The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-01

things are forever changing) Is
for an amoeba to develop int
a whale during the years thei
bosses let them IiVe."-The In
dustriaI Pioneer, June, 1925.
DUT if, as the dictionary says-"thr
u jackass is to be distinguished b.
its long ears and loud braying," tho
above quotation from the editor OF
the Industrial Pioneer, is an obvious
discourtesy paid by jackass who be
lieves that nothing has changed in
sociology since the /. w. w. pre-.
amble was written, to his fellow jack
asses of Tennessee, whose biological
knowledge is begun and ended with
the Book of Genesis.
The sociological understanding, fol
example, possessed by the editor OF
the Industrial Pioneer. John Gahan
has carried him no further than the
conceptions Of the yellow socialists Of
the Second International, that it is
absolutely useless for colonial and op
pressed peoples to try to throw of the
yoke Of foreign capitalist Imperialism
Witness his editorial observations up
on the question of China driving out
those who have oppressed ner:
"This is unaduIterated bosh.
China is to be developed by for
elgn capital. American wage
slaves. are destined to fur
nish the surplus value used by
their masters to get factories IN
China started, mills running,
mines dug, and railroads thrown
across the vast territory. And af-
ter a while the goods produced IN
Chinese factories are going TO be
on the world market. Another
erstwhile backward country will
have advanced to Industrial prom
Observation-Disclosures Pioneer, July
1925, page 40.
MUCH good it will do the Chinese
AsA proletariat 100000 strong, or
thenrest of the DAB 600 0eni Chinese
people. oppressed by foreign imperial
ism, to come to the /. w. w. for a
solution of their grievances against
their oppressors.
Are Chinese workers and students
massacred by British and American
troops on Chinese soil? mo use kick
ing" says John Gahan. l. w. W. editor,
sit is all a necessary part OF develop
ing China"
When an American marine named
Dizick shot strike agitator at Shang-
hal last month, this act of imperialist
butchery had the Scientific" approba-
ton of the editor of the l. w. WIS
magazine-"Chin is to be developed
by foreign capital" And it is clearly
inferred by Gahan's social democratic
theory, that Dizick's bullet was just as
helpful as the surplus value furnished
by American wage slaves to advance
this erstwhile backward country"
DLEASANT reading is the /. w. W.
4 magazine to Wall Street bankers.
1t tells the American workers that by
way of incident to developing" China,
American workers who are unemploy-
ed may get Job furnishing the sur
plus value. 1t tells the Marine Trans
port Workers Industrial Union of the
l. w. W., pleaded with by the Chinese
Seamen's Union and the Red Inter-
national of Labor Unions to block
shipments of arms used to murder the
Chinese workers, that such action is
scientifically unsound" according to
Marx!
This editorial ally of capitalist i'm
perialism evidently regards the his
toric upheaval of the Chinese people
as silly mistake, the life long labor
of Sun Vat Sen as misguided zeal, the
Kuomintang party and the Canton
government as a fighting center a
piece of folly, and is prepared to
sprinkle the holy water of revolution
airy science" over any armed invasion
undertaken by the imperialist powers
to- drown it all in blood, with the