The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 5, 1927, Page 4

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Our Washington correspondent informs us that the state de- partment is in possession of a draft of a reply to Eugene Chen’s note requesting an investigation of the Nanking incident which not only insults the Cantonese government by calling them liars, declaring that the nationalists cannot be trusted and fixing a| time limit for “satisfaction.” The note is claimed by congress- men close to the administration to have been drafted by the cheap adventurer and interventionist, MacMurray, who is American minister to China. The fact that the government turned it down only confirms our conviction that the imperialist policy of this country is in sharp conflict with the policy of Britain. But the refusal of the administration, in order better to serve its own imperialist aims, | to approve the MacMurray proposal, does not by any means clarify the situation in China, used as the pliant tool in the British game of frightfulness against the nationalist liberation movement, remains in China, there is! danger of American participation in other ‘‘Nanking incidents” in defense of the policy of Britain. Rumors in Washington are per- sistent that MacMurray has resigned because his policy has been repudiated. If he has not resigned he should be kicked out. This clash of imperialist interests in China should be wel-; comed by all friends of the liberation movement, because the wider the breech becomes between the predatory powers the better chance there is for the early triumph of the nationalist forces. MacMurray, the apostle of a policy of wholesale murder of | the Chinese, is responsible for American participation in the shell-| ing of Nanking and hence he fights against the suggestion of | Chen that the whole affair be investigated so that all the world may know the fact regarding his own role in that monstrous un-| provoked massacre of defenseless inhabitants of that unfortunate | city. This cowardly butcher should be removed from his post, not | as a means of breaking off relations with Chitia, but because of | the facts at hand that prove MacMurray to be deliberately plot-; ting joint intervention with Britain against the Chinese liberation | movement. Whoever succeeds him will also be an imperialist agent, but one who catries out a policy of awaiting developments, | iather than plunging madly into joint intervention, the effect of which can aid only British imperialist policy. Of course, in carrying out its own policy, the United States government hopes that Britain will, in the meantime, break her neck in China, which will enable Wall Street to dominate the sit- uation. It is a long-distance policy that has other potentialities not anticipated by the Coolidge administration. With the bloody clutches of Britain withdrawn from the throat of China, the Nationalist movement will be able to consoli- date itself, so that it can in due time give battle even to the ma- chinations of American imperialism. We fight against the domination of Britain in China, not be- cause we intend in any manner to aid American imperialism, but in pursuit of a policy that we are convineed will enable China to také advantage of the antagonism between the imperialist powers to drive out all the imperialists—American as well as British. Manufacturers’ Political Platform. John E, Edgerton, president 6f the national association of manufacturers, announces that a “platform of American indus- try” is to be presented by his association to the two old parties to incorporate in their 1928 platforms; the platform is to be “non-) %, partisan, non-religious, non-sectional and non-doctrinarian.” He ought to have added “non-union,” the manufacturers’ euphemism for “seab.” Many of the planks of the platform he will advocate are al- ready incorporated in the programs of the old parties. Whether they are incorporated therein or not is of slight consequence, be- causé, after all, old party platforms are only vote-catching devices; not programs of action. Just why the manufacturers should want their demands incorporated in 9 platform is puzzling, for the reason that they usually get what they want anyway. The only times they fail to realize their demands is when they conflict with those of a more powerful ecohomic group that dominates a certain administration, as in the case of the Wilson administration serving the House of Morgan to the detriment of certain indus- irialist groups in the Middle West. What the manufacturers really want is anti-union and anti- strike legislation and they want the two old parties to declare for it. In that respect they are short-sighted, for such planks would alienate the votes of workers, votes that are needed in elec- tion campaigns. Furthermore such planks would make it impos- sible for the very good friends and faithful servants of capital-| ism, the officialdom of the American Federation of Labér and the grand chiefs of the railroad Brotherhoods, to “reward their friends” by approving candidates selected by these old parties. Surely the national association of manufacturers does not want to deprive Mr. Green, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Woll and the other betrayers of labor of their opportunity to serve them in the elec- tion campaigns! Workers Party Women’s Industrial Conference Friday The Second Party Women’s Indus- | trial Confer will be held Friday,| May ith at rey m, at 126 Bast tech | 8,~<Individual comrades working in Street, New Yotk City. | shops employing women. All delegates at first conference, 4—Section and stib-section organ- plus the folowing comrades must at- | izers for women’s work. tend: | 1.—Representatives from shop nuc- } interest, Report on activities and new lei in shops employing women, } tasks will be taken up, Seana 2.—All Party industrial organizers, mama! As long as MacMurray, who has been} This conference will be of especial | ent world situation, with the period of the decline of capitalism and the pro- | letarian revolution, is the name and } works of Karl Marx that it seems strange that this man was born one | hundred and nine years ago, just after | the close of the Napoleonic wars. When we consider other historical figures of that time they seem to be- }long to the dim past, while Marx is |of today. Others who played theit | roles upon the stage of history in his | time recede farther and farther into | the past. But Marx looms ever larger and |his impress upon the world grows | deeper and deeper. Participating in the revolutionary struggles of his day he formulated the theory of historical analysis that en- abled him to see beyond those sttug- gles. In the light of the revolution- periods of 1830, of 1848, he re- examined the history of the past and discovered that the development of civilization can be explained only by analyzing the struggles between var- ious classes; that each class as it ap- pears upon the scene of action de- velops its own ideology which is a reflex of its economic condition in society. The real test of any histori- eal the is its ability to explain its own origin and development; Marx- ism has stood that test. By apply- ing the Marxian theory itself we can explain Marx and his work. There may have been, before the period in which Marx lived, men as capable as he of analyzing social forces, but | Marx lived they could not have made | the contribution that he made. Only in a period of intense class conflicts, | such as the first half of the past cen- | tury, could the motive force in his- tory become clear. When Marx per- ceived that the history of his day was a history of class struggles, he pro- ceeded to take inventory of all past history from the days of the tribal matriarchy and discovered the law of history. But he was not content merely with discovering laws for explaining past history. He pro¢eeded to formulate methods of making history, which im- pelled him to endeavor to discover in the society in which he lived the class that would next rise to power, the class that must be the carrier of the future development of society. That class, as Marx proved, must be the proletariat—the workingclass. He declared it to be the dismal des- |tiny of the capitalist class to sink | into the grave prepared for it by the workingclass. He then set about | studying the method by which this could be brought about. In every re- volution he sought the proletarian thread that ran through At, proving | that it was the workingclass that. al- ways bore the brunt of the fighting even in the capitalist revolutions against feudalism. In the Patis Com- mune of 1871 Marx saw the prole- | tariat for the first time emerge as a ruling class and he drew therefrom |the revolutionary lessons that served, long after his death, to guide the re- volutionists in Russia in 1905 and | again in 1917 when they had to con- |struct a new revolutionary form of state. The germ of the Soviet form |of government was found by Marx lin the. combined legislative and exe- |eutive system developed during the short life of the Commune. Marx was | the first to perceive, upon the basis | of that experience, that the working- class cannot use the old’ cumbersome state apparatus for revolutionary pur- poses. In studying revolutions of his day and the revolutions of the past he also developed the theory of revolutionary | uprising by recognizing the fact that insurrection is an art, something that must be studied in all its intricacies. This part of his work was utilized by | Lenin and the leaders of the Russian | revolution in all the conflicts with the enemy before and after the 1917 revolution. And a special institute | exists in Russia for the purpose of | gathering every scrap of the writings | and correspondence of Karl Marx and \his great co-worker, Frederick Engels, jas a guide to workingclass*leaders in |their struggles against the master | class, | Marx is the only figure of his time | who influences soéiety to this day because he worked for the tritimph of the workingclass and it is the tri- umph of the workingelass in Russia that vindicated the theoretical works |of Marx and erceted, in the workers and peasants’ government in Russia, a monument that testifies to the utter bankruptey of all the capitalist class economists and historians who have tried on hundreds of oceasions to re- fute the Marxian conclusions. One-sixth of the entire world is dominated by the class that achieved power by following a leadership train- ed in the Marxian school and as time goes on millions of other workers are jeoming to recognize this leadership, Though dead more than forty years | the influence of Marx, thé mighty thinker and determined revolutionist, is constantly growing and will con- tinue to grow until the society that {he predictell is established in every | spot on earth. A Defense Party. The Neutral Workers Youth Center of Brownsville, ran a little affair at their headquarters which resulted in a net income of $80.00. They prom- ise to improve on this sum at their next defense party if they can ge a good speaker with whom to attract a larger crowd, THE DATLY WORKER, without the environment in which | ‘EW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1927 The Birthday of Marx So vitally connected with the pres- | HIS BIRTHDAY Greetings to the Workers of the World Performance tomorrow night, “In Abraham’s Bosom’*| Awarded Pulitzer Prize | Paul Green, author of “In Abra. | ham’s Bosom” Was awarded the winner of the 1926 Pulitzer prize for | “the most original American play.” | The drama, which deals with Negro life, was produced by the Province- towh Players at their little theatre! | 6n MacDugal Street, and later trans-| ferred to the larger Garrick ‘Theatre. | The author is an instructor in|} philosophy at the University o& North | Carolina, He has turned out some} forty one-act plays, Which have been! presented from time to time by Little ‘Theatre groups throughout the coun- | try. “In Abraham’s Hosom” was the first of his plays to be presented by} a professional fompany. The prodiie- | tion is being sévived by the Provinee- town Playhouse this Sunday night with the original cast, | | “The Fieid God,” Paul Green’s other play, which is now playing at the Greenwich Village Theatre, will! be moved to an uptown theatre Mon- | day night. The playhouse is not de- cided upon as yet, el ( Broadway Briefs || SS “What Ante Brought Home” Larry | | E. Johnson’s comedy now eurrent at! | Wallack’s, will celebrate the 100th | “Triple Crossed,” a new mystery Play by F. Gy Merlin opens tonight at | the Morosco theatre. Patricia Bar-/| Gives a delightful and charming performance in “Mr. Pim Passes By,” Milne’s amusing comedy at the Gar- rick theatre, | Heaslip Lea, titled, “Colonels’ Ladies.” Heaslip lea, titled, “Colonels’ Ladies.” Miss Lea is a writer of short stories. This is her first play. ¢ Proceeds of Russian Picture.at Trenton to 'Go to N.Y, Cloakmakers row, Robert Toms, Vera Maxwell and Frank Morton are in the cast. TRENTON, May 4.—For the first d | time in the city of Trenton the peo- “Grand Street Follies of i997" | Ple will have the opportunity to sce which opens at .the Neighborhood! the new life of Russia before them Playhouse ‘Tuesday evening, May | on the Screen this Saturday evening 17th, is now being rehearsed by Agnes| May 7, 8 p. m. at the Y. M. C, A, pret er ie ge ying Soler i Auditorium, corner Clinton and State 1925 has written several numbers of | 5¢S the current edition. | In New York City, “Breaking Chains” made a tremendous suecess, Tan Maclaren for several years has|it appeared several times-at the Wal- been a member of the permanent com-| dort Astoria Theatre, corner 50th |pany of the Neighborhood Playhouse | St. and Broadway, and at the pre- | is going to California to play Christus Sent time this film is being shown |in the Pilgrimage Play, “The Life of | throughout the Umited States. | Christ” which is presented this sum:| The proceéds of the shows will go |mer in Hollywood. |to defend the arrested cloakmakers | | and furriers under the newly organ- | Earl Carroll Vanities will join hands| ized Joint Defense Committee of |in donating their service in a special| Trenton, So far Trenton has raised Labor. We send frat eomradely handeclasp. Akerson, Bror, Little Falls, Minn. Anonymous, Wilmington, Del. Antonovich, New York City. Abek, New York City. Belkin, Sam, Cleveland, Ohio. Bimba, A., New York City. Budrewitz, New York City. Benus, Louis, Long Island City. Bakatich, J., Chicago, fll. Buckenbetger, P. N., New York City Bartoff, J., Cleveland, Ohio. | Boehm, Alex N, New York City. Boehm, Alex N., New York City. Bozvary, John, Schenectady, N. Y. Benus, Louis, New York City. Brick, S., New York City. Bezich, J., Chieago, Ill. Bulatkin, J.. New York City. Chilepis, New York City. Coogler, New York City. Cherin, Herman, Chieago, Ill. Duchan, FE. A., Clevéland, Ohio. Derossi, P., New York City. D’Roksi, Peter, New York City. Extz, New York City. Kiges, Patiline, Detroit, Mich. Epstein, Sophie, New York City. Field, Edward K., Detroit, Mich. Gudzin, A., Schenectady, N. Y. Greyer, Sylvia, New York City. Gego, John M., Chieago, Ill, Glick, New York City. Gordon, P.. New York City. Gordon, M., New York City. Greenberg, J., New York City, Goldsmith, Sonya, New York City. Gross, S., New York Gity. Gotthelf, BE. B., Cleveland, Ohio. Hilderbrant, Chas., Schenectady, N.Y. Heyden, William, New York City. Heinrich, New York City. Holland, Anne, Norwalk, Ohio. Holmberg, J., Brooklyn, N. Y. Hyrkas, Regina R., New York City. Jensen, Jens, Bridgeport, Conn. Juraleff, Steve, Detroit, Mich. Korn, Rudolf, Schenectady, N. Y. Kosma, A., Brooklyn, N. Y. Kovacevich, G., Chieago, Tl. Kluchen, John, New York City. Koppel, New York City. Katrovich, New York City. Kazirovich, New York City. Koenig, Edward, Brooklyn, N. Y. Krotofil, Anton, Norwalk, Ohio. Krotofil, Katharine, Norwalk, Ohio. The following workers “shake the Hand of World Labor” with comradely Greetings on the International Holiday of Revolutionary ernal greetings and a Kiukka, Paul, New York City. Lapsky, John, New York City. Lomoz, Sam, Cleveland, Ohio. Lupeika, J., Cleveland, Ohio. | Mazeika, J. S., Cleveland, Ohio. | Mitrovie, A., Chicago, Tl. | Miller, P., New York City. | Medola, New York City. | Misara, R., New York City. Nevin, Rose, New York Gity. Nadler, New York City. Nelson, C., Cleveland, Ohio. Perechodkie, A., Cleveland, Ohio. Pabalis, J., Cleveland; Ohio. Pianin, Helen, New York Ci Peterson, E., New York City. Prtenjaca, Luka, Chicago, Ill., Padolsky, New York City. Persson, Harry, Hieksville, L. I. Persson, Fritz, Hicksville, L. I. / Rady, Joe, New York City. Ruderman, L, New Yaix City. Robins, Bele, New York City.’ Robkov, Jure, Chicago, Tl. Rudich, S., Chicago, Tl. Rade, Joe, New York City. Ragozin, R. New York City. Soininen, Jack, Schenectady, N. Y. Shapiro, Sam, New York City. Schlossberg, David, Cleveland, Ohio. Sholom, Nottian, New York City. Shafberger, M., New York City. Savitzky, New York City. Surba, New York City. Sewle, New York City. Simon, Dr. W., New York City. Stone, New York City. Seidel, New York City. Sherry, New York City. 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