The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 30, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNES THE DAILY WORKER Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING. CO. Daily, Except Sunday 88 First Street, New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. 4. LOUIS ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F, DUNNE aes eta area yah eae BMT MILLER A. nies ese cinc ess ssie 0k Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application, >. The Task of the “Save the Union” Bloc In the United Mine Workers The worst possible result of the John L. Lewis policy for the United Mine Workers has accrued. His most recent announce- ment shows that the fatal step toward district agreements and the division of the miners’ union into sections has been taken. The “Save the Union” bloc in the UMWA feared that this would be the outcome of the Lewis policy, told the membership it must guard against such a backward move and were denounced as disrupters of the union and “agents of Moscow” by the Lewis machine for their pains. The Lewis statement is very definite: - “The attitude of the operators is that they do not want in- terstate conferences. Well, here is a chance to make district agreements. They say that conditions in each state are different. Very well, let them make district agreements.” Altho the above statement is accompanied by the announce- ment that the Jacksonville wage scale must be paid pending negotiations it is clear that Lewis is prepared to ignore the in- *.structions of the Indianapolis convention and make substantial concessions on the wage scale in return for district agreements. The raid on the working conditions of the miners that started im- mediately after the Jacksonville contract was signed and which is still going on makes it certain that Lewis will make concessions in this connection also—in fact has already done so by ignoring the immense pile of grievances and contract violations which have accumulated in the three years in which the coal barons have been “normalizing” the industry by starving out union miners. The Union Mine Workers, by reason of the Lewis control of the organization are thus forced into a position of abandoning | the policy of national agreements, accepting a reduction in wages | and worsening of their working conditions. The Lewis machine has capitulated to the operators. It had nothing left to do after it refused to accept the program of. the “Save the Union” bloc and begin at once an intensive organization drive in the non-union fields—now producing a minimum of 65 per cent. of the total,coal tonnage. A strike on a national scale | is foreign to the Lewis policy because it. means open struggle with | the coal barons and the necessity for organization work. Without | a strong organization drive in the non-union fields as part of the .. strike action the union can bring little pressure on the operators. | Lewis has chosen the route of surrender and what we are! witnessing is a series of vents which threaten to destroy the most important union in the Labor Movement. The coal barons will _ show no mercy to the rank and file of the miners altho it is for friendly comment in the capitalist press. The “Save the Union” bloc will have to turn the suspensions | and lockouts which will follow the refusal of many powerful coal | companies to pay the present scale into militant strikes. It will) have to give these movements a national character and force or- ganization work on a big scale in West Virginia and Kentucky. | The successful carrying out of this program alone will save the miners’ union from actual destruction or from becoming an) Some Results of the Massacre At Nanking The bombardment of Nanking and the masscre of Chinese by | American and British forces has had two important consequences: | 1—-It has given a tremendous impetus to the revolutionary | left wing of the Kuomingtang and the labor movement. It is evi-| dent from the news of Labor demonstrations, strikes and mass) meetings that the fierce resentment aroused by the imperialist | mass murder has enabled the People’s party to carry out much) more rapidly than otherwise would have been possible the pro-| | By mail (outside of New York): = | ~The Disintegration of the Socialist Party By DAVID KVITKO. ;ape says. And since belong we must, | Local Al. Smith will do. ARTICLE 4, HE ANALYSIS of the. socialist DEPRESSING mood is gripping, 4 party by one who has been all the membership of the socialist these\years with it and by one of the | party. From within, the rows’ have! most intelligent leaders, is yerv in- | thinned out to such an extent that| teresting. It characterizes the inner ;one loses heart by just looking at state of affairs of the socialist party. |them; from without, on the election! From his analysis we learn that the |map, it is almost “completely wiped golden age was only cheap gilt. In j out.” This pessimistic mood is a re-| his own words: ‘What was the party. jsult of the slow death the socialist in 1912 and in the decade that pre- party is undergoing. On ne hand,! ceded that year ‘that we should so \it is terrifying to look upon the in-| earnestly want to resurrect. those \evitable destruction, on the other, it | da; True, the party grew from is impossible to live without hopes.| 1902 to 1912. Time has proved that Yes not even all hopes are alike.) the growth has been spurious. There are full-blooded and anaemic brought into the’ movement incongru- ones. The socialist party hopes are | ous elements, the kind of people just- vather revery than expectation, and ly deserving Mencken’s | epithets. where can the depressive burden of | Quacks, uplifters, holy rollers, theo- It} DAY, MARCH 30, 1927 land, as are today open’ to every | {worker at a low price? Talk about} bread and circuses, The Ceasars| {would be ruling Rome yet if they) had been able to offer their mgbs| the variety and the amount of enter- | tainment now put before the Amer-| ican workingman . . Who would | That’s “Propagand “Saturday’s Children” Covers a Big Economic ” | not rather read the gloriously revolt- | Question—and Leaves Wide Spaces Open |ing details of what Mr. Hall wrote | |to Eleanor Mills, than what Panken | jhas to say about water power?” cea i afraid of bry ganda? ad y ‘. * you thin! ropaganda. TSn’t art? n} ERENBERG gives in the Rand | cither eae, os a sde “Saturday’s | School a course in history from ®/ Children,” ‘by Maxwell. Anderson,| | supposedly Marxian viewpoint. Yet) produced by’ this Ache Theatre at | jhe regards the American working | ine Booth: “It's: loaded ‘with propa- | class from a stand-point of the vulgar | ganda. Economic propaganda at that. | |psychologism of an highbrow. The | th fact, it’s a camouflaged. thesis on {rabble needs nothing besides bread | the evils of bourgeois marriage | and shows.’ The United States offer | among white collay slaves. It covers | them one and the other, hence the |g economic - question—but | — Bt Reviewed by HARBOR ALLEN. | big it! time and space be eliminated, if not christian scientists, we had them all. Of course, we lost them later. Do we want them back? . There was no essen- tial difference between the man who in 1912 voted for Roosevelt and Wil- son, and the one who voted for Debs + Iam speaking of that body of so-called independent voters who |furnish the deciding factor in elec- |tions. In 1912 this voter was a ‘pro- | gressive’. ‘he heard Teddy’s bombast, and per- haps he listened to Debs. And he could in a state of revery? if Sete was a time when at the convention of miners out of ¢ thousand delegates four hundred could beast membership in the. social- ist party. If those members were re- sponsible for their work before the * party, if the party were really its spiritual guide, the influence of such |numbers could be felt amongst the miners. The absolutistic reign of a Lewis could not be possible. But between sophists, prohibitionists, failure of the socialist party is to be| | sought in the workers, and not in the} leaves wide spaces open. | “Bobby” Sands and Rims O’Neill| He read Wilson’s speeches, : | | leaders. leach earn $40 a week. “Bobby” has Now he only hope of the success/# mind of her own, believes in. eco- of ‘socialism lies . in the | nomic freedom for women. Rims has “saturation point in the demand of |# desire to knock around and an offer automobiles. The depression that |°f 4 job in South America. Still, they will follow’ on the automobile crash |!0ve each other. And bourgeois ‘so- | will hot so soon pass. When wages |ciety decrees that if two people love all along the line go down, the work- | each other and want. each other, they | ex will begin to come out of his trance | must marry. So they marry. ‘Bobby . He will be reduced to penury | Ses to that; prodded on by a wily) | . in some cases to starvation, | Sister, she tricks Rims out ‘of his |Then what? If this were Great Rel. [Soe American” adventure into a} HENRY TRAVERS the socialist party and trade union take his choice feeling that there was | tain the worker would turn to the La- | there has been no living bond which ; little difference ARons them. ; There could exert pressure in case of wasn’t much of the socialist in him. treachery or slacking down of a party member, Because the socialist party | was a political vote catching machine, jit exerted no influence upon the membership, and now the socialist party is abandoned both by the trade | That the criticism of the left union membership and voters. wing of the socialist party before the HERE is small wonder that the split and the Communists’ since. the remaining members feel lost, and | SPlit, was correct, and Berenberg that there is no way out of the state | himself, not belonging to the “ ‘cheap gilt.” (Emphasis mine D. K.) HAT does this confession mean? ‘incon- \of paralysis, besides the hope that $ruous eleme:43” acknowledges #that, the “spree” of the American people | the socialist party has not been a will sometime be over. proletarian party, else in the social- | ist party would have b 1 HEsHEROLD of ‘this philosophy |for “holy yollers, eta” of weariness and fatalism is Mr.| David Berenberg. “It is quite true,” HE ADMISSION of Berenberg is he says, “that the party has in the) + even more important than his one past gone after will-o-the-wisps in|time anger at the Communists for its pursuits of the illusion success,| similar criticism. It is good that I have repeatedly voiced an isolated|Berenberg came to this conclusion protest against success mongering|now, and it may be an eye opener} | bor Party? | will get him Here the Communists Let us not fool our- Go back to 1912? To many that was|selyes. The American genius in poli-|®4d_ the usual bourgeois flapdoodle the golden age. Like all golden ages, | tics is essentially anarchistic. When }2>0ut married life, and hell breaks it turns out, on examination, to be|the American. worker grows radical |!00se. “Bobby” and Rims get a large | he wants to break something. . . |The Communist clap-clap is going to | sound good to the man who has lost |his wages. I am not predicting the !Communist revolution, Washington ‘and Wall Street will be prepared to meet the emergency. The net result {of the fuss will be a new anti-red \drive . new ‘red’ laws will {appear on the statute books, a few |heads will be broken, and a feeling jof futility and soreness will be left |behind—. Then will folow the sober mood during which the American |worker will learn to approach his | problems like a mature person . . Then we will have our innings, if {we have sense to offer him.” ;| “Bobby” shakes bourgeois marriage and the higher salesmanship in our election campaigns, “But I believe that even my then antagonists in the party will balk at success bought at the price Mr. Ghent asks. At his price, why a party? The new Tammany Hall, Local Al. Smith, or the progressive Republicans, section Senator Borah, offer speedier and more certain hope of such suecess.” head when he says that the “higher salesmanship in our election | campaigns and success mongering” hate been partial causes of the disin- tegration of the socialist party, and he rightly feels that the socialist par- ty tendencies of today lead Why a party brother Berenberg? Be- cause “we must belong”, as the hairy in-| noticeable that the Lewis “peace” policy provides the opportunity to the direction of a “new Local | dustrial society, | Al. Smith or Section Senator Borah.” | capes into Fairyland. When in the | police club the indication that “we ‘ HE NET result is this. In the to those proletarian elements (few | " y past “cheap gilt”, at present as they be there) who believe in the | emptiness, in the near future “the socialism of the socialist party. | Communist will get him,” and in the UT a correct analysis does not|temote future “we will have our |D necessarily mean a correct con-| innings” . . . en condition, “if we |clusion, for Berenberg. He is unable | have sense to offer him.” | to go all the distance the logic would | ~* RANTING that the future will be lead byes For instance, does he ac- /\ exactly as forecast by this poli- cuse the |of the socialist party as a party? Of|antee that “we will have sense”? ership is above criticism, “We are|enberg did not venture to predict. It not making progress,” says he, “be-|is merely a condition.’ Then what? cause the working class is drunk, | “Bread and circuses”, or the “Com- is drunk on high wages.(in spots), on | munistic clap-clap?” It remaing to the movies, on radio, on» Ford cars, | rely upon the club of Washington and on red-eye liquor, on. sex appeal, on| Wall Street not its leaders to direct Queen Marie, on the Halls-Mills case | the workers upon a “sobef” socialist - + + Life is a dull thing in an in-' path. Is the holy alliance of the A. until there are es- |}. of L., the socialist leaders and the !history of the world have ‘there been | have sense” already, or that Mr. Ber- isuch escapes, and into such a Fairy-' enberg lacks it? .: New York Opens Ruthenberg Drive The Ruthenberg recruiting drive in New York is on! At a meeting of the District Executive ineffective adjunct to the production machinery of the coal barons.| Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, held Monday evening plans were laid to double the membership of the party as a tribute to C. E. Ruthenberg,. founder of the Communist movement of this country, who recently died. The drive to obtain new members will continue until July 9 and will have the active sup- ‘port of all the members of the} ~ party who will be responsible for getting new recruits in their own field of work. - Membership Meeting. One of the first moyes to mobilize | St., on Tuesday, April 5. |the party members for the-campaign| The drive director will be Jack w ‘ing of all party members to be held| New York district of the Workers Calles to whom the signature of Kellogg and his under-secretaries are as familiar as his own. The only persons who will (Communist) Party, who will be as- sisted by representatives of the In- dustrial Department, Agitprop De- believe the Kellogg éxplanation |Periment, Negro. Committee, sii party tactics in the failure | tical weathercock, where is the guar-| |course not. The socialist party lead- | (For this piece of prophecy Mr, Ber- | Beeeeee hit the nail on the} at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th! vill be a general membership meet-| Stachel, organization secretary of the | bungalow in the Bronx. | Put two human beings into a bung-| | alow with installment furniture; then In the. Theatre Guild production, “The Brothers. Karamazov,” which is |in its final week at\the Guild Theatre. | revolt.. When the problem slaps him ‘in the face, he dodges under a joke, |a gurgle of sentiment, a gush*of pret- |ty talk. Always shows good manners, |he’s never a rowdy. That’s why the \eritics like him. That's why the peo- ple who go to the. theatre to he “amused’’ aren’t ruffled. In reality, he runs away from his problem. “Bobby” can’t go on for- ever living in a boarding house. Rims ean’t forever be climbing in a window, dodging the landlady. Suppose one jof them got sick? Suppose one of |dust from her shoes, slams the door| them lost his $40 job? Suppose they {on the bungalow, gets herself a job,| had a baby? Suppose they get tired a boarding house room, and dines with| of “one-arm” meals? Suppose some |the boss. She’s through with hus-| one convinced the intelligent “Bobby.” bands, “bread winning heads of the| that individual revolt didn’t do any family.” If Rims wants to come back,| 00d? Suppose. . . jhe can come back as a lover—nothing| Ah, but answering those questions ;more. He does. “Bobby” has won; isn’t art. That’s propaganda! ‘at least in her own case, she has! Fe SRT AREER |given bourgeois marriage a black dose of hell. In the first place, Rims |won’t have his wife holding down a | job. Isn’t he man enough to support |his woman? Is he going to have her |taken out to dinner by the boss? | “Bobby” doesn’t want to be “his woman.” She hates having to beg |him for every penny: Why shouldn’t she go out with the boss? And how can two people live in New York on |$40 a week? (They do it in. Passaic jon $20 and less. But, then, with $60) |a month rent to pay, that doesn’t help “Bobby” and Rims.) | | Gives Marriage Black Eye. The upshot of all this is that BROADWAY BRIEFS ;__ Talks on salaries, budgets, grocery! Clarence Derwent and William - | bills, rent, clothes fill whole scenes. | Challee have been added to the cast | There are long speeches on free love.| of “Rapid Transit,” which the Proy- Free love is openly advocated by {ineetown Players and Horace, Live- “Bobby’s” father. He and “Bobby” | right will present next week. : | typify the revolt of the white cellar} : 5 jclass. In contrast there is “Bobby’s”; Lorin Baker, Fredric Howard, A. J-~ | meddlesome sister and a landlady | Herbert, John Hammond Dailey and {with all the snooping instincts of David Landau are new additions to | middle class moralists. ' the cast of “It’s a Wow!” the Bert J. Propaganda? Sure! Then how Norton comedy which opens at the ‘ come the critics didn’t rear up on) Werba’s Brooklyn theatre next Mon- their hind legs in horror? How come|day. ‘Phe play is due on Broadway the pulpit didn’t roar and the Legion! in a fortnight. didn’t raid? Where’s Johnny S.- Sumnet and the moral crusaders? | When “The Second Man” open’ at Offers No Solution. j the Guild Theatre on April 11th i* - There’s a reason. Mr. Anderson|will alternate weekly with “Pygmal- had one eye on the box office. Sure, | ion,” replacing “The Brothers Kar- he wrote a play that touched on the|amazov,” which is in its-final week. problems of a great mass of working! Pirandello’s “Right You Are If You people. Sure, he handles that prob-/Think You Are,” now playing at spe- lem with wit and sympathy and ob- cial matinees on Tuesday, Wednesday servation. But—he doesn’t handle it,and Friday, will be transferred to too roughly. He doesn’t dig too deep: | the Garrick Theatre on April 11, and |For the problem itself he has no an-|continue these for regular perform tswer. All he can advise is individual | ances. | | i or Cor. 6 Ay. & 14 St Civic Repertory Tel. fwacka Ss et EVA LE GALLIENNE 62nd Si.at Broadway Matinces Wed. and Sat. Some eas gram of militant action put forward by the Communists and left wing and adopted at the recent Canton conference. 2.—It has intensified the friction between France and Great Britain as evidenced by the warning of the semi-official Paris ~ Temps, quoted by the New York Times, to disregard the news of ~ Chinese activities coming thru London. There is also noticeable in the last two days a deliperate at- tempt on the part of even such rabidly anti-Russian sheets as the New York Times to tone down its “Soviet menace in China” propaganda. This undoubtedly results from the fear that too much emphasis on this point brings American policy too closely in line with that of Britain. The Times editorial in its issue of. March 29, entitled “Moscow of Two Minds,” is evidence of this. In the meantime the People’s government is consolidating its power the length and breadth of the Yangtse valley and in Shang- hai it appears that preparations are being made for an anti- imperialist piyeott which will exceed in intensity anything yet at- tempted by the Chinese masses. Bombardments produce boycotts but they cannot stop them. oe Learn From Kellogg’s Lies! Ae Capitalist diplomats, when documentary proof of their war plots is discovered, always deny the authenticity of the documents. : Secretary of state Kellogg finds in this method his only means of escape from public condemnation in connection with his con- spiracy against the masses of Mexican and American workers and ‘armers upon whom the burden of a war would fall. This conspiracy is disclosed in documents which secretary of state Kellogg claims are forgeries. We are asked to believed that some one secured possession of the diplomatic mail pouch sent to Ambassador Sheffield by the tate department, opened it and held it for a length of time suf- to execute forgeries so clever that they Baceived President RR AAMISEMIANA, 6 a “, | are followers of Aimee Semple McPherson and the simple Simons | who still think that the late war was fought to make the world | safe for democracy. . the intelligence of the American masses and must be forced to| publish the disputed documents in full. been doing anything else besides boosting himself for the Presi- dency he will demand the fullest possible public investigation and the resignation of Kellogg. It is well to remember that preparations for war upon an- other country without the advice and consent of the senate is an impeachable offense and that Coolidge is responsible for Kellogg. The impeachment of C ge would be a great achievement. It would oust from the White House an administration that has perpetrated the grossest deceptions upon the legislative wing of! the government and the American masses and would teach a valuable lesson to the Wall Street clique which has been playing fast and loose with the lives of Americans and Latin Americans and is now, without the semblance of a mandate for its actions, | making war jointly with Great Britain upon the Chinese people. Constitutional government, always a polite fiction since its inception, has now become in America merely a fig leaf for the Wall Street dictatorship. Even the small restrictions which eapitalist democracy puts upon imperialistic adventures have be- come too onerous for the avaricious and arrogant»plutocracy of the United States. : The American workingclass can learn much from the Kellogg incident. It means that if imperialist war is to be avoided, if the American workingclass is not to become the gunmen of Wall Street in‘Latin America and the Far East, if it is not to be the reservoir from which is drawn the cannon-fodder of American imperialism, it must built a powerful trade union movement, or- ganize its own political party with the unions as its base and pre- The Wall-Street-Coolidge-Kellogg administration must not | be allowed to get away with their bed-time story, -It has insulted pare to take th¢ government power into its hands. f ri All details will appear in tomor- Tow’s paper. | Bs espana See Blow To Movement. SPOKANE, Wash.—“In behalf of | our street nuclei we extend comrade- ly sympathies in the loss of our fea: If Senator Borah has! less leader, Comrade C. FE. Ruthen-| \ berg. The party and the cause has | sustained a loss in the death of our beloved, tireless and fearless leader that will be a blow to. the revolu- tionary movement on the * North American continent, We pledge our- selves to carry on the work which Comrade Ruthenberg devoted his life to.” teat ae. From A Deported Worker, ALPES MARITIMES, France.—“I have just read, in the French daily press, the news of the death of Com- rade C, E. Ruthenberg. “I do indeed regret the death of this militant fighter, and leader of the vanguard of the American work- ing class. Facing the most powerful capitalist class of the day, the Amer- ican revolutionary workers can ill afford the loss of such a capable comrade, “As: one who participated in the early formative days of the Commu- nist movement in America, I want to extend my sympathy to the Workers’ Party in America, in their loss’,— Charles Ashleigh, * * * “Bring In New Members” Peabody & Salem, Mass.—‘Work- ers of Peabody and-Salem, Mass. join with thousands of other oppressed workers in honoring the memory of Goefade Ruthenberg, leader of class | Wed. & Sat. 2:30 i Eves, 0, Mats, CRIMEw This Afternoon... ,. CRADLE SONG WW A Ls real gue MPDEN v ee WA LOCANDIE: } Tomorrow THREE SISTERS po PONSACCHI Sam Ss A. West 4ind St TIMES SQ. HARRIS ce Dally 2:30 & 8:36 Then. W. 42 St. HAT PRICE GLORY | with James Rennie & Chenter Morris: yyo/, dexe, Sat.) tic-$1.. Eves. 50c-§2, TM aedeee's.« BROADWAY Now in its 6th MONTH } ty WALDORF, 50th. 5S! Fast of} Bway. Ma WEL and SAT. ' t ROADHURGT W, 984°. dni 8. 20 EARL yey ea: oe | CARROLL Vanities tins over House 12°Sh aatane WALLACK’S West, 42na = nl hare Evenings 8:50. Mats. Tues, Wed., ‘Thurs. and Sat. | ‘What Anne Brought Home A New Comedy Drama pid Acting Company te y RS KARAMAZOV br. 4-—-Rochester Opera Co, THEA, W. 52 St. Eva, 8:18 Mats. Thurs. and ‘Sat. 2 “ii SILVER CORD _/” Sein Golden thse moti ies ‘Neighborhood Playhouse! Drydock 7516. Every Eve, (Except Hat, Sat, gona py | 622 , 306 West/Mats. Thurp.&Sat st, NOM Col reealitve 8:45. Mita Ad Mon.). ‘Loudspeaker’ joyia Last Performance March 30. Party in Worcester join with you in commoration and grief at the death of Comrade Ruthenberg who gave his life to the building of cur movement, We also join with you in pledging redoubled and united effort to strengthen and build our movement so that increasing new members may be received for our Party and work to make up for this great loss,” * ee | 1G ' Read The Daily Worker Every Day conscious fighters in this country. A gap has been made in our ranks which can only be filled if every member works a little harder and brings new members into the Party who will take the place of the one who is gone.” * * ° ILD, Detroit, _ Mich.—-“Delegates twenty six branch I. L. D.’at city central meeting today mourn loss of national committee member Ruthen- berg. We resolve to intensify activity and strengthen I. L. D.”" » ~ * * _ Comrade Milner, Tanipa, Fla— “With deep sorrow I mourn the death of our beloved leader Comrade Grieve at Death enberg.”” hie City Central Committee, W. P, Wor-|0 0) vet cester, Mass—“The members of the! Read: The Daily Worker Every Day” EFI, | een SmI