The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 15, 1927, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'N, Inc. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: “Daiwork” SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months. $2.00 three months. Phone, Orchard 1680 Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. we?i Editor.......... . Assistant Editor ..ROBERT MINOR . WM. F, DUNNE ew York, N Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at , under the act of March 3, 1879. The Significance of Revolutionary Canton Whether or not reports are true that Red Canton has been momentarily overwhelmed one fact stands out clearly, the fact that the mighty sweep of the Chinese revolution moved to a new and higher phase when the armed workers and peasants seized and established Soviets in the city of Canton. force the battalions, of the revolution surge onward giving the lie to those pessimists, those opportunists, who, in face of the murderous fury of the bourgeois leaders and traitors—the Chiang Kai-sheks, the Feng Yu-hsiangs, the Chang Fak-weis, the Wang Ching-weis—-declared the revolution was lost. The early “leaders” of the revolution, who shrank into the camp of the reaction and became aids of the imperialists, as the full implications of the elementary mass movement was apparent to them and their class, became the most frightful! butchers of the revolutionaries, trying to stifle in the blood of the Communists | But | and trade union leaders the last vestiges of the movement. though thousands of the most determined leaders of the masses were victims of the terror the revolution itself was too deeply rooted in the masses of workers and peasants and soldiers to be forever silenced. A period of travail, of agonizing struggle against terrific odds, the slow recovery from the traitorous blows that were show- -ered upon it, steeled the revolution. In Swatow and other sections of China were lightning flashes that heralded the storm that broke over the heads of the Chinese bourgeoisie at Canton at the yery moment that the renegades and assassins were meeting in their Kuomintang congress at Shanghai to complete their perfidy. No matter what the outcome of the present Canton struggle may be, even though it be momentarily defeated by the imperialist aid given the native bourgeoisie by the armed forces of the United | States, Britain and other powers, its historical significance in-| dicating the fact that the revolution at last rests upon a firm worker and peasant base, cannot be overestimated. Herein is the guarantee that the forces whose destiny it is to administer the} death blow to the reaction are moving forward to their goal. This | is the historical justification of the unrelenting demand of the | Communist International that the Communists of China, after | the betrayal of the masses by the bourgeois nationalist leaders, raise the issue of the organization of workers’ and peasants’ soviets. > Only after the experiences of the treachery of Chiang Kai- shek and his associated traitors to the revolution could such a de- mand have been mad Now the masses know that this same Chiang is using the native capitalist remnants of the Kuomintang to be able to strike a servile bargain with the imperialist powers and hence they fight him and his associates. Chiang Kai-shek is seeking peace with the foreign govern- ments “except the government of the Soviet Union.” Thus the bourgeois Kuomintang is once more trampling under foot the basie policy of Sun Yat-sen which calls for friendship and unity between the Russian and the Chinese revolutions. Canton again raises the banner of Sun Yat-sen and is striving to carry the revolution forward. Canton must be supported by the workers and farmers of America. Once more the American masses must confront the Amer- With irresistible | | PROSPERITY oo uy By Fred Ellis - “Wages are at their highest range, employment is plentiful.””—Coolidge in his message to Congress. Kemp made to American literature were not kept. No longer does he prophesy the glories that are to be; he is content to echo the cynicisms of the cafes. To be sure, he has writ- ten an entertaining autobiography; but I say that it is one thing to write poetry, and another to write about writing it. This poet confesses his sins with uncustomary frankness, and for a while that disarms us; until we come to understand that he means to go on with these sins, in order to have material for more confessions, Re- flecting upon this view of life, I recall catnd ine. $o-ceater coal. of.Mor. (Continued from Last Issue.) XXXVI. The Tramp Poet | RESON years ago I came up- on some verses by a young poet, then a student at the University of Kansas, to which he had come as a bare-footed tramp. In those verses I found what seem- ed to me the greatest promise for American poetry in my time. Howeoks, *aanthinvanth- and he, be eee WE v1 peste Oe: Yarn; uve? Vor tase <2 Mit Money Writes Boinething ard the VUiuine raze. > pe “Repentance...includes sorrow for the past and determination for the jfuture. The first of these without the second is not genuine repentance. It is barren and fruitless, and is therefore unacceptable to God. . Reso- lutions of future rectitude are natur- ally accompanied by grief for past wrong-doing, but regret may exist without reform, and such is not sav- ing repentance, the virtue of which 1s in turning from evil and cleaving to good. Tears, self-reproaches, lamen- tations, self-abasement in language or in gesture do not constitute repen- tance, no matter how loudly they may bersiade “or “how conspicuous. indeed Siw orn came my friend; I have a volume 0: his letters, strange, wild outpourings from a poet drunken without wine, a true child of the muses, who needed only naturg and his own soul for company. Harry Kemp lived as his forebears of the great tradition lived, upon bread and cheese, sleeping ina garret, with a horse-blanket for a cover. He read these great fore- bears, and roamed the fields, and sang with ecstasy, and came home and wrote unti] dawn; his letters would break into verse, pouring itself out for pages, really good poetry, spon- ican government with the demand: Hands off China! Hands off Canton! | Withdraw all military forces from China! | Ne alliance with the imperialists of Britain, Japan or any | other country against the anti-imperialist revolution of the work- | ers and peasants in China. j taneous and unrevised. Among his class-mates at the university he was a strange freak of nature; every few months he would fall madly in love with some college damsel, and write me a heartbroken farewell, and de- tail his plans for suicide. mon propaganda, which I am carrying back to California in my suitcase. It will amuse Harry to hear what the Angel Moroni thinks of him; so here is the second of the “Leaves from the Tree of Life” by Charles W. Penrose, member of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: they may appear, but it is evidenced by forsaking things one knows to be wrong and practicing that which one is satisfied is right. Humility is one of its chief characteristics and this | prompts obedience.” This is funny; but it does not dis- pose of Harry Kemp, nor of my grief | for the promises he made and broke. By Upton Sinclair I prefer to think of him as the tramp- poet of those happier days, living over a stable in Lawrence, Kansas, and singing of GOD, THE ARCHITECT Who thou art I know not, But this much I know; Thou hast set the Pleiades In a silver row; Thou has sent the trackless winds Loose upon their way; Thou hast reared a colored wall 'Twixt the night and day; Thou hast made the flowers to blow And the stars to shine, Hid rare gems and richest ore In the tunneled mine— But, chief of all thy wondrous works, Supreme of all thy plan, Thou hast put an upward reach In the heart of Man! (To be continued) THE STORY OF A BETRAYAL By SAM iB IS really an old, old story, but it’s likewise ever new, and of great im- portance to every trade unionist. It is a story of betrayal. It took me a long time to get all And the company in return took several months to decide the matter, jand finally refused to grant the raise. | So, conforming with the law, the | matter was turned over to a board of | mediation (?)—composed of company Something happened to this young the facts, but little by little they and Brotherhood representatives. Th« poet. It is not for me to discuss the formed into a story, a story of the company being firm in its refusal to matter; suffice it te say that what had been the pure ecstasy of art be- came all at once the poisoned brew of The “Good-Will” Imperialist Flights : Although the most spectacular of the flights to Latin ame ee ruality. Pa aie TERE Books Tk ica, the visit of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is only one of the many | Cry of Youth,” the poems sre all air tours that have been made to the southern republics. Many| jumbled together, but it is easy to more are contemplated in order that American imperialism may | sort them out. Wherever the poet is be able accurately to appraise the value of air fleets in putting | writing of the stars and the winds, collapse of the Brotherhood of Rail- way Clerks of the Atlantic division of the Southern Pacific Railroad Co. The Atlantic division of the Brotherhood had a membership of eight, nine hundred, extending on a territory from New Orlean, La. to El Paso, Texas, and at times showed |grant the raise, no decision could be reached. So again as law abiding | citizens, disregarding the restlessness land militant spirit of the railway clerks, the matter was turned over to a governmental board of arbitration! Almost a year has passed so far, the clerks were getting their meager pay, into effect its policies in that part of the world. : The address of Coolidge to the opening session of congress, wherein he advocated air-mail routes to Latin America, urged the construction of an international system of “good roads” to; be used as military highways and proposed a big navy program, | clearly indicated the most aggressive military preparations with the object of crushing every vestige of national independence in the southern republics, and a general policy of increasing aggres- | siveness throughout the world. This address was immediately followed by the proposed | Lindbergh flight, which is te be supplemented by other flights. | The announcement is made in Chicago that Captain Joe Don- | | nellan, a world war aviator, financed by LaSalle street bankers, |tails of such road construction and take no particular pains to) pany union. Sir Abe declared “the time has: rith | conceal its military character. /come to bend imperial energies to the construction of the world’s ‘greatest motor traffic artery, which would connect Cairo and ' Cape Town.” The British imperialist spokesman contends that | motor highways are far more effective and less expensive than | railroads and states that his program will bring about the realiza- tion of the imperialist dreams of Cecil Rhodes, who advocated a | Cape to Cairo railroad. Such a road building program will enable | British army motor lorries to penetrate all the empire possession /in Africa and furnish supplies to the standing armies maintained to hold the population in subjection. Coolidge proposes, as an adjunct to other military measures, a similar program for the southern republics, but hypocritically conceals his real intent under pacific phrases. ican private capital to finance such roads, which means that the governments of Latin American countries will be pledged to pay interest to American bankers for the construction of highways that will be of use in American imperialist campaigns against these countries. Against this imperialist program the American workers and farmers and the peoples of Latin America should wage a deter- mined struggle in order to stop the bandit raids of Wall Street that, if not checked, will result in establishing a serie of colonies in the south that will be a parallel to the chain of British-dom- inated countries in Afriga. ‘ es is planning a “good-will” Pan-American tour. Simultaneous these announcements congress awards medals to a group of fliers who have just completed a trip around South America. All this official glorification of the air forces of imperialist America is accompanied by loud hossanahs from the publicity agencies of Wall Street. The press is devoting special sections to aviation projects and personal interest stories about the unex- ampled heroism of the aviators, the movie shows feature such flights, while the pulpit showers its benedictions upon the whole mess. The Rev. Dr. S. Parks Cadman, than whom there is no more malignant imperialist propagandist, hails the proposed Lind- bergh flight as of the deepest “spiritual significance.” Under the guise of peace new and more frightful agencies are being prepared to lay waste all territory coveted by an insatiable yankee impe- Tae While the American flights are in progress a similar series thts is taking place in another part of the world. Great in is blazing air trails over the “dark continent” of Africa. Cobham is on his way around Africa and his tour is be- followed by the British imperialists. Other ambitious are being forwarded for other flights to Africa, while Italian and German interests are encouraging African air of Brit Sir : Natonly are the British ventures in Africa almost identical ts to South America, but Sir Abe Bailey, illionaire, one of the most violent and |the mighty works of men and the | march of science, you know it belongs | to his first period; when he is writing | about ladies who bite blood from the vs of their lovers, it belongs to his signs of militancy. and were demanding militant action, Enter .Watson-Parker Law. | the Brotherhood representatives were In the fall of 1925, the Brotherhood | getting their salaries and paid no at- (of the division) decided to ask for a/| tention to the voice oft the rank and raise, aggregating at the highest 10| file, and the company—Oh, yes, the per cent for the lowest paid clerks. The Brotherhood officials being law abiding citizens, were nice and hum- ble as could only be wished of them. second. The facts preach their own lesson and I am not the one to elaborate it. The great promises which Harry a | sls, \ eas |outspoken British imperialists, advocates the same sort of road' began to form an association and building program for Africa as was advocated for Mexico and othereLatin American countries by Coolidge in his message to congress. The British, however, have exposed more of the de- He urges Amer-' company kept busy. Forms Company Union. | While the Board of Arbitration had | the case and took plenty of time (too much) to decide on it, the company |urged the clerks to join it. In the ‘meantime granting the raise de- manded by the union to those joining the association, or simply the com- Skilifully done! Why fight the | Brotherhood? Kill it skillfully and leave no bjood stains! Breaking the union by granting the union demands | to the company union! _ Of course the clerks, seeing the be- \trayal of their so called representa- ives, and tired by the long wait, were anxious to get the raise and these almost all at once joined the company | union. Even the petty union officials, Only the Brotherhood representa- tives remained waiting for the board’s ;decision. And when it came, in the |summer of 1927, there were only five | representatives of the division | Brotherhood to accept it. Yes their granted, but were |demands were |needed no more. Betrayal Complete. And the climax came. Those loyal representatives of the clerks, (5 in the whole division) were notified by the company that their services were no longer required. Oh no, they were ‘that they succeeded, but stupidity of the Brotherhood representatives had no end,—they went and added comedy to the matter. They took the case to court! Oh, yes, judge Hutchenson of Hous- ton granted them an injunction, to restrain the company from firing 3rotherhood members. What a joke. The company is to be defeated thru court. Of course no attention was paid to this injunction, and the mat- ter so far is being dragged through legal procedure without any results. In the meantime the treasury of the Brotherhood has been emptied thru lawyers’ fees and other legal (?) ex- penses. And still they hope to win! I pointed out to the young railway clerk, who told me the story, why the company granted the raise. Oh, yes he understands, it is for only a while and when the excitment is all over there will surely be a deep slash, and there will be no organization to fight it. “And,” he added, “some of us rank and filers saw it and pointed it out to the representatives, but they thought the course of action they took was the best one. This is what one of the representatives actually said: ‘We are not a bunch of bomb-throwing bolsheviki, we’re law abiding citizens, and we surely have the law on our side.’ “Well, they got the law, all right.” To me it remains a mystery! Was it just mere blindness on ‘t part of the union officials, or was it de- liberate treachery? One thing I am sure of: The rank and file railway clerks of the Atlantic Division of the Southern Pacific Railroad Co., will no longer believe in arbitration. (He is coming and many so- ciety ladies are amusing them- selves by knitting stockings for the poor. The salvation army is raising funds to provide the hungry with their annua] dinner. How do they manage to live the rest of the year? Soft-hearted leaders of the Ameri- can Legion are begging the public not to forget the crippled veterans who made five-sixths of the world not fired because they were Brother- hood representatives, But... their services were no longer needed. Now, it was all clear to them, that all the company wanted was to gain time to break safe for plutocracy. And the big fel- lows who won the war and own this country are planning winter cruises under sunny skies, the Brotherhood, -and Pass the Paper to a Fellow Worker! ,| to oo Red Rays jee reactionaries have recaptured Canton from the revolutionists ac- cording to news dispatches from Shanghai, and wholesale executions of workers are taking place. This is bad news if it is true. The Czar was able to crush the Russian fevo- lution of 1905 with the aid of foreign money, but he was not able to crush the revolution of 1917 despite foreign aid. It crushed him. And the Chi- nese revolution will succeed because there is no power on earth abie to hold over 400,000,000 workers and peasants in subjection forever. * * * ‘AND the recapture of Canton may be only a temporary success for the reactionarie How much the landing of American guns in Canton had to do with the change in the situ- ation is not yet known here. But even if the guns were not used they were calculated to exert a moral influence in favor of the bourgeois forces. The stage is now set for a struggle be- tween the workers and peasants of China under the leadership of the Gommunis and the bourgeoisie with Chiang Kai-shek groomed for the role of Fascist leader. * * * ENATOR James A, Reed of Mis- souri would widen the scope of the investigation into the charges made against the Mexican government by William Randolph Hearst. What concerns the senate is the charge that Calles appropriated money to bribe four United States senators. There is a powerful imperialist group in this country which is constantly seek- ing to force the government into hostile eye against Mexico. Hearst is now taking a leading part in this effort. And tho the owners of the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News are usually at loggerheads with Hearst they are now at one with him in his Mexican policy. aie. Smee ee injection of “Dr.” Joseph Noz- ovitsky, the stool-pigeon, into the news is a new development which adds force to the theory that the documents published by Hearst are the product of a gigantic forgery syndicate=which operates_on an international scale. xearst would without any doubt not hesitate to knowingly publish forger- ies. For reasons of his own he wants war with Mexico. And the reasons are related to his unsuccessful efforts secure special concessions in Mexico from the Calles government. * * * SoNetOR, Reed has always been a pet of the Hearst press and his motive in breaking into the investiga- tion already under way is not yet en- tirely clear. But the Missouri sen- ator has also been.invariably friendly with the insurgent senators whose names are connected in the Hearst forgeries with Calles money. The original committee appointed by the senate to investigate the Hearst charges is under the chairmanship of the reactionary David A. Reed of Pennsylvania. It is not likely that Reed of Missouri will find himself in harmony with this committee. . * «© fv yesterday’s New York American, an editorial in large bold typo at- tacked the so-called “good will flight” of Lindbergh to Mexico. Anybody with a grain of political sense in his head knows that the backers of the Lindbergh flight have no good in- tentions towards the Mexican masses, They would rather catch their flies with molasses at the moment than try vinegat on them. Dwight Morrow and the interests that he represents in the American embassy in Mexico are using Lindbergh to hypnotize the Mexican people into the belief that Wall Street has friendly feelings to- wards them. Hearst and his gang are using forgeries instead of flying machines to accomplish their purpose. Between the two gangs of imperialist hi-jackers Mexico is in uo enviable position. * * * cE Governor Johnson of Oklahoma heard of the famous Earl Carroll bath tub party and what happened to Earl as a result of it, he should be able to settle his little troubles with the refractory legislators who are trying to impeach him. The silly solons staged. a pajama party in a local hotel. It is a well-known fact that a vote taken in night clothes has no standing in court and furthermore such proceedings are a violation of the moral standards of any state, in. cluding Oklahoma. If the governo; is a good politician he will shift tke issue from his relations with (his private secretary to his enemies’ pa- jamas. ' * * * Tse following little chunk of Amer- icana delivered in the house of representatives in Washington in the form of a prayer for Lindbergh is worthy of a wider cire ion than the capitalist pr can give it: “Oh god, be thou with America’s incomparable hero as he sails on the open bowl of the skies, passed the shoulders of the mountains and enters the gateway of the republic of the south. May his marvelous chivalry, sweet and beauti- ful simplicity and hifh moral stan dards be an example and inspiratior to the youth of our land.” This is the ‘sind of stuff that makes H. L. Mene ken happy and prosperous. * * * JHE endorse Coolidge’s decision not " to run again. Now, if he did nof choose to make any more speeches 0} write articles for the Ladies Him} Journal our cup of joy would be filled —T. J. O'FLAWERTY, | RB RBISHBINO Roo SF SA RE NSE UES: oovepra eramammcrnn ainsi san are %