The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1927, Page 1

] 1 mutiny in the Black Sea fleet pains: THE DAILY WORKER richTs: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THD | somone | FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK | somone | A LABOR PARTY THE DAILY WORKER. Entered aw second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1870. | FINAL city (| AL CITY EDITION Vol. IV. No. 224. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1927 Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 33 First Street, New York, Price 3 Cents Ws ie CHINESE PEASANT ARMIES WIN ON FIVE FRONTS | Current Events i By T. 1. OF O'Flaherty 4 l | He AT Chiang Kai-shek was a much over-rated hero is the gist of a article written for a London ne zine by the Chinese correspondent | for the New York Herald-Tribune. | Chiang drew his strength from the| masses says this correspondent .and his popularity was created for him! by the Communists whom he used long as they were of service to him in his aim to be dictator of China.) When he felt that he could dispense} with the radicals and with the Soviet | military and political advisers of the | Kuomintang he massacred the lead-! ers of the former and maneuvered to have the latter sent back to Russia. * * * (Neos is now a discredited poli-| tician, depending on the favor of Japan and other imperialist powers for support. Even tho he may be able to again play a big role in China it will only be temporary and not as the beloved Jeader of the masses, but as the militarist tool of foreign im- perialism. The writer of the article referred to, states quite frankly that the exploited coolies and the pea- santry were the backbone of the rev: lutionary movement and that they trusted the Communists and that Chiang collapsed like a stuffed shirt when the Communists withdrew thet support from him. This is what The DAILY WORKER has been telling its readers right along. * * * E are glad to be able to state that} the Chinese revolution has entered a new phase with the revolutionary workers and peasants the head as well as the backbone of the move- ment. Already they have captured} several important cities. In the! meantime, another discontented gen- eral is marching on Peking and Chang-Tso-lin is debating whether to | buy him or fight him. The Japanese are said to be streygthening their position in Manchuria and. proparing hostile movements against the Soviet Union. There are rumors that Japan will soon a the robbery of Bessarabia Roumania. * * i ee sian bit of foreign ; news is the ratification of a non- agression pact between Persia and | the U.S.S.R. Great Britain and the Czar once parcelled this country be- tween them. The war upset that apple cart. Even then Standard Oil! had its finger in the petroleum and an American financial expert was en- gaged to set the Pi ian house in order. When the Russian workers and peasants overthrew the Czar’s, government one of their first acts | was to cancel all the unfair treaties | forced by the Czar on weaker coun-| Persia v one of the bene-} ficiaries of this policy. Since then| Gteat Britain has heen active in persia trying to make trouble for the} Soviet Union. But honesty is on the | side of Soviet diplomacy and strange | tho it may seem, honest diplomacy is’ proving effective for the U.S.S.R.} * * * |) pees A'FIC relations between Po-| land and the Soviet Union seem| to be stea improying. When| Peter Voikoff. the Soviet minister to Poland was ass: ated in Warsaw by a Russian monarchist, it looked as (Continued on Page Six) ERENGH SAILORS MUTINY AT TIME” OF PRISON FIGHT. TOULON, Oct. 2.—The struggle of the 64 political prisoners in the Tou- Jon naval prison was followed imme- diately by the mutiny of the crew of the French warship, Ernest Re- nan, in Toulon harbor. Refusing to eat the rotting meat being sold to the naval commissary department by the | corrupt French meat barons, the sai- Jors of the Ernest Renan abstained from mess while their officers threatened them with shooting and imprisonment. The mutiny, which is one more in the series of outbreaks among the soldiers and sailors sweep- ing thru the land and sea forces of the French imperialists, and which the government is attempting to meet with fierce and indiscriminate repri- sals has not been ended with the ar- rests of four leaders and imprison- ment of fifty sailors, but is expected to spread to other vessels in Toulon harbor and various units of the Med-’ iterranean fleet. Andre Marty, who led the naval! the bombardment by the Pave Fon ware junion bureaucrats. A. F. of L. IN CONVENTION TODAY? . DAVIS, JOHNSON TO SPEAK; OPEN SHOP HEAD WON'T Departmental Officials | Mostly Re-elected | Y LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2.-All de- partments of the American Federa- tion of Labor, meeting in pre-con- vention conferences are finishing their deliberations, and the Forty- Seventh convention of the: federation |opens tomorrow, without, however, a |welcoming address from the head ot the chamber of commerce of Los An- geles, as had been promised. Open Shopper Declines. | .The chamber of commerce is defi- |nitely committed to a policy of the jopen shop and anti-unionism. Invi- |tation of the president of the cham-} {ber was much opposed by the rank} {and file unionists here, as much as was the selection for convention| \headquarters of the scab Hotel Alex-} andria. | Secretary of Labor J. J. Davis and) Senator Hiram W. Johnson are sche- duled to speak to the delegates either | Monday or Tuesday. | The tenor of the convention is bit-| |terly reactionary. Outside of the} \fight centering around metal trim, | jand class collaboration policies, such as labor banking and insurance, the| jonly live issue is the attack on the, \left wing. Friday, President William | |Green of the A. F. of L. and Seere- tary Frank Morrison addres: 2d. the Los Angeles Labor Council,! dad ée-| voted their time to a rhapsody of their own leadership and furious at- tacks on the progressives, who are not represented in the convention, as it is made up of the upper strata of “What a misera- ble death,” said Green to the coun- cil, “we would all have if we listened to critics in our ranks.” The elections in departments make few changes. The building trades de- partment has re-elected as president, OES on Page Five) SIGMAN’S LIBEL ci FRAMEUP HEARING IN COURT TODAY Charges Against Gold, Hyman and Freiheit The criminal libel suit brot by Mor- ris Sigman, right wing president, In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, against Ben Gold, Louis Hy- man and the editorial staffs of the |Freiheit and Unity, will come up in the 57th St. court, 2 p. m. today. A hearing for a permanent injunc- tion against the Cloak and Dressmak- ers’ Joint Board, requested by Local 89, International Ladies’, Garment Workers’ Union, will also be acted upon today. The third right wing legal act aucererted on Page Five) THE DELUSION By Fred. Bllis COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL STATES REASONS FOR TROTSKY-VUYOVITCH EXPULSION FROM EXECUTIVE RIVE SOUTH AND CAPTURE SIX BIS SHANGHAI, China, Oct. 2.- kilometers south of Swatow, the two weeks ago by~the ting. a town fifty kilometers west of ton. The defense of Puning is ments after a fierce battle hav revolutionary army ) WEST OF SWATOW TRICTS IN HUPEH Reactionaries Murder 1 More Dove Colmmaniate British Organize Fascisti in Shanghai South Chinese peasant detach. e occupied Chenghai, forty-five latter city having been captured commanded by Yeh. Peasant detachments are simultaneously beseiging Puning, Swatow in the direction of Can- organized by one Fang, a big local landlord whose estates were confiscated by the peasantry, The news appearing in the Chinese and English press of Shanghai, and Honkong that the revolutionary army has suc. cessfully maintained its control of Swatow is confirmed. On. the night of September 29 an attack by sea was made. Warships of the right-wing Kuomintang government at Canton, convoying transports loaded with soldiers, were repulsed by the strong and W well defended coastal fortifications at Swatow.. The attack- ——*ing force has sailed away. Arm the Workers. ey eastern Kwantung province ha: een occupied by revolutionary soe numbering twelve thousand Well armed peasants are assisting the revolutionary armies. In all vil jlages and c¢: occupied, the revo lutionary armies [proceed at once t¢ arm the peasants and workers. Peasants Win In Hupeh: Hankow papers received here ad Agree to ‘Break Strike | mit the successes of the peasan Pending Arbitration [Hoven veciaee eenther Part |Hupeh province. The peasant re¢ jarmy there, organized under Com CHICAGO, Ill., Oct. 2—An agree- | maunist direction, has occupied six dis ment for a separate peace ending un- ' trots, til next February the lock-out of be-| The command of the army has es. tween seventy and eighty thousand tablished liason with the peasant or. coal miners in Illinois, permitting ganizations of Hunan provin them to mine coal and break the de BD) ce. UNION OFFICIALS SIGN TRUCE WITH ILLINOIS OWNERS The guerrila war in Hainan Islané fense of the union against a sirailar Cites Secret Anti-Party: Printing a Continuously Flaunted Bolshevik Discipline (Special Cable to The DAILY WORKER) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Oct. 2.—Pravda, the official organ of the Communist Party of the U. S. S. R., today published the declaration from the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International and the International Control Commission to all sections of the Comintern regarding the expulsion of Leon Trotsky and Vuyovitch from the executive com- mittee of the Communist International. “The eighth plenum of the executive committee of the Comintern,” it says, “which met in May of this year to consider the question of the actions of the Opposition passed a resolution | Which categorically prohibits ee ae and Vuyovitch from continuing their factional “struggle and instructs the Presidi- jum of the executive committee of GARFIELD LABOR RALLY ATTACKED BY BOOTLEGGERS |e Comintern, in conjunction with GARFIELD, N. J., Oct. 2.—At a rousing rally for the city council can- didates on the labor ticket, Gus Deak, John Di Santo and Felix Panarisi held here last night in the Third Ward, the democratic stronghold, republican and democratic bootleggers made a con- certed attempt to break up the labor meeting. jthe International Control Commis- | sion, to formally expel them from It was when George E. Powers,/the executive committee if this strug- labor speaker of New York was’ at-/gle did not cease. Facts which have tacking and exposing the democratic|become known since the meeting of and republican parties as enemies of|the plenum in May have shown that labor that the bootleggers sprang to|warnings given Comrades Trotsky the defense of the old parties. Despite | jand Vuyovitch have gone unheeded, their interruptions the meeting con-| and that the Opposition retaliated to tinued with even greater interest and! 'the categorical prohibition of the fac- enthusiasm. tional struggle by intensifying it to ®/an unparalleled degree by a broad at- ALL Party members are asked who are unemployed are asked A. M. on Wednesday. NOTICE TO ALL NEW YORK PARTY MEMBERS on Wednesday, October 5th at Madison Square Garden, 49th Street, near 8th Avenue, in order to receive their assignments to posts at The DAILY WORKER-FREIHEIT Bazaar. organizers are asked to see to it that every Party member re- ports and receives a definite assignment of duty. WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE, District Organizer. |tack on the Communist Party of the \U. S. S. R. and the Comintern, and \by fresh attempts to disrupt the ‘unity of the Leninist ranks both in |the U. S. 8, R. and thruout the | world. Gave Promise to Cease. | Continuing, the statement says: 1 | “Called to account at the August Comrades | | plenum of the Central Committee and to report at the Garden at 11} ;the Central Control Commission of |the Communist Party of the U. S. S. 'R., the Opposition once again as in to report promptly at 8 P. M. Unit ¢ The Rise of Reaction in Wuhan By SZ- TOH- Li Tene months ago Wuhan was still the centre, the heart of na- tionalist-revolutionary China. Wuhan! was the only centre that could boast; the support of the masses, the toiling) masses of the workers and peasants} —the decisive factor in every revo- lutionary movement. Three months ago Wuhan could easily be distinguished from Canton, where Li Chi Hsin, the reactionary) _ tupan inaugurated his bloody dicta- torship and appointed himself with the best blood of the Cantonese pro- letariat and peasantry. Three months ago Wuhan could also be distinguish- ed from the military dictatorship of Chiang Kai-shek who came to. the fore - the champion of the big bour- geoisie and the feuda] elements of China, who were willing to compro- ‘mise as easily with the Northern mil- itarists as with the imperialist et ers. -TOH-LI of the Pan-Pacific WORKER with four article: Pye (Continued on Page Two) ‘atiof the Opposition; They Have lock-out in other states affecting near- ly. a hundred thousand more. miners, has just been signed by the officers of District No. 12, United Mine Work- ers of America. Temporary Truce. By the term of settlement, the min- ers in such mines as the operators will resume work on the basis of the Jacksonville scale of wages, except out any assurance that the scale will last beyond the date of Feb. 7, 1928. of the joint wage scale committee provided for.in the e3 ng contract, to hear the report of a joint commis- sion made up of Rice Miller, presi- dent of the Illinois Coal Operators Association, H. C. Perry, his vice-| and District President Harry Fish-| wick of District 12, U. M. W. A., gether with State Senator (Republic- an) Wm. Sneed, vice-president of Dis- trict 12. To Cut Wages. the task of investigating “demands, | claims and contentions” of both the} operators and the miners. It is speci- | fically agreed to that the joint com- mission shall look into the wage scale, and‘ working conditions in Ilinois mines, and that its report shall be the foundation of a new district agree- ment on wages and conditions of work to be drawn up by the joint wa scale committee in February, and to take effect on April 1. Arbitrate Machine Wages. who work around coal cutting and AA idle on Page Two) Trade Union Central Bureau has furnished The DAILY s describing the betrayal of the liberation movement by the Wuhan leaders and the horrible butcheries and suppression which followed their surrender to Chiang Kai-shek and the other militarists. By documentary evidence the writer shows that the Wuhan “moderates” took the same attitude toward the labor movement and the peasant organizations as did imperialists and their militarist allies. Written the first of August, the general predictions made by the writer have been con- firmed fully by subsequent events. {eA months ago the voice and; authority of the Wuhan Govern- ment commanded the fear if not the respect of even the most venomous enemies of the Chinese Revolution. At home the reaction dared not raise its head; abroad the imperialist powers were already beginning to reconcile themselves to the idea of the permanence and stability of the Nationalist Government. Three months ago tha Wuhan Gov- ernment still enjoyed the. unqualified support and solidarity of the inter- national proletariat and of the ex- ploited peoples throughout the world. 5 ie First Workers’ Republic of the Soviet Union oceupying one sixth of the globe and representing a mighty revolutionary nation of 140 million workers and peasants, lent every ounce of their phenomenal en- ton, promised fairly to become) ergy and revolutionary fervor in sup-|the second Mecca of the World Revo- nark ef the Chinese Ramalutian andiintinn, Lahox delegations and trade of the Wuhan Government. Three months ago the workers, even the merchants were taught by the propagandists of the Kuomintang that the Chinese revolution consti- tuted an integral part of the World Revolution, | national union representatives from the im-| perialist and colonial countries came | to revolutionary China to see for themselves what profound changes | were taking place, in awakenir jgiant China. The Wuhan Government. jmerly Canton, became an a: m for | the oppressed and persecuted of all jthe colonial and semi-colonial coun- tries: Hindus, Koreans, Javanese, | Filipinos, Formosans, etc. 'HREE months ago the first Inter- Workers’ Delegation, composed of representatives of the | as for- perialist countries, were still on the territory of the Wuhan Government, | acquainting themselves with the work} and progress of the revolutionary lores of the new China, especially | Trades and Peasants’ Unions. (Continued on Page Three) choose to reopen within the state will | for work around machines, but with- | On that date a meeting will be held} president, representing the operators, to- | |S LIKELY TODAY This joint commission is charged | in the agreement just signed with | In the matter of wages paid men! ~? | ary | the f | fide organization. | to ¢ has not ceased, according to accuraty information received here. This is land, in the sonth wf Ching, has a re actionary local government whic} tries to suppress the peasant forces but as these are scattered all ovey the island, no ‘success has been ab tained in ‘destroying them. Brutal Executions. The local Hainan government has however, executed a lecturer who re cently arrived from Canton to lecturs on Communism. | Executions continue in Hankow |The papers .of that city have jusi published the names of another ning | (Continued on Page Five) | WALKOUT OF 1,200 WINDOWCLEANERS Demand Recognition of 'Union, $3 Wage Raise A strike of more than’1,200 window cleaners is expected this morning, Eleventh-hour negotiations called by the bosses having been repudiated by jthem on Saturday, the decision te strike was in the hands of the execu- tive committee of the workers’ organi- ion, the Window Cleaners’ Protec- tive Union, was still in session last night as this edition of The DAILY WORKER went to press. Recognition and Raise. ) Recognition of the union and a $2 weekly increase in pay are the prim. demands of the workers whe jachieved a reputation for militanep ‘as a result of their successful strike ar. ion of the ranks of the work- fers by inspiring the organization of a semi-company union was the latest tactic of the bosses who anticipated the present strike move. During the past week as a result of the strike preparations, nearly 100 members of ake union enrolled with the bona Prepare for Struggle. esterday Peter Darck, sece union, declared that the tive committee was empowered lva strike, and unless the bosses capitulated at the last moment, there would be a strong picket line on hand this morning. “We are prepared for a sharp | fight,” asserted Harry Feinstein, busie peasants, soldiers and students, and | working class of the three major im-/| ness manager of the union. Mrs. Earl Carroll Burned, Attempting single-handed to ex- tinguish a fire in her twelfth-floor apartment here, Mrs. Earl Carroll, UHAN, as the heir of Red Can-|with the condition of the toiling) wife of the theatrical producer in- masses and their organizations, The|carcerated in the federal prison at Atlanta for perjury, suffered serious burns, 5 i