The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 6, 1927, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1927 CHIANG KAI-SHEK By SID BUSH. Immortal fame of individuals as well as of groups remain forever in- seribed upon the annals of history only when and where these have organized and, led, or materially contributed towards movements in the interest of prog: Movements contributing towards the progress of society are only those that are the dynamic force in bringing about the condition when the majority of a certain part or the whole of society is raised from a iower to that of a higher level of development. The Chinese revolution now in full swing bears this character. Everyone that contributes towards the victory of this revolution will be counted among the army of immortal tieneers who helped to raise the level of human development not only in China but that of the whole world. Those creatures in human form who happen to be carried along upon the crest of the lutionary ‘e, but who desert their comrades in the midst of the most sanguinary , are recorded in history as venomous reptiles that curl up beneath the underbrush and treacherously strike at their immediate victims when the latter least suspect it. Chiang Kai Shek is one of these creatures, He was entirely unknown to the world at large until the liberation movement in China commenced its victorious march a few months ago. This movement lifted him up to the pinnacle of world fame, but as soon as he reached: this lofty height he showed his true color to be that of another bloody militarist of the Wu Pei-fu type. Not only did he use his position as generalissimo of the Nationalist armies to advance his own fortune, but as soon as he embarked on this road he did not stop at accepting bribes from his erstwhile enemies, the imperialists, and turned traitor to China’s struggle for freedom. This betrayal places Chiang in the same category of bandit robbers, of the exploited masses of China, with the notorious Anfu Club, Wu Pei-fu, Chang Tso-lin and others of this type of scoundrel. And just like the latter group, excepting Chang Tso-lin whose turn is still to come, has been swept away and thrown down into the dark recesses of oblivion so will Chiang be defeated in his designs and be flung overboard to take his right- ful place alongside of the other bandits who helped keep China in misery. It would not be worth the while to spend much paper and print in order to mention the fact that another traitor to the cause of the working masses has been added to the already long list, if there were no lessons to be learned therefrom. Now what are these lessons. First, that every friend and foe of the emancipation movement of the proletariat must distinctly understand that the vast store of rich and in- valuable lessons of October, 1917, will stand as the most powerful bulwark against defeat of the oppressed in the struggle for freedom. Our Chinese comrades are taking advantage of the lessons of the Russian revolution, they will therefore, in due course of time reach their goal notwithstanding the traitors in their ranks and the imperialist hordes within their gates. The Hankow government is sincerely desirous of bringing about (1) the expulsion of the imperialist robbers, (2) the abolition of the remnants of feudalism, (3) the unification of all of China into one united nation under one centralized government, (4) and the placing of this government in he hands of representatives of the producing classes. Anyone who finds 4 mself in disagreement with this program will eventually find himself by wayside. . 4 That since Lenin, the greatest of all engineers of construction of proy*tarian power thru organization has taught the workers the technique of or, tanizing, the usurpation of a movement of many by an inspiring Na- poleon ,and using it for his own ends has well nigh become impossible as far as t,he revolutionary class struggle is concerned. Lenin demonstrated to the wo. ‘kers of the world that the leadership of the revolutionary struggle must be it: the hands of “revolutionary cadres.” That means that “pro- fessional evolutionists” who have no other interest outside the struggle for the emancipation of the proletariat, and whose lives aré’ devoted to this cause alorye and not the furtherance of individual ends can successfully organize and lead the producing masses to victory. This yneans, first, devotion to the cause-and self-sacrifice for it, second, it means/ team work, group action and direction so that no individual of the group may usurp dictatorial power. The enlarged session of the Cen- ival Exsecutive Committee of the Kuomintang Party adopted this form of organization: (1) The re-establishment of the military council whose powers Chiang usuryed, (2) that a military commissary be established to supply all needs of the army, (3) that all foreign affairs be centralized in the hands of a foreign ry, (4) that a finance ministry be established that will control all a instead of the way Chiang was plundering the treasury and did give an accounting of same, (5) that all chairmanships (which at times ators) be abolished and presidiums of 3 or 5.should control im- ommittees. That all these divisions shall work under the direction and super- the supreme body, the CEC of the party. ang Kai Shek gave lip service to it. He even issued a manifesto Chinese people in which he stated that he accepts the decisions of Central Executive Committee. But while the Chinese masses were g this manifesto Chiang Kai Shek was treacherously conspiring them. And like Wu Pei-fu, who three years ago on entering into ordered his lieutenants to cut off the heads of the leaders of the en’s Union, so he, Chiang, ordered the executions of the leaders of ui trade union movement and those of other cities, rayal has added to the burden of the Chinese struggling for is therefore the duty of the workers of the whole world to efforts in behalf of China. To demand the withdrawing of -t forces and leave the Chinese to work out their own salva- will be in the best interest of the workers of the whole world. In the City of Mills By MARY B. TRA {other ‘work—she was transferred to ARTICLE I. another part of the mill, at wages The first impression one received | OR¢ quarter less than she had beer was of extreme neatness. Having|"e°tiving. Five dollars made a lot passed through the dishevelled alley, | °f difference, but when she ventured having opened the creaking door, we | to complain they had told her to keep were met by a positive wave of clean- quiet or quit. As there were two liness. Bright red and white check- children dependent, on her, she hac ered linoleum—a stove shining black decided to keep quiet. and giving a welcome warmth. Now they would not re-employ her. It was not until she had found chairs for us and had offered hos- pitality to her unexpected callers that | we began to notice curious bid about her tiny house. Two rooms/ there were: two rooms and nothing| more. In the corner stood a pail of | water and a dishpan—testimony that | running water was as remote from | her life as electricity or gas. | Warm On Charity. | “Yes, my house nice and warm to-| day.” There was pride in her voice. | “They send me coal this morning.”| She notioned toward the sack which | stood in the corner. Already it was beginning to sag ominously—I won-| dered how “nice and warm” the house had been the day before, would be toward the end of the week. Two| bushels of coal seemed suddenly a} pitiably minute quantity, “You got your food alright from | the Relief store this week?” | Slim Rations. “They don’t have much—just the potatoes and milk I get. This week when I come is no more coffee. I) have beans from last time so I no} take—maybe another striker would want.” It was just matter of fact—not a lwaee of complaint in the voice. With us was one from the office who was an old friend, They talked together; bits of conversation came to me, the outsider. “No, they tell me nothing doing yet. Maybe next week. I think I must wait long time—they not want me be- cause of the accident.” I knew about that. The “accident” was that ten years ago something had gone wrong with her back as a re- sult of the position in which sho was Though she was a Botany worker, and the Botany strike had ended in De- cember, she was still out of a job. What use had they for this bent little old woman, who would so soon be- come of no value? “You worked in the mill a long time?” I asked. 2 “A long time? Thirty-five year.” Only the Slavs can, by gesture, make a remark seem so utterly com- mon-place and unimportant. “Not thirty-five years without stopping? You must have had a va- cation?” “Oh yes, it was one time I was sick. For four days I do not work.” T could understand the words, I could not comprehend their meaning. “For four days I do not work.” “Thirty-five years.” It was not quite possible, She was talking again about the possibility of re-employment. “They say I am too old. I am not old— fifty-one.” A woman of only fifty could not look like that. She must at least be seventy. Yet when I asked them at the Office they even went so far as to look up her record to prove that she had not Ifed. I was dumbly miserable. Despite her obvious pleasure at receiving cal- lers, I could not but feel that to come into her home was an intrusion. To sit there on the stool which she had so carefully brushed off, and listen to her as she talked of these incredible things—I was glad when we rose to leave. “Your youngsters getting along alright?” “Sure, they get on fine. Mary does not feel so good this week, but she be alright soon, She want a lot forced to stand at her machine, Thc doctor had told her that she must get nails of food!” A lot of food! At best the family THE BEST COTTON LAND. FLOODED Mine No, 3, of the New England Fuel and Transpor ventible explosion killed 94 miners, NON-UNION MINE, WHERE NINETY-FOUR WERE KILLED tation Co., at Everettsville, West Virginia, where a pre: FAKE AUTO WORKERS’ UNION | IN RICHMOND | (By IDA SYLVANEN.) Twilight is stealing, creeping deathly slow over the | valley, up the hillside and finally enveloping ‘the little shack in its softly enfolding embrace. All around is} silence; only the faint sighing of the wind in the near- by trees is heard,.and from the shack comes the dull! monotony of a priest’s praying voice, broken by the oc- casional groan of a dying man. On the steps, a gaunt silent female is sitting, clasp- ing a rifle across her knee. Her bloodshot eyes are! trying to pierce the darkness and her ears are strained | to catch the faintest sound. Above the sighing of the wind and the praying and groans, the faint bark of a dog is heard. She grips her gun tighter, and harder become the lines that once were lips; her eyes become mere slits and fvom their depths come gleams of deadly hate. The baying ‘grows louder and louder, the woman) tightens her grip on the gun until her knarled hands) are numb with pain. Inside the groans have become fainter and the praying more intense... . ‘Many times she had sat thus—alway waiting— Long years ago—how many—she hardly knew, she had migrated to the fabled land of plenty, where one | picked gold in the streets. But that illusion had been | destroyed by years of unremitting toil and hardships | and poverty... . | Nature had not been very lavish in bestowing gifts upon her, so love and beauty had passed her by—until one day, he came. So life became one sweet dream for her with no thot of awakening . . . but . . . one day, he came no more... Long evenings of waiting at their trysting place, star- ing with burning -tearful eyes up the darkening trail until the night hid it from view. But he came not. All that winter she waited and in the spring the baby came. Then her marriage to the town drunkard to save her “honor” and again long years of waiting. Waiting and listening for his drunken footsteps... Wait- ing and dreaming for her, son,to. grow into’ wonderful manhood. How she planned for: him! wide One day the husband ordered ,the .boy, to:,shift . for himself and showed him the door. .. . More and lon- ger years of waiting; lonely, long evenings’ of “sitting on the doorstep and waiting—always waiting—and then the agonized cry, “mother”; a rush into her arms. “Don’t let them get me, mother, they’re after me. . . I...t1.. .” the blood-choked utterance grew a little calmer now. “I was penniless, no work, was beat- ing my way home . . . wken they got me and sent me to the camp. . . I got away ... . they’re after me... I—I’m dying . the swamp .:. . the fever . - mother... A hasty ride for the priest— . The baying of the hounds is growing fainter and fainter and finally is heard no more . . . the dying | man’s groans have ceased. Only the wind in the trees ‘is sighing and the priest’s dull voice is monotonously | praying in the shack. was only entitled to five dollars’ worth, “Well, you must keep her strong jand healthy. She'll have to take care \of you, someday, “Yes, three years more—she thir- |. teen now.” For what was sixteen the age limit? Her next remark told me, quite clearly, x “Three year, and then she go to work. I think she go Forstman Huff- man—lI no like the Botany so well.” Daddy Still Paying. WHITE PLAINS, N, Y. May 5.— Counsel for Mrs. Frances “Peaches” Browning today applied to Supreme Court Justice Arthur S. Tompkins here for an order entering a judg- ment against Edward West Brown- ing for $2,500. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Waiting By THOMAS H. STONE. | Ye labor movement has produced many queer freaks but surely none more so than the Richmond, Va., Brotherhood of Automobile Mechanics. This body was definitely formed about two or three weeks ago. Ac- cording to a written statement of a member of the “Brotherhood,” the following is the nature of the thing: “The Brotherhood is organizing and classifying ali those who are so-called automobile mechanics. A person, in order to be classified as a mechanic in the brother- hood, must have had as a prerequisite three years’ ex- perience in automobile repairing.” Now listen to this gem: The applicant must be recommended by “two mem- bers or by dealers for whom he has worked.” “This application is then submitted to a committee of five, three of whom must be foremen in reputable garages, the other two may be either mechanics or representa- tives of the dealers. Following this beautiful line, the article proceeds: “Frequently the small shopowner was formerly a skilled mechanic and would easily qualify for membership in the brotherhood, and, if so, could make this a good ad- vertisement for drawing business.” * . * i it necessary to go further with this nauseating mix- ture @f stupidity and scab unionism? What is the explanation of the formation of such a “union”? No doubt, either the bosses or some self- seeking fakers are playing a part in this game. But, this is not a full explanation. Up to the present this important work of organizing the auto workers has been neglected by the old line unions and such a farce as this “Brotherhood” is the result. * ~ ye remedy this condition two steps must be taken: 1. The A. F. of L. unions, and especially the ma- chinists in this town must start a real organization drive in the auto industry, linking it up with a national drive and eliminating the petty jurisdictional fights that have been the death of other drives in the past. 2. The honest members of the “Brotherhood of Auto- mobile Mechanics” must realize the danger of their present course, leave this scab union, which can only function in the interests of their employers and join the local lodge of the International Assn. of Machinists, forming therein a solid block for the prosecution of a real organizing campaign. They should also try to eliminate from their midst an insidious spirit of race prejudice which expressed itself in restricting their membership to “Caucasians.” Such suicidal stupidity should also be combatted in the I. A. of M. Since this article was started, I have received infor- mation that the I. A. of M. is sending an organizer to line up the auto workers here. This is good, but the maximum results cannot be achieved unless: rank and file organizing committees are formed by the active union members to assist him, (N. B. A letter of commendation for the “Brother- hood” (1?) appears, in one of the local capitalist rags, from Williamsburg, Va., the seat of an insane asylum, Further comment is unnecessary.) PREPARATIONS FOR THE IMPENDING IMPERIALIST WAR IN THE PACIFIC China in Revolt. By Stalin, Tan-Ping-Shan, Manuilsky and Bucharin. Worker Publishing Co. 15 cents, This pamphlet on China should be in the hands of every worker who wants to understand the driving forces of the great upheaval in China. It is a symposium comprising speeches and articles by the outstanding leaders of the world revolutionary movement and by one Chinese. Stalin, in his speech delivered to the Chinese Commission of the En- larged Executive Committee of the Communist International, dealt- with the peculiarities of the Chinese revolution;’ pointing out those characterist¥es that distinguished that elementary insurrectionary movement from previous revolutions, particularly the 1905 revolution in Russia, With true Leninist analysis he depicts the role of the revolutionary armies in China and the important role of the peasantry in the struggle against imperialism. Most important for the study of the,art of insurrection, particularly as it applies to countries predominantly peasant, is that part of Stalin’s contribution re- garding the conduct to be followed by tHe revolutionary troops after they establish themselves among the peasants, One quotation is worth far more than the price of the pamphlet and should be studied by all sincere revolu- tionists: “It is said that the revolutionary army in Ching is welcomed with open arms, but that later, after it has established itself, there is certain dissilusionment. The same thing happened with us in the @oviet Union during the civil war. This is explained by the fact that the army, after it has liberated new provinces and established itself in them, is compelled to maintain itself in some. way or an- other at the expense of the district. We, the Soviet revolutionaries, usually succeeded in making up for these disadvantages by en- deavoring to help the peasants against the landowners by means of the army. It is essential that the Chinese revolutionaries should also learn to make up for these disadvantages by carrying out a correct peasant policy with the help of the army.” Under the influence of the Communists who are the dynamic force in the revolutionary movement in China this advice is being put into practice, much to the amazement and chagrin of the imperialist military “experts,” who cannot comprehend that a revolutionary army has reserves that no predatory ai can ever hope for. In military theory, an army, from the day it enters the field becomes weaker, regardless of whether it is winning victories or not, for the simple reason that its very existence depletes its forces, That applies to imperi- alist armies. Its only recruits come from new forces being thrown into the breech. But a revolutionary army, pursuing a correct policy in occupied territory wins to its support the population and the most virile elements of that population invariably rallies to the support of the revolution, with the result that the army constantly gains in numbers and power. Many more valuable contributions to revolutionary strategy appear in Stalin’s article in the pamphlet; too many, in fact, to be described in the short space alloted for our review. * Daily Tan-Ping Shan emphasizes the steps necessary to complete the national- ist revolution in China, while Manuilsky deals with the Pacific problem as a whole, especially emphasizing the dangers of another world conflict by lay- ing bare the antagonistic roles of the United States, England and Japan. | Regarding America Manuilsky warns: “America is already arming now for the war in the Pacific; there is already an extensive literature which discusses this question in detail; and even the very time (1931-33) is set; plans for opera- tions are described; in brief the picture which we had several years before the war in Europe is beginning to resurrect itself. At that time, prior to the world war, one could find in military literature detailed drafts of the German attack upon Belgium, which wene later, on the first days of August, 1914, carried into effect with photographic fidelity. “The whole development of American imperialism in the last 25 years testifies that this approaching struggle on the Pacific is in no sense a creation of fantasy.” Manuilsky’s analysis is valuable today, inasmuch as it lays the founda- |tton for an understanding of the strained relations between America and England that have come openly to the surface in the attitude of the Coolidgé administration in refusing to participate in a second note to Eugene Chen, nationalist foreign minister of China, and are accentuated by the remarks ot Ambassador Houghton in London to the effect that the United States would not follow British policy in the Pacific. The policies of the three imperialist powers—the United States, Great Britain and Japan—are dealt with in simple and striking sentences that drive home to workers the monstrous threat of another world war that will eclipse in magnitude the last world war. Manuilsky congludes with em- mene the role of the proletariat as the guardian of the peace of the world. . * * * Bucharin analyzes the conditions in China that are favorable to the growth of the revolution and points out the dangers that would inevitably follow from a wrong policy of applying the united front against imperial- ism. He points out that a struggle for national liberation against imperial- ism must be combined with sweeping land reforms in order to win the solid support of the peasantry and that those petty bourgeoise elements not con- rected with foreign capital must remain in the ranks of the nationalist movement. Finally Bucharin emphasizes the fact that the Chinese revolution will awaken a “mighty echo” in neighboring colonial countries. No matter what other literature one may have upon China, there is nothing that can take the place of this valuable pamphlet. ) THE NEW MASSES Whether or not China is ready for a proletarian state is open to ques- tion. That it is not seems to be the dominant opinion in the Communist International. But there is all the difference in the world between that view and the cockeyed mystical notion that the “Chinese are not fitted constitutionally to become reds.” Yet that is the theory that is advanced by Dorothy Wong in a leading article in the New Masses. * The theory of innate redness is not at all new. It has been applied by myopic liberals to revolutions and proletarian movements in every country. For English liberals, Bolshevism is all right in Russia, but Englishmen uren’t constitutionally fitted for it; for German liberals, Bolshevism works all right in Russia, but Sovietism isn’t in harmony with the German spirit; for American liberals Sovietism is all right for Russians (they’re a little bugs anyway) but Americans ain’t built like that. That the New Masses should lead with a very poorly-written article subscribing to that thesis is a little surprising. The only explanations that I can think of are that the article was written by a Chinese, and that the New Masses editors were hard up for stuff on China. j ” * * Of the two other long articles, one, Bukharin’s attack on the Yessenin cult, is interesting. The other, “Economics and Education” is a very dull and erudite attempt by V. F. Calverton to establish the “causal relationshiy’ between educational theory and economic evolution.” Calverton’s prelim- inary apologies do not make his thesis less trite. x This is the way in which Bukharin punctures the Yessenin cult. “Is Yessenin talented? Of course he is. Who would dispute that. Neverthe- less Yesseninism as a whole, is a disgusting, vulgarly painted and powdered © Russian obscenity. It is saturated with alcoholic tears. A monstrous mix- ture of ‘male dogs,’ ikons, ‘glaring candles,’ birches, the moon, bitches, gods necrophelia, a lot of ken tears, and ‘tragic’ drunken hiccoughs; reli and hooliganism, ‘love’ for animals and a barbaric attitude toward men and especially women, impotent longings for ‘wide open spaces’ (while sitting within four narrow walls of a common cabaret), decadence raised to the height of principle,--and so on—all this under the cloak of a wild quasi-folk nationalism constitutes Yesseninism.” * * * The most interesting thing in the magazine are a series of red hot Chinese atrocities created by Bill Gropper for the benefit of Minister Muc- Murray, who is hankering for a nice little war against Nationalist China; and a drawing by Hugo Gellert of John L. Lewis, “high-salaried strategist of the embattled miners,” who regrets that he has but “one Union to sac-. rifice for his country.” bd * ° ‘a Say the editors of the New Masses in the current issue, “Paragraph writers on The DAILY WORKER unload columns of sarcasm against our discussion of such human problems as for example, art and sex.” Personally, I’d prefer that the New Masses devote itself even less to strictly political questions than it does, I should like to see it deal with art, religion, the lives of dirt farmers,—even sex; but deal with them from a live robust and politically sane point of view. I much prefer, for instance, that the New Masses print stuff like Bukharin’s analysis of Yessenin than political slop like Dorothy Wong's. t ‘ , ~HARRY FREEMAN,