The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 9, 1928, Page 6

Six THE DAILY WORKER Ce ee Published by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'N, Ine. Daily, Except Sunday $3 Ficst Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 Cable Addr SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): 62.00 per year $4.50 six months . $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months. $2.00 three months. “Dalwork” ey Addres: and mail out checks to TBE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Ga! Fditor,......... . .-ROBERT MINOR Assistant Editor ..WM. F. DUNNE Entered an seccnd-class mail at the post-office a: New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3%, 1879. —_—___.. Lewis Betrays Himsel John L. Lewis betrayed his real purpose to serve not the workers but the bosses Wednesday when his chief complaint, to the senate committee was not against the inhuman suffering which the miners are bearing, but against the “radicalism” of the miners. That is, Lewis’ greatest fear is that the mine work- ers will go too far—become too “radical’—in their struggle against the bosses. Can slavish treason go farther than that—} in the midst of the fight of the miners for their very lives? | The mine workers must be warned against putting any faith in the senate investigation. The senate committee belongs to the | mine owners. John L. Lewis belongs to the mine owners. If| there were any sincerity in the “investigation,” why didn’t it be- gin-eleven and a half months ago when the strike began? Why does it begin now? Why the parade of silk-hatted senate million- aires and senate-flunkeys of millionaires at this particular time when the strike is nearly a year old? The answer is: 1. Because after one year of strike, there is now a big in- crease in mass picketing—showing that the strike is growing stronger; the capitalists and the senators hope to horn in and demoralize the workers with a fake “investigation,” making them depend on the capitalist senators instead of themselves. \ 2. Because the mine workers by tens of thousands are be- ginning to understand the treacherous role of the bosses’ agent, John L. Lewis, and his lieutenants, and the movement to throw off Lewis and to take the union into the workers’ hands is grow- ing stronger. 83. Because the first of April is approaching, and with it the expiration of the agreement in the key district of the bituminous field, Illinois. If the miners can be confused with false hopes and prevented from enlarging and reinforcing their fighting line on April 1, then the operators hope to break the United Mine Work- ers finally and conclusively. 4. Because the presidential election is approaching and cer- tain democratic politicians and the Green-Lewis gang want to arrange the sale of the political support of the workers to Wall Street. And now the senators are speeding up because on the same date, April 1—only three weeks away—will take place the most important conference in the American labor movement. for many years—the national Save the Union Conference at Pittsburgh. The capitalists and the fakers want to turn the eyes of the work- ers away from this conference and to the senate “investigation.” lewis and his lieutenants, in the interest of the bosses, tried prevent the strike a year ago by making the miners submit. ith never any intention of conducting a real struggle for the workers, and always the first to quit in a fight, Lewis was forced to give nominal support for a short while. Five months ago Lewis decided that the backs of the workers were broken, that the end of.the strike was only a matter of a few weeks of slow drift into @pen-shop mines, and he then in reality abandoned the strike. But Lewis was mistaken. The strike, instead of dying, grew stronger. It is safe to say that this strike in the Pennsylvania- Ohio fields is the most vital manifestation of working class cour- age and fighting guts that has been seen in America in decades. Today, after one year of incredible suffering, and despite the union officials’ failure to broaden the strike and to extend organi- zation into the unorganized fields, despite the terror of the coal and iron police and. despite numerous murders not only by the police but also directly by the Lewis-Cappelini machine in the anthracite which is a part of the fight—despite all this, the strike is growing stronger. And now the highest point of this magnificent struggle of the workers will come on April 1. The national Save-the-Union conference at Pittsburgh is fraught with big potentialities both for restoring the Union to the hands of the rank-and-file miners who want to fight, and for ridding the Union of the Lewis ma- chine of the employers. Also on April 1, the district agreemen! in District 12, Mlinois district, expires. The slogan of “strike on April 1’ is sweeping the key district. A strike of District 12 would add tremendous strength to the strike of Pennsylvania and Ohio; and to the extent that it would strengthen the workers, it would weaken Lewis. Lewis and Fishwick are trembling in fear that the Illinois miners whom they pulled out of the strike months ago with a treacherous district agreement will be the iron battal- ions which will win the big strike they are trying to break in or- der to save their own control of the Union. diana, Kansas and the smaller fields of Iowa, Missouri, etc., to the fighting line of the workers, would mean the prospect of the great- est victory of the Ameri: < ~..or movement in many years. Every worker now has - high duty of making the national conference of April 1 the biggest event of present-day laboy his- tory. Organize Save-the-Union committees wherever coal is dug. Stiffen up the relief work for the Pennsylvania and Ohio miners; if they are to fight they must eat; send them more, more, more! Send your contributions to the Pennsylvania-Ohio-Miners’ Relief Committee, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Bring representatives of every local of United Mine Workers Union to Pittsburgh on April 1. Also representatives of the unorganized mine workers. The Anthracite mine workers must throw off the blood-stained Cappelini gang and join the movement for saving the union. Dis- triet 12, Illinois, must strike on April 1 against the abolition of the ‘acksonville scale. The great struggle of the mine workers is a fight Zor the orking class of America! They must win. If we give help enough they can win. All eyes on Pittsburgh April 1. Faith “O God put into the hearts of those in authority the desire to cleanse our city of all crime and corruption,” prayed all the Chicago preachers in prayer-meetings where 100,000 (by the preachers’ count) participated. This is fine stuff for election. What the preachers really meant was “Oh workers, believe that ‘God’ will put it into the hearts of the capitalist authorities,” etc., To add Illinois, In- | “MARCHE MILITAIRE” AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1928 By Fred Ellis ised NS 5, ‘Stimson and Nicaragua “A high tribute marked by its sin- cerity and elaborate planning was paid by the British authorities at Hongkong today to Henry L. Stim- son when he arrived here en route to Manila. He and his party were guests tonight at Government house.” From the New York Times. (In Nicaragua wounded men are dying like dogs by the roadside, thinking perhaps of Colonel Stimson and his peace of death which he fastened on Nicaragua.) “Rain marred in some degree the splendor of Hongkong’s greeting.”— New York Times. (The rain comes down in torrents in the mountains of Nicaragua and Sandino’s men in their tattered shirts and bare feet are racked with fever, but the rain mars in no degree the splendor of .their struggle.) “The guns of a British warship boomed a welcoming salute as the | governor-general came from the liner.”—New York Times. (In Nicaragua there are machine guns, cannon, battle, the bombs of aeroplanes and the limbs of dead men hanging from the trees.) “To Stimson’s party was tendered an official dinner at the Government House this evening.”—New York Times. ‘ (And Sandino’s men, thefr wounds untended through lack of medical supplies, are munching parched corn and dining on tortillas and cheese.) “There will be a farewell tea at Government House, Colonel Stimson sailing in the evening for Manila,”— New York Times. (You have done your best, Colonel Stimson, so drink your tea in peace. New honors probably await you in the Philippines.) * * * Send your contributions to the Sandino Medical. Supply Campaign either by check or money order made out to the All-America Anti-Imperial- ist League, 89 Union Square, or to the local office of the league. > ¢ (Appeal of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat.) TO ALL WORKERS: The Pan-Pacific Trade Union Sec- retariat, meeting in Shanghai on February 3 to 6, with representa- tives from the Australasian Council of Trade Unions; the Congresso Obero De Filipinas, the Nippon Rodo Tumai Hyogaiki and Toitsu Doemi (Japan); the Far Eastern Section of the All-Russian Council of Trade Unions; the National Minority Move- ment of England; the All-China La- bor Federation, and the Trade Union Educational League of U. S. A., has investigated in great detail the situ- ation of the Chinese workers and of the All-China Labor Federation, and found prevailing in China the most shocking conditions of exploitation, semi-slavery, persecution, torture, and} White Terror against the Chinese | workers, which must rouse the in- dignation and protest of all workers everywhere in the world. Evidence presented to the P-P. T. U. S., substantiated by reports from enemy newspapers, showed that in the year 1927, the Chinese labor movement suffered at the hands of the Kuomintang, the bourgeoisie and the militarists, to the extent of prison sentences given to 32,316 persons, while 37,985 were killed and execu- ted. About 25,000 of the dead were | by cl suppr ‘ing of union headquarters ant ion of the unions, while abo ofcen by such barbaric methods as | burning, boiling, burying, or grinding skin; beating with clubs; flogging ‘with bamboo strips and_ leather thongs; cutting off fingers, toes, hands and feet; slicing up live bodies; | heads of victims are often hung in prominent places, at railway stations, public squares, on fence and house walls, to terrorize the masses. Prison victims are tortured in indescribable ways. The whole record presents the most terrible example of White Ter- ror the world has even seen, Guilty of Murders. Who is guilty of this shameful slaughter? The immediate e¢ A killed in the open struggles caused} 18,000 were executed in cold blood,| alive, tearing out eyes, tendons and | Ching-wei who have run away from tang, including also those like Wang China because of personal rivalries. The full depths of infamy to which this gang of murderers have fallen may be seen in the executions of girls for the crime of having bobbed- hair. Hundreds of* such executions have oceurred in Hankow, Wuchang and Canton, the victims being the same girls who bobbed their hair a year ago in response to the direction jot the same Kuomintang which now decapitates them. Behind the new militarists and the Chinese bourgeoisie, stands foreign imperialism, especially the British, Japanese and Ameriean imperialist powers. Without doubt, the counter- revolution that now rules in what was once Nationalist China was in- spired, organized, directed and fi- nanced by the foreign imperialists. Fake Unions. The hand of western imperialism may also be seen in the methods by which the new militarists attempt to disrupt the working class. Following the lines of fascist so-called trade unions, and to some extent the famous American “company unionism,” the Kuomintang generals set up bogus unions, appointing military men, mer- cenary intellectuals, and miscellan- eous riff-raff as the “leaders” of the working class. The first fake “union” set, up in this manner in Shanghai, the “Labor Unification Committee,” was so quickly exfosed before the workers, that alrgady the militarists have been forgéd to make a new, bettey-organjzéd, effort in the newly- to note that this semi-fas- or Federation.” It is in- | cist, bogus “Federation” is already making approaches to the Geneva La- bor Office and to the Amsterdam International. The workers of China have consistently refused to have anything to do with these fake “unions,” which stand completely dis- credited here as they should be be- fore the entire world. The object of the White Terror is clear: It is to stem the tide of the rising revolution, and prevent the Chinese trade unions and peasant leagues from raising the standard of living of the Chinese masses. Wages and living conditions in China are so terribly low, so indescribably miser- able, that the masses must struggle against them, must fight for improve- ment, or else they will sink into de- generation and death. This low living standard is a menace against the By HARRIET DAVIS. E visiting delegation of Ameri- can working women to the Soviet Union for the Tenth Anniversary met with Clara Zetkin in her room at the Kremlin. To see Clara Zetkin is to eel her power, her revolutionary ar- lor. A long life of service in the |cause of eppressed workers the world over has left its imprint on her face jand bearing. Standing erect, in spite of a sick body, one sees a ten- der, humorous woman, a brave fight- er, undaunted, steadfast, devoted, Clara Zetkin, 76 years young! The |same immense confidence in the pow- er of the workers to overthrow Cap- italism, the same intense desire of her youth to fight to the end to holp in the great conflicts ahead. Clara Zetkin’s daring spirit will live in the hearts women of the American working as an inspiration to do their in the struggle, to follow. the of Lenin, realizing as he said} Yo natio: populat / jtioner is the Kuomintang, dominated by the new militarists who rode to | power on the backs of the same wo: ers and peasants whom now they slaughtering. Supporting the militarists are all sections of the Chinese bourgeoisie, bankers, chants, compradores, intellectuels, as | well as all the remnants of f:udalism in the country, the gentry and land- lords. The Kuomintang has become, during 1927, distinguishable from the Northern militarists (Chang Tso- lin, Chang Tsung-chang, Sun Chuang- fang) only by its greater hypocrisy. On the opening day of our sessions (Feb. 3) the Chinese press reports a speech by Chiang Kai-shek, head new | vw mer- | wi | During the coming days, Comrad: (Zetaia said, there will be more diffi in all countries for the work- and re obsiacles in the Be 18, must in spite of be pertormed. “the whole position of the working class teaches us in a very clear way the nee ty of class consciousness. In the United Stattes, in what is called a democratic state, there are the same class antagonisms which we find elsewhere and although you have a very high development of industry, this is only profitable to very small of men and women there is only mis- of the Nationalist government in Nanking, to the effect that the “first ete. And this is the way the preachers perform as allies of the _ capitalist political grafters and serve the capitalist class which task” of his organization is to “ex- terminate the trade union leaders”; in this he was speaking for all fac- tions of disintegrated Kuomin- ery, and a very low: level of culture— unculture. in a very clear way recently by the numbers of workers. For the masses | The real state of culture! in the United States has been shown) * n be free when hail) ; n is enslaved in the} +) evolution trial in Tennessee. “The execution of Sacco and Van- zetti shows the working class what cruelty to expect. “In the present international sit- uation women must use their influ- ence to try to prevent material pow- er of the United States being em- ployed to oppress other nationalities. It is a shame for the United States to join with the English, French and other people against China, to bom- bard the peaceful Chinese towns and villages with American bombs and to inflame a war against Nicaragua, against Mexico. Pan-Americanism is nothing but a form to disguise a policy of exploitation by Wall Street, which iow controls the world. And you know the kind of pacifism which they always use, the beautiful phrases, while at the same time they manufac.ure the poison gas and bat- tleships. “The women of America should use their influence to figit against im- porialism and in favor of the peoples whe are’ striving and battling for something better, as the workers are doing im Soviet Russia. In the world t -onflict between two e. On the one side ism and the great- s ave Great Brit- States. On the Clara Zetkin’s Message to the Working Women of the United States other hand you have their antagonist —the Soviet Union which ir also a United States of the working class, altogether different from the United States of imperialism. The idea of all imperialist states is to maintain oppression by a few over the great majority. In the imperialist states, you have a class domination of the possessing class, while on the con- trary, in the United States of the Soviets, the aim is to abolish all forms of exploitation of man by man. American working women can organ- ize their great influence against im- perialism and gain friendship, soli- darity and support for the Soviet Union among the working class, and fight to prevent imperialist war against the First Workers’ Republic. its own evolution. It will go down, and Socialism will come for all the workers of the world. I am very glad that in the United States your propaganda among the working wom- en in. the shops and factories, and also among the housewives is grow- ing. The influence of women during strikes is-enormous. Think what a glorious example the miners’ wives wore in Great Briain. They were all heroes. Of course in the first place we must have the industria’ women but it would be a very grea fault if we were to neglect th housewives. And of course for th next generation to build up a nev society and new regime we must hav. the help and activity of all the wom- on, housewives and industrial wom en. This is the question Lenin very well understood, that we really can- not have a social revolution withou’ having the great masses of womer, with us. I am very glad that you. have told me all about the women’s movement in America, We must em- ploy every opportunity to spread our influence in the midst of the work- ing women, and’ of the housewives, |and also as far as it is possible we must influence the little peasant wives, the- farmers’ wives you call them, because they have the hardest drndrery of the whole world,” i The bourgeois order is condemned by , Fight the White Terror in China workers of the entire world, who are interested, equally with the Chinese, in raising them up to a decent level. Substantial progress in this direction had been made by the All-China La- bor Federation, with its 2,800,000 members, in the period 1922 to 1927. Because the foreign imperialists and native bourgeoisie thought their im- mense profits were threatened by this movement, they ‘inaugurated their campaign of slaughter and destruc- tion. The result of the White Terror above described has been to drive underground the unions, to cancel all the trade union agreements won In former years, with all gains in wages and conditions, and place the Chinese masses in a condition worse than ever before. While the cost of living goes constantly upward, the average wage in Shanghai has been reduced to Mex. $11. per month ($5.50 gold, or 22 shillings sterling), with a working day of 12 to 16 hours, gen- erally seven days per week, Call to Workers. The P-P. T. U. S. calls these things to the attention of the world labor movement. We call upon the workers everywhere to join together in a great effort to assist the Chinese workers. In the broadest possible united front, we must mobilize the workers, es- pecially those of England, France, Japan and America, to: Denounce the treacherous Kuo- mintang murderers. Struggle against the imperialist aggressions in China. Demand the withdrawal of all foreign armed forces. Urge the soldiers and sailors not to shoot the Chinese people. Down with the White Terror im China. F Organize money collections to help the Chinese trade unions. Send labor delegations to China to investigate conditions and to help the workers overthrow their oppressors. & WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES: We call upon you immediately to take action along these lines. Never was there more urgent. need, never were the interests of the world labor movement more seriously in danger, never was it possible for you to do more for labor. solidarity, as now, in ' assisting the Chinese workers. Begin -tion at once! (Signed) THE PAN-PACIFIC ‘RADE UNION SECRETARIAT. Jack Ryan, representing Austra- asian Council of Trade Unions and she New South Wales Labor Councit. C. Evangelista, secretary, Congreso Ibrero De Filipinas. _ Sou Chao-jen, chairman of All- Shina Labor Federation, Huang Pin, representing All-China Uabor Federation, K. Briskin, representing Eastern Section, All-Russian Council of Trade Unions. Kavasaki, representing Nippon Domei. (Japanese T. U. Council.) tional Minority Movement, Earl Browder, secretary, ing TT. FT, Amarioa, Rodo Kumai Hyogikai and Toitsuk ——— George Hardy, representing Na- nF