The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 5, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1927 Page Three ‘tall Conference to Score Imperialism: Demand Free Speech ON (FP)-—Suppre further Ame so large on the WORKERS URGE END OF GOVERNMENT "wits Ques sce. Our Letter from THAT THIRSTS FOR NEW WORLD WAR [5 AUCKLAND, New Zealand—Dur- ENGDAHL, ing the hearing of a case in the A (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) Hand police court in which a Com-| |munist was prosecuted for selling jcopies of a Communist pamphlet en- | Then the pall bearers enter, Kalin- 4:30 in and Rykoff, for the Soviet govern- ;/ment; Bukharin and Molotov for the Australia le ; i : Brrr Nas ae Peviandy and inflicted a heavy fine. | titled “The Path to Power,” the coun- With {sel for the defendants made the fol- |lowing telling point: “The worker: }are entitled to discuss strikes, | jouts, etc, in the same way as th |did before the war. If every te iters, th of New South W: | advance financial (Continued-from Last Issue). Exactly on the to second of " k special train rolls slow t eople’ gets wened ae the Red Army! Party; Voroshilov, of the Red Army; | | perately and well-expressed argume a 4g ? oe Band plays the Proletarian Funeral | K akhan, Litvinov, Rosengolz, Ara- | put forward by the Communist Party gue is holding 2 Ane ays se is a huge baggage car | lov of the foreign office; Melnichan- jor the labor party is to be the sub- in Washington, J March. There is a huge baggage car | ject of prosecution by the governme’ circum. » consider ways of meeting the seen sky of the trade unions; Ganetsko of | the Commissariat of Foreign. Trade, | Streamers, and also in evergreen and|2nd others, They carry the casket of | purple lilacs, the latter blooming | their dead comrade on their shoulders, nee ; es ing vay he platform a Russia at this time of | leading the way along t airendently: sn Russia< : and thru the station to the gun car- Besta pee or alate Bee Pe lie in the Square beyond waiting | Army soldiers and proletarian stu- | to receive it. | dents enter to take charge of the; Another Red Army band takes up the many wreaths, more than one hun- Funeral March and the procession be- | dred in all, most of them from the gins to move toward the Toverskaya. factories and the workshops of War- | In the lead are eight Red Army cav- saw. In the words of the writer for|alrymen of jet black horses. Then} the Isvestia, central organ of the Sov-|come the bearers of the wreaths, iet, government: | stretching out for more than a block. | “There were luxurious wreaths, and | ae if acne ee tee e ee aa | difficulty in pulling the gun carriage | diately behind the gun carriage walk the mother and widow with other re- | | latives of the murdered Voikoff. Next }come the comrades of Voikov from }every activity of the Soviet Power. | We look back at the station and | over its entrance there is a huge ban- | ner carrying the declaration: Close the Ranks. “CLOSE RANKS IN DEFENSE]. OF THE PROLETARIAN DICTA- TORSHIP.” As the head of the procession leaves the station the worker delegations fall | in line with their banners.’ The miles | along the entire length of the Tover- skaya become living masses of hu- manity quietly looking on as the si- jlent funer procession passes. | Mourning flags everywhere. Even the proud banner, blood red, that waves jfrom the flag staff of the Firs | House of the MoscoyeSoviets has its | black border todayg Se we reach the Red Square before the Lenin Mauso- }leum. The whole square is already filled with workers and soldiers. containing the casket and a passen- | ger coach, both hung in red and black LDN GSE SHS OTR IOS MY ONO OS SBE NED Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Holeomh, above, of the U. S. Marine Corps, is enroute from Washington D. C. to Peking, China, where he has been assign- | ed the command of the American | Legation guard to succeed Col- | onel Louis McC. Little. Lien- tenant Colonel Holcomb is the most junior officer, both in age and rank, to command the Marines in Peking. ALL HANDS OUT nder challenge of “The In- We dese lift the he shoulders and ¢ resting place bes’ 1 from The Tribune and al casket upon our it toward its last le the Red Kremlin Wall. I am just behind Rykoff. He quite frail. The burden is too much for him. He relinquishes his place but walks with us. At the grave workmen take over the casket and place it beside the deep gash, that has been’ cut in the earth. The cover has not yet been put in place. One look at Voikov’s face, quiet in death, reveals how peacefully he sleeps, how cour- jageously he died. The mother crum- ples up beside the coffin. She clings There the casket is placed:on a huge to its side, weeping softly. She is ved draped dais that in turn rests on | dressed in black, with only a grey a platform, on which an Honor Guard | shawl for a head covering. A Mother of workers, men and women, now take | of the Revolution weeping while these their places, changing frequently. The | in the high places of the Soviet Power huge red banner, with its hammer and | stand by, paying homage to her grief. ‘sickle emblem, that flies over the] At the Mother's side the Widow, biting Kremlin Tower, alone has no border her lips to hold back her sobs. In the of mourning. |dark days in Warsaw and the sad Speakers Pay Last Tribute. journey home to Moscow, her grief For the Giant Carnival and Fair For the Benefit of The DAILY WORKER | JULY 23 and 24 Workyars Party Units, La- | Jrganizati pie} ‘g i i has composed itself. Gently the work- SS oe Soin aaa ie ees of Spe Mausol- | men take the coffin and begin lower- eile ¥ ey seat Bhere\ are Rykay; il eganube «ing it into the grave; the Red Army Are Invited to Partici- Le ae pea Ned is Commandant who hag been standing pate [iiaze, eke Pea eee finet |bY With right hand raised high, brings | [Rov atid. ters. EY eee he fi. (it quickly down to his side. It is a by furnishing attrac- for the Samet govertinean 2s De 10. signal to the two Red Army soldiers ishes the Red Army band takes up a tions, exhibitions, side- oe q : oa ..,| Who have-been standing not far away shows, novelty booths, jaenene ite fusca woee fe telephones glued to their ears. 1 athletic: exhibitions). re \the All-Union Communist Party They send on the orders and in an- freshments, concerts, etc. other second guns begin to roar on the {drill grounds within the Kremlin. * 4 Twelve guns are fired as a final trib- resentative of the Communist Inter- + era 2 ; national. Then Litvinov from the for- ne Pe oe —the Red Soldier of the eign office. Melnichansky for the} phat lad trade unions and Volkoff for the Mos-| Then eight cow Soviet. é finished all the Red Army bands join |John Reed, and close to where the wreaths of field flowers woven by the|@shes of Ruthenberg were placed in hands of workers and peasants.” ‘the Kremlin Wall. We return to the . said tribune and review the procession of workers, students and Red Army sol- idiers as. they pass before dispersing, |the music now being that of “The In- {ternational” in place of the Funeral ‘March. Melnichansky translates the |slogans upon the banners for me. The \declaration that fore- |most ‘in my mind was that carried by |a workers’ delegation declaring: | Do Not Want War. “We Do Not Want War! Stalin is not here. He is ill and can Reserve Space Thru the not attend. Then I speak as the rep- DAILY WORKER | 108 E, 14th STREET Tel. 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We called to them offer LITERATURE AND from the balcony of the Comintern: Inclosed herewith yougwill find’ 20 Daily Worker coupons and $1.60 for which I should Ifke to REVOLUTION by Leon Trotsky A brilliant \“Long Live the Proletariat of Mos- cow!” Back came the shout, “Long Live the Red Terror!” Upon one ban- No. 6 criticism of | have you send me Offer No. ..... piaeine say gat group~ ner was inscribed: “Against the ngs in Russia, and a di ‘ i od Terror?) cussion of the relation of art [| White Terror the Red Terror.” The wer to life, workers had been stirred by the slay- ing of Opansky, a high official of the “G. P. U.” at Minsk, and the mur- derous attack on a party discussion meeting in Leningrad, during which two bombs were thrown, injuring scores. No wonder that the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union feel that the new capitalist attack on their | Power has actually begun, MARX AND ENGELS by D. 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The British shai® of world produc- tion has declined from 21.4 per cent ‘jin 1913 to 18 per cent in 1925. The 1926 figures are not comparable be- cause of the effect of the 7-month coal stri The United States pro- duced 38.5 per cent in 1913, 88 per cent in 1925 and 44.4 per cent in 1926. Germany, France, Poland, Japan and China are also among the countries lwith a slightly greater per cent of world coal production in 1926 than in 1913. The coal trade has been important to England not only in itself but be-| cause it provided outgoing cargo mak- Exports Drop. . Department of Commerce table shov The following of British coal to various parts of the 1913 British coal exports to North Europe Germany France South & Central Europe South America British possessions Other Total B In 1913 Russia afforded a {for 5,998,434 tons of British coal 1926 Russia’ took only 11,587 tons. Slash Wages. The productive capacity of the Bri- \tish coal industry is greater than ever, due to improved equipment and to a ‘large number of new deep mines. Re- ductions in cost of production rang- ling from 24 cents to 72 cents a ton ‘Are the Philippines By ANNA LOUISE STRONG. EN ROUTE TO MANILA FROM HONOLULU, (By Mail), (FP). — ‘This boat is a regular half-way hou to the Philippines, most of its pas- | sengers are going there, and most of et In lthe conversation (except for bridge, | and shuffle-board tournaments), deals | with the islands. Yesterday the old-timers were teas- | ing the newcomers. Telling the bud- |ding young teachers en-route for the \first time to-Manila just what had happened to the predecessors whose places they were called to fill. Much of it was exaggerated jest. But it’s true that the white man can’t live | means that} {in the tropics, which | Americans can’t live in the Philip- pines. The ltheir children home; they take vaca- tions in Japan; and even so come down with tropical diseases. Just like ‘the British in India. Friction Grows, The missionary at my table, a very moderate, intelligent man, says that jevery year the Filipinos are more anxious for independence, and every year the Americans in the island are less willing to grant it. I have read several books on the ship about the Philippines. Pages of propaganda, chiefly, for holding the islands. White man’s burden, train wp good colonial rulers like the Eng- lish— and all that sort of thing. The American business men on board are want it made definite in order to | guarantee investments. Useless Sehools. Our schools, widely hailed, have given an academic training— produ- cing orators and lawyers, but no rmers or mechanics. The high school graduates seck careers of ex- ploitation or politics. “The trouble with the Filipinos i said a cynical Manila busi- ness man. “They are grafters and get-rich-quick schemers! Typically | American! Every American wants special privilege and thinks he can speculate or bluff his way into wealth -We have taught it to the Fili- ican which will mark 400,000 yduced education based on labor. \they wish America had a continuous, don’t grow old; they send } all for continued ownership, only they that they are now just like Amer-') aftermath of », Ch ference, t » Geneva n: 000,000,000 private 1 abroad of Amer n is t Amer- Benjam Cc; i June 30 in calling the ican foreign pc y the ated Press). zation, is } ican g a barometer y of capitalism. Morris L. Ernst and Ch Rowe of New York will di suppression of free speech b the ning July thur eld Hays, ) Yor’ 4 torney and E. ©. Davison, recover foreign markets for of the International Association of Losing French Market.’ Machinists will speak on free speech France, the principal f n mar-/and its suppression in labor disputes ket for English coal, is using drastic | while her Van Slyke of the measures to favor its own munes.| Women International Peace Union ng with reductio: the in freight | will tre movement to outlaw afternoon session. E uppress criticism of Americ n policy and methods to dom of the press will center the attention of the conference in the eve- ning. Joseph N. Bejarano, secretary of : the Mexican Chamber of Commerce | tish mine owners and denounced bY| speaks on the Mexican situation at Herbert Smith at. the recent meeting th. morning session of July -7 with of the international miners’ executive |, 7. ¢. Vaca, representative of the rates on its own coal and the tari n imported ceeding a gen 2] other than any. insure arations coal London Daily the Herald (labor), “the price-cutting in ‘the export trade practiced by the Bri- Pa Fava eae : i srs dak 7 aguan liberal government out- fect, The “new sche lining the rape of independence in his mer ushing retort to an unecon- ‘country and Marsh speaking on re- cent developments in American impe- rialism, , e war begun by British ex- omic p' porter Speak on China. At the afternoon session the Rev. 1925 and 1 world in 1913, Mercer G. Johnston of Baltimore, | 1925 chairman of the Progressive Party, tons will discuss the relation of the church 7,845,000 to imperial C, Kuanson Young 4,165,000 10,234,000 14,040,000 ,000 98,000 000 | speaks on China and Dorothy Detzer, | Secretary of the Women’s Interna- tional League for Peace and Freedom on checking imperialism through leg- islative action. At the concluding session Norman} Se RSE oe Thomas, director of the League for 50,817,000 596,000 Industrial. Democracy will answer the have been red by lengthening of question, can America be saved from! hours. Wages ha shed. But| world domination and Dr. Albert H. it is doubtful whether-Britain will re-| Putney, of National University, will sin her markets in face of the in- | denounce the executive assumption of ed competitive power of Ger-| war-making powers. and the diminished dependence | of France, the Netherlands and other | countries on E coal. Meanwhile more than 200,000 British miners are | unemployed. ert mé CURRENT EVENTS { (Continued from Page One) ——|bar polities and politicians from his . tg Be 5 administration, He will eliminate | A Chinese Problem: graft. His name is Campbell, a good name for a dryer, and his record in} |the past leaves nothing missing by |way of qualification. He was repor-! We ter, press agent, motion picture direc- have created politicians and lawyers |tor and producer and a major in the and they are shouting “independence.” | United States army. With such a Anyway, the common Filipino wants | background, Mr. Campbell should be it. He doesn’t want to be governedjable to get his name in the papers by white men. frequently without having to resort to China the Hope. jsuch vulgar methods as raids on| All sides agree on one thing—that | speak s, We almost forgot to say! that what Campbell promises to do definite, open policy. They all cry|could be listed under the heading of for it, and it’s the only thing they | garbage. He will neither bar politics can never get. We don’t have poli-| nor eliminate graft. He would not if! cies; we have checks and balances. ‘he could and he could not if he would. | Manuel Quezon, leader of the a | pino Nationalists, says they will never | | get independence “till China grows SACCO and VANZETTI strong.” It's my bet that not Japan SHALL NOT DIE! will absorb the Philippines, but that a ee —— China will. China has taken sone — : *0 { ideas from Russia, including freedom |! of minor nationalities combined with economie federalism. The east fears Japan, with her militarized autocracy. But if China creates a centralized, | federal democracy——what will the east do then? China has powers of ab-| sorption unequaled in history; the | Philippines are off her coast, Chinese || merchants control her retail trade. I} doubt if America’s decision about in-| dependence will affeet the future of the Filipinos much; what will be, will | by economie and population pres- sures. | 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 Dawes Wants Open Fascist Rule Here, Denounced by Owen WASHINGTON, July 4—Vice Pres- jident Dawes, admirer of Fascism, is asked point blank just what he means by declaring that the American gov- ernment may turn into an open dic- tatorship, a la Mussolini. Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma, puts the question in an answer to Dawes’ k on the direct primary in the an Review. Per year ., Six months ‘hree mouths ..... 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If it had had the Philippines it|trade unionism, of the co-operative || would have organized the peasants |movement, of freedom of speech,! first of all into cooperatives and |press and assemblage, and of academ. ie freqdom.” Ii 3treet sity . State unions; it would next have intro- Cal Gum as Offensive | Starts Our Special Staff Correspondent at the Summe: Wiite House reports an air of gloom and dejection pervading the atmosphere of the presidential chambers. Various reasons are assigned to the wave of pessimism which has struck the president’s headquarters. However, the leading political sharps are agreed that the presidential dumps are directly caused by the nation-wide offensive which the Reds have directed against the citadels of American capitalism in the drive for five thousand new readers for The DAILY WORKER. =| The speed with which The DAILY WORKER General Staff has turned the attack of the Federal Grand Jury into an offensive for thousands of new readers - has taken the enemy completely by surprise. With the announcement of the splendid premiums which are being offered to readers of The DAILY WORKER in the present campaign, the feeling at Black Hills, even among the most optimistic of the president’s advisers, is that the success of our offensive is assured, 4 Pe