The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 11, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Daily, Except Sunday 68 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): 68.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year 98.50 six months $2.60 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL i WILLIAM F, DUNNE BERT MILLER. Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under| the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. NT >. The Executions of the White-Terrorists and British Agents The workers’ and peasants’ government of the Soviet Union has been more lenient with spies and agents-provocateurs than any other government in the history of the world. It could afford te exercise extreme clemency against its enemies because it is) the government of the overwhelming majority of the population of the country. All previous revolutions in history have been revo- lations of minorities attempting to impose their wills upon the vast majority. The Bolshevik revolution is, as Marx and Engels and Lenin always declared proletarian revolutions must be, the| movement of the vast majority in the interest of the majority. Its internal stability insures it against the success of any counter- | revolutionary attempts, so it could regard with disdain the feeble attempts levelled against it on the basis of striving to arouse the) masses against its authority. To the surprise of the whole world the social revolutionaries, who were tried and convicted in 1922 of being paid agents of the French military mission in Russia in the} early days of therevolution, were permitted to live, on specific or- ders of the Council of Peoples’ Commissars that revoked the death | sentences and substituted prison terms instead. They permitted them to live in shame, despised by all revolutionaries of the world. Some of the ignobie hirelings of imperialism, tried in 1922, had en- gaged in terroristic acts against the leaders of the revolution and it ‘was proved that the executive committee of the so-called social revolutionary party had given orders to the forlorn hag who fired | a poisoned bullet into the body of Lenin in an effort to destroy the foremost revolutionary leader of all time—a wound that un- questionably hastened the untimely death of our world leader. But when today the Soviet Union is being attacked on all sides, when Britain—the mad-dog of Europe—is on a rampage inciting raids against Soviet embassies, indulging in an orgy of forgeries and inciting assassinations against the representatives of the workers’ and peasants’ government in every part of the world, and when it goes to the extent of aiming, through its white- guard czarist hirelings, at the lives of Stalin, Bukharin, Rykoff and the other outstanding leaders of the Soviet Union, it is time to call a halt. Twenty paid agents of Britain, who tried to supplement with terror inside Russia the acts of the tory government outside in < to create a military bloc of adjacent nations against the ; ition, have been shot, after unimpeachable proof of their Mies were produced in a trial court. Their crimes are related in detail in another part of this paper. This gang of unprincipled tssassins, who tried to aid Britain in its efforts to invade the Soviet Union and turn that nation into an abattoir, shed oceans of blood in the relentless extermination of the flower of the work- mg class and reduce the surviving inhabitants to vassals of impe- rialism, met precisely the fate they so richly deserved. The time for temporizing with the enemies of the revolution who, for pay, perpetrate the crimes that these vile dogs were guilty of, has passed. It is to be hoped that all of their kind are immediately exposed and summarily dispatched. Let the contemptible scoundrels of apostacy in the ranks of the social democracy who act as apologists for imperialist despot- ism against the workers and peasants of the world indulge in banal twaddle about the “new terror” in Russia! Let the liberals who serve imperialism by praising the fraudulent democracy with which capitalism tries to conceal its diseased blotches that herald its impending death talk about abstract political liberties. People who do not distinguish between a government of capitalism, tor- turing the defenders and leaders of the working class, and a work- ers’ and peasants’ government, defending the working class against imperialist spies are, either consciously or unconsciously, playing the game of the enemies of labor. They would save the lives of these traitors in order that they may carry on their nefari- ous work of paving the way for Britain and her agents and allies to pile corpses mountain high throughout all of Russia. They would save the lives of people not fit to live in order that millions of useful workers might perish. At a time when Britain is indulging in every conceivable provocative act, mobilizing the very scum of the earth against the revolution, we cannot stop to discuss abstractions with social- democratic agents of the bourgeoisie and the liberal elements of the capitalist class itself. ’ The agents of the imperialist powers, who have assassinated Uritsky, Volodarsky, Vorovsky and Voykoff and plotted against the lives of other leaders of the revolution should be exterminated Ike rattle-snakes and if the Soviet Union decides upon that policy it will have the loyal support of every intelligent ~vorker in the whole world. One Voykoff is worth a million mercenaries of imperialism! Down with the conspirators! Scourge from the earth the British agents in Russia! Throttle the assassins! Long Live Revolutionary Russia! Right-Wing Assassins Fight Against Union Hiring gangsters in labor disputes, once the exclusive policy of the employers against labor, has now become a fixed policy of the right-wing leaders of the furriers’ union, who are doing the dirty work of the employers and carrying on a union-wrecking campaign on a greater scale than the employers themselves have ever attempted. t The right-wing first learned from their masters how to con- duct guerilla warfare against militant workers; they now teach them more vicious methods than they themselves ever conceived. The murderous attack upon Aaron Gross Thursday, when he was beaten with the jagged pieces of broken bottles and savagely stabbed with knives, not only convicts the right-wing gang of trying to wreck the union that they have lost control of because of their subserviency to the employers, but proves that they are so desperate they will even resort to assassination in order to con- The British Labor Movement and China By I. D. LEVIN. After the defeat of the coal-miners, |the hands of the British government | were left free for a more active policy in the East. Baldwin’s government attempted first to create a united |front with the imperialist powers for intervention in China, but failing in this it entered upon parleys with the | Nationalist government. It did its best to persuade the latter that Eng- | land was sending cruisers, tanks, poi- son-gases, guns and aeroplanes “with- out any hostile intentions, but sim- ply to make friends with the Canton |government. Stretching out a mailed fist to Eugene Chen, minister for | foreign affairs to the Nationalist gov- | ernment, the British government said: |“Let us forget the past and make frien We know the answers of |the Canton government to “peaceful” overtures. Eugene Chen simply tore them up, refusing to come jto any sort of agreement until the British military forces left China. How Did Labor Act? British intervention broods over | China like a dark cloud. How did the | British labor movement react to the threatened catastrophe? these} the British workers by smashing the general strike in 1926, they are now in co-operation with MacDonald, be- traying the Chinese revolution, The foreign policy of the general council is the logical outcome of its internal policy. Since the general council dur- ing the miners’ struggle undertook the role of an overseas to Baldwin and the mine-owners, forcing the miners to accept lower wages, since they proclaimed their policy of industrial peace and class-collaboration, there is nothing extraordinary in their going a step further and supporting the “peaceful” Chinese policy of Bald- ing with the Chinese revolution, and jthe same Baldwin dealing with the miners? | disposed to yellow coolies than to Bri tish workers? | prising that the general council fol- | lowed MacDonald’s lead and support- ed, together with that megalomaniac, |the sanctimoniously “peaceful” Chin- |ese policy of the Baldwin government. |A united front was formed, stretch- ing from Baldwin to Churchill, from} Churchill to MacDonald, Thomas and | George Hicks. | win’s government. What after all is) |the difference between Baldwin deal-| Why should he be better} It is not at all sur-| |ment of liberation arising in China,| movement. The British Trade Union Congress} Joint Council Meets. held in Scarborough in 1925 passed aj A meeting of the Joint National resolution by an overwhelming ma-) Council, consisting of representatives jority (3,082,000 against 79,000)| of the general council, the labor party against imperialism, even admitting! and the parliamentary fraction of the the right to f-determination in-| labor party, was held on the 26th of cluding the right of separation from| January. The council discussed the the empire. One would expect the, Chinese question and decided to send general council, the executive of the|a deputation to Chamberlain in order congress, to call upon the whole of} to procure reliable information on the the British working class to rise as| situation in China and to inform him one man in defense of the new move-|of the point of view of the labor | Needless to say this was which is being threatened by British|not the point of view of the labor imperialism. But much has occurred! movement but that of MacDonald & since the Scarborough congress. | Co. which is well known to Chamber- The General Council is being true | lain. to its traditions. Having betrayed se It was expressed in the labor party! manifesto of the 6th of January, and consists in a mere re-hashvof Mac- Donald’s “theories” from his article in the January number of “The So- cialist Review.” This manifesto, as is well known, gives Chamberlain a friendly pat on the back, declaring that the minister for foreign affairs is trying to act in the spirit of the Labor Party’s, resolution, passed at the last congress in Margate! They “Regret.” The deputation visiting Chamberlin was made up of Hicks, Citrine, Cramp! and Lansbury. The deputation then} reported to the Joint National Coun-) cil, which passed a resolution and de-| cided to transmit it to E |the minister for foreign affairs of the | Chinese Nationalist government. This| resolution is to the effect that, the! labor moveme ‘regrets” the flaunt- ed military demonstration directed! against the Canton government. These} mean forgers of Iabor-opinion “re-| gret”’—merely regret--this demon- stration. This false document goes on to pretend the policy pursued by the Baldwin Government is that of negotiations and friendly agreements and is in direct contradiction to the military concentration of forces in China. It must have needed a pretty good cheek to stick to such a statement at a time when Chamberlain and all the other ministers were falling over! themselves to declare that there was| complete agraement in their Cabinet} over the Chinese question. In its letter to Chen, the Joint Council ex- presses its conviction that the former: | will do everything in his power to come to an apreement by means of negotiations and to avert incidents| which might serve as an excuse for military intervention. Model of Arrogance. | This document is a veritable model of British arrogance, inherited from | Donald does not divulge what these the ruling-class by the petty bour- geoisie leaders of the Labor Move- ment. Neither the general council, the labor party nor the Joint National Council uttered a single word of pro- test to the British Government against the dispatch of armed troops. to China, and now the Joint National Council has made up its mind to'try and treat the Chinese revolutionaries as it treated the British miners. Tho leading clique of the British labor movement is trying to force the Chi- nese revolutionaries to accept Cham- berlain’s terms, just as formerly it tried to force’ the miners to accept} the terms of the mincowners. Mac- gene Chen,| Donald showed his hand clearly in his | “Socialist Review” article, in which he frankly took the side of the British bourgeoisie! “The old conditions of China have imposed certain obliga- tions upon us, and these obligations must remain until by negotiations we have relieved ourselves of them.” MacDonald, Imperialist. Admirable phraseology. China laid certain obligations on the British bourgeoisie, obligations which Mac- Donald, who is fond of speaking in the name of the British bourgeoisie, considers binding on himself. Mac- obligations were, but it is quite clear, that he means the “unequal agree- ments” and the concessions. Conse-| gently the British bourgeoisie is un- der the obligation to plunder China and MacDonald will not shrink from this obligation, until it pleases the bourgeoisie to release itself from this| obligation! | Chen Contemptuous. | The Joint National Council received | from Eugene Chen the answer to its) epistle that this docment deserved: “Tf, however,” writes Eugene Chen, “the masses of armed British forces in the direction of Shanghai is an ex- pression of the type of governing mind that feeds on bodies of slaugh- tered men, then it is to be feared the disablement of British trade and ‘ecommerce may have to continue un- til British Labor is entrusted by England with the task of arresting the British decline in Far East by substituting statemanship, peace and productive work for the Tory state- manship of imperialism, war and by- zantine glory!” The Chinese revolutionaries remind the Joint National Council of its elementary obligations not only to- wards the Chinese revolution, but also to the British proletariat, whom it is supposed to represent. The Joint National Counefl’s treachery to the Chinese revolution is pregnant with the greatest dangers for the working class of Great Britain. The leading clique is trying with all its might to effect firm collaboration between the British working class and the British bour- jgeoisie both in home as well as foreign affairs. This clique is trying to make the British proletariat an ac- complice in the finely-masked im- perialist policy of the British bour- geoisie. If the British working class does not burst the chains with which its leaders are binding it to the chariot wheels of the British bourgeoisie, it will share the fate of British im- perialism, which is heading straight for its doom. Anti-War Meeting toBe Held in Duluth Flag Day The Duluth Anti-War Committee will hold an anti-war mass meeting in Duluth, Minn., on June 14th, The principal speakers will be Bert Wolfe, of New York, and Mr. Chi, Both are well known speakers, and are ex- pected to draw a big meeting. Bishop Brown Among the Heathens By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. ,causes. He is staying in the Am- Bishop William Montgomery Brown| bassador Hotel and to sit down at his has nothing in common with Jesus' feet and listen to him expound the! except that he is extremely unpopular with the leaders of the episcopal church, So was Jesus, even, tho the meek and lowly Nazarene lived a long gospel of revolution to the inmates of Columbia and other universities is journalistic toil. ample recompense for several days of! more captivating +than a conscious | Here was the bishop talking with |half a dozen reasonably young per- sons sitting with hands under jaws, as people sit, listening. “When the war broke out,” he was i | } sinner? j CHAPTER, III Publishing Shop Bulletins. (Continued from yesterday) It is essential that our shop bulle-| tin have live titles. Titles that defin-| time ahead of King Edward the VIII| Most students learn nothing in col- \saying, “I thot that Germany should} or whatever king became famous be-|lege. At least, so they admit. We} cause of his ribaldries. Fellows like Jesus have always been unpopular while living. Bishop Brown is lucky at that. He is having more fun shocking respecta- bility into its senses than a Hindoo would have enticing a snake from a have our doubts about it, But when a man admits he is a horse tbief, what are you going to do about it? oe * Here they were in the Hotel Am- bassador listening. to Bishop Brown talking cold turkey about politics and get licked because there was a licking} coming to the Kaiser, but I thot that it was England’s job.” However, several other people de- cided otherwise and “we” went to war. Cie aie itely designate them as workers’ papers. The following examples are appropriate: The Rivet, The Spear Point, The Hot Ingot, or Harvester Worker. or Ford Worker. As a rule the bulletin is published in the name of the Workers Party shop nucleus. { However, wh special ditions The sum total of the conversation] $ ediiag tear cloudburst, religion. It was something like the confession of a penitent, The bishop was partly apologetic for his past life. He had sinned and he knew it. The worst of it was that he had sinned seriously. Who can be British Frightfulness in India. Propaganda for the military air force as the result of the trans-Atlantic flights, the critical Balkan situation and the mon- strous provocation of Britain against the Soviet Union that cul- minated in the assassination of Voikoff, ambassador to Poland, occupied the prominent pages of the capitalist press to such an extent that the new outburst of British frightfulness in India was scarcely noticed, being relegated to a small, inconspicuous space on an inside page, Nevertheless it ranks with the most important news of the day because of its vast political implications. We read only the bare facts that British airplanes bombed Mohammedans on the North-west Indian frontier, killing fifty and wounding hundreds. Such news stories are always underplayed; the figures are always underestimated. It might as easily be 500 or 5,000 as fifty for that matter. A few hundred or a few thousand natives more or less striving in a far-away and isolated land for independence from the awful oppression of British colonial agents are of small con- sequence. But the story itself means that the British are aware of wide- spread hatred of their rule in India, that the colonial slaves, mute and in chains for centuries, are seething with discontent and that bombing planes are always ready to fly to any part of that vast country of three hundred and fifty million to defend the right to pillage the country and keep enslaved the natives. Just as the world is now becoming familiar with China be cause its nationalism is asserting itself in revolutionary forms, so we will next take up the study of India, because that will be the scene of the second great colonial drive against imperialism. Every revolutionist, every class conscious worker, every de- spiser of capitalism thrughout the world, hopes that the smoulder- ing flame in India soon will break forth so that the Chinese and Indian movement may merge into one mighty Asiatic upheaval, whose sparks will enkindle Africa and result in a revolution of all oppressed nations that will smash to pieces the colonial system . . * Comrade Brown—that’s just what he calls himself and that’s what he is—is here in New York making speeches for Communism and kindred built up by the great powers during the past century and the sys- | tem of mandates established by the league of nations. Gross and hundreds of other workers fighting for the preservation | of the union and for decent conditions, wages and hours of labor, is upon the heads of the officials of the International Fur Work- ers’ Union and the rotten crew from the American Federation of Labor, Matthew Woll, Edward J. McGrady and Hugh Frayne— who are directing the union-wrecking campaign in the needle trades of New York. If there are any honest workers who still believe the inter- national officials are striving for any goal other than to deliver the union to the employers, these outrages should enable them to understand the real motives of these enemies of labor and repu- diate them by joining the ranks of the militant workers against the bosses and the right-wing gangsters, The furriers today are bearing the brunt of the fight against the reactionary and traitorous officialdom and they must be sup- ported in their fight by other branches of labor, because if the combination of employers, labor grafters, police and courts succeed in crushing the needle trades militants, the other parts of the la- bor movement will be the next victims. tinue their foul careers as agents of capitalism. The blood of Stop the assassins and traitors beformphey go one step farther! as transmitted from the bishop to his hearers is that the bishop had turned | over a new leaf and decided to be good for the rest of his life. He re- formed with a vengeance and is! raisin’ more hell than any individual since Tom Paine wrote the “Age of Reason.” Bishop Brown likes the Soviet Union, sometimes called Russia. He realizes that the Soviet Union stands for a new idea and he is willing to ignore little things or at least brush inconsequential things aside. Which! is the sensible thing to do. | ek eure \ And Bishop William Montgomery} Brown, who expounded the gospel to! multitudes is having the time of his life undoing the wrongs he committed in the past. He is rosy of visage and reasonably stout of person with white waving hair that would make him feel at home in either a bank or an editorial room, He is as tough as a seventy year old crocodile and as po- lite as a Boston poet. He is interest- ing and radical. Such a combination is irresistible. What the. Daily Worker Means to the Workers More Encouraging Contributions to Our Emergency Fund, Sam Posner, sub-Section 2C, Fac- tory District Nucleus No. 2, has given $50.00 to the DAILY WORKER, as a loan, to be repaid by the unit men- tioned. Other units are adopting a similar scheme to secure contributions to the DAILY WORKER. * * ” The South Slav fraction in Steuben- ville, Ohio, sends a check for: $50.00 ;to the Daily Worker fund, saying: i*We have a very small number of comrades here, but seeing that our DAILY WORKER is in danger, we have raised this money to help it in| its struggle, We wish the DAILY WORKER to continue the fight} against all rotten polities of the ene- mies of the workers all over the world.” . * * | Comrade Arthur E. Patterson, of | Napa, Cal., who prophesies an indus- trial panic in sunny California before very long, sends his personal contri- | bution of $5.00 to the sustaining fund + of the DAILY WORKER, Speciat List of Donators, Collected by Ella Reeve Bloor at Mass Meeting Los Angeles California 71.54 Mrs, V, 8S, Ware, Long Beach, make it necessary that the Party name be omitted, exceptions may be made after consulting with the local Party committee. Organizational Problems By ARNE SWABECK. pearing only spasmodically they will not sufficiently win the confidence of the workers. So far our main ob- stacle in establishing shop bulletins as a regular institution has been the lack of financial provisions. As soon as the workers have become well ac- quainted with the contents of the bul- letins through a few issues, a definite price should be charged for each copy. Printed bulletins are always prefer- able. Our experience shows that mi- meographed bulletins have not been so well received and have not made the impression of authenticity upon the workers. Distribution, where pos- The first principle of the shop bul-! sible, should be done from within the jetin is that it must be true, stat« the facts accurately, and reflect the life of the shop. This principle can be maintained when reports from shop nuclei members are utilized and when efforts are made to get live non-! y workers to also contribute and write from their own experiences. Tt is not sufficient that merely the events of the shops are reported. In each. case where we complain about conditions, the proper remedies should be indicated and gradually be- come worked into a definite program. Pictures showing the exploitation of the workers, caricatures of the bosses and a little humor is a very essential part of the shop bulletins. When reading becomes too dry, it is ineffective. A working class lan- guage should always be used and all subjects be dealt with in a manner understandable to the workers. How to Organize the Bulletin. A special committee should be elected by the nucleus to collect data and material. (In case of smaller nuclei, the group as a whole may constitute the committee). How- ever, in gathering material all mem- bers should take part and as far as possible all members should write up their stories in order to utilize the opportunities for training. Non- Party workers should be urged to also write their stories. Correspon- dence groups, where such is possible, to be given the necessary training by a member of the editorial com- mittee, should be established. Where- ever such methods are followed, these workers will thereby be brought closer to the Party. In each instance, the nucleus as a whole should discuss the contents of the last number published, its merits and defects, and lay down the main line; Name of the next number to come. In addition to news of the shops! being reported in the shop bulletins, ! these papers should also discuss the | political issues cf the day, always taking care as much as possible to} bring in the proper connection with | er the conditions of the shops. shops. In several instance. means can be found to do so. Otherwise distrie bution at the gates should, of course, not be done by the member of the shop nuclei, but by members belong+ ing to other units in the territory. eicoclideenleag tas Mrs. Russell Sage Gets Back Cash NEW YORK, June 11—The Circuit Court of Appeals today sustained the decision of Federal Judge A. N. Hand which ruled that the United States Government must return to the es- tate of Mrs. Margaret Olivia Sage $1,500,000 collected as taxes on be- quests totalling $49,000,000 made in the woman’s will. Mrs. Sage was the wife of Russell Sage. Raise $100 From 16 Party Members At a special meeting of Interna- tional Branch 5, Section 7, $100 was raised for the Daily Worker Sustain- ing and Defense Fund from the 16 members who were present. Let’s Fight On! Join The Workers Party! In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- fog § the Workers (Communist) Par- ty has lost its foremost leader and the American working class its staunchest fighter. This loss can only 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 Ruthenberg. j I want to become a member of t¥" Workers (Communist) Party. i Address Sette ee ee eee cmon Occupation cc. sccieves cees | Union Affiliation.......... Mail this application to th 3 Party, 108 East 14th Str It is York City; or if in other to great advantage sometimes to have items from the general Party) agar Mei von sf press noted with acknowledgements | so as to familiarize the workers with the Party press, Party campaigns should be stressed and connected with the life in the shops. Meetings, af-| fairs, and Party demonstrations ae be given the proper space and at all times should the Party press and Party literature be boosted, Financing and Distribution. Distribute the Ruthenberg 1 ‘phlet, “The Workers’ (Commur | Party, What it Stands For and \. | Workers Should Join.” This Ruthe berg pamphlet will be the basic pans 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. California, .......; -8.00| The question of financing, printing,, Nuclei in the New York Distrief Vera Blumenthal, Los Ange! and distribution of shop bulletins} will get their pamphlets from the Dis- California ............+...16,00| should be the concern of the whole| trict office—108 East 14th St, M. E. Baff, San Bernardino, nucleus and other assistance of neigh-| Nuclei outside of the New York California ............++.+2,00] bor s' nuclei, the sub-section, sec-| District write to The DAILY. W Fannie Bixby Spencer, Costa tion, or local committee should be| ER pub! Co, 83 East First te dete tn adhd pasate ie dbo ites ee as National Otfice, Workext Party, 2 i, " t be 80 F . se pic carry forward the work of Comrade / | \ 4