The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 19, 1926, Page 4

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SSE SE a a SESE I enn omar 2 Entered ag second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- | f cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. ..Mditors jusiness Manager erica eee Advertising rates on application, ED a Green “Warns” Mexican Labor A letter from President Green of the American Federatgon of | Labor to Luis Morones of the Mexican Federation of Labor and min- ister of labor in the Mexican government, has been published in “Columbia,” official organ of the Knights of Columbus, It says in part: T would not be frank with you if I did not state that in my opinion wise counsel must prevail, sound judgment must be exercised, tolerance must be practiced, and temperaterlanguage ris! be used, if we are to continue to maintain the cordial and relations which have ewisted between the Amerioan ition of Labor and the Mewican Federation of Labor for These expressions sound much more like the notes of the state departnient to the Mexican government than anything else, There is certainly nothing in the above quotation that sounds like one labor movement speaking to another: The Mexican Federation of Labor is advised to practice tolerance and use temperate language and the inference is that it is doing neither in the controversy with the catholic: church. i We have remarked repeatedly that the policy of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor follows closely that of the state department in its dealings with the labor movements of other countries and this latest example is no exception. While the catholic church and its emissaries are doing their best to create a hostile attitude towards the Mexican labor move- ment and the Mexican government, inside and outside of Mexico (the pastoral letter just issued by the cardinals, archbishops and bishops of thé church in the United States is the most recent example) Wall Street government intrigues with Diaz, the dictator of Nica- ragua, maintains a squadron of gunboats in the gulf, and arranges for public denunciation of Mexico by its satrap. These maneuvers are accompanied by a series of arrogant notes to the Mexican government in support of the claims of American oil interests to Mexican property. The American Federation of Labor officialdom joins this chorus of reaction. It also “warns” the Mexican labor movement and gives aid and comfort to feudal reaction represented by the catholic | church and to the state department which speaks for Wall Street. Is it any wonder that such an officialdom makes war on the Com- | munists who. expose its role as the agent of imperialism in the labor | movement and who have raised the slogan of “Hands Off Mexico”? The German Cabinet Crisis The fall of the Marx cabinet on Thursday, precipitated by a vote of no-confidence which carried by 249 to 171, gives the lie to the enthusiastic reports of German industrial and political stability. The charges made by the social-democrat reachstag leaders re- garding the shipment of arms from and the storing of arms and muni- tions in Ritssia to evade the limitations set by the allies, is evidence of an attempt to, cater to American and British finance-capital at the expense of the Soviet Union as well as an attempt to placate French opinion. 5 There is the further fact that the Marx cabinet fell shortly after the conclusion of a treaty with Italy, indicating that this ‘particular venture in foreign policy does not have wide popular support. The German ruling class is faced with an unsolvable problem— that of reconstructing its industry’ (with the aid of foreign capital), speeding up production and thereby creating mass discontent. It has no colonies from which to draw supplies of cheap raw materials for ita industries and it must try to make up for this by placing addi- tional burdens on the working class. The Soviet Union is the natural market for Germany. But hampered by capitalist exigencies and unwilling to further antagonize the western powers, from whom it hopes for a return of some of its former colonial possessions, by a closer connection with the Soviet Union, the German ruling class is caught in a web of contradictions which find expression in cabinet crises at present and later, as the web tightens, will express themselves in mass strikes and demonstra- tions under the leadership of the Communist Party—the only party in Germany whose program voices the interests of the working class and peasantry as against those of German capitalism, and whose deeds show that it knows how to organize and lead the masses in parliamentary and more open methods of struggle. “i . . J | Patriotism Scores Again! Two impeceable patriots, A. B. Fall and Edward L. Doheny, having wandered innocently into the political jungles suddenly found themselves confronted on all sides with man-eating animals seeking their blood. One was charged with having turned over a partion of the na-| tional domain to the other, for a consideration of $100,000 ; the other was acensed of having bribed the one for the leasing of ‘the govern- ment property. | The scandal burst a cabinet wide open and it looked for a while as if even Calvin Coolidge would have to say something. But he maintained a dignified silence until everybody got tired hollering. | Then the courts got busy. The last act in the drama was staged in Washington a few days ago. Messrs. Fall and Doheny charged their enemies with a desire to wreak political vengeance on them. They also claimed that the whole transaction was in the interests of preparing this country | against ‘a Japanese invasion by guaranteeing the navy a sufficient oil supply. aif jury believed Messrs Fall and Doheny and acquitted them. Everybody is happy now: the defendants, the lawyers on both | sides and perhaps the jury. | SEND IN A 8UB FOR THE DAILY WORKER! j Article Ill. By WILLIAM F, DUNNE, NE“Of the indications of a growing left wing movement, part of it inside and part outside the trade unions, has been the tremendous mass support for Sacco and Vanzetti. This case has been neglected shame- fully by the officialdom of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor. It has con- fined its activities tothe passing of | formal resolutions, which, while ask- ing for a new trial, expressed no opin- ion as to the guilt or innocence of these workers. T is obvious that had labor official- dom pressed the issue honestly and militantly it would have been impos- sible for the Massachusetts govern- ment with fiendish cruelty to drag out this case for five years without giving these innocent workers a new | trial. The Sacco-Vanzetti committee proper has always been unable to or- ganize any broad mass support for the defense of the accused men. It was not until the International Labor De- tense took up the case that the sup- port took on a real mass character. IG mass meetings were held thru- out the country, demonstrations | “i 4 | it receives from the masses now, the more disastrous will be the ulti- took place before the American con- sulates in the principal foreign capi- tals, dozens of prominent trade union leaders and public men of, all shades of opinion thruout the world sent pro- tests to Governor Fuller. Sacco-Vanzetti conferences have been organized and preparations are being made for a huge national con- ference to be held in New York after the first of the year, The International Labor Defense, a non-partisan organization for the de- fense of all class of war prisoners, in which Communists are, of course, ac- tive, can be said with truth to have saved the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti. N the heels of the drive against the Communists and the left wing in the unions comes the followifg statement sent out by the press ser- vice of the “Sacco-Vanzetti Defence Committee.” It is addressed: To Whom It May Concern: The defense committee is con- stantly questioned as to the rela- tionship existing between the Sacco- Vanzetti Defense Committee with the International Labor Defense, the Communist Party, and the so-called Sacco-Vanzetti conferences, because of their propaganda and collection of funds made in the name of Sacco and Vanzetti. This committee specifically states that the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee has no official relation- ship with the International Labor Defense, the Communist Party, or the Sacco-Vanzetti conferences, | at the A. F. of L. convention In 1923 tensified attack, centering first on tl which interfere with the developm perity and either destroy the trade force on the union$ a policy which Ist development, |. e. its present ti The more “successful” this pol mate result. The Communists and are fighting the battle of the whole minor exceptions the whole bloc of Introduction. HE purpose of these articles is to show by documentary evidence, whose authenticity no one can impugn, that the campaign against all progressive tendencies in the labor movement which was launched there Is a more open combination than ever before of the trade union officialdom, the capitalist press, the employers and the governmer It will also be shown that the main motives which prompt t left wing, are (1) the desire of the capitalists to suppress all struggles dead level of docility, (2) the desire of the trade union officlaldom to ganizations which the capitalists will accept, (3) the desire of both the capitalists and their labor agents to drive the Communists out of the unions and destroy their influence in the labor movement because they are the most conscious and best organized exponents of fighting unionism who are trying to rally all workers for struggle on a pro- gram of immediate and necessary demands. Finally, these articles will show. that the policy of the trade union officialdom, of which the latest attack on the left wing is a logical re- sult, is based on one phase, and one phase alone, of American capital- Militant Trade Unionism has entered a new phase in which he Communists and second on the ent of American imperialist pros- unions or force them to a general will make of them the docile or- emporary upward swing, and that because of this neglect of other fundamental factors, can bring nothing but disaster to the labor movement. ley ia, 1, e, the more endorsement the organized left wing therefore | working class when they resist to the utmost the new offensive of the combined forces of American capitalism which, In the period of imperialism, include with some trade union officialdom. —wW. F. DB. which we understand were organ- ized thru the International Labor Defense, We wish further to state that the defense committee has repeatedly urged them, since the International Labor Defense began to raise funds in the mame of Sacco and Vanzetti, to send accounts of their activities and also accounts of the various Sacco-Vanzetti conferences. To date we received no satisfactory re- plies to our many letters regarding the purpose of the aforementioned organizations, or anh accurate ac- count of funds received and dis- bursed by them. We have. been given to understand, by the ,Inter- national Labor Defense that there are a number of Sacco-Vanzetti con- ferences thruout the country from which we have never received any report; This was the reason why the committee has repeatedly ad- vised friends of the Sacco-Vanzetti case to communicate directly with this office, Fraternally yours, SACCOVVANZETTI DEFENSE COMMITTEE. 'T is not hard to guess the source of the inspiration for this ambiguous and incorrect statement, which, never- less, deals a blow at the nation-wide movement for liberation of Sacco and Vanzetti and at the proposed national conference. But we do not have to confine our- selves to a guess. The New York Times has already published as a news story the correspondence be- tween the Sacco-Vanzetti committee and the “Committee for Preservation of the Trades Unions.” It may be stated here that the Inter- national Labor Defense is under no obligation to account to the “Sacco- Vanzetti Defense Committee” for any funds it may raise, but that its re- ceipts and disbursements and duly audited financial statements are pub- lished monthly in its official organ, The Labor Defender. It can be stated further that the International Labor Defense has for- warded sums as large as $1,000 at a time to the /‘Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee.’y S in cloakmakers’ strike and the Passaic strike, the reactionary elements in and out of the labor move- ment have been willing to sacrifice the victory of the workers, to send VOICES FROM THE SEA * ARTICLE It, F the impression of Soviet ports gained by seamen coming from free and democratic countries—Britishers,, Frenchmen, Americans—is good, there is no need‘to.dwell on the tmpressions | of seamen coming from countries where fascism and white terror hold sway. Suffice it to quote the letter written by an Italian seaman about the same period as the foregoing let- ters: “During my stay in the Soviet port T have visited schools, clubs, children’s homes, rest homes for workers and peasants; I have spoken to workers both in the party and outside, and I have come to the conclusron that dis- orders, famine, etc., exist only in the yenomous fancy of the bribed journal- ists of Italy. “On the contrary, in the U. S. S. R. there is perfect order everywhere: in the system of production, in hygiene, in popular education, and in all social, political and trade union relations. The means of production and ex- change, the mines and the factories, the land and the houses, constitute the collective property of the whole of the revolutionary working class. “In course of my visit to Gelendjik (the erstwhile fahionable ‘resort for the Russian bourgeoisie) I saw how the bourgeois v.ilas have been turned over to children’s homes and to work- ‘ers’ and peasants’ organizations for climatic treatment and healthful rest. In seeing this . thought of the brutal manner in which we, the Italian sea- men, are exploited by the ship own- ers. = “Comrades, let us unmask the lying bourgeois press and let us shout the truth to the whole world, the truth emanating from. Russian: everything to the toilers, nothing to the para- sites! Long live Soviet Russia! Long live the ‘Third International! Long live the world proletarian revolution!” UCH are the feelings of foreign sea- men Who visited the southern ports ‘of U. 8. 8. R., on the Black Sea. Now, what are the impressions of foreign seumen coming to the northern ports? Here we get the same story. Let us quote from an interview with the sec- retary of the Swedish Seamen’s Union: “Question: What is the attitude of eee. ‘ited that port. They speak with.great | satisfaction of the International Sea~ ‘men’s Club of Leningrad.”—(Quoted from the Western Swedish Courier, of Goteborg.) Who Is Worried, and How? | JGURST of all worried*by this are the |< Italian fascisti. They forbid ad- mission, of course, to/~outsiders” on board their ships. They strictly for- bid crews, on pain of discharge and arrest, to visit the Interhational Sea- men’s Clubs. They put fascist spies among the crews to watén them; and compel the officers aboard the ships to do the work of police supervision over their crews. Finally, even higher placed individuals are drawn upon to do this work, as it may be seen from the following communication: “On June 30 (1926)-the Italian con- sul at Odessa went aboard the Italian ship “Teresa Schiafina,” chartered by the Servizzi Martimi, and calling a meeting of both the officers and the whole of the crew, he told them that they should not visit the International Clubs if they did not wish to be sub- Soviet M (Continued from page 1) because you feel a serious attempt is being made to unravel the wood of our social fabric thru the: presenta- tion here of that insidious Russian film ‘Potemkin.’ 4 Must Fear Annihilation, | “Your usual devotion to the screen, your worship of the box office fetish and your fanatic zeal for the protec- tion of the poor exhibitor is included in one sweeping gesture in the more important and pressing duties you have suddenly ‘found for yourself in saving thus our great American re- public from imminent and complote annihilation by the Broadway presen- tation of the invidious Russian film,” he continued. Can't Fool Johnston. “They can't fool you, Mr. Johnston, these clever bolshevist plotters,” Gould’ tells him, “You've got them to rights, Your brilliant insight has penetrated into the core of their sinister designs and you can see quite clearly a well- designed plan in ‘Potemkin’ to under- the Swedish Seamen's Union in regard | mine the foundations of our country, to Soviet Russia? besides impregnating the legions of “Answer: I expected this question. | movie-goers with the virus of Com- Before ie revolution, the ‘paradise’ |munism. So you have appointed your- jected to repression on returning to Italy. At “Incidentally, he declared that there were no liberties in Russia, such as liberty of the press, liberty of speech, and so on. He praised the fascist party, whom he claimed to be taking care of the working class and extend-| vg liberty to all elements of the popu- lation. “He spoke for over an hour, indulg- ing in open pro-fascist propaganda. It is even said that the captain and the consul were hanging around the club at night to watch the seamen.” ESS worried are the Turks, as it may be judged from the follow- ing report: “In the port was one freight steamer, ‘Sadyk Zade.’ The ship’s crew, judg- ing by conversations with both the crew and the officers, are devoted to Kemal Pasha and to the cause of na- tional emancipation. They say: ‘Lenin has saved Russia from perdition; Mus- tapha Kemal has saved Turkey” Sacco, and’ Vanzettt to the electric chair by sabotaging their chief sup: | port. in, order to do something they | think will damage the Communists! + and the left wing. . _ { Undoubtedly these “elements have | prevailed. upon the Sacco-Vanzetti | committee, by threats of withdrawal | of the official support which has kad so weak and grudgingly given, to issue | such a statement, It is almost like | signing *the death warrant of Sacco | ind Vanzetti, ERE is a conerete example of what } it means to-the labor movement | when the self-styled “Committee ‘for | the Preservation of the Trade Ynions” | puts into practice its slogan of: | The labor movement shall lend no assistance to any undertaking ‘which directly or indirectly shall include the Communists. It shall be war to their finish, | Bat it ig-not war “to their finish’— | meaning the Communists, In this | particular ‘case it will mean the finish of Saceo and Vanzetti if the masses of workers ‘are fooled or coerced into vassivity by this drive of reaction, | O the strikes of furriers, textile workers and cloakmakers, men- ioned in a previous article, We can dd the great protest movement for acco and Vanzetti, likewise organ- zed and led by Communists and left wingers, as one of the examples of rank and file militancy which is in direct contradiction to the worker- employer co-operation policy of office- holders, ; As this is written news comes of the action of the general executive board of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers, headed by President Sigman, declaring the 25 weeks’ strike of cloakmakers illegal, vacating the offices held -by members of the New York Joint Board, regularly elect- ed by the membership; vacating the offices held by members of local union boards who support the left wing and appointing hand-picked committees to take their places. HIS action in the face of the mass | support of the New York Joint} Board, elected as a result of a mem- | bership revolt against right wing poli- | cies and tactics, is accompanied by an | onslaught on a parade of the rank and file by police and gangsters. Such occurrences as‘these, having a_ strong fascist character, can result | only from the application of a policy | which finds powerful support, not only | in trade union circles, but from the | capitalists and their press and from the socialist press. | The united front of these elements | against the workers who are fighting | for militant unionism can be shown to exist beyond reasonable doubt. Their | own utterances ‘convict them. : (To, be continued.) South and North, the Same Story Is Heard, ——— $$ (political) questions; but out of cour- tesy* they appointed four seamen to take part.in the solidarity visit of the foreign seamen to the red soldiers in the camp of the 22nd division. . They liked very much the.Lenin tent of the Tartar batallion of the 66th reg- ment.” f UT least of all are worried the rev- olutionary seamen, Wecause they know that the International Clubs, in spite of all the obstacleb, will con- tinue to grow thruout the world, pre- paring for the real unity of the work- ers of the sea transport upon the firm basis of the revolutionary class strug- gle. In this unity, based upon revolution- ary principle, all the seamen will eventually be merged: white and col- ored, mohammedans and christians, without distinction of language, creed and nationality. Let us work for this unity, let us strengthen the idea of international Clubs for seamen in all “The crew, apart from blind patriot-| ports thruout the world. ism, are not interested in any other ovie Critic Flayed How About State Censorship? Gould then reminds Johnston that he apparently has little faith in his own country, as the picture was passed by the New York state board of cen- sorship, that even the U, 8, state de- partment was asked to pass on the film, and did. “Your position is ludic- rous and even misleading when you condemn ‘Potemkin’ by making a few rhetorical passes at it and think you have completely disposed of the mat- ter to the satisfaction of all thinking people, without presenting a thoro ex- amination of the facts,” he wrote. Is a “Money-Getter.” In attacking Johnston's “warning” to exhibitors that the picture is not good “box office” material, Gould calls his attention to the fact that it has been hugely successful from the box office standpoint in Germany, Spain, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Hungary, all the countries in South America, Mexico, India, etc., and that it played in 62 houses in Berlin at one time, and Gould also calls fact that a remarkable array of tributes have been paid to “Potemkin” by screen reviewers of the metropoli- tan newspapers, including the Tribune, (The end.) ts Jealous of Communists, Gould suggests that perhaps one rea- son for Johnston’s opposition to the picture is that he is jealous of the Russian movie producers. "st He says; “When a film like ‘Po- temkin’ comes along blazing with vi- tality and refusing to record history in the hokumized, lovey-dovey manifer of some of our pseudo-historica) films, making them look pretty-pretty and. dead as dodos, your cinema chauvin- ism rises in your gorge and you can’t stand the thought that some damn Communist should be able with his second motion picture effort to cap- ture the real, underlying elements of cinema construction and show up the Hollywood products as things made to order and according to formulae.” . Should Get Fascist Pay. In closing, Gould takes this parting shot: “Meanwhile I am recommend- ing your worthy journal to the sub- sidy department of the National Se- curity League. After reading your editorial fulmination on ‘Potemkin’ they may consider its propaganda value for Americanizing Americans more vital and important than just heralding forthcoming screen events.” of the seaman was at Marseilles, Rot-| self a guardian of our political moral- terdam, etc, but now It is at Lenin-jity and a ‘big brother’ to the exhib- grad, This 1s being confirmed again |itors, warning them away from the ond again by all those who have vie- pestilential rae Times, Daily News, Sun, Wérld, Brooklyn Eagle, Mirror, Evening Tel- ogram, Evening Post, Dyening World and othe - “The pen ts mightier chan the sword,” provided you know how to use, wactien the me 7 * : + ‘i Come down and learn now in the bes. 8968.8. Mich ANEW 7 NOVEL (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Singlair.) No, he could never make @ “rad- ical” out of this darling of the world; he’“would have to make up his mind to that. She would listen to him, because she loved him, even the sound of his voice talking non- sense; she would make a feeble pretense at agreeing, but all the time it was as if-he had the measles and she waiting for him to get cured, as if ha were drunk and she trying to get him “on the wagon.” She had apoldgized to Rachel, and had got Paul owt of jail, but merely to please himy’and in reality she hated. both:these people., Still more did she hate Ruth, with @ cold, im- placable hatred—an intriguing minx} pretending-.to be a simple country maiden in order to win anoil prince! No Women were simple, if you be lieved. Vee, and damn few of them were maidens. 5 Nor would Ruth ever stop being a, nuisance. In the midst of one of) their happiest times she sent Bunny/ another télegram—her brother was’ in jail again, this time it was for contempt of court. Bunny consid- ered it necessary to paddle down to the nearest telegraph office and wire Mr, Dolliver, the lawyer, to investi- gate the report. The answer came that nothing could be done—Paul and others of the strike leaders had disregarded. an injunction forbid- ding them to do this and that, and there was no bail and no appeal, neither habeas corpusses nor coun- ter-injunctions, and Paul would have to serve his three months’ sentence. Bunny was bitter and rebellious against judges who issued injune- tions, and Vee was afraid to speak, — because it seemed obvious to her that somebody had to control stri ers, Of course, after that there wa’ a shadow over their holiday—Bunny~ brooding upon his friend shut up in the county jail. He sent Ruth five hundred dollars to take care of all the prisoners, and in course of time got a letter saying that the prison- ers, had refused the money, and Ruth had turned it over to the strike relief. It was a terrible thing to see children without enough to eat; terrible also that men who had power should use it to starve chil- dren! Thus the “simple” Ruth— not meaning any hint at Dad! x. Bunny had to study for his fall examinations, and that looked like a problem, for what was Vee going to do? But fate provided a solu- tion—Dad telegraphed to Harvard University, which sent up @ young instructor to do tutoring, and he was the solution. He was tall, and had, the loveliest fgir blue eyes, and .a softly curling golden moustache, and soft golden fuzz all over him like a baby; he wore gold. nose- glasses, and had a quiet voice, and oh, so mueh.culture—one of those | master minds which can tutor you in anything if you give them & week’s start! Coming, as he did, from an old Philadelphia family, and having been trained in the haughtiest cen- ter of intellectual snobbery, you might have thought he would look down upon,an ex-mule driver and | his son, to say nothing of an actress < who had been’ raised in a patent medicine vender’s wagon, and had never read 4 whole book in her life: But, as a matter of fact, young Mg. Appleton Laurence just simply col- lapsed in the presence of the sit- uation he found at this Ontario camp; it was the most romantic and thrilling thing that a young in- structor had encountered since Har- vard began. As for the patent med- icine vender’s daughter, he could.not take, his eyes~off her, and when she came‘near the tutoring business wag scattered as by a hurricane Vee, of course, had put her spark- Ting..bldck eyes to work at once; all those stunts which Tommy Paley... had taught her she now tried out. _on a new ‘victim, and Bunny, as. audience, was in position to study them objectively. Vee would wait “till Mr. Lawrence had set Bunny his morning's work, and then she and the tutor. would go for a walk in ch woods; and Bunny would sit ‘one half of his mind on his books, while-the other half wondered what was happening, and what he had Treason to‘expect from one who bad had so many lovers, f (Continued tomorrow.) Negro Labor Congress. - _ Invites to Its Forum By RAE SPIEGEL, The. first number on the American Negro Labor Congress Forum meeting | of Sunday, Dec, 12, was a recitation, “The Man with the Hoe,” by, Rose Lurya, Rose Lurya is both a worker and an artist. To harmonize with the poem she recited she was dressed as a poor working man, She held the audience spellbound, Due to some mistake in the advertised, Wm, Thomas’ lecture on) “Amalgamation of the Races” was mot given. General discussion, a prelimi- nary to “Amalgamation of the Races,” was held instead, 1 Bee program of interest to all work: id every einai, t axon “A Se. Ga Rw So y