The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. ¥. ° SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): | $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE r BERT MILLER Business Manager ” Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. | oe aed Advertising rates on application. The Crisis in the United Mine Workers of America There will be no national strike of the coal miners on the ex-| piration of the Jacksonville contract on April 31. Instructions to this effect have been sent to all districts out-| side of the central competitive field and the membership is in- structed by the Lewis administration to stay at work while nego-| tiations for a new contract are in progress. This is another step in the direction taken by the Lewis ad- ministration since thé last convention—that of abandonment of | the strike weapon and co-operation with the coal operators. It means that in spite of the slogan of “no backward step” with} which the Indianapolis convention was’ beguiled, the Lewis ma-| chine is prepared to accept a wage cut for the membership rather than call a strike and organize and pull®ut decisive sections of the non-union fields. Even if no actual wage cut is made there will be ‘instituted a series of changes in working conditions and pay- mené-for work that will amount to the:same thing. The negotiations in the central competitive field will drag on/| until summer is here and the demand for fuel is at its lowest point, the storage of coal will continue and when an agreement | is made by Lewis agreeing to big concessions to the operators the union will have lost its most favorable period for a strike. No preparations for an organi’«tion drive in West Virginia and Kentucky have been made am. this indicates that Lewis has no serious intentions of waging a real struggle to save the union and extend its influence. The Lewis policy is ene of surrender and this is the way it has been characterized by the “Save the Union” bloc. The drive against the militant elements in the union, the failure to launch organization campaigns, the encouragement given to coal opera- tors to violate the agreement, the continual loss of membership and finally the decision to stake everything on the outcome of the ne- gotiations with operators in the central competitive field who are already running some of their mines on an open shop basis is a confession of bankruptcy on the part of the Lewis machine and an admission of the truth of the statements made for the past three years by us. The United Mine Workers’ Union is in grave danger. It, faces a section-of the capitalist class which is determined to de- stroy it and it is officered by individuals whose sole efforts to) solve the crisis have been to make war on the rank and file and) raise their own salaries. The UMWA will come thru the present crisis without a di astrous defeat only by organizing the non-union fields, demo- cratizing the union itself, accepting no wage cut or change for) the worse in working conditions and bringing the whole strength | of the American labor movement to its aid. | When Hasbeens Meet. Two hasbeens whom history has passed by, telling one an-| other how good they are and were is a pathetic sight providing | these persons are not Bafnbridge Colby, the gentlemanly vicious secretary of state under Wilson, and Alexander Kerensky, onetime | premier of Russia whom the Russian masses have forgotten. Colby in 1920 wrote a note to the Soviet government which said in part that— Re “the government of the United States: does express the hope that they (the Russian people) will soon find a way to set up a gov- ernment representing their free will and purpose. . . .” Seven years have passed and the government of the United States and all other imperialist governments know by this time that the “free will and purpose” of the Russian masses finds ex- pression in the Soviet government. | Said Kerensky to Colby: “Your note is an historical document of unsurpassed interna- tional value, and its meaning for the Russian people is so great that I consider it a privilege to be able to thank you personally in the name of those who struggle for and believe in the regeneration of Russia under democratic institutions.” *S8aid Colby to Kerensk. — “You will be an enduring figure in history. You are one of the foremost actors in the great drama of Russian freedom and your rational and statesmanlike proposals will receive from history the credit which is its due. Russia's hopes of recovering the cotuntenance and respect of civilized opinion lies in the adoption of the ideas which you represent and I regard your visit to this country as singularly well-timed and fortunate.” The Russian workers and peasants, led by the Russian Com- munist Party, sure of the friendship and support of the toiling masses of the world, seeing 300,000,000 of their class enlisting inthe same struggle they are waging, as in China, ruling and developing a couhtry from which they have driven all invaders, care little for the “civilized” opinion Colby mentions. They are building socialism in their country and aiding the struggle for it throughout the world. Kerensky’s cowardice and Colby’s notes have not been able to stop the progress of the Russian masses. They are making history with sickle and the hammer as they made it with the bayonet when necessary. Ten years have passed since Kerensky heard the gun-butts of the Red Guard rattle on the floor of the Duma chamber. Events since that time have proved that history today is being written by the working class in such bold letters that the Colbys and Ker- enskys cannot blot it out.» Vicious but futile they symbolize the position of their class- hangers-on of the imperialists who despise them but try to use them. ; Get Another Subscriber for Your DAILY WORKER. ae League For Industrial Demo- eracy held a conference in June of last year at Camp Tamiment on “Newer Defenses of Capitalism in the United States.” Mina Weisenberg, secretary of the New York chapter, the largest in the league, writing in Current Hi tory for March, shows that the Lea- gue For Industrial Democracy should have ineluded itself in the list of or- ganizations coming under the head of “newer defenses of capitalism in the United States”. We assume of ;course that the lady, as she signs her article with her full title, is voic- ing the official viewpoint of the or- | ganization. Under the caption of “Labor’s De- fense Against Employer’s Welfare Tactics” Weisenberg attempts to show that worker-employer cooper- ation is a weapon of the labor move- ment. No proof is offered to sustain this contention other than the bare fact of its adoption by the trade union leadership and the establish- ment of this system of relationship: in various sections of industry. EISENBERG looks upon such brazen examples of surrender to the bosses as the B. and O. plan and calls them good; Listen to this lyrical description of the worker-employer cooperation paradise: “Numerous instances of these uni- ted efforts in behalf industry may be found. Joint councils of represen- tatives of unions and of employers’ associations have been organized. These joint councils work on the ex- cellent general principles of the un- desirability of strikes, the possibility of the counciliation or arbitration of all disputes, cooperation for better craftmanhip, better local union lead- ership, better working conditions and enlarged production.” (Emphasis mime.) It will strike an impartial observer at once that the employers benefit from this scheme at the rate of about five to one and that euphemistic phrases fail to get rid of. the hard truth that worker-employer cooper- ation, or “union-employer” cooper- ation is a howling success only in getting more work out of “the boys.” It dangles before the eyes of the workers such will-’o-the-wisps as | steadier employment, “share in any gain or accrued prosperity that re- sults from their cooperation”, as Weisenberg puts it, but no one has proved yet nor will anyone be able to prove that it strengthens the trade union movement or the working ¢lass ‘as a whole. REPORT made by the officers of the railway employes depart- ment to the Detroit convention of the American Federation of Labor shows | concretely how the worker-employer cooperation*policy works the workers. Out of 1,057 cases handled by the “cooperative council” under the B. and O. plan 304 dealt with shortage of material or tools, 204 with repairs or improvement to equipment, 129 with new equipment, 89 with new methods and devices, 27 better shop layout, 10 better tools or material, 30 with poor grade or wrong kind of materials and 207 with better working conditions, ‘ Assuming that the 207 cases listed actually did deal with better working conditions (in this connection we should remember that the advocates of: the plan are trying to convince wotkers that it is of service to them and would naturally be somewhat liberal in. establishing the number of these @pses) we still have the follow- ing proportion: 856 cases for the employers against 207 for the workers. HE system which produces such grotesque contrasts is described by the secretary of the New York chap- ter of the League for Industrial De- mocracy as follows: “As a final example of union-em- ployer cooperation there is the splen- did work of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (ngfe that Weisenberg, in- advertently probably, correctly calls “Newer Defenses of Capitalism in America” — The League for Industrial Democracy By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. and Ohio Railroad’). . “Its general plan of united action | Tecognizes that the trade union is the proper agent to organize employe welfare activities and that the union should have constructive as well as protective duties and responsibilities in the operation of the railroad. Co-| operation on this basis was agreed | ‘to, to improve transportation, to eli- minate waste, to increase produc- | tivity, to better morale and to try} |to develop greater regularity of em- ployment,” (Emphasis mine.) Pleasé note again that all except }one item of agreement is for the benefit of the B, and O. and that this lone exception is stated in the well- known “pious wish” phraseology. CCORDING to the railway de- partment officials’ report. men- tioned above there was an increase |of two weeks of employment in the ‘year period. This sterling feat (which is put forward by officialdom | | Ruthenberg Recruiting Drive has been |of business in the Section Confer- | The Ruthenberg Enrolkment Call [Workers Respond to | | (Continued from Page One) | | speakers and cover all expenses en- | ‘aan “DREAM: PLAY” HOKUM. | The Italian, Russian and Ukrain- | ee lian Fraction’ Bureaus are similarly | Acting of Joseph Bulov Redeem- jat work on plans to mobilize this! ing Feature of Yiddish Art district’s full forces in the recruit-| Theatre Production. ing drive. All trade union fractions | in the district are being mobilized to} Reviewed by A. B. MAGIL. bring into the party sympathetic! phe dream play is an ancient, well- |worn device. Its long frock coat is workers from the unions. New York Makes Thoro Preparations. | shiny and rather frayed at the el- |bows. I suggest it’s about time the Perhaps the most thoro prepar- siccesstal | play be thrown into the ash ations for an, intensive |dream * _jean, Under its fragile, delicately The” Ruthen lpaipitucing wings an author can |shelter his most precious hokum. If ences that: began a few days ago. The la playwright wants to .be shamelessly Agitprop Department of the district |audlin, all he has to. do is to sey, has issued various bulletins dealing |. ‘Once upon a time”, and the audience with the contributions of and achieve- |immediately surrenders up its brains, ments of Comrade Ruthenberg for; I am moved to these dark thoughts | the development of a victorious work- |>y contemplation of a piece entitled ing class in.the.United States, A |‘Yoshke Musikant” and tearfully sub- special bulletin for Ruthenberg Mem- titled “The Singer bf Sorrow”, which orial speakers and the Ruthenberg the Yiddish Art Theatre is produc- | Membership Drive has been prepared jing. | hy the New York District. ~ | Ossyp Dymow, the author, has} At the New York Ruthenberg something of a reputation ip Yiddish made in New York. berg Enrollment was the first order as a gain only for the workers, is actually a gain for the company as| well since Marx long ago proved that | surplus value is created when work-| ers are employed) was accomplished | |in an interesting manner i. e. by tak-| ing work from outside shops and| having it done in railway shops at a lower cost. The victory was secured therefore’ by taking jobs from one section of the working class and giving them to another, How this’ increased the total amount of employment we leave the brilliant secretary of the New York chapter of the League for Industtial Democracy to show, But this article grows long and our space is limited. Let us see to what} conclusion Weisenberg comes after} the labored apology for the worker- ‘employer cooperation theory. Spéak- ing in the last paragraph of her ar- ticle of the regrettable conflicts which still mar the relations between capital and labor, Weisenberg says: “S-. . between the two fronts | there is a peaceful valley where the conflicting interests have learned to | work together for their mutual good. Small at present, it must grow more |extensive as increasing numbers of capitalists realize the force and ef-| ficiency behind cooperation and the |necessity for the shifting of power so that there will no longer be the! |fear and hatred between those who dominate and those who are domin- ated in our industrial life.” (Em- phasis mine.) | TSN’T it all just too wonderful? |+ Not the least wonderful part of it is that the League For Industrial De- mocracy, the Thtercollegiate Socialist Society child sired by the war and damned by Norman Thomas, appears in Weisenberg’s article as the plum-} ‘ed and prancing champion of the whole Green-Woll-Lewis worker-em- ployer cooperation policy. | It will be quite interesting to see! jhow the spokesmen for the League explain to a wondering working class how support of open reaction is in \line-with its program, As is well- known the League for Industrial De- |mocracy is against revolutionary} |changes and for evolutionary proces-| ses but it seems to have mistaken| |degeneration for evolution in this | |particular instance. ~ Bal Broa Weisenberg article, taken in | 4 its entirety, is another link in the |chain of evidence proving that the ‘remnants of the pre-war revolutionary | movement have been picked up by |trade union officialdom and are be- ling used to cast a faint shadow of ‘honesty over policies which are noth- ing more or less than the expression ‘of that officialdom’s complete sur- {render to American imperialism. | The New York chapter of the Lea- gue For Industrial Democracy must either repudiate the article in Cur- ren} History by its secretary or ad- mif that it is supporting without. re- servation the right wing in ‘the labor movement which is fighting the mili- tant membershp and capitulating to the bosses. “Newer Defenses of Capitalism in the United States” now includes the the plan the ‘work of the Baltimore |!League For Industrial Democracy, |CURRENT EVENTS By v3. orLAMERTY |) (Continued from Page One) are in the grip of their corrupt capi- talist leaders. : . * ° British naval officer was recent- ly arraigned in a London court charged with illegal possession of nayal secrets relating to two British submarines, one of them the largest on the seas. This is indicative of the nervousness from which the govern- ments of the world are suffering. Another news dispatch informs us that France and England are en- gaged in a race for tank supremacy. Those who want peace may find it in a nice qiiet morgue. * * * EN Arthur Ponsonby, Labor Party member moved in the house of commons to abolish the British air force on ethical grounds he was viciously attacked by James exton, Labor Party member and head of the National Union of Dock Laborers. Ponsonby charged that after straining every nerve for four years to beat Germany England has been busy ever since trying to restore the vanquished nation, Sexton said that it was lunacy for Britain to dise arm as long as other countries did not do so and blamed peace propa- |ganda on the Soviet Union. Whic proves that there iS no more danger- ous enemy of the working class than the renegade who has sold out his heritage for the capitalist mess of pottage. Sexton is of proletarian origin. Ponsonby is not. * -~ # F coursé this is gn exception that does not prove the rule. While a few of the bourgeoisie will come over to the side of the working class through conviction, the emancipation of the workers must be their own jtask. After all, onl¥ the workers have a material interest in waging the class war. To them if“means more bread, more clothing, moré® shelter and more of the good things of ‘life. ‘To those who come from the other side to help them, it means more psychological satisfaction. For every renegade like Sexton who goes over to the enemy one hundred thousand workers will go to the front against capitalism and for every Ponsonby, one thousand of his class will fight on capitalism’s side of the barricades. Memorial Meetings, the non-party literature, based on a number of plays | workers responded in a most im-|and short stories. “Yoshke Musi; | pressive way to the call of the Com-|kant” was written in 1912 and per-| munist organizers for building *the|formed many times throughout | party. A large mumber of appli-/Europe. Its first American produc- | cants were taken in for examination|tion was by a east which included, as to their qualifications to become | Jacob Ben-Ami and Rudolph Schild- | members of the Workers (Commu-jkraut. Schildkraut revived. it last | nist) Party. tyear under the direction of the au-| Entire Party Responded. |thor. The present production, which | Similar steps above outlined are/is in honor of the twenty-fifth an-| being taken by other districts in the |niversary of Dymow’s literary Activ-| different sections of the country. The National Office is filling orders for Ruthenberg Memorial buttons- from sections of the country where the Workers (Communist) Party previ- ously did not even have the slightest connections or contacts. The entire party is responding to the slogans: “Every member get a member!” “Ruthenberg died build- ing the workers’ catse—Commu- nism; Build the Workers (Commu- nist) Party in America!” If any working man or women de- sires @hy information as to the Work- ers Party or its activities, this can be secured by applying to the Nation- al Office of the party at 1113 W. Washington Blvd.. Chicago. Ill.” Recognize Fight Made By Ruthenberg For Chinese Liberation. The following letter was received from Kuo Min Tang of Beston: “The | Boston Branch of the Kuomintang ex- tend their sympathy to members of the Workers Party in the loss of Gen- eral Secretary, C. E. Ruthenberg, al- ways an agressive fighter and a staunch friend of the Chinese Liber- ution movement. t Charles Y. Lee, Secretary”. os 8 Clark Pays Tribute to Ruthenberg. DENVER, Colo.—A _ Ruthenberg memorial meeting was held here un- der the auspices of the Workers Party at Waiters’ Hall. A group of Rus- sians sang the Russian funeral song. Minnie Tuchmann, a Young Pioneer, read a paper in regard to the death and work of Ruthenberg. Comrade William Dietrich, secre- tary, acted as chairman and gave a short historical sketch of Ruthenberg’s work in the Socialist and Communis Party of the U. S. Stanley Clark, veteran of the So- cialist and Communist movement and a personal friend of Ruthenberg, paid | his tribute of respect by telling of in- cidents in which Ruthenberg showed himself to be entitled to the leadership of the Communist movement in the United States. He said: “Let’ us not mourn the death of Rutkenberg, but, let it be an inspiration for’ us to make our- selves ncfve in the work that Com- rade RutHenberg had to lay down and do as he advised just before passing om and that is to ‘Fight On’.” the audience sang “The International.” Workmen’s Circle of | Buffalo to Help Carry On Ruthenberg’ s Work BUFFALO, N. Y.—At,a regular meeting of Branch 192, Workmen's Circle, the following resolution was adopted unanimously: WHEREAS, death has taken from the midst of the working class movement, not only here in the United States, but also all over the world, in the person of Charles Emil Ruthenberg. WHEREAS, Comrade Ruthen- berg was the head and the heart of the Workers (Communist) Party, who has worked all his life with _ the utmost ion and sacrifice for the good of the whole working class moyement.all over the world. RESOLVED, That we express our grief and resolye to continue the good work for which Comrade Ruthenberg has sacrificed his. life in the capitalist prisons, and with bowed heads we rise from our seats in- honor of the great leader, always> remembering that he did not sacrifice in vain, That the principles will be realized in the not very distant future. (Signed) L. Stolkin, Secretary. 1. Wate Freiheit Branch, -W. C., Pittsburgh, | Pa.—“The Freiheit Branch, W. C. No. 382 expresses grief and sorrow over the loss of Comrade Charies Ruthen- berg.” —M, J. Shaffer, secretary. Read The Daily Worker Every Day jity, was directed, by Joseph Buloy, | et Vas MADELINE GREY In “Restless Women”, a new play, opening at the Bronx Opera. House. gale” now at Jolson’s, will close on March 26 and begin a tour in -De- troit on March 28th. Earl Carroll is preparing a new musical comedy and has already be- gun casting for it. Rehearsals are scheduled to begin in a week. ON THE SCREEN East Siders will have an oppor- At the conclusion of the meeting | |who also plays the leading’ role. [tunity of seeing the late Jewish actor, “Yoshke Musikant,” has for its|Jacob P. Adler in the motion picture, junderlying theme an old Yiddish folk “Michael Strogoff”, by Jules Verne, |Sovgand concerns a shy little village next Saturday, March 26, in the audi- imusician who loves a stalwart, hand-|torium of the Church of All Nations, |some servant girl. She is indifferent | First street and Second avenue. The to his affection, being involved in a | picture is being revived for one day. jliaison with the son of her mistress, There will be five consecutive per- |who trifles with her -and then for- ;formances, commencing at 1.30. |sakes her. Yoshke, being the village | a \letter-writer as well, is impressed in-| Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle is going ‘to service to write to her faithless |back to pictures. He has been signed \lover and beg him to return. Yosh-!up for five years by Abe Carlos to ke’s varying fortunes, the pathos of Star in films to be made in Germany. his love, his guilelessness and ulti-|—He is due in Berlin October 1, with |mate disaster form the substance of his wife, Doris Deane, who will ap- |the play. In him is meant to be|Pear in his pictures. |embodied something of the poetry and! s the frail, imperishable wistfulness of | The Fifth Avenue Playhouse is re- ‘humankind. s laut eka ates Soe David,” | But it is all emasculated and senti-|Wit Richard Barthelmess. As ad- |mentalized. The writing is shipshod |‘itional | attraction includes: “The jand the author never seems to be| 0st Tribe,” a camera record of an [certain of what he wants to say. At |¢XPedition into New Guinea, made by ‘eritical moments the play, like Ste- |Captain Hurley. ‘The Epic of Mount |phen Léacock’s young man, ‘simply Everest » is being shown each. day. lrides off madly in all directions. at noon. Joseph Bulov, who creates the title; role, is the only one of the ators linac ae BE ay Ta pa i who. seenis to understand something in America, has ‘sighed’ to appear in’ of the theme’s inner harmony that | moving picturds, ‘He will make his \the author dimly and fumblingly tried) geput as a Maxis & ‘pictuie-entitled to convey. His acting is delicate and “Huntingtower”, P achieves a shy, forlorn beauty that is! = as intangible as it is profound. | Taylor Holmes, last starred here In his direction too Bulov seems |; «Nn, fo, Ni ” 1 to know just what effects should be siustest pal epee Ahan to striven for. But he is handicapped | ¢ ter the fil: i by the fact that nearly all Jewish |Sontract to ee in nial jactors become lumbering tyros of the or. two-reel comedies which will be pie-throwing school when they are/ produced by Gaity Pictures, The:, a Psa; { jcalled upon to do anything in the new oreanization recently formed. \spirit of fantasy. ~The Yiddish stage | VAUDEVILLE THEATRES in the past has concerned itself too) rigidly with naturalistic’ drama and! naturalistic technique (frequently in debased, melodramatic form) that its! actors have grown up in an inflexible) } Janis, Raymond’ Hitcheoek; tradition which would require many |Jack Norworth and Dorothy Adelphi; |years of schooling to uproot. Put a|The Dodge Twins; Ray and Dot; Yiddish actor in Yealistie three or | Ha: Moetor and William Hol- four-act drama and he is incompar-|brock; .Cardini; The -Mongadors; - ably versatile. But in fantasy he is | Vivian and Walters. a8 a burlesque comedian, Bilov did {about all he could with the materials jthat he had. And in his own role! he did much more. ° PALACE, HIPPODROME. Albertina Rasch’s ‘Pompadour, Bal- let’; Harry Holmes; Norberto Ardel- ", tenor; - Mabel Ford and’ Ben | BROADWAY BRIEFS |Goldie’s Symphonic Syncopators; | Whitey. and El Ford; Joe- Rei! Lajos Egri’s play “Heckuba-Hac- | Entertainers. kuba,” which the Provincetown Play- house producing 1m association with Horace Liverwright has under- gone a change of title. known hereafter as “Rapid Pranait”| RIVERSIDE. Harly Fox & 0.; Chas. Whiters It_will be |& Co.; Petite Revue; Paul Decker, & Co.; Jean Granese & Co.; Allen and Canfield; Bryson and. Jones Brothers. E Cor. 6 Av & 14 8t PAARL Tel. Watkins 4767, | ARL Eleanor Painter in “The Nightin- | Civie “Repertory | Vanities nonZVA LE GALLIENNE, | CARROLL TIMES SQ. rs Thea. W. 42 St. Eves, 3:30, Mats. 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