The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 11, 1927, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, ‘ YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1927 Best) FACTORS BACK By P, FRANKFELD. The first official announcement of the opening of the Citizens’ Military Training Camps Campaign is made by Major-Gen. McRea, corps command- er at Governors@lsland. This corps area, comprising New York, New Ruthenberg Gave His Energies to Build and Strengthen Workers’ Press By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. an allotment of 4,700, of which 2,175 i are to come from New York City. ONUMENTS will be built to our fallen Leader, C.|,, Letters are ggain post marked: E. Ruthenberg. But they will not be shafts of; let’s go. Citizens’ Military Train- marble or granite. They will not be reproductions in/i"& camps. Ads and frontians ments have made their reappearance These monuments will be the living, active weapons in the subway trains and stations. of the sdcinl revolution in the United States of America.|In large factories, department They will be the Communist Party, the Communist| Stores, banks, post-offices, etc, at- press, a huer Young Workers (Communist) League, tractive posters will soon. be seen dis- a broader and more militant left wing in the trade unions| Playing in soft, seductive pictures and other organizations of the workers, a growing move-| and words the “lure” of the C.M.T.C.| ment of the Pioneers, Statements will be issued every day announce- | OF 6. M. T. 6. |tion? Of course not. The camps ;are part of the war machinery of the U. S. Listen to what the New York Times has to say about the matter: |“One danger of a democratic form |of government is that the rudiments jof military training are too long and too much neglected by the citizenry | (working class) which ultimately fur- |nishes officers as well as soldiers. Our egular army is small. “It is handicapped by an inadequate |corps of non-commissioned officers.” (Tuesday, March 2) Therefore, the training camps. The C.M.T.C. is a school for the future officers and sol- diers. The C.M.T.C. prepares «and |trains the youth of America to be ‘ood and loyal citizens, i. e., soldiers, e promises of free vacations, good Today let us take up the special problem of rearing by the War Department, the radio | food, sports, physical development are the Communist press as a monument to the fallen leader of our Party, esnecially the building of the party organ —The DAILY WORKER—that Ruthenberg was instru- mental, more than anyone else, in founding and in build- ing. * There is one i mind, as I review the many tion with Comrade Ruthenbe’ ce the year, 1909, when we both joined the revolutionary movement. It was in June, 1917, that I met him accidentally in the city of Washington, D. C., altho we had both come to the cap- ital city of the American imperialist government on the Same errand. It was the month that the espionage act had been passed and gone into effect, seeking to gag the utter- ances, printed and spoken, of the nation, attempting to force the mass pits of the world war. Selective conscription had also gone into effect. The lottery of death, at that very moment, was being played under the dome of the capitol, the numbers being selected that would determine which of the youth of the land should make up the army of millions to cross the Atlantic to help fill the trenches of death that had been prepared for them thru the three years that the war had already raged. “ * * cident that stands out vividly in my pars of my close associa- It was in this crisis that the post office department, headed by the bourbon reactionary, Albert Burleson, from Texas, set out to crush all opposition thought in the socialist and labor press. Notices were sent broad- east commanding editors to appear before Postmaster General Burleson and state why the mailing privilege should not be withdrawn. It was a polite way of ask- ing why the press that opposed the war should not be s to walk blindfolded into the slaughter) has already been utilized for spread- |ing propaganda for the attendance, |editorials will appear in the entire capitalist press (New York Times editorial on C.M.T.C, Tuesday, March 1) and every possible means at the disposal of the capitalist class will be used in order to fill up this year’s camps. Full pay for’ young workers will be offered in many fac- tories and many more inducements will be made for the young workers jin order to get a bigger turnout of young workers to this military insti- | tution. | Started Under Wilson. In 1916, when the “pacifist” Pres- |ident Wilson was preparing the na- tion for war, he declared: “All the {European powers have been able to | mobilize millions as soon as the call | for war was issued. We in America | are unprepared for any emergency Our young men must receive a mi | mum military training. In that wa ; We will create the skeleton of our | future army.” | The Plattsburg camps were estab- | lished in 1913 and continued until 1916. In 1920, the citizens’ military training camp came to be estab- lished, The C.M.T.C. was a revival |of the military preparedness camps and the first year’s attendance num- crushed. Ruthenberg had been called to defend his pub- | lication, the Cleveland Socialist, even as I had been sum-| to 35,000, the goal set for 1927. The sei to argue for the American Socialist, published in desire of the War Department is to icago. | hav e It was no accident that Ruthenberg, the editor of the Pvp beng ge Himes ogy epto aNeaee Cleveland Socialist, shculd be among the first, I believe} issued by C.M.T.C. headquarters. the very firs to be summoned. His statement, made | with the growth of the C.M.T.C., its before the office officialdom, is no doubt still a part | .oa) purpose bécame more and of the records of the United States government. It WAS | obscured and many Varied and he a as clear as the language that he forced into the St. Louis | appesis: have heer tit d re clvansce Anti-War Proclamation of the Socialist Party, at the | pF aaa ah shaggere in order special Socialist convention in the Missouri metropolis, | ee ee eee attendance. held in the week that war was declared. ‘It was as clear Vacation at Hard Labor. as the speeches he made to the multitudes in the public} Gen. McRea states in his call: square of Cleveland, Ohio, calling upon the workers not|“The citizens’ _ military training to register, not to allow themselves to be conscripted for|camps afford a splendid opportunity the war. |for a young man to take a.month’s bered 10,000. This figure has grown * * * |held as bait. And then when the poor | young dub arrives—he finds out for himself that it is not at all a vacation. The C.M.' recruit drills 5% hours a day. From 7 a. m, to 12.30 |p m. with only 20 minutes rest in be- |tween. These drills are quite strenu- | ous and vary from rifle instruction to | calesthenics, from infantry drill to the manual of arms, Regimental parades | are often held in the afternoon, when the heat is most stifling. The food is {not too good and the most popular laxative is CC pills called C.M.T.C. | pills by the recruits. God of Battles. | Theoretically, the church. is sapa- |ratd from the goverhment, yet: eyery |recruit is foreed to attend some kind of religious service. These religious |Services are used to spread propa- |ganda against the labor movement, against the USSR, and for the glorifi- |cation of war. The lectures on “citi- |zenship” are nothing more than the rankest kind of propaganda against the entire labor movement of America, Reefer the Communist movement in | particular, and against the Soviet Re- public. | In July of last year the Communist movement according to an all-wise lieutenant was born in Albania in the |year 1776, in August it was born it Bavaria, according to the same au |thority. It is because of this double |function of the C.M.T.C., that of train- | |ing soldiers and producing scabs that |250 large factories in New York City |and vicinity have endorsed the camps. | Good for Boss. The following explanation is of-| fered in the General Information bul- letin issued by the Second Corps Area officer for 1927 for this endorsement: |"“They (employers) did not merely lyegister their, support for patriotic reasons, looking to the security of the country and the stability of our in- stitutions; but also because experience ‘Lynching and Golf In So, Carolina | pete | By WILLIAM PICKENS. | tainly interested in stopping golf pYaying at Aiken. |He knows it is wicked for the people in the winter resort there to play golf or polo on Sunday. He is there- |fore using all the powers of his office, and all the offices junder his command, and is even defying the higher courts of the state in,his righteous zeal to stop a harm- less sport or two, He says that he will send every con- stable of the state to Aiken, if necessary, to stop the | games and arrest the “criminals” who are driving an in- animate ball across the fields there. But this same governor cannot do a thing about the lynching of three human beings—one of the most savage tacts ever committed by man against man. Of course, ‘Mr. Richards “talked big” about what he would, or ‘rather would not, do just before. he came into office. But that talk had a purpose; the whole world had its eye on Aiken and on South Carolina at that time, and the incoming governor was simply “posing for the picture.” Those of us who have had experience with his “god-fear- ing” kind, knew that the talk was simply for momentary effect. eke The righteous “talk” by this governor, and also that by some of the newspapers of the state, had also an- other definite purpose:.TO KEEP DOWN ANY RISING SENTIMENT IN FAVOR OF AN ANTI-LYNCHIN@ LAW OF CONGRESS. The objective was to fool the north, and to hoodwink northern papers into saying: “The south is all right; they are as much opposed to that murder as anybody else. Just give them a chance.” The north is easily fooled in such cases; they seem to want to be fooled; they like to believe, in order to escape the sternness of the realities and to be able to wash their hands—and feel righteous also. The religious develop- deceive themselves into feeling righteous. The north likes to feel: “Oh, yes, yes, we are opposed to lynch- | murder all right, and we would do something to stop it, |if we did not see that the south is going to stop it themselves.” And men indulge in a lot of mush about the “liberal sentiment” of the south, “the advancing south,” and other such sleeping potions which they give themselves in order to escape the inevitable conflict. Governor Richards knows this. That other governor who went out of office, knew it. And so both of them in- dulged in a lot of religious talk to the public galleries, until the natural resentment of mankind cooled suffi- | ciently—and now they have all settled back to await the | next horrible lfiching. *. * * Meanwhile, South Carolina is determined that little hard rubber balls shall not be driven into certain holes on a Sunday, a thing’ which, if wrong at all, could only be wrong on Sundays. But murder, which is wrong is even vsing as his right-hand man in the crusade gainst golfers, the sheriff, Nollie Robinson, who was | also the right-hand man of the lynchers. | I was born in South Carolina. I-am not boasting; I |such a savage reality to Negro-Americans, it would be | the world’s best joke. WOMEN AND EMPIRE By SCOTT NEARING. ERRERO, the Italian historian, once wrote a color- title of “The Women and the Caesars.” The book dealt with some of the leading Roman women, telling of their social and political activities and intrigues. Such women play a role—usually a minor one, in em- ment of the world has at least caused men to want to| every day in the week and every minute in every day—} about that, South Carolina does nothing. The governor | am just mentioning the fact. If South Carolina was not | By KATE GITLOW. HE year 1926 was a year of working class women of the United States, The working class women jon this International Women’s Day, March 8, 1927 approach the coming year with more strength and experi- ence. because of the gains of last year. They are better able this year to rally the great masses of women |from the shops, factories and homes to the general struggle of the work- ers, The International Women’s Day of 1926 found a great mass of women in the historical textile strike of Pas- saic. 16,000 workers. were engaged in the strike. Half of them were |women. These women made history in 1926 which will serve as proof jthat the woman is a factor in the economic and political life of the country. The history of the Passaic} strike has convinced those engaged | in the labor movement who are sin-| cerely carrying on a struggle to free the workers from industrial slavery, | that the labor movement must carry | on activities among the women and} men workers alike, Furthermore, it| has convinced them that the women at home, the wives of the workers, must not be forgotten. The workers’ wives must be made to join the army | of working men and women for the! |common struggle. The women textile workers who | came in their youth from foreign | countriez to the “Land of Golden Op- | portunities”, have worked for many | years in the mills of Passaic produc- | ing wealth for the rich mill owners. These women who came with hope jfor a little easier life found that | they had to work long hours under | miserable conditions in order to exist. |The women textile workers in Pas- |saic and elsewhere in the “Land of| |Golden Opportunities” had no hope | of freeing themselves from their misery, | | Getting married does not lighten j her burden. It adds greater hard- | ship with the *coming of a family. The wives of the textile workers work during the day at home—and at night in the mills. The women tex- | tile worker is old and broken early | in life, The Passaic women textile strik- ers during the year long strike fought as hard as the men workers. | They marched side by side on the | picket lines with the best of the | union men, | The women textile workers in Pas- | saic have grasped the idea of organ- ization as the only hope of bettering er to shoulder with their brother achievement and experience for the | “REVIEWS YEAR OF ACHIEVEMENTS HC, OVEENOE RICHARDS of South Carolina is cer- | ° workers for the right to belong to a | union. The year of 1927 finds the wonien textile workers working with the men workers in the building of a powerful union at Passaic which will spread to other parts of the textile industry, The women textile work-, ers have learhed through their long, bitter struggle the lesson of solidar- ity not only with theymen workers in |the mills but with the working wo- men of other industries and with the housewives, f The women textile worker is now a social being. She is also organized into working women’s councils where women. from other industries and | workers’ wives belong. In these cour ceils she learns of the strugr’ jother workers and of the struggle. The housewives, the w workers, who were so li of, have made history fo during the year of 1926 nearer to the shop an The working women beginning to realize at home are becomi) factor in the strugg ers. The housewive: role in the 1926 st prompt relief work { kitchens and other ing the strikers’ wiv bands’ struggles, visit of scabs, and going « line. The workers’ wi ing the army of organ. class women. They are e. part in all the struggles oi ers. *. The working class women’ ica have concluded a year of achievement and have laid pk more intensive activities, for g achievement in the coming year. working class wornen of America this International Women’s L March 8, 1927, face the coming ye with greater fitness for the strugg and a carefully worked-out prograi to unite the working women and working men for common action, To solidify the scattered forces of working clas; women’s organizations, ,to help organize the unorganized | women in industry, intensive educa- tional work for the working class women in the class struggle is part |of the program for the coming year., The working class women of Amer- }ica, on this International Women’s |Day, March 8, 1927, extends the hand-clasp of solidarity to their sis- ters the world over and to their liber- |ated sisters of Soviet Russia and |promise to do all in their power to ful description of Roman imperialism under the |their conditions. They fought should- | follow the example of their Russian sisters. : vacation at the expense of the gov-| proves that camp training brought Ruthenberg was not appalled by the mighty capital-|ernment. The main object of the |them more ambitious, efficient, and ist state that was organizing every atom of strength} conscientious employes.” This effici- : a f a th) camps is to make the young men for the imperialist war at hand, its task in face of its| who take the courses better citizens,”|¢ncy and conscientiousness means “Relief” For the Mythical “Farmer” the West who are getting sore at the manner #h which the big capital- pire building. Imperial leadership usually falls to men. First there is the organization of business. Then there is the organization of war. Both fields have been pre-| empted by.men. The whole range of economic and poli- By ALFRED KNUTSON. growing struggle to build its place ‘in the sun.” He had not yet been placed on trial and sentenced to a year’s imprisonment in Ohio for opposing the draft; [In Wednesday’s news release this | worthy general is quoted as saying: |“The greater part of the day is given he had not yet been placed on trial and sentenced toto athletics, with only 3% hours for serve long years in the prisons of New York state for| military work,” helping to frame the manifesto of the left wing of the | It i ‘tl h socialist party; he had not yet been arrested and put ‘ Fed preseecsis Space propaganda that on trial in Michigan, charged with assembling with other| ssebioia Spread, extensively that has Communists at Bridgeman, Mich. But the courage and|7esulted in an increased number of self-confidence with which he faced the capitalist state, YOUNS workers and , Students Se in Washington, D. C., in the summer of 1917, fighting SPonding to the call of the War De- for the right of the working class press to exist, were | Partment. It is on this basis that only steeled by all his later experiences. the appeal to the young workers and Through every struggle, Ruthenberg held among the | students is made, foremost tasks of the forces of revolution, the building! Cogs in War Machine. of the revolutionary: press. In spite of persecution and Now as to the real facts. Is the imprisonment, the ‘ Socialist News,” the new name of purpose of the camps to produce the “Cleveland Socialist”, continued to be published up healthy and better citizens? Is it to the very moment that Ruthenberg broke w.cn tne} to give the young workers a vaca- young workers With anti-labor and anti-union ideas instilled into their minds. And in spite of that, the Exe- cutive Council of the A. F. of L. has also endorsed the training camps. The campaign for the C.M.T.C. this year will be more intensive and more extensive than it was last year. The growing conflicts which face Amer- ican imperialism in the East, in La- tin and South America, make it im- perative for the American militarists to redouble their efforts to militarize the youth of America, The Workers |Party, and especially the Young {Workers League, must intensify its activities against this further mili- tarization of the working class youth of America. tical activity involved in imperial organization is a man’s field. History offers no indication that women have ever attempted to compete in this area. Women do the cleanitig-up after the structural work of imperialism is completed. They were cleaning up in Germany during thg world war; taking the places of | men in the factories and on the railroads while the latter were dying for Krupp and Stinnes. They are cleaning up in Britain today—accepting lower standards of living; | enduring the horrors of a seven-months’ mine strike; | facing: winters without employment; rearing under- nourished children. At the moment the U. S. is on the crest of its im- perial wave. Work is more or less steady; wages, com- pared with the broken empires of Britain and Germany, | are relatively high. But if American women will look! forward for a dozen or a score of years to the colonial | and world wars; to the periods of hard times; to the ultimate ‘breakdown of American imperialism; and to | dustrial East will some day bow to ae vetoing of the McNary- Haugen bill by President Coolidge | has caused a real uproar among the | supporters of this measure in the | West. The cry is being made that Cool- | idge and the others who oppose the “aid” to the farmer through this measure will surely feel the wrath of the “farmer” in the not-too-dis- tant future. It is said that the in- the agricultural West for the snub- bing the former now gives the “far- mer.” Not Dirt Farmers. | All this is sheer nonsense. The’ agricultural West, as jabbered about | sense of the word. ist in the East is crushing them. They want to protect their own sen- sitive hides. That is all, Their least concern is for the actual farmer. Lowden Represents Them. Lowden speaks for these western capitalists. The so-called “progres- sive” group in congress, Nye and Frazier of North Dakota; Norris of Nebraska; La Follette of Wiscon- sin; and others in their crowd are fighting for the small-fry capitalist in the West. None of them repre- sents the working farmer’ in a Organize Real Farmers. The 8,000,000 tenant and mortg: farmers and farm workers of ; ; ire none : by the noisy supporters of the Me-|ica”have not yet spoken. Theyg’ .st ponalist party and helped establish the Communist Party | - the welter A economic disorganization, with lower| Nary-Haugen bill, does not mean the | be organized so that they canfF eak ‘ sf . “i | BUY THE DAILY WORKER | “88° and standards and uninterrupted class-conflict,/ farmer at. all. Certainly the 8,000,-| effectively in their own beh: This * nee ' they will find many excellent reasons for beginning now 000 tenant d mort d farm : While crushed away within the walls of*Sing Sing | AT THE NEWSSTANDS the organization’ of auti-imperialist activities. an ortgaget ners |class must assert itself, lf e the Prison, in New York, Ruthenberg continued to con-| | and farm workers in the United | old, decayed, hypocriticalf parties, tribute articles to the Communist press that he had | States are not taking any hand in|/and join the farmer-lal{r move- helped establish. When he was released from prison| George Herman (Babe) Ruth has the “farm relief” antics indulged in| ment, In order to make e*successful he was among those most anxious to enhance the pres- | just negotiated a new contract for tige and influence of the Weekly Worker, the first of- | $70,000 a year with Colonel Ruppert, | ficial organ of the Workers (Communist) Party. It was Ruthenberg who led in the effort to establish the firm foundation that has alone made the-continued ex- istence of The DAILY WORKER possible these past difficult three years. When many other very important party activities needed attention badly, something that Ruthenberg knew better than anyone else, he turned aside, never- theless, to assure the continued existence of the party organ as a “Daily,” giving every possible effort in the struggle to establish it as the mouthpiece of masses of the American working class, No less than other party activities, The DAILY WORKER will suffer through the loss of our comrade, Ruthenberg. When finances are needed to keep “Our Daily” going in the face of its daily needs, it will not’ be possible | to draw upon his resourcefulness to overcome each re- curring crisis. To meet this loss new forces must be drawn into action. The army of workers that is continually seeking new readers for “Our Daily” must win new recruits in large numbers. * + But one plan that is already being urged success- fully, especially at the many memorial meetings now being held, is the building of the Ruthenberg DAILY WORKER’S Sustaining Fund, as a growing monument to our comrade who wae taken from us when he was most needed, / The Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund for The DAILY {owner of the New York Yankees, |The Babe is reported to have netted fully $250,000 during his caréer in- |cluding the income from his base- | ball contract, the movies, a yaude- | ville tour, indorsements of various |commodities and other sources. The story of the contract, as well as the ‘recent exposures of crookedness in which Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker were involved, has increased the dis- gust with which the average worker is beginning to view the field of capi- talist sports. These questionable dealings demonstrate that very little of real sportsmanship, of sport for sports’ sake, remains in the world of American athletics and that this |phase of human activity, like others in modern society, has been degraded and prostituted by the profit seekers. gy In bygone days there was a real sports movement in which the large majority of the village or town popu- ‘lation participated with the greatest | pleasure and enjoyment. Modern city life has become so complex that this | is rendered impossible nowadays. The workers have, however, succeeded in | creating its modern substitute, in the BLOTTING OUT THE TRUTH Ry oo 3 Flori, by congress. This class of farmers —the most important, by the way— is not evers represented at Washing- ton. By the agricultural West the Mc- Nary-Haugen enthusiasts mean, not the western working farmer, but the bankers, business-men, small manu- facturers and a few rich farmers. of stand against the: capit¥lists both of the “industrial East” cultural West,” these ploited farmers m eal and economic alliance with the city industrial ‘kers, organized in a powerful labo# party, with the aim of establishing (4 farmers’ and work- ers’.government/in the United States. id the “agri- hillions of ex- form a politi- Too, Boasts (By a Daily Worker Correspondent) Landlords Are Universal. The housing problem, especially as it affeets workers, i: not limited to New York City. I live on the outskirts of a small town in Florida, Nearby is a shack without doors or windows and -with the roof partly off. A Negro lives in it, and as we pass by in the eve- nings we can see him sitting outside beside his fire, playing his mouth organ, Adjoining this shack is another one in slightly better repair. The roof is in fairly good condition, but doors ate missing and there is no glass in of Housing Problem si ahtieerticimeremipe one for the building of a highway. It operates from six o'clock in the morning till six in the evening. There are two living rooms on it, and all winter a man and his wife and little girl lived there. My husband is a skilled worker, so we have been able to live in a furnished apartment over a garage. We have one room and a small kitchen, together with the use of bathroom, which we share with ayf- other family, $50 a month is we have been paying for this “ ment” since last’ September. course such a luxury is quite beyond the means of the vast majojity of . ; hy peyosats | ‘kers? rts move- the windows. No conveniences of | workers in Florida, as skilled WORK ER, as it alta in proportions, should take Our | om Mplncien ac oa "hee any kind. Water must be carried | workers in this state can ofly*earn Daily” out of all danger from being wrecked on the | ave sprung up workers’ sports. or- from the house of a neighbor, about | 85 or 40 cents an hour, While Ne- eee or anew Snenele) crisis. ganizations, particularly in Russia a quarter of a mile distant. She has | groes usually are paid no more than Here is an opportunity, especially, for those great 4 numbers of non-party members that should be anxious | 4nd other countries of ae in ' to enroll their support in the fight of The DAILY |™ovement now embraces millions o! WORKER against the enemies of the working class. | Workers, who have found therein an, Pledge yourself to contribute a certain amount weekly, |@dequate means of realizing their or monthly. When a sufficient number of pledges | desire for clean sports. In contrast have been made, sufficient to meet the deficit of the | With the system of sports existing in paper, then we may all rejoice in saying that The| this country, which is part and par- DAILY WORKER is safe, that our monument to our|cel of the capitalist system as a comrade, Ruthenberg, stands secure against every storm.| whole, we have in certain countries Communicate immediately regarding all the details of|created a movement which has be- this plan with Bert Miller, the business manager of|come another strong link in the chain The DAILY WORKER, 33 First street, New York City.|of labor solidarity. ' « This | ee: (or { Religion Wars Fruitlessly Against Science. | Subscribe to “The Daily Worker” a wood stove for cooking, which makes the little house unbearable in the famous Florida summers, Here live a young white couple with a little son, But they never seem to be alone, All winter the young man’s mother, who is a widow and an invalid, and her little girl as well as an uncle of the family, find a home in this tiny house, There is a dredger out on the beach which has reclaimed the land é : $2.50 a day. ¥ Huge Raise For Court} Clerks ALBANY, N. Y., March 10,—Clerks of the New York municipal court would receive $4,500 a yea¥ and their deputies and assistants edch would receive $4,000 annually uncer a sal- ary inerease bill introduce legislature today by Senato dan, democrat, New York. At all receive $3,000. a year, 4