The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 7, 1927, Page 4

——— _— Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by tue DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): 68.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3,50 six months $2.60 three months $2.00 three months intl oars Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J, LOUIS ENGDAHL # WILLIAM F, DUNNE iio os sb eseobeceeces Editors MET MEMBAAD Re sce csc ss't rn aveeed business Manager Phone, Orchard 1680 Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. Advertising rates on application. Ba. More Contemptible Secret Diplomacy. Following close upon the statement of Coolidge to the Pan- American Congress that the government would pursue a policy of “non-intervention beyond protecting American citizens and their property” and that he “would lend every encouragement we can to the restoration of peace,” comes the report of the bullying tactics of the Coolidge appointee, Henry L. Stimson in Nicaragua. | After a conference with Stimson, General Jose Maria Mon- cada, commander of the liberal forces, made the announcement that: “The view seems certain that the United States is pre- pared to take the field against us if fighting continues and I am prepared to order my troops to lay down their arms, turning them over to the United States troops. As continuation of Diaz (as president) is essential to the United States program, we are unable to resist, but we are not signing any peace agreement bearing such a provision.” Washington, as usual, remains silent when its duplicity is exposed. But the delegates from the southern republics must be pondering in their own minds the contemptible trickery of a gov- ernment whose president talks peace to them, while his agent in Nicaragua is threatening with military reprisals the liberal army commander in order to force him to disarm in favor of Diaz, the Wall Street president who is maintained in office by American marines. General Moncada is quite plainly a liberal and not a revolu- tionist. If he were a revolutionist, he would not yield to the threats of Stimson, but would take advantage of the situation to expose to all Central and South America the unprincipled char- acter of the Coolidge government and endeavor to get aid from cther nations to exterminate from that part of the world the Wall Street agents and their gunmen. Certainly there is no more brazen example of the United States imperialist policy in Central and South America than the overthrow of the Sacasa liberal government and the “recognition” of the Diaz regime Even if Sacasa and Moncada do not act there is another possibility for action against Coolidge. If the delegates to the Pgn-American congress at Washington have any political intelligence and serve the interests of their own populations in- stead of the Wall Street imperialists they could jointly serve no- tice on Coolidge and his gang that he must release from his bloody clutches every Southern nation that groans under the tyrannical rule of Uncle Sam or face a fight that will expose this government to all the world as the beast of prey that it is. Britain Discusses Debts for Home Consumption to Detract From Anti-Strike Bill Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill of the Baldwin tory government raises the question of British debts to the United States by way of replying to Secretary of the Treasury Mellon’s correspondence with President Hibben of Princeton University on interallied debts. A careful reading of the British note con- vinces one that the thing was written primarily for home con- sumption as it is a specious plea for the taxpayers of England, obviously intended to appeal to the small and middle capitalists. A second motive was to state England’s case before its own debtors who have been told that they would not be expected to pay to the British government an amount greater than Britain pays to the United States. Mellon, in his reply to Hibben had ‘ charged that Britain was really profiting from the European debt arrangements. This Churchill refuted with proof that, in spite of its diplomatic language, proves Mellon to be a falsifier of figures—a liar. ‘ But the main reason for bringing up the debt question at this time is undoubtedly an effort to detract public attention from the infamous bill to outlaw general and sympathetic strikes. The tory government thinks it can sidetrack the small bourgeois ele- ments by raising the debt question which affects their tax. The anti-strike bill has already passed the second reading. There were some disturbances in parliament from the Clydesiders, who called the tory spokesman a liar. For this one of the labor- ites was ejected from the house, while the right wing gang on the opposition benches remained silent—probably deeply cha- grined that one of their uncouth members should display dis- respect for the niceties of parliamentary procedure. If they had really been working class representatives instead of sychophants of capitalism they would have arose as one man and walked out and proceeded to organize nation-wide demonstrations against the bill, thereby arousing the working class and driving forward to another general strike in defiance of the government. But, although the parliamentary labor group accepts docile- ly the impudent attacks of the government, the great mass of British labor, sinking ever lower in the social scale, will be driven to revolt by the very desperation of its condition. With the Com- munist Party as the one dynamic force in the labor movement and the mass minority movement gaining adherents every day the discontent of the working class can be directed into revolu- tionary channels against the Tory government and its allies, the Thomases and MacDonalds. Y. M. C. A. Dollar Patriots Launch Panhandling Campaign A campaign has been launched in New York by the Young Men’s Christian Association to raise some millions of dollars for new buildings. This hypocritical, petty thieving outfit probably imagines that we are far enough removed from the world war to have forgotten the disgusting role they played by begging for donations for the “boys over there,” and then selling tobacco and other commodities to the boys in the trenches at exhorbitant rates. Certainly no ex-soldier who saw service in France will contribute one penny to that outfit. From the general labor point of view the Y. M. C. A. is an \ ~ Son of Chiang Kai-Shek Calls Father Traitor MOSCOW, May 6.—The last issue of the Moscow Youth paper, the “Molodoi Leninitz (The. Young Len- jinist) published an interesting inter- view with Chiang Kai-Shek’s son who is a student of the Sun Yat Sen Uni- versity. He said: | Chiang Kai-Shek’s betrayal was |not a surprise to me. I knew and |said that Chiang Kai-Shek is not sin- | cere, that he is scheming. But others disputed with me, maintaining that Chiang Kai-Shek will not betray the revolution, I proved to be right. have been otherwise. Leader of Bourgeoisie. The Chinese bourgeoisie against the | realized that the national liberation It could not turned | struggle has gone too far, and that| ceived nothing after the capture of | the masses of workers and peasants have been drawn into it. Chiang | Kai- k became the leader of the |bourgeoisie. He spoke eloquently | about the revolution, but at the same |time he was gradually betraying the | revolution. In his letters to me he was just as hypocritical and called himself a true ple of Sun Yat-Sen. He was ming and deceiving and in his ‘heart he always looked forward to a | compromise with Chang Tso-Lin and Sun Chuan-Fang, Blood Bath. We have heard recently about the blood bath in Nanking caused by the perialists. Today we read about the blood-bath of Shanghai. The shooting in Shanghai was perpetrated by the national armies and therefore it is more disgusting than the Nank- ing blood-bath. The shooting of Shanghai was com- mitted by the national army, that army which hitherto fought for the revolutionary slogans, Protest Shanghai Shootings. The proletariat of all countries must now come out in protest against the shooting in Shanghai just as it protested against the Nanking slaughter. What are the future prospects for the development of the Chinese Revo- lution? Revolution when they | { I think that Chiang Kai-Shek will | not continue the war against the | militarists. His revolutionary career |is ended. As a revolutionary he is |dead. He is reborn as a counter- revolutionary—an enemy of the toil- ing people of China. Alliance With War Lords. Chiang Kai-Shek will come to an agreement with Chiang Tso-Lin and {Sun Chuan-Fang—there can be no | doubt about that, | We must join issue with the Mani- festo of the Comintern published in today’s press. We add to it one more slogan, namely: “Down with the right wing of the Kuomintang! Long jlive the left wing of the Kuomin- tang!” The proletariat of Shanghai re- their town by the National Armies. The Shanghai proletariat represents | the most heroic section of the Chinese | Workers. The armed Shanghai pro- letariat banished the militarists from Shanghai. | The victories of the workers have | been destroyed, Chiang Kai-Shek, be- |hind the back of General Bai Tzin- | Shi, the Commander of Shanghai, | started to act just as soon as he {captured the town. | In an interview with the Japanese | correspondent, Chiang Kai-Shek de- \clared: “The session of the Kuomin- |tang Plenum in Hankow was illegal. | I will not submit to the resolutions | adopted by the Plenum. | At the same time, Chiang Kai-Shek | who was present at the Plenum, pub- | lished his declaration concerning his absolute submission to the resolutions and the Kuomintang. Such is the shrewdness and hypo- crisy of General Chiang Kai-Shek. Shoots Lefts. Chiang Kai-Shek delivered a speech recently in Nanchang. In that speech he declared: “If the Right Wing of the Kuomintang will take any action against the Left Wing, I will shoot down the Rights. Should the Lefts come ovt against the Rights, I will shoot down the Lefts! Such were the “revolutionary” phrases of Chiang Kai-Shek, He wanted to demonstrate his determina- tion and firmness, Actually he never took any action against the Rights, On the contrary, he always acted hand in hand with the Rights. “Chiang Kai-Shek was favorably in- clined toward Tai Tshi-Tao, the leader of the Right Wing of the Kuomintang. Helped Right Wing. I remember how I once got hold of a pamphlet written by Tao-Tshi- Tao against the Communists. Chiang Kai-Shek told me: Read this, it is very interesting and gives a correct elucidation of the vaious problems. Chiang Kai-Shek sent Tao Tchi-tao to Japan. He helped him in every way. And this alone gives a true characteristic of Chiang Kai-Shek, When an orator advanced a slogan against Chiang Kai-Shek in Nanchang, |} tion, The same happened in Wu- |chang. Women and children present at the demonstration were shot only because the demonstration advanced |a slogan against Chiang Kai-Shek. Father A Hypocrite. I wrote to Chiang Kai-Shek and en- deavored to prove to him that he was wrong. Recently I received a reply from him in which he said: “You are absolutely right”—said he in his letter—“I recognize the | revolution and am ready to die for it. On questions of principle I have no differences whatever with the Com- munist Party. If there are people who think that I am not certain on this question, they are mistaken. “Such uncertainty would be detri- mental to the Chinese revolution—” This is how hypocrital and false Chiang Kai-Shek was in his letters, Now we know what kind of “revolu- tion” he was fighting for. Every- thing is clear now. I, as a revolutionary, declare that Chiang Kai-Shek was my father and revolutionary comrade. Now he has gone over to the enemy camp—he is my enemy, My slogan: Down with Chiang Kai- Shek. 1 Long live the victorious revolution of China, Lecture Again at Forum on Russia Joe Freeman’s lecture at the Work- ers’ School forum on Sunday, April 24, was so successful that he has been obtained again for next Sunday, at 8 p. m., to speak on the topic “Cul- tural Changes in Soviet Russia.” Freeman, co-editor with Scott Near- ing of “Dollar Diplomacy” was form- erly editor of the Liberator and the) New Masses, and has just returned from a year’s stay in Russia. He will discuss culture in Soviet Russia, changes that have taken place in education, press, art, stage and lit- erature. As many were turned away from his last lecture, the hall being crowded to its capacity by 8:15 p. m,, all are urged to come early to 108 East 14th St., top floor of the head- quarters of the Workers’ School. Questions and discussions will fol- low the lecture, On May 15, Bertram D. Wolfe, di- rector of the Workers’ School, will speak on “The Changing American Working Class.” Brownsville Youth Backing Cloakmakers A big affair arranged by the Brownsville Youth Club will be held at 63 Liberty Ave., Brooklyn next Sunday Evening. This affair 1s ar- ranged for the purpose of assisting in the work to free the arrested cloak- makers and furriers. A literary and musical program is arranged. A special featue of the evening will be the addresses by L. Hyman, J. Borochowitz and S. Liptzin who will speak on the present situa- tion in the needle trades, Young and old are invited to attend this affair and are assured of a pleasant evening. Lower Bronx Dance Tonight. No stone has been left unturned, no effort has been spared towards making tonight’s concert and dance, which will be held at 542 East 145th Street, headquarters of the Lower Bronx Section of the Workers Party, a huge success. The Lettish Club entertainers will be on hand to dispel gloom and glad- den the hearts and minds of all those present. A chorus of 30 voices has been specially trained for this occa- sion, Dancing will follow the enter- tainment. Tickets will be 35¢ for each person, Come and dance “the light fantastic toe” with the lower Bronxites. You'll never forget or regret it. Benefit DAILY WORKER. May Dance On the 21st. The Downtown Branch of the In- ternational Labor Defense will hold a spring dance May 21st at the Down-| Westchester county ought to be part WASHINGTON, town Workers’ Club, 36 East 2nd St. Protests Thruout Country. CHICAGO, MAY 6.—The cam- paign on behalf of Sacco and Van- zetti, according to the International Labor Defense, which has been note- worthy in its activity for their re- lease, is gaining wide response among the masses of the workers. Notices of meetings to be held have already come in from cities through- out the United States. A monster pro- test demonstration, attended by more than 20,000 workers at Union Square, New York, on April 16, protested the attempt at official murder of the two framed-up Italian workers. A huge de- | monstration is being held today in San Francisco; there will be protest meetings in Newark, N. J., on May 6; Chicago, Gary, Los Angeles, Cleve- land, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Bos- ton, Detroit and numerous other cities are arranging for mass demonstra- tions in quick succession. Let’s Fight On! Join | The Workers Party! In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- berg the Workers (Communist) Par- ty has lost its foremost leader and the American working class its staunchest fighter. This loss can only be overcome by many militant work. ers joining the Party that he built. Fill out the application below and mail it. Become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party and carry forward the work of Comrade Ruthenberg. , I want to become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party. Name Address Occupation .....cecccssssecscccoses Union Affiliation...........sseeee+ Mail this application to the Work- ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New York City; or if in other city to Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Distribute the Ruthenberg pam- phlet, “The Workers (Communist)! Party, What it Stands For and Why Workers Should Join.” This Ruthen- berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- phlet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. Every Party Nucleus must collect 50 cents from every member and will receive 20 pamphlets for every mem- ber to sell or distribute. Nuclei in the New York District will get their pamphlets from the District Office—108 East 14th St. Nuclei outside of the New York District write to Daily Worker Pub- lishing Co., 38 East First Street, New York City, or to the National Workers Party, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Westchester in New York. The oft-repeated suggestion that of New York City was heard again. of the National Association of Manufacturers and in many parts of the country it functions as an active strike-breaking agency | Felix J. Belair, general secretary, re- by telling the unemployed workers who ask for a night’s lodging that they should go to work on scab jobs. This is a characteris~ tic of most religious organizations of a similar nature, including the Salvation Army, which is also conducting a panhandling! per week; bindery women average $22 campaign to maintain its staff of loafers who talk pie in the sky to the workers and promise them “pay checks on the bank of heaven”—to use the trite observation of Paul LaFargue—in| unionism are chiefly in the larger institution that assiduously advocates the vicious anti-labor policy | place of the eages they are entitled to here upon earth, Join Workers Party | To Fight for End of Capitalist Injustice The capitalist class of this country fights bitterly against its enemy. When any worker dares to do some- thing for his class, the bosses and their government will go to any length to “get him.” That is why the Massachusetts courts have sen- tenced Sacco and Vanzetti to the electric chair. Sacco and Vanzetti were active in organizing the under- paid and enslaved textile workers of Massachusetts. The bosses hated them for this. They determined to “murder” them, to get rid of these two militant fighters for the work- ing class in order to “cow” and in- timidate other workers. Evidence after evidence is disre- garded; technicality after technical- ity is resorted to—the rulers demand their price. They have the power in their hands and they will use it. That is the only language they understand, We workers must realize that. Only strength on our part will move them, will get them to change their de- cision, That is the only thing the bosses fear—organization on the part of the workers, understanding in their ranks and determined resistance and fight against capitalist rule and ex- ploitation. ‘ The duty of every class-conscious worker is therefore clear. The build- ing up of the Workers (Communist) Party is the best guarantee for the carrying out of those tasks, for the strengthening of the working class. Join the Workers (Communist) Party and carry on the fight against capitalist injustice. Become a mem- ber of the Workers (Communist) Party and help it in its fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti. Fill out the application blank for membership in this issue of the paper and mail it to 108 East 14th Street. All Nationalities at Gary May Day Meet GARY, Ind., May 6.—Workers here are still talking of the successful May Day celebration, held in Hod Carriers’ Hall, and attended by representatives he Geseeg baie nationalities, peakers for the Workers (Commu- nist) Party laid its aims pier the needs of the DAILY WORKER be- fore the audience, and the audience approved. Comrade White, a veteran steel worker from Youngstown, was the principal speaker, Manuel A. Lopez, au old timer in the Mexican labor movement, but still a flaming orator, spoke in Spanish. Comrade Lourie spoke for the Young Pioneers, The concert program was excellent, and the audience was responsive, May 6. (FP).—Its annual session at Washington head- guarters has been concluded by the Intl. Brotherhood of Bookbinders. ported trade conditions good. Of the 14,000 members, about 75% are pro- tected by union agreements. Men get an average wage of $43 for 44 hours for 44 hours, Men in the trade are about 75% organized, and women about 25% organized. Centres of eastern cities, his soldiers shot down the demonstra- | eran | eu . : By Evucreny Lyons Evasions.—1. Ramsay MacDonald refuses to comment on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, because it is “purely an American affair” in which he is too polite to interfere. 2. The Department of Justice ignores the Sacco-Vanzetti pro- tests pouring in upon it from all over the world because it is “purely a Massachusetts affair” in which it has no right to inter- vene. (Although admittedly it intervened to help convict them.) 8. The Massachusetts Supreme Court can do nothing about the new evidence because it is matter purely within the jurisdiction of the presiding judge of the lower courts, namely Thayer. 4. Judge Thayer can do nothing because the jury decided that the two goddam radicals ought to go to the chair anyhow. A ROVING WRECKER’S CHANTEY I’ve had my fill of wrecking, Tearing up the bricks, Scraping up the mortar, Loading up the sticks: I’ve had my fill of wrecking In spite of all the pay, A juicy three and fifty For a nine-hour day: I’ve had my fill of wrecking, The boss and I, you see, That gol-derned guinea foreman And I could not agree: For I was there to sun myself So jolly and so free, And not to break my fragile back For the Symons’ Company. —ART SHIELDS. Diplomatic Dope.—For frank, straight-from-the-shoulder dope on an international situation, the following from The World takes the cake. Please note how clear, definite and to-the-point every word is— WASHINGTON, May 4.—President Machado of Cuba is author- itatively understood to have advised Secretary of State Kellogg during his recent visit to Washington that the Platt amendment, under which the United States has the right to intervene in Cuba, is objectionable and is causing friction between the two countries. Secretary Kellogg is believed to have made no promises to President Machado regarding the removal of the amendment, but to have given assurances that steps would be taken at the next session of Congress to modify the parcel post regulation by which the United States prohibits shipment of cigars from Cuba in quan- tities of less than 3,000. Further Indications of the Alarming Spread of the Suicide Wave.—The prison matron reports that since her arrest on a charge of murdering her husband, Mrs. Ruth Snyder has received 168 marriage proposals from all parts of the country. For God’s Sake.—The effects of religious training are clearly evident in Gray’s pious exclamation as he slugged Snyder with the sashweight. We quote from his testimony: 5 “He was apparently full of fight. He got me by the necktie and a struggle ensued, in which I was getting the worse, because I was being choked. I hollered ‘Mommie, Mommie, for God’s sake help me.’ I had dropped ‘the weight. She came over, she took the weight and she hit him on the head.” . Current Journalism.—Editing a newspaper while some such an epoch-making trial as the Snyder-Gray affair is on must be a cinch. From two to five pages are given up to verbatim testimony. All you do is get the court record, cut out the “unprintables” and stack in columns. After a while the chief functionaries on a news- paper will be stenographers and censors. Fair Play—News story: Prominent bankers give a luncheon to 100 workmen, because by working overtime, etc., they finished putting up the bank building in record time. After the luncheon, the banker kept the building and the 100 workmen went out job-hunting. The Lion and the Eagle: More Fact Than Fable Yonder, where the Yangtse flows, | Where wakened China restless grows, The Yankee eagle stoops to trail Behind the British lion’s tail; The lion shows his bloody paws, The eagle lifts his pointed claws. Two worthy partners bent on prey, Despite what their sleek spokesmen say. The spectacle must give the chill To the glorious ghosts of Bunker Hill Who once did win eternal glories By thrashing all the British tories; ow their descendants, to their shame, y tricky Britain’s bloody game. Shall we, the self-styled brave and free, The butchers of new China be? —ADOLF WOLFF. ° Faint Praise for the Jewish Writers——A. B. Magil writes: “It’s about your note last Saturday on the open letter of the Jewish writers concerning the internal struggles in the needle trades. I agree with your feeling in regard to the letter, but I think you do a number of these writers an injustice when you say they were moved to write the letter because of the rough language that is being used in the fight. “This is, no doubt, true of the great body of ‘impartial’ Jewish writers, whose snooty attitude throughout these lot ible in the highest degree. But don’t foi that among those who signed | the letter were a large number whose sympathies lie with the left wing and | who are genuinely interested in protecting the workers and saving the union: from complete disruption. Moreover, the letter was signed by . writers who are actively associated with the ‘Freiheit,’ among them being Abraham Raisin, H. Leivick, M. L. Halpern, Menachem Bareisha and Mani Leib. “The chief objection to the letter is that it is so namby-pamby and takes no definite stand. It ends with: ‘A solution must be f ’ to which one is tempted to reply, ‘You don’t say!’ or ‘So’s your old man.’ It offers no sug- gestions and makes no specific criticism. I suspect that the desire to be all-conciliatory and to step on no one’s toes produced a vehement zero. “Incidentally, the mildness of the letter didn’t save it from attacks from three different eho bey ‘Forward,’ the daintily impartial ‘Day,’ and the ‘Freie Arbeiter Stimme,’ Yiddish anarchist weekly. : Still, we repeat, the appeal to the literary conscience of Woll, Frayne, McGrady, etc.—who are really running the show for the right wing—is very nearly the limit of the absurd, whatever the good intentions behind it, READ THE DAILY WORKER EVERY DAY. bitter weeks has been contempt- wl \ ( /