The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 4, 1927, Page 4

THE DAILY WORKER The (hinese Liberation Movement Goes to the Left Published by tae DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New Yori): 68.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months | i Phone, Orchard 1680 | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1927 By WILLIAM F. DUNNE Article I. MERICAN and British imperial- | m, with the attitude of Japan as | ;tions and the Chinese Communist Party representing the most consci- ous section of the working population exercise tremendous influence. That the mass movement in China yet uncertain, have turned in fury | wag outgrowing the confines of the the foreign rule in the colonies. is not to endorse Ahe nationalist aspirations of the native bourgeoisie, but to open the way to the smothered proletariat! there.” | HE nationalist revolution in China | —)4> RENE | A Play About “Superior People” “Mariners” Has: Condescending Pity for the upon the Chinese national liberation! nationalist sti le, that’: it. “had 4 “the way to. the Address all mail and make out checks to movement, | nationalist struggle, tha’ ¥ has indeed opened “the way to | ne 3 YORKE i t, New York, N. Y. “4 ‘ how) faut }set for itself objectives which| smothered proletariat.” It is the ef-| ‘Lower Class’ (Vi ARI, los kdlabadadlsbedlnallths From alah Li betes dete if obtained meant the beginning of! foctiyeness with which the Chinese | Se, sited nt ruaaoead al Meee RED sess cheek cucenesee Editors ere neo peraalist forces have the end of all forms of plundering! tabor movement led by the Chinese) Reviewed By HARBOR ALLEN. NANCE O’NEIL Mice leh a Sa nel : hatee aaa ont tified Chin se ating peavey “yaay’ esorte tage’ been ap-| Communist Party and the left: wing | “Mariners,” by Clemence Dane, R SRE | BERT MILLER.........-.....-.--Business Manager x parent for some time, Ever since| of the Kuomingtang has taken ad- eee like Nanking have already been bom-! the fall of Wuchang and Hankow it | Entered as second-class rail at the post-office at New York, N, Y¥., under|barded contrary to the international) jas heen plain that the Chinese labor the act of March 3, 1879. {rules of warfare made by the imper-| movement would no longer permit its | jialists themselves. aims to be limited by the needs of | vantage of the opportunities present- | ed by the struggle against imperial- | ism that has caused the United States | government to adopt a firmer policy. |The general interests of world im- perialism are becoming paramount in | the face of a Chinese working class which the Actors Theatre has pro- duced with Pauline Lord at the Ply- mouth, is a windbag of a play writ-| ten by a snob. with a sense of its own importance. It is all blown up with “atmosphere.” You can see the author licking her chops over her “fine old English It is ready to burst} | >. Advertising rates on application! From a tone of paternal concern|the middle class nationalists. So os —== /the American state department | * , % changed to bitter hostility and all| HATEVER differences of opin- available naval forces have been} ion have developed within the Intervention in China is Chief Topic in Imperialist Foreign Offices amount of space tRe capitalist press devotes to it. Not since the world war and the Russian revolution has there been such a tremendous flow of rumors, counter-rumors, statements, denials, | speculation and inspired attempts to stampede the masses into a war mood. Qut of this welter of material several facts stand out. The first is that Great Britain, facing the loss of her power in China immediately and in the entire Asiatic sector eventually, has de- cided to stake all on an offensive against the Chinese ma: The dispatch of another brigade of troops with full auxilia equipment to China is of much more significance than the pub- lie utterances of British diplomats as is also the proposal to blockade all Yangtse fiver ports. The second fact is that Great Britain, having failed so far to get official American co-operation is leaning more toward Japan as evidenced by expressions of regret in the British press for the termination of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. The Morn- ing Post, according to a New York Times dispatch, points~out that the treaty was not renewed because of a desire to placate America but that the expected co-operation has not materialized. The third fact is that the statement by Coolidge denying any intention of acting jointly with Great Britain has not ended Bri- tish attempts to secure such action and the main effort seems now to be directed towards maneuvering for a joint investigation of the Nanking massacre which it is hoped in British quarters will result in a joint demand for reparations. According to the British plotters this would of necessity commit the United States to the next step which would be joint armed intervention. Fourth, the Japanese press and public seem to be extremely suspicious of Britain’s new cordiality and Japanese imperialism is still following what in diplomatic circles is called “a careful policy” towards China. The announcement that the Japanese government will try to convict 99 Korean leaders of preparing a nationalist revolution shows that the internal situation is acute. A Chinese boycott against Japan would in all probability precipi- tate a serious crisis which would severely shake if not overthrow the present regime. Fifth, American*folicy in China*is not yet definitely framed. The Coolidge statement undoubtedly indicates the main line American imperialism desires to pursue at present but conflict between various sections of the ruling class and the fact that the Chinese liberation movement takes on more and more the char- acter of a social revolution and endangers the whole front of world imperialism is causing hesitation with the tendency, under | the pressure of Great Britain, to more aggressive military action. Sixth, it is now perfectly clear that the alliance-between the Soviet Union and the People’s Government of China, the most powerful bloc in the world today, eauses all powers but Great) Britain, whose chief desire is a joint offensive against the Soviet U.ion, to hesitate in hurling an open challenge to two govern- ments representing 600,000,000 people--approximate]ly one-third | of the world’s population. Seventh, the fact that the leadership of the Chinese libera- tion movement is now in the hands of the Communists and the left wing representing the labor unions and the revolutionary sections of the peasantry makes it impossible for the imperialist powers to carry out successfully the original scheme of recogniz- ing a Chinese government composed of capitalist and middle class | with imperialism. | elements which was ready to compromise While still speaking hopefully of the possibility of a right wing crystallizing around Chang Kai Shek, sufficiently powerful to check the rise of the workers and peasants, it is also evident that even the press correspondents, when they express concern over the permeation of the rank and file of the army by Communist and left wing elements, are in fact extremely doubtful of the | possibility of a serious split of the kind desired. But all these currents and counter-currents finally flow into a whirlpool of imperialist intrigue where ultimately they will join and rush in one direction—against the Chinese masses, their revolution and against: the workers’ and peasants’ government of the Soviet Union. Every imperialist power is an enemy of China. They are divided only on the method by which they can defeat and then plunder the Chinese masses, It is the duty of the American working class to paralyse by every means possible the arms of the American ruling class. While the imperialists quarrel among themselves: the workers and farmers can unite their ferces to stop the war on their brothers in China, a war which, if it gains but little more im- petus, will engulf the world’s workifg class in its own blood. Withdraw all battleships and tropps from China! Recognize the People’s government of China! [|/ “LETS FIGHT ON’—Becomé a Ruthenbers Member \rushed to China, | iW HAT caused this sudden change | the control of the liberation move- | : | of policy which amounted to ae-| ment is to be held—in the hands of! (about nine-tenths of the population The gravity of the Chinese situation can be guaged by the |ceptance of the hostile British tory|the revolutionary workers, students | gaining its living directly from the| per classes, now miserably married k jattitude and which allies the United! and peasants or in the hands of the|soil) the Chinese revolution can be to the daughter of an inn keeper. | States and Great Britain, and Japan| small business men, manufacturers, | successful only if led by a party |to a certain extent, in war upon the Chinese liberation movement? { The antagonisms between Great; | Britain, Japan and the United States {growing out of the struggle for the | | plundering of China are as keen as/ \they ever were—keener in fact, for! the victory of the People’s armies and the consolidation of the People’s Goy- ernment narrows the possibilities for; jloot and intensifies the rivalries among the imperialist nations. | Neither is the cause of the joint hos- tility of the imperialist powers to be {found in the alleged threat to the lives of their nationals. Only the most naive persons believe that the | | United States sends some thirty war- ships to protect the lives of American \citizens. As a matter of fact the! show of military and naval forces | has not operated to secure better, treatment for foreigners but the re-! verse. Like the recent press dis- | patches from Shanghai, the display | of imperialist forces since the capture} of Shanghai by the People’s armies | | became a certainty is seen in the light | of subsequent events to have been | part of a deliberate policy of provoca- Kuomintang have centered arourd this one main question i. e. where merchants, etc. The imperialist press has interpre- ted these differences over policy in various ways. Sometimes it has said that the expulsion of Soviet Russian advisers was the bone of contention, sometimes it has stated that the mat- ter at issue was the membership of Communists in the Kuomintang, sometimes it has pictured the dis- putes as merely a struggle between the “moderate” and “extremist” sec- tions. But always the real basis of the struggle has been that of the role of the working masses in the liber- ation movement and if the middle class elements have at times made the issue one of Communist affi- liation or of orientation toward the Soviet Union it has been because in these two issues the fundamental dif- ference on policy found expression. HE rise of the Chinese trade union movement is the most. sig- nificant and instructive phenomenon in the whole struggle of the Chinese people against imperialism and it is because capitalism appears in China ‘principally as imperialism that the la- and peasantry that drives toward a | workers’ and peasants’ government. Predominatly a peasant country |home” and the fine eld people in it jand their fine old guests, She grown maudlin about her minister, him- self a product of Oxford and the up- | Terrible, this Shepherd of the Lord’s | which organizes and liberates the elite, tied irrevocably to’ so gross a | peasantry, cements the alliance be-| woman. See how she drags him |tween the young but rapidly growing | down, ruins him, robs him of the |labor movement and the working woman who would be his equal, abus- | rural population with the labor move- es him, kills him. Such are the low- |ment in the lead. er classes! | N addition to the differences over) Still Superior People. | the role of the labor movement inthe But you can’t be such a snob nowa- | revolution the struggle in the Kou-|days. It doesn’t pay. So you must} ‘mingtang between left and right/have a last act in which the gross | wings over the question of the atti-| woman repents,. dies of grief on her! tude to and role of the peasantry was! husband’s grave. You must have a} of major importance. | scene in which your superior people | The recent conference of the Kuo- in their fine old English home pause | mingtang in Canton resulted in a for a moment to comment on her) ‘victory for the left wing position and | fidelity, as they would praise a dog} the adoption of a program designed who grieved for his master. Yes,| ito eorrect the mistakes—and worse | they feel sorry that they never went! -—of the right wing in respect to the | to see her, that they shut her out of | Bg HE right wing proposal to relieve peunte: | Read of! tre Canton, Content, Labor | avate tp uth pidaa’”= tiie ghd: Liberal ttang and then General Chang Kai! | labor movement and peasant questions. | their circle. But never for a moment/| the military leaders of political Perhayn am saniaat’ th Clemeiog | No doubt she is trying to be} | Council was brought into the central hokum. Like all the liberals, she Shek in a public statement affirmed | | \do they doubt that they are superior | supervision was also defeated. The | none. | f | | executive committee of the Kuoming-| i aiig Yow. sean’s. be: fair to both his decision to-carry out the decisions | sides.. You are, by birth and environ-| ment and desire and ‘associations, | | bor movement has from the very first ‘ taken on a revolutionary character. HE cause for the change in Amer- The theses of the second congress ; ican policy is to be found in the| of the Communist International on | direction taken by the Chinese na-|the national and colonial question tional liberation movement toward! state: the establishment of a non-capitalist | “Foreign domination has obstruc- form of government in which are to| ted the free development. of the so- be found representatives of the revo-| cial forces, therefore, its overthrow lutionary masses and upon which the| is the first step towards a revolution jtrade unions, the peasant organiza-' in the colonies. So fo help overthrow - Ruthenberg, The The Passing of an American tion. (Reprinted from the April Number of The Labor Defender) { into the public streets of Cleveland and |attempted to organize the laboring masses around it. | picture of him whieh adoras this page |shows Ruthenberg, the fighter in ac- \tion, speaking against the war on the Public Square of Cleveland. He paid | the price for his courage with a year’s |imprisonment in the Canton Work- \house, that same workhouse within | By JAMES P. CANNON | The great outpouring of the masses |tor the memorial meetings bears testi- mony to the fact that the name of, Ruthenberg is highly honored already today. Ti is quite probable that much xreater konor will be given to his {memory in the future. For Ruthen- berg was a Pioneer in a great social movement which has the future on its | speech. a “ at 18 Ruthenberg, Wagenknecht y y | P ° yaaa deals generously with | and Baker, prisoners there at the |time, were the inspiration of that Most of us who had the opportunity |speech which rang ’round the world. of working hand in hand with Com-| With Left Wing vade Ruthenberg through many| P : stormy years can pay an ungrudging _ 0% his release from prison, Ruthen- tribute to those personal qualities | hers identified himself with the Left which made him such an outstanding | Wing of the Socialist Party which was figure in the ranks of the American | ‘king shape under” the influence of | vevolutionaries. He was stecled and|the Russian revolution. He was the |strengthened by every test imposed only one of the nationally prominent upon kim and remained a dauntless, | !eaders of the Party to come with/the junwavering fighter to the end. He | Left Wing and remain consistently | died at his post in the prime of his | through all the vicissitudes of the | powers, as befits a soldier. | struggle, He was a follower of the Stand in Pride LL aesh be steieeshny since the fi | We will not deny the shock of gricf| vision of a great revolutioneey arene |that his untimely death brought to! ization on an international scale un- | every one of us, but just the same we | folded his powers and raised him far jcould stand at his funeral with heads | ,hove the petty men whose concep- ites i row cialism, ie gg of soldier manhood, belonged 2 Ruthenberg, the fighter, stood up | We honor Ruthenberg for his long |:" the: Capitalist Court in New York ‘and valiant revolutionary record. I in 1920, facing a ten-year sentence, | first met him in 1913 when he came and onotes the scornand defiance of |to Akron to speak to the striking rub- |” revolutionary class in the face of the |ber workers. fe was already then a peat na ating al i T emt prominent figure in the Socialist Party | 7. es - core on —_ bes land his speech had the ring of mili- | Ve" hoe ay Shik , the sie bg done tancy which denotes the irreconcilable (very ee ‘ ipa hs but this man enemy of capitalism. We sized him |*"08¢ “rom his seat in the courtroom \up then as a fighter and later knowl- | and calmly informed all present that The most prized | | whose shadow Debs made his historic | either on one side or the other. Clem- ence Dane is on the other. At times she tries honestly to feel her way in- , |to the heart of the inn-keeper’s| time the results of the conference} “i | were made public, was showing great | (auehter. Lgdbarate Sg teh ; i | farther than condescending pity. At friendliness for Chang Kai Shek and} , ry " a rs - | bottom she’s with the fine people in the grouping in the Kuomingtang the fine old English home. that he represented—sections of the | : intelligentzia, merchants, traders, | sat bankers, well-to-do peasants, | Ruth St. Denis to Pre- elivase loon nbs jsent Oriental Program Figh ter | at Carnegie Hall of the conference and his loyalty to! the doctrines of Sun Yat Sen. | The imperialist press, up to the) Ruth St. Denis, Ted: Shawn and |their Denishawn Dangers will give ,four dance recitals on Monday, Tues- | day and Wednesday nights, and Wed- \nesday matinee at their Carnegie | Hall engagement, Miss St. Denis is presenting “White Jade,” an impression of China. She lis bringing back the “Bunnia Ba- Pioneer {an example of discipline and re- sponsibility in all his work. Tireless Worker He was a tireless worker for the party. His great energies were given unsparingly to= its service. In the | | lit sense of the word it can be} In “Fog-Bound,” a new play by Hugh Stanislaus which opened at the Belmont Theatre last Friday. zaar,” with music written by Lily Strickland Anderson, the American composer, who is at present living in Calcutta. Their Oriental pro- gram, which is called “Gleanings from Buddha Fields,” embraces Japan, Java, Burma and Malaya, as well as China and Japan, and music has been collected which is authen- tic for all of the dances and dance- |dramas on the program. Clifford Vaughn, musical conduc- tor, has arranged native melodies, and made orchestrations for these ballets. The Denishawn Company have just completed eighteen months playing throughout the entire Orient, and they have spent the entire time in research for dance material. { oadway Briefs “Spread Eagle,” is the only open- ing scheduled for this evening, at the Martin Beck Theatre. George S. Brooks, a former editor of McClure’s ,and Walter B. Lister, city editor of the Brooklyn Times are responsible for this play, which deals with the one-dollar-a-year patriot and the humbug of big business. The repertory at the 14th Street Theatre for the week will include four performances of “The Cradle Song,” on Monday and Thursday nights and Wednesday and Thursday | matinees; “La Locandiera,”*? on Tues day night, “Inheritors,” Wednesday and Friday nights and Saturday mat- inee, “Three “Sisters,” Saturday night. said he lived for the party. Yes, and died for 1t too. For if he had spared | himself a little and devoted even the | jminimum attention to his own JED HARRIS Presents health, there is yo doubt that the| “SPREAD EAGLE” fatal illness could have been warded ho it off. |5"d Thea, 206 West — Col. 7293] Ruthenberg was a'soldier. He saw) °° & pRAMA OF MEXICO” | | the cause for which he labored as a! _ OPENS Fi By | fighter to which one must bring the ee ane 1esta a. MARTIN BEC K Thea,, 45 St., 8 Ave. | Eyenings 8:30, | Mats. Wed. and Sat. | OPENING TONIGHT AT 8:30 The America of today reeks with 42nd : cynicism and corruption, The Ameri- | nvenines ie cans of energy and talent are in the; Mats. Tues, Wed., Thurs. and Sat. service of the oppressors. America is money-mad. Brains and noite | What Anne Brought Home are bought and sold—nothing is | A New Comedy Drama given away. Those who see higher | values than personal material gain} are vegarded as fools in our insane America. Corruption is the hall-| mark of our country. \ Had Social Vision Ruthenberg was an American who did not go that way. Money meant nothing to him and the “honors” telat capitalism bestows upon its lackeys meant even less. His’ vision | oat Holo was a nage oo the world was his” JARRIS tira Daily, 2:30 & 8.20 | country and the oppressed masses | were his people. ‘To the service of WHAT PRICE GLORY the oppressed masses he gave ell his i (exe, Sat.) 50c-$1. Eves. 50c-$2, | energies and talents without caleula- HAMPDEN’S 2,0. 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Prices. Mat, Wed, & Sat Mat, Wed, . The Most Sensa- Uonal Play namieer Pogrom With HOWARD LANG, Street, Cor, 6 Av. & 14st Tel. Watkins 7767, EVA LE GALLIENNE DLE soNa* CANDIERA* Neighborhood Playhouse 466 Grand Street. Drydock 7516, COMMEDIA DE ARTE in Bill of Lyric Every Evening (2x. Mon.), ma Mat. Sat, tion or price. He lived a full and! fruitful life of struggle and sacrifice ‘edge of his character, born of the clos- | {est association in common work, only | strengthened and confirmed the first | ‘impression and estimate, “He was a 'fighter.” These words came spontane- \the cause which they sought to im- prison would emerge triumphant and put its heel on all class. oppression. Helped Found 1. Li D. As one of the founders of the I. L. for'an imperishable ideal and died a soldier's death. The America of’ today had no time for Ruthenberg. For this’ splendid character, this valiant soldier of the of the revolutionary working ¢lass movement in America are small, and able and tested leaders are very few indeed. It ‘would be foolish to deny that the death of ment call new ferces from the ranks to fill the gap. pot The work that Ruthenberg/pem formed with such fidelity in his Ife time remains behind him. His ex- ample of courage, devotion and self- ‘ously to the lips of his comrades-in- | D. and a member of its National Com- | arms in the first moment we heard of | mittee from the first, Ruthenberg was [his passing. What tribute enn be|a great believer in the idea of non- | higher? partisan labor defense on the basis of Serious Revolutions ithe class struggle, Himself a class war He was no fly-by-night dabbler with prisoner, he felt a close kinship with | the idea of revolution. His record goes! all workers who languish in the |back for many years. The proletarian | prison hells of the masters. He was revolutionaries who fought on the side |an enthusiastic supporter’of the work | of Haywood remember with gratitude | of the I. L. D. in helping and defend- |his support in the great battle which | ing all persecuted workers regardless \came to a climax in 1912. A consistent | of their views or affiliations. | advocate of political action, he, never- | Those who knew him best knew him In the loss of Comrade Ruthenberg the Workers (Communist) Party has lost its foremost leader and the American working class its staunchest fighter. This loss can only be overcome by many militant workers joining the Party tWat he built. Fill out the application below and mail in. Become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party and carry forward the work of Com- wade Ruthenberg. I want to become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party ~~ Name peer’ uae . {theless, even in those days fought 4s above all, a Party Man. He was against the current of reformist cor-| 4) for the party. He regarded the AdMrOSS ic ceceeeeseeeetnnerenenensenererttsteteass trrseeveeeees | ruption in the Socialist Party and in-| seyolutionary party of the workers as * ue Had | terpreted “politics” in the proletarian (14 highest instrument history creates Occupation .......cccereceereecreceees Union affiliation ............. jand revolutionary sense. for ihe liberation?" the. énalaved: itnasses of the world. He attached Bele greatest significante to every ac- tion on decision of the narty and set Mail this application to Workers Party, 108 E. Ith St, New York City. | Gy te ice aan wis ie ra “1 ., | onvwiad tho Sh Lomis Resolution aut PeeReeeterrer eT Seer ererre cr rery sane ’ a leader of the calibre of Ruthenberg represents a great loss to the prole- tarian cause.» A recognition of the great role played by outstanding in- of his death the Honorable Judges | dividuals of his type is no contradic- of the Supreme Court had his Jatest | tion to the social theory upon which conviction under review, Capitalist | the whole activity of Ruthenberg as America made Ruthenberg an out- a revolutionary agijator was based, law: and a convict. | Revolutionary Labor Advances Workers Knew Him | But the revolutionary labor moves The America of Tomorrow wil! re- | ment is driven forward by social for- vise that judgment, That is already | ces which arise out of the very con- indicated by the attitude of the mili- .ditions of capitalism and make for tant workers who are the vanguard | its destruction, The men who in- ‘of the future. Ruthenberg was a spire and lead the movement of Pioneer who broke a new path. The! working class revolt ave themselves Americans of tomorrow will travel) products of the condition’ which that path and give their highest bring the movement into existenee. revolution, the masters of America | had no praise. They covered him ignominy. They hounded him from one prison to another, At the time it. The name of Ruthenbere will weaken the ranks for a time, but have a distinguished pace in the list | the irrepressikle needs of the move- ! honors to the Pioneers who broke |The loss of leaders may shake and | sacrifice remains as an asset of the movement us a whole. His tradition asa yevolutionary fighter will he treasured .by every section’ of the militant labor movement. ‘The new generation of militants will be influenced by that tradition and will carefully safeguard it. Let the corrupt and decaying capt- |tolist society have these heroes who/ itypify it—the -dollar-chasing — ex- \ploiters, the blood-smeared generals, the lying, treacherous statesmen. |Our movement, which is the herald of the new order, claims proudly for its own the men of a different and immeasurably better type—the type of Ruthenberg. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS