The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1927, Page 6

Page Six Doran--Ab (Continued From Last Issue) “Yes, if we had our choice of jobs we won’t work for that sum,” said Doran. “We shouldn’t have to stay| outside in the cold all night. If w were organized we could demand more pay,” said he, as he parted from his ‘companion at daybreak after a night of discussion and argument with the driving wind and the biting old as a spur to thinking along lines of food and shelter, not only for themselves but for the mass of sea- men as well. * Doran took- the subway and paid the nickel which his companion had} forced on him as fare to the Brook-} lyn Army Base Docks. Here -he went} abroad the. Black-Diamond Line} freighter, Onoko. | The chief mate was at the gang-| way watching the coiling of a heav-| ing line. “Do you want any sailors ?”’| asked Doran. “Ves, I need one, whére are your papers?” asked the mate in reply. | Doran produced his able seaman’s| and lifeboat tick: “That won’t do,” said the mate, “I want ten good discharges from other ships.” Doran] produced them and the mate scanned | them over. He was a dark, American Ttalian, six foot tall and heavily built. He had been a guard in Sing Sing Penitentiary. It turned out he had studied navigation and when the shipping board needed navigators for their vessels during the war they had given him the job. “You can sign on at two o'clock, we sail at four for Rotterdam,” said the mate. “The focsl is back aft and you will find an empty bunk there. Where is your bag?” “T will be back in an hour with it,”. answered Doran. “Well, don’t be, any longer, I want you to turn to work as soon as you come back aboard.” When Doran returned he took a few minutes to Scan the ship over. She was a nine thousand ton steam packet of the well deck type. He cargo was general merchandise and mail for Holland. She was a coal} burner. Doran went up the gangway across the afterdeck and into the focsl where he found an empty bunk. Here he deposited his bag. It was twelve} o'clock and the crew came filing in. There were two Americans, two| Filipinos, three Porto Ricans, and | the boatswain was Maltese. They went to dinner, the firemen, coal passers and sailors ate in the same} mess hall. The firemen were Span-| ish Dinner was served, consisting of | boiled tripe, potatoes, and Sago pud-/} ding and coffee. At one o’clock, the deck crew started covering the hatch-/} es and battening them down. * * * When everything was secure a full) deck load of rotten onions were taken} aboard. When the ship was well at! sea the crew, were put to disposing| » of the onions ‘by hand. There were no} shovels and this was hard work with} a cold gale blowing and spray fall-| ing like ice over the men. After the first day out the food that was served was terrible. Rotten meat and vegetables; The men start- ed to complain about the food and when no attention was paid them they would either throw it into the * * | | scuppers or else leave it on their plates. | Doran stood this treatment for| some time without grumbling but! finally he also could not stand it| any longer. On the tenth day out he stood up at the supper table and| ,, said, “Come.on, boys, we have stood for this miserable and shabby treat- ment long enough. The officers and mates are getting choice cuts of! fresh meat and taking it easy at the| same time. We are working this ship, firing her, propelling her and even} steering her and we get worse treat-| ment than dogs.” When he said this/ Doran was within the bounds of truth. | The meat was unfit for even the| ship’s mascot to eat. The crew had been grumbling for| some time already. Now they stood up to a man and waited for Doran’s| _hext Words full of hope, expectation | and the blind confidence of men who| tecognize a leader. Doran and the! crew sent a delegation to the captain! which consisted of Doran and one of | the firemen. At the same time the} crew went up forward following Do- van and the fireman. The captain met them half way) and stopped them off. When he heard | their demands he was thoroughly as-; tounded. “Don’t you realize that this | ig mutiny?” he asked. “No this is not’ mutiny,” answered Doran, “we| are merely demanding our rights as| called for in the ships articles about} food and sustenance.” After remon-| streting with the men for some time| he conceded that the men were jus-| tified in their demands. He promised that they would get better foods if they returned to their posts without any further remonstrations. This promise was fulfilled for the period of time that it took the vessel to get to Rotterdam. The men were getting the same cuts that the officers were getting. rie After the ship left Rotterdam, however, the captain again attempted to cut down on the food supply and lve them the inferior third rate ality of meat and vegetables, in Doran assembled the crew in mess room but this time no appeal was made to the cap- Instead the men, serity the] | smother of s¢ | part. The Adventures of Willia m le Seaman | firemen, started to cut down on pro- duction. The firemen cut down on steam and consequently the ship’s| speed decreased, | Down came the captain, running| into the fire room and demanding an increase of speed. Thereupon Doran denfanded a return'to better food. The captain and officers were forced to grant this despite their un- All went well. * * * willingness, On the return voyhge a fire spread in number two hold two days out of} Rotterdam. The cause of the fire was spontaneous combustion in the coal. The fire soon spread through the heating of the bulkhead into the general merchandise until from a| THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 20; 1927 smoulder it became a roaring, tear- ing hot flame that was eating up the general cargo of the vessel. This took place in theymidst of a rough Atlantic storm while waves were dashing forty*feet high and sweeping the decks beneath a s and foam. Into this the men had to plunge and rig up life lines, man the fire lines and at- the fire in the hold. 'They finally extinguished the blaze using y bit of cloth and oven the and clothes of the seamen When the fire was over et on one side for the insurance ach po.) see, but the clothing of the crew! Was never accounted for by the com-| pany. This despite the factathat the offi- cers were aware of the presence of the fire in the coal bunker even in Rotterdam. They thought that they could exploit the firemen and the coal passers to extinguish it by working them overtime. When they returned to New York our modern civilized American jus- tice wrecketl its vengeance for an in- fraction of discipline. All of the crew were fired in a body and sev ly criticised by the Shipping Commi ioner. Doran was pointed out es- ecially by the captain and mates Ss being the instigator of all this trouble and he was called everything from an Anarchist and a Communist to a freak agitator. Doran calmly and cooly pointed out that he was not any kind of freak agitator and that he was mere- ly demanding elementary rights as called for in the articles for himself and the crew. No attention was paid to him, héwever, and he was heavily fined and a disgraceful record at- tached to his discharge. So the crew returned once more to South St. and its denizens. The change in Doran is startling: from a tolerant, easy going worker he has developed into a class con- cious, clear-minded seaman whe car- suits themselves. the damaged articles we {ries the gospel of organization and class struggle throughout the marine industry, WwoM The Lindbergh parades and celebra- tions have once more forcibly brought home to us the instability of inter- national political relations and the ever-present danger of war, and the Jideological preparations for it that the executive committee of the American Defense So- |are being made by the imperialists of | “letY> the U. S. A. There is no doubt that in the next war, women will play an enormous Already in the last war, many jobs that are ordinarily (in times of peace), not offered to women were open to them, both in factories and| offices, releasing men for the front. With the simplification and sub- ision of it is a easy ce more and more ar industries, war will be fought with an and ferocity that the last war will seem by comparison as tame as a Y.M.C.A. picnic. d very women into the The nex leading powers (larger standing armies and reserves. increasing mili- tary expenditures, enormous interest in aviation), all show us that larger mafses will be engaged in the next! war. Where will these come from? The men of the workingclass with comparatively few exceptions, will be sent to the front and the women mobilized for the factories. Ex- emptions for war service in industry will be given as sinecures to the fa- vored sons of the bourgeoisie, except in the work, In modern warfare, industry .is as |important as the fighting at the front. A constant stream of pro- ducts must go to the front. These include war material, food and cloth® | ing, and other indispensable things. Any interruption of this stream (such as strikes) means that the war machine will not work smoothly. The workingclass plays a decisive role in war, not only by being the principal source of cannon fodder, but pri- marily because of its position in in- dustry, it can interrupt this stream of products, Machines’ are playing an even-greater role in war. The growth of the chemical industry and principally of aviation show to what extent the next war, will be dependent on fattories. ‘ Since women will constitute the majority of the factory workers in war industry, it is necessary that in our anti-war propaganda we pay special attention to women. We should carry our anti-war message into the large factories which em- ploy women. Now is the time to begin to in- tensify our anti-war propaganda among women becauve later on it will be much more difficult—M. R. ‘ia the | The pre-| | parations now being made by all the ease of highly specialized« tion,” Photo shows beginning of race and inset of win vious records for Mexico were broken for the distance—5,000 meters (3.10685 miles), the winner mak- ing it in 15 minutes, 12 3-5 seconds. Taking plac auspices of the International Club, 504 athletes taking part ner, Ciro Chapa, in Mexico City, in which all pre- e on paved streets, the race was run under ‘the ‘Professional Patriots (Continued from yesterday) * All the patrioteering bodies hope to penetrate the schools, colleges, and universities in their drive agaist “Reds.” The bulk of their litera- ture is aimed in this direction and is caleulated to produce “correct attitudes” toward the con- stitution and the history of the republic. But the Russian conspiracy resulted in preventing “fuel-oil tanks at strategic points,” and so on, from be- ing used for the benefit of the navy. Then in Mr. Marvin’s text, under the heading “Schem- ers Win Their Desires,” comes this: “But the incident, played up as it was because it came with the magic name ‘scandal,’ accomplished what the original project- ors of the scheme expected it would accomplish. . ., ‘The ‘strategic’ play of Zinovieff was a success.” What is the conceivable purpose of publishing such fluff? ‘ In connection with Mr. Marvin’s articles the Army and Navy Journal ran an essay contest, the essays deal- jing with “the most effective remedy against pacifist | propaganda.” The announcement of this essay contest leontained the statement that “the Army and Navy Journal will furnish the information upon which the essays may be based.” Mr. Marvin signed this announce- ment. Inter-Relations and Connections With Other Agencies. It is perhaps to be expected that men so active in promoting their personal conceptions of patriotism | should work with any and all organizations that express their bias. Interlocking directorates are therefore com- mon. They prove nothing but community of interest, but since the professional patriots are continually hur- \ling the charges of interlocking directorates against the organizations they attack, it is interesting to note how | well they themselves know how to use the system. The late president of the National Civic Federation was on and vice-versa, not ex-officio, but just because |Mr. Alton B. Parker and Mr. Elon H. Hooker were |such earnegt and substantial citizens. The late Louis Coolidge protested against the child labor amend- ment both as head of the Welfare Department of the Civie Federation and as president of the Sentinels of the Republic. The societies all respond in about the same fashion |and at the same time to any threat to their conceptions of patriotism—whether the occasion is a movement to |recognize Russia or to push the child labor amendment. {It is a natural community of interest. The interlocking |directorates are effects, not causes. A union of forces is sometimes attempted as in the “Red clean-up week” |attempted in 1924. But on the whole there is no organ- zed codperation. Lack of unity in this. work has prompted efforts at federation on several, oceasidns—one.by the American Legion in 1924 in calling a general conference in Wash- ington, ostensibly on Americanization,; which came to nothing; and another by the Allied Patriotic Societies, ‘a paper organization with no real backing. | ¢ Woman Patriot has repeatedly urged closer co- | operation, but with little effect.. The Better America | Federation in Los Angeles evidently works closely with \the national agencies, distributing the Defense Society and security League pamphlets, and the attack on the ‘Y. W. C. A. as radical, issued by the National Founders’ | Association. THE CAPITALIST WORLD AND REVOLUTIONARY CHINA By EUGENE VARGA. SECTION TWO. The attitude of the imperialist powers to the Chinese revolution changes according to whether_ the bour- geoisie or the proletariat appears to gain the upper hand in the whole movement. For the purpose of a survey, the situation may be delineated as follows: Under the pressure of the revolution, the imperialists as a whole would be inclined to renounce their special prpivileges to reconcile themselves to the creation of* an “independent” capitalist China; that is to say of a China affording the requisite security for the invest- ment of capital, under a bourgeois dictatorship; a China hostile to the Soviet- Union, with a social system such | as we saw under the rule of Sun Chuan Fang at Shang- | hai. For in such a China—even supposing the unequal treaties to be abolished—foreign capital would, in view jof the weakness of the Chinese bourgeoisie, continue to exploit the country economically just as much as hitherto, albeit under another outward form, Hence the united front of all the imperialists, for the pur- pose of supporting the Chinese bourgeoisie against the peasants and workers, the right wing of the Kuomin- tang against the left wing, and Chiang Kai-shek against the trade unions and Communists. Even in their entirety, however, the imperialists can- not submit without a struggle to the creation of a “non- | capitalistic” China, since this would; Firstly, prevent the possibility of the economic ex- ploitation of the country; Secondly, greatly strengthen the position of the} Soviet Union, thus substantially diminishing the pos- sibility of a successful attack on that country; and, Thirdly, render inevitable emancipatory movements in all colonial countries, such as India, Farther India, Cochinchina, Corea, and the like, * * ¥ There are no reliable statistics of the foreign capital | investments in China. According to an estimate of the American “Foreign Policy Association”, the Japanese in- vestments are by far the greatest. Next in order come the British, The United States had invested roughly 70 million dollars in commercial enterprises and 80 million dollars in missionary institutions, hospitals, schools, ete. All the railways are directly or indirectly foreign prop- erty. ‘ In the “Frankfurter Zeitung” of January 6th, 1927, Professor Lederer puts the Japanese investments in Manchuria alone at more than 700 million marks. * * * We should like to give a brief sketch of the position of the chief imperialfst Powers. | The United States have occupied no territory of China | and have no special privileges to defend. there.. Their | capital investments there aye very small—mainly in| banking, wireless stations, accessory plant of the Stand- jard Oil Co. On the other hand, exports to China have! developed very rapidly. The consequent policy of the United States is as fol- lows: “Open door” in China; no further expansion of the “spheres of interest” of the other Powers. Equitable treatment of the capital of the United States in all dis- tricts, including those occupied by Japan and Great Britain. Before all, the United States have at all times sought to hinder China from coming in any way under the influence of Japan (“yellow peril”). At the same time there is, as we shall see later on, a strong anti- British tendency. The United States have brought They all lean on each other and use the pamphlet |literatyre as well as their more “confidential informa- For example, the National Clay Products In- dustries Association reports that it codperates “with over thirty distinctly civic and patriotic organizations, many of which do not correlate their own efforts» hence our files have become sort of a ‘clearing house’ for practically everything that they issue.” Relations to Government Officials and Departments. But far more significant than any relations between themselves is the relation of these organizations to gov- jernment officials. The extent to which they can get ¢onfidential. information in secret service fili, their influence in promoting prosecutions or “Red raif)j,” and their incitement to a narrow chauvinism in public of- ficers—all are important’ in shaping public policy, On the other hand, public officials have made use of them for their own political purposes, qhoting ‘their alleged “facts” to justify. some repressfve measure or anti-red | scare, The story of these connections is ‘too long ‘to more | than sketch, It was told in detail in the Senatorial hear- ings on the Department of Justice in 1924, and on the, resolution to impeach Attorney-General Daugherty. © It also came out in the investigation by a Senate Commit- tee of Attorney-General Palmer's red raids in 1920, This investigation, which followed charges of illegal practices made by twelve eminent lawyers, brought out the fol- lowing facts about the patrioteering organizations: © First, they had access to confidential files of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department’ of Justice during the regime of William J. Burns as chief, and pressure to bear forcibly and successfully on Japan, so as to attain the evacuation of Shantung. (Washington Conference, 1922.) The bourgeoisie of the United States is amicably inclined to the Chinese. anti-imperialist eman- cipation movement, in so far as it does not socially ex- ceed bourgeois capitalist limits, The Americans hope to be able to defeat their competitors by virtue of their economic superiority in the event of the victory of the | Chinese bourgeois revolution. They are opposed to all special privileges on the, part of individual Powers, be- cause they desire to conquer all China economically. On the other hand, China is a question of the future | for the United States, and no very urgent question of the day. Only 2.4 per cent. of America’s exports go to Ching. _ Therefore, the United States were most reluc- tant to join Great Britain in what might end in a war with China, It is by no means excluded that their par- ticipation only aimed at getting a free hand, so far as Great Britain is concerned, for any*imperialistic opera- tions they may fancy in Mexico and Central America, bd oo * * JAPAN. In contradistinction to the United States, Japan finds its most vital questions of existence involved in the Chinese problem. More than a quarter of the Jap- anese exports are directed to China, many thereof by way of Hong Kong. This is the only possible colonial area for Japanese capitalists, affording them the possi- | bility of markets and raw material sources (cotton, iron ore, coal, soya beans, ete.); Japan has annexed large portions of China, such as Manchuria, Formosa, and the like, as colonies), though its attempt during the world war to expand its colonial possessions in China yet fur- :| Lindbergh will be known by the great tyouth into the army. Lindbergh, who WITH LINDBERGH JUST ANOTHER JINGO Lindbergh, son of a fighting farmer of the Northwest, has fallen a victim to the war propaganda of the Jingoes. | “The army made him” is the slogan used in the attempt to mobilize the only a short time ago was going around with his father to auti-war meetings, is now the chief speaker at war meetings. His father was hound- ed from place to place by our super-| patriots and he is greeted with great ceremony wherever he goes by all the militarists of the land. The name of Lindbergh was at one time synony- mous with and a contempt for Imperi- alism. Today steps are being taken to align it with the militarist clique of the United States War Department through, plastering his picture all over the country as advertisements of the Gre—at opportunity for the youth in the Army. To the young workers deed that he accomplished and pre- paredness spéeches. Hail to the deed of Lindbergh and} 4kWokit THe These Pagan Chinamen At the point of bayonets our impe- rialists benefactors are trying to in- culcate into the pagan Chinamen, espe= cially the youth of China, the supe- riority of the white race and the rest of the bunk. The nationalist forces are giving them a lesson in solidarity and superiority that they will never forget. The Lion (England) in Despair ote, CED % *4 ~ - down with the propaganda of Mili- tarism, - SESPOR Wrestling Expose Continues; Corruption Dominates Game! The recent quiz into professional wrestling has brought to light facts of crookedness and dishonesty start- ling to even the most suspicious fans. It seems that back in 1917 Lewis, Caddock, Stecher and Zybyzko com- bined into a trust to make money out of tossing the title back and forth. Over 41 bouts were staged between | these men and the title changed hands | with the same frequency as the} weather. Since 1917 the trust has! been in control and pretty nearly | every bout of any importance has been fixed beforehand. | So damning have been the ex-| posures made, that pro-wrestling in and around Chicago has been dis-| continued. A» match featuring| Strangler Lewis has been cancelled. A bill has been presented before the Illinois legislature, aimed at corrup- tion in boxing and wrestling. It has already passed the House. However, commercialism in sports is so deep rooted that it is impossible to elimin- ate it by, more legislative action. . . . Labor Sports Press Service Wants News of Labor Athletics. In order to make the LABOR SPORTS PRESS SERVICE a real live means of spreading news of labor athletic activity, it is necessary that feports of the many events that take place thruout the country be sent in to the office of the Service at 453 North Ave., Chicago. The Labor Sports Union appeals to all workers who are interested in labor sports, to send in the news of the activities in their localities. $ Dave Bancroft. ther, had to be given up in view of the threatening at- used that material to spread that propaganda and de- fame} many citizens; A. (To Be ‘ re of the United States, tinued) * (To Be Continued) ‘| Pi Uf New York Office: 108 Hast 14th JOIN OUR RANKS YOUNG WORKERS ; ‘i National Office: 1118 West Washin The plutocrats of England are in hysterics these days. China is in re- volt and the workers at home speak- ing struggle. Bye, bye, Great Britain. Secretary Wilbur Gives Murderer Much Praise +> (Continued from Page One) ment and will struggle against the Mukden troops (Chang Tso-lin’s) to the bitter end.” * Protest Imperialism. CANTON, June 19.—Despite the op- position of the right wing supporters of Chiang Kai-shek in control of the city, a huge anti-imperialist demon- — stration was held in this city yester- day. An airplane dropped quantities of leaflets denouncing imperialist. in- tervention in China. There is wide-spread discontent with the right wing in Kwantung Province. Workers and peasants are forming armed groups for the pur- pose of resisting Chiang Kai-shek’s labor-smashing tactics. *. * * . Chang Dictator. PEKING, June 19.—Chang Téo-lin ushered himself in as dictator of Northern China yesterday afterngon. Elaborate ceremonies marked the in- stallation. . * * Mme. Borodin Tried. PEKING, June 17 (Delayed). — Peking began the’ preliminary heat ing case of Mrs. Borodin and three diplomatic couriers. During .the ex- amination Mme. Borodin was shown * a number of documents which she denied were hers, declaring they were unknown to her. The same documents were present- ed to the diplomatic couriers as al- legedly found in diplomatic mail. Among these documents were ten_ copies of proclamations in the Rus- sian and Chinese languages allegedly issued at Vladivostok. Brand Fake Documents. The couriers emphasized that dur- ing the search which was three times effected in their presence, nothing was discovered. Diplomatic mail which wa®?taken from them as a re- sult of these searches contained no proclamations. To" Dossier wil! be appended a protocol signed by the captain of ship in which was estab- lished the eomplete absence of any- thing prejudicial in diplomatic mail. 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