The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 30, 1927, Page 2

Page Two ESME HOWARD AT! American Economic Life By WAULPROL. | BRITISH RAIDING Pravda, Moscow Communist IRON BANQUET IN| Daily, Lashes Imperialist EXPEDITION RAZES | RAGE OVER CHINA Massacre at Nanking, China CHINESE VILLAGES | MOSCOW, U. S. S. R:, March 29.—The massacre of thousands of | " | Cheers Nanking Murder | the peaceful Chinese population at Nanking by British and American | Nationalist Govt, Makes ii troops is bitterly scored in a Pravda editorial, entitled “PUT IN THE —Mad at Bolsheviki Strong Protest PILLORY.” WORCESTER, Mass., March 29—| By Chinese Nationalist News by | PRICES STILL ON BUILDING RESTS } The bombardment of Nanking ig one of the most ghastly in the | | ‘ long bloody history of imperialism, the editorial declares, “A groat city | | At a joint banquet held here at the| of a half million population was set afire by Anglo-American warships. Agency). DOWNWARD TREND ON SHAKY BA Baneroft hotel by the metal trades} CANTON, March 29--Four Bri-, 5 branch of the National Manufactur- |tish warships and the aircraft car-| NEAR 1999 DEPTH PRES | Thousands of people were killed and mutilated by shells, thousands of ers’ Association and the Central Mas-} R i 1 Faia rier Hermes, transporting e landing} homes. No sooner had the revo- rupt newspaper men fill colwwans lutionary banner risen over Nan- with inspired Propaganda, Let king than the Anglo-American | Nanking burn--trampled ‘clvili- others were deprived of their GAeTSARTG - sachusetts Employers’ Association, | ded Chi | force of 300 men, raided Chinese} squadron bombarded the city. zation’ has been restored! The } the British ambassador, Sir Esme Howard, delivered a speech on the! At the unusual price water and territory in the vicinity) Chinese situation, “Tefelt a thrill,” said Esme, “as I read that the two governments have} stood shoulder to shoulder,” refer-| ving to the bombardment of Nanking| and Shanghai by the U, S. and Bri-| tish warships. “We may have minor differences, but in an emergency we} always shall be there to protect our| own citizens as at Nanking.” Laments Over China. | Bewailing the plight of the im-| periglists in China, Sir Esme almost} burst into tears when he said: | “We know who inspires all this} sati-British agitation by which the} poor and ignorant Chinese coolies| are wrought up to violence and pil-| lage. The inspiration comes from| Moscow, which from the first estab-| lishment of the Soviet Republic, has) aimed at driving the British alto-| gether out of Asia—believing that if} it could accomplish this it would not be difficult to get rid of other west- ern powers from the Asiatic con- tinent, and thus secure it for their ideas; and believing, secondly, that if| the British can be driven out of Asia, | it will not be difficult to promote a| Bolshevik revolution in Great Bri-| tain itself, which would be the pre-! cursor of similar revolutions in all European countries.” Se * In protest against this attack on Russia, two British comrades, one of whom is a former officer in the >: Royal British military service, sent the following telegram to Sig Esme Howard. | “To the British Ambassador, “Washington, D. C. “Reference your outburst at the! capitalist soviet of manufacturers, Worcester, Mass., we the undersigned British subjects, Anglo-Saxon to the marrow, hereby warn you and home| government that we abhor your con-| us-stricken attack on Soviet Rus-| sia, light of the world, the workers’ fatherland. _ “We pledge ourselves and all ne can reach to boycott ‘all British ex- ports and services, “Death to your imperialist ciyiliza- tion. Long live England’s coming economie democracy, (Signed M. & L. UNDERWOOD. "| BUY THE DAILY WORKER | AT THE NEWSSTANDS MURDER CHILDREN. moneyed mob rejoicing, the “These criminals did their job | mistresses of British and Amer- neatly; they knew what artillery | ican officers are rejoicing—their to use—heavy guns and incendi- ‘friends’ will receive orders of ary projectiles; they knew where to fire—-where the population was thickest, where there were most women and children, where Nanking workers, whose slavery earns for them twopence a day, live in their miserable hoyels, “Six-inch guns against infants —such was the gallant, humane defence of ‘civilization’ by Ad- miral Williams— Herod, who within twenty minutes covered the streets of Nanking with corpses, who burned down half the city. CHINESE WILL NOT FORGET. “History will not forget the name of this ‘hero of today’; the Chinese will not forget, the proletariat the world over will not forget, this monstrous and bloody massacre of a peaceful population. “The bourgeoisie is applauding the massacre, the imperialist press is rejoicing, and the cor- AD THE CHINESE REVOLUTION WITH ALL MEANS, THE APPEAL OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL | merit for slaughtering little chil- | dren with six-inch cannon. | BLACK HUNDREDS APPLAUD. | “The black hundreds thruout | the world applaud—the Chinese | revolution has been ‘warned’; Nanking may be razed to the ground, but imperialist ‘prestige’ has been restored. PROPAGANDA BLOOD- STAINED. “Anglo-American henchmen were only ‘defending themselves’, they were ‘attacked.’ They are raising the old infamous sing- song. How can we believe the distorted reports of incendiaries and murderers? Their propa- ganda still smells of the warm blood of Nanking workers, of their wives, their mothers, their children—of those who died with malediction and hatred against the imperialist rabble on their lips.” (Continued from Page One) mats. The executive of the Communist International calls upon the labor organizations of the world to stru ggle against the newly begun war whose consequences may be immeasurable. Organize a mass protest against this criminal war! Demand the with- drawal of troops and gunboats from forces to China! Expose everywhe treachery of those glossing over th China! Prevent the despatch of new re the cowardice, the hypocrisy, the e real nature of the war. Comrades. -Ten years ago the International bourgeoisie, headed by England, sought to defeat the wor king class of Russia and to restore czarism. It brought its forces into the country and bombarded towns, it allied itself with reactionary generals, organized plots and_revolts, created lies about “Bolshevik atrocities,” had recourse to the old “civilized” diplomacy; but a mighty mass moyement of the ied methods of oples throughout the world wrecked all plans of the enemies of the péople— the landowners, monarchists, bankers and generals. * > THE PEOPLE AGAINST CAPITAL. Now the people of China have risen. Against it is pitted international capital, headed hy England and America. However many thousands these “christians” may murder, they will not be abie to strangle the four hun- dred million people who have raised the banner of emancipation. With all forces, with all means, we must aid the Chinese revolution. Dowa with the war against China! Down with the henchmen of capitalism! Long live the organized resistance to imperialist depredation! Long live the victory of the Chinese victory! Horrible Crime Stirs World’s Workers (Continued from Page One) | formation without question from Reu- ter’s, the British official news agen- cy. Moore’s predictions of coming events in China are standing jokes in newspaper circles here. It is reported here that the Na- tionaligt commander at Wuhu issued an ultimatum to the British demand- ing @n indemnity for the loss of 35 Chinese lives that were lost when a} Chinese launch was struck by a Brit- | ish owned vessel. The Britishers are said to have deliberately ran down! - the Chinese vessel. Orders haye been issued to Ameri- cans in the centre of China to make their way quickly to the coast. British Using Tea Cups. | The British are using all the arts! at their command to draw Admiral | Williams and General Smedley Butler into the social net and make them fee] that “the two Anglo-Saxon peo- ples” should jointly slaughter the Chinese. The interests of Great Brit- ain have been so thoroly blasted in China by her brutal and murderous that there is now no possibil- ity of retrieving the situation.’ Thus Britain is angling, and successfully to induce the United States govern- ment in Washington to sanction the Nanking slaughter by an official de- claration of a united front with Great Britain. It is said that Williams and Smedley now favor such a course. Japanese are Cautious. The Japanese naval and land offi- cers are under the most rigid orders to take all possible care to avoid con- fliet with the Chinese. Especially the. Nationalist military forces. They have been warned not to open fire upon the Chinese except as a final resort., The Japanese officers fre- quently go unarmed when mingling with the Chinese to show their friend- liness. It is evident that Tokio is looking far into the future when the Cantonese government may be in ab- solute contro] without danger of out- side interference. | ° . * French Deny Report. PARIS, March 29.—The French for- eign office today denied that the French forces defending the French concession in Shanghai have been put under the command of Major General Danean, British Shanghai defense commander. Russians Protest Nanking Massacre. SE OT ay LENINGRAD, March 29.--Numer-| ous meetings are being held to pro-! | Meetings ‘In factories as well as huge mass demonstrations denounce China. Representatives of the! Kuomintang, trade unions and stu- AT PEACE TALK their victories and denouncing the | picts atrocities of the imperialists, iW /Wants More Reserves; test against the Nanking massacre. British and American intervention in WITH ENGLAND dent bodies have adopted resolutions | Next War a Bad One congratulating the Nationalists on| ae ae Demand Control of University. GENEVA, March 29.—The United CANTON, March 29.—The major- ity of the students of the American} controlled Lingham-Canton Christian | College have been on strike since Fri-| States delegation to the League of day, making demands for the control of the university by the Chinese junior staff. Acting President Wisner said that the final decision as to the future’ of the university rests with the trustees Nations preparatory disarmament conference, headed by Hugh Gibson, minister to Switzerland, interyened today in an effart to break the dead- lock between Great Britain and in New York. eae See U.S. Forces Under British? LONDON, March 29.—-Reports that the United States government has agreed to place its forces in Shanghai under the general British command were current here today, although the reports stated that there is some con- flict between the leaders of the Amer- ican and British forces in Shanghai as to how this co-operation shall he carried out. * ® Workers Make Protest. (Special To The DAILY WORKER) CANTON, March 29.—-Indignation over the bombardment of Nanking is increasing daily. Huge mass meetings are held in the streets at which speakers call for vengeance. Labor unions haye issued protests against the slaughter of thousands of peaceful Chinese citi- zens by Anglo-American gunboats. (Preliminary estimates place the num- ber of killed and wounded at 7,000.) Continue Honan Drive. The ‘drive of the Nationalists arm- ies in Honan is making rapid progress. Nationalists armies defeated Mukden troops west of Chengchow, which has only recently been captured by the northern war lords, BUY AT DAILY WORKER NEWSSTANDS France on the matter of land dis- armament. Viscount Cecil, for Great Britain, has insisted that land disarmament proposals shall include reserves as well as active soldiers. | France Wants Army | M. Boneour, for France, has de- manded that land disarmament shall include only peace time soldiers un- der arms, Gibson today offered a compromise suggesting that limitations be placed upon men under arms and also upon a certain proportion of younger re- servists. Military experts are prophesying the next war will last one third as long as the last one, but will kill and tear down property at a vastly greater rate, the chief loss falling on civilians rather than on soldiers. Machines and Gas ‘The development of the airplane, its increase of carrying capacity, and its greater power to spread poison gas clouds is part of the reason, and the mechanization of artillery, the in- creased speed and usefulness of the tank, in both of which England takes the lead, is the rest of the reason, War will be ineonceivably costly in the future, says tl experts, and | vastly more Pak i of life, ‘ of Bias Bay. The expedition was secret. The landing force, co-opera- ting with airplanes flying over Chi- nese territory, and under the -protec- tion of naval guns, destroyed several | villages, razing 140 houses and fifty junks, | The expedition was planned by the Hongkong British government for the ostensible purpose of stopping piracy, but no pirates were captured. The official reports appearing in Hong kong newspapers do not mention the capture of pirates or the recovery of pirated goods. Only inoffensive Chi- | nese suffered. The Canton government received a protest from villagers whose homes were destroyed by the British bom- bardment, demanding that strong protest be lodged against the con- tinuation of Britain’s gunboat policy. The Canton government handed a note of protest to the British consul here, denouncing the violation of Chi- nese territory and making a reserva- | tion for reparations whieh will be de- manded when the extent of the dam- | age suffered by villagers has been | ascertained. | Public opinion here shows deep in- | dignation against such a deliberate | violation of China's sovereignty, a violation whieh is clearly opposed to all the principles of international law. Kell Talks to Cal About “The Letters” (Continued from Page One) , | country is entitled to an explanation”, |these people say, however sincerely, and seem to enjoy Kellogg, and the group of “diplomats” nearest to him squirm at the suggestion, The latter faction among the public |men of this capital are not prone to offer suggestions for publication. | Their speculations start on the prem- ise that the documents actually were forged, diffieult as it is to realize how they eouldwe forged, or how the carefully guarded cipher of the state department could come into the hands of unscrupulous persons, or how the sealed diplomatic mail pouch, sent by courier, could be opened’ by anybody but Ambassador Sheffield himself, for the purpose of inserting forged documents, Romance and Magic. This clique speaks out of Wash- ington thru such newspapers as the New York Times, organ of big business and first announeer of the “forgery”. Its argument rups to explanations which involve. mysterious gangs of international conspirators, eager to ergate a war on the American con- tinent, Mexican enemies of sident Calles, anxious to destroy him (and |their own country as well?), the | Communist International (its. reason for desiring the strengthening of the | American empire not satisfactorily indicated by the “explainers’”) and finally, in some quarters, timidly, a suggestion that oil companies might haye something to do with it. Not the American oil companies, of course, which refuse to obey the Mex- ican constitutional law or pay their taxes, but rivals of theirs, who would like to get property in Mexico. Kellogg Stands Mute. Meanwhile the person most directly implicated, supposing the documents were not forged after all, Secretary }of State Kellogg, is silent. He has nothing to say. Kellogg Caught Lying. The newspaper article which first announced the “forgery” was written by George Barr Baker, who is a for- mer assistant to Herbert Hoover, who directed the press publicity of Calvin Coolidge in the last presidential cam- paign and has recently gone to Mex- ico on business, It was he who pub- ‘lished the figures on the oil ecom- | panies’ that accepted and those that | | the Kellogg statement on that sub- ject to be grossly inaccurate. Baker now appears as the sponsor of the good name of Kellogg in Mex- ieo City. His story offers to the state department an easy avenue of retire- into which it may have walked in its eagerness to bulldoze Mexico on behalf of! the Mellon, Doheny and Sinclair oil interests, * Gives Kellogg Chance. It appears that Calles had received documents which showed that Ambas- sador Sheffield, in Mexico City, was recei from Kellogg advice and instructions of preparation for a pro- qeenean revolt or Fa Hata between nations. persuaded Calles to withhold judgment until od Ps been given a chance to seems to have done. The situation 1s now easier—at for the moment ee my aE ‘Overproduction Bring- | ing on Competition | ‘But Housing Shortage More Acute Than Ever Downright astonishing to the guar-| |dians of the best of all possible adl Wallprol’s warning last week in| this column that the present indus-| tems is the plumb-like decline of the | trig! activity is the hectic fever of a} price level. Last week it reached the| patient preparing for bad chills is| lowest level since early in 1922, when| accepted by Benjamin Baker,, econ-| the bottom had completely dropped|omist for the Annalist as a correct | jout of things. jstatement of the situation. Raker | The price index fell in one week! sees in steel and building activity) from 143.5 to 142, reflecting further| merely the usual spring upturn, to} |thuds of wheat and other farm pro-| be followed by duller months this} | ducts and a positively precipitous de-| summer and fall. He might have ex: | leline of seven points in coal. The | tended his diagnosis to inelude the |decline in coal prices represents the| preparations either for the coal jeut in anthraeite prices and the| strike on April 1, or the shutdown in softening of bituminous prices due to| the union fields if therg is no actual | the tremendous oyersupply and the | strike, | judgment of industrial leaders on the} At the expense of repetition, it is, consequences of the coal strike, |pointed out again that the gndoe | | The deeline points unerringly to! spurt in building, entirely unneeded | |over-production, so-called, bringing| and unwanted, is not in the least a) {on\sharper and sharper competition. | healthy sign for the business world. |The decline in interest rates, reflee-| Baker very properly discounts it, ted when the U, 8. Treasury was|too. Because byilding has been such | {able to get $1,000,000,000 at 3% a fundamental factor in prosperity | |per eent. to replace 4% bonds is ae-jsinge 1924, Wallprol emphasizes | jcompanying evidence of the increas-|again that it reflects merely. the) jing competition, brought about by! pressure of finance. capital for invest- | the great deluge of new capital being | ment in any venture that shows| created out of surplus values wrung! promise of making a return, Or to| from underpaid workers and-farmers.| put it in the more guarded phrase- | The American economie system is| ology of the Annalist: | literally staggering under the load of} “The question of how long this billions of dollars seeking investment| high volume of building contracts | | both at home and abread and in any| will -continue substantially at last/ |project from unneeded 50-story| year’s level can be answered only by | |apartment palaces to banana rail-|the future behavior of the .cheap| roads in Panama. |money supply, There is seemingly | |little room to doubt that the inion | | building activity of the past three | Cotton Surplus to |years has been as much due,to the | +} ~|eagerness of investors to aequire cer- Be Even Greater, Is | tificates of one type or another prom- | | ising a high rate of return, as to} Prospect for 1927 the real economie need of rentals of | | King Cotton will continue his sorry|all serts aboye the lower income | reign over the bankrupt south this | levels. } |year. This much is promised by re-| High cost apartments, hotels, of-' ports that there will be a slight de-| fice buildings and various ther types crease if any in acreage devoted to|have been proyided in such abund-| that commodity. . |ance that it is difficult to believe Everybody will please brush his|there is any rea] shortage in these. brain and remember. that last fall|types. The returns on low rental after the calamity of ovérproducing| buildings are not great enough to! some five million bales had driven the | southern cotton grower into desper- ation, there was tremendous talk of reducing acreage. Eugene Meyer, re-| presenting Cal Coolidge himself, went | down helow the Mason and Dixon line } and assured the democratic bank-| rupts that the republican administra- | tion would solve their problems, .That didn’t help out the farmers much, but being politically backward, | they gobbled the stuff greedily. At the same time they were selling their best cotton for 9 and 10 cents a pound while the second went for 3, 4 and: 5 gents, or about half the cost of production all around, But the American farmer, God) bless *im, believes in individualism. | And so, by gad, he’s going to raise as much cotton as he gol darn pleases. And so now that the speculators are togsing cotton around at 14 cents a! pound, he’s going to plant as big a} crop as he did last year, { But take it from Wallprol, he'll get! even less than 9 cents this fall. With a carryover of 5,000,000 bales in warehouses when he begins picking the bolls he will feel himself lucky if he can sell his cotton at all, The department of commerce has released its annual report of cotton) ginned for 1926, Highteen million | | bales, each weighing 500 pounds, con- | stituted the amount ginned i. e., pre- | pared for the market after picking. support the excessive costs of con- struction and capital, and in this lowest zone the. housing shortage is prohably more acute than ever. But it is not likely to be met until in-| vestors are content with much lower | returns on their capital, | This will probably be forced upon} them within the next decade, unless | the American rate of accumulation | is greatly diminished or actually re- versed. | Please notice the unpleasant threat | in the last sentence, Talk of the) diminishing or, perish the idea, of | the “veyersal” of the American rate! of accumulation is downright econ-| omic treason when voiced by Scott Nearing or some other competent la- | bor economist. Coming from the pon- | tifical expert of the New York Times’ financial weekly, it may make the! Carvers and the Pollyannas of en? | niversity departments of economics | sit_up and take notiee. \ Chevrolet Nearly Overtakes Fordin February’s Sales The news about Henry Ford is worse even than presumed by Wall- pret in his comments last week on he terrible slump in fliyvers, The . WHITE TERRORISTS official February auto figures, avail- ‘able this week, show that Ford lost ‘5 per cent of American production State ‘Department rejected the Mexican oil law, proving | ment from any dangerous position | Policy Results in Less Soviet Trade When the State Department pulls |its head out of the sand and decides \to “recognize” the Soviet Union, there'll be an appreciable gain over present trade totals. Even so, those totals amount to a tidy sum, For example, in the six months ending last December, we exported goods valued at $39,700,600 and imported 1 $/ 90-900 worth, 7 If America wants the business, it! coud eusiy multiply these figures | by 10. That would keep automobile, tractor, agricultural machinery and railroad equipment shops humming at top speed, Instead, the slow-witted State De- pat nt places eyery impediment ii the way of any sort of trade rel tions at all, As a repult, exports dropped $1,850,000 in January as 160,000 in January, 1926, per dropped to $526, inst 0 b aga t] revious Jan . bird ig | nion is eit the t, much m In fac Ha By The decline sl 9 Piprerents Ag a see » se nriness, but ine 2 ud Erade eae | to he discarded in the near future, in just the month of February and that now the Ford is little more than 1 per cent ahead of the higher priced Cheyrolet in sales. Here are the February registration (sales) ex- pressed in percentages: / Percentages: Feb. Jan. 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