The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 24, 1927, Page 3

SVUAY, MAY THE DALLY WORKER, NEW YUKK, ‘bu, U.S,S.R, WORKERS) NoT worRiED BY PAN PACIFIC BARRAGE OF LIES ® LABOR 4 The weak spots in the general good | J — HANKOW — | | showing are said to be in transport and building—yet here also the show- ing is such as would be lauded to the skies in any other country, In rail-| roading, for instance, passenger traf- | fie increased 11.7% and freight traf-! fic 11%. On an, estimated total rev- | enue of 1415 million rubles, the rail-| roads showed a net return of. 66 million and the harbors 8.5 million, | after deducting 50 million assigned to branches of transport that do not as yet pay, their own way, and al- lowing 80 million for the continuation of new railroad building projects al- ready under way. It should be noted also that ‘“dead-head” tickets go not only .to railway employees and their families, as in America, but that they are systematically used for cultural purposes, thus every student of a higher school can get a free ticket once a year to any point in the Soviet Union, though it be from Minsk to Vladivostok. Trade unions sending their members south. to rest . homes, | ete., buy tickets at half price, and many similar concessions are made for other social service. The building program, while exten- sive, cannot keep up with the demands | made upon it, especially in Moscow) | | | dl DELEGATES FROM ALL COUNTRIES BORDERING ON THE PACIFIC. The leading role of the proletariat is not-only not being undermined but it is becoming more ptedominant- absolutely and relative The total number of wage workers increased in the last year from 9,803,000 to 10,- 285,000, th wages increased on a general average of 6. state in- dustry the increase was 9% and in transport 10.2%. The productivity of labor at the same time is reported r (From Rotes Gewerkschafts Bulletin) (work, is forcing the countries of the Translated by Wh ker Chambers. | Pacific under. American culture and The question of a Pacific Confer-| American influence. The countless ence was first broached by the Aus-| Scientific, cultural, student, and other itrian delegation at the II Congress 0 conferences, called by the Institute where the housing situation will con-|to have increased by 9%. Taking the tho R, J. L. U. (1922) at the time) Serve the same end, Japan, on the tinue acute for years to come. In| various branches of industry sepa- when an armed clash between the| other hand, bases her efforts on the | other centres conditions are rapidly | rately we find: United States and Japan seemed im-| Pacific society, created under the di- Increase in Increased average approaching or have already reached rect protectorate of the Japanese gov- normal, The sum expended on build- | minent. But the immediate danger < u ernment, with headquarters in Tokio was removed and, together with that, ing are as follows: Branch number of annual the calling of a conference was post- and in the principal cities of other Of which of Industry workers wages |poned. The Conference of Var East- Pacific countries, but whose activities Year Total New Construction | Agriculture 5% 4.9% ern Transport Workers in Canton in do not embrace labor circles. | 1923. 475 million rubles 147 million| Industry 6.8% 84% ‘1994 at which representatives from The Australian trade unions did not | i924 810“ BNO0 | Erade 5 5.1% | China, Indonesia and the Philippines |?elinquish their idea. | 1925 1110 vd « nee: | Transport 238%. 59% lyare present, created a substitute. All Pacific Labor Represented. ~ 1926 1750 ¢ 8 803. “ | Building 14.5% 172% \That conference established a secre-| The conference planned for May 1st In addition to these sums expended | Public Ed, & Health 3% 11.6% (tariat in Canton, for the purpose. of 1927, in Canton, was thought to be That the role of the wage. workers is increasing also relatively is shown by the gradually climbing proportion of total purchasing power in the So- viet Union that is held, first by the wage earners themselves, and sec- ondly, by their socialized industry: the former being given in the first of the columns below, and the latter in the extremely significant. In its organi- zation committee sat representatives of the Trade Union Council of -Syd- ey and of the Chinese Trade Union ague. Careful measures were taken | }to ensure wide representation from | the Chinese trade union movement, from the center and left wing of the | Japanese Trade Unions and from the there must be considered about 750 millions. spent on the countryside for new building purposes, Electrification. The electrification projects are go-| ing ahead steadily, 100,000 kw. were| added to the total capacity during) 1925 and the coming year is expected | to add another 180,000 kw. from maintaining relations between all the {countries of the Pacific Ocean and for publishing a bulletin. Fake League Confab Shattered. Presently the situation changed. The problems of the Pacific came to the fore again. The League of Na- tions as well as the II and the Am- major works and 150,000 kw. from | second: sterdam Internationals became inter-| Japanese Peasant Movement which it new district enterprises. An exam- Workers’ Socialized ested in Pacific questions. The | ig known,stands in close relation with | ple of the former is a tremendous Share Industry | League of Nations opened a branch | the workers. Other delegates from} new plant which harnesses the Kura|1923— .......... 23.5% 4.0% |in Tokio, the Labor Bureau of the|the 7 .-anese colonies, Formosa and just above Tiflis (Soviet Georgia), | 1924 +++ 26.0% 6.1% |League of Nations decided to call @ Kore:," ‘rom the Philippines and In- and of the latter that in the autonom- | 1925 29.0% 6.8 Pan-Asiatic Labor Conference. This! donesia, from the American coast of 7 plan; whose realization was entrusted to Suzuki (chairman of the Reform- ist Trade Union League in Japan) and | Joshi. (General Secretary of the All-| |Indian Trade Union Congress), was | {shattered by the opposition of the | Chinese workers. Suzuki had to re- linquish his ideas. In August 1926, the Japanese gov- ernment established in Nagasaki an- the Pacific, i.e., from Canada and the United States, Mexico anl Central} America, were to participate. Chiang's Betrayal. The latest event, Chiang Kai-shek’s betrayal and, as a result of that, the |turmoil in a whole series of south- eastern Chinese provinces, and in Canton itself, radically changes the situation, Despite the statements of | ous province of Adjaria, 20 miles from | 1926 29.5% A% Batoum, and about 5 miles from the | A final citation of figures that are Turkish border where small, almost| probably already known through their perpendicular tunnels, hundreds of|use in connection with the discussion tent in length, ar sug fire Pale tock |at the XIV Party Congress covers the turbines far down in the valley. Both| ative trade in the Soviet Union, the of these projects are rapidly approach- | former declining, the latter mounting ing completion and will, the writer) in practically the same proportion; was told when on the ground, com-| ‘ Private Co-operative pletely change the character of local | Trade Trade | other (certainly not a labor) confer-|Lin Tin Sin, the present right Kuo-| industrial development. Very great|/1923 ... «+ 40,8% 28.2% |ence which set itself very broad ob-|mingtang dictator in Canton, who has hopes are pinned to the electrification | 1924 . 29.0% 37.5% | jectives. Japan hoped to create a| promised his “support” to the delega- of Soviet industry and many will be | 1925 . 24.0% 42.0% | Pan-Asiatic League of Nations in|tion of the Central Committee of the | the treasure chambers, like Georgia) 926 22.0% 44.0% Which she would play first fiddle. But the sweeping plans of the Japanese government proved a fiasco. Despite the strikingly cautious measures and | the very guarded utterances of the | delegates, public opinion in the Far| hundreds, if not thousands, of the/ Eastern countries was not deceived as| most active workers are being ar- te the motives of the initiators. It} rested in Canton. We have reports is sufficient to note the leading ar-|of the innumerable sacrifices of the \ticle in the completely bourgeois pa- | Cantonese railway workers, Commun- per “Mingo Shibao” which says: jists, and all that seems to hint of Reformist Conference Fiasco. |Communism, is hunted down. The “Under the cloak of Pan Asiatic; Union between Hankow, Shanghai thought the other Asiatic peoples are|@nd Canton is broken. And, on the to do yeoman service for the Japanese Let the capitalist press draw what comfort it can from this record in state housekeéping that shows off the Russian working class in such splen- Foreign Trade. did contrast to the bankruptcy of the Nothing shows more conclusively fcapitalist countries of Europe. To the definite improvement of Russia’s|the working class of the world it is position than the figures on imports|a cheering picture—it shows that and exports during the last four years. | their Russian comrades are more than It will be noted that the unfavorable | holding their ground, that they are balance (169 million in 1924, and 62) proceeding with the building of social- million in 1925) has given way to ajism under extremely difficult condi- positive balance of 75 million this | tions—and that the workers of other year, to which should be added 50) lands have everything to gain by fol- and Adjaria, that this white coal will unlock. A total of 159 million rubles will be spent on electrification this year. possible to open the conference. The | trade union movement is today forced | into illegality. At Li Tin Sin’s orders its. jlowing their example. Productivity | interests. Japan hopes to protect her- |@very means to hinder the conference. | Year Export* Import* | is being raised and new means of pro- self against the anti-imperialist move- |The government: of the Australian 1923 522 439 | duction provided by the workers them- ments ia the Soviet Union, China and} Union, for example, refuses to visa 1924 551 720 |selves, the general industrialization’ in Mongolia by a Pan-Asiatic’ move-| the passes of the delegates from the | 1925 670 732 | of the country is proceeding, the size ment directed against the American Sydney Trade Union Council. An- 1926 820 745 |and preponderance of the industrial’! and European imperialists.” nouncement comes from Japan of the |proletariat is increasing, while the, In anticipation of an inevitable | arrest of the Japanese delegates in| ——~ | socialist.elements are more and more|armed conflict America and Japan | Kobe. 2 ‘ |crowding out the private. Let us carry on a lively propaganda in the| Naturally this tremendously in- |nine, every unit of this fighting host other hand, the imperialist powers use | FOR RED ARMY TENTH MAY DAY Inspiring Celebration In Moseow By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special to the Daily Worker). MOSCOW, U.S:‘S:Ri.May 1 (By Mail),-sIt is the tenth May Day since the overthrow of czarism. It is a whole decade since the old order top- | pled and fell. The Union, of Soviet Re- | publics lives and grows in strength | and power! That is the thrill that sweeps the mighty hundreds of thousands of Moscow's prole 1 hosts on this International th the many tens of miNions out over the Soviet Union. | The great, stands that parallel the Kremlin Wall filled The lead- ing spokesmen of Soviet Power fill the Tribune on Lenin’s Mausol- eum. There is Stalin, Bukharin, Rye. kof, Voroshilof and a host of others. | The Invincible Army. And out over the Red Square! It is filled with the soldiers, sailors, cav- alry, airmen, artilleryme ed fist of the Prolet ship. Ten years before, at the first con- gress of the Communist International, the soldiers of the Red Army had marched in this same Red Square, many shoeless, clothes tattered, bleéd- ing feet, reddening the cobblestones, but spirits undaunted, hard as the granite pavement in against the capitalist foe. To every Red Army uniform sparkles with newness. The. equip- | ment could not be better. And the | spirit—the spirit of the social revo- lution—still Jives, glowing strong as ! | ever. On the second as the clock in the huge tower of the Kremlin strikes | i} snaps to attention, and from as many corners of the Red Square, half a dozen Red Army bands thunder “The International.” The song of the re- | volution is the song of the Red Army. Army ils Leaders. On prancing steeds, Clement Vor- oshilof, the People’s Commissar for | the army and navy, and the chairman of the Revolutionary Military Coun- | cil, with the renowned cavalry leader, | Budenny, ride in review along the rigid lines of these defenders of the| Soviet Union. Booted and spurred} and in brilliant unforms, the military | attaches of capitalist lands, Poland, |\Finland, England and others watch and must wonder as each Red Army unit, in its turn, thunders new cheers |tional May Day. In our country it is| poses for Voroshilof and Budenny as they pass. | The review is over. Voroshilof | mounts .the Tribune of the ,Lenin | Mausoleum. What is he going to say? | IU. the struggle | / Oil Men’s Choice ‘NEW RECRUITS For fexican President maneuvering for Mexi- election cam- Preliminary co’s 1928 presidential paign is alr under and, as usual, the . S. oil magnates are making many of the maneuvers, The candidate whom they are pushing f ward with most insistence at the pr ent time is Gen. Arnulfo Gomez, co’ mandér-in-chief of the am military forces in the state of Vera Cruz. Gomez the mai pport of the semi andlor organi tion known a e “Sindicato de Ag cultores.” He has been active in ¢ arming peasar of industr into open r ng the diff 3. government a nty of Mexico « question of the oil land laws. Gomez established hi on with the J. §. oil interests yea go, when he held sway over the state of Tamau- ipas where the Tampico oil center ecated. Tampico workers will never forget his strike-breaking and union- mashing ac ies, in which all meth- not excluding murder—were em- ployed. si ods. TT Union. n Ryckoff, president of the Cou of People’s Comm spcke from the tribune of the Li Maysoleum. He said: “For the 10th time we are celebr: ing the First of May. All militant oilers, all Red Army men are cele- brating the First of May. In the Sov- | iet Union this is the holiday of the whole population, not only of the ad- vanced section of the working class as in other Jan While we, on our Red Square, are peacefully celebrating, in other countries the workers are com- pelled to meet with all kinds of re- prisals. In all capitalist lands it i brandeg a crime to celebrate Inter the holid. wor cons y of the self-emancipated it is the holiday of social re- | uction.” Greeting From Britain. Then J. W. Murphy, representative | WILL USE ASIA The map is 4 able rage mmree MAP FROM FAR EAST INSTITUTE A new map of Asia such as used in the University at Mos- ow a the advanced Soviet sehools has been received by H. M. and will be used in the first re of his course of four to be elivered on Chi at the Workers chool 108 East 14th eet. The first lecture is this Friday evening. huge one, covering half room and will en- dance to remember China of the rest of in of the side se in relation t A The lecture 1 with the eco- nomic geograp f Ck and will show why the gree perialist pow- ers consider it the test prize in the world 4 Dialectic Presentation. The Marxist-Lenin method of presentation will be d by Cormnrade Wicks. Instead of the old, incompe- tent system of ting the history of a count ated thing, sep- arate and rest of the world, it will be din its re- of the thousan neverthe its great geograph- ical be could not wholly pre- vent t t and West meeting at some Invaluable fi who desire to understand the “Chinese puzzle” will be the outlines prepared for each lec- ture and to be obtained only by those attending the lecture. Those who miss one will miss one fourth of the out- line and guide further study of China. Current Events ‘ (Continued from Page One) wards the instutions of the Workers’ Republic. This dispatch ys that the and commer- Soviet Union to Gern the United States for the most advanced methods of production and not to England. But even at that the needs of 160,- 000,000 of people would throw ‘con- siderable trade to the British mar- ket provided a Labor government came into power in Great Britain or one not so provocative as the pres- ent government. * heads of the industria cial loc f the ny and apparatus 'VERYBODY in Nicaragua is pretty well satisfied with the situation there now excepting the liberals, de- Calvin .Coolidge’s emissary Henry L, Stimson, on.his return from his mission of “peace” to the Latin American republic. Well, now, this is interesting and rather amazing be- cause it is a fact. And the fact is But we are not compelled to wait/ of the British Communist Party in the |that everybody in Nicaragua, outside long. Voroshilof uses no delicate | | words. His words crackle like rapid machine gun fire, and the microphone | listening tens of thousands in the| Red Square, to the hundreds of thou- | | sands in the city beyond. It is a mes- sage of uncompromising struggle against the challenging power of | world imperialism. Voroshilof points out that, the world is divided into two camps. On the one hand the Union of Soviet Republi Against it the im- perialist natio The issue is clea The Soviet Union must be prepared for every emergency. The Red Army was ready. The best sign of preparation was | the\swearing in of a great host of new recruits for the Red Army. Voroshilof spoke the pledge and the new detach- ments repeated it after him as fol- lows: | “I, the Son of the Toiling People, | citizen of the Union of Soviet Social- |ist Republics, take upon myself the | tional Comintern, spoke declaring “Here in the Soviet Union we celebrate International May that, | can Day Trade Unions of the Soviet Union, it| takes them up and spreads his May | with, ; + fi FY | t the interfere e bour- is very doubtful whether it will be|Day message thru amplifiers to the | Pactite. pe snbeerrevnee a oe hens Russia Is For Peace. olai Bukharin then told of the} g war clouds in the Orient. He d the efforts of the open and diplomacy to again surround Ni lo re secret the Soviet Union with a blockade of hayonets. “It is the attitude of, the interna- | Ls roletar that .will dictate | when this new blood feast shall com- mence,” he said. “We must intensify the work of peaceful reconstruction | while we yet have peace. The founda- tion of our success ‘is to be found in the ion of ‘society. We must caii to life the national and un- bounded wealth now lying dormant We must strain ourselves much more to e stronger our industry and recons agriculture. We must grow from the plow to the tractor, from handicraft must tretain the presidenc of Diaz and his Wall Street-hired flunkeys are for the liberals. Stim- son went to Nicaragua and frankly told the liberals that the majority rule did not mean a darned thing to the government of the United States. Wall Street investments and the Panama Canal demandéd that Diaz and the United States would h I e no matter how many Ame; n marines had to be killed to attain it. ae e NOTHER wicked slam has been dealt to the fiction that free speech exists in the United States. Yot much consolation can be taken from the fact that two of the supreme c ed from the ma- jority in the de n upholding the * constitutionality of the ction of | Anita Whitney on a char of hav- jf ing violatel the California anti- syndicalist Jaw. Majority rules on the supreme court, tho it is quite possible that had the Brandeis- hope that the next anniversary of the|countries of the Pacifie. The United | workers’ government that “could not!States has founded in Honolulu the |last two months” will see other work-|so-called Pacifie Institute, and, thru ling class republics launched out upon|this powerful medium and an all-em- creases the difficulties of the pend- ing conference, which is threatened by the interference, jf not by the forcible actionary and imperialist powers who dissolution, of Li Tin Sin and the re- | jto machine production. We {strengthen the bond between working class end the peasant Amnuy, cur Navy, our industrial ere- ative capacity the instruments | Holmes viewpoint commanded a ma- jority, the reactionary minority would refuse to recognize the decision. Our ruling classes are very obedient to law as long as the law sults them. {name of a soldier of the Workers’ and | Peasants’ Red Army. “Facing the Toiling Classes of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | the the same road. bracing agitative and Propagand! ic land of the whole world, I take upon | support him. The situation in the Pa- cifie Ocean where the most vital in- terests of the imperialists collide with indescribable fury with the movement of the millions of the masses defend- ing their most elementary national and elags rights, more than ever de- mands the support and the cooperation lof the forces of the labor organiza- | tions of the Pacific Coasts. It is clear that the working class, its struggle, its organization, and its united ac- tion, will soon de¢ide the fate of the conflict which amidst incredible suf- ~~ AMBASSADOR MOTORS TOCOAST _ Truth about Soviet Russia {myself the obligation to bear this | name with honor, to study thoroly the military art and to guard the peo- | ple’s property from any damage or nuisance. I pledge myself, earnestly | and everlastingly, to carry out the} Red Army discipline and to obey with- out hesitation the orders of the com- |manders who are appointed by the | Workers’ and Peasants’ government, | “T pledge to restrain myself from all actions which would harm the dig- | nity of a citizen of the Union of Sov- that make for the emancipation not only of our own people, but of the people of the entire world, Long Live | Our Working Class! Long Live Our} Peasantry! Long Live Our Red Army! Leng Live the Inévitable Com- ing Victory of the Workers of the World!” Then the parade of the Red Army began, to be followed by the proces- sion of the workers, that lasted the remainder of the day. I shall attempt | to interpret part of the meaning of the passing of great hosts in an-{ }eourt upholding the constitutionality |) . . * F Brandeis and Holmes had voted against the decision of the supreme | of the California anti-syndicalist law (> instead of simply confining them-/) selves to an abstract attack on the!) suppression of free speech in general) they would have less difficulty in’ proving their sincerity in the mi ter. The ruling classes of the Unitec States will determine how - “free” speech they will allow thei slaves and that will be just as muc In the New MAY ISSUE: Toward Another Wave of Re- volutionury Struggle — by Jay Lovestone The Brussels Congress Against Imperialism — By januel Gomex. The Civil War in the United States—By Karl Marx, The World Strugele for Rub- ber—By Leon Platt, And Other Features. Subseribe! 25 Cents a Copy $2.00 a Year The COMMUNIST 1113 W. Washington Blvd. CHICAGO, TLL. Honorio Pueyrredon, Argentine ambassador to the United States, and family, photographed while bidding goodby at Washington prior to departing on a motor tour through eighteen, states to the , conn Tat to ih ne. Pueyrredon; © Ambassador; the Martha and Ju elena Pueyrredon. t fering, is bursting into flame thruout the Pacific. The conference may be |delayed: BUT IT MUST TAKE |PLACE! The situation in the Pacific, tionary and labor movement demand it. (The treachery of Chiang Kai-shek necessitated the postponement of the conference to May 15th, and its trans- ference from Shanghai to Hankow. No news has yet been received of the events at the conference, In addition to the arrest of the Japanese delegates and the refusal of the government to visa the passes of the Australian delegates, Losovsky and other prominent members of the Soviet Union delegates were held un- der arrest by British officials at Hongkong. They were later released —H. F.). BUY THE DAILY WO) AT THE NEWSSTA the interests of the national revolu- | other article. RED LOVE A Novel of Life In Russia sy Alexandra Kollontai iet Socialist Republics, and to direct {all my actions and thoughts to the i great goal of the emancipation of all | toilers. “T pledge myself at the first call | of the Workers’ and Peasants’ govern-| | ment to take my stand in its defense | |againat all menaces and attacks by | | enemies upon the Union of Soviet So- \cialist Republics, and+I pledge myself not to spare my strength or my life in the struggle of the Union of Soviet | | Socialist Republics for the cause of | Socialism and the fraternity of all peoples, “Tf I sidestep wilfully from this my solemn pledge, then may my fate be universal contempt and may the! severe arm of the Revolutionary Law | punish me.” Ryckoff Speaks, The thunder of cannon, the cheers | of the multitudes, airplanes flying | overhead greeted the closing words of the pledge, that brought new armed forces to the standards of the Soviet jas they think the system can stand) *. * * {THE supreme court of the Unit! |4 States is one of the strongest b’ jwarks the capitalist system has he) | They don’t mind if a few of ite me bers still retain a traditional af/ tion for Lincoln, Franklin and Jeff” json. That does not hurt, sifige |” respectable minofity on the court |” confine themselves to a mild pro And creates the impression that” supreme court is not one reactio mass, There are lots of ways of ding the population. There 4 much chance of the U. S. suj court delivering. a decision t] hurt the capitalist system ag) is of the supreme court of the/ Union handing down a decisio’ oring the Nepmen. Both are jinstruments. One is the buly ‘the robber system of capitali: other of the rising social or ‘is based on the laboring classi Russian Diplomatic Representative to Mexico $1.50 THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING COMPANY 83 First Street NEW YORK petites haa