The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 9, 1928, Page 4

ee Page Four “THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1928 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 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York : By Mail (outside of New $8.00 per vear $4.50 six th $6.50 per year °3.50 six months S§?.50 three months $2.00 three months. Phone, Orchard 1680 “‘Datwork” York): Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. ..-ROBERT MINOR .-WM. F. DUNNE «» secona-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. Blood in Italy Is Honey in Wall Street drips with honeyed words While the American capitalist pr in praise of the tyrant Mussolini, Italy is dripping with the blood of thousands of working class victims of Mussolini. A total of three hundred years in prison to which 39 Italian workers —most of them Communists—have been sentenced, is the latest example of the rule of Mussolini which excites the admiration of the American capitalist class. This is the penalty which fascism visits upon workers for the offense of propagandizing in their own class interests. One Italian worker received a heavy sen- tence for having raised contributions among his fellow workers to send to the aid of the British coal miners in the late big strike. Nearly all of the leaders of the Communist Party of Italy have been sentenced to long prison terms—which will be terminated long before their end—by the destruction of the bloody Mussolini dictatorship by the Italian workers and peasants. | Clandestine murder and arson, the bayonet and the hand- grenade, are means which this monster directs against the work- ing class in the effort to rule Italy for the bankers and industrial- ists who stand behind him and who know they can never again exploit the Italian masses by other means. All organization of Labor is crime under fascist law. The yellow heroes of the sec-| ond international, the brave leaders of the Italian socialist party, | have of course run away from Italy to set up comfortable and} safe offices in Paris from which to “lead” the Italian workers who suffer and die under Mussolini’s dictatorship. Of course only the Communist Party of Italy remains with the Italian workers and peasants on the scene of the struggle; and it is the leaders of the Communist Party whom Mussolini’s policemen are torturing and | murdering at this stage of the struggle. And at this stage the drive on behalf of Mussolini increases in the capitalist press of the United States. There is no doubt that Mussolini, the fascist dictator of Italy, will depend more and more upon the reactionary capitalism of the United States to pre- vent his downfall which is drawing nearer. William R. Hearst, the meanest scavenger of American imperialism, is publishing daily a page of violent propaganda for the fascist system, in which Mussolini is called “the Man of Destiny,” the “high priest of pa- triotism” and the “saviour of his country” from “red brigandage,” from “the powerful labor organizations of the Reds.” The strikes in the textile mills of Northern Italy and the militant movement of the peasants are an indication that Mus- solini will need in the near future all the help that the Wall Street government of the United States can give him. Mussolini is wise in calling upon his backers in the United States to propagandize the American masses against the day when he will face his doom before the Italian masses. But the Italian working class still more wisely appeals to the workers of all the world to support the Italian workers in their struggle. The recent sentences of the militant Italian workers should be the occasion for stirring the American workers to fight for their Italian brothers. Every working class organization in the United States should take up urgently the matter of protest- ing against these sentences and giving every encouragement to the Italian workers’ movement against Mussolini. Fascism is rais- ing its ugly head more and more openly in the United States. Fascism must be crushed in all countries of the worll by a con- certed movement. Bourgeois press dispatches from Berlin tell of the German workers’ rage being expressed in the smashing of the windows of the Mussolini embassy. The Mussolini dictatorship has drawn the sword against the workers of the world. It must be made to bear the cotisequences. HAYWOOD MEMORIAL MEETING IS SUCCESS and various labor organizations attended the Haywood Memorial meeting arranged by the Workers’ Party, and held in the I. L. D. hall. fro ussia,.where he met Haywood, acted as chairman and told in a few words the purpose of the meeting and how the workers of the world had lost a great leader. Wm. Penn Collins told of the great Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone battle and other battles Haywood was engaged in during the past 30 years. Collins told of many legal battles he engaged in, in which Haywood figured and worked. A. S. Embree, an I. W. W. organ- jzer recounted the many struggles Haywood took part in and the part he played in organizing the I. W. W. A local attorney who was a personal friend of Haywood told of many inci- dents in which Haywood played a great part. He described the time when Hay- Comrade Zeitlin, recentlyTailthe’ Shen he would get old he would fail to hate the system under jwhich the working class is exploited’ He said Haywood did more than any other one man in the U. S. to break down the respect for lawyers, judges and courts. A member of the Workers Party told of the experiences he had of working with Haywood during the |Muscatine button strike and later in the Lawrence textile strike and also later of meeting Haywood in Leaven- worth and also how Haywood was re- ceived by the inmates of Leaven- worth. | Al Schapp, of New. York, an organ- izer Tor the Y. W. L., spoke of Hay- |wood'Aand his lining up with the Com- |munist movement in his later years. wood spoke before the Colorado sen-|At the conclusion he called for a col- ate and legislature in behalf of the jlection to aid the Workers Party in 8-hour day\law and which was soon |putting into effect some of the prin- passed by both houses after hearing ,ciples for which Haywood stood. He Haywood’s argument in favor of it.;also made a fervent appeal to the} His logic won the day. He said no|Wworkers present to join the Workers man could equal Haywood when it |Party. came to logic. Copies of The DAILY WORKER EDITOR’S NOTE: Yesterday's instalment of Earl Browder’s ar- ticle on recent developments in China was inadvertently described as the last. Following is the con- clusion of “After the Fall of Pek- ing—What?” * se. | By EARL R. BROWDER. Ee England and America there is much propaganda to the effect that the current White Terror against the workers and peasants furnishes addi- tional proof of the inhuman brutality, lack of civilization, and general in- capacity of the Chinese people to govern themselves. It is interesting in this connection to give a bit more publicity to the actual nature of for- eign, especially British influence upon the Chinese on this point. There can be little doubt that the terrible civil war raging throughout China, the highest expression of which is the daily tortures, beheadings and shoot- ings of Communists, finds its source especially in the British community in Shanghai. The Shanghai Municipal Council has a special “Crime Suppression Fund” created by anonymous donors. of about $55,000, devoted to special rewards for informers and _ stool- pigeons, who also remain anonymous; the six crimes listed in reward no- all languages and thrown on the screen in all movie theatres, are: Murder, arméd robbery, kidnapping, agitation among workers, causing strikes, and Communist activities. The slightest independent activity along trade union lines is thus placed upon exactly the same footing as murder, armed robbery and kidnapping. The Kuomintang militarists are furnished with a complete political justification of their terrorism of the people, by the “civilized, respectable” foreigners. And how about the nature of the punishments, torture and indiscrim- inate killings? Are these peculiarly Chinese phenomena? For answer we may give two small quotations. At the Shanghai Annual chairman of the council, Mr. Fessen- den, complaining to the leniency of Chinese towards persons arrested in the settlement, wished to “persuade the Chinese authorities to deal more severel,” with them; ingparticular “to introduce ‘the Cat’ (flogging).” The North China Daily News (April 11) proposes to combine punishment with economy, saying: “Now that it seems impossible to get the death sentences of the Provisional Court confirmed” . » .“why not make much larger use of these gentry for street cleaning, By SCOTT NEARING. INCE the Manchus were driven from power by the revolution of 1911 there has been no central govern. ment in China. Scores of ambitious politicians have organized armies, bribed, fought, maneuvered, sold out, with the idea of bringing order out of chaos, and ruling China. None succeeded. Foreign imperialists in China main- tained a united front until 1914. The world war set imperialist against im- perialist. The Germans were driven out of China by the Japanese. Still there remained the United Front of the Allies, which lasted until 1917. _ Haywood was fearless. The only|were given out and Labor Defenders feay Haywood was that | were sold. —L During the years of chaos when China was disrupted by ciyil wagt.nd .. he tices, posted throughout the city in| Meeting, the} AGAINST THE FASCIST SLAVERY removal of refuse, and other dis- agreeable work? By chaining them together in gangs, as is,done in the French Concession, the cost of pro- viding warders to look after them would be small.” | These are a few of the little inspira- |tions toward “civilization” given to |the Chinese bourgeoisie by their “elder brothers” from abroad. These are samples of their sober moments; when excited, they speak of the nec- essity of emulating Ghengis Khan who punished offending districts by massacring the entire population. Everyone knows, of course, that the White Terror is directed against the whole body of the people, not merely against the Communists, who at thei congress last summer announced their membership as 50,000—an insignific- ant figure compared with the death- list of the “anti-Communist” terror. Such fantastic estimates of the Com- munist strength as that given by Mr.: Bess, Peking correspondent of the United Press, who speaks of “one mil- lion members of the Chinese Com- munist Party,” merely goes to show that every sign of political activity of the masses is labelled Communism. Anther exposure of the true nature of the terror is giver. by Mr. Bruno Schwartz, the American editor of the Hankow Herald, who reports: “General Hu Tsung-tu, garrison commander of Hankow, was asked whether many who were not Com” munists were not among those be- ing summarily executed, and he frankly answered that he did not know, ‘Even if there is only one Communist in a group of 12 who are executed,’ he declared, ‘it is worth while to kill the twelve. The eliminaticn of one Communist is ample compensation for the execu- tion of almost any dozen men’.” Imperialism’s “Two Perspectives.” * * * | 'T may puzzle some observers of Chinese affairs to see the imperial- | ists so cynically wrecking the Kuo-} mintang, which is now their most ab- ject servant. The explanation is not hard to see, however; they are work-} ing. with two. perspectives—if the | Kuomintang can hold power, after | having been completely separated | from the masses, that is the cheapest) {form of imperialist domination, and therefote the first perspective; but if,| jas they expect, the Kuomintang will! break down even quicker than did Chang Tso-lin, the resulting chaos! Lancer a The textile workers of Italy shake their chains in Mussolini’s face. After the Fall of Peking --What? inates the attitude of the Imperialist powers because it is the policy of the United States; Britain and Japan adopt it because thereby they gain a formal united-front with America, while really using it to prepare the second line. The two latter powers, more intimately acquainted with Chi- nese realities, have no faith whatever in the capacity of the Chinese bour- geoisie. American imperialism being without a strong foothold _on Chinese territory, wants to use the Chinese bourgeoisie against Britain and Japan, if it can be done while suppressing the masses. Within each imperialism there also exists a division of opinion on the same line—with the foreign communities in China, including the American, almost unanimously for the perspective of intervention. Thus, we witness the Shanghai Municipal Council, while graciously granting the Chinese merchants a minority place in its ranks during April just past, accompanies the gift with a great parading of armed for- ces, while before the Town Hall when the decision was being rendered was displayed the new police riot wagon, described by the Shanghai Times as “that monstrous red vehicle,” “with the machine-gun atop it aimed upon the gathering crowds.” The same paper wonders if it is true “that the newly-elected Chinese Councillors re- frained from attending the Rate- payers’ Meeting, as it was expected they would, because of the presence outside the hall of the police riot wagon?” * * * ye what contempt the imperialists | look upon their Chinese “friends” whom they have corrupted, was illus- trated by a “humorous” article pub- lished in the China Press Shanghai, on the occasion of giving Chinese repre- sentation on the Municipal Council. It was signed “The Town Hall Rat,” and in the name of the rats of the city complained that “Although we outnumber the citizens of Shanghai, we are not represented on the Muni- cipal Council.” This well illustrates the spirit with which the new union of Chinese bourgeoisie with the im- perialists has been consummated. It is quite clear that the foreigners in China have no faith in their new partners. They understand quite clearly the fatal weaknesses of the Chinese bourgeoisie, and intend to take full advantage of them. They axe not deceived by the talk about the opens up the second, and to many! “new constructive epoch” which is to more desirable, perspective of armed|be inaugurated when the Nationalist | intervention ona huge scale and the/armies take Peking. In the words dismemberment of China. |of the Shanghai Times, May 4, “the The first perspective formarly dom-| fear persists that when Peking ‘falls Imperialism Takes Control of All China , the world was convulsed by the strug- {ime since the fall of Yuan-Shih-Kai jgle between the great empires, the there is at least a semblance of unity |Japanese, British and American im-} over a large segment of China proper. ‘perialists were playing their own) What is this “nationalist, revolu- ‘games in China, — using faction! tionary government?” jagainst faction; general against gen- ie al MY eee | ii a military point of view it is Chiang Kai-shek, general in chief of the nationalist armies, allied with Feng and Yen, — two war lords of \the “better sort.’ * * | Japan put some money on Chang Tso-lin. Britain backed Wu Pei-fu. /Yuan Shih Kai got a joint loan. Each ‘of these leaders was a temporary \“white man’s hope.” ‘All failed, As Chang Tso-lin retires from ‘Peking, the last of these war-lords is (diseredited. A nationalist, revoluti- ‘onary government, moving from Can- |ton to Hankow and Nanking in 1926 and 1927, and from Nanking to Pe- bite 2 in 1928 has built a road of power from South to North. For the first x 45 Politically and economically it is an alliance between certain business interests of the lower Yang-tse valley. . with the business and landed inter- ests of certain interior provinces. It is Shanghai and Nanking and Tientsin plus the “up-country.” 4 * * The struggle with Japan for the ‘ontrol of Shan By Fred Ellis to the Southerners internal strife will ; by no means be concluded.” * * * IN SUCH fashion does imperialism grant concessions to the Chinese bourgeoisie, while at the same time parading its own forces, humiliating its new “partners,” driving the Kuo- mintang to more excesses in suppres- sion and slaughter, intriguing with | sectional militarist cliques, and itself preparing that “chaos” which will be- come the excuse for dismemberment. “A Blood-Letting to Stagger the World.” In concluding this brief review, in which we have let the decisive word on each point be spoken by avowed imperialists or Kuomintang officials, let the last word be given to an anony- mous writer in the Peking & Tientsin Times, who wrote a series of articles during April deseribing his trip to the South of China and his conclusions thereon: “The spirit in both Hongkong and Canton (read ‘All Nationalist Chi- na’ E. B.) can only be likened to the effects of a desperate Coueism, ‘Things are getting better and bet- ter,’ they try to persuade them- serves.... Mere suppression of labor unions, or the decapitation of extremists, will not solve the simple but fundamental issue of the rice- bowl. ... If there is any real he- lief that stability has at.last been attained, it is in my opinion un- justified. The wish is father to the thought.... Canton remembers December and retires every night to suffer nightmares about the next | visitation. It was only touch and go in the last coup, and my own feeling 1s that next time (if there be a ‘next time’) the city will fall into the hands of ruthless masters, not for three days, or three months, but for three years or longer. . . . The main impression I derived from my trip is that the middle classes are tired of the revolution. The for- ment is gone and the spirit is ex- hausted. They have begun even to fear the revolution. For their part the choice between peace and security and the completion of. the revolution has been definitely taken, But the peasants want the same pro- sate blessings and the spirit has not gone out of them. If the warring militarists do not come to their senses and give the people what | they want and quickly (even if it is not already too late) the peasantry will do what they have done again and again in Chinese history, and hack a way through. And there will be such a blood-letting as will stag- ger the world.” ‘ 5 the second of these fronts. Thus far the Chinese have lost, although it is too early to judge of the outcome. The white terror that has reigned in China during the past 14 months was a struggle on the third of these fronts. The business classes have won, to date, but only at the price of establishing a powerful, under- ground revolutionary movement among workers, farmers, students. Victory is still far from assured. The Chinese business classes have a long way to go before they can hope, even with their present unde- vendable allies, to dominate China. Meanwhile the workers are continu- The latest scientific achievement is * * Mencken’s idea of economic per- fection, as expressed recently in his house organ, is nothing else but Mary- land. After calling Washington “the citadel of scoundrels,” he goes on as follows: “I think of myself as a Marylander. My forbears for three generations lie buried there and I was born there, and have lived there all my life. I am proud of it.” * * * \How Good is Your Memory? The above is a snapshot of a prom inent American statesman shown romping through his country estate. Compare the feature shown above with those of your favorite politician in the rotograveure sections and guess who it is. His name begins with C and the first three letters sound like a dove in the mating season. * * * Variations in the epithets descrip- tive of murder can be seen in the capitalist press. When a wife in New Jersey wishing to disentangle herself from a husband, who is probably a fathead and no particular value to the world, anyway wraps a lead pipe around his ears, it is referred to as a “brutal slaying.” When a Chinese war lord assassinates 400 class conscious workers, fighting for free- dom, the press says he is “getting rid of a few Communist trouble makers.” * * * Keynote Comedian No, no my children, this is not a billiard ball, it is Simeon D. Fess, champion of the exploited masses of American millionaires. He will be the chairman of the Republican National Convention at Kansas City and copies of his keynote address are at hand. In this speech he proves, by the meth- od of proclamation, that the American working class is better off than any class previously in history. He looks at the living conditions of the worl:- ers enviously and makes a ringing appeal to the laboring millionaires to hand together and demand a full share of the products of their toil. His contentions are: 1. That the American workers have more automobiles, yachts, country estates and gouty feet than ever be-~ fore. . 2. That there should be a more equitable distribution of wealth so that the bosses would get their full share. 8. That some method of relief should be devised for the unemployed millionaires that roam Wall Street. Southern Silk Plant Workers Go On Strike COVINGTON, Va., June 8.—All the 250 workers in the Covington Silk Mills here walked out on strike Tues~ day afternoon in answer to an attempt of the mill owners to force a reduc« tion in wages. In order that the wage slash be | successfully put across the employers have for some time been trying to divide the ranks of the workers by inciting the native born Americans to a hatred against the foreign born ing to build an underground move- ment that grows daily more effect- | workers. The 100 per cent strike fected shows the failure of the ee Rep HaNaouTS the 122-hour dance just completed by | a couple rewarded with a $3500 prize. | | They report that most of the thrill’ | was over after the first 100 hours. } *