The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 25, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WED: ESD AY, MAY 25, 1927 Page Three The Political Situation in Germany By P. R. DIETRICH (Berlin). 1 that the German army and navy fig-| tains only in respect of a very limited;The tone of the Fascist press, the jure at the tremendous sum of 700/ portion of the overtime work, and|unheard-of, daily recurrent provoca- OR the last three months the Goy-! million marks, while the expenditure | even in this connection so many clau- ent of the bourgeois bloc has|for the so-called productive ynem-|ses have been allowed to remain un- ‘ I n edesatt ats | ployment relief has been curtailed by | decided that the employers get prac-|ly illustrate the designs of the bour- 60 millions, The item for the techni- tically out of paying any premium at! geoisie backing the Stahlhelm and the been ruling Germany. ‘Its govern-| mental activity up to the present has} tions, the sanguinary episodes in Ber- ‘lin and throughout the country, clear- | Argentina Workers On | Strike Against Sugar Barons Grow in Numbers | TUCUMAN, Argentina, May 24 -Hundreds are joining daily the Control Affairs of Lindbergh in Paris Bankers Trust to New Goal Srisi Is Now in Sight Says A J, Cook ‘ intai ; i izati »|| ranks of the workers on strike in Z f i ve not only to|cal emergency service was maintained ‘all for overtime. jother Fascist organizations. On May bat z ‘x : i y , 7 4 re nig Mel as also the prieys | et its old figure. On the other hand, |. i 8th, says the official organ of the | the sugar mills here, Revolting The Bankers Trust Co. yesterday’) IONDON, May 24,—Another coal bourgeois and petty-peasant circles,| the expenditure for child relief was N a cultural sense, too, the reaction-| stanthelm union, the German public || against miserable pay and unbear- | took over the affairs of Charles crisis is in sight 3 are being that it is pronouncedly an instrument | abridged in comparison with the last; #'Y elements have made consider-|.hal) see that Berlin is not governed || @ble working conditions, the strike | hergh, the New York to Paris r./closed continu time work- n practically all the : : jable headway under the bourgeois- j,,, « a aw has assumed a militant stage. The by » firm, w asling is Mes the hands of the big Teyate one | ON for the benefit of neceg- | bloc Savarninent: The law heawat | ue eden The mill owners are asking: for ie of en lag the coalfield the vast number of combines, @ weapon against the Os cane teachers was struck off the list, |t#e immoral and indecent in art and) JUST as‘the Social Democratic Party | the intervention of military au- | deluge of commercial propositions be-|men not k since the lock- | Hite: WORKIRE ‘DOR UIANAn IY: che saan et +4 new budget than in the last. Yet | literature, the public entertainment |# and the A. D. G. B. have failed to|| thorities, and charge the strikers ing showere rgh to the out ended } swollen by many Wh eee a ay lbut the so-called church funds, a syb- | /aws against juveniles, the brutal for-; put up a serious fight against the | are arming themselves: The em-} tune of a thousands othe thrown idle in HE Lari) ot Hretionallsation ae sidy for the clergy, figures higher in ersic campaign against authors and capitalist offensive and the cultural | ployers are suffering hea | fl vaitl jollar itch,” the past few months. Wages have been carried on in @ more intensi-| oie. instance to illustrate the | publishers, the! numerous lawsuits in| yeaction,*and just as they have re-'| as all activities in connection with the million dollar itch,”| sien and further reductions are in- figd form than before. The average | character of the budget: By reason of |tegard to productions of art allegedly | frained from calling up th working|| the present crop have been sus- dicated. level of production during the last three months has been maintained at the relatively considerable height it} attained in the last quarter of 1926. At the same time, prices have been maintained on that level, too, so that the profits of rationalization haye con- the reactionary financial settlement. | of 45 millions for the purpose of cov-'| ering its surplus expenditure for its| swollen reactionary bureaucratic ap-/ paratus and its policy of subsidizing | the church, | endangering the State, the persecu- masses to serious resistance to the pended, | Bavaria received a special subvention|tion even of compositors and other |jabor emergency laws of the bour- employees of the printing-work$, and | geois-bloc Government, they are alto- the bullying tactics employed against gether unwilling to organize the the juvenile and children’s movement, fight against the Fascist auxiliary al! show that the Government of the|troops of the German bourgeosie. bourgeois block is very ready to satis-' The attitude of the Social Democrats i CURRENT EVENTS valley from the wr river. » One) ec mighty from » government and } lared A. J 2 Miners’ Fed- at the reduction lengthening of for the situa- and the s no remedy Indeed, we urged of wag 1 existing tinued undiminished. This is proved, ify the demands of cultural reaction.! towards the Fascist v: y ance ¢ Americ: hip. But t olicy was bound to make . | i | m st parade on May * * * ce on an Americ ip. But icy wa inter alia, by fact that by reason of | TOGETHER with ni egeree of! 4 new coup, meanwhile, is being pre-|gth, is characterized by the speech! mmws of Great Britain's break with it developed that the p” would , the unusually large profits derived a She. Fenctonsyy Oust) TRE DOU) paged by the bourgeois-bloc.Govern- | held recently by Horsing, the Social the Scviet Union has just come |P® either a des r old tub, that the mine owners present by the German bourgeoisie | geois-bloe Government _passed 80) ment in the form of the educational! pemocratic leader of the “Reischs- pict Re ule roa _ oe a nee ntiquated con- are now engaged in an orgy of price- from the home market, Germany's bp bats ot haa labor law, which provides |jaw of the realm and the concordat banner,” on the occasion of the great move for the British empire, a aes v . attempts the voy- cutting in the export tr with the gent desire to export to the world|for the following legal regulation of negotiations, purporting to complete | meeting of that organization in Ber- i aa . \ oes ave to be towed into port, idea-that they will thus extend mark- kedly abated. working hours. The stipulation where- Se nae ‘ a a that may have dire results for the 1 ts and capture. others markets has markedly al +. Me ek eI Src Ace dich’ soln Ke lengthi- the clerification of the entire system /1in, In the course of this speech he} paling classes of that country. While cials admitted. papal ot by, on rice aye : ‘aid ARALLEL with the more rigorous | PY the eight-hour day ¥ e' jof education from the elementary | said: “In norcountry. of Europe, is! it is not well to indulge ina orgy! AS it y of the Navy 3oth Richards and Cook atresse ened to ten hours by a tariff agree- . d | : Ls ‘BY the view that no real constructive continuation of methods of ration- ¢ oe bien Othlead Hedres contin ee to the universities and to) the patience and-forbearance of the of false optimism there is reason to|Robinson “hoped” that Lindbergh Are te ? the situation cana alization in German economy, we have nen, Or 10 an oe ’ jrender the schools and the teachers|eonstitutional republicans in dealing jeljeve that Great Britain was often| would take a destroyer. Although handling of the situation can be ¢ ji ues to obtain. This ten-hour day can | tools in the hands of the clergy. | w; j i s ; tat anit ‘ aR pected from the mine owners. Nor experienced a renewed general attack he acnosded. Aven slchaut: s0¥ siticial (ne ools ii with the enemies of the Republic, the! in a much better position to essay a/ willing to cash in on the hero’s repu- have they. acy hope’ of (the kaaaeae on the living conditions of the Ger- me n in the case of temporary |THE German bourgeoisie, however, | Political bandits of the Right and the heavy diplomatic than at pres-|tation by bringing him home on a gi with ‘doce conse: wiktae experi- man worker, Though nominal wages ee a dertaken in ethereaneysitua-|* is wot content with the economic | “*tt, so great as it is in Germany.” ent. Her busin will lose millions| warship, the government doe want ce " ait-deaak. iu. ieee have remained practically unchanged | (ore Oe ene pal itipes iota: land cultural subjugation of the Ger-| ,What Horsing says of the “bandits | of dollars worth of Russian trade, a/to spend the money on sending a real @nee Still fresh in_membiy- since September 1926, actual wages have declined, as is shown by the rise ing the waste of raw materials or the failure of the fruits of labor. The con- |man working class. Mpa ers mere 0! the Right” need naturally not be; rae * f |taken too seriously, especially sine; coincidence, that at the time of the these reactionary bandits have turned | loss they can ill afford to stand. It nay mean a general election on the battleship across for him. General Pershing, in Paris to pre- government Workers of in the official cost-of-living index fig- : elati, iti ic offen- ue, with the use of tons of “red | for the American Legion in- ii 7 ‘ ec of the emergency legislation | general political and economic offen- |. rs rit ‘ees SP a tb ee, ie / WwW } ure from 142 in September 1926 to Sain by the nachna oa taee Aa nee of fe bourgeoisie against the |into republican bandits by reason of | fire” by .the tories. But in view of on this summer, hailed Lindbergh France Affiliate ith { 145.4 in February 1927. The low level the yet greater possibility of exceed-| proletariat, one week after the 1st of | their proféssion of allegiance to the the. heat ae! ron rahe and burglary : an ambassador of whom we may Confederation of Labor of weekly wage rates is systemntienlly ing even the ten-hour day. The regu-|May, the Fascists from all parts of) Republic, His mention of “bandits” of| established by the present govern-| air be proud.” Pershing and the s ay ea a exploited by employers for the pur- Ltghges in Berlin | the left,” however, gave the signa to | ment the British voters will be un-| 4 yorican idler crowd in Paris are PARIS, May 24.—A decision has rs f b copitied to bear on lation in regard to the payment of a|the realm should prague eed in | the bourgeoisie for a renewed cam-/ usually leary about belieying their : ‘ it kate just been made by a majority .of hai ged ay qm wage premium for overtime now ob-/under the lead of the “Stahlhelm. apical dedpemerda: cashing in to the full extent on 7 vee the workers in regard to overtime and to sweated job-wage stipulations. DDED to the fall of actual wages, there is the rise of dwelling rents} by 10 per cent., put into effect on} April 1st, 1927, and the augmentation | .|paign against the Communists. In re- De Pinedo, Fascist “Flyer” Hops Ride | On Sailing Vessel | | gard to the Stahlhelm day, Horsing | contended himself with advising his | Canadian Workers, Fed ; 94 | fol 's to “ignore” the Stahlhelm | Up on War Bunk, Don’t ese rhis is what is meant bya Bother About Trophies | “ioyai opposition” which practically | amounts to a sufferance of, and con- Ne ae NN the New York Times of May 19th, several lots of securities were advertised sold at auction, among them being the following: “6,000 rubles Imperial Russian government Lindbergh’s popularity. London Junkers to Fete Hero of Air. unions of French government civil ser- vants to form themselves into a fed- eration which will be included and /be under the supervision of the Gen- eral Confederation of Labor. The conservative French press is in- | dulging in lamentations that such an of the duty on flour from. 10 marks | LISBON, May 24.—The sailing} TORONTO, May 24.—Despite ap-jnivance at, this new anti-Bolshevist/51%¢ military short term coupon; PARIS, M -Charles Lind-/| alignment many sometimes lead to to 11.50 marks per 100 kilogrammes,|yesse] which has the seaplane of! peals in the Dominion Press, on the | ally. | bonds, second series, issued in 1916.”|bergh may accept the invitation of! the government workers “obeying in- which in the case of a family of five Francesco de Pinedo, fascist aviator-| wireless, and on the movie screens | ‘ : 5 |The lot sold for $8. The buyer of|the London Aero Club and fty to structions from an international body means a surplus onus on the house-|,+opagandist in tow is expected to|the war office has in its possession | a= virulent anti-Communist cam-| this collection of rubbish should be| London next Monday in the “Spirit! rather than from their own govern- hold of about 70 marks a year. Fur- thermore, the Government intends to raise the duty on sugar and is likely to accede to the demand of the agrar- ians for the prevention of the free importation of frozen meat, so that} the meat prices, too, will again be reach Horta, the Azores sometime to- morrow. . De Pinedo was forced down yester- day while flying from St. Johns, N. F. to the Azores, enroute to Italy. The reputation of the fascist avia- paign of the Social Democratic} leaders of the Reichsbanner, the pre-| tended opposition of the S. P. G. and} the A. D. G. B. to the capitalistic | methods of rationalization and cul-} tural reaction, cannot prevent the! will for a united militant action of the | more than 100,000 war medals that! have not been claimed. It is said that many thousands of war medals have also found their way in the hands of pawnbrokers. Among the medals are also some placed under the care of a guardian lest’ he give the rest of his money to an oil stock salesman. Boston ‘Workers Tell British Consul What of S Louis,” it w said tonigh | ment. é ‘ rr tor as a “brilliant airman” is| military crosses and a large number | Gorman working class from growing | { ee shea leicanad hd Pie ee being seriously deflated in fhe }of foreign decorations. | etcongan and peonger amacay tbs So. They Think on China % ie . . d th aN 1 nae ers, | Past few weeks, and it has be-, Pete cial Democratic workers. During the ET wal 0 are e employers apd the big land-owners, | come apparent that his flights are| hain S T Ki liast few weeks many German towns| POSTON, May 24.—Tory Britain's | the living conditions of the German) ) in, utilized by him.»merely for |C! ain Store Tea King ‘ oi : 3 cutrages in China were brought di- working class have markedly deter- 5 ida @ M lind a. thet i Milli Ihave seen Social Democratic workers rectly to the attention of the British bd fouled atidiwill qunthins 40 deterio ROC ee ee Accumu ated MHONS and proletarian members of the| . high yp cca orate ¢ blackshirts. Reiéetishwriser joining forces with | Consul here when scores of workers @ | S 0 e baal ‘ ‘ wee a The will of the late Frank S. Jones,! Communist. workers, against the ere < ey of hid see J HE ¢ tuna is wbeavabinct as. fa rng 2 - : oe! | ring a dozen placards. “China for | pomaelalap stupid Hands Off China Meet of 760 Park Ave. Manhattan, and/ threatening imperialist danger of | the Chinese,” “Let Cook Cook Church- | we regard the budget of the Ger- man Government, which ovcupied the Reichstag up to the time of the Easter Sayville, L. I., was filed yesterday. | war, the offensive of the capitalists, | The estate is understood to be sev-! and the cultural reaction. In spite of On East Side Thursday eral millions of dollars. the sabotage of the S. P. G. leaders hill’ and “Down with Tory Govern- ment—Up With Labor” were some of | Daily Worker? Jones was H the inscriptions. 7 ayer The Workers Party of Boston; act- Ist of May, 1927, will be marked by| ing with the Kuomintang and other vacations. The budget submitted by A Hands-off-China open air meet-|head of one of the largest tea con-}and the trade union bureaucrats, the | the Marx-Hergt-Keudell Government } ing will be held Thursday evening at} cerns in the United States and was | taxes the entire German population to an aggregate extent of about 15,- 000 million marks, if we add the com- munal and other taxes to the main it- ems. By far the greater part of this onus rests on the shoulders of the broad masses. The State budget is particularly characterized by the fact The Chinese Revolution Turns Left CHIANG’S NEW LEADER By EARL BROWDER. HANKOW, (By mail).—With the reorganization of the Chinese Nation- | al Government, on March 11 at Hankow, and the immediately follow- ing capture of Nanking and Shang- hai by the Revolutionary Army, the Chinese revolution has definitely en- tered a new phase of its development. 10th St. and Second Ave. by Section |g pioneer in the chain stores idea and |the unity of German workers, 1, Workers (Communist) Party. Pro-|the application of factory technique | growing resistance offered by minent speakers will address the meeting. | to grocery workers A meeting will be held at Great, International Branch No. 1, See. 1.D Central Palace, 90 Clinton St., June 10. Speakers will be announced later. | New York City, will hold a special | meeting on May 25, Wednesday ‘at 66 E. 4th St. Ree. See’y. the the | workers to the economic, political, and ‘cultural reaction, and a united front against the imperialist war propa- gandists and their accomplices in the 7 p.m} camp of the Social Democratic Party trought squadrons down to “suppress | and the Second International. This new phase is a deepening, an} intensification of the -revolution, at} the moment of military victory, wien all observers concede that it is but China will be in the hands of the Nationalist Government. Communists Participate. , The new personnel of the Govern-| ment, established on March 11, in- cludes participation of the Chinese Communist Party. Agriculture is headed by Tan Ping- shan just. returned from Moscow! where he represented the Chinese party at the recent Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Conimun- ist International. The Minis‘ry of Labor is in the hands of Sou Ch tsen, chairman of the All-China La- bor Federation, chairman of the| Chinese Seamen’s Union, leader of the famous Hongkong strike, and } i | \ | | | In the New | MAY ISSUE: ‘voward Another Wave of Re- volutionary Struggle -- by dny Lovestone, — vhe Bruesels Congress inst Imperialism —- By jannel Gomez. y ‘The Civil War !n the United States -By Marl Mara, The World Strug for Rub- sber--By Leon 5 And Other Features, sane rater Subscribe! 25 Cents a Copy. $2.00 a Year aeenenpemnse eseceng een me atm The COMMUNIST 1113 W. Washington Blvd. CHICAGO, LLL. member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Appointment of Communists to head these two posts, signalizes a deepening of the social phases, the foundation, of the Chinese Revolution. Shoot From Irritation, This turn to the left by the Chinese | revolution undoubtedly comes as a surprise and shock to American and British imperialism. The diplomats of Downing Street and the White House had been flirting with the right-wing of the Kuomintang, and undoubtedly thought that their pro- teges in the Nationalist movement were prepared to step in and seize power just at this moment of mili- tary victory. [t must have been rather disconcerting to them to have, events move in exactly the opposite direction, Their chagrin was ex- pressed by the spilling of the blood of thousands of Chinese men, women and children by British and American gunboats shelling Nanking and Wei- chow, % Chiang’s Preliminary ‘Treason. Tt must be stated that the imperial-, lists had yveasons for their reaction- ary hopes. On March 20, 1926, while the Kuomintang was. still confined phe a Bevan 8 ig 80 fav as power concern a matter of months until all inner-; The Ministry of. British guns could reach every stra- tegic point within a few hours, the right-wing in the Party executed a coup d'etat, under the leadership of General Chiang Kai-shek, head of the military forces and the Whampao Military Academy. From that time on, Chiang Kai-shek assumed all power in the Party, expelled the Com- ‘munists from all official positions, and forced the elected chairman of the Party, Wang Ching-wei, into ex- ile, British and American newspapers suddenly began to speak in a differ- ent and more friendly tone about the Nationalist Government. “And when Chiang Kai-shek became marshal of the Northern Expedition, which swept thru China in the summer of 1926, marched from Kwantung, thru Honan, and Hupeh, that the forces were pre- pared which have now overthrown the dictatorship of Chiang Kai-shek lin the Kuomintang. These military victories have been hailed by baur- geois writers *as “miraculous”; but |the “miracle” lay in the revolution- |ary masses of the occupied provinces, who were only waiting the oppor- tunity to rise against their militarist jrulers. fn many places, indeed, the Army did not have to fight, finding | that the mere news of their advance had been taken as the signal for the |uprising of the people, who drove jout the militarists. t Organize Unions. | Close behind the advancing army, |came the organization of the wofkers {imto the All-China Labor Federation, ‘and the peasants into the Peasants’ Union, In less than a year, more than a million new members of the trade unions, and seven million pea- sants in the Peasants’ Union were mobilized. With this organization be- gan the real process of revolution— destruetion of, the basis of power of ‘militarism, the landlords, corrupt | magistrates and gentry of the vil- lages-——and an enormons widening of the hasis of the revolutionary power. From Curton, under the guns of Bri- tish Hongkong and close to the sea- coast, the National Gavernment mov- ed to Wu-Han (Hankow), havi under its feet a solid ground of half China, with the many-million masses organized under its direction. Once more it became possible to openly istruggle against the forces of counter- and occupied the Wu-Han cities .in November, the imperialists thought the right-wing was completely in power in the Kuomintang. Under such conditions, how was it possible to effect such a radical ichange as we now see in the Kuom- intang? How was the right-wing defeated? And what is the present danger of a military coup against the Nationalist Government? What are the perspectives of the Chinese Re- volution? The following is an at- tempt to find the answer to these questions in the expressions of the Chinese masses themselves: “A ey i atin a tion revolution entrenched within the re- volution itself! & Beginning of the Siruggle Against Chiang Kai-shek, The issue upon which the struggle between right and left began was strangely enough, the question of moving the seat of Government to Wu-Han, After agreeing to the move, Chiang Kai-shek caused the official heads of Government to stop in Nan- chang, Kiangsi, while the majority of the sain Wo Central Com- nittee were in Wu-Han, with min- }organizations, sponsored the picket- \ing of the consulate. The backfiring of a large truck in| , the same block, coupled with the pick- | eting, struck consternation in the con- | ‘sulate. Frenzied appeals.to the police | ‘the attack” on the British offices. Communications, and Justice. Delay | followed delay in completing the move. The Central Committee mem- bers in Wu-Han set up a joint con- ference to transact government af- fairs. Chiang Kai-shek in Nanchang, after greeting the joint conference | and making proposals to it, changed | his mind and denounced it as an il-| legal body. After negotiations, it was | agreed in Nanchang to move to Wu-| Han on February 9th; when that date arrived, postponement was again made until the 16th; on that date it was again pastponed. Whereupon, at an enlarged joint conference in Wu- Han, it was decided that the Central Kuomintang and the Nationalist Government should both begin office to succeed the Joint Conference with- out further waiting. But Chiang Kai-shek sent out 2 telegram over the country declaring that the central committee had not moved to Wu-Han. At the same time, the Kuomintang was circulated with telegrams stat- | jing that the plenary conference of | |the central executive committee had been cancelled, (To’ be continued) Butler, Columbia Head, Gets Fascisti Degree ROME, May 24.—-The honorary de- gree of doctor of leticrs hae just heen | conferred upon Nicholas Murray But- ler, president of Columbia University. | The degree wil! be conferred person- pally next month at a special sitting! jof the university | Butler, consid feandidate for ed seriously as a | ident on the re- ‘publican ticket, has expressed him- self enthusiastically on the subject of |fascism and Mussolini on frequent occasions. ‘Reactionary Set Back | In Polish Elections | WARSAW, Poland, May 24,—The | final returns from tke Polish general | election today revealed a victory for the socialists and progressives. | NORMAN HAPGOOD in the introduc- tion to “PROFESSIONAL PATRIOTS” points out that the reactionary element which speaks in the name of patriotism, “has its most important support among those who make money out of war and of hoiding down standards of labor.” Is it any wonder that the Military Order of the World War seeks to suppress our pa- per? Is their, enmity to the only American paper, which supports the struggle of the Chinese workers for freedom, and which is fighting the military ventures of American imperialism, not to be expected? Is it not clear that the Military Order of the World War, with all their titles and gold braid, is fighting The DAILY WORKER in the name of the Open Shop and the wa? upon labor generaiiy: The case of the Military Order of the World War against The DAILY WORKER will draw the curtain sharply. It will expose clearly the actual anti-social character of these patriotic organizations, in spite of the high-sounding titles under which they rade, At the same time [),7 ne it will reveal on the other side a solid phal- anx of workers, row up- on row, in a solid front | DAILY WORKER | 33 First Street, | New York, N. Y. 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