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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-23
Freedom in France

1t is interesting Paineve the French premier
who responsible for bringing Caaux into the government
accused Of carrying illegal with the Germans during
the war is also the man to order the arrest of leading French Com
munss the charge reasonable conduct with the Ran tribes
who defending their native land against French imperial
Paneye called socialist holds
socialist party France and the old left bloc which placed
Painleve member of the left bloc
socad German situation he has shown
that the Imperialism
professions Of loyalty to what vaguely called liberty he acts exactly
like member Of the nationalist group of Poincare
France claims big section of North Africa The other preda
also have their share While Spain wrestling with
the Ran the French looked with expectan eyes, hoping
SPANS loss would be their gain But when the Spanish left
with toehod Mediterranean Rans
the French and showed that they selecting
French colonial efficiency rather than Spanish incompetence What
they wanted from the mperialists ge hell
The French impera had long boosted of their
coonss and of their ability to make their subjects cOntened with
their rule But the present Ran campaign expodes myth
effectively After the Rans had disposed of the Spanish the
unconquerabe army showing clean pair
heels the Spanish did This caused the French mpea
at home to sit up and take notice.
Paneve was forced to come to the defense of the i'm
perialists peace
at home and abroad he trip the hostties
came back with the decision that France must fight her
prestige in Morocco The only opposition
lists The socialists either supported him like abane
from voting
The beginning have carried on vigorous
fight against the the Rhans They openly called
ders shoot those people who only struggling
freedom from foreign things They
showed by documentary proof that while the Rans fghn
SPAIN former Premier POncare negotiating with AbdeKrm
Rifian leader
serious created by the exposure of the Com
munss that the alleged left Paineve
the Communist agitation hook
contains the wartime traitor Caaux as finance minister
bounding the Communists courageOuy defending
of the Rfans freedom from foreign
communicated with the mighty German empire when
fate capitalist France the balance
charge the Communists with for taking the side
people struggling for the right sedeterminaon
Is that Caiux bargaining with Germany during
the agent of group of French capitalists Ponicare-
Cemencau forces the of another opposing group
Communists the other hand
unconditional imperialism from
Morocco
The action of the Communists in France is in harmony with
policy of the Communists recognize national
boundaries The socialists of France like their prototypes
countries have body soul the
bourgcoisie.
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By TANG shin she.

M1HEN last year Tuan She Sui was
w still in Tientsin, he promised to
fulfill the peoples demand and call a
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 a
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 a large scale and the
setting up of a 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-Shii 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 Peking Reorganization Conference

WTHEN this decree became known,
w the people vehemently 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 social organizations
from all the provinces as experts.
Thereupon Sun Vat Sen at the end Of
January, issued decree tnat 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: l, Tschang Tso Lin's
party, about SO persons; 2, Feng Yu
Hsiang's party, % persons; 8, the
Anfuists (Tuan She Sui's party, "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
a non-commissioned officer in his
army.
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THU the reorganization conference
Il began on Feb 10, and sat unin-
terruptedly for month, was then
prolonged by 20 days and In the mean
time adjourned once for fortnight.
Up to April 16, ie., 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
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 1919!
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 new provisional govern
ment. The second was that the con-
ference should agree to Jne form OF
the federative republic. This caused
Tuan She Sui to get cold See,. Fear
ing that the conference would take
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 Jne taxes
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Tchang Tso Lin also violently OPP
posed the second motion of the feder-
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 a short time from
the conference. The adherents of the
federative republic were not only in
significant in number, their 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
l. peoples assembly had been
worked out by Tuan She Sui himself;
the conference only agreed to it. The
whole law consists of 30 paragraphs,
the most important of which are sum-
med up as follows:
The peoples assembly must consent
to the constitution and to the law for
the carrying out of the constitution
The drafts for the constitution anc
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 its work in,
at the outside, three months. The fol-
lowing are entitled to send delegates
to the peoples assembly: nine prov
inces Is delegates each, four PROVING
es Is each, one 10, one 20, two %
each, two "a each, one 20, two 81
each. Five districts send eight dele
gates each, Mongolia 30, Tibet is,
Tsinhai five. and the Chinese living
abroad Is. ALI men of at least %
years Of age can have 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
L shows that the draft constitution
was drawn up by. militarists Since
women are not enfranchised, zoo mil
lion Chinese are excluded right away;
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but even of the adult men only 10
per cent have the vote, yor 80 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; it 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 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
feYerishly preparing for a national
revolution against Imperialism and
against militarism.
TUAN SHE SUI is not only trying
4 to win popularity with the mill
tary chiefs, he is also trying to sat
isfy the lackeys who are out OF
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 il these people are salts
fled with him, and if he keeps on a
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 It
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 ouL or the
presidential chair,
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never REFUSED
1855
TO Be TRIED,
SAYS LYMAN
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. e., 9
and % had refused to stand trial as
claimed by the Sgman 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.
ut is an illustration" he said, "of
the joint boards whole campaign that
they should come out with a public
statement that we refused to face the
special grievance committee. 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
BlaekJaeks
President Sigman's rosy picture
of activities at the headquarters of
locals and 9, which his agents cap
tured by force and now hold, is just
as far from the truth as his other
statements. II any member of those
locals dares to appear there, he is i'm
mediately set upon by thugs and
thrown out without a moments hest
tation.
These locals are simply not func-
tioning at all. Our mass meetings held
last Tuesday prove that the member
ship is back of us 100 per cent, and
all the joint board holds is the empty
she'll of the local organizations.
Bulk Of Members Counted Out
ut 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 more democratic system in
force.
Machine or Membership Control
"As we have maintained from the
beginning of this fight, the whole pro-
biem is to curb the Joint board Off
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 bluff 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" gef Ff
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is still kosher) and Juliet Stuart
Poynts, who is an honorary member
of Local 20 and had been honored
with special resolution or thanks for
her good service in the local as well
as the international. The program Of
speakers was printed six days before
the meeting, which proves that we
made no secret of this meeting. In
the case Of Local 2 Perlstein, the SUI
pervisor, signed check in payment
for the hall.
THE official charges are so sense
less and ridiculous that it is not
worth discussing it.
What are the true causes for this
shameful suspension? Why such sud
den and vicious attacks? What are
the real facts?
For a period of six months, our
three local unions had been a bitter
pill for the officialdom to swallow.
We stubbornly refused to remain quiet
about the misdeeds committed against
the interests of our membership. We
put up vigorous fight against the
increase in dues, which was carried
thru over the heads of the member
ship.
Locals Opposed Hired Gangs
I'VE have carried on a bitter fight
against the old methods OF organiza-
ton work, conducted by professional
strong-arm squads, and nave succeed
ed in drawing our membership into
the organization work. These activi-
ties have endangered the domination
and control of the joiny BOARD Off
Gals, who mainly depend on these
elements to maintain themselves in
power.
I'VE have carried on a fight against
fake stoppages, which result in demon
alizing the ranks of the workers, and
in squandering great fortunes of our
hard earned union funds.
Where are the 100000?
I'VE demanded an accounting for
the half of million dollars spent dur
ing the last stoppage in the cloak In
dustry.
I'VE were informed that the Joint
board has debts amounting to 100000
and is financially bankrupt and
therefore new tax was to be levied.
We emphatically declared our oppo-
sition to placing any more financial
burdens on our membership.
I'VE issued call for a conference
Of the three locals in order to de-
crease the weekly dues to 4Oc. The
joint board forbid the holding of such
a conference and compelled our locals
to collect SOC. dues.
I'VE then decided to abolish special
payments for the sick benefit fund.
This decision threw the ofiicialdom
into a panic.
ITO seryehhe interests OF the mem.
bers, to tighten their burdens consti.
tutes a great crime in the eyes Of our
officials.
The Underground Socialist Treason
Our three locals undertook fight
against the recent betrayals on the
part OF the joint board After con.
ference committee had worked out
definite demands to the Governors
commission, a secret meeting was
held, without the knowledge OF the
representatives Of three or the largest
locals in the international. This con.
ference mobiles the demands IN such
manner, that they became but mere
shadows of the original program.
IEs,s.-.. -l
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NEW YORK |. 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
1--WE 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 oficialdom 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
1.-THE convention of the information
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 fast convention
of the international increased the per
capita tax from 10c. to 15c. This in
crease, ammounting to thousands of
dollars, is evidently not enough to de-
fray the expenses incurred by these
office holders. The international on
Gals, 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 menu
bership. We proved that accordiK
to the constitution tax can be leYe1odS
only in the case of a 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. 'a
While in the capitalist press, they
play up the issue of "The Communist
Danger" Justice Of June 10. Page
3, openly states that our locals are
in danger Of expulsion because OF re-
fusing to pay the demonstrations
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 breakersi
Down with the misleaders, who are
seeking personal advantages!
Long Live our union OF the work
ersl
"ExEcuTIvEs BOARDS or
LOCALS 2, . AND "a
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which deal with the May Day meeting
arranged by the unions, are mere pre-
exits and oamoufiage. But underneath
al the struggle runs the vital issue
Of the bread-and-butter demands of
The workers versus the policy of sur
'ender to the bosses of their national
leaders.
There is the issue OF 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 G. 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 sub-manufacturer
The growth of the contracting system,
whereby the jobbers distribute their
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 was
presented to the governors commits
sion along with the other union de-
mands. II is this central and vital
point that the Hillquit brief sur.
renders.
On page 8 of the brief Hillqult says.
speaking for Sigman:
"The union furthermore does not
propose that the iobber have all of
his work done by steady sub-manu-
facturers. He is to designate 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 surpIus Of his
work to any number Of srb-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 40-hour week.
The Sigman machine has had no in
tention Of fighting for this demand.