The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 3, 1927, Page 4

t i | } age Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, RCH 3, 1927 fHE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 85 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 | } 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 $2.60 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE [***00t*ecssereee ets | BERT MILLER Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y¥., under | the act of March 8 » 1879. | Advert ising rates on application. | ————— The Revelations of Wall Street Duplicity Continue. --Qne does not need to hail Senator Borah as a fearless and| ecinpromising fighter against American imperialism in all its} manifestations to realize the tremendous damage he has done f the Wall Street-Coolidge-Kellogg campaign in Mexico and Nicaragua. His communication with the President of Mexico direct ssa the valuable information which the American masses have} acquired relative to real state of affairs has been of endrmous| value. It shown up Coolidge and Kellogg as common liars and proved that the big oil interests, Standard Oil first and the Sin-| clair and Doheny groups second are the moving forces behind the | drive on Mexico. | The president himself and the secretary of state have been shown to be nothing more or less than government agents of the oil groups and, while this comes as no, surprise to Communists | who understand that capitalist government is “the executive committee of the capitalist class,” it sill open the eyes of many) workers hitherto fooled by the theory that government represents | all the people. The denunciation which has been heaped upon the Borah proposal for an investigation of the Nicaraguan and Mexican situations during the congressional recess lends color to his charge that the administration is planning more warlike moves during| the spring and summer when it would be free from attack from legislative sources. No one regard this possibility. The whole history of | American intervention in Mexico and Latin America, recent his- tory particularly, nas* been one of duplicity and open disregard of,everything except the interests of the American plunderbund | and its lackeys. ‘ne determined attitude of the Mexican govern-| ment has brought most of the smaller oil companies into line. | There remain the big American concerns whose battle the state | department is fighting. With a battle-fleet in Nicaraguan waters and a large force] of marines available for instant’duty, the necessary “overt act” by Mexico can easily occur as similar acts incited by Wall Street! or the state department directly have occurred in the past. In-| vasion would follow immediately and we would be at war with) Mé&ico before the American masses knew what was happening. | ‘President Coolidge can assume if he likes, that the Borah} resolution is an insult and questions his integrity, and millions of | workers and farmers will agree with him while at the same time} -fayoring the proposal. The Coolidge regime is duplicating in the field of foreign | affairs the same slimy policy and tactics which the Harding regime | ’ practiced in domestic affairs. Even the personnel of those in- tained under Harding have just been annulled by a supreme court| deéision and Sinclair, up to his ears in the Teapot Dome scandal, | are part of the clique whose Mexican investments now are being | protected at all costs by the state department. | American workers and farmers are getting a lesson in the} theory and practice of capitalist government which they can use} to good advantage. The split which the Nicaraguan and Mexican controversies have produced in the republican party could be utilized much more | effectively if the workers and farmers had spokesmen of their | cwn in the house and senate and did not have to depend on rep-| resentatives of the middle class and lower section of the capitalist class like Borah. It becomes clearer day by day that the menace of.avar is coming closer to the American masses. War is germin- ated by the lust of the imperialist for profit and conquest just as a poisonous plant springs from a harmless looking seed. : When war comes the masses will find that those capitalist party statesmen like Borah, who are willing to sound a warning from time to time and thereby add to their own prestige, will line up solidly with the interests they now oppose. | ~ Nothing could be more dangerous to the masses than a plier f in the ability and desire of members of the ruling class to rally all possible forces against war once it has begun. ' © As the conflict between the people of Latin America and American imperialism becomes sharper, as the conflicts over pol- icy and methods develops within the parties.of capitalism, it be- comes clearer that the workers and farmers need a party of their own which will not only protest imperialist plots but will mobilize the masses against them. PASSAIC TEXTILE STRIKE FILM WILL BE SHOWN IN NEW YORK, AT WALDORF THEATRE, SUNDAY The seven reel motion picture of ,enknecht, relief chairman, some days the great Passaic textile strike of | ago. 1925-6 will be shown in this city on Sunday, March 6. Sa ers is just now concentrated on the The presentation, which will be at b Phys re necessity of building strong unions the: Waldorf Theatre, 50th Street, ithin the settled mills. “Build the Dies tock & o'clock. to 7.80, ‘vill {Union inside the mills” is the ever be under the auspices of Passaic |"¢c¥rring slogan of the present pe- Local 1603, United Textile Workers yar ha the sited phi gs of America, with the co-operation of ere are nearly a thousand work- the New York Central Trades and TS Still on strike from the United ; Piece Dye Works in Lodi, on’ ac- Labor Council. leount of the persistent refusal of Will Sing Strike Songs. that mill to make any concessions In addition to the strike picture,|to their striking workers. there will be a short program by cveipedenincntaiie » of thi r dvanced child: : Of the Passaic strikers, |SOUth African Flag Cuts Out Double Cross The entire proceeds of the show- ing will go to strike relief in Pas- saic, where the situation is still CAPETOWN, South Africa, March critical, on account of the slowness | 2.—General Hertzog announced to- with which the workers from the|}day to parliament that’ the South settled mills are being returned fol Ageload. flag bill will be introduced work. Several thousand textile! not Jater than the last week in workers and their families are still) March. None of the three designs dependent upon relief, according to} recommended by the flag commis- a statement issued by Alfred Wag-! sion included the British union jack. Build the Union Phase. The attention of the textile work- | turns, : |, a foreign language.” volved has not changed entirely. Doheny, whose oii leases ob-) “That must mean revolution.” ANEW rNOVER Glee Sinclair XI The householder shifted his dial. The returns from California were beginning to come in. “Radio VXZ | the Angel City Evening Howler, The an- caressing Angel City, California.” nouncer had a_ soft, | voice, worth a thousand dollars a month to him; it had a little chuckle which caused the children to adore him—he went by the name of “Uncle Peter,” and told | he | them bed-time stories. Now was applying his humor to the re- “Rosario, California. Hello! The home town of Bob Buckman, secretary to the Chamber of Com- merce! Let’s see what Bob’s been doing! Rosario, 37 precincts out of 52 give LaFollette 117, Davis 86, Coolidge, 549. Well, well! If Bob Buckman is listening on on VXZ, congratulations from Uncle Peter—you’re a great little booster Bob!” And then, startling the watchers by the" bedside—“Paradise, Cali- fornia. Now what do you think of that. The location of the Ross Junior oil field, owned by Bunny Ross, our parlor Bolshevik! Bun- 's the boy that bails out the political prisoners, as* he calls them; he publishes a little paper to dye our college boys and girls pink. Let’s see what» Little Bun- ny’s town has to say to him. Para- , California, 14 precincts out of 29 give LaFollette 217, Davis 98, Coolidge 693. Well, well, Bunny— you've got some more boring from within to do!” The householder, shifted again. “Radio QXJ, the Angel City Eve- ning Roarer, banjo solo by Bella Blue, the Witch of Wicheta.” Plunkety-plunkety — plunkety- plunkety-—plunk-plunk-plunk! Paul’s lips were beginning to move. There was a trace of sound, and Ruth bent close to him. “He's coming back to life! doctor!” The hospital doctor came, and listened, and felt Paul’s, pulse; but he shook his head. It was merely a.question of what areas of the brain were affected; the speech areas might be uninjured The soufds were incoherent, and the doctpr said Paul didn’t know what he was saying. He might stay that way for days, even for a week or two. But Ruth continued to listen, and try to catch a word. Paul might be ther}, somehow, trying to speak to her, to convey some request. She. whispered, in an agony of 14” 4g, “Paul, Paul, are you try- im to talk to me?” The sounds grew louder, and Rachel said, “It’s Bunny said, “It \must be Russian”—the only foreign language Paul knew. It was strange, like a corpse talking or a wax doll; the sounds seemed to come from deep in his throat. “Da 4udravstvooyet Reolutziya!” over and over; and Bunny said, And then, “Ysya vlast Sovietam!”— Tthat must have something to do with the/ Soviets! For an hour that went on; until suddenly )Ruth exclaimed, “Bunny we ought to find out what he’s saying! Qb, surely we ought to— just think, if he's asking for help!” Rachel tried to argue with her; it was just a delirium. But Ruth became more excited—she didn’t want Rachel to fnterfere. Rachel had saved her man, and what did she know about suffering? “I want to know what Paul’s saying! Can’t' we find somebody that knows Russian?” So Bunny got Gregor Nikolaieff on the phone, and ask him to jump on the-car and come down here. When Bunny returned to the room, Paul was talking loyder than ever, but still moving only his lips. The Angel Jazz Choir were shouting, “Honey-baby, honey-baby, kiss me in the neck!” And Paul was saying again and again, “Nie troodyashchiysia da nie yest!” “Oh, Bunny,” pleaded Ruth, “We ought to write down what he says! He might stop—and never speak again!” Bunny understood—Ruth had been brought up to believe in revelations, in words of awful im- port spoken on special occasions, in strange languages or other unusual ways. The doctors might call it delirium, but how could they be sure? ‘Things that were hid- den from the wise were revealed to babes and sucklings. So Bun- ny got out his notebook and foun- tain-pen, and wrote down what Paul’s words sounded like, as near as he could guess. “Hlieba, mira, svobody!” And when Gregor came in, an hour or so later, he was able to say this meant, “Bread, peace, freedom,” the slogan of the Bolsheviks when they took posses- sion of Russia: and “Dayesh posit- ziyu!”—that was a war-cry of the red army, commanding the enemy to give up the position, The other things Paul had been saying we phrases of the revolution, that he had heard first in Siberia, and then in Moscow. No, Paul was not trying to talk to his sister; he was telling the young workers of America what the young workers of Russia were doing! (To Be Continued). Oh, call the | Comrade William Heyden where. tion of the city. On this map the location of each newssta charge. He ha# then divided work. In this way he manage | him of the territory over which he is in charge. | who cannot make a map as skillfully as Comrade Heyden did, | might utilize a card file, using one card for each newsstand, | ‘indicating the name of the dealer, the exact location of the stand, and the comrade respo stand, is being handled. Comrade Heyden also tel to handle The DAILY WORK assurance that he would buy stands and he found that ina copies. There were few cases overs. In some sections the promotion fund for the purp issues, subsidizing newsdeale covering any expenses which the promotion work. studying his problem. Each quire different methods of p goal of 25,000 readers will be The Manager's Corner HOW THE BRONX DOES IT. ts one of our German comrades in the Bronz. He has tackled the job of building up the cir- culation of The DAILY WORKER with real German thor- oughness, which makes an excellent model for comrades else- Comrade Heyden has made for himself a map of his sec- he has indicated very carefully nd in the territory under his this territory among three or four comrades who inspect it daily, on the way to or from s to have a clear picture before Comrades nsible for the inspection of the The comrades in charge of inspection report to Com- rade Heyden once a week as to how The DAILY WORKER ls how he induced newsdealers ER. He approached a number of newsdealers and asked them to handle the paper with the from them any copies which were not sold, At the end of the week he made a tour of the number of cases the paper had been sold out and in some cases the dealer wanted more tn which he had to pay for left- comrades are raising a small ose of stimulating the sale of The DAILY WORKER, printing advertising material on local rs if necessary and generally may come in connection with The point about Comrade Heyden'’s work is that he is city and each section will re- romotion, but the path to our easy, if the comrades study the difficulties carefully and hammer out a proper solution. —BERT MILLER. WOLFE ANSWERS COWARDLY ATTACK BY JOSE KELLY WITH MEXICO FACT A complete refutation i ater slurring {charges upon him by Jose Kelly be-| |fore the Worcester, Mass., Central | Labor Union is contained in a letter | written by Bertram Wolfe, director of the Workers’ School to the secre- tary of the union, Wolfe answers | Worcester Central Labor Union, |62 Madison Street, Worcester, Mass. Dear Sir and Brother: My attention has been called to the fact that at a recent meeting of the Worcester Central Labor Union, Jose | Kelley made certain statements con- |eerning my activities in the Mexican | labor movement. Mr. Kelley has sev- | eral times made similar statements, and I therefore find it necessary to request that you read this statement to the Worcester Central Labor Union dealing with the facts on the matter. Unfounded Charges. I understand that Mr. Kelley, in his lectures, declares that there are no native Communists in Mexico; that all Communists there are American “slackers” who fléd from the states to_avoid the draft. He said further that the Communists in Mexico, and that I in particular, supported De la Huerta in his attempt at a reaction- ary revolt against the Obregon ad- minivtration. Finally, he stated that the Mexican Communists support every reactionary movement in Mex- ico. As to the first of these declara- tions—at the time I was in Mexico, there were only three members of foreign birth in the Mexican Commu- nist Party. Communism has its roots | deep in the Mexican masses. The Communist movement is particularly strong among the workers in the oil workers and railroad unions. As to the insinuations concerning “slack- ers,” I wish to state that I went to Mexico in the year 1923 and not in 1917, as Mr. Kelley implies, As to the slanderous report that the Communists support every reac- ‘tionary movement in Mexico, and more specifically, that they support- ed the De la Huerta rebellion—here are the facts and—Jose Kelley is in a position to know ¢hese facts as well as I; 1.—The Commaunists immediately branded the De la Huerta rebellion as a counter-revolutionary union of the big land owners, the clerical reaction and the British oil interests. . Fought De la Huerta, 2.—The entire Communist Party was mobilized for the defense of the Obregon government (altho it had much to criticize in the Obregon Gov- ernment) because they realized that the De la Huerta reaction would be much worse, The Obregon Government grate- fully accepted the offer and supplied recruiting commissions to men desig- nated by the party, and military equipment. The only stipulation that the Com- munist Party made was that the peasant contingents it raised should operate independently of the main army command and under their own Communist officers. The most im- portant and successful of these bands was the troop raised by Ursula Gal- van, who was commissioned by the government, He was at that time a member of the executive committee {each charge and throws a flood of! | information on conditions in Mexico, | !where he spent two years. Here is! his letter: } RE oe Thomas IF. Conroy, Secy., of the Me the Mexican Communist Party and | president of the League of Agrarian | Communities of the State of Vera Cruz, With this guerrilla troop, he took to j the hills, armed it by raids upon the army of General Sanchez, the De la Huerta leader, and contributed large- y to the collapse of the rebellion in | its main center by attacking General | Sanchez’s army from behind at the same moment that General Obregon | was attcking from in front. Defends Record. As for my own record in the trade union movement, I have the follow- ing. to say: 1—I am at present a member of the executive board of Local 5 of the American Federation of Teachers, af- filiated with the American Federa- tion of Labor. 2.—In Mexico I was a member of the Newspapermen’s Union of the Federal District, affiliated with the Mexican Federation of Labor (Crom) and was a delegate to the Central Labor Union of Mexico City and a delegate to the Printing Trades Fed- eration (Federation of Graphic Arts of the Federal District). Prior to ber in good standing ,of the American Federation of Labor and have been ever since I reached sufficient ma- turity to be eligible for membership, | I trust that you will accord me the| fraternal courtesy of having this communication read to the Worcester | Central Labor Union. Fraternally, reminere: | D. WOLFE. Judge Cooper Knew the New York k Bootleggers | WASHINGTON, | March eral Judge Frank Cooper, Northern New York, gave names and addresses of “master bootleggers” in his dis- trict to federal dry agents, according | to letters submitted to the house judi- | ciary committee today. With today’s session the commit- tee concluded its investigation of im- Judge Cooper by Rep. La Guardia! Judge Cooper by Rep. LaGuardia (R) of New York, fs The American Stage H Handcuffed? Francis Edwards "Paragon; author of “Pinwheel,” now playing at the, Neighborhood. Playhouse, former dramatic critic of Pearson’s Maga- zine under Frank Harris, and one of |* the directors of the New Playwrights Theatre, says it is. He wants to knock the shackles off the drama, push down its faded parlor walls and set its paralyzed characters into action, He wants American drama to reflect’ Ameri- can life in all its intensity, crude- ness, variety and jazz tempo. Faragoh has an idea of what the new drama will look like when it is freed of Broadway formulas and be- gins to spring from the life of the American people. He will picture this new drama of the masses in an article written ex- clusively for The DAILY WORKER, in The New Magazine. You can’t afford to miss what this pioneer in the theatre has to say! leaving for Mexico, I was also a mem-| 2.—Fed- | It will appear NEXT SATURDAY MALE PRIMA DONNAS \Critic Finds Jewish Theatre Wrecked by Incompetent | Actor-Managers Reviewed by A. B. MAGILL. | Abraham Goldfadén is generally considered the father of the Yiddish drama and opera. When he first began writing in the latter half of | the 19th century, there was practi- cally no Yiddish stage. His plays {necessarily had to be simple and provincial, with something of the im- provisational quality of the old Ital- ian commedia de)’ arte. They also emphasized the comie and sentimen- tal elements and were interspersed with numerous songs. | “The Two Kooney Lemels” is the second play of Goldfaden’s the Yid- |dish Art Theatre has produced this |season. (The nearest synonym in | English for “kooney lemel” is “dub” jor “poor fish.”) The first play, |“The Tenth Commandment,” was an elaborate production, involving much spacious, glittering scenery and many weeksf{of preparation. The | present play feems to have been put together in ¢@dd moments between supper and curtain call. The result lis pretty awful. | There is remarkable vitality in |“The Two Kodney Lemels” despite lits cobwebby terhnique. It belongs to the category of that universal |eomedy of erroys which in English} }goes back to Sheridan, Congreve} }and Shakespearey It is a genuine} | folk play, involving§ a folk type, the | village fool. The hmor is fresh and | there is something Ca other worldly | j about it, the heighterigd reality of | | the legend. Maurice Schwartz ha’ | simple, delicate play an lit the technique of the b | achieves a, disjointed, taken this applied to esque. He flat, jlack of competent direction | Yiddish stage. the Yiddish theatre is even| more | vicious than in the Americai be- cause so many of the male }j\rima { donnas insist on being producers, di- rectors and in many cases authors or paraphrasers as well. Alhiast }none of them has any conception of | the functions of a director. Forn: {tempo, ensemble struggle through | any old way by being hit on the head often enough. Maurice Schwartz is an excellent actor and has been a pioneer in the field of the art the- atre in Yiddish. But as a director, he is fumbling, unsubtle and con- ventional, and the result is frequent- ly digastrous. On the night I saw “The Two Kooney Lemels” it suffered unde} the further disadvantage of the mo: shameful performnce on the part of an actor I have seen on any ata; Bertha Gersten, who was cast in‘/:n important part, decided, for reas/ns she knows best, to ignore the play, the other actors and the andiines completely, and when she wasn’t called upon to say anything, sl@uched around, fussing with her har and making valiant efforts to corftrol her laughter. An attitude of sugh con- temptuous indifference cojld- not have helped affecting the/ vork of her colleagues. ! The acting of Mauricg I schwartz, | Bina Abramowitz and Anna Teitel-| | baum saved the play from becoming }an utter fiasco. | | | Puppets Who , | After an impre: | telegraph station ‘eed Jobs. | five opening in al a rainy Sunday | night, “Puppets 6f Passion,” trans-| Hated from the ‘Italian of Rosso dij ict Secondo, by Ernest Boyd and, basen 8S iehrekfey The star system in} _ for an important role in “The Adven- GEORGE ARROW. | Co-author with Philip Dunning of “Broadway,” the smashing hit at the Broadhurst Theatre. Eduardo Cianelli (at the Theatre Masque) dribbles off into intermin- able twaddle about runaway wives. It is based on the middle class bun- combe that we are so many' puppets jerked by the wires of our passions, | that passion is the whole of a man’s life, and try as he might, he can’t escape it. One feels that if San Secondo gave his puppets less caviar and more work, they could shut up | and forget it. Evelyn Sabin, a dancer, and Cianelli himself, as a | comical waiter, inject a few toler- able moments.—H. A. | BROADWAY BRIEFS. “Broadway,” at the Broadhurst Theatre, will be presented for the 200th time at today’s matinee. Beginning with this Thursday af- ternoon, “What Ann Brought Home,” *|now at Wallack’s Theatre, will in- augurate an extra matinee perform- ance each week. The regular mati- nees are Wednesday and Saturday. > Owing to the illness of Paul Leys- sac, the performance of “La Locan- ciera,” announced for Thursday eve- ning, will be postponed for two weeks. The Civie Repertory Players will present “Cradle Song” instead. “Jolanthe,” the Gilbert and Sulli- van operetta at the Plymouth thea- tre, will be sung at both Thursday’ matinee! and evening performances, iastead of only Thursday evenings. All other evening performances, and the Saturday matinees, “The rates of Penzance” will be sung. The opening of the third bill of the American Grand Guignol. Play- ers at the Grove Street Theatre has | been postponed from tonight until -| tomorrow night. “Daisy Mayme,” George Kelly’s comedy, will be the attraction at the Bronx Opera House next week. “Thou Desperate Pilot!” a play by Zoe Akins, is scheduled to open at the Morosco Theatre on Monday night, March 7, Rachel Crothers and Mary Kirkpatrick are the producers. In. the cast are David Hawthorne, Helen Ware, Roberta Beatty, Miriam | Hopkins, Perey Ames and Ullrich | Haupt. Gertrude Fowler has been engaged ture.” A. H. Woods has acquired a new play entitled “Connelly and Merrit”, by John B. Hymer, co-author of “Crime”. 'Neighho | 466 Beary | Drydock 7: Playhouse sow PINWHEEL Mon. J. Mat | Raonte ead ‘AMAZOV | Week Mar. cass «7 iN | GUILD THRA., W. 52 St. Fae | Mats. Thurs, & THE SILVER CORD _| Week Mar, 7—-Ned MeCobb's ughter John Golden Th.,58, F.of By (Circle Mts. Thu, & Sat.! 5678. | Civic Repertory Fel: Watkins 476% ii EVA LE GALLIENNE, Friday Ni pa ‘Sat. Ma BE OADWAY 149th Street, Bronx Opera. House },'°t! , Street, Pop. Prices, Mat, Wed, & Sat. Louis Mann and Clara Lipman in “A WOMAN IN THE HOUSE” “CRADLE SONG" ASTER R BUILDER” ‘Thea., 48 St., W. of B'y, Evgs, 8:30 Matinees WED. and SAT, 2:30 #* Bonnie Mysical Bon Bon with Dorothy Burgess, Louis Simon, Wm. Frawley, George new PLAYWRIGHTS theatre 52d St. Thea., 306 W. 52d. pried ny tad y John LOUDSPEAKE Rives: een Sh Seen aire k Bivens, 45 , PLYMOUTH hea. aise Sth St Mate, Thurs Sate" 30 Winranor Amis? Wed. WALLACK’s ¥tts,, Wet, \& Sat What Anne Brought Home A New Comedy Drama Ba Vanities Thea., 7th A Ear! Carroll; Mats thu & fath Br Cae (THEA, West 4) Twiee Daily, 2:30 & ELTINGH pea, W. 42 ey Eves, '8:3 “HW HARRIS WHAT PRICE GLORY Mats. (exc, Sat.) 500-$1. Eves, 500-9 cHANIN's THEATRE MASQUE “PUPPETS OF PASSION: 45 St., West of Biway 2 iat tate, Evenings 84 30, Mats, Weil vane Sat, The LADDER ° CY, in its Sth MONT: ALDOR, 60th Rat Fast at Bray, Mats, WED, and SAT, > Thursday nvguiaet Only, “Tolanthe” — f }