The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 23, 1927, Page 4

, Page Four Y, MARCH 23, 1927 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, Grchard 1680 Suppression in England and the Right Wing Leaders of Labor No less-a person than Sir William (class. : ‘ ; | Joynson-Hicks, the home secr Nothing furnishes more’ conclusive jhas given the lead for such judicial | proof of the decline of the British em- utterances by his public statement: | pire than its assault on the tradi- “A good dose of Mussolini would do tional liberties of the British masses. the workers of this country good.” The British Communist Party and at ENA ( By WILLIAM F, DUNNE. 6 Dh British ruling class is junking the remnants of the famous de- mocracy celebrated in song and story Address all mail and make out checks to a | Dostoyevsky’s “Idiot” 'At Irving Place Theater There is a treat in store for Jewish | workers Friday evening at the Irving cs THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL rulers for peaceful democratic proce- . Editors dure at home. WILLIAM F. DU E In the colonies of course democratic |ments to the effect that in the event BERT MILLER. Business Manager procedure would have hampered the of war on China efforts would be _— sons of the empire in carrying out the | made to prevent troops being sent, he Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., unde¥| noble work of civilizing the black, d: the act of March 8, 1879, brown and yellow-skinned races for| If they do that they will end up, —_—_—_—— ah |the glory of king, god and country, and very properly too, with their) SS. Advertising rates on application, The experience gained in a thousand colonial punitive expeditions is now being drawn upon to keep the British The Beethoven Hall Meeting-A Sign of Reaction’s Weakness The rank and file of the labor movement and even certain sections of the lower official elements are giving little if any finan- cial support to the drive against the left wing in the needle trades. This is the conclusion to be drawn from the meeting called under instructions from President Green in Beethoven Hall Mon- day night and attended for the most part by leaders of the For- ward's “socialist” trade union machine. Appeals for money with which to cz itant trade unionism were the feature of the meeting. It is evi- dent that the black forces behind the drive are not satisfied with the present state of affairs and that the stubborn resistance of the rank and file of the cloakmakers and furriers has astonished them. Assurances of complete co-operation of the police department with Green-Woll-Sigman-Schachtman forces were given the audi- ence and this seems to be the biggest card in the right wing hand, It is sufficient proof of the degeneration of the right wing “sot cialist” leaders that they now find themselves at the mercy of the Tammany Hall machine. They are Tammanyizing the sections of the cloakmakers they control and they have a still harder job in ‘the furriers’ union. It is our opinion that the offensive of the wing has passed of hewers of wood and drawers of} water for god’s anointed. RITISH justice since the general strike has taken on an open jclass character. Workers who come |before British magistrates now are made to feel that the courts are in- deed bulwarks of the empire. Not long ago, according to the bul-| letin sent out by the International Class War Prisoners’ Association, a West London magistrate told a young taxicab driver who said that his union did not allow him to take his cab out during the strike: “If I were a young man like you I would have taken out my taxicab with a couple of revolvers in my pocket and | i: shot right and left. They would soon have left you alone.” rry on the fight on mil- d |government in | faster than most of us realize. We} the National Minority mov. a |have been regaled for years with tales Si William Thompson, the ree ee alate of the traditional love of Britain’s!*” master-general, does not lag be- ind -Joynson-Hicks or the learned judge. Speaking publicly about state- jbaeks against a wall with a firing party in front of them. | well that they should know right from | working class in its proper place, that |the start.” It is just as ions In the face of such open expre }of hatred and threats of organized |violence from authorized spokesmen jof the British imperia! |right wing leaders like Thomas and Ramsay ~ government, MacDonald prattle ‘peaceful progre and join with the campaign against China and the Soviet Union. In Great Britain there are today 51 workers serving sentences ranging from 8 months to 5 years as a re- sult of strike activitie and there are over 300 prosecution: il pending un- der the Emergency Powers Act. | PRITISH democracy was character- istie of one period of its rise and n the present period of decay the whole machinery of the capitalist state | with is marshalled against the working Capitalist Nations Plan Offensive Against | Soviet Union---Workers Must Prepare Defense about | bringing home to the working class | Place Art Theater, where a dramati- |the meaning of the violent act and ut-\gation of Dostoyevsky’s famous mas- | terances of their rulers. It is to be |terpiece, “The Idiot” will be staged. noted that the arrests and imprison- | The play is adapted by Jacob Ben- ment of Communist and other militant | Ami, the famous director, who is also | workers is coincident with the attack | portraying the leading role... Among jon the labor movement as a whole,|the great works of Dostoyevsky’s the attempts to lower the living stand- | which have been adapted for the stage ard of the working class and the con-) ‘The Idiot” is the most forceful and |Spiracy to paralyze the trade unions, | magnificent, and it is promised that | the “Trade Union Reform” bill. |it will create a sensation for the Jew- ACDONALD’ and Thomas. both ES ph eS have stated that they have no| ,!he performance ‘Friday. night is objection in. principle to the govern-| given for the benefit of the “Young ment proposals for trade union*reform | Pioneer Camp,” and it is. certain that |but they continue to denounce the | the theater will be well-attended by} | Communists as enemies of the labor movement, The hypocritical attitude of these) \ right wing leaders is quite clear when | | the question is asked: Who is jailing | | British workers, planning. violent sup- | | workers who are thterested»to build) ; ee | this workers’ children’s camp. “It is| In “Vanities” at the Earl Carroll a great play for a great purpose.” | Theatre |sical comedy by Hans Kottow, with Broadway Briefs || {pression of the labor movement and) |musie and lyries by Vincent Valen- |attacking the trade unions? The circus is on its way—a little |tine, It certainly is: not the Communist |later than last year, but coming here Party of Great Britain which, in pro-|just the same. The Ringling Broth- portion. to its membership, has andjers and Barnum & Bailey Combined had moré members in jail during and Shows will open their season at the jafter the general strike and coal strike |new Madison Square Garden Tues-/ ‘than any other working class. organi-|day, April 12. é zation, sent to jail by the government} which the MacDonalds Thomases conduct a sham battle. | ul M. Trebitsch has placed in |rehearsel “The Stork Is Dead”, a mu- “Rah, Rah, Ruthie”, a new qnusic- al about campus life with a book by Laurence Schwab, lyrics by B. G. De Sylva and music by Ray Hender- json, will be the next production to i \be made by Schwab & Mandel. The angy The Liberty theatre will house an- piece will be tried out in Philadelphia jother musieal show, wh@n “Twinkle|and Boston, then brought to Broad- | Twinkle”, which is now in the final |way for a summer run. : |three weeks, moves on to Chicago. |“Lady Do” is the title of the new “Open Your Arms,” a musical musical, and will open/at. the Liberty comedy, with book by Vivian Cosby |Monday, April 11th. The principal/and Harry E. Stoddard and masie players include Kary] Norman, known \by Jay Gorney, has been placed in jin vaudeville as the Creole Fashion \rehearsel by William Doloff and Lee |Plate; Nan Welfi Lew | Wainwri : Military Expenditures of States : sad elford and Lew! Wainwright. The cast is headed by its peak and that with the consolidation of all the fighting forces of the rank and file behind the unity committee of the Furriers and Cloakmakers’ Joint Boards there will appear a strong move- ment against turning these unions officially into adjuncts of Tam- many Hall’s police department. The strength of the left wing lies in its program for amalga- mation of the unions and in the hatred of the rank and file for the stoolpigeon methods employed by the right wing. The weakness of the left wing so far, and this is in striking tontrast to the intensive and vicious propaganda spread thriout the trade unions by the right wing, is that it has had too localized an outlook. Together with the strengthening of the left wing organization in New York there should be carried on a continual publicity campaign in the labor movement which, by concentrat- Ing on the elementary issues of trade union integrity involved will effectively answer the slanders of the right wing. The meeting in Beethoven Hall was a sign of the weakness of reaction in the needle trades and not of its strength. The Pittsburgh-Coal Company Fires the First Shot Against the Miners The first open challenge to the United Mine Workers of America—and to the whole American labor movement—has been thrown by a section of the most powerful group of capitalists in the United States—the Pittsburgh Coal Company which is allied | closely with the Pennsylvania Railroad and the steel interests. | » This company has declared its intention to smash the union in the territory in which it operates and the tone of the public statement of its spokesman leaves no doubt as to the determina- tion of this labor-hating concern to use the full power of the) armed forces of the state—the Pennsylvania cossacks, for in- Stance—to force the open shop on the miners. According to dispatches the company forces are already on a! military basis, searchlights are ready to light the midnight forays | of company gunmen upon the homes of miners and their families and all the machinery and trappings that in America give: in- dustrial disputes a warlike character are in readiness for the use, of ‘the private armies and mercenaries paid from the public treasury. This is the answer of the coal’barons to the miners’ union which President Lewis has led to this struggle unprepared. The | way for the miners to answer the coal barons, and this will be| the answer given if the “Save the Union” program is followed, is| » to launch at once an organizing campaign in the West Virginia! coal fields controlled by the Pittsburgh company while the same time conducting the Pennsylvania strike and carrying on or- ganization work in the fields adjacent to the mines. of this concern. | This new development is additional proof that the left wing| was correct when it told the miners that the coming struggle is a fight for the life of the union. The left wing will lead the struggle against the Pittsburgh Coal Company just as it led the struggles of the unorganized miners in the coking coal regions of Pennsylvania in 1922. | | East.” and again in the paper, “Glos pel trai Lees Ae e | Pravy”, organ of Pilsudski person- | Adjoining The U. S. S. R. 2 recent days the differences a ally, “We must teach our public opin-| Country Year In Mill. Dollars _ tween the capitalist powers and/(ion that the direction for this ex-| Poland» 1924 120.4 Soviet Russia have become more) cision of Poland as a big power is 1925 132.9 acute than “eps in pap ta capitalist | t., Fast * * *”, Roumania 1922 113 ress § S y ra- | ; ese 7 eb Le cag wie balait the Bove Parallel with the diplomatic in- 5 1925 21.2 Unioss | trigue goes a steady increase of the| Latvia 1924 3.9 Many indications of the prepar-| Military and naval forces of the en-| 1. bag et atlas being apiduatad by the capi-| tire capitalist world. Such figures as Esthonia vee es talist world are to be seen. Amongst | the following snow graphically the Finland 1922 U5 them, the most outstanding is the|'end of events: 1925 14.9 diplomatic maneuverings of Great) E ‘ 2 " Age S ¢ % xpenditures on Air Fleets tic ‘and Balkan border states, Such| _, Country 19241925 1926 Currency: events as the building of railroads) France 669.23 823. 793.5 Million franes in the Baltic Sens: direct ‘to: the Great Britain 18.605 13.392 21.319 Thousand pounds Russian frontier, attempts initiated| , aly ee ae Million lire by England to reconcile the age-long Poland — aoa 15.708 Thousand zloty differences of Lithuania and Poland) Romania 227.246 360. Thousand lei over Vilna; similar attempts at re- In addition to extension of the GO: : conciliation between Poland and Ger-| gular armed forces, there has been | with all enemies to date, whether many; the Fascist coup in Lithuania; | energetic establishment of see the attempted coup recently in Lat-/¢ial military orgatiizations for the/ sige, via; the territorial aspirations of | youth in all countries. : Pilsudski; the recent letter of Great) These maneuvers and military pre-| Rage, 5 | Britain to Moscow and the most re-|Parations are only the inevitable ex-| to the imminence of war against U. S.| cent, the recognition in treaty by/| Pression of differences which must | S. R. Such an event must be the} Italy of Roumania’s right to annex-|¢lash between working class Russia} signal for wide mobilization of all ation of Bessarabia, all have one|and the rest of the capitalist world.| workers of America and Europe to More than ever before must the workers of the world be awakened they be from the inside or the out- | connecting thread—that of weaving|The workers and peasants of the So- a net around the Soviet Union. | viet Union have grappled successfully | demand and work for, “Hands Off | Workers Russia”. | | Hearn. The book is by Albert Cowles |Bernard Granville, Dorothy Dilley and Jack McClellan, and the music|and Mary Hutchinson. |and lyries by Sam Lewis, Joe Young =- and Abel Baer. “The Venetian Mirror,” a group of | three one-act plays by Elizabeth |. “Lost,” a play by A. E. Thomas | Lawton, will be the next production jand George’ Agnew Chamberlain, bas-|of the Threshold Matinee Theatre at ‘ed on a novel by Mr. Chamberlain, | the Princess. jis scheduled to open at the Mans- | jfield Theatre Monday night, March | |28. Ramsey Wallace, James Crane/role of the Grand Duchess in “The |and Rosalinde Fuller, head the cast.| Student Prince’ has been engaged | Pe |for a prominent part in “The Circus | Clemence Dane’s “Mariners”, the | Princess”. Guy Robertson will sing |second production ofthe Actors’ The-.| the leading tenor role. latre, is due at the Plymouth Theatre, seo |March 28. The cast is headed by) “The Crown Prince,” by Ernest | Pauline Lord, Arthur Wontey, Hai-) Vajda, will have its premier at the jdee Wright, Mary Kennedy, Hugh Forrest Theatre tonight. Joe Atkins } Sinclair, T. Wigney Percyval, Ethel; did the adaptation. | Griffis and George Fitzgerald. | * For the engagement of “Cherry Michael Arlen and Winchell Smith Blossom,” the new musical_ play |have just completed their new play | based on “The Willow Tree,” comin, | which they have given the brief title to Jolson’s Theatre, Monday, Marc! | “The Zoo”, | 28th, the Messrs. Shubert have de- 4 . cided »upon a. radical reduction in Edwin H. Knopf, a brother of Al-| prices of orchestra and balcony seats. fred Knopf, has decided to go in for The top price will be $3.50 for all producing. His first production will} performances including Saturday. be “The Big Pond”, a play by George | For the premiere, however, there will be a charge of $5.00, Middleton and A. E. Thomas. Altho the entire capitalist world| ~~ would glory in a weakening of the power of the workers and peasants, at present, the ring leader of the new attack is Great Britain, as she, more} than the others, feels the result of | IL the consolidation of the U. S. S. R.| The general policy of British diplo-| macy is three-fold: | Oe ee a) Political isolation of the U. S. S. R. and its encirclement by anti- Soviet blocs, b) Control and guidance of Po- land, Roumania and the Baltic bor- der states, of their military prepar- ations im order to use them as a weapon in the struggle, ¢) Moral isolation of the U. S. 8. R. in the public opinion of the world. More Ruthenberg Memorial and re- cruiting drive meetings are being arranged. | Oakland, California will hold a | meeting Sunday evenirig, April 3, at | Fraternity Hall, 7th and Peralta streets, Edgar Owens and Ella Reeve | Bloor will be the principal speakers. The workers of the East Bay region are expected to give their support to | this meeting. aE ‘ | Two In Chicago Sides aie pai creas irae) Two recruiting drive meetings will day. In the Danish Gazette, we tina | P° paid Pe aniceeo “we weet Thurs the Danish naval expert, Reiss ex- ee, Mater 36 8 pee wit ie eee pressing himself as follows: “Im- ar Northwest Hall, North and Weat- mediately after the conclusion of the Sekine 8 ee me apc nae of world war Great Britain and France| "°C" orkers. (Comme particularly adopted a Baltic Sea po- licy. * * * Great Britain thought} that these states will form a barrier! between Russia and Germany, facili-| tating thereby the capture of the Russian market by Great Britain. * * * At present.Great Britain is} endeavoring to save the situation by) organizing a Baltic Federation di- rected against Russia. In 1925, the! RUTHENBERG RECRUITING | Party. Jay Lovestone, Acting Gen- “Workers Have Lost a Great Leader” Shoe Workers’ Protective Union, Local 54, New York, at a meeting of the local adopted the following resolution on the death of C. E, Ruthenberg: “Whereas, the working class.of America has lost-a great leader from its ranks by the sudden death of C. E. Ruthenberg, A “Therefore, be it resolved, that Local No. 54, Shoe Workers’ Protec- tive Union, at a meeting held on Thursday evening, March 17th, 1927, goes NG NEW MEMBERS eral Secretary of the Communist Party will speak. All workers are urged to be present. Admission free. | The other will be Friday March 25, at the South Side Community House, 8201 South Wabash Ave. It will be addressed by Max Bedacht, member of the Central Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party and editor of The Communist. pathizers are invited to be present. Since Ruthenberg, founder of the Communist movement in this country has died, hundreds of new members have been obtained. 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Hves. 50c-gg, “RESTLESS WOMEN” A Powerful New Play of Today, ‘napepestemeneins ast | British fleet was in the Baltic Sea| |paying visits to the new states in lorder to give them more moral sup-| |port and to show that Great Britain | \is interested in reserving these states for the struggle against the Soviet Union.” The aspirations of Poland are ex- pressed in the “Polskaya Zbroinia”,| the official organ of the war minis | try as follows: “The great slogans | ‘For the Bug’ and ‘For the Neman’} | which forsee the widest possible Po- \lish expansion and which demand the! reconstruction of the Polish state within its historical and not within narrow ethnographical frontiers to- day alarm a great many people. How-! ever, when the Polish state came into being, slogans of Polish expansion to the East, became a matter of course. * * * We must be strong in the Stop the New Plot Against Mexico _ ‘The Coolidge-Kellogg-Wall Street offensive against Mexico has taken a new form and altho somewhat overshadowed by the recent stirring events in China, the question of relations with Mexico is now acute. A number of events force the conclusion that American in- terests, with the knowledge of the state department are organ- ising a counter-revolution in Mexico. These events are: ; 1, The note sent by Kellogg to the Mexican government “notifying it that the anti-smuggling treaty will no longer be en- orced. This amounts for practical purposes to the lifting of the embargo on arms and munitions and means that there are certain ( « tl 2. The dispatch from the Mexican Correspondent of the lew York Times, Ybarra, in which the open prediction of counter- revolution is made. The dispatch itself reads like a declaration war on the part of The Times. _ 8. The report from authentic sources:that the Hearst press in New York ‘City is holding two correspondents in reserve for duty in Mexico and that Hearst expects a strong counter-revolu+ ‘tionary movement within a month which will be financed in part y Doheny. The state department is evidently working strenuously to create another Nicaraguan situation-during the congressional re-|,whatevet guise it may assume. ¢ actual intervention can be present there is the greatest need for the loss of our comrade and \eader C. E. Ruthenberg. Communist fractions ani we pledge to “Close Our Ranks” as our leader has commanied in his parting message and continue with berg ably and courageously led with devotion to the cause of the working ities.” cess so that an accomplished fact of the The Mexican situation is more critical today than it was when it was getting more publicity in the imperialist press and vie the stern purpose of preventing war on record to commemorate him and keep up the struggle for the emanci- pation of the working class, “And be it further resolved, that this resolution be forwarded to all of the labor press.” Greek Bureau, Workers (Com- munist) Party—The National Bureau yt of the Greek section of the Workers! Tribute Communist) Party feels deeply’ the On behalf of the Greek all class onscious Greek workers in America he struggle that comraie Ruthen- lass of all countries ani national- need for intervention or ed to congress. widest possible public agitation against Mexico under SAUL SAVITZ, Secretary, Local No. 54, S. W. P. U. s Newark Workers Pay to Ruthenberg NEWARK N, J.,—On Friday even- ing workers of Newark gathered in the New Montgomery Hall and paid their respects to their gore but not) forgotten Comrade Ruthenberg. About 200 workers attended. The! speakers were Comrades Markoff, Gardos and Gebert. They briefly outlined the life’s activities of Ruth-| enberg and urged those present to complete the work which our comrade | had left unfinished. There was en- thusiastic response. Kight new ap-. plications were received for the party | and the workers,of Newark pledged themselves to carry on greater work | in the city of Newark in the future. | BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS OOD.) print- ing of all description at a fair price. Let us estimate on your work, 1 433 FIRST STREET eACTIVE PRESS RCO RP OUR ET Bhp NEW YORK Telephone ORCHARD _—=- Florence Morrison, who created the ©