The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 16, 1927, Page 4

4 : \ yy 4 - conditions at once be put into practice. ‘ with a program of political independence under the bourgeois : Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 88 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 $2.60 three months $2.00 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 Address all mail and make out checks to | THE D@gILY WORKER, 33 Firs’ Street, New York, N. ¥. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE BERT MILLER raail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under | Entered as second-class 7 the act of March 8, 1879. SP. Advertising rates on application. The Chinese Workers and Peasants Now Fight as a Class. To the liberals and pacifists and confused workers the open conflict in the Nationalist Party will appear as a tragedy. It is tragic only in that the lives of workers have been sacrificed in| the struggle but the conflict itself was as inevitable as is the} revolution which produced it. The middle class thru all history has played the role of hang-! men of the working class. It prates of pure democracy, it cries | for and often struggles under the slogan of “democracy” but | always when the masses insist on the defense of their interests | it finds an excuse first to desert them and then to attempt to crush them. The middle class group in the Kuomintang represented by Chiang Kai-Shek have everything in common with the capitalist and middle class democratic elements in the imperialist countries | except recognition of themselves by the powers as the govern-| ment of China. This group claims to represent all the people of | China and in this it shows its historical position. Said Marx in his “Eighteenth Brumaire” “But the democrat, because he represents the petty bour- geoisie—a transitional class in which the interests ‘of two classes | are simultaneously blunted—arrogates to himself a position of | superiority to class conflicts. Democrats admit that they are! faced by a privileged class, but they think that they themselves, | in conjunction with the rest of the nation, constitute the “people.” | What they represent is the right of the people; what interests them, is the popular interest. . Consequently, when a struggle is impending, they see no reason for studying the interests and | attitudes of the various classes, or for carefully reckoning up the) forces at their own disposal. They need merely give the signal, | and the people (whose resources are inexhaustible) will fall upon | the oppressors. If it should turn out that their interests are | inadequate and that their supposed power is impotent, they ascribe their defeat to the activities of pernicious sophists who| have spread disunion and have split up the indivisible people into} a number of mutually hostile factions. . . Whatever happens, | the democrat come forth unspotted after the most shameful de-| feat, just as he was a blameless innocent before he entered the) ad | The determination of the imperialists to hold Shanghai at | all costs came as a terrific blow to the Chinese middle class which, | true to type, had underestimated the. resistance of world im-} perialism. It had fallen for the propaganda of the imperialists— that they were ready to recognize a “stable” government which | represented the Chinese “people.” The rise of the labor movement, its class consciousness and} militancy, were pointed to by the imperialists as an obstacle to recognition of a purely Nationalist government. The Chinese | middle class has turned upon the working class and has thereby-| endangered the whole anti-imperialist movement without secur- ing any guarantees for its own special interests from the im- perialist powers. Imperialism, as the Communist International has pointed out repeatedly, cannot be conquered in China without nationaliza- tion of the land and the principal industries—transportation for instance. The power of the imperialists-cannot be broken by pur&y, military methods. The workers and peasantry must be organized and that part of the program which improves their ‘ The middle class leadership of the Kuomintang finds itself in conflict with its social kindred if it yields to the demand of the masses which in this instance are the strongest weapon against imperialism. It chooses to defend the interests of the middle class, which are opposed to those of the masses and it becomes an ally of imperialism in so far as their interests coin- cide. They do coincide in that both see a menace to their privi- leges in the increasing consciousness, organization and power of the workers and peasants. Said Lenin in the Theses of the Second Congress of the Com- munist International: “There are to be found in the dependent countries two dis- tinct movements which grow every day farther apart from each other. One is the bourgeois democyatic Nationalist government, order, and the other is the mass action of the poor peasants and workers for their liberation from all sorts of exploitation. The former endeavor to control the latter, and often succeed to a certain extent, but the Communist International must struggle against such control and help to develop class consciousness in the working masses of the colonies. The first step towards revo- lution in the colonies must be the overthrow of foreign capi- talism.” The Chinese liberation movement has developed so rapidly its struggle against imperialism that the parallel development of the workers and peasant movement has been obscured. It is now plain, however, that, as in the Russian revolution, those ele- ments which wish to compromise with capitalism at the expense of the masses, will no longer be tolerated by the conscious work- ers and peasants as leaders. Far from the split in the Kuomintang being a tragedy it is the best of all guarantees that imperialism and its allies in China confront a movement of tremendous scope and,/power hav- ing its base in the masses of toilers and preparing its forces for struggle against all forms of oppression. That this movement would not follow Chiang Kai-Shek into the morass of compromise with imperialism is an earnest of the soundness of its revolutionary core. Without ceasing their demand for withdrawal of all imper- ialist forces from China, the American working class must now understand that the Chinese labor movement and the peasant organizations, in their two-sided struggle against imperialism and native reaction, have the first call on their sympathy and sup- | that was overthrowing Petersburg, | | plunged somewhere into the crowd of | | His eyes blazed with inspiration and | | will be treacherous.” | | | have |Get up!...” Moscow in October COMM ANDERS. Il. Thad hardly begun making a speech | calling upon the soldiers to leave} new commander—the tall soldier with that day at dawn for the Moscow| the. face of Ivan the. Terrible—sat | Soviet to fight those who were trying | with us in the car and leaning over in Moscow to defend the Government | to my ear asked: “And what about the other de- when I observed that my friend had/| tachments?” * “We have already been to the 193 regiment in the Spassky Barracks on Khondynka, the artillery—they are coming out everywhere.” * * * soldiers and disappeared amongst them. At ‘the same time I glanced round and noticed that the young} soldier standing by me who had wan-} ted to writé our names down, had also |" Then we were. silent. disappeared somewhere. A tall, “Well,” and the non-commissioned soldierin a grey fur cap, came up to| officer looked up at me with kind the table, He also had a rifle in his| sympathetic eyes, “I am now going hands, he himself began speaking shaking his rifle in the air. | The face of the soldier speaker re- | sembled that of Ivan the Terrible.| appeal, | “Comrades, come on,” he said, “but | don’t take any officers with you: they | * * * I heard someone rattling the bolt} of his: rifle behind me and someone | else crying out in a hoarse-sleepy | voice: “Enough, comrades, enough! We, heard you before, Comrade Yegorov, we know all about it; enough of this talk—we’ll go and that’s all.” | “We'll. go” voices muttered. “File! (By A Worker Correspondent). off! Go out into the yard.” And | WHILE working on the Silver Ar- they all immediately moved back! row of the Standard Oil Company again to their boards in order to get' of New Jersey just after the ship dressed and awaken the others: | made port and before she started to We could hear them saying: |veload with oil for the next trip out, “Go out! With cartridges! ...|the mate told me to go down and rid |the gas tank of the accumulated rust and grease on the bottom of the tank. I went out into the yard together) This order is not as unusual as it is with the soldiers who had already | characteristic of the risks and dangers dressed. In the very doorway, I| which the sailors on the tankers of the bumped right into my pal who, quite | Standard Oil boats are forced to un- excited, held the young fellow by the | dertake while in the employ of this * * ** “everyone out into the street.” Their} hand who had wanted to write down our names. i Passing by the Krassnaya Vorota, we saw how a narrow strip of the morning dawn was visible behind them. Moscow was still quiet, the outlines of the houses stood out more clearly. I glanced behind. In the distance round a bend in the street, walking straight towards the breaking dawn, a grey mass of soldiers were marching steadily. Their new commander—the tall soldier, again bent whispered in my ear “And in Petersburg, has Lenin Is- ed the order about the land?” “Yes. We only have to confirm it here by our acts,” On the Lubyanskaya Square there was some kind of old disused fountain, It was light grey when we passed by. On the fountain, the curbstones, along the walls and gates of the “Chinatown,” (“Kitai Gorod” the busi- ness district of Moscow), soldiers were seated. We stopped and asked them what they were waiting for, “Come along, here,” the soldiers said to us. “But we have not got any commanders. Come to the Soviet. Someone told us that we should wait here and we are waiting.” We gave them instructions to march to the Soviet and not to listen to any proposals. “It is bad. without commanders,” said the tall soldier. When we came to the Moscow Soviet, it swarmed with soldiers like an ant hill. And there were no commanders anywhere, (alee In the evening of the next day, when we could all smell powder in the ajr quite plainly, we—the Mili- tary-Revolutionary Committe e— firmly realized what commanders were and what significance they could have in military activities. But where are they to be found? There were no Bolshevik sergeants or corporals to be found. There were also very few soldiers whe could com- mand big units. They promoted themselves on the spot under fire. That evening going down the steps of the Moscow Soviet, I caught up one non-commissioned officer who was reckoned as a Bolshevik. “Where are you off to!” I asked. “Why, in a few minutes the rising is starting.” It appeared that this was a young S.R. who had gone off to smash the locks of the premises where the cartridges were kept. My comrade, who had been suspicious of him from the very start, observed that he had gone somewhere and then followed him, ni Meanwhile, soldiers filed through the yard. It seemed quite natural that the command was taken over by the same tall fellow in the grey fur cap who had warned us against tak- ing the officers. We heard him ecry- ing out: “Well, what about it? ... Have you broken the lock? Smash the door in like that!” This was evidently in regard to the store with the cartridges. The S.R. who had broken the lock of the store, stood there surrounded by soldiers. He immediately began to excuse himself: “Comrades, I am not against you, I am only against bloodshed. Don’t you understand, Surely you can go out without cartridges, Bear in mind that they themselves fire sometimes, Themselves. This must be foreseen. Comrades! A socialist cannot go out with loaded rifle against a socialist.” “But didn't Kerensky fire?” some- one shouted. » “Sten vour talk.” the soldier cried. su | company. | These tanks of the type which the | mate asked me to clean out are the | tanks which store the oil on the trans- | Atlantic and coastwise tankers. The | usual procedure in cleaning out the tanks after they are empty of cargoes is something like the following: While yet at sea the hatches are | lifted from the empty tanks and the tanks exposed. Then windsails are | rigged up to catch the breeze against the cloth and it is conveyed to the tanks below. This system is supposed to carry the air below and thereby clear the tanks of poisonous and nox- ious gases, such as the evaporated |} gasoline and petroleum products. These foul gases settle to the bottom of the tank. After the windsails have been up some time and the tanks sup- posedly rid of the gases, the tanks are closed and flushed with live steam. | This is done with the purpose of rid- | ding the sides of the tank of the ac- |cumulated oil and rust. Following this the tank is washed down with a stream of water projected from a hose from the deck. Then the water is let out from the bottom of the tank and the tank is pronounced clean of everything, gases and all. However, | what interests the company is the rust |which is left at the bottom of the |tank, which must be cleaned before | the ship can refill. This rust usually | piles up six or seven inches high and covers the bottom of the tank. It is {gathered together by sweeping and | then is hauled above decks. But here is where the filth comes in. The officials of the Standard Oil Company know full well that those tanks into which it sends its men are not really clear of gases and poisonous vapors. It knows it so well that there are special doctors provided to ex- amine the men after a certain amount of employment at this dangerous Let’s Fight On! Join The Workers Party! In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- berg the Workers (Communist) Par- ty has lost its foremost leader and the American working class its staunchest fighter. This loss can only be overcome by many militant work. ers joining the Party that he built. Fill out the application below ‘and mail it. Become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party and carry forward the work of Comrade Ruthenberg. I want to become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party. Name Address Occupation Union Affiliation. . Mail this application to the Work- ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New York City; or if in other city to Workers Party, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Distribute the Ruthenberg ppam- phlet, “The Workers (Communist) Party, What it Stands For and Why Workers Should Join.” This Ruthen- berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- phlet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. «Every Party Nucleus must collect 50 cents from every member and will receive 20 pamphlets for every mem- ber to sell or distribute. Nuclei in the New York District will get their pampblets from the District Office--108 East 14th St. Nuclei outside of the New York District write to Daily Worker Pub- lishing Co., 38 East First Street, New York City, or to the National Office, Workers Party, Wi W. Washington Blvd.. Chicago, Iff, if get arms. ... I live near here... .” The fight commenced 20 minutes after by conversation with the non-j commissioned officer, and continued the whole of the next day and the day after. One comrade from our staff went after the non-commissioned | officer who had gone “to rig himself up for the ‘front,’” The comrade went to his home and reported: “The windows are boarded up. The house is dark. They told me that T. ... was not there.” And the next day the same reply. | Altogether we had six or seven | non-commisisoned officers on our side and they were all, except for the author of these lines, either Left SR’s, or else non-party people who had put FOOTNOTES a By EUGENE LYons ANOTHER CHINESE PUZZLE, (Clipped from the morning papers, April 12.) LONDON, April 11.—Michael Borodin has disappeared from andveill work in China, the Daily Express says, and aside from those in the secrets i of the Cantonese government, no one knows what has become of him. ‘ WASHINGTON, April 11—Rear Admiral H. H. Hough, commander i of the Yangtse Patrol Force, reports he has reliable information that the ._ coume | leis t if | Nationalists contemplate the immediate removal of their capital to Nank- ing. Troops. at Wuchang publicly declared themselves for Chiang Kai-shek. 4 Borodin and other government officials have left concessions for Chinese themselves completély at the disposi- tion of the Military Revolutionary | Committee and had honestly fulfilled | the tasks entrusted them. (To be After listening to my speech, | to rig myself out for the ‘front’ and! continued.) FUNERAL CHANT | Being beheaded is preferable . . . Surrender to Tyranny is the soul’s decapitation! Youth’s warm blood, flowing . . . Thorns and prickles growing throughout our Country .. . Wolves and tigers with red fangs! Lovers of Liberty pay its price; Manly men die without regret; ‘ The blood that flows is the generative blood of a Nation. Standard Oil of New Jersey game. And it is not infrequently that a poor cuss is fired after an exam- ination; this due to physical disabil- ity. “What’s the matter with him?” Will the doctor tell him?” Of course | not. But after a few months that! young fellow who has been foolish enough to work hard and faithfully carry out his orders in regards to cleaning out the death chambers which help to fill the pockets of the shareholders of the Standard Oil Com- pany with blood-dripped gold, will be laying in some marine hospital, spit- ting his lungs out, having blood) hemorrhages and showing every other indication of having either T. B. or some other deadly lung disease. Many is the time that I’ve seen| healthy strapping young lads go down | smiling into the depths of a gas tank and come out sweating, pale, dizzy and knocked out. These tanks have been instrumental in sending many men to early graves. It is a very necessary safety rule that any seaman or shore worker should wear a gas mask to which pure air is pumped while he is working below. But the Standard Oil Com- pany is following the most modern! and up-to-date system of economy and speed-up in its administration of ex- ploitation. They save money by send-| ing the seamen to choke below after | their routine tasks are over despite the fact that they are entitled to knock off, while they take it easy and feast or ride around off Tampico or play golf at Palm Beach or some other resort for the idle rich. Only the officers at present have masks and they are pretty careful to wear them when they go down into the tank. Once I got a terrible kick in my back for just pumping air down to the boatswain and the chief mate and} they were pretty worried about their sacred lives, Seems as tho our officers are pretty careful of their sweet lives. But what about us guys who have to do the dirty work. It’s we that ought to get the protection, not them. If it weren’t for us, the tankers on the Standard Oil wouldn't move oil, wouldn’t be loaded on or loaded off and thére wouldn’t be any dividends for the stockholders of the Standard Oil Co. | Those parasites live in luxury at our expense, while we try to get along on from $40 to $60 a month. No More Stories About “Peaches.” POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., April 15. —An order discontinuing the $300 a week temporary alimony to Frances “Peaches” Browning, flapper bride of Edward W. Browning, middle-aged millionaire, and allowing Henry Ep- stein, her counsel an additional $2,500 fee and $1,884 expenses, was signed today by Supreme Court Justice r. Saceo and Vanzetti Must Not Die! “America and the Next War”’—Sunday Night Jay Lovestone, Acting General Secretary of the Workers Party has been secured for the Forum Lecture to be delivered at the Workers School Forum, 108 East; 14th Streep, this Sunday night (April 17) at 8 P. M. His topic is “America and the Next War.” The Jecture consists of a report on the analysis of the world situation made by the last Plenum of the xecu- tive Committee of the Communist In- ternational to which Lovestone was a delegate from the Workers’ (Com- munist) Party of America. The find- ings of the Plenum will be supple- mented by an analysis of recent de- velopments such as the developments City. SONG OF THE MARINES. Hurray! Hurray! We’re on our way We don’t know why nor give a damn We're told to go by Uncle Sam. We're on our way! Hurray! Hurray! “Lives” to protect in China land, That they expect, we understand. Hurray! Hurray! We're on our way! A good marine, no questions asks, Like a machine, he does his tasks. We're on our way, Hurray! Hurray! We go to fight and shoot to kill Right or wrong, we get a thrill. Hurray! Hurray! We're on our way! If we come back, and when we do, We each may lack a limb or two. Hurray! Hurray! —ADOLF WOLFF. We're on our way! CUSTOMER.—Here waiter! I find a needle in the noodle soup. WAITER.—Sorry, sir—just a typographical error. DUMB BELLES-LETTRES. Dear Lester: Well, Lester darling, I hope you will forgive me not writing so long, won't you? I hardly know where to begin, Lester dear, be- cause so much happened since last time I took pen in hand. Mostly in China I mean where the southerners are fighting against the . north, the foreigners’ gunboats and the correspondents, as well as among themselves. " Soviet Russia, as best I can make out though I don’t get it so well, has threatened China with peace and nobody knows how to make out such strange behavior. It started with a raid on the Bolsheviks in Peking and so forth, and what do you suppose they found in the Soviet headquarters? Why, Russian books and pic- tures of Lenine and Trotsky and a lot of other Communist docu- ments, including red flags and the like. So it is quite clear, isn’t it, that there was a red plot brewing. Though my brother Percy, who's a great kidder, says what did they expect to find, maybe pictures of Codlidge and tracts from the missionaries or some- thing, And anyhow, Eugene Chen over in Hankow apologized to Russia for what the Chinese in Peking did. And Chang-Tso-Lin in Peking is expected to apologize for what the fellows in Nanking did, tit for tat, so maybe that’s why they have two governments, each one to prove that the other isn’t responsible. Also with all the raids on reds in Shanghai and the like the Americans there must feel quite at home, so there you are. The powers including Kellogg sent notes to the Cantonese asking that they apologize for being bombarded by English and American ships in Nanking and to promise not to‘do it again. Now that’s a mouthful about China, isn’t it Lester «darling, and there seems no end to it. But I guess there are going to be enough of our boys there soon to clean house once and for all. Coolidge says there 4re enough there already’ which means that the Navy will soon send more, at least that’s how it always works out, though I don’t know why unless it’s what the papers call diplomacy or high polities or something, — Also there’s an investigation in New York about how the ‘ Soviets corrupted the police. The A. F. of L. which made the accusation says it didn’t make it, and the reds and the bluecoats say they never gave or received bribes and the papers say that of course the police wouldn’t do such a thing, so I can’t make out what the investigation is all about anyway. Also there were elections in Chicago but there wasn’t many casualties and I don’t remember which gang won. Also an Italian aeroplane flier, De Pinedo, who crossed the Atlantic Ocean all right and managed the Brazilian jungles without a hitch, was blown up in Texas, which all goes to show, doesn’t it? Asa! Another thing that you will be glad to know is that Henry Ford had an accident while learning to drive a car and that Coolidge is still looking for a place to spend the summer. He wants to see how the poor farmers get along and he is trying to decide whieh is the nicest and most palatial home for him with the best fishing and the like. It’s all I can think of now, darling, although I’m sure I'll think of a million things after I mail this letter, Lester dear, so take care of yourself and think of your lonesome, Sincerely yours, MYRTLE. The magazine “School,” whose editor is named E, Hackney, carries the following apocicidichig F ne eT “4 1 and registering all elementary school graduates under the direction of the police department has been Rage aer chy eeu + urged eomeg ea Lan neh Association as a met problem of" juvenile delinquency. At a recent meeting the association unanimously adopted resolutions submitting this suggestion to the superintendent of schools, the oo the police commissioner. . . . After stating that the © ¥ ible,” the reso- child in the city of New York upon gradua- tion or other discharge from an elementary school shi be formally introduced to the city of which he is a part proper and adequate registration, including identification by fingerprinting under the care of the department of police, so that the child may be led.to a proper feeling of responsibility and gratitude for its elementary education, By this means the negative ten- in China, Nicaragua, Mexico, ete. This forum lecture is the first public report made in the United States on the last Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist Inter- national and therefore should be of special interest. On the following Sunday night, April 24, Joe Freeman, well known proletarian * journalist who returns from Russia this week, after a stay of, over 6 months in that country, will speak on “Russia in 1927,” dencies will be diverted to positive tendencies of noblest character.” | Italian Artist Gets His Due—Don’t let tell you that Yorkers don’t appreciate art. Of a Titian pa gceoend by the Mateopoliane od re yg New York Sun says in its headlines: “CRITICS LOUD The Truth Will Out-—A ein the New York World, early edi- tion of April 12, said, “JEFFE! IN DINNER A HARMONY FROST.” This extraordinary candor on part offa democratic paper was explained by” a later edition, in which the headline was corrected to read, “JEFFER: DINNER A HARMONY FEAST.” «