The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 7, 1929, Page 6

Published by National Daily Worker Publishing Ase’n., Inc., Daily, Except Sunday, at 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Telephone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8. Cable Address “Daiwork” ROBERT MINOR.. . Editor WM. F. DUNNE ‘ant Editor Preparation for Imperialist War When the life story of William E. Borah is finally written, his long career in the United States Senate will appear much more consistent with his first national “fame” of 1907 as the special prosecutor hired by the mining corporations to hang the mine workers’ leader, William D. Haywood, than would be thought by many naive “radicals.” Borah is now engaged in some of the foulest work that could be done in preparing the way for the coming imperialist war. He seems to have set as his personal task the job of putting over all lies intended to ereate the illusion that United States capi- talism is merely a “peaceful” imperialism. That this illusion is as necessary to the war preparations as are machine guns and warships is well known to Borah. As Sen- ator Hale, chairman of the committee on naval affairs, has said, there is “nothing in- consistent” between the “peace” pact and the fifteen-cruiser bill. In fact the big navy plan and the Kellogg pact are, for all prac- tical purposes of American capitalism, two sections of the same measure of prepara- tion for imperialist war. The two together make it possible for the imperialist war makers, proceeding full speed ahead in build- ing the biggest naval and military machine of all history, simultaneously to continue in- tensive building of the illusion that the whole world will soon be “as free of armament as is the Canadian border.” There is no more fatal illusion than that created by the propaganda of the possibility of a “disarmed” capitalist society. The “so- cialist” and “liberal” hubbub in behalf of partial. disarmament is, both subjectively and objectively, mere imperialist-patriotic propaganda to dope the minds of the masses with faith in the capitalist system—belief that American imperialism will not plunge into imperialist war if only they have a few cruisers less than are called for by the big i} “PLEASE, BOSS, GIVE US CASH TO BEAT THE BOL. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail (in New York only): $4.50 six mos. $2.50 three mos, By Mail (outside of New York): $6 2 year $3.50 six mos. $2.00 three mos, Address and mail all checks to The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. $8 a year imperialists’ maneuvers about “limitation of armamen Senator King of Utah, an ultra-reactionary democrat who ocasionally tries to put on a “liberal” face in the service of the mining kings of his state, offers his pacifist contribution by opposing the 15- cruiser bill and pleading at least for the re- duction of the proposed number of 15 new cruisers to five. This is of course only more help to the big imperialist war makers. The interests of the masses of this coun- try, workers in industry and farmers on the land, are not represented by these proposals for a large navy, for a small navy, or for a middle-sized navy. Nor by the cynical hypo- erisies about total disarmament of a capi- talist system which can only live by precipi- tating the world again and again into’ the bloody carnage of imperialist war. The workers and dirt farmers can advance their cause only insofar as they organize their strength against the imperialist war makers and the imperialist government, and co-ordinate their fight together with the re- sistance of the other enemies of these im- perialists. The only way to abolish war is first to overthrow the capitalist system which makes wars inevitable and which therefore finds “no inconsistency” between a “peace” pact and the most collossal preparations for war in history. The overthrow of the im- perialist war-makers will not be accomplished by pacifism, nor by “disarmament” nor “partial disarmament.” To propose the com- plete abolition of- the capitalist army and navy, with the simultaneous organization of a toilers’ militia, is the consistent approach to this question. But the imperialist war is rapidly being prepared with the assistance of the Borahs, the jingo trade union bureau- crats, the pacifist socialist party and the liberals. The transformation of that bloody . imperialist slaughter into the opposite of im- perialist war, into civil war for the over- throw of imperialism and the establishment | oyn' little “paci foundations, even its support among navy program. Such ’ contr but propaganda is their ion to the big of the dictatorship of the workers and dirt farmers—this is the solution. Preparin g for New Wars in China In previous instalments, Earl) Browder told of new wars brewing among the Chinese war lords, im- perialist tools. He goes on to tell of the plans for the Kuomintang Congress. By EARL BROWDER. Continued The Fake, Impotent “Left.” The so-called “left wing” of Wang Ching-wei and Chen Kung-po, i little more than an auxiliary to Chi- _ ang Kai-shek, who uses it or puts it on the shelf as the moment dic- tates. It is incapable of independent action. Various provinces (Kiangsi, Anhui) are unstabiy divided between military forces of one or another group: others (Szechuan, Kwei- chow) are outside the stream of na- tional events, and semi-independent. | Underneath all these groupings | and re-groupings at the top, there > is the mighty movement of the} peasants, the agrarian revolution, and the rising revolutionary trade | unions of the city wofkers, led by} the Communist Party of China,| which holds large sections of south- | ern Hunan and Kiangsi, and north- ern Kwantung. | Struggle of the “Two Parties.” | The Nanking administration | (which we have dubbed the “Amer. | ican Party”) has been living on its “diplomatic victories,” which have | been presented to it without charge | by America. The settlement of the | Nanking incident, the “recognition” of the back-door of a tariff agree- ment, the raising of the American! representation to the status of ‘em- bassy,” the talk of credits and nam- ing of American business men as “advisors” to the government—all these have been points of prestige granted to the Nanking government by America, while being withheld by Britain and ‘Japan. Upon this basis the “American Party” has been able to continue to live. Bpt all these gains have been| purely “spiritual,” quite without ma- terial benefit even to the Chinese bourgeoisie. Even the tariff agree- ment makes no practical difference until Japan and Britain also agree, for the “most favored nation clause” jis prominent in it, as in all similar “victories” of the Nanking govern- ment. Ard in the meantime the Nanking clique eats away its own the bankers, compradores, and bour- oisie generally, by an orgy of lux- and extravagence remarkable _among Chinese mandarins, British Very Much Awake. United States helps the | ing use of the glaring vices and con- tradictions in that administration to prepare the ways for their own pro- teges to come to power. They es- pecially propagandize the Shanghai bankers and compradores, who groan under the levies of the ministry of finance, and the taxpayers who must pay the Kuomintang four times the taxes formerly collected by the Northern militarists. When, a few weeks ago, the Nationalist govern- ment announced a public competi- tion for a new national song, the leading British organ in Shanghai, “North China Daily News,” offered the following cynical bit as its con- tribution: “Sing a song of Nanking, Busy with the eye- Wash for all the people, Eager to espy Something for the millions The Government has spent, Wondering where the dickens All the dollars went. The Ministry of Finance Is wangling the money, The banker and the merchart Think it very funny, The less there i of fighting The more the army grows, The more there are of soldiers The greater are the woes. etc., etc.” and they certainly are, then “there’s a reason” as the American adver- tisers say. And the reason is, that though there has been a temporary cessation of open fighting, a brief truce in China’s interminable civil war, every man with a little power knows quite well that the fighting will soon begin again. When that happens, woe to the “General” with- out soldiers and ammunition or whose army has lost its fighting abilities! For a few. months the militarists posed in Nanking in a public love-feast, but not one moved frem his rooms without a heavy bodyguard. Arm for Party Congress, ys As the time for the showdown comes, the National Congress of the Kuomintang, and the impossibility of settling their differences around the table becomes clear, the con- gress has been postponed to enable the generals to hurry to their re- spective territories to prepare their armies for the congress! Li Chi-sen has gone to Canton, Yen Shi-san has retired to Shansi, Chiang Kai-shek is “inspecting” the First Army and bewailing “the astonishing lack of discipline and disorganization aris: ing from luxury and leftist move- ments”; Li Tsung-jen has returned to his base at Hankow; Bei Chung- Asi has respectfully declined to obey ' away, | the government’s order sending him far away to Singkiang; Chang Hsueh-liang has regretfully de- clined Nanking’s invitation to come DAILY WORKER, N iW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1929 BILL HAYWOOD’ SYNOPSIS In Part One, Haywood wrote of his pioneer parents crossing the western plains in a covered wayon. His father a pony-express rider. Settling at Salt Lake City. Hay- | wood’s birth there February 4, | Mormons. | The family moves to Ophir, Utah, to that city to occupy the nice chair | they had assigned him in the Cen) tral Committee. Only Feng Yu-hsiang stays on in| ‘There was an explosion one night | Nanking, “enigma” in the Chinese scene, for | next morning I was in front of Law- | 1869. The famous “Mountain Meadow Massacre” of gentiles by His father’s death. a mining camp. Bill’s first school. “Slippery Dick” kills his man. Now go on reading.—EDITOR. ae ene Copyright, 1929, by Interna- tional Publishers Co., Inc. All rights reserved, Republication for- bidden except by permission. By WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD PART II. still something of an/under a corner of Duke’s' hotel. The | no one is sure just exactly which | rence’s store when a woman, called side he will be found on after the “Old Mother” Bennet, came walk- fighting begins even tho now he is/ ing down the street muttering some- | in alliance with Chiang Kai-shek. | thing about “burning down the town. Feverishly they prepare, one and|/A man who was sitting on the edge all, for the “elections” to the Kuo-|0f the sidewalk jumped to his feet mintang Congress whihh will be de-|9nd struck her in the face. It was nided by the strongest military com- Johnny Drake, the owner of the binations, | And in the Meanwhile— | Ever larger masses of people are literally starving; industries lag ‘and close their doors under the ‘weight of taxation and slack busi- 'ness; the railroads are in a condi- tion of wreckage; river transport struggles vainly against a rising tide of piracy and militarist taxation; taxes, taxes on everything and any- thing, multiply on every hand, but less and less reaches the central ‘government. | One-third or more of the city | populations are unemployed; rail- road workers are six to 18 months |in arrears with their wages; the | armies are unpaid and mutinous, but disbanded soldiers become more | dangerous still by joining the revo- | lutionary armies or becoming ban- | dits; cholera is appearing, spread- in gout from the famine areas over the country. And meanwhile the peasant move- ment continues, the agrarian revo- lution grows in the countryside. In | the cities the trade unions are re- viving, strikes become larger and |more numerous, the proletariat again is gathering its forces, The Chinese stage is again being set for a new act in the revolution. This act, beginning’ with the war of the militarist tools of the rival im- perialist powers, can have but one ‘ending, that is the establishment of the Soviet Power of the workers and peasants. The Chinese Revolution prepares, through the unconscious | collaboration of its agencies, for its| | next great epoch, Canton, November 20, 1928. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UP).— Two naval mine sweepers, the Whippoorwill .and Tanager, collided today about sixty. miles from Oahu, ) Hawaii, but were able to put into ‘earl Harbor, the navy department was informed by radio. The acci- | dent was caused by an. eccentric rod on the Whippoorwill being carried hotel. This woman and her man had bragged about planting the pow- der, and after the incident on the idewalk both were arrested and the Vigilante Committee drove them down the canyon that very after- noon, Another day two schoolmates of mine were playing in the livery barn, They were in the room where the hostler slept and found a pistol under the pillow. Accidentally, Pete Bethel pulled the trigger and killed Willie Duke. When I heard the shot I ran to the stable and found Willie dead. I saw the blood running out of his head. Little Pete Bethel was scared speechless, These scenes of blood and violence happened when I was seven years old. After the talk of massacres and killings at Salt Lake City, I ac- cepted it all as a natural -part of life. It was an event when the Dutch shoemaker’s famify arrived in the) camp. A day or two after their ax- rival I was playing down by the creek near the shoemaker’s house when I saw a little girl in the shadow of 2 clump of willows. Going over to her, I found that she was very pretty, with cheeks like big red ap- ples. When I spoke to her she only smiled. I took her hand, then I kissed her ard she seemed to like that, Someone called, her mother, I guessed. Breaking away from me she ran to the house, smiling back at me over her shoulder. The next day I went back and there she was, dip- ping up a bucket of water from the creek, I went up quietly and put my arms around her, when she turned and scratched my face, spat at me and lifted the bucket as though to throw the water at me. I ran away, not knowing what had come over her. Later I found that it was not she at all; it was her twin sister. Most of the boys in the camp had slingshots. I was going to make one for myself. I was back of the house trying te cut a handle from a scrub- oak, when the knife slipped and pen- «trated my eye. They sent me to + Lake immediately for medical sKS!”? 8 Oye By Fred Ellis ! TODAY: Life in the Mining Camp of Ophir, | ™s, were owned by the church, | Utah; Haywood’s First Sweetheart; Bound Out to a Cruel Farmer; His First Strike i S BOOK all of the larger farms. enterprises, Many of the factories and | which maintained tithing offices, a | newspaper and an historian’s office. attentfen, and for months I was kept ;in a davk room. But the sight was gone. When I returned to Ophir, ‘school was closed and I did my first work jin a mine. I was then a little past | nine years of age. I was with my stepfather, who was doing the asses- inent work at the Russian ‘mine, School opened again, and went an- other term. This time Professor Fos- | ter was the teacher, a stern-looking | old Mormon from Tooele, but an ex- derstand history, to dig under and |back of what was written. He was |a lantern-jawed, gray-mustached old man with gray eyes, and I never |saw him whip a child. Hardly a week passed without a |fight with scme boy or other, who | would call me “Squint-eye” or “Dick | Dead-eye,” because of my blind eye. I used to like to fight. After this term of school the fam- ily returned to Salt Lake City. Zion, as the Mormons called the city, |was intended originally as the cap- jital of an empire of the Mormon | Church. When gold was discovered cellent teacher. He taught me to un-| in California, the emigrants swarmed through Utah on their way to the gold fields of the west. Some |dropped off at Salt Lake City and stayed, but curiously enough, in| spite of the stampede for gold, no Mormons joined in the rush or left their territory. The Temple Block, where the Tabernacle, the Assembly Hall, the | Endowment Houses and the Temple were enclosed within high walls, was the heart of the city; around it everything centered. In the Taber- nacle, where eight thousand people |could gather, I heard Adelina Patti jSing one night when I was a young Loy. I have never forgotten it. The city was built with wide streets that were numbered from the Temple Block. Along the gutters van streams of mountain water |which was used to water the gar-| |dens with which every house was | surrounded, The population was divided. Mor- |mons were the dominant fagtor. The others, even the Jews, were known as Gentiles. The Mormons controlled most of the business and WALL ST. VIEWS CHINA The favorable attitude of Amer- ican capital toward the industriali- countries is clearly expressed in a leading article in the official “Com- merce Reports,” Dec, 24, published by the Department of Commerce, Washington. Reviewing the rapidly increasing industrialization of China, this articie says: “What we are observing in China is the transition of a people from medievalism to modernism, from hand production to machine produc- ticn and the organization of a mod- ern society.” The effects of this process upon American financial and commercial interests are described as follows: “China’s industrial progress does rot mean Joss of trade for western industries, but rather the opening of wider markets. From the beginning of Sino-Western relations it has been the foreign trader who has developed China's mines, factories, and various forms of industries. “He has financed and built the railrcads. established » steamship lines, trade routes, wireless stations, cables, and banks, He has adminis- tered the maritime customs, the salt gabelle, and, in part, the post office. Some of these activities may be taken frem his hands by the Chinese. The west may soon find itself no riore the supplier of China’s cotton piece goods and cigarettes;, but it will be foreign money and expcrience \that will build the new cotton mills Wider Markets ; Imperialist Oppression zation of colonial and. semi-colonial’ and cigarette factories, foreign ma- chinery that will equip them, foreign engineers who will in large part lay out the railroads and construct the industrial plants and teach the Chinese how to get the most out of them. It will ‘be western-manufac- tured ecmmodities that will cater to the increased standards of living brought about by the growing intro- duction of moderr. methods, of indus- trialization, until the time- when China may be able to produce them for itself.” Prolab Theater Plans Three One-Act Plays The Prolab (Proletarian Labora- tory) Theagre has begun operations for the season at its headquarters— 231 East 9th St. Rehearsals’ have already begun on three one-act plays to be presented some time in February. There will also be a monthly program of plays and dancing at the theatre headquarters, Workers interested in the Theatre such activity are urgently requested to come. * Rehearsal meetings take place every Monday, Wednesday and Friday evening, MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jan. 6.— —President Moncada, who owes his position to Yankee marines and bombing planes, received a_ tele- gram of congratulation from Presi- dent Coolidge yesterday. os | was a bitter antipathy, as the older several families of William Taylor, Yhe Gentiles of the Territory were miners, business men, saloon keep- ers, lawyers and politicians. The “Desert News” was the official paper of the Mormons, while the “Salt Lake Tribune” spoke for the Gentiles. Against the Gentiles there Mormons could not forget the’ out- rages they had suffered, their prop- erty that had been destroyed, the killing of their leaders, their finai abandonment of the states where | they had lived, and their search for a new home where they could be} safe from persecution, and which| was now being invaded by their old- time enemies. That spirit of bitter- ness has somewhat died down with the newer generation, but when T) was a boy it was at its height. We lived for years near the house that was my birthplace, in different | rented houses, always surrounded | by polygamous families; the Tay- lors, the Evanses, the Cannons. | John Taylor, one iime president of | the Church of Latter Day Saints, | as the Mormons call their charch, | lived acrogs the street from us. He} had eight wives in one half block. | Next door to our house was one of | a brother of the president, and the first house from theirs was the home of Porter Rockwell. He had the reputation cf being a Danite, or one of the Destroying Angels, an associate of the notorious Bill Hick- man. Concerning these Destroying | Angels, it was said that their func- tion was to avenge the church by doing eway with such offenders as apostates. . Rockwell was a mys- terious being to the boys of the neighborhood, most of whom were Mormons, All had heard of the térrible things that he and Hick- man were accused of, through ru-t mors and whispers in their families. There was nothing definite, but enough to arouse the curiosity of the youngsters so that when we saw Porter Rockwell on the street, with his long gray beard, gray shawl, gray slouch hat, and iron gray hair falling over his shoulders, we would run along in front of him, staring back at his not unkindly face. After Porter Rockwell died, some boys in the neighborhood thought it would be a good joke to haunt the . big house where he had lived alone. One who worked in a drug store got some phosphorus, which we put on a sheet. We tied the sheet to a rope, and pulled it from the house to the barn. Breaking into the louse, we rattled pieces of iron and crockery in an: old keg, shook the windows and did other things to make a noise, so that one passing could not fail to notice the dis- turbance: The ghostly. sheet and the continuous racket on dark nights gave the house the reputation of being haunted. All the boys who belonged to the gang were initiated with different hairraising stunts. The Sisters’ Academy of the Sacred Heart was in the next block. ‘They had a little building adjoining the girls’ school, where some small boys from the adjacent mining camps were boarded and given their first education, There were some New Speedup — In Continental , Motor Plant (By Federated Press) Out of the Continental Motors plant at Muskegon, Mich., come stories of new refinements in wage slicing that put to shame previous efforts of efficiency experts in the auto. industry. The men call the newest racket “painless extraction,” but the pain comes after the extrac- tion, The company makes the proposi- ticn to workers getting 55 cents an hour that they take 45 cents and a bonus that will make their pay run to .60 and 75 cents. “Fine,” say the men, “it’s jake with us.” The first few pay-days show 60 cents an hour or more, then in some mysterious manner the bonus disappears. The men get only 45 cents, with no bonus at all. There is nothing for them te do about it but stay on the job or get mad and quit. They are un- organized. This scheme Was worked in Department 81, where wages were cut from 55 to 42% cents, Another way to cut wages is to lay a man off long enough for him to get very hard up. Then he’s glad to come back and take the old job at lower pay. The company uses a good trick to find out how little a man can live on. A worker is put on a 9-hour schedule with only three days’ work each week. After he has stayed on this schedule a long time the bosses notice that he is still alive and able to work, although he has been making only $10 to $12 a week, “Well, what’s the use of paying lim $20 a week when he can live on $10?” they ask. Accordingly his pay is scaled down when he resumes work on a 6-day schedule, Continental Motors has a welfare | department, which auto workers call the “farewell” department. A for- mer Muskegon police officer heads it. It is his business to ferret out any radical-minded men among the employes, A story making the rounds of the plant among the men shows their contempt for Continen- tal’s welfare: BILL HAYWQ9OD day-scholars. Though not a Cath- clic, I was admitted to the school, where a nun called Sister Sylva was cur teacher. During vacation time my uncle Richard came to visit us from one of the nearby mining camps. Read- ing an advertisement one day in the paper that a boy was wanted on a farm, he talked it over with my mother, with tne result that I was bound out to John Holden. For a period of six months at one dollar ja month and board I was to be boy- of-all-work on the farm. ‘There I milked two cows, fed the calves, cleaned out. the stable, but my main job was driving a yoke of oxen. One day I was in the field har- rowing while Holden was plowing. A tooth of the harrow turned up a nest of field mice. They were curi- cus Jittle things. I had never seen the like before, and got down on my knees to examine them more closely. They were red, with no hair on their bodies. Their eyes were closed. The nest was 2 neat little home all lined with what seemed to be wool. It seemed only a few minutes that I looked at them, when all of a sudden I felt a smart- ing whip-lash across my body. Hol- den had crossed the field, picked up the bull-whip I had dropped, and struck me without saying a word. I jumped up and ran straight to th: house, gathered up my few belong- ings, tied them into a bundle and started for home. As I crossed the fields some distance from Holden I ssrg out: “Good-by, John!” I walked to the eity, some ten miles distant. This was my first strikes. When I got home and told my mother that I hed quit, because Holden had struck me with the whip, she was engry at the abuse, but was afraid of what be might do on ac- eount of the paper that she had signed, which was an _ indenture binding me to work for him. Hol- den came to our house the next day, my mother scolded him for daring to strike me with a whip. He ad- mitted to having a pad temper and promised never to do it again, so I went back with him and served my time. Holden was a cruel man, cruel to his horses, cruel to his oxen, cruel to his wife, who often used to say that “it would be better to be an old man’s darling that a young man’s slave.” (To Be Continued.) * * * In the next instalment, Hay- wood will tell of the first lynch- ing he witnessed, and of the im- pressions it made upon him. He will tell how his bodyhood reaction to racial bigotry caused him to feel that the Negro workers : the same as himself and 4 ‘workers,