The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 31, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY We AER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER New York District to Open Ruthenberg Drive Published by tse 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, Orchard 1680 Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. | | J. LOUIS ENGDAHL | WILLIAM F. DUNNE easing BERT MILLER 1 TEST Sms ee NNR eS RNY Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. SP. ‘ ea) The United Mine Workers Face the Greatest Crisis In Its History | partment, |ment, the Co-operative Depart- | ment, | League, the Industrial Depart- Advertising rates on application. | ment, and all Section Organizers | wi with Membership Meeting Tuesday, April 5th The District Exeeutive Committee of the New York District of the Workers (Communist) | Party announced Monday night that- the Ruthenberg Drive in the district will be opened officially | with a general Party membership meeting at Manhattan Lyceum on Tuesday, April 5th. The District Executive Committee held a special membership meeting at which very ex- | tensive plans were worked out for the drive. The Organization Department of the District consisting of representatives of all departments of the District, the Organization Department, the Agitprop Department, the Women’s Work De- the Negro Depart- the Young Workers ll be in charge of the drive. Outline of Drive where the life and work of Comrade | Ruthenberg will be discussed and par- esicier emphasis laid on work among | the farmers, among women, among | workers, youth, anti-imperialism, the | role of the Party, the importance of | organization work, etc. The agit- |prop will prepare special bulletins concentration points as for example a week devoted to New Jersey, an- other to Section 1, ete. When con- centrating upon a given territory the campaigns should be directed to ap- peal to the industry concentrated in that territory and special literature published as for example Sec. 1, will The following is a brief outline ot} for the speakers for these discus-| have a special appeal to the Printing the Ruthenberg Drive in the New York District: sions; 1 ae Meeting of all Trade Union |trades, the Waterfront, the Jewelry | Workers, Section 2 a special appeal 1, The Drive is to begin with the) lraction Secretaries to mobilize for|to Needle Trades Workers, etc. The most disgraceful surrender in the history of the ATNET- | samiberahin meeting and last to July the drive in the unions; | In these concentrated weeks The ican Jabor movement has been made by the Lewis machine in the | 9¢p, ° e. Every Section, Sub-Section,| DAILY WORKER will carry mater- United Mine Workers. The capitalist press is jubilant. | 2. The Drive shall be based on the} Trade union and Language Frac-)ial dealing with the local municipal A fair sample of the comment is the following from the New | following campaigns of the Party: York World: : “Tt is a source of satisfaction to friends of industrial peace to find the United Mine Workers making a .proposition to the operators in the bituminoug~ coal field providing for the con- tinuance of work in theethines, pending negotiation of a wage agreement in April. #h the usual course nothing less than a suspension of work,dn this field would be declared on April 1. “This is a maéve in the right direction. Nor is this the only concession the (miners are making. sition that differing conditions in different states make an interstate conference and agreement impossible or impracticable, a. Fight against the right wing in) nucleus to elect a committee to be| involved. |tion as well as every shop and street | problems and the particular industry The sections should pay |the unions that are now making ajin charge of the drive. These com-'for a quantity of DAILY WORKERS drive against the Communists and) mittees to send regular reports on'to be distributed free in the shops, the left wing; b. Organization of the unorganized; c. For a United Labor ticket in the coming elections; d. _ Anti-imperialist China; Mexico, Nicaragua, etc; e. For the protection of the foreign Accepting the operators’ po- | born. Slogans 8. The slogans for the Ruthenberg the drive to the District Organiza-! tion Department; | £. The Organization Department is to report on the drive to the Politi- |once every two weeks, | Shop Meetings 6. The drive should utilize the fol- lowing means in its course: a. Regular Shop Recruiting and} the union meetings, and from house |to house distribution of the works of |Comrade Ruthenberg. His writings |and pamphlets should be properly campaign—| cal Committee of the District at least | organized and thruout the drive the | pamphlet, “WHAT THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY STANDS FOR AND WHY EVERY WORKER |SHOULD JOIN,” is to be distributed, Special leaflets dealing with the Drive in addition to those slogans | DAILY WORKER Builders meetings; | Payty campaigns on which the drive | oe Gath Sentence | | “Chicago,” With a Wide Grin, Says That Amer- ican. Courts Have a Fatal Sickness Reviewed by HARBOR ALLEN It is late in the year to praise Maurine Watkins’ “Chicago” (pro- duced by Sam H. Harris at the Music Box). But the critic for The DAILY WORKER doesn’t get tickets as eas- ily as the critic for the New York Times. No good at crashing the gate, he sometimes has to buy his way in, In spite of having to buy my way into “Chicago,” I think it’s a good play. Together with a_ hilarious audience, I snickered and laughed and roared and smirked. and slapped my knees. “Chicago” is the best com- edy I’ve seen for years. | It’s the kind of play that I person- j ally, get soft about. It isn’t a great play: too ephemeral, too noisy, too limited, too repetitious. But it has elements of a first-rate working class satire. It starts with a bang—liter- jally, a revolver shot. It is full of |action. It is not afraid of horseplay jor slapstick humor, It is simple. It | {has suspense and a stout story. It| |goes in for crowds and the unshel- | tered places where life is boisterous, jveal and kicking. It’s material is| |drawn from the tabloids. Its speech | jis the speech of the people. From “Crime,” the Shipman-Hymer melo- drama at the Times Square Theatre, save it. Only, the doctor is funny and says it with a grin, It’s better that way. People listen’ to funny doctors, the miners propose that district scales be made. Thus President | arising out of the general party cam-| Lewis and/ his colleagues among the officials of the miners’ or-| paigns shall be: ganizatiouh have signified a disposition to go as far as possible to prevent, a suspension that would be costly to the public. This a. EVERY MEMBER GET A MEMBER; b. DOUBLE THE PARTY MEM- tion of public interest in an industrial controversy involv-| BERSHIP; asic industry is highly commendable.” Unfortunately for the coal miners President Lewis is sup- Ruthenberg Member; posed to represent them. Actually he appears in this life and ‘death struggle of the most important union in the American Labor , movement as a representative of the “public’—that mythical | Workers’ Cause—Communism; entity which is used to justify all attacks on workingclass and its living standard. The New York World and the other capitalist papers are! proving the charges made against the Lewis machine by the |the following results: Communists and the left wing in the miners’ union. We have ce. “LET’S FIGHT ON”’—Get a ad, “BUILD THE PARTY;” e. “Let’s Close Our Ranks;” f. Ruthenberg Died Buildifig the g. BUILD THE WORKERS (COM-}| MUNIST) PARTY. Aim of Drive 4, The aim of the drive is to achieve a. Recruiting of new members; b. Section Mass Meetings; | ce. DAILY WORKER Readers Con- ferences by Sections; | d. Open Educational Meetings of the nuclei—effort to bring large number of sympathizers to these | meetings; e. May Day and other mass meet- ings—appeal and recruiting, also aj peal for The DAILY WORKER at is based are to be distributed. | the first minute—when Roxy Hart All leaflets are to have an appeal | kills her lover—to the last when she ‘for membership and an appeal for| thanks “all youse guys of the jury” |The DAILY WORKER CIRCULA-|for acquitting her—the story is the | TION. j old one you’ve read once a month in | 9 The winning back of the old| the Graphic. Didn’t the Greeks use |members must be given a great deal| the people’s stories for their dramas? lof effort and energy. This is to be| So does Maurine Watkins. |accomplished by visiting committees | A Tabloid Debauch ‘organized by the sub-sections and the | But “Chicago” is not all just belly jall Mass Meetings; BE 2 open Peet icaics Concerts, | nuclei and by special appeals thru ae e press. oe ptt deci a pla A Unions| 10. The District Executive Com- | Fractions; | mittee will give a large picture of h. Special effort to recruit Party | Comrade Ruthenberg to the section members from the T. U. E. L, the | that in proportion to its size will se- I. L. D., the Women’s Councils, ete, | Cure the largest number of new mem- jlaughter. It has a target which it |hits not only with gusto but with |dead aim. No scholar in ten volumes could do so much to convince the} |people that our courts are circuses, | our judges and prosecutors publicity seekers, our cops boobs, our lawyers highway robbers, our moralists hum-} BROADWAY BRIEFS “Queen High” will celebrate the end of the first year at the Ambas- sador Theatre tonight. Francis Edwards Faragoh, author of “Pinwheel”, which just closed at the Neighborhood Playhouse, has col- laborated with Irene Lewisohn in a number which is to be a feature of the bill of Lyric Drama which opens next Tuesday. Marjorie Gateson has been engaged for the part of Gwendolyn in “Tan- gles,” the musical version of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Flavia Arearo will play i, Special recruiting by the Street | bers. This picture will hang in the b. Win back the old members who Nuclei in their--nélgbborhood, headquarters of the section that wins said time and time again that Lewis does not fight for the in-| deieel Gat Bee he peter. terests of the miners and his surrender without even an attempt |") "Buia the ‘eirenlation ‘of ‘The Negro Workers | the prize. to strike a blow, his reversion to the futile and fatal policy of dis-| pAILY WORKER; 7. The drive shall utilize and em-| Give Prizes. | bugs, our jails bedlams, our public | officials crooks. Under Miss Wat- kins’ laugh is a snarl, Under her Lady Bracknell, “Hearts Are Trumps,” a comedy The District Executive Committee |horseplay is the conviction that jus- | trict agreements, is the crowning corroboration of our statements.| d. Build The DAILY . WQRKER phasize special appeal to: Lewis talks peace while the union is being cut to pieces. He | SUSTAINING FUND; — 3 By 2 See, weeps for the public while the non-union territories are strang-| ,° we ake level of ie Speciatty eed suk eoreilee ling the United Mine Workers of America. f. The activization of the Party native American elements; Cynically the New York World says: membership. d. Effort to secure young workers “Unless the primary object of the operators is to take ad- 5. The following steps shall be ta-|to join the YOUNG WORKERS’ * . . Ne ili } T vantage of the situation to wreck the miners’ organization, some Ke" to mobilize the Party for the LEAGUE under the general slogan, . ‘ 4 . : ;. drive: oO . LEAGUE UNIT WHERE basis of agreement which takes into consideration the varying) General Party Membership| THERE IS A PARTY UNIT;” conditions in the different districts ought to be possible.” Meeting—to dramatize the cam-| ¢. The building up of the children’s The surest way to destroy the miners’ union is to substitute | paign; movement, the YOUNG PIONEERS, district agreements for one uniform national agreement and this |, - Functionaries meeting to con-; The committees and departments in is what Lewis has agreed to do. “The primary purpose of the St of all Section Committees, Sub- | charge of these activities are to work operators” IS to destroy the miners’ union and Lewis is playing the Organization Department, all appeal in each case and see that it is into their hands while he prates of the public interest. |Language Bureau Secretaries, all) utilized thruout the Ruthenberg = Lewis has thrown away the greatest weapon the miners ever |Party Editors—to mobilize the mach- | Drive. peerage agreement for which the coal diggers fought | '"°'Y By phase Nicttiecs This is the labor leader who wars on Communists and other militant workers, boosts his salary to $12,000 per year and’ spends the union money organizing fake delegations to conven- tions instead of organizing the non-union fields. The UMWA faces the greatest crisis in its history. The! “Save the Union” bloc must play the role its name implies—it | must fight uncompromisingly for its program of no district agree- | ments, no wage cut, organization of the non-union fields and honest and militant leadership. It must rally the rank and file to its program and to save the |. union is its immediate task. The N; Special Features 8. Special features of the drive: | militant slogan of the Workers (Com- ;munist Party! For this activity are its members hunted by the A. F. of By DAVID KVITKO Article V sible that the editor of “The Labor Age” does not know it? N the motley crowd of reaction-| aries, liquidators, adherents of ‘watch your step,” and “every dog’ F {has his day” theories, the position! JF already saw that Budenz crit- of L, F. Budenz (the editor of the} icizes the parliamentarism of “Labor Age”) in the Socialist Party | the socialist party, yet he is not al- is a very peculiar one. The reason | together opposed to political activity. auking Massacre te hea ; hid ai is that his standpoint is a proletarian | He is for a -_. labor party. In Details slowly coming thru the deluge of lies reveal that, the one. One wonders what kinship is (the labor party, he says, the social- bombardment of Nanking by British and American warships is | there between him and the socialist |i8t groups can very successfully serve one of those bloody and wanton atrocities which redden the path | party, which according to his own | the educational field as the inde- of-imperialism. |characteristic, is “middle-class.” jRepuene labor party of Great Carat Five hundred tons of metal and explosives were poured into ITHOUT suspecting it Hodens ling piety rid siberian oie an unfortified city and its helpless population. Not only was W speaks a language of a semi-| Nanking laid in ruins but Pukow was shelled and‘burned. Both |conscious, near-communist. That is | “1. Extension of unionism, as the \tice is sort of drunken debauch for} from the French of Felix Gandera will be presented by Henry Baron at | The | Disintegration of the Socialist Party L. and the S. P. hounds. Is it pos: | will also give other prizes to individ- ual members who will excel in the ‘drive. ‘ikely the collected works of Comrade | Ruthenberg. Detailed announce- |ments will be published later. | The District Executive Committee |will put its main energies in the |Ruthenberg Drive for the next few | months, so that we may make good | the will of Comrade. Ruthenberg em- |bodied in his last words, “LET’S |FIGHT ON AND BUILD THE PAR- Section Organizers, all members of | out material and supervise the special|TY!” in an effort to overcome the! | great loss to our Party and the Amer- \ican workingclass. | The Distric€é Executive Committee | calls upon the membership to rally ,in full strength behind the drive, to | c, Seetion membership meetings a. Thruout the drive there shall be' achieve the aims outlined above. {hope of the workers?” |such words be interpreted as “noth- |inefficiency of the capitalist system, so far as he is concerned, more than mediate fight?” Or such: criticism as “They did not really wish to soil their hands by too much contact with the honest-to-God workers?” Bu- | denz “is careful.” He pleads “not for socialists or radical groups or lea- ders—a policy doomed to complete unions by a radical philosophy, based on a sympathetic desire to attain vic- tory for the workers, now and in the future.” These prizes will be most! How can} ing will convince the worker of the! | the voice of some one standing shoul-| der to shoulder with him in his im-; the capture of the unions by certain | defeat—but for penetration of the, the Morosco Theatre next Tuesday night. The cast includes Frank Mor- gan, Vivian Martin and.C. H. Croker- King. the tabloids, | We revolutionists ought to get a! lot of courage out of watching the} |crowds pack “Chicago.” Ten years |ago Miss Watkins would have been} eet Te ees aes \lynched for questioning the sanctity), Lynn Riggs, the author of “Big of American courts. Today even the | ake,” which the American Labora- hardened Broadwayite laughs with | tory, Theatre has By rehearsal for jher. Who respects the courts today? | production an April, ee the author of | Who thinks American justice is eng] ee Paige eae | thing more than a farce today? And} 8 4 | who ean doubt, when he sees ask only i tre last year but as yet unproduced. “Chicago,” but the audiences of “Chi- | cago,” that our government is so rot- <i | Morgana” and “The Crown Pince, | ten, so ready to fall apart that it has |... hi Ito Jaugh at tteelf; is ready to hang (ore address the European history < “ “ |elasses of Columbia University this psa with senile glee. | afternoon: . Vajda is planning a trip i A Very Sick Patient to California to engage in moving | Go see “Chicago.” Go early for picture work. | jtickets: the scalpers snatch up the| RES jgood ones. Go and conyince your-| “Pogrom,” is the new title for “The ‘self that all the whole worm-eaten Message,” which opens next Monday | structure of capitalism needs is “a/ night at the Bronx Opera House prior | good push to topple it over into junk} to showing at a Broadway theatre, |and kindling. Another war, another | @oward Lang and Elizabeth Spencer ten years, another. twenty. “Chicago”| head the cast. |is one of the doctors pronouncing the a. death sentence. “Chicago” says the! Hal Forde will play a leading part ‘patient has spinal meningitis, loco-| in the forthcoming musical version of motor ataxia, and softening of the| “The Importance of Being Earnest.” brain; nothing on God’s earth can! The production is now in rehearsal, Ernest Vajda, author of “Fata pasar acres | Civie Repertory Ser As. &, 14,8] HAMPDEN’S 7,0 st at Broadway 7767. ok: WatRIe TT sevpidsib. \alatinges Wid, and Set | EVA LE GALLIENNE as ater EN This Afternoon "CRADLE. SONG" | *, ms |Tontght...... HREE SISTERS"! in CAPONSACCHI Tomorrow Nigtit....- INHERITORS") _ ES; | Sam THEA. West 42nd St. | TIMES SQ. San HARRIS rer Daily, 2:30 & 8:30 Thea, W. 42 St. \Eves, 5:30. Mats. gene a ICRIME waat PRICE GLORY sides of the Yangtse were bombarded and one gets the picture of noble British and American naval heroes, their warships anchored in the river, as safe as if they were in the Hudson, murdering with modern artillery men, women and children unable to defend themselves. No more cowardly proceeding is recorded by history. But the result has been to strengthen the anti-imperialist drive of the Chinese masses and with the bodies of the 7000 vic- tims of the British and American murderers will be buried the corpse of imperialism in China. No more costly target practice has ever been indulged in by the gunboats of Britain and America. By SIDNEY TEPPER, “Why did we get a smaller bonus this year compared with last”—is the question asked by the workers of the Western Union Telegraph Co. The company made more money and did a greater business, during the last year of 1926 then in the previous year. Some workers simply shug their shoulders: “We do not know how tl figure the bonus, how much have to have before they give us. something. One thing we do ow. This year we got only a half of the sum received last year.” Less Bonus—Fewer Jobs. . Others who understand the com- pany’s figures, state: “The Western Union Telegraph Co., has spent about four million dollars for installation of new simplex automatic machinery ¢ TELEGRAPH WORKERS LOSE OUT ON BONUSES and other improvements. This was taken out of the profits and figured in as expenses, therefore, we received a smaller bonus. We paid with our bonus for new improvements. The immediate results of these improve- ments already has been felt by the Morse operators who were either laid off or put on part time basis. Plenty of Net Profit. The sum taken in during 1926 was 136 million. Net profit,—after de- ducting maintenance expenses, de- preciation, repair taxes and appropri- ations for new contracts—was 15% million dollars, Last year’s total in- come was 129 million, with a net profit of 15 million dollars, _ The big appropriations for new circuits accounts for almost the same net profit as a year before, although the business exceeded by 7 million dollars that of last year. f what he says in his criticism of the socialist party: “Lost in the mazes of parliamentarism, it has all to long neglected the obvious fact that the primary struggle of the American workers for control of industry is still on the industrial field, rather than in the halls of Congress, and probably always will be . , .” T may be of interest to Budenz to learn that at the beginning of the Communist. movement its syndicalist wing criticised the parliamentarism of the socialist party in a similar manner, It is not important for us now to analyze Budenz’s confused no- tions. What we wonder is how can such a view live in close proximity to a party for which parliamentarism is an idol? How can these following words appear in a paper whose chief editor is Mr. Oneal? trade unions, to carry ahead the fight of the trade unions, to peer into the fields where unionism does not exist. It should confine itself to the econ- | omic fight against the capitalist sys- tem—expressed through the trade unions and through the consequent wide-spread educational activities, which go hand and hand with this idea.” OES not Budenz know that the trade union bureaucrats with the help of the socialist party persecute the left wing exactly for such activ- ity? To organize the’ unorganized, to work in the unions—this is the “The call to, the socialist party is to build up the | | chief hope of the workers, | 2. Socialization of industry, with workers’ control, as the full fruition ‘of the workers’ hopes. | 3. No compromise with war or economic imperialism, and the.neces- \sity for extending international co- operation between the labor move- ‘ments of the world, 4. The need for a labor party, as | auxiliary to these efforts—largely to , Solidify the objective of the workers.” | ‘VEN if Budenz’ information about the Communist movement in the | United States is third rate, he would have to acknowledge that his plan is taken from the Workers. (Commu- nist) Party, and though it is copied \very badly, nevertheless it is bor- j|rowed from the “damned” Commu- nists. The question here, to be sure, is not about a copyright, but about thinks it possible to cheat the old |birds, that is that such a program could be acceptable by the socialist |party only for the reason that he | would call it socialist and not Com- munist. “But,” it will be objected, “nothing is here said about dicttator- ‘ship and Sovietism.” True, but Bu- ,denz advises to speak the “Ameri- ‘can language,” and, therefore, he avoids those “terrible” words, Well, jand what is the meaning of such words as “socialization of industry, with workers’ control as the full frui- tion of the workers’ hopes,” or “ex- tension of unionism, as the chief that naivete of Budenz when he! The LADDER Now in its 5th MONTH WALDORF, 50th St. Bway. Mats. WED. Vanities WALLACK’S West | 42nd venings & Budenz were a more diligent rea-| ra of Communist literature and/ | keener observer of the left wing tac-| ties, he would understand that the | aim of the left wing is not to “cap-|_.__? ture,” but to “penetrate.” To cap-} FARL ture control in the unions, brother | ARROLL Budenz, is possible only by force in| © the interests of a minority or gang | Harl Carroll ante dt (and this purpose is being pursued | now by the right wing union smash- | ers), but to “penetrate” means | Mats. Tues, Wed., Thurs, and Sat. through correct tactics and constant! “contact shoulder to shoulder” with What Anne Brought, Home the masses (as the left wing is do-| A New Comedy Drama | ing) to win over the majority of the) ~~ 7 } members and with the help: of true, Edith Fitzgerald, who plays the, representatives of the workers to|part of Kitty in “Chicago”’ at the. ae pass betel of oe bag and’ Nusie Box Theatre, is now working! et tind baat iedne: i ahhiaat tenet “}on a new play. Mics Fitzgerald is} the author of “The River,” to be pro-| 'UDENZ’ advice to be a realist,’ duced in the fall, y that is to endeavor to size up the! situation in a given industry and to a5 the ultimate a “4 lead the struggle in accordance with| weapon in the hands of the toiling such correct estimate is Communist | masses. strategy. | PQETWEEN the views of a Russell | who advises forgetting socialism s)he is Leniniem, brother Budenz,| and following the footsteps of the A. A Leninist is not afraid to “soil! F. of L. bureaucrats, of a Hillquit his -hands” by the contact with the! to whom parliamentary action is the masses in their daily struggles, The| only hope of the socialist party, and Leninist program is to go into the | that of Budenz, who almost turns his unions, to help to build them, to or-| back on political activity, there ig ganize the unorganized, yet never | such..a distance that the socialist forgetting the ultimate goal of the|party, which has dwindled into a movement. Leninism throws out the| handful of people, will never be in slogan of building of a “labor party,” | a position to cover. Of course, it is yet does not regard parliamentarism possible to prolong the agony of the East of and SAT. Stree’, tS Mai, (0xe. Sat.) 50c-$1. Eves. 50c-$2, BROADWAY -PRICDS EVES, $1.10 TO $3.85. BEE 3% Sa Nrctriadl el At ala Bronx, Opera House }/!! , Street, Pop. Prices, Mat. Wed. & Sat. “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” The Hilarious Comedy sg PURUR ancien Tbeatre Guild Acting Company ta BROTHERS KARAMAZOV Week Apr. 4—Reoehester Opera Co, GUILD THEA, W. 52 St. Eve. 8:16 Mats, ‘Thurs. and Sat. 2:16 poe Lt maeeselcld sbeebs ‘THE SILVER CORD Week Apr. Ned MeCobb's Daught John Golden ,fh.$8, Bot By fe new. 9 52n¢ Thea. AYWRIGHT 206 West|Mats, Col.7303|Evs.8: son the atmosphere for the remain- ing members. But to save the social- ist party, to restore it to its former status, who but a fool can believe it? Tt is high time to let the dead bury their dead, Brother Budenz, to put aside prejudices and te remember that there is a choice between the progressive forees with the Workers (Communist) Party as the leader, and the reactionary alliance of the master class, A. F, of L. flunkeys and discredited socialist party ae SP. as a: party if ]