The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 6, 1927, Page 3

FOREIGN WASTERS Nation Editor Raps Fake China News in IN SHANGHAI WILL MISS OLD DAYS Kicking Coolies Will No Longer Be Luxury WASHINGTON, April 5,—-If extra- territoriality is doomed saying <oodbye to the Shanghai ‘we used to know. This refers to the foreign city. Don’t | mfx {t with the native one. The two are jam-up together, but | that’s the only thing they have in common. Native Shanghai is just a big Chi- nese city. There are plenty others like it. It nay seem queer, to a stranger, as | compared with New York or Chicago, but not a bit queer as compared with Soochow or Ningpo or Changsha or many other places in China. There’s only one foreign Shanghai. | It has some small-ealibre innta- tions—one horse “treaty ports,” scat- tered along the coast or up and down; the big rivers—but to stack them up alongside Shanghai would be like con- trasting Podunk or Dinkyville Junc- tion with Manhattan. The International Town. Shanghai's international. It’s inde- pendent of everybody and everything. It’s run by the foreign consuls. They’re mighty strict as to Chinese residents. Everybody’s agreed on that proposition. Foreigrers do about as they please. They’re answerable to nobody except each to his respective consul. It may seem as if this would make the consuls bossy. Not so. consul has too much sense to make himself unpopular by annoying his ewn countrynren. in’ China— | and it seems so—we may as well be | A! Capitalist Papers The deliberate lies about China | that have been flooding the capitalist \press in the guise of news stovies were scored by Lewis Gannett, asso- ciate editor of the Nation, at a mass meeting at the International House, 500 Riverside Drive, Monday night, under the auspices of the Social Prob- lems Club of Columbia University. Frederick Moore, correspondent for | the New York Times, came in for an especially strong drubbing at the hands of the Nation editor. “America hasn't any new vice in China to speak of, tid. “The Associated Press has ene man there and depends on Reuter’s for the rest of its. news. pr is the British news service, which corresponds to the Associated Press of this country. It has been helping the British For- feign Office in its attempt to drag the United States into 2 war against the Chinese Natiqalist: movement.) | “The most colossal example of the kind of news we are getting,” Gan- nett continued, “came with the shell- ing of Nanking when our correspond- jents, particularly Frederick Moore,! {of the New York Times, hardly no- | \tice that Ameri¢an and British gun- boats laid down a barrage around So- cony Hill, whieh Moore admits killed hundreds of Chinese. They seem to think that it doesn’t matter how} many Chinese are killed if Americans | are protected.” Professor ’ arry H. Ward pointed out that tht sritish “are dominating | our policies in China.” { No Joint Note. | |; LONDON, April 5—The “Big | Three,” Britain, Japan and the United An American, for instance, is sup-| States will not send a joint note of posed to live in Shanghai subject to | protest over the Nanking outrages to American laws. He doesn’t care the|the Cantonese authorities, it wes | flip of a copper for any other laws. | learned tonight from an authoritative | He generally doesn’t care much for America’s, either. How, say, is his consul going to make him pay any attention to the Volstead Act! If a foreigner in Shanghai stops short of murder or burglary, he isn’t apt to be interferred with. All this will be changed if extra- territoriality goes by the board. The foreigner in Shanghai, or anywhere else in China, Will be yanked up in a Chinese court, if he does anything contrary to local peace and good or- der. To illustrate: It always has been considered among’ the. God-given privileges of a foreigner in China to kick a 'rickshaw coolie if he felt like. Frequently “he has felt like it. The same rule used to prevail in Japan until the Japanese abolished extraterritoriality. Now the Japanese penalty for ‘rickshaw collie kicking by a foreigner is a two-y« without the option of a kieker. There’s no foreign working class in Shanghai. It’s a community of traders, mana- gers, professional men and expert cler- ical help, with their wives and child- ren. ATi the cheaper jobs are held by na- tives. Consequently the entire foreign pop- ulation appears well-to-do. In fact, a great deal of it is exceed- ingly hard up. It’s a great aggrega- tion to live beyond it’s income. Recing Popular. Such amusements as the theatre naturally are almost wholly lacking. The Shanghai-ites make up fog them by going extensively for such expen- | source. | sive sport. racing and a great deal {of entertaining. These things come high. ‘Then, too, credit is almost unlimited. That’s because Shanghai's a very dif- ficult place to slip away from unos- tentatiously. Departures have to be jtaken by steamship, with plenty of | preliminary notice. | A deadbeat can hardly flit, leaving {a stack of unpaid bills behind him. | Perhaps he can do it as a stowaway, | but that’s humiliating, and for a man | | with a family practically impossible. | ‘Too Much Credit. | Credit, then, being so easy, it’s over- | worked extensively. Anything from a cocktail up to a polo pony’s readily to be had by signing a “chit,” which is a check or note, and “chits” have a way of piling up alarmingly. Many’s the externally prosper@hs | .| but really desperately hard-up Shan- ghai-ite who probably wouldn’t shed many tears if the Cantonese wiped out the entire “international settle- ment,” provided they’d contract to wipe out his “chits” with it. Shanghai’s well equipped to resist | 2 military attack from without, but mighty poorly able to stand much in- | Chinese cheap labor. It’s a large city4-not to mention! any of its other labor’ requirements— | with no sanitary system whatever, and every thimbleful of sewage has to be carried away by the barrelful, | by coolie-power. Obviously, once let these coolies quit and the besiegers prevent others from offering their} services, it would hardly be more than | a matter of hours before the place would become uninhabitable. These photos, taken exclusively fot Central Press in China, show Mme. Sun Yat-sen, widow of the founder of the Kuomin-tang, Chinese Nationalist party, left, and Geo: justice of the Nationalist government. China's revolutionary movement. of China,” was educated in an. Chien was an intimate friend of 4)r. Sun Yat-sen and has been ationalist closely connected with the N is a noted scholar and jurist. { | Hsu Chien, minister of +y are active workers in Mme. Sun Yat-sen, the “first lady American college, at Macon. Ga, terference with its local supply of; ' } | LABOR-SMASHING | Cuban Congress Boycot BILL 1§ BROUGHT BEFORE COMMONS LONDON, April 5,—The strike- smashing measure that the govern- ment die-hards have long been threat- ening to introduee came up for its first reading last night. The measure not only makes gen- eral and sympathetic strikes illegal, but makes union members participat- ing in them liable to civil damages. Severe restrictions on picketing are provided for in other clauses of the bill. The first clause of the bill de- clared any strike illegal if it has “any | object in addition to the furtherance | of a trade dispute within the trade} ecreerned.” The penalty is a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment jnot exceeding two years. Strikers,* if the measure goes through, will be forbidden to picket houses or factories. Picketing ‘th home of a worker will be a criminal) offence. The boycott and the expos-! ure of any “individual to ridicule or contempt” are also made criminal of- fences. Political levies on union members are forbidden unless workers contrib- | ute “written noticcs signifying their willingness to contribute.” Govern-| raent employes are forbidden to be. \ 7) | long to trade unions “unless such| Frog Czarina,” a movie film being | social affairs the efforts of male di-| unions are confined to civil servants | only and are independent of any out- side union. ‘ MOSCOW WOMEN MOSCOW, April 5.—Sevgnty-eight women delegates assembled at the delegate meeting of the Moscow Tex- tile factory “Freed Labour” to dis- cuss the coming elections to the Soviets. As practically every tenth woman worker in Russia is a delegate—the delegate meetings are significant as a social unit in that they support the/ party in carrying out the election’ campaign by means of influencing} the masses of women workers and} workers’ wives to take an active part {in the elections, to help choose the, | most ‘worthy and most suitable mem- bers to the Soviets, and to combat} the efforts of the internal hostile elements, like the kulaks, nepmen, jete., to get into the Soviets “their” district. own people. | More Interest Shown. The fact that in 1922 the per-| centage of women in town Soviets in| the RSFSR was 9.8 per cent while, in 1925 the percentage was already | 19.5 per cent; women members of, village Soviets in 1922 was 1 per) cent, in 1925—101-2 per cent, shows| the increased interest that women) take in the political life of the coun-| try. I asked the woman organizer of! this factory, how is it that these women do not seem to be worried about their home affairs? Hay they no children at home to take care of? Mustn’t they prepare meals for their husband and family? | Have they no house duties at all, that they can leisurely spend 2-3 hours after work at a meeting? Free of Home Duties. The woman organizer of the fac- tory, herself from the weaving loom, smiled and said: “Before we could draw in our women workers to take such active part in the political and economic life of our country, we had to free them from some of their house duties WORKERS ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN SELF GOVERNMENT |munal kitchens, so there is no need} REPORT COOLIDGE Prevents Machado From Changing Constitution HAVANA, April 5.—The*Cukan congress was not opened today, as provided by the constitution, be- cause there was not the two thirds majority of the members present in either house. The president’s message was not read and his proposal for a con- stitutional reform cannot be con- sidered. ON NATIONALISTS Shangh ai Exploiters Yelp For Troops WASHINGTON, April 5.—The | Coolidge administration is being {pulled hither and thither by queital- that have conflicting in- 1 the Chinese situation. Spurred by the chamber of com- {merce of Shanghai, the outstanding | members of which are representatives lof the oily interests that are trying nvolve the United States in Mex- dical journalist, and author of “The |*< the administration has apparently First Time in History,’ who has just decided to protest against the alleged returned from Soviet Russia, will be|CUtrage against American nationals | among those who will speak briefly|i" Nanking ignoring the massacre of at the Russian entertainment being peaceable Chinese citizens by the sav- arranged by “The Rus: Golos” at age bombardment of American and Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third| British warships. Ave.,, next Saturday evening, April | Six Hundred For Seven. | i ‘ | It is now definitely established that | Arranged for the benefit of the|only seven foreigners lost their lives | John Reed Colony for the Homeless|in the Nanking affair while at least at Alexeyenvka-on-The Volga, the | six hundred Chinese were slaughtered program will consist of music, sing-|by shells from the battleships. ing, and ballet. Mischa Mischakoff,| Washington believes that the ap- violinist, and Dora Bascher, gypsy | peal from the Shanghai chamber of song singer, are among those an-|commerce demanding intervention nounced. ‘ | was influenced by the British govern- Other features at the entertain-! ment which has a small auxiliary of | ment will be the showing of “The! society women here to reinforce by | Anna Louise Strong Speaking at Russian Affair Saturday Eve a-|to i Anna Louise Strong, prominent r: ‘ Faget plomacy to seduce the Americans into | joint action against the Chinese na-j| shown in New York for the first} time; Albertina Rasch’s ballet; and Page Three NECKTIE WORKERS SLAVE FIFTY HOURS A WEEK FOR WAGES AS LOW AS $12.00 By I. LAZAROVITZ. (Member of Labor Journalism Class, Workers School.) Necktie workers greater Nev Yor e still slaving 50 hours of a week, while furriers and workers of other needle trades have almost all establishéd the 40-hour week. Conditions under which ne workers produce are so bad that a few in a shop makes a man ready for a sanitarium “‘visit,”—if he has the means to make such a visit. Starvation Wages. ,|no more requi can hardly work. He worked e work in his last place, but be ly v k he couldn’t rush a s the others. He was al- ways behind not only in wages but in the orders given to him. One day he found in his pay envel the message: “Your ser a.” After asking the v fired, he was told needs production and ope 2 is boss Why he that the that he cannot give it. He was out of work several weeks before he was able to get this job for Wages are as low as possible in $22 ¢ spite of the high cost of living. Here are a few examples: Knitt (the mechanics of trade) earn from $20 to $26 per week. St $15 to $: Operators $15 to $ Finish $12 to $15 Last week in a Broadway shop, the employer advertised for a steamer. Although he needed only one steam- er, eight or ten applied for the job. The boss picked out a man of about 30 years. During lunch time I learned that the man took the job for $22 per week. On my questioning him as to! whether he has a fam he can get along on his story. and whether he told me Speed-Up System, He has a wife with children. The oldest seven. The wife is sick and he him- three little hild is nearly MT told m down enough sk for any more,” he o he would not send me Twenty-two dollars is not but better than nothing. Without this my children and sick wife are subjected starvation.” His eyes were full of tears. Prosperous America, I looked at the man and thought to myself: Here in is industrially developed, richest c¢ itry in the world, people are subjected to such misery. Tens of thousands of dol- lars are spent in luxury at the var- ious beaches of Florida and other places. Yet here in the city of Wall st and big capital, a working man is compelled to slave 50 hours a week $22 and is glad if he has it, so-called I labor leaders who are busy trying to also thought of our clean out the “reds” and have no time to pay attention to millions of unorganized exploited slaves, Build up the Official Opposition Some time ago we were offered the im- portant series of articles exposing the scan- dalous operations of the Insurance Trust. These articles were offered to a leading met- ropolitan daily of a so-called liberal tinge as well as to the most prominent liberal weekly in New York. Strange to say they neyer saw the light of day, because these publications: apparently are too deeply interested in the: maintaining of cordial relations with the in- surance companies which advertise in them. tionalist government. And they have been successful, | Bombarding Washington. { Under the influence of the British experts, American naval commande%* and consuls are literally bombardirf: | Washington with appeals for interven- | tion. The result of this pressure is the decision of the administration to send a protest tho not a joint note h Great Britain. Coolidge is said Alexander Chigvinsky, pianist, etent nurse; as to cooking her nibs , iM sa hn why practically all id our |? fear that joint action with Britain workers of this factory. (there are| ould arose the sleeping anti-British | in prejudice in this country that has. been 1,400 workers employed) live : nh ee aa workers’ communes; there are com. | the nightmare of capitalist politicians here for generations. vorry rook: Big Demonstrations, Rous Hosting wane ta eaen ee. Consul Jenkins, at Canton, reported night every woman delegate is freed today that a mass meeting and a from house cleaning duty, so as to| ‘demonstration were planned in that enable her to attend the meeting. | City in celebration of the capture of Instruct Candidates. | Nanking and Shanghai by the Nation- But I am anxious to follow the dis-| *ists, as well as to ,protest against | cussions of these delegates. the Nanking and Bias Bay. The chairman read the list of in-| Order to Evacuate. z structions to their candidate to Mos-, All Americans in western China, cow Soviet; the following are some|cven as far as the Tibetan border, of the instructions: have been ordered to evacuate by Open another lath house in the|Consul Adams at Chunking. | General Liu-Hsiang has assumed Repair the’ children’s creches and full responsibility to protect Ameri-/ kindergartens attached to the fac-|can lives and property at Chunking, | tory. The nervous tension among foreign- Build more houses to ease the ers at TsManfu has relaxed, according housing problem of the. workers. to a dispatch from Consul Swaney. Lower prices and better products | Ie said 171 Americans had been evac- | in the co-operatives, uated and 215 remain. | Hasten the opening of a new| A labor delegation from Canton | clinie. has arrived in Hankow. One of the, Improve the street lighting. |members is Earl Browder, member of! Hasten the opening of another the Executive Committee of the Work- | communal kitchen in the district. ‘ers (Communist) Party of America. The delegate to the Moscow Soviet | Marines Fire on Workers. } is to report to his electors of this} American marines at Chunking, | factory once every six months. | | opening fire with riot guns on Chinese | A lively discussion followed. | workers which resulted in the wound- | Learn Polities, ‘ing of three Chinese, Admiral ©. S. | After these instructions were ac-| Williams, commanding the Asiatic’ cepted, many of the women partici-| fleet, advised the Navy Department | pated in the discussion of the im-| today. 4 | portance of the Soviet elections. It} The Americans were part of an was amazing to watch these plain,| armed force from the U. S, Gunboat | simple women folk, many of whom| Monacacy, which had been placed | have just Nquidated their illiteracy,|aboard the American steamer Chinan | and some of whom still do not know | to protect it. The vessel was attacked | how to read and write, express their by Chinese Sampans, loaded with !o-| views on this important political and|cal agitators. economic question of the Soviet gov- bd ernment. Two points were empha- sized in théir discussions: (1) The world bourgeoisie will judge our . . ! 1.600 More For China War. SAN DIAGO, Cal., April 5.—Con- centration of marines in San Diego | and drudgery. We have, right here| strength by the result of our elec- in the factary, children’s creches, and/tigns; (2) the success of Soviet con- movement since 191}, every mother who is present in this| struction depends on the people we hall, feels quite certain that her child} will send to our Soviets. is being taken good care of by a com- ~BELLA SOLBSKE. preparatory to sailing to China was! in full progress with 1,600 additional | men expectetl to arrive today. Final | eastern detachments are expected to reach here tomorrow. ‘ The DAILY WORKER has accepted these articles and will publish them beginning April 11. This occurrence marks a new phase in the life of The DAILY WORKER, It marks a phase in which The DAILY WORK- ER has assumed the role of the official oppo- sition to the capitalist and even the so-called liberal press. It is no accident that these ar- ticles have found their way to The DAILY WORKER. 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