The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1927, Page 3

Page Three Hankow Printers’ Strike 7 By MARKOFF, Jare exerting their best efforts,” runs The printers in two foreign news-|the declaration, “to break down the papers “The Hankow Herald’! power of the labor unions and of the | (American) and “The Central na | revolutionary people as a whole. . ./| Post” (English)—went on strike on|We know, from what is written in| the 19th of March in Hankow. The|them that their aim is the struggle! ms strike was entirely unexpected by the| with the revolution. We have | publishers in both cases, the workers | therefore decided, in the interests of having presented no demands of any| the revolution, to stop the issue of sort ir advance. They had alway: peared satisfied with their conditions | To Stop Reactionaries. and no sort of economic friction had| There was not a word in the dec- arisen between them and the employ-|laration of raised wages or any other ers for a long time. The publishers, |demands of the sort. This is the first | however, jumping to the conclusion} case in China of the printers striking that the printers were about to pre-| merely to stop the issue of papers | sent incredible demands for raised| hostile to the labor movement. It| wages, appealed to the authorities| goes without saying that the strike | with a protest and requests for pro- | met with full sympathy from all the | tection from the violence of the work-| revolutionary elements, The Wu-| ers. The authorities were also aston-| hang Trade Union Council decided to ished by the strike, but refused to/| issue strike benefits, while a subsidy take any measures for stopping it. | equal to their former monthly pay of | Reasons Appear. jless than 30 Mex. dollars (1 Mex. | The cause of the strike at last came | dollar—2s.) was assigned to the print- | out on the 2ist of March. The Wu-| ers. | hang printers’ union issued a declara The attempts of the consuls to end tion in which it was stated that the|the strike came to nothing. The pa-| cause of the strike was the tone of | pers were forced to issue short type- these papers and the contents of the | written communiques, chiefly devoted | a i i i . “Both papers | to the strike itself. | ‘ ie * sthcles printed in.them. “Both cided ae a (ieee | Front row (left to right) Simeon Yengenov, member of staff “Rabochya Krestyanskaye” correspondent—the | , Hankow's Herald Quits. | workers’ and peasants’ correspondent; Wm. F. Kruse; J. Loui: ngdahl, editor The Daily Worker; Maria litch-| ~ Exactly a month from the day the | ova Ulianov, sister of Lenin, member of the Pravda editorial staff; David A. Icock, foreign editor of Pravda, | inter Order — ap- | both these papers.” —~ | As they took off from Le Bourget flying field, Paris, on the start | of a contemplated flight to India in an effort to establish a new long | distance record, Captains Pelletier D’oisy and Gonin, noted French | aviators, came to grief when their heavily loaded 650-horsepower | biplane crashed and was completely destroyed. The photo shows y/ | ‘oisy at the right with Gonin, leaving the burning plane. ing information that there is{ Worker-Writers are party member strike arose “The Hankow Herald” Rear row (left to right) Alexander M. Zuyev, Natalia Pilatzkoya, Abraham Romanofsky: all members of the|CDSiderable competition bety the| giving the majority of 60 per cent decided to capitulate. An agreement] staff of Workers’ and Peasants’ Corregpondence. | different et daily newspapers,|nonparty workers. was concluded between the two sides iis jresulting in an increasingly hot hunt} The Worker Correspondents’ Maga- through the mediation of Chen Kun- \“ |for news. The special correspondent, | zine of the Pravda, a fortnightly with po, chief of the labor branch of the | ” ° 1 e | therefore, is consider aluable ad- id circulation, has 8,000 readers. Kuomintang. The publishers of “The J ] U ad C t R l jJunct to the regular “Tass” corres- best centers of worker corre- fuomincane. ie puplightss of “Ae | ournaiism Under Communis ule erg | spondence are the Donets BaaiagiThe they had been wrong to publish ar-| received that 4 On top of the; fective work. Each one of these| There is a clipping bureau, aj Pittsburgh of the Soviet Union) and ticles against the emancipatory moye/ By J. LOwTS | Mausoleum stood a full length repro-| editorial sections yielded up an in-| morgue for photographs and cuts, and| Leningrad. The youth predominates ment and the Chinese revolution anl| (Specialto The DAILY WORKER) | duction of Lenin in metal, so that! teresting s I its own, worthy of | special morgue for articles that Worker-Writers, especially, in the | declared themselves as supporters of | Mail),| When the current was turned on the| geneparate article. | cannot be used at this time, but ma the average age being be- lages, | 4 ‘ : MOSCOW, U.SS.R., (By . 7s “ * 7 - 4 ; Your bundle of the | American-Chinese friendship, in fu-} wos prod 4 —— the workmen ™¢tat glowed with the heat of elec-// There was the Farmers’ Section|be of use some time in the future,| tween 20 and 30 years. | ture to refrain from printing such ar-| |” Hi “the finishing | Tic energy, thrilling one in its w with an editor and an assistant. But/all regular gold mines of material.| I found that every Soviet are busy putting | touches on the magnificent new 5) tia, the da’ Special with the feeling that, “LENIN STILL S' nearby was the room where the edi-| But the Pravda egpecially prides it-| newspaper usually published a 8 a thing to admire. Thus ticles. Moreover, the publishers un- to pay the morkers their LIVE of It w othe tor of the Red Army and Fleet Sec-| Self on its own libre dertook ‘y that occupies publications. 3 for the time of the strike, to | ty heme of the Isvestia, the Here was a sledge from the Od-| tion held forth. In the latter was|three large rooms and contains 20,000| additional periodic |give the union compensation to theHeyp te on. now in the offices of “0882 Metal Works, with an appro-| displayed the latest issue of the Wall| titles. This library has been de- “The Bolshevik,” a forte th amount of 500 dollars and to make) 4). jae the central organ of the|Priate inscription; a huge tobacco per of the Cruiser “Comin-| veloped only within the last two or nder the Banner of Marx- |no discharges in connection with the\ Communist, Party of the Soyiet leaf in a s case, from tobacco n” stationed at Sebastopol. It was|three years. Even now it is still theoretical monthly; “Enter- Rican | strike. Uni aca ts Chemanes. To workers, gifts from the Railroad | entitled “Our Everyday Life” and had | Browing rapidly under the direction ’ a monthly dealing with in= | Union, splendi Ss. | of an expert librarian. It places at Shops in the North Caucuses, and from the Navy Yark in Sebastopol, to mention just a few. We were looking them over one by one, unti ;Comrade Illitchova arrived to wel the intruders. Message to America’s Workers. much of interest in story and pic-| problems; “Projector,” an tures of life aboardship. | the disposal of the staff members | illustrated fortnightly with pig Me ‘ Much could be written-6f how the|#!! material desired on all subjects] tion of 7,000. Many members of the | news of Moscow and its immediate| Without forcing busy editorial work-| staff ar ays working on some | surroundings is covered day by day|¢TS *® ransack other libraries and| book aphlet. i |by the local staff of 13 members,|t™S waste considerable time. I try to comprehend the power of Here was a city ‘editor who refused| Much could also be written of the| this attery of the Soviet press | department devo’ “The Central China Post” has also recently begun again to come out. The terms on which the workers re- turned are not, however, known as yet, but it looks as if “The Central | China Post” has been forced to give | jin. the days of czarism the Pravda Build-! ng, next door neghbor of the Isvestia | building, was occupied by the Russ- kye Slovo (the Russian Word), the biggest and admittedly the best at that time of the bourgeois daily press Of July Number of the DAILY WORKER showed a/| paper city editor in America continu-| | that once boas’ a circulation of ) a lascageee pe amd ere: | 4 | RS ee as RIN 1,000,000 copigse Jy One moment in her presence and it|to be thrilled at the thought of | fF od ; bead to Spt. Life, | when ¢ mr de Tcok presents Bezy=— ‘we | Below in ‘ourtyard an endless| Was easy to realize why she held this| divorce scandals, murders and sex| fitemet Desty 73 ptiogy* ala aca sep y One bags pond gti por % | bie ‘# : =| i rtant post. Full of e : | stuff that keeps the capitalist news-| 9" 9 bag agp Jnion. | proletarian poets. en the Prav Vital Contract Is ae eet pe Pare: cttue seen Hagerty é : wa. | Five people work in this department! “best cartoonist,” who has heen de — | |ing huge rolls of newsprint. It comes eel enthusiasm, she quickly d carry rtonaiy Says, in ok \ from Finland, Sweden and some from | keen knowledge of the difficult tasks| ally on edge. At the same time, how- pri 00 (AE CREORSIVG CORTOSpON- porns A bape = an = . 7 4 sgt ¢ A i rant: rentra r | ever, ow; vital interes . ritis ouse of commons, @i f Germany. ‘The Soviet Union: {9 not eontrastiagsse eenteal organ af the) aver, no news of vitel Interest to the)" “ae Pravda also has iis share of |who fe copied extennivete aan | yet able to produce all the newsprint | Party that is leading 160,000,000 of| workers escapes him. |the 300,000 work . ar that its many publications require.| people to Communism here in the So-} | Bact Union ocedet ne ina Service there is a “Bureau of In-| {ye ‘u000 wor ed ie en een aah ee ca a Pye reastene RIE A pee a ce 2 e Sovie nion, organized in 10,-|in. Gradually one realizes the giant That steady arrival of rolls of news-| Viet Union, and inspiring interna-|quiry” with eight editorial workers | a eal othe’, pai Fes: vd a | print was the same in the days of the|tional labor in the struggle towerd| attached to it. Its function lore Srcups: who continually write for|foress released by working: Glam - Closed by “Amtorg’ Russkye SI fea ith the| world victory. Sehiat' the enaauce is 101 the Soviet Press, It is estimated that | journalism. Daily these forces grow | usskye Slovo as it is now wi e | . | #85) 8 ys v \ th 50,000 W; oe OR . * Pee | publication of the Pravda. But that! She asked that her greeting be| This results often in thoro investiga-| ‘Hee @r€ 50,000 Wall Newspapers in| in power, strengthening the Soviet | . ' USSR Trading Firm of the Pravda.} i i : |the Union. At i oes Pissige ing Ben ae lis all.. The printed word that a few|sent to the readers of The DAILY tion being made of various com-| aoe waded 40 per cent of the! Power against its capitalist foe. Saul G, Bron, chairman of the} hours later converts this blank news-| WORKER and urged that we exert| Plaints. Much material is never pub- board of the Amtorg Trading Cor-| print into hundreds of thousands,|every possivle energy in developing | lished. But what goes into the paper | England as the Mad Dog of poration, 165 Broadway, ‘whieh ex-) millions of copies of newspapers, to-| our Worker-Writers in America. * | SPpesrs’ in the department “Pravda Europe, a study of conditions ports products to the Soviet Union,| day has a different message, the call| Then we passed on to Bukharin’s| Helped” that has won much influence of the British Working Class. announced yesterday that a contract| to struggle, the will to build, to fight | room—Nikolai Bukharin—editor of for the publication. This number will be of great had been signed with the Soviet Nap-| for the eau J that has dis-'the Pravda, who is better known inthe! There is also a “Legal Aid” De-| This Special Number of The DAILY WORKER will be devoted chiefly to Great Brit- ain and its role in the pres- ent world situation. This issue will contain special ar- ticles on the relations of Great Britain and America, . WHAT PART - Will You Play ¢ IN THE historical importance and will tha Syndicate whereby Amtorg be- | placed the old. United States as the writer of Com-| partment that has good lawyers in its | contain a number of very came sole agent of the syndicate in Has Ex Foreign News. munist books and pamphlets that have| service. Anyone, Communist as well | valuable articles of the most the United States, The contract was} My visit to Pravda was made by) been translated into the English lan- as non-Communist workers and even! timely significance. It will concluded a few days ago with M. E.| appointment with David I. Icok, its| guage and received considerable cir-| such remnants of the bourgeoisie as also contain material to coun- Kalnin, vice-chairman of the Naptha | foreign editor, Comrade Icok fas | culation. 3 Ht | still exist, may seek assistance from | teract the jingoistic propa- syndicate, who has sailed for Europe) three assistants who divide the vari-| Bukharin was not in his office. He} this department. It also wins in-| ganda which usually accom- after spending a month in the United/ous nations of the world among) was busy somewhere else preparing | fluence for the paper. | panies the July 4th Celebra- ! States. | themselves and, with the aid of re-|for the Plenum of the Executive) The news editor has charge of the tion. Your unit cannot afford Mr. Kalnin discussed the world oil | ports from many able correspondents} Committee of the Comintern (Com-|news of the Soviet Union outside of | to miss ‘his opportunity to situation with a number of American|in foreign lands, supplemented by munist International), where he would Moscow. He has his staff of assis-| arrange a special distribution oil executives during his visit. Be-| “Tass” (Russian Telegraph Agency), | make the report on the Chinese ques- tants, who direct the large number! of The DAILY WORKER fore he sailed he expressed himself! give to the readers of the Pravda an tion, si of paid correspondents who send in and increase- its circle of optimistically on the future possibili-| excellent foreign news service. | Sub-divided Into Departments. material by phone, wire and mail.) readers, ties of marketing Soviet oil products | “How big an editorial staff have| Each department of the paper has | This department also handles the! abroad, in co-operation with estab-| you altogether?” was a question that|/a room to itself, sometimes two or|domestic wire news furnished by BUNDLE RATES! FOR THIS ISSUE! lished American distributing com-|came instinctively to my lips, as I| three rooms, so that extreme quiet | “Tass.” $1.50 per \Hundred panies, envied this machinery for gathering | and exclusiveness is secured for ef- Prayda’s news editor revealed the| $9.00 per housand Oil Production Increases. foreign news. | - ——- ——_— — ‘ ORDERt NOW Ofticers of Amtorg stated that oil| “We have about 100 editoriz | production in the Soviet Union for the |'workers altogether,” replied Icok, i first seven months of the current} quite a matter of fact way, and when Soviet fiscal year, October 1st to!1 told him that we had only a bare) April 30th, was 5,759,146 metric tons,| half dozen on the editorial staff of | |an increase of 29.7 per cent over the; The DAILY WORKER, he smiled Save Your Money in Your Workers’ Co-operative Institution } DAILY WORKER 83 First St., New York, N. Y. 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SECRETARIES: Be sure to mention invoice number when mak- k ing payment. and was willing to discuss the diffi- cult days of the Bolshevik press be- fore the revolutionary triumph of) 1917. The difference between an! editorial staff of half a dozen and! one hundred, in this instance, is the difference wrought by revolutionary | nge. | We went first to meet Comrade Maria Illitchova Ulianov, the sister} of Lenin, who is the responsible! secretary of the Editorial Board,! meaning that she has an influential) place in shaping the editorial policies | of the paper. She also gives con- siderable attention to the develop- ment of worker correspondence. In fact it was in the office of “Rabochya Krestyanskaye Correspondent”—(The Workers’ and Peasants’ Correspon- dent) that we all had our pictures taken at the end of my visit, the camera, ever. present, being con- sidered one of the most valuable ad- juncts of every Soviet publication. Pravda has three photographers with three assistants in this department. Workers’ Gifts Everywhere. But this is getting ahead. of the story. Comrade Ilitchova was not in when we first arrived at “Her Room.” This gave us an opportunity to look around a bit in the most at- tractive editorial office that 1 have ever seen. Here I felt the intense in- terest that the workers and peasants |‘f) take in their press. Fittingly ar- ranged about the room were many of the gifts that had been received by the paper from its readers. There were only a few, however. Most of them had been sent to the Museum of the Revolution, for safe keeping and preservation, On the huge, flat top desk, how- ever, there stood the latest gift, a reproduction of the Lenin Mausoleum under a glass dome, made by the workers.of the great Moseow factory, 6% DAILY DIVIDENDS Secured by a SECOND MORTGAGE OF THIS SQUARE BLOCK of the First Workers Cooperative Colony Bronx Park East and Allerton Ave. Consumers Finance Corporation SUBSIDIARY OF THE | | UNITED WORKERS COOPERATIVE i} 69 Fifth Avenue, Cor. 14th St, Telephone Stuyvesant 6900 Hao —=ac=0=——10 1019 1 “Hlectrolampa IJ,” It had just been Giant Carnival and Fair JULY 22, 23 & 24 FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE DAILY WORKER WORKERS’ PARTY UNITS, LABOR ORGANIZA- TIONS, FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS, CLUBS are INVITED ~& TO PARTICIPATE By furnishing Attractions, Exhibitions, Side- Shows, Novelty Booths, Athletie Exhibitions, Refreshments, Concerts, etc. =P Reserve space through THE DAILY WORKER 108 Hast 14th Street Tel. 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