The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 2, 1927, Page 8

Page Two SPECIAL MAY! \ \ DAY SUPPLEMENT LIFE AND LIBERTY FO ‘May Day and t By ALFRED KNUDSON, { weed Day, the international work-| ers holiday, should serve as an/ inspiration to the working farmers | of America to fight more energeti- | cally against the capitalists who ex- ploit them. May Day is created for| them as well as the city workers. | Both the farmers and the worker: have the same interests as producer: he American Farmer | ant ee landless millions that there is no hope} for them under the system of capi- talist imperialism but that they must} seek their freedom through new al-| ignments and n allies, | Papa big ers and capitalists | fighting desperately to hold the far an ally in their schemes of exploitation. As long as| they can keep the support of the| THEY SHALL NOT PASS! ‘Working Women and May Day By MARGARET COWL. \MIAY Day! The Workers Interna- |" tional Holiday! May Day, the day on which the prs more than ever, bare the sham of “democracy for all.” The on which the workers demon- ute that they are the producers jof the world’s wenlth. The res- | olute tramping feet of the great army economically weakest—the women— | will be hardest hit in the coming | wage-slashing campaign. | JHE labor bureaucracy, allied with {4 the capitalists will blur class lines. They will as in the past, plead |charity from the capitalists and at- |tempt to keep the workers from’ |fighting for their demands. | Even now the official American jof workers is a defiance to the rule|labor leaders are preparing to sell of the employing class. It is a day!out the workers to the bosses. They when the class note vibrates thru|are throwing out from the trade of wealth and they have common ex-|farming masses they will always be| ploiters, and must, therefore, solve|in a strategic position to ward off} their problems together. On May/| first they can well demonstrate to- gether. HILE it is true that the city workers for various reasons, must take the leadership in the rev- olutionary struggles against the cap-|}s italists and their government, no successful revolution in America is possible without the support operation of the American wo: } farmer. The city worker must get a clearer notion al the cance of the support the the Jand wender him in ning of these struggl joint demons workers on May Day the worker will learn to appreciate the ortance of the farmers and vice a WAS at Kief, the Soviet Union, on May ist, 19: Here the farmers and workers, over 400,000 of them demonstrated together, fully con- scious of their solidarity. Children, | workers, students, teachers, journal ists, red army men, all workers, marched together, six abrea on both sides of the street. The parade lasted eight hours. From Minsk in the west to Viadivostock on the Pa- cific tens of millions of the new and free Soviet citizens are on the march} on this May d. These pa and international istic, serving immen minds and the nerv and workers to fight vigor for their interes a@ necessity. WO-THIRDS of the population of the world are farmers and peas- . These millions of land work- re being more and more tight by the landown a Through armers and w educational | not national- to steel the of the farmers heir land and groaning un- y burden’ of taxat m ons ‘of pe semi-colc eblonial and ry ofthe Ea Near East, Africa, Mexico and South America are in a condition of abject slavery, ground to dust under the blody and rapa-| cious heel of capitalist imperialism. ; It is beginning to dawn on these \imperialism! tion and } te the growing menace of the rise of the power of the city workers. This | is a great struggle for supremacy} and farmers and workers everywhere | not fail to study the situation | Too long have the capital-/ divided the farmers and the| playi the one group of the other. They machinations of seeking one an-| in the most determined May day demonstrations serve as a practical means of bringing the farmers and workers world closer together. HE people of the colonies are now rising with arms in hand against the anny of western capitalist imper m. In the struggle that is now going on in China the Chinese farm are playing a leading role. Tens of millions of them are follow-; ing in the footsteps of the Russian| farmers by demonstrating the right to occupy and use the land. In this} fight against the feudal lords and} capitalist imperialism the Chinese farmers need the support of the far-| mers and workers of the entire} world. The Chinese farmers and workers must be supported on this May day in their demands for a free China ainst both the right-wing- merchant elements of their own} country as well the murderous} imperia powers which are looting the Chinese masses, | Hands off the farmers and work-| ers of China! Down v the right wing and C differentiations among the farmers must be accentuated. Not all the farmers who are on the the universe. HAT message does this May Day | bring to the working women? To the awakened working women jin the Soviet Union May. Day sym- |bolizes the fact that they are an in- tegral part of the world revolution- jary movement for the emancipation jof the oppressed in every country. |The women in the Soviet Union, to- | gether with the whole working class, |have loosened their bonds. The old |traditions binding women have been |shattered and they stand on an equal | social and economic level with the en-| tire working class of the Soviet | Union that is shaping the country in} unions the militant workers who ex- |pose their class-collaboration poli- cies. O the millions of unorganized women, women bending under the weight of the speed-up system, to the millions of housewives, living a life of privation, slaving long hours at domestic work,. this May Day is but another day of monotonous toil. {Only the warm hand of comrade- ship can lift these millions of wom- jen out of their dejection. This task belongs to the awakened women. Women Comrades! Are you ready |to accept this task! The eyes of women from other land have the same interests. There e rich farmers and poor farmers. | are farm owners, tenant far- mortgaged farmers and These do not belong class. Their class in- adoption and formulation of de- mands and slogans calling for “land for the users,” “a farm credit sv"m qperated by working farmer, » not the same. tionglization of the railroé before us in the United | tt, feta, marketing system,” at the time is to tfhee vAth the city workers,” &y a left wing political ment among the farmers which can | etc. be done by organizing the exploited; With the fiasco of the McNary- clas i. e., the heavily mortgaged | Haugen bill and the obvious incapa- farmers, the tenants and the farm|city of congress to aid the working workers, ent | forward is better than ever. \We must gevelop left wing fighters | amo} rking farmers of ~| America "y: the hou the farmers away from the old par-/ them to realize that they must stand} ties and get them to join the far. .. “the eryjng need of |liance with the city, workers. TT Wall) mh about*having the/is true not only in A "| farmers form allianees with the | all countries, @ | bankers and businessmen, as Lowden |onstrations of farmers and worke move-| farmers’ and workers’ government,”| and Dawes and the so-called pro-|in America, China, | gxessives advocate must be set upon|gua and all other r boxe energetic efforts made to drive|out of them better fig’ } farmers of the country, through the|ing such a movement successfully|cal and economic alliances with the! city workers. HE working farmers must do the job of getting farm relief in *meriea but int Joint May day dem- Mexico, Nicara- tions will make ters and get together in the fight against the the vast majority of the! farmer, the opportunity for carry-!mer-labor movement, forming politi-| capitalists who exploit them both. the interests of the workers. Wom-|countries are upon us! jen in Russia engaged actively in the THE women in China expect our ac- {fight for a Workers’ government, tive support. What are’ we doing and now they share in the victories.!t 9 grouse the American working TO the awakening women in China| women to fight against the sending this May Day brings hope and in-|of marines and battle ships into | apiration to fight more actively|China? To fight the efforts of against the yoke of imperialism’ American imperialists who are at- |which bears down more and more|tempting to crush the struggle of | heavily on the backs of the doubly|the Chinese workers for liberation? jenslaved women. | The women of the Soviet Union | On this May Day what do working] are holding up to us the shining ex- | women in the United States look for-|ample of their liberation. | ward to? . (OMEN Comrades! On this May | The capitalist press and capital-| Day let us pledge ourselves to the jist agencies are carrying on a cam- task of working more actively among |paign of propaganda to the effect ip. proletarian women. that workers in this country are} We must go to the women with | growing rich, that the hours of labor whom we work and get them to join jare short. Foreign commissions are| tie Workers (Communist) Party. jcoming to this country to find out) We must convince them that The the reasons for this “prosperity” of/palty WORKER is their friend. jthe American workers. | We must mobilize the masses of |NOT only the church, school, press the defense of those “s5/women for |. and the movies—a powerful in-| workers who were railroaded to pris- fluence in the hands of the employ-| on because they held the fort during \ing class to lash the minds of the the most trying days in the workers | workers—but also the labor burcau- struggle for a better existence. We jeracy helps to disseminate this pro-| must bring the working women inte paganda. jthe unions. HAT is the real situation of the! We must be the pioneers in the, army of women in American in-|every-day struggles of the working dustries? 'women. Struggles, that in sub- Taking 100 as the index number| stance, are in the words of Comrade for the cost of living and 100 for|Clara Zetkin, streamiets, _riverlets | women’s wages in 1914, we find that | swelling into rivers that will even- for the last quarter of 1925 the cost|tually surge into the great ocean of |of living is 171 and women’s wages| proletarian revolution and ultimately |are 128. The average working week) free women together with the entire |for women is 54 hours and more. {working class from capitalist ex- The year 1926 did not bring im-|ploitation and men and women will proved conditions. = | rise’ to their full stature and live a The unskilled, socially and|life free and glorious. the The Struggle Against Imperialism and Feudalism in China CH’AO-TING CHI, Member of Chinese Delegation to the Brussel’s Congress against Im- | perialism. ing back eight years ago I re- member a group of enthusiastic Mid- die School students, most of them)| around fifteen years of age, busily engaged themselves in celebrating the May Day. The school was one of the most exclusive and imperial- ist dominated (I prefer the term “im- perialist dominated” than “foreign dominated”) institutions in Peking, chiefly infested with sons of the best selected “bourgeois families” thru- out China. It was not likely that} such an institution would encourage | the students to soil their hands by| tionary labor was not entirely with-| extent that a bare living was hardly |that pushed him upward and for-|ample of the courageous, intelligent, }of the virtues, ability, and potential mixing themselves with such a here-| out effect. tic movement like May Day. But|][T was through little efforts like somehow or other, something told}4 this here and there throughout these innocent youngsters that the | China that the Chinese labor move- world of labor was rising and their} ment was built. Those students who | efforts could not be spent in a nobler} neglected their studies more or less, fashion than to work amidst, and for | devoted their time to this kind of the interest of, their working broth-| work like martyrs, under the sneer- ‘s. With the scanty ma-j|ing and contemptuous criticism and few radical m ines, they mimio-|chers and “sober” fellow students. graphed a special May Day bulletin | Little did they realize that within a and distributed them to the couple }decade’s time they could witness the hundreds of school servants. jalmost unbelievable transformation * * * }of their humble efforts into a gigan- tie Labor movement. Of course their enemies had very graciously prepared the ground for them. For- eign imperialism and militarism had impoverished the workers to such an SAN still recall vividly the happy scenes over which we rejoiced when we noticed that the school ser- vants actually took some interest in the paper and that our first revolu- THE CHINESE MASSES ON GUARD y gathered from 4| prosecution of their conservative tea- | | possible, | ground, a bac | tionary possibilities. Ht is accom- |plishing its historic mission by be- |coming the backbone of the Chinese | Revolutionary movement. ‘Those who ; sneered at the work when it was at | its pioneer stage now acclaim the suc- cess of the revolution, evidently for- getting their “sober,” “sane,” and “common sense” predictions of the | hopelessness of the movement. There are still “cool-headed” skeptics now who doubted the possibilities of a world revolution! * * . Mi Day and China! Yes. This is a mst interesting moment to refiec{ upon the Chinese revolu- tion. If newspaper reports are true, the “power-intoxicated” generalissmo of the Cantonese army, Chiang Kai- shek, has at last turned against the revolution. Success is dangerous, particularly when one’s enemy was bent upon exploiting the success. No- body doubted that Chiang Kai-shek was successful up to his recent coup detat at Shanghai, but if any one, particularly Chiang Kai-Shek himself, should accredit the success mostly to the ability of one man, he is at his wit’s end. The revelution is funda- mentally a mass meyement, led by the working class and organized peasants. The clear class conscious- |ness and deep-rooted jrevolutionary | spirit of the Chinese masses are more than the world ‘realizes. It takes supernatural effort, if there is such a thing, to turn the wheel of the |revolution backward. Chiang Kai shek was but a tool, an employee of the mass to direct their military forces. Like an engineer he was but a technician of the enterprise, and engineers are seldom the masters of the work, rc was by the realization of this |" fact, by following the will of the mass and by guarding the interest primarily of the workers and the peasants that Chiang Kai-shek ac- complished what he hag done up to the time of his backward move at Shanghai. He owed his success to his early adherence to the “left-wing” principles of Kuomintang which rep- resents the logical and true inter- pretation of Sun-yet-senism. Now tliat he has shamelessly turned against the party and the principles rN ln Pi nn tl on TS te tlt Anaad Aces The Chinese labor move-| ward, he is bound to fall downward | jment was built upon such a back-|and backward, deep into the fathom- | ‘ound full of revolu-|less bottom of failure sharing the same fate with his bourgeois sup-! porters and imperialist manipulaters. LTHOUGH students did play a very important role in the early stage of Chinese labor movement and are still of considerable importance, it must not be that only students are leading the movement. Out of the struggle many capable leaders from the rank and file of the labor- ing class are developed. For in- stance, Comrade Chan Kuan, whom I met at Brussels, is a typical ex- THE and tactful leaders of the rising rul-| power of the Chinese working class! ing class of China. He represented | Without exaggeration one can cor- one and a half million organized | rectly say that the foundation of the workers of China at the Brussels| Chinese working class movement is Congress. He is one of the leaders| well laid. It is strong enough to of the Chinese Seamens’ Union which | stand successfully against the bad iis the cementing force and directing | weather conditions of treachery and spirit of the movement. He also|temporary drawback. Before very |represented the General Labor Un-| long the world will witness a strong jions and the Canton-Hongkong strike | and unified socialist Chinese repub- |Committee. He was a very active! lic dominated by the workers and jleader in the famous Hongkong! peasants and pledging itself to fight strike and I was told that he was | for, and safeguarding, the interests of | badly hated by the British imperial-;the workers and peasants of the ists. From the boundless confidence | whole world. and pride with which he talked of | | the Hongkong strike, you can build) WORKERS! PROTEST AGAINST | up a fairly accurate mental picture| DEATH OF SACCO and VANZETTT! HEART OF IMPERIALISM