The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 12, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSD. MAY 12, 1927 Page Thre: Communist International Ridicules Chang Tso-lin Attempt at Unprecedented The Secretariat of the Executive Committee of the Communist Inter- national has published the following declaration: “The Chinese press appearing in the territory occupied by Chang Tso-lin is publishing a series of forged docu- ments alleged to have been found during the recent raid upon the pre- mises of the Soviet Embassy in Pe kin by the police. This ‘material’ is now being published by the whole bourgeois press as “revelations’ con- cerning the work of the Comintern. These documents are being quoted in the British House of Commons with a view to inflaming bourgeois public opinion against the Soviet Union. The great fuss which is being made in im- perialist circles about these fantastic documents is alone sufficient to prove | clearly the intentions of the Chinese police when they raided the Soviet Embassy in the interests of foreign capital. The aim of the raid was to lend color to the system of forgery adopted by the British conservatives in their anti-Chinese campaign and to make the ‘documents’ which are a pack of lies from beginning to end appear credible. “According to these documents, which Chang Tso-lin declares to be ‘Secret Instructions from Moscow,’ the | Comintern has recommended that ‘the | Chinese masses be stirred up against the foreigners in China with a view of provoking a foreign intervention in China.’ The Comintern fs thus ac- cused of nothing less than supporting the plans of the imperialists in China! “Further, these ‘Instructions’ } recommend that in order to achieve | this aim, ie., the provocation of an imperialist intervention, plundering and the murder of foreigners be carried out, irrespective of the ciass status of the foreigners so murdered. “All this utter nonsense, bearing Frame-Up so obviously the stamp of political ignorance and obviously fabricated by experts in the service of the foreign espionage organizations, is so ridic- ulous that a refutation is hardly necessary. It can only be used by hopelessly naive persons or by de- liberate swindlers who seek to justify the imperialist robbery of their gov- ernments in China by such dirty methods. The Comintern can only pillory these disgusting and wretched methods carried out so farcically by the deadliest enemies of the Chinese revolution, in the eyes of the working masses of the whole world. The workers of the world will correctly estimate this action of Chang Tso-lin which was inspired by, the foreign capitalists in order to throttle the great movement of the Chinese work- ing and peasant masses. The con- temptibie purpdse of the imperialists can be best served with such clumsy forgeries and such mean deception.” German Ambassador in San Francisco | May, 14th is to be a gala day in San Francisco. Horns: will be blow- ing, flags flying, salvos of applause re-echoing, and the whole city decked in sportive mood, because it happens to be the occasion on which Baron A. von Haltzon pays us a visit. The noble baron happens to be none less than German Ambassador to the U ted States, and this is the incentive for all the tumult and the shouting. Not Like 1918, Not so many years ago a friendly visit on the part of the ambassador would have had dire consequences. His presence would have been re- garded as a hostile act on the part of the “horrible Huns” to disseminate their peculiar culture to the detriment of American ideals, At that time we were engaged in a war to further the ends of a chloroformed democracy, and we regarded Germany as the arch-conspirator that counter-acted our humane endeavors. A visit from any official representing the German nation at that time, would have meant jail for the miscreant, and ad-| PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE MOVES TO HANKOW AFTER IMPERIALISTS AND CHIANG MAKE ARRESTS | MOSCOW, APRIL 18 (By Mail)—) in 1925, | A special conference was held at the! ditional anathemas for the naion that sent him. “Hun” Is Feted. On his arrival, Baron von Haltzon | will go to his quarters at the Fair. mont Hotel to prepare for the festiv ities that await him. On Sunday he will be entertained at the Mill Valley home of Dr. Kurt Ziegler, German Consul General in San Francisco, On Monday the Baron will pay his re- spects t6' the’ heads of the army and navy, and no doubt congratulate them upon their effective efforts in the cause of culture. The same afternoon, in the rotunda of the City Hall, the Mayor and Supervisors will formally receive our distinguished visitor, and give him the keys of the city, with ON TRADE UNIONS Labor Lieutenants of Amer- ican Imperialism. Jay Lovestone The Threat to the Movement. Wm. F. Dunne Strike Strategy. Wm, Z. Foster Left Wing Unionism. D. J. Saposs Woman Worker Trade Unions. Theresa Wolfson .... ON RUSSIA Russia Turns East. Scott Nearing Glimpses of Soviet Russia Scott Nearing 10¢ Russian Workers and Work- shops in 1926, Wn. Z. Foster Russia Today. (Paper) $1.00 Cloth $1.75 +» $2.00 HISTORY ‘ Peasant War in Germany. Friedrich Engels .... $1.50 Social Forces in American History. A. M. Simons $1.60 the and $1.75 Si Broken Earth, Maurice Hindus .. Karl Kautsky é England on the Eve of Indus- trial Revolution, ++ $3.50 L. W. Moffit . THE DAILY WORKER Publishing Co. 33 First Street, New York. {the modest request, no doubt, that |he refrain from pillage. No Word From Labor. The League of Women Voters will be the next to do homage, and they have arranged a neat little luncheon that ought to meet all the require- ments of ‘our visitor’s appetite. Afterwards, he makes a call on Stan- ford University, and winds up with a swell feed at the Palace Hotel un- der the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce. During his entire stay in San Fran- cisco, the Baron will have no con- ference with any working class or- ganization, and no message to them from the revolutionary workers of Germany. From beginning to end, the whole procedure takes the form of capitalist propaganda of an In- ternational nature. It makes little difference what the name of the country is, or who represents it, so long as the exploitation of the masses is the basis of its existence, capi- talism can well afford to rejoice and! make merry. Speaker of the house of represen- tatives, but better known as the hus- band of Alice Roosevelt. | (Continued from Page One) right wing elements who control the city. Japanese workers who were to have attended the conference were placed under arrest by the Japanese gov- ernment, while the Australian dele- gation has been refused passports. During the stay of the delegati, of the Soviet Union in Canton, Lo§ sky said, several hundred workers, most of them Communists and left wing leaders, were executed. Peas- ants thruout Kwantung Province, Losovsky declared, are rebelling against the right wing dictatorship. Arrest Hindus. Arrests at Shanghai continue. Eight persons suspected of left wing activities were arrested and much literature confiscated. Four Hindus were arrested charged with planning the assasination of the Anglo-Hindu police chief at Shanghai and handing out revolutionary literature. ™ ° * * Party Membership Leaps. HANKOW, May 11.—According to reports submitted to the Central Committee at the Third Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which opened here on May ist, Chinese Communists number 57,967, while the | preceding Congress, held in 1925, re- presented on 994 members. The Com- munists youth rose from 2,365 in 1925 to 35,000 in 1927. 10,000,000 Organized Peasants. Workers organized in trade unions in 1925 are estimated at 125,000, whereas 2,800,000 Chinese workers are at present organized. Peasants unions have grown in the same period from 200,000 to 9,829,000. Student unions have 420,000 members. Workers form the bulk of the Communist Party membership. Oe ew Chiang Bankrupt. SHANGHAI, May 11.—The Na- tionalist News Agency reports that | ing serious financial difficulties. Mer- As a Doctor Sees It By B, LIBER With 64 Pencil Sketches by the author. This _ interesting new volume is the kind of a book that can be recommend- ed to every worker. A critic says: “It certainly sums up the t oft areat city as ma cally as anything I have rend.” $1.50 Postpaid. chants are refusing to accept paper money issued by Chiang Kai-shek, while soldiers are on the verge of revolt having received no pay for some time. A citizens’ committee has been ap- jointed to Changsha,-which is in the ands of the Nationalist government at Hankow. * * * Predict Peking Capture. HANKOW, May 11—Wang Chin- wei, chaitman of the military council and chairman of the political commit- tee declared today that he expected the Nationalist capture of Peking shortly. Generals Feng Yu-hsiang and Yen Shi-an had aligned themselves with the Nationalist, he said, *. * . Chiang Isolated. MOSCOW, May 11.—The torres- pondent of Pravda communicates from Shanghai that Chiang Kai-shek has failed in securing the ‘support of any considerable number of members of the Kuomintang. Despite the efforts of the right wingers to mask their counter-reyolu- tionary coup by revolutionary phrase- ology, the masses have not followed them. The Nanking group is a head- quarters without an army. The best proof is that on neither the first nor the fourth of May (Students’ Day) could Chiang Kai-shek organ- ize a single impressive demonstra- tion. Chiang, Now War Lord. The bourgeoisie supporting Chiang Kai-Shek in the struggle against the revolutionary Kuomintang instéad of continuing the northern expedition more energetically urges compromise. Compromise will reduce Chiang Kai- shek from a nationalist to a provin- cial force. FE now the Nanking group is beginning to strikingly re- semble the former clique of Sun Chuan-fang, it is in that light that the more reasonable militarists re- gard him. Chiang Kai-shek’s press continues to flirt with the workers and peas- ants, prattling about the national and even the world revolution; but this doesn’t prevent the English papers from advising Chiang Kai- shek to give up the broad plans and devote himself from making “Kiang- su a model province.” From the military viewpoint Chiang Kai-shek’s position is rapidly degen-| metal works of Kerch. Preparations erating to the position of Sun-CRuan-|are being made for the erection of fang being essentially like the latter] works in the Magnet mountain, in the of generals | Ural; which each of which under the pre-| plant is being constructed, and so text of fighting the Communists is| forth. One of the biggest schemes of attempting to secure control of the|construction which is being started a temporary alliance region falling into their hands. Chiang Kai-shek and his followers] whose importance for the develop- seem to be realizing the fiasco of| ment of industry is enormous, Therefore their] other huge construction is the Volga- hopeless flirting with the workers] Don canal; to this latter problem, the their desperate efforts to secure the| government has been paying the support of any prominent leader of | closest attention. their enterprise. the Kuomintang and their vain ap- peals to the widow and son of Sun Yat-sen from that too follows their 33 First St, New York. servility to America as the hope of|of the Russian Socialist Federated Re- ARSED we Re Ts The DAILY WORKER PUB. CO, | receiving assistance from her is the| public was 183 per every ten thou-| WORKERS! STOP THE MURDER straw to which they cling. The French fat boys are in a most unfortunate predicament. j other nations for the world’s gravy forces them to build huge armaments and to make military preparations | js arranged by the Down Town which overburdened French taxpayers can ill-afford. NEWS FROM SOVIET UNION SHOWS POPULATION, PRODUCTION GROWTH Their scramble with the capitalist robbers of | ers | Current Events (Continued from Page One) a is too darned big and Great in has to many strong rivals at |her heels. How virtuous we aref | *. * * HAT has become of the bituminous coal strike? Or rather the lock out. The operators that John L | Lewis co-operated so loyally with ix persecuting the radical members oi | the union are going about the busi- | ness of organizing their mines on the basis of the open shop in so far as | they are permitted to do so by their {employes, What is John L. Lewis What service is he rendering n return for salary of » year? Lewis is not inter- ested in the welfare of the miners. | His pockets are lined and no matter j} what happens to the miners there is |a life of ease and plenty ahead of ers him. | STANLEY MITCHELL, our worthy banker, is such public spirited fellow that the New York American | bestows a eulogistic editorial on his financial head. Among the public benefactions that Mr. Mitchell is in- | terested in are: the 000,000 for the j cancer cen the $6,500,000 fund for |the Y. M. C, A. enlargement and the | $3,500,000 for the Actors’ Fund Home. * * * YET 1 have been informed re- |* cently that in this wealthy city jof ours, the wealthiest in the world, 600,000 of its inhabitants are in |daily want. Millions for philan- | thropies of all sorts but poverty goes }on just the same, because those philanthropic frauds will do anything except go to the bottom of the cause of the misery of the masses. Only when the masses will throw the ex- ploiters off their backs will the need for charity cease to exist, | — Spring Rally and May Dance Preparations are being rushed for the Spring Festival and May Dance on May 21, at the Down Town Work- Club, 35 E. 2nd St. The dance |Branch of the International Labor People’s Commissariat of Education to deal with the question of restora- been closed, while all were handed over to the Turkish Ot- toman Museum. In the number of volumes, works and collections, this Institute is the |the Byzantine epoch. information available, the books of the institute have been perfectly well preserved. The request which the All-Union Academy of Science tended to the Turkish Government regarding the resumption of the institute’s work has met with a most favorable re- ception. * * * Economic Situation. Speaking at the All-Russian Con- man of the Council of People’s Com- | missaries stated that the sown area is 105 per cent of the area of 1916,/ while the total yield is 92 per cent. | Sowings of technical cultures have increased and their dimensions are | considerably larger than previous to} the war. There was 11 million hec-| tares of land allotted for cultivation | in 1925-26. Throughout the RSFSR | the number of tractors working was | estimated, in 1925-26, at 13,600. The, production of agricultural machinery exceeded the pre-war production by 20 per cent. 17 million roubles was assigned in 1926-27 for anti-drought measures, as against 12.5 million roubles allocated for the same purpose last year. Grows One Fourth. The growth of the industry in RSFSR will be 22.6 per cent this year. The fundamental expenses of | the industry of RSFSR which have been allocated for current year 1926-27 reach the sum of 190.5 million roubles, as against 158.7 million roubles last year. Out of a total of 648 million roubles which have been assigned for fundamental outlay in the all-Union industry, over 340 mil- lion roubles are to be invested into industry situated in the territory of RSFSR, The building is being pro-| ceeded to his year of such big works | as the Hustov-on-Don works manu-| facturing agricultural machinery, the | tractor mills, at Stalingrad, the at Tuapse an oil distilling this year is the Semirech railway, An- * * * Population Grows. The natural accretion of population sand people in 1923, 178 in 1924, 198, tion of the Russian Archeological In- | stitute at Constantinople, which had! its contents | richest in the world for the study of | According to} gress of Soviets, Mr. Rykov, chair-| Per eve Ss compared with 161 on an average in 1908-13. The number of marriages has been | rapidly increasing during the post- ar years, reaching 132 per cent of | ten thousand inhabitants in| | as against 81 marriages in } 1911-12. In 1925 the number of} . . } | marriages as registered went down | again, reaching 91 per cent of every | ten thousand inhabitants. Room For More. The birth-rate in the R.S.F.S.R. fluctuates parallelly with the fluctua- |tions of the number of marriages. | However, in 1925, the birth-rate rose steadily, in spite of the decreased number of marriages. In 1925, there | were 414 births per every ten thou- nd inhabitants against an average | of 447 in 1908-12. The death-rate is actually much | lower than before the war, when, in| European Russia, it was put at 272 ten thousand inhabitants; the corresponding figure for 1 was 221. * . * Foreigners in R.S.F.S.R. In the R.S.F.G.R. there live 150- 170,000 foreigners. Most of them} live in the Far East. The number is yearly increasing of foreigners opting for citizenship of the R. S. F. S. R; thus about 10,000 foreigners opted for Soviet citizenship in 1925, and 5,800 during the first half of 1926. . * . Oil Exports. The export of oil products during the first half of the working year 1926-27 reached 887,800 tons, against 626,000 tons during the first half of the preceding year, an increase of 41.8 per cent. Among the different countries of destination the export of oil products was distributed as follows: in the first place stands the United King- dom, the export to which increased, as compared with the preceding year, by 89.4 per cent. Oil exports to Egypt increased by 112.9 per cent; to Italy— by 29.8 per cent, Out of the total Soviet oil exports, 89.2 per cent went to European countries, the rest being exported to the countries of the Near East. * * * Invite Scientists. LENINGRAD, April 16—(By M&il) The German government has sent an invitation to Soviet Academicians asking them to detail a group of Russian savants to Germany to read a course of lectures to young German scientists on the latest achievements of Russian science in various fields. Among those invited are academicians Yoffe, Bernadsky, Fersman, Lazar- eff and others. Cooperators Festival Sunday Next Sunday Co-operators Annual Festival at Ulmer Park, foot of 25th Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. It is a gala occasion, everybody within a radius of 100 mlies is invited. OF SACCO AND VANZETTI {Defense. The proceeds will go to- wards the branch sustaining fund and jfor relief of class-war prisoners. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS How the Reactionaries Have Helped the Daily Worker This is an authentic photograph of a dyed- in-the-wool dollar paytriot speculating upon the results of the attack upon The DAILY WORKER. Contrary to their expectations that the attack would crush the paper, it has stimulated increased support from workers. throughout the country. Every mail brings evidences of sympathy and support in our fight against the forces of reaction. 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