The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 12, 1928, Page 3

l etn te Raa DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1928 Page iaree British Imperialism Aim at Control of Afghanistan as a Base Against the U.S.S.R. Where Canton INCITE REVOLT ON INDIA BORDER AGAINST REGIME Pravda Urges Khan to Fight Imperialism BERLIN, Dec. 11—The Afghan- istan tribesmen along the Afghan- Indian frontier, reported to be in revolt against Amanullah Khan be- cause of his westernization program have in reality been instigated against the Afghan government and are supported by the British im- perialists. The Moscow correspondent of the Koelnische Zeitung states this much as a fact in today’s report and further states that the tribesmen are equipped with English weapons and their leaders are maintaining the closest relations with British military authorities in northwest India. The same correspondent quotes the leading editorial of “Pravda,” offical organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to the effect that the instigated revolt is a threat at Afghan independence. “Pravda” urges Amanullah to en- lighten the Afghans that this move is only another. indication of the} hostility of British imperialism to Eastern workers and peasants, It is pointed out as a proof of the friendship of Afghanistan to the Soviet Union that as soon as the country was threatened by the British imperialists on the Indian border, all troops stationed in the region of the Soviet frontier were transferred to combat the imperial- ist-fostered uprising. ihe New PESHAWAR, India Frontier, Dec. 11.—Afghan officials and the Shin- waris tribesmen have declared a truce, according to advices reach- ing this city today. The Shinwaris have been in re- bellion against the government,+ac- cording to British reports, because of hostility to King Amanullah’s at- tempts to introduce western customs and dress. The tribes attacked a number of cities and did consider- able damage before they were dis- persed by government airplane forces. It was estimated that 1,000 tribesmen had been killed. Parleys seeking a finat settle- ment are progressing, the advices said, and it was believed in Kabul that peace was near. Campaign on Religion; Growsin USSR; Priests Workers r CATT Became Martyrs of Revolution A year ago today the Canton proletariat fought in this street aganist the armed hordes of the reaction. Amidst revolutionary songs and slogans they withstood the onslaught until the last moment. During the last year thousands of workers were executed by the counter-revolutionaries on sight. The. Chinese workers and peasants today continue their revolutionary struggle with renewed vigor. By DUNN CHUN-SHIA I After the conference of August 7, 1927, the Chinese Communist Party decided to adopt armed insurrection as the general line of action of the Party. As for the definite decision for the Canton uprising it was not made until the 17th of November. Party among the masses had in- \ mobilizing them. The Communists Led in Canton Rising |tunities furnished by the strike sit- creased. The Party had established | uation must be used for the estab-| |“life and death” relationship with|lishment of the Factory and Shop |the masses and was capable of | Committees in embryo. * Rally Peasant Masses, Blood Flows But Chinese Workers Fight On seer POLISH TEAR TEXTILE MILL | COMPANY UNION MOVED TO TEARS Aids the Stockholders Nevertheless | Continued from Page One ficial wage raise! No! Wages had | recently been cut ten per cent. Mar- ket reports testified that Amoskeag was in the midst of a merry rake- in. And the 11,000 work demanding that “Cai order to get back some of their lost wages. So the company, of the situation, called t “congressmen” together obliging here they could be told that the stock market reports were unprincipled lies. But no} Straw there was no need to even With glib Agent W. P. | wholly deny that busi: S was food. | And wise congressmen could be |made to understand that they should | |not ask for a wage raise even if in-| |ereased profits are edmitted.- So this is what Agent Straw did do. | Agent Straw aks, Trade journals report that “Agent Straw brought an optimistic picture to the assembly.” “Amoskeag,” he |said, “is rounding the corner and tting back its stride.” He glad- ee ae — The Koumintang war lord: Chinese wor 3 GROWS; ARREST = AO UKRAINIANS Framed on Charges of Bombing SAW, Dec. 11—Forty ns have been arrested by on the charge of being in the recent bomb ex- losions in Lodz and Cracow” and through the severest of third r lings to make them “con- s” to the ngs. The prison- did not collapse under the “in- Ukrainians on a plan to bomb eve paper which backs tionary worker 8. nent in the oppr the Chinese proletarian revolutionists continue their strug. an minority. The police ing their ovement in pools of blood and upon the lives of their g to trace the shoot- martyred fellow work French Militarism in | Confidence Game on as Far as Queenstown « Stresemann at Lugano Decide on Uprising. “3. The Workers’ and Peasant It was exactly én the same date | Revolutionary Army in Hailufeng of the coup d’etat of Chang Fa-Kwai should rally the peasant masses to jand Huang Chi Hsiang that the | increase the number of volunteers to land, 11 of Marshal Pilsud- Vestris Survivors Get is to frame on workers, talk of a plot” and then renew s white terror with greater bru- Starting with the shooting and Are Wrecked Again (U.P) ne conditions at that time were the | contre of the Party decided upon the jthe maximum extent, iets J Canton uprising. At that time, the tunity of the, warfare between Chen centre was situated in Shanghai, Be-|Chi-Tang and Huang Chi-Hsian [fore the ngws of the coup d’etat ar-| troops in the Eastern Ri e lrived in Shanghai, the Party centre | concentration in the ° open factional warfare. Consider-| had already predicted that the coup/region should he utilized to make ing the situation nationally, there |q’etat was inevitable in a few days.|plens for’ attacking Huichow and was the utter confusion of warfare It had most, seriously instructed the|Canton. . But during the carrying between Tang Shen-Chih and the | Kwangtung Committee of the Party,/out of this plan, the Peasant and Nanking Government. Considering | saying that “the only way out for) Workers’ Army, as they proceed Kwangtung alone, the Kwangtung|the Kwangtung workers and pea-|along, must rally the peasants for militarist clique (Chang Fa Kuai,|Sant mass in this crisis was to utilize the killing of the’ gentry, the dis- Huang Chi-Hsiang) was preparing |the opportunity of the continuation |tribution of land, and thus to the coup d’etat and warfare for the |Of Kuomintang internal warfare for broaden the agrarian revolution. overthrow of the Kwangsi militarist | the decisive broadening of the upris-| “4. During the coup de ’etat of clique (Li Chi-Sen, Huang Shao- ings of the workers and the peasants, |Chang Fa-Kuat and .Huang Chi- Hsung) which might have broken | both in town and in villages, for the Hsiang, the workers of the three out at any time. There were already | agitation of the soldigrs for dis-|railroadsyin Kwangtung should be many small skirmishes in the vari- obedience and revolt during battle, | called upon to annihilate the reaction- ous districts of Kwangtung; the sit-|and for the speedy consolidation of ary. leaders of the Machinist Union uation was very tense. |these uprisings into a general up: |and to take over the administration jrising for the seizure of power of |of the railroads in response to the |the whole province of Kwangtung strike movements of the Canton and the establishment of the rule of workers. ‘ the workers’ and peasants’ and) “5. In. conducting the peasant soldiers’ deputies. For the realizi-| movement in the different dist The oppor- In the camp of reaction, the Kuo- mintang was already suffering ter- ribly from an internal disorder of Armed Struggles. In the camp of the revolutionary masses, the ordinary strikes and demonstrations of the workers had | developed into armed struggles for | "| floor. \the killing of labor traitors and re- sistance to the oppressive measures jof the police; the masses usually came out on the streets. Three pea- sant uprisings flared up: the polit- ical demonstrative uprising in Kwangtung in April after Li-Chi- |Sin’s betrayal, the Autumn harvest tion of this aim, the Party centre made the following conerete pro-! |posals, and instructed the Kwang- jtung Committee to speedily carry | them out: |. “1, The Kwangiung Committee | should issue a manifesto, calling up- | in Kwangtung and ‘the suburbs of Canton, our comrades should pay at- tention to the concentration of our forces in Canton, to the obstruction of communication on the land routes as well as waterways, while at the same time we must pay attention to See Mistakes, Resi&n |uprising for the refusal to pay rent (By Wireless to Daily Worker) |after Ho-Lung and Yem-ting’s MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 11.—| armies entered Swatow in Septem- Twenty Mohommedan churchmen in|ber, and the October uprising for the Autonomous Soviet Republic of Jand, when the Hai-Lu-feng pea- Kasakstan in the Kustanei district | sants gained complete victory, es- resigned today, declaring that reli-|tablished Soviet power and carried \on ‘the workers and peasants of the | the spread of: the revolutionary up- |whole province to revolt and to es-|risings in the villages. tablish the political nower of the) “g, The peasants in the southern | Workers’, Peasants’ Soldiers’ and/parts of .Kwangtung and Hainan |Poor ‘People’s Delegate Conferences, | Island have already risen in revolt. |in opposition to the personal war-/Qur immediate attention should be |fare of the militarist cliques of|paid to. the task of drawing the Kwangtung and Kwangsi. broad mass of the peasantry to join gion was responsible for the cul-! tural backwardness of the Mussel- man villages. The anti-religious propaganda is growing steadily. The peasants no longer contribute one-tenth of their production to the priests and the women’s struggle against reaction is proceeding successfully. Women are discarding their veils every- where. The Soviet authorities are taking stern measures against anti-Semi- tie excesses. The Smolensk court just sentenced eleven accused up to 10 years imprisonment for having beaten Jewish children and other- » wise molested Jewish inhabitants. jout a thorough revolutionary |agrarian poliey. | On account of the exorbitant ‘duties and other financial burdens imposed upon them and the regime {of constant warfare, the petty-bour- geois class definitely bore a certain ‘degree of hatred. toward the Kuo- \mintang, and showed signs of wavering. Some advanced elements ‘of this class actually stood on the \side of the proletariat. A large |part of ‘the garrisons stationed “at | Canton were definitely sympgthizing with the workers. The authority of the Kwangtung branch of the Chinese Communist | *2,.The workers of . Canton | should. stand on the interest :of their class, use their own initiative in con- ducting openly the work of the revo- lutionary trade. unions, call confer- ences according to industrial, trade |and geographical divisions (the be- |ginnings of the Soviet Systems). |make a fresh start.of all kinds of | | struggles, realize all the demands, (disturb -and destroy all reactionary |unions, kill reactionary leaders. un- j til the launching of a general polit- ical strike of the whole city for the seizure of power. But during the period of struggle, the secret organi- zations of the various unions must be strictly kept intact. The oppor- Struggle Against Right Danger and Trotskyism Following the lead of sections and units which have previously acted on the question of Trotskyism and the Right danger in our Party, Sec- tion 2 has adopted the following resolution: 1. The Executive Committee of Section 2 endorses whole-heartedly the Nov. 16 statement of the Cen- tral Executive Committee against Trotskyism and the Right danger. It fully endorses the prompt and de- cisive action taken by the C. E. C. against the leaders of the Trotsky- ist opposition, the action of the New York District Executive Committee and hails the recent cablegram of Nov. 7 from the Executive Commit- tee of the Communist International confirming the measures the C. E. C, has taken, Voted for this point of the resolu- tion: Litwin, Glazin, Dorf, Halpern, Reed, Jansky, Gusekoff, Lyans, Margolis and Epstein. 2. In the American Party Trot- skyism is the sharpest and most systematized form of the Right danger, It is outright social-dem- cratic opportunism and counter- revolution, The Executive Commit- tee of Section 2 pledges itself to fight decisively and un¢ompromis- ingly against social democratic coun- ter-revolutionary Trotskyism, which is the center around which all thé enemies of the Communist Interna- tional and the Soviet Union are vallying. In the United States Trot- skyism represents a capitulation be- fore difficulties, before the strength of American imperialism, pessimism end lack of faith in the Amcrican working class. The Communist Party\in the United States is the : ie Pa only force fighting for the organiza- tion of the unorganized, as in the miners ond textile struggles. The following voted for this point: Litwin, Dorf, Reed, Glazin, Metkoff, Halpern, Gusekoff and Lyans. Abstained: Margolis, Epsttin. 8. Call all comrades to raily to full support of the Communist In- ternational, which is the leader in the fight against Trotskyism. Any reservations to the decisions of the Communist International in any country tends to undermine confi- dence of the workers in the Comin- tern and therefore weakens, the struggle against the serious Trot- skyist danger. This point unanimously accepted. 4. The attack of the Trotskyist opposition in America (C. P. A.) against the C. E. C, of our Party and C. I. must be resisted by. all com- rades in the Party unreservedly. The following voted for this point: Litwin, Lyons, Reed, Dorf, Glazin, Jensky, Halpern and Gusekoff. Ab- stained: Margolis and Epstein. 5. The Section Executive Com- mittee expresses full confidence in the C, FE. C. and D. E. C, and calls upon all comrades to unite under the leadership of the C. BE. C. and Dp. BE. C., against Trotskyism and the Right danger for the line of the CG. 1 All voted for, but Margolis and Epstein abstained. Lyons ab- stained indefinitely. A vote was taken on the resolu. tion presented by Margolis end Ep- stein, Toz the resolition: Margolis and Epstein. “Against: Lyons, Reed, Halpern, Litwin, Gusekoff, Jensky, Glazin, Metkotf. v | Roused by the attempt to. break up and split the Workers (Commu- nist) Party in face of a war dan- ger, intensification of the class struggle, breaking up: of unions, mass arrests of strikers, ete. Int. Branch, Staten Island. Unit, unani+ mously approved the C. B,C. resolu- tion on the expulsion: of Cannon, Abern and Shachtman and its strug. gle against Trotskyism and the Right danger. The following resolution was adopted: Staten Island Unit, Inter- national Branch, unanimously and whole-heartedly endorses the C. E. C. resolution on: the expulsion of Cannon, Abern and Shachtman as Trotskyites. It furthermore. ap- proves the full ‘right given by the C. I. to the C. E. C: to defeat Trot- skyism and the Right danger. in the Workers (Communist) ° Party. , . Comrades’ Reiss, Braman ‘and Fisher ‘of Section 4 Executive, have asked that, the following cortection be made in the report of their votes: “Voting for the expulsion of Can- non, Abern and Shachtman, hut do not vote on the general situation of. the Party, until such a time. when the. minority will be permitted: to introduce ‘its own, statement.” At ‘the ‘general membership meet ing of the Long Island Section, of District 2, in which Comrade Wein- stone led the ‘discussion, a vote was taken on the C. E. C. statement re- garding the expulsion. of Cannon, Abern and Shachtman «and’° the Right danger in our Party, and the vote was 29 for the C. E. C. state- ment, 3 for the minority statement and one making a declaration in support of Cannon |the revolt, to form a Workers’ and |peasants’ political power that would |control a considerable territory, and ;thus destroy the unity of the rule \of reaction. At the same time, we | Must alter all the class relationships in the villages. Destroy Militarist Power. “7, In the northern and western regions of Kwangtung, where the warfare of the. Kwangtung and |Kwangsi militarist’ cliques_ were |waged, .the peasant movements \should try to destroy the main for- \ces of the militarists, by refusing to | serve as coolies for the army, or to |sell provisions to the militarists, by damaging railroad and river trans- port, by intercenting spies from both sides, by agitating among soldiers at both sides, by seizing arms from the armies, and by per- troops. and join the workers’ and peasants’ Revolutionary Army, and thus to, broaden and to consolidate the victory of the peasant uprisings in the region. “8. The first division of * the Workers’ and. Peasants’ Revolu- tionary Army, which has retreated to Hsinfeng in Kiangsi, should be lung, ‘Hsinnin and Wuhua region to join the peasants and to develop the peasant revolt in the Wuhua and Chiking districts, “9, In leading the workers’ and peasants’ uprising, we must take in- to consideration the working class ovements in the chief cities, and the handicraft workers in the vari- ous districts. We must help them to. develop the struggle by them- selves. and: to proceed from economic struggles or general political strikes Agitate Among Soldiers. “10, According to thegnew policy of our work in the army, the Kwang- tung: Committee should instruct all military comrades to penetrate into the rank and file of the army, and try to carry on agitation among the soldiers, persuading them to revolt and scatter into the villages and join the Workers’ and Peasants’ Army. During the defeat of a mili- tary force, we should lead the pea- sants to seize the arms of the re- ating troops and to arm ourselves with the arms thus seized. “41, ‘In’ conclusion, the present situation in Kwangtung furnishes a good chance for the advance of the workers and peasants. The hole Kwangtung Committee should be mobilized for this work, and, in mak- ing every decisicn, the committee should ‘pay ‘attent’on to the resolu- Itions of this Plenum and try its best the | suading the soldiers to leave their ordered to go immediately to Lao- | to armed uprising in the whole city. | dened the hearts of the congressmen by telling them, “but still better times are coming.” inten- s then took the floo he statements o the straw-boss “represeni "the 11,000 mill slaves als This was after A made an eloquent he pleaded for s + the Amo: keag. “Help us undersell our petitors,” begged the spok the stockholders. The congr and waxed ent No further delib subject by the company union be held until next spring, sen and cabinet ministers of ers Congress announced late Meany more sorrow to the sorrowir gressmen, for militant work sueceeded in establishing a and influe! great worker in the huge plant, which ‘boasts 2° gates, the company union ,is now facing a fast develop organized fight for its compl nihilation. Workers are mobilizing around the tants who are banded together in the mill commit- tee and the union that | leader, the National Textile Worke rs | Union. | After fire departments had made a swift run to H. Batterman and is their Company department store in Brooklyn yesterday on reports an explosion had occurred there, it learned the call had been a false alarm, to carry these resolutions into prac tice.” Some comrades doubted whether the Party Centre ever took part in the Canton uprising. This is evi- dently a misunderstanding. 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