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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-24
Freedom in France

1t is interesting Panleve premier
who responsible for bringing Caaux the
accused Of carrying illegal with the Germans during
the also the the leading
munists the charge reasonable with Ran tribes
who defending their native land against French imperial
Paineve called
socialist party France and the old left bloc which placed
Premier Herriot bloc
socaed but like Herot situation shown
that when the interests French Imperialism conflict with his
professions of loyalty to what vaguely called liberty he acts exactly
like member of the nationalist group of Poincare.
claims big North Africa The preda-
also have their share While Spain wrestling with
the Ran the French looked with expectant eyes, hoping
SPANS loss would be their gain But when the Spanish left
with precariou Mediterranean
the French they selecting
French colonial efficiency rather than Spanish incompetence What
they wanted from the mperiaists "get hell
The French impera had long boosted of their
cOlonss and of their ability make their subjects connted with
their rule But the Ran campaign expods that myth
effectively After the Ran had disposed of the Spanish the
unconquerabe army showing clean pair
heels the Spanish did This caused the French mperass
at home to sit up and take notice
Then Paneve was forced to come to the defense of the i'm
perasts take the Attic committed program
home and abroad he trip the hostes
back with the decision that France must fight
prestige in Morocco The only opposition the
lists The socialists either supported him like towards abaned
from voting
Communists the beginning have carried on vigorous
fight against the the Rans They openly called
ders to shoot those people only struggling
freedom from foreign rule The Communists did other things
showed by documentary proof that while the Rans fighting
Span former Premier POncare negotiating with AbdeKrm
Riffan leader
So serious was the crisis created by the exposure Of the Com
muns that the alleged left of Paneve decided
the Communist agitation by hook
which contains the wartime traitor Caaux minister
bounding the Communists for cOurageOusy defending
of the Rhans to freedom from foreign domination The
communicated with the mighty German empire time when the
fate capitalist France hung the balance with good
charge the Communists with treason for taking the side of small
people struggling right difference
is that Caaux in bargaining with Germany during the
the of group of French capitalists the
emencau forces the agents of another opposing
Communists the other hand the foes of the entire system
insist the unconditional withdrawal French Imperialism
Morocco.
The action of the Communists in France in with
policy of the Communists in all countries who recognize national
boundaries The socialists of France like their prototypes
countries have body and soul the
bourgeosie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-24
BY TANG SHIN SHE.

WTHEN last year Tuan She Sui was
w still in Tientsin, he promised to
fulfill the peoples demand and call
peoples assembly. At the same time
he invited Sun Vat Sen to Picking to,
discuss with him the formation of
this assembly. Sun Vat Sen issued
public proclamation, claiming that the
peoples assembly should be composed
OF all strata of the population, chiefly
of course, of peasants and workers, as
they form the majority. The chief
duties of this assembly were to be:
the repeal Of unequal and partial
treaties, the demand for the return
Of leasehold territory to China, the
abolition of military governors, dis
armament on large scale and the
setting up Of constitution. Previous
to the peoples assembly a prepare
tory conference was to take place
which in the same way was to be
composed of all strata of the popula-
ton and was Immediately to take
over the government.
When however Tuan She Sui came
to Picking in November, he immediate
ly declared that he recognized the
treaties, that is to say that he imme-
diately disregarded Sun Vat Sens
most important proposition. At the
end of December, Tuan She Sui an
nounced that he would not call pre-
paratory conference, but reorgan-
ization conference, in which the fol-
lowing persons might take part: 1,
persons who had rendered the re-
public great service; 2, military chiefs
of the anti-Shili parties; 8, military
and civil governors of the individual
provinces and districts; 4, politicians
and scholars invited by Tuan She
SUI himself, their number not to ex-
coed 30. The most important tasks
of the conference were to be: 1, the
passing of resolutions with regard to
the promised peoples assembly: 2,
passing of resolutions regarding
the reorganization of the army; 8,
regulation of financial questions; 4,
discussion on questions which were
still to be put by the government.
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The Picking Reorganization Conference

THUS the reorganization conference
4 began on Feb. 10, and sat unin-
terruptedly for a month, was then
prolonged by 20 days and IN the mean
time adjourned once for fortnight.
Up to April 16, i.e., four days before
the end of the conference, not a
single resolution had been passed. All
the business was done during the last
four days. April 1920. Among other
things the plans were accepted for
the formation of a military commits
sion and finance commission and for
a bill for the calling of a peoples
assembly. Tuan She Sui was mainly
interested in the last point being set
tied. He would have nothing to do
with the finance question and that of
military affairs. Even the two great
military chiefs. Tchang Tso Lin and
Fen Yu Hsiang were opposed to IT,
When the regulation of military af-
fairs was to be discussed, Tuan She
Sui presented an army list of 1891
A commission Of enquiry was then
formed which demanded that every
general present should himself state
the number Of his troops. Tuan She
Sui however openly protested against
this proposal. Thus a regulation or
reorganization was out of the ques-
ton and the matter was handed over
to a commission which against con.
sisted only Of governors and generals
who were given no time limit within
which their business must be COM
pleted.
The adherents Of the federative re-
public proposed two resolutions. The
first was to depose the present and
appoint a new provisional govern
ment. The second was that the con-
ference should agree to sne form OF
the federative republic. This caused
Tuan She Sui to get cold See;. FEAR
ing that the conference would take
a course unfavorable to him, he i'm
mediately issued decree that a SEN
ate should be formed, again consist
ing of military chiefs and governors.
Two special tasks of the senate were
to be that of raising internal and ex-
ternal loans and increasing the taxes.
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Tchang Tso Lin also violently OPP
posed the second motion of the feders
ahsts for he wants to unite China
under his dictatorship and completely
to exclude all other military chiefs.
On account of this proposal his dele
gates withdrew for short time from
the conference. The adherents Of the
federative republic were not only in
significant in number, tnelr leaders
are far away from Picking largely in
the southwest), for which reason both
propositions had to be dropped.
THE law for the formation of the
4 peoples assembly had been
worked out by Tuan She Sui himself;
the conference only agreed to it. The
whole law consists of 80 paragraphs,
the most important of which are sum-
med up as follows:
50 The peoples assembly<must consent
to the constitution and to the law for
the carrying out of the constitution.
The drafts for the constitution ana
for the law are worked out by a spe-
cial commission which will be COM
posed as follows: each civil and mill
tary governor Of province anG each
governor of separate district can
nominate representative. Tuan She
Sui can nominate 20 persons. Four
representatives of Mongolia and three
of Tibet will be admitted. The COM
mission must complete it's work in,
at the outside. three months. The fol
lowing are entitled to send delegates
to the peoples assembly: nine prov
inces 16 delegates each, four PROVING
es Is each, one 10, one 20, two 20
each, two "a each, one 26, two n
each. Five districts send eight dele
gates each, Mongolia 30, Tibet 16,
Tsinhai five and the Chinese living
abroad 16. All men of at least rs
years Of age can have a, vote and can
be elected. The following are ex-
cluded: l, those who have lost civil
rights; 2, the mentally diseased; 8,
illiterate persons.
THE composition of the commission
4 shows that the draft constitution
was drawn up by militarists. Since
women are not enfranchised, 200 mil.
lion Chinese are excluded right away;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-24

WTHEN this decree became known,
W the people vehementIy opposed
it, raising the objection that this
would only be military conference.
Sun Vat Sen sent letter to Tuan
She Sui in which he said that the
name of the assembly was irrelevant,
it could equally we'll be called reor-
ganization conference, but representa-
tives of all strata OF the population
must take part in it. Tuan She Sui
being a clever man, neither accepted
nor rejected this proposal. In his
character Of representative of the
people, he invited to the conference
economic and sociaI organizations
from all the provinces as experts.
Thereupon Sun Vat Sen at the end of
January, issued a decree that no one
from his party was to attend the con
ference. Consequently the confer
ence which had been fixed for Feb
4, could indeed be opened, but could
not sit, as none Of the delegates who
were Sun Vat Sens adherents ap-
peared. Tuan She Sui, in all haste,
nominated other delegates and on
Feb. 10, the conference began.
Various parties were formed among
the members of the reorganization
conference: 1, Tschang Tso Lin's
party, about SO persons; 2, Feng Yu
Hsiang's party, rs persons; 8, the
Anfuists (Tuan She Sui's partly, "a
persons; 4, partisans Of the federative
republic, 20 persons. All the delegates
with the exception of the anfuists, re.
garded this conference as merely a
farce Of Tuan She Sui. Feng Yu
Hsiang and Tchang Tso Lin there
fore were only passive participants;
the adherents Of the federative re.
public however directly attacked
Tuan She Sui in order to gain advan
tages for themselves. Tuan She Sui
handled Tchang Tso Lin especially
with great care; as president of the
reorganization conference he had
nominated Tchau Orl Sun-former
imperial governor Of Manchuria-
whom Tchang Tso Lin especially re
vered, because Tchau Orl Sun had
accepted him, the ex-robber chief as
non-commissioned officer in his
army.
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but even of the adult men only 10
per cent have the vote. Yor 30 per
cent of the workers and peasants can
not read or write. =
Thus this peoples assembly will al
SO consist exclusively Of military
chiefs and their lackeys; 1t will be
exactly the contrary to what Sun Vat
Sen had planned. At the beginning
of the conference, the people protest
ed very violently against it and form
ed associations for resisting Tuan She
Sui's proposals and for carrying out
those of Sun Vat Sen. The Chinese
people however have learned a good
lesson from this conference: it is i'm
possible to negotiate with military
chiefs; only a great revolution can
sufficiently emphasize the demands of
the people. This is why no great i'm
portance is attacked to the resolutions
passed at the reorganization confer
ence, but on the other hand nobody is
urging the calling of the peoples as
sembly proposed by Sun Vat Sen, but
the people, in the first place the Kuo
Min Tang and the Communists, are
feverishly preparing for a national
revolution against Imperialism and
against militarism.
TlUAN SHE SUI is not only trying
L to win popularity with the mill
.tary chiefs, he is also trying to sat
isfy the lackeys who are out OF a
job and the camp-followers, by form
ing the senate. the peoples assembly,
commissions and again commissions
and giving them positions in them. He
thinks that If these people are salts
fed with him, and il he keeps on 3
good footing with the generals, he
may remain at the helm for long
time and possibly become president.
But his policy" proves to be a mis-
taken one. Not only Tchang Tso Lin,
but also Feng Yu Hsiang declare that
they are no longer his partisans.
China is today in the same era as II
was last spring when Tsao Kun was
president. 1t is generally said that
Tuan She Sui will soon be overthrow
and that the next tool In Picking will
be Ii Yuan Hang, who has already
been repeatedly turned out or the
! presidential chair.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-24
NEW YORK l. L. G. w. LOCALS,
UNJUSTLY SUSPENDED, ISSUE AN
APPEAL TO UNION MEMBERSHIP

Such cynical disregard Of the interest
of the membership we could not toler.
ate.
Official Aid to Open Shop
I'VE called the attention Of the
joint board to the fact that the dress
makers agreement, which gives the
best guarantee for union conditions, is
not being enforced to the slightest de-
gree. In violation of this agreement.
the jobbers are freely continuing to
send their work out to the open shops.
Our members remain with the paper
agreement and the bundles are being
made in the 1900 open shops, which
the joint board made no effort to or
ganize.
ut was our aim and intention at all
times to defend the interests OF the
membership, and tear down the mask
of the officialdom of the joint board,
and expose them in their true color.
These exposures before the woe mas
SEES Of the membership, the Joint
board could no longer tolerate. Here
tofore they had been accustomed to
fool the membership unhampered, but
when met with the opposition OF our
three locals, which would not remain
quiet by any threats or intimidations.
they decided to shut our mouths by
force.
Expulsion to Control Convention
THE convention OF tho internation-
al is approaching; our sworn leaders
are beginning to prepare the ground
for maintaining themselves m power,
and have therefore resorted to the old
methods of expulsion.
"The recent decision or our local
unions in opposing the tax Ievies BY
the general executive board has added
fuel to the fire. The Yasr convention
OF the international increased the per
capita, tax from 10c to 15c. This In
,rease, ammounting to thousands of
dollars, is evidently not enough to de-
fray the expenses incurred by these
office holders. The international ON
cials, contrary to the decision of the
convention, decided to levy new
tax on our membership.
Our locals vigorously protested
against this new tax and challenged
their right to impose 1t on the mem
bership. We proved that accordras
to the constitution a tax can be lev lied
only in the case of strike of Which
we have no knowledge at the present
time. Our opposition to this tax en-
ragged the machine and they decided
to break our locals.
while in the capitalist press. they
play up the issue of "The Communist
Danger" Justice of June TO-. Page
., openly states that our locals are
In danger OF expulsion because OF re-
fusing to pay the unconstitutional
tax.
Fellow Workers! We are fighting
your fight.
DO not permit this clique to stran-
gle our union.
Demand that our union be under
the control and responsible to the
large membership. We are working out
plans to fight for these issues and
shall inform you how to assist us in
this struggle.
Down with the union breakers!
Down with the misleaders, who are
seeking personal advantageg
Long Live our union OF the work.
ersl e*
EXECUTIVES BOARDS OF
LOCALS 2, Q AND a."
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We predicted that Dr. Norman Thomas would emit socialist
guge Of satisfaction Calvin Cooldges platudes
lie did IL in the following ITO his credit President Coolidge
has done something against this mtarc pressure
navy from eevatne the the ships He reported
aerse to the Australian trip He refused day
into defense day He wholesome advice the peace
the proper attitude other nations in addressing the graduating
class at Annapolis" And then he threatened Mexico with
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never REFUSED
TO Be TRIED,
SAYS HYMAN
Only Another Trick of
Sigman Gang

NEW YORK CITY, June 22.-Deny-
ing that the suspended Members of
the three |. L. G. w. locals, No. 2, 9
and % had refused to stand trial as
claimed by the Sigman gang, Louis
Hyman, spokesman to the joint COM
mittee of action of the three, locals,
charges that the trial board had first
postponed the trial week, and then
had attacked the suspended members
for failing to appear" on the original
date. "A, IL
ut is an illustration" he said, "of
the joint boards whole campaign that
they should come out with a,fpublic
statement that we refused to, face the
special grievance committed They
postponed this trial; we are willing
and ready to appear whenever they
want us, although we know that the
trial committee is packed with our
enemies and this whole thing is
staged for propaganda purposes and
not because of actual complaints
against us.
members welcomed" With
BIaekjacks
President Sigman's rosy picture
of activities at the headquarters of
locals and 8, which his agents cap
tured by force and now hold, is just
as far from the truth as his other
statements. If any member of those
locals dares to appear there, he is i'm
mediately set upon by thugs and
thrown out without moments hesi-
tation. gc-s
These locals are simply not func-
tioning at an. Our mass meetings held
last Tuesday prove that the member
ship is back of us 100 per cents and
all the joint board holds Is the empty
she'll of the local organizations. 3l
Bulk Of Members Counted Out "
1T is useless for President Sigman
to claim that our union has anything
approaching proportional representa-
ton to conventions. Our constitution
itself works against this, and when
ever there seems chance OF having
the present system changed, the Off
GERS of the machine employ every
ruthless method possible to unseat
delegates and prevent us from put.
ting a more democratic system in
force. ~
Machine or Membership Control
"As we have maintained from the
beginning Of this fight, the whole pro.
'
cials who have for years been usurp-
ing power and depriving the workers
OF control of their own union. All the
charges that have been made against
us are simply blum to hide the real
issues, and they themselves now ack-
nowledge this. II is a question OF con.
troll OF the union-control by the ma
chine. or control by the members
themselves"
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CONTINUED from page u


which deal with the May Day meeting
arranged by the unions, are mere pre-
exits and camouflage. But underneath
Ill the struggle runs the vital issue
If the bread-and-butter demands of
he workers versus the policy of sur
ender to, the bosses Of their national
leaders,"
There is the issue or enforcement
of the dressmakers' agreement. Last
year an agreement was signed which
partially granted the demands form
ulated by. the left wing forces and
adopted by the reactionaries at the
Boston convention to cover up their
expulsion policy against the left wing.
The membership was suspicious of
this agreement, because the bosses
agreed to it without a fight; when,
therefore, the agreement was never
enforced, it became evident to all that
there had been a secret arrangement
with the bosses to that effect, which
allowed the agreement to be used as
tigleaf for Sigman and Co., while it
cost the employers nothing. The de-
mand that the agreement shall be en-
forced has been constantly. growing,
and the refusal of the Sigman ma
chine to do anything to this end, to-
gether with the militant struggle put
up by the officials of Local %, to force
action, has been one of the motive
forces behind the entire upheaval in
the needle trades.
Surrender in the Governors Com
mission.
When Hillquit, socialist attorney for
the Sigman machine, filed the notori
GUS brief to the governors commits.
sion, surrendering all the vital de.
mands of the cloakmakers that had
been placed before that body-only
then, in May, did the workers realize
the truth of the warning given them
long ago by the left wing, that the
governors commission was only a
screen behind which Sigman C Co
could surrender to the employers.
The principal problem before the
union in the industry today is the
question of control of relations be
tween jobbers and ub-manufacturers
The growth of the contracting system
whereby the jobbers distribute theii
production among union and non
union shops Unfortunately is under
mining the whole power of the union
To meet this the union has adopted
the left wing demand to make all
jobbers responsible for their sub
manufacturers, and this demand wai
presented to the governors commits
sion along with the other union de
mands. II is this central and vita
point that the Hillquit brief sur
renders.
On page Of the brief Hillquit says
speaking for Sigman:
1.-THE union furthermore does moi
propose that the jobber have all OF
his work done by steady sub-manu
facturers. He is to designate a reason
able number of such sub-manufae
turers and to provide them with work
in the first instance. Having done so
he may distribute the surplus Of his
work to any number Of sro-manufae
turers toward whom he has assumed
no obligations"
Surrender Of the 4o.Hour Week.
One Of the fundamental demands OF
the workers is for the 4O-hour week
The Sigman machine has had no in.
tention of ffghting for this demand.