The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 19, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER ‘Published by tue DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Daily, Except Sunday 8S First Street, New York, N. Y. Phones, Orchard 1680 Cable Addrezs: SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): 68.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $8.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address ali mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Editors J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } ee - business Manager WILLIAM F. DUNNE BEPT MILLER. eNOS eae Entered as second-class mai! at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. “Datwork” Advertising rates on applicatiow >: Social Democrats in the Vienna Uprising. The leaders of the social-democracy, the heroes of the second (socialist) international, again exposed before the masses their true eharacter as defenders of the bourgeoisie. When the workers | were engaged in street fighting against the government that had| set free a group of fascists who had murdered a socialist workman and his child, the leaders of the Vienna socialists appeared before them and pleaded for “order.”’ The workers red back “traitors, scoundrels, who are disloyal to the working class! At times the fury of the masses sweeps them toward ill-ad- vised action when the movement is doomed to defeat. On such occasions it is the imperative duty of responsible leaders to dis- courage even demonstrations that might lead to severe reprisals and defeat for the working class. But when the demonstrations occur and the masses are actually in the streets, fighting against the capitalist government, it is the duty of responsible leadership to enter into the conflict with all the resources at its command and incite the workers to ever more widespread, violent and auda- cious action. Instead of standing before them and sermonizing) about “order” and submission to “authority,” the real leaders of | the working class will urge them to retain the arms they have and make raids upon ammunition and arms stores in order to secure more weapons. The workers in the arsenals will be incited to| seize and turn over to the masses the means of destruction the capitalist state hopes to hold for itself, and in every way prepare for civil war. | The socialist leaders in Vienna proved themselves utterly servile to the capitalist class by counselling the workers against} violence and advising them to go to their homes and adopt a folded-arms policy against the impudent provocations of the Seipel | government that affronted the whole working class by setting tree the fascist murderers. Had the workers followed the advice | of such leaders the rising would have been crushed in the most frightful manner, thousands of workers would have died and the tascists would have established their supremacy in the gov-| ernment. After being hooted down and stigmatized by the revolutionary | rank and file of their own Party the social-democratic leaders re- Gired to their editorial sanctums and again advised the workers | against revolution by urging them to refrain from street fighting | and to remain in their homes during a one-day protest strike. | Sys the manifesto of the social-democrats: ‘“Ne do not want a collision between the workmen and soldiers of the republican army. Therefore comrades, no | demonstrations, but a silent, dignified and complete protest strike for twenty-four hours.” Those who, in such a situation, urge a general strike for any- |} precisely when and how to break |that were fighting against the | bring before us the problem of uni- HOW GENEVA BEGINS TO LOOK TO THE SMALL TAXPAYER Front in China By H. M. WICKS. | ECENT events in China have em-| phasized the fact that it is just| as important for Conimunists to know with other social groups as it is to know how and when to unite with them. The decisive action by the Communist International against’ the Central Committee of the Chinese Party for failing to break with the elements in the Wuhan government workers and peasants again serves to ted front tactics. The present crisis in the Chinese revolution is the result of the pecu- liar conditions under which the move- ment developed. Predominantly a common aim of an anti-imperialist struggle the various classes in China. Within the, Koumintang the various} groups pursued their special aims.| The Communists, because of the fact that they are the vanguard of the| proletariat, because they represented an independent force, a special class, | always reserved the right of criticism of the shortcomings and waverings of other elements within the Koumin- tang. In fact it is only such condi- tions that Communists can unite with any other group because to abandon the revolutionary struggle, to give up the struggle for the dom- ination by the working class of the revolutionary movement and turn it over to the less stable elements who would lead it to disaster. It is the special historical signifi- abandon the right of criticism ts to! courage the agrarian revolution; to arouse to action tens of millions of peasants, arm as many of them as possible, disarm the enemies of the revolution and proceed in the midst of the fiercest civil war to build up a new army—an army composed of the revolutionary workers and pea- sants that could establish and safe- guard a class government that could realize the revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the workers and pea- sants. * * * ‘HE failure to act decisively against the traitors in thes Wuhan gov- ernment is one of the most colossal blunders in the whole history of the revolutionary movement. It tremen- dously aids the imperialists who finance the counter-revolution (this |luxe, and dancing will comprise the | naval bases along the American coast [Florence Stern and Dorsha Head Program | Benefit Daily Worker | | Florence Stern, distinguished! Americar. violin virtuoso, has just! been engaged to play for the giganti Carnival and Fair, which The DAIL WORKER is offering w wew York Workers at Pleasant Bay Park, Sat-| urday and Sunday, July 23 and 24.| Miss Stern needs no introduction to! American music lovers, having ap-| |peared in the important music halls | jand concert stages of the United| States, Canada and Europe. | She has just returned to New York City after a very successful tour out ;of town and is now busily engaged praparing her programs for the Fall, | when she expects to play at Car- | negie Hall, and Town Hall. Among the many valuable letters | | sent to this artists by world renowned | musicians commending her rare tal-| ent, Florence treasures one from Pro-| | fessor Leopold Auer, her teacher dur-| ing the period, which states: “After \having repeatedly listened to you, I {take great pleasure in stating that you are one of the most extraordinary violin geniuses that ever came to my | personal notice. .. .” Dorsha, celebrated everywhere as a dancer of the first rank, will also! At present negotiations are in pro- gress with Matesevich for his ser- vices, The DAILY WORKER expects al crowd of about 10,000 at this unique | affair. Interesting side shows, the| sort that characterize the amusement | | parks at Coney Island, and other places, sporting events, vaudeville de | remaining events at the Carnival. be heavily featured on the Program, [3 The brilliant violinist will be one of chief features at the Carnival and Fair next Saturday and Sunday. E Little Theatre W. of B'way. at 8:30, GRAND STREET FOLLIES AND THUT IThe LADDER ‘All seats are reduced for tho summer. Best Seats $2.20, Cort Theatre, 48 Ste B. of B'way. Matinee Wednesday. The MATING SEASON A SOPHISTICATED FARCE SELWYN West | _ Evenings 8:30. 42 St.{ Mats. Wed. & Sat. | CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) England and the United States will ever engage in a way with each ambassador Gibson is going to ask the British delegates to give up their and the Panama canal in return for a concession on the question of gun calibre, Two New Air Routes. WASHINGTON, July 18. — The post office department announced to- day the establishment of two new air mail routes, as follows: 1.—Atlanta to New Orleans, via Birmingham and Mobile; 2.—Memphis to St. Louis. Bids for both will be opened on Au- | gust 18th. The contract for carrying air mail between Key West and Havana, Cuba was awarded today to the Pan- American Airways of New York. The company bid 40% cents a pound. mutiny within the ranks of the coun- ter-revolutionary armies. . * . 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 staunckest fighter. This loss can only be overcome by many militant work- ers joinig the Party that he built. Fill out the application below and mail j* Become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party and carry forward the work of Comrade Ruthenberg. I want to become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party. Name Address Occupation Union Affiliation.....ccesccseseees Mail this application to the Work- ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New York City; or if in other city to | Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Blv., Chicago, Ill. Distribute the Ruthenberg pam- phlet, “The Workers’ (Communist) Party, What it Stands For and Why Workers Should Join.” This Ruthen- | | | |peasant country, the introduction of fact needs no proof -for the simple berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- thing other than the mobilization of the workers for revolution are traitors to the working class. Every military organization of any stripe, republican guard or standing army, that has not gone} over to the side of the workers, must be fought. Social-democracy is always the final bulwark of capitalism. Since the monstrous betrayal of the international working class by these leaders in 1914 this fact has been demonstrated in every | important labor struggle on earth. Vienna is only one more ex- | ample of their role as enemies of labor. Further Butcheries in Nicaragua Language is utterly inadequate to describe the infamy of the policy of the Washington government toward the people of Nica- ragua, its bestial suppression of the duly constituted government of Sacasa, its enthroning of the despised Wall Street marionette, Diaz; its despatching of Henry L. Stimson.to try by deception | to induce the liberal masses to lay down their arms and cease resistance to the agent of American capitalism who illegally oc- cupied the presidential chair. If ever there was an example of brazen imperialist conquest it is the ravaging of Nicaragua, sim- ply because the United States wants to defend the investments of its millionaires in that country and at the same time extend | its control over Central and South American republics and obtain a site for the construction of another canal that will be useful for more extensive military depredations. The latest act of banditry was perpetrated Sunday at Ocotal when airplanes connected with the marines, those gun-men of} imperialism, who have terrorized many a republic into submission cance of the Koumintang, its great importance as a political factor in the |country that made it imperative for | the Communists to fight against any capitalist production by the imperial- ist powers developed in a short time a proletariat that stands forth as the jorder to survive. j ment, was due to the oppression of most powerful independent class in| the country—the class whose destiny | it is to take the lead in ANY revolu-| tionary movement against imperial-/| ism. But in this struggle the work-| ing class, under the leadership of the | Communists, must defend the inter- ests of the seething masses of pea- santry and energetically fight for peasant demands in order to win the support of that class and bring it into conscious political action against the imperialist ravagers of the coun- try. The growth of the capitalist | class did not keep relative pace with | the development of industry and the} growth of the proletariat organized around that industry. Profits of most industrial establishments went to enrich still more the imperialist investors. Naturally the bourgeoisie was not able to become a powerful factor in China. It hasn’t sufficient vitality to lead an independent politi- cal existence and must find allies in Tt perceived that its stultification, its underdevelop- the imperialists, therefore it was im- pelled, in the beginning of the na- tionalist movement, toward a bloc with the workers, the peasantry and the small bourgeoisie, TT was also inevitable that, at a cer- attempt to use its name and tradi- tions for counier-revolutionary pur- poses. It is this fact also that made ridiculous the demands of the oppos' tion elements in the All-Union Com- munist Party (Trotsky, Radek & Co.) that the Communists in China leave the Koumintang. To do so would have played directly into the hands of the agents of the imperialists. * * * HEN Chiang Kai-shek went over into the camp of the counter- revolution it was not difficult to per- ceive the necessity for a decisive break with him. Not only was he denounced, but it was recognized by every Communist that to even discuss the healing of the breech with him and the national bourgeoisie that he represented would be a betrayal of the revolution. No compromise was possible with these cut-throats. But after the apostacy of Chiang the Communists within the Wuhan (Hankow) government were so fear- ful of further struggles within the koumintang that the submerged their revolutionary demands and permitted the remaining agents of the bour- geoisie within the government to try to pave the way for delivering the movement into the hands of its ene- mies. When the majority in the gov- reason that all revolutionists know | that without support from the im-| perialists no serious danger could be encountered from the national bour- geoisie). Instead of strengthening and consolidating its own organiz- {ation as the best guarantee for the uecess of the revolution the Central ; Committee of the Communist Party of China forgot these tasks and com- pletely identified itself with the other elements of the government. So afraid was that committee of of- fending its associates in the united front that it forgot its own revolu- tionary duty to the working class. It was~ warned against such errors by the last plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist Inter- national but did not correct them. Especially was the Central Com- mittee criminally negligent in its revolutionary duty when the Wuhan government permitted, in fact sanc- tioned, the disarming of the trades unions and other workers’ organiza- tions. Instead of silently permitting this’ monstrous crime against the the government and exposed their former associates before the masses and demanded that the armed work- ers disperse them. Such decisive ac- tion would have brought about the capitulation of the wavering, unstable elements of the Wuhan government and enabled the Communists, in the revolution to be carried out the Com-| {ee failure of the leadership of the Chinese Party properly to carry out the united front again emphasizes the dangerous illusion that people | who have fought side by side with us jin other battles not involving the | proletarian struggle for power should not be treated as enemies at the first false move. Many comrades imagine |that our associates in united front | manouvers should be given plenty of time in which to retreive themselves and cannot understand that it may and frequently is quite possible and | necess, to work side by side with |certain” elements one day and be | forced to crush them the next day. To deal softly with such elements may be gentlemanly and irreproach- able from the standpoint~of such bourgeois illusions as good fellow- ship and courtesy, but it is utterly unpardonable in a revolutionist. In the development of a revolution- ary struggle the line between a cor- rect Leninist position and oppor- tunuism must be correctly perceived. To yield to opportunism, to evade palet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive, Every Party Nucleus must collect 50 cents from every member and will receive 20 pamphlets for every mem- ber to sell or distribute. Nuclei in the New York District will get their pamphlets from the Dis- trict office—108 East 14th St. Nuclei oxtside of the New York District write to The DAILY WORK- ER publishing Co,, 33 East First Street, New York City, or to the National Office, Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. the fight against one’s former asso- ciates, when they no longer go for- ward on the road to revolution, is ob- jectively a betrayal of the struggle. Inaction, a negative attitude, can do as much and frequently more harm te the revolution as action in the inter- est of the counter-revolution, because the inaction of leaders paralyzes the action of the masses who in case of open betrayal of the revolution would furiously revolt. munist leaders should have denounced | ) AT YPECIAL PRICE? | | t | to Wall Street, dropped bombs upon some inhabitants of that j tain stage in the development of the| ernment of Wuhan permitted Feng unfortunate country who refused to give up their arms. Some | three hundred in all were massacred without any chance what- soever of repelling the attack. The bombing plane has come to be the approved instrument for mass murder of defenseless popu- lations. The French used such instruments of death and destruc- tion against the rebels in Syria when they stormed Damascus eighteen months ago, the British recently used planes to spread terror among the inhabitants of the borderland between Tibet | and India, the United States has used them on many occasions, | but never before has there been such a wholesale massacre with American bombing planes. The excuse for the massacre was that the followers of Gen- eral Sandino were occupying American mining property in Ocotal. This is a plain admission that the marines and other forces are in Nicaragua to protect investments of Wall Street. This wholesale slaughter cannot make the United States more despised in the southern republics than it was already, but it ought to arouse the workers of this country to demand that American troops get out of Nicaragua and stay out. The reply to this latest outrage must be a closer alliance between the workers of the United States and of the Latin-American republics for a joint fight against imperialism. ah : © revolution, when the workers and peasants put forward revolutionary class demands, the bourgeoise would desert the united national revolution- ary front and go over to the side of the counter-revolution. During the height of the northern drive against the feudal militarist regime of Chang Tso-lin and the Peking government! the militarist adventurer, Chiang Kai- | shek, considered that yn opportune | moment had arrived to effect aj countey-revolutionary coup and stifle the demands of the worlrers and pea-! sants. Of utmost significance is the fact that this general, in an effort to establish a bonapartist regime in the interest of the big bourgeoisie, the feudal militarists and the im- perialists, named his reactionary or- ganization the Koumintang — the Party under which the revolutionary struggle was being carried on. The reason for the fight over the right to claim title to the Koumintang is because it is the special organiza- tional form under which the revolu- tion developed in China; an organiza- tion within which were united for the Yu-hsiang, the so-called christian general, to negotiate with Chiang Kai-shek they should have been openly repudiated by the Communists because to compromise in any way with Chiang and those of the former right wing of the Koumintang who had seceeded could result only in be- trayal. The conference between the feudal militaristie generals resulted in the two of them uniting against the revolution. This second betrayal was followed by the defection of Gen- eral Tang Shen-yi who dispatched a telegram to the Wuhan government demanding that they drive out the Communists, which was a prelude to an open attack upon the workers. While these events were taking place the Communist leaders were beating time and completely neglect- ing to utilize their positions in the government to take decisive action against the wavering elements—the spies and semi-spies of Chiang Kai- shek and Feng Yu-hsiang. The Communist Central Committee should have used its influence with- in the government to force it to em name of the workers, peasants an small bourgeoisie, to carry on a definitely revolutionary policy | -TWO BOOKS FOR YOUR LIBRARY- pradores and the imperialists. Of course it goes without saying that immediate open warfare against the combined enemy forces was im- possible. The pr perialist forces makes such action exceedingly difficult and implies long and careful preparation. 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