The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 26, 1927, Page 4

me ‘a taste of labor’s’ power and they are now busy forging legal | ‘Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by Saas |Imperialism’s Blood Bath| NY _ mom ovtwrt | Thursday at Nanking /Should Arouse All Labor SUBSCRIPTION RATES By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): 68.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months 2.50 three months $2.00 three months CE nen cae aaa Se Anan Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } : . .Editors HURSDAY, March 24, 1927, should stand big as a WILLIAM F. DUNNE jvvv''r* eters" date in the annals of history recording the develop- BERT MILLER,........+++++++00+ Business Manager ing relations between the workers of the United States —_—_ Entered ss second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. and China. It was on this day that Wall Street imperialism re- vealed itself as a blood ally of its British counterpart, the warships of the United States and Great Britain alike visiting death by wholesale upon the Chinese at Nanking, while American, and English assassins in uni- form co-operated at Shanghai, causing the foreign office at London to announce with delight that: A Little Trath Among Many Lies. “Admiral Williams (head of the naval’ forces of: the Reports of splits in the Kuomintang Party of Ching have united States) and the British authorities are, working been frequent of late. Those reports became more insistent’as| in closest co-operation. The initiative ta by the the Nationalist armies advanced northward towards Shanghai. | American forces is characterffed as_most gratifying. The northern mercenaries were scattered by the revolutionary | Adler sctiry oenaren ; F shaft } PS ; aH 4nd | of the poisoned’ propaganda that the Unite: ates hat armies like chaff before a storm. The imperialists must find only altenistic rmotiree ih the Orient. "the Soper door” consolation somewhere so they looked for it in-a split in the| was urged as a new way of making te a ee ca :. D, i ] . ‘ + ,/ democracy,” even before Woodrow Wilson faked an Kuomintang Party. But tho they sought they did not find much. pn ny AAD Cteoae. te Samape (ha Amoridain ohtxy It is true that there are differences inside the ranks of | into the world war. palatable to those workers and farm- the Kuomintang Party. In fact even a graveyard is not en-|ers who could be blinded by this lying slogan. _ tirely free from animation.: Grass grows and worms crawl} It was pointed out that the United States enjoyed no within its gloomy confines. , | extra-territoriality rights in China, that “dollar diplo- « |macy” sought yo concessions, only the “open door” to The Kuomintang Party is a federation composed of mer-|trade, British imperialism, that spawned the opium chants, students, peasants and workers. Those elements repre- ve neat China, was 9 ig le the pent ceisine fi s i i i i Abera: rofessors over e lan reac sent the forces in Chinese national life that support the Lind be ee de ao gies camber Fo remipes ls Oat es tional liberation movement. But the workers and peasants have | i. ocrac: 7 that was brought forth upon this continent more ambitious aims. They want to free themselves from every with the revolutionary war of 1776. kind of exploitation. * And they have dominated the policies of . the Kuomintang Party. Revolutions, however, are different aang Asie bi i man As the party program embodied more and more of the de- Beigyets Riksta g arate: the alcLisg aft ot the pai mands of the: workers and peasants, the local landowners and of alien imperialism, as well as political independence militarists came into conflict with the party and were dropped, from the homeland. In fact the, three outstanding strug- sometimes kicked out. Those elements that expected to carve \ Sor fe agai paar ip T RON weitedl sgastend. careers out of a disunited»China, were disappointed. They had \ence, but against the ravages of the imperialist monster to go. The next to feel the boot.of the revolutionary workers that recognizes no boundary lines laid down by geogra- and peasants in the Kuomintang Party were the big merchants, | phers, but, claims the Whole world as its domain. posing as patriots but in-reality the commercial agents of the imperialists. a the Nationalist- armies advanced they took labor organ- izers along and taught the workers how to form trade unions. | The hours of labor began to drop, from 84 hours a week to 70 and sometimes to 54. Wages were boosted as high as 50 and 100 per-cent. This news fell on the ears of imperialism with a sound as unpleasant as the stroke of doom. a, oo: Advertising rates on application. Workers of this country have been fed full for years Thus Frederick Moore, the Shanghai correspondent of the New York Times, in his dispatch dated March °23, proudly leads off as follows: “American marines entered the first line entrench- ments early this morning, assuming a position protect- ing the British left flank at the Markham Road Bridge, overlooking Soochow Creek.” The New York Times itself joyously proclaims in head- lines, “Our Marines in Front Line.” i On a s litte a: In the front line for what? Not to protect American Land rents were cut 25 per cent and a peasant militia was | lives! The revolution in China has now been on for 16 organized to enforce the decree: : This was a violation of the lyears. All those who have no stomach for it, have had “sacred rights of property.” This was not the kind of a war|ample time to get out. Even the New York Herald- that George Washington waged against the British. It was an- | Tribune partially admits this when it says, Friday, March other kind of revolutionary war. A pox on it! shrieked the im- ores aaa (Aitsiediny = toe tbe oioab pepe adiaieiak perialists. And there were a few careerists in the Kuomintang who have remained at isolated points; tts’ possible Party that still nourished illusions. They hoped China would that only a few are in real danger. BUT THESE HAD stop short at jhe respectable bourgeois) republican stage. They|AMPLE WARNING AND HAVE ACCEPTED THE would like to gee the Communists expdlled. They would like to path i Gee VOLUNTARILY AS A PART OF THEIR shake the hand of foreign imperialisn in return for Joans Ot the akine applies with equal, if-riot additional force develop Chinese industry for the benefit of the imperialists. On to the agents of big business in China. American work- those elements Chang-Tso-Lin and his) allies built their hopes. ers can have but one bit of advice to them all and that Those elements supply the juice for the elbow power of the im- 's to, “Get out! ios aa perialist scribblers that have been busy clicking out stories of| 7, imperialist government at Washington, iowever, splits to a hungry bourgeois world. |gives no heed to the demands of labor for “Hands Off But two and a half million organized industrial workers and ane “ pace cry, “Withdraw the warships i i the Orient!” peasants under Communist leadership are strong enough to} trom ve ae oo AES blast this imperialist dream. The splits in the Kuomintang end Instead Wall: Stroct'imperialiam crawls closer. to with the splitters on the outside and shorn of their power. !for that enviable position. The government at Wash- | Where Is the Clayton Act? ington rushes additional warships across the Pacific. Local 30 of the Milk Drivers’ and Creamery Workers’ Union, | Troops that have helped hold the Filipinos in slavery to Bos a | American greed these past three decades (since 1898), ton, shu ordered fo pay damages to the tune of $61,971.44 |are ordered to the continent of Asia. The state and navy to three milk companies by a Massachusetts court for having! gepartments at Washington announce that Admiral carried on agitation against those companies because they re-| Williams, at Shanghai, like Admiral Latimer at Nica- fused to recognize the right of their employes to join a union. | ragua, has “the fullest authority to act as he sees fit in This is an echo of the Danbury hatter’s case in which the union | the emergency. Six awe @ SIS, was hit with a $272,000 award in favor of a manufacturer. The) Then came Bloody Thursday, March 24th, inevitable ay th vard, jas a result of the authority given to Williams, when A. F. of L. collected money to pay ee ated , | American destroyers, true to the name given these ships - Mhen came the Clayton Act. This was one 6f Sam Gompers’ | o¢ war, rained death on Nanking, murdering its inhabi- proudest achievements. He purred over it atyevery A. F. of L.| tants wholesale and setting fire to sections of the city. convention and when a progressive rose to question the value) This is eines that American warships “protect lives + ‘. “ ‘ nd ,property. of legal tinkering to the working class Sam usually floored the |® Tone r being perithein ani arid ny, seebartibon < Maiecie malcontent with a shot of Clayten dung. 25th. The latest news dispatches coming in are con- There would be no more Danbury awards, now that the Clay- | flicting as’ to whether any American lives were really ton Act was on the statute books. It added to labor’s dignity. |lost or not on Thursday. , At 2:16 this dispatch. arrived sfini: decl: hat labor was not odity, Karl °Ve? the wires of the International News Service: Did it not definitely sit ube that labor was not a re ek purer “London, March 25.—The work of evacuating the for- Marx to the contrary. It is true that workers continued to offer eigners from Nanking is proceeding smoothly, a Shang- their labor power for sale, but the A, F. of L. bureaucrats were hai dispatch to the Central News tonight (London time) not to be irritated with such things. The dignity of labor was/| reported. All foreign girls in'the city are now accounted attested to on a capitalist statute book, even tho the exploiters’ | 2 and are all aboard the Emerald, the dispatch added. heel continued to tickle labor’s neck. | A socialist weekly observes that the employers cannot do “Bbapgnal: Masvlt 26. Ge’ ned ortees = those things in Great Britain. Sometimes they can and some-|twenty Americans whose fate in Na a - times they cannot. During the general strike the employers Ot Nevin B eH vacuation.” have ‘arrived at thé * chains for hamper them when the next inevitable struggle breaks.| But in the early morning a London dispatch of the And if British labor confines its defense against those efforts, to | International ere abi ee cae pane nae the mouthings of the right wing parliamentarians in the house sat peony tie "Tiree eine: toes saben: by os of commons, all the gains that were made by British labor thru | pombardment of British and American warships.” years of struggle outside and inside parliament will be wiped | Shanghai today.” away over night. A law favorable to labor will remain on a talist statute book only as long as labor is strong enough to | keep it there. And not until labor is able and willing to take the capitalist statute books and dump them in a deep gully, and write their own laws under the auspices of a workers’ and farm- ers’ government will they have a guarantee that laws are written) to help and not to strangle them. In fighting the British anti-labor laws the British Labor Party played a big part. If the American Federation of Labor bureaucracy was not a tool of big business it would take the lead in organizing a Labor Party in the United States instead of flun- keying to the democrats and republicans and waging war against the radical, progressive elements in the American labor move- ment. ish imperialism in their common danger, revealing the \character of both. The British brand of robbery has been openly accepted as the worst foreign foe of the |Chinese people. The Wall Street bandits openly strive Then at 2:25 o'clock came this dispatch: * * Thus imperialism, led by the alliance of United States with Great Britain, is putting its torch of destruction to Chinese cities, and snuffing eut the lives of people who have chosen to follow the pathway to the complete victory of the Chinese republic over, its oppressors, * * The New York Herald declares, in view @f these de- velopments, that “the only possible policy is to protect life with every available force,” while the Times joins in with, “They (the foreigners) cannot but be relieved that Great Britain and the other Powers, including the United States, have assembled there sufficient forces to make an effective defense in case the trouble spreads to that city (Shanghai).” That means that the imperialist powers are ready and eager to ‘continue the imperialist attack that started with the Nanking blood bath on Thursday, and which they hope may somchow lead to the defeat of the révo- lution. British and American labor, in the name of world working class solidarity, must unite to block that grow- ing attack by more strenuously attacking imperialism at home. ae aN ‘ ‘ ' THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1927 ‘Comrade Ruthenberg, | | | The Builder of the Party | | | veloping momentum in all sections of the country. Many | new members are coming into the Party. Even where | |the Party is the weakest, Ruthenberg Memorial Meet- | jings, of considerable size, have been held. The DAILY | WORKER today publishes the speech delivered by Ben | | Gitlow, member of the Party’s Central Executive Com- | | mittee; at the Chicago Ruthenberg Memorial Meeting. |Much of this material will be brought together later in book form. Comrade Gitlow said: * * ’ | Tomorrow We Will Remember. E have come to mourn Comrade Ruthenberg’s death. | Today we mourn and tomorrow we will remember. Comrade Ruthenberg was one of the most loyal and de- | voted members of the working class. Comrade ‘Ruthen- | berg was the one outstanding leader of that class. Not only does the Communist movement of this country suffer on account of the death of our comrade but the | Working class in the Untied States suffers equally as well. | Comrade Ruthenberg was that fighter in the ranks |of the working class that during the period of the world |war and the reaction following the world war, organized in the United States, the most powerful capitalist coun- jtry in the world, a revolutionary political party, that | will lead the American working class to final victory, * * J A Comrade Ruthenberg’s life was devotéd to the cause of the exploited and oppressed masses, not only in this country, but in every country in thé world. American capitalism is brutal. American imperialism dominates and-subjects to its will practically the entire world. In | our factories, in our mines, and in all our.establishments millions of toilers are daily exploited. Comrade Ruthen- | |berg built for the millions of toilers a Party that will) continue to inspire them to militant action, a Party that will lead them in the struggle for their own liberation, |a Party that in spite of tremendous difficulties, in spite {of a powerful capitalist militarism, will direct these mil- lions of toilers to final victory. ‘ I remember the great Russian Party, when the world Communist movement lost its most foremost and out- standing leader, Comrade Lenin. I remember at that time that the capitalist press rejoiced at the death of Lenin. They -were positive that. Lenin’s death would usher in a new situation, not only in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union but in the whole revolu- tionary working class situation. But to the surprise of the capitalist world, the death of Lenin solidified the ranks of the revolutionary working class movement. * * * In the United States we have lost a great leader, a great leader not only of our Party but a great leader also for the American working class. The death of Comrade Ruthenberg is a severe blow to our Party. On the occasion of Comrade ‘Ruthenberg’s death we pledge ourselves as members of the revolutionary vanguard that his life, his action, his courage, his determination shall be the spirit that will guide us to consolidate our ranks, to strengthen our Party, and to march forward in the line of Comrade Ruthenberg, ever fighting until victory is won. One fact all must recognize. Out of the chaos, out of the disorder that results from capital- ism, there is only one force that is disciplined, that has a program, that believes in that program and has the courage to put it into effect. There is only one uncompromising foe of capitalism in this coun- try and in every other country in the world, and that uncompromising foe ;of capitalism is the Communist Party, together with the Communist Parties of all other countries welded together in a world Communist Party, the Communist International. We must in memory of Ruthenberg, as a tribute to his life’s activity solemnly pledge and decide that in these, the United States of America, we will build a Communist Party that in‘ every factory will have a nucleus, a Communist Party against war, against cap- italist brutality, against every dastardly act of capital- ism. That we will build a Party which can give the signal to empty the factories, pour the masses into the streets, and demonstrate that real power lies in the working class, in the producing masses. If we continue to understand the importance of our Party, the im- portance of organization, and that we must have a pow- erful organization to overcome the mighty organization machine of the capitalists in this country, then the suc- cess of the Communist movement, the success of the proletarian revolution in this country is assured. * * * Comrade Ruthenberg, our friend, our comrade, our jleader is no more. Comrade Ruthenberg, we are sad, we mourn, but Comrade Ruthenberg we do not mourn forever. Comrade Ruthenberg, in your spirit, in your understanding of the necessity of organization we mourn no more. We now continue to build so that we can pfight, so that-we can win. Fellow workers, members of the great army of the American working class, if you are convinced that the Communist movement is the movement of the working class, if you are convinced that it is the only force that can lead to the overthrow of American. capitalism, then you can best pay your tribute to the memory of our departed leader by joining the fighting revolutionary political party, the Workers (Communist) Party of America. The Daily Symposium Conducted by EGDAMLAT. * THE QUESTION. Do you agree with C\arence Darrow, that capital pun- ishment should be abolished? THE PLACE. Broadway between 28th and 82nd streets. ‘ THE ANSWERS. / H. Bader, 30th street, Coney Island, fur operator: “Yes. Capital punishment hasn’t proven itself to be an effective check for crime. Despite the fact that many criminals are being electrocuted yearly, there. is no marked decrease in homicides.” ‘ Harry Flaum, 2927 29th street, Brooklyn, insurance agent: “Yes, I believe that capital punishment should be abolished—two wrongs do not make ‘a right. If it is wrong for an individual to commit murder, it is equally wrong for the state to do so,” Charles Binder, 4206 15th avenue, Brooklyn, broker: “Yes, but not until Mrs, Snyder’s case is closed. Such murders might become more frequent if any clemency is shown her.” Mrs. Augusta Bernard, 1175 Grand Concourse, Bronx, housewife: “Yes, by all means, Capital punishment is cruel and barbaric. It is a relic of the dark ages. Criminal cases should be treated scientifically and not with stupid vengeance. Capital punishment as a means of preventing crimes has failed.” ME, H. Levine, 72 East 114th street, taxi driver: “No. Cases ‘Neola y hong ti beh Grrr Aid capital punishment. ere wasn’t any fear for being elec- trocuted, murders would increase manifold.” Laura Berkowitz, 1072 Findlay avenue, Bronx, unem- ployed: “Yes, I agree with Mr. Darrow. Life imprison- ment is, certainly, ‘eriough punishment for any crime. Taking a life for a life does not solve the problem.” (Today’s question was suggested by A. Mirk, 952 East Tremont ar let us hear from more of our ‘di ‘Egdaml ; 4 x . ) | NOTE.—The Ruthenberg Membership Drive is d- io 5j EUGENE LYONS « FIRST ROMAN GLADIATOR: The beans in Mike’s hashery SECOND CONQUERING GENERAL: Me too, Pete. FOOTNOTES soem wie Public Service.—The thrill of having performed a public’ service comes?so rarely to this member of the American commonwealth that it is worth recording. The other day, for instance, we read that $600,000,000 in ‘income taxes were collected in New York; a nice 1} round figure, pleasant to behold and easy to fit into headlines. i And we were thrilled by the knowledge that our contributiom’ of $1.18 made it possible and prevented the annoying awkward total of $599,999,998.87. Some time before that we read in the morning paper that 15,000,000 had listened in on a certain radio program. Only by the sheerest accident, we knew, we had prevented the clumsy figure of 14,999,998 from smudging our press. We had been fussing with the dials in search of a bedtime story for our progeny and stumbled across the grand-opera concert, thus adding the two listeners*who rounded out the total. A Daniel Come to Judgment.—Who says judges have no heart? From Massachusetts, where Sacco and Vanzetti are winding up their seventh year of imprisonment, Phyllis Fenigston announces the discovery of Judge Frederick H. Chase and recommends that he “ought to be retained by the next group of workers ‘who strike.” Judge Chase, in brief, defended*some Harvard students who had run riot and gotten themselves arrested. He pointed out that the boys were just having a good time... “the spirit of youth, a spirit which is not to be crushed by clubs, even though they be wielded by police officers.” He pleaded (we quote the Boston Transcript!) that “In considering a charge of disturbing the peace, the time, the place and the circumstances must all be taken into account. ... An officer has no rie’, when making an arrest, to “use more force than is necessary. Officers have no right to create disturbances when none exist. They have no right to impel their force into a peacable gathering and convert it into one in which rt there are cries and exclamations brought forth by their conduct.” This view should be especially interesting to workers acquainted with procedure in the New York fur district, in the New Jersey textile sections, etc. AMONG “SUPER”-MEN —Drawn by William Gropper. ain’t what they used to be any more, I tell you. Me for Max’s one-arm. i Fer ten | cents y’git a stew that kills yer ap’tite fer a week and it saves | money. 14 GLADIATOR: Sure y’got to go easy when all y’gits is four bits GENERAL: Last week—when I was one o’them high priests in GLADIATOR: Yes, that was the time I was one of Cleopatra’s a news story out of Germany. thing may be credited to birth control propaganda. The beasts who shivered and moaned when confronted by the lone stork were females. who urges that we accept Mr. Scissorbill’s dare and print in full: ' DAILY WORKER, especially those with Rolls-Ré iis tenn denen for luggin’ these costooms all night. the Egyptian temple, remember ?— | lovers—I remember. - “Lone Stork Enters Lions’ Cage, Striking Terror into 14 Beasts,” says We learn from unreliable sources that the The following letter was intercepted by Henry George Weiss, ~ Dear Sir: I sometimes read The DAILY WORKER—tho I am too smart to believe in all that ignorant 8tuff about Communism—and there- . fore have seen where you want people to write about things. Well, I know you won’t dare print this, because maybe if you did it would * show the boobs that believe all your lies about the bosses how mis- | taken they are. About the bosses I mean. Ihave a good boss. He pays me eighteen dollars a week when I work, tho I don’t always work every week. We've got one of those damn reds that works with us, and he’s the sucker that shows me The DAILY WORKER which I sometimes reads. You bet he can’t argue with me. The other day he’s shooting his mouth off about the workers owning the shop and I says to him, it ain’t possible, I says, to do without the bosses. Why not, he asks. Because, I says, who would pay us our wages then. Well, he looked terrible surprised. I bet he had never thot of that before. But then there’s lots of things them suckers never think of because if they had brains they wouldn’t be Communists. Well, I bet you don’t print this for fear some of the boobs will read how I showed up this fourflusher. I am, For the Bosses, , A. SCISSORBILL. Some More About Liberals.—A letter in the current number of The New Republic has a comprehensive solu- tion for the Mexican problem. The suggestion has at least simplicity to recommend it. And it is so typical the liberal mind that probably it has not yet to the editors of The New Republic that it is funny; The idea in brief is this: Certain oil companies have accepted the Mexican petroleum laws, others have not. Let the readers of The New Republic therefore buy their ‘oil from companies which have complied. “The corre- spondent himself has already begun this s . He buys only from nice companies. If there is a sudden un- explained settlement of the American-Mexican. difficul- ties others may be puzzled, but readers of the N. R.— and those wise enough to study this column—will under- stand how it happened. We trust that readers of The ‘and motor-boats, will check up— of their oil (including Nujol) before buying. On ‘litt