The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1927, Page 4

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1927 He Challenged the Ruling Class | IN MEMORY OF COMRADE C. E. RUTHENBERG cies sek |they wave their hands and handker- bravery of it. It will be the curse By ANTHONY BIMBA. chiefs, some of the handkerchiefs|of my life for the rest of my days T was in the summer of 1917. This| Were red ... 1 push thru the crowd/that I murdered a human being | country was already in the clutches| Still closer to the platform of the|thus.’ That is what conscription | of the World War. The conscription | automobile from which the speakers |means to the youth of this nation.” law had been enacted by congress.|8%e addressing the demonstration. [| Then he appealed to the audience ‘The militarists were working over-|@™ very close to the platform . ++ |to get rid of the ‘bourgeois govern- Ss * 'time to whip the masses behind the| 1 see a finely built figure arise . ../ ment and abdlish the conditions | } Editors lwar monster, The horizon was very |1t is Comrade Charles E. Ruthenian vee make vax possible. | A i. a te etic Ty sre|+ + + That was the first time in my} ve must organize our forces to , anys 4 a | Resales.) ae ahi Pasi Pa tawdeee mel life that I saw him, Tho I had been| meet the situation,” comrade Ruth Ss week Bk baci Pig ceedi far newspapers all over the country | @ member of the Socialist Party for | enberg shouted to his listeners. _,W® | Wednesday and Thursday matinees; | were spreading the poisonous pro- | quite some time, did not have an} must organize our power to alter “Inheritors,”. Tuesday and ‘Thursday war propaganda with full speed. | opportunity to see him... He moves | this situation. .. . We are here to} nights pea Saturday Snatines:".. Weds ‘At that time I was in Cleveland,| his head slowly from one direction fight to the end, to end this condi- nesday night “Three Sisters”: Satur- The -socialists of Cleveland decided | to another and surveys the audience/ tion in the world, to build a new s0-| day night “The Master Builder”. | to organize an anti-war demonstra-| With his half-closed, but far-seeing ciety, to build a new spirit in the)” phoma ea tion in order ‘to raise a voice of pro- | and piercing eyes. His face is radi-| world, to end wars, to end murder, test against the conscription law. ated with an ever-present smile, but | to end suffering, to end the destruc- It is Sunday afternoon about 2 his forehead is wrinkled, he is very | tion of millions of lives and billions | ct pect and “The Mystery Ship” at o'clock. I hurried to the public| Serious ... I forgot myself and the of wealth, and bring into existence | ;)., Gleviok: square on West 24th Street. audience .entitely,: (My oves. and-any:i DEW comrnceaip “Ota Mis, SUSEKS 8 Ny a niind are on this wonderful man, He/| brotherhood which must inspire the : ‘ _ ,.,,,vaises his hands indieating the great|hearts and minds of all men, in _ I was on time, The workers are! sidience stop the applause and per-| which we will have fraternity and! pygapest underworld is bel Bhan just beginning “to pour into the! nit him to speak... A few seconds| equality, and in which for the first |"? murda techn Sect apd square. The square itself is very|... a ‘ ‘ a ay, a¢ the Capitol Theatre this week ; “tig sur. P2ssed and absolute silence embraced | time the people will be endowed with 551, Gilbert, Renee Adoree! and! Lied oni ivatter pcoaieteaaa re the square, He glances around more | those inalienable rights of life, lib- : 1 | this. wi ro ed y rick walls. er 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 “The Brothers Karamazov” is the} bill at the. Guild, and “The Silver) Cord” at the Golden this week. The | Piranedello play, “Right You Are If| |You Think You Are,” will be given | | at special matinees Tuesday, Wednes- day and Friday at the Guild Theatre. Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE BERT MILLER Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879, Advertising rates on application. | ——s The Civic Repertore program for | Bs. A Few Punctured Myths There was in existence until recently a well-nourished myth that the Chinese people were incurable pacifists and good for little except washing the white man’s shirt, who carried the yel low man’s burden producing rice and tea and propagating their kind. Another myth, which still persists, is that they will not fight on a rainy day. Strange that the imperialist powers do not prevail on their deity to maintain a perpetual drizzle not heavy enough to make it impossible for the imperialists to live in comfort Two openings are scheduled for this evening, “Menace” at the 49th ON ‘THE SCREEN “The Show”, a romance of the ee in “Birds of Passage,” Is the a new drama of the tropics, being presented at.the Bronx Opera House. star | Lionel Barrymore head the cast. sat . * A "4 more. Then he speaks. .. I admire|erty and happiness which the De- | a — “ - yet sufficiently substantial to prevent the Chinese from resorting two sides are streets, along one of ji. Voice, Eyerybody can hear each |claration of Independence says are | OLR aa se Re the film feature at the Hippodrome to hostilities. them a stréet car is running. I see) wor: |, | the fundamental rights. of every hu-| y . “| this week. {lin in “McFadden’s Flats” the new isereen comedy showing at Moss’) Broadway Theatre this week. | many policemen and cossacks, doz-| ens of them, surrounding the square | He is a giant. . ... His personality,,; man being. We ask you to stand ‘A ea ‘a { the | Bis smile, his voice, his thoughts, the with us. We ask you to work with from two sides. The horses of the/ very simplicity of his speech capti-|us to achieve this beautiful goal of hi go'M, Coben, Dh cossacks are very impatient. helt’ vates the audience. They could not! Socialism, the ,brotherhood of man—| “The Epie.of M. E en ae own at the George M. Cohen Thea- masters are also ‘very serious * # | for today, ver b <i | ie Iupic . 0! ount Everest,” will) ire, beginning to-morrow night. ts : help but listen to wlat he has to/for today, as never before, rings out} bs i) i ++ They are awaiting their chance lin the world the cry of the poet of | Be presented by: the Film Associatés a : | ke «for special showings at the Fifth| "| Avenue Playhouse, beginning March | When the Chinese were enjoying a reputation for pacifism, missionaries flocked to them with bibles, business men with rum and opium and soldiers with bayonets and bombs, The preachers turned their eyes to heaven and asked their deity to transform the Confucians into christians, the business men doped their brains and tickled their palates and hoped that. Jehovah would varamount’s newest and latest fea- |ture, “The Rough Riders”, will be say to them. | | “My friends and comrades,” says the social revolution: VAUDEVILLE THEATRES Hundreds of workers, men women! ee transform them into hopheads and drunkards. Those that sur- vived the attentions of the preachers and the bagmen were ini- tiated into the mysteries of bayonet practice by the soldiers. The and children, continue to pour into} the square. It is filled . . . and still} more people are arriving. There is comrade Ruthenberg, “this is not a| war for democracy. This is not a war for freedom. It is not a war fer the liberties of mankind. It is) “Come shoulder to shoulder Ere the world grows older. The cause spreads over land and) MOSS’ BROADWAY Ann Codee; Ibach’s Entertainers; Florence Vernon and Company; The Three Sailors; The Four of Us. 21. The chief features of the program 3 ‘ ip pian Pinae eeaes, no more place on the square, every), way ¢ : : | sea, |at the Roxy’s, Broadway's newest PALACE course in applied ho Somirgce he complete. italist ai ncidichs inch is occupied. The police would oratita Crit tie ee ar te Now the earth shaketh and fear| movie palace, are. Gloria Swanson’s| Centennial week celebrating the The Chinese learned that clergymen, capitalists and soldiers yo¢ permit anyone to stand on the Daunte: 4s cate lanty seas dacarel awaketh, |latest production, “The Love of Sun-| 100th birthday of American variety— have a habit of picking on the meek so they took their trusted bayonets and returned the compliment, much to the disgust of those who were obliged to turn around and reclassify the hither- to meek and lowly Chinese. Now the Chinese are “militarists” ‘and there is no distinction made between those fighting to expel the imperialist powers and free the masses from oppression and those who are the tools of the imperialist powers engaged in the task of keeping the masses in subjection. The myth that the Chinese do not fight while it rains still persists in the news columns. But we have our doubts. We learn by accident that the Nationalists are preparing for another ad- -yance by artillery preparation even though the floodgates of the! send iat aie ‘ christian heaven are leaking. And while the Nationalists are thus gomnebinly: tie: to eiivdat thee, mee engaged Chang Chung-Chang, the militarist general, who promised jead them in this great fight, to en- to defend Shanghai against the revolutionary army, is engaged courage them, to point the way out in plundering the bankers of Nanking and planning to walk away | of the horrors of war. They knew and allow the Nationalists to enter the city quietly as soon as he that there is a maf in Cleveland who street. The enormous crowd is very quiet. No provocation of the police can ex- jcite it. It understands the occasion and knows its purpose. Comrade Alfred | Wagenknecht! opens the meeting. plains the aim of the demonstration. | Then he introduces the speakers. If my memory is correct—Baker and Cliford spoke. | applause. But I noticed on the faces of those They received some | |in this war now is because it is to| |the interests of the ruling class, the | | capitalist class of this country wants | | to have us in this war... The capi-| talists were ready and willing to send} jthe youth of this, nation into this| horrible nightmare of murder, to kill! He briefly ex-| and to be killed, in order that their | profits might be conserved... .” | * * * He told the audience that the American capitalists made over five | billion dollars of profit from the war|hearts of the audience composed en- pr already and when the German sub-|tirely of workers. He pleaded with, | Huntley Gordon, in the chief roles, ‘marines threatened to put an end to! |the exportation of ammunition to}! |England and France, thef dragged | |the country into war. Then he de- | seribed the horrors of war by telling | And joy at last for thee and me.”) “Joy at last for thee and me—of | Jeanne Gordon. the working class, because, for the | first time there will come into the} world this new spirit of love, equality, fraternity, and peace.” ” * Thus he concluded. and happiness | * | It was a great | anti-war speech: It is true that he |Jeading lady. did not deal with the theory of the question. He went directly, in the he appealed to them, he painted to| them the horrors'of war, he asked | and urged ‘them 'to organize them-| selves and overthrow the ruling class. | Again a great demonstration took | never failed them before and will|2 Story of @ youth who came back| place; applauding, shouting, waving | collects $6,000,000. The northern militarists may have a decided) curely not fail them now in this|{t0™ War maimed and crushed. This|of hats and handkerchiefs. The auto- | ebjection to fighting while it rains but they would just as soon crisis, He must’ speak today. ... take an honest penny in the wet as make hay while the sun shines.| Comrade Wagenknecht speaks: \ The present revolutionary movement in China has killed al- hag ne we have a man with us ‘most as many myths as militarists. What the capitalist literary ua) ial ieee tet eee wc he hacks do not understand is that there ‘is a new China in the mak-) speaker today is Charles FE, Ruthen- ‘ing. The old China of the shackled limb and the ‘hopped head is berg, the candidate of: the Socialist *going. The new China of the emancipated masses is being born. |Party for mayor of . . .” |youth was told that to kill human beings in war is a heroic deed. His! mother waited for him to come. She| | wanted to salutethim for his bravery, |for his patriotism, “But the young man laid his head down in her lap,” says Ruthenberg,” and put his face on his hands. and began to weep and ' mobile began to move. Comrade Ruthenberg waved his hat to the crowd. They responded with great- est enthusiasm. Hundreds of us fol- lowed the automobile for blocks, and |then finished the demonstration with a mass meeting at the party head-| quarters. of | John Barrymore is playing at the ya”, and “Carmen” a Vitaphone sub- Blossom Seeley with Benny Fields, ject with Giovanni Martinelli and! Charles Bourne and Phil Ellis; Van- nessi and The Diplomats; Leo Car- rolli; The Four Mortons; Dewey Bar- to and George Mann; Arthur and Morton Havel; Fred Galetti and Iola Kokin; the Andressens. “The Beloved Rogue,” starring Strand Theatre this week. This makes the third production in which Barrymore appears ‘currently on! Broadway. Marceline Day, is his HIPPODROME O’Hanlon and. Zambuni and their |Argentine orchestra; Margaret Ro- maine Willie, West and McGinty; Art {Frank and Harriet Towne; Dixie Four; The Three Kemmys; Billie Dove in “The Sensation Seekers.” “Sensation Seekers,” a Universal ‘oduction with Billie Dove and ‘Theatre Guild Acting Company in BROTHERS KARAMAZOV Week Mar. 21—Pysmalion | GUILD Mate ‘chute, and Sate 2 THE SILVER CORD Week March 21—Ned MeCobb's Da c $. H.of B’y [Circle John Golden otha ac Bact Tere Neighborhood Playhouse Ea escooe PINWHEEL Drydock 7616. Every Eve. (Except Mon.). Mat. Sat. THEA, West 42nd St. HARRIS twice Daily, 2:30 & 8:36 WHAT PRICE GLORY u t Mts.’ i a ; Bags said: ‘Mother, T cannot think of it, ii ji A. H. Woods presents| Mats. (exc. Sat.) 50c-$1. Eves. 500-89 *This is gloomy tidings for the exploiters of the world. It is joy-| oe = | cannot think of the look carthat an faba ro pony ene fond big taagh Tew PRAY WHIGHTS thea, ‘ful. news for the oppressed peoples and exploited workers of all| He could not finish his sentence,| young, man’s face—young man just|made in some other place on the \EYE®- ‘g:80. ates RI M E Band Thea, 206 West|Mats. Thurs. i lands. or, at least, I could not hear him fin-| as I, a young man who might have|same subject, Comrade Ruthenberg write pn Tae & Cheater Morsta, | 27 Ae So eer sone is \ish it, It seemed that the whole} been a happiness and joy to me—|was arrested, convicted and served| — es LOUDSPEAKER? 5,021 Lawson nee set ete gine bea ap-| when I put thagbayonet in him and/|ten months in prison. EARL V: . ti “GARTH” resumes Thursday. jause 0! jousands of men and wo-| tool i i it H £. : ook Two Informers Come to Town ee pg el gg Kk his life away from him. Do not| This great anti-war demonstration| CARROLL . anil 1eS Civic Repertory Sor $A¥..& 14,8t talk to me about the glory of the| lead by our beloved, fearless leader, i ., Thea., 7th Ave. & 50th St. One of the hong anaganged Siete — ia. certainly the Shout and sing as loud as they can, deed. Do not talk to me about the’ is still fresh in my memory. Karl Carroll rats’ thurs, & Sat. 2:36 feosiohes ALE CATERER Bowe most unique—in the history of the American trade union move-|~ ‘Tuesday Eve. s “INHERUTORS" ment transpired last Friday when two high officials of the Ameri-| bs “ 3 ” The 1 A D D E R PLYMOUTH Went 4 St Evas. gine can Federation of Labor and several hired hacks arrived in New Or ers ll } e e to ar On Wanponr, Poin St, Rast of |Every Eve. (xe, Thain) Sa ‘Mats. York to confer with the mayor with a view to inducing the latter! Z Bway. Mets. WED, and SAT.) oo. Pik chad ee ae PEN. __ to open an inquiry into the conduct of a successful strike waged or _ + flast message to close it ranks and| teachings with us and he will be our Oyen ea E PIRATES ZANCE % by the Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union against the enya ye agi hig dos : as carry on, eet spiritual leader in the* future, Thurs. Mats. & Eves, “Iolanthe” in that industry. Russian Bureau Workers Party = s ht “We. will always remember that TW SHES Eres BN Ms 20 e William Green, president of the A. F. of L., and Matthew District 1, Boston:—“It is with deep ‘Our Great Teacher.” Comrade Ruthenberg was a builder) PRICES EVES, $1.10 TO $3.85. | WALLACK’S Wet, tend. street. “gavree burial, % . . row that we lea: f th timel; ‘Woll, vice-president, assumed the role of stoolpigeons of a par- bee Ge pak: "dens Combate. Cisse _ ticularly odious kind when they supplied the official of a capi-|£. Ruthenberg, the general secretary ‘talist city government with information calculated to show that of the party. With the death of the strike leaders bribed police officers during the course of the Comrade Charles E. arpeer yt our strike. This is the first time that such a disgraceful incident penigeiadendiiah Rie Dai ae, _ happened in the United States, at least openly. We have seen only for the toiling of American, but A. F. of L. officials break strikes with hired scabs but it seems |for the entire world. to us the limit of degeneracy has been reached when two such) members officials as Green and Woll scab on the fink agencies in tele | 0°) Pe tee Ter desire to prove their loyalty to the Wall Street bankers. lee pledge pacar oe iiae That Green and Woll could do such a thing without being}the great work with unwavering chased out of town by an indignant trade union movement gives a/faith and energy for the cause which picture of the depth to which the trade union bureaucracy has| Comrade aie cn gruvetan | —- sunk and the demoralizing effect the corrupted officialdom has |Sby Diet Me 1 os hai apy or on the yank and file. | mourning calls upon all of its mem- The tasks of the left wing of the trade union movement are | bers to rally still closer to the ban- many and burdensome. There can no longer be any doubt that/ner of our party in order that we the bureaucrats are agents of the employing class. They must |™4¥ more repay realize the behest be hurled from their positions by the rank and file. They must "tone ive PE Coniwnnlat dies. supplanted by uncorrupted leaders with a vision for a new) ment.” order of things, leaders who are ready for unending war on capi-) - talism. And those new leaders must be supported and kept on| _the straight track by a well disciplined and thinking progressive | _ movement. Scabby labor leaders and stoolpigeons have no place in the _ ranks of American labor. Pat tee “To Carry Forward the Work.” Sub. District No. 1 of McKees- port Pa:—‘Members of the Workers (Communist) Party mourns the loss of our great.leader C. E. Ruthenberg. “We members of the Workers | (Communist) Party of America | pledge ourselves in the name of the There is no fundamental difference between the Chinese} policy of Ramsay MacDonald, Philip Snowden and J. H. Thomas) und the policy of Stanley Baldwin and Austen Chamberlain, des, ' clarés a writer in the New York Times; a writer who knows his/®yal devotion. tripe? They all favor 2efending imperialist interests theré. On| om sigel eiker on dc Meatrn poi heaeedic the same day we read in the New York Tribune that Ramsay Mac-| «tong live The Workers (Commu- ' Donald is planning a visit to the United States and that the more nist) Party. of America!” gressive members of his party are planning to relieve him of | AAS leadership, because of this same fundamental hacen “Heed His Message.” yith-the tory government on China, International Labor Defense, Paca- aes | tello, Ind:—‘In behalf of Pacatello : John H. Walker, president of the Illinois State Federation |r tar es procaniepod eat donee of Labor, has a solution for the coal industry. It is: Less mines, | sorrow with which news of Comrais less miners and more profits. But “Honest John” would com-|Ruthenberg’s death was received. _ pengate property owners whose mines. would: be forced into in-| Realizing he would not have the la- _ uctivity by this solution, For the miners he did not even propose bor movement cease progress even to mourn death of so valuable leader the labor movement should heed his 4 as SS ee Th bia a BE Po ee See “We members of the Russian Bur- American proletariat to carry for-| ward the work in which Comrade | uthenberg showed such fearless and | Shop Neucler No. 2, District 5. Vestaburg, Pa.:—“We contrades have deep sorrow of lossing our great | teacher, our Comrade C. E. Ruthen- berg. Our promise is to continue in. the struggle for which he lived and died.” . *. * Miner Feels The Loss. L. A, ROSELAND, members of the United Mine Workers, Waukegan, Ill.:—“In my simple way, I wish to ;express my great sorrow for the loss |of our leader and Comrade C. E, | Ruthenberg, | “I must admit I was greatly moved when the news came that he was | dead, | “Perhaps I wili only repeat what |hundreds and thousands have stated | before me, but let me say this, that | the services rendered by him to the | working class movement of this coun- try as well as of al lother countries \shall not be forgotten, nor shall the | | great cause for which he lived and | fought for up until his acath have | been in vain, | “Let us fill in the space left by jour devoted brother -and comrade | with redoubled energy in carrying on | the work from where he left off, until our class (the working class) shall rule the world,” ‘ “Ruthenberg Was the Builder of Our Party. Lithudhian Bureau, Workers Par- ty:—“The sudden death of our leader and guide, Comrade C, E, Ruthen- berg, was a great shock to us, and }to all Lithuanian workers in America ‘as well, “Comrade , Ruthenberg was the |leader of our party and the revolu- tionary movement. ‘The death of Comrade Ruthenberg has inflicted a deep pain in our hearts. Ruthenberg ‘ig dead, but his courageous revolu- tionary spirit remains with us, As Comrade Lenin after his death ives always with us and leads us. to Communism, Comrade Ruthenberg will remain in his spirit and his of our party and we will continue to build his party, Workers (Commu- nist) Party. Let us close oru ranks and carry on his work to a final vic- tory, to overthrow capitalism and establish a Workers and Farmers So- viet Republic in the United States, “Comrade Ruthenberg, our leader is dead! Long live the Communist Movement!” “Lithuanian Central Bureau, Work- ers Party.—J. uasiunas, Secretary.” ~ * . * Unexpected Shock. J. A, BLASUTCH, Kellogg, Iowa: —“Such sudden and unexpected shock as the death of our trustworthy leader C. E.* Ruthenberg, which has shocked the whole revolutionary movement in America, and let wish that he will forever and ever to rest and his Work that he left unfinished grow in leap and bounds. “T will extend my sympathy to the | staff his companions.” | “J. A. Blasutch, Kellogg, Towa.” f * * * | \ | L. A. Roseland, member of the | (United Mine Workers, Waukegan, Ill. —In my simple way, I wish to ex- press my great sorrow for the loss of | our leader and comrade, C. E. Ruthen- | “T must admit I was greatly moved when the news came that he was) dead. “Perhaps I will only repeat what | hundreds and thousands haye stated before me; but let me say this, that the services rendered by him to the | working class movement of this coun- | try as well as of all other countries, | shall not be forgotten, nor shall the | great cause for which he lived and— fought for up until his death have | been in vain. “Let us fill in the'space left by our. devoted brother and comrade with re- doubled energy in carrying on the work from where he left off, until our class (the working class) shall rule the world.” Roll in the Subs For The DAILY | WORKER, Mats. Tues., Wed., Thurs, and Sat. What Anne Brought Home A New Comedy Drama Read The Dai 149th St Bronx Opera House }‘°t , Street, Pop. Prices. Mat. Wed. & Sat. MARY NASH I ; “BIRDS OF "PASSAGE” ly Worker Every Day The Manager's Corner WAYS TO REMEMBER. I have just come from a number of meetings at which ' thousands of workers most deeply and profoundly moved by the death of Comrade Ruthenberg, came together to honor his memory. While the grief everywhere was genuine and spontaneous, yet it is significant to note that everywhere the tendency was to express this grief in the form of some real contribution toward the movement for which he stood. The idea of the RUTHENBERG DAILY WORKER SUSTAIN- ING FUND was therefore received cordially as a natural channel for the expression of the feeling of the assembled workers. The idea of the RUTHENBERG DAILY WORKER SUS- TAINING FUND in brief is this.. Comrade Ruthenberg looked upon The DAILY WORKER as an indispensable weapon in the struggle of the American working class for emancipation. Few comrades in the party or outside of it, can realize how much time and effort he gave to the paper. Few comrades can estimate what Ruthenberg meant to The’ DAILY WORKER in its many difficult and trying hours. In the opinion of many comrades it was therefore felt to be ‘ most appropriate that The DAILY WORKER SUSTAIN. NG | FUND be named in his honor. } Furthermore it was felt generally that in view of |the great service rendered to our movement and to The DAILY’ WORKER, in particular, that this fund be devoted to the task of improving the paper, to hiring additional a end talent, to securing such attractive and necessary features as news correspondents in foreign lands, regular cartoon serv- ice, a popular science column, proletarian stories, comics, and raising the standard of the paper generally. No comrade can feel that he has done his full share to honor the memory of Comrade Ruthenberg without enrolling himself in. the ranks of the contriltors to the RUTHEN- BERG DAILY WORKER SUSTAINING FUND. w ea te ‘y BERT MILLER, ,