The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1927, Page 5

‘< tHE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1927 j ge Five HOW THE CHINESE THEIR. TRADE Among the seinen ef the Chi- nése Nationalist mavement during the past five years, none/fis. more re- markable, than the ‘demonstrations of | labor solidarity .and the-amazing ca-| pacity of the Chinese to use the wea-| pons of the western labor world. The | workers in Britain and the United| States have been trying out the strike | ; and the boycott-for more than a cen- tury. In the hands of all except the most militant ard skilled of the west- ern trade unidnists, both of. these labor weapons ‘are used, for the most part, with indifferent success. The workers of China Have’ been usitig the strike and the boycott for "a very short time. The first real} strike was that of Hong Kong in 1922. Yet during the ensuing years, the Chinese workers have. demon- strated, in one strike after another, that they. can use the strike weapon) as effectively as any of rae erent | ern tellow workers. The boycott is older, as a weapon) of the Chinese masses. Still its use in industrial disputes is new 5S pe en 4 oe | Labor and Fraternal | en —_ s E i Chinese. Here, as in the use of the “4 } une “Mr. oolidge | strike, the masses of Chinese workers shed pie: vendles, fhe “Young! Organizations in a fish comedy.” This heading iden- have shown themselves wonderfully effective. Colonel Malone has reeently com- pleted an investigation of the Chinese labor organizations for the British Independent Labor Party. Here are some of his more important findings: The Modern Trade Union Move- ment is said to have originated in the South, when Dr. Sun Yat-sen and the Kuomintang were first éstablished at Canton; although the earliest in- dustrial strike on a large scale took place at the steel works of the Han- yehping Cbmpany near Hankow m the summer of 1919, when the work- ers won their demand for increased wages. In the same year 26 trade unions were set up fi Canton and the movement spréad to Hong Kong. A short but successful strike of over 5,000 factory and shipyard workers in Hong Kong in 1920 gave a great impetus to organization and unions of all kinds began to be formed. Lat- er, in January 1922, the great Sea- men’s Strike, of seamen at Hong} Kong and Canton, lasting 56 days and ending in the recognition of the | Seamen’s Union and increases in § Wages, stimulated the whole move-| ment and led to the formation of unions in various parts of the coun- | try. The organization of trade unton-| ists on the railways began with a Conference of Railwaymen in Peking in 1922, and the strike of the rail- waymen on the Peking-Hankow line; | in the course of which many of the strikers were shot down by Wu Pei-| fu and their leaders arrested and executed, had a great effect on the) workers in ‘North and Middle China| and a number of unions were organ- ized at Hankow and Wuchang. In Shanghai also the movement, which had existed in a struggling condition since the years of the Great War, | when a propaganda office was eés-| tablished in 1916, went ahead during 1922, when it is alleged that over) 60 uniéns were established in that) city. As a National Movement, how- ever, trade unionism dates only from| the Shanghai shootings of May 30, 1928. The following is a list of the num- her of trade unions and trade’ union| members which I received from an organizer in China in June 1926. Since then, with the arrival of the Cantonese Army in the Wuhan cities (Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang), numbers of unions have been formed in those cities and probably at least 50,000 should be added to the num- bers on the following list:— Statistics of the Chinest’ Trade Union Movement. Districts. Unions, Members. Canton (City) .....191 195,000 Hong Kong . 119, 207,140 Shanghai 48 “149,400 During the May 30th 1925 shootings, there were more than 209,000 mem- bers at Shanghai. ' ' ' ' PROGR yo i 02 og slo's 9,0 24 Wuchang & Hankow 48 42,300 Freiheit Picnic at Sollins’ Dinin, Room Shanel > joo SHALL NOT DIE! 0 ages ee Chas Kwangsi 17,530 oe | SAT., JULY 30, 1927 any Hour! ‘Any Day! Hunan 30,000 | extreme. They are. also said to sup- BEAL HOsy, bee gt © Chihli 103,200 port te “wegeien agg organ afternoon and evening } 222 E, 14th St badeh : A nM Aves, Shantung 13,940 | of ‘the Yellow unions jn Peking. ms Macao 4,454|, Activities in the various industrial At ag one PARK, MISAULOW' Suiyiian 3,814 | centres vary according to local con- roo! Gg é 760 | ditions. There is as yet no national yn ae Vegetarian 15,340 | organization coordinating the activi- met estaurant 500| ties of: the disjointed Yellow unions} The Jewish Daily Freiheit Al West 21st St. New York 640 | throughout China; and probably as | . offers to all: titi weuh Ge. afd aes ee! 111,200| a result they have no international Workers Party Sub-Seetions Health Foods of the RD order, 50,000 | affiliations. The Red unions, on the Workers Party. Units = = 95,000 other hand, are all closely allied to Tauns. Workers League Bee; ee 5 “~ Fao Federstion,”'4 »" warsanae cate ee ; Health Food \ Rikahas siwae 1,168,018 | w! ‘has its juarters in Canton, | independen men Circle | He in the area of the only Government works 3 Sto » Vegetarian Restaurant 4 H ade unions in China may be said in China under which trade union or- oO Situral Faigationg: 1500 Madison Ave. Vs ‘ll within two groups, (1) “R a of, Russian origin and/or ins ta | “tion; and (2) What I call, for pur- poses of distinction, “Yellow” or “not so Red” unions. -I gather that the Yellow labor organizations have very little influence or vitality and are not for the prer-ut very militant; and that their origin is doubtful. The Railway Workers’ Union on the Kin- at (Peking-Hankow line belongs to § class. I was: «told that it was “3 ja by a section of the so- called “Communication Clique” in Peking, and has it headquarters at Changsintien on the line. This scommansation Clique” appears to Srp of railway Kaen who - it worth while to enco moderate Labor organization ne a ee, sométhing more |the Pioneers ran their colorlite’ ball 60,30 SACCO and VANZETTI NEW YORK PLANS FOR BIG DAILY WORKER CARNIVAL At ‘the heii of DAILY WORKER representatives held on Friday, evening, June 17, a number ‘of startling projects were | proposed for.the big Midsummer Carnival and Fair, which is being | arranged for the benefit of The DAILY WORKER, to be held on | July 28-24, | Comrade Rosenblatt reported that the members of the Bronx |Co-operative are planning to arrange an ice cream and candy} ag sR | booth, with all sorts of delicious refreshments. ‘i c bee ee onitg Ghhaiea mect-| _. The most unusual offer came from Unit 17, Subsection 2B, ings and other activities for publice-| W hich is donating a canary bird ant cage, which will be auctioned | tion in The DAILY WORKER shou! id off at the Carnival. d to the Party News Edi- ¥ i i : i ee The DAILY. WORKER, 33 First}: A telescope for star gazing at, night is also being offered, WORKERS PUT UNIONS TO WORK a ARTY ACTIV ITTES | NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY St, New York, | with the aid of which the New Yerk comrades will be enabled to * . . Section One Membership Meeting. look at some of the other planets, which have no capitalists and To all Functionaries and Members| exploiters, jof Section 1. There will be a regular | meetitfy of all the members of Section| A rumor is spreading that the Chinese comrades are concoct- 1 tonight, 6 P. M. sharp, right|ing a splendid exhibition of Oriental dancing, which will no doubt after work at 108 E. 14th St., Room/be one of the finest features of the entire affair. ice Workers Party units and working class organizations are Nearing Speaks Wednesday. Seott Nearing will speak on “The [Present Danger of War” next) Wednesday night at Bryant Hall,| between 41st and 42nd streets. asked to notify the Local Office of The DAILY WORKER, 108 East 14th Street, Stuyvesant 6584, of the plans they are making | so that space may be reserved for them. ti f During the summer months the ac-| ified a story of President Coolidge’s tiv! of the Young Pioneers are} manifold. Im addition to conducting a camp, work will be carried out among the children on the streets, in the) parks and playgrounds. Arrange-| ments will also be made fo have trips | to the: museums, factories and many | historical HAEESS: Symposium and Dance. A concert and. symposium will be! displayed in the London newspapers given Friday at the Co-operative;today. A cabled version of how the | Auditorium, 2700 Bronx Park East. | president landed a fish with “half a |The symposium will be on the ques-;Worm” was given front page promi- tion: “Does the Present Educational! nence second to the news of the courts System in the U. S. Meet the Needs|to be held by the king and queen the lof the Children of the Ameri¢an| coming week. * < ’ | Workers?” The speakers will inelude Scott Nearing, Joe Freeman, Juliet) Bosses Promise to be Good. S. Poyntz, and others. | SCRANTON, June 19 (FP),— The concert program wirll be given) A three week strike of 1,200 miners | by the Young Pioneers, They will/in the Moconaqua operation of the tee Wednesday, 6:30 p. m. at 108 East Stage Michael Gold’s play “Strike.” | Wést End Coal Co. ended on the em- 14th St., Room 46. All members must| Entire proceeds go to build the’ ployer’s promise to observe the con- attend as there is an urgent matter ‘Young Pioneer Camp. This affair is tract and let the men on night duty to be taken up. under the auspices of the Women’s! put in a full shift. Council, Branch 11. eee Factory Newspaper Committee Meets Wednesday. There will be a short meeting of the District Factory Newspaper Commit- * * —~- a effyts at trout fishing with worms, | ARGENTINA LABOR, DEMANDS TO FREE: Latest ‘News From New Jersey Plumbers Win Wage Increase: SOMERVILLE, June 19. the men will de- increase inf {strike of the plumbers of Somerville urs yand. Bound Brook has endedy a com are now working {promise haying been arranged with 7 or $25. They rde- the bosses, The workers struck on rate of $85 weekly | aR May 1, demanding a. wage increase of 10 hours in. the BOSTON, June 19.—The Argen-|$2 a day. The master plumbers have schedule , | tina Labor Federation representingjagreed on a $1 raise which the men over 100,000 workers will boycott}have accepted, thus making thegpay . Leute by American products in case Sacco and|$l1 a day. Sacco-Vanzetti Protest Saturday! Vanzetti, framed-up Italian radicals “3 + . An gi tie open-air protest mreet- | are executed. | Barbers to Strike. rranged for next Satur- | This was made clear in a letter for-| NEWARK, June’ 19—Members of at 2 by the Sacco-Va warded to Gov. Allan Fuller from | Barbers’ Union, local 87 re planning Prominent speakers Secretary of State Kellogg. to strike A vigorous protest also came from Manger, si the workers of Nice, én the Mediter-| All efforts ranean, who in a fiery letter to the |governor ‘declared that Sacco and Vanzetti “must be wrested from the hands of the American executioners.” * . y, according to B tary of the organization: at settlement with the and uncon- wo framed-up ditional releas Italian radicals Miners Call Conference. Four local unions of the United Mine Workers of America in West- ern Pennsylvania, 1616 and 1689: of Wilkes-Barre; 975 of Olyphant and of Parsons, representing 4,500 | miners, joined in a resolution de- nianding the immediate release ‘of Sacco and Vanzetti, and calling for an Emergency Conference to held in Pittston, Pa... 3. b WHAT PART Will You Play - IN ? THE on July 3. * * “Innocent,” Says Wells. “All the world now knows them in- nocent,” says H. G. Wells, British au- thor, of Sacco and Vanzetti in a page article in the Sunday Express of Lon- don, just received here. The proofs against the two radi- cals were no proofs, declares the nov- |elist who reviews the evidence pre- sented at the trial by District Attor- ney Katzmann: Of Judge Webster Thayer, he says: “What is the matter with Judge Thayer is not that he is.a bad man, not that he is anti-moral, but that he is, to put it mildly, extremely ob- ‘tuse, morally and mentally.” Vecherinka and Dance. ae Ser ay A Vecherinka and dance will be held Hungarian Orchestra Xeeds Players. | Saturday evening at 1940 Benson , The Hungarian Workers’ Orchestra Vave., Brooklyn, by the Bath Beach is in need of several players especi- Section, Young Workers’ League. ally those who can play wind instru-' | Admission 25 cents at the door. ments, All workers whp can play the) og * ad * cello, viola, trombone, flute, French | Fifth St. & Surf Ave. Parents, Attention! |horn, or any brass instruments can _ Registration for the Young Pioneer Join the orchestra. Rehearsals take !camp closes June 25th. There is rodm| Place Tuesday night 7:30 p. m. at) [for only a few more to go with the| 350 East 8ist. St. first group: Parents wishing their) * a" ®. children to leave for camp with this Furniture Varnishers Meet Tonight. | group should register right away. The! A special meeting of Local 697, groups go for two, three, four and| Furniture Varnishers’. and Finishers’ five weeks’ stay in camp. | Union will be held tonight at 151 All further information at 106 Clinton St. for the purpose of University Place and Room 41, 108! taking up trade questions and the East 14th St. Phone Stuyvesant working agreements for 1927 and 7770. 1928, ERNO RAPP Auspices: JOINT DEFENSE CLOAKMAKERS Young Pioneers’ Hold Local 25, Furriers’ ‘Dance for Their Camp Union Meets Tonight CONEY ISLAND STADIUM CONCERT For the Benefit of the Striking Furriers The Entire New York Symphony Orchestra A ‘World Famous Ballet and other attractions "SATURDAY E EVENING, JULY 16 TICKETS on sale at 108 E. 14t Street, Room 35. Giant Carnival and Fair JULY 23 & 24 FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE DAILY WORKER UNITS, LABOR ORGANIZA- FRATERNAL. ORGANIZATIONS, CLUBS. Coney Island, N.Y. EE, Connctor WORKERS’ PARTY TIONS, AND RELIEF AND FURRIERS COMMITTEE are INVITED (By A Worker Correspondent.) NEWARK, N. J., f. Jn June 12—Local There was somewhat. of a rumpus 25, Fur Workers’ Union will hold a around the New Star Casino, where meeting Monday, # p. m., at Mont- - — gomery Hall. A report of the Wash- |} { | ington “convention” will be given. | Union Meetings. ‘last Saturday night. I believe the whole audience en- ——— joyed the story that was told to the, WASHINGTON, June 17., (FP)— Pioneers in the 4th act (as no one, Industrial conditions in all industries | could hear a word of it in the house except coal are improving in Ger-| except those in the campfire scene). | many, says a cabled report to the) As some of those who. came to haye| U. S. Department of Commerce. Light and airy front | a good time said, “The kids can get away with anything as the house is ns eae For Rent: and bed room with two clean heds for two single men. theirs tonight.” Then Juliet S. Poyntz) }came to the fore ‘and summed up the enn camp drive in doflars and cents, It Electric light, hot water and bath | meant a collection and the signing of! room. Reasonable rent. Call after | 6 P.M. N. Jager, 149-51 E. 84th | Street, 3rd floor, New York City. AMALGAMATED FOOD WORKERS Bakers’ Loe. No. 164 Meets ist Saturday in the month at 3468 Third Avenue, Bronx, N. Y. Ask for Union Label Bread, Advertise here. The DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept. your union meetings pledges for shares. { i For information write to Beautiful Furnished Room for rent. 217 E. 11th St., N. Y. C. May Ask Van Sweringen Confession. WASHINGTON, June 19.—The In- | terstate Commerce Commission will | meet in extraordinary session tomor- | row to determine whether 0. P. 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