The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 8, 1927, Page 3

KUOMINTANG DENOUNCES TREACHERY OF CHIANG IN OFFICIAL STATEMENT The following is a statement issued to the Chinese people by the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomin- tang enumerating Chiang Kai-shek’s counter-revolutionary actions, “Chiang Kai-shek, the traitor to the Chinese Kuomintang, who is now commander-in-chief of the First Unit of the Nationalist Revolutionary Army, has long cherished a sinister | design, His truculence and recalci- trance know no bound. Adhering to the liberal spirit of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the party has adopted an at-} titude of tolerance in’ the hope that he would repent and make amends | During | the past several months, however, his | for his wrongful conduct. ‘pronouncements and actions have in- dicated more and more a reactionary tendency. He has utilized the post of | the commander-in-chief to carry out his treacherous scheme, He has created a new epoch in the history of | Chinese militarism and has proved himself a new tool of imperialism. Two-Fold Duty, “The Kuomintang has to fulfill a| two-fold duty; internally, to eradicate militarism and externally, to elimi- nate imperialism. not only perversive in the extreme but also mean the ‘substitution of tyran- ny’ for tyranny! Therefore, besides the adoption of a resolution ordering | his expulsion from the party and his, arrest by the officers and soldiers as well as the people and public bodies for punishment, it is deemed neces- sary to proclaim to both Chinese and foreigners some of his notorious crimes: “1, Violation of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s instructions.—The late Dr. Sun Yat-sen held that the aim of the Nationalist revolution should be to, secure freedom and equality for China. Hence, internally, we should eliminate militarism and externally, we should annihilate imperialism. And the three great policies of “Coopera- tion with Soviet Russia”, “Coopera- tion with the peasants,” and “Cooper- ation with the labor” were enunciated by the late Dr. Sun at the time of the reconstruction of the party. Although Chiang was then an ardent supporter of these policies, his words and acts have proved contrary to the late Dr. Sun’s instruction. . Ruins Party School. “2. Ruination of the party school by way of disintegrating the revolu- tionary force. The late Dr. Sun Yat- sen entrusted the management of , Whampoa Cadet School to Chiang ‘with the expectation that he would train military men for the service of the party. With his head filled with thoughts of feudalism, Chiang re- garded Whampoa as Siaochan (a Chiang’s acts are! | ity me | ful |rest of the party representatives of the 2nd Division, thereby destroying \the party military system. His acts of the Central Party and govern- -On March 20, 1926, he wrong- were characterized by absolutism and | he did net have the slightest consid- eration for the dignity and prestige | of the Central Party and government. | He is responsible for the evil prac- | tice of military men interfering with | il administration and for the in-! troduction of a despotic military re- | gime. Oppressive Control. “4, Oppressive control of the party and employment of scoundrels,—The |eomrades of the party were very much exasperated by the coup March 20, 1926, and it was only the presence of the enemy that restrained |them from adopting punitive mea- sures against him, It was hoped that {such an attitude of tolerance would {lead to his repentance but his evil propensity persisted. Relying upon comrades, altered the party regula- | tions without authority and appointed chairmen at will. In consequence of his oppressive control of the party \and his employment of scoundrels who fill all important posts, the prestige of the party has suffered a serious blow. |that he is a loyal disciple of the late | Dr. Sun! With the presumptuous air |of a monarch, he dictates to the com-| Labor Party heads, whose anti-Communist activities made easier the Arcos rades as if he himself were the coun-| 7aids by the government and aid the passage of the anti-strike bill now be- Whosoever follows him is re-| fore the House of Commons. Below are, left, Ernest Bevin, and right, Arthur | try. sent troops and effected the ar- | of | his military power, he coerced the And yet he shamelessly boasts} THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, (RIGHT AND CENTER JUNE 8, 1927 Page Three LABOR POLITICIANS | | OF GREAT BRITAIN | | Upper portraits are of Arthur Henderson, left, and J. H. Thomas, right, garded as a real revolutionist and | Purcell. These two are centrists, not so ruthless in their opposition to the whosoever. opposes him is denounéed| left wing as Henderson and Thomas. Purcell headed the delegation to the /as a counter-revolutionist, so that the} Union of Socialist Soviet Republics which brot back a report, on the whole, |people only know Chiang but ignore |the Central Executive Committee. Usurpation of Power. “5. Usurpation of governmental | power in appointing army chief-com- |manders without authority—The ap- |pointment and dismissal of civil mili- | itary officials are rights reserved for \the Nationalist government® Chiang, | |however, wrongfully appointed, in \the name of commander-in-chief, pa- cification commissioners and scores of | jarmy chief-commanders, Neither did |he ask for permission of the govern-| ; ment before the appointments were, leffected, nor did he report such ap-| | pointments to the government subse- | :quently. The result has been that! |the Central Government has been left | | without any knowledge of the condi- |tion of the different armies, As re- \gards the distr#bution of funds and | provisions for the armies, he has in- \dulged in such freedom of action |which denies the Central Party and government an opportunity of inves- tigation. There have been cases where unwarranted deduction was |ple as well as laborers. place where Yuan Shih-kai had his troops trained) and as a sphere of his personal influence. By means of small favors, he beguiled the students into rendering service to himself, in- ,made from the pay-rolls for personal ‘enrichment. In his eyes there is no jaw! | Violates Resolutions. ] | favorable. | has sent Hsiang Chuan-yi and ‘Lee jand Lai Hsing-hui were induced to |murder the people of Chungking and |to besiege Luchow. | Shanghai is the base of operations of imperialists and tionaries. There the number of la- borers is larger than in any other part of China. It is there that the severest of oppression against labor was experienced. Immediately upon his arrival at Shanghai, Chiang Kai- shek formed a seditious league with the imperialists, and began a cam-_ paign against the mass of the peo- Government as a_ legal Chiang disarmed and them. It was even possible for the \eity branch of our party to maintain an open existence under the oppres- sion of the imperialists and militarists but it Chiang Kai-shek, who calls himself |the disciple of Dr. Sun and comman- ;der-in-chief of the revolutionary Na- tionalist army. Tat Sun Chuan-fang and courage to do, Chiang did without counter-revolu- | Labor pick- | ets are recognized by the Central| force but | slaughtered | was at once suppressed by} Chang Chung-chang had no! {from Wuhan, and falsely accused our {Chao to Szechuen, where Liu Hsiang | party of being ‘red.’ Be it noted that {Chiang is also one of our members, and it is absurd to think that he could | tell such a falsehood in the- manner (of Chang Tso-lin and Chang Chung- chang. He does this for no other pu pose than offering the imperialists and militarists a demonstration that he is prepared, for his own selfish in- terest, to surrender to them under the false banner of anti-Bolshevism. “These are only a few of Chiang’s crimes which we choose to point out. By no means are they the only ones he has perpetrated. On behalf of the interests of the people, the party has started the revolution. It is to be regretted that the wrong choice of a military commander has led to such difficulties, The comrades of the par- ty, prompted by the spirit of leniens have again and again, for the sake of saving the situation, overlooked, ties. The point is now reached where it is no longer possible for us to be fore-bearing. A survey of Chiang’s acts will reveal'the fact that he is an extreme anti-revolutionary. What |Chang Tso-lin and Chang Chung- | face though reluctantly, many irregulari-| stead of to the party. elements, who could not thus be em- ployed, were oppressed by any con- ceivable means. His henchmen and agents were ordered to set up such organizations as ‘The Sun Yat-senism Club’, ‘The Whampoa Alumni Asso- ciation’, etc. The ‘Three People’s Principles’ were given a wrong inter- pretation and false doctrines were ad- vocated in order to deceive the world, Deliberately, he caused complications to arise so that he could exploit them to the fullest extent. Consequently, the very foundation of the Whampoa Cadet School was shaken by the dev- iltry of a single individual, It was only véry recently that he instigated | General Li Tsi-sin to surround the| Whampoa Cadet School with troops} and suffered to ruin an institution which the late Dr. Sun had built up with much effort. Destroys System. “3. Destruction of the party mili-| tary system with the consequent in- fringement of the power and euthor- A Rare ecu -ByLENIN | THE SOVIETS AT WORK _ By real good fortune we ve been able to pur- ase the only remaining | of this little booklet — | by Lenin, right after the | , Rigsian revolution. No | more are in print. Before | | | | these are sold out, we ask every worker who does not own a copy to secure one. i | 10 CENTS ¥ Books by Lenin: 0-OPERATIVES —.05 STATE AND REVOLUTION — 2h ON THE ROAD TO INSURRECTION 08 IMPERIALISM — Final sta of capitalism to ON ORGANIZATION (Cloth) 1.50 The Daily Worker Pub. Co. 83 First Street New York it dad clei | | ‘ j | | lit he sevelhgor |adopted by the Central Party and op-| “6. Violation of the resolutions | position to the elevation of the party |power.—The removal of the Central |Party and government to Hupeh was jdecided upon at Canton, Chiang, however, desired to annul the original resolution and proposed that the party and government should be lo- cated at Nanchang within his firm grip so that his feudalistic ambition might be satisfied and his sinister de- signs might be carried out. The com- rades, realizing the grave danger con- | Sequent upon the decline of the power of the party and the ascendeney of that of Chiang and his clique since ment for the elevation of the power of the party. only to strengthen and centralize the authority of the power but also to rec- tify Chiang’s mistakes. From the revolutionary standpoint, the move- ment was entirely unselfish but Chiang vigorously opposed it. ng Allies With Imperialism. “7, Alliance with imperialists and compromise with militarists.—The bringing about of the downfall of the imperialists and the militarists is the fundamental! policy of the party. Yet following the arrival of Chiang Kai- | shek at Nanchang the cry for a com- promise between the north and south was raised both in Chinese and for- feign cireles, while the air became filled with the talk of a compromise with the imperialists, As to the facts, ‘men as Huang Fu have been busy at such attempts. Seditious connections with the enemy is another of his crimes, i Persecutes People. March 20, 1926, conducted a move-. The purpose was not | | fear. |chang dared not, he had dared with- Crushing Work. out hesitancy. It is he who cuts him- “9; Smothering of political work | self from the party and from the peo- among troops.—Recently Chiang ar-/ple. It is he who of his own free \bitrarily sealed up the offices of the | will has chosen the place of the new |General Political Department of the militarist. We have been talking | Military Council stationed in Shang-' about overthrowing the militarists yet | hai. Without authority he also arres-| another new militarist whose cruelty | ted persons engaged in political train- far surpasses his predecessor, follows | | ing of troops. His aim is nothing short jon the heels of the ones brought down. |of an attempt to transform the revo- It is a misfortune for the party to |lutionary army into a tool of the have such a rebel. How can we face | militarists and their proteges. The! the people and fulfill their expecta- |height of his cruelty and the severity tions if we fail to exercise the strict- jof his crimes far exceeds that of the |est party discipline at this juncture | affair of March 20th. jand allowed the perpetuation of a Illegal Conference. |veign of terror. It is hoped that the} “10, The calling of an illegal con-| people will understand to. what extent | {ference against the Central Govern-|Chiang has sunk in crime, and ‘why |ment.—The general regulations of the | it is necessary for the party to take | | party stipulates that meetings of the|such drastic measures to punish him. }Central Executive Committee and of| Let every one rise and join in the con- the Central Control Committee must |demnation, so that no one would dare be. held at the place of the seat of the! and repeat Chiang’s deeds! |Central Government. The seat of both} “The success of. the revolution de- |the Central Party headquarters and | pends on the solidarity of the people, ‘the Central Government is at Wuhan. | and their ability to carry on a vig-| it has been known to all that such | | Yet Chiang Kai-shek in his, own name 'dared to call a meeting of the Cen- | tral Supervisory Committee to be held at Nanking. On what authority and | with what reason ean Chiang call this jmeeting? When the counter-revolu- tionaries met in the. Western Hills |Sometime ago, they were repeatedly repudiated by Chiang himself as law | breakers. Now he himself is doing the very act he condemned, This is his tenth crime. “11, Interference with local admin- istration and trampling down of peo-! | ples’ rights.—Whenever he arrives at /a new place Chiang would unlaw jappoint civil and military offi }not even attempting to disc “8. Persecution of farmers and cals and unscrupulous sharks. laborers, and murder of common peo-, Shanghai was captured the peovle of ple.—It is in the interests of our peo-| Shanghai, in accordance with the ple that our party has carried on this; spirit of self-determination, elected revolution—in fact the foundation of their own committees and organized the party is laid on the interests of provisional local government, which "When , the masses. More than 80 per cent of our populace are represented by our farmers and laborers. The sup- port of the farmers and laborers is therefore one of the three principal policies of the party. Chiang Kai- shek, however, looks upon the farmers and laborers as if they were his ene- mies. Wherever he goes the murder of these people is repeated. Quickly following the murder of Chen Than- hsien, a labor leader, at Kanchow, Kiangsi, there took place the whole- sale destruction of party headquar- ters, offices of the farmers’ unions and labor unions, and arrest and slaughter of party members as well as farmers and laborers in all parts’ of Kiangsi province. The same tac- ties were also adopted in Kuangtung, Kuangsi, Fukien and Anhui. He also |received the approval of the Central | Government. | Chiang, however, hindered their establishment and appointed his own men. As regards the Provincial Gov-, ernment of Kiangsu, the appointees of the Central Government were simi- larly preventel from assuming their effices by the same method. Suppression, “12, Suppression of public opinion and interference with newspapers.— Realizing that Wis crimes have reach- ed a height that they could no longer be tolerated by publie opinion, and fearing that the newspaper might publish news concerning his anti- revolutionary acts, thus exposing his crimes, Chiang gave orders, forbid- |ding newspapers to publish articles | against his interests, suppress» news, orous war. While it is true that mili- tary force is one of the most impor- |tant ‘weapons, it is more true that a |vietory can only be a true one when (it is won by the people by their own solidarity and valor, In this sense also do we desire to inform the peo- ple.” 'Van Sweringens Again Try to Form Road Trust | WASHINGTON, June 7.--The fate of the Van Sw gen billion dollar | ad merger may be determined * the character of the testimony of- | 1 by O. P. Van Swer- . Cleveland financier, who con- | ceived the plan of linking up five big railroad systems into a single | | unit. The commission resumed hearings |on the application of the Chesapeake | \& Ohio Railvoad to acquire stock con- | trol of the Erie and Pere Marquette | | systems, with Van Sweringen as the | star witness. The Chesapeake & Ohio | ‘now controls the Hocking Valley | jvoad, while the Van Sweringen Brothers control the Nickel Plate. These five roads constitute the: pro- | posed merger, with the Chesapeake & Ohio as the nucleus of the unifica- tion plan. WASHINGTON, June 7.—Presi- dent Coolidge will make no speech- making stops enroute to the Black Hills next week, save for that at Hammond, Ind., where he will deliver an address dedicating a memorial park, it was announced at the white house today. A New Crisis in the European Mining Industry By F. R. We are experiencing the beginnings of a new crisis in the European mining industry, The struggle of the British miners last year and the con- sequent exclusion of Great Britain from among the coal-supplying coun- tries of the woyld may somewhat have relieved the status of European coal production by making it possible for the constantly accumulating stocks at the pitheads to be cleared, | ‘ | but this amelioration was than transient. ne more No sooner was the ruggle in Great’ Britain terminated, and British coal again able to com- pete on the world market, than the seemingly prosperous business posi- tion of European coal production changed into the contrary again. Victory In Vain. The British coal magnates had carried off a complete vietory over | the 8 iners. Not only did they effect a prolongation of the working hours; they also made a cut in wages and begari to put through their com- prehensive programme of rationaliza- tion in regard to working methods by reducing the number of shifts in the} increase of | of output. In spite of all the desperate f the British coal magnate a simultaneous efforts , to re- of the | gain the lost world markets and to penetrate into fre possibilities of expor' ler and sm h pastures, the tion get smal- ler. Production is already being restricted, fewer shifts being | worked, and further miners are be- ling dismissed, notwithstanding which, the stocks at the pitheads are grow- ing so large that there is again talk of a necessity of reducing the costs of production,’ which means the wages.. The course of procedure is so clearly outlined in England, that the miners’ leader Cook only the other day pointed out that a fresh struggle was impending at no very distant date, in which connection the miners would have to withstand the attacks of the mine-owners. HESE proceedings in British min- ing naturally affect the mining in. dustry rope most sensibly. The prosp: busine: cle called forth abroad the British miners’ struggle is over, and the competition of Great Britain has become far keener than it was before. This is particularly the case in the Ruhr dis- trict and in Silesia. In the Rhur district the situation has become so acute that miners have been discharged and idle shifts in- troduced. On this subject the Boc- jhum correspondent of the “Berliner Borsen-Courier” states that “Sf the market crisis continues to obtain, further serious restrictions will be inevitable.” * is by | side Germ: by this crisis may be seen from a re- | Port of the Belgian Labor Ministry, according to which the position of | the Belgian hard-coal market is get- ng more and more critical. A num- ber of small mines have been threat- That the coal-mining districts out-| vy have also been affected} with the ened down, Polish Situation Bad. He. situation in Poland, meanwhile, is catastrophic, The pithead stocks in Upper Silesia, which have at all times been the most reliable baro- meter to record the position of coal- |mining, reached a total of 1,021,000 ‘tons on M@&rch 31st, a figure which has up to the present only occurred s, during the customs war with ermany. In keeping with the increase of pit. head stocks, there is a decline in pro- duction and in sales. The daily out- |put, which amounted to more than |107,000 tons in February, fell to about 80,000’in March, The sales and exportation totals are discussed as follows by the “Berliner Bgrsen- Courier.” “The deterioration of the coal po-s ne of closing sity sition is yet more drastically ex- pressed in the sale returns. In February the-home market absorbed) s, but in March only The development of} altogether disastrous. While in January coal exports from| Eastern Upper Silesia alone still) | totalled practically a million (or to HAVELOCK WILSON AND THE LONDON, June 7.—Havelock W son, nenegade bureaucrat of the Sea- men’s Union, has joined hands with the tory government of Birkenhead and Churchill, in attacking the Sov-} liet Union for its alleged mistreat- {ment of a British sailor named David | Scott, who was deported from Russia for violating the criminal code. | Scott has given out an affidavit} }charging that he was imprisoned | | without trial in Soviet Russia. In re-| {ply to a question in the House of 'Commons, Mr. Locker-Lampson, un- der secretary of Foreign Affairs de-| clared that his attention had been! jealled to the case of David Scott, i“who was just returned destitute |from Russia” and that the British | Charge d’Affairs at Moscow has pro- tested to the Soviet Government) against Scott's “prolonged detention} without trial.” Wilson has made political capital} out of the sordid case in his efforts! to help the Die-Hards break off rela- tions with Soviet Russia. He has ap- pealed to members of Parliament on} Sevtt's behalf. A statement issued by the General Council of the Soviet trade union | movement shows that Scott came to; Russia in 1923 and remained there! illegally. He does not deny this. | A Smuggler. For three years he lived in the} port city of Novorossisk with a pros-| titute named Pavlova Cortonet, a} | Khirgiz d be exact § 99) tons, drop in February to 7 March a further fall to 6! In relation to . thus declined by Everything p ity t the British m prelude to still greater ey success of the Br rs and the keen Bri tion will also drive the Continental coal magnates to force through their “rationalization,” Even now, workers are being discharged, idle shifts in- troduced, and pits closed down, The there was.a per cent ” s to the probabil of, the next move will be general attack by the mine-owners on the miners. iy iners of Poland, the Rhur, and Czechoslovakia will have to suffer bitterly for failing to recognize a year ago that the struggle in Great Britain was fought in their own in- terests too. All the forces of the working class. will have to be called up if the im- minent attack of the employers ig to be repelled. The fate of the British miners should have taught the inter- national proletariat that it is only a fight on a united international basis that can avert defeat. ed as procurers. They were errested for keeping a house of prostitution te which sailors of foreign vessels were lured to be made drunk and robbed, Given a “Floater.” Scott had no documents showing he was a British subject. He estab- lished his identity through a trade union card. He and his woman partner were arrested Dee, 10, 1925, and released Aug. 10, 1926 on the understanding that they would leave Novorossisk, They had been imprisoned after a trial in which they were found guilty of violating Article 97, Part 3 of the criminal code. The woman was sen- tenced to three years in the Scott was deported liv to England. In the affidavit which he published in England, and which is being used for anti-Soviet propaganda, Scott ad- mits that he jumped ship at Novoros- sisk because he thought he could earn a pound a day there. Do They Mean It? In London laDor circles it is point- ed out that if the tory governnient is really interested in protesting against the imprisonment of British subjects, it might address its complaints to the United States, where a number of B&tish workers are rotting in jail for mere membership in the I. W. W. In\ western states, California in particular, British subjects have been Soviet citizen. They both carried on/ arrested under the criminal syndical~ * contraband trade. They were searched | ist act, and the possession of an Si w. ten times and each time contraband) W. membership card was sufficient goods were found on them. They/ to send them for terms of gne to fif- were fined for this illicit business. | In addition Scott and Cortonet act-! teen years at San Quentin and other prisons A Chance to Visit ee VIET RUSSIA Seven Weeks’ Trip JULY 14 to LABOR DAY A round trip on modern steamers of the Swedish American Line, equipped with every up-to-date convenience. 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