The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 24, 1927, Page 4

pales Page Four AE * THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 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 _ Attempt io Con YORK CITY witnessed the ectacle Monday night of the two ding officials of the American ‘ation of Labor, President Green Vice President Woll, accompanied a galaxy of minor satellites, pan- g a public meeting in Beetho- r money with -which to e labor move- unions of the rs. 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... | ment-— furri ati — Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 2, 1879, rates on ap) ecording Joseph P. Ryan of the des and Labor Council tructions from President The one and only order of was denunciation of the nd the left wing leaders , and urgent demands Imperialism Had an Open Road into Shanghai How About Getting Out? The People’s Armies hold Shanghai, the People’s Assembly has been set up and the city, outside of the foreign settlement, i now part of the territory, totaling about three-fifths of China, ruled by the People’s Government, The imperialist powers hold the foreign settlement but what * are they going to do with it? : Hold on to it in the face of the demand that it be handed over 1 to the victorious People’s Government, declare war and have their : precious property destroyed in the ensuing struggle? Or will the powers try to retain their grip on the foreign settlement with its native population of 700,000 in the face of a boycott ? These are not merely’ rhetorical questions. They are prac- tical proklems of immense importance and they have been placed first on the order of business of the imperialist powers by the Kuomintang victory and by the rapid rise of a militant and pow- erful movement of the Chinese workers. In other words will the imperialists walk out peaceably and leave the great industrial center and the biggest port of China in complete control of the People’s Government or will they be driven out. «. In other words, is it peace—or war? : The correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune cables that “the powers have agreed to hold ShaiigRai even if they must resort to war.” | Commun like Ben 's report that the audience pally composed of Forward ists”—officials of unions domi- by the Forward’s machine. ated ward McGrady, special A. F. of L. or- was lined up with the A. F. of L. com- |mittee and against the left wing. | These statements effectively dispose of the other statements by the same elements that the Communists and | left wing had bribed the police. | * * [7 is quite evident that the right wing |* offensive is getting no substantial financial support from the labor moyement as a whole but that it is financed from such sources as the |Forward, the bosses and other ene- mies of fighting trade unionism. The meeting Friday night shows further that the secret supporters of the drive against the left are dissatisfied with the lack of progress. In the Furriers’ Union for instance the right 1 4 ship on which to build and must de- pend solely upon stoolpigeons and the police department. We are also of the opinion that the speeches of Green and Woll indicate ja difference on policy. Green is not * He probably expresses correctly the general policy of the im- perialists but in the China of today the disposition to be made of the international settlement will not be decided by purely military methods. + Quoting the Herald-Tribune correspondent: “Eugene Chen (foreign minister for the Kuomintang gov- ernment) government to take the Shanghai international settlement by | ferce, but he insisted that the Cantonese will not be satisfied until the territory now occupied by foreigners is restored to China. Chen implied that the only weapons the Cantonese will use will be BOYCOTTS AND STRIKES.” (Emphasis ours.) This method has the double virtue of being deadly in its ef- fectiveness and almost impossible to combat. Even a capitalist press correspondent who knows anything of China is unable to c@nceal the cold shivers which run down the imperialist spine (particularly the British and Japanese spines whose owners have |® repent? seen and felt a Chinese popular boycott in action) at the mere jiigious ee ee thot of the thing. So the Herald-Tribune’s man is impelled to tell! “Failing this, with the continual rise the whole truth and nothing but the truth: of energetic reaction in official labor » “The importance of Eugene Chen’s threat cannot be overes- |“! Green ig doomed to defpat. timated, because if the Chinese maintain a boycott along the | Yangtze river Shanghai will be economically ruined. WITHOUT FIRING A SHOT THE CANTONESE ARE NOW IN A POSI- TION TO DRIVE OUT THE FOREIGNERS BY THE SIMPLE PROCESS OF REFUSING TO TRADE WITH THEM.” (Em- phasis ours.) The workers and peasants will play a mighty role in enforcing the boycott and organizing strikes if this is the methog employed. This again shows the real base of the liberation movement is in iie working masses and these struggles (like the general strike if Shanghai) at one and the same time puts the leadership in the hands of the workers and trains them for it. paign and the way it is being con- ducted. In addition to this Woll is using the drive against the left to curry favor with the capitalist ele- ments in the Civic Federation and to appear as the most militant champion of 100 per cent American trade union- ism. Woll is carrying out the policy of the Roman catholic hierarchy and the Militia of Christ in the labor move- ment. He hopes to rally to his su port a solid bloc of reaction that will put him in the position Green now holds. Ii Green were not a weakling and compromised by a number of shady associations he could easily rally every honest element in the labor movement to his support on a pro- gram of freedom for political expres {T would be the greatest mistake to \“ regard the struggle in the New | York needle trades as something sep- arate and apart from the struggle which is going on in the labor move- ment. The intensity of the struggle here is due to the higher political level of the needle trades workers which nfakes a clash between social- ists supporting the A. F. of L. of- ficialdom and Communists possible. In other sections of the labor move- ment the issues appear more clearly as a struggle of the rank and file with jleft wing leadership against official The middle class right wing of the Kuomingtang may vacil-| corruption, worker-employer co-opera- Pd and try to compromise with imperialism but the trade unions | tion and for a militant practical pro- eo Pay wz gram—as in the United Mine Workers ive ever forward. Eases = The hangers-on of imperialism in China now are mere chips} ‘The struggle in New York and else- in a sea of surging mass power which will swallow up its enemies Where is not only an effort on the a§ certainly as a stone sinks in quicksand. ‘“ 9 “Mother” Bloo S one of the oldest soldiers in our Only treachery from within can even halt the sweep of the Chinese revolution toward a workers’ and peasants’ government. A army I wish. to add my tribute to Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg. Altho he was a young man seemingly in the prime of life, he was my contem- porary in the Socialist Party of Ohio, | when I was serving that Party as its State Organizer in 1911-1912. He was a member of the State Execu- tive Committee at that time. We had lively campaigns, a state yote o 90,000 and 18 Socialist mayors wer elected. Ruthenberg was on the ti ket for Governor and I was running for municipal judge of Columbus. It was during that time, 1 believe, that Ruthenberg’s strong belief in a | political party of labor crystallized. There were many controversies at that time inside the Socialist Party, The New Leader and the Drive Against the Soviet Union. < Te The New Leader, official organ of the socialist party, says) eWitorially in its last issue: i F We have in this verbal and press duel between Russia and £ Britain the possibilities of war, and it WILL BE INTEREST- -IN@TO WATCH IT FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. If any a the Powers contemplate war against Russia we may ex- e pect it in the warm months and they are approaching. Such “a struggle MAY EASILY INVOLVE MANY OF THE POW- ERS, and the outcome is one that no human being can pre- Sdiet. (Emphasis-ours.) % Please note the phraseology we have emphasized. To the edi- ator of the New Leader the prospect of war upon the workers anil! deststal action. or syndicalism. sants of Russia is merely “interesting.” It “may easily in-| lve many of the Powers.’ What of the millions of workers and sants ruled by “the Powers?” 4 | Another “interesting” question: Who will the New Leader the socialist party support in the event of such a war—the iet Union or “the Powers?” \ The New Leader editor gives no answer to this all-important iy bration by the comrades of Cleveland. | I was on my way to Kansas City to |help Jim Cannon with the “Workers World.” Earl Browder and his broth- jon and thus puts himself far to the right of such liberal ‘ tentiary of Leavenworth that month, nals as The Nation. with “Bob” Sullivan and others. The | war mania was still in force against! any kind of radical organization, The | espionage act; the lever act, raids, | etc., still played havoc with our meet-! ings and our press. Just before the | 4th of July affair in Cleveland, their E Making War On the Left Wing As An to Conceal Corruption his collection of right wingers was | assured time and time again by Ed- | ganizér, that the police department | wing has no base among the member- | | wholeheartedly in favor of the cam-| jas to political action vs. purely in-: | I was compelled to leave Ohio at) that time to go to Germany and did) {not see Ruthenberg again until the, memorable 4th of July, (1917) cele-° er were going to the Federal Peni-|open the meeting andsintroduced me, Union—a steady if not a_ brilliant campaigner against the “reds"—who | managed to steal from the union, by | a combination .of blackmail and for-| | gery, approximately $73,000. | | The second case is that of Local | | Union Number 8 of the International | |Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, | |one of the largest locals of the union, | | whose officials have been shown to have been on the payroll of the con- tractors and ‘to have systematically | blackmailed and robbed members and prospective members of the union for | years. | 1 F. DUNNE. {part of the right wing to subjugate |the rank and file, to exterminate all left wing leadership and militancy but it is becoming clearer that it is also in the nature of a smoke-screen, Reaction in the trade unions has be- come so brazen, the connection be-| KOT of major importance when taken tween officialdom, the capitalists and one by one but of a sinister con- capitalist government is becoming 80 | sistency by reason of their cumulative apparent, that the drive against the | effect when taken together these re-| left wing has been planned and un- | cent instances of corruption spring | doubted erves to distract attention | from a common and poisoned source. | from 0} dom’s corruption and its|The individuals involved, with some amours with the enemies of the labor | minor exceptions, are fervid exponents movement. | of 100 per cent American trade union- jism‘and vie with one another in de- HIE joint drive of the social-demo-|nouncing, persecuting and expelling cratie officialdom and capitalists |Comraunist and left wing workers. of Germany upon the militant section + * 8 of the working class was followed by \wmymRE is the further fact that Vice the notorious Barmat scandal and) 1° president Matthew Woll of the! there are important. indications that! 4 meriean Federation of Labor is now | there are developing in the American | acting president of the Civic Federa- labor movement the. conditions for 8 | tion of Labor and that he is also ac-! similar scandal of major proportions. ; J .. | tive in the caucus which the Knights Frank Farrington, president of Dis- | o¢ Columbus maintains inside of the trict 12 (Illinois) United Mine Work- | trade unions. His fanatical energy in ers of America, was exposed last ie organizing gangsters, police and the asa $25,000 per year agent of tl © right wing officials against the Jewish Peabody Coal Company in the miners’ : : workers in the needle trades lends union after he had been assiduously | color to the belief that here is a joint |persecuting militant members of the | agent of the employing class and} union and posing as a defender of | feudal reaction represented by the | “Americanism” against the “reds”| Roman catholic hierarchy. | | for a numbey of years. | Woll : personally symbolizes the |The DAILY WORKER published on |rampant corruption and reaction in! | Monday, March 21, an exposure of | the upper levels of the American labor | | Frank Ledvinka, former president of | movement. | |the Bellaire subdistrict of the UMWA | | (said to be the largest sub-district of |the union) in connection with his re- I ying officials ate maintaining the | jceipt of large sums of money from closest relations with the” various | lawyers ostensibly defending members | agencies of the government and the | [et ee ee mthdeagersn |capitalists, when American imperial- 22, . ( the ism is willing to pay a high price for |charges state, received a percent: of the attorney’s fees. : This thrifty official was an active | ventures in Latin-America and the Reaceeb ERE rei aed East, when ee only too ler) in Pets “ | to encourage and finance persecution | | progressive unionists in southeastern least expulsion campaigns against that | | Ohio. ‘ |section of the labor movement from | | whi iti to its plans| N the recdnt elections John Walker |e ea tye ahecitahle’ “thet tKere'| and Victor Olander, president and| should be slimy. trails leading from secretary respectively of the Illinois | high offices of trade unions to the| St ae of Labor supported | counting houses rie pay offices of | rank 1. 4 x \the American capitalist class. | interests’ candidate for the United! Conviction of the utter tighteous- | States senate. Insull admitted to the | ness of, capitalism does not account ;Senate investigating committee that /for such open betrayals of the work- jhe was financing the Smith campaign | ing class as the recent endorsement | irae: x ang a the re-/ of Citizens’ Military Training Camps. | sultant scandal was of such propor-| Faith in a holy cause does not ex- |tions that the subséquent convention | plain the ardor with which Woll and “ the ee cea at ae ae ot | others enlist detectives and gangsters dare to openly endorse Smith altho | against militant workers. bibaee and Olander continued to sup-| “There is something in all this that, | port him. smacks of the industrious manner in) | . Walker and Olander are always for which the industrial squad of the New | sopra oga uns ee rod es ae Logon irghshs ch woe forte | ne is permitted in the face 0} |} beat up and jai rkers after they | jfacts to doubt the undiluted altruism ‘have collected theit daily “bit” from; fot apc Illinois i ae bosses against whom there is a strike. | voice a suspicion oo ther * * is,corruption. j Ve is common knowledge that the{ \* Vare campaign managers corrupted | The practically all of the union officialdom | \in Petinsylvania with the exception of | measure wu 5 { | ipon the pressure which the | James Maurer, president of the State i i ro | Federation of Tabor and with this ex-| rig et isa dene eet 9g iception the few that did not sell out | | to Vare were on the payroll either of | ! Pinchot or Pepper. The looting of the Pittsburgh | Brotherhood Bank (a union labor in- | stitution) by an inside ring of offi- jcials is another recent instance of { corruption. Following the lead given by Green, Woll and others the local officials of the Central Labor Council raised the \ery of “red” when rank and file dele- )gates demanded a thoro investigation |; ing t ill the beans. jand punishment of the guilty parties. ai Lg a deentinne Re nen doing a} Po an Heol modest affat Lats little investigating ourselves in the in-| volved in this strictly union affair. | terest of the labor movement and hope | ee ies a bs sakes (te have something of interest to re-} New York City labor movement port in the not distant future. T furnishes glaring recent instances — of union corruption: The case of Zausner of the Painters’ r Pays Tribute (1st of May celebration was brutally | broken up by police, the headquarters gases and Ruthenberg arrested as | he was, with his usual courage, stand- }ing by the workers who were being |literally crushed by the police. One} ,good Hungarian comrade was killed) * & * * 4% * 'N. a period like this when the right e o® s & E are convinced that there is a/ gigantic labor scandal looming up. | materials are there for it. Just when it will break depends in a large | As this pressure increases (and it will increase as the trade union mem- | bership is alienated more and more} by the stoolpigeon tactics of the of- ficialdom) there will be rifts and! }rents in what appears now to be a} | solid bloc of reaction. | } Some one of these days a disgrun-| \tled pal, an insufficiently bribed wu |derling, a revengeful public official lor some publicity-seeking politician | Roll in the Subs For The DAILY! WORKER. | to Ruthenberg marking Ruthenberg’s fearless smile and his calm courage, seemed to melt | like wax and we all went home un-) harmed. | Again I witnessed our fallen com- rade’s courage at Michigan. Just be-! fore [ left the grounds at one o’elock.| in the morning I went to him and) said: “If you won't leave now for) your own sake, won't you please go! for the sake of our movement--ve} need you so.” He smiled, and said; : | | outright, N the occasion mentioned, July | 4th, Ruthenberg asked me to be! | the speaker for the day. The Cleve-| ‘land police threatened. to break up | anything the Comrades would arrai ‘for that day. So they went out in the country way beyond the city lim- its. As we left the cars all the men ‘were searched and as we entered the |pienie grounds seventy newly. sworn \in county deputies swept into the _yard in fine autos to. intimidate us | with their big shining badges and red faces. It was a terribly hot day and Ruthenberg in his jolly way turned to me and said, “We will not begin our speaking at 2 o'clock, we will keep them waiting until 4, then they will buy all our ice cream and cold drinks.” This the deputies were com- ‘pelled to do in sheer self defense, suffering from the ‘extreme heat. _Then when Ruthenberg got up to his great service, and his unfail-| ing courage, I know that the memory that will remain with us always will} be that of his unfaltering loyalty to! his highest conviction as to what: would be best for the movement.! Even if he had to differ with his’ dearest friends and comrades, he. would stand true to the principles and policies he was ready to go to prison for, or if necessary give his life, | Away out here> away from you all,| I canpot realize his death, I feel just as Comrade Lovestone expressed it—) the government seeret service men began to take down every avord on paper, The 70 deputies gathered close around us, armed of course. Our husky comrades, hundreds of them, rallied by our side and the deputies and secret service men see- ing their numbers and above all All of us, those who started with him | in the great war and those who are? just getting into step as young sol-| diers, will have to fight harder be-| cause he has gone, but we must keep on fighting until the revolution dawns, Ella Reeve (“Mother”) Bloor, Oakland, Calif, . the most glorious symphonies, innu- | ocracy was just breaking through the jtennial of his death. Beethoven, like il Broadway Briefs | ‘88 | nolitical support of or even neutrality feandiera,” will be played by the | towards its financial and military ad-| Civic Repertory Players, Wednesday | “It is my responsibility, | cannot | loss to the South:Slay workingmen! Central ;and workingwomen in. this country; Party of $ I look back over the yeavs of | alities, Comrade Ruthenberg was an hay ec The World Pays Homage to Beethoven One hundred years ago this Satur- day, Ludwig von Beethoven died in Vienna, leaving behind him nine of merable ‘sonatas, concerts and quar- tets. He lived in a period when dem- cloud of reaction and much of his music—especially his © symphonies— express this spirit of the times. Through the world, his music is be- ing played to commemorate the cen- most genius died in poverty. This week is being devoted to the music of the great master. The Phil- harmonic orchester is giving an_all- Beethoven program this Thursday night and repeated on Friday after- noon. Katherine Baron is giving a program of five Beethoven sonatas Saturday afternoon in Town Hall, in- cluding the Moonlight, Appassioniata and the Funeral March, This Friday afternoon at Town Hall, a civic celebration and concert will, be given in honor of the com-| poser under the auspices of the Bee-! thoven Week Advisory Body. The Musical Art Quartet and Elsa Alsen, soprano of the Chicago Opera will) take part. | In the screen version of “What Price Glory” at the Sam H. Harris Theatre. tre, Monday, April 4th, to make way for “Spread Eagle” the new Jed Harris production “Money from Home” is now in its final week at the Fulton. Carl Reed will. present his new production, “Savages Under The Skin,” a drama by Harry L. Foster and Wyman Proctor, at the Green- wich Village Theatre, tonight. Leona Beutelle, Dorothy. Tiernay, Katherine Givney and Ethel Wright have been engaged by Albert Ban- night, March 30. Due to the illness|nister for important roles in “It’s a of Paul, Leyssac, the play was with-| Wow!”, the new comedy by Bert J. drawn from the repertory for three |.Norton, now in rehearsale. weeks, ee ; Goldoni’s amusing comedy “La Lo- | | “Cherry Blossoms,” will be presen- “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” will|ted at the Forty-fourth Street, Mon- be the bill at the Bronx Opera House | day night instead of Jolson’s theatre, beginning next Monday. ;as previously announced. “Countess Maritza,” now at the Forty-fourth Students of the Educational Alli-| Street will be transferred to the Jol- ance will present, Gilbert and Sulli-| son, on the same evening. van’s “Iolanthe” in their auditorium | wee Ge on East Broadway this Saturday,) George Hassell and Joseph Toner, Sunday and next Monday and Tues-| are new additions to the “The Circus day. | Princess,” the new Kalman operetta coming to Broadway in April. “Wooden Kimono” will move from eC RPE the Martin Beck to the Fulton thea- Read The Daily Worker Every Day ivi Gor. 6 Av, & 14 St. Civic Repertory fer $,As. & 14,8 EVA LE GALLIENNE This Afternoon ‘CRADLE SONG” Tonight ER BUILDER" Tomorrow Night. 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(e Sat.) 50e-$1. Eves. 60c-$2. SLAV WORKERS PLEDGE SELVES TO WORK ENERGETICALLY T0 BUILD THE PARTY The statement of the South Slav} sorrow over the death of our leader. Bureau of the Workers (Communist) | But the bryenu and the entire frae- Party calls for the building of the | tion, and all South, Slav workers will PRICES EVES, $1.10 TO $3.85. cee nitek ohare ag ce erates omecncb | HA Bronx Opera House [4th , Street, Pop. Prices. Mat. Wed. & Sat.” “RESTLESS WOMEN” A Powerful New Play of Today. SOUTH party as follows: | not, because of his death cease “The death of Comrade Ruthenherg Pen big work, for which is not only a blow at the Workers | Comrade Muthen) oyg worked with all (Communist) Party of America ‘and | his energy ¢ @ his entire life. We the Comintern but also a blow at the/ 80 92 wh left off, whole working class. It is a great| “We Comrade Ruthenberg retary and leader, The ction gives to our ime and also the workers of other nation-| was ge’: South Sia: internationalist. To him the workers and peasants of all nationalities were est honors. The South Slav fracti a unity. will work with the C, E,.C, with all “Comrade Ruthenbers: was well | its bi Sand vesourees to eprry known and had the confidence 6f the | out the last wish of Comrade uth- South Slay class conscious organized | enberg: f “‘The complete unification jof our ranks for the upbuilding of ouy Party under the leadership of whi the working class will win its ‘victory against capitalism,’ “His last words were: “‘Let’s fight on.’ “And we pledge at his workers and with this the unorgan- ized workers, Even in the Socialist Party Comrade Ruthenberg had al- ready won the confidence and respect of the South Slav workers, “During the period of the antiavar meeting and demonstration and all kindred actions of the Party, Com-! ) 4 ber that i yade Ruthenberg had with him the} we will unflinchingly go forward un- “It is one of nature’s terrible crimes.” | South Slav workers. As an Inter- nationalist. and revolutionist he al- Ways understood us, gave us his ad- vice; he lived and struggled with us, “The entire South Stav faction from the time of the Socialist Party until ; his death recognizes in him our loyal| “Long live Communism for which leader, fighter and’ teacher. Comrade Rathenberg struggled, lived der the leadership of our Party in the struggle against capitalism and for Communism, “Honor to Comrade Ruthenberg! “Long live the Workers (Commun- (ist) Party! mortal leader and comrade its great</ Ce Fay ener. /