The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 7, 1927, Page 6

ire fHE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Stteet, New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. AHL} F. DUNNE { Editors BERT MIL Business Manager Entered as second-class mail at the pest-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of arch 8, 1879. pplication. The Sanctuary of Reaction, Pascual Diaz, the reactionary bishop of Tabasco, Mexico, is the latest prominent member of international reaction to make his abode in this refuge of the enemies of human progress. The capitalist press of this financial and commercial capital of Amer- ican imperialism has thrown open its pages to the papal agent thru which he can hurl his priestly thunderbolts at the Mexican government. The New York World, evidently trying to regain the catholic favor it lost thru its opposition to intervention in Mexico has out- done its competitors in abasing itself before the bishop. The World gives us to understand that it is opposed to the anti-cler- ical regulations adopted by the Mexican government to protect the state against the fascist conspiracies of the church and the United States oil and land magnates. One might as well say that he is opposed to Coolidge’s ‘policy in Meiiico but favors that of Kellogg. The policy of the church in Mexico is of a piece with that of the American imperialists. Both are exploiters of the masses. Their interests dovetail perfectly. Both wish to keep the masses in ignorance. Intelligent workers and peasants do not see ghostly. virgins stalking thru the gloom. A nation of spook-chasers may be short on intelligence but they are there with the pesos. A working class that believes in the medicinal value of a pail of water seasoned with salt and “blessed” with the incantations of a priest are liable to believe the same priest when he tells them that it is sinful to go on strike. The clergy are useful to the ex- ploiters of labor in Mexico. This accounts for the popularity of their cause among the ruling classes of this country. Bishop Diaz insists that the church in Mexico does not coun- tenance armed opposition to the government. We do not blame the holy man for lying. This is a congenital weakness from which honest clergymen suffer. It comes as natural to them as swim- ming comes to a duck or exploring for fleas to that kind of a dog. The workers who may be fooled by the Jesuit cunning of the bishop should adopt the wise precaution to assume that every utterance of the bishop’s is a falsehood until proven true. The church that had nothing but praise for the fascist dic- tatorship in Italy, an anti-working class dictatorship, until the fascists began to step on papal corns, is the sworn foe of the Mexican government, which, tho not a working class government by any means, must be given credit for doing more to enlighten the Mexican masses by a modern system of education during a short spece of time than had been done in centuries by the church of which the heavy-jowled bishop is a representative. Intelligent, class-conscious American workers will support the Mexican government against the oil barons and against the machinations of the catholic church. If the Mexican government ever makes peace with either, or with both, this will be a sign that the government has deserted the masses on which its power is based and has gone over to the enemy. The Pulitzers Get Them Coming and Going The Morning World, owned by the Pulitzer family, in its issue of Feb. 4, carried an editorial on the Chinese situation which showed up the diplomacy of Great Britain as 4 dishonest attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of the Cantonese government officials so that England could preserve the concessions she forced out of China when China was weak and disorganized and Britain was stronger than she is now. But on the previous evening The Evening World, owned by the same Pulitzer family, hails the deceptive “concessions” made by the British government to the Cantonese as evidence of British desire for peace. “When the troops and warships began*to move toward China,” says the Evening World, “the World protested because of the fear that they were being sent to bolster up the British system there....but since the British are ready to sign a treaty providing for the wiping out of the system, in large part, the world in general is satisfied.” “The world in general” may be satisfied but the Chinese are not. Neither are the class conscious workers of the world. The snivelling bourgeois liberals who are always ready ‘to flatten their noses on the ground in obeisance before the imperialists provided they have the slightest excuse for slapping the big “fellows on the back may think the Chinese should be content with a quarter of a loaf or with a mite of the loot that was stolen from them. The Chinese are not. They want their country and they are going to take it with the strength of their arms. He who believes in imperialist Honesty is either a fool or a knave. The British parliament re-opens Tuesday and masses of workers thruout the world will be watching eagerly to see if there are any elements in the Labor Party courageous enough to break with the backward leadership and open an attack on the develop- ing wars against China and the Soviet Union. The interallied military control over Germany has come to an end and another dream of the Versailles bandit peace that fol- lowed the last war fades away. Only a triumphant German work- .ing class can destroy the militarism of German capitalism. dienry L, Mencken is an amusing fellow. In an article in a recent number of The American Mercury he starts by editorializ- ing on the numerous secretaries who make a livelihood saving the county from Communism. In the middle of the article he dic- tates the Communists out of eiiistence and proves that Com- munism can never flourish on American soil. Good old boobery stuff and as rotarian as a Coolidgeism. He winds up by prog- nosticating the decline of capitalism in the United States. To be clever one must not be consistent. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1927 THE LION TAMER FOR TH'Love\! \ Oo Mike! LET'S ARBITRATE! Facing the Year 1927 in China HANKOW, Jan. 4. (By mail) — Profound changes in the general Chinese situation, both domestically and so far as the position of China and the world is concerned, are ap- parent to political observers here at: the beginning of 1927. Accounts are oegimning to be cast of the historic events of 1926, and it is generally conceded that a situation exists now which is greatly different from that cbtaining at the beginning of 1926. At the dawning of the year which has now closed, the position of what might be called the modern progres-: sives of Chinese politics-the Kuo-~ mintang nationalists of Canton and, to a considerable extents the Kuomin- chun armies of Feng Yu-hsiang- were better in the North than the; are now, byt not nearly so good in the South as they are now. The Kuomintang had their house- cleaning during 1925 and were well started on their way toward the erec- tion of a modern and. progressive government in Canton. and thruout| Kuangtung Province. They held auth- ority, however, only over Kuangtung and Kuangai Provinces, the Liang- kuang territory as it is generally known, ” Kuoniintang Forges Ahead. In the north, Feng Yu-hsiang and his progressive subordinates were in control at Peking. But no direcg| liaisony even of policies, had been worked out between these two “mod- ern arms” of China. During the year the Kuomintang forged steadily ahead in their prog- ressive work of modernizing the gov- ernment of their home province, of Kuangtung. The last ofthe reac- tionaries had been swept out, the army was busy exterminating ban- dits, life was being made safe for the peasantry, recognized as the basis’ of the body politic thruout China. Meanwhile a thoroly modern, fi- nance system, under Finance Minister T. V. Soong, was being put into ef- fect. “Squeeze” and corruption of. all kinds was eliminated. Honest tax collection officers were everywhere appointed, The treasury at Canton actually got the money its mandates ordered to be collected in the way of legitimate and scientific taxation—a| condition that has perhaps never be- fore been achieved in any Chinese! province. This system became so ef- ficient that the year 1926 saw a sum approximating one hundred million’ dollars gathered into the nationalist! treasury. The highest amount of revenue ever before collected in the province had been $31,000,000, in 1921. In 1924 it had fallen as low as $9,300,000. Also meanwhile, as a norntal phase) of the work of this modern and prog- ressive government, road projects were undertoken thruout the province, while Canton itself, an enlightened city government, under the chairman- ship of Commissioner Sun Fo, under- took and carried out numerous proj- ects for the general sanitary and de- velopmental improvement of the cofn- munity. Wide maloos (literally, horse-roads) were cut thru the tity whose ancient streets are too narrow even for two rickshaws to pass, In order to do this, houses or parts of am ona idepaeh Common td swift. He was eliminated from Kiangsi, which made safe the nation- alists line of communication from its farthest outposts in southern Hunaa to ‘its revolutionary base in Kunag tung. Meanwhile another nationalist expedition into Fukieny wrested that! province from Sun’s grasp, while part of the forces on the Yangtze were used to take possession of part of Anhwei and also part of Chakiang Province, which also hadebeen part of the self-acclaimed domain of the “Five Provinces Director,” a title Sun Chaung-fang had for a year or more claimed. : houses, had to be domolished, So amazed were the house §wners and merchants at these signs of progres- sivism that they gladly paid the cost of building these streets and contrib- uted portions of their own house property toward the improvement. Trade Unions Encouraged. The beginning of an adequate sewer system, which had been started the previous year, were carried for- ward. Efficient street-cleaning work was carried on. The health of the city was greatly improvea. » Hducation was pushed, particularly in the elementary forms. Political education of the masses in the aims and purposes of the nationalist move- ment was carried on everywhere. La- bor organization was encouraged. The events in the North in the early part of the-year, when a so- called “alliance” between the former arch enemies, Chang Tso-lin and Wu Pei-fu, sueceeded in eliminating the Kuominchun forces from Peking and finally, in the late’ summer, out their stronghold in the Northwest— these events had a natural repercus-' sion in Canton. Wu Pei-fu had breathed threats of bringing the war into Kuangtung as soon as he had defeated the Kuominchun in Chihli. When he first made pronouncements about these intentions, there seemed some possibility that the tuchuns and super-tuchuns might hold togethe jong enough to make the’ beginnings, at least, of such an anti-South cam- paign. So the natural result was pre- paration on a grand scale for a north- ern expedition’ by the revolutionary nationalist forces, to defend their own territory in the south by an offensive campaign against the north, This campaign started. in July. Within a period so short as to create nothing short of amazement on the part of even foreign military observ- ers, the nationalist troops had suc- ceeded in rolling through Hunan Province and bestriding the Yangtze at the Wuhan area, which compris the cities of Kankow, Wuchang and Hanyang, the latter with its great arsenal, Control the Central Yangtze. This put the revolutionary nation- alist forces practically in control of the central Yangtze, the heart oi commercial China, the reservoir ot her financial and numerical strength. Wu Pei-fu was forced to evacuate Hankow. He moved far north into Honan Province, making his head- quarters at, Chengchow, where he now sits amidst the ruins of a slowly-dis integrating. organization. There is not a single one of his so-caued. ad herent generals whose loyalty he can vouch for, To a greater extent than may at first seem apparent, Wu Pei fu’s debacle and the disorganization of his forces represent the disintegra tion of medieval Chinese ideas and methods before the fresh, clean air of the modernized and progressjve ideas and methods. . The nationalist armies now con- trolled Hupeh and Hunan, as well as Kuangtang and Kuangsi. Sun Chaun- fang, after much hesitation, threw in his lot with the already defeated Wu] that the year just opening may Pei-fu and offered battle against the|the first steps in the Chinese eman- nationalist armies. The result was cipator’s dream finally fulfilled. A Popular Support. An outstanding difference between the campaign of the Nationalist forces and those of any other fighting units in China was that it had universal popular support. Many of its inciden- tal victories were made possible by the direct help of the peasants» who, in some instances, guided the van- guard forces of the nationalists along the easiest routes against particular strongholds of Sun Chuan*fang. The capture of Kiu-kiang was a notable instanee of this. Everywhere, also when the nationalist troops arrived, they were given every evidence of wholehearted welcome, They were re- garded not as an exploiting army, but as a liberating army. As the year neared its close, the situation in the north also began show- ing signs of hopefulness. Fong Yu- hsiang and his Kouminchun forces, which had been forced into the far northwest of Kansu, had reorganized; by the end of Nevember they had suc- ceeded’ in sweeping down ° through Shensi province and entering western Honan. ‘There was every prospect that they would succeed early this year in “effecting juncture with the nationalist, troops already in the southern portion’ of that province. The year 1927 opens, therefore, with the nationalist government moved nearly a thousand miles north of Canton ‘and astride the Yangtze. It is now in full control of Kuang- tung, Kuangsi, Fukien, Hunan, Kwei- chow, Hupeh and Kiangsi provinces, with partial control of Chekiang and Anhwei provinces, and with every prospect of control in Honan province within a short time. Since Feng Yu-hsiang had, during the summer, definitely joined forces with the Koumintang by becoming a member of the party and by inviting political instructors for the education of his men, the territory he’now con- trols is also part of the territory un- der nationalist demination. It includes all Kansu and the northwest special areas, all of Shensi and part of Honan. There is also a direct liaison be- tween the Koumintang in Mongolia and the nationalist forces, so that vast territory is also part of the na- tionalist domain, The year just passed has been one of historically outstanding importance in-the fifteen-year-old plan of the late Dr, Sun Yat-sen’ for the unification of the land under the aegis of the Koumintang and its popular princi- NO INTERVENTION IN MEXICO! (ages of struggle. ples, There is some reason to believe’ WITHDRAW ALL U. S. WARSHIPS FROM NICARAGUA! Iv Matters came to a climax. A let- ter for Bunny, bearing a French stamp, but in afamiliar hand- writing that made his pulses jump. He tore it open. and read: “Dear Son, I am in town for a few days and would you like to meet me? Yours for old times, Paul Watkin.” Bunny was twenty-four years old now, but it was just the way it had been .eleven years ago, there in Mrs. Groarty’s back yard, when he had left his'father and run shout- ing, “Paul! Paul! Where are you? aia |) A NEW NOVEL ment; a whole new generation be- ing taught to be clear-eyed and free, to face the facts of nature, and to serve the working-class, in- stead of climbing out upon its face and founding a line of parasites! You saw those young Communists in class-rooms, on athletic fields, in the streets—marching, singing, listening to speeches—Paul himself had talked to-tens of thousands, in his little bit of Russian, and nothing had ever meant so much to him. He had but one interest for the rest of his life, to tell the young Please don’t go away!” Bunny,had a date with Vee, but he got out of it@-his sister ‘would invite her to one of those diplomatic tea-parties where you met the, Prince de This and the Duchesse de That. Then Bunny hurried off to the obscure hotel where his friend was ‘staying. Paul was haggard; one does not take a trip to Moscow to get fat. But his sober face. was shining with a light of fanaticism — the same thing which his brother Eli called the glory of the Lord! Dad would have said there were two of them, equally crazy; but it didn’t seemethat way to Bunny, who mocked, at Eli’s god, but believed in Paul’s\— at least enough to tremble in his presence. Paul had been living under a workers’ gov- ernment again—and this time not as a wage-slave, a strike-breaker in army uniform, but as a free man, and master of the future. So now in this dingy hotel room Bunny was sitting opposite an apostle; Paul, with his sombre, determined fea- tures and toil-accustomed figure, the vety incarnation of the mili- tant working class! And the miracles of which he had to tell were real. First of all a spiritual miracle—a hundred. mil- lion people proclaiming their own sovereignty, and the downfall of masters. and exploiters, kings, nriests,,.capitalists, the whole rab- ble of parasites... It was a physical miracle, too, because these hundred million pedple controlled one-sixth of the earth’s surface, and were building a new civilization, a mod- | el for the future. They were poor, of course; they had started with a country in wreck. But what were a few years, and a little hunger, compared with the ages of torment they ‘had survived? Paul described the sights of Mes- workers of America about the young workers of Russia.; He began by telling Bunny! He talked about the councils he had attended, the international gatherings where the future of the parties all over the world was charted out. Bunny of course made his protest against this. Did Paul really think it was possible for an American political party to, have its course determined in a foreign country? Paul smiled and said it was hard enough — the Russian leaders couldn’t understand how far back in ‘history America stood. But what else could you do? Either you meant to have world order, or you couldn’t? If you left the party in each country to determine its own course, you were right back where you were before the war, with men calling themselves Social- ists, and holding power in the name of Socialism, who were in reality patriots, ready to back the exploiters of their own land in wars against theexploiters of other lands. That was the thing which threat- ened to destroy the human race; and the only way to end it was to do what the Third Internati#nal was doing--have a world govern- ment and enforce its orders. The workers’ world government was lo- cated in Moscow, because elsewhere the delegates would be thrown into prison, or assassinated, as in Gen- eva. But before many years+ the Third International would hold a Congress in Berlin, and then in Paris and London, and in the end in New York. The workers of the world would send their representa-* tives, and that Congress would give its orders, and the nations would stop their fighting, just you bet! Thus Paul and Bunny, as usual, were swept along upon a wave of enthusiasm. cow. ‘First of all, the, youth move- (To Be Continued). MY M By C. SARA SHERMAN 1 o'clock, I return after a western sandwich in “the+neighborhood cafe- teria. My k still aching from the morning bending. I am not at all! rested by the hour of lunch. But I} sit down to my machine. My ma chine? The same machine that makes up the “Shop”. It is the old, old story. It is the story of ages and Not so to me, to me it is a new epoch,” It is a new We the makers of the machine. The life, a great, powerful, vigorous lite.| ACHINE We will make clothes altogether. Mary the Polish women makes back seams, Nina the Russian girl is mak- ing the sleeves, Angelina the Italian girl is putting on the collars, while my negro sister opposite me is punch- ing the buttons. A lot of colorful material is thrown on the machines, Color! Colors! Colors Galore! Pink, Blue, green, flowered, and red, red. The vogue now is red. Red blouses, red dresses, red kerchiefs . . . I hemstitch, to give it* the finishing touches and I think almost outloud, how well organized shop is, how well machine, the new powerful weapon of life intent to make life easier. I say, all power to it. Men of the world; don’t forget that when you bend your backs to it, look at it straight and earnestly. You have made it. Yes, all of you bent backs have made the “Machine”. It is yours. Use it and keep it. Dzzzzz Dzzzzz Brrrrrr. The pow- er has started up, Quick, quick quick, the machine is calling. The machine hds rested ‘one whole hour and. the boss needs dresses to sell. To sell, Shop does not wait for lit- tle kids like me to rest. It demands of us to be strong. Alright. . . we shall be strong. We shall make dresses, the world needs dresses. But for whom? I look at the cloak, then at my, sisters, black sisters, white sisters, and I say to them with my eyes, for I cannot speak with my tongue, shop does not permit that. I say to them: Yes, let us be strong, let us catch up to.the machine, Dzzz Dzzz goes the machine. . Put your white linen under it, a stitch here, a stitch there, turn the corners, repeat a stitch at the end to make the other stitches last, Just the things, a stitch here, a seam there, all together we make! clothes. The world needs clothes. I again-look at my Southern sister, and she seems to understand me. Her big black eyes ‘splash out of her black skin, ‘she nods her kindly head smil- HANDS OFF CHINA! ingly. Yes, the world needs clothes, the girls understand unity of produe- tion, each one doing their bit, from the cutters to the pressers. No fights, no squables—just unison work. Who can say we are individualistic? That we are anarchistic? ‘No, we are social beings, We prove it by our work, by our life, “Red, red, again that color flared up amongst the rest, It is the vogue, even the French modiste proclaim it ‘so. I think of Russia, Yes, it is the vogue life pros claims it so. Unity in production, we have that. But there is still another unity. The unity of distribution. Those same ones sitting with me at the machines who make clothes to» gether. ha-. ¢ * Comrades, ssters, brothers, black, white, brown-skin let us als ounite and own the clothes we make, Poincare Expects More ‘Hard Times,in France PARIS, Feb. 6. — The immediate stabilization of the franc, is not part of Premier Poincare’s immediate pro- gram. Such action would be “dangers ons,” the premier told the Chamber of Deputies today. : ; . The hard times confronting France since the franc was “saved” are tem- porary, according to the premier, but he warned the chamber that the coun- , try would have to face an unpleasant economic situation before the com- plete recovery of the franc, h ¥