The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 12, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50, six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 Address all mail and make out checks to , THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE °° BERT MILLER.. Editors . Business Manager Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N, Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. fin ale ——=— Fascism and the Anisterdam International. So disgraceful and disastrous has been the surrender to Mus- solini of D’Arragona and his followers in the Italian Confederation of Labor to the workers of Italy and the international labor move- ment that even the reformist leaders of the International Federa- tion of Labor (Amsterdam) have been moved to protest. The strength of the protest is weakened, however, by the fact that Amsterdam utilizes the incident to take a crack at the Com- munists. This is accomplished by the simple method of denoune- ing the tactic of boring from within the fascist “unions” as if this was the mistake made by D’Arragona and other reformist Italian trade union leaders. The difference between the Communist workers who became members of the fascist unions and D’Arragona is that the Com- munists joined to work for the destruction of fascism while the reformist leaders capitulated to fascist dictatorship. Today the leadership of the struggle against fascism is in the Advertising rates on application. | i | | | THE FARMERS WILL REMEMBER | FOOTNOTES TO THE NEWS ew BY EUGENE LYONS sme! A report has it that Texas Guinan and Aimee McPher- son will tour the country together. If true it marks a great advance in the technique of soul-saving and one that is quite in line with general industrial tendencies. Under the old system people sinned in one place and were saved in an- other. But with Texas and Aimee setting up shop together one could save as fast as the other turns them out. Busi- ness should improve at both ends through such concentra- tion of supply and demand. Pee vec) Among the more interesting recent developments has been the united front of the godly. Protestants, Catholics, | Jews are contributing to each other’s charities, chipping | in for each other’s churches, issuing united-front reports on strikes two years after they are over, etc. We have had ‘, railroad mergers, bread mergers, bank mergers. Is a re- | ligious merger in sight? It might be one way to stave off bankruptcy for that obsolete industry a little longer. * * * A constant reader (yes, there is one! and it isn’t nice of you!) advises thusly: “At Temple Emanu-el, where the rich Jews do their duty by a reformed Jehovah, the choir includes a Negro basso and a German Protestant alto. The organist is an American Protestant. There is a rumor that there are also Jews, but that is not as yet verified.” oo) eee hat Our Greenwich Village correspondent alludes to a scandal. An eminent member of the intelligentzia whose reputation heretofore was spotless has been caught in a truth. It will take him years to live it down. * . . hands of the Communist Party of Italy and the struggle itself is| carried on by the Communist workers and the wide masses of the | Italian working class that endorse and support the Communist | Signs of spring: a) Hedgehogs. program. 3 It is not because the reformist leaders advised their followers to join the fascist union that they betrayed the whole labor move- ment but because they abandoned the struggle against fascism— gave no program and leadership to the workers who were and are ready to fight Mussolini and the black reaction he represents. The Amsterdam statement lauds the Italian labor leaders (re- formists) who have gone into exile but it does not mention the hundreds of Communist workers who have been jailed and tor- tured and murdered and the others who stay in Italy in spite of the daily danger to life and liberty and carry on the fight. The workers and peasants of Italy will free themselves from fascism by supporting the Communist program and by no other means. Truth in the Chicago Tribune. Ruthenberg and the Labor Party | By WILLIAM Z, FOSTER. HE death of Comrade C. E. Ruth- | 1 enberg, who was cut down in the prime of life and in the fullness of News Item.—Cal Coolidge is planning to spend his vacation in the West. jing class. It keeps open the very | veins of the workers for an influx | of poisonous and demoralizing prop-| |aganda. from the capitalists. It | strikes from the hands of the work- | the LaFollette campaigns; and fi- nally, we tended somewhat to mini- mize the applicability of the labor party slogan. Sometimes these errors were made b) The daily story about Coolidge’s vacation plans. MOTHER GOOSE ON THE HIGH COST OF LIVING p Mary had a little lamb, You often have heard tell; Now Mary has no little lamb Because lamb is high as hell. ss 2. Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet Wishing for grub and sweets; Out came her mammy and said “Oh damn me! Again you must go without eats.” | ' FRANK ENGLISH. The Chicago Tribune is a policy paper—that is, all its ma: | bis service to the workers, comes as|ers the weapon of the powerful poli-| by the party as a whole, sometimes NE i . . x 4 * * vice|@ great shock to our party. It is a/ tical organization they should have.| only by sections of it. But finally, | B terial from news stories to editorials, health department, ad grave loss which we can ill afford| The formation of a mass’ labor| by dint of rich experience and the | DUM BELLES—LETTRES to the lovelorn and the “colyum” are made to conform to the view- | point of the industrial lords of the middle west in whose interest The Tribune is published. |to sustain. The American working class is notoriously weak in leader- | ship. Hence the loss of a leader in | party will represent a great step for- ward by the working class. The la-| ‘bor party will emphasize class lines | But occasionally a slip-up occurs as on March 10 when the the cause like Ruthenberg, intelli-| on the political field and will give an| Tribune published the following, headed “Strong Government Seen Developing in China War,” without comment: Spurred by a new national patriotism which the rest of the world has considered impossible, China promises to de- velop a strong central government out of the present civil war, Lieut. Col. C. C. Haffner told members of the Military Intelligence association at a meeting yesterday in the Hotel La Salle. Organization of ignorant coojies and farmers into unions based on the soviet system, capable of political action, «has given the southern government the real nationalistic im- pulse which probably will establish a strong national govern- ment in southern and central China and then spread north, Col. Haffner said. Those who understand the technique of newspaper production | will realize at once how this happened. The copy-rsader’s eye went no farther than the sixth and seventh lines, caught the name of the speaker and that of the organization he was addressing and concluded quite naturally that nothing said by such an individual | to such an audience could be otherwise than 100 per cent against anything and everything not 100 per cent American. Even the Military Intelligence association will be suspected for a time by the Tribune and a copy-reader will probably be look- ing for a job. Truth and The Tribune are bitter foes. |CURRENT EVENTS ByT.J. O'FLAHERTY gent, devoted, untiring, and a clear- | seeing Marxist, leaves a gap in our |ranks that weakens the whole front Aging the enemy. He Was Trained Leninist. Comrade Ruthenberg devoted the} best years of his life to the educa- | tion and organization of the masses / of workers for their struggle against | | capitalism. He was a trained Lenin-| |ist. Not alone did he understand the |necessity of educating and uniting |the workers for the final overthrow |of capitalism and the establishment {of Communism, but also that this {edn be done effectively only by the |revolutionists participating actively {in the every-day struggles of the | workers in order to give them prac- | tical leadership, organization and in- struction in. these battles, Comrade Rathenberg had an espe- | cially keen realization of the role of the labor partyin the great task of ideologically and organizationally uniting the masses of workers nist Party. The affiliation of the vast masses of workers to the capi- | talist parties stands as a tremendous | barrier to the progress of the work- against capitalism and laying thej| basis for the eventual mass Commu-| (Continued from Page One) oration on its program for next Sun- day afternoon at 1 p. m., in the Star Casino. Every reader of the Daily Worker should honor the Commun- ards by their presence on Sunday speaks German and does not give a darn whose ears are offended. The Nietsche. spectable The Germans are now re- because they have not A Severe Blow. enormous stiteulation will to the de- velopment of ‘glass consciousness and | class organization. The working class, thus cutting mafly of the treacherous class colla- boration entanglements which now enmesh it and keep it helpless in-the | grip of capitalism will begin to tread | faster than ever the road of class| struggle which leads finally to a| |Communist mass party and the over- throw of capitalism. This was one of the many great lyssons which Comrade Ruthenberg never ceased in pressing upon our party. He was an untiring advocate of the labor party. | Sees Mistakes Liquidated. The problem of finding the best way for the building of a labor party in the United States is a difficult one. Many factors conspire to make | it complicated. And in working it out we have made many mistakes. At first we tended to ignore the im- portance of the labor party move- ment; later, awakening to it and sud- denly, we tended to push the pro- gressives faster than they would go in forming a party. Then, reaching hard for mass contacts, we almost drifted into ah opportunist policy in polite diplomats of ‘the former allied pf “ ” nations no longer talk of the “Huns”; or ers lI } e O ar I } neither do capitalist scribblers quote | - working class movement—and there- guidance of the Comintern, we have liquidated these mistakes and have | arrived at a correct united front la- | bor party policy. Our party is) awake to the impertance of the issue and we understand how best to struggle for its realization under the given conditions. In all these labor party develop- ments, which rank among the most vital experiences in the life of our Workers (Communist) Party, Com- rade Ruthenberg played a central role. His influence in solving the many complex problems confronting us was invaluable. And in the appli- cation of the labor party policy» he was indefatigable. Never an occa- sion was allowed to pass but what he pressed upon the workers the vital necessity of organizing the labor party and he gave them practical guidance in this task through our} party. Whoever speaks of the labor party in America must acknowledge | the work of Comrade Ruthenberg. Comrade Ruthenberg is gone. The great cause for which he labored so loyally must eontinue. The masses of workers myst be educated and or- ganized for their final emancipation. Let us, therefore, apply ourselves to the work with renewed determina- tion, drawing fresh courage and in- spiration from the rich life work of Comrade Ruthenberg. Pioneers Pledge to Carry on Fight. (FORMERLY “LETTERS TO A LUNATIC”) | Dear Lester: Hello Lester darling. Here I am sitting down to write again } though really and truly there is not much news to tell you. Be- cause mostly eVerybody is busy explaining the student suicides and hasn’t time for nothing else. I mean the way boys have been killing theirselves on account of life being so useless and futile. My brother Perey says it’s all a put-up job for publicity for the ministers and Fannie Hurst and Otto Kahn so they can write into the papers about it. But Percy was always a great kidder. n He also says that Dr. Fishbein is very optimistic. I mean when || he said the other day that ten years from now there will be ten ay million imbeciles if something isn’t done about quack doctors. Per- | sonally I think that’s pessimistic, don’t you? But Percy says that | there are twenty million imbeciles in the country now, so we should | be thankful to the quacks if they reduce the number. I also want to tell you some of the news as best I can. } In the first place you will be glad to learn that Coolidge moved to a nice new house in Washington. It belongs to a man named Schlesinger so everybody is afraid Coolidge will lose the Ku Klux Klan vote but he is going to move soon to the west where men are men and women aren't. (That’s one of Percy’s wisecracks. Every- body in the Green Cat in Greenwich Village laughed at it, though I don’t see anything funny.) Coolidge will take twelve weeks va- cation to watch the farmers work and the farmers will be so pleased they won’t mind his not signing somé bill or other. Also congress closed for the spring and summer and winter after they passed the ‘ filibuster. A Russian by the name of Kerensky arrived in town on a secret mission to raise money for himself. Also William Green, the labor | leader, is in town to tell the mayor all about how Moscow tried to corrupt the New York police. They shoot people over there for bribery, in Moscow I mean, then they do such a thing to us, which all goes to show, doesn’t it. Harry Daugherty, by the way, was freed again from the charge that he conspired with Miller to skin the government and Miller got eighteen months in prison for it. Isn’t it wonderful how many innocent people there are in our coun- try? You'd never think it from the looks of things. You will also be glad to learn that this government has decided | — not to take over Nicaragua. The president of that country and the congress too have been begging us to take them over but Coolidge said nothing doing. So we are sending more and more marines into Nicaragua to stay there and prevent them from joining the U. S. A. by force. That’s about all for now, Lester darling, because I afternoon. * * * turned “red” and because they have| STREET NUCLEUS 1, Wood-|fore will be haled with joy by the} Young Pioneers, Stamford, Conn.— + fi Z { APITALIST statesmen continue to | uns, men and some money.,/ Here is |]awn, Pa.—‘We mourn the death of | master class. “The Stamford, Conn., section of the can't find sirazor to sharpen my ‘pencil, So: long gear, } babble about peace at Geneva while |@ chance for a good poet {not good | our gallant and brave leader, Com-| “We resolve that the best method | Young Pioneers wishes to express its Your own their governments continue to build |in the Quaker Sunday School sense) | rade Charles E. Ruthenberg. — His|of commemorating the revolutionary |deepest sorrow and heartfelt grief MYRTLE. | battleships. The British government plans an addition of twenty new war craft to its naval flotillas and cor- dially accepts Coolidge’s proposal for a naval partial disarmament confer- ence with the proviso that nothing. should be discussed that would weak- en British sea power. Coolidge lets it be known that unless the powers accept his policy the United States will embark on a naval-building pro- gram that will make the rest of the world pop-eyed, Just as we said. ‘The proposal was a fake put forward to justify such a program. * * * S® SAMUEL HOARE boasted of the success achieved by a squad- ron of British airmen in subduing a “4 r ‘ of A bombs, Hoare informed the house of | ferences, disarmaments, is so much|'¢ ©XPloiting class. On aad rade, Ruthenberg, we must close the} | to happen. . . . The signs of heaven's foiled inten are ¢ommons that when the tribesmen were driven into caves by the bombs they were driven out again by fleas. perialism. mma OREIGN Minister Stresemann of Germany is lording it over the Keague of Nations at this session. He er to picture the indignation of an allied | sudden death came as a severe blow soldier now in hell or in some equally | to us.as well as to the militant work- agreeable place, who died to save|ing class movement, and especially the world from German militarism, |to the party that represents the van- on hearing from a new arrival that| guard of the American working Stresemann of Germany was defend-| class, He is dead, but his memory ing the pacifist aims of Great Britain | and career will inspire us on to the at the league session. NE brief glance at any capitalist paper today should convince even an addict of the kind of liberalism that is purveyed by The Nation that nothing is more certain than another world war within a comparatively short period of time. The poison gas experts of all imperialist powers are working day and night, perfecting the most deadly gases for the next, world carnage. The nerves of all governments are exceedingly jumpy. smoke set up to sereen the aims of the governments from the masses. * * * or more hostile powers or perhaps from Communism, which means from the rule of the workers and farmers. The two deadliest indictments of im- perialism are war and unemployment. achievement of our goal.” PRE Oe Will Live On, GREEK FRACTION, New York. — “We mourn the sudden death of our comrade, C, E. Ruthenberg, one of our most militant leaders, at the prime of his life. ising champion of the working class. He will always live in our hearts and serve as an inspiration and example Build the Ranks of the Communist Party. ‘ The Central Nucleus of the Work- death is a severe blow to the party, to the international revolutionary movement and to the working class everywhere, We declare that this will be felt throughout the entire “Ruthenberg was the uncomprom- | deeds of Comrade Ruthenberg is to build more solidly the ranks of the Workers (C nist) Party, of which Comrade Ruthenberg was exe- cutive secretary and to which he had devoted his life since the organiza- tion of the Communist Party in America.” . * * * “Build Communist Party and Free Working class.” “The City Executive Committee of the Workers Party Elizabeth, N. J. in behalf of its members, mourns the untimely death of our beloved leader, Comrade ©, E, Ruthenberg. And at his grave we close our ranks and pledge to build the Communist Party of America and liberate the working “Realize His Ideals.” LITHUANIAN WOMEN’S AL- LIANCE, Pittsburgh, Pa, — “The ican working class. We call upon all working women to follow the ideals of Comrade Ruthenberg, which are the ideals of Lenin and the Communist International.” all SAP < emaaahanart over the news of the death of our beloved leader and dear comrade, Ru- thenberg. “The loss of such a fearless and courageous fighter and devoted com- rade to our cause will be deeply felt thruout and within the ranks of our Pioneer organization. » “We promise faithfully and loyally to stand by and recruit more Pio- neers into our organization in order to produce such brave and able lead-|, ers as Comrade Ruthenberg.” * * * Cablegram from Moscow. Haywood, Jones, Croll, Desalines, Nelson, Bankole; Moscow, U,S.S.A. —“We grieve loss of an able leader gap in our ranks and relentlessly ee for the victory of world revo- jution.” 4 York—“We grieve the loss to the la- bor movement of this country in the death of Comrade C, E. Ruthenberg one of the leaders in the front ranks of the working class,” FROM A GALLERY OF FUTILITIES.’ 2. Nearly a Hero. Manifestly Percy was born to play a romantic role in _ life, but in a piece, alas! which has never come off. There { is about him a persistent sense of imminent adventure. He } moves through an atniosphere charged with drama, tangy ) , with the aromas of new excitements. You'feel that it \ just the smallest spark to touch it off... . But ever happens. He is keyed-up for something big, impetuous, cyclonic . . . poised for action . . . the great gest the stirring speech hovering on the very brink of tion. . . . Once you become aware of this arrested a in Percy, this quivering unreleased adventure, you un-_ | 1} \y 1h \ | upon him, even as he sits there in the cafe, a little bored, a little high-strung, a little nervous . . . a hero in the fet- ters of common circumstance. i } ‘ more “eer ’ ° ited | Bits ahaa ment [Talat thst eer rm of, Mlle Lunn Woman Pree | ust pers tien Besenve | And somehow Perey blunders into more and more o j zation! Yet we are decidedly of. the | person killed in that debacle ten lives gpk Pathanbech’s ee ee pron a pd: yo of C. EB, Ruthen- Message. these fetters. At thirty he has a shrewish wife, three chil opinion that subject peoples will free | will be hfe baop Op ues: the morning. berg, which was a great loss to the| Executive Cloak Skirt Dress Pres-| _. dren, cumulative debts. . . . And each additional restrain. tery hans i [lean et Wetec Rotatr'saniy rosa vangrg ,Ame |e Un rl Tafa Now| makes the setae of dangerously suspended hero) mor excruciating to look upon...a dam about to give way ... a mountain about to topple over . . . the sizzle of a bomb about to go off... . . No wonder everybody runs. by