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. of the country. : EXPOSES INSULL GRIP ON VOTERS Fight Corruption by geemenberg Campaign . OL EWS. . By R. “CHICAGO, Feb. n the central figure in the congressional ‘ slush fund scandal last year, who cor- | rupted all the old parties, has issued @ Warning to the governmental au- Yhorities against arbitrary interfer- ence with the power industry. After) ¢tressing the importance of the power business, and its future growth, he} said: “I think no greater blow could | be-aimed at the general development of: industry in these United States than anything which would attack the credit of the great power companies That is one subject our friends who sit in legislative coun- ils need to consider well and fully before they attack an industry which hears so important a relation to the whole industrial development of the country. “His Own Business.” Tnsull’s view is interesting, since he | y to “interfere” with the legislative councils, even to the extent of crushing candidates under the weight of campaign contributions. Insull, in the last few da has re- fused to divulge to the cenate commit- tee to whom he paid the $238,000 he admits having ont. his own busine: The corrupti local Chicago fox a change in the and the Wor! is now gather its candidates for enberg, on the ballot, didate for mayor E Gettin Insull’s inter: ical situation calls administration, g signatures to put as a labor can- ignatures. t in traction and pub- Jie utilities of Chicago is ¥'t by the election platform planks of the Work- ers’ (Communist) F y, which cail for muficipal ownership of traction and public utilities, with p pation in the management by t workers employed in them. The mayoralty election campaign-is beginning in earnest h the primaries over, the republican candi- date being William Thompson, and Mayor Dever for the democrats. The Workers’ Party is speeding up its work of getting signatures for its can- didate, having until March 9th to de the trick. Petition lists may be had by writing 19 S. Lincoln Street, Chi- cago, or phoning Seeley 3: awe ye sgpeememgaan Settle far Coupons | Immediately Thousands of Children of the Passaic Textile Strikers Are HUNGRY AND DESTITUTE HELP US FEED 7,—Smaul Tnsull, | That he calls| f |the best answer to this charge, and |” f candidates in the | ’ (Communist) Party | . E. Ruth- | By C. E, RUTHENBERG, N the February number of the “Proletarian”, the official organ of the proletarian party of America, we find reprinted an article from The DAILY WORKER of January 6th, | 1927, by Anthony Bimba,.on “Do We | Believe in Parliamenta: tion?” This article by Comrade Bimba was written with the purpose of stirring [OP greater interest’ in the work of | participation in the election cam- |paign. Comrade Bimba desired to | emphasize the importance of the elec- | tion campaigns for Communist agita- tion and propaganda and to impress }upon the members of the Workers’ (Communist) Party, the need of more serious and energetic work in making | use of the opportunity for Communist agitation and propaganda which the | election campaign provides. In doing this, Comrade Bimba pre- sented a one-sided picture of the ac- | tivities of the party in the New York City election campaign last Novem- ber. He emphasized the weaknesses and failures, leaving out the achieve- ments in the form of many successful | meetings, and hundreds of thousands of pieces of literature distributed during the campaign. Our friends of. the proletarian party seized upon this article to sub- stantiate their charge that the work of the Workers’ (Communist) Party is “bombast and bluff.” It is not the purpose of this article to defend the Workers (Communist) | Party against this attack from our proletarian friends, except to note in passing that the situation in the whole American labor movement is the best proof that the only living force in the American labor move- ment today which is endeavoring to} build it up and lead it forward in the struggle against the capitalists is the Workers’ (Communist) Party and its | membership. The fact that the whole | | force of reaction in the labor move- ment, beginning with President Green of the American Federation of Labor, | and down through the ranks of the lesser. bureaucrats, such as , Lewis, Sigman, MacMahon, and so forth is being. hurled against the Workers? (Communist) Party is the evidénce that the efforts of the..Workers (Communist) Party to mobilize the workers for militant struggle against the capitalists, as Aigainst the poli- cies of the reactighary bureaucrats of collaboration wjth the bosses, is mak- ing such headway that it has aroused the fears of/the whole labor buréau- eracy which is opposed to a class} struggle ‘policy in the labor move-| ment. The history of the labor struggle during the last year also showing the | ‘only militant fight against the capi- > ia Proletarian Friends ~ THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1927 | The Manager's Corner (ers’ struggles into a struggle against | |cap:talism, Where and how is the | proletarian party participating in the | day to day struggles of the workers, and how are its members applying! the knowledge gained as a result of | their studies, in the struggles of the workers ? 2. The winning of the organized workers in the unions, for a policy! of militant class struggle against the pitalist class and capitalism is a fundamental policy of the Communist | International, What is the proletar- jian party doing in support of this! policy? 3. The Communist International supports the. principle that the mai of workers cannot be drawn | into a political struggle against the capitalist government merely through carrying on study-classes and educa- | tional work in Marxism and Leninism, but that such a struggle must be de- veloped on the basis of the immediate experiences of the workers, and partial demands. That is, for ex-| ample, through a fight against the {use of injunctions in labor disputes, or for nationalization of the mines, ete. ete. and that in the United States, the immediate form of the organi- zation of this political struggle is through the building of a labor party, based upon delegates from the trade unions and other labor political andj} economic organizations. What is the | ary paper has been challenged lisher of The Emporia (Kan.) vertising men have done more “The New York Times is the this respect in this city, much publicist, “The real revolutio production and buying.” The attempt of Mr. must repudiate the comparis | ‘worker will see through. argument, and the hypocritical To the bourgeois like Mr. neither the “dangerous” New We may not be as smart as proletarian party doing to aid in de-| veloping a mass’ political party of | the workers through the formation | of a labor party? 4, in. his effort to.¢onvince the x One of the major contributions | Leninism to the extension of | m is the role of the struggle| against imperialism in the fight to| overthrow capitalism, both through} the struggle of the workers in the | i imperialist countries against their) a imperialist government, and ft ‘Women’ Ss Day Will Echo struggle of the colonial and /semi- | Words of Clara Zetkin: colonial peoples against Amperialist og domination. Does “the proletarian | Many Good Speakers | party consider its duty merely to ex-| plain theoretically what imperialism| The Workers* (Communist) Party, \is, or is.4t ready to join in a united | District 2, will celebrate International front,fnovement to carry on the fight | Women’s “Day, Tuesday, March 8th, agdinst American imperialism as it|8 P- m. at Central Opera House, o7th As manifesting itself in Nicaragua, | Street and 3rd Avenue. Mexico and China at the present In connection with the meeting it is | time? well to quote the words of Clara} 5. Do the members of the pro- Zaklin: Z i bletarian party accept mass action of ‘All the special Aas ycppiiabs demands the workers, outside of the forms of for the fulfillment of ah eee the capitalist parliamentary govern- of women will be mobilized on March | ment, as the means of bringing about se keg) ills, streamlets. ‘and rivers | the eventual overthrow of the govern- which flow into the stream of the re-| t A thie: eotubdinitiosnt “of. the volutionary proletarian class struggle Sort . ey ” ie ‘i that will drive the bourgeoisie back sdb from the offeasive on to the defensive These are only a few of the sug-| and culminate first and foremost in gestions which might be made to the the dictatorship of the proletariat.” members of the proletarian party for | The speakers will be M. J. Olgin, consideration in deciding what their | ‘Ross party really is. Wortis, W. W. Weinstone, Fanny | It may be that they Warshafeky, Louis J. Engdahl, Kate Street publication of the reds.” White to put the New York Times in the same class with The DAILY WORKER must have been | highly flattering to the editors of that august sheet, rying whether he shall wear this or that kind of a collar, or whether he shall partake of this or that delicacy, or whether | he shall-go to this or that pleasure resort, advertising is a potent factor. But to the work the size of his pocketbook, advertising can make no funda- mental difference, except to create certain desires, volutionist,” the advertising man, tells him how to fill. can’t for the life of us see how we can squeeze from the bosses more food, better homes, and more wholesome living condi- tions than by organizing and fighting to get them. message which The DAILY WORKER is constantly bring- | ing to the workers of America. York Times-instead of The DAILY WORKER. | with the decision of its last confer- |section realize more than ever the | necessity of getting behind the shop} will agree in principle with the state. talist employers to have been led by| the Communists and left wingers also| ment of Communist policies containe: | stands as an answer to our proletar-|in these few suggestions, but that is ian friends. The furriers strike, the | not sufficient. They must be willing garment workers strike, the heroic! to carry these principles into action, | |struggle of the Passaic workers—| in order to qualify as Communists. |what other militant fights against | If the members of the proletarian | | the capitalists were there during the | | party accept both the principles and! | year 1926? | agree that the principles must not| What Is The Proletarian Party? However, as stated above, the pur- | class discussions, but be carried int | pose of this article is not to discuss | action then the road which they fol the progress and achievements of the|jow is clearly before them: | Workers’ (Communist) Party in| should amalgamate their party with | stimulating and leading the workers’ |the Workers’ (Communist) Party | | struggles in this country, On the! which stands today for both the prin- contrary, its purpose is to challenge | ciples and which is carrying these | | the right to separate existence of the| principles into action in the day to | proletarian party. | day struggles of the workers. The proletarian party is not large) The work of di ye- in numbers. It has possibly a half | eae CeCe eet remain merely the subject of study- | They | |a dozen local organizations, maybe as many as ten, consisting of a hun- dred or two of members. It declares that it is a Communist organization, that is, that it accepts the principles of the Communist International. The !number of the “Proletarian” which contains the reprint of Comrade Bimba’s article, prints notices of | meetings to honor the memory of | Lenin on the anniversary of his death. | Now, either the proletarian party | lis what it professes to be, a Com-| | munist organization, or it is some- | thing else, possibly a new and smaller | | edition of a variety of socialist labor | parties. If it is a Communist organization, | and its members Communists, then it} \has no right to a separate existence | outside of the Communist Party of | | this country, the Workers’ (Commu- | nist) Party. If its profession of ac- |ceptance of Communist principles are not borne out by the policies it advo- cates and the facts of its activities | and it is the latter, then it should ad- | just its differences, and become part lof that other sect,—the socialist la- | bor party, | A Challenge To The Proletarians. | Our chalienge to the members of | the proletarian party is: That they ‘examine their organization and its | policies, and*find out where they be- | tong. ‘|| In making this examination, we |raise the following points for the | consideration of the members of the proletarian party in deciding whether | they are Communists, as they profess to be... The proletarian party devotes its energies largely to study-class work. The teachings of Marxism and Lenin- ism, in stuay classes is an essential part of the work of a Communist Party, but the conduct of such study- classes, does not in itself make the proletarian party a Communist or- ganization. The knowledge gained in study-classes must be carried into the actual class struggle. Marxism and Leninism are living forces only ‘if they are carried into the actual fights of the workers and used to lead these fights to develop the work- THEM Help Build a Strong Union! Take Some More To Sell iffice open from 9 a, m, to 7 p. m. daily Relief Committee 799 BROADWAY ROOM 225 NEW YORK CITY Stuyvesant 2343 gle among the American’ workers has great obstacles to overcome in the present period of American imperial- ism and the general movement. to-| ward the right and collaboration with the capitalists on the part of the of- ficials leaders of the labor movement. | Every conscious and understandin; Communist is needed and should give | his services where they can achieve |the greatest results. If the members ;of the proletarian party are Com- | munists then they are not rendering ithe service which they could to the | revolutionary movement by standing | {apart and maintaining their separate | oreauiization. They should unite with | the members of the Workers’ (Com. | | munist) party. There is a place for |them within the Workers’ j nist) party and their services will be welcome. Those members of the proletarian party who actually par- ticipate in the day to, day struggle of the workers (there are such although the party as a whole does not) know from their experiences that such work brings them into support of the Workers’ (Communist) Party. Why should not all the Communist forces of the proletarian party be drawn into support of the Communist poli- cies in the actual class struggle. As Communists, they should im- mediately take steps to become part of the main stream of the Communist movement and give their energies to the Communist struggle in this coun- try. Dare the members of the proletar- ian party face this challenge and answer it? Worcester Will See Passaic Strike Film WORCESTER.—The Passaic tex- tile strike picture will be shown in Worcester, Mass., Thursday evening, March 8, at Mechanic’s Hall. The pic- ture has been endorsed by the Wor- cester Central Labor Union. A com- mittee is now at work selling tickets and working hard for a successful showing. ment of revolutionary class strug- | (Commu- | jitlow, Y. W. L. and Pioneer speak- | rs. A good musical program is being arranged. ‘New Philadelphia Cab ‘Rule Intended to Put Drivers Out of Work PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 27.—| The slave driving program adopted | by the local taxi owners is exposed in the February -issue of the Cab Driver, official organ of the Cab | Drivers’ Union. i It points out that “A rule is now | being, put over that requires that you book/$50 week or get fined. All the! weak ones will be terminated and the | rest will have to fight like hell to make the mark set for them. The fleet of cabs will be cut so that Sev- | eral hundred drivers will be knocked | out of a job and those who remain | will have to put in 12 to 18 hours a day to make ends meet. Out of $50 | you get $16.66. If your tips rre good | you will make $24.00 a week. But {look at the hours. Only by organiz- | ing will wé be able to get a decent wage ang decent hours.” Thayer Is Condemned By Harvard Dean in Sacco Case Review Prof. Felix Frankfurter of the Har- | vard Law School has written an arti- cle for the March issue of the Atlan- tie Monthly, in which he proves that Nicola Sacco and Bartholomeo Van- zetti were not given a fair trial by Judge Thayer, when they were brought before him on the framed-| ) up charge of murder for their activity jin the labor movement. | He points out that Judge Thayer | | allowed the prosecution unusual lati- tude in introducing evidence that his charge to the jury and his rulings on motions were biased and that there is no doubt. that a new trial should be granted. “Shoot Them if You Have To,” Says Cop of University Students CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Feb. 27.— “Shoot them if you have to,” shouted a Cambridge patrolman at the height of the “Battle of Harvard Square” as Oliver D, Ferguson, a student of Paducah, Ky., was being dragged by five officers into a patrol wagon. So testified Morris H, Silverm: a student, of New York City, this ternoon at the trial of thirty-five ats dents and four others in Third Dis- ! i | for the evening. A TEST OF RADICALISM. The standing of The DAILY WORKER as a revolution- by William Allen White, pub- Gazette. Declaring that ad- to revolutionize the daily life of the American public than Communists, Mr. White adds, most dangerous newspaper in more so than the Fourteenth | According to this bourgeois nist is the advertising man, | whose stimulation of mass desire and demands results in mass | We on which even the simplest | The false logic of Mr. White's | veneer of altruism with which | he tried to cover the real character of the capitalist press as typified by the New York Times, will deceive no one. White, who is constantly wor- °| er whose wants are limited by | which York Times nor the “real re- Mr. White of Emporia, but we It is this | Mr. White will not sueceed workers to patronize the New —BERT MILLER. Section 3, Chicago, * Helping Shop Bulletin | CHICAGO, Feb. 27. — Workers | Party, Section 3, of Chicago, in line ence, is mobilizing all its forces for issuing a shop bulletin for the Stock- | yards within the next month or-so. | The comrades in the yards are par- ticularly enthusiastic as they find it rather difficult to carry on effective | work without outside help. And the comrades of the street nuclei in the | nucleus in putting over this bulletin. | As always the financial question is ‘orever present where the printing of a bulletin is concerned. To meet this | obstacle the section is giving a box | social and dance Saturday evening, March 5, in Vilnis Hall (rear), 3316) S. Halsted Street. - | Comrade Herbert Zam is the speaker | On the : Screen .A new motion picture theatre is to be built exclusively for the presenta- tion of artistic films. This cinema is to be on Fifty-fifth Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. It is being erected under the direction of the Art Cinema League. The house | will seat 299, ang is expected to open| in April. | | The screen feature at the Hippo- drome this week is headed by Rin- Tin-Tin in a film titled “The Hills of Kentucky”. Dolores Costello in “The Third De- gree” will be on the screen at Moss’ Broadway Theatre, beginning today. | Louise Dresser and Rockcliffe Fel- lowes, Kate Price, Tom Santchi and | David Torrence are in the supporting | cast. play by Charles Klein. Charles Chap- lin, in “Pay Day,” will be on the} same biil. | | The Capitol is continuing the show- ing of “The Scarlet Letter” another | week. “Stark Love,” a Paramount photo- drama of the life of the mountain- eers of North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky, is being presented at | the Cameo Theatre this week. The Universal Film Corporation, | * which is without a first-run house of | its own on Broadway, has closed a/ lease with B. S. Moss for occupancy of the Colony Theatre, beginning September 1. Hugo Riesenfeld has | been engaged as managing director. The Warner Brothers have the house at present and are showing their sec- | ond Vitaphone program, “The Better ’Ole,” there. VAUDEVILLE THEATRES MOSS’ BROADWAY ; | Moss’ Broadway Theatre vaudeville program this week includes: » Bert Yorke and Rose King in “The ‘Fam-| _ GRO’ROADHURST W. 4408 bas 830 as edt 230 ily ,Tintype;” California Collegians, the Six Galenos, Smith and Strong. PALACE Florence Moore, with Gitz-Rice at the piano; Ben Bernie and his Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra; Nicola, Maude Powers and Vernon Wallace, May Wirth, with “Phil” and the, Wirth , | Family. ‘HIPPODROME Count Berni Vici and his “Ameri- trict. Court. Read The Daily Worker Every Day’ can Beauties,” Dollie and Billie, Fred Galetti and Iola Kokin, Great Shu- bert and Partner, | ducer: | gasps. rel. \freaks and abnormalities. |to make a play of them. Mr. | by formula; This melodrama is from the| ~ What Every cia Boy Should Know ‘New York Exchange,” Machine- Made, Depicts Pitfalls of Cabaret Youths. Reviewed by HARBOR ALLEN. ERSONALLY I’m for the machine age. made plays; and “New York Ex- | change, ”’ by Peter Glenny, at the 49th Street Theatre, is one of them. Its |three acts run off with all the thump- ing regularity of a pianola roll. Its |climaxes are carefully timed. Its curtains never come a moment too |soon or a moment too late, At the | proper place in the proper act the |hero tells all about the little par- |sonage covered with roses back in the old home town (while the orchestra sobs off stage); at the proper place the heroine says: “If you go out of that door, Ernest, you go out of my \life’; and having gone out of her| |life and lived to regret it, the time} ;comes when Ernest heaves at his se-| “You rotten old hag!” | In the interim an assortment of jfreaks cavort before the audience. -Lesbians, fairies, pimps, gigolos, kept women, kept men, aged dowagers in | pursuit of boys, a collection of human |sewage calculated to tickle even the palate jaded with the much-advertised “Sex” and “The Virgin Man.” The audience is shocked. It giggles and But it likes it. With the material I have no quar- There is room in the theatre for But it takes a strong hand and steel plyers lenny has only a pair of nickle-plated tweezers. For strength and honesty | he has only costumes and gush. “New York Exchange” is the old youth - led - astray - by - money theme with the old “new twist.” Lulu} | Blanche Tancock, Robert H. Gordon, Belle used it with the Harlem twist. Here is the fashionable Freudian twist. Poor, bright-eyed, fresh-cheeked youth from Indiana, chasing the phan- tom of fame on Broadway, is no lon- ger a demure ingenue. Now he is a cabaret terior. And the wealth that dazzles, that lures from ambition and true love, is no longer the millionaire in cutaway. Now it is a dowager in spangles. As usual, it ends in suite in Paris. Disillusioned youth is filled with remorse. It chokes, and writhes, and spouts moral thunder: Then it throws itself out of the window, and | the dowager doesn’t even wince. ( All these rummage sale left- overs | are patched together with a canny eye for the theatre. The out-of-town audience will eat it up; here is wicked Broadway laid bare. “Dallas Dinon’s night club”—everybody knows who that is! Even some of the leading characters have had their day in the newspapers, Sure-fire stuff; written the prescription never fails. You mix it as you would mix a cocktail; so many ounces of love, so many ounces of suspense; so many jounces of fight, so many ounces of comédy, so many explosive curtains. Subtitle it “A Male Captive’ and charge $3.30 a sip! They say it has a kick. Me it made only sleepy. It has a prize line. The seduced hero is talking: “Ever since I’ve been in New York I haven’t met a single decent, hard-working chap.” Won’t somebody volunteer to help him out? Mischa Levitski, pianist, returns to this city in recital at Carnegie Hall on March 29, Mieszyslaw Horszowski gives his | third recital this season next Thurs- day evening at Acolian Hall, But I object to machine- | LOUIS MANN a | In “A Woman in the House,” a new play by Samuel Shipman and Neil Twomey, at the Bronx Opera House this week. BROADWAY BRIEFS. “Cradle Song,” will be given at four performances at the 4th Street Theatre this week;. tonight, Wednes- day and Friday nights and at a special matinee on Thursday after- noon. Other plays to be presented in- clude: “Twelfth Night,” Tuesday night; “John Gabriel Borkman,” Wednesday matinee; “(La Locandiera,” Thursday night; “Master Builder,” Saturday matinee; and “Three Sis- ters,” Saturday night. “Granite,” which has been playing at the American Laboratory Theatre, will move to the Mayfair tonight for a limited run. The original cast with George Macready, Frances Wilson, Herbert V. Gallendre, and Arthur Sircom will remain. The Laboratory will be dark for a week, but starting March 7, “The Trumpet Shall Sound,” “The Sea Woman’s Cloak,” and “The Straw Hat,” will resume on alternate nights. Two new plays will have their premiere showing tonight: Frank Craven’s latest comedy, “Money From Home” at the Fulton Theatre; and “We All Do,” a comedy by Knud Wiberg and Marcel Strauss, at the | Bijou. The first public performance of “Singer of Sorrow.” a new tragi- comedy by Ossip Dymow (author of “The Bronx Express”), will be given by Maurice Schwartz and his players at the Yiddish Art Theatre tonight. Carlyle Davis, composer-pianist, with his son, Ronald Davis, pianist, and Celeste Bradley, violinist, will give a recital of Davis compositions at Town Hall, Monday evening March 7. Maxim Schapiro, pianist, will make his debut at Aeolin Hall Friday eve- ning, March 4, Gisella Nev will give a Violin re- cital at Town Hall next Thursday night. 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