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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
The Sharpening Situation in China

the situation in China becomes more sharp
every day with the continued efforts the foreign mperass to
crush the rising national revolutionary movement and TO esuohs
their domination completely over the country The latest incident
which has caused furry in the diplomatic circles and IN the press
exchange of shots between the japanese destroyer and the
Chinese troops at the fort of Taku
Leaving the question of the constant
ence foreign troops warss Chinese waters and land
implication of superiority and domineering scornor the
sovereignty country it well to consider that out such
apparently insignificant do great formal
the Pacific in Asia be just such an
incident the Taku firing.
No one should the basic factors involved
The bitter rivalry of the three great mperat powersEngand
America Japan-on the d and the growing revolutionary
Chinese the other driving headlong towards
military conflict All the countries involved anxious to avoid
taking the initiative and each seeks merely proper excuse
Britain constant fear of the situation that would be created
imperial condition should with China
extremely hesitant The United States which still follows its
carefully considered policy OF hypOcca demands for the open
door, gestures friendship the Chinese people its mask
growing encroacmens the economic political life the
country lose apprecaby should be placed position
which might openly be interpreted that of the aggessor
It lies, therefore, with JAPAN which hardly more
the Chinese people than already has, take the first
STEP all indications point that the likely development
The stupid military clique which rules Japan is in politically
Japanese 190 the juicy morses of Korea Southern Man
chura Arthur the Peninsula Laoung Japan
presenting amazing
China in 1915 known the twenyone points And
Japan still the defeat dealt it the Washington
conference huge China
Yange valley the many tempa
country Japan whose dependence the imports
the Achilles heel of her military power and Japan easily
tempted.
twensven years after the Boxer America
quite different country from what then It's interests
deeply China Japan The American destroyer
the Taku and the this morning from
Washington that destroyer division had been ordered from Manila
China addition the division already stationed therethee
which American Imperialism presents it's
prototype to the Chinese workers and peasants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

two or three hours, most of the time
without the slightest interest in the
proceedings and forced into silent sub
mission on pain of punishment while
every muscle feels a tortured desire
to move. Enter almost any class room
of the primary grades and listen to
the harsh scolding and constant bick-
ering of the teacher. u
Notice the method OF teaching his
tory, grammar, geography or drawing
These studies which could be made
intensely interesting If a common
sense method of teaching were used,
even to the restless child of nine or
ten years, are made as boring as pos
sible. In this the teachers are not to
blame. Textbooks are handed to
them and they must obey regulations
just as the child, and teach the rules
word for word in given length of
time, so that the expiration of the
school term may not find them behind
in a given amount of work. Whether
or not the rules, statements and words
mean anything to the child is of minor
consideration. The childish mind is
looked upon as an empty crock into
which is poured so much every school
term. And this is called education.
What happens to the various kinds
of children caught in this deadly
routine, and only little better than the
factory or the streets, is plainly dis
cernible to the close observer. The
nervous and temperamental child be-
comes more nervous and often quite
irritable. The weak child grows weak
and develops an 'inferiority COM
lex. The sturdy child simply be-
omes Indifferent to the system and
he intelligent child gets what he can
md goes on. The sensitive child suf-
,ers consciously andDI snbconsciously.
those children accustomed to abuse
and punishment at home, take the
school as a matter of course-as just
more of the fortunes accompanying
childhood. The children that turn out
we'll do so in spite of1the school and
not because of it. ~
Teachers must not lose sight of the
fact that the school authorities take
their orders from the politicians with
the realization that their jobs depend
upon IT, and the politicians in their
turn take their orders from those still
higher up-business nagnates who
are shrewd enough to know that the
training Of a man begins with the
child.
Boss Rule Starts In School.
What kind of men are wanted by
big industry? They want submissive
and docile workmen They want men
and women who will obey orders with
out questioning; they want men and
women in whom the rebellion has been
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

tartan borough in BeTlin). This OPP
position is sorry that the questions Of
the Russian Party are not dealt with.
The Communist International of the
Soviet Union is decisive for the pol
icy of the Comintern, and for this
reason the industrial workers have
great interest in the questions at IS
sue.
The party organization in Wedding
stands upon the basis of the Lenin-
grad workers. The basic tendencies
of the open letter are correct, never
theless the letter attacked workers
who represented a particular policy.
This incorrect policy could have been
fought otherwise than thru the open
letter. The speaker drew line of de-
marcation between himself and Ruth
Fischer who he said had made pos
sible the entrance of right elements
into the party apparatus. Katz COM
mitted a stupidity, nevertheless, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

international Press correspondenee)
MOSCOW, U. s. S. r., Feb. 22.-(By
49, MaiD fourth session of the
Enlarged Executive of the Commun-
list International was opened today
at o'clock in the evening.
Comrade Brown England: 81 am
in agreement with the theses in gen.
eral. 1t would only be necessary to be
a little more precise here and there.
The theses paint the situation of Eng
lish capitalism in rather too dark col
ors whereas its power Of resistance
is still very great. English capitalism
has been successful in consolidating
it's position in the colonies temporar-
lily. The profits of joint stock COM
panies have risen in the last two
years. Nevertheless, capitalism is
marching towards it's collapse, this is
proved by the fact that it is no longer
in a situation to continue its policy
of concessions to the aristocracy of
labor in the motherland. English cap
italism is preparing for bloody strug-
giles, this is proved by the support
given to the organization for the main
tenance Of supplies 20. M. 81 and to
fascism and by the arrest of the lead
ers of the British Communist Party.
The bourgeoisie is openly fiinging
OFF the mask of democracy. The pro-
posal of the Independent Labor Party
for an amalgamation Of the Second
and the Third Internationals is nat
urally out of the question, but we
must nevertheless utilize this situa-
ton. A revolutionizing of the masses
is taking place also inside the indie
pendent Labor Party. The proposals
of the Communists for, the united
front are meeting with response
everywhere.
For this reason the socialist lead
ers want to gain time by their own
united front proposal in order after
wards to break the real united front.
The struggle against the offensive of
capital and against unemployment
must be connected with the struggle
against the Locarno treaty and the
Dawes plan"
NOMRADE ENGEL (Berlin) declar-
- ed that Scholem and Rosenberg
had no right to speak for the We'd
ding opposition (Wedding is a prole-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Mariana Miners
Protest Against
Anti-Alien Bills

MARIANA, Pa, March 17-At the
last meeting of Local No. 2S74, United
Mine Workers of America, after
long discussion resolution wal
adopted protesting against the anrl
foreign-born bills now pending befor,
congress. The resolution calls the q
tention of all workers that the bill
are directed not only against the for
eign-born residing in this country bu
against the entire working class.
The resolution calls upon all for
eign-born workers to join trade
unions, and calls for united actor
against the bills on the part OF the
workers regardless Of race, national.
ity, or political opinion.
Mariana is a mining town now car
rying on a bitter struggle against the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation which is
making an effort to operate its mines
under the 1917 scale by importing
scabs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Right and Left

The contributions made to the discussion report
the enlarged session of the eDecWve of the Connter made
by ComrGde ZnOveV sboCs the Diversified problems soitk
9ocb the parties of the International confronted hoo
they proceeding to OIve Them One point rams
clearly thru the entire discussion is the bankruptcy Of
standing opponents of the line of the COinte Iefists
of Germany and the right s0img Of France and its nesoIy
found supporter the Iest of yesterday BordigG The hammer
bIot0s deOed against the German NItrGJe from Fischer
and MGsoo to Rosenberg SchoEem, Rbrsch and KGts has
resulted the exclusion Of the Cnarty elements like Kate
the retreat of Fischer the exposure of MGSo and the sepoYd
ton from the nteectuaIs like Rosenberg SchOIen ct a of
healthy revolutionary elements ohich certain eDtent
reflected By the Wedding opOsiOn The SOciGEdemocrGtic
right 0ng of FGnceaoicb BOrdgG calls healthy element
has already opposed itself openly in the International
FORUM enemy of the BOhevk method of organization
and the feminist struggle against ipiGs oGr and for the
alliance sOith the oppressed colonial peoples.
The British brother party q0b its application of
the policies Of the Comnten, has sho0n itself haze made
the greatest steps oraoGrd in the increase of its Influence and
pO0er among the proIetGriGt of England.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

crushed out in childhood, and thew
start demanding that kind of ODE
dience found in the public schools.
They want workers who will not easily
awaken to ideas and who are unable
to analyze situation because thew
have never been taught to think or
analyze.
The millions of school children in
this country will become the future
millions in mines and mills and facto-
ries. Long hours of work will be de-
manded of them. The working condi-
lions will depend, then as now, on
how much organization they have
back of them. If there are strikes
strikebreakers and scabs will be in
demand and all this comes better from
workers who have had their spirits
crushed early in life. Hence the pub
lie school system.
The teachers should realize that
they are suffering from the same in
justice directed against the working
class child by the capitalist controlled
school system and line up with the
children for the betterment of condi-
tons in the schools for both. Then
something could be wrested for them
and~for the children from the boss
controlled school system.
Under Communism schools will he
places where children can expand and
develop to the fullest degree; schools
Will make joy of childhood instead
OF torment; society will look upon
children not as future material for
profits, but as children entitled to all
there is of life, including food, play,
study and work. Children will fall
asleep at night without tear upon
the lid and will awake day by day to
a life full and overlooking with work
play, and comradeship.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

workers who were expelled in his
company must be taken back into the
party. The opposition stands with the
Comintern, nevertheless the new
course contains dangers which must
be fought.
THE next speaker was Comrade Var
- ga. "The world situation was
never so complicated as it is today.
On the whole we can be said to have
four large parts of the world:
First of all the Soviet Union with
a rising development outside Of CAPT.
talist society.
Second, the American continent
which also has a rising development
but upon capitalist basis; the
whole situation in the world shows a
certain polarization around these two
points. All revolutionary forces col
lecting around the Soviet Union and
all counter-revolutionary forces
around the American bourgeoisie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Our Public Schools : By Sadie " Amter

In the public schools of capitalist
America study of child psychology is
non-existent from start to finish, and
the attitude Of our pedagogues is that
the child exists for the school-not
that the schools for the child. The
school has rules and systems and the
children must conform no matter how
disastrous the results may be to the
child.
Use Corporal Punishment.
The attitude of some of the teach
ers, does not tend to improve mat
tiers much for the children. In their
conduct they appear to show as much
Impotence and bad temper as can
be crowded into the school term.
Some of these teachers even resort
to physical violence, shaking, whip
ping, and slapping viciously.
Children are expected in such an
atmosphere to learn something of dis
cipline and self-control They learn
early to expect impotence and pun
ishment from their teachers and prin-
cipals and would be surprised to find
anything else. The Brooklyn children
who screamed with delight when they
witnessed the burning of their school
gave fair idea of the general love of
children for the public school, repres-
enting as it does to them only force
and eternal rules and regulations.
I have visited dozens of classes in
different grades and different schools
and have spoken to as many teach
rs in the last few years. / have found
that the children are considered and
treated more or less like culprits. with
the child as the accused and the teach
er or principal as judge. A whipped
dog will look guilty no matter how
innocent it may be, and children
in class also get the look of guilty res
ignation toward something that they
hate but which they cannot under
stand.
The three glazing faults of the
schools (this refers especially to the
primary grades) are as follows. first
the hostile attitude of many teachers
to the children, which have de-
scribed, second, the constant re-
straint of motion for the child and
thirdly. the backwardness of the meth
DDS of teaching with the utter lack Of
understanding of child-psychology
This is not treatise on the child
and it is impossible here to go into a
study Of child training. My purpose
here is merely to call attention to the
fact that our school system and the
relations Of teachers and pupils are
nothing less than vicious.
speed-Up Systems In Schools.
Take little summary of the sys-
TEN. Forty or fifty children are asked
to sit straight and pay attention for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

Thirdly, there is Asia and the
northern Africa colonial district with
great revolutionary activity which can
If the proletariat is able to seize
power, lead to the formation of states
similar to the soviets.
Fourth, there is Europe, where the
eclipse of capitalism has proceeded
the farthest.
1.-THE year 1925 has brot a certain
progress in the sterilization of cap
italism, however the time is too short
to tell whether this process of stabil-
ization will proceed or whether it is
but short interlude before the final
collapse of the bourgeoisie. The
sterilization is based upon a worsen-
ing Of the situation of the working
class in the whole of Europe. This is
very important, because 1t is not the
absolute situation of the cost Of liv-
ing which counts in the process Of
revolutionization, but the dynamics Of
its movement. The reasons why cap
italism is unable to bring about any
betterment in the situation of the
working class are: the loss of the
Industrial privileged position Of Eu-
rope, the reduction of the surplus
profit produced by the colonies and
the impossibility Of securing itself in
the competition with America in the
non European market. America has
taken over from England the task of
breeding an aristocracy Of labor"
CAPITALISM uses three shields to
~ defend itself against the attacks
Of the proletariat: az the state ap-
parAtus; (2) the petty bourgeoisie and
the peasantry; (3) the social democ-
racy. The latter may be termed the
outposts Of the bourgeoisie pushed
forward into the ranks of the working
class. For this reason we must above
all fight against the social democracy.
On the whole the social democracy
still represents great power and has
la great influence upon the working
class. 1t is extraordinarily elastic in
its defense of the bourgeoisie and in
adapting itself to a given situation in
la given country, nevertheless our
struggle against it will be made lighter
by the objective tendencies of CAPT
talism development and in conse-
quence of the incapacity of the latter
to give the working class any higher
standard than that which it has at the
moment. f
In the countries where the Commun-
list Parties have no possibilities OF
legal work it is the chief task of the
Comintern to fight for these possibili-
ties and to approach the question of
work amongst the masses.
The speaker declared that Scholem
had misinterpreted his opinions upon
the perspective which he required in
connection with the rejection of the
social democratic perspective. ZAP
plause.)
HOMRADE SEEGERS (Holland):
" The Dutch Party is in agreement
with the analysis and the conclusions
of Zinoviev. Its only criticism is
that the executive did not struggle
against sabotage right energetically
enough. Wynkoop and Ravenstein sa-
botage all the work of the party and
are building factions. The executive
must struggle against them energeti-
cally. The chief task of the Dutch
Party is the formation of a left wing
in the reformist mass unions and criti-
cism of the revolutionary trade union
executive committee. The chief con-
dition for this work is, however, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Railroad Skopmen Protest Bad Conditions

workmen who have served the com.
pany three years or more are being
discharged on the assertion that they
cannot keep up the fast pace set for
work. The workers grievance COM
mittee and an uphoisterer were fred
for complaining to the U. s. labor de-
partment. Workers who attend the
protest meetings are threatened with
discharge upon discovery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

SILLERICA, Mass, March II - AS
the Boston & Maine railroad makes
It's 93rd annual report, showing a net
income of over FIVE millions last
year, shopmen of the road are meeting
to complain Of intolerable conditions
OF work. The men are on piece
work system and claim afhat they
are much underpaid and that gofd
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
An Example of World Labor Solidarity

The the Swedish has been obliged to take
cognance of the proposed legislation against Oreignborn workers
IN America thru the protest of the Scandinavian workers ogana
this country the forthcoming parliamentary nterpea
tons which the Communist fraction in the Swedish Rsdag has
announced will take place. example of the of world
labor solidarity
1t shows the Importance of world unity of the working
irrespective individual group political opinions that the
toers everywhere may be able powerful unit the
fight against the capitalist class 1t also shows that the advanced
elements of the working class in other countries realize that the
lowering of the standard of living the workers country
in this specific of the American working elaswhich
will be pcpated by the passage of the antoegnborn workers
legislation pendngmus inevitably have its effect in lowering
the conditions of life and labor the other countries
The American workers watfor their European broth
take the initiative raising protest against cunning
Aswel and McCntc bills for the registration phoographng
hngrntng and possible deportation of workers here Such
have occurred in the past when the Russian workers
the agitation big scale against the Mooney frameup This
time the fight against these bills the chief which
presented by southern Bourbons whose political boundary
popular ignorance and lynch be carried with
fled vigor and a scale in the United States
The "natiye American worker lock with foreign
born worker in this fight They already the support
their brothers the other side of the ocean.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Hancock Farmers
Call for Alliance
to Fight Fascism

HANCOCK, Mich. March II = The
Farmers COOPERATIVE Trading com
pany at their annual membership
meeting Joined in the universal pro.
test against the fascist terror in Italy
and called for an international gath.
erins to lay plans 70 S'bat fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

Every once in while THE DAILY WORKER receives letter.
rbuon publication of of the innumerabe
the land of the free Often they expect Well
with of hem "n NznNoygorod" writes Chicago half
wit in his sheet aer you select your bride you pay
parents 800 in cash. accompanied by 100 pounds 80 pounds
butter four pounds of Chinese 80 pounds honey
pairs of shoes You must also provide bride with
We shall not bore readers with TO the writer Of
profoundly accurate lines merely "They
free Sundays"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

While the workers of the Union Of Republics
celebrate the ninth anniversary Of the overthrow the with
national holiday the Fox News Weekly, American
its tender ocud the depos family by display
lug truou the country specially film of the dongs
a the corrupt and peryert court Of Nicholas H. Each his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
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with the development rubber
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his paid publicity proper
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What they aftev the the brutal m
pIotatlon Of the
Lberan legislature and the presidents
stone proposal and great discussion Lban and
other African granting Of concession -
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-18

MISS FITZGERALD
OF Dublin, reported to be the only
woman whip i'm Ireland. of the
Scarteen "black and tans" as She
appeared with master, j. RYAN
whose family has been associated
with the pack for about fietT
years.