The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 18, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 88 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $2.50 thrce months $2.00 three months | ‘Adaress all mail and make out checks to ‘ THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. i ——¢— J. LO =NGDAHL a WILLIAM F. DUNNE (°°""° Or becevedececne BERT MILLER Business Manager Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y¥., under Advertising rates on application. SaaS ESTES = aad The Chinese Workers Avenge Their Murdered Comrades The Chinese nationalist liberation movement not only knows) | troductory It Only Shows By ANTHONY BIMBA. sé°T HE Proletarian,” an organ of the “Proletarian Party of Amer- “friends” Keracher and a few other up-side down “Marxians,” in its Feb- ruary issue reprinted my article “Do We Believe in Parliamentary Action” | from The DAILY WORKER of Jan- uary 6, 1927, with the following in- note; “The following article bears out what the Proletar- ian Party has many times charged, |namely, that most of the alleged ac- tivities. of the Workers Party are bombast and bluff.” My article dealt with certain short- comings in our electoral campaigns and the lack of proper estimation of the value of these campaigns for the revolutionary agitation and propa- ganda on the part of some of our! That We Must Be Very Careful | they cannot produce any other argu- | ments against our movement and are | only attempting to use our own self- | criticism, it shows that, first, they | are politically bankrupt, and second, $3.50 six months | ica,” which party is composed of our; that we are on the right road. Nevertheless, I read my article !once more, having in mind the fact that there must be something lack- ing in it; if our opponents are at- ; tempting to exploit it for their own purposes. And I found that this ar- ticle’ of mine makes a one-sided im- |pression about our movement. It deals only with the shortcomings, but it* does not take into considera- tion the circumstances in. which at least some of these- shortcomings are inevitable, Let us take, for instance, the same election campaign in New York City about which I. spoke in my article. Our comrades were very active at what it wants but h8w to get it. This much can be gleaned from | even the prejudiced dispatches in the capitalist press. Not the least amusing feature of recent dispatches is the) emphasis placed by the correspondents on the “terror” campaign alleged to have been launched by agents of the People’s govern- ment in Shanghai. The New York Times, for instance, heads one story: “Shanghai Workers Are Murdered Daily—Cantonese Agi- tators Resort to Strong-arm Campaign for General Strike.” Before dealing with veracity of such statements we should review the occurrences of the last two weeks. It was only a short time ago that the same correspondents who now pen shocked phrases about “strong-arm” methods were writing gleefully of | the execution without trial of hundreds of Shanghai workers and | students. The headsmen of Chang Tsung Chang, the Shangtung) war lord, aroused only enthusiasm in the breasts of these brave that time in three very important strikes: the Interborough Rapid comrades. My only aim was to arouse the interest among our com- rades in these campaigns and to stir | Transit, the cloakmakers and the tex- tile workers of Passaic. All active them up to more intensive action in| our future parliamentary work. Now/comrades were mobilized to help the our “proletarian” opponents are| using this article in their attack up- on our party and its activities by enemies. were directly Some of our best speakers involved in these people is to discredit the Conf-'the country with speeches and lec- munist in the eyes of the workers.{tures. Naturally, in such circum- Of course, they cannot succeed. If! stances the New York party organi- workers. win their battle with their} these | alleging that we only talk a lot, but | strikes. Others were taken away by | actually do very little. The aim of | the national organization to tour} gentlemen of the pen and typewriter when they thought his wan- ton butchery would cow the Shanghai workers into submission— | By P. P. |forces for the election campaign and, | therefore, the campaign had to suf-} My, article “Do) jzation could not mobilize all of | |fer very greatly, |We Believe in Parliamentary Ac- | |tion?” did not deal with this prob-| jlem, Of course, I do not say that all! our comrades were engaged in the) | strike activities and therefore could, | be excused for not taking active part) jin the election campaign. Some of them did really neglect their bol- |shevik duties and deserve criticism. | But my artiele failed to distinguish | |those comrades who were active in | other fields from those who had the }opportunity but failed to perform | their duties in the election campaign | My article was one-sided also’ in} | the fact that it dealt exclusively with |our open-air meetings and failed to | point out that we had a few very | suecessful indoor mass meetings dur- |ing the campaign. It didn’t say any- | thing about the distribution of tens of thousands of leaflets in the fac- | tories, shops, stores, etc. Many com- rades criticized the one-sidedness of my article and I agree with them. I see that I failed to be very care- ful and therefore missed the point. The action of our “Proletarian” op- ponents only shows at least’ to me, how careful we must be in survey- ing our work. We must always deal | with the subject as a whole and not only with certain phases of it. C. E. Ruthenberg---The Comrade and the Man ed on more mass meetings with the workers, more outside activity. saa Sik= SO evamping an Old Warhorse “Justice,” Long-Winded Galsworthy Play, Pro- duced at Irving Place Theatre "|_| MAURICE SCHWARTZ z (Reviewed by A. B. MAGILL.) At the Irving Place Jewish Art) Theatre Jacob Ben-Ami is. rattling} the bones of Galsworthy’s “Justice,” freshly exhumed and dressed in stiff, | creaky Yiddish, i I emerged from the ‘theatre feel-| ing. as if my head was full of -cob-: webs. It is several years since I last saw or read a Galsworthy play. | I wasn’t prepared’ for such a smell of camphor. I don’t know Why Jacob Ben-Ami | has trotted out this fusey, spavined old war-horse, I suppose he feels it will have some attraction for the theatre-goer who is interested in “problems.” For here is a problem as thick as fog, as ‘tough and. dry \as hard-tack. And it squats all over the stage. At a-certain point in his career John Galsworthy, the bourgeois British liberat qvith a sociological bee in his bonnet, discovered that there is some@nes a monkey-wrench in ‘the elaborate machinery of justice, |In moments. of weakness, goaded by | certain social maladjustments,' hon- jest human beings may yield to temp- | tation, may commit a felony. 'law is precise and pedantic. | Siders neither a person’s past fature. Inexorable justice. | | In Romain Rolland’s ‘Wolves,” a drama -of the French Revolution which is being revived at the Yiddish Art Theatre tonight. Galsworthy’s reputation as a social seer only by saying that there must be a large and carefully preserved meadow in. the minds of the fashion- \able, British and American intelli- gentsia. “Justice” is the reformism of Dickens minus the humor, fresh- ness’and ingenuity of the great Vic- torian. It is polite, it is grave, it is The | stifly eloquent. There is nothing in It con- it to offend the most hardboiled nor /his tory. Galsworthy merely criticises a defect in a | Piece of machinery. He T was in Cleveland, back in 1908, | Textile Workers of Rebelled Against Reformism. Look what happens, says Gals- | never questions the nature or uses of early two decades ago, that I first) met Comrade Ruthenberg. I remem-| ber that it was at an open air meet-| ing of which I was to be the chair- man. I was only-a youngster then, inexperienced and new to the move- ment, and I was rather timid and| hesitant about getting up on the box! and starting things off. Some of. the other comrades. were advising | me as, to how to begin, when a tall,) youthful man, carrying a package of | literature under his arm, arrived. “Here is Comrade Ruthenberg, the | speaker for to-night,” one of the | comrades whispered to me. A mom- ent later we were introduced. I re-| member distinctly being impressed | by the size of the man, by the de-! liberate, careful, wording of his) speech, his strong, unusual features, | his calm and poise. I told him that I was to be the chairman of the meeting, that it was my first at- to the glory and profit of the imperialist powers. Now the tables are turned. It is entirely probable, and cer-} tainly tlere is no reason for any worker to regret it if true, that | the People’s government has passed sentence of death upon cer-| tain persons whom it has cause to believe were responsible for the murders of workers and students during the recent massacres. The Chinese people are fighting for liberation and we see no reason to get excited over the fact that tools of the war lords and imperialists are being bumped off in Shanghai. If executions are taking place now, before tie entry of the People’s armies, they will have less cleaning-up to do and can begin the work of con- solidation all the quicker. Workers were killed in Shanghai by the militarists and by British police but if there is one thing certain in the whole Chinese! situation it is that not workers but enemies of the workers are being killed there now if killing is going on. It Would be a shameful thing if the workers, peasants and students did not wipe out the tools of the bloody tyrants who tried to drown their movement in blood. | memorial megting held March 13, T can see that'even at that early | worthy. Terrible! | time, Comrade Ruthenberg was, un- It is so easy to poke fun at John \consciously rebelling against the re- | Galsworthy, yet so-cruel perhaps. Passaic Promise to Fight for Communism | formism and passivism that was be-/ The fellow is so desperately in earn- ginning to rot the Socialist. Party.|est, so humorlessly honest. Sitting PASSAIC, N. J. March 17, — | Little did I dream at that time, how | through a performance of “Justice” The \Ruthenberg Mentorial-. meet- | fully would be realized the prediction | is like listening to an Oswald Garri- 54 : 4 3 ing held here at The Workers’ |°f the German comrades on the/son Villard editorial for several dall."and creeping Saxon” is mani- Hose. Devian Aves adopted | Cleveland City Central Committee, | hours. {fete in every line. A “message” got a 4 / | ; i », the following resolution: ree ‘o ee would eel Galsworthy is a good craftsman, al had 2 pine latte aa and - “We, hundreds of workers of Pecuh the. sind has wae met | dramatic artisan of the first order. | threadbare stuff, Pick °u ms Aland Passaic, N. J., assembled at a Ciiaka Rutenberg ae iiss athest (Coes certain crude, commonplace | any issue of The Nation or The New corner meeting nearly twenty years | Crt a niece Ahi Lares a nee | York itikise ri you'll find it all done a very elegantly. I know half a dozen | there, and put together a play that i * s the Bronx who are sayin i . > will stand up for a couple of hours apace a A band ; lyear to year, thru imprisonments : . the same things and nobody pays any pee Me taraud, vate and struggles T have seen him grow [end peng se ltybbistec dehy attention to them. of ‘Ameatibn ide politically, and develop his powers of | - |, The play is excellently produced Tae ecke Lesks abs aie, ‘ag, | emslonabity. That's about all. I suppose it ac-; by’ a competent cast. And Jacob ‘ iz a I feel sure that had not death |¢ounts for Galsworthy’s exaggerated! Ben-Ami in the leading role does just went through, taught us the ss | itati d i i ys |S H eas ak hae cn, taken him prematurely from the rev- | eputation as a dramatist. His plays | Superb work. He actually achieves pein pra ht Ge ccs olutionary movement, he would have | ®t always “good theatre,” though fthe miracle. of creation that Gals- a a ENnd kg cont continued to grow and develop, to|P0r drama, But I can account for worthy failed to do. ‘that machinery or the foundations upon which it rests. | As the last act drew to its close, |my friend turned to me and” said: | “He leaves nothing to the imagina- | tion.” No, nothing. Every point is ‘hammered home relentlessly. The at the Workers’ Home, 27 Dayton | : ‘Ave, express: ouk greatest patron jago, I have closely followed his ac- on the death of Comrade C. E, | ‘ivities as a revolutionist. From In the meantime, the People’s.armies are advancing on Nanking, the clash between Chang Tso Lin, the Mukden war lord, ‘and Wu Pei Fu, who apparently has some agreement with the People’s government—or may be merely defending his own dung-| hill from Chang Tso Lin—is becoming more open, the railroad workers are striking and interfering with the advance of what is left of Chang Tsung Chang’s troops, and the workers in Shang- hai are preparing a welcome for the People’s armies. It is a foregone conclusion that without armed intervention the consolidation of China under the People’s government is a matter of months: The certainty of this victory is precisely the! reason why the demand of “Hands Off Chin&” should not be al-| lowed to die down but expressed in action that will force with-) drawal of all foreign troops and warships from China, allowing the Chinese masses to reap the full fruits of their long, bloody | and heroic struggle. The Coolidge-Kellogg Collection of Colonial Traitors tempt at street corner speaking and that I felt a little wobbly about start- ing, off. Comrade Ruthenberg smiled sympathetically when I told him this. Gave Him Confidence. “There is nothing to be afraid of, comrade,” he said. “Just get up and start to speak, You won’t find it difficult at all once you get started.” Thus encouraged, I got up on the ox and started off, Comrade Ruth- enberg standipg beside me and whis- pering encouragement and sugges- tions. I held out for about 15 min- utes, then introduced the speaker of | For over two hours, , and | thruout, a large crowd of workers) the evening. Comrade Ruthenberg spoke, stood and listened. This was how I met Comrade |Ruthenberg. During the next few years, I had an opportunity to work) with him as a member of the City|old Germans and Hungarians on the | ers, the help of the Workers (Com- munist) Party in our struggle shows us that the only right road to follow is that of the party of the working class. \¢ We pledge ourselves to fight, to continue \to fight for the working clasa, Comrade Ruthenberg gave his life for. Unanimously accepted, comrades on the committee used to say: “Some day, Comrade Ruthenberg will some day be a leader of the party.” No one in the City Central Com- mittee took the party work so seri- |ously, no one was as energetic, no one brought forward so many prac- tical plans for work, as Comrade Ruthenberg. Whereas some of the There is cold comfort for the Coolidge administration in the | Central Committee of the Socialist} committee wanted to have more recent Latin-American news. | -* The forces of Kellogg’s pet, Diaz, have been given a work-! 4manlike drubbing by the popular army at Muymuy in spite of the “neutralization” of sections of liberal territory by U. S. marines| which left the popular army just about enough land to stand on. Loud predictions came from Diaz headquarters before’ the battle to the effect that the popular army was doomed but Diaz, seems to be the one over whom doom is hovering. | In Cuba, the murderous regime of Machado, tool of the Na- tinal City Bank, has slaughtered trade union leaders and mem- bers until their blood has attracted even the attention of Chester Wright. In Haiti, the populace took advantage of the fact that the American marines were looking for Senator King to demonstrate in a most convincing manner their hatred and contempt for Pres- ident Borno and Secretary Kellogg. Things are not turning out very well in Mexico either and the state department has had to resurrect de la Huerta who in Party of Cleveland. that time, some of the old German Already at} study classes and more lectures, Comrade Ruthenberg always insist- Four Ruthenberg Memorials Tonight — R UTHENBERG memorial meetings will be held in four cities to- night. Workers will gather in Brook- lyn, N. Y., Newark, N. J., Canton, Ohio, and Binghamton, N. Y., to pay final tribute to Comrade C. E. Ruth- enberg, founder of the Communist Party of America, who recently died. The Brooklyn meeting will be held at the Royal Palace, 16 Manhattan Ave., near Broadway, 8 p. m. and will be addressed by J. Louis Engdahl, Editor of the DAILY WORKER, William W. Weinstone, General Sec- retary, Workers (Communist) Party, turn revives the “red menace” bogey for the edification of news-New York District; Rebecca Grecht, “paper correspondents who did not believe the story of this mov- ing tale when it was first put out with the backing of the state - department. Coolidge and Kellogg have what amounts to genius for pick-! ing cat the lowest form of vermin for support of their policies. Diaz «f Nicaragua would probably be scorned by department of justice agents but de la Huerta would be blackballed by a meet-) ing of volunteer stool pigeons like the four-minute men of the | { war period. He tries to betray his countrymen before the whole world by telegraphing Coolidge among other things: “T hope that President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg will not allow themselves to be deceived by the trickery of Calles.” This great patriot is now in California organizing a counter- revolution which, rumor has it, is to be financed by Doheny— ‘another sterling citizen caught with the goods. | If the leadership of the American Federation was not tied} hand and foot to the political parties of American imperialism it could and would start a barrage against the Wall Street-Coolidge ‘administration and its collection of colonial traitors which would give new hope and power to the labor movements of the Latin- American countries—the backbone of the anti-imperialist agita- tion. Failing to secure co-operation from above the American workers can and should raise in their local unions, fraternal and co-operative societies the demand for the resignation of Kellogg _and the withdrawal of all troops and battleships from Latin- ‘ ica. ¢ : Ray Ragozin, L..Pruserka and Ben | Lifshitz, The Lithuanian Chorus will sing “Aida.” The Canton, Ohio, meeting will be held at the Musical Hall, 810 Tuse- waras St. and the Newark, N. J., meeting at Montgomery Hall. On Sunday, March 20, Warren; Ohio, workers will gather at the Hip- podrome Hall, while the toilers of Washington, D. C., will hold their memorial meeting Monday, March 21, at the Typographical Temple. The other meetings arranged ‘are as follows: Jamestown, N. Y.,/March 19th. Ithaca, N. Y., March 19th. | Niagara Falls, N. Y., March 20th. SHOEMAKER, OF PROGRESSIVE FARMERS SENDS SINCERE REGRETS OVER DEATH OF RUTHENBERG F. H. Shoemaker, travelling member of the National Council of Action of the Progressive Farmers of America, writes The DAILY WORKER from Phoenix, Arizona, as follows: CHM aha? \ ciples that he so “consistently “fought give it more firm and far-sighted | neg leadership, Comrade Ruthenberg, in| my opinion, embodied the best tra-| ditions of the American revolution- ary movement. | He Was Modest. Personally, I can say of Comrade Ruthenberg, that while he generally | gave the impression of being digni-| fied and unsociable, yet he was ex-| ceedingly democratic, modest and) considerate. I have never known, him to slight or hurt anybody. His, qualities as a men, endeared him to! all comrades who knew him person- ‘ally. “At all times, his individuality | Was submerged in the work to which he devoted his life. | Up to the very last moments of his consciousness, when the periton- \itis poisoning was seeping into his \heart, stilling its beat, his thoughts | were of the party and the tasks be- fore it. His final words; “Let us Fight on”, epitomize the - indomit- able revolutionary spirit that was Comrade Ruthenbe | |Pioneers of Hanimond’ ‘Will Hold Ruthenberg Memorial Meet Monday EAST HAMMOND, Ind., March 17.—The East Hammond Group” of the Young Pioneers of America will hold a Ruthenberg Memorial meet- ing Monday, March 21, at the Work-} ers Hall, 1061 Wallace Road, Ham- mond Ind. All workers and children are invited to attend this meeting and hear about the life and struggles that Comrade ‘Ruthenberg carried on | on behalf of the working class, Chi-. cago speakers will be present. ' Ad-| mission will be free. Pah Minn. Young Workers. Young Workers League, Minnea- polis, Minn.—Sub-district Commit- tee, Young Workers League, Minnea- polis, express great sorrow in the death of our leader, Comrade Ruth- enberg. Loss of Comrade Ruthenberg will be felt not only in the Party, but | also in the League. We hope his death will be, used for recruiting workers into Young Workers (Communist) League and Workers (Communist) | “It was with extreme sorrow that | for. |T learned on this date of the untimely| “May the loss of our comrade in-| death of Comrade Ruthenberg. 1 call SPire us with a deeper sense to our} |him Comrade, not because I am a/ esponsibility in the fight against | Party.” 3 ee oP A South Slav Fraction, Yorkville, |member of your party, but because, in my humbleness it has been my aim to emulate his high state of con- ney. “The cause of honesty, justice and righteousness suffers a great. loss, and at a time when his efforts were most needed, in the untimely death of our Comrade, * “History and time only will record the valiant efforts made by this great fighter. Posterity will record indelibly upon the stones of time, his undying loyalty to the cause he lived and died for, his honesty that drove to cover falsehood, his energy that inspired thousands, his person- ality that built confidence and friend- ship, and last but not least the prin- capitalism and imperialism, and may providence grant that we may see the realization of his dying wish.” * * * DORCHESTER, MASS. —— “The Mothers’ League Council of New England mourns the léss of our de- voted leader and comrade, C. E. Ruth- enberg, secretary of the Workers Party of America who inspired the working class women to take their place in the trouble side by side with the working men for liberation of the exploited masses,” o* tee Young Workers League, Syracuse, N. Y—“The Workers Party and \vade Ruthenberg.” | Ohio.—“Yorkville, Ohio, South Slay | workers in a mass meeting grievé fede great loss of our iron fighter 3; * Ceka Left Poalezion, New York City—“We express our deep grief over the early loss of Comrade Ruth- | cause of the American workers.” * * Workmen's Cirele, Branch 736, Chelsea, Mass.—-“With the rest of the | working class we regret the sudden death of Comrade Ruthenberg.” Jewish Freiheit Arbeiter Club, Mil, Young Workers League of Syracuse! waukee, Wis.—“We express our gor- send deepest regret for death of Com-| row in the death of Comrade Ruth. Czberg.” and beloved leader, Rithenberg.” | + enberg, the ceaseless fighter for the ~ aaa ‘Theatte Gulla Acting Company tn BROTHERS KARAMAZOV VirtBHS RARAMIAZOY Neighborhood THEA. W. 52 St. Evs. 8:15| 466 Grand St. GUILD {fits thurs and Sat 2:15| Drydock 75 Playhouse PINWHEEL — | Every Eve. 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T vax ‘Eres B80 Mats Wed Sat 230 slisateecaiabdancet ble snn Se late {@he; Chanins, have set Monday Bronx Ope: 149th Street, | evening. March 28, as the definite “del ra House icf sraave op w date for their new Majestic Pop. Prices, Mat, Wed, & Sat. T in. We MARY NASH -in est Forty-Fourth In - Street: The opening attraction is “BIRDS OF PASSAGE” “Rufus -LeMaire’s Affairs.” pees Ticw j Th e Manager's Corner COMMUNIST TRAINING CAMPS. With the first blush of spring the ry is “Let's go!” On | every hand brilliant posters lure our youth to the glories of the capitalist military training camps. From the president to the smallest employer there isa united front in praise for these cannon fodder factories. ‘Every postage stamp is made the automatic carrier of jingo propaganda. To us the coming of spring marks an opportunity of quite a different character—one which the live wires in our movement will seize upon with the greatest zest. The milder weather offers us the opportunity to reach out to new see- tions of the working class whom we have never reached be- J fore. The Communist Training Camps which we propose to establish consist of squads of active comrades who will use this season of the year to invade the territory of large scale industry. It does not matter to us what type of equipme you use, whether it is a bicycle;*an old Ford, or just f power and a soap box. What we want to see in each dist is the organization of a squad of active field agents who go out and organize outdoor meetings at.factory gates at noon hour, make a rattling speech on some current issue or on con- ditions in the factory or the industry and then use the oi sion to sell The DAILY WORKER and Party literature, get subs. i 1 Expeditions of this kind can be made to pay for The DAILY WORKER as well as for the comrades undertaking the work. Traveling agents can earn their expenses by mak- ing profit on literature sold and commissions on subscriptions obtained. © Halen t( f Those who are yearning for adventure, and those wi want to “See the World” are promised plenty of experience,\ Pass the word along, “Let's go!”—BERT MILLER. f