The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 6, 1927, Page 4

Page Four Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER The Chinese Liberation Movement Goes to the Left Daily, Except Sunday 8S First Street, New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES | By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Phone, Orchard 1680, Article III. By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. Address all mail and make out checks to | AFFILIATED to the All-Chinese THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. | Federation (which in turn is affili- | J. LOUIS ENGDAHL vi ated to the Red International of La-| WILLIAM F. DUNNE Bvuaxeunssousen « - Editors bor Unions) are such important bod- BERT MILLER. F ee Business Manager ies of workers as the Shanghai Coun- cil of Labor Unions with 150,000 members (this information is about three months old and since the strug- gle for and the fall of Shanghai, has _ Sie eienene Entered as second-class raail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. =>. Advertising rates on applicatio™ | undoubtedly increased substantially) pe — = STTSES STS = === the Hunan Council of Labor Unions a m with 170,000 member the Kwang- The Struggle Sharpens in the Coal Fields. tung Council of Workers Delegates with 170,000 members, the Hupeh Council of Labor Unions with 70,000 members, the Railwaymens Union with 68,000 members, the All-Chinese Union of Seamen with 50,000 mem- bers and the Hongkong Council of Labor Unions, Only six days oid, the struggle of the coal miners is already hecoming sharper. The coal companies in districts like Be distance from Moundsville, West Virginia, where members of the United Mine Workers are still in jail bee: of their activity in the last strike, and in Western Pennsylvania where the coal com-! laire, Ohio, a short panies have mobilized their mercenary armies and own the local ae rapid extension of the trade government officials outright, are using the most tyrannical!" Union movement. is shown by the methods figures on the membership < ; e ed by delegates to succes Near Bellaire the Powhatan Mining Company has ordered | ventions ‘of the All-Chinese Federa- tion of Labor. At the first conven- tion in 1924 the number of organized workers represented totaled 200,000. At the second convention 500,000 workers were represented and at the third convention the delegates spoke for more than 1,000,000 Chinese trade unionists. When it is remembered that China is prodominantly an agri- cultural country (about nine-tenths of the population are agrarians) the progress of trade union organization is nothing less than amazing. This progress can be accounted for only by the manner in which the struggle for national liberation from imperial- ist oppression, the struggle against native militarism and feudalism which 200 families living in company houses to pay rent in advance or suffer eviction. In Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, the sheriff has limited the number of union pickets to two after a crowd of union pickets on avhighway had been dispersed by state cossacks. In this ter ritory, as in and around Bellaire, the miners have a long record of militant struggle. These two instances perhaps furnish an insufficient basis for a prediction as to the general strategy of the coal barons but with previous history of coal mining struggles from the period of organization up to the ‘present time in mind, there seems little doubt but that the coal barons will attack more or less isolated but militant sections of the union by all means possible with the hope of smashing them before the rest of the union and the labor movement as a whole can get into action. A purely defensive struggle will mean defeat for the United Mine Workers of America. The union can take the offensive by | shifting the center of the struggle to the non-union fields of West Virginia and Kentucky by means of an organization drive! and this is what the coal barons fear. The union can also raise the demand for nationalization of the mines and if it engages in a wide popular agitation on this isstie it will give the coal bargns something else to do than attack certain sections of the union. The coal mining interests are not popular idols by any means. | Not only workers feel the pressure of their power but large groups of the middle class look upon them as robbers. With these two methods at hand—organization of the non- have been combined with the strug- gie to raise the economic and cultural level of the working class. N SPITE of the fact that the ad- vance of the Peoples Armies from the south, their continual the and crushing of militarism in the Yangtze valley and the capture of Shanghai, would have been impos- sible without the cooperation and sac- vifices of the labor movement, its compose the Peoples Party (Kuomin- tang) and brought on the internal struggle which ended in a victory for the left wing composed of the Com- munists, certain sections of the stu- wholehearted support from the rest of the labor movement for the strikers in the former union fields, the UMWA can put up a winning battle. The UMWA must win. Its defeat means a defeat for the American working cl Demand Withdrawal of All American Armed Forces From China The state department denies energetically that it contem-| plates any joint action with other powers in China: yet in the same breath the announcement is made that an “identic” note is being sent to Hankow by Great Britain, Japan and the United States. : For those who have forgotten the terminology of the Wilson OT tee Feat uf thaventive wcane regime we volunteer the information that an identic note is the thy Its plant ie eine chopra beh same thing as a carbon copy. The difference between such pro-| make 2,000 machines a day. Over 60 cedure and “joint action” is not perceptible to the naked eye. | pr cent of Eureka sales are on the There is every reason. to believe that the state department} "talent plan. is getting deeper into commitments for joint action while de- + Worth $16,800. . liberately denying any such intention. Washington dispatches eRe Bash arei pat poh pee ree state for instance: |has since become 250 shares. Ac- “Unless the anti-foreign sentiment becomes so inflamed that|cording to The Wall Street Journal, Americans are again endangered, the further use of arms will|/¢ach $1 of original investment now probably be the very last resort . . . The demands will not in > sad er ot ecyced S1bE0- any way be an ultimatum . the American government will|dend of $4 a share means that the be patient unless new outbreaks occur, and may wait months for | original investor is receiving each the Chinese to meet its demands.” year 1,000 times his original invest- __,_ The above statements might be construed to mean no armed at Pacdis scosbaniy Miuks- tae intervention in China except for the fact that American naval| the 16,000,000 homes now using clec- and military forces are being increased almost daily. trie power and the 10,000,000 to be Nevertheless it is clear that the Coolidge administration does |4ded in a few years as a market not dare to identify itself openly with British policy in China in bn namete? ae deat taena0n spite of the fact that the fall of Peking to the People’s armieS|homes are using vacuum cleaners, is predicted now by the most hostile press reports. About 51-2 cents out of each con- Another reason for the attempt at caution is the consolida-|Smer dollar spent for Eureka clean- tion of the forces of the People’s government and the knowledge he Oe Ne CODEN S PROG in the American state department that some new “savior” of} China must appear so that open intervention in his behalf can be made to look like an attempt to establish a “stable” govern- ment in China. Summed up the outstanding facts in the present situation are that the public indignation at home aroused by American participation in the Nanking massacre, the resentment in wide popular circles against common action with Great Britain, the continuous victories of the People’s armies and the failure of the much-touted split in the Kuomintang to materialize, are mak- ing the state department watch its step. There must be no let-down in the demand for Hands Off China and the withdrawal of all armed forces from her ports and soil. the company when it was founded in Eureka is the largest producer of vacuum cleaners. Its production of about 280,000 cleaners is estimated at Quaker Oats. Common oatmeal when sold under the “pure” Quaker trade mark turns to gold for the benefit of Quakers Oats stockholders. The comipany’s annual report shows a profit of $7,- 140,232 after interest, depreciation, federal taxes and generous reserves. This gives the owners a return of $13.46 on each share of stock. The 450,000 shares of common stock are carried ‘on the books at $11,250,- 000 but at least $5,500,000 of this represents stock dividends. So the common stock does fot really repre- sent an investment of more than $6,- 750,000 or about $12.75 a share and the 1926 profit is really a return of more than 100 per cent. WORKERS PARTY OF DISTRICT 2 PROPOSES — is the political side of the problem, | | dents, the labor unions and peasant | | organizations, ' This struggle was all the sharper | because of the victories of the Peo- | ples Armies which brought new ele- | ments into the party and gave rise to new and complicated political pro- | blems both in the south and in the! provinces liberated from the militar- ists. ! | The representatives of the labor unions came into conflict with the middle class' elements in the Kuomin- tang for three reasons: Lo the strike movements which * took place following the victories of the Peoples Armies, and which! were directed principally against for- eign enterprises, the workers never- theless had to struggle against Chi-! nese capitalists who were either mem- bers or supporters of the nationalist movement. This created a situation! whose difficulties and contradictions are obvious. These contradictions , were sharpened by the attitude of | the right wing members of the party committees who in some instances took the side of the Chinese bosses against the workers. | THE attitude of the right wing '* toward the peasantry in many instances was such that the peasants were losing faith in the Kuomintang, a tendency which would have sealed the fate of the liberation movement had it been allowed to develop on a national scale. As has been said the Chinese lib- eration movement by the very fact of the overwhelming preponderance of oppressed peasant elements in the population is a peasant revolution. The right wing of the Kuomintang failed either to realize this or in other instances was opposed to draw- ing the correct conclusions from it, | i, e. that the struggle against the landlords, usurers etc., must be led by the Kuomintang, that the Kuo- mintang must take as a major part of the national struggle the liberation a (The All-China Federation of Labor—The Issues in the Struggle | Between Left and Right in the Kuomintang.) | against the Kuomintang government. What is meant to the national lib- eration movement to lose the confi- dence of the peasantry will be under- | stood clearly when it is known that} as early as1925'in 24 districts “of the | province of Honan there were 400,000 | members of the “Red Lances”—peas- ant defense organizations. i The Kuomintang Second Army was defeated by Wu Pei Fu because the peasants had lost confidence in the right wing leadership of the Kuomin-! tang. HE class struggle in the villages and countryside was becoming more acute, the Kuomintang was los- | ing influence among the peasantry in exact proportion as it failed to aid it in this struggle and it failed to aid the peasantry in the struggle in exact proportion to the influence of the right wing in the government. Since the right wing leadership was | endangering the whole movement the left wing had to act. It secured con- trol. of the Kuomintang and conse. quently of the government at a spe. cial conference and Wan Ching Wei, the leader of the left wing and the most skilful organizer in the party, was brought back into the central | committee of the party. Boaee right wing did not want to * use the economie struggles of the workers as part of the revolutionary fight against imperialism nor did it wish to have the army directly under the control of the leading committees of the party. Its idea of the army |as separate and apart from the rest of the movement was a continuation of the old militarist policy and against the interests of the mass movement. In a number of cases this arbitrary conception of the role of the army created great friction between it and the mass of the population and weak- jened the will of the workers and | peasants to support the military wing of the movement. Present Plays of Gorky, Synge and Chekhov. | The Chicago Art Theatre is plann- | ing to bring before the playgoers of | Chicago, at their playhouse on South | Michigan Avenue, nine plays chosen | from the foremost playwrights of | America and the continent, for pre- | sentation this month, Ivan Lazareff, | who was connected with the Moscow | Art Theatre for some twenty-five; years is the supervising director. 1 The plays will be presented in the | following orde’ { April 13-14- “Strasti Mordasti,” | by Maxim Gorky; “The Groove,” ! Geo, Middleton; “The Proposal,” An- | ton Chekhoy. i April 16- ky; 17-20: “Chelkash,” Gor- “The Riders to the Sea,” J. M. | Synge; “The Flattering Word,” Geo: | ¢ oi Kelly. . rf mal 21-23-24: “The Witch,” In “Bye Bye Bonnie” at the Cos- Chekhov; “The Will 0’ the Wisp,”, ™opolitan Theatre. aie eae teh sie Depart aay as previously announced, but ed,” Stanley Houghton. As added at- | é Sts: the “Liketty, oh “Apel 18, traction on April 13, 16 and 21, Lola oree: i y D! Marie Santro will present “The Dance aythur Hohl will play the leading sy ant avec angel eae Nh ; | role in “Wall Street,” a new play by The International Workers Aid will | James N. Rosenbeig, which the Sta: share in the proceeds of the nine Per-| gers: will present here the week of formances. Workers of Chicago are | April 18, - especially urged to attend. | CUWhen Pirandello’s “Right You Are’ q If You Think You Are” is presented | Broadway Briefs } the Garrick Theatre for regular ————= —— ‘evening performances next Monday, sta,” Michael Gold's drama of | Clare Eames, Winifred Hanley, Char- the Mexican revolution’ will open to- les Cardon and Leigh Lovel will en- night at the 52nd Streei\Theatre. jter the cast. Miss Eames supplants 7 Laura Hope Crews, who will appear 5 x rs in “Mr. Pim Passes By” and “The A testimonial performance will be Silver Cord;”. Miss Hanley supplants given at the Mansfield’ Pheatre Sun- Flizabeth Risdof; Cardon and Lovel day night, April 24, in honor of O8- | have the roles of the brothers for- sip Dymow, who celebrates his | . ». Philip’ Leigh twenty-fifth anniversary as an MG Fg pinved: 2y Bul ice thor. The program will be all Rus-!| Colin McLaren, and Mr. Leigh will y butler, ac- sian to be presented by leading play- | Pane Aved Se eee ee pe ers of the Russian anl Yiddish stage. | ted before by Maurice McRae. Rex O’Malley and colm = Wil- Murray Phillips, a theatrical cast- | tiams, J. €. Nugent, tricia. Col- victories | ending for the present period with! sweeping of imperialism from, | rapid rise made still clearer the so-! union fields and mass pressure for nationalization—coupled with | ‘i! cleavage among the forces which EUREKA VACUUM CLEANERS, QUAKER OATS, ALSO Calverton Will Debate manmin BECK pis" POSTUM CEREALS BRING IN THE SHEKALS By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press). How the vacuum cleaner extracts gold from old carpets is revealed in ; . * " i the financial report of the Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co. for 1926. The year’s | azine of New York City, has arranged | ROLI profit of $1,879,397 meant a return of about $1,897 on each dollar put into | debate on the subject “Does Ortho- CAR . left program adopted at the “ ns 2 Re special conference likewise correc-| ing agent will present “One Glorious| jinge and Cyril Keightley make up ted this grave error and resulted in| Hour, bess adaptation from the Ger-| the cast for “The Comie,” the com- raising greatly the morale of both 4" of Gerhardt Falkenberg, at the | edy from the Hungarian of Lajos N A number of sections where the| the soldiers and the masses when|S¢lwyn Theatre April 14, ~ Ulrich| Luria which goes into the Mayfair | * wealthy rural classes had joined the given practical application. | Haupt is directing the play. Theatre April 18. The. English ver- Kuomintang (after discovering that! The Chinese liberation movement, sion is by James L. A. Burrell and they could not fight the peasant! relieved of the dead weight of control | masses successfully while appearing |by elements ready to sacrifice the} as known enemies of the national lib- | interests of the workers and peasants | eration movement) the right wing| for a temporary compromise with| leaders failed so completely to take | imperialism and its agents, launched |Z the side of the peasantry against $e Fos great drive which has made so cert : ——— actionary organizations like the Ming | much recent history and this in turn! 5 15224 Thea. Tuan (formed to fight the peasants | released reserves of forces which the, Neighborhood Playhouse | [Oast. ‘ seats ‘oF M jand uphold the rule of the wealthy| right wing had been afraid to call | “COMMEDIA DELL’ ARTE ee ‘Ns elements) that the peasants turned | upon. | in Bill of Lyric Drama of the peasantry from Chinese ex- | ploiters as well as the imperialists. “Lady Do,” will not open next Mon-! Lawrence R. Brown. | Every Mat. Sat. | yening (Ex. Mon.), | Auspices of Theatre Rochest American Opera Tonigh Mats. Wed. and Sat. Kelly Miller On Church ‘ JED_HARRIS Presents Thurs. Mat. me. Butterfly” Th; ‘SPREAD EAGLE’ |e ierictnt aon by George S. Brooks & Walter B, Lister || GUILD THEA. 8. Bri Mate NED McCOBB’S DAUGHTER ‘ARL fe Vanities esau parca | ith Ave. & 50th St. hi hd, wcemd ies hurs. & Sat, 2:36/$ 7°" Golden hott Pet by Circle The Messenger Forum, recently established by The Messenger Mag- | 1912. dox Christianity Handicap Negro | Harl Carroll {7% after fixed charges and federal taxes. | Progress” between Prof. Kelly Miller eee /WATLLACK’S oa This gives the owners a return of | of Howard University, Washington, Ne ey E gs 8:30. TIMES 2 O——_—_— $7.71 on each share of common stock.| D. C. and Mr. V. F. Calverton, editor _ “4's: Tues» We, Shere Mae Bae pole 4 os .. RI M E Postum Cereal’s 1,467,365 shares of | of The Modern Quarterly, Baltimore, Wh; nne oug! common stock ‘are carried at $7,941,- ; | at A Br ht Home £49, giving them a: valis we ieee, wtie Md. Mr. Calverton holds that it does | A New Comedy Drama , = ; jand Prof. Miller contends that it does | jy, ,gp 'STHE AT z,| than $5 a share. This would make pane HAMPDEN’S 7,0 .F 2 Stienwen The iB A D D E R the year’s profit about 150 per cent. e Evs. 8:15. Matinees Wed. and Sat. But as there is also a stock-dividend| The sponsors of the affair have | Wed. & Sat, 2:36 with James Neunte & Chester Morris, ; ; , ; WALTER HAMPDEN WALDORD, toh Se, Kast ot of 100 per cent in 1928 to be taken | scheduled the debate for Sunday, | in CAPONSACCHI Biway. Mats. into account it appears that the own- ; } lers of Postum Cereal in 1926 took a| APTil 24th, at 2:20 P. M. so as to) — profit of about 300 per cent on their|enable Sunday excursionists from | investment. | Washington and‘Baltimore to attend. | In addition to Postum, well-known | The debate is to be held in Community | roducts of this company include i: Grape Nuts, Pott’ Bran Flalies ia Church, 34th St. and Park Avenue, in | ,more recently Jell-O. The operating | New York City. {profit of the company absorbed 28 |cents out of each $1 paid for its pro- |ducts at wholesale. a Bronx Opera House Moun | Strsot of 3rd Ave, Pop. Prices. Mat. Wed. The Most. Sensa- Saga oe Pogrom ROADHURST W 4645S bins 850 Male thd Sab 230 With HOWARD. LANG. PRICES EVES, $1.10 TO $3.85. | sam HAR (THEA. West 42nd St a” HARRIS tries Danette WHAT PRICE GLORY (exc. Sat.) 5fe-$l. Byes... 500-$2, i Cor. 6 Av. & 14 Civic Repertory fei: §,A%:,& 14,3 EVA LE GALLIENNE This. Afternoon SRADLE - SONG" Tonight “INHERITORS” Tomorrow Eveuing RADLE SONG" pensar ia Ss as BUY THE DAILY WORKER, AT THE NEWSSTANDS ‘NEGRO RENTAL AGENTS EXPLOIT OWN RACE IN OVERCROWDED HARLEM; LANDLORD WINS | (By a Colored Worker Correspondent) | pants. After a hasty superficial Labor Journalism Class, Workers’ |Cleaning, the new colored tenants | School ; move in. Today in an area bounded | Sey 4 roughly by the Harlem River, Morn- | Negro rental agents have been 9 | ingside Heights and 125th’ street, vicious factor in the Harlem housing *s | situation from the start. They prey Haren ane oe A he | |on colored workers, taking advantage | sig fh y i" In order to meet the outrageous of the limited housing area available | ents Harlem has taken to lodgers. for this group’ to force rents up. i ee ‘ |The majority of homes are filled with Tn New York/asdnuotiar cittes,:the roomers. Both moral and physical! veat crowd of N rkers i ; ; pi in ail wees The evils have followed in the train of this |Harlem agent saw in this social ban a|CTOWding and lack of privacy. | In an endeavor to force lower rents, “od is. simple and. alwaya the. same, | M&&#8as¥ ‘repairs, proper service and He ar for an owner eager for big- pian bares 0h vagtaaraa hie Laut Sprang The Washington Heights court cal-. “If you will turn out your white ; ; : A endar is crowded with rent cases, tenants and let me put in colored Vasailles'Didesebesaall | | vi | ‘people, I will get you three dollars Negro agents appeat-hére and ar- etalatataal en Raw en ea he by head gue against reducing the rents of Landlords’ Creed. poor colored mothers. They get writs, Telephone ORCHARD OOD print- ing of all description at a fair price. Let us estimate on’ your work, 2ACTIVE PRESS 33 FIRST STRELT NEW YORK’ Harlem Wants To Expand. This bait always works. Quaker Oats has been steadily ex-| rents have been kited sky-high by this panding to become one of the Wall sales talk. Prejudice on the part of Street food trusts which intervene be- | landlords against Negroes melts away tween farmer and consumer. In ad-| before their greed. : dition to the cereal bearing its name Old-fashioned, rat-ridden, run-down TO SOCIALISTS A UNITED FRONT ON CHINA In an effort to secure a united pro-;united front in the fight against test against American intervention; American imperialism. in China, the Workers’ (Communist) Midis oe pene States revognize|it produces puffed wheat, Aunt tenements are filled with colored ten- Party, District 2, has addressed a witha ‘ationalist Government, that it| Jemima pancake flour, macaroni, ants as fast as enterprising hustlers ithdraw its marines and gunboats|syaghetti and feed for stock. It owns can find such places. Colored people message to the Sociatint Party Con-| fyom China, that it keep out of @ war} mills in the United States and Canada vention in this city. | to protect British interests in the Far as well as 59 country elevators. ‘being made. The colored agent who Pointing out the danger of a war to| East are some of the demands, voiced | Coining Gold Out of Food. \insists on the slightest rights for the further Wall Street and Standard Qil|in the message, Postum Cereal Co, is another Wall tenant is a rare bird. His boss is the interests and protesting against the, The letter was sent by the Exec-| Street food trust coining gold out of | landlord, f slaughter of peaceful Chinese citizens | utive Committee of the District and|the nation’s food products, Its 1926|/ House after house in the district in Nanking, the message urges aj signed by William Weinstone, report shows a profit of $11,317,442\has been emptied of its white occu- sometimes move in without repairs to dispossess families where the wage earner is temporarily out of work, By offering the bait of more rent, the! Negro sete gets a start in the busi- 88, ing down ex Li Settee TS aE —— wi a aR Monash inact ee edna agro Education on the Coast. hig The Chinese Republic: Wil! it hold, | LOS ANGELES.—We are going to | #0 Bolshevik? ‘and other contempor- The South has long had a parasitic | {ty it again! ‘taneous subjects that are sure to prove class of Negro landlords in every| That is to inaugurate Sunday night | interesting under his scholarly diree- large city. These persons lived gn| lectures under the student and scholar | 10% Questions will follow each lec- rentals from ramshackle wooden} and popular lecturer, Robin BE, Dun. | ture. He will give these lectures thrae houses. Now, here in Harlem, we bar, who will lecture on “Recent Rev- mot, the district. have a growing class of colored land-| olutionary Men and Events,” starting lords and realtors who are living easy | with Joseph Stalin and the Opposi- | ~ off the labor und misery of the work-| tion Bloc, going on with Lenin ai ing masses, Leninism; Marx and the Paris Com- 4 = ap etary faeces ‘BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS ne. A tetimimertbanai'y ret Henly ove