The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 15, 1927, Page 4

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH Is, 1927 Forge the Iron Unity of the Party! HE District Executive Committee, District No. 8, Chicago, mourn the loss of the leader of our Workers (Communist) Party and of the working class, Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg. We pledge to follow in his footsteps. We pledge to carry out his last will: to close our ranks, to meet unitedly the attacks of our enemies, to fight on and to win the struggle against the most power- Page Four 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 We pledge our solid support to the Central Ex- ecutive Committee of our Party in their great and difficult task, made more difficult thru this irreparable loss. We pledge to build our Workers (Communist) Party, the American section of the Communist International, and to draw thousands of new re-| yolutionary recruits into its ranks, for only in “Earth” Weighs God in the Balance and Finds Him Wanting WILHELM FURTWAENGLER Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } Reviewed by HARBOR ALLEN. As it is produced by New Play- WILLIAM F. DUNNE (ort serene ree metas ful imperialism. In the course of this struggle | this way can we fill the loss our Party has suf-|,ients 52nd Street Theatre, ERE Say BORT MILDER (i: ss cisberescseys Business Manager we will mobilize and lead the great masses of the | fered thru the death of Comrade Ruthenberg. “Earth,” by Em Jo Basshe, has its faults. It is crowded on a shallow stage, much of its fineness is lost by an inexperienced cast in the beat of | tom-toms and the rattle of gourds, | its speeches grow monotonous for| length, its singing stops the story. Yet it remains a great play. A white man speaks “In Abra- Comrades of District No. 8! Close your ranks, forge the iron unity of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party. Forward with closed ranks under | the leadership of our Central Executive Com- mittee and of the Communist International to} new struggles and to final victory. Long live the leader of the world revolution, |) oi CBee webecer dates the Communist International! |a Negro strips off the white veneer Adopted unanimously, Arne Swabeck, general and goes black. The greatness of American working class, as he taught us to | mobilize and lead them to final victory. | His untimely death has left a gap in the ranks | of the revolutionary working class movement which was hitherto filled by a comrade and leader shali . + | in the struggle whose integrity, rebel courage, The Responsibility for Chinese Massacres. _ | determination, fearless adherence to the princi- Admiral Latimer, an American naval officer, commander-in- ples of cause of Communism earned for him and chief of the battlefleets of the imperialist powers in Chinese wa-| our Party the respect and following of broad sec- ters by virtue of superior rank, the foreign residents of Shanghai, | tions of the working class. secretary. | “Earth” lies in the fact that its Ne- Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. , es. Advertising rates on application, Ses ED Memorial Meeting For C. Ruthenberg at Royal Palace, Friday, March 18 The Brooklyn Section of the Workers (Communist) Party will armed and organized in military units parading daily thru the} |groes are real, primitive Negroes. c | think like Negroes and feel like Ne- manning them steadily increased, a steady barrage of provocative ‘ Cleveland Workers Pledge To Fight} Suppose “Earth” hasn’t a “plot.” tarist troops upon whom the imperialists have been depending—|rp.H% executive council of the Let-| | Trades Section of the Trade Union Jt is time the drama graduated from | | a oy Who will be one of the three con- ai » Pe ng inthe tn ever ane sihle__thjg | leader of our. party and the revolu-| and ready to aid the People’s Armies in every way possible—this list. Comradé C.H, Rothenberg: leeks ot. deni, When meaty Walter Damrosch. Comrade Ruthenberg was one of ; u working class in Cleveland. |}say on man and the world. That’s > |Say what you want about slips i streets, trenches and barbed wire entanglements extended far be-| . “ 9” dialect, Em Jo: Basslio’s Regie yond the boundaries of the foreign settlement with the forces} or 2 in to arr nN lve | |groes, His feeling is always right; | propaganda in the imperialist press, the People’s Armies marching | that’s what makes “Earth” great. steadily toward Shanghai, demoralizing and defeating the mili-| Lettish citusabe Bxtirensen ‘Sorrow: Needle Trades Section T. U. E. L.| suppose it doesn’t move in curtain |Cleveland, Ohio—‘“We the Needle) climaxes to a Sidney Howard end. the labor unions and Chinese civil population of Shanghai enraged tish Fraction Bureau expresses | LBancation Lx + Gleveland rders a financial exactions of the Shangtung forces | its deep sorrow at the loss of the} | Education League o' eveland are) the grade-school of plots as the short P by the murders and financial exactions gtung | deeply grieved over the sudden death| story has Ebokineed the schoolboy |ductors of tonight's concert at the A ss ‘ . ; i ai i the tionary working class, Comrade C.| K Metropolitan Opera House in honor of i a\ arn on of the present situation in and around the! p Ruthenberg. 3 “We remeales epee Vaggorial finished it has told its story and} rges’ ort in 1ina. ;berv as a staunc Ag r ior 1€ | ex i ‘. id i wR North and west the army of Chang Tso Lin is meeting resistance the few American Communists ‘who jiemiateied Jee, theme Ab Ns, FA 308 |, Sty titty proletarian drama? Is s arm) y “Especially he was the champion | enough “Earth” food for workers because it his quickly learned to understand the} from the forces of Wu Pei Fu, who has apparently made up mind to aid the People’s Armies in preventing the advance Chang along the line of the Tientsin-Hankow railway line. The fall of Nanking is expected any day now by even the most op- timistic of the foreign correspondents and the much over-esti-|#pply Bolshevik policies to American} mated Chang Tsung Chang has been forced to extend his troops over a front which he cannot defend. Lately the imperialist press has been speculating joyously over a rumored split in the ranks of the Kuomintang (People’s | Party) but the recent public announcement by Commander-in- Chief Chang Kai Shek to the effect that he supports the repub- of Bolshevik principles and policies | which came into prominence during the Russian revolution. He taught |the American Communists how to | conditions, | ‘He relentlessly fought against all |right and left deviations from the| |clear cut Bolsheyik line. | Comrade erg was a true | working ‘class leader in every bitter fight. Z H hold a Ruthenberg memorial meet- ing on Friday, March 18th, at Royal Palace, 16 Manhattan Ave., Brook- lyn. The speakers will be: J. Louis Engdahl, Wm. W. Weinstone, Re- | becea Grecht, L. Pruseika and a | Jewish speaker. | The famous Lithuanian chorus | “Aida” will sing. Admission free. '“Ruthenberg Was The Builder of Our Party.” Lithuanian Bureau, Workers Party. taking part in almost all the strug-| On its surface this play of Negro gles that the . Cleveland workers | peasants is pure emotion, Its emo- fought. Pea a shy 8 |-tion pours out in a torrent of pray- “He was our inspiration in all our ers and invocations, chants and spir- battles and with bowed heads we|ituals. At times the play dissolves mourn his death and pledge our-| into rhythm and voodoo dancing. A selves to carry on the fight where he| band of Negroes forms a sort of ‘left off.” |Greek chorus to the simple action. A ay te, | Yet under this simple action and ane To Get “Subs. \under this pure emotion, {Earth” is | Workers (Communist) Party,/full of irony. Here is\ religion, | Springfield, Mass.—‘“The loss of Com-| planted in a simple mind, grown to| rade C, E. Ruthenberg is so enormous | ripe fruit, The fruit it bears is deals with simple people, because it isn’t cluttered with intellectual pat- ter, because it goes out in the fields and huts and mountain tops, into a community of people, a mass? Well, what is proletarian drama? Does it include folk drama? Nobody knows. No American has written one. As for Europe: Toller? An- dreyev? How much does “Broken- brow” or “King Hunger” mean to working class audiences? Not much. I can’t say that the New Play- wrights Theatre is a working man’s theatre. But this I can say: It has |produced two honest plays. “Loud Speaker” is an honest satire on —“The sudden death of our leader | that we are unable to express it in| poison, God is a policeman around and guide, Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg,| Words. We unanimously decide 0) the corner. God is a school teacher heed Comrade Ruthenberg’s advice | with sour looks and a rod, who grins was a great “shock to us and to all ‘ | Lithuanian workers in America as fea make up for our loss with deeds. | a+ you if you know your lessons and . “ ‘ ; f i ie. led the fig! wainst the war, lican revolutionary wing of the party which leads the workers and land the capita lass recognized peasants’ movement has dampened the imperialist hopes in this | in him their de} énemy and sent) K “ him to jail. direction. | He led the fight for a Communist | { News coming from all sources emphasizes the continued ex tension and consolidation of the People’s Government behind its} armies and the spread of trade union and peasant organization. | great danger for their rule and sent | In the face of these facts the refusal of the imperialist pow-| ers to recognize the People’s laration of war and it is in this light that the show of imperialist | military and naval force in and around Shanghai must be viewed. | Withdrawal of all foreign armed forces from China and recog-| the capitalist class again threatened | nition of the People’s Government is the most important demand | to be raised by the world’s labor movements. The action of the| British Communist Party is an example for the rest of the world’s | working class. It has placed the responsibility for the recent | « maassacres in Shanghai squarely upon the shoulders of the British | government. All imperialist governments share in this responsi- | bility and the working class in the respective countries will insist | on placing the blame where it belongs. | As long as a single foreign soldier or warship remains on Chi-| nese soil or in Chinese waters the imperialist powers cannot escape this responsibility. Borno Barks When President Borno, the particular specimen of colonial depravity that the state department has picked for its figurehead - in Haiti, visited the United States last year he was met with an outburst of popular indignation. Haitian exiles met him at the} dock and wished him everything but luck. The liberal press ex- posed him and hinted quite openly that without the bayonets and machine-guns of American marines to protect him the Haitian i Government is tantamount to a dec-|. Party in America and the capitalist class again saw in his activities a him to jail. He led the fight against suppress- ion of the Communist Party and | boldly fought for a legal Commun- ist Party in a Michigan Court, and to throw him in jail. Comrade Ruthenberg was a fighter for the working class, even in the darkest moments. He never lost courage, and from his death bed he! said to the American working class: “Chose your ranks; the American workers under the leadership of our party and the Comintern will win. Fight on!” Yes! Let us fight’ and win! Fraternally yours, F. Zelms, secre- tary, Lettish Propaganda Bureau. * * * | South Slavic Workers Mourn Loss. South Slavic Fraction Workers |Party, Luzerne, Pa.—‘“We mourn the death of our comrade, C, E. Ruthen-| berg and pledge to carry on his work ourselves, to honor his memory.” . “Loss To Labor Movement.” Progressive group of Carpenters, N. Y.—‘We mourn the loss of our de- | voted comrade and leader, C. E, Ruth- enberg. “We feel the labor movement has lost one of the most active and de- | well. | “Comrade Ruthenberg was the lead- er of our party and the revolutionary movement. The death of Comrade Ruthenberg has inflicted a deep pain jin our hearts. Ruthenberg is dead, |but his courageous, revolutionary spirit remains with us. “As Comrade Lenin after his death jlives always with us and leads us to Communism, Comrade Ruthenberg | will remain in his spirit and his teach- ings with us and he will be our spiritual leader in the future. “We will always remember that | Comrade Ruthenberg.was a builder of lour party and. we will continue to build his party, Workers (Communist) |Party. Let us close our ranks, carry jon his work to a final victory, to |overthrow capitalism and establish a workers’ and farmers’ Soviet Re- public of the United States. “Comrade Ruthenberg, our leader, is dead! Long live the Communist movement.” “Lithuanian Central Bureau, Work- ers Party. J. Gasiunas, Secretary.” bs ; | Remember Ruthenberg’s Last Words. Finnish Bureau, Workers Party | District 1, Boston—“The Finnish Bureau of the District received with sense of great sorrow the startling news of the death of our beloved “As part of our increased activity | |we pledge ourselves individually to get during the year not less than five jsubs for the party press (one com- | rade pledged himself with not less | than 50 subs). And. a voluntary con- | |tribution of $15 (a sub for The} |DAILY WORKER and a sub for the Freiheit) if we do not live up to our| pledge.” | * - * Message From the Bulgarian Bureau. The Bulgarian Bureau of The) Workers Party:—‘We express our | deepest sorrow atthe loss to our! party and the working class, In this critical moment when the Workers | Party faces the sublime task of revo- | | lutionizing the labor movement in this country, when problems of na- tional as well as international im- | portance are- pressing hard for their solution the labor movement must face them without Comrade Ruthen- berg, one of the most valiant cour- agéous temperals in the revolutionary struggles. We deeply regret his premature death. Our pledge shall be to carry. on his unfinished work to the end.” ° * * Strengthen The Ranks. Lenin Branch Workmen's Circle, N. .—“The death of Comrade Ruthen- berg is a great loss to the labor move- the United States. He was a swats you if you don’t. The Negro mother of the play expects God to treat her as she would treat a friend. When she “gives” God the voodoo witch doctor whom she strangles be- low the cross, God gives her a stray cow in return, When the cow is drowned in the marsh, God has gone back on his bargain. He has cheated her. In the end the black chorus which has now condemned her, y.ow exalted her, torn by fanaticism, swaying from Jesus to voodoo, tram- ples her to death, Senon the witch doctor can trick them, but he can’t help them. He is as helpless as God, Who, for all their wails and prayers, doesn’t show up. They want something to believe in. They starve, their crops are burned, they fight, they kill one another. God doesn’t give a damn. USEMENTS | American politics and “Earth’~is an honest peasant play. “If somebody writes us an honest worker’s play,” | say the directors, “we will produce it. | We want oneg’ They are breaking ground. There is much ploughing to be done before a strong tree can grow. When the proletarian artist comes he will find his right furrow. Meanwhile, we ought to help them | plough. | BROADWAY BRIEFS “That French Lady,” a new comedy by Samuel Shipman and Neil Twomey, will open at the Ritz theatre this eve- ning with Louis Mann and Clara Lip- man featured. “Bye Bye Bonnie” was transferred from the Ritz to the Cosmopolitan theatre last night. ‘Theatre Guild Acting Company in BROTHERS KARAMAZOV Up Tana. Wo se St ive, 8:15 SA., si t. Evs. 8: GUILD Mats. Thurs. and Sat. 2: THE SILVER CORD Week March 21—Ned MeCobb’s Daughter Neighborhood Playhouse #2 PINWHEEL Drydock 7516. THEA, West 42nd st. Every Eve. (Except Mon.). Mat. Sat. HARRIS twice Daily, 2:30 & 6:36 . rs A ‘ ™ Golden ‘Th.,58, E.of B’y |Circh population would make him the sole entrant in a long distance Car- | voted fighters for the liberation of the| Comrade Charles E, Ruthenberg, | sincere and courageous fighter for the|| **™™ Mstthu, & Sac] S078, WHAT PRICE GLO RY ribbean swimming contest. workers from the clutches of capi-|eneral secretary of our party. On/ workers’ cause. IGE) AH Woods presente ; _— |the occasion of the death of our! “The sorrowful loss of the able| EL TIN GE] 7 cou nail mate. cons. Sat) toe-ti. Even Sete But President Coolidge entertained this Haitian Judas, had} his picture taken with him and in general placed the stamp of of-/ “In paying respect to our dear com- rade we pledge to go on with the | great leader, we address our message |to the Finnish workers of this dis- leader should strengthen the ranks of the only true working class party in ‘Thea, W. 42 St. Eyes, 8:30. Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:30 CRIME rew PLAYWRIGHTS thea. 5224 Thea, 306 West|Mats. Thurs.&Sat,- ‘ teat ‘ wei: i im-|work he left off and c: \trict and to the revolutionary com-| America. . with James Remnle @ Cheater Mortia| gy St: Sel teal aves Ah, Mate: 6G cone ei on this gold-braided jumping: Jack of American im Hil abit Hoo wae on bere des of America, calling upon them) “Long live the Workers i camannie man as LOUDSPEAKER’ syocdiniveon Nettied by th re of Borno the state department is tak. \“°™* "Be ers of gociety.” ttn Gate ae eee arnot. Vanities! am settled by the exposure of Borno the state department 18 tak-} a ea |of Comrade Charles E. Ruthenberg. c Civic Repertory Ser: § Av. & 14 St. ing its revenge. Senator King, whom no one, least of all us, will} “Heed His Message.” | “Tell the comrades to close their Unexpected Shock. Earl Carrol] 2h«# 7th Ave, & 50th st, EVA LE Tel. Watkins 1767. ever accuse of radical teridencies, has been denied permission to| International Labor Defense, Paca-|*@0ks. To build the party. The| I. A. Blasutch, Kellogg, Iowa— ia ole deg en wager er ah Am visit Borno’s domain. It seems the senator from Utah once said jtello, Ida—‘In behalf of Pacatello branch International Labor Defense American workers under the leader- ship of our party and the Comintern “Such sudden and unexpected shock as the death of our trustworthy The LADDER Wednesday Mati Wednesday Eve. ‘CRADLE SONG" ‘HREE SISTERS" _ some unkind things about conditions in Haiti. He said them in ielnkt ‘eo. 4x » wi " fi ” 4 i press the great feeling of | Will win. Let’s fight on! leader, C. FE. Ruthenberg, has Now in its Sth MONTH West 45 St. Evan. 8:30 the senate but Borno, backed by the state department, seems to be} sorrow with which news of Comtiae : Ri ae | shocked | the ‘whole revolutionary Bway,” Mato, WED.” and SAT, et ja Thurs.) & Sat. Hats, - above the senate. a ee ann Ay death was received. Negro Workers Express Grief. ribeye er cant a bs Sabie en ee eee cer woe eiyertn a ‘ a | Realizing he would not have the labor| American Negro Labor Congress: Weur TOrSves TORU RBG His. Wor! n af We await anxiously the next move in the game. Ifthe Amer-| roy cnent cease progress even’ to| “The urowing tamber of clare con | that he left unfinished shall grow in seuz"e.. & PIRATES ance : P ; i ican labor leadership has one spark of vitality left it will make use of this incident, the mass murder of Cuban trade unionists, the invasion of Nicaragua, the attempt to browbeat Mexico, and the host of other incidents of state department control of the constitu- tional machinery, to start an offensive against Wall Street gov- ernment that will give new life to the whole labor movement. Putting a Punch Into the Rent Law . Running true to form the rent law commission and Al Smith have greatly strengthened the position of the landlords. It is true _ that the provisions ostensibly prohibiting a rise in rents of rooms priced at $15 per month and less have been extended for one year but the official barrage laid down on tenants who have insisted ’ on their rights under the law is an indication that no rigid restric- tions will be enforced against the rackrenting fraternity. The formal extension of the law, however, makes it easier for tenants to organize to resist exactions and it is only by this method that the law itself can be made of any:real value. i As it is the law: merely acknowledges the existence of hor- rible housing conditions in working-class districts. Mass organ- izations of tenants, initiation of rent strikes, exposure of actual conditions, a united front of trade unions, working class fraternal societies, housewives’ leagues, etc., will compel enforcement of the formal provisions of the act. A person by the name of Stone regrets that modern students shun Plutarch for Boccacio and Bruce Barton for James Joyce. students like “sex” stuff, moans the virtuous Stone. They it do worse’ though. The students might get real nasty and the Old Testaniént, mourn death of so valuable leader the labor movement should heed his last message to close its ranks and carry on,” *_ 8 © Extend Sympathy Three Workers of Norwalk, Ohio: scious revolutionary Negro workers of this country who had come to know C. E, Ruthenberg cannot but | suffer an indescribable shock at the | announcement of his death, It is a tremendous loss to the revolutionary movement of this country. —We mourn with the thousands of| “Ruthenberg was fearless, ener- | other comrades, and friends, all over | getic, sagacious and well typified the | the world, in the passing of Charles|best in the American revolutionary E. Ruthenberg, the brilliant, courage- _movement, May his memory ever | ous, beloved comrade, abide with us.”—Lovett Fort White- “We extend our sympathy to the man, National Organizer. |“ comrades who were close to him in| " ¥ pa his work of the movement, to those | “White and Black Workers Unite.” who will shoulder added responsi- | American Negro Labor Congress, bility. |New York Local:—“It is with “His record will emblazon the heartfelt regret. and sorrow that we, pages of history, a few years hence.” | the members of the American Negro LE oct ha | Labor Congress have learned of the |death af one of America’s great fight- ers in the struggle of labor. “While death has taken him away Wheeling Pledges To Carry On. “Nucleus Number 1 of Wheeling, West Virginia.—We mourn the death | of our beloved leader C, E. Ruthen- | from us his life’s work should serve berg. We pledge to redouble our ef-|as an inspiration to all of us. forts to build the Communist move-| “We can best commemorate the ment in America, memory of Charles E. Ruthenberg by “Long live the Communist Party | uniting the white and Negro workers of America and long live the Com-|in the common struggle.” ' munist International!” Cae: aaa * * * “Our Great Teacher.” Shop Nucleus No. 2, Dist. 5, Vesta- Shall Follow His Advice. Workers Party, Denver, Colo.—The city executive on behalf of Denver \| American proletariat to carry forward burg, Pa.—‘“We comrades have deep sorrow of losing our great teacher, our comrade, C, E, Ruthenberg. Our promise is to continue in the struggle for which he lived and died.” membership grieves death of Com- rade Ruthenberg as great loss to the working class of America, “Shall follow his advice and redou- ble our efforts to build the party.” leaps and bounds. “T will extend my sympathy to the staff of his companions.” ( aerier Omaha Makes Its Pledge. - Omaha, Neb., Workers (Commun- ist) Party.—‘“We are at a loss to find words to express our grief at Comrade Ruthenberg’s death. “We pledge ourselves to help build a great monument in his mem- ory, a powerful Communist Party; especially do we pledge that Omaha will become an active, alert unit of this’ monument.” * * * “To Carry Forward The Work.” Sub District No.1 of McKeesport, Pa.—"The 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 the work in which Comrade Ruthen- berg showed such fearless and loyal devotion, “Long live The Communist Inter- national! “Long live The Workers ist) Party of America.” (Commun- BROADWAY PRICES EVES, $110 TO. $3.85, 149th Street, Bronx Opera House }i*th , Street, Pop, Prices, Mat. Wed. & Sat. MARY NASH I “BIRDS OF PASSAGE” Thurs, Mats. & Eves, “Iolanthe” WALLACK’S West 42nd _ | Street. Evenings 8:30. Mats. Tues. Wed., Thurs, and Sat, A New Comedy Drama Read The Daily Worker | Every Day SUCCESS OF IMPROVED ROAD BUILDING MACHINE MAKES IMMIGRATION OF LESS IMPORTANCE NOW CHICAGO, March 14, (FP.).—Who will build our roads and dig our ditches if we shut off immigration, the question usually put by interests that want to swamp the labor mar- ket of the country, is being answered by other intereSts from the same side of the class line. Publicity dis- tributed by the Chicago agents of the Foote Co., makers cf paving machin- ery, reads: ” “Hundreds of laborers with shovels would be required to mix the same amount of concrete in the same time in the old fashioned way. But now only a single man is required to operate the machine and the only use for a shovel is to pat the concrete smoothly ino its-place and to clear BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS ‘|up the loose gravel spilled by a care- less truckdriver.” The paving machine builds more Ga re a) than a foot of standard concrete ) highway per minute. During the summer the machines in use build a, total of 50 miles of highway day between sunrise and sunset, single machine will build half a m a day. Mixing and spreading of the bucket of conerete on the the company announces, “takes in less time than it used to for a husky laborer to roll up his sleeves, spit on his hands and get réady to mix concrete with a shovel.” The labor so displaced gets no un- employment insurance or job bonus, The enormously increased profits go to the machinery makers and the road contractors. ¢ OFFICE WORKER wants large light room with all conveniences with @ family of comrades, 5610-—18th Avenue, Brooklyn, What Anne Brought Home | ee ROOM WANTED Moses Kahan |.