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

| THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1927 | COOLIDCE TO GO BORODIN TO REST IN SOVIET UNION AFTER LABORS | IN CHINA; PEASANTS CARRY REVOLUTION FORWARDS Page Three U. S. Lawyer Will Give | War New Camouflage A A ni tr N in U © se re of thi Tries to Stem Protest. hope of convincing South and Ce States has no imperialistic designs against her “sister republics,” Presi- dent Coolidge will go to Havana for, the Sixth International Conference of | for Yankee imperialism whipped up| by the invasion of Nicaragua and! Mexican revolts inspired by U. S. oil interests have convinced Coolidge that at least a little oil must be cast on | the troubled waters. sented last April by chado, president of Cuba and puppet! of American sugar interests and the National City Bank. The invitation was also extended to Secretary of, State Kellogg, who was busy plan- erals. one of the most active spheres of American imperialism, has caused the state department a great deal of the North” has been bitterly attacked by Nationalistie and class-conscious|sants and labor leaders. Not that | workers and farmers in addition to|he himself has said this. c ertainly | large sections of the Latin-Ameriean|as a most discreet adviser and} intellectuals Tbanez coup d’etat in Chile, inspired by the Guggenheim copper interests, the tin perialism in the last few months. ism has been reflected in the decline | of are proving to be right. the part of the imperialist countries Chinese waters. of many attempts to crush the Chinese been exerting their utmost efforts of late for the preparation of an inter- vention against the Russian revolu- tion. ist war and militarism, and for the defence of the Chinese revolution, is TO CUBA TO TRY. BUNK ON LATINS NOTE.—Since the article below Borodin, completing the last part of at Verkniudinsk, a station on the T: way to Moscow. The trip across Urga required about a month. * A LOUISE STRONG i gaan , China (By mail). — Against Imperialism morrow morning I leave on a wonder- |ful trip across half the backyard of WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. — In the; China, going northwest with the Rus- ‘al; sians returning to Moscow. Borodin, United | the well known adviser of the Na- tionalist Government of Canton and later Hankow, goes back to Moscow with a caravan of 20 people, mostly | Russians, but some Chinese who are going along for educational purposes. We have a doctor, two cooks, an official camera and al] the appurten- ances of a historic trip. It is a 6} weeks camping trip, with autos and tents, a very rare trip indeed, since it can only be made when some of- ficial party has enough autos and bodyguards to make the journey. | Borodin Ends Long Service. Long before you read this the press | will be full of various interpretations | of Borodin’s return to Moscow. But, | just between ourselves, I have the feeling, from the looks I see on dif- ferent people’s faces, that it is Boro- din who chooses to go, rather than| Hankow which chooses to send him. ' tired, and somewhat ill | with 4 years in the Chinese tropics; | and he also feels, like Mrs. Sun Yat- |Sen, that he cannot lend himself to sating a facade of revolution to a| military reaction which is killing pea- merican states that the merican states. | The latent hatred of Latin-America Fight U. S. Imperialism. The invitation to Coolidge was pre-| Butcher Ma-! ng the murder of Nicaraguan lib- Latin-America, because it has been | ouble recently. The “Colossus of The | foreigner, he would never voice such open criticism of the government he serves. Masses Will End Reaction. Today in Hankow, even as in Hu- nan, one cannot in any way find a responsible Communist to interview, | Trade On Decline. | and hardly a labor leader. The union} The fight against Yankee imperial-| halls. are occupied by soldiers. Whose fault was it? I think no of ‘thej.one’s. It is one of the inevitable {stages of Chinese development. If and bourgeoisie. Tacna-Arica dispute, Mexico, icaragua, have all added fuel to La- merican hatred for U. S. im- Latin-American trade ited States. * | the Nationalists came north so fast/ jand absorbed so many undigested | | with the militarism in China. So it is | Chinese revolution is infinitely bigger. was written, news has arrived that his journey by airplane, has arrived | rans-Siberian railway, and is on his the Gobi desert from Hankow to * armies, they were bound to encounter | it at some stage in their career. If} they had not come north so fast they would never have awakened the| mas And it is the awakened! ma: who, in the end, will finish all an episode in the steady but slow! development. There is only one power I have} seen in all China that has the nerve | to face the soldiers. The merchants? | — they tremblingly bring out their | money-bags to buy themselves a brief | of life. The officials? — they! o in fear try to soften the soldiers | little, while white-washing them But the peasants of Hunan, | George W. Wickersham, for- mer attorney general of the United States, will draft new treaty for approval of interna- a much, and I dare say of other provinces also. tional Hague conference in LES British Ki ‘oolie. At the Hankow dock, where Brit- have had courage to go against sol-| diers, even without arms or leaders. In| all Chiy#., both north and south, th jaar ae oP te peasantry is beginning to organize an ailor, on guard at the gangway, arm itself, sometimes only with lances | and farming implements. In these} the spit with his clothes. The Chinese peasants is eventual hope. They | ae ap Mas, | coolie shrugged his shoulders and ave energy ani | realism and courage, rubbed out the spit with the sole of It was the Kuomintang that or is shoe. Whereupon the British ganized them, and gave them the slog-| caitoy pulled a revolver and shot the ans they are ready to die for. Today | coolie, the bullet passing through the the Kuomintang disowns them, forced | hip and felling the man to earth. 3 de ne, Hs military. | While the coolie still lay on the dock puny ame to Hankow, | consulate arrived. Without looking ‘This northern expedition, this Han-| a¢ the coolie, he said to the captain lof the cruiser, SAmything happen kow government, is only the first of many episodes. The Russian revolu-|pere?” — “Nothind important”, re- tion was a very big thing, but the! plied the captain calmly. Those words, “nothing important” burn in the mind of the young Chinese for- eign secretary who told me of the outrage. He was offered a scholar- are struggling and suffering in the ship to Yale but refused. He does Chinese revolution, while we of the| not want. to get the ‘Anglo-Saxon west’ grow impatient for quick | mentality”. He wants to visit Japan returns. and then study in Russia. made angry signs to him to wipe up It will kill more than one Borodin before it is achieved.” Such is the patience of those via The Anti-Militarist Work of the Communist Yout mobilized, that an energetic ,Leagues have left no stone unturned were protest was raised among the work- ing people. The comrades could com- pare the situation with that of 1914. Thanks to their preparatory strug- gles, our British comrades were by no | means taken by surprise. The cam-) paign was continued with intensified , energy. | Youth comrades were delegated to | all ports of departure. They were} commissioned to distribute leaflets| By F. BILLOUX. During the last few months the ger of war has approached ap- ciably nearer. All the prophecies the Communist International and the Y. Cj I. on the war danger The near approach of the danger + in with the constant efforts on to provoke revolutionary China, the m ce sending of troops and warships to the | and _manifestoes, and to organize The bombardment | Meetings. Whilst these comrades learried our slogans to the troops; which were to be embarked, other} comrades travelled all over the coun-! try holding meetings. The slogan of “sabotage” was issued first of all, in order to prevent the transport of a: munition, Then a manifesto was i sued calling upon the soldiers and sailors to “fraternize” with the Chi- nese soldiers, workers, and peasants. The slogan: “The defeat of British imperialism means the victory of the workers at home” was emphatically proclaimed and well received every- Nanking is one instance out of the volution. Besides this, the imperialists have The resolution of the last Plenum the Y.C.Il. was right in stating at: “the struggle against imperial- Later on, our other Youth Leagues realized their weakness, and many of them, for instance the Swedish, Czech, and German, took up work with increased vigor. The sailors and soldiers already in China have not been forgotten by our propaganda, and last month the {French sailors’ newspaper: “Jean le Goulin,” published an appeal from |the French sailors in Shanghai. This proves to us that the sailors of the imperialist countries, even those al- ready in China, realize what role the bourgeoisie wants them to play. Again, we hear reports of serious conflicts among the troops from In- to expose the true role being played by British imperialism in its struggle against the first proletarian revolu- tion, as evidenced in the various epi- sodes between Great Britain and the Soviet Union, the despicable attempts at provocation on the part of the Tories, the raid on the Arcos, rupture of relations, assassinations by the paid agents of Great Britain. Unmask Poincare. In France, where the attitude taken by the government towards the Chinese revolution has not been | quite so self-evident, our Youth com- |. rades and Party comrades had the {in the hands of the Northern | task of unmasking the true intentions | |of Poincare, Briand, and Herriot. Our | Youth League took an active part in ‘all the work done by thé Party against the intervention, helping to | issue the manifestoes, holding meet- ings, ete. The whole anti-militarist struggle, which has gradually become one of the best traditions of our French Youth, was directed towards the Chi- present within armies. In order to deceive the masses of the workers, the British government | began by merely mobilizing troops | spiel : A | alf& warships from Malta to Gibral-|nese revolution in every single issue. | fore tar.’ Our Youth comrades and the Part, onee, but it was not until the ‘first . eruisers left the British ports, and \ the naval troops stationed in Britain the main task of the Y.C.I. at the And indeed there can be no doubt that the Y. C. I. plays an exceedingly important role in defend- the Chinese and Russian revolutions, for the navies and imperialist armies draw their recruits from the ranks of the young workers and peasants. We cannot accomplish any efficient work for the defence of these revolutions unless we direct our main efforts to the practical anti-militarist struggle imperialist time.” the navies and Towards the end of last winter, at the time when Great Britain sent out its first warships, our Youth com- rades mobilized their whole organiza- tion, and endeavored to arouse the British working elass against this in- tervention, and to reach the seamen | themselves. Imperialist Deception. exposed this manoeuvre ‘aes. nese revolution. The campaign against the military plans of Pain-| leve and Paul Boncour, and the cam-| paign carried on during the calling up | of the recruits in May, were made! use of for the purpose of winning the | attention of the French workers and peasants. At the same time our slo-| gans for the soldiers and sailors were | jmore definitely formulated. Our | newspaper for the soldiers: “La Caserne,” was published at this time in an edition of 16,000 to 21,000 cop- | ies, representing about 100,000 read- \ers, since each copy is read by at least 5 or 6 soldiers. Our sailors’ |newspaper: “La page de Jean le Gouin” attained a circulation of 4000. The result of our work was that in numerous regiments the soldiers re~ fused to “volunteer” for service in China, and thereby plainly expressed | their desire to fraternize with the Chinese revolutionists. Not a single ship left for China be- our leaflets had been distributed | There is no doubt whatever that | among the crew. When the cruiser. this whole struggle against interven- | Primaugout” and the corvette “Reg- Hort in’ China is closely bound up with | ulus” left port, a manifesto to the | the fight in defence of the Russian! French sailors was issued, and dis- revolution. Realizing this, the Youth! tributed as a handbill in the four | P.opagandize Troops. Our work exercised such an in- fluence upon the departing troops that the government was soon obliged to keep the departures almost entirely secret. At first the regiments marched through the streets, ac- companied by a band, but soon it was found advisable to get the troops as quickly as possible down to the docks, where the public is not admitted. During this time our leaflets were still being distributed both by Youth comrades and by non-Party workers, and agitation by word of mouth was continued. We may claim that our British Youth comrades were emin- ently ‘successful in getting at the troops before their departure. Our comrades participated in large numbers in the work of the “Hands off Russia” Committees, and their newspaper, the “Young Worker” de- voted a considerable space to the Chi- | at Revive the : Daily Worker Sustaining Fund Many comrades have allowed their contributions to during the summer months. Now is the time to start again with the Sustaining Fund and build it up on a stronger and firmer basis. taining Fund, our financial troubles will be things of the past. Do your share in your Workers Party unit, in your union and fraternal organization or club. . Local 108 E. 14th St. Send Your Contributions To the Sustaining Fund Office: DAILY \large French ports of Lorint, Cher- | |bourg, Brest, and Toulon. Besides | this, a special number of “Jean te | Gouin” was published. The distribu-| ition of material among the soldiers | }and sailors was accompanied by | simultaneous agitation among the} broad masses, Large meetings were, jorganized in Paris, Lyons, and many | ‘other large towns of France, es-! ‘pecially in the seaygrts. International League. Tn order to intensify the activities jof our Youth Leagues in their fight }against the intervention in China, the; Y. C. I. issued the slogan of an Inter-! Inational Week from 11th to 18th} (March. This Week was ovigeantal | somewhat too stily. It did not bring! iquite the success desired, for’ some fot our Youth Leagues did not realize | the significance of such a Week, or | the role which it should play. It was, | | however, brillantly organized by our) Youth Leagues in Great Britain and) France, where it helped further to, promote the anti-militarist and anti-| imperialist agitation, and in Italy, | where our comrades organized a) working Week in spite of the great | lag Now is the time of renewed activity. With a strong Sus- 33 First Street New York, N.Y. WORKE! |French sailors to “L’Humanite.” dia, and the arrest of some of our comrades will not be able to hinder the will to fraternization among the soldiers of India, In conclusion, it must also be pointed out that of late we have gained valuable experience in anti- militarist work, thanks -to our fight against the intervention in China and in defence of the Soviet Union. The various imperialist countries organ- ized a number of cruiser trips and mutual visits of fleets during the course of this present summer. Great Britain and France, for instance, have exchanged visits; Italian ships have visited Roumania, French ships South America, and a whole British Squadron has cruised in the Baltic, visiting Denmark, Nor- way, Sweden, Finland, ete. This visit of the British fleet to the Northern waters looked very like a manoeuvre in preparation of a war against the Soviet Union. British All Try. Our British Youth comrades en- deavored to reach the sailors, after they had left England, by means of leaflets distributed to them at the various ports on their way. The Communist Youth of Denmark, Nor- way, etc. met them at every port with leaflets and appeals. In Norway sev- eral of our comrades are still per- secuted by the police on account of this. Similar work has been organized by our British and French Youth or- ganizations. If we wish to gain an idea of the influence exercised by this agitation upon the sailors, we only need to refer to the letter sent by It need not be said that these leaflets and appeals have roused the interna- tional bourgeoisie to the highest pitch of excitement, and their press every- where, in Sweden, “Daily Mail” in Engiand, the “Lib- erte” and the “Temps,’* in France, are full of indignant outeries at these “dirty communists.” This interna- tional anti-militarist work shows that we are making great progress, and that this is the line of activity to which we must devote our greatest | efforts. | At the present moment, with the war danger at our doors, with the| revolution of the Chinese workers and peasants threatened with defeat, with the hostility of all capitalist countries directed against Soviet Rus- sia, the Y. C. I. must redouble its efforts, Our economic struggle for the de- fence of working Youth, our sport movement, and the whole of our work, must be directed to the prole- tarian military preparation of the the soil freshly tilled by the political revolution, The agrarian revolution was begin- ning to sweep certain sections of Na- tionalist territory with mighty its | Waves. yee months ago, representatives of over fourteen million trade unionists of China, Korea, Java, U. S. S. R., England, U. S. A. and France met in Wuhan at the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Conference, whose first word was spoken in condem ion of imperialist invasion of China, and whose first appeal was to the wo: ers of the Pacific and of the whole world to come to the active support of the Chinese Reyolution. As with the International Worke Delegation, so at the Pan-Pa Trade Union Conference, representa- tives of the Kuomintang 1 of th Nationalist Government mac loquent declarations about the de sive role played in the revolution by the Chinese proletariat, the pea: and the Trade Unions; they solemnly that never, NEVER would the Nationalist G: rnment deceive or betray the workers and pea Ss The Rise of Reaction in Wuhan + leaders The tr union leaders are either under arrest (if not executed) have been forced to flee. is the order of the day. forbide nd trade union organizer: ou ed. ery movement for the i ment of the ¢ ion of th is branded as Communist and is pun- ishable t h. s and peasants’ unions in Hupeh and k been destro and active wor! ion reigns become brazenly or ar nprove- workers HE tra the an, Hu Y today is stifled with pos- and proclamations i buted by the reactionar ued and dist calling for the complete destruction of the > unio lers of the tion and the Union are i All-China Labor Hupeh General g hunted down mations by the Counce g: Gove and the son com the denunciation and a and strike agita’ t of labor (Continued from page 1) that of Li Chi-hsin or that of cor r The Wuhan This the International Workers’, Kai-shek. ¢ ioners, on the cor , murder |Delegation could then do freely, for ,yOW could it be? 3 the trade union nd reyolu- |the Trades and Peasants’ Unions H have: all been’ xs tionary workers . rge that were free and strong and thriving ya, , they are ries(! is of without any hindrance on the part of work- the reactionary forces. ltont re r c will not The social revolution was begin-' pie trade union i y r lead- |ning to shoot its roots deeply into Wyhan cities. g 1 no un- HORTLY after the Pan-Pacifie fNLY the other day the Chairman Conference, there was convened, and two secretaries of the Wharf also in Wuhan, the Fourth Trade Coolies’ Union were arrested by gar- For the Tenth Anniversary Union Congress of the All-China La- bor Federation. Representatives from all parts of the country, even from provinces still outh- ern, Eastern and Western militarists and reactionaries, gathered in Han- kow, reported on the condition of the workers in the various sections of the country, and breathing inspiration from the revolutionary atmosphere of Wuhan and from the revolutionary experience and militancy of the Chi- rison troops on the charge that they were instigating the workers to a general strike. Executions of workers and active trade unionists take place daily in Wuhan. Many of the most active ar- senal workers of Hanyang have been executed. The “People’s Tribune” of August 5, carries the following news item: “Wang Fang-shin, a reactionary, was executed by order of Wuhan Garrison Headquarters on Wednesday (Aug. Celebrations all rs tn parts nese proletariat and its leadership, 3), He was discovered to have plot- EVSSAN Tee Users —5 they jointly adopted mementous deci- ted for a general strike. . .” RUSSIAN TRADE UNIONS sions which were to acid-test their mire “Hankow Herald” of the\same —05 own strength and the revolutionary LABOR UNIONS IN character of the Nationalist Govern- ment. date reports that on Aug. 3, about ten former workers of the British {AN REVOLUTION ovSKY 05 !Cigarette Co., being officials of the MPS OF SOVIET RUSSIA ERE too, eloquent representatives BCC Workers’ Union, were arrested pe et ee of the Nationalist Government and and handed over to garrison head- By ke ey a gaa —10 of the Kuomintang assured the dele- quarters, charged with instigating M. LAWS gates that the two main moving local or to a general strike. (They RUSSIA pee forces of the revolution were the have probably met with the same +. CONSTITUTION, LABOR mee. workers and peasants, and that the fate.) Sle eae = Nationalist Government would and The “People’s Tribune” of Aug. 11, could never betray the interests of these two classes which constituted the mainstay of the Chinese Revo- lution. f * . Today. ‘ODAY the Wuhan Government is no longer revolutionary. It is completely in the hands of what may be called the Nationalist Militaris No ingenious confusion on the part of Wong Ching-wei or any one else * * .| lutionari& surpas: reports that twenty-five “commu- nists” including the chairman of the I fhiang General Labor Union were executed in that city by order of the | Nationalist Government. ‘pers all this not recall the days of Sun Chuan-Fang in Shanghai or of Wu Pei-fu in Hankow? ... The m of the Wuhan counter-revo- es the morbid bes- | tiality of a Mussolini. When the Ital- ian Fascist Generalissimo murders eyn . RUSSIA'S PATH TO MMUNISM Zinoviev ‘ATION IN SOVIET RUS ott Nearing Cloth——1. RIAL REVIVAL IN RUSSIA (Cloth) —=.50 ean deceive us, Today the Wuhan! trade unionists and revolutionaries, L-NPARING DEBATE ON RUSSIA Government cannot by any stretch of| he at least does not charge the vic- 50 i inati istingui rom | tims reacti ri and RUSSIA TODAY (Report of the the imagination be distinguished from | t with being reactionaries a Nota: Uraae Uniee chee er ae zine rete et os tion) 1.25 = Federated Press Writer ' Mexican Federals in Norway, the! | Due to lack of understanding of | what a Communist daily newspaper should contain, one of the newest members of the staff prepared and sent to the composing room, during the absence of the editors, the Fed- erated Press article sent out by Laurence Todd from Washington, in which Todd gives his impres- sions of a three-months’ stay in Europe. The article, which got into the j issue of Wednesday, Sept. 28, | sought to apologize for every trea- | Son recently committed against la- | bor in the principle countries of Europe, especially in Great Britain, | | Germany and Austria, claiming to | see the British and German work- | ing classes stronger in spite of the | defeats they have just suffered, | especially in the passage of the trade union bill in England. Todd goes even further than the right wing socialists in an effort |to belittle the uprising of the} | Vienna workers in July. Seipel | could have asked for no better pro- | paganda ‘for the fascist cause. | The article is supersaturated | with the worst illusions and dis-| | eredits even the so-called “liberal” land “non-partisan” attitude of the Federated Pre The article, if published at in The DAILY all WORKER, should have been accom- me panied at the s time with a most thoro anal: 1 severe criticim. 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One arrest has been made in Tampico and boxes of cartridges |seized by the, authorities. Government forces ha essful in checking the activities of | rebellious Catholic fanatics in Guana- | juato, under the leadership of Gerv- jaso Mendoza. The fanatics are re- | ported to have attacked the town of Valle Santiago but to have been de- |feated and driven off by the Govern- | ment troops after a full day of fight- ing. No. casualties have been re- | ported. been suc- | | Coming! The Big Red Bazaar | They Bring Results. on Np: APPLY TO THE DAILY 83 FIRSTSTREET Phone Advertising Offices |MAIN OFFICE 33 a LOcs technical difficulties thrown in their)can succeed in a victorious defence way by the illegality of our Youth|and expansion of the first achieve. Teague. iments of the proletariat. Pass the Paper to a Fellow Worker! 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