The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 5, 1927, Page 4

i age Four THE DAILY WORKER ,EW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by tae DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 6S First Street, New York, N. Y. Cablo Addrezs SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): .00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year 98.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 “Daiwork” | | Address all mail and make out checks to | THE DAILY WORKER, 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL MELEE SUNN \ Draws leap cuaed Editors RT EPL EI sw ais eens casings. business Manager SESS RECS Entered as second-class mai! at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. E> Advertising rates on application | — The Chinese Mass Liberation Movement Will Overcome the Present Crisis, The efforts of the imperialists to crush the Chinese liberation movement meet resistance in a form which alone shows the mass roots of the movement. This resistance can be compared best to the impact of waves upon the shore. No sooner has one spent itself, or had its strength shattered by piers and breakwaters, than another takes its place and the land is never allowed a moment’s respite. Imperialist propaganda attempts to make every temporary setback suffered by the Chinese liberation movement appear as a crushing and final defeat. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The briefest survey of the history of the movement since 1922 gives the lie to such statements. y s Since the strike of the transport workers in Hongkong in 1922 the organization of the Chinese masses has proceeded in a curve which is decisively upward in direction altho broken here ats. a tion of the reactionary rchants’ association and the suppression of the labor unions in Canton by its armed mercenaries was hailed as the decisive defeat of the Canton gov- ernment. But the labor movement continued to grow and the murder of workers and the smashing of unions ceased. Then came the Shanghai massacre. This too was interpreted as the final blow which would drive the liberation movement into an ineffectual illegality. It had the opposite effect. The ma: rallied to the banner of the Kuomintang. The defeat and withdrawal of the army of General Feng from Peking, thru Nankow pass and his retirement k of Kalgan, be- | fore the militarist forces of Chang Tso-lin was said to mark the! liquidation of the Nationalist movement in the north. But the northward march of the Kuomintang armies from} Canton began and soon they had reached the Yangtze river, cap-| tured the greatest center of heavy industry in China, (the three} cities of Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang) and established a new base in the heart of the nation, on its greatest waterway. The Kuomintang armies began their drive toward Shanghai) and first Sun Chuang-fang and then Chang Tsung-chang became} the heroes who were to stop their advance. They would never! reach Shanghai, the biggest port in China and one of the largest | and there by de _-in_the world. ’ | » base and that this is a guarantee that its present military weak- Yhe armies of national liberation entered Shanghai—aided by the strikes and armed insurrections organized by the labor unions. American and British warships bombarded Nanking and WHAT THE FEDERAL GRAND JURY DOESN’T LIKE Disa. 5 This cartoon of an American munitions manufacturer, one of the clique that profit on the blood of workers killed in war, WORKER Publishing Co. is from the book ef Red Cartoons, published by The DAILY This book was submitted as evidence before the grand jury ‘re- cently, and the grand jury proceeded to indict The DAILY WORKER staff on a technical charge. PARTY ACTIVITIES NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY Educational Meeting. An educational meeting of the new morning international branch, night workers section, will be held today, 1( a. m. at 108 East 14th St. D. Benjamin will lecture on the American revolution. Registration Continues Two More Weeks. Registration for the Young Pioneers Camp will continue for two more weeks. Arrangements are being made to accommodate 50 more chil- dren. This will allow a few more to go in the first group which leaves New York Tuesday, July 5th. Regis- tration at 108 East 14th St. daily be- tween 10 a. m. and 8 p. m., Room 41. The rate is $10 a week, Camp * Party Uni Attention! All notices of party affairs; meet- ings and other activities for publica- tion in The DAILY WORKER should be addressed to the Party News Edi- tor, The DAILY WORKER, 33 First $t., New York. Important Meeting of Subsection 3-C. All members of Sub-section 3-C must attend the next meeting to be POSTERS AND LEAFLETS AS-PART OF THE, MILITARY EQUIPMENT OF THE KUOMINTANG ARMIES ANKOW, May 30 (By Mail) —War } greeted the. troops ass with paper “bullets,” 150,000,000 | people;” brought them rice, tea, vege- lof them! tables, chickens, everything that they Fight in which 150,000,000 pamph-| had. viors ‘of the lets, posters, handbills, books (paper| PEASANTS who had never before “bullet have been fired in a year,!# thought of soldiers as anything but these paper “bullets” more than| enemies, wretched thieves and mur- doubling the amount of steel directed derers, acted as “spies” for the Can- at the enemy. |tonese; gave them knowledge of A war with pen and pastepot, with | enemy troops’ location, of short cuts, bullets taking a secondary place, | of ret passes; and in some cases, | brought the Nationalist army to the | t ok up rifles and aided in the fight- Yangtze. ing. ‘ Hi 3 i be Sometimes the couritry people could Before leaving Canton, the base of not read the simple the revolution, the armies vowed that} pamphlets; but they they would not ‘halt in the northern | hungry for knowledge Teron ae ;march until “their Ae s | . My steeds drank in| trict Was especially illiterate, the jhe Yangtze: | propagandists had to summon the few 1 ees now, when the horses stem the| men from the village who could read; tide of the swift yellow stream,| “ill them swifly in propaganda work they find a strong flavor of ink, paste |——8"d pass on. |and paper in the waters. | Posters of the revolution are | Never before in China, never be- slashing, glaring things—“revolution- |fore in the world, perhaps, has the! ary, art” after the western fashion. |march of. an army to victory been| Complete, sure escape from the | paved placarded with so much paper. | sophistication, the delicacy of Chinese Armed only with light hand rifles, 2%¢! Art with a bang! the Cantonese army has faced and is NEIGHBORING warlord, hands |facing, modern war equipment in the | dripping blood, dancing over the hands of northern atmies; heavy guns| skulls of murdered peasants and la- airplanes, bombs, trench mortars. borers! A fine, high spirit has spurred| A local magistrate, bespectacled, killed hundreds of Chinese. This murderous attack also was sup-| held tonight, 6:30 p. m. at 100 West| those men onward; each made his| fleeing in terror, before the army of posed to put the finishing touches to the national liberation | movement. | The Nanking bombardment was followed by the treason of | General Chiang Kai-shek. Like all traitors he was and is more) vicious toward his former comrades than the imperialists. Hun-! dreds of Communist workers and labor unionists have been exe- | cuted, unions and peasant organizations suppressed, a reign of | terror inaugurated. £ Chiang’s defection was to encompass the downfall of the Wuhan (Hankow) government. The imperialist press was jubi-) jant and the mass execution of workers was greeted with sadistic | glee. | But the Wuhan government, expressing: the aims of the work- ers and peasants and the honest sections of the middle class, con- tinued to exist and win victories. General Feng declared his allegiance to the Wuhan govern- | ment and inflicted defeat after defeat on the northern militarists. | Now comes the alliance between Chiang and Feng against the} Wuhan government and once more the imperialist press yelps tri-) umphantly. The defeat of the Chinese liberation movement, so| far as the aims of the workers and peasants are concerned, is cer-| tain, it says. | 28th St. A representative of the dis- | trict office will be present. Strong measures will be taken against those who fail to be on time. Labor Organizations Amalgamated T. U. E. L. Meets Today. An important meeting of the Amal- gamated Section of the Trade Union} Educational League will be held to-/ night, 8 p. m., at Manhattan Ly- ceum, 66 East Fourth St. x * » Open Forum Thursday Afternoon. An open forum arranged by the Unity Committee of the furriers, cloak and dressmakers will be held Thurs- jay 1 P. M. at Cooper Union. Louis Hyman, manager of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Joint Board will speak on Morris Sigman’s latest gesture of proportional representation, while Ben Gold will discuss the latest develop- ments of the furriers strike. “will” before leaving home, each the revolution. |pledged that he would never speak! A well-known militarist, trapped in iof a fallen comrade as dead; that he; a room, falling back in horror at |would say “tai hwa,” (he has won|bayonets plunging through the his flower.). ; walls. | HIS spirit, then and the knowledge that 20,000 trained propagandists ‘marched forward with them have} | given the Nationalist troops courage | A stalwart yeuth, with a battering ram, smashing down the doors of feudalism. Hundreds of them—magnificent in their simplicity. propaganda | to walk into the devastating fire of | smashing guns. | From the very beginning of the campaign, propagandists, men and women, have served as vanguards for |the army, slipping ahead into dis- tricts and villages, braving death and ;torment at the hands of enemies. At first the propagandists were re- | garded with suspicion by the people. The coming of troops meant one thing ‘to the Chinese peasant—looting, pill- age, rape, ruin. This wall of preju- dice had to be battered down. The | people had to be made to understand ‘the Nationalist army was a different | army. Of the greatest significance, however, is the fact that NO | Women’s Protest Meeting Saturday.) (LOWLY, and by exemplary behavior sooner is the counter-revolutionary alliance between Feng and| An open air meeting to protest | on the part of the troops, the word Chiang consummated than a great wave of strikes and boycotts |@gainst the gangsterism used against | spread through the countryside that breaks out in the principal seaports. Even large sections of the middle class are drawn into the movement as is the case in Shang- urday, 2 p. m. at the corner of Clare- \the striking furriers will be held Sat-| indeed this was a “different army.” Gray clad, serious youths, the f , i |mont Parkway and Washington Ave.| troops came quietly and marched on; hai where the Chinese property owners are fighting the proposed |It has been arranged by the United/ eating their own simple food, greet-| increase in taxation. So greedy and arrogant are the imperialist | Council of Werking Class Housewives, | ing the peasants as “comrades” and _ henchmen in Shanghai that they try to raise taxes and force the | Chinese themseles to pay the cost of maintaining the imperialist | occupation forces. | For effective support in their struggle against this cynical) demand the merchants must depend upon the labor movement. It|&! once to Room 422, 80 East 11th | is to be noted im this connection that Chiang Kai-shek has sent | a squad of executioners numbering some two hundred to Shanghai to terrorize the:masses. Chiang thus works for the imperialists and against both the masses and the middle class. Wuhan has not yet fallen in spite of the predictions of the imperialists and the tremendous scope of the mass movement, in the face of the terroristic activities a guarantee that the present crisis of the liberation movement is not decisive but that like those which have preceded it will be sur- vived and the liberation movement will emerge with its base wid-} ened. | This much is sure that if Chiang and Feng continue to make concessions to the imperialists they will be overwhelmed by the tidal wave of the mass liberation movement. Immediate future developments in the Chinese struggle are uncertain but we can say with the utmost conviction that the will to destroy imperialism and militarism was never stronger among the masses, that the liberation movement has never had a wider ness will/be overcome. READ THE DAILY WORKER EVERY DAY ‘ of Chiang and his generals, is}, Furriers Council 1. * * Volunteers Wanted At Once! Volunteers wanted to distribute Sacco and Vanzetti leaflets. Report St. x I. L. D. Meeting Tuesday. The Harlem Branch of the Inter- national Labor Defense will hold meeting this evening at 81 Ea; * * zetti will be discussed. * * * 4 U. C. W. C. H. Meeting Tonight. A very important general memb ship meeting of the United Council of Workingclass Housewives will be this evening, 8 p.. m. at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St. * * , The American Association of Plumbers’ Helpers will play the Young Workers Sport Club of Pas-| saic which has been endorsed by the United Textile Workers Local 1603, at the picnic of the plumbers’ helpers on July 10, at Pleasant Bay Park. Tickets for sale at the union office 136 East 24th St. They are 35 cents. ” ” * An important meeting of the Hun-} garian Needle Trades Club will be held Wednesday evening, 8 p. m. at 850 East 8ist St. The speakers will be Bag Gold and Emil Kiss in Hun- garian. | “brothers.” | The propagandists talked of “an varmy of the people; an army which 'would fight to free the oppressed; to | wipe out militarists.” The people came to believe—and to elp. | The march north became a trium- | phant procession, at times. Peasants Workers Party Holding Important Membership x Meet Wednesday Eve. The District Executive Commit- tee is calling a special Party mem- bership meeting for Wednesday, July 6, 8:00 P. M., at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourt street, to discuss the present international situation, particularly: 1. The attack against the So- viet Union and preparation for a campaign for defense of the So- viet Union. 2. The present situation in China and the prospects for the Chinese revolution. 3. Immediate danger of war and what our Party can do to ceunteract. it. Bring your membership cards with you. All members of the Young, Workers League are asked to attend this meeting. he The pamphlets extremely simple; | this was the army founded on the San Min Chi (three people’s prin- | ciples) of Dr. Sun Yat-sen—an army which would battle to bring about a “government of the people, for the | people, by the people” of China. | HERE are 3,000 different kinds of propaganda addressed to six classes of people—women, soldiers, | peasants, laborers, students, common |people. It is estimated that an average of 50,000 copies of each type of propaganda has been disseminated in the year that it has taken the Can- tonese army to reach the Yangtze. All of the propaganda originates from the General Political Depart- ment of the Military Council of the Nationalist Government which is now iocated at Wuchang. One hundred and fifty people are employed in this central office, who paint, write, print, | distribute material to’ 20,000 propa- | gandists, who work with the army. [STEN to what Li Ho-lin, director |“ of the Central Praaganda Bureau, has to say of his corps: “One propagandist is worth 20 armed soldiers. There could have been no northern expedition, had it not been for our propaganda corps. It was the propagandists who paved explained the mission of our army. | “Do not think that I underrate the | value of our army, that hardy group | of men which has suffered untold | may be free. “Our soldiers have gone hungry; thirsty; unpaid, not for months, but in some cases, for an entire year. our small armed forces would have been wiped out. We have had to de- pend on the propagandists to get the | support of the people. z “Our enemies could have well withstood our steel bullets; but they cannot hold against us with the en- tire population of a province roused against them; interfering with their food and water supply; aiding us.” Te way of the propagandist corps “has not been easy. The intense provincial feeling that one finds in China is not rooted in superficial boundaries; the differences are far move fundamental. The hardy Hunanese are a swift axsiiable neople. stirred to revolution the way for the soldiers; who went! among the laborers and peasants and! | hardship and suffering so that China| “JT am only trying to make clear| that without our propaganda army—| BisepAcin Working n\| | Qet. Revolution F m) | Eisenstein, who was responsible for jthe remarkable filming of “Potem- |kin” and “The Legend of the Bear’s Wedding,” has finished another Rus-' sian picture titled “The Central Line,” and has started work upon his an- |niversary celebration film. It has | been provisionally re-titled “October.” | With the aid of the Red Army and |the Russian Workers’ naval and avia- | | tion forces, he aims to present a com- | prehensive and pictorial history of the | | October Revolution. To the list of anniversary films must be added a novelty achieved by | Esther Busch, and called the “End of | the Romanoffs.” From a vast store! |of documents she has selected and ar- |tanged material in a manner that is | said to be astonishing. In Moscow and elsewhere a first showing has been made of Roon’s \latest production, “When One is Three.” This young Communist has again set the critics a-buzzing by his |i (simple workaday theme of the domi- nance of the male, treated in his own impressionist manner. | Other new productions now being screened in Soviet Russia. include | Ivanovsky’s “The Decembr ” a ver- |sion of Lermontov’s “Bell a new Ukrainian film, “Farass Chevtchen-| |evening at the Shubert Theatre. ! Charles "Hopkins will do’a new play by Adelaide Matthews next season. | The opus is titled “Love and Light- ning.” There will be eleven companies of |“Broadway” next season, according to an announcement from Jed Harris, |the producer of the night club melo- drama at the Broadhurst Theatre. | i | Oshrin and Grisman, producers of “Talk About Girls,” are planning an- other musical show, ‘Miss Millions.” Daniel Kusell is responsible fot the seript, and Russell Mack and Andrew Tombes will co-star in it. by-the fire of an orator; they are the “radicals” of China—called so by all | Chinese. | | They are stirred by “slogans;” by | brilliant posters. Propagandizing | such territory is not difficult for the corps. UT there is. Honan—just two provinees north. A propagandist, recently rushed back from the war |front there—demanding new propa- ganda, in a hurry. He wanted copies of the constitution of the Peasant association, and other leaflets, as bases for original publicity work. He |said that the printed circulars sent {from Wuhan entitled “To the Honan people on the Second Northern Ex- pedition,” were useless. Most of the Honan people were illiterate. Few could read ordinary writing; still fewer modern literature, or compre- hend modern terms. They were by nature conservative, tended to reject | new ideas with a single gesture. They were particularly adverse to slogans, treated them as childish, he reported. Thus the policies of the Kuomintang had to be worded in old fashioned literary style, put out as huge offi- cial notices, posted in all streets and lanes in Honan cities and towns. This was a true feudalistie prac- tice, but was compelled by circum- stances, the propagandist pointed out. Demonstrating that even paper “bullets” must be properly tempered and wrought. Japanese Elected Edmonston Mayor. WASHINGTON, July, 4.—Kunjiro Matsudaira, an American-born Japa- nese, tomorrow will be elected mayor of Edmonston, Maryland, a suburban town near Washington. He is unop- posed for the office, |of 1927,” will have its premiere this| © JAMES RENNIE s vaudeville debut at the Pajace Theatre in a new sketch by Joh&V. S. Weaver. GEES The LADDER All s Summ ats i Cort atre, 48 St., of Biway. Matinee Wednesday. see ee ee St, » Ol way. Svenin, 0. STREET FOLLIES B. S. Moss | Warner Bros. Present COLONY (“The First Auto” B'way at 53rd|with Barney Oidfield Continuous || Noon to Midnite and |NEW VITAPHONE PEVAB EE Tes ol B. 2d & Bway! Let's Fight On!” Join | The Workers Party! In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- berg the Workers (Communist) Par- ty has lost its foremost leader and the American working class its Ss. MOSS , THE AMEO «st & FILM_ SE OF EURO: 4 | staunchest fighter. This loss can only be overcome by man) militant work- ers joining the Party \that he built Fill out the application below and mail it. Become: 2. of the | Workers (Communist) Pasty aston carry forward the werk of Com: . Ruthenberg. 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