The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 7, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 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 $2.60 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 PO DUNNE . (8 errr este ht BERT MILLER.... ....+.++Business Manager 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. Editors Ps. Lewis Surrenders to the Coal Barons; The “Save the Union” Bloc Must Take the Lead John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, has stated to the press, in order “to reassure the public,” that there will be no strike in the bituminous fields on April 1 when the Jacksonville agreement expires. The heartfelt concern for the feelings of the dear “public” manifested by Lewis is in direct contrast to his care for the in- terests of the miners. What Lewis has done by this announcement of his policy is to issue a blank check to the coal barons. Knowing that if strikes occur they will get no support from the UMWA officialdom, the operators can and will begin their attack on wages and. working conditions of the miners even before the contract ends. The actions of the Lewis machine at the Indianapolis conven- tion forecast some such maneuver by officialdom even though it adopted the slogan of “no backward step.” The negotiations be-| tween union officials and the coal operators in Miami served only to show that the Lewis machine was following clos ators’ policy of agreement of both sides to an increase of pro- duction and lowering of wage charges—more production with less men. Lewis has surrendered to the coal barons. This is the inevitable result of the policy he has followed since he succeeded Hayes as president of the Union. He has ini-| tiated and carried out an expulsion campaign against all the most devoted and militant elements in the union beginning with Alex} ystematically destroyed the morale of the mem- continual persecutions and by allowing thousands Howat. Heh bership by his of miners to be driven from the union fields and the industry | while the coal barons were “normalizing” production. While Lewis was doing all in his power to crush the tradi- tional militancy of the union membership the coal barons were expanding the non-union fields until today they produce from 65 to 70 per cent of the total tonnage. The union has decreased steadily in numbers even losing 19,000 members in the last six months when all coal production records were broken. The United Mine Workers faces the same problem now but in more urgent form that it faced three years ago—organization of the unorganized fields. The Lewis machine has made the most disastrous failure possible in this direction. Not only has it failed to organize West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee but it has either lost entirely or seriously weakened union fields like Ohio, western Pennsylvania, eastern Pennsylvania, Canada, etc. The program of the “Save the Union” bloc is to launch an intensive organization drive in the non-union territories, refuse| to accept any wage cut and strike if wage cuts are made. The lifé. of the union depends upon struggle against the operators in both union and non-union. fields, Lewis says nothing of an organization drive. No prepara- tions are being made for such a campaign except by the “Save the Union” bloc, and this can be taken to mean only that Lewis has surrendered this part of the union program as well. The UMWA will be cut to pieces if Lewis is allowed to have his way. The various operators’ associations will start an as- sault on wages or working conditions or both. The inevitable: rank and file strikes will be scattered and therefore ineffective and the membership will continue to decrease. The Lewis machine has wrecked the miners’ union. statement by Lewis is an admission of this fact. The last We have said day after day that Lewis would betray the| miners and the miners’ union, that he would fight no one except the militant membership and that his policy led straight to dis- ruption and destruction. Because we have'told the truth about the Lewis machine and its menace to the miners’ union, its officials and publicists have expelled miners who are members of the Communist Party and haye accused us of being enemies of the union. The miners are now in a position to judge who fights for their interests-and it*certainly is not the Lewis machine. To save the UMWA the non-union fields must be organized. The immediate task of the “Save the Union” bloc is to force the Lewis machine to begin the campaign at once and to show by the organization of mines that are now non-union, as in western Pennsylvania, that the UMWA is weak because its leadership is reactionary, corrupt and playing the game operators want it to play. The “Save the Union” bloc must take the lead in the struggle against the coal barons’ attempt to smash the union. Preparation for War in the Imperialist Camp - The London correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune writes: ’ “The powder barrel is well stocked in Europe, and stranger things have happened than that China should apply the match.” One cannot read the news of the day from foreign offices and state departments without realising that there is occurring, hastened by the ever increasing imperialist conflicts, a whole series of incidents whose inevitable outcome is another world war unless imperialism suffers defeat at the hands of the masses before it ean initiate the blood-bath. _ A few outstanding events will corroborate the above state- meént: (1) The French government adopts a law making compul- sory the mobilization of the whole population—men, women and children above a certain age—in the event of war. This is the first measure of its kind to be placed on the statute books of a capitalist nation. (a) Another law has just been passed authorizing the for- tification of the entire eastern frontier of France, proyiding for a complete system of entrenchments, barbed wire entanglements, bombproof shelters, the necessary artillery, ete. The project is to cost 7,000,000,000 francs. - (2) Great Britain has taken over Poland as a base against the Soviet Union and is trying to draw Lithuania into the Balkan- , | Baltic alliance. Britain has superseded France as the militarist | director of the small nations composing the “cordon sanitaire’”— | the line of buffer states between western Europe and the Soviet Union. | (a) Austen Chamberlain, the British foreign minister, is | either in Berlin or on his way there to attempt to secure German | repudiation of the Rapallo treaty with the Soviet Union provid- ing for’German neutrality in the event of war. | (b) Britain is entrenching her forces around Shanghai— | outside the foreign concession—is sending a known total of 40,000 | troops with full equipment and has a huge fleet in the Far East. Reliable reports are to the effect that Britain is preparing for a three-year campaign in China. - Great Britain’s policy in China has increased the tension at every point of contact in two spheres (a) between the imperialist nations and the Soviet Union and (b) between the imperialist nations themselves. (3) The troop and warshiamovements of the United States are on a scale explainable only by the theory that the state and | war departments see war as a possibility of the immediate future. (a) The armed march of 1,200 U. S. marines through the streets of Shanghai is no routine incident but an important in- |ternational demonstration for the purpose first of intimidating the Chinese masses and second of impressing other imperialist powers with the determination of America to resist being pushed into position inferior to that of Britain and Japan in China, (4) The recent increase in the amount of foreign news car. ried by all capitalist papers is an infallible indication of the rapid upward trend of international conflicts. The growing tension in the imperialist world is concealed somewhat by hypocritical words in favor of disarmament and other diplomatic subterfuges. But the burden of militarism is growing heavier each day and, as in the United States, where | radio communication control is handed over to contro! of a former {admiral, decisive industrial enterprises are being put on a war | basis. , | Imperialism is sleeping on its arms ready to awake for | slaughter at the first call of the master class. | The workers and farmers of America and all other sections |of the population honestly opposed to war for Wall Street must be prepared to resist any and all attempts to open hostilities. Hands Off China and withdrawal of all armed forces from the Far East is the minimum demand that must be made at this time. The Imperialist Menace in China. Naval and military concentration in and around Shanghai by the imperialist powers is going forward at a rate that indicates something far more sinister than “protection of lives and proper- | According to the New York Tribune correspondent Great Britain is arranging for a force of 40,000 troops, and barracks are being built for a minimum stay of three years. These prepara- situation as of major political and military importance. British colonial punitive expedition is all that is required. | That these preparations are in direct contradiction with British pronouncements to the effect that the foreign office waits only for the establishment of a stable government in China to | whi@M recognition can be accorded is of little significance other than to give further proof of hypocrisy. The People’s government (Kuomingtang) does not lack stability. On the contrary it is far too well established to suit Britain’s rulers. Nor is the United States backward in a display of force. Ac- cording to dispatches there are now 13 American battle craft of various kinds in Shanghai harbor and American marines and sailors have been landed. Japan is sending two additional war- ships. British fortifications have been extended far outside the boundaries of the international settlement. It can be said with certainty that Britain is mobilizing not only to hold Shanghai against the Peoples’ government but against other nations as well. Britain would prefer joint action against the new China ‘but failing this is committed to a diehard militarist policy. Just as Britain’s forces are in China for conquest if pos- for American imperialism against all rivals if future develop- |ments make such a policy profitable. There is a tendency even among American revolutionists to underestimate the danger to the world’s working: class inherent in the Chinese situation as it becomes more and more apparent that without armed,intervention on a big scale the Chinese masses will defeat imperialism and its native allies. These dan- gers are: x (1) Intervention itself by one or more imperialist powers with Great Britain as the most dangerous aggressor at the mo- ment. On a big enough scale intervention could postpone the liberation of China for a tonsiderable period and stop completely the work of education, organizationeand industrialization of China which is beginning under the People’s government. (2) A world war arising out of the struggle for the privi- lege of exploiting China. The daily increase of imperialist forces in the Far East is evidence that both of the above possible developments are being discussed in the foreign offices of the great powers. The pro- gress of diplomatic debate is marked by the movement of bat- tleships and troops on the world chess-board. | World imperialism faces defeat in China. Even the biased news carried by the capitalist press indicates that the alliance of the northern war-lords against the People’s*government has col- lapsed. The militarists have found it impossible to hold their troops in the face of their known connection with the imperialists —Britain especially. The Peking government no longer makes even the pretense of speaking for China. There is no government in China but the Kuomingtang. Recognition of these realities would be followed automati- cally by recognition of the People’s government by the powers if they desired nothing more than a stable regime in China. Withdrawal of battleships and troops would mean that the Peo- ple’s government would rule all China in a brief period. It will do so in any case no matter how long and bloody the struggle is. 400,000,000 people, organized and led by a skilled and disciplined political party like the Kuomingtang, cannot be defeated. Like the Mediterranean area in 1912, like the Balkans in 1914, but on a far larger sale, the Far East now is a powder magazine which can be exploded by accident or design. The only protection against another imperialist war lies inthe complete victory of the People’s government in alliance with the Soviet Union, constant vigilance and militancy on the part of the labor and revolutionary movements of the imperialist countries and support by them of the two great bulwarks against world im- perialism—the workers’ and peasants’ government of the Soviet Union and the Chinese revolution, tions are proof that the British foreign office regards the Chinese | imperialism in China no longer proceeds on the theory that a} sible so are the ‘American forces in readiness to strike a blow) MANY SPEAK AT _ MEMORIALS T0 The Programs Grow As Meetings Are Arranged | (Continued from Page One) provided by Lithuanian, Russian, Ukrainian and Lettish organizations. Similar memorial meetings are be- ing arranged all over the state. Mem- |orial meeting in Springfield, Mass., will be held on Wednesday, March 16th with Comrade G. S. Shklar as the principal speaker, Philadelphia. | The workers of PhilaedIphia will | commemorate the death of our leader | Comrade- Ruthenberg, on Friday, | March 11th, at 8 p. m., at the Labor |Tnstitute, 810 Locust Street. The speakers will be Bertram D. | Wolfe of New York, J. O. Bentall, | district organizer of Philadelphia dis- trict, Irvin Green for the Young Work- jers League and a representative of |the Young Pioneers. The Freiheit |Gesangs Verein will sing the memorial song—“Our Leadex.” A fitting musi- cal program has been arranged. The workers of Philadelphia knew Comrade Ruthenberg well, his self sacrificing devotion to the cause of the working class, and will not fail to pay their last tribute to him. | In Youngstown, Ohio, the memorial | meeting will also take place on Fri- day, March 11. Pittsburg Meeting: } Workers of Pittsburg wil hold their | meeting on March 12, at Labor Ly- ceum, at 8 p. m. In Los Angeles the meeting will be on March 18. On the |same date, in the afternoon, Minne- | apolis: will have a meeting, and, still jon the thirteenth, in the evening, | there wiil be one in St. Paul. The Ruthenberg memorial meeting | in Buffalo is set for Sunday, March | 13, at 8 p. m, at Elmwood Music Mall. | In Duluth the memorial meeting will | be on March 14, and in Superior on March 15, | | | Read The Daily Worker Every Day Fraud Charge In | Local 38 Election | | (Contirued from Page One) | of Local 38, if the fraud charges are | proven true, that new elections will! be ordered by the investigating com-| mittee. | 27 Not Allowed to Vote. | “We must also call your attention| to the unfair discrimination against twenty-seven members of our local! who have been allowed to vote and whose votes were not counted on the ground that these members have not yet joined the sick fund. These mem-| bers appeared before the member-} |ship committee, were given books through the regular procedure, and were allowed to pay dues. “They were taken in during. the organization campaign, at a reduced rate, as is customary in unorganized trades, and as will be necessary, par- ticularly in our trade, where we | work with an element that has never been in a union. We believe that this discrimination against these members will be very harmful to our future progress amongst tl cate- |gory of workers, | | Participated in Election for | Committee, . | “These members participated in the voting for the members of the election objection committee and in the voting on other questions in con- nection with the elections and if the ruling is to hold good that their votes are not legitimate, then the en- tire procedure previous to the elec- tions must be considered illegal. union such a situation has arisen that officers have been elected by fraud and that the election objection committee is not .in a position to come to the members with a unani- mous report that the officers have been elected in a regular and honest, clean way and that they cannot have the full confidence and prestige that regularly elected officials have the right to expect upon entering office. _ (Signed) ELECTION OBJEC- TION COMMITTEE: H. Karp, chair- man; M. Forman, A. Forman, 8, Packer, S, Rosenfeld. as Textile Industry Is Sinking Deeper Into Competitive Morass Like the cotton spinning industry in New England, the woolen textile business is still suffering from the acute trade depression. American Woolen Co, reports an operating loss of $2,000,000 although the figure jug- gling may conceal a real profit. Profits for the first quarter are be- ing paid out of surplus accumulated from fat years. Competition of southern mills in the cotton line, chaos in production and boom in rayon and silk are among reasons assigned by the tex- tile operators for the depression. One “remedy” is for the prosperous mills to buy out the looms of the bankrupt concerns, tossing them on the junk pile to keep the industry from being C E, RUTHENBERG Schoenberg and Milton Silver, is | “The Mystery Ship,” by Edgar M, scheduled to open at the Garrick The- atre Monday night, March 14, “Menace,” an Oriental drama by Arthur M, Brillant, is in rehearsal and will be presentettyhere in a fort- night by James E. Kenny Produc- tions. In the cast are Jack Roseleigh, Pauline MacLean, Eve Casanova, Tom Reynolds, Maud Durand, Joseph Gran- “Honeymooning on High” by Hatch- er Hughes, with: Reginald Sheffield, Carol Humphreys, J. C. Nugent and Lorin Raker in the cast, will be pro- duced here in two weeks by Max Brown. Following the ‘opening tonight of “Tnheritors” by Susan Glaspell, at the 14th Street Theatre, the Civie Reper- tory Players will present “Cradle Song* on Tuesday, Wednesday, Fri- day nights and at a special matinee Friday afternoon; “Master Builder” Thursday night and “Three Sisters” at the Saturday matinee. “Inheritors,” will be repeated Wednesday aftertoon and Saturday night. Zoe Akins’ new play will be ushered in at the Moroseo Theatre tonight. Helen Ware, David Hawthorne, Miri- am Hopkins, Roberta Beatty and Ull- rich Haupt head the cast. “Daisy Mayme,” the George Kelly comedy, will begin a week’s engage- ment at the Bronx Opera House to- night. The cast includes Jessie Bus- ley, Carlton Brickert, Alma Kruger, Josephine Hull, Madge Evans, Frank Rowan, Nadea Hall and Roy Fant. Mary Nash in “Birds of Passage,” will play the Bronx Opera the week of March 14. “Loud Speaker,” the New Play- wrights Theatre first production will be played at the 52nd Street Theatre tonight and tomorrow night. “Earth” opens Wednesday night and will con- tinue until March 14th, when the Law- son play returns. Eric Titus, tenor, has been added to the cast of “Gay Paree’ at the Wih- ter Garden. VAUDEVILLE THEATRES MOSS’ BROADWAY Frank and Milton Britton’s Band with Roy Loomis; Irving Newhoff and Dode Phelps; Joe Mack and Gail Rossiter in “A Modern Occurence,” Four Bell Boys. PALACE Elliott Dexter and Co., in “Gentle- men Prefer,.. .2” by Clyde North; Eva Puck and Sam White; Jack Smith; Ben Bernie and his Orchestra; Deno and Rochelle, with Pepino and Dilworth and the Concert Quartette; Jean La Grosse, Fred Allen and Bert Yorke; Mr. Fink and Mr. Smith; Ed and Jennie Rooney. HIPPODROME “Radiana,” presented by Prof. J. Popje of Holland; Marguerite and Frank Gill; Jean Granese, assisted by Charles Granese and Tito and Le roe Dotson Buzzington’s Rube and, BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS ——— TIE by, Tom Burroughs and Wyrley Birch. Will have a leading role in “Inhert- tors,” the new Susan Glaspell play, ° opening at the 14th Street Theatre tonight. The film feature at Moss’ Broad- way this week is “Love’s Greatest Mistake”; adapted from the story of Frederic Arnold Kummer. Evelyn Brent, William Powell and Josephine Dunn have important roles. The Capitol Theatre is showing this week the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, “The Taxi Dancer,” pic- turization of Robert Terry Shannon’s novel of the same name. The players include: Joan Crawford; Owen Moore, Rockliffe Fellowes, Mare MacDermott, Douglas Gilmore, Gertrude Astor, Bert Roach, Claire McDowell and William Orlamond, “Rubber Tires” is the film attrac- tion at the Hippodrome this week, fea- turing Bessie Love and Harrison Ford. The cast also includes May Robson, Erwin Connelly, Junior Coghlan, John Patrick and Clarence Burton. Douglas McLean is being starred in “Let It Rain,” at the Paramount The- atre. He is supported by Shirley Mason. As a part of the stage pro- gram which the Paramount is fea- turing this week, Gertrude Ederle, conqueror of the channel, assisted by Helen Wainwright and Aileen Riggin, | swimming stars,, will appear in a huge glass tank. “Metropolis,” the spectacular UFA production which has been in the hands of the Paramount organization in this country for about a year, is now at the Rialto Theatre. The picture was directed by Fritz Lang, maker of “Siegfried,” and has a German cast. Charlie Chaplin in “Pay Day,” and “The New Enchantment” are the fea- tures at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse this week. Gilda Gray has signed a contract with Samuel Goldwyn to make one |picture each year for five years. Gil | Boag, Miss Gray’s husband and man- ager, is completing negotiations for the film rights to “Marie Odile,” Ed- | ward Knoblock’s play. new PLAYWRIGHTS theatre 52d St. Thea., 306 W. 524. Columbus’ 7393 By J “We are sorry that in our local L 0 U D S P E A K E Riteward! PLYMOUTH Thea. Went 45th st. Mon,, Tues., Wed., Prin Mats, Thurs, & Sat., Pits WINTHROP AMES’ Gihert a T OF PEN- guutvee,. H PIRATES zance ‘Thursday Evenings Only, “lolanthe’ Se mt EARL CARROLL 2, Thea., 7th Ave..& 50th St. Earl Carroll srats” thus a sont 2 WHAT PRICE GLORY Mats. (exc. Sat.) 50e-$1. Eves. 50c-$2 | BROTHERS RANAMAZGY Week Mar, 14—Brothers Karamazo : GUILD EM naires Bt HE THE SILVER CORD Week March 14—The Silver Cord John Golden ‘rh.,68, F.0f B'y (Circle . ‘Mts. Thu, & Sat.| 5678, Vanities : Sam. THEA. West 42: H. HARRIS twice Datiy, 2:30 5.99 | Drydook 7516. | W. 42 St. Evs. 8:30. WALLACK'’S mats, Wea, & ‘Sat Every Eve. (Except What Anne Brought Home Neighborhood Playhouse Mon), Mat,_Sat. A New Comedy Drama A. H. Woods presents CRIME with James Rennie & Chester Morris, seri Cor. 6 Av. Civie Repertory $2i° Wwarkitts t18% EVA LE GALLIENNE Tonight. ..occrecs es “CRADLE SONG" Sat. Mat, “titi” MASTER BUILDER Saturday 'Night...."THREE SISTERS” SOLAESAY, TURD: <1 ERNE ROTRRS The LADDER Now in its Sth MON’ WALDORF, 50th Bt Bast Bway. Mats. WED.’ and SA’. “4 149th KE. of ee ELTINGE Bronx Opera House Pop. Prices, Mat. Wed. & Sat. Rosalie Stewart presents yf “DAISY MAYME”! Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. | , mindedness and aggressiveness of the world’s leading business ¢ Another keen idea, equally bril- liant, is for the woolen men to spend pereiod ve Bars is now known as an “educatiot campaign through advertising to make consumers oar conscious, On the other hand the Cotton Textile Institute is instituting 4 counter-blast in the newspapers over-equipped, This bright idea. em- and magazines to prove that cotton SE ee nen SE \ fying to the rayon interests, who are booming production and oosting: profits to a fare-you-well, Bronx I, L. D.—March 7, Thg final meeting before the bazaar of the International Labor Defense will be held by’ the Bronx English Branch, Monday, March 7, at 8:30 p. m., at 1347 Boston Road. Bring ai iy donations and contributions for the ‘i bracing the destruction of Rich is undeniably the best ‘cloth of gar- Property, aptly illustrates tre kaén- ments. All of which is qui Ah SN dlee Sa) We BA 4 5 ——