The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 20, 1927, Page 6

Page Six rmE DAILY WORKER THE DAL Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Washington Blvd mM Phone Monroe 4713 1113 W. Chicago, SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months 2.50 three months $2.00 three months —_—— Address all mafl and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il, J LOUIS ENGDAHL Editors WILLIAM F, DUNNE BERT MILLER .. Business Manager — ; & = Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- | cago, Il., under the act of March 3, 1879. —— Advertising rates on application, <= Japan Does Not Intend to Get Her Fingers Burned Japan is not going to pull Great Britain’s chestnuts out of the Chinese fire, The latest statement of Baron Shidehara, Japanese | foreign minister, while not saying expressly that the people’s gov- tt will be recognized, nevertheless is definite on the question of | further intervention Shidehara said in his speech to the Japanese diet, Jan. 17, in| First, respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China and SCRUPULOUSLY AVOID ALL INTERFERENCE IN HER DOMES- TIC STRIFE. (Emphasis ours.) this is no diplomatic platitude, but that it represents the Japan is to follow in China in the present period, and is Britain that the two countries of the y Far East, being a definite of ression on the. part of Japan, tatements contained in the official utterance referred notifiea Great to vs in the part vy ag! is them is happy to be able to state that the relations of Japan and Union continue gratifying. There are certain sections of o indulge in alarming speculations that the interests of Japan a Soviet Union are destined to clash in Manchuria. BUT WE HAVE NO AGGRESSIVE POLICY IN MANCHURIA OR ELSEWHERE. (Emphasis are istated plain English, this diplomatic utterance can ve taken to mean that a definite understanding relative to the status of the Chinese Eastern Railway has been reached by the representa- tives of the Soviet Union and Jap: It will be recalled that last lace an interchange of notes following a strong the Soviet Union foreign offiee against the arrest ficials attached to the Chinese Eastern Railway by the troops of Chang Tso-lin. Shidehara the United States to understand that it ean expect no substantial aid if the state department follows the lead of Great Britain and intervenes forcibly in China by pointing out the strained relations between the two countries? into summer fl test loc viet [ prc ed by of S RIOT also gives | regret to state that the question of discriminatory treatment in- volved in the United States immigration act of 1924 still remains unad- justed...... . ? is of greai significance when contrasted with the friendly attitude towards the Soviet Union. As we pointed out a few days ago, it is unlikely that a com- plete agreement for armed intervention in China can be reached Great Britain, America and Japan. Japan’s trade with China is now of greater importance for her internal stability than her investments in China. AOC boycott, of the Britain recently, directed an acute character. ism, dependent upon expansion on the Asiatic afford-at this time to further antagonize the 440,000,000 people in behalf of the general in- terests of world imperialism. The contradictions in the imperialist world, of which. the Japanese attitude gives concrete proof, serve to allow the Chinese national liberation movement to consolidate itself with the backing of the Soviet Union. This is not to say that America and Great Britain, on the basis of America being allowed a free hand in Mexico and Central Amer- ica, may not have arrived at an agreement fdr the defense of Shang- hai against the advancing people’s armies. The naval concentration by both powers in Chinese waters tends color to this belief and the American workers and farmers must remain alert and ready to prevent war on the Chinese people and force the withdrawal of all armed American forces from Chima. Letween same at intensity as that leveled at Japan would produce an in al crisis of apanese continent, Chinese nz imper cannot of ion Civilized and Stable America Three hundred marines have been stationed in Chicago for many months guarding the mails from bandit raids, —The Herald-Examiner, Chicago, Jan. 14. if this same statement was contained in one of the Riga, War- saw, Bucharest or Helsingfors dispatches about the Soviet Union many American citizen would shake his head and wonder how the Russian people manage to live w ith so much disorder and uncer- tainty prevailing. But in America, a country whose territory has not been in- vaded and whose part in the world war consisted in making several billion dollars out of the misery of the rest of the world, a country whose industrial civilization is the marvel of capitalist society, the necessity for systematic armed protection of the mails is accepted as a matter of course. American workers, reading capitalist press accounts of bandit raids and other alleged evidences of disorder in Mexico, China, Russia and other countries that incurred the hatred of the imperial- ist nations, should keep in mind the paragraph we quote at the beginning of this editorial, Tnternal instability depends for the most part upon who Is writing about it. AiksarcheS an Thru Nicaragua’Against Mexico; Thru China Against Japan. By ELLIS PETERSON EXICO is the obstacle against Uncle Shylock’s imper'’ | policy in South and Central America. | Mexico is taking the hegemony in ral- |lying Latin-America against the U. S. Japan and the British. Empire are the strongest adversaries of United States in the Pacific. The British Em- pire is paralyzed-at present in its fight against the U. S. Japan is arming it- self at top speed. The earthquake a few years ago gave Japan a setback, and in spite of the Washington “dis- armament,” Japan has started build- ing a very strong new navy, which will be completed in 1928. This means |that the strength of U. S.’s enemy, Japan, a year from now will be for- midable, and that is one of the rea- |sons why Wall Street now is starting main | trouble, These are the two political con- |stellations which lead Coolidge and Kellogg in their policies against Mex- jico and China. Here enters also the question of the Philippines. | The opposition of Borah is caused |by his diplomatic inclinations of win- ning the Latin-American “opinion” hru concessions and peaceful per- suasion, He advocates a pacifist pol- icy against Central and South Amer- ica. Kellogg is for the mailed fist. The war against Mexico—which at present seems very likely—if Calles not diplomatically or thru Wall Street’s “revolution” forced to a com- plete surrender; the war against Mex ico and Nicaragua are preparations against the ultimate struggle in the Pa- cific, the war against Japan. That is the reason why Americ: march against Mexico is accompanied by sending dreadnaughts to China— against Japan. We can be pretty sure—what the Department of War does not say—that reinforcements of all naval stations on the Pacific coast (with San Francisco as center) are taking place. The naval stations on the coast of Nicaragua and southward, and especially the Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Guam and in the Philippines are at present strengthened more than ever. The war against Mexico comes as a direct result of the Wall Street pol- icy in South America. The conflict with Japan was sharpened thru the ctories of the revolutionary armies of Kuomintang. Thru these victories the balance of power in the Pacific was absolutely changed. The Panama Canal. Because of the imminence of the war with Japan the Panama Canal vill be the sorest spot of the U. S. The Panama Canal must be guarded at any cost. Nicaragua and Mexico are too close to this spot to be allow- ed any freedom which can be “mis- used” against the interests of the United States. Hence the present nervous American policy in these countries, sharpened by the oil inter- ests. The peoples in Latin-America are anti-Yankee. Jt would be an easy matter for a free Mexico—even with only a bourgeois “revolutionary” gov- j|must be avoided, because a closed Y WORKER Preparing War Against Japan ernment, and with Sl anti-Yankee governments in Nicaragua and other Latin-American states, {effectively to disturb the canal traffic in event of a war of the U. S, against Japan. This had no other way. In 1870 Great Britain furnished 37 per cent of.alf the Chinese imports. Japan at that time sent only 2 per cent of the Chinese imports. But in 1923 the British figure was 13 per cent; the Japanese 23 per cent; in 1910 the United States had advanced only ito 5 per cent, but in 1923 it stood at 16 per cent—i. e., Great Britain was beaten. So it came that Japhn and the U. 8S. were the main competitors on the Chinese market. This was in the golden time when China was only a “sphere of influ- ence,” divided according to the strength of the “powers.” But now China begins to be independent. Eng- land is being thrown out. And Amer-| ica and Japan try to win the new gov- ernment of the Chinese people. Panama Canal, or even if only slight- ly damaged, would mean the greatest calamity for American imperialism. That’s the reason why the U. 8S. al- ready now is preparing the construc- tion of a new canal (in reserve)— the Nicaragua canal. An attack by aircrafts—let’s say by Mexican forc- es—would easily cut the Panama con- nection between the Atlantic and “4 cifle forces of the U. &. Militariam in the Name of Pacifism. Like all modern capitalist statesmen, Coolidge preaches pacifism when he | prepares war, He scraps and forbids the building of a fewsornisers and diri-/need China as an “ally,” both need gibles—because already before ap-| China as an object of proved, the new litary inventions | eyen if independent. made them obsolete+put he is at the | port to a “free” China the American same time with utmost haste build-/anq Japanese imperialists can get ing other cruisers aand bigger diri-|jarge profits, provided they succeed | jsibles. All his pacifigt talk is hypoc-|in ‘establishing a \bourgeoig govern- |risy to blind the feo public, to | Thru capital ex- ment in China, hide from the Amerfcan people, ‘that | he really is provocafing a new world- war, But if Japan gets off with a good jalliance in China,,y then that will strengthen it against America. But Coolidge and Kellogts are very posi-| America needs China as an ally tive about the necessity of a strong: | against Japan. ly armed poliey against Latin-Amer- ° ica, Every form of resistance in these| Japan Helpless Without China. states has to be suppressed—no mat- Why? Because Japan gets all its ter how—before the anti-Yankee | steel from China—except that which | movement has grown too strong. But | it receives from the U. S. The war in- the means that Wall Street uses will | dustry of Japan is completely depen- have an effect to the contrary. And {dent upon China. 80 per cent of Jap- Mexico must be silenced—not to be |an’s coal imports come from China. able to make an alliance with Japan.| This makes it clear why Coolidge And imperialism cannot accomplish |hurried American dreadnaughts to the this with other means than force. Chinese waters between China and The question is now: Will Japan |Japan. Japan must be cut away from wait and passively look on, when the its steel and coal resources. This is U, S, isolates it? No! part of the American blockade The conquest of the Pacific has been [against the densely populated Japan going on since the Americans/Woke up |islands, which must be starved to sur- to see the insufficiency of the Mon-|render, roe Doctrine, which was made for the |Washington Conference of Disarma- exploitation of the Latin-American ment. market. With the expansion came the} ‘The pacifist comedy of Washington, need and greed for new markets, and which was and is hailed by all stupid the Spanish American war, 1898, gave pacifists, served its purpose well when = the U. S. Cuba, the key to the lithe alliance between England and Panama Canal; Porto Rico, the watch- Japan’ was broken up. And in the com- dog of the canal, and the Philippines, ing conflict England will be forced to the Gibraltar of the Pacafic a be neutral when the two powers, who Panama Canal, theestrongest instru-| 64+ thru the last world war with the ae bins amerae aan slightest damages and réally only States. This is what;Wall Street now |Drefted on it—Japan and the United States—clash im the Pacific war, where the destiny of capitalism will be definitely sealed. Bngland does not do this voluntari- ly, but it cannot do anything else. It has to wait until the war is decided and the booty will be divided between the victors, like America did in 1917. England cannot, because it has a revo- lutionary working class at home. The social revolution is imminent in Eng- land, and in case of a war an out- break iis unavoidable. The British em- pire cannot be mobilized against America, because that would break up the empire. Australia, Canada, New Zealand and maybe South Africa would be won for a pro-Japan policy. Canada and Australia look upon Japan tries to accomplish, with such weak leaders as a puppet. president and an hysterical secretary;of state. Why This Suddens Aggressiveness? Already we mentioned one of the reasons: The naval;program of Jap- in to be completed in 1928. American military experts calculated the out- break between Japagyand America to occur in 1931. But Wall Street prefers to have it earlier, js) But there are other reasons—the main one being the Chinese revolu- tion. The fight about €hima has been go- ing on for years and-decades. Eng- land was first on theyspot, Then came Japan, young and energetic. Last but not least came America. The U. S. introducde the “open, door,” because jas their arch enemy. it came last and withcompetitors al-| Wall Street knows this, and the visit ready steadily oceupyitig the place, it}to America of the Australian premier, Both | exploitation, | Mr, Bruce, convinced’them more. All his talk about the necessity of an alliance between America and Wng- land was only a reflection from the British anxiety at the imperial confer- ence from where he came. And in the event of a war, even if England will not participate, no doubt Canada and Australia will be knit closer to Amer- ica and its anti-Japan policy, The Consequences of a War. The United States did not suffer during the “ last* world ‘war. © 50,000 killed Americans was only a small fraction om what the European people had to suffer, This Pacific war would jdemand more sufferings from the | American people and it would hit the |American economic system in a revo- |lutionizing way. A victory ‘could not cover all the effects of the war, no less than did the victory of England and |France help these countries from ruin. | South America cannot be kept sub- jugated with only a few thousand \marines in every state. A very large army would be absolutely necessary. The alliance between the Chinese republic and the Soviet Union, which obviously would be one of the results of this war, would mean a new more |powerful enemy against America. jAnd this power would be decidedly janti-imperialist. A part of dt would |be anti-capitalist; yes, indeed, SO- CIALISTIC, And this will have the greatest consequences, The World Revolution. Even if a war between America and Japan. should break up the rest of the British” empire, there would be left plenty of-enemies for America. And the consequences of the Chinese revo- \lution, the awakening of the millions in all Asia to reyolutionary action and |to anti-impefialist struggle would isolate America from its richest im- perialist markets. The Cantonese will not let the con- flict between America and Japan pass by without using it to their advankage. |And they will surely understand that |the most dangerous enemy to the |Chinese revolution is the American im- |perialism. ‘Without weakening ~ the jfight against the British, Japynese, |French, Italian and German imyerial- ists, China will remember thgt the |American imperialism is the s/rongest —even if using mild forms iA starting its exploitation. And ‘the rallying of the revolution- ary proletarian forces of the world in sympathy to the Sdviet Union in de- manding a new united and revolu- tionary industrial international, and in their fight more and more following the ‘banner of the Communist Interna- tional, we have the strongest force against the imperialist powers of the world. This will put the hardest tasks upon the Communist parties of Arheriva, Japan and most of all upon the young Chinese Communist Party. But even the British, Australian and Canadian sections will find plenty of work; likewise the Indian, Egyptian, Indo- nesian, etc., sections of the Comintern. The victory will be ‘outs if we only understand to rally the masse in revo- lutionary struggle against imperialism, which seeks to destroy the world in the most cruel imperialist wars. MERGER OF 100 STEEL | SHEET MILLS ARRANGED BY BANKING INTERESTS YOUNGSTOWN, O., Jan. 18.—Ne gotiations for the merging of about one hundred sheet mills into one huge combination have been started and are near completion, according to reports emanating from financial circles. A group of bankers are arranging the combination, it is said. W. A, Thomas, steel magnate who is heavily interested in a num- ber of steel mills, is mentioned as head of the new combine. Companies named in the negotia- tions include: Newton Steel com- pany with 20 mills; Thomas Sheet Steel company with 12 mills; Wad- dell Steel company, eight mills; F con Steel company, elght mills, all in Mahoning Valley; Ashtabula Stee! company, 80 milis; Mansfield Steel, Canton, eight mills; Sharon Steel Hoop company, nine mills. The arrangements include provi- sion that steel bars and semi-finished stee! be purchased by the combina- tlon from the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company, Republic tron and Steel company, and Corrigan-Mo- Kinney Stee] company. Great Mystery toBe | Solved in Chicago on Sunday, March 13 The Chicago Novy Mir worker cor- respondents are meeting secretly, pre- paring something for Sunday, March 13, They refuse to explain anything. The only thing they admit 19 that Mirror Hall was rented for that day, then, The mystery will be solved there and/ increasing struggle for all the class war GET INTO THE FIGHT! The DAILY WORKER can only develop Its fight for Sacco and Vanzetti and carry on an riso support of all its readers, Get into the fight! ners to the extent that It receives the inoreasing (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair.) Annabelle had put Bunny beside her, so that she might protect him from assaults. Now she started telling him about her new picture, “A Mother’s Heart.” Such a sweet, old-fashioned story. Bunny would call it sentimental, perhaps, but the women would just love it, and ‘It gaye her a fine part. Also Vee had a clever scenario for her new pile- ture, “The Golden Couch”, Quite a fetching title, didn’t Bunny think? And all the time, above the soft murmur of Annabelle’s voice, Bun- ny heard the loud noise of John Groby blessing the Legion. Bunny longed to.ask him what the veteran would say to the “Ohio gang”, steal- ing the funds from their disabled buddies? Someone mentioned another stunt of the returned soldiers—their set- ting up a censorship of moving pie- tures. One Angel City theater had started to show a German film, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligar,” and this Hun invasion had so outraged the Legion men they had put om their uniforms and blockaded the theater, and beaten up the people who tried to get in. Tommy Paley laughed—the courage of each of those veterans had been fortified by a five dollar bill, contributed by the association of motion picture pro- ducers. They didn’t want foreign films that set them too high a standard. Then Schmolsky. He was too fat to. comprehend such a thing as irony, and he remarked that the directors. we¥e mighty damn right, Schmolsky, a Jew from Ruthenta, or Rumelia, or Roumania, or some such country, said that we didn't want no foreign films breaking in on our production schedules. An hour or so later Bunny heard him telling how the Hollywood films were sweeping the German ‘market. ~-it wouldn’t be three years before we'd own their business. “Vae vic- tis!” remarked Bunny; and Schmol- sky looked at him, puzzled, and said, “Huh?” Vill. From such a week end Bunny would return to Angel City, and ac- company Rachel to a meeting of the Young Peoples’ Socialist League. In an obscure hall twenty-five or thirty boys and girls of the working class met once a week, and read pa- pers, and discussed problems of pol- ities and economics, the labor mover ment and the Socialist party, Ra- chel had grown up with this or- ganization, and had prestige with it because she had got a college edu- cation, and because she brot “Com- rade Ross” with her. The moat thoroly “class conscious” young: peo- ple could not help being thrilled by « a spectacle so unusual as’a million- aire who sympathized with the workers and had helped to bail out political prisoners. With these young Socialists, as with the old ones, it was right wing versus left; everybody argued tac- tics, and got tremendously excited. The Communists, also had an or ganization, the’ Young Workers’ League, and the two rivals carried on sniping operations; sometimes they held formal debates, and young people would jump up and down in their seats, and carry on the contro- versy in their homes and working Places for weeks afterwards, It was Moscow versus Amsterdam, the Third International versus the Seo ond, the “reds” against the “pinks,” as the mild Socialists were called. And this same struggle was going on in the soul of Bunny, Paul Wat- kins would pull him forward, then Rachel Menzies would haul him back; and his trouble seemed to be, he was of the opinion of the one he talked with last. He was so prone to see the other fellow’s point of, view, and lose himself in that. Why couldn’t he have a mind of his own? Theoretically it was possible to bring about the change from Capi- talism to Socialism by peaceable, one-step-at-a-time methods and lay out the steps, But when you came to take the first one, you confront- ed the fact that the capitalists didn’t want to be evolved into So- cialism, and wouldn't let you take any step, It was a fact that so far they had outwitted the workers at every turn; they had even forced the government to retrace the steps which had been taken in the emer- gency of war. It was also true, as Paul contended, that the capital- ists would not permit the wor! to be peaceable} they resorted violence every time, and set the laws and the constitution wane it snited their convenience, (To be continued) Why Not Become a@ w orker Correspondent? | GET YOUR UNION TO TELEGRAPH CONGRESS TODA. cron nme sans ret NO INTERVENTION IN MEXICO! HANDS OFF CHINA! Read the Resolution Adopted he see by the Denver, Colorado, an On aameLNY!