The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 21, 1927, Page 3

‘tention to the question of fascism in THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1927 BRITISH SECRET AGENTS RECRUITING MEN | IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES FOR CHINA WAR’ (From Our Own Correspondent.) i -How the British government, whose “protests” against Russian “spies” are still ringing in people’s ears, is using its secret service | to foment war is seen in some startling information which has just come into | my possession. | British secret service agents are, I learn, recruiting volunteers for China | in Mediterranean ports and have now turned their activities to Finland. | In Viborg agents have invited volunteers to sign a contract for three | years’ service with 6,000 Finnish marks (£30) down and a wage of 2,000 Finnish marks (£10) per month. | The centre of recruiting activity is the consulate in Viborg, but the field | of operations extends right into the country districts. Attempts to recruit lumber workers have so far met with failure in spite of the tempting bait | held out, However, a small group have been recruited in Kegsholme who have left for England, whence they will be sent to China. Fascism in German Factories By S. PEREVOSNIKOFF. class turned out to be inadequately ‘HE German labor press has lately| prepared for victory to be their’s and been paying a great deal of atten-| the alliance between the capitalists tion to the fascists, especially to so-|and the reformists was sufficiently called “factory fascism,” ie. the| strong to prevent the success of the work of the fascists in the Sechaviag | révolution. The capitalists won over | The fascist “march on Berlin” or-|and strengthened one fresh position | ganized on the 8th of May height-! after another, and their power has| ened the general interest in the fas-| become relatively secure. cists, There are, however, causes) Just Strikebreakers. more profound compelling fresh at- Fascism also was able to adapt it-| Germany. For a proper understand- | self to the new situation. It no long-| ing of the meaning of factory fasc-|°™ storms the strongholds of the Re-| Ld y | public, nor clamors, loudly for re-| ism it is essary to dwell u ism it is necessary t UPON | venge and the | the advances recently made within} immediate ‘transfer | xt wl Pile i | of power itself. The German fascism German fascism itself. G Panel h h at of 1927 was contented itself with the | e i all pa sage ite tr gies fi ee role of hanger-on to the bourgeoisie, | pati oF ‘Gio War. anid: ti tha inflation |? reserve contingent of its states | hee : a |machinery and army. It has substi- period it was an INDEPENDENT | tuted for its anti-gepublican slogans piovement of the despairing petty) the categorical eal: “Fascists! bourgeoisie and declassed elements | a ‘ | | | | Page Three HEADS OF GERMAN GOVERNMENT GREET FLYERS Clarence D. Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine, who completed a non-stop flight from New York to Germany, are shown being congratulated by Chancellor Wilhelm Marx and Gustay Stresemann, for- eign minister, after being presented by United States Ambassador Jacob Gould Schurman. Left to right, Ambassador “The Were Wolf.” The other fascist organizations try not to lag behind the “Steel Helmet.” There are other fascist organizations, just as influential, if their membe ship is somewat less. Such are: the “Jung Deutsche Orden” with a membership of 60,000 and “The Were Wolf” suppor by the auto- mobile industrialists, with about 40,- 000 members, both of which organi- zations also endcavor to set up their nuclei in the factories. The former is able to boast of certain successes among the Thuringen leather work- ers. In some leather enterprises with 500 to 1,000 workers, the Jung D. L. has 50 to 100 members in its nuclei. of other social groups—a movement boasting of an extremely agressive programme of action: the overthrow- of the government and the establish- ment of a National Dictatorship. Its blows were aimed at financial, or, in the language of the fascist, “Jewish capital,” as well as against the revo- lutionary working class. This fascism thirsted for revenge for the lost war, appealed to the masses to throw off} the alien yoke, and to wash away in blood the shame of military defeat. Fought Peace. Fascism put up a desperate fight against the policy of agreements with the victorious pow- ers—‘“the eternal foes of the Ger- man people’—and did not shrink from applying the Terror against the “betrayers of national affairs,” i.e. such agreements. It is enough to re- call Rathenau and a succession of other terrorist acts, the fascist rising in Kustrin and Munich, the occupation of Berlin by Erhardt’s brigade dur- ing the Kapp rising to see that the fascist movement of 1919 to 1923 was an offensive, aiming at the seiz- ure of power. The feeble organiza- tion of the working class, the con- fusion among the bourgeoisie and the violent inter-class struggle made their chances-of success quite on the cards. There can be no manner of doubt that the German fascists would have used their power if they had man- aged to seize it in the interests of the capitalist class just as their Ital- fan confreres are now doing. Indeed it could not be otherwise, for organ- ized assistance by the petty bour- geoisie to tottering capitalism is the very essence of fascism, The ultimate aim of fascism is to strengthen the power of enfeebled capitalism with the assistance of an indepéndent pet- ty bourgeois movement initiating its arrival to power under anti-capital- ist and “non-class” slogans. Capitalists Took Power. The German capitalists in estab- lishing their power avoided this roundabout way of the fascist dic- Special Summer Subscription Offer 2 MONTHS This offer is especially suited to those who wish to become acquainted with our paper. Ask your friends and fellow work- ers to try The DAILY WORKER. for $1.00 RATES Per year . Bix months Three months . Per year . Six months Three months The DAILY WORKER 83 First Street N@MO sssssceeeenees eoeee Street ...- sity « giteseneeeeeenes the murder of Erzberger and) | | | | -| towards yesterday’s ||been crowned with success. Support the States!” Nationalist howls for revenge have been sub- stituted by a Western orientation, i.e., “eternal foes of the German people.” The social com- position of German fascism has also undergone certain changes. Its organizations, still under the leadership of the former militarists of the Hindenburg type, have begun} to be filled up with factory work- ers, tempted by the promises of im- mediate improvement of their posi- tion. The fascists have begun to pay more and more attention to the in- i | dustrial enterprises, since the new coming to! task of German fas ism is the strug- | gle with the revolutionary working class, the disintegration of its ranks, the tempting into fascist contingents of the shakier clements in the work- | ing-class i those who advocated or carried out| p= class intended to serve as a staff for new German imperialism in its problems at home and abroad. Hence the active work done by the fascist in the factories. Class Collaboration. German fascism has been able in some places to worm itself into the factories and shops. So far only in- dividual instances are on record, but} they are symptomatic of the new aims and methods of fascism. Noth-) ing but the severest material need and the perpetual fear of unemploy- ment in which the majority of the German working ‘lass lives could have enabled such a penetration by fascism into the very strongholds of the working-class. To enter a fascist organization meant for the unem- ployed speedy employment after months of starvation, and for the worker in the factory, security of not being among the next batch of workers to be discharged, for fascists are in the administrative and techni- cal posts in many factories. The fas- cist organizations set up their own Labor Exchanges through which the unemployed were able to get work quicker. The Administration in some factories openly give the preference in discharging to those workers who had refused to join the fascist unions or the Factory Sports Organizations| got up by the employers. This subtle terror was partly successful. The fascists in some district got access to the factories. Aping Communist methods of mass work they began to set up their own factory nuclei, to publish factory papers and train up individual workers. They had the Administration, the Sports grounds and latge.financial means at their || services, The Steel Helmet. The influential fascist organization “The Steel Helmet” displays great interest in this work. This union, or- | ganized after the war, contains in its ranks about 450,000 members, of || which about 60 per cent are prol ar-| ians and semi-proletarians. ‘The Steel Helmet” is under the direct in- fluence and control of the big bour- geois parties, “The German National || Party” and “The German People’s || Party,” and is led by ex-officers, “The Steel Helmet” endeavors to \jorganize factory nuclei, chiefly in || Middle Germany and in the Ruhr re- gions, and some of its endeavors have In Hel- senkirchen, the great industrial cen- tre of the Ruhr, the “Steel Helmet’s” local organization consists mainly of workers and has about 2,000 mem- bers. In Essen about 650 workers belong to the “Steel Helmet” groups, and in Bohun—700, In Silesia the “Steel Helmet” also endeavors to or- ganize its nuclei in some of the big- gest factories, with as many as 50 to 70 members in some cases, These nuclei hold regular meetings and carry on daily propaganda among workers. The same remarks apply to Middle Germany, In order to keep the workers strongly attached to these organizations “The Steel Helmet” from time to time gives material as- sistance in the form of free dinners, small benefits from 10 to 15 marks at Christmas, Easter, ete., for which purposes they are supplied with funds by the employers, ‘ \“The Were Wolf” has gained some ground among the Helsenkirchen miners. The fascist made zealous use of the sport organizations got up by the employers in the factories in the hope of reconciling the workers to the fascists. These Sport Associa- |tion have thousands of working-class members who are regarded by the fascist-as reserves for their own or- ganizations. Seabbing Real Purpose. It goes without saying that during of fascist organizations force the members of their nuclei to, scab. This adaptation to the direct advan- tage of the employers is the touch- ies. A\ succession of conflicts taking place during the last few months in Germany have already co’ shaken the fascist factory nuclei. Brought face to face with the in- exorable fact ,of the class struggle many fascist nuclei showed them- selves to be bankrupt. The last elec- tions to factory-committees have cist organizations to better them- |selves materially, are beginning to leave them as soon as this aim is fulfilled. In many enterprises with from one to two hundred workers or- ganized in fascist nuclei, the fascist candidates got less than half of the nuclei membership in votes. The same rapid de facto withdrawal of the workers from fascist organizations was noticeable during the recent in- dustrial conflicts. The strike of tex- tile workers in the North-German Cloth-manufacturing Coricern af- fords vivid testimony of this. The employers became involved in ‘this conflict despite the boom in the tex- tile industry, trusting in the assis- tance of the fascist nuclei in the Con- cern’s enterpr The workers were, however, solid, and the leaders of “factory fascism” in the enter- prises of the Concern were thrown over by their own members. It must also be remembered that, with the increase of the number of | fascists in the factories it has be- come more and more difficult for the employers to give them privileged positions. All these points must be born in mind when the partial suc- cesses of the fascists in the factories are spoken of, Fascism Degenerates. German fascism has degenerated into an armed battalion of the big bourgeoisie. It supplements the strikes and other conflicts the leaders | stone of fascist work in the factor-} erably | shown that the workers, entering fas-; churman, Leyine, Chancellor Marx, Chamberlin and Foreign Minister Stresemana. | Protest British Imperialism By JAR (Madrid) rT the French and Spanish im-{ periali: the surrender of Abd- end of the problem ion, The Bank de el-Krim meant 2 of Riffian dominz France et Pays-Bas and the French colonists; the yanish-African Min- ing Co., Echevarrieta, the Spanis' business magnate; all thought that the moment had come for exploiting, unhampe: rich resources of the mining beds in Morocco. Since June, 1926, numbers of Spanish and French industrial firms have sent their repre- tatives to Morocco to study con- ditions there with a view to establish ing commercial branches. 3ut Morocco is not yet a conquered country. n loves his inde- | pendence t phi for the moment when he can another blow to free his coun- try from imperialist domination. An Unexpected War. Once more the Riffians have star- e e | ted war; this time before it was ex in China | nected or wished by Poincare Primo de Rivera. There is a recur arenes rece of rebellion in the whole of By THE HINDUSTAN GADAR. is the common belief that these men} territory between Targuist and Chee (India’s: National Party) | are being implicated simply because | hauen, extending south to the frontie NDIA’S nationalists, all over the| they are Nationalists. ___jof French Moro All the tribe world, in co-operation with the op-, Two Indian revolutionists, Bhai} in this large area are well armec | pressed humanity, are interested ah | eawanion ante Beene baht rifles; machine-guns and field “ e Pritic srial- | China, anc ai Gainda Singh, who} artillery. the destraction of British Imperial were doing their duty toward China Three Spanish advance posts have |ism. They know full well that unless | it is destroyed, there can‘be no peace {on the face.of this earth; there can} |be no freedom for India and other| {enslaved countries, | | It was Lincoln who said that there | can not be such a thing as a nation half free and half slave. What was \true of one country then, is true of !all humanity today. Due to modern } means of communication, mankind is | functioning as one organism.. Any one part of this organism can not grow healthy while other parts are paralyzed and diseased. A large part of humanity is suffering under the bondage of slavery on account of | British Imperialism, This condition must be remove o Ce S British Imperialism has taken, and is’ taking, a very dangerous attitude in its international affairs) whereby no nation can make any move without disturbing this mon- ster to its fury, it is this function of British Imperialism that should be destroyed before it destroys every- thing else worth while in life. A small number ‘of Englishmen have constituted themselves into the so-called British Empire. They have forced their will by fair and foul means upon one-third of mankind, and extracted the very life of the | people in subjected countries. The gold acquired by unfair means from suffering mankind is being used |to manufacture dreadnaughts, gas ‘and explosives, and other death-deal- ing devices for the wholesale destruc- |tion of Europe as well as Asia. The |late war is a living example of this | British vandalism in which the cream | of western civilization was destroyed. | To protect this highly destructive jand savage British Empire, every {able bodied Englishman is conscript- led against his will. Thus even the | best element in England is destroyed, jand only a few politicians are left jfree to play with human lives like pawns on a chess board. « 'T is the duty of every liberty-loving ;* person to help destroy British Im- perialism which is the real enemy of | human freedom and world peace. By questioning the audacity’ of this \gang of international conspirators, |the British Imperialists, the Hindu | Nationalists have provoked their! |fury. The British have called the |Hindu Nationalists by different | names at different times. During the | late war the Hindus were called Ger- \man agents. Now in China the Hin- lus are being called Russian agents. | No one knows what they will be |ealled in the future. The object of| |the British in calling the Hindus of |China by names is to alienate the machinery of capitalism in the State Sympathy and friendship of the Chi- and the army. This, in the main, ex-| nese toward Hindus so that Indian plains the fact that the Reformists, | Nationalists may not keep their fel-' a few years ago breathing fire | low countrymen _ (Indian soldiers) | against the fascists, no longer wage from fighting against China. | against them even @m oral campaign.| JINDUSTAN GADAR (India’s Na- This also explains the attitude taken tional) party assures the people up by the reformist unions and S. D,| of China that the Nationalist Hindus Party during the last “Steel Helmet” ave their true friends. All that the) demonstration in Berlin. This demon- Hindus in China are interested in is! stration, during which the fascists|to see that British Imperialism does | were admitted even by the*capitalist|not use Indian men and money| press to have “run the gauntlet of | against: China. They have no busi- the hostile Berlin workers,” proved a ness to interfere with China’s inter- fiaseo entirely owing to the brilliafit) nal affairs. We warn our Chinese} anti-fascist campaign waged by. the) brothers against the tricks of British Communist Party. The failure of the | propaganda. 8th of May Fascist demonstration; Nationalists of India have tried to shows that the broad masses are|help China by advising their fellow alive to the dangers with which fas-| countrymen who were brought over cism threatens them and ready to as mercenaries, not to fire upon the struggle with them. Fascism, spring- | people of China. ing up in a capitalist State in in-| The fact that the British Courts in herently incapable of being implanted| Shanghai are busy trying several in the masses of the workers for long.| cases of “sedition” proves that the In the daily class struggle it is! Hindus have done their best, forced to show its true features, and| Several Hindus’ have been sent to stands unmasked as the traditional! jail for distributing revolutionary lit- foe of the working class. None the| erature among the Indian soldiers. less does the struggle with fascism * ® bd become the most urgent task before WE hear that Budah Singh, who was the German working class, any blow, known to be a British agent in struck at fascism being at the same! Sha@zhai has been shot by Bhai Har- time a blow at the whole capitalist|bant Singh. The British have taken State. advantage of this incident. They ‘ have arrested men who were known Run Over by Train, Lives to have taken part in the national Timothy Collins, 55, received only |movement. A charge of conspiracy minor bruises when he fell from the |has been filed against them, West Side subway platform at Canal | -®Bhan Singh, state witness, has been into*the path of a seven-car train. instructed to prove the charges, It! and India have been arrested by the | British police on Chinese territory. | Thus Britain has violated interna- tional law and has insulted China’s sovereignt The British who call hem: tectors of small and weak tions have proved by their actions in China that they do the op- posite of what they preach. We wish to emphasize the fact to the Chinese people that Brother Das- wandha Singh who has been arrest- ed along with Brothe: ainda Singh om Chinese territory a citizen of China. * * * Vien in her pres¢ not be able to effect the release of these Hindu political refugees from the British, but she can certain- ly lodge a strong protest against this action. Decent public opinion ex- pects this much at least from the government of China. The Hindustan Gadar Party has filed a strong protest with Marshal CWiang Kai-Shek against this high- handed action of the British govern- ment. We urge upon all the fair minded people of the world particula: own countrymen to re in ‘protest against this atrocious tion of the British authorities. t situation may ac- been captured in the Gomara tribe district by followers of Kaid Bondara. In the Beni Ider tribe district a post near El Tlata was attacked, 15 Span- jish soldiers and war material cap- tured. A column of Spanish troops, | |after desperate fighting, succeeded | in relieving an advance post. His Command Captured. jor Ostaris, in command of a was attacked and the greater | part of his command captured. The| Ostaris column immediately turned }t to the relief of the convoy, but {fell into ambush and was cut up. The remnant of the column and the survivors of the convoy, in all about 400 men, were stated to be holding out with difficulty in the village of Adrian. Under a vigorous Riffian counter-| attack the Spanish were forced to re-| tire northward. The Spanish posts of Tagsut, Ketama, Benizernal and} iTabarran have been attacked with| heavy casualties. Line Fighters. The Riffian is an individualist warrior. He knows how to fight by himself, and it is only when the situa- tion seems to require the leadership of a Chief that the bravest of the | fighters is chosen to lead. | Abd-e m was a leader of extra- .| extremely » | tions The Riffian Fight for Freedom Is Still On bers of his fa and went over to the Riffs iis brought matters to a head in the Sinhaja district. The Ketama tribe, the western neighbors of the Ben ddat, rose, and on March 20th invaded the tribe of Tar- jut, which omptly joined the re- volt, The nnish Garrison of an important st ical post at Bab Slib, cross position untenable, the frontier and took refuge judging 1 the Protectorate, The the neighboring tribes also to raise the this vigorous attack the French and Span- are preparing @M- snsive in collabora- conference with the Spanish High mmissior id the counter-at- tack was scheduled for May. ‘He antagonisms of the French and Span- ish in Morocco, however, make dt unlikely that this ecolla- ill be effective. There 18 between the two na panish imperialists accused the French in boration intense j have con colonists 0: Spanish zone R when the Riffians menace the “Pro= tectorate Zones” of both countries that they combine for mutual de. fense. A Morrocan Demonstration. The last Riffian offensive took place when the discussion on Tangier at the Paris Conference was at its most critical point. render After the sur- of Abd-el-Krim, Prime dé contending that Spain had ” Morocco, proposed that the Tangier problem be “solved” by granting Tangier to Spain. This had long been one of the cherished dreams of the Spanish-African League. But before the end of the Conference, the Riffians had demon- strated in a very conclusive manner that Morocco belonged to the natives and not to the Spanish imperialists. Must Be Independent. In spite of all the conclusions signed at the Conference of Algiers in 1912, at Madrid in 1925, and at the recent Paris Conference, slicing Up Morocco and distributing it among the imperialists of Europe, the un- regenerate Riffians continue to demonstrate, by force of arms and | with intrepid bravery, that Moroceo must be independent. But the Moroccan war has not ended, The sympathy of the workers of the world, and particularly of the elass-conscious vanguard in the Com- | munist Parties of all countries, have | always been with the Riffians in We appeal to ‘the people of China| ordinary power in Moroeco, due to| their struggle for independence. This to do all that is in their power to|his commanding personal qualities;| sympathy, in the form of moral sup- have these Hindus released and to| but his defection has not left the| port, exposure of lying anti-Riffian give the right of asylum to all those! Riffs entirely without leadership. | imperialist propaganda, and financial who are helping the cause of China’s! About a month ago, Sheree Sulitin| and material assistance, must be sus- freedom. Hindustan Gadar Party. 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