The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 5, 1927, Page 4

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER The Chinese Liberation Movement Goes to the Left Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York dnly): By mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six montha $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDABL WILLIAM F DUNNE [oererseeeeeeees appa BGI PERLAGID. 5 cic cosy 0.09.00 onnee Business Manager TEER AIG RU Ste NORIA SEL SRE a nS aE) Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New Yerk, N. Y¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application, >. War on China Is Last Weapon of Imperialist Powers— It Must Be Prevented! Peking will soon be taken by the People’s Armies and within a short period all of China with the exception.of Manchuria will be under the control of the People’s Government. The northern forces are making little resistance and the advance of the Peo- ple’s Armies is welcomed by the ma: ; There is going to be no split in the Kuomintang, Chang Kai Shek remains in command of the drive on Peking, he accepts the authority of the Political Committee of the Party and the cleay- age between the left and right wings of the Party upon which the imperialists have been building ae hopes will not mate- rialize at present. The Chinese libéfation movement is a unit against imperialism. These facts not even Frederick Moore, the world’s greatest liar, whom the New York Times chose to replace Thomas F. Mill- ard as Shanghai correspondent, can conceal successfully. Recent developments in China show conclusively that not only Moore, but practically every other capitalist press corre- spondent, has not been sending out news but have been sending as news what the imperialist elements in China wanted to happen. An instance of this method of newswriting is a Chicago Tribune dispatch republished in the New York Times April 4. The Tribune correspondent relates the fact that Wan Ching Wei, outstanding left wing leader who has been returned to the Political Committee of the Kuominta Shanghai and has had a con- ference with General Chang Kai Shek. “After conferring with Wan today, General Chang issued a circular telegram to the provinces under Nationalist control, de- claring that henceforth he would confine himself to commanding THE TRADE UNIONS AND THE MILITARISTS By WILLIAM F. DUNNE | Article IL. E is evident that imperialism has | been counting heavily on a split in | the Kuomintang of serious enough dimensions to hamper if not to crip- | ple the campaigns of the People’s Ar- mies, The imperialist hopes were ground-| \ less. Commenting on these events the! Moscow Pravda said on March 16: “The anti-imperialist movement in China embraces various social elements having common as well as | different interests which cannot fail to be reflected in revolutionary or- ganization, in the government and in the Kuomintang party. It is easy to understand that the imperialist press in considering the above ex- | aggerates the strength of the right | wing which had allegedly switched the revolution onto the rails of “moderation.” This bourgeois up- roar about the degeneration of the Chinese revolution is contrary to the fact that precisely in the re- cent period ‘that the mass labor movement which is under the Com- munist Party’s. influence grew im- mensely, The unprecedently enthu- siastic celebrations of International Women’s Day, the valiant struggle , of the Shanghai proletarians, the big success of the recent peasants’ conferences which were held under revolutionary slogans—all _ this bears testimony to the powerful pressure of the revolutionary mas- ses to which even the Kuomintang | right wing is compelled to submit.” “Chang Kai Shek’s declarations relative to his faithfulness toward the revolution, toward Sun Yat Sen- ism and loyalty to the Kuomingtang are distinguished from his former statements and testify to the pres- sure of the revolutionary rank and file. The attempt of the right wing to make the generals independent | has failed.” | * * * | HE fact that capitalist enterprises in China are for the most part for- Communist party, able and atrong | TN Shanghai wages were from 11 to enough to lead the national liberation |# 15 cents per day. In Hankow, the, | movement, i jeenter of heavy industry, average | | wages were 2% dollars in American) |THE brief history of the Chinese la-| money—PER MONTH. This at a time) bor mévement shows in what man-) when the subsistence level for a fam-| {ner and by what experience it has| ily of five was $13.50 per month. | gained the leading position it now | plays and will continue to play. The rise of the labor movement be- ee aa i | To the Dramatie Editor of The) DAILY WORKER: At a meeting at The hours of labor were usually the 52nd Street Theatre on Sunday, not less than 12, in some industries |March 27, the word “propaganda” 14 and in the silk industry there was|shuttled _menacingly around the Propaganda in the Theatre Five Playwrights Tell Daily Worker What Working Drama Means to Them. ‘ name each//S \in Hongkong in 1922, Beginning as a | protest against brutal treatment by | British cfficiers the seamen’s strike | first brought out, other sections of | transport workers and finally result- |ed in what was practically a general | strike thru which the transport un- }ions were established. ee ae 'HE strike of the railwaymen oc- | “curred in February 1923. It was fol- | lowed by the general strike in Sha- | meen, the foreign settlement of Can- |ton, Then came the strike of the tex- | tile workers in Shanghai in the sum- gan with the strike of the seamen, a 15 hour day. The length of the| house. The New Playwrights Thea- working day for children was the) tre was accused of being too conser- same as for men and women altho} vative, too radical, too timid, and their wages were slightly more than| other things. The following is an at- | nothing. tempt to lay down certain definitions |THE Chinese labor movement was | that may clear up the misconceptions | tone ‘ as to the politics of the New Play- | “literally born in struggle and in the wrights ‘Theatre, | provinces where People’s armies | = ; smashed the militarists, and as soon eae di it ‘apc | as this was accomplished, the trade | 2. All is pais Pls erttion by }ipipes sprang inte! being” Even be- living breathing people in our time fore the dec*tive battles were fought | oe bound to have their roots i the workers showed in the most cour- | e their roots in the | ageous and practical way their loyalty | Ler Aisictalet Gtee eee | r : | to the liberation movement. | power of the working class, emphatically | mer of 1925 and the great general| The activity of the trade unions in| No “Propaganda Phrases.” strike and boycott in Hongkong last-|the towns of Hankow, Hanyang and! 3, When we say we want a work- |ing for 16 months—June, 1925—Sep-| Wuhang, the great heavy industrial | ing class audience we mean we want | tember, 1926. j center of China during the advance of | an audience of working people of all | «In all these strikes the Chinese |the People’s armies and after their trades and occupations. We are not | working class, as in Shanghai where triumph, afford a typical example of | aiming merely at white collar work- |the wanton massacre which so| the manner in which the labor move-| ers or merely at industrial worke: aroused the Chinese masses took|ment has grown. | We believe that until a fusion of in- place, the workers and students who| The workers, as the People’s armies | dustrial, white collar and intellectual }took the side of the workers found) peared this center declared a strike | Workers is affected there will be no| themselves confronted with the most) jn the arsenal upon which Wu Pei Fu | American labor movement worthy of | brutal manifestations of imperialism! depended for munitions. This action |. the name. |in which all the great. powers took | was of the greatest moment in decid-| 4. A living and courageous theatre ————————————— Will play one of the principal roles in the new Lyric bill to be presented at the Neighkorhood Playhouse to- night. and propaganda is a lot of rubbish, Great art is good propaganda for any cause that bases itself on the vital needs of mankind, and great -propa- ganda is good art, The New Playwrights Theatre. Em Jo Basshe part—officially and unofficially. But the strikes continued and or- | ganization work went on. Last year | (1926) there were 164 small strikes | which, however, involved a total of | 204,000 workers. } * (Ae L ettee these strikes, the overwhelm- |* ing proportion of them for elemen- | tary demands such as wage increases, | shortening of hours and improvements {in working conditions, the workers "The correspondent says: | from the Kuomingtang discipline | gained invaluable political training. Net only did the workers come into conflict with the imperialist enemies | directly but they found that in those | districts controlled by the People’s the Nationalist expedition against the Northerners, leaving the | eign-owned gave the workers’ econ-| government their strikes were almost business of government under Wan’s direction. “This is interpreted as a move on the part of General Chang omic struggle an anti-imperialist character—to secure advances in wages and working conditions the to strengthen his position by securing the support of Wan, whose workers had to combat the imperial- seniority in the Kuomintang makes him the logical heir to the | ists directly. The arrogance and bru- ; uniformly won while in the provinces ruled by the native militarist allies |of the imperialists the strikes were | bloodily’ suppressed and the unions | either completely destroyed or the re- ling the issue of the military struggle. | as a social function of the first im- e ‘ a |Portance in mirroring the color and | | tone of life around i vatallizi |HREE months after the defeat of | yobellion, This, Nee ee | *Wu Pei Fu practically all the work-| more genuinely revoluti jers in the district were organized. | the presentation of Smut stclcane | 160,000 of these workers are in basic | phrases which convince no. one. | industry and another 150,000 are en- | Want American Life. — | gaged in the lighter occupations. { 5, To those who have suggested the | With the exception of the Railway-| production of Hauptmann’s “The | men’s Union and the All-Chinese Sea-| Weavers” or a middle class tract like men’s Union the trade unions are not | Ga!sworthy’s “Strike,” we state cate- {as yet organized on an industrial basis | £rically that we think this sort of | but the extension of the power of | thing entirely insignificant compared |the People’s government has given an} with the effort to crystallize the elec- | immense impetus to the spread of in- | trie current of American forces, The dustrial organization. The process is?V¢ty blood and bones of a new era carried on in two ways—by the or- | /8 in these forces, and it is only cut- ganization of unions which have an @nd-dried propagandists who fail to | industrial structure from their incep-|e@lize this reality. tion and by the amalgamation of ex-| 6s Plays are written for audiences, with the industrial organizations. | ¢?¢¢Si therefore, the plays we hope isting craft and occupational unions | "®t down to audiences or up to audi- John Dos Passos Francis Edwards Faragoh j Michael Gold John Howard Lawson i i Broadway Briefs | The Neighborhood Playhouse will present its fifth production, a bill of Lyric Drama at their Grand Street Theatre tonight. The program is headed by a Commedia Dell’ Arte, a comedy of the seventeenth century. The English rights to “The Silver Cord,” have been sold to the Daniel Mayer Co., Ltd., by Theatre Guild. Sidney Howard, the author, will go to London for the rehearsals of his | play. | Guy Bolton returned from Palm political power of Dr. Sun Yat Sen. . . . Wan enjoys the respect | tality of the foreign capitalists in a| maining fragments driven into ille- colonial or semi-colonial country are | gality. The overwhelming majority of elo ke ven see will be working | Beach a few days ago with the book | trade unions are affiliated to the All-|°°S Propaganda in the sense that of the operetta on which he is col- of both factions of the Kuomintang and would likely be. able to well-known; they depend upon the na- swing a big section of the Party to General Chang’s side. tive mercenaries and militarists for It would be hard to conceive of a worse distortion of the situa- erence of fi workers and this d reat : > gs mage tar rings the working masses into con- tion than that given above. W hat are the facts? » : flict with the allies of imperialism. Wan Chin Wei ied the left wing of the Party against the pol- The labor movement takes on a poli- icy of General Chang. The left wing program was adopted by the | tical character. It becomes, with the recent Party conference and Wan is now one of the chief leaders, | Proper activity on the part of the| not of the left wing alone, but of the Party as a whole. In Shang- | It did not take the Chinese workers |} long to draw the correct conclusions from these terrible struggles. Their conditions were such that whoever op- posed their improvement immediately branded himself ae the enemy of the masses. Wages were unbelievably low. hai he is carrying out the instructions of the Political Committee | of the Kuomintang and one of its decisions is that General Chang | Kai Shek shall continue in command of the People’s Armies dur- ing the northern offensive. The foreign correspondents attempt to estimate developments in the People’s Government and its armed forces by the same method—personalities—they used in forecasting developments among the militarist allies of imperialism. As a result of this their errors are nothing less than grotesque. ‘ The Kuomintang is a mass party. It is the property of no individual and its choice of individuals for leadership and author- ity is based on the policy they advocate. In another field, that of military activity, it is no- longer | possible for the foreign correspondents to even pretend that the victories of the People’s Armies are anything else than the result! of mass support. Moore himself has to admit this. He says, speaking of the People’s Armies: “That they will capture the Northern capital (Peking) is re- garded now as a foregone conclusion. . . . Foreigners have won- | dered at the Northern forces’ unwillingness to resist them. The) explanation lies in the propaganda which precedes the Nationalist advance . . . agents circulate reports that the Northern armies are militarists and are in league with the foreign imperialists | while the Nationalists are the people’s army. Such arguments invariably appeal to the people and soldiers because of the long suffering to which the militarists have subjected them. COM- MUNITIES INVARIABLY WELCOME THE ARRIVAL OF THE, NATIONALISTS.” (Emphasis ours.) | According to prejudiced observers like Moore who has been seeing in every bandit chieftain a potential savior, the militarist forces in the north have collapsed and Moore even voices a rumor that Chang Tso Lin has retired beyond the Great Wall into Man- churia. The militarist allies of Japan, Great Britain and America are | beaten, the People’s Government will soon rule all of China proper, the labor movement is leading the whole struggle of the Chinese masses and these developments furnish the reason actuating the | imperialist powers in the desperate policy they are pursuing in China. P. + Imperialism’s Chinese allies have been. defeated by the Chi- nese liberation movement and the intperialist powers are now preparing for invasion with their own forces. ’ The alliance between the colonial peoples and the working class in the imperialist countries has as its first task the preven- tion of this murderous offensive. How to Serve Your Country An American citizen has been killed by Mexican bandits and the New York Times gives a column to the details. The state de- partment i$ very much concerned and Ambassador Sheffield has ee been instructed to protest in strong terms to the Mexican gov- ernment. We refuse to get excited. This American citizen was mar- ried to a Mexican woman and had a ten year old son born in Mexico. Evidently he had been in Mexico for more than ten years and liked the country well enough to stay. : Just what business the state department has in interfering in cases of this kind would be a mystery if we did not know that ‘ it is seeking any and every method of bringing pressure upon the Mexican government. As in Nanking, the death of an Amer- ican citizen who may have forgotten what his country looks like, furnishes an excuse for insults, threats and finally a massacre of the people of the country American imperialism wants to grab. | The violent deaths of American citizens in countries where | there are no rich natural resources and which are not needed as) naval bases or canal routes arouse no excitement whatever in| the state department. Any patriot who loves this Wall Street land with pious fer-| vor can do its ruling class no greater service than to go to some) country rich in oil or strategically situated and°get bumped off by the local banditti. Another Injunction—The Way to Fight It. The injunction issued against the Kings County District Council of Painters by Justice Cropsey not only enjoins the union from calling its members out on strike but also interprets the union constitution. The attorney for the union characterizes this injunction as the most drastic document of the kind he has ever seen. This is the obvious tendency of these legalized outlawings of trade union activity—they constantly become wider in scope. Involving 4,500 union painters, well organized and having the support of the Building Trades Council, here is a splendid oppor- tunity for mass violation of the injunction. If the court order is obeyed the proposed strike will be crippled, the case will drag thru the courts and even if a decision in favor of the union is rendered by some hitch in the capitalist court machinery, other injunctions will continue to issue. A delegation of 300 trade union representatives journeyed to the state capital recently to advocate legislative abolition of in- junctions. The legislature has adjourned and injunctions are still the order of the day. b If the officials of the Painters Union will take the lead in |workers can borrow three-fifths of | Chinese Federation of Labor. 1s * n principal exceptions are the Canton Mopar Shs cars ke ped will not General Workers’ Union with 27,000 | St Propaganda or single % aig tax propaganda or social-democrat ;members and the Canton Union of propaganda. (This does not mean Mechanics with 7,500 members. Ne-| : gotiations are being carried on by the | ‘he etiectaneee mown secount of All-Chinese Federation with these! sito has pone Mats play that we con- |unions looking toward amalgamation. ~~ The ee ontld rob Gee , : ut ar (The! the output of Hollywood is employ- | laborating with Frank Mandel and | which will be produced here by Man- jel and Laurence Schwab. | pS ger ten “Gay Parce of 1927,” the Winter |Garden revue will conclude*its en- |gagement this Saturday evening, be- } ginning a tour in Pittsburgh and will have a summer run in Chicago. Cooperative Apartment __ Dwellers Can Secure TUNBUN Bank Loans on Stock “"°°" aaa Neighborhood Playhouse bs NG TONIGHT At 830 Mig EDIA DELL’ ARTE Bill of Lyric Drama i on.). Mat. Sat. By ESTHER LOWELL (Federated Press) Loans by_the Amalgamated Bank co! and Amalgamated Credit Union to! i members of the men’s garment union | —* buying homes in the cooperative) MARTIN BECK Nperigg § | . Eys. 8:3 apartment house are offered. The! s, Wed. and Sat. JED HARRIS Presents the necessary amount from the bank | ‘SPREA and the rest from the credit union. | The borrower's stock in the union’s|2¥ George 8. Brooks & Walter B. Lister ‘What Anne Brought Home A New Comedy Dra HAMPDEN’S 7,22 4,7, 38,2 d St. at Broadway Evs. 8:15. Matinees waa and Sat. WALTER HA EN in CAPONSACCHI BROADWAY PRICES EVES, $1.10 TO $3.85, ers. are expected to pay $500 per room and $11 or $11.50 (depending | on whether or not tax exemption is granted) monthly maintenance per room. This rental will decrease to about $7, it is hoped, as amortiza-| tion proceeds. { Six units with a total of 300 apart- | ments will form the complete union | workers’ housing project. The full | cost is expected to be $1,750,000, Oc- | tober occupancy is anticipated. The PR site chosen is near one of the city’s | sam THEA. W. largest and wildest parks, in a neigh-| #1. HARRIS Twice Daily ws: borhood, where private profit apart-| ments bring rentals of $18 to $22 ver WHAT PRICE GLOR room monthly. |Meta (exe, Sat.) 50c-$1.. Hyves, 50c-$2. Commissary Planned. | N is Savs Will Cooperative commissary units are planned; buses to take the mits arc Sen. Orris Says children to school; a kindergarten in the house; an assembly. room, laun- WASHINGTON, April 4 (FP). — St. | | D EACLE’ Retire When Term Ends | West — Col. Ss. 8:45. — Mats.’ 2:45 A DRAMA OF MEXICO (OPENS * By | WEDNESDAY Fiesta MICHAEL | EVE. 8:45, GOLD Auspices of Theatre Guild Rochester American Opera Company Ly “Madame Butterfly” Wed. Night—“Marriage of Figaro” Week Apr. 11—The Second Ma: . 52 St, Evs. 8:16 5 1s cooperative housing venture is pledg- | EARL Og is? NED McCOBB’S DAUGHTER led as ee: nue | CARROLL anities Week Apr. 11—The Silver Cord Interest Cancels. | iy John Th.,58, E.of B'y (Circle | Small monthly payments will be | Zarl Carroll moth” Thats’ “a eet. 0 Golden sitecrie: & Bat.| 5678." arranged to relieve the worker grad- | —————__—__—__—_—_ . ually of the debt. The interest onj WALLACK’S W joanne. 0560 aes ay Pa ae ee the loan is cancelled by the interest; Mats. Tues. Wed., Thurs. and Sat. | pveg.’s:30, Mats, C RI M E on the stock—both being 5%. Work-| Wed. & Sat. 2:30 with Jam: le & Chester Morris, The LADDER Now in its 5th MONTH WALDORF, 50th St. East of Bway. Mats. WED. and SAT. 149th Street. Bronx Opera House }4*t) , Street ig —. ghee Mat. Wed, & Sat. The Most Sensa- ‘ tional Play P rite £ OSTOM With HOWARD LANG, j Civic Repertory $2f SAS. & 14,85 EVA LE GALLIENNE fonight.... “LA iteriene morrow M ADLE SONG" Yomorrow Wy Jingoes Rave Against Biblical Peace Verse PLAINFIELD, N. J., April 4.—, violating this injunction, call upon the rest of the labor movement |4"Y and cooperative restaurant. ‘The for support and put up a militant fight, it is a safe bet that the next session of the legislature will take more than a platonic in-| terest in anti-injunction laws. Legislation under capitalist de- mocraey which tends to favor the workers comes invariably as the result of a mass demand expressing a determination to force endorsement of the reform desired. é | This is the correct way to approach the problem now facing | the Painters Union, Incidentally it may be remarked that the right wing in the /needle trades, led by Vice President Woll of the American Federa- \tion of Labor, is using exactly the same methods against the ma- | jority of the workers supporting the New York Joint Board as the painting contractors are using against the union. There will be no real fight against injunctions until this kind of leadership is thrown overboard by the labor movement. jative housing units in other sections union hopes to erect similar eooper- of the city where its members wish to live. Practically all of the apartments in the first unit of the United Work- ers Cosperativé housing project are already oceupied. This is an inde- pendent organization of workers from various industries and unions, © fical opening ceremonies were held when the first large group of mem- Senator Geo, W. Norris of Nebraska, progressive leader in congress, an- nounces that he will retire from public life when his present term ex- pires in March, 1931. ‘This statement has been welcorfied by his enemies, especially among the administration advisers in Washing- ton, since he is considered the ablest land strongest of the progressives, Up sword against nation; | biblical text has so roused the ire/of |war veterans of this city that they threaten to refuse to take any. Hart jin the Memorial Day celebratiowt here unless it is removed from thé city’s war memorial. { | The inscription, which is objected to because of its pacifist sentiment, is the verse, “Nation shalt not lift neither | His leadership of the fight for public | shall they learn war any more.” ownership and operation of electric! The Central Board of Veterans and bers moved into their new homes, The “distributive systems as well as elec-| Military Organizations of Plainfield project is quite similar to. that: of | trie generating plants has created @\wants this removed at once, other- the Amalgamated, and workers were ;"¢W economic issue in national poli- wise they will not help dedicate the enabled to borrow from a subsidiary | ties, With a majority of the Roose- memorial “in memory of those who cooperative organization—the Con-|VYeltian element refusing to declare gave their lives in the service of their sumers Finance Corp. for his program. ‘ country.” English Expect High Taxes. | LONDON, April 3.—Jewish resi- | dents in London already are prepar- ing for increased taxes, as the result | Street, Ozone Park, Queens, was in- of the recent announcement of the |stantly killed here today when he was huge budget deficit by the British | struck by a railroad train while rid- treasr" jing a biycle | Bicycle Rider Killed. BOGOTA, N. J., April 4.—Arthur E. Marsilo, 20 years old, of 9117 Gold | Pocatillo Painters Win Short Weew, POCATILLO, Idaho, April 4.—The Painter’s L. U. No, 979 will go on a five day week, April 4th, 1927. No change in wages, a 40-hour week at a dollar an hour. The painters are 100% organized |