The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 11, 1927, Page 2

\ Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1927: AGES FROM WORKERS GERMANY AND YOUTH OF SOVIET UNION |xial meeting will be held in commem- Kollontay Raps ™ y Raps" a | @ 0 arn | (Continued from Page One) ) | the local organization of the Koumin- | | tang. | Rest of Speech. | out ot In addition to what was published in yesterday's issue of the DAILY] | WORKER, the rest of Jay Love-| |stone’s speech was as follows: “On| 7 4 his death bed Ruthenberg said to me,| Mexicans Discover New Arms |is deat bed Ruthenbers said to me,| H he breathed his last. and died,” | Smuggling From U. 8. “As I sat by his dead body I thot} retort of China where the nationalist revo-) MEXICO CITY, March 10-—Alex-|lutionary struggle is now taking} andra Kollontay, ambassador here of | place, of India where the oppressed | ihe Union of Socialist Soviet Repub-/| natives are working for their free-| lies, has added her voice to the denials | dom, of Russia where the workers | of Mexican government officials who| have already been victorious and of all repudiate the story started by the| America, where we are fighting an state department of the United States | that “the Bolsheviki are back of the} anti-American feeling in Latin Amer-/} ica. Comrade Kollontay was able to show that she did not have the huge staff of propagandists, working in her le- gation, which all good anti-Bolshevists ageribe to the U. S. R. R. foreign le- gations. Small Staff. “I have five employes here,” she as- serted, “my private eretary, one secretary, two typists and an office man who devotes his time to opening | the legation door and cutting clippings from trade reports.” Charges that the legation had tried to introduce Soviet propaganda into Nicaragua we: d humorously by the woman diplomat. “T repeat that we diplomats are for- bidden to take part in anything but real diplomatic work, for we are try- | ing to establish diplomatic relations | with all countries, Would Trade With U. 8. “So far as the United States is con- | cerned, what the Soviet desires is the development of relations, Russia is a | great market for machinery and the | United States, an industrial nation, | can supply it. The United States} ranks first in sales to Russia, Ger- many second and England third.” Friendship Grows. The general feeling here against the arguments of Wall Stret imperial- ism that Mexico is following the diplo- i macy of the Soviet Union makes for | friendship between Latin America and | U. S. R. R., rather than the re- verse, as was evidently intended in| Washington. Echoes of the clerical revolt con-| tinue. 7 st Capture Cartridges. Customs officials at Ciudad Juarez have captured a considerable amount of ammunition smuggled from the United States for Mexican rebels, it is reported here, The ammunition s found hidden in Pullman cars and “nilroad employes have been arrested. Two rebels are reported to have state. A federal victory wh orfe rebet dead is reported from the Durango | mountains. The priests of Durango state have been ordered to concentrate in Duran- | by his wrists, but nothing could take | Markoff. go City, it is reported here. Milwaukee Memorial Sunday. The Workers (Communist) Party uphill struggle. Worked For A Labor Party. “Ruthenberg gave his all for the) founding of our party. No man has| done more to enhance the formation | of a labor party than he hes, | “He was a Leninist, a realist in the | true Bolshevist sense of the word. | “Comrade Ruthenberg is to me the | symbol of the better day that is to come as the workers follow in his footsteps. “The leadership that he gave us will be an inspiration for the victory | of the American proletariat. | Levestone ended his «speech by turning to the ashes and saying: “We| will fight on until we score a victory for what you gave your life.” Present At Death, Max Bedacht, the next speaker, | was introduced as one who was also} present when Ruthenberg died. He} spoke in part, as follows: | “ «At no time,’ said the telegram | we have received from the Commu-| nist International, ‘since Comrade Ruthenberg raised the banner against war in 1917 was he more} needed than today.’ | “In 1917 we were told that the world was going to be made safe for| democracy, but Comrade Ruthenberg| knew that it was a lie. Today, while} |we are assembled here for our fare-|at the Elmwood Musie Hall, Max) | well to Comrade Ruthenberg we see | Bedacht and Herbert. Benjamin will | |the fruits of the struggle for demo-|8Pe2k, also a very good musical pro- | @ | cracy, | Mentions Nicaragua. | “In Nicaragua without your consent | your brothers and your sons are again sent to make the world safe| for demoeracy and to fight for self-| determination, | “Comrade Ruthenberg, a clear lead- er and Marxist, saw thru the lies in| 917, i “Today when we again face a situ-| ation very’ much the same we have| lost his counsel.. However, on what} he has left us, we must follow, we must heed his advice.” “Needed Today.” “When the Communist Interna-| needed than today they mean that/ loyalty \to the working class was | never more necessary than now. “Comrade Ruthenberg spent years behind prison bars, he was strung up| him away from the working class. | He was sent from one jail to another | but that did not stop his fighting | {gr the workers’ interests. |E. Ruthenberg, Tuesday, March 15, \7 p. m,, in New Italian Hall, 206) | Oliver Street, Luzerne, Pa, | {this meeting as a very appropriate OF MEXICO, CANADA, AND “Tt is no accident that when he died that his last words should be: ‘Build the party,” | * J . | Foster Speake in Gary. © The Ruthenberg Memorial meet-| in Gary, Ind., will be held Satur- y, March 12. William Z, Foster wil} be the speaker. | * * * i St. Louis Meeting March 12. | The Ruthenberg Memorial meeting | will be held at the Labor Lyceum, St. Louis, Mo. on March 12 in the evening. | | Memorial at Luzerne, Pa. | LUZERNE, Pa.—A mass memo-) oration of the death of Comrade C, All workers are invited to attend program has been arranged for the oceasion, There will be a speaker from New York, additional to the local speakers, also speakers in Croation, Italian, Admission free. * * Meetings in Connecticut. In Connecticut, meetings will be held in | New Haven, Saturday, March 12, Speaker H. M. Wicks. | Hartford, Sunday, March 13. Speaker: M. Markoff. Bridgeport, Sunday afternoon, March 13. Speaker M. Markoff. | Stamford, Sunday evening, March 13. Speaker M. Markoff. The Young Workers League speak- | ers at these meetings will be P.. Hor-| witz at New Haven, Bridgeport and | Hartford; and Jack Rosen at Stam- ford. s * Meetings in Buffalo District. The following Ruthenberg Memorial meetings have been arranged in Dis- trict Four, the Buffalo, N. Y., district. Buffalo, N. Y., March 18th, 8 P. M.,/| * Tam, Rochester, N. Y., Friday, March 11, Utica, N. Y., March 14th. | Schenectady, N. Y., March 15th, | CAMPAIGN TIME IN MEXICO! American Economic Life By WALLPROL. CAPELLINI AIDS |Big Mines Gaining In Their Share of Photograph of General Alvaro Obregon (right), former presé dent of Mexico, who has just returned from a visit to the United States, talking with President Calles at a political meeting in th Chapultapec Palace—the White House of Mexico, in Mexico City, Mexico's presidential campaign has begun. . German Minister Insists Foreign Troops Will Be Asked to Quit Rhineland Geneva, March 10.—‘Germany will demand evacuation of the oc- cupational forces from the Rhine- | land, when she is confident that article 431 of the Versailles treaty, relating to German disarmament, has been fulfilled”, declared Herr Stresemann, German foreign min- ister, in a statement to the press here today, “I am confident that we will PLAGUE FEARED AMONG. REFUGEES OF JAPAN QUAKE Situation Acute; Trains Running Badly TOKIO, March 10.—The situation in the areas devastated ‘by the recent | earthquakes and subsequent fires Albany, N. Y., Mareh 16th, Sons of Italy Hall, 120 Madison Ave. i Troy, N. Y., March 17th Binghamton, N. Y., March 18th. Jamestown, N. Y., March 19th. | Ithaca, N. Y., March 19th. | Niagara Falls, N. Y., Match 20th, | Comrade Herbert Benjamin, Dis- trict Organizer of District Four, will) speak at all of the above meetings. * * * Meetings in New Jersey. Paterson, Thursday, March 10, 7:30 p. m. Carpenters’ Hall, Van Houten) en killed during a battle in Tabasco | tional says that he was never more|St. John J. Ballam and others. Passaic, Sunday, March 13, Work- | ers’ Home, 27 Dayton Ave. Bertram | D. Wolfe and others. Musical pro- gram. Newark, Friday, March 18. Montgomery Hall. * * * Many More Meetings The memorial meeting in Boston A. was still extremely acute today. The death list is now stated as 5,000. eae print aes poser gg a ess |thracite feel that the codfish aris-| Annual Production The biggest is the fittest to sur- vive, and therefore the best. This seems to bé the explanation for Bu- reau of Mines figures on the rrowth OF COAL DIGGERS of big mines contrasted wit — cline of small ones. Tells "Em to Dig Up for), “iru "enctner batch of Merchants |your head, For example | more than 200,000 tons ar (Special to The DAILY WORKER) | ity produced 40 per cent WILKES-BARRE, Pa., March 10,/@ge in 1905, and 54 pe —Co-operation between the working| Mines in the 100,00t man and the business man was the|class dropped 5 per cent sweet song piped by President Rin- | 000-100,000 ton class, 6 aldo Capellini Wednesday evening at|so forth, Only the big a meeting of Wyoming Valley retail| in percentage of total p merchants. The occasion of the love; Illinois has carried t feast was the effort of the distressed ment to its highest™pitc merchants to get back some of the|per cent of total prodt money on bills arising from the|from the big pits, Hug: 1925-26 strike, ‘ average tonnage of\ 500} Pay When They Can. produced 60 per cent of i mn the an-| coal. Mine mechanizatioy Coal diggers up and down the an. ieney “hayek been cae apex in Illinois. | toeracy of the villages has minted plenty of money out of their needs. Some of them consequently have paid when they could on strike debts and told the storekeepers to chalk up the rest against the time when the bosses give the miners a raise—if ever, oy The merchants appealed to the||| president of District 1, and he ran|{j to the rescue although he has been|]}} too busy in the past months to hear | the legitimate grievances of miners themselves who have had wage cuts imposed on them without protest by! the district. i Delaware and Hudson, after being! idle more than a week, has opened | again, sending about 22,000 men} back into the pits. D,. & H. has been operating very irregularly recently and may shut down again, Production Falling Off. | For Every | Irish Rebel | | AND A BOOKLET TO BE) READ BY EVERY WORKER f With transportation still badly} withdrawal Of the army 4f, eceupe- crippled the task of getting sup-| pre the: Gerinan minister oi | plies to the affected areas is sur-| ~ «pep es a | rounded with many difficulties. | snes ien pena: eee eee rg { The menace of starvation is still renimeet wistdien one nabh rerscaba amy prevalent. peace guarantees have been given, | Fear Epidemics. The next danger, most feared, is our country is still occupied by a | that plague will break out in the! : | foreign force of 75,000 men. groups of homeless refugees, neces-| | { | apn grag If Raise Lusitania, sarily her ogether in temporary | | Ba ju Pans and without’ much resis. | Germans Expect ‘Proof | tance to disease because of the hard-' Ship Carried Amunition | ships they undergo. The entire nation is rallying to the} aid of the survivors, of the catas- | BERLIN, March 10.—If efforts to| si |raise the Lusitania, the British liner trophe. Money, food, clothing and torpedoed by a German submarine) medical supplies have been concen- in 1915, are successful, Germany will | trated at various points and are likely demand that German experts | awaiting transportation mediums. ay adntitted to investigate the real Relief Arriving. ‘cause for the sudden sinking of the The Sanin railroad has been re- ship. |four, of them had been shot were held | |not serious. of Milwaukee has arranged a Ruth- enberg Memorial meeting for Sunday March 14, at yi Ri, Hall, 802 Gitlow Speaks. r x Benjamin Gitlow, the next speaker in Miller was presenfed as one who had served eee a Ope epee cel berg. PE ye yA “Comrade Ruthenberg is dead,” said Gitlow. “We mourn the loss of our comrade who was a great leader of the working class, who came into prominence in the working class Ready Now! G. E. RUTHENBERG MEMORIAL OST CARDS age to do so, “He is one of those who in 1917 raised their voice against the world slaughter, one who was hated and feared by the ruling class of this country. “He was sent to prison many times, always being in the hands of the law, always a vietim of the ruling class. Dictatorship of the Proletariat. “He realized very cl@rly that the only way to overthrow capitalism with its military power was by the dictatorship of the proletariat. That it was necessary to have an organi- zation of steel for the workers. “He gave up his energy, gave wu: his life that such an organization could be for:ined—The Communist Party. Formed Party. il To him in a great extent we can thank Zor having a Communist Party fighting for the working class, struggling for the suppressed farm- ers and factory workers, “for all | American Working class. “He realized that the ‘must be part of an international movement and the call for the forma- | tion of the Communist International | |found him aligned with those which. CHARLES & NUTHEN AE RR horn July 9 ANZ—D0d March 2. 19354 two years in Sing Sing with Ruthen-| @ struggle at a time when it took cour-| iD | creeds and nationalities, for the great | struggle | ‘is arranged for Thursday, March 10, | Paired and relief trains today were at 8 p. m. at Scenic Auditorium, |27TIVINE from Miyazu. i | On Friday, March 11, at 8 p. m. in| , Dr. Ito of the sixteenth army divi- the Labor Institute, the workers of | Sion, in charge of three groups of Philadelphia will assemble. nurses and doctors, was speeding to In Y bila, Obih: the Workers |X¥9to today from this city. Another ( Gomtomaiae 5 sho will hold a mem-| heey bie oop) hope ev d_§0,- ‘ jankets and 4,000 sacks of rice. crial meeting for Comrade Ruthen- | Hundreds of injured refugees are berg on Sunday, March 18th at 8/10 withqut medieal aid. With ors. Hall A ee ae cares on | Atari raging in the Sanin district, be held tu Wenncat Be or eae plight is made even more mis- he. C, {day, March 14, 8 P. M., in Typo-) erable. | graphical Temple, 423 G Street, N. W. | a) | Pittsburg Arranging ‘Sex Play Barred When | The meeting in Pittsburg will be on | |March 12 at Labor Lyceum, at 8 jo'clock. In Los Angeles the memorial} «p}.¢ Casitive’ hae baed Lareed’ 43 | meeting will be on the afternoon of | | f wi |decision of Supreme Court Justice /the thirteenth, and St. Paul’s in the | Jeremiah 7. Mahoney denies an in- jevening of the same day. In Duluth |junetion to restrain District Attorney |there will be a memorial meeting on | Banton and the police from interfer- |March 14, and in Superior on March ling with the proposed ‘Horace B. | 15. | Liveright production of the play. : bs | “The Captive” thus becomes the | “A Splendid Fighter.” |first victim in the crusade for censor- | Nueleus No. 103 of the Workers|ship of the stage. The play, which Party District 4.—‘We regret the | was written by the Frenchman, jsevere loss sustained by the party|Edouard Bourdet, and deals with a ‘thru the untimely death of our gen-| problem of sexual pathology, was eral secretary comrade Ruthenberg. |originally produced by Charles Froh- “He was a splendid fighter and|man, Inc. Charles Frohman, Inc,, leader of the working class and his | withdrew the play two weeks ago, and | presence will be greatly missed from | Horace B. Liveright took over the jour ranks, His loyalty to the cause | production rights, of the working class, to the party) and to. the Communist movement Open Forum Cancelled coupled with the great work he} i \achieved will live long in the annals, Dye to Paris Commune f the st le of the history of the : “f of the struggle of the ‘Meeting This Sunday working class of America, Injunction Is Denied | The Germans have contended al- | Ways that the explosion of the tor- pedo alone would have left plenty of time for all passengers and crew to save themselves, The real cause of the sudden sinking, and with it | the loss of 1,517 lives, including 139 | Americans, was caused, the Germans contend, by the explosion of the 6,000,000 shells which the Lysitania carried. This, was contrary to inter- |mational, and especially American law, which forbids passenger ships jand trains to carry explosives, | Comrades and ‘Fellow Workers: After a year’s heroic struggle of the Passaic textile workers, the mil! jbarons were forced to submit to a union in the textile industry of Pas- ‘saic. They are however putting ob- \stacles in the way of maintaining | |such an organization. Although the | strike is almost over, they are taking | the workers back very slowly, with |the result that thousands of families children are hungry. There are many families whose sole supporters were sent to jail for long! |periods because of their activities in’ the strike. You must come to ‘their ‘rescue. Relief must go on with full | | speed! i j | The General Relief Committee, who |is: maintaining a few food’ stores in| | Passaic, appeals to all those who have | |taken milk coupons to send in their | money as soon as possible, no matter are without means of existence. Their ||. “Let us follow along the path of | Leninism, of revolutionary working class activity with a real Leninist or-| eae) 4,./how much you have collected. Send CHICAGO, Jil, March 10. —- The| she money immediately to the Gen-| open forum lecture arranged for Sun- \eral Relief? Committee, 799 Broadway, day evening has been called off due| With the life record on reverse side. 10 CENTS EACH) rates in lots or more, The DAILY WORKER PUR. CO. LITERATURE DEPT. } 33 FIRST ST. NEW YORK | ed Special of ten b must have a political party. issued the call, ae Ruthenberg was a party ——- man. fe realized that bef oe working class could free Mente it Roll in the Sabs For The DAILY WORKER. ganization that he fought so hard iy) | give us,” | BAKERY PRODUCTS (Union Made) If not, let us know and we'll instruct our driver to call at your home. Finnish Co-operative Trading Association, Inc. Tel. Windsor 9052. 4301 Eighth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y to the Paris Commune celebration to \be held by the International Labor | Defense, Faints In Altitude Race SCOTT FIELD, Belleville, Ul., Mar. 10. —Failing in his {first attempt to break the free balloon altitude record in a thrilling experience in the air, Hawthorne Gray declared today he would make another attempt early is spring to exceed the mark 35,483 ‘eet. Capt. Gray landed at Ashley, Ill, about 40 miles southeast of here after he had been in the air about two hours. The balloonist fainted at a high altitude to the rare atmos- pheric condition and descended for several minutes at the rate of more than 1,000 feet a minute. Room 225, also ask for more coupons, | to sell, | The cffice is, open from 9 a. m. to Tp. dail G! Portuguese Flyer Stars | RIO DE JANEIRO, March 10—| |Major Sarmento Beiros, Portuguese | aviator who is attempting a trans- Atlantic flight, has sent a wireless message from Polama, Portuguese New Guinea, announcing that. he | plans to start his trans-ocean hop to- day. If conditions are propitious he will attempt to fly. direct to Port Natal, Brazil, but if they are not suitable he will fly to Porto Praia, Cape Verde Islands, and then hop off from there for Brazil, y. ERAL RELIEF COMMITTEE The board of conciliation will con-| | sider the claims of four mine work- ers, entombed Nov. 16 in a mine|]! flood, to pay for 24 eight-hour shifts. | The company was going to pay them $56 apiece for the eight days of} stark agony. | Anthracite production has fallen|]) off sharply as compared with 1926,|]) The last Februaty week showed only 1,868,000 tofis mined, against 1,600,. 000 tons in the same week of 1926.) Production fell off 200,000 tons as} | compared with the. third week of February and is continuing to drop. “JIM CONNOLLY and Irish Freedom” | By G, SCHULLER With Introduction by | T. J. O}FLAHERTY | The Story of the great | Trish Revolutionist | and the H IRISH RISING IN 1916 DETROIT, March 10.—-Fourteen al-|]) leged rum runners, who were arrested | with a 42,000 cargo of liquor after by police today. Their wounds are! Seven others escaped, _ Flora Anna Skin Oiatment LARGE PORES freckles, rash, itching sitin, eczema or stubborn skin trouble of any kind will be banished by use of FLORA ANNA SKIN QINTMENT, $1.00. Sold on money back guar- antee. NEW WAY LABORATORIES 276 West 43rd St. New York City 25% of all sales are donated to The DAILY WORKER. Always mention The DAILY WORKER on your order. No. 11 in the Little! 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