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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-11

Shanghai to support the rioters.
The possibility of imminent war in
Asia. to be precipitated by a conflict
between Feng Yuh-siang and Chang
Tso-lin, backed by the Soviet and jap
an, respectively. was called absurd
today by Brig. Gen. William d. Con-
nor. commanding the American army
forces in China, who is here repaying
the visit Of Japanese generals to Anne
RIGA.
American Commander RldIeuIes Lies
About Soviet.
He ridiculed the report circulated
recently in the United States that
Russia was sending vast amounts Of
war munitions to General Feng by
motor from Siberia, adding that the
long haul prevents the bringing in OF
enough munitions in this way to be
worthy OF consideration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-11
KUONINTANG AND MERCENARIES
STILL BATTLING FOR CANTON

nese troops. The custom house is
closed and all employees taken to the
foreign settlement of Shameen.
ReInforesments For kuomlntang
Three thousand reinforcements for
the Cantonese Kuomintang army ar
rived yesterday from Fatshen and
now are at Shek- Wai-Tong station
across the river.
Two Japanese destroyers arrived
at Canton Monday. The issue between
the Kuomintang party Of Cantonese
and the mercenaries is stil1 undecided.
is apparent by the bride of 100000
Subsidy by French and British money
given the commander Of a Cantonese
gunboat for deserving to the Yuma
nese yesterday The Yunnanese are
fighting against the party Of Sun Vat
Sen.
Dispatches from Kaifeng. in Honan
province, report that the strike move
ment against foreign imperialist has
created a serious situation. From
Shantung province news arrives that
strikers are in control of petroleum
plants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-11
SCORE FRANCE
FOR CAMP AICN
AGAINST RIFFS
War Waged with Dollars
of United States

SAN FRANCISo, June TO- At a
joint meeting Of the Professionally
Association and the International
Workers Aid, held here recently a
resolution was passed condemning the
governments Of France and Spain for
their murderous, warfare against the
Riffian people Of Morocco.
The Professionally Association is
an organization Of radical Irish work
ers who are cooperating with the In
ternational Workers Aid in raising
funds to relieve the, distress Of the
famine sufferers in Ireland.
They are veterans In the movement
for Irish emancipation from Great Bri-
tain and sturdy defenders Of Soviet
Russia.
The resolution points out that the
French government is carrying on
the war against the Moroccans with
the aid of American dollars.
A benefit dance for Irish famine re
lief will be given on Saturday even
ing, June 20, in Knights of the Red
Branch Hall, 1913 Mission street, un
der the auspices of the Pearse-Con
molly Association and the Information
al Workers Aid.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-11
CHINESE ARMY DECLARED READY
TO FIGHT AGAINST IMPERIALISM

counseling "a firm attitude in the face
the unreasonable and bellicose stand
Of the Shanghai authorities and part
Of the diplomatic corps at Picking"
says report from Kalgan. He de-
clares that HIS army is ready TO make
sacrifices for the Chinese nation.
The directors OF twenty-five higher
schools Of Picking, including Leighton
Stuart, American president OF the
Yenching University, have signed a
petition to the president of the Chi
nese republic, asking that the govern
ment request the foreign legations to
instruct all consuls turnout China 70
cease their barbarous acts" The
students have wired Generals Chang
Tso.lin and Feng Yu-Hsiang TO give
military support in the negotiations
looking to Justice for the Shanghai
strikers.
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Chinese Workers Present IL Demands
Continued from page u


twelve students who were murdered.
However, several American mission
aries appeared and testified that the
shooting was uncalled for and that
the British Sikh police were decidedly
to blame for all disturbances. includ-
ing the strike.
This missionary testimony fatty
contradicted the testimony of the
British police inspector who had given
the order to fire on the students. XIII.
ing a few of the demonstrators was
the easiest way to teach the Chinese
lesson, tho inspector thot. Anyway
If not stopped, the unarmed students
might storm the Louza Jail and rescue
several Of their comrades the inspec-
tor had previously rounded up.
The resulting events Of the general
strike had not yet convinced this rep
resentative Of British imeprialism
that shooting few more Chinese
was the remedy for all difficulty and a
solution Of the problem.
Even Missionaries Shocked.
The conditions can be imagined
when even the missionaries who are
the spiritual wing OF American imper-
ialism are shocked into protest at the
brutalities--of the British, of course.
Wires from the American legation at
Picking state that the legation is much
embarrassed by the missionaries &C.
ton, and has protested to them that
theor attitude Is "inexpedient."
The general strike is still on, with
especial intensity against the British
and the japanese.
PICKING, China, June 10-Part Of
the diplomatic corps, which is to say
that part which does not have to do
with Leo Karakhan, Soviet ambassa.
dor, Is excited and indignant at the
spectacle Of Chinese soldiers and po-
lice passing out circulars bearing q
manifesto Of the International Work
ers' Relief, supposedly signed by
Henri Barbusse OF France, George
Bernard Shaw OF England, Upton Sin
clair Of America, Clara Zetkin Of
Germany, Olga, Kameneva OF Soviet
Russia and many other famous intel
lectuals addressing the Chinese
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party, the state department made pub
lie the demands OF the students which
were circulated by thousands in Pek-
ing, in the form OF handbills, by stud
ents of the missionary and other
schools
Student Strikers Demands.
These young rebels against foreign
control of China demanded:
l. Punishment Of those responsible
for the Shanghai killings, from con
suls to policemen.
g. Release and naturalization Of
arrested students.
3. Apologies from the foreign gov
ernments to the Chinese people.
4. Aid to strikers in Shanghai,
Tsingtau and the japanese mills.
5. Withdrawal of foreign military
forces, including war vessels. from
China.
8. Abolition Of foreign concessions
and extra-territoriality
z. Abolition Of unequal treaties and
special privileges.
8. Economic boycott against for
eigners.
9. Overthrow OF 'traitorous Chi
nese government"
10, Overthrow Of imperialism.
Getting Rid of British Opium Ring.
The speeches that have been deliv-
cred in the streets, on these ten de-
mands Of the Chinese people, are
especially bitter toward the British
and tbs Japanese, who have extorted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-11
VIII Wages 90 upf

DENvER-With the equalization
Of freight rates by the interstate oona-
mission, will the state industrial COM
mission order the Colorado fuel and
iron company and other coal operat-
ors to restore wages.
The coal operators recently secured
a wage reduction order of 20 per cent
from the state commission on the
ground that discriminating freight
rates made It possible to meet east
ern competition.
The interstate commerce commits
sion at Washington has just eQualizsd
these rates, and the operators are
jubilant. They announce, Nov we
can compete with the eastern field"
But they make no mention of their
unorganized employees.
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masses a message OF friendship.
international Solidarity.


The circular conveys the heartfelt
greetings of 100000, white manual
and intellectual workers who join in
your protest against the infamous
murder of peaceful students and
workers by imperialist bandits and
the agents Of white and yellow CAPT
talists.
1--WE white workers and intellec-
tuals," it continues, "disayow any
connection with the exploiters who
wish to Cypress your nation and en-
slave you. Only when united in a
common effort shall we achieve free
dom and the people of Asia realize
their brotherhood with the people Of
America and Europe"
The circulars were passed out at
the giant protest meeting of 10000
marchers, the biggest gathering ever
seen in Picking Of its kind. Besides,
posters showing Englishmen shooting
down East Indians and other bearing
photographs Of the bloody and mang-
led bodies of the Shanghai victims
are being put up everywhere.
The demonstration, consisted Of
thousands Of students, workers and
some of Feng Yu-hsiang's soldiers.
From dozens of platforms student ora
tors addressed the great throngs, tell
ing of the wrongs inflicted upon China
and setting forth the demands for re-
dress.
English Literature for Foreigners.
Foreigners had been warned not to
appear on the streets, as their safety
might be imperilled. However, when
they appeared the soldiers and stu
dents hunted up some pamphlets in
English setting for the students ar
guments and presented the foreigners
with these.
The student agitators are absolute
ly one upon the demands Of China for
the Chinese, but the moderate faction
wish 70 devote the work here TO re
lief fund gathering for Shanghai and
the boycott Of Britieh and Japanese.
while the radicals want the Chinese
army sent TO Shanghai TO protect the
Chinese there and enforce the de
mands. n
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tempt at pulling what would be a
motor truck load of wooden boards
over Chapoo Road Bridge, beaten into
insensibility by sikh.
Another time have seen a wheel
barrow coohe who had his ear half
twisted off and his bare foot broken
by the hand and heel of the sikh who
is as l have said sometime ago, the
very embodiment of British imperial
ism in one of its more concrete
forms.
Little Better of Than Their Victims.
Let me again repeat. The sikh, a
member of an exploited race himself
is taken from his native land, is paid
a little more than a coolie to beat
that coolie. To some this may sound
extravagant, but it is the ultimate re-
suit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-11

the most from China at the point of
the bayonet
British police and British mill-own-
ers are held particularly responsible
for the shooting down Of unarmed mill
strikers in Shanghai, but these stud
ents know also that the British gov
eminent forced the opium traffic upon
China, and that much Of China's DO.
litical chaos Of recent years is due to
the decentralization which was created
by that historic crime.
Japan May Follow soviet's Example,
Hatred for Japanese imperialism is
keen enuf, but the leaders of militant
young China realize that Japanese
political interests now point toward
an imitation of the Russian policy OF
handing back stolen goods to China,
They wait to see whether Tokyo will
not surrneder its extra-territorial priv.
ileges as Russia and Germany have
done.
This is no mere religious and ma
tionalistic protest such as was the
Boxer rebellion Of a quarter century
ago. This is a nationwide movement
OF self-determination based ON indus
trial and commercial and political
ideas that are modern. It is a purely
modern movement. It has a power
that may start the yellow race VI
from It's knees to its feet, looking the
white race in the eye, no longer
acknowledging inferiority.
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special to Tho Daily Worker,


CANTON. China June 1O.-The fight
ing which has been going on since
Saturday in a desultory way famed
into intensity today with considerable
casualties resulting from the battle
across the Chukiang river.
Early yesterday four Cantonese gun
boats appeared around the fortified
island of Honan and opened heavy
fire on the Yannanese position on the
bund. The Yunnanese answered. The
gunboats passed along the river to the
Dutch Follies Island, turned and came
back pouring in continuous small can.
non shot and machine gun fire against
the Yannanese. Finally the boats
went out OF sight around the island
OF Honan again.
kRiver Fire Ties Up Steamers
But firing across the river conti-
nues and river steamers are unable
to leave, although crowded with refu-
gees anxious TO escape to Hong Kong,
Business in Canton is mostly sus-
pended Airplanes from Honan prov
ince are circling above the city. The
bund is deserted except for Yuma
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-11
Especial to The DAILY Worker,

PEKING, China, June 10.-The Chi
nese Bankers Association has promi
sed the students to back the effort Ia
spread a boycott Of British and Japan
ese banknotes.
The delegation appointed by fore
ign legations to investigate the Shan.
ghai murder Of students and general
strike, left for Shanghai early yester-
day morning, The conservative
Chinese and those Chinese leaders
who are subsidized by imperialist
money are doing their best to use the
investigation as excuse for advocating
moderation. cessation Of strikes, de-
monstrations and tho boycott. Among
these apologizers is wellington Koo.
Feng Declares Hmself
General Feng Yu-Hslang has circu.
iarizcd all governors of provinces
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-11
BOSSES WANT PASSPORT
SYSTEM AND POWER TO
DEPORT ALIEN WORKERS

NEW YORK, juno 1o.-Ths I'm
migration. committee Of the Nation.
al Association of Manufacturers
wants a scientific immigration law
which will enable big business to
further adjust the flow Of peoples
to America to accommodate Indus
trial needs.
Registration, Systematic Identin.
cation probably by finger printing!
and slmpllfeatlon Of deportation
provided In the bill defeated In last
congress but due to come up agsIr)
are sought by the manufacturers
including Bethlehem Steel, Interna-
tlonal Harvester, v. s. Rubber, etc.
Mobilize the Red Army for Red
Week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-11
Little Belgium's Big
Debt to Be Postponed,
Reduced and Not Paid

WASHINGTON, June 10-Belgtum's
latest experimental cabinet, for her
parliament Is so balanced between
socialists and conservatives that no
PARTY really holds power, has prom
Used to send a commission to Wash
ington in July to talk about her war
debt to the American treasury.
Terms which the American war
debt commission are reported to have
offered to Belgium and Italy include
postponement of actual payments,
with reductions in interest rate and
other allowances which cut the bill
almost in half.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-11
SCOPES RETURNS
. TO DAYTON WITH
MOTLEYl..DEFENSE
barrow, Colby and D. F.
Malone His Counsel
CONTINUED from PAGE y

CONTINUED from Page u
York, will be the lawyers to assist
the home talent defense Of the young
schoolmagter.
The aim of the trial is to heal the
breech between science and religion"
according to the evolution-religion
collaborators connected with the de-
tense.
Scopes expects to be convicted in
Dayton, and his lawyers expect 1t, too.
They are rather hopeful he will be for
1t will then be possible to carry the
case to the supreme court of the
United States and test the constitu-
tionality of the law. An acquittal
would leave nothing for them to ap-
peal.
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other situation.
Savage Slave Drivers.
The Indian sikh is brought from
his exploited land, is paid a trifle
more than a coolie and a club is
placed in his hand. Keep the slaves
down at any cost and champion the
cause Of the foreigner are his orders
and as a result we have primitive
savagery with the blameless Chinese
coolie as the victim.
There hasn't been a day that in
passing along the street haven't
been witness to several atrocious pun
ishments inflicted on Chinese by
these sikh policemen.
Beaten Like Animals or Worse.
have seen a coolie at the head
Of group Of human horses who were
straining and sweating in the vain at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-11
barrow His Lawyer.

NEW YORK, June 10--Clarence Oar
row, noted Chicago attorney, will be
chief counsel for John Thomas Scopes,
Tennessee school teacher indicted for
violating the states anti-evolution
law, it was announced here today.
John Randolph Neal, Of Knoxville,
Tenn, will be known officially as jun
Tor counsel.
1t had not yet been ascertained, 1t
was said, whether Dudley Field Ma
lone, who attended today's meetings,
will be listed oficially as one of
Scopes counsel.
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famous "twenty-one demands" and TO
pave the way to closer, political, eco
nomic and social relations. Hence
Japan will not risk increasing Chin
ese hatred by assuming high-handed
attitude regarding the Shanghai dis
turbances.
Chinese in Japan Protest.
Chinese students here, affected by
the propaganda Of the Shanghai stu.
dents, sent delegation to the foreign
office today, demanding: First, that
Japan change her Tsingtao and
Shanghai consuls; second, that jap
anese employees in Shanghai be pun
ished; third, that Japan pay indemni-
ties for the casualties; fourth, that the
Shanghai concession be abolished, and
fifth, that extra territoriality be abo-
lished.
The first four demands were refus-
ed lately. AS to the fifth. the answer
was that Japan favored II in principle.
The students also objected to the
Punishment Of Chinese laborers from
Japan, which was unsatisfactory an
swered.
Cry For Deportation.
The Japanese press is incensed over
the attitude OF the Chinese students
who are receiving their education
here, demanding that the students
who are spreading anti-Japanese agi-
tatlon among their fellows should be
deported.
Many Chinese students are consi-
dering leaving Japan in body for
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AS WE SEE 1T
Continued from page /.

republic which under social-democra-
tic rule were used to suppress the
workers and not the monarchists.
A MOTHER bill, abolishing the black,
n red and gold banner OF the repub-
lie, missed being carried in the bud
get committee by two votes. OF course
those bills must run the reichstag
gauntlet but there is no doubt but re-
action is in the saddle in Germany for
the time being. And the socialists are
entirely to blame. They began by
numbering Karl Liebknecht and Rosa
Luxembourg, crushing the workers re-
volution and they wind-up by well
coming the Kaiser's agent, Won Hin
denburg, to the presidency.
CALVIN COOLIDGE went to Mime
~ sofa and delivered speech. Who
wrote the speech we do not know
There was nothing remarkable about
it except that such lot of twaddle
could be sponsored by an adult, not
to speak of the president OF big
country. The sycophancy Of the cap
italist press was never shown TO better
advantage than in Its comment on
Coolidge's speech. They praised It full
somely, tho it did not contain one sin
gle idea that does not carry the babbit
stamp. "CaI' was out to make votes
and he pulled every platitude in the
G. o. P. bag. Nothing that he said will
be remembered for twenty four hours
unless real estate boosters should use
some of his compliments to Minnesota
scenery in their advertising.
TIME Chicago Tribune believes that
\ this country is going to fight Japan.
The Tribune scores those who think
the conflict can be avoided and urges
speed in preparing for the encounter.
We must have lots Of poison gas to
make the Japs turn up their toes when
civilization is to be saved again, this
time from the Mikado. But the Tri-
bune does not hate Japan so much
that 1t cannot amord little sympathy
for Toxic because the latter reoogn-
lied Soviet Russia.
| COVIET RUSSIA is represented by a
~ person that looks suspiciously like
Leon Trotsky In a Tribune cartoon.
Japan Is smoking the pipe OF peace
with the Soviet chief but behind the
little yellow man is a gigantic bomb
with lighted fuse. Strangely enough,
this bomb does not represent a revolu-
ton in Japan, but in China, where
Japan has no more right to be than
has the Sultan OF Mumbo-Jumbo. Per-
haps If the United States recognized
the Soviet Union, there might be a
revolution in Cuba or even in Mexicol
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-11
SELFDETERNINATION THE CRY
OF YOUNG CHINA AS WESTERN
POWERS QUAIL BEFORE UPHEAVAL
BY LAURENCE TODD
Federated Press staff correapondsnt)

WASHINGTON June l0Modern education
colleges the behind
that millions
their world politics
mperias Washington
after dispatch Shanghai
sailors had "olaaned OUT Chinese
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-11
JAPAN DISCLAIMS AGGRESSION;
u. S. GENERAL SAYS POSSIBILITY
OF RUSSIAN WAR RIDICULOUS

The foreign ONCE categorca denies reports
minister Shidehara
Chinese threatening que the
would The foreign office
with other
policy studied Cancellation
in China against the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-11
BRITISH IMPERIALISM IN CHINA
EXPOSED AS CHASTITY BRUTAL
EXPLOITATION OF THE WORKERS
BY slNRAD.

SHANGHAI ChinaCBy MalBrish o
polio
ing the settlement Time
Of the Chinese coolies perpetrated.
foreigner Briher Japanese
Americ bu exists also
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-11
RIFFIAN TAKE /
FRENCH POSTS
IN new ATTACK
PGinleUe Hurries to Fez
by Airplane

lContlnued from page ~
army In Morocco continues succesS.
fully, and after a complete silence Of
"a hours, the war office announces
that, "The situation has suddenly be.
come worse In the last forty.elght
hours"
The French left wing has been vto-
lently attacked and driven back in
the region OF OueEzan by the Yebala.
natives.
Premier Painleve has announced
that he is flying to Morocco by afr
plane Immediately. He was to depart
today.
The four blockhouses at Skier have
been captured from the French by the
Rifflans.
The fortress Of the French ut
Astar was captured by the Rifnans.
The commander. a sergeant major,
was killed in the attack.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-11
WILLIMANTIC TEXTILE STRIKERS
BEING EVICTED FROM TENEMENTS

HARTFORD epespe hot weather. strikers Will
mantle
being oven
their strike ranks Intact
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-11
France Alarmed

PARIS, June 1O--Alarmed at thein
tensity Of the opposition to Franco
British accord aroused in Great Brit
ain, the French foreign ONCE today
attempted to set the vehicle Of peace
pact negotiations back On Its wheels
and in smooth transit.
A foreign Office spokesman, In ocn-
ference with foreign correspondents,
denied that Great Britain had &C
tually placed its army and feet at
Frances disposal in the event Of as
gresisons in the Rhine.
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Bic shipment to South Russia.

NEW YORK CITY-one thousand
and thirty tractors and other agricul-
tural machinery for Soviet Russia
were shipped by the Amtorg Trading
corporation on the s. S. Sorvard,
which sailed last Friday for the Black
Sea ports of Odessa, Novorossik, and
Batoum. The cargo which is valued
at $1,200,000 includes also tourist cars,
motor trucks, motorcycles. binder
twine, leather and oil well supplies.
Distribute a bundle every day
during Red Week of June 15 to 81.
Patronize our advertisers.
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Lodge Directory

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meets End and 4th Tuesdays of each
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North and Lyndale,, at $50 p. NJ,
Minneapolis, MINI. All Elks in good
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BILL LOST IN MICHIGAN

Lansing. Mich, May 2S.-A meas
ure prohibiting inter-marriages In
this state was lost. No action was
taken on the measure by the State
Legislature before its adjournment.
The N. A. A. c. p. Is believed to have
been. responsible for the death of the
bill.