The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 5, 1927, Page 6

Be are Se eee y LB THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1927 ° “HEY, DON’T YOU LIKE THIS COUNTRY?” | a Page > The International of Ex-Servicemen and Its Fight! Against the War Danger «Yuen peasants rendered transporta-| Against Imperialist War ne! = 1 | ‘a J Le i (Continuation) At the same time Lenin criti those who tried to substitute the qv tion of mass struggle against war there must be a revolutionary situa- ized /tion, a revolutionary class, capable of mass actions, trong leadership py | through the Communist Party, sys- | individual acts like sabotage or the | tematic persistent work prior to the By HENRI BARBUSSE r Comintern. Truerto our Geneva | oe A individual refusal to undertake mili- |v re the ‘Success of a ris- eee Se the A.R.A.C., were to be have waged our anti- | ee Al itary service. ing t the ruling class. There- mal vA. ¢.) | international’ organization in the proletarian and —— uv ot sabotaging the war, not in- | fore, promises of the pitiful tional « ; ss A. C.) peal of the A.R.A. 7 spirit. Thus it came pk dividual action, but mass propa- |“heroes” of the IT International to - s lela eral approval. In n- we were often acting; Samy ganda leading to the transforming “reply” to war with a general strike ee Patna ternational co: > convoked at with the Communist | i ent | of the war into civil war.” ‘are either empty phrases or deliber- Le n-) Geneva, and i of ti 2 because we had com: ay 4 He clearly foresaw the monstrous |ate d Struggle against war is Benton in nd employed commen ® | system of. militarization which the rul-|not an One-time action, it exacts enor- 1 Ha ee gee ean ing classes are preparing today to in-}mous_ sacrifices from the working Social tie organiz. c u uently refused to act in con-| troduce in France 13 years after the a series of mass actions (demon- cl : ‘corimencement of the world war. tions, st in munition factor- The mo s of the TA.C y " te MMOTEOVER OR wasecothen| “Today the imperialist bour- |ies, ete.), which should culminate in a resolved on a ete Us in Dye sacle pal and| gevisie,” he wrote, “is not only mili: | victorious rising of the proletariat. Chat ake eee Gea te he 9 tarizing the whole people, but also | Communist Parties should do their ut- fight Mic eae ana ay it ae a the youth, tomorrow perhaps it will |most to develop these mass actions Since oe all the announcements of it would have been denying i | begin to militarize the women.” |still more and work more and more and on lasses that t of the war and ves and for- , from the very the | tional movemen maintenance of nationalistic, and im- stem. . took occasion to de- t its congress at Lyon in 1919, » fight against militarism and ialism must needs be carried on nternational scale. To this end iations of ex-servicemen in countries, whose statutes em- , | thorities j| tempt . have been inspired by the 1ze a united a nd to wage war a h the im- al the sar uinary fraud e poli of and to bring them to an und the danger of new wars being fomented by the b: all the world over. them to resist an p organization already in existence, for it was, and is, our sole desire—parallel with such organiza- tions as oppose the bourgeois systems of oppression to make our reputation and influence prac ly known and felt among the victims of and com- batants in the imperialistic war of | *! 1914-18 and all subsequent wars. the moving force in various opposi- isting orde tacit opposition of var j associations. They accuse the exec- utive committee of the LA.C. of be- | ing in tow of the Communist Party and the Communist International. We have not allotved ourselves to be de- j terred at all in our activity by these j cheap “accusations.” for it is well- | known that there is no organisat connnnection between the I. The Peasant Revolution on the day of the "Shakee massacre and revolts against! principl Or was within the scope of our o oppose the war acred no riou mo! t pex most § Vol. XII, p. 452 And then ke givessthe following ad- | vice to the working class: |energetically for the general strike. The Comintern is aware that in jeaSes when it is a question of war eredits which were championed on “they will give you arms. Take | between two imperialist powers it is various occasions by Social Demo- them and learn the art of war (generally v difficult to bring about > deputies, or to protest most thoroughly. This art is necessary ja general strike at the moment when in military | for proletarians, not in order to | war breaks out, but’ nevertheless, it is » mobilization law of hough they were Democratic advocated such campaigns? * * * Democratic parties have wed our actions with great They encourage certain | ants, on which} sive influence, in| ion to the leaders of the| Mutilated War Victims in France (F. O.P.) seceded from our movement. (The A.R.A naturally remained within the limits of the I.A.C.) In spite of the numerical loss thus suf- fered, the I.A.C. has in a sense been hened by the desertion in ques- ce the F.O.P. was at all times ection of he I.A.C., but the of Belgian ex-combatants on 10th will, it is to be hoped, have trated this treacherous act. congress Ex-Servicemen in the face of the re- newed menace of war. Furthermore, the Russian union of ex-Servicemen has joined us, a fact of no small im- portance. Thus the International of Ex- Servicemen both can and will set it- self with renewed force to fulfil the great tasks with which it is faced under the present highly fateful situation. Drawing by WM. GROPPER. The Associated Press on Aug. 31, 1927, says: “Warren T. McCray, for- mer governor of Indiana, having com- pleted one-third of a ten-year term recommended his release and that At- torney General Sargent approved it. McCray Is Now a Free Man. American Negroes, take notice: here is a big American white man who was a sure-enough criminal, and no doubt anywhere about it. He used the mails to defraud, not out of ig- norance of the law but to cheat the law, deliberately, knowing all about what he was doing. He sought his own personal profit in the deed. * * * Marcus Garvey, in truth, w. ary. His organization abused the use not | a criminal, but a misinformed vision- | mous than all the governors of In- diana put together. And yet Garvey is still in prison while Attorney General Sargent re- | criminal. +. ae Whatever Negro editors and other jleaders may think of Marcus Gar- vey, there is but one way for the human brain to think of this obvious partiality of our department of “jus- tice.” Garvey in this case is not an individual but # symbol. At the very lowest estimate he deserves as much consideration as McCray, former “governor of Indiana.” THE JUDGES Do they stir uneasily at night be able to shoot against their broth- er workers in other lands, as is be- ing done in the present war, and as pious wishes, but by @ victory over the bourgeoisie and by ‘lisarma- ment.” (Lenin, Vol. XIII, p. 454). 29. This is what Lenin wrote con- | there 'cerning wars between the imperialists | realization of the General Strike. Dur- themselves. essential for the Communist Parties in all capitalist countries to carry on }eontinuous propaganda and agitation in the sense } nent? Was and is the traitors to socialism are advis- for the general strike prior to the It was our desire to t y to pit our whole in- ing you to do, but in order to fight | war as well as during the war. tably for by means of colonial expeditions against the bourgeoisie of your own | However the fact should not be ‘in the | System “show them | ® intervention in China, country, to put an end to exploita- |lost sight of that it depends on the aie he eco f war and spective of the fact that Social tion, to poverty and wars, not by | revolutionary development of the sit- baged on 32 <6 h tha in.| Democratic leaders have on occasion uation when the slogan of the Gen- eral Strike can be put forward as a slogan fo action that is to say when a possibility of the practical ing the General Strike the Commun- What conclusions should the Com- ists must seize the opportunity to m present situation? gle. Work among the masses, in the factories. in the trade unions, in the country districts, in the army—this is what Communists do prior to and dur- ing the war, this is the way to trans- form the war into a civil war. (2).—The extremely difficult con- the Communist Parties to be ready for it at any moment. The Commun- ists must commence the struggle against war not for the first time (3).—In steadily building up a se- eret apparatus for steadfast work against war, both prior to and also during the war, the Communist Par- ties must not restrict themselves en- tirely to conspirative work, but must fight to secure liberty for their agi- tation on the first possibility which presents itself on the road to revolu- tionary action, to lead the masses into the streets for the struggle to trans- form the imperialist war into civil| 18. war, for the seizure of power by the proletariat, the overthrow of the bourgeoisie and the establishment of the proletarian dictatorship. jmass movement and the mass strug-!war, par excellence: st Parties draw from this in the 'transform it into the armed uprising. i | 30. The war against China and the In connection, however, we at a SS ae: ee ie the) (1).—Bolshevism concentrates in| Soviet Union is not an ordinary im- no intention to take the place of any sa al Denenia Unies oe the struggle against war upon the perialist war, it is the imperialist aol s id Peasants The cxiditions jin which it is proceedins: and will | proceed in relation to the soviet Union |should it break ot, will be differen‘ from thoze of the war of 1914. 1).—This war is a special war, first: ‘ly, because it is a clearly expresse. class war. The imperialists are no\ so much a help as a hindrance. ae ig !ditions in which the workers’ organi- | fighting with the aid of the people; opinion that, * ss - Austrian a ion likewise McCRAY WHY NOT GARVEY? |zations during the war have to work |it is a punitive expedition of the im- On various occasio LAC, A.C. some time ago.) The * |(Lenin: “Instructions to the Hague | perialists for the purpose of suppress- already performed tive and tempted to carry with it the By WILLIAM PICKENS. | Cray ever could have been, more fa-| Delegation”) make it obligatory for |ing the workers and peasants. Every rousing work of ag’ t has been A jhonest toiler in the imperialist coun- itries will appreciate this. 2).—The fetish of “national defense” particularly in the present war against or perhaps At the same time we may observe|in the’ Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, |ligiously recommends the release of| .10n it has already ‘broken out, when | China will have no meaning for the f, our nt all the world over, in America as well|is expected to be released on parole|the white man» who had ten dimes the governmental terror temporarily |peoples of imperialist countries. No de he naturally from the very start| as ih Europe, that there is a tendency | from the prison late today.” It is|™more chances than Garvey to “know | onchains the masses, but above all|person with any common sense will eae siento i seep one BEDS to strengthen the International of|further stated that the Parole Board) better,” and who was a far greater|;." i). period of preparation for war. |believe that China threatens to in- t ional organ vade the British Isles. Therefore the bourgeoisie and its lackeys are com- pelled to put forward instead of the slogan “Defense of the Fatherland,” such sophisms as “Defense of Prop- erty,” “Defense of Interests,” “De- fense of Prestige,” “Defense of the Flag,” “Defense of Civilization Against Bolshevism,” ete. 3).—The working masses remember |the sanguinary experience of 1914 It is also remembered by the vanguard of the proletariat, the Com- jmunist Parties. They will take into account the methods adopted by the | bourgeoisie in conducting war and (Continuation) ; Tungkiang, ‘and Chung Shan, Shun of the mails in a much smaller way Sometimes and see strange shapes? Ene Serene Cratageiey Welty) bayer ae rae eae ee wrens: As a matter of fact, the inaugura |The peasant corps helped the pickets|Tak of southern regions, they gave|than did McCray. Garvey was” not| ‘Waote ee gout Ai nee Hea, staat a the ean dof i Soi of th ‘ | Peasant Union| t? detain the smuggled undesirable | opportunities to the militarists to de-| seeking profits in a personal busi-|Do they sometimes stare Wee ony eee dice ey oe il fia aie ne Bare he bag t cedee is real ult of our struggle; Commodities and positively partici-| velop new force again. On account of |ness, He was, of course, seeking glory |8t their idle softened hands eral strike.” A general strike which|perialist war of 1914, the vanguar aie sJass,|Pated in the anti-imperialist move-| thi the 22nd of February 1926, |; igi i aid-ib de and murmur in a trance, |does not end in armed rising is of| the proletariat is organized in Com- of our own class, : 4 . . y */in a visionary cause, and it is most! | itself t bl £ mde | ist Parti d bined the time, it) ment. Third step, after the occur-/the Kwangtung Provincial Peasants likely true that he hardly understood: “Out! out! damped spot!” jitself not capable of rendering an/munist Parties an Aes aN All-China ence of Liao’s assassination, workers} Union held the enla éd session of | the legal import of his stock-selling. | :|imperialist war impossible. For the|Communist International, which waa held at Can- ton. This e s to gather the and peasants united and cooperated to cut off the communications be-| the whole body of the Executive Com- mittee, various offices, and various | Garvey has served more than one- third of his term, for he not only |Does the red rich win they drink | sometimes sicken them successful accomplishment of a gen- eral strike and rising, i.e., a civil war, not the case 13 years ago. (To be Continued) advanced luti alliance, the Ween the imperialists and counter-| specially appointed deputies to inspect | went to prison bef is/in a momentary illusion a z i Q ios CAS ate | . : prison before McCray but his working < ol toon dhe maticnal revolutionists and to make the people | our practical foreé, to hasten the new ‘ *s|of human blood? “W W mover ‘Le ture and to Cooperate with the Government, and development of the rural villages, and | ‘em Was omy 2 Year Wine Meuray HEN THESE MEN ARE DEAD YOU AND I TLL coopera- nd peasants. unanimously rose up to clean up all ete. Comrade Muk of the Po On pea- sants corps was killed on account of sarming the anti-revolutionary arm- However, the Canton revolution- | to cut off the conspiration between vangtung fundamentally and to en-| ble the unified Kwangtung to pedition so as to unify All-China, | Workers Struggle Alone. was 10 years. McCray went in last known around the world than Mc- ‘ | —ZIVIA VIGDOR. come a complete, powerful, supervis- ing and directing organ. ) and to lift up their status. (i) All members of peasant unions By ART SHIELDS. 5 ; A sre irst— *s|Do they ever jump up in a sweat » ” : ie sontte Se ACE — ee te imperialists and the counter-revo- | and comes out ay ae Beye | teem their leather padded chairs SLEEP BETTER —FULLER jung-Kai, Ngai Pong-ping, ung | lutionary f in order to unif. * ld i ‘2 f ion? © Hak-ma, Mok Hung, Chang Yun-ki, K ‘ | Garvey was a bigger,man, better | in Spiga oe Sea peutans y iwere browbeaten by Fuller and his In hia peorveons mer home, Rye [Personal attorney, Joe Wiggin. And oye fare tA Mn the last analysis Fuller—and his | advisory commission—-was just as Beach, Alvan T. Fuller, perhaps the wealthiest man in New England, is reat : . rey ‘ narrowly one-sided as Webster Thay- ary foundation was confirmed.) «Artey ¢ 4 (b) To make the organization of must pay a certain amount of fees|resting after his job as executioner Peas Fourth step, workers and peasants!» A ae he occurence of the MAY | peasant unions of various grades! to the union to advance the union’s|of Sacco and Vanzetti, the two Italian | P" we ae ae ae ened united and helped the Nationalist 30th Massacre, the current of the Na-"hetter and better and their relation-| work. |radicals. There the multi-million-|'0 *TOl. Hichardson a’ BEC OuU, Government to despatch tro: in the! tional Movement has flowed out over ship between each other closer and; (j) Note to the political training|aire automobile manufacturer is try-| “You Bee pet a did to those anar- “In our nee, we resolved! eactern and southern expeditions. On|the whole country. But anti-im-| closer, Fix the time for Delegates | of the peasant self-defense corps, soling to enjoy the sleep he promised | Chistic bastards! that ‘the > body of peasants! account of this, more than 500 pea-|P¢tialist movements of the various | Conferences of peasant unions of|as to make them~become convinced |himself when the job should be done.) Fuller may get sleep now; he may should | into the Kuomintang to nts ‘ provinces in the central and northern As the anti-revolu- s of the party hinde % the village, we set forth to requ the Central Kuo- mintang to ¢ n up all the bad mem- bers within the party. We have al- ready recognized and understood the necessity of the woker and peasant were killed in Hai} Fung, Luk Fung, etc. “Up to the present, ¢he pitiful con- dition of the peasants has not yet re covered. However, Kwangtung wa: then unified. Nowadays, in regard to| the places where we have peasant | unions, handicraftmen rose up to or Ng Wa, count of the reaction of the militar- ists, in other words, because the pea- sants’ organizations there have not yet | well developed, the working class| truggled alone and could not get any | alliance so that they are finally sup-| part of China are very quiet on aa | | various grades. Train and educate| supporters for the interests of the us; point out our mistakes and in- spect our present strength, Fix the aim for further progress in future. (c) actionary factors in our union and prevent them from encroaching upon our union. Strengthen our iron laws. ‘We must clean up all the re-' workers and peasants classes and the | armed force of the revolutionary | masses of people. (To be Continued) Musicians’ Union Have} “When these men are dead you and | get satisfaction from doing the job I will sleep better,” he told a rich|He is, apparently, not a_ sensitive, society woman who interceded’ with | conscious-ridden man, He may have him a few hours before the electric | the satisfaction that comes from gra- current was switched. Press. The woman |tifying prejudice. |passed this on to the Federated|sure bet that he has ruined himself But it is a pretty | political, for any post outside of the borders of Massachusetts. His re- ae ; Broke Two Strikes, beeeeia ities se chants | Pressed, and captured by the mili-| Make our union to be a real organiza- ‘ . shal i ciasees participation in the ational’ Grgcnized - merchants” associations,| SHst= whom the imperialists con-|tion of the Descent class anda reel Symphony Orchestra |. As one looks beck it seems surpris-| PO hasip bo tod note ir aet revolution. We begin to lead the na- adacte organized aden unions, | SPited with. From this point of view,! organ struggling for the peasants’ in-| jing that anyone could have expected | 40 in Europe or South. America tional revolution to advance forward. | * s Mies Stim proved that we cannot be satis- | SEN Fuller to free himself from his class} ~ . r and women also organized women’s fi Pp : | terests. ' By CARL BRANNEN di Her is not a mere rich| Will want him, And for the presi- Peasants Revolt. ___ lemancipation associations. We must | ee surest our movement only; (qd) After the First Conference on| SEATTLE, Sept 4 (FP)—The |Preju “He at enews A e forty|@eney his party will hardly dare to “After the Kwantung Provincial! say that this is the appearance of |? ru the whole province but must ©X- | May Ist, 1925, we have had our pres-/ Seattle Sympheny Orchestra with the |™an. ie 28, WO! Wwenty to torty| nut forward a man on a Sacco-Van- Peasant Union was inaugurated it|the joint fighting front of various| ‘nd it to other provinces so as to) millions, according, to an estimate by bore the mission of the Conference. First step, on the 13th of June it par- ticipated in the movement for cleane up all the anti-revolutionary militar- classes for overthrowing imperialism. | As far as distsicts where we obtained | vietory for reduction of rent and had organized completely the peasant hasten the peasants of various pro- inces to organize themselves, to unite and to struggle jointly with the working class. At present, the ent good result. In the Second Con- |ference of this year, we must exert) presented the opera Aida at the Uni- our endeavors to make all our pea- versity of Washington. sant comrades, who have not yet en- rolled into our Union before, to join hep of a citizen’s committee has just The at- | tendance for the four nights .was Thomas Carens, star writer for the Boston Herald. Fuller has broken at least two sttikes. After the second, in 1923, he reduced the wages of his | zetti platform. For no matter how | silent the party’s and the candidate’s declarations might be Fuller would stand before the nation as the execu- estimated at 40,000 people. i i ists, called the peasants of the whole/ self defense corps, such as Kwong|5°Cond Peasants Delegates Conter-| into our Union and make all the) ‘The Musicians Association (trade | Boston Packard mechanics by several | foner oe en anaeca ‘sevia® sv rise up, gathered the) Ning, Po On, etc. are concerned, | "ce of All-Kwangtung is going to be| rural villages which have not yet or-| union) deserves full eredit for this |dollars a week. | U. S. In At The Death. work of the three railways, opened, and at the same time the | nam the Yueh-Han, the Canton-| »wloon, to strike, and to drive away| Chi-min and Liu Chan-wan.| asants of various places were able! » up with force of arms to fol-| revolutionary troops tp help} he Kwong Ning Peasants) s despatched to Kon Tun to at-| the troops of Yang Chi-min and) Liu Chan-wan but the landlords en- countered with them and eight pea- sant comrades were killed. The Ching| th tion for the revolutionary armies and| a chairman of the Executive Com- mittee of the Village Peasant Union died because of overwork. However, the militarists in Canton were finally overthrown. Second step, on the 23rd of June, it supported the demonstra- commerce is prosperous, communica- tion is convenient, and education is | promoted, because the living condi- tion of the peasants has been im- proved and certain persons bore the responsibility to maintain the order) of the place substantially. Still In Danger. “Although Kwangtung is unified, | she is still in danger because the im-| perialists are still watching for) chances to capture here and the| counter-revolutionaries are present In| various places of Canton. For if-| stance, in rural villages the corrupt | officials, politicians, retired soldiers;| notorious rowdies, depraved gentries, compradores, landlords, bandits, and militia are the obstacles to the ex-| pansion of the workers’ and Late sia Third Workers Conference of All China will be held in Canton. Thus, t the second interview of the work- ers and peasants, they have to or- ganize a great federation of workers| and peasants, Fight Continuously. “We continuously fight for eco- nomic and_ political improvements. Owing to the teachings and experi ences from our struggle and sacri- fice we have made about 60 districts to have organizations of peasant unions which have more than 800,000 members altogether. Such great progress has proved the expansion of our organization. Thus the Second Conference must pay attention to the following points: | ganized to do so now, so as to make} triumph. |80 per cent of the total number of symphony orchestra from its mem- {peasants in Kwangtung to become, bership and a full program of con-| |and to lift up their status. (e) As the First All-Kwantung Peasant Delegates Conference jnau- gurated the Provinciitl Peasant Union, we hope that the Second Con- ference ‘will unify the peasants of Kwantung and will prepare the First Delegates Peasant Conference of All- China. i (f) We must promote cooperative societies in rural villages so as to im- prove peasants’ living conditions and to increase the happiness of the pea- sants. (g) We must participate in the activities of political organizations in rural villa, in order to obtain prac- tical results for the peasants. Last fall it organized the certs for the winter without any/ financial guarantee of payment was | lundertaken. The salary of the con- ductor, Karl Kveuger of Vienna, was | raised by a citizen’s committee, but | the members of the orchestra agre to share cooperatively whatever |funds might be available, | The past concert season was @ suc- jcess from the standpoint of program and popular support, but the musi- cians made a financial sacrifice with little or no pay for rehearsals. Now | the Seattle Symphony is being incor- | porated and will sign, a satisfactory agreement with the musicians’ union, |W. L. Douglas, secretary of the As a class conscious capitalist Ful- by his intimates, even before an en- terprising Washington Fuller’# speech lambasting all radi- cals from Bill Haywood to Victor Berger, whose expulsion he support- ed, and calling for the execution of the “Reds.” Even this year Fuller told one of the attorneys for Sacco and Vanzetti, that the men must have depraved minds—they did not believe in private property. Viciously Prejudiced. Approaching the review of the evi- dence with such a prejudiced mind, Fuller could not, or would ‘not, see the defense side. So defense wit- | A United’ States Naval Intelligence ‘ler detested radicals. This was known officer was present at the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti and sent off a newspaper- telegraphic flash with the news im- |man looked up the Congressional Rec- | mediately after. ord for November 19, 1919, and saw] Press is informed from reliable sources, Bricklayers and Masons EndLong-standing Feud The agreement signed August 17 by the Bricklayers, Masons and Plas- terers International Union and the Operative Plasterers and Cement Finishers Association, in an effort to; end their long-standing jurisdictional feud, became effective September L, f union, is business manager of the tion of protest against the May 80th|movements. In Ko Yiu, Kwong Ning} (a) Support our headquarters.; (h) We must establish more free| orchestra. nesses were insulted, The governor massacre, and the Canton-Hongkong'! of Sikiang, Fah Yuen, Ching Yuen vf Direct the Kwangtung Provincial|schools for peasants and their chi!- was little interested in what they had BUY THE DAILY corinne strikers, and participated in the parade! Peikiang, Chi Kin, Wai Yuen of! Peasants Union and make it to be-|dren so as to increase their knowledge BUY THE DAILY WORKER [to say. Alone, without counsel, they’ AT THE NEWSSTA: | : { - s So the Federated |