The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 7, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by tie 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 York): 68.00 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 Address all mail and make out checks to The Chinese Liberation Movement Goes to the Left The Unions in China’s Pittsburgh—Their Advanced Demands , The Native Bosses ARTICLE IV By WILLIAM F, DUNNE | tral or hostile sections of the Chinese | |middle and capitalist class. These numbers but also many formerly neu-{ bring pressure on the Kuomintang | Weekly for Best Essays government by editorials calling on General Chang Kai Shek to show The group presenting “The Lad- jelements came in with more or less | “courage” and “firmness’ in SUPPYeS-| dey” at the Waldorf: Theatre, “an- i 2 ‘ + 3 an pe. | oot I D | sympathy for national independence | sing the labor movement and in re: |nounce that they will award ‘a week- | divorced from the class aspect of|turn promised him the full support | jy, prize of $500 to the person writ-|' ITHOUT the disorganization created in the rear of the mili- tarists’ forces and the organization THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York,’ N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL \ adi : j ..|\the liberation movement in order to} of the foreign interests. The effect’; ; WILLIAM F, DUNNE jvrererstt tenn eet | work carried on among the industrial | (x ercise their influence in the gov- | of this upon the workers was not | oie Niall at bit Hea oS _ BERT MILLER..........+-eseeee+ Business Manager workers and peasants by the trade | ormning party. Their readiness to|what the British editors thought it | 8% bpp inte neh re | unions, the Peoples Armies would | . would Be. | simple. | make peace with imperialism in order | It served merely to call The letter should be typewritten, on | Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under have been unable sactdagnay phe ue series | to protect their class interests was| the, attention of the labor movement | the act of March 3, 1879. of sweeping victories which gave | shown in their united front with for-| to the necessity of having a party in| |them control of the Yangtze. valley |, seeds : + ra ad he ves | DC | aid “thei ort Ob Bhahatint | eign ‘capitalists against their work-| control of workers’ representatives with Saturday night’s performance. | i . lw 4 AS PAR “ ” | v ¢ Thai thigac tena’ of Haakowc wine ing class countrymen, |who -would exercise “courage and | Manuscripts should be sent to office | The contest is open to ved | one side of the paper. The contest | begins today and the first week ends | Advertising rates on application. i | firmness” in their behalf. dharig an Hanpans taetoe center | | is not hard to understand that of Chinese heavy industry and it was | in this center that the unions showed the greatest activity, The lwing standard of the workers in this dis- trict is shown by the following table | The Trade Union Reform Bill—The Inevitable Consequence of Imperialistic Labor Leadership The British ‘ruling class, having smashed the general strike in whih: the’ figutest ave’ appeal and beaten the coal miners by means of force and treachery Of | mate but with a very narrow margin | reformist leaders procured by the government, is taking the next) of error in either direction. step in the general attack on the labor movement of which the! Minimum monthly expenditures for, mobilization of the full power of capitalism against the British | worker's family: imperialism and native exploiters the | Chinese labor movement developed at jexpress train speed duplicating in a | {sense the experience of the Rusgian | working class, | eal character in two ways first, it| liberation by including other enemies | than open impeyjalists and second, it workers was the first move. | Rice $6.00 | showed the workers the necessity for| The “trade union reform” bill which will be introduced in the} ©! 1.00 | control of industry thru the govern- eieogs | Fat : |ment and the trade unions. House of Commons next Monday has two principal features: __| Vegetables 1.80 | 1.) It outlaws not only general strikes but sympathetic] Salt eae strikes as well and makes union members responsible for damages} Rent (one room) 1.00 to business and property claimed by the capitalists as a result of brid since | their nature to those ‘HIS sum represents the minimum | unions. amount on which a family of four} Discharge of two “favorites” of | could exist. It will be noticed that no! the overseer who had injured other provision is made for amusement or! workers—payment of wages in medical attention. standard Chinese coin instead of But the wages of the workers pre-| dollars—a ‘maximum working day vious to the fall of this district to) of 8 hours—an ‘annual bonus of the Peoples Armies did not provide) two months wages—payment of for this miserable budget. Miners for, wages instead of the vacations instance averaged 30 cents per day} which the workers had not received or $19 per mgnth. Textile workers; —members of the executive board of averaged about 87 cents per day. | the union to be allowed to remain These starvation wages prevailed; at work in the district so they could in both Chinese and foreign enter-| do their union work—local inspec- prises. When the organization drive| tors to be appointed by the union and strike movement began it there-! —all notices of discharge to go fore encountered the hostility of Chi-| thru the union offices—payment of ) nese and foreign employers alike. wages during sickness—wages to Chinese and foreign capitalists join-| be paid while workers are forced ed hands to oppose the workers. In! to go on strike and the union to be the foreign settlements this unity of compensated for losses during the capitalists was smashed only by| strike—general improvement in the threat of the unions to cut off working conditions. sia and electric light. and neal will be noticed that most of the mupely: above demands are’ designed to N Hankow the merchants aided by! strengthen the control of the union right wing of the Kuomintang or- | and further that they are for the ganized the “Association for Strugg-| most part far in advance of any de- ling Against the Strike Movement”| mands ever made by American trade and threatened the Natidnalist gov-| unions—proof that the Chinese labor ernment with a shutdown of all in-| movement because of its anti-imper- dustry unless it checked the move- | ialist character has leaped several de- ent. This incident gives an insight |cades during the recent struggles. into the basic issue of the revolution; Even the police were drawn into involved in the struggles between the | the organization drive and policemen left and right wing in the Kuomin-|from five separate concession dis- tang and the reactionary character of {tricts held organization meetings. |the extreme right of the party. The foreign press, especially the The victories of the Peoples Armies | British, was alarmed by this rapid brought not only workers and peas-| growth of unionism and the display ants to the Kuomintang in great| of class consciousness. It tried to strikes. 2.) It makes illegal all assessments levied by unions for po- T litieal purposes unless each member of the union signifies his consent in writing in advance. . If this bill becomes law the British trade union movement can! legally conduct only localized and ineffective strikes and will have no legal right to support the labor party by means of the ordinary ; trade union methods of raising funds. | If this bill becomes a law the British labor movement, after a quarter of a century of struggle, will have the illegal status it! was placed in by the Taff-Vale decision. In the struggle against this decision the modern British labor movement was born. The responsibility for the furious attack of the British gov- ernment upon the labor movement rests in one place and in one place alone—upon the shoulders of the MacDonald section of the labor party and those spurious left wing trade union officials who called off the general strike, deserted the miners, justified their conduct by imperialist phrases and then followed up this treach- | ery by refusal to even attempt to rally the labor movement to the’ aid of the miners’ struggle. These capitalist-minded labor officials took the side of the government by parroting phrases about “constitutionalism” and “democracy” while the army and navy forces were against the strikers in full war panoply. These officials have already given evidence of their willingness to accept legislation which will out- law political strikes but the government goes them one better. It takes advantage of the favorable situation created by their} aeceptance in principle of the inviolability of the British consti tution and ‘>eir hostility to militant mass action to strike a deadly blow * the working class which these leaders betrayed. These leader. are simply continuing their betrayal altho they | must make a pretense of fighting the proposed legislation. As the British Communist Party and the National Minority Movement pointed out at the time the general strike was called, off, the disgraceful surrender of the leadership would be followed hy demands for the labor movement to give up its arms—the! strike weapon and mass support of the labor party. MacDonald and his crew, who led the workers to defeat, are now confronted with a rising tide of mass resentment brought | into being by the public proof of the hypocrisy of these leaders in trying to deceive the workers into believing that there was any | difference between British government and British imperialism. The theory of the impartiality of British government as an institution was severely shaken by the course it followed in the} general strike and miners’ strike. It has been shattered by its ad-| vocaey of the destructive bill aimed at the trade unions. | More rapidly than ever the masses are turning to the Com-| ODAY, ten years after, the Wil- sonian shibboleths are again re- IT By H. M. WICKS. q PRIL 6, 1917, President Woodrow | Vived, as various’ shades of opinion Wilson signed the declaration that put this country into the World yar. F di bef he had ap- bird i the segieiiarebicaei es was fought for democracy. Not even clarified the struggle for national} stupid as to believe that the war | 1 munist Party and the left wing in the labor party is challenging | MacDonald’s leadership with George Lansbury mentioned as his successor. That Lansbury took a leading part in the-recent Con- | ference of Colonial Peoples in Brussels, an international expression | of the worldwide revolt against imperialism, has a deep signifi- | cance when taken in connection with the drive on the living stand-| ards and organizations of the British working class and the fail-| ure of the right wing of the labor party and trade union leader- | ship to put forward a fighting program. There is Danger in Believing in the Pacific Intentions of Wall Street The news from China seems to indicate that Great Britain is | not meeting with brilliant success in lining up America and Japan for joint action with her against the People’s Government but formal agreement means little when such incidents as the Nan- king massacre have occurred without any known agreement éx- isting at the time. For members of our class it is enough to know that all the) imperialist powers are enemies of the Chinese national liberation movement and that actual invasion is prevented only by a con- | flict of interests and not by their lack of desire to use this method | for securing the degree of subjugation necessary for successful | and continued robbery of the Chinese masses. In addition to this there is always the convenient excuse of “protecting lives and property” of citizens or subjects which is used to justify war on colonial peoples by a collection of powers, whether or not an agreement for joint action exists. American policy toward China has not changed since the Boxer uprising altho the methods by which it has been applied have varied due to the fact that America’s actions in China have been the result of a desire to rob the Chinese masses while still retaining their friendship. Having no extra-territorial rights in China it was necessary for American imperialism to appear.in a different guise than that of the powers who had forced conces- sions from the Chinese. Secretary of State Hay, the author of the famous “Open Door” ‘policy, explained America’s attitude at the time of the Boxer rebellion (essentially a rebellion of poverty-stricken peas- ants) in the following words: “., . affording all possible protection everywhere in China to American life and property; guarding and protecting all legit- imate American interests; aiding in preventing a spread of dis- co Gm peared before a joint session of the two houses of congress and. pro- claimed that: “Our object is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the most rabid apostle of Wilsonism ventures the suggestion that greater freedom is enjoyed today than when these lofty principles | claimed. were pro-| the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up amongst the really free and self-governing peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and action as will henceforth as- | sure the observance of these prin- ciples... “The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon tested foundations of political liberty . “We are but one of the champi- ons of the rights of mankind. shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the | We | | | The horde of liberals and yellow so- | cialists who were in full ery with the jackal pack of imperialism are now compelled to confess that the hoped- for blessings have not materialized, that black reaction today pervades every crevice of the capitalist world; that instead of the World War being a formidable crusade by “the cham- pions of the rights of mankind” to end war for all times, it was simply |a prelude to still more titanic and sanguinary Conflicts. None can view the world today and doubt that the gathering clouds of another World War will soon burst forth and rock faith and freedom of nations can the earth with their thunder and make them.” | lightning. asters to the other provinces of the empire and a recurrence of such disasters.” Surely no further basis for war is needed than to follow the procedure outlined above. It was by carrying out the official in- |terpretation of this policy that American warships took part in |the bombardment of Nanking. Nothing more than this is needed to send huge shells hurtling from American battleships into Chinese cities and to have an American army take the field with British butchers. American imperialism’ needs no formal a; ment with other powers to appear as an enemy of the Chinese liberation movement. Any note indicating pacific intentions on the part of Wall Street government toward China is meaningless as long as Amer- ican naval and military forees are in Chinese waters and on Chinese soil. Neither should we forget that the Philippines are the outpost ef American imperialism in the Pacific and that the Chinese lib- eration movement, thru its political expression the Kuomintang, now leads the struggle of all workers and peasants of the Far East against imperialist domination, American imperialism’s potential rubber plantation and strategic naval base is threat- ened, : There is no guarantee of non-intervention until the demand for the withdrawal of all armed forces from China has been ¢om- plied with by Wall Street government. 4 Oy thru the two-sided struggle against} pUT it was the organization This development took on a politi-| o¢ of | West 47th St. the Union of Servants and the, The management will reserve the demands which it put forward that right to use the letter in advertising convinged the British that their world) the play. They also will reserve the was toppling. right to use any of the other manu- One needs to understand that one/ scripts by the payment of $50 for the great attractions in the orient| each one used. The award will be for imperialists and their hangers-on | announced as soon as possible. is the low cost of personal servicee—| Another innovation was announced the whiteman does nothing for him-|by the producers, which’ is rather self. A superintendent or a foreman! new on Broadway—the refunding of could have more servants in China| the purchase price of a ticket to any of the United Actors, room 502, 226 | One of the featured players in |Henry Baron’s newest French com- ledy “Hearts Are Trumps,” opening | tonight at the Morosco Theatre, ‘Another premiere scheduled for | this evening, will take place at the | Provincetown Playhouse, where “Ra- than his employer could afford in| Seat holder who does not feel satis-) Pid Transit” will be shown. The | Great Britain or America. made by other | together in oppressed nations. | WHAT a shock to discover | W | ganized a powerful union and were | putting forward such demands as: | spectors to be allowed the right to TEN YEARS AFTER With a Few Reflections on the Liberal Supporters of Wilson The lords | fied with the : “The Ladder,” which deals with re- that | incarnation, has undergone revision x : | Since its opening Oct, 22. The play the servants whom the overlords |in its altered form was given Monday had booted around at will had °r- | night before a special audience No discharge without proper cause and no ill-treatment of ser- vants—all wage arrears to be paid by the Chinese New Year—union in- visit all houses where members of the union were employed—free medical aid during sickness except in cases of venereal disease acquir- ed thru neglect or lack of caution —all workers to be hired thru the union—three weeks annual _holi- day or a month’s wages—no one to be discriminated against for pre- senting the union’s demands. i Grand St. Drydock 7516 e. (except Mon.) Mat. Sat. mmedia dell’Arte be was by this process of organiza- tion and strugglé~for daily needs | =~ with the experience of the imperialist | MARTIN BECK sae. Bs "8:30. elements as the most unscrupulous Mats. Wed. and Sat. foe, and the growth of the conviction PED BABAIS Erne that without the support given! to native capitalist interests by the, still more powerful imperialists, the! workers would be able to secure wide | control over working conditions and) CARROLL government, that brought about the| ar] Carroll movement against British control of | tt the foreign settlement in Hankow. Walter B. Lister S. Bre Ge OT BAS Vanities Thea,, Tth Ave. & 50th St. Mats, Thurs. & Sat. 2:30 | 'S West 43nd _— Stree, Britain’s surrender of this valuable | omega the a ee concession to Chinese control was) forced by the labor unions. Strikes|What Anne Brought Home ag vo pi were the weapons used. , A New Comedy Drama 't had consequences of tremendous) ———- GN oF ati yay importance for the whole national) HAMPDEN’S dindict ar sonawar liberation struggle. | Evs. 8:15. Matinees Wed. and Sat. WALTER DEN in CAPONSACCHI PRICES EVES, $1.10 TO $3.85. ECRET treaties, Machiavellian | Sam }JTARRIS THEA. West 42nq_St. diplomacy, bestial and mendacious| }- ‘Twice Daily, 2:30 & 8:20 imperialist aggression against the endeavor to take inyentory of the | colonials and semi-colonials, the coe WHAT PRICE GLORY results realized. There is none so /jies of new alignments growing out Mets, (exc. Sat.) 60c-§1, Eves. 50c-32, play. The money will! | THAT this latter lesson was learn-| of creation who carried the white! be refunded at the conclusion of each| | * ed well is shown by list of de-/man’s burden in China did not even | performance, if the patron applies at ‘mands put forward by the Postal| need to dress themselves, Flocks of | the box office. i i No other formality | | Workers Union—demands similar in| low paid menials and imperialism go| Will be required. PICIVE | Neighborhood Playhouse | 5910 “thea. aot 4 St Ev in Annual) Lyric Bill; ‘SPREAD EAGLE’ ‘Th play is from the Hungarian of Lajos Egri, and was adopted by Charles Recht. Margaret Anglin will give a spec- | ial performance of “Electra” of So- |pholes at the Metropolitan Opera | House on Monday evening April 25th. |The production is being staged and | rehearsed under her personal super- | vision. A special orchestra will ac- “Abie’s Irish Rose” will open at. the | Apollo Theatre, London, next Monday “Hearts Are Trumps,” a comedy | from the French of Felix Gandera, | will be presented by Henry Baron at the Morosco Theatre tonight. | ape rere area acc weary Reza | company the action of the story. | Broadway Briefs ) night, according to word received | from William de Lignomare, general manager, who attended the premiere in Manchester last week. NEW PLAYWRIG : Svs, 8:45. Mats, °2; |. Matinees Thursday and Saturday A . By A OF F t MICHAEL EXICO les: a. GOLD | Auspices of Theatre Gutld Rochester American Opera Company Tonight 8:20 tion From the Se Friday Night— | Week Apn 11 || GUILD THEA | Mats | || NED McCOBB’S DAUGHTER {J Week Apr. 11—The Silver John Golden This Mts. | TIMES SQ. | | with James Rennie & Cheater Morrim e LADDER Now in its 6th MONTH WALDORF, 50th St. Mast of Bway. Mats. WED. and SAT. Bronx Opera I House Pop. Prices. Mat. Wed. & Sat. The Most Sensa- tional Play nee Pogrom With HOWARD LANG, 149th Streew BE, of 3rd Ave. tes Cor. 6 Ay, & 14.8) Civic Repertory ef Watkins ten EVA LE GALLIENNE Tonight. . RADLE SONG". Tomorrow RADLE SONG” of the brigands’ Versailles pact, des-' perate efforts on the part of the self-| of the Allies, and before it was evi- sacrificing allies of 1917 to create a dent that unless new forces were bloc against their “savior” of those thrown into the balance the invest- days, the malignant conspiracy of| ments of the House of Morgan in Britain to encircle the Soviet Union,|Europe would be wiped out to the the ‘war against the liberation move- ment in China, the crusade of Wall Street against Mexico and Nicaragua, the disarmament conferences which are merely maneuvers to gain ad- vantages in the race for more deadly instruments of destruction are sub- jects of comment in every newspaper in the world. How naive are the comments even of those liberal opponents in prin- ciples of war! Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of The Nation, still believes that Wilson really had an impelling desire to realize the aims he put forth in his public utterances. According to Villard “he (Wilson) accompaniment of the roar of the( |German “Big Berthas,” even then thundering at the gates of Paris. Wilson could not come before the | American people with a request to rally to the defense of Morgan’s mil- lions, so he coined the slogan “Make the world safe for democracy,” which |in reality meant “make the world |safe for Morgan’s investments in |England and France and Russia.” Wilson discovered that the War that involved no moral issues in Decem- | ber, 1916, threatened the freedom of | the world in April of the next year. HE 4,355,000 men who were mo- | bilized in the frenzied months of died still blind to the fact that he|this country’s participation in the chose the worst method in the world to achieve his purpose; the method that made success. impossible.” ” . . The inability to grasp fundamen- tals, the sloppy mentality that takes words for deeds, sophistry for politi- cal honesty, characterizes liberalism everywhere. What every real rey- olutionist in the left wing of the So- cialist Party in this country knew and openly proclaimed ten years ago the liberals have not learned to this very day. — wre the Princeton professor in the White House was issuing his exhortations to “make the world safe for democracy,” we stigmatized him as the agent of the House of Morgan. One who thinks that Woodrow Wil- son really believed he was a “cham- pion of the rights of mankind” has no conception of the role of political lackeys of imperialism. Less than four months before his declaration of war against the Central Powers, Wil- son himself asserted that the strug- gle in Europe involved “no moral is- sues and ought therefore be brought to a sensible close.” 'That observa- tion was made in December, before the first 1917 revolution in Russia removed that power from the #anks _war wore the uniforms of American Imperialism. The 126,000 American ‘lives that were blasted into nothing- “ness on the sanguinary fields of bat- | tle were sacrificed on the alter of Wall Street greed and avarice. The 230,300 injured and maimed suffered that American imperialism might be- ‘come the mightiest predatory force | the world has ever seen, | Instead of being the defender of |the rights of mankind and the libera- | tor of the oppressed the sum total of the achievements of America’s par- ticipation in the War was the bestial suppression of ever larger numbers of peoples, the stifling of what little ‘liberty once existed in this country/ with the armed forces of the nation’ functioning exelusively as the hired gunmen engaged in defending the foreign investments of Uncle Shy- lock. : IBERALISM, that whooped it up iw for Wilson during his two cam- paigns for President of the United States, prefers to think of its for- mer idol as a misguided idealist, rather than as an astute politician, a master orator who, to the fullest degree, used language to conceal thought. Liberalism denies the class strurwle. therefore it cannot be. ex * { : ¥ pected to see in the diplomatic mam euyers of statesmen anything other | than a conflict between great men, jeach, in his own way, following the | light as he sees ‘it. The revolutionist alone is able to look beyond’ the apparent movement |of history and ‘perceiye the real |movement. The proclamations, man- ifestoes and exhortations of states- men are merely dramatizations of the clash of economie interests on~the stage of world history. All are as inadequate to reveal the veal. move- | ment as were the Wilsonian war |erys of a decade ago. | Today, when other servile flunkeys ‘of imperialism at Washington are | trying to conceal their policy of brig- andage beneath pleas for the defense of Americans in China, in. Nicara- gua, and in Mexico,: the workers should refuse to heed their pleas, In- ' stead every working class organiza- | tion should in no uncertain terms de- mand that the bloody butchers in the ‘service of Wall Street keep their |hands off, China, Nicaragua, Mex-; ico and the Philippines. ‘: 7 ‘ANY lessons have been learped since the World War, but most important of all for this epoch ig the magnificent lesson of Leninism/ that has taught hundreds of | tho is and: millions of workers throughout the world that an insipid pacifism, such as pervaded the ranks of the liberals and the overwhelming major- ity of the Socialist Party leaders dur- ving the last World War is utterly in- adequate at best to deal with the sit- uation and at the worst is merely a gesture of despair—complete paral- ysis of yevolutionary energy that might otherwise be generated among |the masses of workers, Lenin: and ithe Bolsheviks alone knew how to meet the practical problems. arising out of the World War and the slogan raised by Lenin at Zimmerwald and Kienthal: “Turn the imperialist war between nations into a civil war against capitalism,” must be the re- ply of the vanguard of the proletariat” Me the wars and the threats of war to-_ lay. : A