The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 8, 1927, Page 6

” | Bage Str THE DAILY WORKER Published by ‘the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. i , Except Sunday 83 First St Phone, Orchard 1680 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New By mail (outside New York): $8.00 per year $6.00 per year ix months $ $2.00 three onths DAIL Y we THE WILLIAM RT MILI . Editors R. . Business Manager tising A Patriot in the Pillory. Former Attorney General Daugherty, super-patriot and red baiter, strikebreaker and gtafter, yesterday went on trial for the second time in a federal court charged with having received the lion’s share of split of $224,000 in return for aid rendered a Ger- man concern in regaining $6,500,000 worth of properties confis- cated by this government during the war as alien property. Daugherty was acquitted at his first trial. He is going to have another chance on getting whitewashed by a “jury of his peers.’ In the pillory with Daugherty sits a second patriot, a gentle- man by the nsme of Thomas W. Miller, a colonel. Col. Miller was one of the founders of the American Legion. But Col. Miller found nothing inconsistent with patriotism in accepting the sum of $50,000 from the hated “Hun,” that he so valiantly defended the country from during the war. In addition to Daugherty and Miller, the other leading graft- ers in the play were, John T. King of Connecticut, national repub- lican party committeeman, and the notorious Jess Smith, who is supposed to have died by his own hand, tho there is good reason to believe that he received assistance in shuffling out of the way. King is also dead, and Daugherty’s books have been destroyed by fire. Owing to the failure of President Coolidge to have Daugherty and Miller prosecuted for bribery, the statute of limitations in- tervened and none of Daugherty’s successors in the department of justice showed any enthusiasm for the job. The United States attorney in New York City for some reason or other got a half nelson on the grafters and hailed them before the bar. There is no doubt but the defendants received the bribe money. Had Cool- idge shown as much concern over the political morals of his repub- lican friends as he has displayed over the internal affairs of Mexico, Nicaragua and China, Daugherty and Miller would now be doing time in Atlanta or Leavenworth, since the bribery charge would stick like glue to a blanket. Now they can only be charged with a “conspiracy to defraud the United States” of their deliberate and disinterested judgment in passing upon claims for restitution of alien property held by the Custodian. Patriotism is the refuge of the grafter. “Major” Berry, the Employers’ Yes-Man. Yesterday’s issue of The New York Times gives honorable position to an article by the president of the International Print- ing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union of North America on Henry Ford's five-day week plan. The notorious strikebreaker devotes secant attention to Ford’s profit-making aim in introducing this new industrial departure. What the “Major” is concerned with are the interests of the employers, particularly the section which employes him as strikebreaker. To quote from Berry’s article: “The International Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union of North America has very frankly declared that it does not. consider the time propitious even to think about a futther reduction in the work week.” These are the words of a loyal and faithful capitalist servant. Mr. Berry continues: ‘ . the International Union does not in- tend to» give its attention to the regulation of the work week downward, basing its reasoning on the theory that our time and attention can best be given in promoting the spirit of cooperation and the development of ingenuities to succeed those that have brought to. us the conditions we now enjoy.” In other words Mr. Berry proposes that his union—‘“his” is used advisedly—shall not concern itself in the future with strug- gles for shorter hours and higher wages but will devote its entire attention to the “development of ingenuities” that will enable the employers make more profits. been doing right along. Every time he succeeded in breakin pressmen’s strike he put money in his employers’ pocket. er- haps Mr. Berry is thru with such vulgar money-saving schemes. Perhaps he thinks the members of his union are now thoroly broken in spirit and. will no longer call forth his strikebreaking ingenuities. We doubt it. The interests of the members of Mr. Berry’s union and those of Mr. Berry and the publishers are as far apart.as Mr. Berry is from common decency. Should the New York Assembly pass a newspaper censorship law, there are ninety-nine chances out of one hundred that it will be used against the radical press and not against the sala- cious sheets that play up sexual perversion for the benefit of ‘ circulation and increased revenue, George Bernard Shaw has written a eulogy of Colonel Thomas FE. Lawrence, the “conqueror of Arabia.” Here is the alleged anti-imperialist talking “..with his own hands explode and smash the Turkish dominion in Arabia and join up with Viscount Allen- by (the redeemer of Palestine) in. Damascus at the head of Arabia liberata, Arabia redenta, Arabia allied to Britannia just when Britannia needed her.’’ Shaw is an imperialist to the tips of his whiskers and to the smell of his garlic. While the remains of the late Emperor Yoshihito of Japan were being conveyed to the imperial mausoleum an accident hap- pened to the carriage. Since the emperor became a god as soon as he stopped breathing, the authorities feared that the incident would weaken the faith of the masses in divine efficiency. So they turned around and arrested one hundred innocent bystanders to keep the people so excited that Bray. would not have time to think. ce bat New York, N. ¥. ” under acti THE DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1927 New Danger of Intervention in China By TANG SHIN SHE, After Lloyd George and the social) attributed to the great shortage of democrat MacDonald, who in the year! money, Neither the soldiers nor the| 1924 was responsible | for an armed) officer are receiving their-pay. intervention against Canton, for the} imperialists have themselves recog-| ing a hater 80V-) nized that it is precisely the extortion| over made use of the A Weapon against| nment of Bald-! mberlain, and after id Baldwin have come 4 the continual armed in China have not resulted in 3s, the vermment o-called| the Conserve and il policy which first found ex-! the blood bath of the 30th May 1925,| area, that is, in North China as the ion in the much talked of Mem~ pfter the revolutionary movement had English in South China have been ndum, extended more and more, a welcome! compelled to do. They also do not What does the Memorandum actu-| excuse for supporting the reaction-| wish to come forward on behalf: of, Ii speut:s of the uncon-| aries, In the Autumn of 1925 the| Sun Chuan-Fang and Chang Tsung- nt of the Washington s r-| abolition of the Likien, er the the new revenyes to come under} n control nor are they to serve funding of the Chinese debts); nor venues are to be at the dis-} I of the most competent Chinese autho 9 ib is, they will not be| counter-revolutionary rulers a paid ropean bank. Secondly, in regard to the question of ex-terri- toriality, England that certain propos: s.of the opinion is of the commis- to be demanded neith-} ; Soldiers are mutinying, the lower gen- resent the guarantee for a long- {erals are falling away and going over planned English loan of 100 million | to other armies. This fact is mainly| pounds sterling for the anti-red fund. | The success of such a plan would have as a result an immediate attack! The! against the Kuomintang government. If now Chang Tso-Lin has taken the supreme command of the | practiced against the population by! Ngan-Kuo-Chun (Army for securing the reactionary military rulers which the country), that is over the anti-red | is more and more increasing the sym-| front, and has removed from Tiéntsin |pathy for the revolutionary troops.| tc Peking, is the carrying out of the} They have for long been seeking a|entire English plan thereby assured 7 | way out for their lackeys from this| By no means! The English are abso-, impasse. The tariff conference,| lutely opposed by Japan, The@lapan- which they had hindered and post-| ese will not allow the surtaxes to be | poned for years, was for them, after! introduced unconditionally in “their” conference was convened under the| Chang, both of whom are more in- Tuan She-Sui government. Last} clined to the side of England. All year when finally there was no longer] the imperialist powers together are, any Peking government in existence,| moreover, jealous of England, which the English constantly endeavoured! has gobbled the larffést share of the to carry out the tariff conference to| Chinese revenues, and wish to pre- an end, because ‘they wished, on the| vent England gaining still more priv- basis of the surtaxes, to grant the jileges through its contemplated hun- loan.| cred million loan, Japan and France After the seizure of power by the| have already expressly opposed. the revolutionary Canton army in the! English memorandum. England only Central Yangtse area, in Hankow and has a weak support in the social Kiukiang, the English propose in the| democrat Belgian Minister Wander- Memorandum the unconditional grant] of the Washington surtaxes. It is} stated in this Memorandum that the| revenue is no longer to be delivered to the Central government but to the local officials. ‘on for the inv gation of the ques- ion of the ex-territoriatity could, hout any great delay, even under nt circumstan already be car- ried, out. Thirdly, gland proposes that the powers recognize the nation- al aspirations of China in a common program declaration. The _ policy f protest int small matters is to be ziven up; protest all be preserved toms’ offices. 18 of these at present belong to the Canton government, the for important cases, but must, how-) ist lackeys. The big customs offices ever, then be made effective by com-' cf the Kuomin government, i. e. such) mon action.” as collect over one per cent. of the The question of ex- territoriality] total customs revenue, are: Hankow, plays only a minor role in the Mem-| Canton, Swatow, crandum. England’s attention is} | kiang and Amoy. Kiukiang, Chung-| the international imperialists for the| of the total revenue. Hankow re- purpose of an attack against the Kuo-| ceives only 8% of the total revenue, min government and against the | Canton 5.4%, Swatow 2.48%. liberation movement. Further, Eng-| reactionaries, on the other hand, have land, by recognizing the additional) a much greater share of the total re- taxes for the whole of China and the! venue, for example, Shanghai 39.58%, delivery of the revenues to the “com-| Tientsin 9.9%, Delnij 7.78%, Kiaut- petent” Chinese authorities, wishes to| chow 4.61%. Of the total revenue help the military rulers to obtain the Canton government receives a funds. The civil war in China is to}fourth. The 2.5% surtaxes can -in- be prolonged and the whole country) crease the total income of China by is to be divided up into so many little| 30 to 40 million Haikwan Taels (a feudal principalities, as India. | tael is about 3 shillings). Of this’ The clique of imperialist lackeys,| amount, according to the intentions the Chinese generals, such as Chang! of the imperialists, the northern mili- f'so-Lin, Wu Pei-Fu, Sun Chuan-Fang' tary rulers are to receive 20 to 30 In China there are 45 marine cus-| remainder to the outspoken imperial-| But their income| mainly directed to bringing together) only amounts to a small percentage} The} velde and the Portuguese military dictator. The Americans who do not possess any great special privileges in China and who are endeavoting |to carry out their dollar policy, in |no way approve of the dangerous in- tervention policy of England. The Chinese people have immedi- ately recognized England's lust for intervention. The Canton govern- ment, as the representative of the Chinese people, submitted a protest to the Washington government (the originator of the Chinese tariff in- creases at the Washington Confer- ence). The additional taxes fixed by the Canton government, are not based upon the Washington agreement, but }are special production taxes which are levied, not for military purposes, but for the benefit of the unemployed and striking Chinese workers. Should the/English and their friends attempt to carry out their intriguing plans by means of force, there would set in a great boycott against their goods. In addition a serious conflict between Chang Tso-Lin and his “followers” Chang Tsung-Chang would break\out, as the latter is in possession of the great majority of the big ports, as Shanghai, Tientsin, Kiouchow etc., with the best revenues, which Chang etc. are obviously collapsing; .the million annually. This sun¥ is to rep-| Tso-Lin can in no wise tolerate. Chinese Maintain “Order” at Hankow Pea A | took over the peace maintenance, ish observers have spoken in good HANKOW, Jan. 8. (By mail)—) work of the British Concession. That| term. of the work of the new police. Comment in the foreign community is the status now. here concerning the events of the past! “Within forty-eight hours from the week—beginning with the near-en-| beginning of the possibility of trou- counter between the people and the) ble, complete peace was restored. British marines on the British Bund) “What of the few incidents that Monday, and rapidly followed by the| have been recorded. A few rickshaw intervention of the Chinese, authori-| men become truculent and demand im the British Concession for the! excessive fares. Carrying coolies ask purpose of preserving peace and or-) more than usual fees. Some few for- der—differs aecording to the nation- | eigners have been rudely spoken to. ality and temperament of the com-) There was no looting, however. Rob- mentator. | beries, after all, are common in all Not even the most truculent of the! cities at all times. The records in die-hards, however, seems to be de-| Hankow . will .show they have not This is just what Mr. Berry has) manding armed intervention. <anding the new temper of the It is looked upon as un Chinese people. a good sign. In British circles the assumption} ‘NEW TRUST COMPANY TELLS CLIENTS of control over sion is still looked upon, to be sure, vifront. But some of the more reasonable seem able to see that if it) hud not-been. for the prompt inter- vention by the nationalist govern- ment an impossible situation might have been projected. The sanest comment heard during +hese pregnant past few days is that of ap American, whose opinions are worth stating even if for obvious reasons they must remain anony-) mous. He gaia. “Regily, it seems to me the foreign} commanity here should be eternally, grateful for the prompt and effec- tive measures taken by the national- nt in meeting an ex- icult. situation, There on the Bund on Monday was a situation which might at any mo- ment have meant bloodshed on a large seale. Had the British marines used those machine guns there would have been another massacre. Its effect would have been felt thruout China. The position of the foreigner here would have been intolerable, perhaps untenable. “Instead, reason prevailed. The na- tionalist government sent two offi- cials to the scene. When these of- ficials had addressed the people, the crowd scattered and then dispersed. Everyone breathed easier. “Next day it became plain that crowds would again assemble and, with the armed marines about as a sign, at least, of provocation, there was always the chance for. an out- break of trouble. The nationalist government then did a very wise thing. It intervened, after consulta- tion with the British authorities, and And) that seems to indicatesthat some of} them have gone a long way toward) the British Conces-| been any more numerous the past few days than in the past few years. And the new Chinese police in the | concession have shown their activity by making some arrests, Even Brit- “In Shanghai, in June, 1925, after the shooting of May 30th, foreigners were in a worse plight than they ever have been here. They dared not be seen on the streets, so high was the feeling amongst the people. That was natura] enough. Here in Han- kow, because of the fact that the na- ticnalist government took charge at once and prevented such a shooting, the city today is at peace and for- cigners are safe. “I conclude, therefore, that the for- eigners should be, eternally grateful foy the fact that the nationalist gov- ernment stepped in as it did and took control. It prevented what might possibly havé become an affair most disastrous to foreign interests.” GROWING RUSSIAN The New York Trust company, in a review just issued of industry and }commerce, especially foreign com- merce, of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics admits that the foreign trade of that country has doubled since 1922. The Uhited States is sec- ond in the list of nations with which Russia trades, with: Great Britain | first, and Germany second. The bankers report points out the international competition existing for this grewing commerce, and says: “That Germany is striving to re- gain its former predominant position in this commerce is indicated by the recent credit of 300,060,000 reichs- marks extended to the Russian gov- ernment, which has control of the for- eign trade, for the purchase of Ger- man supplies. The German-Russian commercial treaty concluded last May is another effort in the same direc- tion. English banking credits for Soviet trade were also very greatly expanded last year. “As a country of infinite possibili- ties post-war Russia continues to be closely studied by the large commer- cial nations. “The United States government has steadily refused recognition to Rus- sia until that country has agreed to the principle of repayment of public end private debts. American mer- chants and manufacturers, however, are not restrained by our government from carrying on trade with Russia. “Unquestionably the possibiliti are being lit Agriculture has TRADE A VALUABLE PRIZE | struggled back to a production in ex- cess of the pre-war level, and indus- try has advanced steadily to a pro- ductive volume now about 25 per cent less than in 1913, This develop- ment is the more convincing in view of the complete demoralization of Russia immediately after the war. The paper ruble became practiéally ture supplied with difficulty the ‘bar- est needs of the people. Foreign trade was negligible. World Hates Uncle Sam For Monopoly of Wealth CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—Hymns of hate formerly directed against England now are directed Against the United States since it became the richest na- tion in the world, Cecil Roberts, Eng- lish novelist, told members of the Rotary Club. England would be too proed to ac- cept debt cancellation, he added. He warned America against unintelligent gambling in foreign investments. Barge Canal Project Stirs Fight. . ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 7.—A fight over the requested appropriation of $30,000,000 for improvement of the barge canal loomed today as Col. Frederick Stuart Greene, state super- intendent of public works, let it be known he is not convinced of the ad- bein of such an expenditure. ~ WITHDRAW ALL U. S. ‘WARSHIPS FROM NICARAGUA NO INTERVENTION IN MEXICO! ‘HANDS OFF CHINA! Vv There were so many things Bun- ny wanted to know about. He took Paul to dinner, and they sat at a little table in an outdoor cafe, and spent a good part of the evening conversing there. Paul told about - the schools; all the new educational discoveries that had been made in America, but could only be applied in Russia. And the papers and books—the modern,. progressive writers being translated and spread over the half of: two continents. | And industry—the colossal labors of a people to build a modern world out of nothing, with no capital and no help from. the outside. Paul described the oil industry under this Soviet system; a state trust, in which the workers’ unions were recognized, and given a voice in la- bor affairs. The workers published papers, they had clubs and drama- tie societies, a new culture, based upon industry instead of exploita- ion Then, of course, Bunny wanted to snow about Ruth, ‘and about Paul's arrest and his trial, and what was he going to do now. He was on his way back to America, and would probably be put to organiz- isocnia, because that was the place he knew best. He had been in Paradise and held secret meetings with the men; until at last he had been found out and’ put off the tract—the place where he had been born, and had lived near- ly all his life!’ But that was all right, the party had a “nucleus,” as it was called, in the field, and literature was being distributed and read. Bunny told what he haé learned in’ Vienna, and how his article on Roumania had been stolen} Paul said that in every European capital there were more spies than there were lice. Very probably there was some agent sitting at one of these tables, trying to hear what they | said. His baggage was rifled every few days. The imbecile govern- ments, trying to crush the workers’ movement—and at the same time piling up their munitions, getting ready for the next war, that would make Bolshevism as inevitable as the sunrise! “You really think there'll be an- other war, Paul?” The other laughed. “Ask your eminent ~ brother-in-law! He'll know.” “But he ‘wouldn’t tell mg We barely speak.” Paul answered that armaments produce wars automatically; the capitalists who make the arma- ments have to see that they are used, in order to get to make more. Bunny said that the idea of another war seemed too horrible to think about; and Paul replied, “So you don’t think about it, and that makes it easy for the business men to get it ready.” He sat for a bit in thought, and then went on, “Sitice I’ve been trav- eling in Europe, I find myself re+ ' *membering that night when. you and I met for the first time. Do you recollect it, son?” When Bunny said that he did, Paul went on, “I wasn’t in my aunt’s living room, and I didn’t see: those people that had come to lease their lots; but I listened outside and heard the wrangling and now, as I go about Europe I say to my- self, that is world diplomacy: A wrangle over an oil lease!~ Every nation hating every other one, mak- ing combinations and promising to stick together—but they’ve sold worthless; and industry and agvicul-|®each other out before night, and there’s no lie that any one hasn’t told, and no crime they haven’t committed.. You remember that row?” How ‘well Bunny’ remembered! Miss Snypp—he hadn't known her name, but her face rose before him, brick-red with wrath. “Let me tell you, you'll never get me to put my signature on that paper—never in this world!” | And Mr. Hank, the man with the hatchet- hout- ing, “Let me tell you, the law will make you sign it”—only there was no law in European diplomacy! And Mrs. Groarty, Paul’s aunt, glaring at Mr. Hank and clenching her hands as if she had him by the throat. “And you the feller that was yellin’ for the rights of the little lots! You was for sharin’ and beh alike—you snake in the Said Paul: “Those people were so blind with greed, they were will- ing to throw away their o chances for the satisfaction of beat- ing the others. They did that, I think you told me—threw away the lease with your father. And every- body in the field behaved the same A NEW NOVEL Uplon Ginclair way. I wonder if you happen to know, it’s government statistics on that Prospect Hill field—more mon- ey was spent in drilling than was ever taken out in oil!” “Yes, of course,” said Bunny. “T’ve seen derricks there with plat- forms actually touching.” “Each one racing to get the oil, and spending more than he makes —isn’t that a picture of capitalism? And then the war! You remember how we heard the racket, and ran to the window, and there was one fellow hitting the next fellow in the nose, and the whole roomful mill- ing about, shouting and trying to stop the ight, or to get into it!” “One said, ‘You dirty, lying yel- low skunk!’ And the other said, ‘Take that, you white - livered puppy!” “Son, that was a little oil war! And a year or two later the big one broke out, and if there’s any- thing you don’t understand about it, all you need is to think about what happened in my aunt’s home, And.remember, they were fighting for a chance to exploit the oil workers, to divide the wealth the oil workers were going to produce; in their crazy greed they killed or injured seventy-three per cent of all the men they put to work on Prospect Hill—that's government statistics also! And don’t you see how thatjs the world war exactly 7 The workers doing the. fighting, and the bankers getting the bonds!” ery ¥ So many things to talk about! Bunny told the story of Eli, con- cerning which Paul had heard no rumor. The latter said it was easy to understand, because Eli always had been a chaser after women. It was one reason Paul had been so repelled by his brother’s preach- ing. “I wouldn’t mind his having his girl,” he said, “only he denies my right to my girl. He preaches a silly ideal of asceticism, and then goes off secretly and does. what he pleases.” Here was an opportunity for which Bunny had been seeking. He took a sudden plunge. “Paul, there's something I want to fell you. For the past three years I’ve been liv- ing with a moving picture actress.” - “I know,” said Paul; “Ruth told me,” “Ruth!” “Yes, she saw something about it in the papers.” And ther. read- ing his friend’s thought, Paul add- ed, “Ruth has had to learn’ that the world is the way it is, and not the way she’d like it to be.” “What do you think about such things, Paul?” * “Well, son, it’s'a question of how you feel about the girl If you really love her, and she loves you, why, Iv suppose it’s all right. you happy?” “We were at first; we still are, part of the time. The trouble 1s, she hates the radical movement. She doesn’t really understand it, of course.” Paul answered, “Some people hate the radical movement because they don’t understand it, and some because they do.” After Bunny had had time to digest that, he went on, “Either you'll have to change your ideas, or you'll have a- break with the girl. That’s something I’m sure about—you can’t have happiness in ‘love unless it’s built on harmony of ideas. Otherwise you quarrel all’ the time—or at least, you’re bored.” “Have you ever lived with a wo- man, Paul?” “There was a girl I was very much attracted to in Angel City, and I could have had her, I guess. But is was a couple of years ago, when I saw that I was going Bol- shevik, and I knew she wouldn’t stand for it, so what was the use? You get yourself tangled up in a lot of emotions, and waste the time you need for work.” “['ve often wondered about you and such things Youvused to think the way Eli talks, when we first met.” “I'd hardly keep Are Paul laughed. ‘my Christian superstitions when I became a Communist organizer. No, son; what I think is, find a woman you real'y love, and that wants to share your work, and that you. mean to stick by; then you ean loye her, you don’t need any priest to give you permission. Some day | suppose I'll meet a woman. cowrade—-b taink about it a good deal, of course—I’m no wooden post, But I’ll have to wait and see what happens at my trial. I'd be little use to a girl if I’ve got to spend twenty years in pcg es er ‘or Atlanta!”