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

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1927 ~ THE DAILY WORKER ANDERSON SEES Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. ¥. 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 $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address il and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. “J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ) isa WILLIAM F, DUN - Editors BERT MILLER Manager Entered econd-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March ¥, 18) SS Aaa Advertising rates on application. =— = Se The Baumes Laws—Vicious Reaction A government by policemen is what the Baumes Crime Com- mission is trying to put over on the people of New York State. The 38 new recommendations of the commission, prefaced by the statement that the people “of New York State may still be said to be living in a fool’s paradise” leaves no doubt as to its purpose. The Baumes law, and the host of subsidiary measures which bulwark it, while passed ostensibly to secure more rigid control over criminal elements, is actually directed at the working class and their organizations. These measures are an expression of the general tendency toward complete reaction which has marked the legislation of the recent period. It is a matter cof established fact that members of the working class are most often in difficulty with capitalist law machinery. This is not only be- cause poverty is the principal cause of crime but because the working class is the subject class against which the machinery of the capitalist state is organized. Property rights take precedence over human rights. Many of the “crimes” with which workers are charged and for which they are convicted are in reality political offenses—acts committed as a result of the class struggle. Under this classification come the cases of the members of the Furriers*and Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Unions which grew out of the recent strikes. These cases are handled in thé courts simply as criminal cases and to them the Baumes law applies. The same is true of the large number of cases which come under the general head of “civil liberties’—cases which arise as a result of protest against infringement of the right of free speech, free press and assemblage. Violations of the criminal syndicalism laws are in the same category. Just a few of the new recommendations of the Baumes com- mission are sufficient to convince one of the inherent viciousness and Prussianism of these measures: (1) “Two policemen for each 1,000 inhabitants.” This is a minimum and for some communities the commission wants one policeman to each 250 inhabitants. Policemen in the United States now have more power than ‘ in any other “civilized”. country and such an increase for all prac- tical purposes would be military government—open ascendancy to almost supreme power of that “special body of armed men” of which Frederick Engels spoke. (2) “Take the padlock from the lips of the judge and permit kim to control the trial and express his opinion on the case.” This proposal in effect would make the system of trial by jury a farce. The American judiciary is notoriously an instru- ment of the capitalist class and besides is composed for the most part of individuals who have little if any of the personal integrity which serves at times in other countries to temper the fury of class justice. It is possible to count on the! fingers of one hand the judges in the United States who even pretend to be governed by the provisions of the Bill of Rights. (3) “Tighten the presumption of innocence now resting with the defendant.” This is a eaphemmistic way of saying that the intention is to hold the defendant guilty until he proves his innocence and there- by abolish whatever advantage the accused now enjoys by placing the burden of proof upon the defense. The danger to accused workers, with the existing extortion- ate charges for legal service under the present rules of evidence, is obvious. These three recommendations alone give a true picture of the utter reaction which the Baumes commission represents. As is customary these vicious proposals and others which are in logical sequence are made in the name of the interests of all the people. American capitalist democracy is especially skilled in maneuvers of this kind. Without much protest the original Baumes law was passed with the understanding that it would rid New York of crime and criminals. It has not done so but it has increased enormously the opportunities for graft and corruption among the members of the bench, bar and bureaucrats generally. The ones who have suffered the most are those who are the least guilty—the poor. | Cause Farm Poverty | | WHAT TRIBUTE | How shall we pay tribui | “FARMERS. DRIVEN FROM THE SOIL. of our dead leader? (Tariff, Trusts, Freight WASHINGTON (FP.).—American farmers are doomed to suffer, for a} long period of years, a* continual in- erease | in their economic burden, | which will reduce their standards of | liv! drive a great part of them from their land and demoralize the labor conditions in the towns. } This is the view ‘taken by W. A. stantial tribute can be paid to The Manager's Corner SHALL WE PAY? te to the memory of Comrade Ruthenberg? How shall we do fitting honor to the memory The DAILY WORKER is a monument to his efforts. under his leadership The DAILY WORKER was born. driving force made it the ready and effective weapon of the American working class in every important struggle. With tireless energy and unshakable determination he steered the paper through the most difficalt crises, quence and power he inspired us to heroic efforts to maintain and build up our American Communist Daily. No more sub- His With moving elo- the memory of this great man than the establishment of a bigger and better DAILY WORKER, reaching the broadest masses of American work- ers, with the message which he so ably carried forward. —BERT MILLER. Anderson, chairman of the Farmer-| Labor Party of Minnesota, and for- merly secretary of ' the Commission of North Dakota, An-} derson has been consulting progres- sive senators as to the chances of (Continued from Page One) federal action on farm problems. |g remarkable series of documents Farm Banks Fail. | which throw light on the peculiar Farming in the Northwest has so|and close relations which appear to far decayed that 200 state banks in| exist between certain Tory leaders Miunesota are now in process of| in this country and the leaders of liquidation, while many national the “White” Russians, who are still banks” have likewise failed in the|2¢tively engaged in conspiracy past two years, Anderson said to the | 2&ainst the government of their Federated Press Merchants are suf- | country. fering because the mass of the far-| These documents (photographs of mers cannot buy, on the one hand,|the originals of which are in the and business is falling ‘into the | Possession of the Daily Herald) con- hands of the chain stores on the| sist of a series of memoranda from other. Small ‘capital is helpless) M. Sablin, who still calls himself against big capital, and the losers) Russian Diplomatic Representa- are turning radical without fully un-/ tive” in London, to his colleagues in derstanding why their economic se-| other countries. ‘ curity has vanished. The most remarkable of them is : Three Reasons. a memorandum, dated August 26 of Reasons for farm poverty, Ander-| last year, in which M. Sablin sets son declared, are chiefly three: high | out the history of his relations with protective’ tariff for manufactured | British political leaders during the goods which increases the price the | Past few. years. Bs ee farmer must pay; high charges for} “During all my activity in Lon- rail and other distribution of farm |40n after the revolution,” he writes, products and goods which the far-|“I have used all my strength, and mer buys, which further widens the | Utilized all possibilities in order to gulf between what the farmer is| Maintain our friendly relations with paid and what he must pay; finally| members of the British Government the growth of monopoly power, | and parliament, and with various which fixes prices of commodities | figures who could help the. Russian manufactured at home and abroad. beelepe ee ae andi ‘i i eon e governm! Farmers cannot increase the} ebb gnc xpd Mes go cO"S TORIES IN ANTI-SOVIET CONSPIRACY leaders, then there would be a great demand for them,-and they would be of great service.” He instances the remarkable suc- cess of a “Declaration, by Rakov- sky,” published by the Russian press in Paris during the Franco-Soviet negotiations, “In conclusion, I consider it my duty to appeal to all Russians and jto all our foreign friends and well wishers not to spare either energy or money to help Commander Lock- er-Lampson in his campaign to clear the Reds out of England. Future at Stake. “Our political future within the next year or two depends largely on this campaign, If it fails, the Bol- sheviks will be strengthened for years. They will again receive those short-time commercial credits which have decreased: lately,-due to unset- tled conditions, “If the campaign is successful, and results in the clearing out of. the Soviet agents, then our. representa- tion will again automatically be re- | instated in its rights, and under the title of ‘Russians’ will again be un- |derstood the real Russians and the real Russia, and not the Communists as is unfortunately customary at present. “The time is ripe,.the occasion is tcosts are low. prices of their own products because prior to the present, all. this gave they must compete in the world ex- port market with like products from countries such as Argentine, where These differences in costs of production and hatlage— Argentine wheat goes almost wholly vater to the Liverpool market— apply to all staple crops to American farmers may turn. imply cannot compete abroad. Hence they must raise less crops, cease to employ laborers, and many of them must hunt jobs in town. Rochester Central Body ROCHESTER, N. Y., March 8.— The strike of the taxi drivers of the very insignificant results, and at|here, and if you don’t take advan- times some of the British ministers | tage of it it will not come again for even tried to avoid us for fear of|a long time, or it ‘may never come.” violating political etiquette towards | In a further memorandum sent a ‘friendly nation,’ | out by M. Sablin on November 7, he “But lately a change has taken | Yregrets that he has heard in a confi- place in this respect and our diplo-| dential conversation with a promi- matic representation is slowly re-| nent member of the British Cabin gaining effectual rights and effec-| that “Mr. Baldwin has no intention tual recognition on the part of the| of breaking off relations with the British’ authorities. Soviet Government and that Locker- “A beginning was made. by the | Lampson and his followers will not energetic and successful participa-| Succeed in achieving any real _re- tion of our representation and. of | Tesults.” /some White Russians in the election | campaign. | “After that _ Scores Baldwin. “Obviously Mr. Baldwin adopts very friendly and towards Moscow the same undecided *Puts Yellow Taxi Upon | trustworthy co-operation was estab-| Shilly-shallying policy to which he Unfair List; Strike On lished by me with the Minister for! adhered during the six months of Home Affairs, Sir William Joynson- | the miners’ strike, in the hope that | Hicks, who is the most’ convinced sooner or» later everything would |and energetic enemy of the Bolshe-| Straighten up by itself. | viks. |. “Sir Austen Chamberlain comes aA . Pirandello Comedy to Be Put On at Regular Performances The success of “Right You Are If You Think You Are,” the Pirandello comedy produced for special matin- ees at the Guild Theatre, has prompt- ed the Theatre Guild to consider put- ting it on for evening performances, and will do so late this month. Until a theatre has been secured, “Right You Are” will continue at the Guild Theatre for Wednesday and Friday matinees, The Guild is also planning to re- vive “Mr, Pim Passes By” to alter- nate with “Right You Are.” The Milne play, first presented in the early days of the Guild will be done with Laura Hope Crews, Dudley Digges and Erskino Sanford of the original cast, all playing their orig- inal roles. When “Right You Are” and “Mr. Pim” begin alternating the Guild: will have six plays alternating on Broadway. The others are: “Pyg- malion” and “The Brothers Kara- mazov” at the Guild, “Ned McCobb’s Daughter” and “The Silver Cord” at the John Golden. This revival is part of the Guild’s plan to utilize the members of its Acting Company for the revival, from time to time, of its earlier productions, BROADWAY BRIEFS The 150th performance of the Winter Garden revue, ‘Gay Paree,” takes place this evening. Mary Mil+ burn, Winnie Lightner and Frank Gaby will introduce new specialties. “New. York Exchange,” at the Forty-ninth Street Theatre, will con- clude “its engagement tomorrow night, preparatory to opening in Chi- cago. William Harrigan has been signed to play the sailor, and will be co-fea- tured with Lillian Foster, in L, Law- rence Weber’s production of “Romanc- ing Round’ which will open in. Al- bany next Monday night. The Neighborhood Playhouse has challenged the New Playwrights The- atre to produce “Pinwheel,” Francis Edwards Faragoh’s play which is now being played at the Playhouse. The new organization has accepted the challenge and will stage their version of the play—but this will not take place until later in the season. This Saturday night, at the Mecca Temple, a four-cornered debate will be held on Stage Censorship. Opposing stage censorship) will be William A. Brady, producer and Robert Emmett. Sherwood, author and playwright. Advocating censorship will be John S. Sumner, and Canon William S. Chase. } Grace Valentine, recently starred in| “Trial Marriage,” has been engaged to star in the road company of “Night Hawk” which opens in Rochester ‘next “During the general strike many open shop Yellow Taxi Company is) White Russians offered their ser- still on despite the fact that local | police are being used to break the | strike. The drivers are very active and | the purpose of keeping order and for Hon the same industrial circles’ as Monday. the prime minister, and also tries to basis as Big Business is:carried on, Anothet openiay, PanLEAt wilt beth are to be seen every morning picket- ing the company garages. At a meeting of the Central Trades and Labor Council at their headquar-! ters in the Reynolds Arcade, the Yel- low Taxi Company was put on the! unfair list to organized labor by the request of the drivers Local 113, vices to the British Government. for| basa on his polities on the same |performing various work, and some|He tries primarily to avoid con. of them were even beaten up by the | flicts, and to this end evades all de- strikers on the streets, |eisive actions in the hope that more “As I have already informed you, suitable conditions may come which | Sir William expressed to me his sin-| will allow him ,to accomplish his po: cere gratitude for the loyal way in/litical problems with less risk and |which the Russians behaved, and|the expenditure of the minimum our relations haye become even/ amount of effort... . - composed of striking yellow drivers. This means, drivers say, that union workers numbering over 20,000, af- filiated with the Central Trades and Labor Councilewhich is itself affili-| ated withthe American Federation |of Labor, will withdraw their pa- tronage of the Yellow Taxi Company, Vote Assessment. An assessment was voted upon all closer, although outwardly he has thought it necessary to maintain proper correct behavior in relations to the ‘friendly Power.’ “At present many members of ‘parliament are beginning to tire very much at this necessity «for maintaining such an absurd fiction, and in the last parliamentary de- ; 4. bates on the Russian question a num- local “unions to help carry the strike | ber of speakers pointed out that of drivers to victory over the bosses. | they considered it unnecessary’ and Letters to all company and fleet) cf Podties ree % owners of taxicabs in the state of! unworthy to maintain this ‘masquer. |New York outside the city of New) *°° | York inviting them to a conference Thinks Crisis: Coming, of Rochester, | to be held in the city “In general I avoid making pro- ee York, have been sent by Fred|Phecies. But now, however, I think | Zorn, president of the open shop Yel- | that the crisis is coming at last, and | “The majority of conservatives | Still think that all evils arise from the destructive influence of Moscow and the propaganda of Communism, and console themselves. with the shope that things can be improved by expelling Krassin from England jand by. breaking off all relations with Moscow. i “Of course I do all I can to keep up this sentiment, and do all in my power to help to clear the Reds out, Nevertheless, deep in my soul there is a big doubt in this regard, and I fear that even the possible clear- ance out of the Reds would not sufs fice in the present state of things to bring a decisive change in the presentation of a new program of one-act plays by the Grand Guignol Players at the Grove Street Theatre, in Greenwich Village. The plays in- elude “The Minuet,” by Lewis N. Parker; the “Maker of Images,” by Arthur Caesar; “Casualties,” Martin Flavin, and “We're All in the Gutter,” by Elfreda and Clarence Derwent. Georges Renevant will offer to- night a new program of one-act plays by the Grand Guignol Players at the Grove Street Theatre, in Greenwich Village. The plays in- Who is making a tour of the West, will be seen on Broadway shortly in revivals of “Magda” and “The Riddle Woman.” clude “The Minuet,” by Lewis N. Parker; the “Maker of Images,” by Arthur Caesar; “Casualties,” by Martin Flavin and “We're All in the Gutter,” by Ehreda and Clarence Derwent. On the Screen “Metropolis,” the German produc- tion, directed by Fritz Lang, will be- gin its run at the Rialto Theatre to- morrow. Production has been started on “The Thirteenth Hour,” a new mys- tery drama, in which Lionel Barry- more is featured. Following the completion of her next Paramount vehicle, “The Wo- man on Trial,” Pola Negri is plan- ning to take a vacation trip to Eu- rope. She will return late in April. “King Harlequin,” a new Samifel Goldwyn production, is now in re- hearsal. Vilma Banky and Ronald Colman are co-featured. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has signed | Erich Pommer, prominent German director, to serve as associate pro- | ducer under Louis B. Mayer and Ir- | ving Thalberg. For many years | Pommer, as head of the UFA Com- pany, has’ been Germany’s best known cinema producer. His pro- duetions of “Vgriety,” “The Last Liiugh,”"“The “Waltz Dream” and | “Faust’ are well known in this coun- | try. Emil Jannings first rose to, fame under the sponsorship and with | the aid of Pommer, “Abie’s Irish Rose” has been sold for the movies—rumor has it that the price paid is over a million dol- lars. Anne Nichols, its author-pro- ducer, sold the motion picture rights to the Famous Players-Lasky Cor- poration. . : The Film Arts Guild will give a special showing of “The Living Dead Man,” the French film based on Pirandello’s “The Late Matthew Pas- cal,” which is to be presented at the Guild Theatre this Sunday for two performances, at 3 and 8:45 p. m. The Roxy Theatre has announced | the official opening for Friday, March 11. The film feature will be. the first showing of Gloria Swan-. son’s latest picture, “The Love of. Vitaphone presentation of “Carmen.” a een ce ata GSN AMUSEMENTS, Playhouse PINWHEEL ‘* Neighborhood 466 Grand St, Drydock 7516. Every Eve. (Except Mon.). Mat, Sat. new PLAYWRIGHTS theatre 52d St. Thea., 306 W. 52d. Columbus 7393 LOUDSPEAKERi:"* Sunya,” with an added attraction, a” EE Te A Sk PRET Is The organized labor movement has been disgracefully |!ow Taxi Company of that city. | that we should Sanbe tale: steps po of British industry and | cacre Guild Acting Company tn (/ UYMOUTH Mona acne Weds Pets apathetic and the “liberal” middle class journals approve this|, The conference is being called, say to do what lies in our p a “Su h doub BROTHERS KARAMAZOV MAS crphmoe ante? patheti b . S a jleaders in the taxi driver’s union) der to support the Commander Lock-| “Such doubts most probably exist Week Mar. 7—PYGMALION Gilbert & TP OF PEN. legislation almost unanimously. | movements throughout the state of er-Lampson campaign. in the minds of Baldwin and Cham-|} GUTLD THEA.,.W. 62 St. Eve, $:16) Sullivan 3 PIRATES ZANCE. The Communist press has the task of exposing the Baumes|New York, to draw up plans to break| “We cannot, of course, assign any | berlain, not to speak of other states- eed ? oe. ae : men of Jewish origin, who under. _Thursday Evenings Only, “Tolanthe” laws as part of the general imperialist reaction and arousing the up the various attempts to organize | considerable sums of money towards THE SILVER CORD workers to the danger of such legislation and to action for their repeal and against their extension. “ the drivers. . | Read The Worker Every Day By EDWARD KOTILA a few more times, aN “In the morning I asked a neigh- CHICAGO, March 3.—The heavy bor if he was going to vote. ‘No, I vote cast in Chicago primary elec- | guess not,’ he replied, ns shows the phenomenal interest) “All right and good,” says I to my- ‘the Chicago voters took in the elec-| self, “don’t worry, Ill see that your 8, say the Chicago newspapers. | yote will be cast. _ This phenomenal interest may be| “Among the names our election sxplained by a description a republi-| committee had picked for.me to vote ean committee man in one Chicago! with was one Greek named with a “precinct gave of the election on elec-| dozen syllables and I had to protest. eve. - |‘L don’t ‘care how many times you _ 41 bet Thompson will win,” he said,} want me to vote,’ says I, ‘but fur “1 voted for him ten times. After|heaven’s sake don’t pick me those ing voted 7 or 8 times a cop at mile long Greek names; get me some _ the polling place remarked: ‘Say, fel-| short, snappy ones!’ _ lew, didn’t you vote once before?’ “Of course, for safety, we had to “Certainly not,” said I, “don’t you | have both election judges republicans. know that I work around this place|so we had one of us- republicans all,day?” Saying this I hinted to a) swear himself as a demverat and friend that it was his turn to take | have him nominated as a democratic the: cop to a nearby saloon for a| judge. drink, and in the meanwhile fT voted | “And of coufse theré are always ‘ ) A Real Political Interest {lots of voters that are too lazy to register, but that didn't bother us any as we hed them registered before- hand without any inconvenience to voters. “After having assured myself that we had a big majority in our poiling place I jumped to my car and drove to the next polling place. “Hello, hello, Bill. How did you make it?’ I was greeted by the judges. “‘Hush! Don’t call me Bill, call me Mr. Dependaple!’ “Then I inquired if my help was needed, “No Bill, we got plenty of votes, not today; may need you next time, 80 good-bye,’ “Well, when Thompson gets elected for mayor this spring I’ll see if I can’t jack up my wages to $12 a day at least, for doing nothing.” | the new campaign, and, indeed, this | would hardly be désirable from the point of view of its possible effect as well as from the point of view of tactics, “However, we can undoubtedly \place at the disposal of the com- mander much material which can be utilized by his speakers, announced at meetings, and published in the press. “I have always shared my mate- rials with the commander and other British friends, and I have often had the pleasure of seeing how my ma- terial, which not one newspaper ac- cepted directly from me, appeared in the press sometimes in a slightly changed form.” y Suspicious of Emigrees. k M. Sablin then goes on to make the remarkable suggestion that as propaganda works, “which carry the obvious stamp of the creation of the White Russian Emigration, meet with some degree of prejudice,” an- other means should be employed. “If these works could be com- pressed and published under the guise of intercepted correspondence | which he courageously took of the various Moscow Opposition] years ago.” 2 stand economic questions better than all the rest, “In a practical sense the disposi- tion of our forces at the present moment is approximately as fol- lows:— “The campaign of Locker-Lam} son is being continued with “ energy. A resolution was also ac- cepted by the annual conference of the Conservative Party at Scatbor- ough. ... In a week from now the autumn session of parliament opens, and the followers of -Locker-Lamp- son are preparing a new campaign in order to force Baldwin’ at last to accept their programme and take de- cisive measures to fight the Reds and the British trade unions, which are striving to establish dictator- ship of the proletariat, panes “Baldwin himself is no more en- joying the unanimous support of the whole membership of his party, and} possibility is not excluded that he will once more decide to take the risky step of calling for a general election for the purpose of receiving a mandate from the country—a step sacs Week Mar, 7—Ned MeCobb's Daughter John Golden Th.,68, Hof B'y Circle Mts. Thu. & Sat.| i ir. 6 Av. & 14 St. Civic Repertory $2f Watkins tier, WALLACK’S Yi'*%)5 Weds, Sate 8:30, A New © cmos es wie Sala Svat aa «ese hcnaelly 149th Sti Bronx Opera House [,'*{) , Street, Pop. Prices, Mat. Wed, & Sat. Louis Mann and Clara Lipman in “A WOMAN IN THE HOUSE” et . 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