS FOR AMERICA AND THE PHILIPPINES By Manuel Gomez The eyes of the, world are on China today and the American imperialists are quite interested in the Phi- lippines. This article is the second of a series of three written specially by Comrade Gomez for the New Magazine. +++ INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY REVIEW By Max Shachtman A bird's eye view of im- portant events of the week, with @ political analysis of » their meaning, +++ 1 iN AN TONNER TI a