The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 27, 1927, Page 3

Page Three Patis Fliers Are HOW THE HANKOW PRINTERS STRUCK CHILDREN BURNT ALIVE IN WHITE. * papers. RAT NEWSPAPERS Imperialist Sheet For. Nationalist Cause The following story from Han- kow was written before the treach- ery of Chiang-Kai-Shek changed the face of the situation for the Na- tionalist. revolution. This corres- pondence deals extensively with the printers’ strike in Hankow which seems to have enraged the imper- ialists in China as much as the strike on the Daily Mail angered the ‘tory government of England on the evening of the General Strike. The growing class-con- sciousness of the Chinese workers is a guarantee that no matter what temporary setbacks the Revolution May suffer the mighty’ power of Chinese labor and the peasantry with their allies will bring it to triumph in the end.—Editor. * * * The walkout of the printers in the newspaper plants of the Hankow Her- | ald and the Central China Post, is | competing in news interest with the military situation. This action occurred on Saturday, the nineteenth. Everything goes to show that it was as complete a sur- | prise to officials here as it was to the newspaper proprietors. The first news brought to official sources concerning it was, in fact, brought by the news- paper editors themselves, protesting against it and asking for government action. The government officials, however, said they could not make the union men work if they did not wish to work. Set up under the supervision of General Umberto Nobile, of North Polar flight fame, a replica of the famous “Norge” has been ; completed at Kasumigaura Acrodrome, ‘'okyo, Japan. ‘he dirigible is the latest and largest of Japan's lighter-than-air fleet, | voted to obey the order. Strike is {hereby declared and the help of al ipatriotic Chinese is called upon. Un- counter-trades union copy are merely mated in the steps of the printers’ union in England last year in re- It was at first believed that the |!ess our end is attained we will not | fusing to set type for articles abus- Printers’ Union proposed to make some demands on wages and condi- tions. This, however, did not prove the case. The Union 0n Monday is- sued a statement in which it declared that the reason for the walkout was the character of editorials and news articles being printed in the two These articles, the statement \resume work.” | Among the foreign population of the city this newspaper strike is looming larger in interest than the |i | Nationalist victories. It is, so to speak, the talk of the town. Mimeographed Sheets Both the Hankow Herald and the 'Central China Post are issuing ‘ing the coal miners when the coal strike first opened. What the Print- simply what government agencies in all the warring countries did dur- ing the Great War. They have stopped the mouths of newspapers fighting against the great common jeffort of the warring peoples. ~ BALKAN TERROR British Laborites Find Prisoners Tortured’ | | (By Staff Correspondent) | VIENNA, April 26.--On their re- turn journey to London the delegates | of the English Labor Party, D. R. | Greenfell and R, C. Wallheed, received a member of the “Committee for | Combating the White Terror in the Balkans and in other countyies,” and} j informed him of the experiences and | impressions of their journey. | In the course of a long conversation | |they made the following statements: Gallows For Speaking. | Originally they had intended to travel in the Balkans only, in order | to verify at close quarters the alle- | gations of Vandervelde to the League! | of Nations, and of Wedgewood in the | House of Commons, that the present | English government was supporting jand inciting the Terrorist govern- ments in the Balk But as they | had learned in Paris that in Hungary, | | the classic land of the white terror, }|men were being sent to the gallows | whose only crime was the expression | of their political opinions, the dele- | gates decided to visit Budapest in or- | |der to inform the Hungarian reac-| | tionaries of English labor’s opinion | of their proceedings. Unfortunately they were able to do this only in the form of a protest lodged with the | Ministry of Justice. | The first impréssion the delegates} had of the Balkams was news of a meeting of the workers in Sofia which | the government without appealing to jany legal grounds whatsoever had banned. Fascists Terrorize Land. Their second impression came from rs’ Union in Hankow has done here | conversations with prominent persons even permitted the political prisoners of all shades of potitical opinion wh» jwere unanimous that the Fascis Terrorist organizations, “Kubrat” and “Rodna Zastschita” were the real |forces in the land and had unlimited The Canadian government is fashionable Massachusetts avenue, the newly created Canadian legation. and in these holes four | joners are herded so that scarcely move. The pris- oners are allowed five minutes exer- cise dai during the five minutes that their cells are being cleaned out they are allowed to bring the water | for cleaning. Even at the end of the hunger-strike when the health of the prisoners was precarious they were} systematically “rationed” by the yards long, and five pr they can ie prison authorities, and it wo buy food from the prison teen. Women, who at the end the hunger-strike, had to nurse back their purposely injured, and were giving not of This| power to carry on their misdeeds.| health with milk and sugar, were | P y declared, were against the best inter-|mimeograph papers, on typewriter |is the line taken by party and union} Their high chief and protector is Gen-| nothing but coarse maize-bread and ests of the revolution and the Na- tionalist Government. Fighting Against People “Both of the papers are trying With heated articles against the gov-|case of the Central China Post, the | ‘paper, five or six sheets, single- \spaced. They are filled, for the most part, not with news of any kind but leaders here, in explaining the action of the Printers’ Union. | It beeame known today that, in the eral Volkoff who made a name for himself thru slaughter during the! Bulgarian civil war. H Immediately after the strike of | the so-called bean soup. In order to prevent the sucecoring of the political | prisoners with food or clothing from! their relatives or friends, the central) purposely to break the united force |ernment, which in some cases are directors have decided that if the|June 9th, Zankoff unseated the elec-| prison authorities try to distribute the of the labor unions and the revolu-/ childish, Of the two, Hankow Her- | strike is not ended by the end of the| ted mayor and substituted his own) Prisoners in such a way that they Its éditor, | week, they will try to hire a crew of | Creatures. tionary people as a whole,” the state- ment declares. “From what ald is the more truculent. they |Mr. Bruno Schwartz, of six or seven | foreign compositors in Shanghai, have printed in their papers we know; years residence in Hankow, has de- | bring them to Hankow and get out that they are being utilized by anti- revolutionists. For the sake of the to close these two papers. ers’ union of Wuhan is hereby noti- fied and instructed to call a strike long residence in Hankow have told | native in the two plants at once.” Full responsibility for the strike under Wu Pei-fu was distinctly‘ pro-| lies with the General Labor Union of Hupeh, according to the Printers’ Union statement. “The General Lab- or Union of Hupeh is wholly respon- sible for this action,” the union dec- laration states. “During the period of strike the General Union will pay all the expenses of those who par- ticipate in the strike. Labor Union a meeting of the print- BOOKS BY FRIEDRICH ENGELS PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNISM— (Original draft of the Communist Manifesto) —10 Cents SOCIALISM, UTOPIAN AND SCI- ENTIFIC ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY, PRI- VATE PROPERTY AND THE STATE Cloth. 60 Cents THE PEASANT WAR IN GER- ANY Cloth. $1.50 KARL MARX AND FRIEDRICH ENGELS. By D. Riazanov, | Cloth. $2.50 ‘ After'we re-| ceived the order from the General/the Nationalist» officials arrived, it! {was inclined to strike the sympathetic | ers of the two papers was immedi- note in its occasional editorials. Dur-| ately called and we unanimously ing the trying days of January, how- | ‘clared frank and open battle. The Herald, historically, of administration here. jthe paper with their aid. The plan has been|does not seem feasible, however, as ICANT EXCEPT1O revolution, therefore, we have decidedja wavering publication taking on|while they might succeed in printing AT THEIR POSTS The print- | protective coloration with each change|the paper it might be difficult for Chinese of | jthem to circulate it. suggested at Another alter- the directors He also substituted his henchmen for the prefects and police authorities of the old regime. THESE | PEOPLE WITH A FEW INSIGNIF- ARE STILL and hold the whole population in increasing terror. | Women Burned Alive. | Several months before the delegates the writer that the paper’s policy|mecting was that the paper be is-| Said they had heard in London of the | Wu Pei-fu. While the arena was still in control of the old-line warlords and ‘provincial mandarins, its editorial \policy, these Chinese state, strongly anti-Nationalist. ' Veering With the Wind As the Nationalists neared Han- kow, however, its tone changed some- what. During last December, after ever, it took the point of view of the British die-hards. It again’ changed, sued in Shanghai and the copy sup- | plied it by wireless from Hankow. |no such plans are being considered Hankow Herald. ‘Justice for Vanzetti And Sacco Asked for By the Valier Miners (Continued from Page Onc) |; VALIER, IIL, April 26.—United of the Plevna who had been junspeakable case | physician, Bescheff, |family. They told how some people was|by the directors or editors of the |had been unable to credit the truth) « of this information. Well then! In Bulgaria they were unfortunately able to verify that there was nothing exaggerated in the report. Doctor Bescheff, his wife Sonia, his four- year old daughter Dora, his fifteen year old son Puju, and the maid- servant were burned alive under the eyes of the Fascist authorities. Only ‘his daughter, Tatiana, escaped with severe injuries. The Delegates said during February, and became more | Mine Workers of America, local 613/ authorities advisedly, for the author- [than ever cordial toward the Na- tionalists. For the two weeks preceding thi: strike, however, its tone completély changed. It assumed to speak for the “pure” Nationalist and heatedly against the “radicals.” It finally became openly abusive of in- dividuals. Its columns, always watched by union officials, finally brought about the strike, which is still going on and, from the state- | \unlikely to end very soon. typically die-hard, but much more |the P. and T. Times of Tientsin and ‘Shanghai. It has, however, been con- sistently pro-British and anti-Nation- alist, and has been also consistently ‘abusive. Its entire local news col- umns have been one large sneer at \everything Nationalist. The tiniest flect some phase of this grand sneer. Must Be No Compromise series of interviews amongst lab- or and party leaders here indciates \-A fighting everywhere, seeking with all their situation here and on the fighting front, thee can be no compromise |with open counter-revolutionary cri- \ticism, The line of the two English- language papers these leaders look upon as plainly counter-revolution- vary. The fact that the papers are in by foreign capital, instead of lessen- ing the offense serves to heighten it. These leaders take the line that these editors are, in a sense, guests here, It is not their country, but the coun- try of the Chinese. Chinese are in control of this territory and they are not ready to suffer open criticism from alien newspapers published in Chinese territory. The printers, in refusitig longer to handle —counter-revolutionaty — and spoke | this point of view; in such stressful! times as these, with the Nationalists - might to master a difficult | a foreign language and are owned! on Saceo-Vanzetti. “Whereas. Nicola acco and Bartholomeo Vanzetti, two cha ms of labor have again been | denied a trial trial by the Massachu- jelectric chair, and ) would not interfere. | Government Shuts Eyes. | The delegates had a two hour con- |versation with Minister-President his authority reached; there was no ‘are quartered where their relati {can not reach them. Prevent Aid to Victims. A group of prominent Bulgarian men and women, among them jthe chairman of the Bulgarian Women’s Union, F. D. Ivanova, as | well as the Bulgarian League for Human Rights, have sought thru national and international assistance | tims of the White Terror in Bulgaria. But the government thru its organ, | So far as is known by the writer, | burned alive together with his whole the Demokratitscheski Sgovor, replied ‘that: ny assistance given to those who! have fought against us means the | strengthening of the opponents of the ; State.” With these words the Bul- garian government puts an end to whatever hopes of relief had again awakened among Bulgaria’s thou- sands of White Terror victims. CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) | has passed the fotlowing resolution | ities were composed of Fascists and “good will” tour of South Africa: The | object is to give the Boer farmers aj | good show and thus blunt the edges | of the hatred that exists in South | Africa for British imperialism since | setts Supreme Court, thus automatic- | Liapscheff, who declared that so far|the country was crushed under the ally sentencing them to death in the | as his power extended, or the arm of|heel of British militarism. Earls, counts, lords, princes and other no- “Whereas, the American Federation | terror; he himself had never ordered! accounts, if good for nothing else, carefully |of Dabor, at the Cincinnati and E] | it. Paso conventions, branded thefr con-| were only 88U political prisoners in} vietion as a “ghastly miscarriage of | the whole country. On suggestion of Justice,” therefore be it resolved that United Mine Workers of America, According to Liapscheff there the Delegates that there were 133 | he answered evasively. When he de- ,make god drummers for imperialism. | i ” * * HE Daughters of the Revolution are American | suffering from | | tein tis of the Printers’ Union, seems | this meeting of Local Union 3613, / political prisoners in Sofia jails alone, , severe soul pains over the indignities | j heaped upon the historical head of! | The Central China Post has been, "epresenting 900 members, requests | clared to the Delegates that no ar-| George Washington by writers who the Governor of Massachusetts to in- rests Were being made on account of have suggested that George fathered \thinly and faintly than its exemplars, | tervene and give justice to our two | political opinions, they brought his more than his country. The tradition in persecuted fellow workers, who have | attention to the mothers who had been | of virtue that surrounded Washing- | labor, by releasing them uncondition- \ally from all penalties of this unjust conviction, | “Be it further resolved that copies of this résolution be sent to Gov- jernor .Alvin T, Fuller, State House, —25 Cents news item was not too small to re-| Boston, Mass., to Wm. Green, Presi- dent of the American Federation of Labor, Washington, D. C., and to the ‘labor press.” Pres. Chas. Green, See. Jack Johnson, * , Indiana Workers Have Their Say. HAMMOND, Ind., April 26.—Car- |penters’ Local Union 599 with more | than 500 members, at their last regu- jlar meeting coneurred in a resolution | bitterly denouncing the action of the Massachusetts Supreme Court in up- ‘holding the action of Judge Webster | Thayer in denying a new trial for (these two persecuted champions of la- bor. The resolution also calls upon the governor of Massachusetts, Senator Watson of Ind., and William Green, president of the A. I, of L. to exercise their influence in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti. Similar resolutions are being in- dorsed by the Central Labor Union of Lake Co., Ind., and other local unions and workers’ fraternal sovie- ties, throughout the state, | shelter to their persecuted sons, and of the sons who were rotting in prison because they had concealed their persecuted parents, British Aid Terror, “Why were young Communists ar- rested merely because of their politi- cal opinions?” the Delegates asked. | “It is true that they were arrested,” Liapscheff replied, “Only not for their own opinions but for the hostile Russian opinions being spread by them.” So the propaganda of the | English Conservatives has born fruit, jeven the Bulgarian authorities bel- lieve that Soviet Russia is to blame for the bad harvest, the bad weather, the bad prices, the economic crisis and the fall and rise of the leva, The elections were coming soon, Liapscheff explained, and he hoped to manage the elections in such a way that victory would be assured to the }government. In Bulgaria the elec- tions are always managed by the government! Prisoners Tortured. The delegates learned the following facts about the condition among the hunger-striking prisoners. Towards the end of the hunger-strike of the political prisoners fearful reprisals were made among them. The prisoners were crowded into narrow eels, The cells are about eight | the North China Daily News of |evoted their lives to the cause of | punished because they had given! ton, says the “Daughters”, is one of | ‘the most priceless gems in the casket | of American patriotism and to rob/ American ‘people of this inheritance, | as has been done by Woodward, | Rupert Hughes and other writers, is ‘a ghoulish dct in the opinion of the \old ladies, On the contrary we are |of the opinion that the first president | of our country will rise in the esteem | of this gum-chewing, lip-sticky, moon- | | shine-guzzling generation when it be-j ;comes generally believed that George was a human being and not a reform- jed Elmer Gantry. ie aa | FOOTNOTES to a paragraph: The| |* DAILY WORKER of last Monday appeared with an unforgivable mis- | take that transformed Maurine Wat- | kins, author of the play “Chicago” into Maurice. As a rule we do not | admit our typographical errors, time | | being almost as scarce as money. But | ‘we draw the line on giving the im- {pression that this column can per-|} |form biological miracles, Further- | |more Maurine Watkins is one of the | nation’s most prolific debunkers and we have rarely heard of a Maurice! {being good for anything but “hoof- | | ing”, or serving noodle soup. Buy The Daily Worker | Special May Day Issue, residence pictured above of Mr. and Mrs. Aksel C. P. Wichfeld on | Killed in Crash At Langley Field LANGLEY FIELD, Va., April 26. | The proposed trans-Atlantic flight jof Lt. Comdr. Noel Davis and Lt. | Stanton H. Wooster came to a tragic end here today. While on a final test before hop- jping off on a non-stop flight from New York to Paris to win a $25,000 | prize, Davis and Wooster were killed | when their plane crashed while mak- jing a forced landing in the water jnear here. The plane, the “American Legion,” | which they were to use in the long | flight, was wrecked. } e plane carried a capacity load | of 29,000 pounds including the weight | of the ship. Included in the load were }1,500 gallons of gasoline, of which {600 gallons were in the extra tanks. | The cause of the crash remains a | mystery. Fate Dogs Fliers. F; seems to shadow American trans-Atlantic flight aspirants. Last autumn Captain Rene Fonck y when the plane i-ing across the t into flames, two of 's companions being burned to reported to have purchased the , Washington, to be the home of y while Bert Chamberlain flying his trans-Atlantic Bell- > plane at Garden City he lost his ing gear and the great plane was Alla is “Single.” Alla Nazimova, noted Russian ac- tress and screen star, signed “single” after the question “married or single?” when applying for her final citizenship papers at the U. §. 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