The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-25
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and money. The interests Of over
4O0,000,000 Chinese against the inter-
ests of the militarist hangmen and
their foreign hackers! The Soviet
Union takes the side of the oppressed
millions. Britain takes the side Of
their executioners.
This is exactly what is behind the
British note. The influence of the
Soviet Union on the workers and sub
iect peoples of Imperialism is feared
in no place more than in England.
Over 100000 Hindoos are watching
the course Of the battle in China.
They see the Chinese, hitherto treated
with contempt, now chasing the sol
diers of Imperialism all over the lot.
They see them challenge the power
Of the mighty empire and they see
Chinese revolutionary diplomats talk
cold turkey to the cleverest Great
Britain can pit against them. Subject
peoples are beginning to understand
that guns speak louder than words
and the cleverest diplomat is he who
can command the greatest number of
lethal weapons, against an opponent
or combination of opponents, all
other things being equal.
The assistance rendered to the
British miners during their strike by
the workers of the Soviet Union is
an important factor in promoting the
note. Over S5,000,0OO from Russia,
where a new society is being built
in the midst of a hostile world. Only
paltry $4,000 from the conservative
trade unionists Of the United States,
where the standard of living Of labor
is PROFESSIONALLY the highest in the
world, where unions have millions Of
dollars in banks, where because of
those very reasons the revolutionary
spirit is confined to a few.
The generosity of the Russian
workers had a powerful effect on the
British laboring class. While they
were being jailed and dubbed by
agents Of their own government they
knew that the Workers Government
Of the Soviet Union was friendly and
helpful to them within the limits i'm
posed by diplomatic necessity. Inter
national solidarity took a great step
forward. The right wing leaders Of
British labor were exposed in their
true colors as enemies of the work
ers and as agents of the capitalists.
The urge to struggle for emancipa-
ton from capitalism took on fresh
vigor In this dark night thru which
labor is cropping the beams from the
Communist International directs it
on its way and British imperialism
and for that matter world imperial
ism, does not draw any fine distinc-
ton between the Soviet Union and
the social revolution. They are syn
onymous, for which we bless the
stars. III
ONE ofSthe most drastic laws ever
Oplaced on the statute books of any
state in the union is the Baumes Law
passed by the New York assembly,
which automatically imposes a life
sentence in a penitentiary on any
person previously convicted four
times. Several judges have branded
the law as savage and barbarous, but
the Court Of Appeals in a decision de-
clared it constitutional. For the time
being it will be used against people
convicted Of burglary and other
crimes against property. But the
time will surely come when the capt.
talist government will take advan-
tage Of its provisions to incarcerate
for life workers who are convicted in
connection with strikes.