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China on the March

From Canton to Pekin the against
perialism.
That learning thru the unsatisfactory medium of cap
taist press correspondents great historical evnta drive for
complete freedom foreign capitalist Nominations the part
the largest single nation in the be doubted
government the dsarming all troops
the the withdrawal their gnboa the
students workers Of Shanghai meeting where $4,000
sembed adopt resolution for general and nationwide strike
punished Chinese
strike and tie up all foreign shipping
The Chinese people, 43OOO0O strong the Behind
them stand the 1600O00 workers of Soviet Russia
Since Russian revolution 1917 there
supreme Importance the hundreds millions ensaved
colonial peoples and to the worlds working class We however
without any exaggeraon say the beginning the of
perialism in the Far East is in sight
The immediate question is
the imperat reconcile their bitter antagonisms
present united military front the Chinese liberation
ment?
Is it to be peace in the Pacific
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NORWAY HOPES
FOR j. S. AID IN
ARCTIC SEARCH

OSLO, Norway, June II. = Nor.
wegian friends of Captain Road
Amundsen still were hopeful today
that the United States will aid in the
search in the polar region for the
missing Amundsen-Ellswor NORTH
Pole flyers.
There is a possibility a sea expe-
dition may go north prepared to re-
main all winter in the Arctic and be
equipped with sledges to search for
Amundsen. 1t would be desirable
that hydroplanes be included for re-
connoitering
This was brought out today in COM
ment by the Norwegian newspaper
Tidens, which discussed the refusal
of Secretary of the Navy Wilbur to
allow air craft to join the several re.
lief expeditions.
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The EnsIaven1ent Of China

TWO weeks before Baron Kato had
4 made the statement quoted above,
the London Times had said:
It should be said at once that the
Japanese Intervention has not taken
place without full consultation with
Great Britain.
Five weeks later (September 25)
the Times stated further;
We appealed to our ally In the
terms Of the treaty, and she has
answered that appeal with the 10y
atty we have Learned to expect Of
her. Japan had no desire to enter
the war. She has done so, the en-
peror and his ministers tell US, BE-
CAUSE SHE COULD NOT BREAK
HER PROMISES. Emphasis ours.)
DUT according to diplomat. author
~ Of 1.-THE Fall of Tsingtao" under
the pen name of Jefferson Jones, who
was in Toxic at the time and In pos
session of the facts, Japan on August
2, told the British government that
she was willing ITO put In force the
AngIo-Japanese alliance"
Five days later, August 7, the Bri-
tish ambassador in Toxic handed to
the foreign Office at Toxic a request
that Japan join In the European war. "
So far the record, shows that the
opportunity to proceed against Ger
many in China was welcomed by both
Great Britain and Japan. One was
ready to ask aid; the other was walt
ing anxiously for the, request, waiting
anxiously that she asked to be asked.
pUT there are other references
- whose evidence is still stronger in
support of the contention that the
declaration of war on Germany by
Japan and the seizure of German
leased territory by military measures
which violated every known rule of
international law, was a joint con-
spiracy on the part of Great Britain
and China, directed at both Germany
and China.
X. K. Kawakami himself a Japanese
and defender of Japanese foreign pol
ICY writing in the Atlantic Monthly
for November, 1914, said
What caused Downing Street to
Invite Japanese cooperation is not
clearly known to the outside world.
But the Japanese press Is in all
probability, right, when II says that
Japan and England were OBLIGED to
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The Rifian Advance

The Rans attacking the French expedOnary forces in
Morocco mile front Pemer Paneve
of inspection The French have been forced number Of their
stronghods and evidently retiring in many sectors
The remarks Of Paineve quoted in dispatches shed much light
the attitude of French Imperialism He said
the RIhans their proclaimed
ton Of taking and with
relations will o
enemies eolIaborators.
This quite clear to and the sturdy fight the Rans
ting shows that they clear the matter 1t that
if the Rn will surrender their country the French expoers
normal relations that is the unhampered robbery
them viii continue They will be "aowed" submit kind
of servude the French mperasts desire enforce This is what
is meant by accepting the Rfans "collaborators"
The Rans have had plenty of experience with the
application of this policy first by Spain and then
fed with and while probably having knowledge
role of colonial peoples in final stage of capitalism" the
reca standpoint they damned good shots have definite
ideas to who the enemy is
These hard riding close shooting reading
ribesmen giving French Imperialism the it's life
for them
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act promptly In order to Illustrate
the German scheme to transfer
klaocho to the Chinese government
before Germany was compelled to
surrender It at the point Of the
sword. Had Germany succeeded In
carrying out this scheme she would
still have enjoyed, In virtue of Ar
tlole Five Of the kIaoohow conVen-
tlon of 1898, the privilege of seour-
Ing In some future time "a more
suitable territory" In China. This
was exactly the condition which the
allies did not want to see establish
ed In China. IT., on the other hand,
Germany was forced to abandon
klaochow by the arbltrament of the
sword, China would no longer be
under obligation to "cede to Ger
many more suitable place.
T EST some of our readers get the
IL mistaken impression from the last
sentence quoted that Japan took Kiao-
chow so that China would be relieved
Of the necessity Of ceding to Germany
"a more suitable territory" in other
words, that Great Britain and Japan
went to war on Germany in China for
China's good, let us see what Japan
actually did.
To attack Tsingtao the Japanese
landed troops at Lungkow-not a Bri-
fish or German but Chinese port
and marched them $50 miles across
Shantung peninsula Chinese terri
tory.
Bodies Of Japanese troops made
detours, occupying cities and towns
Of the province wide Of the direct
line Of march. Wherever they went,
the Japanese assumed control of the
country, means of communication,
posts and teIegraphs; and subject
ed the Chinese population to many
hardshlps, IndIgntles and depriva-
tlons, which were observed and re-
ported by American and British
missionaries In that region.
(Thomas F. Willard, "our Eastern
question:, rage 1OI.)
Japan then, made war on China as
well as on Germany; made war on a
neutral power just as Germany did in
the case Of Belgium and in co-opera-
ton with the troops of the same gov
eminent that made the violation of
Belgian neutrality a pretext for war
on Germany.
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WRITING in the New Republic,
w March 8, 1920, John Dewey says:
Japanese troops overran the prov
Ince before they made any serious
attempt to capture Tsngtao. 1t Is
only slight exaeeeratIon to say
that they took the "Chlnese" TsInan
before they took the German Using
tao.
But why did Japan overrun Shang-
tung province and seize Tsinan2 Be-
cause Tsinan was the terminus Of the
Tsinan-Tsingtao railway.
We quote Willard again:
Japan's seizure of the entire Tsln-
an-Tslnatao Railway was not nee
essary military measure, as was pre-
tended but was POLITICAL move.
The seeming aoqulescenee Of Great
Britain with this move give Il
added Importance. These considera-
lions make this question very slen-
ficant to China; and also significant
to all foreign investments existing
In China now, and those which may
hope to get q legitimate foothold In
China hereafter. (Emphasls in the
Originally Aw
GREAT BRITAIN had the single
~ purpose of disposing of Germany
permanently as rival in China and
Of wiping out the German empire.
Japan cared nothing about crushing
Germany in Europe nor did she feel
an enmity towards Germany as ma
ton. We have referred before to the
whole affair as "cold blooded" plan
conceived SO far as Japan was con-
cerned, without animosity towards
anyone but China.
This is borne out by the manner in
which the attack on the German for
tiications at Tsingtao was conducted
From an Oriental standpoint the
siege Of Tslnutao will always stand
out as remarkably free from hat
red. During the operations, Japan
csc officers sent many messages In
to the Tslngtao garrison, wishing
their German friends and former tu-
tors luck and safety during the
siege. They placed courtesy fore
most, Instead Of lnduIgIng In re-
elimination such as usually goes on
between the German and British
officers and troops. General kamIo.
and his officers did not desire to hu-
initiate the defeated German off,
GERS. The messages that were Inter
changed during the Siege and after
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ARTICLE V.

THE war of 1914 was brought to
l. Asia and made a world war for
two reasons!
l. Great Britain was determined to
crush Germany-wipe her out as a
great power, This could not be done
without-tak from Germany her col
onia1 possessions.
2. Japan, quite aside from her In
terests as an ally of Great Britain,
wanted to remove Germany-heY most
active, efficient and therefore, most
dangerous commercial competitor.
Germany's semi-military alliance with
China gave Japan an additional IN
centive.
The conflict over fixing the blame
for the beginning Of hostilities In
China has ragged all over the world.
Some authorities denounce Great Bri.
tain, others Japan. The truth is that
it was a joint enterprise Of two
thieves who had to get rid of poach-
er on their field Of enterprise before
they could settle the major question
of which one should be supreme.
TN view OF the hostility Of the British
dominlons towards the Anglo-Jap-
anese alliance, the arrangement has
always been a dangerous one for
Great Britain. Only the emergency Of
the great war made It possible for
the purposes of the alliance to be full
filed without an inter-empiR crisis.
Let us look at a few documents.
On August "a, at the time Japan
came into the conflict. a correspond
ent urged in the London Times that
British commercial interests should
take advantage of every opportunity
which may present itself for divert
ing German commerce to our advan.
tage." Quoted by Gilbert Reid in
"China, Captive of Free" Page 45.)
PARoN KATO, Japanese minister
~ for foreign affairs, speaking in
the Diet on September 4, said:
Early In August the British gov
eminent asked the Imperial govern
ment for assistance under the terms
Of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. The
Japanese government therefore re-
solved to comply With the British
request, and If necessary to open
hostllities against Germany.
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By VIM. F. Dunno

wards were couched In the most
courteous language. Jefferson
Jones, "FalI Of Tslngtao," Page s7.)
S late as December 1, 1921, the
"A seizure of Shangtung was defend
ed by X. X. Kawakami Written at
the time of the Washington confer
ence and published later as part Of
"Japan's Pacific Policy" the article
entitled "The Shangtung Dispute, y
says:
To establish her claim to klao-
chow, China should not only have
declared war, but should have taken
1t from Germany by force Of arms.
But as China was neither capable
nor willing to drive Germany from
KIaochow, Japan had to undertake
that task. Had China beer actively
engaged on the side Of the allies,
there might have been some force In
the plea that she preferred to re-
sumo the Garment rights for her-
self. But China never did this. Jap
an and Great Britain attacked and
took the German colony. Chlna's
hope for direct restitution Of Klao-
chow was totally destroyed when on
May 20, 1920, the Berlin government
notified Picking that by virtue Of the
Versailles treaty, Germany had re-
nounced In favor Of Japan all rights
and interests. China was plainly
told by Germany that she must ne
eotiate with Japan II she wanted to
recover those rights.
Japan had taken Germany's former
- leasehold by force and in VIOLA
ton of the elementary rights Of the
Chinese nation. Yet she was not
satisfied and she would not be salts
fed until the richest sections Of Chin
ese territory were subjugated as
Korea had been.
She proceeded to consolidate her
new holdings and the manner in
which she did it. without any hind
rance from the champions of democ-
racy in the western world is another
interesting chapter = interesting to
American workers because Of the part
played by the Wilson government as
well as that played by the rising Chin
csc liberation movement of students,
workers and peasants with which jap
an came into conflict-a force with
which she had not reckoned.
The next article will deal with these
events.
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proceed on its way. The crew of the
gunboat convinced of its suspicious
opened fire Immediately with the re-
suit that the launch was well-riddled
with bullets and one of the party on
board, a Britisher was wounded.
This was the incident which occas-
Toned the alarm on the part of the To-
cal consular body.
There are several aspects of the
case which It would be in order to
mention here. In the first place II is
obvious even to the novice on the
question Of military or naval law that
tho British launch was In the wrong.
Since the Whangpoo river Ia, at least
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-13
Living Newspaper
Composed by New
York Young Workers

NEW YORK, June 1.-THE Young
Workers League of District New York
has arranged living newspaper for
Friday June 18th at 105 Eldridge St.,
to begin at s p. m. sharp.
This is the first time in the country
that any unit Of the League has ar.
ranged such rich educational pro-
gram OF Leninism. Below is a list Of
the articles that will be read.
Lenin and Imperialism, the National
and Peasant Questions by Jack
Stachel; Lenin and the Party by VIII
Herberg; Lenin and the Comintern by
S. Don; Lenin and the Trade Unions
by j. Rubin; Lenin the the Russian
Revolution by II. Fox; Lenin and the
Youth by Herbert Fam. - Editor Her.
bert Fam.
All workers are invited to attend
this reading Of the living newspaper
and to acquaint themselves with the
teachings Of the greatest leader OF the
World Revolution, with Leninism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-13
10000 JERSEY
PAINTERS FIGHT
AGAINST POISON
Spraying Machines and
Bad ScafoIds to Go
BY ARTHUR SHIELDS,
Federated Press STAFF Corresponds


NEW YORK, June 11-Ten thous-
and union painters of New Jersey
have launched campaign against
poisonous materials, the menace of
the spraying machine and bad scat
foldings.
The first health agreement is like
ly to be signed by District Council
No. 10, comprising the painters in
Bergen and Passaic counties and will
be similar to. agreements drafted by
the health bureau and in force be-
tween the painters union and the
master painters associations in New
York City and Rochester.
Fight Against Spraying Machine.
The spraying machine must go, say
the New Jersey painters. Abolition,
not regulation, is the unions program
IN the advice of scientific experts Of
the health bureau who have shown
that regulation of this mechanism
does not in practice safeguard the
painters. The spray machine, now
coming into wider use, is used by en-
ployers to save labor on large-surface
jobs. The paint is literally sprayed
and the air is filed with flying par
ticles of paint materials for many feet
around the machine. In the case of
lead paints 1t has been found that the
air in the vicinity of the spraying
machine contains q to SO times as
much lead as would poison a man.
An important phase of the present
campaign is the education of tho
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nominally, Chinese territory, the Chi
nese gunboat had full jurisdiction over
this area; hence, the launch should
have arrested its course and declared
its identity. Failing in this important
measure the boat was, naturally, fred
on with the resulting injury TO one OF
the passengers.
Another interesting fact is that
there are no less than is battleships,
British, American, Japanese, Italian
and French strewed up and down the
river the presence OF which makes any
apprehension for the safety OF for.
eign lives and property" absurd.
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MARTIAL LAW IN OKLAHOMA CITY
AS UNION MINERS BATTLE SCABS
AND IMPORTED COMPANY GUNWEN
Especial to The paiIv work.rl

HENRYETTA okla,
Tor weeks has been going between the
united Mine Workers who have
Haired into open battle last night martial
law with state troops patroine bayonets
The virtually
gunner nad attempted nonunon
men TO line up against the to be
perhaps fatally Injured and hurt.
The troops Of occupation those okmuee
our ar'er midnight when the town the battling
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-13
TELLS OF SHANGHAI CONSULAR ee
BODY,S AUTOCRATIC BEHAVIOR
BEFORE PRESENT STRIKE BEGAN
BY sINeAp

SHANGHAI, China(By Ma)The Shanghai ha,
again felt the necessity for the sending dpo
matte body Picking informing
Shanghai have again been endangered The according
to the local newspapers s IS
night which
incidentally dark One Chinese think
to be an opium The boat attempted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-13
WEST VIRGINIA
TAILOR STRIKE
IS EXCEPTIONAL
American Women Fight
Bravely for Rights .

NEW YORK. June 11.-(FP)-A
bitter fight of members Of Journey
men Tailors' Union Local $50 against
the National Wooden Mills of Parker.
sourg, West Virginia, is being brought
to the attention of unionists all over
the country.
Emmanuel Jacobs, general organ
izer of the tailors in New York, says
that the company organized about Is
years ago and asked the union to
organize its plant For Is years the
business grew until the concern was
worth S1,000,000 and had retail stores
in many cities.
An All American Strike
Suddenly on January "a, 1925 the
firm locked out the union and declar-
ed that those who wished to return
would have to come back to an open
shop. The remarkable thing about the
lockout, which is now a strike, is that
the majority of the workers are
native Americans, rs per cent of them
women, Jacobs asserts, and they have
remained out over Is weeks without
single break in their ranks.
Strike benefits of Sc to 81 cannot
support them but their solidarity is
exemplary, Jacobs says. Even a severe
Injunction against picketing and all
strike activities has not scared the
workers.
College Training and Union Label
The president Of the company com
mitted suicide recently, during the
strike and possibly because Of it, ac-
cording to the strikers. Strikers also
say that the presidents son returned
from college with 100 per cent plus
Americanism and open shop ideas
which he Immediately attempted to
put into effect in the union shop.
The company is now sending out
letters TO its stores that il will have
the label Of the United Garment
Workers on its clothes soon, Jacobs
states. Work is being sent out from
Parkersburg TO Independent shops.
In Baltimore the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers Union refused TO accept
work from the National Wooden Mills
because Of the tailors' strike.
The Journeymen Tailors, Local No.
1, is conducting a vigorous organiza-
ton campaign in New York. About
rs per cent Of the tailors are Italians,
so three Italian organizers are kept
busy in addition 10 Jacobs.
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union members in health and safety
measures. Leaflets explain danger
GUS materials and symptoms of poi
soning and union members receive
forms for reporting accidents and
suspicious work materials, as well as
medical forms to be given to physi-
clans to assist in proving an occupa-
tional disease. Workers are assisted
in taking the practical steps need
ed to get what is coming to them I'M
der the compensation law and arc
specifically instructed that the New
Jersey Occupational Disease law that
went into effect July, 1924, allows GER
tain compensation for lead, wood al
cohol and benzol poisoning.
Monthly conferences are held be-
tween the workers health bureau and
the health committee of the New Jer-
sey Painters State conference. The
New Jersey health campaign repre-
sents a union of Industrial health ex-
perts and organized workers and
promises substantial gains in health
and safety for painters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-13
"MOTHER" BLOOR BLAZING RED.
TRAIL THRU MORMON TERRITORY

SAIL LAKE CITY, Utah, June Ea eoor
mun who making
meeting tomorrow In the
Labor Temple. b
wv
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New Light on Centralia

The affidavit signed W. W. by two resi-
Cenraa detailing part played by Judge Wilson, who
tried the defendants in the famous the conspiracy
and the lumber barons preceding
hail. would under ordinary
now in Wala Waa peniteniay trial But in the present
state of affairs with the lumber interests in control only
results
The ahdavit plainly Judge openly invited
violence against radicals" and that che enmy
l. W. W."
This the impartial" Justice in the
Monesano the workers who defended
hall from armsce day mob led by chamber bench
1t is almost six years defendants were ar
rested They have been in Jail all of this time
there has been doubt of their
selected by the Seattle labor attended the
it rameup The of these workers. legally he.urs
diction of the state Of Washington actually
poance The late President Harding evidently thought
he made special journey Cntraia the
Of the lumber trust tools whom his
deaths.
Surely there way by which interest can be
aroused in and focused this Washington capitalism and
these working class fighters released
The signing of this affidavit the effort on
behalf Of the Centraa DAILY WORKER can
be depended to give the campaign all the publicity possible
Brookwood college in discussion on the tonic
THE Labor Movement a Career for Students"
This gives valuable slant the contribution instit
ton by choice collection of was
collected spot thought there is one thing
the labor movement does NOT need young looking
for careers
The lands award gang their handpiced crew of union
wece their last legs in Chicago This meaning of
the decision the building trades work with
nonunon workers furnished by the employment board of the
~o Industry Cheered BY Drop outputTeadne in
capitalist press
Capitalism has to sabotage productive machinery ap
pears
Get member for the Workers Party new subscription
FOR the DAILY WORKER
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Every sub You get during Red
Week of June IS to 21 is a sub to
make another Communist"
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Heat Wave Hits London.

LONDON, June 1.-THE heat wave
which brought suffering to New York
and other American cities last week
descended on London today.
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Art Shields VIII
Address New York
Worker Correspondents

NEW YoRK.-Art Shields OF the
Federated Press will speak this Sa-
turday evenings Junel6th at the meet
ing Of New York Workers Correspond
ents at 10S East 18th street on the
subject: "The Federated Press and
How to Report Labor News" Admis-
sion is free. The class begins at seven
o'clock.
Five thousand subs for Red Week.
Red Week OF June Is to 81.
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BURNED BODIES OF II
MINERS BROUGHT FROM
WRECKED WORKINGS

STURGlS, Ky.-Seventeen bodies
Of miners killed In the explosion
which wrecked the shaft of the Ken
lucky Coal company's mine No. 9
were found at the four hundred foot
level, more than a mile and a guar
ter back of the mouth of the shaft,
and brought to the surface. The
bodies were terribly burned.
An explosion in the same mine
killed 62 men eight years ago.