The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 27, 1927, Page 6

Page Six ( : : THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1927 BUSSES IMPORTED TO NE YORK T ry ‘O CARRY CROWDS DURING STRIKE Tist Regiment, numbering about 1,160 officers and men, departing for a two-week stay at Peekskill. When the next war starts they will be ready to fight for American capitalism. GETTING READY FOR THE NEXT WAR Results of the Plenary Session of the Executive Committee of the Communist International’ =: The speech. by Comrade Nikolai Bucharin, another install- ment of which appears below, is a complete estimation of the war danger facing the world today, and at the same time im- portant for its restatement of the fundamental tacties-of Bol- shevism in fighting to utilize the crisis produced by war for preparation for revolutionary struggles against imperialism. ‘ruis speech and the decisions of the plenum regarding the threat of war should become a part of the arsenal of every sin- cere revolutionist who wants to participate effectively in the mighty struggles that we must. face in the fight against the war conspiracies of the imperialist nations. nn ae (Continued from last issue.) |“Peace with Chiang Kai-shek!” Those are some. of thomepncidera: “Peace with the imperialists!”, but tions which show how complicated the | 7ather Phat it) nureues precisely ithe situation has become. On the sur-|°PP0Site course, and exerts its utmost core 4 face it would appear to be simplest to Pcie ‘e: intensify its ss evueeies solve the question as follows: Since | penne See SOUR ee Seo aaa there is no war at the™present mo- ment, since it is impossible to that the slogans of the proletarian state should contradict the slogans of the Communist Parties, since there is no doubt that enormous masses of the people would support the slogan of peace, and since it is just here that the connection lies between the line of the proletarian republics and the slogans of the broad masses, then the slogan of peace should be made the central slog: for all Communist Parties. It would appear as this method of dealing with the question would be most suitable at the given moment. And yet this is not so. | The Chinese Communist Party, at |the present political juncture, is not jmerely one of the sections of the Comintern, but a section upon which \a political duty of the utmost impor- | tance has fallen, a section which bears upon its shoulders an enormous bur- den of political responsibility. This party is under the fire of the enemy and holds at the moment a place of honor in the field of international rev- olution. It goes without saying that a large number of other arguments could be brought forward against the slogan of peace, in so far as it is necessary to contend against pacifism, etc. After How should we approact the ques- tion of the central slogan for all Communist Parties, for the whole somewhat comprehensive debates in the commission we held it to be nec- essary to accept, as central and gen- Letters From Our Readers To The DAILY WORKER: Just got through reading your) paper of July 19th, about the sub-} way workers going out on strike in} . a yi A ‘int | Cham! a week or so. I hope you will print | need the MonIe {| 2 sign that c | closely milita this, so other subway workers may see the light. A good many men have spoken to are ready for a strike, | and will fight like hell to win. This job is like being in jail, so hot and such little wages. I worked for the | I, R. T. a few years ago I got black | Brace Memorial Newsboys’ House of | no exception. listed, now I am back. again, and| Children’s want to see a union, and I know your| Club; Boys’ Ho There is a| ment Bureau; U paper will ‘back us up. man by the name of Lensky. He is, f 100 per cent rat. He is with the rotten brotherhood. He got a. good many men fired. I am putting as many men wise as I can, Yours for one Big Union.—Worker Correspondent. | To The DAILY WORKER: Some time ago I heard a pre-elec- tion speech of the Socialist Party in South Brooklyn. A corpulent gentle- man spoke on the Sacco and Vanzetti case for a full hour, telling the peo- ple what a frame-up it was and that the masses must act, by voting 4 full Socialist ticket. I believed him | all along, until a few days ago. | I happen to work on Union Square, | and was lucky enough to attend your meeting, from a distance, up at ay window, and saw the actions of those yellow socialists in kicking a young leader of the working class off the | speakers’ platform and calling in the police to disperse the crowd. I changed my mind about that yel-| low Socialist politician. I saw that the election speech was a lot of hot air,—the bunk. Gee, I wish you would send one of your speakers down here in South Brooklyn on a} Saturday night. Ishope you will. Your for the Pioneers, The DAILY WORKER and the Soviet Govern- ment of the World of the future— Morris Karchawer. [PBsitor, DAILY WORKER: Getting "Em Young. At the corner of William and N bers Streets, New York Ci 1 Build the arly illu m is affiliated with | some of our most respected capjtalist charitable organizations. The sign reads as follows: N S. Recruiting Of- —Henry Reich, Jr. Aid Soe bi THE KEPT PRESS I have eaten my fill Of printed pulp, Have gorged on lies And, gulp by gulp, Swallowed water From poisoned wells, —Yarn on yarn the Kept press tells. Followed a fancy Into the flops And swapped my brains For knock-out drops. All too often They got my goat— Now I carry The antidote: A worker’s paper That turns, each week, Inside out The lies they speak With facts that dazzle, With words that scorch Tomorrow a torch. Today a guide— Courtesy “The Worker,” Ca rN FILM SHOWING THE LIFE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES FIOM HIS BO BOD TO THE PRESENT DAY HAS JUST BEEN PIEQDUCED IN ENGLAND NEWS NEM —v had fed gloriously on the visit to “The States” last year of Queen Marie, the bloody monarch of Roumania. The passengers generally are interesting. Here is an Italian from Worcester, Mass., who has just been back to Italy. But he cannot find words bitter enough to con- demn the Mussolini regime. Everyone is against the fascist tyranny, he says. navy. He is still a sailor. Ship's Crew Reveals That | (British Imperialism Rest SM Nests |) Mn IS impera There is a man that looks like a worker. He might be - * |a lumber worker from the Pacific Northwest. But he : turns out to be # Swiss, who has a farm in Southern Oa Quicksands of Discontent California. He rented out the farm so that he could ;jmake his third trip back to Switzerland. He says this By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL trip is his last. He discusses rather sympathetically the } _ invasion of agriculture in California by Japanese Hye COREEAL among the workers! There is plenty of | farmers. it on an ocean liner. “The Mauretania,” of the | . = * * | Cunard Line, the British steamship corporation, proved Two Salvation Army officials, also from California, give much of their time to reading “Elmer Gantry,” the In the early evening, several days at sea, with the |book by Sinclair Lewis, They say they “vox ‘ike to i decent weather we had had out of Cherbourg, |¢cuss Sinclair and his book, but their Teligiows bes nce, the sailor posted in the deck house far astern| Prevent them from using bad language. Se tay x - econd class section, was not unfriendly. In fact | tent themselves with pointing out that they know peopie \he invited conversation, in California who are acquainted with Aimee McPherson, | a * * | and that the newspapers are not far wrong in what they ‘ MSE arog ” “ j have published about her. When they finish the book, 10. 98 ! t ’ ‘ ‘ Las : eee Troenene eee yeas eres pid 31.60 ¢ , they feel a little better. Lewis has mentioned “the army” day that we get isn’t enough ‘o die on, let alone live on,” only twice and quite favorably. summed up most of his complaint. A student, who has spent three years in Paris, says - é ‘| HES SOP U rr ae itish | te is going to teach French in Vanderbilt University, in ss ateiie bce ree at one ae eal ihis home state of Tennessee. He denies any sympathy, Fi s . : | however, with the “monkey trial” at Dayton. | * * * | Most of his wrath wa3 directed against Havelock Wil-| : son, the head of the Rriti:. £4 rew's Union, who brought| The mother with the young son, who cannot make the |a little more infamy upo. his iv+ae last year by joining | Water andersiand a single word of what she is saying, with the reactionary lab. «ai csaip in the betrayal of |©°MeSs 470m turkey. ‘the British general strike ‘1s sailor was quite proud| The waiter explains that he was a nurse during the of the fact that-some members of the Sailors’ Union had| world war, and that besides English, he also speaks, joined the general strike in spite of Havelock Wilson’s| French, German and Italian. But the Turkish stumps efforts to keep them at work. | him. * * * | Incidentally, he adds, “When the next war starts the “Then it is Havelock Wilson that you are opposed to only army I am going to join is the Salvation Army,” and not the union itself,” I pointed out. and he points over toward the table at which sit the two But it was difficult to persuade him that the union : °fficials of this doughnut-peddling organization. getting much for him. The betrayal of the general | * * * trike, and the surrender of the officialdom, had brought) Between the disgruntled sailor, no doubt typical of the a big reduction in wages. Conditions were worse than} majority of British workers who follow the sea, and the The men get no pay, for instance, for the few | opposition to army service harbored by the waiter, speak- days they are in port between trips.. This made it im-|ing for big sections of the British working class on land, possible for this sailor, when in port at Southampton, | the indications are that all is not rosy for British im- | England, to go home to see his wife and children. The railroad fare was too high. atic te * Under these conditions he wes prone to feel that the money paid in dues to the union was a waste. “But you can’t get a job on a British ship without be- longing to the union,” he added. Here was smouldering material, that could be set into | zed labor, when lured into the grip flames against org: ‘of fascism. | Out on the deck, among the many passengers watch- |ing the sunset, were a host of Rotarians, who were re- |turning from the International Congress of Rotarians | just held at Ostend, Belgium. | These Rotarians were puffed with the success of their |gathering. Nearly 3,000 had come over from the United States. Five thousand more had assembled from the various countries of Europe, with several thousand from {England. These middle class professional and little business men, many of them with their families, were quite proud of the strength they had shown. Business was good in the United States and. “Silent Cal,” their common pride, was going to be re-elected president in |spite of the anti-third term‘ sentiment, | * * * * * * These Rotarians are go-getters for themselves and for |American greed, with faith in their organization and their social system; quité the opposite from the lack of faith of the British sailor in his union and the cause of his class. ce | They came on the Special Train at Gare St. Lazare, |the railroad station in Paris from which we departed for the coast, letting everyone know who they were, They | couldn’t have been more conspicuous if they were wear- ing the nightshirts of the Ku Klux Klan, the hooded order of their ilk. They had their special “dinner” on board. And one of their number even had published, on the ship’s press, a “Bulletin” on the wind-up of the Ostend gathering, that had been addressed by Albert, King of the Belgians, himself. They had not understood him. But that had made no difference. They gurgled over this king, just as much as American “high society” ‘ | perialism. There is a British military officer on board with half |a dozen titles following his name. He keeps aloof from the rest of the passenge: On the last evening of the |trip he is selected to preside over the “Concert” held to lraise funds for various sailors’ charities, in both Great | Britain and the United States. ¢ * * * Down in the engine room the steam is kept at high |pressure in the boilers by flames fed with oil. The} Mauretania is an oil burner, converted from a coal burn- ler. On a trip thru the engine room I was told thst this jchange alone had cut down the working crew by nearly | 100 men, many of these thrown out of Work, being coal passers. One reason for the chgnge, I was told, was the frequent recurrence’ of coal strikes in England and the United States. The slaves of oil were more docile. There| giant propellers continue unceasingly, voyage after voy- age, to pound the waters of the ocean at the rate of 186| revolutions per minute, making the fastest trips of any} ship afloat. « * * | Thus the old order f secure, at least” temporarily. | But there axe many indications showing that its security it built on the quicksands of social unrest, | Not the least of these indications was the fact that up| forward, travelling as first class passengers, were Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England; Dr, Hjalmar Schacht, piesident of the German Reichs- bank, and Charles Rist, deputy governor of the Bank of France. They were all on their way to Wall Street to get a hand-out from America’s international bankers, SEND IN YOUR LETTERS The DAILY WORKER is anxious to receive letters from its readers stating their views on the issues con- fronting the labor movement. It is our hope to de- velop a “Letter Box” department that will be of wide was no break in the supply. So with oil as fuel the four | Communist International? . In order |eral slogan, the slogan of the defense to aire an eta aon aoa of the Russian and Chinese revolution. question, we must find ou! e hard- | Everything is included in this slogan: ae bernie a cian aa Fait beg Seti ae the transfoirmation 0 roblem 0! e moment is! of the imperialist war against us inta in she zelatomy peaneen wien ioe a. civil war, ae wougele for peace, ac- an @ Soviet Union, and in the at-/tion taken by the Chinese Communist titude taken by the imperialist front | Party under the slogan of the forma- bhcated the Chinese revolution. The|tion of a front against the imperial- riving mechanism actuating all lists, against Chiang Kai-shek against these international entaglements, all|the anit lords, ete., ete, Every ac- the multifarious conflicts, blockades,|tion for the pramotion of the revo- beet Unraihing is por ue ee a lutionary struggle can be classified @ present time in ina. le de-|under the heading of this slogan. velopment of the” Chinese revolution These are the most important con- ne oe dynamic sores EURBE OB siderations arising out of the second 9: : & wee Uhlan es at w aie problem. As you will see, the pecul- fa aetse Deans The decided | ott, of the decision come to in this : i ‘question, and th iari advance of constructive socialism in egen, eh is Hea ps eee evaoede aaa eee ple repetition of the slogans of 1914, revolution, a development threaten- |r v5 a se the erecta! pena ie te eectiece canitalints atabt re the given international situation. 3. Def sation. It is in China and the Soviet |" Defense and Attack. Defence of Fatherland. Union that the knot of international | | relations is drawn the tightest. | A considerable number of other The Chinese Communist Party jg | Problems have had ‘to be revised in exposed to the direct fire of its an-|{%¢ Same manner. You will all cer- | tagonists. Can we then put forward tainly romiember that one of the most the slogan of peace as the leading decisive blows which we dealt against ¥ 2 i «7 the social patriots was the blow slogan for th } : . Se e Chinese Communist against their “theory” of the defen- Party? At the present moment the cai 7 * Chinese Communist Party is faced ‘'V® and offensive “ware,\of the” im- | with an emergency demanding a |Perialist Biater: powerful fighting spirit, an offensive; At the beginning of a war every i spirit, I might almost say, the Single imperialist state involved as- strongest possible military revolu- | 5¢rts that it has been “attacked.” The | tionary spirit. Should the Chinese Social chauvinists of the different | Communist Party, the left Kuomin-|Countries have based their policy on the “analysis” of this question, the | tang, the corresponding military or- ; question of who has “attacked” and ganizations, ete., support the slogan of peace, this would be tantamount | Who “defends.” Our Bolshevist stand- to a slogan of peace with the traitor | i |point on the matter has been that this Chiang Kai-shek, a slogan of peace | Whole definition of the question is with the imperialists, ete. And this/"onsense, since in an imperialist war at a moment when the military | there is neither defence nor attack— struggle @ainst the feudal regime |evety side is attacking. The object and the imperialists is a constituent|f the attack is the colonial countries. of the revolution still in the initial) Among the imperialist states them- | Process of its development. Selves any attempts to differentiate Should we proclaim the slogan of the “guilty” parties attacking from peace as central slogan, we should the innocent who are merely “defend- thus find ourselves in the position | ‘7 themselves,” is completely absurd. of advancing a slogan supposed to| It is obvious that* the existence of be suitable for all Communist Par-|the Soviet Union, and of such a fac- ties and especially for the Chinese|tor as that formed by the Chinese Communist Party in. its present | revolution at once set aside any sych capacity as outpost, and yet having general definition of the question. For the actual effect of dispersing the jhere it is not a question of two im- forces of one of the most important |perialist parties, but of state organ- of the Communist Parties. But the |izations representing different classes, whole political situation demands | (To Be Continued). that precisely this Party should not ery for: “Peace with the feudal) Have Kaid Your Contribution to lords!” “peace with Chiang Kai-shek!”! the Rut! enberg Sustaining Fund? END OF A HISTORIC FLIGHT This picture shows the wreckage of the Smith-Bronte plane City of Oakland, following its successful flight from Oakland, Calif., to Hawaii. The plane crashed 6n the island of Molokai, when it ran out of gasoline. Residents of Kaunakakai, Molokai, are seen interest to all members of The DAILY WORKER family. Send in your letter today to “The Letter Box,” The DAILY WORKER, 33 First street, New York City. gazing at the strange visitor. This photo was rushed by navy plane from Molokai to Honolulu, thence via steamer to Los Angeles, then via airmail, ¥ .