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Philippine Governor
Refuses to State His
Policy; Bans Newsmen

MANILA, Aug. 3O.-The high
handed and characteristic action of
acting-Governor General Eugene Gil
more in refusing to grant any inter
view to Philippine newspspermen has
met with a reprisal in the form of a
journalistic boycott of the American
official. No Manila paper will permit
the acting-Governor's name to ap-
pear anywhere in its columns until
he has made a statement of his
policy either personally or thru his
cabinet.
The acting-Governor had issued or
ders banning the Philippine news
papermen from the Malacanan Palace
where his offices are.
Gilmore has been acting Governor
since the death of Leonard Wood and
his refusal to interview the native
journalist is attributed to his I'M
certainty as to what form the future
Coolidge rubber policy in the Islands
is to take.
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FOREIGN CONCESSIONS CAN DO PROFITABLE BUSINESS
In SOVIET UNION

operate the 95-mile length of railway
from the river to Bodaibo.
Engineers estimate that about ia
million cubic yards of gold bearing
sands have already been proved CIV
ing gold content of about 35 cents
per yard. This will give sufficient
work for four of the largest type
Bucyrus dredges for ten years. Our
first dredge will start work next year
and will be followed speedily by 9TH
ers, which will supersede the present
uneconomical drift mining.
Get Copper and Iron.
Under a fifty-year concession we
have taken over the copper and iron
mines and smelters and iron works of
the Sissert property and similar de-
posts and installations at Revda in
the Urals. Our chief attention will
be. devoted to the famous Degtiarsky
copper seam which is estimated to
contain 100000 tons of pyritic ore,
and to treat which we are consider
ing the erection of a plant with ca
pacity of 1000 tons of ore day."
"Our third area is 1880 square
miles i'll the Altai-Irtysh river basin
with its immense reserves of silver,
copper and lead. / can not be con-
sidered as exaggerating," observed
Mr.. Guedella, eff l use the word
enormous with regard to its future
possibilities"
Following the report of a substan-
tial profit on the years working Mr..
Guedella concluded $50 far as posi-
BILE we have always endeavored to
adhere to the general basis of agree
ment, but, when necessary we have
not hesitated to approach the Chief
Concessions Committee to point out
our difficulties in certain directions,
On such occasions we have always re-
ceived sympathetic consideration.
think that it has now been recognized
that our sole policy is to create and
establish our enterprise on large
scale on sound and businesslike line
with results that cannot but be recip-
rocally advantageous both to the
Soviet Government and ourselves
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Continued From Last Issue)
This is the Seventh Installment of
the Theses on the war danger adopted
at the Plenum of the Executive Com
mittee of the Communist International
on May 20, 1927. 1t gives the official
Communist viewpoint on this impor-
tant question.
"a. One must differentiate between
these two forms of pacifism. While
Communists are prepared patiently for
weeks and months on end if neces-
sary to explain to the workers their
errors endeavoring to draw them into
united workers front" with the
vanguard Of the working class and
helping them in the course of the
struggle to overcome these errors,
they must be utterly relentless in re-
gard to the leaders," who, taking adj
vantage of the confused pacifist ideas
among the proletariat, give this pa
cifism the definite form of a "posi-
ton" and give various false explana-
lions of the fundamental principle.
"One of the forms of deceiving
the working class" wrote Lenin dur
ing the war in the year 1915, sis
pacifism and the abstract preach
ing of peace. Under capitalism and
particularly in its imperialist stage,
war is inevitable. To preach
peace at the present time without
at the same time calling upon the
masses for revolutionary action,
can serve only to SOW illusions, cor
rupt the proletariat by imbuing
them with confidence in the hui
maneness of the bourgeoisie and
convert it into a plaything of the
secret diplomacy of the belligerent
countries" Nenin, Vol. XIII, p. 81
"Pacifism and the Slogan of
Peace").
25sAmong these pacifist muddle-
heads who preach peace without at
the same time calling upon the masses
for revolutionary action" must be in
cluded first of all, the British indie
pendent Labor Party, which has not
taken single practical step towards
the mobilization of the British work
ing class and the soldiers and sailors
for the struggle against British i'm
perialism. The Independent Labor
Party stubbornly rejected the united
front with the Communist Party. 1t
condemned the violence" and armed
struggle of the Chinese masses
against the foreign imperiahsts, it
advocated negotiations" in order to
paralyze the further development of
the national revolutionary movement
in China.
Not less harmful is another form
of this socialist pacifism," namely,
the peculiar religious-mystical "anti-
militarism" associated with Lansbury
and supported by the Independent La
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of fish in a drying pond which can
neithed fly nor run away. This
document, which contained the poll
teal line for the 1926 Peasant Con-
gress in Canton, just a year before
the great upheavals in Marking,
Shanghai, Hankow and Changsha,
has great historical value; like many
of the Chinese documents which
gathered during my visit, it is more
valuable than libraries of books writ
ten in the West, for arriving at an
intimate understanding of the Chinese
revolution. The following are some
of the most important paragraphs:
Struggle of Peasants.
"The peasants struggle, caused by
the suppressions, has on the one hand
proved the failure of being unorga-
nized, for by want of organizations
the peasants have suffered great
sacrifices, and on the other hand has
given teachings fastening their eager
ness in revolution. 1t also resulted
in the present movement. At present,
the peasants have organizations. 1t
is the mark of progress in the pro-
cedure of the peasant struggle The
promotion of peasant movements and
the organization of peasant unions
in Kwantung were caused by two
factors.
Indirectly, it was due to the eff
feet of the world revolutionary tend
.ency, owing to the achievement of
the revolution of workers and peas
ants Of Soviet Russia, of the students
patriotic movement on May 4, pro-
testing against Japan and overthrow
ing the traitors of the first strike of
the Canton seamen, protesting
against the imperialists and foreign
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The Peasant Revolution

capitalists, of the massacres in Pc
king and Hankow on February 7th,
directly denouncing the militarists
Chao Kan and WI Peifu and indirectly
against the English imperialists and
American imperialists whom Chao and
WI conspired with. 1t is the great
movement for the economical and po-
litical struggle of the masses of
workers.
Directly, it was due to the peas
ants expressions by the imperialists,
militarists, compradores, and land
lords.
upon seeing workers have labor
unions, merchants have merchants
associations, and students have stu
dent unions, so the peasants began
to organize peasant unions. From
this point of view, we may know
that the significance of the begin
ming of the organization of peasant
unions is very simple. But, really,
the peasants suffered a great griev-
ance and hoped to have unions just
as merchants, students, and work
ers to unite themselves. The land
lord class who held the economical,
political and educational power of
villages, upon seeing that the peas
ants rose to organize peasant unions,
recognized that it would be harmful
to the power of their controlling clas-
ses and so suppressed the peasants
more seriously and made obstacle to
the peasants progress, fabricating
rumors to fool and to threaten the
peasants. Indeed, they tried in every
way possible to violate peasants
unions and to suppress the peasants.
In 1922, the Hal Fung landlords and
depraved CENTRES conspired - with
the militarist Chang Chung ming,
ordering the District Magistrate to
arrest and to imprison the peasants
leaders of the Hal Fung peasant
union. In 1923, when the peasant
corps Of Wan Lo village of Shun TAX
district prepared to inaugurate, the
local Militia Board conspired with
the District Magistrate Chow Chi
ching prohibiting the peasant corps
to register.
Escape Isolation.
I'm 1924, the Kong Tung, landlords
conspired with the District Magistrate
Lei Chai-yuen destroying the Kong
Tung village peasant union, Kwong
Ming district, with armed force of
the unlawful militia. Fortunately,
since the peasant movement, the
militia, defense board, self-control
union, ETC., which were organized by
/ the landlords, CENTRES, rowdies, and
peasants jointly, were all dismissed
For instance, at that time, peasants
who used to be members of militia,
| severed their connections with the
militia and rose to protest against
militia. Gradually, among the rural
villages, two opponent organizations
existed, namely, the organization of
the landlord class and the organization
of the peasant class; the former are
the militia, defense corps, ETC., and
the latter is the peasant union or
gained voluntarily by the peasants.
None Of the members of the militia
of the places where peasants unions
exist, are peasants, but only the
rowdies, beggars, bandits, etc. At
the same time, the peasants have been
able to come out of the manifold
confinement of localism and clanism,
and have organized village peasant
unions with peasants under different
surnames, and division peasant
unions with number Of village
| peasant unions ITO Re Continued \
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SACRIFICE!
Con the Murder of Sacco and Vanzett)
BY HILDEGARDE OLGA
ALEXANDER


BY HILDEGARDE OLGA
ALEXANDER
For seven years you suffered
fortunes hard to tell
The anguish of mind
Racked with the fires of hell.
The sufferings you bore
Were for the views you held
Not for the Braintree murder
Of the two that bullets felled.
The land of the brave
And the land of the free
Did not fulfill your hopes
You found no liberty.
For liberty was the cross
They crucified you on
And justice were the nails
That drove you thereupon.
They clamored for your body,
They vanquished not your soul,
And, in the name of justice,
Tyranny claimed its toll.
They burned your wasted body,
Yet, could they hope to still
The voices raised in protest
Against such bloody will?
On the altar of humanity
You were the sacrifice
And Justice" jeered and sneered
When with your lives you paid the
price;
But the words of many centuries
Were echoed down to you,
Your heart cried out Forgive them
For they know not what they do"
Your martyrdom is over
Yet nothing can efface
The cause you gave your lives for
Which breathes hope to every race.
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BY Walter Snow

COMMUNIST
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LEGION FROM HOLDING CONVENTION
FRENCH MILITARISTS DON'T CAUSE HOWEVER"
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-31
By EARL BROWDER.
ARTICLE V.

THE rise of the peasants has been
L accompanied by strife and blood
shed from the beginning. 1t is a
mistake to suppose that the recent
suppressions in Human and Hupeh are
extraordinary occurances in them
selves; the new development consists
only in this, that now the central
government apparatus has itself
turned against the peasants. The
fundamental struggle in the villages
has been of the nature of civil war
from the very beginnings of the
peasant movement. A few original
documents will show this better than
all my own exposition.
Here is the speech of vi Li-yuan,
Chairman of the Human Peasants
Union, on the occasion of the Hupeh
peasant reception to the International
Workers Delegation, on April 2,
1927. 1t is brief enough to report
in full, and is classical in its simplic-
ity:
Il have the honor to represent
the peasants Of Human to attend
this grand meeting today. have
also something to speak to you
relating the conditions of the HUI
nan peasants. 1t would be great
ly appreciated if you, dear COM
rades, could give US a little bit
of assistance. Peasants of Human
and Hupeh must have a close
relation with one another as
hands and feet of a body do.
Human peasants are as poor as
you are. Within this few years
the rents are increased terribly
by the landowners. Sixty per-
cent of the harvest which we have
got through our hard work must
go to the hands of the landowners
who use this unearned profit for
their own amusement and COM
fort, while we, the peasants, have
little left for our living. Further
more, if the harvest is bad we
have no means to pay the rents
other than actioning our wives
and children. Comrades, how
pitiful we are! Should we not
overthrow these cruel and wicked
landowners?
Fight Landowners Also.
eve peasants want to partici-
pate in that which we have pro-
duced. We strike not only to
exterminate militarists but also
landowners. The landowners in
forty districts of Human have
been overthrown by us. Most of
them have fled and taken refuge
in the Wuhan cities. You have
to help us to overthrow them too.
We know that the strength of
the nationalist revolution is de-
pendent upon the help Of the COM
munity. For this reason we must
support the revolutionary leaders
in order to accomplish the revolu-
ton. The National Peasants
Union has just been organized
Peasants of various provinces
must work together so as to set
up firm foundation for the
General Peasants Union. He who
opposes the peasants movement
is opposing the nationalist revo-
luton"
-
In "The Plough, organ of the
peasant movement tissue No. y, a
report on the Kwangtung conditions
says: "The present livelihood of
peasants in rural villages is III mat
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BRONXVILLE, N. Y, Aug. 3d.
The members of the Connecticut State
Park and Forest Commission accom-
panied by the directors of the Connec-
ticut Forestry Association will make
an inspection trip of the Westchester
County park system on September
18th, with view to having a park
development policy for Connecticut.
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In "The Plough, organ of the
peasant movement tissue No. y, a
report on the Kwangtung conditions
says: "The present livelihood Of
peasants in rural villages is III mat
The Washington times., 1927-07-16

They ran. They said, "I see him!
He's STOPPING down. See-waving
his hatr' Laughing, crying, fol.
lowing till they could no longer
see MichRels race, but only his
hand waving. Then only q blur.
Michael gone!
He wasn't kept in Vancouver.
He was sent at once to Shorn-
cliffe Downs in Kent. In Aug.
ust he was in France, on the west
front. He could not tell her
where.
But she and Jackie poured over
the newspa pers. He told them he
had seen Canadian fellows caught
In the first awful gas attacks
These men arrived in England
just before he was sent from
Dover to the battle front. De.
plorable, tortured things to see
enough to break a fellows heart.
You see red. when you look at
a sight like this. Roen!"
She wrote every day. Such
long letters. He wanted to know
the msot trifIing things-why
even that Gerner brothers, the
grocers, had sold out and a paint
shop was now in their place in
Haight Street--and what movies
were being shown.
He said that these letters OF
The Washington times., 1927-07-16

boiling. Scalding hot, she brought
it to Arson and Mooney and
poured it down their threats.
Drink Drink! Hot! Hot! Fire!
Fire. she was crying incoherently,
at the scorching fluid vaguely
wondering what it was. The SEN
sation Of heat was almost a
memory.
In the meantime, the others had
guarded the precious flame-feed-
ing it gently with tender whit.
things, with easily consumed twigs.
Other pieces were laid about the
heat to dry, so that, within an
hour of careful nursing, the tiny
flicker of flame had grown to
roaring blaze about which
the starving, blood-chilled men
crouched, reaching their hands out
to the grateful warmth, drawing
so close to the flames that their
clothing singed and steamed.
Their sufferings were, for the
nonce, forgotten in this orgy OF
heat, and they came to .aking the
very stones away from around the
fire and dropping them into their
boots the better to impart dryness
and warmth to the sodden leather.
How did you come to get that
fire going?" Arson asked the
question of Mary later in the day,
when warmed and with clothing
passably dry, they huddled around
another blaze. The mate had told
him of her behavior after his
rescue.
''Oh, it was the first thing
thought Of" she answered happily.
Her eyes were fixed on the flames
and the soles Of her heavy boots
were steaming with their proxi.
nifty to the heat.
But the dry wood-how did you
happen to strike that2" His tones
were puzzled.
She turned towards him. her
grey eyes steady and clear, Il.
Illuminating her thin, pale features
with something of beauty, idenfin.
able, almost spiritual in the life
that shone within them. ''I asked
God to help me-" she said simply.
''And after / prayed, saw the
wood in q cleft of the rock"
do you know, Mary Phillips,
that you are q brave little grip"
Her eyes dropped modestly for
a second, then she raised them to
his, inspired by a similar feeling.
"And you, Anson Campbell. are
very brave man. That was a noble
thing you did to-day"
He still retained his hold OF her
The Washington times., 1927-07-16
NoD Go On With The Story

DUT they sitting here with notes
I'D Of music drifting through
4he nebulous radiance Of courts
and gardens. Oh, God-he
pushed his hands before him.
s.My uncle has gone"
''And you, Michael?"
He kept his face from her.
''You think you must? Oh,
Michael dear. You've got to go?"
She leaned forward peering in
''When?" she asked choking.
s'When, MichaeI?"
At signed up-when got this
Word-when / heard of Stephen"
His arm went around her then.
He took her two hands and
held them Silly. They looked a
long time in each others eyes.
He said solemnly, heartbroken.
''Roen, we've loved each other a
long time"
She chung to him, repeating:
ooh, yes-yes-a long time Mich
ael."
And all this time we couldn't
marry, Roen, we couldn't marry.
And now we can't marry. We
don't know when-years"--
He turned her to him, the sweet
Irish eyes looking in hers with
devouring tenderness.
She laughed softly, sobbing:
s'Marry me now!' Imploring: "Oh,
Michael, surely-you will marry
me now
do you mean this. Roen?
You would marry me and let
me go?"
She would not take her eyes
from him. She would have
drowned her soul in his ques-
tionfng eyes. 81 would marry
you, Michael! Oh, surely! Is
there time? We have timer"
She seemed to glow--her head
thrown back, her face lighted
beauty. when do you go,
Michael?"
ANY time. am packed and
really. At moments notice"
Then tomorrow - tomorrow
noon. Oh, Michael, dear"
Don't tempt me, Roen. All
'twould be selfish. You'll be left
alone. And If shouldn't
They were awed with their
emotions They wept and held
each other in their arms.
They stood shoulder to shout
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der watching the play Of light
on the spreading waters. "Roen
are you doing this to please
me? For me?"
For us. Michael"
do you really want to? Are
you glad about 't?'
She raised her eyes to his:
mo one will ever know-no one
can ever know how glad!'
ashore, you are dear. Dearef
than anything in life."
This word went into her soul.
It sang there warmly--sweetIy.
in rapt, heart breaking sweetness.
Through years.
Roen closed the door of her
room most softly this night. She
sat with clasped hands AMI shut
eyes. Tomorrow she and Michael
would be married. Michael would
go away. But their souls would
dwell within each other.
She thought of him in a trench
lying in mud as Stephen had
lain. He would think of her.
There would be memories and
great sweetness between them.
He would be hers.
She would be his. Tomorrow
at noon. The love of all these
years-the dreams of all the years
flowed over her, warm, intoxicat.
ing. They would stand at an
altar. The blue eyes seeking hers
with such a world of wanting,
turned mo- gently-brimming,
tender. They would have This SUI
preme and holy fulfillment.
There stole over her soft, young
beauty a rapt, TRANSPORTED look.
They would be married. Their
profound. ardent yearning for
each other answered. She felt his
arms closing about her. She felt
her whole being throbbing to
music. She felt the dear, Elusive
thing the secret, worshiped
shadow presence stir within her
thought. Her child and Michaers.
Seven years it had murmured to
her in the dark.
When Michael returned 1t would
await him. There would be two.
Misty-eyed, weak with an
emotion of joy mingled with a
pain that played on her like hun
ger-haunted music, she now laid
out her wedding clothes.
They would go away for q few
The Washington times., 1927-07-16
BY
Frederick William Wallace

anxiously at the two drenched
figures lying on the floor of the
boat. Arson was deadly pale
and breathing heavily with ex.
haustion. Mooney seemed almost
gone.
CHAPTER S.
They landed in a little cove
and began a frantic search for
the wherewithal to make a fire.
Small dead sticks, leaves, moss
were gathered, but these were
damp and refused to ignite.
They'll die! They'll der gasped
Nary frant. - she stumbled
among the rocks. ooh, God, help
us now! just a little piece of
wood, o Godr" She blundered on,
crying and "~1ving fervently, her
vision blurred by the tears. Up
against a ledge of rock she reeled
painting, distrau ght, calling on
the Almighty for "just a little
piece OF dry woodr' And when
her despair had plumbed it's
depths. her eyes were drawn to
q. deep, cave-like hollow in the
. cliff into which a storm or high.
tide had cast some fragments of
drift-wood.
With eager steps despite her
clumsy boots she ran toward it,
rocking little nt the bruises to her
legs caused by the boulders she
stumbled over, and when she
placed her hands on the fuel and
found IL dry, tho tears ran anew
down her cheeks with tho knowl.
edge that her prayer had been
answered.
In desperate haste, she flew
back to the others, the drift-wood
clasped to her bre~ DRY wood!
Dry woodv' she screamed, sob.
bingly.
The mate had his knife ut in
an instant and began whiting.
Dry by Godfrey" he growled.
Bet It's the only dry stuff in
the hull gaul-derned country"
Mulcahey had matches in a tin
box. The shavings were heaped
inside a fireplace of stones. and
wh>l the wood ok fire arS
died into a real blaze, the little
company watched it with avid
eyes and even essayed a weak
"Hurrahm Truly, no votaries Of
the Fire God could have hailed
the warming flame with more in
tensity of alteration thar. they!
Within few minutes, Nary had
q can of condensed milk and water