The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 8, 1927, Page 1

| Ruthenberg Memorial Meeting, Wednesday, March _ PROMINENT SPEAKERS \ ONES a : i | decide the | j | “CHAMPION OF UNORGANIZED,” SAYS | T.ULE,L OF CHARLES E, RUTHENBERG The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized. For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week. p aes ices tts ecteonl ibe astnadde ESET Fs Vol. IV. No. 46. CURRENT EVENTS | By T. J, O'W LAHERTY. HIS day is set aside by the Com- munist International to stress the importance of women in the class struggle. We do not waste our time discussing whether monogamy is de- sirable, whether a husband should padlock his pockets on pay day, or between the choice of a professional career and a happy home with chil- dren should’ keep a bulldog with a taste for male blood so that she may momentous question in peace, We are now concerned with the working class woman, with the slaves of the factory and the kitch- ea. The great majority of women would not recognize an inferiority | met him on the} complex if they street; nevertheless they are treated as inferiors for the same reason that the Chinese were subjected to abuse and humiliation until they exchanged their pigtails for bayonets and turned their pruning hooks into swords, * * * Women workers must organize. Millions of them participate in in- dustry. With the development. of machinery they left the home and entered the factory. Today there are few industries that women do not participate in. Of the millions of ‘women employed in industry compar- atively. few are organized. They are at the mercy of'the employers who babble of the glories of womanhood and the dangers of radicslism. Wo- men workers should have their fill} of mush by now, tho the workers, male and female, are gluttons for punishment. * * * Today, in every country where there is a section of the Communist whether a young woman vacillating | SUBSCRIPTION RATES { Intbrnational, speeches will be deliv- ered, leaflets will be distributed and the importance ‘of organizing the better half of the army of labor will be stressed. Women are the chief sufferers in strikes and lock-outs, They have to face the hard-boiled butcher and the proverbially greedy landlord. The thought of children crying for food is not pleasant. The husband is in the thick of the strug- gle and understands the why and the| wherefore of the strike. The women do not, * * * They read in the capitalist press that the strike is due to the machin- ations of “reds” or to “walking dele- gates.” The latter, however, do not do much walking nowadays. They park themselves in the old arm-chair and move only to their meals, to the cashier’s window or to bed. The old fossilized trade union leaders are no longer interested in organizing any- body. Because the wives of strikers do not always understand the mean- ing of a strike, they are oftentimes used by the employers to weaken the morale of the strikers. es ie Women have played an important role in past revolutionary struggles. In the Russian revolution thousands of them gave their lives on the bat- tlefields fighting side by side with the men. other struggle great and small where Jabor was pitted against the ruling classes. During the British general strike and the long drawn out miners’ strike their services were invaluable. The same can be said of Passaic. It is, therefore, the duty 6f the revolu- tionary workers to organize the wo- men workers politically and indus- trially side by side with the men in trade unions and in working class political parties. The task is a big one. It must be accomplished. In its accomplishment the members of (Continued on Page Four) The same is true of every! NEW YORK’S LABOR DAILY THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST BODIES SEND SYMPATHY TO WORKERS PARTY Ruthenberg’s Death Brings Grief to Many Labor Organizations Here and Abroad Cablegrams and telegrams from the Communist International, the Red International of Labor Unions, the Communist Party of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, the Young Communist In- ternational, and many other labor bodies, both in*America and |abroad, have been received at the headquarters of the Workers | (Communist) Party. Ruthenberg was one of the chief founders of the party and was its general secretary at the time of his death. Political Committee Sends Ashes. Among the cablegrams is a request from the Gentral Commit- | tee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that the ashes of Comrade Ruthenberg be sent to Moscow, to be buried in the Red Square, beneath the wall of the Kremlin, where lie those of other heroes of the Commun-{ “agg oe ist revolution. The Political} Committee of the wove, Huge Crowds at (Communist) Party has acced-! ed to this request, and after) suitable processions and mass| meetings Ruthenberg’s ashes! will be sent to the free soil of the first Workers’ Republic. Funeral for Some of the messages received | at party headquarters have al-| ready been published in the Par-! ty press, others follow below: Comintern Feels Loss. “The Executive Committee of the Communist International expresses | its profound sorrow in the death of | Comrade Ruthenberg, member of its presidium. We express our deepest sympathy to the Workers (Commun- | ist) Party of America in the loss of Ruthenberg New York Guard of Honor to Include Union Leaders CHICAGO, March 7, — Great crowds of mourning workers assem- bled this morning to follow the hody of their Comrade, C. E. Ruthenberg, to the crematorium. They met in |its general secretary and leader. Our | Ashland Auditorium, where for the | mutual bereavement is a great loss | last two days the body of Ruthen- jespecially to the working class of | berg lay under its canopy of black | America. At no time since Comrade | and red, where yesterday thousands | | Ruthenberg raised the Red Flag} against the imperialist war and led the way to the formation of the Work- | ers (Communist) Party has his lead- ership been more needed than today. | R. LL. U, Calls Him Staunch. “The Executive Bureau of the R.| 1. L, U. expresses dee» sympathy with all members of the We xers Party and | revolutionary workers of the United | States in the loss of Comrade Ruth- | enberg, one of the staunchest fighters against imperialism and the capitalist system of wage slavery. Y. C. I. Cables Regrets. “We express deepest regret ovet the death of Comrade Ruthenberg, one of the founders and outstanding | leaders of the party, and sympathy to whole party. We call upon all Com- munists to close their ranks for strug- gle against capitalism. Authorizing league to provide wreath.—PRESI- DIUM, YOUNG COMMUNIST IN- TERNATIONAL. Regrets From All. Messages of consolation. and prom- ises to support the Party more ener- getically than ever during the present period when it is deprived of its great leader come to Party Headquarters also from the following: | Workers Party, Young Workers, | Finnish Workers Club, and the staffs | of the Toveri and the Toveritar, all) of Astoria; The South Slavic Bureau of the Workers Party, through its secretary, Chas. Novak; The Workers Party PolisheBureau, through its sec- retary B. K. Gebert; a mass meeting of the Minneapolis membership, and another from the Minneapolis Central Nucleus, Workers Party, also the La- bor Lyceum Nugleus, Minneapolis; Sub-section 1-A-6, and the Ukrainian Bureau, all of New York City; the District. Executive Committee of Dis- (Continued on Page Two} Pointing out Ruthenberg’s twenty- year struggle in the cause of the. working class, the Trade Union Edu- cational League, of which William Z. Foster is secretary-treasurer, ex- presses its grief on the death of “America’s revolutionary leader. The olution adopted by the T. U. E. L. on| Ruthenberg’s death is reprinted in 3 March 2 Comrade Charles E. Ruth! berg, general secretary of the Work (Communist) Party, died from “pesto, developing out of an operation for appendicitis. This sad news comes as a profound shock ‘to all who knew Comrade Ruthen- berg. His death brings a great losa to the vin left wing in the Ameri- can labor movement. Comrade Ruthenberg has been a/formation of the fighter in the workers’ cause for a full twenty years. For ten years he was one of the leaders in the Social- ist Party, He fought against the opportunists and sought to make that organization the expression of the revolutionary workers of this country. For several years he was secretary of the Cleveland organiza- tion of the Socialist Party. Several times he was a candidate for Mayor of Cleveland. He was also a candi- date for Governor of Ohio, He be- came a nationally known figure in the Socialist Party. \ When the war broke out Comrade Ruthenberg expressed his opposition For this he year. He took an (Continued on Page Two) surged into the hall, and other thou- sands were denied the right to enter merely because it was filled to over- flowing, and the police had closed the doors. They followed sadly the still form of their great leader thru Chicago streets, from the auditorium to the Chapel of Graceland Cemetary. That hall too was unable to hold the. crowds, tho they.svere smaller |today, because it was Monday, and ithe Workers Party is made up of | workers, with duties to their wives and children—work has to go on whoever dies. Filled With Flowers. Graceland Chapel was half filled with floral offerings sent by those who tried, with flowers and wreaths, to convey a part of their admiration for the life of this man they were burying today. As the coffin was lowered into the crematorium, the comrades present sang “The International”, Many of the speakers at yester- day’s meeting will go on to New York, for the huge mass meeting planned there. The members of the Central Execu- tive Committee, including W. W. Weinstone and C. E. Krumbein of |New Yor*, are conveying the ashes of Comrade Ruthenberg. A special guard of honor will meet the train. This guard of honor will include prominent trade unionists such as Ben Gold, Sam Liebowitz, Aaron Gross, Chas, Zimmerman, Julius Boruchovitz, Rose Wortis, Philip Aronberg and others, mem- bers of the District Executive Com- mittee, Bureau members of the Young Workers League, editors of party papers and committees of the Language Bureaus. Constant Guard. The guard of honor will take charge of the remains of our dead leader until ‘they go on to Moscow to be placed beneath the Kremlin Wall: Unable to obtain Madison Square Garden for that day, memorial meet- ings are being arranged for tomor- row night at 8:00 o'clock at Carnegie Hall and Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. Twenty thousand workers last heard Ruthenberg in New York at a Lenin Memorial meet- ing in Madison Square Garden on January 22nd. It is expected that many thousands will be unable to gain admittance to the meetings al- ready scheduled for Wednesday night to honor his memory. Several addi- tional halls are therefore being held in reserve, Send Flowers Early. Many labor and fraternal organi- zations are sending floral tributes to Carnegie Hall. Sections desiring to send wreaths should see that reach the hall before 6:00 o'clock. Speakers at these include William Z. Foster, Jay e, (Continued on Page Two) NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1927 Furriers Scoff At Schachtman “Dime Store” | Joint Nee cots Rules | | For Building Union “The 10 Cent Store,” is the name given by the fur workers to the reg- istration headquarters which were opened up yesterday by the Long Is- | land officials of the International Fur | | Workers’ Union. In an appeal issued by the Inter- |national, workers are urged to “re- |pudiate the Communist-led Joint Board” by registerfng and paying ten} cents a week for all dues in arrears. * Workers See Trick. But you can’t fool the workers. “Yea, pay ’em ten cents now,” said one union merhber, “then as soon as they have you on the list, up go the dues to fifty cents or more. Let them keep their ten cent union. We know who is looking after our interests— and it’s not that bunch of fakirs.” Observers passing the “ten cent headquarters” late yesterday after-| noon, noticed police, detectives, mem- | bers of the bomb squad and members of the industrial squad, But fur work- | jers? Just one lone fool of the Inter- national, who was supposed to act as a puller-in, but who yelled for pro- tection if he saw a-fur worker walk- ing on the other sidé of the street. Join: Board. Warns. In a leaflet being distributed to the | fur workers today, the Joint Board shows that it is awake to the Interna- tional’s union-smashing designs, and warns the workers that President} Cizer Schachtman and his associates are going to try to force the fur work- ers to register just as Morris Sigman} tried in the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union, The International officials are re-| lying on gangsters to carry ouf their | plans, says the Joint Board; but every | fur worker will be protected against gangsters now just as they were pro- | tected during the strike. | How to Beat Oizer. Then follows a set of {Instructions | to Pur Workers." ; 1.—Don’t carry on any discussions | culties. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WO PUBISHING CO., 33 First. Street, New York, N. Report eae, Lunacharsky Defends | Charlie «Chaplin From Hypocritical Attacks MOSCOW, March 7.—Declaring Charlie Chaplin to be a great ar- tist Who should not be bound “by bourgeois moral . Lunacharsky, com- missar of education, today made a \vehement protest against criticism of Chaplin for his marital diffi- LONDON, March 7.—General Lunacharsky, declares the pre- sent treatment of Chaplin is simi- -lar to the treatment Maxim Gorky -received when he visited New York with an un-registered wife and was boycotted. He declares Chaplin should have the right to manage his home affairs with out inter- ference from the public, which he says should be grateful to him. Armed Gangster Slashes Dress Under the agreement regardin in the Chinese. The only rights which the Bri SHANGHAI, March 7.—The Chang Chung Chang full of hop and optimism boasted that he was going to vanquish the Nationalis and drive “Bolshevism” out of China. | He declared that with his allies he jcould throw a million soldiers into |the field. But his allies are either |man are the most Picket Fourteen Workers Arrested; Four Get Aail Term Nathan Berman, member of dress- makers’ Local 22, was attacked and severely Monday morning as he was picketing | the Ben Gershel avenue. . ; A gangster who is now allied with the| Shanghai by rail. If the report of the slashed with knives early Shop, 498 Seventh A. Babitz, a professional International, was arrested and 2,500 bail in Jefferson Market Court: Berman was attacked as he was walking on the picket line, and had his coat literally slashed to pieces. He received two long gashes about the body and was also cut on the face and hands. H placed under the care of a physician, The beating up and injuries of Ber- rious inflicted by Sigman’s gangsters since the brutal attack upon Joseph Di. Mola, an Ital- ian cloakmaker, on Jandary 3, which | deserting to the Nationalists, wear- jing out their feet in a mad dash to protect their rear from southern bayo- |nets or else writing poetry. The lat- |ter is said to be the occupation of | Wu Pei Fu, who has been purchased by foreign imperialist governors of- tener than Madame Goddam enter- tained British diplomats in the “Shanghai Gesture.” Shanghai Is Willing. | Soochow is only 54 miles west of }capture of this city by the National- charged with the crime and held under| ists is authentic Shanghai will fall inte the arms of the revolutionary troops without a struggle. The Shang- hai Central Labor Union is arrang- ing for a general strike as soon as the Nationalist armies enter the city. The plans are said to include the arming of the workers. The re- cent general strike was a tremendous success in the opinion of Shanghai la- bor leaders who declare that it was a dress rehearsal for the next one. Fully 300,000 workers quit . and {Showed perfect “discipline in thé face} FINAL CITY EDITION RKER Price 3 Cents Nationalists | TakeSoochow,China Imperialists Continue to Land Troops; British Naval Guns Trained On City BULLETIN. Chang Tsung-Chang disarmed one thousand of his followers, who threatened to go over to the Cantonese side, it was learned at the foreign office tonight. the Kiukiang concession, Great Britain relinquishes all claim to representation in the municipal council of Shanghai, and on March 15, all authority in that city will be vested This includes policing. h retain, according to the foreign office, are to private leases on buildings on the Bund. * * * city of Soochow has fallen to the Nationalist armies according to reports, and Chang Chung Chang, the northern general who has supplanted Sun Chuan Fang, the defeated “defender” of Shanghai, is said to be contemplating flight to his native haunts in the north. Marines’ Occupy Another Town Of Sacasa’s Steadily Encroaching On Nicaraguan Territory WASHINGTON, March 7.—Admi- ral Latimer has dispatched a force of 140 marines to police Matagalpa, one of the largest cities, the state department announced today. The marine force, under Major Bartlett, consisted of one rifle com- pany, one machine gun, platoon, and one 37 mm. gun. Matagalpa was captured about a month and a half ago by the con- stitutionalist or liberal army support- ing Juan Sacasa, the legal president of the country. The policy of the United States is to take over as “neu- tral territory’) every important “sec- nearly cost him his life. of the reign of terror that was in-|tion captured from the conservative they | shevize” the country. or quarrels in the shops. 2.—Don’t- make any stoppages. | Bring your complaints to the office of the Joint Board. 3.—Don’t register with the Long Island 10 cent store union. 4.—Defend yourselves against the Hong Island sluggers whenever they attack you. 5.—Don’t take any orders from the Long Island henchmen, Ignore them. An unusually strong picket line at| augurated by the reactionary defense | the shop of Millare and Mandell at|commissioner under the direction of | forces of the American supported Adolfo Diaz. Slave Treaty In Mail, 213 West 35th street yesterday began the foreign imperialist powers. the second week of picketing under the Joint Picket Committee formed by the furriers and cloakmakers. Po- lice arrested fourteen pickets after seabs had gone up to the shops. Annetta Banker, Ben Greenberg, Mae Krenich, Marie Maninelli and Marie Feingold were sentenced to $10 fine Don’t go to their meetings. or a day in jail and elected to serve 6.—Come to Joint Board shop meet- ings. promptly. 7.—If there is a Long Island pro- voeateur in your shop, don’t permit him to provoke you. There must be order in the shop while you work. &8.—All fur workers should pay their dues to the Joint Board, and also the special tax of $25 voted at last week’s local meetings. Already a number of union members who have jobs have paid the special tax in full, and in this concrete way pledged their support to the Joint Board in this crucial fight. Read The Daily Worker Every Day CHILE DICTATOR CONTINUES HIS RED BAITING SANTIAGO, Chile, March 7.—The dictatorship of the Ibanez regime in Chile continues its unconstitutional and terroristic campaign. Arrests and deportations of liberals and Com- munists are the order of the day. Congressional immunity is being dis- regarded and no attempt is made to defend this course except that through the declaration that “urgent neces- bis must be met by extraordinary ac- One of the most high handed acts was the deportation of Felipe Urzua, president of the court of appeals, he being charged with “corruption and obstruction of justice.” Ibanez says that the country is seething with Communism and that an attempt was being made to “bol- Closer investi- gation will prove him to be an agent of imperialism and that he is in their pay to rivet Chile closer to the ex- ploitation interest. AT 8:00 P. M. SHARP the day. They were released late on Monday. All others were dismissed in Jefferson Market Court. Wortuns Case Postponed. The case of Aaron Wortuns, of the Charles Meisel shop, who was at- tacked and beaten up by gangsters in front. of his shop on February 23 and was framed up and arrested on the charge of assaulting one Morris Katz in the Bronx on February 24, was postponed until March 11. At the time he is charged with having at- tacked Katz, Wortuns was in bed re-| covering from the assault made upon him by gangsters. | Local 9 Meeting. A membership meeting of finishers’ Local 9 was announced today for Thursday evening, 7:30 in Stuyvesant Casino. Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint Board, will be the principal speaker. Rights Choose Officers. It was announced by the right wing (Continued on Page Three) Political Schools For Chinese Women An Interview With HANKOW, January 26 (by mail in Hankow, delegation after delegati: they could assist the work of the Kuomintang and also help their sisters in the task of developing a New Womanhood in China that should be cog- nizant of the new temper of the times, politically conscious and free. | “They were eager but unprepared so I decided to establish a school for! women, to teach them Kuomintang principles and help them to be useful) in the field of women’s participation in the revolution.” } Training Women Organizers. | Such, it is explained by Mme. Sun Yat-sen, is Political School for Women which | open in Hankow next month for its first semester. “For our first term,” she says, “it is probable most of our students will be young women from Hupeh and neighboring provinces. But the even- tual purpose is to have girls from every part of the country. We wish to develop individuals who can be sent back into their home provinces as | Japanese Land Troops. New hope for a speedy ending of Five hundred Japanese blue jackets | the warfare was seen in the an- have landed here and the Mikado gov-| nouncement that American Minister ernment sent five hundred more ma-| Eberhardt has formally been com- |rines to Shanghai harbor. The blue | ™issioned by the state department to | jackets are billeted in the Japanese |egotiate peace terms with General |cotton mills. Japan has nine warships | Moncado, liberal leader. at anchor in the Yangtse River with| Officials announced that the Diaz 3,0000 men available for duty. | treaty, proposing an American pro- “The Koumintang of Ningpo has |tectorate over Nicaragua, is in the arranged for a gigantic anti-imperi-| mails and has not reached the de- alist demonstration here. A British | partment. warship was dispatehed to Ningpo. Posters denouncing foreign imperial- ism. were tacked up all over the city and handbills branding the British, |Americans, Japanese, French and Italian governments as the enemies of the Chinese were distributed. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Important Notice Poor Housing Condition Fey | Kills Two Workers Traction Workers of the Archilles Pinhero, twenty-four, and Antonar Vangera, thirty-five, occu- pants of adjoining room in a dodging {house at No. 20 Union street, Brook- | lyn. were found dead in bed yester- day. Gas was flowing from a jet in Pinhero’s room. The deaths were {caused by gas poisoning, due to a | leakage in the gas pipe, according |to statements by the police. LR. T. B.M.T. All Workers 4nterested in the Transit Question. Who Handles New York’s-Enor- mous Traffic? 40,000 TRANSPORTATION WORKERS! How Are They Paid? How Many Hours Per Day Do They Work? Why Do Accidents Happen? What Is the Transportation Madame Sun Yat-Sen 1): “During the first fortnight I was lon of Women came to me asking how Brotherhood? What Caused the Strike Last Summer? Can the Traction Workers Or- ganize? HOW? Get the FACTS of one of New York’s Largest and Most Im- || portant Industries in this valu- | able series of articles beginning WEDNESDAY, MARCH9 First Article, “Organize the Traction Workers,” by Robert Mitchell. the genesis of the new | he has organized. It is scheduled to| evangelists of the new political faith. To Get Political Education. “In brief, we propose to give women political training, provide them with a clear understanding of the revolu- tion and a knowledge of the general (Continued on Page Two) th at Carnegie Hall 57TH STREET AND 7TH AVENUE p