The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1927, Page 3

SAesas oc ave ARE eos SA82 aS ae a sat Ed. SS het What Lies Behind the London Coup By R, PALME DUTT (London). HE lawless bandit coup of the Lon- don tory government on the Soviet} be made to change this position. There are many early general election, Not are the usual rumors current, but other signs point in this direction. Delegation offices is the most flag-| rent act yet of violent aggression in| tne “unproclaimed war” which the British government is conducting against the Soviet Union. Chamber- lain no longer hides behind his con- federate brigands and murderers, the Chang-Tso-Lins and Pilsudskis, but comes into the open himself (com- plete with burglar’s tools and modern safe-breaking paraphernalia) as the Chief Brigand and leader of the cam- paign. With this act the lawless ag- gression of the British government is openly proclaimed to the world. T= coup is an attempt to force a situation of war by violent and desperate measures, in face of the continued pacific attitude of the Sov- iet Union, and of the growingly criti- cal character of the situation at home and abroad. It is a continuation of the policy already initiated with the note to the Soviet Union in February,’ and continued with the diplomatic out- rages, arrests and murders at Peking, Tientsin and Shanghai. It is part of the same policy that is training the naval guns on Hankow to smash the Chinese National government, and foreing the Trade Union Bill through Parliament at breakneck speed to| throttle the British workers. The combination of this attack on all three fronts at once means that British Imperialism is throwing all} questions of expediency, caution andi discretion to the winds, and fighting and striking without concealment on/off the growing discontent into war] inal attack and provocation on the every side, like a raging wild beast, | against the rising forces on all sides that threaten it with decline. , What are the immediate factors be-| war general election. For this reason| international working class. hind. this attempt to cut the Gordian} knot with a sword, and smash all the} enemies of British Imperialism at) once by open violence, i Must Act to Save British Empire. | HE answer is that the British tory | government is faced-with a situa-; ion in which the only alternatives are | rapid action or failure, | Thus it is noticeable that the budget | #i™ is indicated by the suggestion was in every sense a makeshift bud-|‘hrown out for popular consumption get, making no attempt to meet the deficit or impose any important new | taxation, but postponing everything to next year. A franchise extension is announced to be hurried through—the traditional British conservative device | in times of stress. But such a “rush” | general election will need to be car- ried through on some rousing “patri-| otie” slogan, to drown the discontent | and work the old electoral machine of | trickery and deceit. For this purpose} the war-cries, lies and agitation against the Soviet Union will be used | to the full, and revelations of “Red | plots and conspiracies.” To carry this out, a war atmosphere is necessary. During the last few months the agi- tation of the capitalist press has been working more and more incessantly and violently to raise hostility to the Soviet Union, in which task the re-| formist leaders have busily helped} (only two weeks before the coup, on April 30th, MacDonald was writing | in the liberal capitalist “Daily News” a vénomous attack on the Soviet Union—“the pressure of foreign .gov- ernments should be close and insis- tent. the internal conflict thus kept up can be ended only in one way. . . Russia as a menace, as an} influence present wherever there is unsettlement, will cease to exist”). | Pe coup is the attempt to force this situation to a head, to turn} agitation against ‘the Soviet Union, | to create the atmosphere—and the! “documents”—for a war policy and a the coup was so sensationglly and} melodramatically staged, with hordes of armed. police to descend at the| busiest time upon an ordinary com- | mercial offic». And, while no explan- | ations of the alleged purpose of the | violation have yet been made at the | time of writing, it may be teken for granted that the “discovery” of docu- | ments will play a principal part. It indications of an |‘ only | | der their yoke more and more wide- fHE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1927 Free Saccd and Vanzetti, George Bernard Shaw Says In Criticism of Frame-up LONDON, June 5,—Waiving aside all questions of guilt or in- nocence, George Bernard Shaw, in a statement today, declared that Sacco and Vanze' hould be freed. “I can only say,” he declared, “that if the English courts hesi- tated for five years to carry out a capital sentence, it would not be carried out at all and it is im- possible for us on this side to feel that the execution would have been so long deferred if the case were clear enough to justify ‘ts inflie- tion.” Shaw sent his statement to an Independent Labor Party meeting called to hear H. W. L. Dana, of Boston, speak on the Sacco-Van- zetti case. Roger Baldwin Sees Hungary Like U.S.A. During “Red Raids” toger Baldwin in a letter from | Europe, lists political prisoners as HE guilt of the London war-mak-| follows: Germany, 650; Czecho- ers is by their actions made clear| Slovakia, 60; Hungary, 00. to the whole world. It is for the| Hungary has 53 more awaiting sen- | workers in every country to demon- tence. i f strate their will against the threat| In four interesting paragraphs the of war and against the reckless erim- American visitor s ; | pressions of central Europe, country | by country: | | tary checks or guarantees for the| inding” of documents by the police. | Workers Must Oppose War. | | The propaganda character of the in the millionaire press that “stolen British naval and military documents” are involved.. Such a suggestion stamps the character of the enter- | pri since it is obvious to anyone n the least conversant with the facts | of the situation that a fantastic sug- gestion of this sort is fit only for the public of. William Le Queux. The forces of world liberation, against which British Imperialism is trying | to strike in striking at the Soviet | Union, are forces whose weapons are more serions than those of military espionage. Those weapons are the| enlightenment and organiation of the masses in Britain, in China, in India, in the Empire and in «the Soviet| Union. And the brutal aggressions, | lies, forgeries, and lawless violence of the British ruling class in defence of their threatened domination will only convince the working masses un- ly that their rulers are bandits with- out law or conscience, whose power must be overthrown by united and resolute struggle as the sole condi- tion of liberation and advance along the path of peaceful progress. Soviet Union, whose existence and : peaceful progress is the most treas- | Communism Growing. ured possession and victory of the| “In Germany,” he finds, “the re- Above | public is getting stronger; there is all, it is for the workers in Britain,to| an atmosphere’ of what in American fight with all their power, to agitate,|é¢yes is progressive. Fascism is on protest and demonstrate, to awaken| the decline; Communism is growing | resistance and to organize action,| and more active, and persecution of against the tory government, the cen-| it is letting up. Unemployment is ter of international reaction, in or-| stil] acute and wages low, but the, der to force them from the path on) trade unions continue strong. which they have entered, and smash Strongest C, P. Outside Rus the attack on the Soviet Union, on) «Cyecho-slovakia on the other hand, | the Chinese masses and on the B |C.B.E., this man of letters? | a fighter by the old school of trade | Docker: despite its republican pretences, is} In China the temporary disruption) may be noted that the English legal of the national forces and triumph of | . repression in Peking, Shanghai and Canton is artificial in relation to the} real forees of the situation, and can Ath Con ress i AS only be short-lived, unless confirmed | i. and established by the decisive vic-| tory of the forces of Counter-Revolu- | tion all over the world. In Europe, the plans for the en-| circlement of the Soviet Union andj united war for “civilization” have continually hung fire, and been de-| stem is devoid of the most elemen- (Continued from Page One) of the theatre. Then it climbs, tier, on tier, until it reaches to the last row of the sixth gallery. What en- thusiasm for the Red Army! What be distinguished by their headwear, ish workers’ own right¢ and organiza- ation. to Keep USSR Safe much less free. Forty per cent of its population belong to national | minorities, German and Hungarian, | who don’t like the Czechs. It has |the strongest Communist Party in | the world outside Russia. Tt got a million votes out of 7 million at the) last election. | “The Socialists, split into four par- | ties, are equally numerous. These | active racial and workingclass forces | measures, | All| the Tartars, Bashkirs and Kirghiz especially, to mention only a few. Over all is the huge emblem of the ‘ Soviet Union, the crossed Hammer | have aroused repressive and Sickle, with the rising Sun of the} 2nd_ police control is strong. HARDY. Secretary of the) By GEORGE National Organising Sec National Minority Movement of Great Bri Who is Mr. Havelock Wilson, C.H., He is the man who claims Presidency to the National Seamen’s Union of Great Britain. He has dominated the sea-| men’s movement for more than 40 years. He was at one time regarded union offic . But, of course, even} in his most “militant” days, his social vision never extended beyond the! fight for increased wages, ete., in-| deed, a very narrow view of the workers’ struggle, in these days,| when in capitalist countries millions | of workers are permanently unem-| ployed; where, capitalist industry has| really ceased to function in many cases, and ceased to, feed the whole of the workers; when' the struggle for, power is the accepted objective of so many organized workers in every capitalist country, with one-sixth of the globe, the U R., controlled by the workers and defended by the workers’ revolutionary Red Army. In 1911 the seamen of Great Britair struck against wages as low in some eases as £3 per month. It was the signal for a mass movement w*ich later’ involved the carters, railway.’ m docke tramwaymen, ete. Wil- Son was given credit for leading the seame, ad no doubt was determined j; enough, at that time, to.win; but it was Comrade Tom Mann who was called to Liverpool, the storm centre, together. with other militants, to help prepare for action. The strike came and all except the tramwaymen bene- fited greatly by this mass action. Received Undeserved Credit. Havelock Wilson like so many other treacherous officials of the Labor Movement was given credit for ob- taining the benefits accruing from the struggle which were obtained not from “negotiations” as claimed by the treitors of to-day: Tom Mann and his milita had to fight James Sex- ton, M who was Secretary of the Jnion at Liverpool, and who! was bitterly opposed to the strike, and the Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas, M.P.,| P.C., arrived in Liverpool to stop the railwaymen joining the strikers and who stated there would be no strike of railwaymen. Thanks to the keen| sense of solidarity of the workers even prevailing in 1911, the more class-conscious workers were able to defy both Sexton and Thomas and under the influence of Comrade Mann the dockers and railwaymen flung themselves into the fight. Militants Started Struggle. n | of the objecti Page Three ct action whenever revolutionary leaders took advanta, nditio} Ma tion, and the r of it in some c brought results in spite of some re- luctant officials, together with direct treachery on the part of others, It fore on the backs of such Tom Mann that Wilson and rode into prominence who ards climbed into m and have openl netrayed the workers, nd conspiring with the em- the Government against the workers, both publicly and privately, bringing about disastrous esults to the worker rlock Wilson beca patriot” during the wa Doctor Johnston's statement that “Patrioti is the last refuge of a scoundre’ justly be applied to Wilson, Durifpg the war his chief business was /to keep the seam +n from striking, Jas the Government and shipowners e- alized the strategie position th warranted greater remuneration, hich they could have e obtained re men as other: after ing ployers leet by fighting leaders of i testers, Workers Were Foiled. betrayals became more obvious r the war, for even many seamen af* w were prepared to’ sacrifice, thinking of a hap r life of “permanent em- ployment” and “a land fit for heroes to live in” which was the slogan of Lloyd George. In 1911 strike the seamen abol- ished the Shipping Federation’s black- list, the “Federation Ticket.” But Wilson, conscious of his treachery, through his conscious collaboration and consp with shipowners, felt there would be a‘ revolt against his agreement to lower wages (British seamen have lost £6 a month since 1920) so he obtained an agreement with the shipowners to operate joint] another form of blacklist, the P. C (Port Consultant Ticket No. 5), which now operates more effectively than any previous methods of black-listing. The “P, is an agreement by which shipowners force seamen to be- come members of the National Sea- Every seaman before securing a° position must obtain this ticket from Wilson’s Union before he can even obtain a promise of employ- men on any vessel controlled by ship- owners who are parties to this nefari- ous agreement. A few shipowners de- cline to operate the “P. C. 5.” Naturally seamen who are in revolt against Wilson’s treachery and this company (shipowners’) union are not men’s Union. given a “Pp. C. 5” and are therefore! blacklisted, those who are in arrears in their payment of “union” fees are the “super-f held Havelock Wilson, C.H., C.B. E.-Conscious Traitor and misery, for a large section of real honest ang honorable workers are con- ned to live in 1 dwellings, is how the conscious arch-traitor of the British Union Move- ith his role of “ Empire Communist Part the Min Movement, I intend to show ho more completely played his treacher- betraying the » Trades Union 2 Party and the Movement. Ingé¥national Chicago Workers in Huge Demonstration Picket a Consulate CHICAGO, June 5.—The workers of Chieago demonstrated yesterday that they ke and aware of involved in the i policies in > British tories’ breach ons with the Union of Social- Soviet Republies in ad by their gross Violations of diplomatic usage ~-the raids on Arcos House and on the storming of the Soviet Union tegation in Peking. Speech From Steps. the dange American Chi of ist ist A great crowd surged into New- re, and heard working denounce the acts of militarists and of capitalist impér ialism. Among those who spoke wéte Swabeck, Simons, Rothstein, John- stone, Biedenkapp, and Maurer. A great parade marched down the fa- shionable Michigan B ard to the offieés of the I consul, where the consulate was picketed, banners were ba 1 in front of it, and Man- uel Gomez, secretary of the Ameri- ean Section of the Anti-Imperialist League made a spe from the steps of the consulate building. Police Observers. The banners carried. by the parad- ers demanded recognition of the Sov- iet Union, Hands off China, and pro- tested against the breach of trade relations by and the at- tempts at ma a war with the U. S. S. R. The police were out in force, and had the patrol wagon with them, but attempted no interference. England, which * | To-day Wilson, Sexton and Thomas! for i z eas pa re all} iy Wiso nm an jomas}|forced to give some guarantees of claiming to have obtained | payment, and if the seaman happens Breaking Chains, Movie ; great achievements for the seamen,,to have no union book at all he must layed by conflicting interests and| joy in the knowledge that a great host forces, while the sands of the tory| stands ready, under the Red Flag of the Revolution, to defend this outpost | Jew Social Order as the background,| meetings are supervised and | g agian of thelr wAbiy. wa papers censored in advance of issue. | 8T° all #6 Hungary a Jail. “Die-Hard” government are running out. The provocations to a break have | been defeated by the pacific policy of | the Soviet Union. At the same time, the peaceful progress and consolida- | tion of the position of the Soviet | Union, and advance in socialist con- struction, have continued without in- | terruption. The Franco-Soviet nego-| ciations, on the point of reaching set-| tlement on all questions dnd close) economic relations; the Swiss-Soviet settlement, reflecting French influ- ence and in opposition to previous British influence on the Swiss gov- ernment; and the influential parti- cipation of the Soviet Delegation in the Geneva Economie Conference, with the prospect of further development of economie relations and breaking of the economic boycott: all these com- bined to make a situation in which the forces were gathering in the direction of peace and against the British plans, and could only be broken by sharp action. Not only in Europe, but even in cer- tain British financial circles, the Movement towards a possible accom- modation with the Soviet Union was gathering. “Matin” of May 14th publishes an alleged “official” infor- mation that on May 11th an agree- ment was reached between the Mid- land Bank, whose chairman is the Liberal ex-Chancellor of the Excheq- uer, MacKenna, and the Soviet Trade Delegation for a credit of ten million pounds to the latter for the develop- ment of trade between Britain and the Soviet Union. What lies behind this obviously tendencious information is not for the moment so important as the situation of Franco-British riv- alty and suspicion as to possible oves towards an economic bargain h the Soviet Union which is re- It is noticeable that on the circles, took place the police der the direct guidance of the extreme Die-Hard Joynson-Hicks, to comp}! a rupture of relations, Home Situation Desperate. The home political situation is equ- ally driving the British tory govern- rat w Gesperate measures, The dis- credit and unpopularity of the gov- ernment is confessed and unconcealed. In the series of bye-elections since its return to power on an original minority vote, the government vote has in the aggregate decreased from 20 to 25 per cent, while the Labor vote has increased in the aggregate some 10 per cent—an almost unpre- cedented rate of turnover. The Trade Union Bill will tremendously increase this unpopularity. At,this rate a con- tinuance for the remaining two years of its full parliamentary mandate will make certain a heavy electoral defeat and the probability of the consequent yeohlems of an absolute Labor major- ity. Ia conseqnence every effort will of labor’s struggle for world victory.| Voroshiloff enters at length into; the discussion of the strength of the) Red Army and one finds a few fleet- ing moments to look around, Michael) | Kalinin, the president of the Wnion of | Soviet Republics, is quite conspicuous, in the midst of praesidium, also} Alexis Rykoff, the Soviet Premier.) There is Molatov, secretary of the) | Central Committee of the Communist | Party of the Soviet. Union and near him is Uglanov, secretary of the Mos- cow Committee of the Party. Ordjon-_ iikidze, chairman of the central con- trol commission of the party, is also} pointed out, with Edyunekidze, secre-| tary of the Executive Committee of the All-Union Soviets. Lunacharsky, | the people’s commissar of education,| watches the proceedings intently, as does Skrypnik, the people’s commissar, of education for the Ukraine, from \the box that was once reserved for! the czar’s ill fated premier, Stolypin.| But they are not more interested | than Ubarevitch, wearing three or-) jders of the Red Flag, who cleared| Siberia of the white terror armies. | Veterans of the Revolution. | Age has caught some of the leaders | of the revolution like Midzachaya, chairman of the Council of the Peo- ple’s. Commissars of the Georgian Soviet Republic, and Felix Kon, the) Polish Revolutionist, chairman of the! Society of Former Polish Prisoners and. Exiles, who followed in the wake_ of the Red Army advance toward War- | saw, in 1920, setting up revolutionary committees in the new territory won. Budenny, the famous Red Cavalry, leader is here, as is Peterson, Com- mandant of the Kremlin,. In fact the} entire front row of the second gal-| lery of this State Opera House is oc-| cupied by Red Army representatives. | There is Petrovsky, the president of | Soviet Ukraine, and Belenke, the Com- mandant of the G. P. U., the Political Departm@&t of the State Department | of Justice. | Among the delegates themselves one can easily pick out the spokesmen of the various and numerous national- ities that exist within the borders of the Soviet Union. This is the Fourth All-Union congress following the 13th) All-Russian Congress with the reor- ganization of Soviet State in 1923, Seventy per tent of these delegates are members of the Communist Par- ty. Thirty per cent are non-party members. We had arrived at the Bolshoy Theater while the party frac- tion was holding its caucus, The non- party delegates were also meeting. Mutual representatives from both groups then meet together for .com- mon agreement. Headdress Colorful. The women delegates are the most noticeable. Most of them wear head- cloths of vasious colors, white, black, Lyed or gray. Men delegates can also ‘land surface. Voroshiloff was declar- Suddenly ‘a’ new wave of spirited applause sweeps this determined as- semblage that speaks for the peoples who dwell on one-sixth of the earth’s “But” thatY repression is nothing | | compared with what you feel at once | in entering Hungary. People who! are against the dictatorship speak to you furtively in whispers. The at- mosphere is like that in the United States during the war, teria. Hungary has settled down iito its old feudal state, controlled by the | ing: “Lenin said that we must always bear in mind that. our revolution is surrounded by the bourgeois capitalist minus hys-} dockers and railwaymen respectively, when as a matter of fact the militants of 1911 started the struggle which} ultimately led to the general accept- | | ance of national agreements in Britain’ and to benefits which were obtainable! world. As long as we are surrounded by this capitalist world, any peace ‘that we enjoy is only an armistice. | But if this capitalist world attacks us we must always be ready.” The congress applauded the report \on the training of aviators. Voroshil- off pointed out that the Red Air Fleet, which was at one time the most back- ward section of the Union’s defense, was now considered very’ well devel- oped. The Red Air Fleet is “no longer a contemptible little force,” he said. Applause also greeted the declara- tion that, “Just as the development of industry is developing its technic, so the Red Army is also developing its technic.” He coneluded with, “The Red Army is flesh of the flesh and bone of the bone of the workers and peasants.” Then another ovation as Voroshiloff finished. World’s Workers Pledge Support. Then the congress is presented by the crew of the battleship, “Avrora” great lendlords and police. Fascism has, declined as the landowners grew stronger. Parliament is a dummy | body. Communism is illegal; Social- lism is cautious; the intellectuals are either scared or in exile. 1 managed to speak at a meeting, but it had to be a private affair behind closed! doors.” ' Kellogg Plans to Place) Chiang in Chang’s Job (Continued from Page One) hospital facilities are inadequate. | Mme. Sun Yat-sen with the co-opera- tion of many foreigners, including American, British and German doc- tors, is starting a Red Cross drive to, help the wounded of both sides.) Bishop Roots has pledged the co-op- eration of the London missions and th eAmerican church missions. “This committee is, therefore, pre- pared to cable any funds recéived im- with a beautiful duplicate in a good-| mediately to Hankow either to Bishop | sized model of theiy ship thet played | Roots or to the Chinese Red Cross as! an important part in the revo utionary | contributors may wish. This is an op- days of 1917 revolution, coming UP! portunity not only to help suffering the Neva, at Leningrad, and shelling the czar’s Winter Palace. Speakers humanity but also to influence Chin-' ese public opinion in the direction of from various workers’ organizations | renewing the historic friendship with | pledged their. support ‘to the Red Army and the Soyiet Union. Resolu- tions from the Putilov Works, at Len- ingrad, were read. There was a speak- er from the railroad works, “Stalin,” at Tiflis. There were hosts of speak- ers, with great multitudes listening | all over Moscow and its environs, be- | cause all the speeches were broad- casted in full. The congress ended with the elec- | tion of a Central Executive Commit- tee that chose a praesidum of 27 mem- bers headed by six presidents, Michael Kalinin, Gregory Pgtrovsky, Alexan- der Tcherviakoff, Gasamfara Masa- bekoff. Netirbaj Avtakoff and Fay- sulla Khodgaeff. The committee ap- proved the composition of the Coun- cil of People’s Commissars as follows: President, Alexis Rykoff; Foreign Minister, George Tchitcherin; War, Clement Voroshiloff; Communications, Jan Rudshutak; Posts and Telegraphs, Ivan Smirnoff; Finance, Nicholas Brukanoff; Commerce, A. I. Mikojan; Labor, Basil Shmidt;» Workers and Peasants, Gregory * Ordjonikids Chairman Economie Council, Valeri Konibisheff, and Director of Statis- tics, Valerian Ossinski. Another congress had passed and it had witnessed the Soviet Union stronmex than. ever. {the United States. It is an emer- |gency call. Our own plan for a part- | time paid secretary has been at least | temporarily abandoned and this plea) takes precedent over our proyio: | quest.” * * * Yelps For Intervention. } SHANGHAI, April 24 (by mail).— |A hysterical plea for American and British intervention in China was! made by Stirling Fessenden, Ameri-| can chaiituan of the Shanghai Mui cipal Council, at the St. George’s Fes- | tival yesterday. | “According to the legend,” he said, | it. George achieved fame by killing a dragon. If necessary, another dragon will be slain here, the head of which is at Hankow and the tail at) Canton, The army and navy are here, which means that the “White” | race will not be ousted from China. . * * Feng Continues Drive. HANKOW, June 5.—Reports from north central Honan state that Gen- eral Feng’s troops are sweeping out the remnants of the Fengtien troops from territory below the Yellow River. 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