The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 31, 1928, Page 3

who are organizing.” THE DAILY; WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1928 Left Wing Gains in Colonial Countnies, Report at Red “Labor Meet Shows WELLERREPORTS CHINA SWINGS TO LEFT ON CHINA, INDIA ‘Workers Revolt Against Fake Unions LABOR STRUGGLE Tells of -War Against Colonial Workers MOSCOW, March 30.—The Con- ‘gress of the Red International of trade Unions heard Heller’s report on the trade union movement in colonial and.semi-colonial countries. “The imperialists searching for new markets as outlets for their products and raw material are ever more ener- getically turning their attention to- ward the colonies,” Heller said. “The conditions of labor are continually growing harder. (Ed. Note.—This is the sixth in- | stallment of the report of Sou Chao-jen. chairman of All China Labor Feleration, delivered at the second session of the Pan Pacific Secretariat in Shanghai. The Daily Worker will publish the report in full because it is an excellext sur- vey of general conditico#s prevail- ing in China.) * Es * | By SOU CHAO-JEN. Another instrument of the bour- | geoisie within the working class is | the Mechanics Union in Canton and | Hongkong. This union has a history | and some masses. Formerly is hed | eight or ten percent of the workers; it grew out of a guild, is ruled by aj small group of reactionaries who | .|have ‘always been in intimate rela- | ,|tious with the reaction; it supported | Chien Chung-ming when that mili- | |tarist drove Dr. Sun Yat-sen out of | and now it supports the new | s who rule the Kuomintang. | But although the leaders who rule} this Union with Fascist methods are | J onary, the workers whom they | control are not as bad. | Long Strike. A section of their members have jbeen striking five months under our | | leadershin. The members therefore are now| growing friendly to us and hostile to | their leaders; they say “our leaders | |tell us to support the Kuomintang, but they get us nothing from the Kuomintang, the police oppress us and we receive no protection; they have led us on the wrong path,” ard “why onnose the Red trade unions and the Communists when they sup- nort us. pnd when we agree with their “Many colonial peoples are decre; ing numerically; thus, the death on the gold coast of West A reaches 100 per 1,000. “The industrialization of produc- tion further lowers the standard, of | living of the toiling masses of the colonies. The offensive against labor causes mass strikes of the colonial} workers, Chinese Revolt Gains. “The Amsterdam International does | not support these struggles as shown in the many examples of China, India, Africa, ‘and Egypt. In China capitalism has assumed the cruellest forms. Despite the terror, the Chi- nese labor movement has entered the stage of collecting its forces and con- solidating its organization while it is continually gaining strength. | “In India out of 3,000,000 workers | only 390,000 are organized in the | trade unions. The influence of the left wing labor movement is increasing | yearly. This was especially clearly | i ‘ . ", Jemands?” Another significant de- r Indian Con- | © A i heals eee j velopment in the Mechanics Union is “ i" s ‘ >ps}.; seen among the dockworkers of Hong- Ras ea ice v8 iy she lone. who have been dominated ay lippines is scattered because American) | Uni imperialism is increasingly pumping | tat nien. out all available soure: of raw | Force. Action. materials. The rationalization of| 1 nad a movement in Novem- production is driving the labor move- | ber st contracting and for a full ment to the left. The Labor Congress!money wage; the Mechanics Union veeently affiliated “itself “with..the|cpposed them, but our secret unions Paii-Pacific Trade Union See ia. | pave them help. .A mass meeting | Indonesian Movement pdorted a resolution, proposed by us, | “The Indonesian trade union move | forcing action: but the Mechanics | ment which has been founded since| Union, hyn-ritically bowing to this | the war is still young. Beginning with | decision of the masses, secretly went 1927, the Amsterdam reformists took|tc the Government of Honekong and advantagé of the aitack against the|betrayed the leaders of the move- vant Labor Pioneer Dying William D. Haywood (above), a pioneer fighter in the struggles of the American working class, is re- ported critically ill in Moscow. Hay- wood was for many years a leader in the left wing of the socialist and I. W. W. movements, but finally found his proper place as a militant in the ranks of the Communist -Party. He was sentenced to 20 years for attacking the imperialist world war. CALLS SANDINO A NICARAGUAN HERO MEXICO CITY, March 30. — At least ten thousand workers and peons would join the nationalist army under General Sandino, if the nationalists possessed enough arms, declared Carleton Beals, American journalist who arrived here after visiting San- dino’s headquarters. In spite of widely-circulated re- ports to the contrary, Sandino is ex- tremely popular among workers and peasants, Beals said. Sandino’s sol- ARREST PICKETS AS AMOY STRIKE, BOYCOTT SPREAD Native War Lords Kill Pickets, Is Report ; LONDON, March 30.—Thousands of Chinese strikers who demonstrated |at the water front at Amoy against the unloading of a Japanese ship were dispersed by native troops, according lte despatches received here. A num- | ber of demonstrators are reported to have been seriously injured. | A number of picketers who were | arrested by Japanese sailors several \days ago and turned over tothe na- \tive authorities are reported to have |been executed. In spite of the ar- jrests the anti-foreign boycott has been growing steadily. Japanese |trade has been particularly hard hit. The strikes and boycott started when Japanese consular police ar- rested four Korean nationalists. A boycott protesting against the arrest was immediately launched. Altho the boycott was originated against Japan, it is now directed against all of the powers. Eighty Japanese warships have been despatched to Chinese waters, according to a report received here. A large number of them are bound for Amoy, the reports state. FASCIST CONTROL OF YOUTH GROUPS ROME, March 30. — An attempt to place all youth organizations under the direct control of the fascisti was made this afternoon when Mussolini lintroduced a decree at the Cabinet |meeting ordering the disbandment ! within a month of all organizations | for the training of youth except the | fascist “balillas.” | The decree is not only an atterapt | to strengthen the disbandment of | working class youth organizations, | jdiers are not adventurers, but pa-|but is also a blow at the youth or- triots, fighting for the independence! ganizations maintained by the Catho- revolutionary trade union movement ard sdviced the. -rovernment to strengthen their own influence among the workers. “In Korea, Japanese imperialism is | doing everything to incite the Japan-| ese workers against Korea. The| task of the left wing of the trade} unica movenient is to eliminate these | differences. “In ‘Turkey, Egypt, Persia and} other Near Eastern countries, the} trade union movement is just begin- | ning to develop and to meet the ob-} stacles of foreign imperialism and its! own capitalist class. Must Intensify Work. “The adherents of the Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions must intensify their work and give special attention to the organization of the trade union movement under the slogan: “Work- | lin \cember 11, 12 and how to crush it. Then they stepped | and areepted a settlement which | they called a “comoromise” in which | the workers lost their demands but | gained a few more minutes for lunch time. The workers are enraged and see the treachery of the Mechanics Union | leaders: now it is much easier to dis- | credit this reactionary tool before the | workers of Hongkone: although it| still in Canton controls the arsenal end waterworks: But even there, the temper of the workers themselves may be seen in the fact that on De- 13, when the Sov- jet Power ruled in Canton, these workers continued their work with- cut striking, and expressed their ap- proval of our slneans. The entire ers of the East and West must unite.”| strength of the Mechanics Union as The task must be realized by hard daily work among the workers in colonial and semi-colonial countries a counter-revolutionary force lies not in any masses of workers, but in its | military foree, the so-called “Physi- |cal Culture Groups.” | Chiang’s Tool. A third tool has now heen estab- \lished. in Shanghai by Chiang Kai- LITHUANIA AND POLAND CONFER Imperialist War Danger In Situation KOEFIGSBERG, Germany, 30,-What appears a vain attempt to settle the differences between Lith- uania and Poland opened here this morning with the arrival of the Po- lish delegation. A committee has been selected to determine ‘the work- ing program of the first session which will be made public. Before proceeding to the discussion of the-Vilna question, the conference will take up the economie differences between the two countries, such as the eommercial treaty which has long been ‘hanging fire. Altho the formal state of war exist- ing between the two countries was ended in December at meeting of the League Council. their relations have remained strained. Premier Walde- maras of Lithuania has made it clear on a number of occasions that no peace was possible between the two countries unless Poland res‘ored Vil- na, which it seized in 1920, while Lithuania has made it eoually clear that she will not return Vilna under any circumstances. The Soviet Union has expressed concern over Polish aggression in Lithuania, which it declared was likely to lead to another war. SHOE UNION ASKS SURVEY. HAVERILL, Mass., March 30. | Union and employers in the Haveri!’ shoe industry have appealed to th federal labor department to survey conditions to provide a factual basis for relations, Both sides will bare shek. known as the “Labor Federa- \tion.” The “Labor Unification Com- | mittee” criginally set up by him had | {been so thoroughly discredited that, was necessary to find a new in- | strument. It pretends to oppose the nification Committee” but in real- it is the same thing. It cleverly ist the strikers gun by us). sidy to the strikers, they arrested our leaders, and then compromised with the employers, getting a few insig- nificant concessions for the workers end several million dollars for the government. When the workers bring forward demands, the new “Federa- tion” is more prompt to attend, and tries to get some little gains. It uses the mask of reformism, and talks nbout. establishing connections with Geneva and Amsterdam. Therefore it, like the Mechanics Union, is more dangerous than the “Reorganization Committees” and the “Labor Unifica- tion Committee.” Gang Mistrial Denied A motion for mistrial in the case against three alleged members of the “pants gang,” accused of murder in connection with the killing of patrol- man William~E. Kelly, was denied today by Supreme Court Justice Lewis in Brooklyn, PAIN from Bladder Trouble Promptly Relieved by Santal Midy their books to federal investigators. 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