The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 16, 1927, Page 4

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER. PUBLISHING CO, Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. SUBSGRIPTION 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. J, 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. Be al Advertising rates on application. William Green’s Pledge to Kerensky. Kerensky’s visit and public activities have served to throw some additional light on the attitude of the leadership of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor toward the workers’ and peasants’ gov- ernment of the Soviet Union, to show that this leadership is. not merely negatively opposed to the government of the Soviet Union but that it is prepared to join hands with its enemies in a cam- paign against it. Kerensky is here to raise funds and is being piloted by A. J. Sack, long active as an enemy of the Soviet Union and a one-time Glose associate of Bakhmeteff, the czarist ambassador who held illegally by New York bankers. There can be little doubt that Kerensky’s visit is closely con- nected with the new imperialist offensive against the Soviet Union in-which Great Britain is playing the dual rdle of provocateur and organizer. Enter William Green, president of the American Federation. According to the New York Herald Tribune, Green called on Ker- ensky and gave him, in the name of the A. F. of L., a pledge of sympathy and support. As reported in the Herald-Tribune, Green said: The American Federation of Labor wili support in every possible and legitimate way those elements in Russia that are striving to free Russia from Belshevism as they freed her from ezarism and will lend particular sympathy to the crea- tion of a free and independent labor movement. There are more than 9,000,000 workers in the Russian trade unions. The Russian trade union movement is the foundation of the Soviet Government, it is the leader of the work of industrial reconstruction, its chief task at present is.the building of a so- cialist system of society. The Russian trade unionists will indulge in Homeric laughter when they hear that President Green, head of a labor movement which has not as yet even succeeded in abol- ishing anti-labor injunctions, and which dares not open its mouth to protest to Congress against the massacre of its Cuban brothers, By ALFRED KNUTSON. | Secretary, United Farmers’ Educa- } tional League. N the death of Comrade C. EB. Ruthenberg the Party~ and the working class of America and the world has suffered a great loss. We jcan do no better than to go forward jin the spirit of Ruthenberg which is |the spirit of Lenin. The Ruthenberg- | Lenin spirit is the rock upon which jour activities in the future must be | based. Altho I am not as intimately con- | nected with the struggles in the great | industrial centers of the country as | many of you, I learnt to know Com- rade Ruthenberg really well thru per- | sonal contact at meetings and conven- OMRADE C. E. Ruthenberg, Gen- eral Secretary of leader of the revolutionary workers of America is dead. Together with the Party, the masses of revolution- ary workers are overcome with deepest grief over this unexpected occurrence. But, even tho the death of our com- | rad and leader leaves for the present an unfilled vacancy in the Party and in the ranks of the revolution- ary American workers, still his life’s work will for all time be an exem- plar for all Party members and rev- olutionary workers. * Comrade Ruthenberg sacrificed the ‘best years of his youth and man- LONG LIVE THE RUTHENBERG METHOD OF FIGHTING — FOR OUR PARTY AND THE FARMERS AND WORKERS |tions as well as by means of regular correspondence with him in relation to the Party work among the farmers. More than any other figure within the Communist movement of Amer- jica, since its inception in 1919, Com- jrade Ruthenberg stands at the yery jcenter of its struggles and successes. His personality and the Party ac- tivities were inseparable. Every step and growth of the Party bear the impress of his spirit. His clear analy- sis of principles and formulation of tactics guided our activities in all our struggles, In struggles to come the Ruthenberg line cannot fail to form the basis of our work. Intelligent leadership and unflinch- ing devotion to the Party and the Must Recruit Thousands of New Members Statement by Finnish Bureau, Workers (Communist) Party , the leadership of socialist traitors. Comrade Ruthenberg was one of a % x Saree +8 A the Workers| our most outstanding organizers, and | hold Comrade Ruthenberg as an ex- forth in Washington and grafted on the Soviet Union funds held | (Communist) Party of America andj from 1919 to the end of his life he|emplar, what a true revolutionist) Main Street of antiquity is Amytis,| was the secretary of the Party, ex- cepting the period when he served his prison sentence. Comrade Ruthenberg was a most courageous fighter for his Party and for his class. He fought always, at every moment, even when dan- ger was greatest. He sacrificed his entire life and energy to the Party and to his class. As an able speak- er, agitator, organizer, writer, theo- retician and leader, he was an able spokesman of the revolutionary | working-class movement. For this | reason he was constantly haunted by | the capitalist class and its official | officers. With condemnation and | working class characterized the work | of Comrade Ruthenberg. His seren- | ity, good will and genial disposition | caught all of us and never failed of results. Considerateness and strength of purpose as well as a clear under- ‘ me ; ‘evolutionary goal) _ Reviewed by HARBOR ALLEN. | SRO On the Fevolnbeoraey | Ee “The Road to Rome” is the off-| i vas—a real leader. |. the o ra paeeataanilay aoe ee oe Spring of those. shrewd historical | What shall we say? Historically | egmedies Bernard. Shaw was’ writing | Comrade Ruthenberg stands in the|/twenty years ago. Twenty years ago forefront of the American Communist | those comedies had something to say. movement. It is for us now to 0 But in the meantime they have grown forward with our work in his spirit. jold; and old ideas, like old people, are} Long live the Ruthenberg method |@Pt to bear anemic children, America Becomes a “The Road to Rome” Is a Shavian Satire on at War WILLIAM HANLEY of fighting for our Party and the farmers and workers! Let’s go forward in all our work in the Ruthenberg-Lenin spirit. Rome in 216 B. C., says Robert Em- met Sherwood, the editor of Life and the author of this play, was very much like America in 1917. Its die- jtator, Fabius Maximus, was a hood in the strengthening and up-| prison terms those in power tried to | pompous, woolen-minded, paunch-bel- lied senator who couldn't satisfy his wife. All he could do was make pa- ‘triotie speeches. Rome itself is pic- tured as a bullying, narrow-minded city, dull and arrogant and rotten, full of fake morality, impotent men, and frowzy women. Having achieved rhea supremacy, it doesn’t know what to Finnish Bureau urges all Party mem-| qo with it and can’t hold on to it. |bers and revolutionary workers to) The very streets reek with decay. a‘ The one thoughtful person in this/ jand Communist should be. It urges'the wife of Fabius. all Party members and workers to} Athenian. |study deeply Comrade Ruthenberg’s liberal jlife work and those principles which| slaves. She too feels a prisoner in |he represented. It encourages all| Rome where nobody understands her | workers to express the same kind of| finer feelings, her philosophic detach- loyality, sacrifice, chivalry, diligence, | ment. She may not know who Han- indefatigability and love for the ro aba! is—even though he has camped letarian principles of freedom andjhis cohorts at the gates of the city; struggles, and to work with the same| but then, her husband doesn’t know kind of untiring zeal in the spread-| who Aristotle was. She gets her fun ing of these principles, in their|sneering at. the Roman women, their | strengthening and realization, as did} clothes, their gossip, their husbands, |our gone comrade and leader. \their respectability, their stupidity. Let us begin to fill that vacancy | And also she sneers at her own hus- |which Comrade Ruthenberg left in| band. Neither his brain nor his pas- four ranks, by recruiting thousands | Sion is the equal of hers. She rubs it lof new members to the Workers |in all through the first act—and the Amytis is an She is thoughtful. She is and sympathizes with the In “What Anne Brought Home” now playing at Wallack’s Theatre. pappy liberal ideas on Hannibal and makes a mess out of what would oth- erwise have been a fiery, cruel, brilli- ant figure. He would have you be- lieve that Amytis steals into Hanni- bal’s camp at night and converts him to “the glory of submission.” He would have you believe that this Han- nibal, driven relentlessly to march his armies across the face of Europe, now with the prize in his hand;-will do a right-about face and slip off empty- handed. Why? ‘Because war isn’t nice. _Because men are always killed in vain. Because it isn’t worth while. building of the revolutionary move- ment of the working-class. Ever since 1909 Comrade Ruthenberg has been known thruout the country as a revolutionary Marxian, at which | time he became known as the most | ment of the Socialist Party. | During the critical period of the |Great World War, when the capital- {istic methods of oppression towards | evolutionists raged at their height, notable figure in the left-wing move-} |ecrush this American | fighter and leader. Since 1917, with- |S the last 10 years, he was free from prisons or pending prison sentences only 6 months,—sentences which sur- | rounded him threateningly. But Comrade Ruthenberg never gave up, never became disheartened. | He was always loyal to his prin- ciples, to his class and to his Party. Comrade Ruthenberg was a revolu- | tionist. Comrade Ruthenberg was a proletarian | (Communist) Party of America! May Comrade Ruthenberg’s mem- jory live forever as an encouraging exemplar to the revolutionary pro- letarians of America! | Long live the Workers (Commun- list) Party of America! | Long live the Communist Inter- |national! | Workers (Communist) Party of America. Finnish Bureau, audience enjoys the ticklish massage. | Hannibal, I take it, is Mr. Sher- wood’s conception of the young radi- cal. He has courage. He has marched three thousand miles dcross Africa and Spain and the Alps to overthrow ,Rome. For Rome’s fame and Rome’s |power and Rome’s gods he has no fear, only contempt. He has power of his own and gods of his own. Now he is crouching like a tiger before the city. Tomorrow there will be no Rome. And so the “Road to Rome” falls far, far short of being a hard, swift satire on a dying society. It is in it- self too much a product of that dying society. Together with that dying so- ciety it has the ague and rheumatism and fatty degeneration of the heart. I am willing to believe that a night with a pretty woman may be very pleasant and very useful. But only a society worn out and burned out would tell you that a night with a woman is worth more than conquer- ‘will lend particular sympathy to the creation of a free and inde-| Comrade Ruthenberg lead those work- pendent labor movement”—in the Soviet Union. ers who were loyal to the revolu- But the ridiculous impudence of President Green should not | tionary socialism, ridding them from 7 in Ruthenbero Memorial Meetings Continue labor movement is the sworn enemy of the labor movement of the Soviet Union just as its master, American imperialism, is the class » enemy of the workers’ and peasants’ government of the Soviet) M x M 7 F Workmens Circle. | | Workmens Circle, Branch 192, Buf. eatre Gui ctl Seuneny is emorial eeting or |falo, N. Y., at a regular meeting, BROTHERS KARAMAZOV C. Ruthenberg at Royal: Palace, Friday, March 18 Marxian and a Leninist. Comrade Ruthenberg was a true bolshevik. The Workers (Communist) Party | Henry Puro, Secretary.) “ g far, so good. Unfortunately, | SS ies ee ae des ,|Mr. Sherwood is a liberal. He can’t Read The Daily Worker Every Day |je¢ well enough alone. So in the last |half of the play he saddles a lot o: ing the world. (“The Road to Rome” is produced by Brady and Wiman at the Play- house, 48th Street.) Sam HARRIS THEA. West 42nd St. | HARRIS Twice Daily, 2:30 & 8:30 WHAT PRICE GLORY | Mats, (exe, Sat.) 50c-$1. Eves. 50c-$2. THE SILVER CORD: | United States are still gathering al- Union. The pledge of support given Kerensky will not enable this ; discredited puppet to play any important role in the imperialist iv i s indicate ae L. officialdom Aig a ee St foes: Sateente Sek Gat. >: * most every night in memorial meet- jadopted a resolution that reads in) Week Mar. 21 \part: “Whereas death has taken from’ | GUILD ea the midst of the working class move- outset Thousands of workers all over ae | stands ready to aid actively the class enemies of the masses for | ings {8 iey then tae compacta 101 ‘ment, one of the ablest, and one of | war on the Soviet Union and does not content itself with mere} Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg, founder opposition to recognition by the United States. of the American Communist move- e — — ment. | | the most heroic fighters in the revo- Week March 21—Ned MeCebits |: 10% PP ASW RIGMES thee e Last night New Italian Hall, The Brooklyn Section of the |lutionary movement, not only here in| ; aie Ga, Bot B'y [Circt | 52ne Thea. po rasaikive. 8745, Mats.2:48 ‘ Henry Ford and the Jews Luzerne, Pa., was packed by coal) Workers’ (Communist) Party will | the United States, but also all over | 7°" Golden iia" *| “LOUDSPEAKER? ,,, 8% John miners who gathered to hear speak-| hold a Ruthenberg memorial meet- PERRY: caval. esate shl owar Wwson the world in the person of Charles; ~~~ “EARTH” resumes Thursday. Emil Ruthenberg, * ELTINGE * “Resolved that we express our grief | Zhes~, WV, jand resolve to continue the good| Wed. & | work for which Comrade Ruthenberg| with \had sacrificed his life * * *” | may From His Former Branch. EARL Subsection 6 C, New York.—"“Com-| CARROLL A. H. Woods presents CRIM ss Rennie & Chester Morris, | Vanities ee ing on Friday, March 18th, at Royal Palace, 16 Manhattan Ave., Breok- lyn. The speakers will be: J. Louis Engdahl, Wm. W. Weinstone, Re- becca Grecht, L. Pruseika and a Jewish speaker. It is not necessary to lionize Aaron Sapiro, the lawyer who ers tell of seal srchigenee hag has specialized in organizing wealthy farmers into co-operative | {he fron rans bigger te oa pata marketing associations and who has received fat fees for his|jeiq in Schenectady, N. Y. | services, to be glad that Henry Ford has at last been challenged | Messages Still Received. to show cause why he should be allowed to use his immense wealth} Scores of messages are still being| to stir up anti-Semitism. | received at this office daily from all! Civic Repertory $2i° Watkins ‘tet EVA LE GALLIENNE This Afternoon. RADLE_ SONG” Tonight REE SISTERS" Spec. Mat. ‘Tom oRADLE SONG" PLYMOUTH West 45 St. Even. 8:30 Mats. Thurs.&Sat,, 2:30 Mats. 2:30 w, ae y The Dearborn Inde- | over the United States sent by work- | The famous Lithuanian chorus |rades of Brownsville remember him v Thea., 7th Ave, & 50th St, | Earl Carroll 7n¢2- iy) Every Eve. (Exe. Thurs.) & Sat. Mata, Ford is America’s foremost Jew-baiter. ipa: “Aida” will si Admission f : urs. 2:30 WINTHR : pee : 53 - - \ers, farmers, labor organizations and) “Aida” will sing. Admission tree. | well for he was at one time a mem- | ———————-—— chat NTHROP AMES' | pendent has specialized Lev putting forth, with the prestige of Ford sections of the Workers (Commu- | —————— - | ber of our branch following his in-| h 1. D teil " PIRATES OF won i guaranteeing its authenticity, the most vicious anti-Jewish propa-| nist) Party in which they express Party, West Allis, Wise—‘In the|careeration at Sing Sing. We mourn $a é A D E R Opera Co. B ZANCB ganda ever published in the United States. The thousands of Ford agencies have been utilised to flood their respective territories with this literature and the harvest of racial and religious Hatred that has been reaped is incalculable. The fact that many Wall Steet bankers are Jews seems to rade Ruthenberg is a severe blow to_ have been sufficient to convince the automobile king—a rather stupid child in everything other than the field of industry—that To Ford the class struggle is non-existent. All Jews are simply Jews. There is no conflict between Jewish bankers and bosses and Jewish workers. Judaism comes first. The Russian revolution, which produced such figures as Trotsky, Kameneff, Zinoviev, Pianitsky, etc., the German revolution with its Luxem- bourg and Liebknecht, and the host of other Jewish leaders of the working class in all countries, to Ford are merely manifesta- _ revolting working class members of their own race means noth-| Party, Milwaukee, Misc.—“Our task sorrow is extreme, The revolutionary | - ing to Henry Ford who says that “history is bunk.” It is true, of course, that the Sapiro libel suit, with Senator Reed on one side and William Galligan on the other, will be one of the finest exhibitions of bunk that the American people have yet read about, that every effort will be made to make the issue one of Communism rather than one of libelling a whole racial group, but nevertheless, the case is important for the American working class in as much as it will expose the extent to which a supposedly brainy billionaire has been duped by his own press agents, and the immense power for evil that unrestricted control of great wealth wrung from the workers gives to one individual under capitalism. ' Patting Senators in Their Place’ Will the state department order out the marines commanded by General Russell in Haiti to prevent Senator King landing on the island owned by the National City Bank? Won't this be a glorious sight? Coolidge and Kellogg pro- tecting the “sovereignty” of Haiti against invasion by a United States senafor. Now if the marines will just keeyy Borah out of Nicaragua perhaps these senators will begin to*understand that colonies are run by the armed forces and not by persons who have to suf- for the indignity of running for public office, —E————EEE their sorrow at the death of Com- jrade C. E. Ruthenberg, founder of jthe Workers (Communist) Party. | Lillie Jackson, Oklahoma Cit: | Okla., writes that the death of Com the working class movement -of | America.” | The German Workingwomen’s As- Ruthenberg was a member of and fight with us.” Help Sustaining Fund. The Madison, Ill., Branch of The Workers (Communist) Party, write: “That in mourning. the loss of ow comrade, C. E. Ruthenberg, we are sending you herewith $10 for the will now be harder to achieve, there- fore we pledge ourselves to close our ranks and build the party.” McKeesport, Pa. Nucleus 6, Work- ers Party.—“We the members of the the name of the American working | class to carry on the fight that Com- | rade Ruthenberg left. Long live the | Workers (Communist) Party!” From South Slavic Workers, South Slavic workers attending the | Chicago Workers School, in a declara- tion they adopted state: “In the death of Comrade Ruthen- \berg, the workers of the United States of America lost a_ brave | fighter—but not only the workers of the United States, but the workers of all other countries. For Com- rade Ruthenberg was the fighter against the greatest imperialism in the world, the imperialism of Wall Street. It will be hard to find a leader to take his place; therefore every worker in America must strug- gle harder against imperialism and must organize in the militant, revo- lutionary party to which he gave his life.” South Slavle Fraction, Workers, —_ |above nucleus pledge ourselves in, |death of Comrade Ruthenberg our) our loss. Comrade Ruthenberg is | party has lost its leader. We pledge|dead, but we will carry on the vic- lourselves to carry out his words to tory.” build the party, close the ranks and} Shop Nucleus, 5, Subsection 6.— ghi on.” |New York—We grieve at the loss “Champion of Exploited.” jof our fearless revolutionary leader. Workers | His death makes us more determined to carry on the fight for the victory | Night Workers Section, |Party, New York.—“With the deep- | o¢ the cantking eae great American champion of the ex- ploited masses—Charles E. Ruthen-|"@nged for the coming week: berg.” | Ohio Meetings. A membership meeting of the | Canton, Ohio, Friday, March 18th. | Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Local of the Work- 's (Communist) Party has adopted |2 p. m. a resolution on the death of Com-) Upper New York State. rade Ruthenberg. It read in part as| follows: (of Italy Hall, 120 Madison Avenue. Ithaca, N. Y., March 19th, workers of the world, particularly! Niagara Falls, N..Y., March 20th, {the American working class, has lost| Newark Meeting. ‘its outstanding leader, its courageous | Newark, Friday, March 18th. A, and militant fighter, its most loyal! Markoff. Montgomery Hall. and devoted champion. , Washington Meeting. “Comrade Ruthenberg stood firm! Washington, D, C., Monday, March ‘for the highest ideals of the workers, | 21st. fought loyally for clarity of vision) \and adherence to the line laid down Shock to Thousands Warten, Ohio, Sunday, March 20th.! Albany, N. Y., March 16th, Sons} Now in its 5th MONTH WALDORF, 50th St. East of B'way. Mats. WED. and SAT. ‘BROADWAY PRICES EV#S, $1.10 TO §3. Thurs. Mats. & Eves. “lolanthe” WALLACK’S West 42nd__ Street, Evenings 8:30. Mats. Tues., Wed., Thurs, and Sat. What Anne Brought Home A New Comedy Drama ft “BIRDS OF PASSAGE” Majestic Theatre in West Forty- an international conspiracy to establish Jewish hegemony of the! sociation, Chicago, says that “al]|/°St sorrow in our hearts we mourn Otivec Moatings ‘onx Opera House ic? sea‘hve’|fourth street sometime next week ; ace | the loss of our beloved comrade and hero BS. Pop, Prices. Mat. Wed. & Sat, eh , S08 7: world was on foot. workers should join the party that} The following meetings are ar- MARY NASH | with “Rufus LeMaire’s Affairs”. | Charlotte Greenwood, Ted Lewis and | Lester Allen are featured in the pro- | Senator Carroll, for instance. _ It is this devotion to the derful spirit of self-sacrifice, | hind our movement. |by the Communist International, jleader of the world proletariat. In strategy he was shrewd, in theory he was clear and in practice he was vig- ‘orous. Before hte courts of capital- |ism our leader stood defiant. Judges, | courts and prisons, and every branch jof the capitalist state meant to Com- jrade Ruthenberg only means of op- |pression and tyranny of the produe- jing masses, “Close our ranks and face the lenemy, Build the mass Communist. |Party. Stand by the Central Com- jmittee and the Communist Interna- | tional,” | “General Loss.” Factory District Branch 8, Work- ers Party, New York. — “Deeply gvieves the loss of our Comrade C, i. Ruthenberg, general secretary of | our ‘party.”” Street Nucleus, Nov. 3, Pittsburgh, Pa.—The news of the death of Com- vade Ruthenberg came as a shock to all the members of our nucleus and to thousands of-avorkers in the city of Pittsburgh. Comrade Ruthen- berg’s courage and devotion to the revolutionary movement served all of us as an inspiration. We feel that the loss of our leader cannot be re- placed. “We pledge ourselves to redouble our efforts to continue the work for which Comrade Ruthenberg lived and died. We pledge ourselves to close our ranks and build a strong Marx- ian-Leninist section of the Com- munist International in America, --CELIA PARANSKY, Secretary. the capitalist press. ticular sheet buys it with the he displays toward a cake of The DAILY WORKER does readers feel for The DAILY tribute to the fact that there BUY THE DAILY WORKER AY tHE NEWSSTANDS form it is a conerete indication that the readers of DAILY WORKER look upon the paper as their own organ, in whose maintenance and success they are vitally interested, The Ruthenbery DAILY WORKER Sustaining Fund will be a unique monument to Comrade Ruthenberg as well,/as a The Manager's Corner THE CAPITALIST PRESS IS FRANTIC i i i Seni ; |sustaining fund of The DAILY! “The anthracite membership of the| Troy, N. Y., March 17th. ‘HE New York Times voices its perplexity at the deep oud ee osama ver ipsa. tog Ray ng ee f | WORKER.” jparty, is grief stricken over the loss} Binghamton, N. Y., March 18th. emotion shown by the tremendous throngs which poured ‘ at Jewish exploiters are the first to feel the wrath of the| Central St. Nucleus, | Workers of our most outstanding leader; our| Jamestown, N,.Y., March 19th. out to the Ruthenberg Memorial Meetings. It chides the workers for not showing greater devotion to such men as revolutionary cause, this won- which is the driving force be- The capitalist press, with all its wealth, with all its resources, with all its hired talent and other ad- vantages, cannot stimulate, and cannot enlist that unstinted devotion which the workers feel for The DAILY WORKER. No amount of publicity or talent will secure this asset for The worker even though he buys a par- same amount of sentiment soap. The worker who bu so with a feeling, that it HIS paper, flesh of his flesh, and bléod of his blood. The Ruthenberg DAILY WORKER Sustaining Fund is the expression of this sense of devotion and loyalty which four WORKER. In very tangible The is a newspaper in the United States which has succeeded in mustering the whole-hearted cad unstinted support of the workers. —BERT MILLER, The Chanins will open their new”