The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 7, 1927, Page 1

The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized. For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week. Vol. IV. No. 45. CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O’)FLAHERTY. EARLY two whole pages of yes- terday’s New York Tribune were devoted to special correspondence from European capitals on the diplo- matic maneuverings that are now going on between the capitalist pow- ers. Every word of this correspond-| ence spelled War. The writers agreed that in the recent exchange of notes between Great Britain and the Soviet Union, Litvinoff made Chamberlain look like*a schoolboy playing politics, One gathers from the correspondence that England is actively engaged in building a bloc of hostile states on the Soviet Union’s western frontier while pre- tending to be working for world| peace. England denies this but con- tinues the work. * * * > OR the first time in history a whole nation has been legislated into one giant war machine, in peace time. Last week the French parlia- ment on motion of a socialist, voted, with only the Communist in opposi- tion, to mobilize the whole man pow- er and industrial power of the coun- try for service in case of war. This patriotic yellow socialist also dwelt on the necessity of building chains of fortresses around the frontiers and setting up barbed wire entangle- ments, This does not look as if the last war to end war would be. the last, The next is more likely to be vhat, provided the working‘ class of SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 Her year. $6.00 per yea Outside New York, by mail, ’, Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 38, 1879. NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1927 << THOUSANDS MOURN RUTHENBERG AT Important Fight THE MEMORIAL MEETING IN CHICAGO |s Now Brewing The Ashland Auditorium Cannot Hold Crowds: Workers Pledge Themselves to “Fight On” By ISRAEL AMTER. (Special To The DAILY WORKER) CHICAGO, Ill., March 6.—To the strains of Chopin’s Funeral March} the body of C. E. Ruthenberg, borne} by members of the Political Com- | mittee of the Workers (Communist) | Party, was carried into Ashland Audi-| torium this afternoon while over 6,500 stood and wept. | There were more than 2,500, others | who were unable to gain admittance to the hall because the police closed the doors, Max Bedacht, the chairman, spoke | of the great loss to the American) party, the American workers, and the | international movement in the death | of Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg. | He read telegrams from the Com- munist International, the Red Trade Union International, the Russian Com- munist Party, the Eleventh Conven-| tion of the German Communist Party, the Canadian Communist Party, the Kuomintang, the Young Communist League of Russia, and the Young Communist International. Ruthenberg’s last words, “Fight on. We will win,” sounded the key note of the meeting. Benjamin Gitlow, a member of the Central Committee of | Political Committee Selects Lovestone As | Acting Party Secretary CHICAGO.—At its meeting here on Saturday the pol 1 commit- tee of the Workers (Communisi) Party elected Jay Lovestone acting general secretary of the party to take up the tasks that C. E. Ruth- enberg was forced by death to re- linquish. Comrade Lovestone has been the head of the party’s or- | ganization department. Programs Grow As Comrades Prepare Meetings “For Shanghai | 'U. S. Marines Parade Thru Foreign Settlement SHANGHAI, March 6. — An | portant struggle, constituting the | Nationalists’ final real test of strength, is developing in the vicinity of Soochow where the Nationalists | are making a thrust from Chekiang | |province in an; attempt to cut off} Shanghai from the main Ankno- Chan army. The Nationalists obviously intend | to seize the Shanghai-Nanking rail- way, thus con#elidating their posi- tion before. priceeding further to- ward Shanghai, Twelve huridred American marines }marched thru the international set- tlement yesterday, with rifles on their shoulders’ and the bands play- two friends. While the great mass meeting in|ing. The object of the parade was PUBISHING “Heretic Bishop” Hard At Work Making Good Brown Booth for I. L. D. Bishop and Mrs. Brown are work- ing hard for the International La- hor Defense Bazaar in Star Casino, 107th Street and Park Avenue, on March 10-13. In a letter to I. L. D. Mrs. Brown says, “I am sending two boxes of fancy work made by myself and I sincerely hope the bazaar will be a success and that my little effort will help.” The bishop has sent a number of autographed copies of his latest hook—the book that explains his “Heresy”—for sale at the bazaar. The Bishop Brown booth will be a great source of interest and should bring quite some tangible results to the I. L. Dv in its fight to release class war prisoners and maintain the dependen Needle Workers Denounce the Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER CO., 38 First Street, New ‘York, N. Y. et FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Injunction Brings Out Old Red Scare |Garment Reactionary Fills Many Pages With Complaint Because | The provocative tactics of Lefts Are Winning the reactionary officials of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union are shown up in all their viciousness in the injunction of Local 89 against the members of the New York Joint The copies of this temporary {day night, and it will come up fc Court Justice Nathan Bijur.on County Court House. The injunction is supposedly taken; out by Local 89 to réstrain its mem- bers who refuse to register with the International, from paying their dues, lor fines, to the Joint Board. Local |89. has not only refused to give union jbooks to these workers who are | loyal to the Joint Board, but has also | refused to supply the Joint Board with | }dues books as has always been cus-| | tomary. Determined On Ruin. | Board. injunction were served on Fri- or hearing before State Supreme Wednesday, March 9th, in the In line with all the other “frame- ups” that have been perpetrated by this clique which is trying to smash the cloak and dressmakers’ union, the International officials in this injune- tion utterly ignore the issues which have caused the present controversy in the union, and try by a set of ir- responsible, inflammatory, lying ac- cusations to: prejudice the court with the old “bolshevist” bogey. They Now that both these moves have| know that nothing is so well caleu- | Asaland Auditorium, Chicago, was |solemnly engaged Sunday afternoon | }in paying the last tribute to C. E. |Ruthenberg, beloved leader of Com- |munism in America, due arrangements were being made in a dozen cities for ostensibly to exercise the troops but e e really to show the Chinese that the fl unction United States was ready to protect; \ the interests of the Wall Street in-| vestors and that Britain was not the apes ie world so decide. | as one of the leaders of the party who | had turned the Workers (Communist) * ps * the party, characterized Ruthenberg | Tr administration is playing a| Party to the workshops where it is| hide-and-go-seek policy with Mex-|Steadily growing in numbers and in| | Similar demonstrations of affection jand regret, and to give the workers | |as a whole an idea of the things for | which Ruthenberg stood while alive. The first meeting after the funeral | only country that had a monopoly on} armed forces, Imperialist Troops Fraternize. Joint Board Speakers Expose failed to prevent an ever increasing | number of the Italian dressmakers | {from supporting the Joint Board in| lits efforts to preserve the union, Luigi Antonini, manager of 89, with; |the support of an affidavit from Mor- lated to obscure the real state of af- fairs, and cover up the causes of the dispute. For instance, Luigi Antonini in his affidavit says: “Within the past year or two the ris Sigman, president of the Interna-| tional, appeals to a capitalist court members and officers of the ‘Inter- national’ and its locals who are To prove that the United States troops would co-operate with the Sigman’s Program The “capitalist employer” methods iv. Open diplomacy is no longer | Power. |which will be held this morning in| British against the Nationalists, the : ' openly arrived at. Kellogg dispateh-|_ “Ruthenberg was a great leader} Chicago, will take place at Detroit |marines fraternized with the British |ow being adopted by the reactionary ae adi ti Callie a: Wee aah: The | ot only of our party,” said Gitlow, * *|while silent Chinese looked on. officials of the International Ladies’ pvess has been unable vo fathom its| contents. Again Kellogg has struck, ugain in secret. it appears that the! .exican consul general in New York| lias been countering the propaganda | vt the oil barons by publicity which | wives the facts about the Mexican} tuation. We understand that Kel-| svgg looks with suspicion on the | exican consul. We are amazed that} ine Mexican representative is getting «wf so easy. ‘felling the truth has} Lecome such a rare indoor sport in washington nowadays thet the .prac- tice” Ritay 800n be ak I aardéns. ae ! xury as reciting the declaration of ».uiependence was during the war. ey ry ARRY M, DAUGHERTY may} bless his stars that there are still vaye men left in the United States, men who cannot be convinced by ar- «gument or awed by numbers, -One fr. Keating stood on the burning deck for the former attorney gen- eral, when the rest of the jury fled vo the life boats. Daugherty’s co- defendant, the lesser of the two evils, was found guilty. The jury stood eleven to one to give Harry the same dose. Evidently Daugherty is a more fenerous soul than Colonel Miller, one of the founders of the American (Continued on Page Three) | Important Notice for Traction Workers of the Lee B.M.T. All Workers Interested in the Transit Question. Who Handles New York’s Enor- “but of the whole working class. His | determination and the example of his | life will serve to consolidate the ranks | of the workers, and help them to march forward to victory.” “Party Man,” Says Cannon. James P. Cannon, secretary of the International Labor .Defense, de- scribed Ruthenberg as a pioneer of the revolutionary movement here, and one of the few Americans who could tonight at 8 o’clock, in the Majestic Theatre. ‘ New York Announces Plans. | Some of the speakers will come on | from Chicago to New York to appear | at the memorial exercises in this city. |The New York District Executive | Committee has decided to receive the | | ashes of Comrade Ruthenberg, in New | York City, Tuesday night, with a | guard of honor. The New York mem- Responsible foreigners regard the! Garment Workers’ Union in their at- probability of disturbarices inside the | tack on the workers, were denounced foreign settlement as exceedingly | Saturday at membership meetings of remote. The Nationalists are well| /ocals 2 and 35, which were held in disciplined and their progress is not Webster Hall and Manhattan Lyceum. characterized by the looting, ‘rape,| “Failing in all their attempts to and pillage that follows in the wake | ##!" the mupport of the members of of the militasiats. our union, said Joseph Boruchowitz Ruwles: A " speaking at the Local 2'meeting, “the ae Agreement: traitors have become desperate and There are reports that the Nation-| they are resorting to the most des- (Continued on Page Five) |for help. ! | Startling revelations in connection with the recent election of “right wing” officers of Custom Thilors’ | Local 38, of the International Ladies’ | Garment Workers’ Union, have been made public by members of the elec- tion objection committee, a majority of whom believe that the election was won thru fraud. CHARGE FRAUD IN LOGAL 38 ELECTION a notary public, by an eye witness who saw Harry Gardner marking a ballot. Harry Gardner was seen at 6:00 p. m., on the down-town side of the Sixth Ave. 42nd St. “L” station. Investigation Within Week, “The fraud thus far shown forbids us, as conscientious members of the | union, to certify as to the regularity of these elections. | William Z. Foster, secretary of the | Street. not be bought by the capitalist class. orial meeting will be Wednesday “Ruthenberg was a party man,” night, at Carnegie Hall. said Cannon. “He gave everything to At Baltimore Tuesday. the party, and showed an example, to | The Ruthenherg memorial meeting all around him of ‘what a revolution. | Will ‘oe held im Baltimore on Tuesday, ary soldier should be.” | March 8, 1927 at 7.30 p. m., at the This idea was also expressed by | Conservatory Hall, 1029 B. Baltimore In Cleveland the memorial meeting | Trade Union Educational League, who | | said, “Ruthenberg was flesh of the for Comrade Ruthenberg will be held alists and Chang Chung Chang have reached an agreement whereby the Nationalists will be allowed to oc- cupy Shyla’ without a struggle. GROCERY CLERKS | pised weapon of the bosses—the in- junction. + Secure Injunction. |. “In the name of Local 89, the Ital- jian Dresmakers’ Local, they have | taken out an injunction against all | members of the Joint Board,and the | clerical force. They think in this way | they can prevent the Italian workers | | In a formal statement issued by On the contrary, \the chairman and four other mem-|we believe that the candidates who bers of the coimmittee, Vice-presi-| thus appear elected, should, as hon- dent Greenberg is censored for re-;est trade unionists, themselves insist |fusing to act when various irregular- | upon an investigation of the facts so ities were called to his attention, and|far brought out and should refuse it is urged that installation of all|to accept office under the circum- new officers be postponed until an/ stances until the matter has been investigation of the election has been | cleared up, which could very easily be done within a week’s time. flesh, blood of the blood, and bone of the bone of the Communist Party, and could not be corrupted by the capital. ist class. He Was True Bolshevik. “He was a true Bolshevik, and we cannot do better than dedicate our-. selves to carry out the work to which Ruthenberg devoted his life.” “Ruthenberg was also the leader of the young Communists.” said Nat Kaplan, editor of the Young Worker. “During the war, Ruthenberg was the Karl Liebknecht of the American la- bor movement.” In behalf of tens of thousands of New York’s workers, who knew of | Ruthenberg’s deeds, William W. Wein- stone, secretary of District 2, ex- pressed the deepest sorrow at the 4 Zam, member of the National Exe- Jat the Slovenian Hall, 6409 St. Clair | Avenue, on Tuesday, March 8, at 8 . m. The speakers will be Max Bedacht, member of the Central Executive | Committee of the Party; Herbert cutive Committee of the Young Workers League; John Brahtin and {Tom Clifford who worked for many years with Comrade Ruthenberg in Cleveland. I. Amter, district secre- | |tary will preside. The Freiheit and | Lithuanian Singing Societies will co- | operate. New York Memorial Wednesday. The list of speakers for the great | |meeting prepared in New York con-| tinually grows. On it at present are | Wm. Z. Foster, Jay Lovestone, Max |inerease for the union members and |from paying dues to the Joint Board, 60 ON ST R | KE jand force them to recognize the In- | ternational. But they will fail, just las they have failed in every other I. Steinzor, showed how the “left wing” fight is steadily growing in power. “In the beginning there were many pessimists,” said Steinzor, “but now after 12 weeks, the workers realize thet victory for the progressive forces is inevitable. Fight Among Themselves. “The reactionary International of- the organization of the unorganized | ficials are beginning to fight among workers in that borough. |themselves for power. The shops At an enthusiastic meeting held | Which were forced to register with | use of force.” | The chairman of Local 2 meeting, | To Organize Poorly Paid Brooklyn Men One thousand Brooklyn grocery and dairy clerks are going on strike this morning for a three dollar a week mittee. Statement of Committee. The announcement made by the members of the election objection committee is as follows: | objection committee of Local 38, do hereby state that we are unable to declare the newly elected officers duly elected for the following rea- | sons: “Tt has been called to our atten- tion, and we have verified the fact, that two votzs have been cast for each of the follow:g ledger num- | bers: 312, 406, 438, 1008, 1171, 1158, 1410, 1470, . Fraudulent Practice Charged. conducted by some impartial com- | “We, the majority of the election | | “We therefore demand an imme- | diate investigation to be made by a |committee composed of such mem- bers of Local 38, regularly elected |at a membership meeting, who were not implicated in either side of the fight. Pending the investigation by this impartial committee, the in- stallation to be postponed and, if in |the opinion of this committee, the evidence submitted warrants an an- nulment of the present elections and | the holding of new ones, this impar- tial committee is empowered to or- der such new elections, Greenberg Refuses to Act. “We have called the attention of Vice-president Greenberg to these frauds but as he is one of the inter- sudden death of the great leader. Bedacht, William F. Dunne, Wm. W. yesterday the the union headquarter, | the International are coming to the “A cursory investigation of this) Joint Board to pay their dues, and |fraud brings us to the conclusion that | “Ruthenberg was the foremost leader in the left wing of the Social- ist Party,” said Weinstone; “and it was he who helped to shape and form the Communist Party.” The Pioneers Join With Music. Other speakers at the memorial meeting were Arne Swabeck, Chicago organizer of the party, who spoke of the severity of the loss of Comrade Ruthenberg, and Comrade Fod; who represented the Kuomintang. ’ The Pioneer Freiheit Singing So- ciety and the Waukegan Communist Band provided revolutionary music. The true spirit of the whole mem- Weinstone, M. J. Olgin, Ben Gitlow, |Ben Lipshitz and Sam Don. Only a few short weeks ago, at the Lenin memorial meeting, 20,000 workers in New York listened to a speech by Ruthenberg, and most of the speakers who now meet to com- memorate Ruthenberg spoke with him from the same platform on that oc- casion. Carnegie Hall will be crowded by the workers gathered at this new- est memorial meeting, Wednesday, March 9, in the evening. Not only is a memorial meeting be- ing arranged in Boston, but from all parts pf the state, from the Finnish 204 East Broadway, Manhattan, the | A general strike was voted for by the | the International treasury assembled workers. Although not a | fast. left wing controlled union they rose | they are when they must turn for for one minute tribute to the memory |help to the capitalist courts and of C. E. Ruthenberg, general secre- | judges.” tary of the Workers (Communist) Party, who died last week. Work 15 Hours a Day. At the present time the unorgan- ized grocery and dairy clerks work 18 to 15 hours a day for wages vary- ing from $18 to $27 weekly. The union workers receive $38 for a 9- hour day. The strike is being conducted by Samuel Heller, Brooklyn business is emptying cently reported by the Forward as having “escaped” to Russia. Marks | was greeted with enthusiasm, and he |talked of how he had just returned | from “the Crimea,” in Texas, U.S. A., and from “Siberia” of Denver, Colo. Marks announced that the workers of Denver were ready to respond in a@ moment to a Joint Board call for | ledger numbers of members of Local They show plainly how weak |38 have been copied and duplicated | | books made out, which were used by |persons unknown to us. It is our opinion that a thorough investigation A speaker at both Local 2 and Lo-| would reveal additional votes cast} } cal 35 meetings was Elias Marks, re-|fraudulently under ledger numbers |¢@didates who appear to have been |of members who have not voted and |for whom duplicate books were made | out by the parties responsible. | “We also have in our posgession a | written statement, sworn to before’ ested parties, he has refused to act. “We wish to enter our protest against the refusal of Vice-president Greenberg to act upon these charges and in the event that, despite our | fair demands for an investigation, the international shall install the | elected, we will, nevertheless, insist |upon an investigation to be made | along the lines indicated and we hope | that, for the sake of the good name (Continued on Page Four) U.S. BANKERS TO [Proletarian Artist | orial was expressed in the closing | organizations, Lithuanian, Jewish and ail j pickets, and he urged the cloakmakers ° et 40 fone ace ATION words of Max Bedacht when he said,|from a number of trade unionists an ert et sabe aval Aine of both locals to respond just as Making Painting of WORKERS! ‘The only monument to our Com-|expression of sincere sympathy and 7 promptly, because only with mass L0 AN THE WORLD rade Ruthenberg will be the creation|sorrow has heen received. Professor picketing can the International's How Are They Paid? How Many Hours Per Day Do They Work? Why Do Accidents Happen? What Is the Transportation Brotherhood? What Caused the Strike Last of a mass Communist Party in the United States that will lead on to victory.” “The Symbol of Our Party.” Jay Lovestone, who was on Satur- day chosen’ acting general secretary of the party following Ruthenberg’s Harry W. L. Dana, states the loss could be only made up by redoubling the efforts of the entire movement. Resolutions are being adopted in all parts of the state. Women’s organizations are sending | gangsters be driven from the shops. Mussolini Is Confined | Framed-Up Worker Speaks. 7 Another speaker at both meetings With is conce7ous Ulcer; was Aaron Wortuns, the cloakmaker Unable to Leave House a framed-up charge just the day be- who was arrested last Thursday on | BILLION DOLLARS Nicholas’ Abdication MOSCOW, March 6.—The private railroad car in which Tsar Nicholas Il signed his abdication from the throne of all the Russias in March, 1917, has been placed at the dis- flowers. The Workers Educational fore he was to appear in court against j ; | : Pp i ~ Psa sey Vaio ‘Warten’ Or- death, said of the dead leader: Tnstitute of Roxbury has voted to send two of the International’s gangsters. Wall St. Will Tighten | fap bape oo ganize? “He was to me the symbol of our/a bouquet of flowers to Ruthenberg’s LONDON, March, 5. — Bentio |‘rhe workers at Webster Hall and Financial Screws dication. party, fighting unceasingly an up-|funeral. To commemorate the life and| Mussolini, premier of Italy, is suf- |}Janhattan Lyceum needed no ex- Ni b HOW? hill battle against tremendous odds, | work of Comrade Ruthenberg a large| fering from cancer, according to a | planation of why he had been ar- Nicholas is dead, but eye-wit- et the FACTS of one of New York’s Largest and Most Im- portant Industries in this valu- able peries of articles beginning WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9 against the most brutal, the most powerful imperialism the world has know. * * * “At the left wing national confer- ence, I vividly recall how it was Com- rade Ruthenberg who stood out as memorial meeting is arranged for Thursday, March 10th at 8 o'clock at Scenic Auditorium, Boston, Mass. The speakers will be comrades in the leading positions of the Party who were closely associated with Comrade Central News dispatch from Paris tonight, quoting a Rome report. A specialist has been summoned from this city to attend the Italian premier, Mussolini, the report states, is confined to his home and rested, or on whose orders, They al- ready know too well the way in which the International officials persecute workers, collaborate with bosses and gangsters, and stoop to any despic- |able deeds in order to smash the Foreign loans to the total of $775,- 700,000 that might be increased to | $1,000,000,000 are being arranged by | American banking interests, This is the result of a study made by Max Winkler, vice-president of Moody’s In- nesses of that proud moment when the Tsar was made to realize the might of the common people he had ruled so long will describe it to the artist. He is working on a com- mission from the government to First Article, the towering revolutionist, He gave |Ruthenberg in his work. The principal| is unable to take part in political | union and maintain themselves in vestment Service. po the rend iby unveiling “Organize the Traction Workers,” || Ut @ certain concreteness, positive-| speakers will be Benjamin Gitlow of| matters. | power. Of the $775,700,000 for which nego- | hea io yagi of the Bolshevist ness and Bolshevist poise and con- ted re New York, M. J. Olgin and Herbert Zam of the Young Workers League. A suitable musical program will be (Continued on Page’ Four) tiations are already under way, $378,- | | 500,000 will be loaned to Europe and | Poe trnrenrenar nes $877,200,000 to Latin America, to- | When replying to these advertise- gether with $20,000,000 for Japan, menis mention The DAILY WORKER, The dispatch further states that Il Duce’s condition is aggravated by the presence of a “cancerous ulcer.” 1 | * Sigman Makes Special Effort. M. Goldstein was chairman of the Local 35 meeting. Joseph Goretzky, (Continued on Page Five) Ys v fidence in our deliberations. * * * “Yes, Comrade Ruthenberg died (Continued on Page Five) by Robert Mitchell. | Ruthenberg Memorial Meeting, Wednesda i AT 8:00 P. M. SHARP March 8th at Carnegie 57TH STREET AND 7TH AVENUE