The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 5, 1927, Page 3

| @idebt terms from the Soviet Unio THE DAILY WORKER, NEW. YORK, WEDN DAY, OCTOBER 5, 1927 HOW BRITISH Ol RAKOVSKY RECALL French Play for Better IMPERIALISM IN, Labor Party Conference for Attack on Militants BLACKPOOL, Eng., Oct. 4. The reformist leadership of Bri ish labor seized the opportunity offered by the Labor Party Con- ference here yesterday to attack militant workers affiliated with the | Debt Terms Suspected PARIS, Oct. 4.-While some cir eles are seeing the hand of the Br jtish oil imperialists in the reporte demand that Christian Rakovsky, the! ambassador of the Soviet Union, b jrecalled from Paris, there is a ten idency among other groups to believ ithat the report is an intrigue of the) |French imperialists to obtain bette ‘diplomats in the negotiations now go- ‘ing on, The French meanwhile have an- nounced that there has been no for- mal demand for Ambassador Rakoy- sky’s recall. According to the state- ment of the French foreign office, the presence of Ambassador Rakov-| sky in Paris at the present stage of | of certain sections of officia ion. opin-| minority movement and the Com- munist Party. In addition to attacking militant trade unionism in the report of the Executive Committee, indi- vidual reformists attacked the min- ority movement. F. O. Roberts, chairman of the Conference, in his opening address warned “extrem- ists within and without the party against attempts to disrupt the or“ ganization.” 3 Curren t Even ts (Continued from page 1) ment was charged with the alleged the debt negotiations, is a slight in-|¢rime and no doubt thousands of peo-| convenience owing to the touchiness|Ple will continue until their death to believe that there actually was a The French press anticipates | bomb plot and that the Communists | '|that Ambassador Rakovsky may re-/ Were resnonaible: | turn to Moscow in the course of the| : 4 H - ee ie eT do to embarrass an administration | The debt negotiations which are| Ryan, iy Boston lamplighter, who de- now proceeding between the govern- | “ided poisteee Wie little party of his ment of the Soviet Union and the | ati se aa cae diecast | French officials are reported to be the “cutnion SEE tae - tose progressing favorably and it is not! clusive invited delegations from 7,300 | expected that the French will permit] cities to visit the Hub and leave their | any rupture between the two govern-| spending money at home. Mr. Ryan ments at this juncture. | did not seem to attract undue atten- | There is, however, a rumor cur-) tion until he sent off an invitation | rent in Paris that the government of, to Bolshevik Moscow. Then the | the Soviet Union regards the atti-;Back Bay threw an epileptic fit and tude of the French officials as am-! asked questions. Mr. Ryan was quite | biguous, and while not resulting in| willing to answer. Indeed we believe an immediate break, as a carefully | he: now considers his mission ended | prepared plot of the French die-hards | having succeeded in making a reputa- and the British oil imperialists to tion for himself as one of the world’s wreck the progress of the debt nego-| greatest publicity men. tiations between the Soviet Union! i uae ter 3 and the French government. It, is AYOR Walker has given rise to pointed out that the present policies|" much suspicion by letting the of the French politicians are skilfully news leak out that he was shadowed calculated to precede an open rupture | bY detectives while travelling in Eur- | tho at this time the French govern. | Pe. The reported i _ ment does not wish to bear the bur-| Rame cafe where the mayor is alleged | den of such grave responsibility. | to: have objected to the presence of - | Negroes was a pure invention sayeth \Jimmy. Perhaps G. 0. P. stool- Meets et eee tas | Digeons did trail his honor, hoping to Nts N. X., Oct. 4.—The ap-|get a key-hole photograph of the peal of Mrs, Ruth Snyder and Judd} dapper Tammanyite in a position that Gray will be argued in the Court of jmight tally with young Teddy Roose- | next week, but it is careful to add| WHAT a citizen with initiative can} Sreicenly Uh M5 | sillsbe held te the Laboe Palos here Appeals on October 24, the state’s| highest tribunal announced today. 7 victed of murdering the woman’s hus- | band while he slept in his home in| Queens County. Both are now in the | death house at Sing Sing. j oe ve]t’s red-light oration in Rochester. Walker regards with the utmost com- Mrs. Snyder and Gray were con- | placeney the activities of his Bomb Squad sleuthing on radicals and pro- gressive labor leaders. He is not the first quack to gag at his own medicine. --GETS READY FOR | “THE 10TH YEAR” |Giant Preparations to) Honor Revolution (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) | LENINGRAD, U.S. 8. P., Oct. 4.— Orn the Tenth Ann sary |victory of the Bol : Revolution, !November 7, new worker clubs, | schools, cultural establishments and a }new school will be opened in the Narva district--the ‘biggest Ss district of Leningrad. One th and workers’ children will be taught there. Encouragement to Astrenomy. | Moscow: Jn honor of the tenth anniversary | of the November 17, 1927, Revolution buildings for ronomical ebserva- ticns will be put up in Leningrad at initiative and expen. of the work » These buildings with all their appliances will be at the dis- posal of amateu onomers. The main object of th beginnings is to spread i knowledge among workers, to fight against enorance and to r in s turation, Apart from the ovgan ion of a i exhibition which will bear work of Leningrad institutions during the last ten years, it is also intended to make the opening of a high volt station for the study of high pressure enrrents at- tached to the physico-technical insti- tute coincide with the tenth anniver- Si The chief geo-physical observa- will open its museum. Plans of Art Academy. The Art Academy is engaged on the production of a grand panorama, “The Taking of the Winter Palace in 1947.” The Revolutionary Museum is cr- ganizing an exhibition of the history of the 1917 Revolution. The exhibi- tion on Soviet construction will be |held ja the former Mariinsk Palace. A big industrial-economie exhibition is to be opened, in which co-opera- tives will participate. A trade union movement exhibition | will be also exhibitions in connection |with the press, science institutions, ;the army, the postal and telegraph |service as well as a number of exhi- |bitions in the Art Academy. An ex- | hibition of labor customs and life dur- {ing the last ten years will be held in |the Vybor district. | A big merchandised flour mill, the |biggest of its kind in the U.S.S.R,, is being built in accordance with the |modern achievements of technique. | This flour mill will produce 2,420 tons ‘flour per month and its construction of the! Page Three Reactionaries Confer; Exile Bessarabians DELEGATES URGE |11th September four Bessarabie Paris workers expelled from ar- | rived in Moscow. Two of 1a leaders of the legal Want Norwegian -Finn them ian alliance in France. | clared that their expulsi | connection with the growth uf the | | reaction in France and with the | persecutions of the B r | | MOSCOW, U.S.S Mail). — egian ft e been i | movement following upon t t of U.S.S.R. dis-} | jing between the Roumanian fer met again in Moscow. In| | |eign minister, ‘Tituleseu, and mem- ation with a representative of | | |bers of the French government in the chairman of the delega-! | ; August of this year. tion, Com “AN H Tom Wright, a deleg: the memb | | Australian unions, dec! | | his arrival in Lening e of the upon he the cole sable in all s: 1 constructiv viet li In the te’ es of | | would represent the in Pie Ts eae ep AS the Soviet Union at public mect- ithe colo: of the Dons | | gs in Australia. He declared that | | the trade unions in Austrailia would | |send a delegation to the ¢ hy eons of the October revolution, 1 and Moscow es we could the entire t for in for see ourselves | working: class is doing the development of indust {and equipment will cost about 314 | million roubles. | Moreover, a new big co-oy jstore, the Leningrad Co-operative Stores, will be opened at the time of |the tenth anniversary. | Open Saw Mills. st construction. In regard to future relations be~ tween the Norwegian Labor Move- ment and Soviet trade ¥ rade Diedrichsen said: | : 5 all the members of the | It is also intended to open by that! think that Norwegian trade unions \date a big sawing mill constructed of should keep up close relations with iron baton. This new sawing mill/ the Soviet trade union movement. The will produce over 30,000 standards of tion of the establi t of a sawed timber which is to be export-| special organ whose busi it will ed to West Europe. It is equipped | be to definitely consolidate this’ con- with modern Swedish machinery and rection, i.e. Hmechanism. s | It ts also proposed to open by that {date another powerful sawing mil| jalso constructed of iron baton which {will produce over 15,000 standards |sawed timber. The construction an {equipment of these two wo: cost over 316 million roub] of a Norwogian- rviet Unity Committee will ided at the next congress of the Nor- ian trade unions.” Commenting on the news concern- \ing the break-up of the Anglo-Rus- n Unity Committee by the Edin- ;burgh Trade Union Congress, Com- le Diedrichsen pointed out ent will certain ion of the r rwegian wor’ ; Although in |news of the sev. jtween the Gener w seningrad Trust of the gars 2 ment-making industry will open for | of jthe anniversary another garment-! making factory which will employ 1,000 workers North-Western joint stock | |company, “Electropomostch,” is mz | jing arrangements for the opening on| jthat date of the electro-technical| entire rank and file will no doubt fee} | works “Krassny October,” which will} impelled to give whole-hearted sup- employ up to 1,000 workers, |port to the Soviet trade unions. Many Smaller Undertakings. | On its return, the Norwegian dele- In addition to these big enterprises | gation will do its utmost to inform a number of smaller enterprises and; Norwegian workers about the life workshops will be opened in honor of} and doin the tenth anniversary. The giant of! In conclusion Comrade Diedrichson the Soviet colored metal industry, | said: “Krassny Vyborzhets,” is opening an| “All of us are convinced that the jelectrified foundry, in the “Dzerzhin- | Soviet Union is the most progressive sky” textile factory a textile factory- | ‘ountry in regard to all spheres of school will be opened, etc. | state and economic life.” te the uni- sectior ranks the lations be- lgand the Right tende the revolutionary section of Norwegian workers and u] injections by such eloquent con-| | with the Kuomintang and the masses, | and capitalist countries, and every-| | thing under the sun except the burn-| (Continued From Last Issue) Ill. ; The Theoreticians of Reaction. | HERE follows a series of confusion fusionists as Wong Ching Wei, in the form of a series of articles dealing and the land problem and the class struggle, and the U.S.S.R. and China ing question whether the destruction of the labor and peasant movements —which was going on while Mr. Wong Ching Wei was writing his ar- ticles and pronouncing his speeches -—and the wholesale executions of la- bor and peasant leaders, were what he, the self-styled apostle of “pure ) Sun Yat Senism” considered to be! The Rise of Reaction in Wuhan §2-TOH-LI of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Central. Bureau has furnished The DAILY WORKER with four articles 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 othe By documentary evidence the writer shows that the Wuhan “moderates” took the same attitude toward the labor movement and the their militarist allies. Written the first of August, the general predictions made by the writer have been con- r militarists. firmed fully by subsequent events. |perialism in order that it may itself tionalist Revolution” have the monopoly. on exploiting the Chinese working class and the pea- santry—and Mr. Wong Ching Wei will thank them. (See “People’s Tribune” of Aug. 8 and 9). pee height of confusion and learned stupidity is reached in another ) in accordance with the principles of series of articles published during the | Dr. Sun. | same period of preparation for the re- is typical of this self-styled heir | a¢tionary coup by Kou Meng Yu, the of Sun Yat Senism that he de-| Minister of Education. 3 fines the National Revolution simply | Mr. Koa throws the terrible bugs: \as “the struggle of an oppressed peo- | boo of Nihilism into the | discussion, ‘ple against imperialism.” More than|2%4 quotes Dostoyevsky himself—and tliat he does not see and does not| Bakunin and even Marx—in an effort warit. The social revolution does not +0 prove that the present actively exist for him. The class struggle to "evolutionary labor and peasant him is'a crime. «+ ;movements in China lead to Nihilism Let the toiling masses, the work-, Which is opposed to Sun Yat Senism. ers and peasants be good and help | THE trio of petty bourgeois theore- the Chinese bourgeoisie beat im- ticians and ideologists of “Na- Revive. the Daily Worker Sustaining Fund Many comrades have allowed their contributions to lag during the summer months. Now is the time of renewed activity. Now is the time to start again with the Sustaining Fund and build it up on a stronger and firmer basis, With a strong Sus- 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. 3 Send Your Contributions To the Sustaining Fund iavy. i's DAILY WORKE 33 First Street. New York, N.Y. Peasant organizations as did imperialists and | vers: “. . . ancestral temples confisca- | ted, executions, posters urging women |to foresake their husbands, students j;slogans denouncing their own par- jents, chaos, anarchy, grave tombs re- | moved—and the preaching of the jclass struggle...” This manifesto ends with the slogan: Support Wong Ching Wei, Sun Fo, Tang Shen Chi, support Buddhism and Confucian- fem... ,'t Kou Meng Yu and Sun Fo on the is completed by Sun Fo, Minister of Communications, who also ventures into theoretical dis- cussions (read: justification of the reactionary coup) which furnish .a | splendid shield to all the dark forces at present operating at Wuhan. Mr. Sun Fo who seems to have learned mighty little from his revolu- tionary father Sun Yat Sen, poses as attorney-general against the masses. He accuses the masses of no less a crime than“the illegal usurpation of political power” from the Kuomintang and the Government. “. . .The great responsibility for the illegal activity jof the people (!) falls upon the shoulders of persons who are leading the mass movement. In order to | avoid such a crisis and the defeat of |the Revolution, we must get rid of |the misrepresentations of the theory jof National Revolution. ...” (See | “People’s Tribune July 15). | DEED the gods must laugh to hear |" this self-satisfied and vaingforion: son of a great man accuse the masse: of “usurping political power.” The ;masses! With what contempt these | little puppets who were brought to |light .by the same masses he now despises, speak of the masses! As if the masses of workers and |peasants who constitute the over- |whelming ‘majority, perhaps 95 per cent of the population, could “usurp” anything! Between the masses and Mr. Sun Fo it is not difficult to find {the usurper.... IN another “theoretical” article (“P. T.” of July 20), entitled “The oniy way for the Nationalist Revolution,” Mr. Sun Fo points out three posst- | Yat Senism. He pretends to reject the first of these. But let us ask our complacent theoretician whether the destruction of the labor movement and the execution of labor leaders is nearer to Fascism than it is to Sun Yat Senism. Or does Mr. Sun Fo so understand the three principles enun- ciated by his father that he could shelter the counter-revolutionary la- bilities: Fascism, Bolshevism or Sun| ‘WE congratulate Messrs. Wong Wei, | 4 | splendid results of their tutorship.... Boy Polly oF he ee tantly Yat | The militarist Ho Chen who has the Senism?” | lives of hundreds of workers and pea- Re ;Sants on his conscience, and the The Practitioners. super-militarists of the same type i WeTH such ideological preparation,| (Tang Shen Chi Co.) are now the | the events which followed came; honorable executors of the will of |as no surprise to anyone. With three Dr. Sun—as Messrs, Wong Ching Wei |guard to the out-and-out militarists |! +++ who ‘firstywrecked the labor and pea-| Woe to that national revolution sant movement in Hunan (the hated | which depends on “practitioners” reactionary General Ho Chen of the| such as Ho Chen and such theore- | 85th Army), every obstacle seemed | ticians as the trio above mentioned! cleared away for them in Hankow and | ‘ ‘ lin the Wuhan cities. | HERE is one phrase in Ho Chen’s General Ho Chen becomes garrison, | Proclamation which gives away |commander of Hankow. He orders | the whole show: “Preaching the class {his soldiers to raid and destroy all| Struggle” ...That is precisely the trade unions in the city. (For a|Where the dog lies buried it is complete list of trade unions so dealt ,2°t because temples have been coii- with see statement of Hupeh Gen- fiscated or prostitution advocated, or eral Union in “People’s Tribune” of | Women urged to leave their husbancs | July 23). | (how familiar all these stupid accusa- ; tions sound to those who are c | TR= trade union leaders are forced cant with the counter-revolutio to flee; they are hounded by the! press which vituperated in the s |soldiers and spies of Ho Chen, who! manner about the Russian Revolu. | apes his intellectual masters men- | tion), no—it is not because the labor tioned above and also indulges in! movement and ‘the labor leaders theorising on National Revolution. |threatened to “break up the family” rw an cpen proclamation (see “Han-}| (how familiar again!), but it is | 'E kow Herald” J 19) General Ho|¢ause the revolutionary labor move- Chen asks a series of questions and|Ment of China did not abandon the |gives the ansy to them: “, , 13 | class struggle, that the reactionaries the mission to break all the national! |! all colors and shades found them systems, eliminate all classes and to | S¢!ves together in the 0 of ex- jestablish 3 socialistic order—National | terminating the revolutionary labo~ and peasant movements. That is where’Mr. Wong Ching Wei and Ho Chen and Sun Fo and Fou Meng Yu and Tang Shen Chi and | Chiang Kai Shek and Li Chi Hsin and all the militarists and reactionaries and brief-holders for the bourgeoisie find themselves under the same quilt dreaming like dreams... . | Revolution? No! National Revolu-! tion has for its object the overthrow of imperialism, emancipation of the |people and the establishment of an | independent state--why should we |then place under the revolutionary jbanner all the anti-humanity and anti-national practices, systems and thoughts such as advocating prostitu- tion, overthrowing moral teachings, | beating down the learned class, over- throwing the system of merchants, supporting local rascals and over- throwing all family conceptions . . .” fs? another manifesto issued to his troops Ho Chen gives a long list of crimes committed by the labor lead- (To Be Continued) Address Labor Defender. The address of. the “Labor De- fender” has been removed to 80 E. City. ‘Soviet Union Committee ‘is Rtoris the RED LENINGRAD —Fench nd Romans | NGRWEGIAN LABOR) P's" the Wars o Retision in he SOS m0 EES Theodore Roosevelt, 2nd, Republican TEDDY'S ATTACK ON TAMMANY'S AL State conventiop at Ro Smith administration was given a flay S. A. CES SE: keynote speech at » N. Y., in which OE PESSS OER SIERO, deli But It May Be Strong hat this UCTU might give an impetus to} gs of the Russian comrades, | ‘MAY INJURE 6.0. P. |Red Meat for Southwest | | Whether Theodore Roosevelt com- mitted a political faux pas in con- necting the respectable Al. Smith |with the “red-light” leadership of |Tammany Hall, or whether his Rochester speech is the kind of meat |the dry and protestant voters of the south and west like to feed on is still ;a question to differ over. | ewspapers favorable to Smith are Smith, running wet and catholic, is a contender for Coolidge’s job. But his party isn’t sure it wants him. Tammany seems anxious to jpublishing columns of rumors and run him in order to lose him. |hints designed to convince their read- = = Jers that high G. O. P. officials in slim unless be yr and then a | Washington are wishing Teddy, Jr., ous develops. While the Teapot Dome pre engaged in the bus ness of delivering his fulmination Jagainst Al. in Rochester. J+ was stated quite frankly, even in republi- |was on the top of |the time he 1 of compara- liklihood that the republicans will be ean organs that old and seasoned driven out of the White House. strategi in the G. O. P. were hor- There is a pi |ror strickn as the fellow Al. licked and Roosevelt are being |for the governorship a few years ago pulled out the stops on one of the |most vitriolic tirades evey heard out- side of a bawdy house. Ready For The Carnage. considered for the G presidential and vie didates. Lowden, who is a formida- ble rival to Daw the middle west, up against the opposition of the O: | Rochester licked their chops after the | forensic dish served up to them by young Teddy and the gleam in their collective eye, as they anticipated tearing th pope limb from limb in the next election, was not unlike the glint in the optics of a hungry hyéna who contemplates the hind part of a fat missionary bending over a brook to slake his godly thirst in its cooling |waters. There will be dirty work at the crossroads in this coming elec- |tion and Teddy Roosevelt’s Rochester |speech will strengthen Pius’s hold on his American flock and may help to |bring many stray 100 per cent pro- }testant American dollars back to the juntenanted coffers of the Ku Klux Klan, Al. Smith may be given the demo- cratic nomination but his chances of jelection are mighty slim. be something for his pe: \tige to be the first catholic ever to |receive a presidential nomination |from either a democratic or republi- onal pres- jean convention and the fascist cath-) olic church will be able to hang an- other political scalp in its wigwam. Slim Chance For Democrats. Outside of Smith there is no out- standing figure in the democratic party, with the possible exception of Senator Reed of Missouri, with the There are others, at least equally wie oo thus deserving of credence, who declare 4 eae Reais ey seal that the republ stalwarts. at helped in his politica Still it will! his next public appe: ington as a witnes clair oil scandal’ conspiracy trial. Roosevelt, as assistant secretary of the navy, was a smessenger between Fall and Doheny and it was he that sent out the marines to clear Teapot Dome for the oil magnate. However, the disagreeable political odor that emanated from the White House sewers in 1924 has lost its virgin sting and the populace refuses to be excited over anything more ancient than last month, unless it be religion or rum, Mexican Immigration May Not Be Banned by The U. S. Authorities WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—Mexico may not be singled out, among all the nations ef the western hemisphere, to ;be brought under a quota limitation as to the number of her workers who may enter the United States. And no attempt will be made to apply the |quota limitation to Canada or to any ef the countries of Central or South | America, It is the opinion of one of the most fluential cabinet members — whose |views were given in confidence — |such ideologists standing intellectual | 2%4 Sun Fo understand and interpret | 11th Street, Room 402, New York |" 44 \ personality capable of dramatizing | that the American government cannot the campaign and making issues that} afford, and would have no good rea- do not mean a thing to the masses,'son, to offend the seem to be matters of life and death. !j g a quota bar a But the cha of the democratic | ( ‘party to win in the next election are. by ir people. irritated inst herself , BOOK BARGAINS . AT PPECIAL PRICE ; ada certai y such Socialism---Evolution---Revolution ; These three books at a special price will provide many hours of unusually interesting and valuable reading. 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