The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 17, 1927, Page 3

THE DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY. JUNE 17, 1927 Page Three THREE MILLION CHINA FARMERS NOW UNIONIZED By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press Development of farmer unions in, China is paralleling the rapid organ-| industrial work- | ers, according to a report in the Chi-| ization of Chinese nese Economic Bulletin. The bulletin | | ‘New Yorkers Going fo U.S. S. RB. Wil | Visit Czar’s Vill | The world-famous Tzarskoye Selo | (Czar’s Village) near Leningrad is to be one of the many points of | beauty and historic interests visited |by the American party, which will {leave for Russia, July 14th, on the j estimates that the number of organ- six weeks’ tour arranged by the ig ern has eka 8,000,000, | | World Tourists, Inc., of 41 Union ere are country districts,” says Square, New York City. the report, “in which already tens | “This s for ni ‘ears the sum- | and hundreds of thousands of mem- mer pa of the Czar, and it had bers are tinited in farmers’ unions: | the first electric light plant in Eur- Without the least doubt these unions will continue to increase within the next few months. During the last month it has been reported that the first farmer organizations in the pré vince of Anhwei have come into be- ing. They number tens of thousands. called Red Spears of Honnn, the] Jope, and the first railway in Rossia, | which was built in 1837 to connect it | with Teningrad (formerly Petrograd). | Health Resort. , | Because of the dryness of its cli-+ e and its excellent sanitary con- mat The increasin ower of the so- i this is considered the heal yes jest resort in Soviet Russia. Its form- | farmers’ movements in Chihli and er palaces and villas have been turned Shantung, prove that thi is ma-| over to the children, and have be- terial ready for organization unions.” The report shows the largest mem- into bership in Hunan province where or-| ganized farmers number more than 1,200,000. For representative districts the per| cowry come museums, schools, hospitals and sanitariums for their exclusive use, | Because in the summer the town | seems to be one big colony of young- | sters, it has been renamed Detskoye }Selo (Children’s Village). : g ie en I TTT sy WM. GROPPER Vorld In the trip arranged by the fi r v] > Tourists, Inc., the party will be en- cent of the farmers who can be SODY |tertained at Detskoye Selo, and a classed as independent farmers, ten- > al ‘in r oe a 3 ant farmers and agricultural laborers . |} special dinner has bee arrange fg given as follows: Chinese farmers Independent Chinese Womes Awake {there by the U S. R. Society for =| Cultural Relations with Foreign Hunan Per Cent Pog yond 4 itt 1 H Countries under whose guidance the i istri 7 6 20 il is a or in (0 es ver ac . eg | tourists are to travel in Leningrad Boachin district 20 60 20 | ‘ Pintsian = 20 70 10 and Moscow. ! Chensian 3) 17 58 25 | ne ‘i As r —_—_—_—_— This committee has also planned Chende |” 30 50 20 (By Nationalist News Agency.) | 2-If s maidservant is beaten or] LONDON, June 16-Mass demon-| Aid) to discus arrangements for 2 for all details of travel on Tatan ” 14 A 15 | HANKOW, China.—We are fight-| injured by her master, the judge of strations are taking place ‘all over| monster demonstration in Trafalgar! the trip, provide interpreters, rooms, Maian ba 27. 63 10 |ing with you!” be court should order the master to England against the black-leg trade Square, on Sunday, June 26th. After meals, transportation, visits to mu- Kiangsi Me | That is the spirit of the women of | Pay the medical fees. eae ., | union bill of the tory government, and submitting resolutions on the bill, on| seums, factories and to theatres and Waniiat abe 45 50 5 Nationalist China who have plunged! daar master nti take a maid-| resolutions for a general strike are|China, the persecution of the workers | concerts. All expense for this services Tsian b io rt 5 into the struggle for a “Free China” | Servant as Paget bine. If , pirestae by passed by the more militant| in England, and the attack on Russia, are included in the cost of the six Nankan ” 10 85 5 shoulder to shoulder with their men. |e tae Messier she _ ng ee: band for| bor groups, who are not under the| the demonstration will march to the weeks’ tour—$575.00. _ le Soldiering, nursing, ploughing, or-| the master may choose-a husband for complete domination of Eggleston| American embassy to demand the re-| This is one of the first opportan- The vast majority of Chinese farm-/| | ers either possess no land or so little! if ganizing labor unions, holding forth her if rae vga eet odors i 7 He ” ; 2 " ticle . Ss Helping Chima tia" they must rent additonal (St, “S08? box" meetings, the sturdy| Article 4 Prostitutes should be Sine ~ Sa in ig The| afraid any path and all traversed by ppl procuresses. In seine * es customary rent is pai sea arm PYO-| the men. ega assistance to them, the loca! ducts and ranges from 50 per cent to} ; court may fine the oppressor or can- 60 per cent of the harvest. In many} {cel the slavish contract so that the Square (right wing labor officials) or lease of Sacco and Vanzetti. have deliberately broken with the milk-and-water policy of the labor bureaucracy in their soft-spoken op- position to the labor-strangling bill. jities offered to: Americans to see Soviet Russia and it rousing tre- . ; mendous interest everywhere. Fur- At the annual conference of trades} ther information about all details of councils held at Westminster, it was|the trip can be obtained from the disclosed that Labor Party officials in| office of the World Tourists, 41 Splitting Tae Many Martyrs. Urge General Strike. Many have died, martyrs. These Bi = " cases, according to the report, it is 70 per cent to 75 per cent, leaving are the women of the propaganda! °PPressed may marry or find some |the National Trade Union Defense! Union Square, Room 803, phone Stuy- The South London delegate meet- Committee had been using the ma-} vesant It is open daily from | ANNA LOUISE STRONG well known writer and journalist, is assisting Madame Sun Yat-sen in an appeal to the workers of the United States for funds to aid the Chinese who Nationalist soldiers, wounded and crippled, in their battle for liberation from oppression. Money can be sent directly to the committee in charge: Madame Sun Yat-sen, Hankow, China. | or to International Workers Aid. See below. ‘Mme. Sun Thanks IWA For Aid’ to Revolution; A. L, Strong Cooperates CHICAGO, June 16.—Thanking the International Workers’, Aid for i campaign to raise funds for aid to wounded Nationalist soldiers, Mme. Sun Yat-sen, in charge of Nationalist relief work, has sent the following cable to the International Relief head- quarters at Berlin: “With great pleasute I greet the relief action undertaken by the I. W. A. on behalf of the Chinese people. The millions of Chinese workers and peasants await the help of the inter- national working class. We fight for liberty, our victory will be your vie- tory.” Among the distinguished foreigners | aiding Mme. Sut Yat-sen in her relief work is Anna Louise Strong, Ameri-| can journalist. The I. W. A. urges those interested in the success of the Nationalist revolution in China to send donations to the Chinose Revo- lutionary Aid to the International Workers Aid, 1553 West Madison St,,| "¢8°lution to be presented to Coolidge al Delegates’ Conference. She may | , 155: i Chicago, Ill. . ‘ Pinedo Limps Into Ostia. “ROME, June 16.—Premier ,Musso- link will go to Ostia tomorrow to wel- comé Commander De Pinedo on his return from a four-continent flight. A Yreat reception for De Pinedo is being planned at the Chigi Palace on the Filyer’s arrival in Rome, and premier Mussolini will pay him tri- bute from the balcony, with cabinet ministers and diplomats present. De- Pinedo has: been thruout the flight. n bragging, blustering advocate of fascism, and will be made into one of the newspaper heroes of modern Italy, despite the relative unimnpor- tance of his exploits and his frequent forced landings. At the time Pinedo was taking a tow from a sailing ship, the Lindbergh flight took place. Byrd to Fly Soon Weather conditions will be the only factors determining the hour when Commander Richard E. Byrd, famous North Pole flyer, will hop off in the Fokker monoplane, “America,” for Europe, -it was said yesterday. the renter les than the barest sub- | corps who have dared to invade north other work, | village | China, armed with revolutionary ideas! Atticle’5. With reference to the and who have fallen into the hands|*elling of an oppressed woman as a of the dread militarists. | wife or to a house of prostitution, You see Chinese women of the reyo- | When such cases are detected by the lution—slender lovely girls in the} Women’s Union, the unscrupulous y of the! smart gray uniform of the military sellers will be severely punished by normally | séademy, taking training with the|the court. Same punishment to thos: 5 per cent to 10 nen for officership in the army; you| Who sell the widows or orphan girl see square-shouldered women, hair), 4¥ticle.6. The right of inheritance} \clipped man fashion, barefoot some- '" acquiring property of deceased per-| times, armed with picket poles, act-| SMS should be extended to women as sistence. Usurer Extorts. The average independent farm is so small that a single bad year places the farmer at the merc moneylender who charges interest at per cent a month. “The demands of the farmers,” says the report, “chiefly center round ing of building workers, in a united front conference held by the Borough | Labor Party, the Bethnal Green| Trades Council (disaffiliated for its refusal to oust Communist members), Chiswick Branch of the National So- ciety of Painters, Liverpool No. 9 branch of the N G. N. W., Methil) | District Trades and Labor Council, ‘miners’ meetings at Kimberley, Notts, and Hetton, Durham, and Waltham- stow 657 branch of the Workers’ | Union, passed resolutions urging a general strike as the only effective! chinery of the party to weed out the! more militant councils from among} those invited to conferences, or to| whom campaign material had been sent. It appeared that Wood, Green, Woolwich, Leeds, Manchester, Bethnal Green, and Hull Trades Councils, in all of which there is a strong minority movement group, had been more or} less ignored. Strong resentment was manifested| at the conference, against the antl-| working-class splitting tactics of the | the 9 to 7 Philadelphia Labor to Meet on Unemployment PHILADELPHIA, (FP) June 16.— A trade union conference on unem- ployment will shortly be called by Philadelphia Labor College, Place and date will soon be an- nounced. The Labor College re- cently held a 2-day conference on RN ae ae ELT FA ulin. are acs |tion of illegal contributions and ex- |cessive taxes; storage of grain for | times of drought and flood; reform | of present official system; the organ- jizing of a self-governing board |elected by the people in every vil- | lage; the disarming of the village po- | lice and the formation of a people’s | militia.” | The present upheaval in China has roots that extend below the new- er industrial proletariat: into the great mass of 360,000,000 peasants, Chicago Hands Off China Conference Elects Executiy June 16 (FP).—More |than 50,000 Chicago trade unionists | were officially represented by dele- gates at the Hands-Off-China confer- ence June 12. Pres. John Fitzpatrick of the Chicago Federation of Labor was elected chairman of the perma- nent executive committee, Clarence Darrow, vice chairman, Atty. Wm. H. Holly, secretary and Christian Mad- sen of the painters, treasurer, | The conferénce voted to ptesent a CHICAGO, | protest against American policy in China to Pres. Coolidge when he stops off in Hammond, Ind., June 14 6n his way to the summer white house in the ‘Black Hills of South Dakota. The |demands withdrawal of American ‘forces from China, abolition of the | Unequal treaties and protests against {any intervention in China direct or | indirect. + It was voted to make the conference |permanent, with an executive com- mittee to arrange mass meetings and co-operate with similar bodies in other cities. Unions: Represented. Among the ‘unions represented by delegates were the machinists, -rail- road signalmen, painters, hoisting en- gineers, teachers, metal polishers, switchmen, steam and operating en- gineers, window washers, ladies’ gar- ment workers, Amalgamated Clothing workers, wood carvers and lathers. A score of labor fraternal and other or- ganizations also credentialed ‘dele- gates. Several social centers, the Women’s Intl. League for Peace and Freedom, the Workers party, Proleta- rian party, All-America Anti-Imperi- alist league and the Kuomintang of China, Chicago branch, participated. The office of the Handg-Off-China conference is care of Wm, H. Holly, 100 W. Monroe St., Chicago, the following points: reduction of ing as guards at great labor demon:'@nounced™ by? the administrative rent; abolition of taxes on tenants; strations, controlling the crowds; you , Of&ans. reduction of interest oh loan8; aboli-| gee women massed, in neat blue coolie| 2—-The only daughter has the! right of inheritance in acquiring the! property of her deceased father. None! other can acquire it unless he ob- tained the will of, the deceased. 3.—-The son or the daughter of a widow has the full right to acquire his or her mother’s property. If a widow does not want to remarry, the | family of her deceased husband should give her a pension, if they can af-| ford to. Art. 7. With reference to the re-! | lation between the women’s union| and the peasants’ union, the labor | junion and the students’ union, the| regulations are as follows: Ask Protection. cloth uniforms, scarlet ties blazoning the front of their blouses, in labor union meets. A New Power. A hidden power—a great strength is in these women, who, in their strug- ‘gle for a free China, a China clear of foreign intervention, have not ne- glected to fight for the freedom of themselves from unequal Chinese laws. In the ancient law of China, a man might exercise the power of life or death over his wife. She was his— to kill—to divorce—to cast off—to disinherit, as he saw fit. Now—even as armies fight within! : ? a dozen miles of a city, these women 1,—A village woman who is a con- are securing a complete revision of current member of the peasants’ divorce and inheritance laws. ; Union and under the direction of wo- The Judicial Reform Committee, a|™en’s department of the peasants’) division of the Ministry of Justice at| Union, may ask the peasants’ union Hankow, is at work at a complete | *© protect her when she is oppressed | revision of Chinese law, with a view, by land owners, local rowdies or the{ toward eliminating discriminatory | €entry. i legislation regarding women. | 2.—Any women who is & concur- Hupeh Resolution, | rent member of the labor union, may » ‘ i \ask the labor union to protect her| To remind the committee that they | when sHe is oppressed by her em-| are anxiously awaiting the reform, ! plover. | the women’s movement committee of |" 3 any woman who is a concurrent | the Hupeh Provincial Kuomintang| 1, ember of the students’ union, may | Union adopted the following resolu- ask the latter to support her if she Satie Wik reference to dic|i® NOt Satisfied with her school. rticle 1,— r e o -! : } vorce, the decision of the court should oon Fig Pi Ph ga apie — the following points: | 1—To give relief to ignorant wo-| .—If a wife seeks divorce and the | men and educate them | husband is unwilling to break the} 2.—To organize reading ‘oulhriathiaes marriage contract, she may, if she has | d to give vocational education to proper grounds, secure a decree, and t A ignorant women if possible. | ‘vemarry in accordance with the reso- Ps a 7 3.~To educate ignorant women un- | | lution adopted by the Second Nation- they can read and write, | 1 . b ih teed 4.—Those interested in educational | ask the local court to base its eel affairs, are expected to open schools | sion on this principle. !'for women, or write t te | : ‘ | . ‘0 the women’s | 2.—If a husband seeks to divorce a) union, which may urge the govern-| wife who cannot support herself the\ nent to open the schools man must continue to support his di-| , | vorced wife until such time as she} may remarry or no longer need his Rumanian White Terror ver ie ot Raids’ Workers’ Clubs 3.—The wives and concubines the wealthy who are often mistreated, | ijmay appeal for divorce ard secure til AMSTERDAM, (FP) June 16.—In- | ‘ i ont |formation received by the Inter- sapeeineg a Pgh a eettersine | national Federation of Trade Unions law who is eared for by her husband's from Bucharest is that the Rumanian parents may ask the local women’s! Secret police At Temesvar raided a union to make an investigation in case | workers| club and seized and de- of ill-treatment, The local court may | S*Teyed 7; seditious” books. give her legal aid by fining her hus-| Among these were the works of Du- band’s parents or by censuring them.|™#, Victor Hugo, Balzac, Schiller, Article 3. With’ reference to the | Goethe, Lenau, Cervantes, Marx, and emancipation of oppressed maidserv-| other standard European authors. ants there are three regulations, as! ate follows; + Nungesser Report Fake | 1—If a maidservant is cruelly; OTTAWA, Canada, June 16-—A treated by her master, the local peas-| Message received at government head- | ants’, union may ask the local court| quarters from Chicoutimitate today to cancel the contract so that she may) Say that the report of Nungesser and | return to her family or her guardians | Coli being found is untrue, } or the local court may find a better LAUPER EET ora BUY THE DAILY WORKER master for her, one who can pay her AT THE NEWSSTANDS | for ser protedt: labor officials, and against the circu- “ 2 i lar of the General Council addressed For Sacco-Vanzetti. | to the trades councils, threatening to! representative Philadelphia union Nearly a hundred delegates attend-| excommunicate all those who re-|chiefs to its speakers’ platform. ed a conference of the I. C. W. P. A.| mained in touch with the national| Israel Mufson, college secretary, is {International Class-War Prisoners’ minority movement. ‘making arrangements. waste elimination that attracted na- tional Jabor heads, technicians and NEW YORK-- LENINGRAD -MOSCOW The great experiments of the first Work- ers’ Republic—the beauty spots of old Russia, the achievements of young Russia —are waiting for you to visit on a special SIX WEEKS’ TRIP TO RUSSIA starting July 14 By steamer direct to Leningrad; then by rail to Moscow, seeing all nearby places of interest and the sights of both cities, $575 IS THE ENTIRE COST of the tour, including all expenses for steamer and rail fares, meals, rooms, theatre tickets, sight-seeing trips, ete. So EE EEE OAR A ARI HELLO SI A RARE OPPORTUNITY Seize it now by writing for further in- formation to the ‘ WORLD TOURISTS, ING Room 803 “41 Union Square, New York City STUY. 7251.