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The Chinese Liberation Movement Goes to the Left

tions and the Chinese Communist
Party representing the most consci-
Gus section of the working population
exercise tremendous influence.
That the mass movement in China
was outgrowing the confines of the
nationalist struggle, that it had
set for itself detectives which
if obtained meant the beginning of
the end Of all forms of plundering
of the Chinese masses has been APP
parent for some time. Ever since
the fall of Wuchang and Hankow it
has been plain that the Chinese labor
movement would no longer permit its
aims to be limited by the needs of
the middle class nationalists.
wv HATEVER differences of opin-
w ion have developed within the
Kuomintang have conferred around
this one main question i. e. where
the control of the liberation move
ment is to be held-in the hands of
the revolutionary workers, students
and peasants or in the hands of the
small business men, manufacturers,
merchants, etc.
The imperialist press has interpre-
ted these differences over policy in
various ways. Sometimes it has said
that the expulsion of Soviet Russian
! advisers was the bone of contention,
sometimes it has stated that the mat
ter at issue was the membership of
Communists in the Kuomintang,
sometimes it has pictured the dis
putes as merely a struggle between
the moderate" and extremist" Sec
tions. But always the real basis of
the struggle has been that of the role
of the working masses in the liber-
alton movement and if the middle
class elements have at times made
the issue one of Communist affi-
liation or of orientation toward the
Soviet Union it has been because in
these two issues the fundamental diff
ference on policy found expression.
THE rise of the Chinese trade
4 union movement is the most sig
nificant and instructive phenomenon
in the whole struggle of the Chinese
people against imperialism and it is
because capitalism appears in China
principally as imperialism that the la
Dor movement has from the very first
taken on revolutionary character.
The theses of the second congress
Of the Communist international on
the national and colonial question
state:
Foreign domination has obstruc-
ted the free development of the So
cial forces, therefore, it's overthrow
is the first step towards a revolution
in the colonies. SO to help overthrow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04

the foreign rule in the colonies is not
to endorse Che nationalist aspirations
of the native bourgeoisie, but to open
the way to the smothered proletariat
there"
THE nationalist revolution in China
i has indeed opened "the way to the
smothered proletariat." 1t is the eff
fectiveness with which the Chinese
labor movement led by the Chinese
Communist Party and the left wing
of the Kuomingtang has taken adj
vantage of the opportunities present.
ed by the struggle against imperial
ism that has caused the United States
government to adopt firmer policy.
The general interests of world inn
perialism are becoming paramount in
the face of a Chinese working class
and peasantry that drives toward a
workers and peasants government.
Predominatly a peasant country
(about nine-tenths of the population
gaining its living directly from the
soil) the Chinese revolution can be
successful only if led by party
which organizes and liberates the
peasantry, cements the alliance be-
tween the young but rapidly growing
labor movement and the working
rural population with the labor move
ment in the lead.
TN addition to the differences over
L the role of the labor movement in the
revolution the struggle in the Kou-
mingtang between left and right
wings over the question of the atti-
tude to and role of the peasantry was
of major Importance.
The recent conference of the Kuo-
mingtang in Canton resulted in a
victory for the left wing position and
the adoption of program designed
to correct the mistakes--and worse
of the right wing in respect to the
labor movement and peasant questions.
THE right wing proposal to relieve
L the military leaders of political
supervision was also defeated. The
head of the Canton Central Labor
Council was brought into the central
executive committee of the Kuoming-
tang and then General Chang Kai
Shek in a public statement affirmed
his decision to carry out the decisions
of the conference and his loyalty to
the doctrines of Sun Vat Sen.
Tbs imperialist press, up to the
time the results of the conference
were made public, was showing great
friendliness for Chang Kai Shek and
the grouping in the Kuomingtang
that he represented sections of the
intelligentzia, merchants, traders,
small bankers, well-to-do peasants,
small landlords, etc.
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an example of discipline and re.
sponsibility in all his work.
Tireless Worker
He was a tireless worker for the
party. His great energies were given
unsparingly to- it's service. In the
literal sense of the word it can be
said he lived for the party. Yes, and
died for 1t too. For if he had spared
himself little and devoted even the
minimum attention to his own
health, there is 20 doubt that the
fatal illness could have been warded
off.
Ruthenberg was soldier. He saw
the cause for which he labored as a
fighter to which one must bring the
discipline and devotion of an army
that never knows retreat. He was a
soldier who had faith in his cause,
lie staked his head on that cause and
gave his life for it.
The America of today reeks with
cynicism and corruption. The Ameri-
cans Of energy and talent are in the
service Of the oppressors. America
is money-mad. Brains and ability
are bought and nothing is
given away. Those who see higher
values than personal material gain
are regarded as fools in our insane
America. Corruption is the hall
mark Of our country.
Had Social Vision
Ruthenberg was an American who
did not go that way. Money meant
nothing to him and the "honors'
which capitalism bestows upon its
lackeys meant even less. His vision
was a social one, the world was his
country and the oppressed masses
were his people. 70 tho service of
the oppressed masses he gave oil his
energies and talents without calcula-
ton or price. He lived a full and
fruitful life OF struggle and sacrifice
for an imperishable ideal and died a
soldiers death.
The America of today had no time
for Ruthenberg. For this splendid
character, this valiant soldier Of the
revolution, the masters of America
had no praise. They covered him
ignominy. They bounded him from
one prison TO another. AT the time
Of his death the Honorable Judges
Of the Supreme Court had his latest
conviction under review Capitalist
America made Ruthenberg an out
law and n convict.
Workers Knew Him
The America of Tomorrow will re-
wise that Judgment. That is already
indicated by the attitude Of the Mill
tant workers who are the vanguard
Of the future. Ruthenberg was a
Pioneer who broke a new path. The
Americans Of tomorrow will travel
that path and give their highest
honors to the Pioneers who broke
il. The name of Ruthenberg will
have a distinguished D ace in the list
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BroadaUQy Briefs

"Spread Eagle" is the only open
ing scheduled for this evening, at the
Martin Beck Theatre. George s.
Brooks, a former editor of McClure's
and Walter B. Lister, city editor Of
the Brooklyn Times are responsible
for this play, which deals with the
one-dollar-a-year patriot and the
humbug of big business.
The repertory at the 14th Street
Theatre for the week will include
four performances of 1.-THE Cradle
Song" on Monday and Thursday
nights and Wednesday and Thursday
matinees; la Locandiera," on Tues
day night, "Inheritors," Wednesday
and Friday nights and Saturday mat
inee, "Three Sisters" Saturday
night.
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zaar," with music written by Lily
Strickland Anderson, the American
composer, who is at present living
in Calcutta. Their Oriental pro-
gram, which is called "Gleanings
from Buddha Fields" embraces
Japan, Java, Burma and Malaga, as
well as China and Japan, and music
has been collected which is authen-
tic for all of the dances and dance
dramas on the program.
Clifford Vaughn, musical conduc-
tor, has arranged native melodies,
and made orchestrations for these
ballets. The Denishawn Company
have just completed eighteen months
playing throughout the entire Orient,
and they have spent the entire time
in research for dance material.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04

BUY THE DAILY WORKER
AT THE NEW SSTAND
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W DRAMA ~
A Play About Superior People"
Mariners" Has Condescending Pity for the
Lower Class"
By HARBoR ALLEN.


Mariners" by Clemence Dane,
which the Actors Theatre has pro-
duced with Pauline Lord at the Ply
mouth, is a windbag of play writ
ten by snob. 1t is ready to burst
with a sense of its own Importance.
1t is all blown up with atmosphere"
You can see the author licking her
chops over her "fine old English
home" and the fine old people in it
and their fine old guests. She grown
maudlin about her minister, him
self a product of Oxford and the up
per classes, now miserably married
to the daughter of an inn keeper.
Terrible, this Shepherd of the Lords
elite, tied irrevocably to so gross a
woman. See how she drags him
down, ruins him, robs him of the
woman who would be his equal, abus-
es him, kills him. Such are the low
er classesi
Still Superior People.
But you can't be such a snob nova
days. 1t doesn't pay. So you must
have a last act in which the gross
woman repents, dies of grief on her
husbands grave. You must have
scene in which your superior people
in their fine old English home pause
for a moment to comment on her
fidelity, as they would praise a dog
who grieved for his master. Yes,
they feel sorry that they never went
to see her, that they shut her out of
their circle. But never for a moment
do they doubt that they are superior
people.
Perhaps | am unjust to Clemence
Dane. No doubt she is trying to be
fair to both sides"-the old liberal
hokum. Like all the liberals, she
fails. You can't be fair to both
sides. You are, by birth and environ
ment and desire and associations,
either on one side or the other. Glenn
ence Dane is on the other. At times
she tries honestly to feel her way in
to the heart of the inn-keeper's
daughter. She can't. She never gets
farther than condescending pity. At
bottom she's with the fine people in
the fine old English home.
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Ruth st. Denis to Pre-
sent Oriental Program
at Carnegie Hall

Ruth st. Denis, Ted Shawn and
their Denishawn Dancers will give
four dance recitals on Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday nights, and We'd
nesday matinee at their Carnegie
Hall engagement.
Miss st. Denis is presenting "White
Jade" an impression of China. She
is bringing back the "Bunnia Ba-
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ment call new forces from the ranks
to fill the gap.
The work that Ruthenberg per-
formed with such fidelity in his life
time remains behind him. His ex-
ample Of courage, devotion and self
sacrifice remains as an asset of the
movement as a whole. His tradition
as revolutionary fighter will
be treasured by every section %
the militant labor movement. The
new generation Of militants will be
influenced by that tradition and will
carefully safeguard it.
Let the corrupt and decaying capt.
talist society have these heroes who
typify 1.-THE dollar-chasing en-
ploiters. the blood-smeared generals,
The lying, treacherous statesmen.
Cur movement. which is the herald
Of the new order, claims proudly for
It's own The men of different and
immeasurably better type-the type
CT Ruthenberg.
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Of Heroes and Pioneers Of the Ameri-

of Heroes ana Pioneers of the Ameri-
can Revolution.
The rans5 Of The revolutionary
working class movement in America
are small, and able and tested leaders
are very few indeed It would be
foolish to deny that the death Of
q leader of the calibre Of Ruthenberg
represents great loss to the prole-
tartan cause. A recognition Of the
great role played by outstanding in
dividuals Of his type is no contradic-
ton TO the social theory upon which
the whole activity of Ruthenberg as
q revolutionary agi,ator was based.
Revolutionary Labor Advances
But the revolutionary labor move
nent is driven forward by social for
ces which arise out Of the very con-
ditions of capitalism and make for
its destruction. Tho men who in
spire and lead the movement Of
working class revolt are themselves
products OF the conditions which
bring the movement into existence.
The loss Of leaders may shake and
weaken the ranks for a time, but
the irreprcssible needs Of the move
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-27
MOTORS STOCK
LEADS LIST

Il
NEW YORK, jury Stimulated
by General Motors brilliant earn.
ings record in the first half Of this
year. and the persistent runors Of
projected combinations Of the wen.
known motor manufacturing enter
prises. traders in the stock market
bid aggressively for the stocks Of
the leading automobile companier at
the beginning of trading today.
Leaders in the new advance in
tors, Chrysler, Nash and Mack
trucks. all of which reached new
high ground for the movement, and
in some cases established new high
record prices for ali time. Hudson.
Studebaker, Packard and White Mo-
tors participated to smaller ex.
tent.
New Mergers RumOred
Wall Street heard numerous and
conflicting rumors about possible
new alignments in the motor car
manufacturing industry. Enormous
demand for Chrysler and General
Motors accompanied reports Of a
pending consolidation of these com.
panies. with Walter ChrysIer in an
important official position. With
Yellow Truck already in control,
and Mack Trucks possible addi-
ton to the General Motors family,
the scope ana facilities of the cor
poration would thus be increased
largely.
Manufacturers of popular cars re-
l port an excellent response to the
latest price cuts, and the outlook
for business in the latter half of
the year il favorable.
General Motors sold up to a new
hight at 2261k, while Mack Trucks
reached 1914, against yesterday
low at 80: Nash advanced to Y, and
Yellow Truck was in active demand
above 30; the move In other motor
shares did not carry beyond point.
Baldwin Is Outstanding
Powerful pool operations in the
high-priced industrials and special.
ties continued, with Baldwin an
outstanding performer. The stock
climbed through to q new high rec.
| ord at 251. Steel and rail stocks
failed to retain their position in
the limelight in this period. though
prices OF the active issues were well
maintained. Investment rails were
firm. but the disappointing June
earnings statements held up the
forward move In that section Of the
market.
Financial conditions were prac.
ticalIy unchanged. Call money re-
newal rates started the day at az
per cent, with offerings in abund-
ance. Grain and cotton prices were
fractionally higher. while good buy.
| ing of copper was reported at I3
cents pound. Coincident with the
huge increase in crude oil produc.
ton. the prominent oil refiners an.
nounced reduction Of cent q gal.
Ion in gasoline prices.
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CASHIER is SUICIDE

McLEANSBoRO. Ill. July 81
John Irwin, IS, cashier of the
First National Bank Of McLeans-
horo, was found dead on the bank
floor yesterday with q bullet hole
in his head and a revolver short
distance away. No motive for what
authorities regard as a suicide has
been revealed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-27

Vice President George o. Vass. Of
the Riggs National Bank, has re-
turned from a twoSweeks' vacation.
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C..L Eckloff, assistant cashier Of
the National Metropolitan Natinoal
Bank, is on two-weeks' vacation
at Virginia Beach.
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KILLS MOTHER AND SELF

SALISBURY, N. G., July IL
Becoming demented from long illness,
Paul e. Smith, jr., %. shot and
killed his mother, and swiftly turn
ing the gun on himself. committed
suicide yesterday. The shooting was
done SO quickly the father did not
have time to interfere.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-27
MENTAL MOT0RIST TESTS

CHICAGO, July 27.-An ordinance
compelling all motorists to submit
to mental and physical examina.
ton was highly lauded here today
as its passage was submitted to
the city council. The ordinance
was proposed by Alderman John
Joman
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-27
NEW BANK PLAN
IS PRAISED
BY RICHARD HATTON

0S N4O4AkAAs0 AA@A4 4OsN
The extension Of the clearing
house examiner plan, which has
worked successfully in 81 cities. to
the smaller communities was de-
clared by John R. Downing. Of
Louisville, KY, president of the
clearing house section of the Ameri-
can Bankers Association, to be the
most promising means of preventing
bank failures. Speaking before the
convention OF the National ASsocia.
ton Of Supervisors Of State Banks
at Richmond today, Mr. Downing
declared that organized banking was
interested above everything else in
making banking safe for the de.
position, and urged each State bank
ing commissioner to pat the system
TO an early test by seTting up in CO.
operation with the Comptroller OF
the Currency at least one district
clearing house examiner system.
There have been 3,124 bank fail.
ures in the United States during the
last seven years, number repre-
senting more than 10 7er cent of the
chartered banks, Mr. Downing re-
ported. The method Of the guaran.
tee OF bank deposits, as means OF
preventing losses to depositors. has
been tried and foun1 wanting, be.
cause It ''set a premium on incom-
petence and penalized safe and con.
sentative banking" Mr. Downing
told the banking commissioners.
While branch banking has been
hailed by it's partisans as remedy
for banking failures, Mr.. Downing
said he sincerely DOUBTED that the
American public was ready for such,
= development. as it was contrary
20 the idea of American institutions
Tor one community to depend for its
development upon capital domiciled
IN a far-off center whose executives
were not conversant with local con-
ditions.
Clearing house examination of
banks. made by the banks them.
selves, was inaugurated in Chicago
many years ago, Mr.. Downing said.
The idea has spread until now
there are 80 cities that have taken
advantage of this plan and are
operating under the aegis of a
clearinghouse examiner in addition
70 periodical visits Of either the
state bank examiner or the national
bank examiner" he stated ''Tt has
been in operation for more than
70 years and. so far as am adj
vised. there has been only one
failure of bank subscribing to
the system.
President Robert v. Fleming, of
Riggs National Bank. is spending a
few days at the home Of Mr.. C. C.
Glover. chairman Of the board of
Rigs. at his home at Nonquit.
Mass.
Vice President Austin C. Waller.
Of the international Bank. is gen.
eral chairman Of the Kiwanis Club
committee making arrangements for
the entertainment of Iowa Kiwaians
here on Thursday and Friday.
c. L. Eckloff, assistant cashier Of
the National Metropolitan Natinoal
Bank, is on a two-weeks' vacation
at Virginia Beach.
Vice President George o. vass, Of
the Riggs National Bank, has re-
turned from a twoSweeks' vacation.
Vice President Frank w. Stone,
Of the National Savings and Trust
Company, has returned from
two-weeks' vacation.
James A. soper, cashier of the
Lincoln National Bank. has been
elected a director of the Washing
ton Savings Bank.
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Vice President Austin C. Waller.
Of the international Bank. is gen.
eral chairman Of the Kiwanis Club
: committee making arrangements for
the entertainment of Iowa KiWaians
here on Thursday and Friday.
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Vice President Frank w. Stone,
of the National Savings and Trust
Company, has returned from
two-weeks' vacation.
James A. Soper, cashier of the
Lincoln National Bank. has been
ton Savings Bank.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-27

President Robert v. Fleming, of
Riggs National Bank. is spending a
few days at the home Of Mr.. C. C.
Glover. chairman of the board of
Rigs, at his home at Nonquit.
Mass.
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The Colombian government has
mapped out an extensive program
Of railroad and highway construc.
ton, including the projection Of
several trunk railroads.
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