The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1927, Page 3

SDAY MAY rage Tnree ne ere re me teen ee nner enews ett i neers INVINCIBLE RED ARMY PREPARED AGAINST ATTACKS May Day Demonstra- | tion Inspiring Event By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, U. 8. S. R., May 1. »(By Mail.)—Unity between the Red Army and the working masses of the Soviet Union,—this was one of the big facts revealed in Moscow’s May Day Dem- onstration. Missing this was to fail to realize an important part of the significance of this occasion. This fact, that was also made ap- parent in all the May Day gather. ings over the whole Soviet Union, of especial importance in these days of new threatening attacks on the Workers’ Republic by the imperialist | foe, finding. expression to some ex- tent in the imperialist war waged against the Chinese Revolution, Nikolai Bucharin has just finished speaking on the Tribune of the Lenin Mausoleum. The Army bands, 500 pieces in all, have converged in the center of the Red + Square. From 500 instruments comes the music of “The. International,” echoed back by the Kremlin Wall, a| mighty volume of inspiring sound. Aids to Red Army. It is the signal for the starting of the Red Army ;arade. But upon the banners of these Red Army units there is inscribed the fact that the patron of this or that particular unit is some public body, factory, trade union, political organization or other body, that renders them material and cultural aid. different Red! Mongolia Earthquake = | Breaks Seismograph Needle in Leningrad LENINGRAD, May 30.—Earth- quakes, so violent that they .broke the seismograph, were registered at the Academy of Science station here today. The earthquakes are believed to |) have centered in Mongolia and Tibet, and it is estimated that the |} shocks were heavier that those of Japanese earthquake in 1923, The shocks were registered for three hours before the seismograph was disabled. | forces, including a hydroplane unit, a |detachment from the chemical depart- |ment and another from the school of |the Kremlin garrison. There was an “International Le-' ion,” containing many Chinese sol- liers, who were hailed everywhere as | \they passed, | Then a troop of railroad engineers jand large sections of the “G. P, U.” in their natty uniforms and varicol- ored caps, to show which branch of the service they are in. Thus the forces of the “G. P. U.” that serve on the frontier border have green ribbons in their caps. ° An inspiring sight is the big de- |tachment of sailors who have come from Leningrad, where they are a | part of the Baltic Red Fleet. Interspersed everywhere thru the procession are the Red Army recruits of various classes. The Red Cavalry. | Now a Red Cavalry Band wheels | into position facing the Lenin Mauso- leum and on the opposite side of the | square, alongside the “G. U. M.”, the | State Universal Stores, a magnificent |strueture two blocks long, hosts of | | restless horses mounted by able riders, | Admiral Uses Fake Jerked into two parts when its mooring cable became entan, from Brooks Field, San Antonio, Tex., to Scott Field, Il., the U complete wreck, although Major H. A. Strauss and his crew of five men escaped injury. shows the dirigible in the air. Below is the wreckage of the big ship at Brooks Field. caught beneath the gas bag when it fell, but all its members mana the 200,000 feet of helium gas was lost and the bag completely collapsed. HAITIANS PROTEST SCHEME OF U. S. CAPITALISTS JOIN THE ARMY AND FALL FROM THE SKY igled inside a rail as it began a flight Army dirigible “TC-10-248” is a Top photo The crew was ged to scramble to safety before IN GREAT By LOUIS ZOOBOCK. The work done by the minorit movement during the last three years |could not but evoke dissatisfactio | from the reactionary labor leaders and the general council who betrayed the greatest gerleral strike the world has ever seen. The minority move- ment and its supporters have taken |the most active part in all trade union campaigns. ¢During the gen- eral strike and the miners’ lockout, it pursued the right policy, mercilessly exposing the treachery of the re- formist leaders, their policy of cl. collaboration and “industrial peace, which played so powerful a part in the preparations for the general attack on the trade unions. Right Wing Weakened. This work done by the minority movement threatened to destroy and indeed has partially destroyed the authority of the reformists. It is therefore no wonder that the latter have begun open warfare against the minority movement. The Right lea- ders, coming out against the class struggle, not less than thé govern- ment and the owners, desire to avert strikes of any sort. The agitation for “industrial peace” openly and shame- lessly carried on by them since the termination of the general strike is gle against the minority movement, | founded as it is on the class struggle. The form at present assumed by the campaign against the minority move- | ment is that of a policy of expulsion | and disruption. Expulsions. The trade union bureaucrats of the general and municipal workers’ union have undertaken the carrying out of | the Amsterdam tactics of expulsion in inseparably bound up with the strug-| TACTICS OF THE MINORITY MOVEMENT BRITAIN } On the 25th of March the General Council sent to all trades councils '“instructions No. 28,” laying down, lamong other things: “That those trades councils which are affiliated to the minority movement, or receive | affiliations from branches of that or- ganization, or are associated with {that body, shall not be accorded recognition by the general counéil |nor allowed to participate in any work carried on, under the auspicés | of the general council.” | The meaning of these instructions jis clear: the general council is be~ | g ginning open warfare against the minority movement, the vanguard of |the trade union movement. This |shameless policy of the general coun- | cil is ‘unexpected neither by the sup- |porters of the minority movement |nor by the wide masses of the work- ers. Is not this that same general incil which betrayed the general trike and the miners’ strike? That |same general council which {fs agtta- |ting for industrial peace and still at- |tacking: the general strike as a weapon of the class struggle against the owners? That same general council which by its whole policy so weakening to the trade union move- |} ment has cleared the ground for anti- | trade union Government legislation? What is the explanation of the fact that in the very moment when gov- |ernment trade union legislation is threatening to throw back the labor | movement a hundred years, the gen- eral council is carrying out its dis- |}ruptive policy? There can only be one answer to this question: the gen- ‘eral council and trade union bureau- |ecracy in some unions have embarked {upon their struggle against the Com- |munists and the minority movement | Similarly the different regiments | peean - move around the Red Square. | TO PUT THRU $5, 000,000 IRRIGATION PROJECT |England. As early as November| in the hope that the Government will j assume the patronage of various Ve one Tat Banal? ed sar tesaes| , ’ 1925, they sent out instructions ac-| reward them by ensoging some a | lages, and in this manner cordial se-| Se gle ing * Documents {0 Smash i aeRO PERSIE aire lage : i |cording to which members of the Clauses of the anti-trade union bill so laticus are established between the| 4 Saddle cloths of pronounced hues, | | WASHINGTON, May 30.—Serion it is strictly a business Lash Communist Party and the minority| as to make it acceptable to the labor opposition is ‘being made to the| sition.” scheme of a group of Chicago and! He further declared that once the middle-western financiers to pt) irrigation workers were in operation through a $5,000,000 irrigation project tropieal fruits, sugar and in Haiti. This became known today! when the New York “Nation” received | cables of protest from several news- papers and a large number of organi- Union in Philippines, “ u MANILA, May 30.—In order to| ies : ag wild smash a union of Philippine workets, | - Pt % | Simultaneously seventeen air- is i “(lipi Nationalist | A . i : higher military academy where they | planes spread in a broad and perfe 4 lav Leask the ‘Filipino ‘Soviet | 2ations in the Caribbean republic. undergo a course of th ’ in-| i periect| movement, and to spread anti-Soviet x an | | ee eee ree years i-| fan, with motors roaring, appear sud-|and anti-Chinese propaganda, Rear The basis for the objections to the, | pseerhich fintlg Po Commanders! denly over the Historical Museum,| Admiral Sumner E. Kittelle, Com-| development of the irrigation plan ig e ranks of the proletariat. |speeding over the Red Square from! mandment of the Sixteenth Naval | found in the treaty provisions which i The increasing number of these North to South. It w igh tae, < {were railroaded through with the ; Senstraithe ” | Nor ‘© South. was a sight to) District, has issued a statement al-| * a a poicst OS | made’ possible the introduction of the| CRU the plunging, dashing Red Cav-| loging. that “certain radicals” were litle country. Under these provisions ; » jalry splashing sparks on the pave- i iti é 5 a Seas / riers 4 | Plotting to-destroy the AymUnIFON | laces itself in a position of financial | | j Red Army and the population at large |adding brilliancy to the scene. | based on their mutual interests and| The head of the column turns and) ey Toe phy between the Army Son ipietd oe oe ro al omit saath: e+e 7 ee ie |Red Square. Then as the column fe “Biey tharched, « eve coms the| 8 parallel to the Kremlin Wall, | th i Y future generals, They are from ole a hie Soap a | movement could be elected neither to | bureaucrats. responsible posts in the union nor to| The minority movement has already tion | its conferences or congresses. | begun its campaign for the exposure , various! Despite these instructions, the rank| of the reformist leaders disruptive tropical products “could be produced | ang file members of the union showed | policy. Tt points out that the genéral to advagtage.” |their complete confidence in the mili-| council had not recognized the trade Haiti is at present a “protectorate” | tants of the minority movement. The| councils “until the agitation of the jof the United'States. Beginning with|tatter were “elected in many local| minority movement had developed to the entrance of the National City | branches to various responsible posts.|the point where resolutions appeared Bank into Haiti the state department | 7, January last the executive of the| on the agenda of the trades union con- f the United States began a definite | union sent out a new circular to all|gtess demanding the affiliation of the Policy of interference on behalf of! branches the contents of which were|trades councils to the T.U.C., with American capital. Beginning with | directed against the Communists and/| representation on the general coun- the scheme of making small loans to the object of which was to achieve | cil.” the Haitian government by American | t)0i, expulsion from the trade unions.| The agitation %t the minority banking concerns finally led to their |The circulars declared in the first|movement is responsible for. trans- j obtaining mortgages on the railroads | jiace, that membership in the Com-|forming the most important trades | system of the unitary command under! Cavi dump at Cavite. | representative of capitalists who chose ‘) 1 oa rere a | ment, the swiftly speeding Red Air bel ale pra seiedniescalive lees avemtend, that later broke into; Emissaries of the Soviet Union have | (© sabia seeeebukorta | t ee aa ng ra of the Red Army is concentrated in/*,~ "%,° column and thus circled about! heen. sent to Manila “to weaken the eating ie i ie | of the country and liens on national | git Party or adherence to the| councils into real councils of actions the Conuhaiuier Politwal leadeee hive bg Square, then winging its way | sovereignity of the United States, | “ i de @ - rotected ee aoe TSOP pes oat | minority movement are incompatible| in the various localities. This is one supplanted the political sonihtebeve:| ack to the landing field, said Admiral Kittelle, forgetting that) nos 5 ny ee See si “yt a aned BY oie nes | with Toyalty to the union; in the| of the greatest contributions of the ‘he plana for the future, snyisape the Workers Donate Airplanes. the independence movement in the ee ead ‘fi oh ye i oe _ Fol ST bea series of hal ions” | second place, that local branches of| minority movement, which is being political and military direction being Some of those airplanes had been) Philippines is as old as the American} paced or a ices aid the “y Leg bora “ed Fi a, eae ages 1s ay i! not join district | recognized by the trades councils and concentrated in the one personnel. |donated to the Soviet Power by the| occupation of the islands. pci ate bad y bawged cae ti a tetetae: el Ri Ms ets wie nited | trades councils in any way associated|the rank and file. At the last an- | The various higher schools of mili-| W°'Sers in various industries, intent Fake Documents. brats “sin mgt be tv! Pye ssi stata iy re ‘i oh . ha | with the minority movement; and| nual conference there were ninety | $457 training all: hind their units, oP eae cea Of the defense] | To support his case, Admiral Kit-(cid'in the establishment of the ‘i-|makes it a colony of the American|{elly,, that local branches of thej delegates in attendance representing i iation | the Soviet Union, r r its al-| tar : V5 ity . is “*“‘union shall in no case adhere to the | fifty-one trades, councus. There was a unit from the aviation! telle referred to the document }nances of Haiti on a firm and gata eaniee. misecley movement or send delegates | councils cannot point out a single in- J ; fod | Next came machine gun battalions.) leged to have been taken by Chang} aps | % | : i |The guns are mounted on carriages,| Tso-lin in his raids on the Soviet em-| °#'8-” | This was effected, however, only to ts conferences, stance where the policy of the min- | |after a campaign of the most violent | | ority movement has injured or re- : Damper to the People. each drawn by four horses. Three of|hassy compound in Peking. The Ps Call Conference. these carriages running abreast whirl! p pals : bus. been pivved: were! A still worse source of damper to/ brutality by U. S. marines, during the} be na this. the general work-| tatded the working class movement. past as in a desperate chariot race.| clumsy frauds perpetrated by Chang | 2° people of Haiti is found in another) occupation. According to the U.S.) 2" spe" f the Bi sper Pais The general council's offensive There are multitudes of them. Then! Peo-iin and the imperialist. powers | pres sau ta alae that , the) Marine Corps report more than 3,000 pac dengan call a conference of|#@ainst the minority movement can _ armored cars of various sizes, grad-|for the purpose of discrediting the) Sree ae “a Ge attitery vor the Phe ere et et of them epresentatives of local branches of | be mgr! cog ae mine pigs 4 oe ually growing larger; also various | Soviet Union and justifying interven- | -epublic bi bale Yokes be \otlioenine Tages be seated Slimece Gene union of general and municipal | know that t A sagt in a xi _ types of artillery also growing larger,| tion in China. . [or jurisdiction over such territory to| ¢re ui ie i) vporllidier wracaseradt Hid | workers in London to dvaw up a plan| Union movement is the new and re |accompanied in the skies by the ap-| The immediate purpose of this anti-| 51. foreign government or power, and| 4)" seubbaitl rts i300 or ‘nduiry mt} of campaign against such decisions | pearance of three huge biplanes, Then! Soviet propaganda, observers declare, | any {Ore'&n Be eae Ce eer Cee enn attin OF Hately St) WAS O84) Od to; force the Red Army trucks of various kind: | hag : | not to enter into any treaty or con- clared that the American occupation | °” y trucks of various kinds. | was the smashing of the union at the |tract with any foreign power or is the “most terrible estate oF atti withdraw them. 600,000 in Pad Army. | Cavite. Admiral H , : ; at | hb Put Some Power In That Kick! force in the trade union movement of union leaders to| Britain that alone can save the move- 'ment from the traitorous policy of The London district committee of|the Thomases and Pughs. This of- Kittelle forced) powers that will impair or tend to \ => Don’t waste your energy in idle protest. When reaction attacks The DAILY, WORKER and you want to fight — strike your blows where they will be most et- fective. Kick in With a Sub. Every subscription is a striking answer to the ’ enemies of Labor—every “sub is more strength to the blows that are dealt every day by The DAILY WORKER, Don't only kick. .... Kick in! SUBSCRIPTION RATES; bees 6” bd In New York Pi A Per Yr. $8.00 Per Yr. $6,00 4 Bi ato. *3'g0 SIX Mo. 4.50 $ Mo. .. 200 8 Mo. ., 2.50 po ee, The DAILY WORKER 33 First Street New York Enclosed § mos, sub to: Nate Street .. Dty eee CEEFE EEE SETHE This is the display of the Red Army} workers at Cavite to le&ve the union | |that now numbers approximately|and to give “a personal pledge of | 600,000 in its ranks, that has grown / loyalty to the American Government.” | from the “Red Guard” of the Russian| Admiral Kittelle. also notified workers | workers which, organized by the Bol-| that he would tolerate no opposition |shevists during the Kerensky period; to Governor-General Wood. or sym-} jin the course of 1917, fought the first) pathy for the Filipino Nationalist | battles of the Revolution, being the) movement. « jgerm of the Red Army, organized in} He urged workers to follow Aguin- | 1918, in the further development of! aldo, who has been a zealous sup- the Civil War. | porter of the American dictatorship Training Fighting Youth. | in the islands. | Now come the youth of the factories | oo | and workshops in several solid regi-) <1 ments, Thee all wear black ‘eather German Socialists Make | | coats, the kind that are often worn by! *. $ ‘ [workers in America. That is their SMall Gains in Election ee f % | only uniform. But they all carry BERLIN, May 30.—Social-demo- lerats were victorious over the na- guns. Otherwise they are in their! everyday clothes. ’ - They are the youth Who are receiv-| tionalists in the elections of Mecklen- | burg State and the Danzig Free City elections. An additional seat in the |ing two years of preliminary trai before they reach military age. This impair the independence of Haiti.” Seek Further Control. Former congressman William A, Rodenberg, of I}linois, who is heavily interested in the present financial tary autocracy which has ever been carried on in the name of the great |American democracy. The Haitian people, during these past five years, have passed through such sacrifices, j tortures, destructions, humiliations, | scheme for exploitation of Haiti said | and misery as have never before been | that the plan of his group “is no known in the course of its history.” General Chiang Kai-Shek, Renegade (From Chinese Guide in America) General Chiang-Kai-Shek has turned its guns on the workers of Shanghai. He has made himself the murderer of the workers who were responsible for his victorious entry into Shanghai. He has ordered the disbanding of the trade unions and ‘course is devoted chiefly to physical culture, but illiterates are taught to read and write, so that in the Red Army itself there are no illiterates. This cultural activity is continued | by means of courses of lectures, clubs j|and libraries, Thus the Red Army |eonstitutes a tremendous educational | apparatus; it gives to the large mass- |es of peasant recruits their first ac- quaintance with modern culture and it turns out during the two years of service hundreds of thousands of cul- tural missionaries for the villages who, thru their political training, have become supporters of the Soviet | Power. < There were more regiments of stu dents’ of chemistry. They wore gas’ masks, presenting an interesting! sight, both boys and girls. i t legislature was won in Mecklenburg which is a Junker stronghold. At the convention of the socialists now being held in Kiel, Otto Wels, head of the national committee »re- peated the willingness of his party to collaborate with the bourgeois groups in the government. . America not so much, Huge banners carried numerous slogans appropriate to the day. So the multitudes passed late into the day. Here among the workers frequently marched units of the Red Army, shoulder to shoulder with the work- ers, There weré many workers’ dele- ations that, carried arms, the work- ers’ militia. Thus the idea of an armed working class was thoroly de- veloped. Communists from foreign .| from the Lubyanka and the Monezr: Workers Ridicule Enemies. ‘lands stood in the reviewing stands Then came the workers’ delegations.| with tears in their eyes, tears of joy ‘They poured into the Red Square from that at least in one land there was an three directions: from the Tvéyskaya,' armed proletariat, workers with rifles y.jin their hands, prophecy of the day They flowed across the Red Square in| when labor in other lands would also three huge currents. What multitudes | seize power, Multitudes of Pioneers of banners and battle flags! Carica-| flowed past the Lenin Mausoleum tures, effigies and floats, in an end-|.with the rest, saluting the Soviet lead- less stream, attacking the enemies of ers on its Tribune, proclaiming “Al- the workers the world over. The trai-| ways Ready!” to all the world. That tors in the*Chinese revolution were was the spirit of massed labor in the favorite theme, The British im-| Moscow's May Day Demonstration, perialist statesmen got considerable | 1927, “Always Ready!” to advance the attention; the Dollar Diplomats of) cause of the Social Revolution, | , attempted to take their arms from them. He has declared war on the “reds” in the Kuomintang. He has split with the Civil Government of Hankow and has set up a military government of his own in Nanking. General Chiang Kai-shek has be- trayed the principles of Dr. Sun Yat- sen and joined the ranks of the counter-revolutionists, R We state emphatically that General Chiang’s split from the Hankow gov- jernment does NOT mean the disin- tegration of the Kuomintang. On the contrary it indicates a crystalliza- tion of the deep-seated contradictions within the Kuomintang growing out of the social composition of its mem- bership. The Kuomintang is a mass organization, as we have pointed out in previous editions of the CHINESE GUIDE IN AMERICA, having within its ranks big and little merchants, workers, peasants, and students, ete, These various groups do not all have the same aims. Those elements who are not so severely exploited by foreign imperialism, and, who them- selves are engaged in the business of exploiting the Chinese masses fear that the revolution may go too far. These are the middle class elements, who stand even now ready to com- promise with foreign imperialism, It is this up who follow the~ = ship General Chiang ek, They fear the masses, who are against all exploitation, both foreign and native. And out of their fear of |the masses they make war on the | masses. It was the general strike instituted by the workers preceding the entry of the Southern troops into Shanghai that made victory possible. Not, only | did the workers lay down their tools, | but they took up arms and fought for |the Nationalist Cause. In the face of the execution squads of war lords, they carried on the struggle. Now General Chiang proposes that these same workers be disarmed, prepara- tory to completely breaking’ their power ef resistence, | Naturally the workers of Shanghai |resent such treatment. And again | they come out of the factories by the {tens of thousands in general strike. These workers readily see that their interests lie with the Civil gov- ernment of Hankow, which rests on the mass support of the workers and peasants of China. General Chiang Kai-shek is the | Yuan Shi-Kai of 1927, who betrayed the revolution in its early days of 1912 and '13. Like Kerensky in the Russian revolution, he attempts to stop the progress of the revolution in its narrow nationalistic stage. But like Kerensky, the onward sweep of the Chinese revolution will engulf him and he will be recorded in the pages of history as one who would sell his people into oppression and exploitation. He may linger in the arena of struggle a short while yet. But the fires of the Chinese revolu- tion will consume him as it will all others who stand in its way. the union, at the head of which are {the most blatant ‘reformists, de- nounced the minority conference and threatened to liquidate all local bran- ches sending delegates to it, and to {expel from the union any of its mem- bers attending the conference. This order caused indignation among the rank and file of the union. The minority movement de- clared that the conference would be | held, and appealed to all local bran- jches and members of the union to {embark upon a determined struggle against the leaders breaking up the | union. \ Conference a Success. | The conference was held on the 6th lof February and, in spite of the |threats and endeavors of the trade | union bureaucrats to break it up, was |most successful. It was attended by | representatives from 21 branches—57 delegates, representing over 20,000 members. The conference declared unanimously against the Executive's policy of disruption and the delegates undertook to wage a campaign against its decision by all means in their power. The trade union bureaucrats were not slow to carry out their threats. The London district committee ex- pelled 5 of the most important bran- ches from the ranks of the union. These branches were deprived of any sort of participation in organizational and administrative work until the next congress of the union. Besides this 18 active members were ex- pelled from the union, including Com- rade Moody, a member of the min- ority movement executive and of the general council of the general and Municipal Workers’ Union. Approve Expulsion Pelicy. This policy of expulsion and dis- ruption was sanctioned by the gen- eral council, nor is this surprising when it is remembered its leaders who are at the same time the leaders of the Labor Party, are merely carry- ing to its logical conclusions the tac- tics of the Liverpool labor party con- ference, which as is well known passed decisions on the expulsion of Communists. These tactics have merely been transferred to the trade unions. |fensive of the general council will be | defeated by the rank and file mem- hers of the unions, CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) vigor became sapped and their po- | litical virtue got tarnished they rat- | tled the coin within hearing distance | and watched their furrowing brows. Those that preferred the flesh pots | of capitalism to the buggy cells be- came patriotic and respectable; the others were broken. 8 td labor leaders that got tired of | the fight joined the ranks of busi- |ness and since, in the broad sense, | one’s class interests determine his attitude toward questions that effect |his bank account these labor leaders jhave degenerated into defenders of | capitalism and bitter enemies of the | workingclass. Woll is one of those. | Having been recently of the working- class the very thot of being jerked back into their ranks fills him with dread, He has no ideals that even a second-story worker would confess to without blushing. So he out-Herods his masters in his vindictiveness against |the militant workers. |QVOLL’S demand for an investiga- |™ tion of alleged Soviet activities in the United States must not be re- |garded as representing the individual | wish of this labor faker. He is speak- ing for the big capitalists who head the National Civic Federation. Those are the elements that make our capi- |talist government jump. All signs | Point to a new wave of terror in the | United States against the progres- |sive wing of the workingclass move- |ment, From China to New York the petals storm is raging or brew- |ing. Never in the history of the class struggle were the labor burea more firmly lined up with the ruling classes, It is our imperative duty to draw out the latent insurgency in the ranks of the organized workers and to develop a new leadership that will supplant the corrupted and de- — |bauched human hulks that are now draped around the necks of the labor — movement, i