The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 12, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Daily, E Sunday 68 First Street, New York, N. Y. se SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York ently): By mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year 98.50 six months $2.60 three months $2.00 three months = Corps, it was inconceivable. Who be- Address all mail and moke out checks to lieved this news? All written: and| Lawrence’ J. Anhalt announces a THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. | unwritten international law + guar. | revival of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta “Ruddigore,” with many of Beta PO ; Sar boes vandhmokeenee Editors | buildings of all countries, The peo- | the players who appeared in the same BERT MILLER business Manager ples of Antiquity, in the Middle Ages opera at the old Park theatre (now Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates dn application. —. Ss call Phone, Orchard 1689) | THE SHAME OF PEK By University Professor Dr. ALFONS GOLDSCHMIDT (Berlin). | | When on the 7th of April, the first reports arrived that the Russian Em- bassy had been stormed by the ban- dits of Chang Tso-lin with the ex- press permission of the Diplomatic antees the inviolability of the official | ; and even in the so-called New Age jregarded this inviolability| as something unalterable and any at- |tempt to interfere with it as one of the worst crimes. Is it possible | | that such’ a crime could be committed jagainst the Soviet Embassy: in: Pekin |’ “Starvation” Hoover, and Two Engineers IN Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Ruddigore” Slated for Revival the Cosmopolitan) six years ago. The new presentation will be made here within a fortnight at a theatre yet to be ‘announced, The last revival of “Ruddigoré,” “announced .for an en- gagement jof «two :weeks, ‘continued over twenty-three weeks, Among the LILLIAN GISH per 5 } pene? MH 7 . | and is: it at ail’ conceivable that in- players, .who- sppeared™at> that “tine i Britain s Gains From American Co-operation in China |termational diplomacy should have and ‘who: hive" ben: engaged: #4 ‘the |' | Although defeated on the diplomatic field in its policy to take|'given their: permission to the com- Tew Production..are: Craig Campbell, advantage of the Nanking “incident,” for a joint military assault of the imperialist powers against the nationalist revolution in China, Great Britain nevertheless made substantial gains because of the assistance already given her by the United States govern- ment. The joint shelling of Nanking, in which British and Amer- ‘ TS ; oak A Prague and have declared that attack HOOVER, U.S. ARMY eighty voices, ican warships stood side by side and poured death and destruction | | ; have been tha: Sistifiable™ coe: Secristhny OF ‘teh Maa ale Vises ils: into that Chinese city, paved the way for the atrocious regime| mencement of the Thirty Years War. COMMERCE there of the bestial Chiang Kai-shek. All students of the con- tlicting elements in China, all those who can see beneath the sur- | mittal of this crime? For centuries, even down to the present day, the | school books have recorded the attack | made upon the inviolability of the im- | perial Councillors Martinitz and Sla- |vata on the 23rd of May 1618 in | And to-day, when we are proud of | {having secured all the “ideals of! HERBERT MAJOR GENERAL FOcAR JADWIN CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, OL. WB. GREELEY CHIEF FORESTER °. | of “Patience” to the Masque theatre. William Danforth, Herbert Waterous and Sarah Edwards. Charles Jones, who staged the revival of “Princess Ida,” two seasons ago, will direct “Ruddigore.” Harry. Gilbert will direct the chorus which will include ton is platining to bring his revival With two:Gilbert and ‘Sullivan revivals Humanity” and the rights of the peo- | of “Tolanthe” and “The Pirates of Pen- ples, through the League of Nations, | zanee” this past season by Winthrop Ames, -it-does seem as if the English masters of ‘operetta are not neglected in the theatrical world of blase Broad- way. tace the’deep underlying social and economic forces, realize that | 7 . : without support from the imperialists neither Chiang Kai-shek | From the days when Herbert Hoover “Hooverized” the whole U. S., mak- ! 4 it is just the official representatives|; — ; ‘ ; ‘, “ M d thi F ing , i * i | j F : .. ing it eat food substitutes in order to win the war for Morgan and Co., thru at Nanking nor the bandit monster, Chang Tso-lin in Peking, could! o¢ aij these things who, ignore tie lih® socgsa cones on anempoticoncal de fodd-anpplion of the Lerten Comet hold out against the mighty sweep of the nationalist liberation | simplest and most natural rights as| powers te: Hanes hal { starvation’ at:a club to beat:down youthful. Soviet movement representing the workers and peasants under the lead-| though a Diplomatic Embassy were) “ », a 4 | Republics in Hungary and elsewhere, up to his present attempt to help the ership of the Kuomintang, which in turn has as its motive force| N° Man ag a or | banks profit from the Mississippi flood, he has capitalized human misery, | the Communist Party of China. ie Embassy Raid. | and made money ont of flood, famine and war. The only time he failed was | The role of the United States as a pawn of Great Britain The unbelievable became a fact.| when he organized the famine relief system along the Volga. That was a_ deserves special study and special analysis. In the early days of is featured in “Annie Laurie” the new film at the Embassy theatre. Sa Ee. 8 Margaret Anglin will not give her contemplated “Electra” theatre, as previously announced in these columns. Miss Anglin may Broadway Briefs plot to set up industrial espionage, win over the people, and re-establish cap- | italism. The people of the The news was ‘confirmed from all | sides. The most threadbare excuses | Actsonten® the nationalist advance, when the Koumintang represented a com- bination of workers, peasants and the bourgeoisie of China, united in the Northern drive, both the United States and Japan adopted a policy of awaiting developments and frequently indulged in sym- pathetic expressions about the hoped-for “unification of China.” But when the northern advance showed conclusively that the unification of China was proceeding along different lines than they anticipated; when it became apparent that new forms were being assumed and that the part played by the Communists, the workers and the peasants, carried with it a threat to the imperi- alist powers, then the American minister to China, MacMurray, aligned himself with the*British policy of intervention. His first request for approval of his action—the joint shelling of Nanking -—met with the sanction of the state department as did his draft of the first identic note to the Chinese foreign minister, Eugene Chen. Meanwhile Britain, and undoubtedly the United States agents in China, aided in the coup d’etat of the renegade, Chiang Kai- | were used to justify the crime. First | | of all, they said, it was not the Em-| | bassy building itself, secondly there | | were criminals in this building who | | were conspiring against the life of| jthe leading political personalities in Pekin and thirdly, this building con-/| tained documents which clearly and| conclusively proved the guilt and the| machinations of the Soviet diplomacy | against the Pekin powers. Just imagine the affair even if all| these accusations had been true to the last syllable, but that the Em- bassy had been not the Russian, but the British or even the Italian, and it had been the “machinations” of | these ambassadors. Suppose the ban- | dits of Chang Tso-lin had broken into | the Italian Embassy, ete., etc. But that is unthinkable. First of all the {diplomats would never have given! go back to capitalism. _Whe) the relief, ‘et Workers Republic took his food, and did not | Hoover saw the plan was failing, he called off court. They were well aware that death awaited the accused. A word from them would have been enough to save the victims from the hands of the hangmen, but the word was not spoken, they were responsible for the raid and they must bear the full re- sponsibility for the consequences of the raid. Human life can be destroyed in many ways. The Mississippi has broken its banks and swallowed up everything in its way. That is a natural catastrophe, like an earth- quake, a lightning or a tornado. The bloody history of the world is full of most frightful cruelties, burnings at the stake, burying alive, scalping, castration, rape, and a hundred other Philadelphia Forms — A United Front Body | For Hands Off China| PHILADELPHIA, May 11. — The organization of a permanent “Hands Off China” conference here is pro- ceeding through a temporary com- mittee, brought together two weeks ago upon the initiative of the execu- tive of the Koumintang Party. Represented on this committee are the Koumintang Party, the Central Labor Union, the Workers Party and the Young Workers League. Mem- bers of trade unions and other organ- izations have also attended meetings The Erlangé& theatre, being erected on West 44th Street, is rapidly near- ing completion, and will be opened next September, The playhouse will cost more than $1,500,000 for the building alone. “Qne For All,” announced to. open Wednesday has been delayed, and will now have its premiere this Friday night at the theatre, 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 oan only Greenwich Village |. give regular performances next sea- son, however, Dorothy Chamberlain has joined ;the cast of “The Circus Princess’ at the Winter Garden. “Queen High,” the musical comedy at the Ambassador Theatre, will reach its 500th performance tonight. Read The Daily Worker Every Day 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- | at Jolson’s | } be overcome by many militant work: shek, sanctioned the vandal attack upon the Russian legation at ‘ers joining the Party that. he built. berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- Peking by Chang Tso-lin, aided in spreading lies about the docu-| | their consent, and had such a raid|‘Tuelties have been thought out by) phlet thruout*the Ruthenberg Drive. in an unofficial capacity, ments forged against the Soviet Union, and stood approvingly by | while the Manchurian bandit strangled to death one of the out- standing leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, Li Tai-chau, and 19 others. Events in Japan also aided the game of Britain, by bringing into office a new cabinet headed by Tanaka, a fervid apostle of the revival of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance that served effectively evertheless taken place, what would jthe bestial sapiens and’ practised in have happened then? The world|°d blood or with fanatical sadism. would have experienced a terrible} storm of unprecedented proportions. | The whole world would have rung | with the clank of weapons. But it | was only the Soviet Embassy, and so ‘in a few days the excitement had | subsided. Greatest Crime in Years. Thousands of cruelties which are being practiced in this very moment, never penetrate outside through the prison walls, cries of pain and shrieks for mercy are only heard in the cells of the tortures. But the and a resolution adopted calling for| the withdrawal of troops from China and abolition of unequal treaties, etc. At the second meeting May 8, a temporary executive committee was elected and a resolution was ordered sent to President Coolidge, Secretary At the first meeting a temporary | chairman and secretary were elected | mail it, Fill out the application below and 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 ... 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 for so. many years as an instrument of imperialism against China. | Lies Are Exposed | most horrible murders, more horrible| of State Kellogg and Senator Borah. | Address secede! chins Nyhriee ec 'B itai cad drive Trward with licy of i mediatal In the meantime three weeks have|than the skinning alive practiced by! The secretary of the committee was Occupation Tank City, Sot: ts Notion Gite x ritain wan © drive forward with a policy of im aBLe | passed. It turns out that there is no| Marsya, more horrible than the mill- instrueted to get in touch with other / 4 si armed intervention, recognize the sptrious government of Chiang Kai-shek, and regain completely its old “sphere of influence.” The difference in policy between the United States and Britain cannot be interpreted to mean ‘that Washington favors the na- tionalist liberation movement while England wants to crush it. They both want to bring about its destruction. But Wall Street will not permit Britain to take the lead and thereby reap the benefits derived from the subjugation of China, because a per- petuation of the old policy of “spheres of influence” will shut out frogi some of the most productive parts of China the investment capital of America—will be a Violation of the “open door” policy whereby the United States hopes eventually to be able exclusively to exploit all of China. This conflict over policy, a weakening of the co-operation that could only exists temporarily because of the world rivalry of the two great powers, will give the Chinese nationalist movement a chance to consolidate its forces and prepare for a determined drive against the imperialist hirelings in command of mercenary proof, not the least vestige of proof against the alleged criminals, so that 70 of them, that is more than half of the arrested, had to be released. This is made more than significant by the fact that the Chinese mili- tarists are not too particular about what happens to any unfortunates that fall into their hands. But there was no proof against those who were | retained in arrest. A few days agu | it is true, the press of the infamous | Zinoviey letter forgers reported that important doeuments had been found. The truth of the matter can be seen from a telegram from the “Berliner Tageblatt” of the 29th of April: “The attitude of the Doyen of the Diplomatic Corps deserves most severe condemnation, for the publica- tion of the material confiscated as a ions of crimes committed in anger, which stain humanity, more horrible than the raging crimes of Pizarro in Peru, or of Cortes in Mexico, more horrible than all the fanatical thumb- screws and wheels of the Middle Ages is the cold-blooded murder permitted by people in safety, the planned mur- der, the murder which the representa- tives of the so-called cultured coun- tries did. not prevent, although one word, one single objection would have been sufficient to have made it im- possible. The destruction of 20 lives in Pekin, the strangling of 20 living breathing, thinking and_ sentient bodies, that was a horrible crime committed from a writing desk, the famous diplomatic writing desk. That was a most horrible crime of recent years. “Hands Off China” committees throughout the country. Further steps will be taken in Philadelphia to build up a large and fully represen- tative “Hands Off China” conference. A joint meeting called by the Inter- national Workers Aid and the Kuo- mintang Party was held Sunday afternoon, May 8th, at Labor Insti- tute Hall in support of the slogans: “Hands Off Revolutionary China” and “Hands Off Soviet Russia.” When application for a permit to hold the meeting was made, the chief of police refused it, giving as his ground the fear of violence. Accom- panied by a lawyer of the Civil Liber- ties Union, Meyerson of the I. W. A. visited the chief of police to demand permission to hold the meeting. This was not granted, and it was decided W. Washington RIGHT YOU ‘ARE IF YOU THINK YOU ARE GARRICK: 55 W. 35th. Evs. 8:40 Mts. Thur.&Sat. 2:40 Next Week: Mr. Pim Passes By The SECOND MAN TILD Thea., W. 52 St. Evs. 8:20 GU Mats. Thurs, & Next Week: Pygmalion The SILVER CORD in Th.58,E.ofBwy.|Circie Mts.Thur.&Sat.| 5678 jeCobb's iter | Sam HARRIS THEA. West 42nd St Twice Daily, 2:30 & 8:30 WHAT PRICE GLORY Mata, (exc. Sat.) 60c-$1. Eves. 50c-$%, WALLACK’S West 42nd Sireet ‘est 42ni ti WALLACK’S Evenings 8:30. Mats. Tues. Wed., Thurs. and Sat. What Anne Brought Home A New Comedy Drama The LADDER Now in its 6th MONTH WALDORF, 50th St., Hast of A " B . Mats, x ., pedi ? result of the raid on the Soviet Em-| Things have gone so far in Pekin|t0 hold the meeting notwithstanding. — si ae ee Pal bee * % ‘ bassy up to the moment, shows a very | that Chinese begging for protection! News of the refusal of the permit Bronx ra House or 3 in this country it is the imperative duty of the working class| sparse result. Further’ the menuine | ere net merely refused it, but Euro-| spread, leading many workers, in the Pop. Prices. Mat. Wed. & Sat.’ to demand that Washington cease being the tool of Great Britain; that.it not only abandon open joint action against the nationalist movement, but that it keep its hands off the internal situation and permit the Chinese masses to work out their own destiny; that it withdraw its consular agents from Peking and Nanking, where by their silence they now give aid and comfort, to the sys- tematic butchery of all who do not-bow to the demands of the bandit hirelings of imperialism. Labor Bank Merges With Scab Herders. The Brotherhood Bank of Philadelphia, a labor bank, with deposits of $1,000,000, has merged with the Mitten Men and Man- agement Bank and Trust Company, with deposits of approxi- mately $13,000,000. This labor bank, like others of its type, spent a great deal of time and money on propaganda trying to eauvince the workers that the labor movement had left the old yath of strikes and militant struggle and had entered upon a period of co-operation with capital, a period in which every worker| 7 vo", History Brees ee Sereda’ ut thie tee 4 rere dine delivered! the address of wel- the Donetz basin, 25 Cents, could ev@ntually become a capitalist. After hoodwinking the} care about these things? He ordered’ will not approach.the League of Na- eae Rikon) whocwill temain dn thi RUSSIA’S PATH TO COMMUNISM “ slaves out of as many dollars as they could secure on deposit, this| trial to take place, but whilst the | tions which is only the instrument of pas Remains ty, hus. bank also solicited funds of business men. It now sells out to the Mitten management, the notorious strike-breaking outfit at the head of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company. Mitten not only broke the strike and destroyed the organizativ of the carmen of that city, but he makes a busi- ness of furnishing professional strike-breakers for every other +, | well received, and upon his return to TWO MAPS OF RUSSIA (in urope and 7 traction concern in any part of thecountry that has trouble with seis’ tantine mat tele be | nana de {heir diplomatic] Washington he expressed his gratii.| Asia) showing the Cogan aa wink. “fi its men. Mitten, himself, is to be president of the consolidated Pei :|eation. He said he considered this | ments in the U. 8. S. R, will be sent without Bs / banks, while F. B, Snyder, former president of the Brotherhood] class, while the others simply have interlocking directorates, a8 diced pda aL: Se ae entee| charge. The map will not be sold. 4 j bank wili be vice-president. Five other former directors of the|in the case of the main Brotherhood bank and the Empire Trust! pyis must be done today, PREC et ; : EY labor bank, all of them locomotive engineers, will join the board of directors of the seabby Mitten concern. A splendid example of the manner in which the workers buy out the capitalists! The only difference between this labor bank and the others ness of the most compromising docu- ments is extremely doubtful. For in- stance, the reports to the Russian Military Attache in Pekin are written in a most uncertain manner and only partly in accordance with the modern and official methods of Russian or- thography. Another very remarkable fact is that these documents which are really compromising were only | published three weeks after the raid, | whilst the documents which were | first published were simply ‘ridiculous and insignificant.” Imperialists Share Guilt. Clumsy forgeries, no documents and no criminals! But what do the diplo- mats who permitted the raid on the Soviet Embassy, care about that? What does Chang Tso-lin, the murder- ous bandit whose, name will persist accusations against the arrested were still being examined, he ordered the coffins to be placed ready, a piece of cruelty and cynicism to which it would be difficult to find an equal. The diplomats in Pekin and their su- periors in London, Paris, Washington, Ppeans are even prohibited from offer- ing . Chinese asylum in European houses. The correspondent of the “Berliner Tageblatt” reports that the Germany Embassy has also warned all its nationals against fulfilling this elementary human duty. Is it true that human beings begging for their lives are officially driven to certain death? Supported By Diplomats. T have feverishly recalled all I have read and heard of such ¢ruelty. I know no worse example of cold- blooded brutality than the use of this go-between, for Chang Tso-lin is nothing but a go-between, an instru- ment of the Pekin Diplomats. His power would collapse to-morrow if the powers would declare ‘an effective neutrality. We will not approach thé these .governments, But we know there are millions and millions of hu- man beings in the world who feel just as we do, who are filled with horror and anger at this crime. These mill- ions must cry the shame of Pekin throughout the world, they must is that it openly merges with the big banks of the employing ¢ \ ‘ J pcememnnconcen - Company, so they may share in the discounting of industrial stock issues, the most profitable phase of banking. Banking is a capitalist game and one that the workers can never utilize to their own advantage. The Philadelphia merger ought to force that realization upon some of the workers who are still being fooled by the fakers who play the labor banking game. belief that the meeting would not be held, to stay away. Nevertheless, a good crowd turned out. Speeches were made by F. Bieden- kapp, just returned from Europe, and Funk Sing Quong. Union Delegates Come. WASHINGTON (F?) May 11~-| For the first time since the October | revolution in 1917, an official delega- | tion from Soviet Russia has been re-| ceived in an international conference | inthe’ Uuited States. Sol G. Bron, | representing the State Grain Export | Bureau in the Soviet Union, headed | the Soviet delegation. which took part in the recent international grain pools conference at Kansas City, where Secretary of Agriculture Jar- country as head of the Amtorg, or Soviet, Union export and import trade organization dealing. with America, were delegates from the consumers’ cooperatives and the producers’ co- operatives in the Soviet federation. Bron delivered a speech which was to-morrow the crime will be repeated. perhaps to-morrow the strangler wil! again be at work, Perhaps lies and false reports are already preparing | the way for new murder. Do not permit the diplomats and hangmen } to commit new crimes! Cankou. Vanities Thea, Tth Ave. & 60th St, Carroll Mats, Thurs. & Sat 736 | Earl — eee BARGAl ~ AT PRECIAL PRICEO RUSSIAN WORKERS AND. WORKSHOPS Wm. Z. Foster : A graphic’ and detailed story IN 1926... 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