The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-19
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By T. J. o'FLAMnTY.

THE revolt of the Austrian workers
was crushed by the social demo-
Gratis who stepped in to do what the
armed forces of the bourgeois were
incapable of doing. Our prediction
that the socialists would do this very
thing has been fully borne out tho
this is one of those successful predic-
tions that we take no pleasure in
boasting about. Apparently TIL e
demonstration was permitted to take
place by the socialists as means of
providing mass discomfort with a
safety valve and also to give a
demonstration of socialist strength to
the Seipel government with which
the socialists were bargaining for
cabinet positions.
THE Austrian socialists are consid-
cred farther to the left than the
official socialists of any other coun-
try. But this radicalism is spurious
as was demonstrated in 1918 and in
the present revolt. Owing to the ex-
treme poverty of the masses there is
a strong revolutionary sentiment
among them and to this feeling the
socialist leaders cater. All the news
dispatches from Europe about the
Vienna explosion represented the So
cialists as the defenders of "order"
which meant that they were bent on
crushing the revolution.
~ all probability the Austrian gov
ernment, creature of the league
of nations will now carry on cru
sade against the small and weak
Communist Party. The prosecutors
and executioners will be the social
lists. But the events of the past few
days cannot fail to have favorable
reaction for the revolutionary ele-
n1ents. The socialist leaders have
shown themselves in their true colors |
The workers can see no difference be-
tween the shooting ordered by the
socialist mayor and the capitalist
chancellor Seipel.
THAT the Hankow or Wuhan gov
ernment in Chicago is travelling |
the same road followed by Chang
Kai-shek is becoming clearer day by |
day. Chinese dispatches indicate that
the policy of suppressing the trade
unions and numbering the most mill
tant of the leaders of the workers and
peasants is about to be inaugurated |
This is unpleasant news but not sur
prising.
THE newly-awakened masses of |
China are not yet sufficiently or
ganized or experienced in leadership |
to provide this mighty revolution
with the proper leadership and the
necessary discipline. Outside of the
assistance rendered to them by citi-
zens Of the U. S. S. R. and the Com
munist International they were poor
in leaders. The national revolution
was led and officered mainly by in
tellectuals, members of the petty
bourgeois class and professional
soldiers. Those elements used the |
revolutionists as long as they found
them useful for their aims, but when
the development Of the revolution |
threw picture of worker and pea
SAINTS government on the political |
screen, the bourgeois leaders took |
fright and with the aid of the for
eign imperialists, took steps to block |
such a development.
FOR the moment the fortunes of the
Chinese revolution are at a very
low ebb. But there will be recovery
and the lessons learned by the work. |
ers and peasants during this phase of |
the struggle will be invaluable in the !
next. In the main only the workers
and peasants are capable of putting
up fight against imperialism. The
bourgeoisie love their country less
than they love their class interests. |
They would prefer to serve as tax
masters for foreign imperialism than
citizens in free proletarian state.
JAMES CONNOLLY the great Irish
= revolutionist frequently quoted the
phrase: THE rich always betray the
poor" In his mastery work, La
Dor In Irish History" he points out
that the Irish struggle for freedom
from British rule was always be-
trayed by the upper and middle
classes at every critical period. They
repeated their betrayal in the latest |
Irish revolution five years after Con-
molly gave his life for it. The Chi |
nese patriots" have done the same
thing.
THE Upholsterers' International
Union is holding convention in
I this city and one of it's most in.-
/ portant achievements will be the
| presentation of chair to governor
Alfred E. Smith. The chair was de-
signed by William Kohn the socialist |
president of the union. No doubt the !
socialist leader will nominate Smith
for president when presenting him |
l vxyifh tho chair