The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 11, 1927, Page 4

W YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER, Picking a Restful Spot for Coolidge } of silvery white hair and exudes an_ers, who use the attitude towards | y "THE White House spokesman s\air of substance, geniality* and im-/ farmer relief as a test of loyalty bl that Coolidge is going west for) peccable respectability. The lords of| their interests, have now no real — his vacation, coal, iron, steel, copper and railroads) standard to go by. Brookhart has | WORKING CLASS PLAYS ; have nothing in particular against} been tamed and practically absorbed | . } \ Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 SUBSCRIPTION RATES | By maif (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $8.59 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL | WILLIAM F, DUNNE BERT MILLER Business Manager Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under >>; Every Worker Who Attended the Ruthenberg Memorial Meetings Is a Potential Supporter of the Daily Worker The Chicago and New York Ruthenberg memorial meetings | have shown that the Communist Party of America. has support | among the working class far out of proportion to its numerical | strength. 3H | The tragic and unexpected death of Comrade Ruthenberg, | the executive ‘etary of the party, has brought a great out- pouring of sympathy for our party in its bereavement. Two characteristics of, these great meetings are of great importance for the work_of our party in the immediate future. They are: : —A survey of the crowds attending these demonstrations hat they ‘were composed of WORKERS. The liberal and show. lower middle class elements were in a great minority. 9° —tThese huge meetings occurred at a time when the drive | against our party in the unions is at its height and in spite of the fact that Comrade Ruthenberg was known far more as a Communist Party leader than as a mass leader. | lion-dollar | pitcher took for the papers The theory is that the president, | residing in some quiet and unpre- tentious cabin with no more than 25) or 30 rooms, will get close to the | soil, sniff the acrid odor of the barn-| yard, toss the new-mown hay, slop the hogs, drive home the kine in the! jgloaming and in general soak him- self in the atmosphere of the wide, open spaces where Frank Lowden has been husking corn on his mil- farm, and getting his and cul- acquaint- tivating a wide circle of | anc among farmers who hiss the mere mention of Coolidge. Farmer-Bank anker- a , Farmer farmer, armer whereas General Dawe but unfortunately he is who is known as a banker, Lowden is a banker who is known as a farmer. Governor of Illinois from 1917 to 1921 and a serious contender for the republican nomination in 1920, Lowden has tended the sprig of discontent among the farmers of the middle west with the care of an expert floris He speaks with racking staccato! sobs of the need for cooperation in} agriculture and unlike Dawes he has} been for farm relief, properly man- aged by the bankers, ever since his mortgage loan companies found it! difficult to make farmers pay up. Lowden, it may be said, has put out the most successfui line “friend of the farmer” bunk that has ever been peddled along the rea of the Ohio, Mississippi and Illinois rivers, The White Headed Lowden. Like Harding, Lowden has a mop ii of WANTED BY NEW PLAY- Oo pews arena him, compared to the drab and unin-|in the Iowa republican machine. The! field is left open for such fake farm- ers’ friends as Lowden who grows fat on the reaction to Coolidge. Young LaFollette has not the pres- spiring Cal he is a colorful person ality, and in addition to all these qualifications he will probably have the powerful Illinois delegation be-| hind him in the convention. skin the farmers much more grace-| particular appeal to the middle west. | asked for by John Dos Passos, fa-| blundering Coolidge and exactly for) this reason is more dangerous to their | interests. | tige’of his father. Wheeler of Mon-| than the ‘cult Lowden, if elected president, will; tana in the democrat ranks makes n0 | hitherto | fully and inflict less pain while the| Borah fights Coolidge on foreign af-' mous novelist. in a letter to the labor | operation is in progress than has thej fairs but fires no imagination on} press of New York. Dos P: other questions. A Farmer-Labor Party. None of these insurgents has Dawes will get little support from! ghown any sign of being willing to| farmers in spite of his eleventh hour! jead a bolt from the two old capital- , Theatre,” writes Dos Passos, “are to | conversion to farm relief. His connection with Wall Street is| erg fall back on the most demagogic| entation that adequately expresses | too well known, Coolidge evidently has been ad-} vised that the farming districts hold}around the stump very successfully his fate in their hands and his vaca- tion will be anything but a pleasant compromise with the bankers have ap- one. He will be lucky if a posse of} enraged farmers armed with pitch- forks and other homely instruments does not run him up some arroyo and leave him there. We would suggest, if a quiet vaca- tion in the middle west is his desire, that he rent the 132nd Regiment's | Armory in Chicago and swing his! hammock in the cellar. Fooling the Farmers. Seriously, there is not the slightest doubt that the united front of banker congressmen and senators and the so- called progressives which put over the McFadden bill for the financiers in return for their votes for the Me- Nary-Haugen bill wHich was vetoed, list parties and failing this the farm-| | of the regulars like Lowden. | The farmers have been whipped { | so far and the insurgents by their plied the lash most effectively of all the groups that want to save the farmers without getting off the farm- | ers” backs, | The officialdom of the trade unions | in the states where the farmers’ dis- | content is hottest are linked’ up solidly with the various state ma-| chines of the democrat and republican parties. If there is any sort of a crystalli- zation of a farmer-labor party in the next election campaign, it will take place, as in Minnesota, without the cooperation and against the opposi- tion of “progressive” congressmen, | trade union officials and heads of well-to-do farmers’ organizations. At present the farmers are simply | has demoralized the farmer revolt in the middle west and west. The farm- anti-Coolidge. | | we have got to have continually fresh | Heaven Tappers,” |plays, plays that deal with work, the Forrest: Theatre | anyone can make straw lights and a | season. | writers whose work is not suitable | for Broadway, and who run counter WRIGHTS THEATRE | LAYS that appeal to working-class | audiences “less jaded in response | ured’ people who have | patronized the arts” are! sos is one of the five insurgent playwrights di- recting the New Playwrights Theatre | at 52nd Street and Kighth Avenue. | “The aims of the New Playwrights | work out methods of theatrical pre: American. life. We want to make | workers rather than professional | people or millionaires the foundation | of our audience because we think that we can find in them less jaded vesponse than in the cultured and! Europeanized people who have hith-| erto patronized the arts. | “We want this theatre to be in| continual and immediate contact with | the mass life of America. For that | Plays a leading wl money, chewing gum, roadbuilding, mines, chemistry, walking delegates, | Communism, anything except straw lights and a library set. (Though if | BROADWAY by Latos N. Egri sponso: Provincetown Players in ai | with Horace Liveright, we |in rehearsal yesterday unde to|tion of James Light. The Arlerican adaptation was done by CtXarles Recht. library set important we are ready to be shown.) “We want plays to read for next We appeal especially to the present trends of dramatic | criticism. We don’t want to be used | We can conclude therefore that there is a substantial reservoir TR. ee of sympathy among the American working ¢ for our party as a Communist Party and that its program has a wider appeal) even in the present period of rising capitalism than we have estimated. jas a launching. platform. for budding | in “ iss},”” geniuses whose only aim is to make faiiegaelae PaO aD ar paeey: vt | the Roaring Forties roar their praise. | Tuesday. | We want at least to be able to clear) es jaway the rubbish and clutter that | j has been piled up to divide the thea- | Farewell, Comrade Ruthenberg; Farewell Our Leader : American working class in his ex- jorganized left wing movement. Anne Nichols, author and producer Thousands of workers have attended the memorial meet- ings to express their support of our party. This support may at present be of : omewhat-sentimental character but it exists and| we must see that it is not dissipated. It does not mean that these} workers are ready at once to take up the cudgels for our party | or even openly incur the wrath and reprisals of union officialdom | in the present struggle in support of the left wing. mee It does an, however, that these masses can be mobilized | for struggle for partial demands, that there is an opportunity for our party to broaden its base, extend the circulation of its press and lay its foundations firmly in the American labor movement. It is our conviction that the best of all approaches to these sympathetic workers is through The DAILY WORKER. With a circulation of )00 within the next six months, or even within a year, our party will be able to say truthfully that it has turned from its grief to action and is building and extending the party of the American working class for which Comrade Ruthenberg ived and died. : The objective—25,000 readers of The DAILY WORKER within a year—is an entirely attainable one if the party as a whole will realize its opportunity, its weakness and the way of correcting it. ‘Without a mass press,” said Lenin, “a mass Com- munist Party is impossible.” It is the collective organizer of the party and the masses. “The memorial meetings will soon be over, but every comrade can hold a memorial meeting of his own every day by getting a By JAY LOVESTONE. Takes Lead for Unity emplary conduct in’ the Bridgeman | of “Abie’s Irish Rose,” sails tomor- (Editor’s note: This is the speech delivered by Jay Lovestone, chosen by the party’s political committee to take up Ruthenberg’s tasks, at the Chicago Memorial Meeting on Sunday.) * * * HE severest shock I have ever had in my life came with the death of my closest guide, leader and friend, | Comrade Ruthenberg. | To me, Comrade Ruthenberg was {more than’ an individual—even more than a Party comrade. “C, E.”, as I called Comrade Ruthen- | berg, was to me the symbol of our Party, fighting unceasingly an uphill battle against tremendous odds, against the most brutal, the most powerful imperialism the world has | known. | Party Suffers Greatest Less In the passing of Comrade Ruthen: ‘berg, our Party has suffered the greatest loss in its history. All Ame- | rican labor, the entire American work- ing class has suffered the greatest loss in its history. Our pain is as |great as our loss. Comrade Ruthen- | berg has been and will remain an im- | portant example for our whole Party, for the entire working class to follow. At ‘the first Communist Party Convention in the Smolny House on Blue Island avenue, Chicago, in Sep-| Here he led the strug- | tember, 1919. gle for the unity of all Communist forces and against the left sickness of infantile Communism. It was only, when Comrade Ruthenberg declared ‘that he would serve as secretary of |the Communist Party that our first | | Communist Central Executive Com- mittee in America felt sure that we |were going to lay the foundations for the development of a mass Com-| munist Party in the United States. The greatest forward step in the history of the American labor move- ment was the founding of the Com-; Comrade Ruthenberg | munist Party. was the leader of this forward step, When we speak of a Communist Par- ‘ty in America, the bulwark, the \citadel of world imperialism, we speak of a Communist Party living |and fighting under the most tre- |mendous difficulties. The existence |and growth of a Communist Party |in Americ: national significance. Comrade Ru- thenberg’s decisive role in the Amer- ican Communist movement as its trial are inestimable. It was these services of Comrade Ruthenberg that | made possible the legalization, at) least for the present, of Communism in America. “ | Then the labor party. Here Com- rade Ruthenberg was the pace-setter. | | The labor party movement ’in Amer- ica is of immeasurable importance {not only for the American working class but for the workers of the! world, They need only look at America’s role today to see why this is so. Above all other Comrade Ru-, thenberg was free from error and was the undisputed leader of our par- ty in arriving at a correct policy on this important question which our} party has faced and still is facing. Marxist and Leninist. Comrade Ruthenberg was a realist, jin the Marxist, Leninist sense of the word. The greatest progress in the history of our party has been made) ‘since the 1925 convention. This pro- | gress of breaking the isolation in! which our party found itself after | is of parampunt inter-|the 1924 election, of beating back the, RARL drive to expel our members from the} unions, of reorganizing the party on} the Bolshevik basis, of penetrating | oe ny tre from the circus, the ballfield, vaudeville, life. Send us your plays.” The New. Playwrights Theatre is now producing John Howard Law- | son’s “Loud Speaker,” a political sa-' tire, and Em Jo Basshe’s “Earth,” a Negro folk play. These two plays are alternating, each playing one week. A reduction of 20° is offered to workers who show union cards at | the box office. { 1 new PLAYWRIGHTS theatre} 52d St. Thea., 306 W. 52d. Colun s 7393} “BARTH® “LOUDSPEAKER” JTH West 45 st. PLYMOUTH yin than.asee, Evers Eve. (xe. Thurs.) & Sate M WINTHROP AMES! aise. PIRATES Zaxct ZANCE Thurs, Mats. & Eves, “lol; i CARROLL Vanities Earl Carroll {hee 2 7th Ave, & 50th St. | thea. Ev . Thurs, & Sat. 2:30 Wed, & Sat. row for London, where she_ will supervise the production of “Abie.” Later -she will visit Budapest to supervize its production there and the translation of the play into Hun- garian and German. The Theatre Guild announces that the total number of subscribers has ‘0,000 mark. Neighborhood Playhouse 1S West 42nd __ Street, WALLACK'S West | 42nd. St Mats. Tues. Wed. ‘Thurs, and Sat. What Anne Brought Home A New Comedy Drama ELTINGE ‘A. H, Woods presents CRIME 0. Mat new reader or subscriber for The DAILY WORKER. ; Every worker who attended the memorial meetings will be- come a supporter of The DAILY WORKER if we make him see the-connection between our press and the cause with which he sympathizes. [founder and leader. makes him an the basic unions of the American one of immortal service to the Amer-| outstanding leader of the interna-| Federation of Labor, of leading ican working class. | tional working class movement. irene c bier cip: the a Comrade Ruthenberg was the first| No wonder that the Central Com-/17¢¢ workers, in al ese activities, |man in the history of the various left| mittee of the Communist Party of | all this progress, Comrade Ruth- |wing movements in the Socialist Par-| the Soviet Union teils: “We deeply |enberg was the undisputed leader. | Comrade Ruthenberg’s whole life was Sam. THEA West 42nd 8 | 5 . Wes H. HARRIS twice ‘paily, 2:30 & 8" Civic Repertory WHAT PRICE GLORY eva Mats. (exc. Sat.) 50c-$1. Eves. 60c-@9 | Today, Cor. 6 Av. & 14 St Tel. Watkins 7767, LE GALLIENNE ‘RADLE SONG” 1REE SISTERS" Pe yi Saturday A CORRECTION In the first column, next to the last paragraph of the article in the Thursday, March 10th issue by William F, Dunne entitled, “Forming the Imperialist Front Against China,” the following words, “But the anti-Chinese propaganda coming from Shanghai and other cities can be explained only by the vagaries of news- papermen,” should read: “Can NOT be explained,” etc. Injunctions and Faith in the Impartiality of the Courts. The DAILY WORKER is in complete sympathy and supports to the best of its ability the fight of the unions against injunctions. Its program for the struggle against injunctions is the pro- gram of the Workers (Communist) Party and it can be stated briefly as disregard of injunction writs and mass. violation of their edicts. : This program does not exclude demonstrations such as the labor delegation to Albany the other day, advocacy of anti- injunction legislation, ete., but it does put the emphasis*on the struggle of the workers where it belongs—on their organized | mass power. : : ; : Rag Legislation outlawing injunctions against union activities in general and the right to strike in particular can be forced once the capitalists are convinced that the union membership will continue their struggles for better wages and working con-| ditions in spite of injunctions even if this-‘means filling the jails. . The capitalist system is organized against the workers and for this reason we say that utterances such as those of some labor officials in Albany, wherein they stressed the necessity of anti-injunction legislation—the Lupowiez-Hackenberg bill—to convince the workers that they were not discriminated against and to increase their bel! in the impartiality of the courts, is of more danger to the working class than injunctions. The first task of any labor official is to show the masses by | si |adopt and carry out the policy of resisting them by every means| ago us. concrete examples of the daily struggle that the judicial system of the United States is a mechanism established for one class, the capitalist class, and tlsat there is no such thing as impartiality. Injunctions are the expression of this class system—they are one of the weapons of the enemies of the working class. That they have served to create a great skepticism among the masses relative to the impartiality of the courts is the only benefit the workers haye derived from them. We hope that the anti-injunction legislation will be passed at Albany but we warn the labor movement that just as the ' judicial decision which exempted unions from the provisions of the Clayton anti-trust law has not prevented its use against unions so will the use of injunctions continue as long as labor does not ty to realize the value of organization. |It was Comrade Ruthenberg who first | understood that if the Socialist Party was to be a Party of revolutionary Socialism, the left wing for¢es had to | stay within the Party and to organize themselves. Comrade Ruthenberg was the first one in the United States to be con- victed and sent to jail for inspiring | throw the American working class in- |The ten months Comrade Ruthenberg spent in the Canton Jail for his cour- Jageous anti-war activities are ten months which will forever live as an inspiring sacrifice to the American jworkers. These ten months will be !a powerful force for arousing the | American proletariat to turn our next imperialist war into a_ civil lof the workers. Held Important Post. Comrade Ruthenberg was the driv- ling force in giving a nationwide or- | ganized basis to the sweeping Jeft | wing movement of the Socialist Party | jafter the Proletarian Revolution in | Russia in November, 1917. Well do I remember how I was sit- | ting with John Reed and others in our left wing headquarters in West 29th | Street, New York City, anxiously ‘awaiting to hear to how decisive a victory Comrade Ruthenberg was | ing the left wing in Cleveland. |When we learned of the magnificent | success in the Cleveland Socialist Par- | rade Ruthenberg, we felt and we knew now we were assured of a national in its power. To be for anti-injunction la as the domination of local, sta financial and industrial capital whose loyalty to the working c capitalist class which uses them. grieve with you at the loss of Com-_ Let ea listen again to some of his rade Ruthenberg, leader of your p: realistic slogans: The bourgeoisie ty and of the International labor |#d ordered the war; Comrade Ruth- movement, whose ashes will rest be- cnberg: replied “Down with conscrip- neath the Kremlin together: with the | 12’. ‘ ‘ |heroes of the November Revolution.” |, here was an election campaign; Yes, Comrade Ruthenberg died, Comrade Ruthenberg said to the fighting and working for the victory | Workers, “Make this election count in one Hent®? | |of the American proletariat and the | YU" fight”. and organizing masses of workers to| |resist the drive of our imperialists to | |to the death orgy of the great war.| war) against the exploiters and oppressors | other reason for entering the struggle again: | international working class. | The Came the great steel strike. Gen- \eral Wood is leading his cohorts of highly armed, uniformed, _ strike- reaker American soldiers to. smash the ranks of the workers. Comrade Ruthenberg’s mighty revolutionary appeal in the slogan “Fight against the government strikebreakers” aroused and inspired the thousands of steel workers of Gary to the most |valiant resistance displayed in the whole strike, ‘ His Courage Was Unbounded. Comrade Ruthenberg’s courage in * {the class war was unbounded, Some |of the best years of his life he spent in jail. There was an_ imperialist war; Comrade Ruthenberg was the first to go to jail in resisting it, The left wing of the Socialist Party «was to be organized; Comrade Ruth- Jenberg went to jail for playing the | leading role in organizing the revolu- | tionary forces, | I recall a scene at Bridgeman. |Comrade Ruthenberg was directing |the orgahization of the comrades | leaving the grounds, 1 said “Come j along”. [ begged Comrade Ruthen- | berg to go in our group. He said, “No, ‘ty under the able leadership of Com-/ 1'll stay until all are gone. I must! ‘do that”. The splendid services Com- vade Ruthenberg rendered to the ws simply because they will add to the prestige of the courts among the workers is to play the} we will remember because Com game of the bosses. This attitude accepts the theory of “govern- {ment for all the people” and shuts its eyes to such plain facts| Heputed ieader of our paxty—the un- mm te and national government by ists. Injunctions are for the purpose of crippling the labor move-| working himself for the most living ment and for this reason alone they must be fought. Anyon e lass comes first will require no st injunctions and the | American army mobilized | |against Mexico; Comrade Ruthen-| jberg inspired and organized thou- \sands of workers with the slogan: ; \“Stop the Invasion of Mexico”, | | Our imperialists yelled “Make the | World Safe. for Democracy”; Com-' rade Ruthenberg mobilized thousands | of workers under the slogan “Make the World Safe for the Workers.” | Workers were being sent to jail. by our war profiteers; Comrade Ru- | | thenberg heroically replied: “We will win even in jail”. | Yes, Comrade Ruthenberg was a/ Leninist, He understood the essence | of and possessed the key to Leninism, | the science of World Revolution. Comrade Ruthenberg knew how to link up the smallest, immediate, most | elementary, everyday need of the. workers with the biggest, most! fundamental, revolutionary objec- | tives of the whole proletariat. Builds the Party Press, Last but not least, the American, working class owes primarily to the | untiring energies of Comrade Ruth- enberg that we today have a militant; fighting Communist daily — The) DAILY WORKER. We will consolidate our ranks, for | carrying on the revolutionary work in| the indomitavle spirit of Comrade. Ruthenberg. Mis unbounded revolu- : tionary courage will forever encour-, The American working class has: never before witnessed so great a, devotion to its class interests. This, rade Ruthenberg was and remains the un- disputed und outstanding fighter for) the interests of the working class, Comrade Ruthenberg died in ovor-! cause of the international wove | class-—Communism, I When we feel tho pains 80 unbear- able, comrades, we must remember that our responsibilities are increas-| Let us close our ranks At this ' berg, farewell our leader. eh ach ee rn cha ADWAY BRO! 4403 bres B50 Mats Hed 65s 130 ae Gulld Acting Company ta MALION Week Mar. 14—Brothers Karamazo vs. v 6 5 THEA,, W. 52 St. E Mats. Thurs. and 8: GUILD i Ned McCobb’s Daughter Week March 14—The Sliver Cord John Golden ’h.,58, E.of B’y |Circle saturday The LADDER Now in its 5th MONTH WALDORF, 50+ B'way. Mat. -“INHERITORS" Has’ of and SAT, th St, WED. 149th Street, Bronx Opera House {th , Street Pop. Prices, Mat. Wed. & Sat, Rosalie Stewart presen: “DAISY MAYME” Read The Daily Worker/Every Da ® Mts.Thu, & Sat.| 5678, e Manager's Corner THE RUTHENBERG MEMORIAL ME€TINGS Throughout the country, masses of wor gating to do honor to the memory of Comr 8 are congre- le Ruthenberg. These meetings must be so arranged as\to be of the ut- most practical value to the movement for which Comrade Ruthenbery gave his life. Every effort should: be made to utilize these gatherings to increase the size of the yrowing army of DAILY WORKER readers and supporters. The regular squad of DAILY WORKER Builders should be on hand fully organized and Qyuipped. Signs advertising The DAILY WORKER should be displayed prominently in the meeting hall. DAILY WORKERS should be sold by a special committee chosen for the purposc. Subscription blanks should be placed on every seat. At least one of the speakers of the evening should make an address on The DAILY WORKER concentrating upon the appeal for the Ruthenbergy DAILY WORKER Sustaining Fund. The memorial meetings are to be the signal for the starting of this campaign. The Sustaining Fund blanks should be collected with the initial These are some of the methods suggested whereby the payments, / Ruthenberg memorial meetings may be turned into-a giant! mobilization not only for the party but also for its wang organ, The DAILY WORKER, ed many, many times. For myself, as an active party) ember, 1 hope to be worthy in my future work of my guide and leader, | Comrade Ruthenberg. ‘Than this, 1} have no other wish. I give thanks that ‘I have had the priceless oppor- | tunity of working so closely with the, heroie leader of our party for so, many years, Close the Ranks. . } —BERT MILLER. | moment of our unfathomable grief Comrade Ruthenberg is no more, Comrade Ruthenberg has gone from our midst. My consciousness some- how or other: refuses to accept his being. gone, To me, the death of Comrade Ruthenberg is the most horrible crime of nature. But let us go forward to battle with unbounded determination to win, Yes, farewell, Comrade Ruthen- »