The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 8, 1927, Page 11

A RETURKT ON CHINA (Continued from page 2) eral is an employer who hires soldiers and pays them wages, whilst he himself takes toll from the popula- tion of the territory where his forces are quartered. Therefore, the army has a specific character of a band of despoiling mercenaries. As to the ‘ideo- logy’ of the army, it is like this: the ‘boss’, i.e., the general, decides for whom to fight and what program to advocate, whilst all his hired underlings—from the officers down to the soldiers in the ranks— blindly obey his commands. For this treason the military are looked upon contemptuously through- out China, and, the appeal to the workers to join the army in order to strengthen the revolutionary influence did not meet with the proper response. > “Of somewhat different character was the Wampu Military Academy with its 8,000 cadets prior to the coup performed by Chiang Kai-shek. However, after the imprisonment of several hundred revolutionaries and the execution of some of the Communist cadets and officers, the ‘spirit of liberty’ was banished from the Wampu Academy, and it is now controlled entirely by the Cantonese reactionary general. Li Ti-sing. Another trait of the Chinese army is the easy manner in which the generals transfer their allegiance from one ‘supreme commander in chief? to another. This is due to the fear of the respective generals that they might lose their provinces on which they feed and maintain their armies. There- fore the generals swerve around with amazing alac- rity from the defeated ‘leaders’ to the winning side, and the forces of the defeated side rapidly dwindle away. “The antagonism between the masses of the work- ers and peasants on the one hand, and their in- tellectual leaders which came from the petty bour- geoisie on the other hand; the antagonism be- tween the mercenary bandit troops and the rest of the population, and finally, the class antagonisms within the Kuomintang body—all this was bound to The COMRADE : Edited by the Young A Page for Workers’ COLUMBUS DAY On October 12, 1492 Christopher Columbus, jan Italian adventurer who set out to find a new route to the West Indies, discovered America. He claimed this country for Spain because, he was financed jby that country. This accidental discovery of America came about when Constantinople was captured by the Mohammedans (Turks) who thus cut off trade with the East. The merchants who were interested in this trade were forced to seek new routes. Spain being a great sea-going nation at that time was especially interested and therefore backed Chris- topher Columbus. Since the discovery of America, the workers and farmers of this country have suffered untold hard- ships in making it one of the richest and strongest powers in the world. But have the workers and farmers profited by this? No, only those who live on the sweat and toil of the workers are better off. For the workers and poor farmers there is only misery and want. For the children of the workers there is poverty and unhappiness. While for the rich and their children there is luxury and idleness. Only in Soviet Russia, where there is a workers’ and farmers’ government, are the workers and their children happy. For there they are their own bosses. The bosses who derive benefits from this country wish this system to exist forever. They want the workers and their children to be satisfied with things as they are. Therefore in the schools they use this holiday to instil patriotism in the hearts and minds of workers’ children. We must, however, fight against all this. We must continue spreading the truth about Soviet Russia among all workers’ chil- dren, We must get all workers’ children to: join the Young Pioneers of America and help make our goy- ernment a workers’ and farmers’ government like the Soviet Union. Our Letter Box FUNNY By STARSY STALMON. Once a little boy who was making snowballs asked a lady who was passing by, “Do you want to buy some snowballs? They are five cents a dozen.” “No, I don’t,” answered the lady. 2 “Well,” said the little boy, “you will get them just the same,” gl lead to the final collapse. By its fear of the masses, and by preaching its pet theory of the unripeness of the masses, it had contributed to its own down- fall. Besides the theory of unripeness, there were also several other theories evolved to meet different eventualities. Thus, for instance, it was asserted by some Kuomintang people that the workers’ and peasants’ movement was pursuing selfish aims, whereas the national movement demanded self-sac- rifice. Such a theory made it easier to use armed foree against the workers and peasants. In order to cure them of their ‘selfishness’, the guns were trained on them. Therefore, the coup d’etat was the logical upshot of the Kuomintang policy of fear of the masses, which had not been adequately coun- tered by the trade unions and the Chinese Com- munist Party. “Now the whole territory of China is under the sway of the counter revolutionary generals and their ‘governments’. The Chinese revolution has sus- tained a defeat. The question now amounts to this, whether this defeat is going to be of long or short duration? “Personally I believe,” Comrade Losovsky con- tinued, “that the situation in China resembles that of Russia in 1906, after the defeat of the December revolt of 1905. But the workers’ and peasants’ movement in China has acquired such an impetus that the period of reaction, which lasted in Russia from 1906 to 1917, is not going to be so prolonged in China. A considerable factor of the Chinese situation consists in that millions of Chinese work- ers and peasants have entered upon the arena of political activity. Despite the brutal shooting down of thousands of militants, the movement among the peasant masses goes on unabated, whilst a good deal of .inflammable material has been stored up. It is also important to note that all the military regimes and groups in China are exceedingly un- stable. This leads us to assume that notwithstand- PAPER GODS Dear’ Comrades: One day the boy that sat in front of me asked me if I believed in God. I said no, and he told. the teacher. She, told me she wanted to speak to me after school. When she had dis- missed the class,.she asked me, why I didn’t believe in. God, ‘I told jher I did not. want to believe in imaginary things. She said that she would prove that there is a God on Monday. When Monday came and I went into the room my teacher showed me a picture of a man dressed in white cloth. She asked me what was that and I said it was paper. The teacher blushed and when turning away I heard her murmur, “I wonder if there really is a God.” —BINITA ASTRAUSKAS, Answers To Last Week’s Puzzle The answer to last week’s puzzle No. 34 is: THREE CHEERS FOR THE COOPERATIVE PIONEERS. The following have answered correctly: Miriam Rosenfeld, Bronx, N. Y.; Selma Etnis, New York City; Estelle Goldstein, Bronx, N. Y.; Morris Molotnik, Brooklyn, N. Y.; May Malyk, New York City; Rese Hertzberg, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Jack Rosen, New York City; Sidney Yadin, Bronx, N. Y.; Mae Feurer, Bronx, N. Y.; Sonia. Frontz, Corona, L. Tr. THIS WEEK’S PUZZLE No. 35 This is a new kind of puzzle. Let’s see if you ean do it! Fill in the missing names with colors that rhyme with the previous line. At a Pioneer meeting, these were there: A boy so big and bold Lets you know he’s Comrade. . A young fellow full of fight The comrades call him Comrade. . ; His friend beside him so nice and clean Is known by all as Comrade. ... . That little girl who said how do you do? Why, her name is Comrade... . . That big boy there, who is standing back Answers to the name of Comrade. se The girl who opens the meeting today Signs her name as Comrade... . . And last but not least (from Passaic ‘tis said) Our old friend Comrade Johnny. . Send all answers to the Daily Worker, Young Comrade Corner, 33 First St., New York City, giving your name, age, address and the number of the puzzle, bia as ing the heavy defeat of the revolution, the new up- heaval in China will come not after the lapse of .decades, but within the next few years. Just now, after the defeat, there springs up in China a new generation of leaders who are reared by the masses of the peasants and the workers from their own ranks. Hitherto there were no real Jacobins in the Kuomintang, and there were few of them in the Chinese Communist Party. Yet the Chinese revolu- tion needs its own Jacobins. “During the last eighteen months the revolution- ary movement of China had a great reverberating effect upon all the countries of the Far East. Every- where a great change was observable, and in the first place, in India. It is true that the labor move- ment in that country is still in its initial stage of development, but there is already a number of tokens indicating a smoldering ferment of revolu- tion. Suffice it to mention the faet, among others, that hundreds and thousands of Hindoo soldiers, sent to China to crush the revolution, have thrown in their lot with the revolutionaries. The English commanders frequently had to withdraw entire de- tachments of Hindoo troops, because they were found to be ‘unreliable’. The Svaraj people in India are showing great sympathy for the Chinese revo- lution, tho the Svarajists’ left wing has many points of similarity with the left wing of the Kuomintang. “The effect of the Chinese revolution has been considerable upon Japan, too. It has served to en- liven the workers’ and peasants’ movement in Korea. We are also getting news of the effect of the Chi- nese events upon the Philippine Islands. “All these new factors,” Comrade Losovsky con- cluded, “have cast their reflection upon the labors of the Pan-Pacific Conference, which should be con- sidered as the most important event in the interna- tional labor movement during the current year. Our chief task for the present is to consolidate in a prac- tical manner the results of that conference.” Young SECTION Pioneers of America a and Farmers’ Childrer: LET’S FIGHT ON By SOL GROBSMITH “Let’s Fight On” our leader has said, Let’s fight on till the capitalists are dead, The capitalists will not rule us forever, To fight and win we must endeavor, Our binding chains will be torn apart, As blood sucking capitalists have torn our heart After that, this country will be free. Free, free for you and me. BOSSES HAVE NO BRAINS Dear Comrades: One day my little sister came home from the movies and asked my mother why a bull particularly didn’t like red. “In the movies to- day,” my sister said, “there was a big, fat bull chas- ing after a red cloth held by a man. Why don’t they like red even though they don’t gain anything by it?” “They haven’t any brains that’s why they don’t like red,” my mother explained. After think- ing a while my sister said, “Oh, now I know why the capitalist doesn’t like Soviet Russia because the capitalist is the same as a bull—he has no brains.” ~JULIA DAGILIS. A POEM By EMMA PALL. We working children have to bear the rich Who scorn us as frogs m a ditch, But it mustn’t last long ’ For we'll fight for our rights As long as the Red Flag waves high. YOUNG COMRADE SUB Send subscriptions for the Young Comrade to Young Comrade Corner, 33 First St., N. Y. C, % year sub 25c—1 year sub 50c. Name pile ee i sn: (Tssued Every Month).