The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 26, 1927, Page 4

' ige Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1927 [THE DAILY WORKER Published by tiie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, | Daily, Except Sunday | First Street, New York, N. Y. Phono, Orchard 1680 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail.(in New York only): by mail (outside of New York): 8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year 98.50 six months | $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and meke out checks to | THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. | J. LOUIS ENGDAHL , WILLIAM F, DUNNE BERT MILLER.......... poe Ee, business Manager otered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. batt The Mass Base of the Chinese Liberation Movement. The days pass but Chiang Kai-shek fails to set up a govern- ent with any popular following or to make any substantial in- eases to his military forces. On the contrary, there are per- stent rumors that considerable sections of his army have refused » obey orders to advance on Wuhan (Hankow), the seat of the | eople’s Government. Chiang’s chief spokesman, Wu, has already admitted that no) nmediate advance against the People’s Government is contem- lated but Ch&ng himself says, according to Shanghai dispatches: | { do not intend to advance toward Peking until I have extermi- | ated the Communists in my rear.” The conclusion is inescapable! iat traitor Chiang is not going anywhere—at least at present—!} ither toward Wuhan or Peking, but is having his hands full} iaintaining Nanking as his present base.- It is also highly prob- ble that Chiang has no real control over such troops as are in ae field against the Mukden and Shantung forces. On the other hand, the armies of the People’s Government yre advancing steadily along the main line of the Hankow-Peking hilway and have captured the strategic city of Chengchow—the| unction of the Pukow-Tientsin railway. Of equal importance with the military successes of the Peo-| le’s Armies (and in a large measure responsible for them) is the! remendously rapid growth of the peasant organizations. Even) ito the dispatches of the imperialist correspondents there has| rept lately brief references to these peasant organizations which | re of an economic, political and military character. The impe-| ialist press at first referred to them as bandit organizations and) ven published pictures of their meetings, etc., with misleading | aptions. But the fact that these peasant organizations were) utting down banditry and defeating the troops of the militarists| vith merciless effectiveness could not be concealed forever. | The Chinese peasants are marching with the liberation move- aent. They support the People’s Government and not Chiang} sai-shek. | Commenting on this feature of the Chinese struggle in con-! } section with the general developments since the treason of Chiang tain has abandoned the world of real-| the reformist leaders, whose opposi- | tion to the general strike and the! Sai-shek and his capitalist and compradore following, the Moscow} -ravda says: | “The abandonment of the revolution by the Chinese bour- | FS James So vleason, the author of “Is has finished another play e Slippery Five,” and it will be the second production on the Boothe, Gleason and Truex produc- jtion schedule for next season. | Cyril Maude, it is reported, has con- sented to make one more farewell appearance, this time in the dramati- zation of John Thomas’ novel, “Dry Martini,” which Robert Milton will produce, “The Spider,” now current at Cha- in’s 46th Street, will move to the Box Theatre, on Decoration | Monday, May 30. “Chicago,” now at the Music Box will close its season Saturday, May 28, and re-open Sept. 18 at the Sam H. Harris Thea- tre, Chicago. Director of the Bramhall Playhouse who is appearing in “The Importance of Coming and Going” at his intimate theatre on Twenty-seventh Street, 9 Leslie Howard has just finished a new play called “Murray Hill,” and which will be done here by the Shu-} | berts, | “Willard Mack is going to be active next season. So far three of his plays jare slated for production; William A. Brady will do his dramatization of Adele Rogers St. John’s “A Free Soul;” H. H. Woods, his “Gang War,” and “Weather Clear, Track Fast” to be produced by himself. =—=Screen Notes==—= “Neighborhood Playhouse 466 Grand St Drydock 7516 Grand Street Follies ,!, E ery Evening (except Mon.) Mat. Sat. ——THPATRE G ILD ACTING CO, RIGHT YOU ARE | F YOU THINK YOU ARE | n, Ev GARRICK’. - British Imperialism Moves Toward War By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. RITISH imperialism has made an-| other move in the direction of war | but in so doing it has again weakened; its world position. | The tory government in Great Bri- ity for the world of Alice in Wonder- | land. } The boasted brilliancy of British diplomacy has succumbed to a sub-| Soviet Union requires that it make all possible concessions to the workers, it has succeeded in arousing the whole labor movement against it by the bill for throttling the trade unions. Even miners’ strike differed but little from that of the Baldwin government, are now compelled by mass pressure to seoisie is more than made good by the rapid growth of the peas-| jectivism which is out of place in aj T¢sist the government attack, int movement which expresses itself in the formation of a num-| world divided between two warring | JT is, nevertheless, certain that the ver of organizations like the ‘Red Lances’ and self-defence com-| nittees, the peasant unions, etc. The Putsch of Chiang Kai-shek | vas thus merely given a new spur to the peasant revolution which | social systems—that of the Soviet’ Union and the capitalist world and! where sharpening imperialist rivalries | produce a constant state of tension. | “hardboiled” stand of the tory gov- ernment on this issue ie based large- ly upon the belief féariled upon ex- perience that at the critical moment ias been ripening for some time and which has even broken) + We have already stated that the/ the reformist will again offer to sur- -hrough occasionally. The province of Honan is in the throes of | British cabinet, dominated by the|render under guise of compromise, 1 powerful peasant movement. Before the gates of Canton an nsurrectionary movement is sweeping up under the leadership of he Communists. Jn Honan the peasants are organizing self-! iefense organizations. Whole districts are under the control of | -he Red Lances. The struggle against the large-scale landowners | s becoming ever more decisive. | | Churchill - Birkenhead - Joynson-! Hicks wing had to make the choice of | dropping the whole offensive against, the Soviet Union and facing a gen-| eral election under extremely unfay-| orable conditions or of putting on a bold face, breaking off relatitbns and} arousing nationwide resentment | that they will desert the masses and make peace with the government rather than take a determined stand against the “Arcos” raid and a break with the Soviet Union. HE tories believe further, and with justification, that the MatDonalds, “The tireless work of the Communist Party and the trade|among all sections of the population; Thomases and Hendersons, etc., are anions which are continuing their activity in the districts occupied | vy Chiang Kai-shek and the general growth of the forces of the! proletariat are a guarantee that the Chinese revolution will ad- opposed to the consequent loss of | trade and the threat of war. | [7 there be no mistake about the| vance to victory over all hindrances and difficulties.” (Emphasis |“ ™e@ning of the tory. cabinet’s deci-| 4 ) |sion. It has embarked upon a war es | policy. Whether it will be able to The peasantry is the mass base of the Chinese revolution, the organized working class is its mass leadership. These are the | guarantees of its final victory, in spite of imperialist lies, impe- | vialist agents and imperialist troops and battleships. | The desertion of Chiang Kai-shek has removed the brake} which the right wing put on the development of the Chinese mass movement because it was afraid of the masses. . If the working class of the imperialist nations does its duty and prevents all armed aggression against the Chinese liberation movement by their governments, the Chinese masses will not be checked again. Imperialists Are Shamefully Misunderstood. We submit that the appended two paragraphs taken from a Shanghai dispatch of May 24 to the New York Herald-Tribune, and which appear in that paper in the same sequence as below nstitute in themselves an anti-imperialist editorial to which itething need be added: ' (1.) Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson, the British minis- speaking at a celebration of Empire Day, said that Bri- imperialism was misunderstood in China and that efforts were ‘made to inculcate in the Chinese the idea that imper- ialism is designed to oppress them, while its purpose is to spread Civilization. ~ (2.) \Shanghai harbor presented a brilliant scene when forty warships representing eight nations were gaily be- decked with flags in honor of British Empire Day. Ashore ousands of foreign troops were cheered by foreigners, but ere silently watched by Chinese as they paraded the streets hile British airplanes flew over the city. te _ E. Mischuk Dead i if \ |make this concession to please Great carry it thru successfully is another) question. As it is, the effort made by Bri- tish imperialism to isolate the Soviet Union at Geneva failed. It did not succeed in securing the endorsement of the United States for its isolation policy and neither has Germany been | whipped into line. France appears to! have given her tentative approval to/ the British policy but Germany quite evidently: demands the complete evacuation of her territory before she is willing to consider support of Great Britain. France is not prepared to! Britain, | et France, under the leadership of | Poincare, may follow Britain and/ break off relations with the Soviet) Union, If this is done the fall of the! French cabinet can be expected as! large sections of the French indus-) trialists will want to profit from the! Russian trade which will come to} France as a result of the boycott that the Soviet Union will institute against Britain. The French working class is of course opposed to a break with the Soviet Union. | soe enc bad to Paris dispatches, if France severs relations with the} Soviet Union, Italy, Holland and Roumania will also line up with Great Britain. The attempt of the British foreign office to set up a hos- tile front against the Soviet Union in| recent months, composed of the na- tions mentioned and others, would in- dicate that this is a possibility but the fact remains that the British gov- ernment has been out-maneuvered by |The District Executive Committee if the Workers’ (Communist) Party f America expresses its deep sorrow t the untimely death of one of its ding Party members in Providence, mrade K., Mischuk. With the ath of Comrade Mischuk the Party ses one of its most loyal, devoted d courageous workers. Comrade \schuk was a Russian immigrant, to came here to escape the un- irable conditions under which the ssian farmer lived at the time of ism. However, he did not escape \ exploitation in this country and work and privation, coupled with self sacrifice and devotion for the movement has hastened his death, With the coming of the social revo- lution in Russia, Comrade Mischuk has thrown himself into the Party work with all fervor and devotion, Comrade Mischuk was also an active worker in the Russian Sick and Death Benefit Society in Providence, the es- tablishment of which he was largely responsible for. Comrade Mischuk was buried on Sunday, May 15th and a demonstration of 500 workers ac- companied his body to the grave and paid tribute to his work.—G. 8, Shkler. the peace policy of the Soviet Union which has been adhered to rigidly in spite of the unprecedented provoca- tions in China and London. REAT BRITAIN has lost much of} her moral influence by reason of her open warlike activities and it is not probable that many European na- tions are willing to at once repudiate the decisions of the Geneva Economic Conference even tho Great Britain) cracks the whip. With the working class at home the British imperialists have played a mad game, While its policy of ag- | ier us repeat, willing to accept those portions of the trade union bill which prohibit cen- tralised control in the labor move- ment, general strikes, mass picketing, sympathetic strikes, etc, provided they are allowed to carry on their {gression in China and against the{tional minority movement is a two- | Orleans,” fold one: It consists in forcing the official leadership to fight—of defeating its program of abandonment of mili- tant struggle in return for conces- sions which are meaningless to the masses. It consists also of organizing all available forces so that the imper- jialist plot for war on the Soviet Union and the attempt to crush all life and will to fight out of the } labor movement (both part of the same offensive) shall be smashed, the tory government driven from | office and the labor movement of | Great Britain begins to move rapid- ly forward to the power, Without forgetting that their main task is to defeat their own ruling class;> the labor and revolutionary mo¥ements of the other imperialist nations must render every assistance | ~ |to the British working class in its heroic effort to safeguard its organ- \izations and standard of living, stop |war on the workers’ and peasants’ | government of the Soviet Union and mtervention in China. Reserve This Date. Workers’ Progressive Organizations conquest of | Robert Kane’s new production for | First National, “Dance Magic,” from Clarence Puddington Kelland’s prize- winning novel, will be released soon. Victor and Ben Lyon and Pauline | Starke are featured. Ww e€ The SILVER CORD John Golden? ofBwy,|Circle Next W’k: Ned Me 0. M é The LADDER WALDORF, 50th st. Kast of B'way. Mats. WED. and SAT. 2 First National has acquired the | screen rights to Mann Page’s original story, “Three Cheers.” The rights to a novel entitled “The Code of Victor |Jallot,” and “The Barber of New both by Edward Childs | Carpenter, have been acquired, for j early production. Three new productions are nearin<! |completion at the Warner Brothers Studio. Louis Fazenda will be starred in “Simple Sis,” supported ly | Clyde Cook, William Demarest, Myra} 149th Stre Bronx Opera House j{*t! , Street Pop. Prices. Mat. Wed. & Sat. iad O e” Loy and Billy Kent Schaef TI ey Mal |“Dearie,” by Carolyn Wells, Wihti se guna eteanaz aa |Trene Rich, and “What Happened to sam 2 v nd St | Father, “from Mary Roberts Rine. |, 1 ARRIS; » 2:30 & 8.30 {hart’s story. Warner Oland plays | William Fox |the title role, and is supported by! Presents {Plobelle Fairbanks, William Ve. | Mats. (exe. Sat.) | marest and Vera Lewis. | 7th HEAVEN 50e-$1 a) sy> CHAPLIN Eves. 50c-1 Charles Edward Bull has been) IN \ a] ‘f selected to play the role of Abraham } B.S 7or I MISSING | LINK | Lincoln in the Warner production! moss’ LON Y Rr tna aT. }of “The Heart of Maryland,” in|contin. Noon to Midnight Pop. Prices, | which Dolores Costello will be the} ——— 63 ser hert Be | Star. Read The Daily Worker Every Day Sec. z New York, Puts Chicago sau New Worker Booster. The Chicago DAILY WORKER pesreeh Dmg aoe agent announces that the enlistment of } ans Before A i the services of Paul C, Reiss, the suc- e 1 Units jcessful DAILY WORKER agent of (By Martin Reed) Los Angeles, is the latest gain in | The Executive Committee of Sec-|*tensthening The DAILY WORKER | tion 2 decided that every unit in the|im its fight against the Fascist at- parliamentary — “constitutional” —| of Harlem and Bronx have united| Section gives a $100 loan to The |tacks to suppress our paper. Comrade activities without too much interfer- ence by the government. R. Palme Dutt, writing in. “The | Labor Monthly” for May, quotes Mac-} a b |\Donald’s statement’ in’ the “Daily | Festival to be héld at the New Star izer of 2B, challenged all other units |Sub Contest (the Moscow Drive) last | Herald” for April 6 (after the text of| Casino 107th Street and Park Ave,,| in the Section to raise the same |S¥mmer and is on his way to N. Y, |the trade union bill had been pub-| for Saturday June 18th. All Workers #™ount. lished) as stating: “The bill is a handicap to labor insofar as it treats of admitted dif- ficulties which might be the subject of an exchange of views.” This is a clear offer of compromise made before the fight on the bill real- ly began. < iyo reformist leadership made no attempt to rally the working class for struggle but instead tried to slip out of the struggle in return for im- munity for parliamentary labor lead- ership. Under such cireumstances it is little wonder that the imperialists felt that no serious opposition was to be ex- pected from the official leadership. This encouraged them to go the limit. That they went too far is evident now but they still hope for aid from re- formist quarters in the shape of “backing and filling,” wordy protests relative to violation of “democratic principles” and failure to really mobilise \he masses for struggle out- side of yorliament. F the imperialists are able to enact the trade union bill, if they are able to secure a majority in the next elec- tion, if they are able to pursue their offensive against the Soviet Union with some measure of success, if they are able to continue their aggression in China (which is in reality another avenue of attack against the Soviet Union), if war follows the breaking off of relations, the official leadership of the British labor movement must take full vesponsibility for it. The British govern- ment is following a war policy. It is trying to provoke war against ‘the Soviet Union and in spite of its weak- ened position the severance of rela-| tions with the Soviet Union is an- other step toward war, The task of the rank and file of the British labor movement, the Bri- tish Communist Party and the na |for the purpose of assisting the | Campaign of the Young Pioneer | Camp. They have arranged a Summer | and Organizations are asked to keep | this date open and help build perma- The Workers Party! In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- berg the Workers (Communist) Par- |ty has lost its fcremost leader and |the American working class its | be overcome by many militant work. |ers joining the Party that he built. Fill out the application below and | mail it. 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 Address | Occupation Union Affiliation Mail this application to the Work- ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New ‘Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Bly., Chicago, Il. Distribute the phlet, “The Workers’ (Communist) |Party, What it Stands For and Why Workers Should Join.” This Ruthen- berg pamphiet will be the basic pam-_ phlet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. | 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 Dis trict office—108 Kast 14th St. Nuclei outside of the New York District write to The DAILY WORK ER publishing Co, 33 East Firs: Street, New York City, or to the National Office, Workers Party, 1115 W. \.ashington Bivd., Chicago, Il, | staunchest fighter. This loss can only | York City; or if in other city to! Ruthenberg pam-. Rte ERNE |DAILY WORKER. |Paul C. Reiss is well known to the Two units of Sub-Section 2B were |Te@ders of the Daily, for his past. ac- the first to respond with $100 each, |tivities in behalf of the Daily, par- | Comrade Litvin, Sub-Section organ- | ieularly in California. He won the |but has agreed to postpone his voy- | The units of Sub-Section 2A ac-|#¢ for a month and lend his services, cepted the challenge. Factory dis- tricts No. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 gave $100. loan each. Factory district No. 1) will follow the other units. The Young Pioneer Camp an- The party units must be the first | nounces that they are now accepting gnes to respond in this emergency. | registration of workers’ children for All units in Section 2 will answer|a vacation at their camp. All infoys |Comrade Litvin’s challenge and| mation about the camp may be -ob answer loud so all units of greater | tained at Room 41, 108 E. 14th Street |New York may hear and, do the same|or at 106 University Pl., every day thing. Who is next? Answer. from 12 to 8 P. M. Phone Stuvy. 7770, Pioneers Registering. 5 (" AT PECIAL PRICE A Bronze Button of Lenin FREE An attractive bronze button of Lenin—one inch in size—which you will be proud to wear on the lapel of your coat—will be sent without charge to every worker who will purchase a copy of LENIN ON ORGANIZATION in a cloth library binding. a SS This book should be included in every work- er’s library. The book—and the bronze Lenin button will both be sent for $1.50 Rooks offered in this column on hand © in limited quantittes. All orders cash eo and filled in turn as received. [NOTE