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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-08-26
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-16
Bloody Bulgaria

According dispatch from Berlin unparalleled
reign still raging Bulgaria In the of extermina
on against the workers and farmers by the Zankov
regime boys girls spared They all look alike the
When Oliver Cromwell the ancmonious British
the idol alleged liberals laying Ireland
with he the expression "ns will be
lice little children sptted the points of his soldiers
bayonets Cromwes of Bulgaria look upon the chill
revolutionary workers and farmers vermn that
be exterminated.
cutlery the capitalist press against this carnival
slaughter The hypocrca that othed the mouth when
spying Polish priest Buchavech executed Russia
the veil of silence the bloody deeds of the Bulgarian
cisti.
Already radical agarians have been
present regime
Bulgaria a nhuman Eighty six others
public executions
boy girl loaded with heavy chains being marched
thru the streets by armed guards.
This democracy under capitalism Here have the workers
under by the murderou capitalist butchers
while their comrades in other lands barely raise voice
Only the workers who under the influence the Communists
have far made effort block the CORY work
the killers Had the European listened the appeal
Communist International the victorious farmers
Bulgaria would today be chanting hymns of victory the
unhalowed graves of their prosecutors 1-
poet sang that from the of every martyr
the Of Communism today
the the cars and the ashes of Ru
revolutionary Bulgaria the workers and will
their visit terrible justice
bloody whose favorite murder of the toiers
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ance of social thought and preparing
new government, the strike Of the
railwaymen on the main line from
Picking to Hankow broke out, in the
chief sphere of influence of English
imperialism, on the line on which WI
Pei Flu had to transport his troops to
the South.
The workers suffered cruel defeat;
they defended their trade unions and
their flags, but the armed bands Of
WI Pei Flu shot down the workers
and their leaders and threw many into
prison. The workers unions, or rather
the embryos of unions, were compel
led to become strictly illegal.
DUT the rise of the railwaymen Of
- the line Picking to Honkow in
February 1928 had immense political
consequences. WI Pei Flu was reveal
ed in his true character to the whole
of the Chinese pepole. The students
revolted. WI Pei Flu began openly TO
place Chinese policy on the same level
with the English apparatus of coloni-
zation. And, regardless of the fact
that reaction continued to rage thru
out the country, change took place
in the political life of the land; WI
Pei Flu had to abandon his expedition
to the south and to pay close atten-
ton to events in Central and North
China. The heroic behaviour of the
Chinese railwaymen in 1923 was a
blow to the most reactionary part of
Imperialism in China, to the apparatus
Of the Anglo-American imperialists.
There is no doubt that the attitude
of the railwaymen of Hankow, which
rendered it impossible for WI Pei Flu
to rely ON the hinterland, stimulated
Chan Tso-Lin to fight against WI Pei
Fu's power in the autumn of last year.
WI Pei Fu's fall set the nationalist
revolutionary emancipation move
ment in action thruout the country,
extended the base of the Kuomintang
party and made it possible openly to
carry on an anti-imperialist campaign
in the whole country for several
months.
OF course this process was not sys-
- tematically organized, neverthe-
less the, Chinese proletariat, when
fighting its own battle in its own in
terests, is, in the nature of things, the
most consistent and irreconcilable
fighter against the colonial yoke of
imperialism, and thus becomes the
leader of the whole national move
ment.
This and this alone explains that
unpFeeedent wrath and cruelty with
which the headsmen of Anglo-Japan-
csc imperialism are using their whole
apparatus of brigandage in the sup
preston of the workers strikes in
Shanghai and Tsingtao. This also ex-
plains the other fact that the over
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Tsan and his nephew, the younger
Stu, the dictator of Mongolia. In the
period between the summer Of 1920
and the autumn of 1922 the English
apparatus of colonization in China
had been extraordinarily strengthen
ed
The Sun Vat Sen government which
had only been formed at the begin
ming of 1922 in Shantung after Tshen
Tsiu Min had been driven out, was a
thorn in the flesh of the British i'm
perialistsfand seemed to cloud their
bright prospects of further enslaye-
ment of China. The opposition of the
seamen of Hong Kong to the English
shipowners and bankers at that time,
an opposition which paralyzed traffic
in the Pacific Ocean and the Yellow
Sea, which left some hundreds of
thousands of tons Of goods lying in
the docks and on shdpboard, which
drew the whole of the earban working
population of South China into the
anti-British movement, was a serious
blow to the prestige of the English
colonization apparatus in China and
great help to the revolutionary gov
eminent of South China.
WITH gnashing of teeth, the proud
w Britons had to yield to the union
of Chinese seamen and to comply with
it's demands, which were, it is true,
modest enough. For the first time
/ .-..,vs,o5 (thsx,.e, ,ss1rl5arc cuccaadad
by means of a six weeks strike in
obtaining recognition Of their union
and compensation for lost working
time. Then as now, the whole English
press was filled with lies and calum-
MES regarding the seamen on strike,
then as now, the press hacks declared
the influence of Bolshevist agitation
to be the cause of the strike.
In order to better understand the
significance of present events in
China, it must be remarked that the
representatives of American capital,
at whose instigation the conference at
Washington lend of 1921 and begin
ming of 1929 was called, with the
object of procuring better entry and
security for American capital into
China "sympathized" with the oppo-
sition of the workers to England and,
in their semi-official organ in China,
the Weekly Review, reported as fol-
lows: AZ .uo
1.-THE strike movements in China is
growing slowly but surely. strikes
in China are at present just as inevi-
table as floods and epidemics. >. China
is not yet threatened with strikes in
volving the whole country, but the
time will come when the masses will
more clearly understand the signific-
ance of the labor. movement"
THE prophesies of the biologists Of
l. American imperialism are perhaps
beginning to come true sooner than
they excepted This is the chief rea-
son for their hatred of the Chinese
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proletar1at.
A second characteristic feature Of
the struggle of the Hong Kong sea-
men was, that even on this first oc-
casion of Chinese workers opposing
the imperialists, the treacherous role
played by the upper strata Of the Chi
nese bourgeoisie, became evident. The
Chinese Comprador (wholesale deal
err and banker Robert Hotun, we'll
known in Hong Kong, who had been
knighted by the king OF England,
cheated the Seamen's Union in his
capacity as negotiator with the strik-
ing seamen, in that he first of all de-
layed payment of the sums agreed
upon, and then refused to keep his
promise.
A S result of the strike Of the Hong
a Kong seamen, wave Of strikes
passed over the whole of China. The
labor movement began to take econ
omic shape. So far the workers had
not given expression to any political
demands, neither had the students de-
monstrated in sympathy with the
movement. This is explained by the
fact during the whole Of 1922, the
Chinese bourgeoisie and the intelli-
genzia still cherished hopes that the
promises of the conference at Wash
ington would be fulfilled, i. e. that the
Japanese troops would be withdrawn
from the province of Shantung with
its magnificent harbor of Tsingtao,
and that the customs duties would be
raised in favor of China.
After the conference at Washington
the reactionary movement in the
country grew stronger. WI Pei Flu
carried out the wishes of Anglo-Amer-
lean capital. Partly in fulfllment of
their wish, he entered into war
against his former ally and party COM
rade (of the Tshili clique) Csang-Tso-
Lin. The conflict between these two
generals expressed the endeavours of
the Anglo-American imperialists to
make sure of an actual influence in
China, which had been formally ACHE
we'd at the conference of Washington.
And the victory of WI Pei Flu over
Chang Tso-Lin did, as a matter of
fact, establish an extraordinary in
fiuence of the Anglo-American inn
perialists in Central and North China.
The end of 1922 and the beginning of
1928 were characterized in China by
the growing political reaction witch
threatened to spread thru the whole
country and to overthrow Sun Vat
Sens government in the South.
TN the atmosphere of tense political
reaction in the country, at the mo-
ment when WI Pei Flu was with the
aid the Anglo-American imperialists,
preparing military measures for the
destruction of the nationalist revolu-
tionary base in the province of Kwan-
tung and for uniting the country,
when he was sitting every appear
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-16
BY G. VoITlNsKY
(Moscow)

THE working class in China is at
4 present passing thru the most diff
ficult period of its development.
In the peculiar circumstances of
China, a semi-colony, an object of in
reference on the part of world i'm
perialism, the path of the struggle OF
the working class is very difficult and
complicated. At its very inception,
at it's very first steps on the path to
emancipation from slavery, the Chin
ese proletariat is met by a powerful
enemy in the form of the imperialist-
ic groups of Europe, America and Asia
and by their tool, the Chinese militar-
lists.
The most recent development of
events during the strike of the textile
workers in Shanghai and Tsingtao
must be viewed in this light.
ILLHEN for the first time, in the be-
w spite of their conflicting interests
in every branch of industry and trade
in China and in every part of this
enormous country, form united front
to attack the Chinese proletariat?
Why is it that on Chinese soil the
foreign police meet the most element
airy demands for the right to exist on
the part of the Chinese proletariat,
by firing into the unarmed crowds of
men, women and children?
Why on the other hand, do the stu
dents, the offspring of the Chinese
.bourgeoisie, join with the. working
class and likewise sacrifice them
selves in the struggle against the
foreign capitalists? Why, finally, are
even the Chinese chambers of COM
merce compelled to support the de-
mand of the workers that foreign
troops be withdrawn from the most
important Chinese ports?
All these questions can be answered
by the following formula: The Chi
nese proletariat is inevitably taking
up the position of an outpost in the
war of Liberation of the Chinese
people, and therefore. in the nature
of things, assumes more and more
the hegemony of the national move
ment for the liberation of the Chinese
people as a whole.
WHEN for the first time, in the be-
w ginning of 1922, a part of the
working class of China, which was or
ganized not on the model of class
trade unions, but in large guild, the
Seamen's Union Of Hong Kong, de-
clared war on English shipowners, it
was regarded both by the foreign cap
italists and the Chinese public as a
duel between the Chinese workers
and the foreign oppressors.
At that time, England played the
leading role in the political oppres-
sion of China. This happened two
years after the destruction of the
japanese apparatus in China, the An
flu Club, with the president Siu-Shi-
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ciples" were supposed to be in use,
Portuguese landowners complained of
the "laziness of natives" Most Portu-
guese employers thought the natives
should work for nothing or at most
20 cents a month and about 2 cents
a day for food, Ross reports.
Workers Flogged and Tortured
Nineteen villages were visited and
nearly 1000 natives interviewed thru
interpreters. Local pastors and teach
ers were talked with.
Everywhere it was found that the
workers were ruthlessly driven: for
ced to work up to IL months year;
logged with the djambock or hippo
lash and tortured Women are re-
Questioned to work on roads and "if
mother lays baby under a tree and
rises up from her work when it cries,
she may get struck for it,"
Native police are forced to inflict
brutal punishments upon their bro
Their blacks. "a year ago police came
to a mission, collected the men, went
W thC AOOhb WhClC lht W.
men pound their manioc and had their
meal spread ready to dry and took
them off to work on the road without
even giving them a chance to gather
up their meal and carry it to their
homes
''"Children had to quit the mission
school saying. Father has been taken
to work. on plantation, mother, and
the older brothers are working on the
roads, so | must stay out of school to
hoe the fields. pound the manioc into
meal and feed my little brothers and
sisters Furthermore, the child will
have to pound the meal and carry II
to mother working on the road with
the baby on her back"
Wages Are Stolen
So much of the natives time and
strength is requisitioned by the Por.
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tuguese masters that the blacks are
no longer able to attend their own
gardens and fields. There is little
evidence that any considerable part
of the wages turned over in trust to
the officials by the employers OF ma
tives hired from the government &C
tually reached the hands of those to
whom it belongs" Ross says. "The
amount of unpaid labor exacted of
skilled natives is not infrequently so
excessive that the young men see
nothing to be gained by their acquir-
ing skill in the missionary schools"
Most Road Workers Women
Motor roads have been extended
by conscripted, unpaid, unrationed
natives, for the most part women,
with only the most primitive imple-
ments." Labor-stealing is widespread.
that is, no pay for half-days and many
other days worked. 1--WE heard OF no
effort made by any official to curb
this despicable practice. The official
does not appear to be in strong posi-
ton with respect to his fellow nation
ais, the traders and planters. The
blacks feel that the Portuguese are
leagued against them and that there
is no recourse the white mans vioI-
ence and injustice" a
y Government Does Nothing
THE government provides practic.
ally nothing in the way of schools
medical care, emergency relief or Just.
ice against the white trader, for the
people of the villages, as recompense
for the heavy burden of unrequited
toll II lays upon them. The treatment
OF natives in Portuguese territory
compares so unfavourably with that
experienced by the natives OF Rho
desia or Belgian Congo that there "a
a strong tendency to emigrate acrosn
the frontier"
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The Struggle Of the mpeaSS Against the Chinese Labor Movement

whelming majority Of the Chinese
people is siding with the Chinese pro
letariat in its present fight. The strug
gle of the masses indeed in its totality
has now a more consistent and revo
'lutionary character than was the case
a few years ago, thanks to the cir
cumstances that the class war of the
Chinese proletariat is more and more
becoming the backbone of the nation
al emancipation movement.
WHAT then is the most distinguish
w ing feature of recent events in
China? That the proletariat of Shan
ghai and Tsingtao, in the course of
their struggle against the Japanese
employers, are again striking out at
the most dangerous group Of imperial
lists in the country. Japan has in fact
in the course of the past ten months,
/. e. since the October revolution in
Peking, once more become the most
important imperialistic power in Chi
ma, the most important in that the
power of the state in China, in the
form of Tuan Tsi Tshui and partly In
the person of Chang Tso Lin, is on
the side of the Japanese imperialists.
To the extent that its influence
grew, Japanese imperialism became
more and more an aggressive power
against the liberation movement in
the country which grew irresistibly in
consequence of the victory over WI
Pei Flu and over the Anglo-American
colonization apparatus.
workers Of Shanghai and Tsingtao.
which drew the broadcast masses of
the urban population of China into the
fight against the imperialists, can only
be explained by the unspeakable in
science of the Japanese imperialists
who were convinced that they held a
position of supremacy in the suppress
sion of China. The struggle against
the Japanese imperialists and the En-
glish imperialists who came to their
help, is now part of the most danger
Gus and most important front of the
anti-imperialist movement in the
country.
All the slogans raised by Sun Yet
Sen, the leader of the national revo-
lutionary party, Kuomintang, have
now, thanks to the struggle of the
proletariat, become essential demands
of the whole Chinese pepole.
The fight in all the great towns Of
China is being fought round these
slogans; it was for them that the gen.
eral strike in Shanghai, which may in
few days spread to other industrial
towns in the country, was declared.
The fight of the Chinese proletariat
in these days is a new stage in the
emancipation movement of this vast
country, stage which will call forth
new, decisive battle against imperial
ism at it's most vulnerable spot.
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New Fields of Conquest

The that American bankers have made loan less
than $100000000 kind of gni
fcance beyond the
This the sort of thing thain addition to the contest
who rob Chna bringing American Imperialism and British
Imperialism grappe with each other struggle which
leads The conflict in the secondary of diplomacy
where recmnaons beginning and the ground being laid for
the fancy propaganda both
the other nation depaved mperialists
fallen the dominance of United States
banks There United States invested Canada today
than English that
the e Old Lady Thradneede Street. looks with aundiced
British colonies being seduced Yankee capital ss
another colony the Establishments of the
Morgan away antpades the outpost
English fallen the Wall Street bankers
the undeveloped Britain
had aked long field expansion has been
seized by a clam-jumper.
And just the fact that the bust
whole warships him
which of supposed have not the slightest
connection with Morgan's bank and its loan
But American capitalist Imperialism to fields
conquest the warshps somehow trail along behind easily
as if a tOw-ine
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-16
MINERS HAVE
HARD FACTS
ON HARD COAL
Operators Try to Use
"Public Opinion"
lspeclaI to The Daily worker,

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., July t.
Both sides we're set for a battle OF
statistics when the wage conference
between Anthracite miners and opera.
tors was resumed here today.
The operators had figures pretend.
ing to show "the consumer" will not
stand for raise in coal prices which
they allege would follow an increase
in miners wages.
The miners had statistics uphold
ing their contention that the anthra
cite industry is on a sound, financial
basis and well able to stand the de-
mand Of the union for a ten per cent
wage increase for contract workers
with a dollar-a-day increase for UNI
skilled mine labor.
Facts prove that the demand for a
ten per cent raise is very modest and
that the miners are getting far too
little to live on at present. They have
been working for an average of So
day only four days week.
Meanwhile, the anthracite operat-
ors' own figures show that anthracite
costs them only s4.10 a ton to produce,
while the cost to consumers is from
$12 to SIS. That the operators got
the difference is shown by the profits
of four companies alone piling up
$F, 100000 last year. The Progress
sive Miners Committee had urged
the anthracite miners 20 demand 20
per cent instead of the ten per cent
increase. The Lewis machine pre-
vented the 20 per cent demand being
made.
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AS WE SEEIT = ByT.J. O,Flaherty

of health all my life. l have kept
my conscience clear have worked
hard and l have been abstemious.
What a wonderful acquisition a clear
conscience is? Professional murder
ers, who sometimes feel a little
twitching when obliged to resort to
extreme methods in disposing of their
victims, must envy the judge. Turn
ing the guns on strikers of course,
would not cause an excess of acidity
in the judicial food bag. Shutting
down his shops and throwing thou
sands of workers one the streets,
would not cause Gary's fodder to turn
into concrete in his stomach. The
Judge never let's such trifles interfere
with the serenity of his conscience.
CARY'S slaves work fIom eight to
~ ten hours a day. They used to
work twelve, until the judge got scar
ed that they might organize. He then
made a concession to them. How
much time have to follow the twelve
golden rules of health that the judge
prescribes? A local food expert ad-
vises us to Chew our milk" carefully
in the morning before going to work.
A good idea, perhaps. But most work
ers don't have time to take a chew
of tobacco while on their way to
punch the clock I'M the morning. If
they take the time TO put their milk
thru a scientific chemical process be-
fore letting it drain down the gullet,
the boss may give Sthem lots of time
to chew the cud on bench in the
park. But they VIII lack the where
withal to purchase milk.
y
TT is well that the working class
4 should look after their health, as
best they can under the circumstanc.
es. But long hours and short pay,
unhealthy working conditions, worry
and want are causing greater havoc
among the WORKERS than faulty mas
tication of food or superfluity OF
starches in their menu. This fact
should not be forgotten, by well-mean.
ing food radicals who have develop.
ed a greater hate for white flour and
juicy beef stakes than they have for
the capitalist system. Let us get rid
of Garyism and we will have lots of
time to devote to scientific dieting.
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NEGRO WORKERS OF PORTUGUESE
EAST AFRICA TORTURED, WAGES ARE
ps1STOLEN, WOMEN ENSLAVED ON ROADS
Am rhe Eedsrated pressl

NEW YORK July 14Portuga slaves but
Wisconsin, sociology
labor
with monarchy
system began 1918 Between 1910 and 1918
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George Wheeler Hinman Of William Randolph Hearsts
liars that there would be trouble in China if the
who have billion and half invested in the
stopped financing Mocow revolutionary the
The says Hnma that they keep handing
their money Moscow Moscow spends the
propaganda Good luck those capitalists Every
every way they getting nuer and nuter $40