The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 21, 1927, Page 4

ee ROE es Page Four THE DAILY WORKER NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 7 Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. (ree tien ra 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 : $2.60 three months $2.00 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ay? WILLIAM F, DUNNE be escecceeeerecccess Editors BERT MILLER..............-.--- business Manager Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. >. Support the Labor Unions and the Peasant Organizations of New China! The London correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune has this to say on the Chinese situation: By T J. O’FLAHERTY HILE James Ramsay MacDonald, | ™ former, and first labpr. premier of Great Britain was teceiving the plaudits of the capitalists and labor |fakers in the United States’ and spreading good cheer, optimism and a certain brand of pacifism—beloved | by the less-swashbuckling section of the capitalist class—everywhere he | went, a delegate conference of his | own party in annual meeting as- | sembled was busy discussing ways | | and means of how best to wind up his | political career, as an I.L.P. leader. The conference finally decided not | to put forward MacDonald’s name} for treasurer of the Labor Party or | to nominate him as a delegate of the| LL.P. to the next Labor Party con-| ference. What Does It Mean? Is this a gentle tap on the wrist or) a sock like unto what one would get from a mule? | Why has the Independent Labor | Party— not a revolutionary party of | J. Ramsay MacDonald, who w Labor government, together with his daughter, Ishbel, has come to the United States Ramsay MacDonald and the LL. P. | J. RAMSAY MacDONALD Translator of “Rapid Transi Dramatic Editor: | Concerning “Rapid Transit” any the review of it in today’s DAIL/ WORKER: You. complain of the absence of a “warm emotional pull.” Could you really expect to find it in a play of this character? Rapid Transit is a reductio ad absurdam not only of the antics of life, but of the emotions of life. It is necessarily an Olympian comic. Or better still, it is a page out of Jove’s diary, recounting a visit of his on this funny little planet, Earth. One does not grow sym- pathetic over things one finds laugh- | able and petty. | Love Is Ridiculous Egri’s intention is plainly to “turn as the premier of the first British action by a long way—turned down, | | the hose on our ardors,” whether “Obviously, on the basis of his actions to date, Chiang’s Nan-/ the best advertised political labor king government will start life with far more sympathy from the leader in Britain? powers, ND PARTICULARLY FROM GREAT BRITAIN, than the Hankow government has enjoyed. What relation does the I.L.P. bear 3 A to the Labor Party and how much in- Too hasty proclamation of fiuence has it in the councils of the this fact in China probably would not suit Chiang’s plans, but Labor Party? the knowledge that if he plays his cards cleverly he may be able to arrange a modus vivendi with the foreigners, where the Can- tonese politicians hitherto have failed, should do much for Chiang’s prestige.” (Emphasis ours.) From the correct answers to those questions and not on the observations of Arthur Henderson and other sup- porters of Ramsay MacDonald can bé This is very frank speaking. , determined the weight of the wallop It says in so many words that) inflicted on MacDonald’s political rear Chiang Kai Shek is the new hope of the imperialists and that in view of his betrayal of the liberation movement they are willing to give him some sort of recognition. His murder campaign against trade union and left wing leaders shows that there is nothing to fear from Chiang. He represents that section of the manufacturing,*trading and professional groups which is willing to bargain with imperialism and give to the foreign robbers greater concessions than they will make to the Chinese workers and peasants. Chiang has carried out his assaults against the trade unions under the guise of destroying “Communist influence.” In other words he is following the same hypocritical policy that the right Wing of the labor movement is following in the United States. But the smashing of trade unions only serves to convince the masses that Chiang is the same kind of an imperialist that’ Chang Tso-lin is. They will not accept him or support him. The Kuomintang, with the exception of the extreme right wing—small in numbers—decided against the exclusion of Com- munists from the party at the recent conference and at previous conferences. The results of the right wing policy, its hostility to the Communists being. only one feature of it, were to turn the: peasants and the labor movement against the Kuomintang. It! was the failure of Chiang’s policy from the standpoint of success-} ful struggle against imperialism that was responsible for his defeat. * The attitude.of the Kuomintang was well expressed in the joint.statement issued by the Communists and non-Communist sections of the Kuomintang in Shanghai, April 5. The statement *<as' signed’ by Wan Ching-wei, the closest associate of Sun Yat- sen, for the non-Communists and Chen Tu-shu, former vice- chancellor of Peking university, for the Communists. It said: “Some say the Communists are determined to establish a la-} by the conference of the LL.P. Followers No Longer. In refusing to nominate MacDonald |for treasurer of the Labor Party or for delegate to the Labor Party con- ference, his party showed its repu- diation of his policies and his general attitude towards the class struggle in as vigorous a manner as one could | expect from an organization composed of such genteel characters as most of the LL.P. leaders. But genteel as they are they were |forced to respond to the pressure of | the masses from below who have deeply resented MacDonald’s treach- ery during the general strike and his sabotage of the miners afterwards. Once Defended Him. In those days the I.L.P. leaders who have now practically ousted him from the I.L.P. upbraided the Com- |munists telling the British workers) that MacDonald was a traitor to the | workingclass in the throes of a mighty struggle and that he and Thomas and Clynes and the rest of the ilk should be left to cool their heels outside the | workingclass movement or warm their shins before the drawing room |fires of the inhabitants of Mayfair. | The LLP. leaders charged the |Communists with using unseemly j language; that while it is perfectly alright to disagree with a person it is beastly to call a crook’a crook or a |faker a faker. Some other name | would smell sweeter and would keep j the bridge from right to left safe for “community.” And the community, as you know, is none other than our |dear friend the “public” who is sup- posed to be the injured person in all | struggles between the capitalists and the workers, Denounced Striker. | MacDonald, in this book, denounced | | strikes and referred to the leaders of |his party as “easie-oosie asses” for) taking socialism seriously. The I.L.P.| leaders bowed like gentlemen and} maintained their dignity. MacDonald stuck to his knee breeches and his presbyterian socialism. The Com-/ munists split the air with raucous laughter and ribald jest at the ex- pense of the I.L.P. leaders and called on them to line up in a real struggle against the capitalists. Nothing and with your eye on the future and security, a mobile force and not a fixed force, a naval force such as was there at the time, was the best that could be used for the purpose.” | these are of the-heart or brain.- You may have observed that he himself laughs up his sleeve at the love- |episodes between the hero and | heroine, because love too is ridiculous in the way we live it. The hero, tn- In other words, Mr. ‘MacDonald only disagrees with the Baldwin gov- ernment because its method of sub- jugating the Chinese was not nearly so efficient as would, have been the | | deed, strains for something higher, | but he is helpless and futile, because | one man in a million is always heip- less and futile. case had he been premier! You complain that all the figures | remain shadowy and do not come to Friend Thomas, life. You are right. J. H. Thomas, the strongest right | Something that might be said in favor wing labor leader in England and! of the play, rather than against it. MacDonald’s closest ally declared | All the characters were meant to be that he favored sending a large army | puppets. to England rather than a small one, Electrified Puppets: The Communists, and the left wing | In another version of the play, the But that is|* Playwright as Surgeon * Finds Life Petty, Ridiculous, VIVIENNE OSBORNE | In “One Glorious Hour” the new comedy playing at the Selwyn Thea- tre. to the fundamentals, to recognition of true values. Life is certainly not the |happened just then at the top, but way down in the depths of the LL.P. |ship the firemen were spitting on their fists and muttering. transport of British troops to China. | The reformist leaders of the LL.P,| }and wishy-washy one-man-party of | | Then the great General Strike| George Lansbury, indulged in the) broke out. The British trade union-| Usual nonsense hoping that both ists—all those who were called—jsides would show “good sense” and | | “moderation,” ete. But the rank and |file of the workers had no stomach | jmunist Party demanded’ complete | for a war with China, the cost which | | solidarity of ‘all labor's forces, | they would have to pay with their | They demanded concrete measures/lives and a still lower standard of | to make the strike effective. |living, and it is the rumbling of this | Half Hearted Solidarity. earthquake that forced the polite | The I.L.P. leaders were content| leaders of the L.L.P. to break with came out and stood to their positions like disciplined soldiers. The Com- font ‘ante | indignit; live it as. trade unionists led by A. J. Cook) prologue showed the Great’ Wheel Pee eomplaine ree “he feeds you called for positive action to stop the |parting curtains and exposing a/ too fast.” That is exactly what Egri group of mannikins. When he winds) up his clock and the pendulum is set swinging, a galvanic shock runs through these inanimate figures, in fusing them with the current of lif These mannikins, later, become the! inhabitants of Hekuba-Hakuba. complains of our existence. We are fed too fast—GUSTAV DAVIDSON, Translator of “Rapid Transit.” Broadway Briefs : ERTL ERS Imre, the hero, is employed merely as a gauge against which the rapid, “The Field God.” by Paul Green, passage of time may be measured and @uthor of “In Abraham’s Bosom”, made vivid. The author is by no | Will have its premiere at the Green- means sympathetic with his hero, or Wich Village Theatre tonight. with any of his characters. Nor is| it his intention to be. He has the) Two additional companies of “The attitude of an eminent surgeon to-| Spider”, are now being assembled, |with half measures, MacDonald,| MacDonald. Thomas and Clynes sabotaged from | |the start and in conjunction with the! | leaders of the General Council finally } |broke the ranks with an abject sur-/ Gently Kicked, Out. The language used by the Chester- fieldian I.L.P’ers nevertheless only sweetens a bitter pill. wards his patient—truth a tout priz.|One company will be sent to Chi- If you should suddenly transplant |¢@go and the other company is being \a Hindu mystic to Times Square, he | recruited for London. . Here is @) would get about the same reaction | Ree render. It was then there really| sample of it from the April 8, issue| that an average audience gets watch-| | “Cradle Snatchers”, headed by started the struggle against Mac-|of the New Leader, official organ ing the mad cavortings in “Rapid|Mary Boland, will return to New Donaldism that came to a climax at/ of the LL.P: | |the Leicester conference of the LL.P.| “Mr. MacDonald is opposed to the | |The Communists roused the masses! policies which the L.L.P. is seeking! and under the influence of the Com-|to get the Labor Party to adopt, and/ |munist propaganda the members of|is the principal spokesman of the | the I.L.P, forced their leaders to act.) Labor Party against them. This The Chinese situation provided the| Places both Mr. MacDonald and the \last straw that broke the MacDonald | 1-L.P. in an anomalous position. Con- | Transit.” None of us have a thou-| York for a two weeks’ engagement, sand years to live; if we had, then the | @9ening at the Century Theatre’ Mon- ambitions which claim us and the | day evening, May 2nd. time we give to them, might be, justified. But against the 50 or 60| Clara Verdera is now playing the years, practically all our activities | role of “Mary Madden” in “Wooden are ludicrous. We ought to get back | Kimono” at the Fulton Theatre. | back in the I.L.P. fusion is naturally created, and, with | | the political pedestrian who might - . ig. deer rnment decided | the fullest personal good-will to-| bor government, to break into the concessions, to endanger the’ like to cross over to the right ad Behari Sonal eet wails cescceal sent its naval and military forces Wards Mr. MacDonald, the National | expeditionary force, and to overthrow the Kuomintang, whilst’ others report that the Kuomintang leaders will expel the Com-) munists and suppress the labor unions and their pickets. . . .” “The Kuomintang has made it known to the world its reso- lution that no steps should be taken to oust the Communists and to terminate the labor unions.” ~ “The military authorities at Shanghai (Chiang Kai-shek, Ed.) have manifested a willingness to obey the instructions of the Cen- tral-Government and it is probable that the differences and mis- understandings, if any, between them will be adjusted. The Com- munists are as anxious as others to maintain order, and have en- the left began to lose its charm, Do Hate a Scab. to China the Communist Party called| Council of the I.L.P; feels that | it| for the organizations of “Hands Off, Would be better that the delegation |. But the rank and file of the work- |ingclass do not affect the Oxonian| the I. L. P. issued carefully written | manner, They don’t stroll along the’ manifestoes. They sent greetings to| j Strand becaned and bespatted, They |Kugene Chen, foreign secretary of | drink their beer in their neighborhood | the Nationalist Government. Mac- | | pub of an evening and melodiously | Donald secretly supported Chamber- | | curse the capitalist system and all its | lain and openly declared that British | works and pomps, interests in China should be protec- | | And when a strike is called they | ted. He did not object to the policy! stand on the picket line and consider| of the tory government but to the ; every enemy of theirs from the scab; manner® in which this policy was | | China” committees, The leaders of | ’ePresenting the Party should reflect | | Theatre Gulld Acting Company in | LLP. policy. The recommendation of | PYGMALION the National Council does not, of {GUILD THEA, W. 52 St. Evs. 8:15 course, mean that Mr, MacDonald | { Next oso Tes poe et would not be nominated as Labor | ‘Beas Party treasurer. Last year 29 or- | ganizations, in addition to the IL.L.P.,| K 65 w. nominated him. The chairman ana pehestolah § oe secretaries of the I.L.P. have seen | | Mr. MacDonald, and have explained, to him that the recommendation of! 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Spring 8368. i m . i ae * sa , to the. king lower in the social deere i j .; the National Council is made on these | {|} 3 8 7 » dorsed the Kuomintang resolution to refrain from using military than the flea on a gnny dire SA | cikae ar tnd Leiden Day tole | ease grounds, without any diminu-|*——\°2t Week—The Sliver Cora ; RA PID TRA NSIT | force to effect repossession of the settlements. | They have no time for politeness. graph reported that MacDonald's ef- tion of personal regard.” _ Neighborhood Playhouse | M. oH SATURDAY see oe ‘ “The labor uniions have issued a manifesto that the laborers |They growl and grumble and finally | forts “earn approbation here” and| AS far as we are concerned, were | 466 Gratd’ St Drydock 7616| 3-7 —— : | must not break into the international concession singly and in-| the polite lads at the top of the LL.P. the editorial writer of the same paper | We in MacDonald’s shoes a matic | i Every Eve. (except Mon.) Mat. Sat. | Civic Repertory Sef As & 14 St i dependent of others. . . .” kas notice and offered Mac to the/ declared that “we are able to quote | decision iat ary in a aplomsie | ill of Lyric Drama EVA LE GALLIENNE j rolv | ‘ See ahs a $0 ’ ccs teal ARCA OEY BY } « The above statement shows that it was not a question of |“°'** MacDonald with satisfaction. sate de eA gebe or, ase inie | ry “CRADLE, SONG" order or disorder that prompted Chiang to make his treacherous | and bloody raids on the unions. Neither was there any question as-to the attitude of the Communists. The principal question was solely onevof the method of wag-| ing the struggle against imperialism and the decisive role played The Issues. _. Here is a sample of the kind of} Coneretely what in particular were | language used by MacDonald that | | the issues over which MacDonald and | the capitalists were able to quote | | the LL. P. parted company? | with approval: | | 1, The political policy of the LL.P.| “The force that came into opera- | jis based on a theses (they don’t call) tion in Nanking to save the situa- (it that; it would smell of Commu-! tion was not the Shanghai Defence on us. The fact is that MacDonald) TIMES SQ. was given such a jolt by’ the I,L.P.|-rhea., w. 42 st. that he cannot property continue to |Eves. 8:30. Mats. pas | Wed. & Sat. 2:30 be a member of the organization. (with James Rennie & Chester Morris, LL.P. Important. iT he LADDER Arthur Henderson, secretary of the | Labor Party, belittled the importance | CRIME ER BUILDER” ‘CRADLE SONG" | EARL CARROLL Vanities > Thea., 7th Ave. & 50th Earl Carroll hee. Thurs: se Sat 2:96 by the unions in that ‘struggle. The strikes, the wage increases| nism) entitled “Socialist In Our) Force, but naval forees who were | of the organization that booted his Howe, ie ies Oe ae, MARTIN PE See tree so mN | Q j | LDORF, 50th St, Kasi BECK THEATRE, 46 Be and improvements in working conditions which resulted from) Time.” MacDonald, an outstanding! in China before our troops left |friend MacDonald. He who got Bway. Mts, WED. and ‘Sart 8-Ave. -Bvs. 8:30, them, of course affected the Chinese bosses—-Chiang’s support- ers—adversely, the rise of the labor movement and its alliance with the peasantry, made certain the downfall of the middle classes’ leaders. ’ | leader of the party, indeed the leader, | | wrote a big book, ridiculing the L.L.P. | |for formulating such a program and} | pouring ridicule and scorn on thess| | who would put the interests of the England. “The Labor Party never said that the forces in China at the time should be evacuated, Our view all | slapped agreed with Henderson. Both | agreed that the majority of the Labor | WALLACK’S se etines egy Party would support MacDonald; | Mats. Tues. Wed, Thurs, and Sat which is quite possible. But what What Anne Brought Home | A New Comedy Drama Mats. Wed. and Sat. ( JED HARRIS Presents a Drama ‘SPREAD EAGLE’ 1 lh eli id aiid 149th” Street, ; h | along was that if the Chinese situa-' | relation does the LL.P. bear towards Bronx ra House },' Brae : This class, at. least the section of it following Chiang, de-|Workingelass above those of the| tion was to be handled as a whole |the Labor Party? Pop. Prices. Mat. Wed. & Sat, Ny cide to make terms with imperialism rather than with the masses. All thru history the middle class has made a similar choice when confronted with a similar necessity. The Herald-Tribune dispatch and the optimistic tone. of the imperialist ~2sg in general show that the enemies of the Chinese iiberation movement recognize an ally in Chiang. But he is a weak ally. The Kuomintang and the labor and peasant organizations which are its base will smash Chiang. They | will smash him quickly if the labor movements in the other coun- tries demand and enforce the slogan of Hands Off China—with- draw all troops and battleships—suppert the workers’ and pea- sants’ movement of New China! The Cabinet Crisis in Japan. The so-called Japanese financial crisis, the outward manifes- tation of which was the closing of a number of prominent banks, causing an upheaval in the government that resulted in the down- fall of the cabinet, is directly connected with the revolutionary situation in China, * _ Marxists recognize the fact that financial crises are only reflexes of industrial crises. In Japan the industrial crisis, one of the periodic depressions, has been intensified by the inability to secure raw material from China and has produced the greatest » collapse since the earthquake in 1928. All large banks that have closed represented powerful industrial groups, the smaller banks were simply auxiliaries of the larger ones. The former opposition which claimed that the Japanese pol- iey in China would ruin the industries by destroying the source of r SR i & raw material has now been entrusted with the formation of a | government. Baron Tanaka, former leader of the opposition, and /now premier, is a military despot and, according to reliable in- | formation, a “renowned exponent of conservatism and patron of Lureaucracy.” | He is the agent of the big industrialists and the finance cap- |italists, who have heavy investments in China. | | A change of Japanese policy in China will be enforced by the| jnew regime. Instead of the hands-off policy, that has character- \ized the last government, ‘there will be aggressive intervention, with a possible revival of the old Anglo-Japanese Alliance that was formally dissolved at the Washington arms conference in 1921. Tanaka is the political heir of the late Prince Yamagata, who was always a defender of the alliance in the Pacific between England and Japan against the United States. i The inept gang of politicians at Washington now have one more problem confronting them in the Pacific. Britain has thus far been successful in using American forces for its own purposes in China. But British statesmen know full well that the present situation is abnormal, an anachronism, in face of the world-wide antagonism between England and the United States, and will weleome a change of front on the part of Japan. But such a change makes more imminent another World War. If ever historical events call for united action on the part of the working class of the imperialist countries and the oppress peoples of the colonies, that time is now at hand. To fulfill our historical mission the Communist Parties of the world, under the leadership of the Communist International, must mobilize all our forces te challenge the impending cataclysm. ry It is the strongest and practically the only political party affiliated to} what is known as the Labor Party. | Re ch HAMP DI pee The Communist Party being refused | i CAP. admittance, the other component in ONSACCHI parts of the Labor Party consist of | ~~~ ~~ affiliated unions and that political | Patronize Our Advertizers. \ HAMPDEN’S fond st at Broadway 5 “NEW YORK EXC . The Sensational Comedy BROADWAY v TWAS ES Bs B30 Meds Bed Sat 230 PRICES EVES, $1.10 TO PA ‘ mirage known as the Fabian Society, | the MacDonald cabinet was fighting 1. L. P. Created Labor Party. | The I. L, P. was the creator of the | ror the leadership of the party: Labor Party, has. thirty thousand | members and provided the first labor | government with its leading officials, It is the official socialist party of Great Britain, Thousands of officials of the trade unions are members of the lL. L. P. P Should the I, L, P. leadership carry on an active struggle against the MacDonald policy in conjunction with the Communist Party and the left wing movement in general, Arthur Henderson, MacDonald and Thomas would have to speedily decide to go where they belong: in the liberal par- ty or with the tories. Lansbury vs. MacDonald. In addition to the I. L, P. opposition George Lansbury, a liberal socialist who has a large following, joins the anvil chorus against MacDonald. Lansbury’s Weekly has a large circu- lation and in a signed article in the issue of April 9, has the following to say on the report that John Wheat- “As to his fighting for the leader- ship of the party: this is all pure ‘bunkum. The question at issue does ‘not concern the National Labor Par- |ty, but is simply one for the 1, L. P., _and resolves itself into the question, ‘Shall James Maxton, chairman of that party, speak for and declare its policy, or shall J. R. MacDonald do so?’ “The National Council of the I. L, P. has refused to nominate MacDon- ald as treasurer of the National La- bor Party because of his attitude to- |wards the f. L. P, policy and pro- ‘gramme as passed last Kaster. He does not represent I. L, P. policy, ‘and therefore, it is held, should not j be recognized as one of its leaders, This question will be decided at the (conference of the I, L. P. which takes |place at Easter.” Voice of Healthy Elements. Despite the honeyed words used by amey, former health #ommissioner in the official organ of the I. L. P, and British mf y y by Lansbury’s Weekly it is evident that the great majority of the forces that give even lip service to socialism are against the former premier, The Communist Party which has a ter- mendous following among the work. ers and strong influence in the uni is against him, The minority moyve- ment which attracted delegates repre- senting almost 1,000,000 to its ast conference is opposed to him. With the official condemnation of the I. L. P., his own party ringing in his ears, Ramsay MacDonald sh heard the angels calling him to his presbyterian political heaven and thé vision that he saw of a return to Downing Street as labor premier must now seem as intangible as the / fanciful world of an opium-eater. . No matter what we may think o the motives of the I. L. P, leaders w broke with MacDonald there is doubt but the action registers a f ther leftward step on the part of manner, | They don’t stroll alog jasses.