The daily worker., 1927-07-01

which men work on board ship
was again brought to public atten-
ton when 85 Chinese managed to
leave the Holland-American liner
Rotterdam, after she reached port
few days ago. The Chinese
joined the "blackhole gang" in Rot
terdam and were promised shore
leave when they arrived in Hoboken.
They were obliged to work for the
miserable wage of So a week, while
white workers received So week.
WHEN the Rotterdam arrived in
" Hoboken the captain broke his
promise to the Chinese stokers, but
pacifism is not now a Chinese virtue,
if it ever was, so the deceived stok-
ers armed themselves with weapons
of various kinds and proceeded to
cut their way thru to shore. They
waded thru all opposition until a
considerable portion Of the armed
forces of New York City was mobil-
lied to block the advance. At that
only Sd of them were arrested. The
rest are probably quenching their
thirst with fairly good beer and en-
joying the movies.
THE 85 Chinese workers that fired
the Rotterdam on her way from
Holland to the United States received
less for their weeks arduous toll
than the wages of four New York
carpenters for weeks work under
union conditions. The conditions un-
der which toilers of the sea work are
almost intolerable. They have no
union worthy of the name, the. .scab
outfit headed by the arch-strikebreakA
er Havelock Wilson of Great Britain
being a stool pigeon agency for the
British government and a tool Of the
shipping companies. The coi5fS6
workers on the ships are the worst
sufferers thru lack of organization.
COME years back there was an or
y ganization with headquarters in
New York City which took in Chinese,
Japanese, Malay, Filipino and work
ingclass natives of other Oriental
countries. 1t was called the Oriental
Seafarers' Association and did splen-
did work while it lasted. The reac-
tionary bureaucrats of the A. F. of L.
refused it affiliation, and it passed
out. Now, the Oriental seafarers are
completely at the mercy of the ship
ping bosses. How long until all
workers who participate in the trans
portation of passengers and COM
merce on sea will join hands for
their mutual benefit?
COME wise sleuth has discovered
y that the Russian Soviet"-the
ass's designation for the U.S.S.R.-
is organizing the Negroes in the
United States for the purpose of
overthrowing this government. He
has made the remarkable discovery
that several Negro students are at
tending university in Moscow
where they are being trained in the
art of leadership. The startling
expose" appeared in the Herald
Tribune, simon-pure mouthpiece of
Calvin Coolidge.
NOBODY but stoolpigeon would
~ possess the modicum of idiocy ne
cessary to withstand the ridicule usu-
ally poured out on the sap, who
breaks into print with such an obvi-
Gus truisnn as, for instance, that
water is wet. Negro progressives
have been working their fingers off
for several years trying to attract
public attention to their activities,
which are designed to better the con-
dition of their doubly exploited ana
prosecuted race whose members are
lynched, burned at a stake and tor
tured with impunity by the proto-
types of the fink who wants to make
afew shekels by pouring the drip
pirgs from his mental sewer into the
-ol,,mns of capitalist sheet.
WHEREVER the oppressed raise
~ their voices for more liberty or
organize to take it by any feasible
means, the apologists and hired meni-
ais of the oppressors Immediately
blame the government of the Soviet
Union for the struggle for freedom.
This is the highest compliment that
could be paid to the government cf
the Workers Republic. 1t proves
that the men and women charged
with the responsibility of keeping the
U.S.S.R. on the right road have been
true to their trust and that neither
cajoleries nor threats, the clink-
ing Of coin or the clanking of swords
iswerved them from their purpose.
ALL signs point to furious naval
~ race between the United States
and Great Britain as soon as the
Geneva conference pulls up its stakes
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