The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 26, 1927, Page 3

— ¥ }‘Min Kuo Jih Pao,” for the discus- By EARL BROWDER. sion of the Party situation, contained (Continued From Last Issue). an article entitled: ‘Arise, revolu- Here was a definite struggle. The| tionary masses, and unite together to Central Kuomintang, openly chal-| overthrow Chiang Kai-shek.” Some lenged by Chiang Kai-shek, began! paragraphs from this article follow: to open its ears to the complaints} “Chiang Kai-shek who proclaims pouring in from the people's militar-| himself the genuine follower of the zations against this budding militar-| President has proved himself counter- ist. Suddenly the party awoke to} revolutionary. His reactionary move- what had been going on. Already,| ments in the past are too numerous | on March 15, the Hupeh Trade| to give an exhaustive account. Union Executive issued a public de- “Immediately after he left the nunciation of Chiang Kai-shek. On| Whampoa Academy, he colluded with March 16, the executive committee of | a handful of students to stabilize his Hupeh Kuomintang issued a long] own position and power. He secretly statement, indicting Chiang Kai-shek] helped the Sunyatsenism Association | as a counter-revolutionary. This|to disturbance, causing the Chung! statement, published in the “Min Kuoa| Shan cruiser incident on March 20th, Tih Pao”, Hankow, March 16, 1927,| last year, and the departure of Com-| contains the following declarations: | rade Wang Ching-wei, who is the} “The Party has lost its power, and| only successor of the President and all the power has gone to the hands of | who is most respected by the revo- a dictator and the highest organiza-|lutionary masses. He prevented also tion of the Party has lost its fune-| the Central Kuomintang and the Na- tions.” tionalist Government to remove to “Help the Central Executive Com-|Hupeh, monopolizing the Party af-| mittee to overthrow the condition of| fairs, violating the Party regulations, usurpation, to restore the spirit of|destroying the Party organization, democracy, to make all Party mem-| frustrating the Party discipline, and| bers obey the orders of the Party. All| practising dictatorship. political and military affairs should} After describing how Chiang Kai- be unified under the direction of the;shek had, by appointment taken pos- sion of all departments of the Par- | Russian THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1927 The Chinese Revolution Turns Left Wong Fu...He has entered into col- lusion with the Fengtien and Shan- tung militarists to frustrate their dip- lomatic policy of the Nationalist Gov-} ernment, disavowing the reclamation | of Hankow and Kiukiang with the] purpose of compromising with the| imperialists...He has also changed the. diplomatic policy, severing rela- tions with Russia, entering into in- timacy with Japan, and defaming the advisors...He intimidated the Central Executive Committee with military force, and secretly ordered Ni Pi, Party representative of the First Division, to murder Chen Tsan Yen, chairman of the General Labor Union at Kanchow.....he dispersed the Nanchang Municipal Party, and ordered the arrest of its supervision committee, he attacked the Nanchang Students Union, and ordered the ar- rest of its committee; butchered four responsible members of the Kiukiang Municipal Party and General Labor Union; devastated the Political De- partment of the Sixth Army; and se- cretly ordered the prohibition of the Hankow “Min Kuo Jih Pao” and “Chow Kwong Pao.” “... What is the difference between Chiang Kai-shek’s murdering the workers at Kiukiang, and Wu Pei- fu’s murdering the workers of Kin ton, as it was arranged before the Page Three Kuomintang Headquarters in Canton Above is a picture of one room in the Kuomintang headquarters at Can-| ionalist government was moved to Party...Every person no matter who | § he is should submit to the power of the Party. .Only the oppressed mass- es are the supervisor of the Party. Only the principles of Chung Li (Sun Yat Sen) and his spirit are the director of the Party ents “Now it is time for to manifest} the power of the Party. Whether our Party will even exist depends entirely upon whether we can make the power Han Railway; and between his poi- {soning Party members and Chang Tsung-chang’s killing the Nationalists at Tientsin?” “To speak frankly, Chiang Kai- shek is no longer a Kuomintang mem- ber, for he has fundamentally over- thrown the President’s policy of alli- ance with Russia, and the Peasant and Labor policies. He is not worthy thru personal friends, the article continues: “He secretly employed men to de- stroy the various provincial, section-| al, and overseas Party organizations, | despatching soldiers to disperse the Canton Municipal Kuomintang, and harboring all reactionary elements. . Since the Revolutionary Army occu- pied Kiangsi, he has dispersed the Hankow, and followers of Chiang Kai-shek secured control in Canton. At) the back is a picture of Sun Yat-sen, and framed below is his last will, a| statement of the “Three Principles” on which the Kuomintang is founded, | and an injunction to the Chinese to regard the workers and peasants of Russia as their true friends. The inset is a photograph of Sun Fo, son of the | founder of the party, and one of its present leaders, who absolutely repudi- | ates Chiang Kai-shek. the Central Kuomintang to remove; Committeeman and as Principal of the WASHINGTON, May 25.—Capital speculation over what, if any, consid- prompted President Coolidge to ten- tatively select the Black Hills of South Dakota as the locale for this year’s summer White House. More or less significantly, it was recalled that South Dakota is the first state in the Union to hold presidential primaries, The Sunshine State is the quadrennial “bell cow” of the states, so far as presidential candidacies are concerned, The Test Vote Early next March, weeks before any other state, and four months before will afford the first insight into the trend of the electoral mind. The South Dakota proposal primary is an event that rivets the attention of the poli- ticians every four years, The South Dakota system is highly regarded by politicians and by can- | didates who, like Barkis, “are willin’,” but hesitate at declaring themselves. The law provides that a candidate can get his name off the ballot only by definite withdrawal and notification that his name should not be voted up- on, Four years ago Mr. Coolidge per- mitted his name to stay on the ballot by the simple expedient of taking no action at all. The cynical politicians of the Capi- tal believe that politics, more than the natural beauty of the Black Hills, the national convention, South Dakota | COOLIDGE FIXES ON STATE OF TES VOTING FOR SUMMER WHITE HOUS politicians were buzzing today with| South Dakota. erations —- other than vacation —| states where agrarian discontent h¢ prompted Mr. Coolidge’s decision South Dakota also is one of tho: been pronounced, Lithuanian Section Secures New Member Membership Drive has been shown the Lithuanian Bureau, which call: a special open meeting of the Lithua ian Fraction where a report of t mass campaigns and activities of t! Party was given and where the que tion was taken up of getting tl sympathizers to become members the Party, The result was that workers, joined the Workers’ (Co munist) Party. Coolidge Sneaks Away. WASHINGTON, May 25.—Th) presidential yacht Mayflower bearin President Coolidge and a small nw ber of guests, returned to Washi: ton this morning after a trip d the Potomac River. During -the week-end trip no ports of the cruise were received b naval communications, although it customary of such trips to radio t yacht’s position every 8 hours. WORKERS! STOP THE MURD. OF SACCO AND VANZETTI Kiangsi Provincial Kuomintang with no reasons, and supported the old and indisereet Chang Ching Kiang and} of the Party felt.” On March 25, Kuomintang official special issue of the daily paper, to be a follower of the President. He|him from the office of Commander- is not worthy to be a man....” in-Chief of the Revolutionary Army, “Our present demand is to request! abrogate his authority as Executive Central Politico-Military Academy, and summon him for investigation and punishment.” (To Be Continued). f ABOUT CRUSHING esx | The brutal fascist reaction en- suing on the November attempt on | Mussolini’s life proved an acid test for the opposition parties in Italy. The majority of them quailed before r » |lacking firm ties with the masses Ev ades Query About and experience in illegal work, grad- U.S. Banking Interests | ually melted away. The only party | to continue the struggle with fascism WASHINGTON, May 25 (FP). —| despite the merciless terror was the Pretending that his direct threat of | Communist Party, proving by its il- armed force against all who did not/legal press its true ties with the peacefully surrender was not the| masses and its inherent vitality. cause of the laying down of arms by | Megal Official Organ. the Liberal army in Nicaragua, Henry L. Stimson has returned to work the Communist Party oc- Washington and reported to Presi- | casionally resorted to the publication dent Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg | of illegal leaflets and appeals. In upon his success in “pacifying” that the very heat of the terror, with ar- little Latin-American republic. rests and butcherings going on whole-| Stimson met the press correspon-| Sle, the Communist Party issued its| dents after he had seen his chiefs,| illegal appeals, replying to fascist and gave them a confidential defense | terror with Communist steafastness. of his publie statement. The press | The publication of “Unita” the of- was allowed to say that the attitude | ficial organ of the C. P. suppressed of the administration is that Presi-|i" November 1926 was soon (un-) dent Sacasa of the Liberal govern- | fficially) resumed. | “ENR ‘ : : It is widely circulated among the} cnt s Dinvecig simactign Brier his | asses and its present circulation is own life in the civil war; that it was/ “Tilegal Press in Italy the open struggle with fascism and, | | | Passage Victor Emmanuel—“Three | search, But neither beatings, arrests, |cheers for the Florentine Commu-/} Even during its period of “legal” } scraps of linen and paper are also | nist Party nor its press has heen very popular, especially durifig revo-| destroyed. This is the most brilliant lutionary anniversaries or special| testimony to the real ties existing he- campaigns. These are often quota-|tween the Communist Party and the tions from Lenin, expressions of| masses, The arrests come thick and sympathy with Soviet Russia, appeal fast. . to the struggle with fascism, ete. | When the first number of “Delo” | A Nightmare For Benito. | appeared the police made wholesale | In some places appeals and slogans! raids on all the houses in some Slov- are scribbled on the walls of houses|ence localities in the region of and on the pavements. After the! Trieste. Workers’ trains coming trial of the Florentine Communists in| from Trieste in the evening were sur- Milan sprawling inscriptions appeared | rounded by the police and each on the polished floor and walls of the| worker subjected to an exhaustive nor any other modes of repression could avail to destroy the illegal ”| press. | “Tegal appeals and papers” writes | nists!” “Three Cheers for the Com. munist Party!” Down with Fascism Extraordinary meetings of fascist | “Avanti” the Maximalist paper com-| organizations: were called in Milan ing out in Paris, “both printed and/| for the consitieration of the struggle | hectographed, have become the night-| with the illegal Communist press, mare of the fascist authorities. They| Mario Jampolli, the head of the) are to be found everywhere—on the| Milan fascists uttered a threatening) seats of trams, in factory cloakrooms, | speech accusing the fascist militia in the cinematographs, and barr-| and members of his party of inability acks.” | to expose the illegal apparatus of the | What the Illegal Press Writes A¥ut,| Communist Press. “How is it,” he The illegal press has not only | 28ked, that the thousands of mem- never lost touch with the masses, but | bers of the fascist militia and the is actually getting closer to them every | 'ABYSSINIAN RAS. INVITES U.S. TO Hoover and Gang Rush To Grab New Colony WASHINGTON—(FP)—Ras Tafa- ri, regent of the Ethiopian empire, formerly known as Abyssinia, has appealed to American capital to come into his country and develop its rub- ber, coffee, copper, gold and other re- sources for two reasons. He wants to save his couritry—the last indepen- dent land in all of Africa—from ab- sorption by the British, French and Italians whose colonies now surround into his country, and American dip- lomacy backing up these dollars, Ras Tafari may possibly be able to mod- ernize and develop Ethiopia without seeing a European flag hoisted over his capital. That js the point in his appeals to President Coolidge to send a diplo- REPULSE EUROPE him. With American dollars pouring’ Lined up against The DAILY WORKER in the case coming to trial on May 27th are the Keymen of America. Mr, Seitz of the Keymen, when questioned at the hearing, refused to admit anything except that his or- ganization is a “research body” and that it was thoroughly opposed to the policies of The DAILY WORKER, and interested in sup- pressing (the paper. \ Gen. Moncada who led the fighting hundreds of fascist spies are unable greater than its former legal circula- day. While during its official exist-| matic mission to Ethiopia. It is the |tion. The workers buy it gladly in | spite of the persecution undergone fs : s iscov vith illegal Liberals by force if they would Be RE atienigte evry tog “Unita” pod peacefully surrender; that Chamorro | serintion campaign has been most (military partner of Diaz) was really | successful, 6,000 lira in Milan alone the man chiefly responsible for the| being chilackat bloodshed and suffering that the Con-| subscriptions are not to be servative coup and the resultant war| midated by the fact that accordi have inflicted upon the country; that ‘4 the United States has not guaranteed subscription lists for the illegal press, the civil rights of trade unionists or| aye considered guilty of anti-Fascist other citizens in Nicaragua during | propaganda and liable to five years’ the 19 months that Diaz is imposed | imprisonment. Besides “Unita” an- on the country by foree of American) other Party paper “Delo” is published | that Moncada was glad to get Stim- son’s threat of suppression of the to fascist law persons found with guns. |in the Slovene language and there is} In his formal statement Stimson|the Young Communist League organ! said: “This transition from war to |“Avangardia.” P ¢ has been accomplished by the! faith which both sides have in the| promise of the President of the|various factories also enjoy a wide} United States by arranging for| circulation. All big factories have | American supervision to give Nica-|their illegal press published either ragua a free and fair election in| by agitation committees, uniting all 1928. It was this which caused Mon-| revolutionary workers, irrespective of cada’s army to lay down its arms,| party, or by groups of working class and it was that army which consti-| youth, in either case working under tuted the life of the revolution.” | the guidance of the Communist Party | Evades Real Issue ‘and the Young Communist League. When asked whether the bank and/| The famous Fiat automobile factory | railroad, owned by the Nicaraguan| publishes through its agitation Com-| government, were again to be sold to| mittee “Il Martello” (The Hammer), the Wall Street bankers—these prop-|The “Fiat Lingotto” factory has erties being the prizes for which|“Portolongon” called after the fa- American recognition was given to| mous prison for solitary confinement) Diaz in violation of the spirit of the| in Italy; the Citroen automobile fac- Central American treaty—the admin- tory published “Spartaco” and almost | istration spokesman indicated that he| every factory has its own paper. An| knew nothing to indicete that they | interesting feature of this movement) would be sold. ‘is the children’s paper “Tl Fancullo Painful efforts to discredit Pyesi-|Proletario” (The Proletarian Child) | dent Sacasa were due to the delivery | published for working class children, | to the Department on May 21 of a| Finally, shortly after the revival of letter from Sacasa, dated May 7, re-|the General Confederation of Labor citing the story of American armed | its official organ “Battaile Sindicale’ intervention against the Liberal gov-| began to come out illegally ernment, beginning last November. Seizure of ports, arms, vessels and) waterways by the American forces was set forth in detail, as was | the American government's delivery | of machine guns, rifles and ammuni- tion to Diaz. “Murder.” Charges Sacasa “It seems,” says Sacasa, “as if Factory Papers Appear. The newspapers connected with the the most important articles from the latter on the hectograph adding local material, so that the illegal press !s_ not only on the increase but is getting | ‘nearer to the masses through the| there is a deliberate purpose of anni-| hereon ae ot tl hilating the unfortunate people of! i, .umerable special numbers coming | Nicaragua in order to murder later, | 5.4 in the localities on the anniversary | as Mr, Stimson’s threat implies, those: 5¢ Yenin’s death proves the obvious | of our troops which may have sur-/ impress of rank and file participa-, vived to the end of the journey to- with their wealth of local com- | ward Managua. |ment, topical remarks, colored il- lustrations and slogans obviously done by workers for workers. Slo- ‘ gans pritted on the hectograph or on| | tion, BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Workers collecting | inti-} | to prevent “Unita” from being openly ence the Communist press was often forced to adopt figurative language and maintain a discreet silence on many points, now, driven under- ground, it is able to speak out in no uncertain voice and tell the masses the whole truth. The illegal press is now able to expose the home and £| foreign policy of the fascist govern- ment, its preparations for war, its shameless plundering of the Italian working class and the demagogy of the fascist unions. Both the central and local illegal press give a great deal of space to the attack of capital, unemployment and all manifestation of protest and indignation among the workers and peasantry. Articles | showing the causes of the economic. crisis going in Italy, slogans on un- employment, articles on Soviet Russia, letters from members of the workers’ delegations visiting the U.| | distributed among the workers, not | by the hundred, but by the thousand? | How is it that no one can find out | where it is printed? Or by whora it is distributed?” | At “Any Cost” In Turin the chief of the police called together all the secret service imen giving them categorical orders |to made an end of the Turin pudlica- tion of “Unita at any cost.” Orders were given in Rome to fire on any one pasting up appeals at night. Per- sons on whom illegal literature was jfound were subjected to torture. | There have been cases of a single copy of an illegal paper bringing upon its owner five year’s exile. The Communist Frederico Janzzi in Var- eza on whom was found a copy of “Unita” was beaten and tortured in the attempt to extort from him from whom he got the paper, but although they burnt him with fire, ent him with knives, and put out one of his eyes, they could get nothing out of! told of the cruel fate of the prisoners him. Janzzi is not the first or the| of fascism, languishing in fascist | !@st martyr in the eanse of the il-| dungeons, and on the remote islands|/¢gal press. It is only the firmness under fascist inspection, A great| 2d courage of the Ttelian Corama- campaign was waged in the illegal nists and their ever-growing influ- press around the treachery of the for- | en¢e on the masses which enab'es the mer Generel Confederation of Labor | Communist Party to support the un- Leaders and the reorganization of the | qual and terrible struggle with the trade unions on new principles. bloody fascist regime in Italy. Helpless Fury of the Fascists, | ¥ good It is easy to imagine the rage in- Chicago Left Wingers spired among the fascists by this ‘ | illegal press. Mussolini gave long yh ~ gd at ago a categorical order to root up} i: i the Communist Party and destroy the anual Picnic unday illegal press. Fascism mobilized all its forces for this struggle and in spite of all this neither the Comma- S. S. R. are constantly printed. The! erimes of the fascist despot are ex- posed and working class readers are CHICAGO, May 25.—The Chicago Local Grip of the Trade Union Edu- cational League will hold its seventh | Republication and Adaptation. | Not content with factory publica-| naval | tions and those sent from the central organs many organizations republish | | annual pienic Sunday, May 29th, at Kolze’s Electrie Park, 6853 Irving Park Blyd. This is the first picnic of the season held by any radical or- ganization. The dance orchestra will he pro- vided for by I. Letchimger’s Orches- | tra, while a field is provided for The COMMUNIST 10 cents a copy--$2.00 a year INTERNATIONAL 7 cents in bundle lots, ‘will be plenty of other amusements. The park is located within the city | limits and only one carfare is needed | to get there, All of the proceeds will go to the Organized Left Wing Move- ment. The grove will be open at 10:00 A. M, The tickets are 60 cents and can be secured at the following places: 156 W, Washington Street, Room 26; 19 § Lincoln Street; 1113 OF 1927 $1 Postpaid Red Cartoons Of 1926 Now point to the issuance by the Com- merce Department of a pamphlet de- scribing the latent riches of that country. The Regent himself says that if American capital will employ slave labor for five years, every slave so employed can be freed without dan- ger to the national economy. English Demand Reforms. Sir Frederick Lugard, for many years governor of British Nigeria, and now a member of the Mandates Commission of the League of Na- tions, was a member of the commis- sion on abolition of slavery and forced labor, which drew up, in the summer of 1925, the draft convention which was submitted to the League As- sembly in September, 1926. In a Note on Conditions in Abyssinia, pub- lished by the League, he refers to the entry of Abyssinia into the League in September, 1923, on condition that she would abolish slavery and forced labor. “Slave trading and the organized slave trade,” said Lugard, “can only be suppressed by force... .‘So long’, says the French report, ‘as certain of the higher chiefs indulge in slave raids, in order, as they pretend, to put down rebellion or punish refusals to pay taxes, the evil may become less, but it will not disappear’. There is | reliable evidence of recent date that many thousands of slaves (an esti- mate which appears trustworthy says 10,000) are brought by Abyssinian slave traders. Referring to his experience in Ni- geria, where powerful Moslem rulers kept up slave raids against the at- tempt of the British forces to sup- press the practice, Lugard quotes the French report that in Abyssinia the opposition to reform “comes prin- cipally from the priesthood (Coptie Christians) which considers itself the guardian of the Mosaic law and re- gards slavery as an institution de- ereed by Jehovah.” He shows that since the slaves are baseball and other sports. There| of tribes living far from the places to which the slaves are taken, a freed slave would have no access to land among the Abyssinian ruling caste. He concludes that “The at- tempt to abolish property in slaves, and to carry out the terms of the edict, must involye a complete change in the social life of the people of Abyssinia.” Fearing the wrath of the clergy W. Washington Blvd., and from vari- ous members of the Trade Union Educational League. 50 CENTS and landowners, Ras Tafari looks to America for big capite! with which to appease them: In “PROFESSIONAL PATRIOTS” it is pointed out that the Keymen were organized under the initiative of Fred R. Marvin, head of the Searchlight column of the New York Commercial, a notorious open shop organ. This book further informs us that “The Ad- visory Council of the new organization in- cludes officials of the Associated Employers of Indianapolis, the Founders Association, the National Clay Products Industries Asso- ciation, the Citizens Alliance of St. Paul, the Employers’ Association of Jackson, Michigan and the Builders’ Exchange of San Francisco. Jn addition representatives from practically all the patriotic associations are on the coun- cil as well as the leading lights of the Chem- ical Warfare Reserve and the Military Intel- ligence Association.” é J The case is clear. The line-up of foroés should be evident to everyone. It is a fight of the employers and the open-shoppers against labor. It is a case of the munition and armament interests Againat: the organ (co gaat which is fighting |3'Fint Suet f New York, N. Y. | against the attempt to i ne! is my con’ uti < drag us intd ‘another er nt eae | +sss¢, dollars .... cents to the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund for a stronger and better DAILY WORKER and for the defense of our paper. I will pay imperialist war, Join the ranks of labor in this fight, Raise [te ssme amount regularly every penny and every |‘"” * dollar for the defense |‘*"* ° of The DAILY WORK: | \"" ER against the enemies of labor, State viscseverees Attach check or money order. \* |