The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 10, 1927, Page 6

x THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1927 Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday First Street, New York . Phone, Orchard 1680 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 Address all out checks to a THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. "J. LOUIS EDABID ) ie oo e. e i y DUNNE (ih Peehyet sence ... Editors the act of March 2 Great Britain aud the League. “Great Britain will acquaint the League of Nations with developments in the Chinese negotiations but it does not in- tend to ask the League to mediate, it was stated officially today.”—News item. Somebody is always taking the joy out of John Bull’s life, by putting him in an awkward position, tearing off the mask of hypocrisy and exposing him for what he is, the most arrogant and brutal imperialist robber of them all, unless we give that honor to his willing pupil, Uncle Sam. John Bull organized the league of nations to prevent war. Catch John with an ignoble purpose! In reality the aim of the league is to maintain peace between the imperialist powers, so that they could more efficiently rob the weaker nations. Also, the league would be useful to John in stealing marches on his fel- low imperialists thru control of the secretariat of the league where he planted his man, Sir Eric Drummond, as secretary. But the league did not prevent war or loot. Poland grabbed Vilna from Lithuania and the league nodded like an image of Buddha. Italy shelled Corfu, a Greek island and the legaue did not even nod. It snored. Great Britain quarreled with Turkey over Mosul oil and this time the league acted. It gave the oil to Great Britain and the ozone to the Turks. Again the league acted when the Greek and Bulgarian militarists quarreled over terri- torial loot. The imperialists could not afford a quarrel between two pigmy nations. It stopped the ruction mighty quick. Then France got busy slaughtering the Moroccans, something Ypain had been doing not so well for several years previously. She league did not say a word. Defenseless peoples were made to be exploited and if unwilling to be exploited, to be slaughtered until they saw the light. Finally the Chinese masses awoke and proceeded to clean up 1 the imperialists. The Peking government, a perfectly polite atfit, but more de jure than de facto, called. the attention of the feague to imperialist aggression, to the landing of troops and other acts of war. The Cantonese continued to put vaseline on their bayonets and ignored the league. Still they had one ear cocked to hear what the league would reply. The Peking: gov- ernment wanted ‘to put Great Britain on the carpet. This is where Great Britain came in and uttered the senti- ment expressed in the opening paragraph of this editorial. The league to investigate Britain! The league to investigate itself! Perish the thot. The best John Bull will do is to‘advise the league »thatrits business is to keep quiet. John Bull will take care of his York Evening Post. own affairs. He will send his warships to China and his big guns and his soldiers. If he cannot get what he wants by diplomacy he will get it by war. He may not get what he wants either way because the Chinese are old hands in the art of diplomacy and they are apt pupils in the art of modern warfare. Here we have the league of nations exposed in its scabby nakedness, as imperialist tool, erected to fool the gullible into the belief that peace is possible under capitalism, that the makers of war can also be the agents of everlasting peace. This is the political bawdy house that virtuous liberals in- vite the working class to support. “Join the Navy and See the. Movies.” This quotation, reproduced as a title above, is part of th headline of a news article in the New York Times giving some free advertising for the “latest slogan to win recruits” for the sea forces of “dollar diplomacy.” It is just another dodge, among the many already employed, to lure the working class youth into Wall street’s murder ma- chine. But it should have just the opposite effect. Labor should question a social system that can bribe workers to kill other work- ers, of other nations, with the mere promise that incidentally they ‘will have an opportunity to “See the Movies.” _There is no promise that these movies are any better than those offered to the general public. The only inference to be drawn is that the navy recruiters feel the movies is an induce- ment for young workers to become cannon fodder. It is also a confession by the swivel chair admirals that workers, with the wages they receive, too often have insufficient funds to offer even this capitalist amusement to growing boys, to satisfy their movie hunger. ' One of the navy’s recruiting stations is located on New York’s Bowery and keeps open 24 hours every day. It is eternally on the job to catch those approaching the brink of starvation, who “join *he navy” as a last resort. The professii | thug and killer, so yften hired to do the bloody work of employers during strikes, hhus gets a higher price for his services than the marine or the pluejacket who can be bought with the promise of seeing a “movie” to do the killing of the profiteers of an international scale. For the umpty umptieth time the working classes of Great Britain have turned their backs on Bolshevism, for the very good reason that there is no proletariat in that country, being like The writer must have written the yarn after ij he United States in this respect, according to a liar in the New *e % dining in the Hotel Cecil. The funeral of the Emperor Yoshito will cost $2,000,000. This will make the Chicago bootleggers come down off their perches. They were pulling off $100,000 funerals and making the big headlines. Here comes a little Jap and knocks them for a row of misers. 4 A NEW DRAGON AND AN OLD TRICK Bn. COTE Ce ° The McNary-Haugen Bill By WILLIAM BOUCK. ONGRESS is just now in the’ throes of another sham battle. The daily and weekly propaganda press of the country is pawing the air'| ind throwing dust in the farmers’ vyes. They are much interested pro and con in this year’s crop of ‘bunk to peddle to the farmers. The very latest “Mumba-Jumba” is the so-called “New McNary-Haugen” ll. Is it any good? Will it be of} ny service to the farmers? Well, first go.back a few years. About 25-30 years ago congress and the propaganda machines of the country woke up and helped us far- iners get the railroads regulated, and they passed the law creating the) ‘Interstate Commerce Commission,”) irom, which has descended a whole crop of so-called regulatory meas- ares. Is or has it helped the farmer? We rather guess not, with a big N. | Then we farmers were pursuaded py our friends that we needed help—- financial this time—so congress got! ousy. Our friends kicked up another dust-screen, and we got the Federal) Farm (?) Loan System, from which’ has descended some of the most vicious laws creating farm loan banks and other monstrosities. 1s the Farm Loan System any help Le the farmer today? Ask, some fel- low in it. Now, we have tariffs on, | wheat and a whole lot more of such) functions which our money grabbing: triends said we needed—and do they} help us? To say they do is to create} a laugh among a group of farmers. Then we got a law regulating the! packers—in the supposed interest of| the farmers—and the great and bene-' volent Secretary of Agriculture is the one whose judgment is made su- preme in the enforcement of its pro- visions. Is that law operating in fa- vor of hog and stock raisers? No intelligent farmer says or thinks so. Now the farmer is much lower in the economi¢ scale than ever before. Re is rapidly progressing down a greased toboggan, and his friends are going to administer another strength- ening pill, with plenty of opiate for! is mind. It’s called the “New Mc- Nary-Haugen bill and is being sol- emnly debated in congress and out as a real effort to help the farmer. Briefly, let’s examine its provis- ions. It proposes to establish a board to handle the surplus (?) products of the farmers of the U. S. Here's how the board is ts be ap. pointed: One from each Federal Reserve! District in the country. How appointed? By the president. A committee of five from each dis- trict, elected by a convention of farm} organizations, chosen by the Secre- tary of Agriculture as representative of the farmers? One knows what kind of farm or- ganizations Jardine would choose. This committee of 5 selects a com- mittee of 3 from which the president selects one, Same old bunk. The surplus is handled or stored or sold thru farm co-operatives, or such other agencies (?) as the board may choose! It does not in the least pro- pose to disturb the present gambling in farm produce. This surplus is always a “mythi- eal” proposition. It can’t be meas- ured—nor its effect on markets for instance—at this writing, Feb., 1927 —wheat is low, about $1.15 to $1.25, over the northwest, below cost of pro- duction at least 25 cents per bushel. Yet thegi is no surplus. It appropriates 250 million dollars as a revaluing fund for the board to do business with. Its results, if passed, will be to aid speculators — Bears and Bulls — to gauge the exact measure of grains and other farmers’ produce, and thereby make it that much easier to depress the price to the farmer and raise the price to the consumer. It’s so much more opium for the farmer. It’s the same old billy goat. It’s worse than nothing because it creates a hope in the farmer’s mind only to dash it to pieces and leave him more discouraged. CHINA’S RISING TIDE OF COLOR By C. V. BRIGGS (former editor Crusader Magazine). Can the Negro be altogether un- concerned about events in China, when the issue in China is the same issue facing the Negro in his home- land, Africa, and in the New World: the issue of the “divine right” of the white robber imperialist nations to rob and spoil subjugation, and dom- inate the darker peoples of the world? Negro Endangered. There is the grave danger of the| Negro becoming confused as to the real issue in China. For months now the white daily press, with the excep- tion of labor papers like The DAILY WORKER (New York), have been busy attacking China and camouflag- ing the motives of the robber posers who are seeking an opportunity to in- tervene in the present struggle be- tween the victorious Cantonese (Na- tionalist) armies, sweeping northward, and the discredited Chinese militarists, like Chang-so-lin and Wu Pei Fu, one the tool of Japan, the other the in- strument of England. Smoke Screen of Bolshevism. The literary prostitutes who edit the average American newspapers, in their anxiety to serve the interests of the capitalist gang upon whose ad- vertising and credit support the suc- ,ready for the plucking. ‘Hongkong and the seaport of Wei- ce of their papers depend, have shown their readiness to go to any length to malign and discredit the recognized the right of the Chinese to rule and possess their own coun- try, refusing to participate in the arms embargo by which the imperial- ist. powers hoped to disarm the Chi- nese and make them powerless, and i Forced Opium on China. The record of the imperialist pow- ers in China has been one of brutal and wanton aggression. Imperialist England, leading exponent of the amazing policy of European eminent domain, made the Yangtze Valley a special “sphere of interest” since 1877. In 1842 she seized the island of Honkong after a three-year war fought by the Chinese to keep opium out of their country and by the Brit- ish to inflict that deadly drug upon the Chinsee masses, Later she forced a weak Chinese government to give indefinite leases on 400 square miles of mainland near haiwei, In 1918, when Tibet, then a part of China staged a British stim- ulated revolt, England forbade China to suppress the rebellion, In addition, as the result of a second war with China, the British have possession of several strategic areas varying in size in the center of cities of Shanghai, Amoy, Hankow, Kiuking, Chinkiang, Newchang and Tientsin. These concessions fly the British Chinese Nationalists, even raising the | flag, are policed by British troops and ‘Get Your Union to Today! old familiar bogy of Bolshevism| ruled by British law. They constitute against the Cantonese, offering as|a convenient refuge for Chinese crim- proof of Chinese bolshevism the sim-|inals. And, in order further to crip- ple fact that Soviet Russia, unlike the| ple China, the imperialist cones imperialist powers, has consistently! have control of the Chinese tariff and customs, They claim extraterritorial- ity for Chinese tariff and customs. They claim extraterritoriality for their nationals, that is the right of Englishmen, Americans, etc., to vio- jlate Chinese laws and customs with impunity and to be tried in their own courts, under. their own laws, Russia and Germany Neutral. Only Germany and Soviet Russia do not claim extraterritoriality or hold concessions in China, Germany, as a result of the world war, having been forced to surrender her conces- sions and extraordinary status, and Soviet Russia having voluntarily re- linquished those claims as the result of the overthrow of capitalism in Rus- sia and the creation of a workers’ state. Fight Imperialism. It is against this system of impe- rialist exploitation of the Chinese masses, that the Chinese Nationalist government is fighting. It is because the Canton government represents the interests and aspirations of the downtrodden Chinese masses and has declared its determination to fight un- til the imperialist system, in which the' Chinese people have been slaves of the capitalists, is destroyed, that masses have rallied to its support. Negro Attitude. In the face of this consideration, what is to be the attitude of the Negro masses in the United States? What the attitude of the Negro press? Is it to be one of continued apathy and unconcern towards one of the great- est social manifestations in the world of color—a struggle replete with sig- nificance for the Negro masses and the oppressed and exploited of all the earth? Is the Negro to continue in- different to this tremendous phase of the universal liberation struggle? | WITHDRAW ALL U. S. WARSHIPS FROM NICARAGUA! NO INTERVENTION IN MEXICO! HANDS OFF CHINA! VIII Bunny must not stop to nourish his grief, but must hurry to call upon the French Communists and offer to pay the costs of a lawyer to institute legal proceedings and find out what was happening to Paul. But as a matter of fact the effort Was not necessary, for next morning all the newspapers had the story; a notorious American Bol- shevik agitator had been escorted by the authorities to Havre and placed on board a steamer to sail that day. The Communist paper in its report commented sarcastically; this was one Bolshevik agitator whom the American government could not very well refuse to admit, since they had him under bond of twenty thousand dollars to make his appearance in court! Bunny had so little confidence in ‘the French au- thorities that he took the precau- tion to wireless Paul to the steamer with reply prepaid; and a few hours later he got the words, “On the way to Paradise”—a code message from Paul! Three days later came a message from his sweetheart—no code this time, but a proclamation to the whole world. The newspapers of Paris and all other capitals—of Madagascar, Paraguay, Nova Zem- bla, Thibet and New Guinea—an- nounced the engagement of Viola Tracy, American screen actress, to Prince Marescu of Roumania; the wedding was to take place in the -great cathedral of Bucharest, and Queen Marie herself would attend. The efficient publicity organization of Schmolsky-Superba had con- trived many a stunt in its time, but never one so effective as this which fate handed to it, free, gratis, and for nothing! And so there was a chapter closed in Bunny’s life. The door which | had led from his suite in the hotel to Vee’s suite was locked, and a piece of furniture moved in front of it. But there was no piece of fur- niture that could be moved in front of the memory in Bunny’s mind! Nothing could shut out that slender white figure, so vivid and eager, and the memory of the delights she had brought to him. He was maimed in soul, as the victims of the White Terror were maimed in body—and in the same cause! There were women here, of all kinds and sizes, native and Ameri- can, young ladies of the highest fashionableness, willing to receive the attentions of a young oil prince. They knew about his romance and his broken heart; and their shrewd mammas told them an ancient for- mula, known to the feminine world since the dawn of coquetry—‘“Catch him on the rebound!” Bunny was besought to attend tea parties and dances, but mostly he went to So- cialist meetings; and when he thought about girls, it was to Angel City that his fancy fled. Ruth Watkins was so gentle and quiet, yet brave—not giving up her broth- er because he turned into a Bolshe- vik!) And Rachel Menzies was so steady, so grim in her determina- tion to send him a four-page paper, as regular as the calendar, and al- ways telling him everything he wanted to know! Once every month she sent an itemized ‘state- ment of receipts and expenditures, typed with her own fingers, and al- ways exactly right—whatever dol+ lars were left over went for sample copies, so he was never troubled by either surplus or deficit! Ix September, and Dad came bring- ing an announcement that caused him to hesitate, and turn fiery red after he got going. “You know, son, I have got to be very good friends with Alyse, we—that is, we areinterested in the same ideas, and we realize that we can help each other.” \ “Yes, Dad, of course.” “Well, the fact is—you know how it is—I’ve been imposing on you for so long, but now you will be free, because I’ve asked Alyse to marry me, and she consents.” “Well, Dad, I’ve been expecting that for a quite a while. I’m sure you will be happy.” Dad looked very much relieved— had he feared a tantrum, after the fashion of Bertie? He hastened to say, “I want to tell you—Alyse and T have bsagee sed over, and we agree—s| you, and appreciates your standing by me and all, and she wants you to know that she’s not marrying me for my | money.’ ‘ Ao Dad, I don’t think that.” ell, you know Bertie, and what she thinks, Bertie is mercenary— ) Upton Ginclair I suppose she got it from her moth- er. Anyhow, I’m not a-goin’ to say anything to her about this, it is none of her business; we’ll just get married on the quiet, and Bertie can read about it in the papers. What I’m ‘a-goin’ to do is this— Alyse says she hasn’t had anything to do with helping me make my money, and she don’t want my chil- dren to hate her, as they will if she comes in and takes a big share.” “Oh, but I won’t, Dad!” “We've agreed that I’m to make a will, and leave a million dollars to her, and the rest will go to you and Bertie, and Alyse will be satis- fied with that—it will give her enough to carry on the psychic work she’s interested in. You un- derstand, she wants to do that—” “Yes, of course, Dad., I am a propagandist too!” “I know son; and what I’ve been thinking—you have a right to ex- press your ideas, And while I don’t agree with that little paper, I can see that it’s honest, it says what you think; so I’m a-goin’ to make over a million dollars worth of Ross stock to you, and you can jist go ahead and do what you please with that. I hope you won’t turn into a Bolsheviki like Paul, and I hope you won’t find it necessary to get into jail.” “It would be pretty hard to keep me in jail if I had a million dollars, Dad.” The old man grinned; the me- diums and the spirits had not yet driven the old devil entirely out of him. He went on to say that of course they weren’t going to have as much money as he had once tought. Those government suits were a-going’ to dig a big hole in it —no doubt the politicians would fix it so Dad and Verne would lose. Of course they might get a pile out of these new deals abroad, but that was speculative—not the sort of thing Dad fancied, but he was leav- ing it to Verne. “What are you and Mrs.—Alyse going to do, Dad?” “Well, we want to have a sort of —you might call it a Spiritualist honeymoon, We’ll go*see that me- dium in Vienna, and there’s an- other in Frankfort that we’ve heard about. It'll depend for one thing on what you want.. Maybe you'll go back to California.” “T think I wili, Dad, for a while —if you are sure you can spare me.” Yes, Dad said he and Alyse would get along all right; his sec- retary had learned enough French for practical purposes, and they would have a courier or interpreter tor their stay in Germany, He hoped the climate there woula agree with him; he didn’t seem ever to be strong now. That ‘fiu had sort of done him up. The preliminary steps were taken, and Bunny and his father and the secretary and Mrs. Alyse Huntington Forsythe Olivier ali put *on thew best glad rags and ap- . peared before the maire of one of the small towns on the outskirts of Paris and were duly wedded, and Bunny kissed his new stepmother on both cheeks, and the maire did the same, and also kissed Bunny and Dad on both cheeks. And then Dad took his son to one side and placed an envelope in his hands. it was an order on Verne to turn over thirty-two hundred shares of Ross Consolidated Class B stock; a little more than a million at the market. They were “street certifi- cates,” Dad explained—he had al- ready signed them and left them with Verne, in case they wished to market them. “And now, son,” said the old man, “have a little sense—this is a pile of money, and don’t throw it away. Take your time and be sure what you want to do, and don’t let yourself be plucked by grafters that will come round just as soon as they smell itt” (To Be Continued.) Kuzbas Needs Expert Workmen From U. S. S. S. Shipman, manager of the New York office of “Kuzbas” Autonomous Industrial Colony in Siberia, wishes to correct an impression which may be gained from a previous announce- ment that the New York office was closed because it is not necessary to bring over more ‘technicians from America, It was not because Kuzbas does not need expert workmen, Kuzbas needs technicians still, but does not feel that it needs an office in New York to provide them. Don't Delay!