The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 2, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. : Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): $8,00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 | Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F, DUNNE if BERT MILLER i iivcctceccccavcas Business Manager se eaibiens eis vise » cis veg ADGKtORD ‘aa | Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under) the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. In and Around Shanghai The transfer of northern troops under the Shangtung mili-| tarist Chang Tsung Chang seems to have created dissension | among the forces opposing the People’s Armies around Shanghai which discounts to a great extent their increased numerical strength. Dispatches tell of desertion and mutinies affecting not only| the rank and file but high officers as well. In addition the civil population resents the influx of the “allies” and strikes and demonstrations are on the increase throughout China. The imperialist powers, America included, continue to rush gunboats to Chinese waters and increase their troop strength. a. The Chinese population, students, workers and peasants, under- stand perfectly that the imperialists and the northern armies are allied against the nationalliberation movement. Meanwhile the People’s Armies continue to win victories and _ the advance guard of the Kuomintang, agitators and organizers, are preparing the way for their advance even at the cost oftheir lives as in Shanghai where the neutrality of the foreign conces-' sions has been violated with the consent of the imperialist agents in, order to hunt them down. South of the Yangtsze river China is a nation of workers and peasants inarms. If Great Britain, heading the imperialist forces, | is successful in keeping Shanghai in the hands of China’s enemies for a time, there is still the mighty weapon of the boycott which the People’s government, holding power now in more than half of China, can use with deadly effect. Our prediction is that when the fighting for Shanghai ac- tually begins on the huge scale which the concentration of forces indicates will take place, that mass desertions from the northern forces will again put before the imperialists the question of with-| drawing all armed forces or of starting a war which will still | further unify the Chinese nation. Britain Following a War Policy The government of the Soviet Union accuses the British gov- ernment of plotting with and financing various countries for war on Russia. Great Britain’s foreign office is enraged and sends an in-| sulting note. The ink on the British reply is not yet dry when every capi-| talist paper of any importance carries the news of the Lithuanian- | Polish agreement and states openly that it is being negotiated at the result of British pressure. | The Soviet Union did not have to wait twenty-four hours for public proof of its case. » So much for the honesty of imperialist diplomacy. ! As for the agreement itself it closes the last gap in the corridor | composed of little countries running from Roumania to Finland.| Britain has its Balkan-Baltic bloc against the Soviet Union. : But Germany is incurably hostile to the Lithuanian-Polish: line-up. It is a threat to her eastern frontier and strengthens Poland's hold on East Prussia. France will not welcome this new evidence of the growing in- fluence of Great Britain in eastern Europe and as the new al- liance under her auspices certainly cannot balance in any way the loss of British power in China, her profit and loss account in the field of international politics continues to show a huge deficit. To this must be added the hostility aroused among the! British workers by these two maneuvers. It is becoming more and more apparent that Great Britain, | having lost influence in central Europe is basing herself more} and more on Italy and the Balkan and Baltic states. | Such a base, composed of countries all of whom desire con-| tiguous territories and colonies (as the case with Italy) means, that Great Britain is following a war policy and that the heated tone of the British note to the Soviet Union is partly the result | of the complete exposure made of this policy by the revolutionary diplomacy of the workers’ and peasants’ government. The Moron Legislature of South Carolina By NORMAN SILBER. jeither planting a new crop or keeping THe body of scientists known as | their bellies filled in the meantime. “The Legislature of South Caro- {1 the truck farming sections condi- |, ” ‘ ; _| tions are still worse. But the state ol phi ile rere p Stair |legislature could not interest itself the state. Election depends chiefly |i peg are It ped ey SRE on the candidate's narrow-minded- | tant mal mati payne hel eat in| ness, his inhuman disregatd for the |()*™ s ie Seporveny eye |e | occupied Negro, his general aversion to prog- ress and a natural antipathy for pay- | ing personal debts. VERY year the body meets and passes a lot of worthless, silly and vicious laws and considers the bud- get. By the time the primitive poli- ticians steal their little graft there is nothing left for the support of state institutions. There are not many in- stitutions supported by the state and these do not receive the support they should have, yet the tax burden is enormous. Two years ago the legis- lature was in session for weeks de- ciding how to meet the necessary ap- propriations. imaginable tax and finally passed a bill taxing baby talcum powder at 20% of its retail value while shav- ing cream was exempt. HIS year the legislature had many serious problems which should have sover the state at a faster rate than the bank examiner can record their names, One bank wrote the bank ex- aminer to close it up, and that worthy official couldn't find time to do so in over a year. The cotton crop was _ taken away from the farmers and they were left without means for They considered every | passed this year is a law prohibit- jing Negro barbers from cutting the | hair of a white woman. The barber | | shops were already divided into two! | classes, one serving white patrons | | and the other catering to colored peo- | | ple. However, the best barbers in the; | shops catering to white trade were | usually Negroes, and under the new | Jaw, these barbers will be prohibited to serve white women. HE Negro leaders are not putting up more than a mild protest to | this piece of outrageous and uncon- | | stitutional race legislation. They a |cept it as they did the “grandfather | clause” which permits the illiterate | white man to vote and yet disbars| ;many an intellectual Negro. The/ “grandfather clause” contained in| most of the state constitutions in the |South provide that unless a man’s forefathers voted prior to 1860, the citizen must prove his literacy before he is permitted to vote, It is as- sumed that the white ancestors voted prior to 1860, but since the Negroes did not have that right, their de- | scendents must prove literacy, A I iteraey test in this case could be made an impossible one and very of- i ten is, ANEW Night fell. The householder who the apartment opposite their window came home and had his supper, and now, comfortable ! | in his shirtsleeves, with pipe in mouth, he sat in a deep wicker | | chair in front of his radio set, and proceeded to explore the circum- cumcambient either. So the watchers by Paul’s bedside got the news of the election without leaving their posts. Owing to difference in time, California gets returns from the ‘east before it gets its own; but it was all the same this Tues- day evening, east and west, the fifty million dollar campaign fund had done is work, and wherever you listened, you learned that more voters had cast their ballots for the strong silent statesman than for all his opponents put together. And since that was the thing ardently desiréd by the broadcasting sta- tions, and the great newspapers and churches and temples and tab- ernacles which own them, there was a tone of jocularity in the an- nouncements, and after you “had learned that Massachusetts was go- ing three to one for her favorite son, you would hear the Six Jolly Jazz Boys proclaiming, “Got a hot gal in a railroad town!”—or per- haps the Chicago Comet, chuckling, “My cutie’s due at two-to-two!” It made a cheerful atmosphere to die in; but unfortunately Paul wasn’t hearing it. The Tabernacle of the Third Re- velation on the air. Eli’s followers were not concerned with elections, being soon to wing their way to celestial regions which are con- ducted upon the monarchical prin- ciple, They opened with an organ recital, and the householder didn’t care for that, but perferred Radio VKZ, program sponsored by the | Snow Baby Soap Company, intro- ducing the first appearance in Angel City of the Pretty Pet Trio singing their latest popular melody hit, “My Little Jazz-baby, Razz- baby Coon.” But later the house- holder tried the Tabernacle, and there was the bellowing voice of Fli, that all California householders love. So Bunny and Rachel learned what had been the meaning of Eli’s visit. “Brethren, the Lord has vouch- safed a wonderful proof of His merey to me. Glorious tidings He gives to the world tonight! I have an older brother, the helpmate of my boyhood, Paul by name, and he was brought up in the fear of the Lord; the voice of the Most Highest was familiar to him on the lonely hills where we tendered our fa- ther’s flocks together. Shepherd boys we were, sitting under the stars, awaiting a sign of the Lord’s mercy, and praying for the lost ones of this world to be saved from the devices of the great Tempter. “Brethren, this brother grew up, and he strayed from the faith of his childhood, he fell into evil com- pany, and became a scoffer at the Lord’s Word. The love ‘of our Savior Jesus Christ was no longer in his heart, but hatred and strife and jealously of those to whom the Lord has revealed His Truth. And, brethren, the ruin which this mis- guided brother sought to bring upon others has fallen upon his own head, and tonight he lies dy- ing, struck down by the evil pas- | sions which he himself incited. It was my painful task to go to his bedside, and see him lying in a stupor, “But oh my friends, who can foresee the Wisdom .of the Lord? Who can understand His ways? It was His Will to answer my prayers, and permit my lost brother to open his eyes, and hear the voice of the | Lord speaking by. my lips, and to answer, and confess his transgres- sions, and repent, and be healed, and washed in the Blood of the Lamb. Glory hallelujah! Glory! Though thy sins be as scarlet they shall become as white as snow, blessed be the name of the Lord! Brethren, rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. Hallelu- jah! Hallelujah!” All through this discourse you were aware of the murmur and stir of a great crowd. They would break ‘into ejaculations at every pause in the prophet’s words; and now at the end they drowned him out with a chorus of rejoicing, “Glory! Glory, hallelujah!” And in the doorway of the hospital room stood Ruth Watkins, having awak- ened from her sleep. She was star- ing at Bunny with horrified eyes, and whispering, “Oh, what a lie!” Yes, Bunny suspected that it was a lie; but he could not prove it; and even if he could, what then? The radio is a one-sided institution; you can listen, but you cannot an- swer back, In that lies its enormous usefulness to the capitalist system, The householder sits at home and takes what is handed to him, like an infant being fed through a tube, It is a basis upon which to build the greatest slave empire in his- tory. (To Be Continued). | The Manager's Corner Dear Comrade: certain that it has a strong ON THE SUSTAINING FUND I am enclosing the pledge cards of Comrade Klein and myself and check in advance for first month. I am glad that a constructive measure such as the SUS- TAINING FUND is at last going to be given a trial. I am chance of becoming the real guarantee for the permanent appearance of The DAILY WORKER, providing of course that it has the unflagging support of every Party member and sympathizer. Surely we can order our affairs better than the an- archical, haphazard methods we have been pursuing in the only National Labor Daily. Bert Miller, New York, N. Y. ceived. Cannot remain silent. better than ever. cial condition. Comrade, I do not think REVEAL HILLQUIT * * past, and rather than expect the periodical threat of Suspen- sion, which comes ail too inevitably each year, we can by em- ploying some business-like measures, insure long life to the With every wish for a successful campaign, I am Comradely yours, HENRY L. GAGE. ffl Comrade:—Your letter written 18th of February re- My answer is here. Many by this time realize the importance of our Communist DAILY WORKER. The DAILY WORKER must stand and become I have no work nor prospects to get any. Especially in this locality, but as soon as I find a master, will pay fdr the sustaining fund of The DAILY WORKER, 10% of my earn- ings, till we can put The DAILY WORKER ona sound finan- it will be long. The DAILY WORKER will become the-most important.—Must say, it al- ready has done tremendous work amongst the masses. —GEORGE RUPERT. DOUBLECROSSED. UNION IN GRABBING BANK CONTROL Violated Pledged Word to Return Stock When Loan Was Repaid; Local Officers Kept in Ignorance of The gross mismanagement of the} | International Union Bank and the |amazing breach of faith of Morris | | Hillquit were revealed today in affi-| |davits filed by attorneys for the | Legal Moves which the bank had for the $389,000, which is more than its entire capital stock. Made Almost Valueless. The ‘affidavits of Louis Hyman Sidney Howard’s Two Pl] Reviewed by HARBOR ALLEN, (Ay SEORDING to certain critics, | Eugene O’Nejll’ solitary grandeur as America’s only dramatist is al- |ready challenged if not adumbrated | by Sidney Howard. There is no deny- |ing Howard knows his theatre. Be- |fore his two plays at the Theatre | Guild’s supplementary playhouse, the | spectator sits tense, swooped along ee sheer craftsmanship. Climaxes |rise ahd burst like sky-rockets. Dig- |logue crackles, glitters, \unfold like glowing pyrotechnic roses. Niagaras of passion pour over Charactefs |" ays at the Theatre Guild Look Good, But They Aren’t Filling MARGARET DOUGLASS | the footlights. It is-a perfect spec- | tacle. Inside the theatre, you are | satisfied. You feel, that you have! |seen something great and thrilling | and human. ; i It is when you go outside that you} | begin to doubt, Outside, in the brass | | reality of Broadway, you feel hungry. | | What seemed to be a feast was set} | before you, you ate heartily, and yet} you are hungry. You are seldom | |hungry after you have feasted on} ! | O'Neill. O'Neill gives you meat and | bread—raw and coarse, maybe, but filling. What is the matter, you ask, | with Sidney Howard? Is he only | stuffing? Is his roast only a papier- | mache roast, such as you see in the | grill window on lower Broadway? Is his sky-rocket just an inflated roman jcandle, and his Niagara just sput- | tering gunpowder? | _ Harsh as it may. sound, I suspect | that Howard is merely clever fire- | works. He has his virtues. He knows | how to set his stage. He knows how | to bring down his curtain. He knows | In John Howard Lawson’s Loud Speaker,” which will be presented by the New Playwrights Theatre at the 52nd street tonight. bundle of tricks; a villian without a redeeming feature,-a heroine pure | and virtuous and noble-minded, and Virtue Triumphant in the End. The only difference is that the labels have been shuffled a bit. The pious, Je- voted mother is now a Sinister Freud- ian Complex. The realistic, matter- of-fact young wife is now the Brave Modern Spirit. You call the King how to keep you on the edge of your, the Knave, and the Knave the King, | seat. He knows how to add the pop-| but you play the game in the same jular modern touch, He. knows how |to write “la piece bien faite”—the | And a_ well-built | | well-made play. } | old way. | Well, what do you want? We want a new game. We want a house in a city of creaking, clumsy,| n¢w chess board. We're tired of par- | tumbling theatrical shanties is not to | be sneezed at. Even if it is built of second-hand lumber and painted by | joint board in the Supreme Court in! and A. S. Negin, business manager 4 camouflage artist. the action of the Joint Board and} | affiliated unions against the bank| they are attempting to regain con- trol of their property given as se- curity on a loan and surreptitiously transferred to Umbrey. A photostatic copy of a letter to Louis Hyman, mariager of the joint board, from Morris Hillquit was sub- mitted with the affidavits, in which; he gave Hyman hig “personal as- surance” that the stock of the In- ternational Bank and four union buildings, which were placed in the hands of his clerk, Frederick Um- hey, to be held as security for a loan of $889,000,” will be returned to the Joint Board and the affiliated locals upon the payment of the loan re- gardless of any claims which the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union or anybody else in its behalf make to such stock.” Perfidy by Hillquit. Notwithstanding this personal as- surance by Hillquit, his clerk, Um- hey, has now sworn, in answering | the Joint Board’s complaint in court. | that he transferred the shares to ‘himself at the direction of the In- | ternational and to bolster up his right to do so, he presents an affidavit from Morris Sigman claiming that the International is the real owner | of the shares. In other words, Hill- quit’s clerk did exactly what Hill- quit solemnly promised he would not jdo, and Hillquit now appears in jcourt to defend Mr. Umhey’s right to do it. $ That the transfer of the stock to Umhey did not in any way help the bank is admitted by Umhey him- self, and affidavits sabmitted by the Joint Board show that this action has actually destroyed the security 4 for the real estate corporation of Local 9, show that the transfers have jand Frederick E, Umhey by which| resulted in so tying the real estate / ter,” that it has practically become value- less, although it was the main item of security which the bank received. They point out that as soon as the Joint Board, and the unions involved disenvered Umbhey’s surreptitious transfer of the property to his own name, they brought actions to set it aside, with the result that the property is tied up in litigation that may last for years, and instalments and interest on mortgages are laps- ing. The equity of the bank in the property may thus be entirely wiped out because of its effort to manipu- late the security so as to aid the Sigman clique in the union. Joint Board Kept in Dark. Besides the (startling revelations of Hillquit’s actions and the disre- gard of the (International Union Bank for the interests of its de- positors, the affidavits filed today point out other breaches of faith. It is shown that the transfers of the securities were made without the knowledge of the proper officers, although Morris Sigman deposed that they had full knowledge of the ) transfer of the shares of the Joint Board bujlding. Although Sigman stated that the transfers were made after the joint board. had defaulted on payment of the loan, it is shown that they were arranged before the note came due, The entire matter was brought be- fore Justice Bijur of the Supreme Court on February 21 on a motion of the Joint Board to stop further fraudulent transfers. Both sides havjng submitted affidavits and ar- guments, 2 decision can be expected within a few days, REPORT ON PAST By A. LOSSEFF. A well attended meeting was held by the United Workers Cooperatives at the Manhattan Lyceum, 4th Street. S. C. Cohen, secretary, gave a de- tailed account of the last years’ ac- |complishments, beginning with the | Workers’ Camp in 1925, its improve-! ments and the plans for the buildings of the coming year. The camp can now accomodate from 600 to 700 people and is open all year. He then spoke about the workers colony at the Bronx, how difficult it was to build the first square block of housihgs, and how now, after its completion, the problem of efficient | management is of utmost importance. The stores which are now being built will soon be ready, and plans are being made to organize a central purchasing agency to supply food and articles for all cooperative stores in the city. A second block of build- ings has now been started adjoining the first one. Mr, Cohen concluded by showing the two fold responsi- biiity of the present enterprise, first its own development and second its guide to other cooperative establish- ment thruout the country. D. Girsen, organizer, stated that! WORKERS’ CO-OPERATIVE BOARD IN YEAR'S ACTIVITY with the help and influence ‘of the Workers’ Party in general and the| Freheit in particular, it had been made possible to develop the idea of workers’, cooperatives. He showed how difficult it had been before the Freheit had been established, to ad-| vertise even a single line, in the For- ward, Within a comparatively short time bd the building program has adyanced to such a stage thet it can compare favorably with any other institution, especially, with the Rockefeller char- ity houses where a deposit of $300 is required with a rent of $16 a voom! per month, “ A. Locter, manager, reported that | the sale of second mortgage gold bonds at 6% interest is making good progress and that $100,000 worth of bonds have already been sold, A motion to accept the reports was carried unanimously. A motion was made to increase the board of direc- tors from 15 to 26, and an inerease in the gumber «of the control com- mittee A motion, that permanent paid of- ficers with the exception of the sec- retury, should not be members of the board, also carried. |__All this ‘refers especially to “The | Silver Cord.” “Ned McCobb’s Daugh- a thumping old-fashioned melo- lors and bedrooms. the people who sit in them and chew and chew on their sex kinks. We want not just fresh names, but fresh scenes, fresh people, fresh acts. Why jonly parlors? Where are the fac- | tories, the subways, the offices, the We're tired of © drama, glossed over with a little! farms, » the: schools, the stores, the enamel of bootleggers, stirs you less. | psersage >| halls, . the! eSneiEte: Why Here the varnishing process is so ap-| only “refined” people? Where are parent that you feel less annoyed.| the street: smpeperts, the car -condoet- “The Silver Cord” arouses your ire | oT the plumbers, the awry the because it seems such a shame to see | factory hands, the working stifi fs, the a man who might hurl thunder con. “¢™ing masses, full of raw life, full tent to flash electric signs. “The Silver Cord” is the story of an “old-fashioned” mother who loves her sons so much that she cannot from her. Nemesis comes in the shape of a scientific young wife who | whole family. She succeeds in sever- jing the umbilical cord of the elder jer’s navel. The diagnosis and the operation take place in a parlor and a bedroom. The job is done with a} certain air of bravado, but with gen- tility for all that. | What originality the play pretends | to is purely deceptive. It is old Ibsen in a new bottle. Sudermann was writing “Tendenz-Dramen” when I was still in school. “Damaged Goods” was very bold about. “sex problems” when I was just leatning what a theatre looked like.. Freud has been prompting from the wings a good many years. Tear the new bear to see them grow up and away | | of fire? And,- you, people of the. Theatre Guild, where e experiments you promised us?( Where are your new playwrights?’ Why are you playing | so safe? y don’t you produce something that hasn’t already got the applies the Freudian seapel to the| O. K. of Europe or the sure-fire in- surance of Broadway? Are a afraid? be Have you grown old and tired and ready to curl up in a com- | son, her husband. The younger re-! < mains mentally attached to his moth-| fortable comer of ‘the bank? Have you lost the boldness that made you once the hope of the American drama? Look out. There are rumbles in your neighborhood. They may be the groans of a new birth. And the cartwheels that will roll your honors able remains to a bronze and marble mausoleum, EAN ARERR SES ie “Loud Speaker,” a new play by John Howard Lawson, will inaugu- rate the season of the New Play- wrights’ Theatre at 52nd Street to- Harry Wagstaff Gribble, and the cast is headed by Margaret Douelas, tissue wrapping off “The Silvor Corg”—as well as “Ned McCobb’s | Daughter”—and . you find an’ old} Agnes Lumbard, Seth Kendall, Rome | mey Brent, Porter Hall, and Hilda Manners, ‘Neighborhood Playhouse | Drydock 7516, Svery Eve. (Except n.). Mat, Sat. , Theatre Guild Acting Company tn BROTHERS KARAMAZOV ‘Week Mar. 7—PYGMALION } H Ww. 52 a fsa 15 PINWHEEL “new PLAYWRIGHTS theatre "TH Thea. West PLYMOUTH Mon., Tues. Mats, Thurs, & Sat,, "2:30 WINTHROP AMES’ Gilhert & OF PEN. Spore tee ZANCE. night. The play has been staged by : m 3 to 6 .was also made. | - ‘Thursday Kvenings Only, “Iolanthe” Week Mar. 7—Ned MeCobb's Daughter! WALLACK’S \i'"}o Wet, @e Sat John Golden rh.,58, E.of B'y |Cirele | . 830, Mts, Thu, & Sat, 5678. Piva Meavaninns Cor. 6 As. & 4 St, ‘What Anne. Civic Repertory For Gaius teh | ee ee EVA LE GA Tonight...... Thursday Ma Thursd CORD Sa deta fl sans EARL Le CARROLL Vanities Karl Carroll ha ‘Dhue ic sat f ELTINGE A. H. Woods pri ‘then, W. 42 st, Eves, 8:20, Mats with James Rennie & Chester Morris, ents BROADWAY 1S 149th Street, Bronx Opera House j/°% , © Nee | Pop, Prices, »Mat. Wed. & Sat, Louis Mann and Clara Lipmaa } “A WOMAN IN THE Mousy HARRIS Fates paises dons 8 H WHAT PRICE GLORY Mats. (exc, Sat.) 60c-$1. Eves, 50c-$9 ° Thea, 48 St, W. of D'y, Evga, 8:30 Matinees WED, and SAT., 2:30 f. * BONNIC Musical Bon Bon with cuANIn's THEATRE MASQUE “PUPPETS OF PASSION” Wm. Feaw 0. orme Sweets Evenings Mats. Wed. and Sat, Roll in the Subs For tm pany} 2R@ LADDER WORKER. Now in its 5th MONTH WALDO! 50th St, em Bway, alate Web” and Sat ) Dorothy Burgers, Louts simon, | 45 St,, West of Bway aiirhone:,