The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 1, 1927, Page 4

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1927 {(e Published by «se 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 i $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 Address all mail and make out checks to F THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J, LOUIS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F. DUNNE { ME PR CANGESs os ska cicnedevessccse Business Manager Editors 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, , a The Social Revolution Is On the March The tremendous enthusiasm aroused among the Russian masses by the capture of Shanghai, the huge demonstrations | thruout the length and breadth cf the Soviet Union in protest} against the Nanking massacre, the wholehearted support of the | great and heroic struggle of the Chinese masses by the workers and peasants’ government are things which world imperialism fears and hates. The Soviet Union with its 150,000,000 people and China with ‘its huge mass of 400,000,000 are a unit against imperialism “mighty force which all the brutal strength of world reaction can- not defeat. It is the greatest force that the world has ever seen and it is organized. It does not move blindly but with powerful purpose and it gains strength daily. It is easy to lose one’s perspective as a result of the flood of lies, half-truths, distortions and inanities which the capitalist press pours forth and it is of the utmost importance that we understand, and never allow our understanding in this connection to be warped, that in no period of the world’s history have such titanic social movements been under way. The rise of capitalism and the overthrow of feudalism was Punch and Judy show com- pared to the vast amphi-theatre where struggle the armies of the masses and their class enemies. a It is the social revolution on the march that shakes the | foundations of imperialism today. Poisoned by the revisionism , permanent secretary of the com-| PEE Tec CE ee ‘" ' mittee and all applications must | THE DAILY WORKER Boston District Develops Extensive Plans | for the Ruthenberg Membership Drive H ‘ BOSTON, Mass.—At a special meeting of the Committee of 15, a sub-committee of five Theatre Guild Company to. members was appointed to work out complete plans and to go ah meeting of the Sub-Committee decisions were made that quotas units on the basis of one new member for each old member. A special bulletin will be established in the Party office. Special bulletins. will be published periodically dealing with the question of the Membership Drive. Comrade R. Shohan was elected Sr a Cm ‘ ead with the work. At the first | ‘Play in Chicago Next Season shall be assigned to all Party | The Theatre Guild players will play | | six weeks in Chicago next season, be- | be directed to him. Comrade S.| D. Levine was elected chairman of the Drive Committee. 2,000 People to be Approached It was decided that over 2,000; workers, sympathizers, readers of Party press should be approached and i an attempt made to draw these peo-| America and Europe about bad ple into the Party. Special sub-com- | less children” in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics are ably | mittees were charge of work. A trade union committee consisting | of Nurdock, Zannerib and Zeligman “ : was appointed to call special meet- children of other lands, the fact appointed to take answered in a series of articles u ings of all Party trade union fractions | for the care of its waifs, the product of long war and the blockade | st least one role in Chicago. Follow- | and to concentrate on the Member-! famine, than any other country d ship Drive in the trade unions. Com-! ve rade Nurdock was appointed secre- tary of this epe aetna ; ‘Union Delegation tell of what they Women’s Committee |found to be the provision made for! Comrade Sarah Yellin was appoint- dependent and delinquent children in ed secretary of the Women’s Commit-!the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- tee to lead the drive in the women | ics, organizations, Comrade Elsie Pul-| “1) RECEIVING. STATIONS. ter and Finkelstein were placed on These are institutions for waifs who this committee. ‘require immediate aid. They remain! Mass Agitation here until place is found for them in | A committee of five consisting of |# home. There are separate homes Puleo, Marks, Resnick, Shohan and | for boys and for girls. Z | | Shklar were appointed to carry on) 2) OBSERVATION AND DISTRI- agitation through mass meetings,, BUTION CENTRES. These are in-| open air meetings, factory meetings tended for the reception of abnormal and neighborhood meetings. Com-| and wayward children. The attend- Let the British Women’s Trade! rade Puleo was appointed secretary ants comprise doctors, teachers, psy- children are sent to publie school, | of this committee, chologists, who endeavor to ascer- For work among fraternal organi- ‘in the psychological and other pe- zations a committee of five was ap- CUliarities of the child, in order, in CAREFUL SCHOOLING FOR HOMELESS iiss csscncs ~ CHILDREN IN THE SOVIET UNION The stale, but recurrent, yarns in the capitalist press of | will not open its local season until | WORKER by its Moscow correspondent. Below another of these| articles is printed. Previous articles have told of the | sinning September 26th at the Stude- | ~~ | baker theatre. Contracts were signed | late last week by Theatre Guild offi- | pany, lessee of the Studebaker. While | the company is playing in Chicago, | the Guild will produce DuBose Hey- | ward’s play, “Porgy” at the Guild | Theatre in New York. Under these | arrangements, the acting company | treatment of “swarms of home-| early in November. | The arrangements with the Reper- | hed: ry . a |toire Theatre Company call for cer- rittew eapecially for The DAILY |tain Guild productions with their orig- |inal casts. The repertory will be suf- homeless | ficiently varied to allow all the Guild’s that the U. S. S. R. spends more | players an opportunity to appear in |" In “The Trumpet Shall Sound” at |the American Laboratory Theatre, on East 58th Street. , ‘ing the termination of the Theatre | “Dorothy and the Wizar Guild arrangement of six weeks, the | pand of Oz,” will be the newest of- fae , s Repertoire Theatre will begin the |rering of the Children’s Saturday laboration in proletarian society, and| production of certain plays already Morning Theatre, opening this Satur- in the overwhelming mass of cases| produced by the Guild in New York, | day at the Piincoew Theatre: the effort is successful. to be played by their own company. | 3 a loes for its orphans. The HI International School Home, “Fog-Bound,” by HughsStanislaus This is an old monastery, a part of | which is used for public school pur- | poses, another part for dormitories for | about 150 “bezprezhorni” and a third | section as an observation station where for the first six months the children just after they have been! picked up off the streets are kept for} grading. They range in age from 8} to 15 and mix with other children | only in the industrial school. After the six months the normal! "| their absorption in the common life of the normal children being an es-! [ Broadway Briefs } Pa relinbatsetes “The Third Day,” a play from the | Czecho-slovakian, which A. H. Woods | is bringing back from Europe is} scheduled for early production, | There will be a special perform-| ance of “Pygmalion and Galatea” at | under the sponsorship of the West- | chester League of Women Voters. There will be no less than six clos- | Stange will open tonight at the Bel- mont Theatre. Nance O’Neil, absent from Broadway for some time, is the star of the production, Casting for “Machine-Wreckers,” | the play by Ernst Toller which is be- ing produced by the Workers Drama League, has already begun. Theve are still a-few choice parts that are |Hampden’s Theatre this afternoon | still open and you are urged to come to the League Studio at 64 Washing- ton Square South, this Friday even- ing and co-operate. |sential factor of their reclamation.|ings this Saturday—perhaps seven. of the socialist bureaucracy, thinking only in terms of modern) method of temstanset. capitalist countries, the working class in Europe and America jcommittee are Karas, Kutisker, %) CHILDREN’S COMMISSIONS. | get another six months in he obser-| Karamazov,” at the Guild; “Earth,” pointed with Comrade $. D. Levine ach case, to apply the most fitting “Those who fail to meet the normality |The plays definitely listed are “Lal- | [E=Misic Notes==| as secretary. Other members of the tests at the end of the six months ly,” at. the Morosco; “The Brothers | find it hard to believe that the masses in the so-called backward niations have taken the lead in the class struggle and are winning tremendous victories in the sector of imperialism’s defenses hith- erto considered impregnable. What a satire on the reformist leadership of the workers and farmers of the West! While they wrangle here over methods of obtaining a few crumbs from the tabie of capitalism the masses of the East are taking over the storehouse from which capitalism’s provisions come. * The major task of the Western working class is to perfect an unbreakable unity against the common enemy with the masses of the East and thereby sign the death warrant of world capi- talism. the Miners Begins~Threat to Whole Zelms, Whittier. To co-ordinate the Consisting of a teacher, as chairman, work with the Y., W. L. Comrade 2 representative of the authorities (a Teurabend was elected to co-operate worker-judge), and a doctor who de- with the. ¥.: WECNES oh this: work. termines what special — measure i ; should be taken for the education of | Instructions wore sent | out te all the wayward or abnormal child. This rie Bhi a Scraae bes as commission investigates the condi- posh oe anarsnp = Tve | tions under which the offense was Committees wie, Smale sub-divi- committed, and looks into the living, sions. The District Committee makes | <chool and working conditions of the jones. For this purpose the Political | ™°*S""¢s applied in Wiese. (This la itt: ted ial court and its procedure was des-| ee ee ee onal tie, preceding article of this {bership committee assigned to ex- ‘amine new applicants and to assign series, WP): | them to the proper phase of activity. 2): CHILDREN'S | NRE TORS. Ags % They are to watch over the youths | District language organizers and |i, public places, and render: them bureaus are also active in this work. | , Yation school or are sent into special! at the Grove Street Theatre; “Loud institutions. Wages In Trade Schools. | Those over ten work in the trade | school, which in this case has four | , departments, metal work, woodwork-| Which aroused considerable interest | ing, -bookbinding and shoemaking. | These shops are not abstract affairs, of actual use to the school and them-| selves. They are paid wages and! have complete — self-administration. | They remain here until they are 16, | when work is provided for them.and | living quarters either in some work. | ing. class. family or in a home such as that previously described. Not far away down the Tverskaya Speaker,” at the Fifty-second Street, and “Menace,” at the Comedy, “The Garden of Eden,” a drama | on the continent, is scheduled for | production by A. H. Woods and Arch! ‘but in them the boys make things | Selwyn. Lowell Sherman, we under-| stand, will play a leading role. ila i Reinald Werrenrath, baritone, will appear in recital at Carnegie Hall next Sunday evening. Anna Duncan will give a dance program Sunday evening, April 24, at the Guild Theatre. Dusolina Giannini will give an all-Italian program at Carnegie Hall on Sunday afternoon, Apri Cor. 6 Av. & 14 St. Tel. Watkins 7767. EVA LE GALLIENNE Civie Repertory RB, t Broadway HAMPDEN The Attack On | Lithuanian Bureau has called a siet-| irnee ie partite thle Cerner is a shoemaker school where a simi- | ronignt: es une Geta in CAPONSACCHI pene Labor Movement ial meeting and decided to cover“all | tives of: the Children’s Commissions | 187; lot of boys are learning to be | Tomorrow it 1 hs lp eet ee OR SC ks ; ,fraternal organizations and similar pens : . »|Shoemakers. Four hours a day in the | S | Sam HARRIS ®HEA St. The drive to destroy the United Mine Workers has begun. | organizations in a concerted drive | °* of the “Friends ‘of the Children | shop and four hours in theoretical | TIMES Sq. Twice Daily, 2:30 & 8:30 .. By closing their mines and refusing to pay the union scale _ of wages the coal operators have challenged the whole Amesican | for membership, Lithuanian Bureau i and not infrequently both.-WFK). | Bureau 5) HOMES FOR ABNORMAL| | also issued an appeal for financial CHILDREN. In the Rusalan Soctaliat | {support for the Party. Finnish Bur- | rederated Soviet Republics there are | schooling is the rule. an_excellent clubroom in. the shop| The boys have |Eves. 8:30. Mats. Thea., W. 42 St. Wed. & Sat. 2:30 CRIME WHAT PRICE GLORY and. get good dinners at cut-rates in Deccan James Rennie & Chester Meerin,| Mata. (exe. Sat.) 50c-$1. Eves. 50c-$2, —$— labor movement. From the start of the negotiations it has been leau assigned a special organizer to evident that the coal barons were pursuing.a rule or ruin policy. | carry on this work. _ They are determined to force a wage cut, introduce such changes| Comrade Heino, editor of the | 155 schools for morally sub-normal, 60 schools| for feeble minded, 21 Schools for the blind, and 43° for ja nearby co-operative restaurant. | | Their wages begin at 16 rubles a! | month. and-they get a raise about! jevery six months. They are trade! The LADDER } Now in its 5th MONTIL | WALDORF, 50th 8 j BROADWAY . *. sae . . reer *. { ry r4 it.. East of ROADHURST Ws. 44.8 Se. bps B50 thats ted Cot 230 in working conditions as will tend to greatly lower production | Finnish paper writes that many suc-! deaf-mutes.” (An. interesting school | °° | Biway. Mats. WED.’and SAT. BS EV. 1 ’ costs, tie a the union with efficiency Bi se Pe it into | Cessful meetings are being held all) combining the two latter catagories |aee memes ana ine ehey fol Sa = Peacoat coral 10 vane pele. ‘ nt od ¢ in- | Over the New England district. Rus-| visited in Samara bears the name of | 1 "© Shop-school, and special efforts | MART, c+. | Bronx Opera House }4°th , Street, flinders and resurrect the feudalism which prevailed in the min-|gian~ and Urkainian Bureaus plan | our world-renown genius, Helen Kel. | 27¢™ade to draw them into trade | CARROLL anities an Sebks. deck Wik ing camps before the union was built by the untiring struggle’ special lectures in their respective jor. WFK). ‘ |union life, which is very much more | Karl Thea. 7th Ave, & 60th s.| “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” | and sacrifice of thousands of miners. |languages and also a drive among; Health of Homeless Children, _| “ie #nd many-sided in Russia than | Earl Carroll {it Thurs. & Sat, 2:30 ¥ The fight of the miners is the fight of the whole labor move-| fraternal organizations. Italians are | The capitalist press charges: | elsewhere. | | This “self-administration” is no! 30 The Hilarious Comedy 42nd Str Theatre Guild Acting Company in WALLACKS West <2 as “s | negotiating for a paid organizer dur-| «Practically all are confirmed alco-| Eveni. 8:30, 4 j “nil if the UMWA Ps oe ge’ panos aig Mn the period of the drive. The|holics . ~ . one Pind aes drug | joke. I once visited a Work Com-| Mats. Tues, Wed. Thurs. and Sat. pest regen acne jaunched a nationwide offensive against the other unions. 48 | Jewish Bureau is also making plans | addicts, the government statistics |@¥¢ near Cheliabinsk, and it hap- | impossible to overestimate the gravity of the situation and back /to meet all left wingers and frater- of the miners must be rallied every ounce of strength the Amen: |i! vee ig ems souens, i 3 A 3 i meetin; 0) e candina- ican labor may ement has. ss ‘ s ‘ | wien Einbead! is belag called to con- § The miners face the kind of a fight that is hard to Wage. | sider the question of the drive and to There is no national strike with its dramatic power to arouse the jveach a large number of Scandina- miners themselves and other workers. The initiative has been | vians in the district. left in the hands of the coal barons by the weakness of the of-| Armenian Bureau Active. ficial leadership of the union and it made damaging concessions, | Armenian organizer informs the such as district agreements, before the lockout occurred. This | District paemeads * me also call has weakened the position of the union and makes it almost im-| Bune tor ona pal eben possible for it to make the issue of a national agreement a rally-| among the Armenian workers, who ing center for its struggle. ' hold prominent positions in the basic In the former union fields the strike will begin as a test | industries of this state: They plan of endurance. The immense quantity of coal in storage makes bet 25 bbe kt pa oe it possible for the ceal companies to stop production without | mass meetings to carry on tha wore Seriously affecting the market for at least two months. The|Shop nuclei are particularly active mines will stay closed in certain stetions for this period at least/in this work. : | The Party is engaged in leading and then in all probability an attempt will be made to operate | with strikebreakers ; If the union continues to allow the initiative to rest with the operators it faces certain defeat. It can take the offensive by launching an organization campaign in the non-union fields, declaring a strike in these areas and cutting down non-union coal | production while at the same time extending the power of the union. The miners who are locked out and therefore idle can be utilised to good effect as organizers in non-union territory. The miners will win in this struggle by smashing the most important weapon of the operators—the non-union fields. 100,000 miners organized in West Virginia and Kentucky in the next two | months will bring the operators to terms. This is the program of the “Save the Union” bloc in the union for the present situa- ‘Widn ald it is the program that will win for the miners. i | several important struggles and the | workers will fight for better condi- tions under the leadership of the Party and will be asked to join the! | Show. 85% are suffering from | repulsive diseases.” The government | figures show no such thing, because |it is not so. Of course there are ; many sick children among them, and the whole treatment is based upon _the theory of removing all physical |ailments that might stand in the way of their resuming a normal life as quickly as possible. ’ | In Moscow government. figures do show that 20.6% of all children taken in were ill. Anaemia heads the list with 7%, then retarded development 4.5%, mental defectives, 2.7%, drug | addicts and alcoholics 2.8%, tubercu- lar 2%, syphillitic 0.2%, others 1.4%. A physician on the commission told me, upon consulting his personal re- | cords, that of 4591 children examined under his direction, 112 had at one time or another used cocaine, but’ only 12 were to be considered: pro- ;nounced addicts, and only 20, alco- holies. s movement. Dope In America. » | The whole district is humming with| | Even these minimum figures ,re- activity and it is expected that good /flect no pleasant picture, and many | results will be produced within a/@ve the special institutions in which |very short time. A proud tribute to, they are cared fom Yet are dope- {Comrade Ruthenberg is being built | fiends and hop-heads unknown in lin District No, 1. | America? Certainly: not, Let our | * » * authority Fosdick, in his “American “To Build Left Wing” | Police Systems” speak: “There is Furriers League of Philadelphia, Pa./ scarcely a city in the country. where —“Grief and pain has filled the heart ; this insidious practice has not gained |of every class conscientious worker |# foothold. It has recently been es- lover the loss of our leader in the | timated that there are 300,000 persons pened to be the night of the general ; meeting. Eight to twelve year old |boys and girls gave account of the. |stewardship over various depart- ments—and they did it with a pains- taking detail and a political aplomb that many an elder would envy. Half in joke I asked ‘the 10 year old “Chief Farmer” how his crops were getting on and it took him ten minutes, in all gravity and expert knowledge, to tell about it. No adult farmer would have | shown more interest and ability in} coping with his work than this lad. | This — self-administration includes everything in the communes, and es- pecially the food closet. The adult! attendants get their supplies from the children’s committee. Workers Don't Dare to Buy Clothes They Sell (By A Worker Correspoi In the service elevator | Bendel,” a 57th Street specialty shop, | which employs many hundred work- ers to sew and sell fine clothes to the | idle rich, there hangs a sign which | reads somewhat in the following manner: “The employees of this store may not: buy any gowns, wraps, or furs, or-any other articles sold here, he-| fore, during, or after sales. Nor may they. wear anything that is a copy or! adaption of the clothes sold here, It mt) | “Henri | THRA., . . Evs. 8: t Home GUILD PHBA. W. 52 st.kve, fis Ss. Thurs. and Sat. 2:1 THE SILVER CORD Week Apr. 4—Ned MeCobb's Daughter Anne Brough A New Comedy Drama The annual spring concert of tthe People’s Chorus of New York will be held Tuesday evening, April 26, in c HTS thea Carnegie Hall, celebrating its eley-| 52nd Thea, 206 West\Mats, Thurs. &Sat, enth anniversary under the leader-| >" 01.7393 !Evs,8:45. Mats.2:48 ship of 1. Camilleri, | Loudspeaker’ no gia iticon MICHAEL GOLD’S “FIESTA” LIKE NO OTHER PLAY ABOUT MEXICO YOU EVER HAVE SEEN While lies about Mexico, and the among them and still loves them and intrigues of Secretary Kellogg in his|sympathizes with their struggles and efforts to grab Mexican oil fill the | aspirations. The whole production ‘is front pages of the newspapers and|shot thru with the spirit of revolu- the editorial columns of dailies and | tion and the building of a new world weeklies, DAILY WORKER readers out of the old feudalism. The peons are to have a chance to see a true picture of the Mexican people and their peasant life in the production of which opens April Gth and will be laze and drink, dance and sing, yet they are turning from paternalism and insisting on freeing themselves | Michael Gold’s new play “Fiesta,” !from the yoke of the past. There has never been a Mexiean given for the benefit of The DAILY | play like “Fiesta,” because Michael WORKER during the entire week of | Gold is telling a story about fellow- April 11th. ‘workers and not writing as tho he Most plays about Mexico tell a were an agent of the northern oil story of some bombastic Yankee who | magnates. It is the sort of play the goes down and lords it over the ig- readers of The DAILY WORKER ‘norant Mexican, and the moral of the will surely want to see, and by going thing usually is that only U. S. in-!any night during the week of April tervention will make life endurable | 11th you will be giving the Daily a below the Rio Grande. But in |big financial boost, “Qiesta” there is not a single char-, acter from the states, and the plot|mand is beginning already. B: is a dramatic tale of land owners and |them at Jimmy Iliggins Bookshopger Sa peasant yaad mak apes alert apes se ee struggles against American imperial- | addicted to the use of narcotic drugs |i8 requested that none of our em-|peons in the days of the revolution, ist Vhe DAILY WORKER officeg’108 ‘Capa State Troopers On Trial. ism and their agents in the labor|in the city of New York, alone.”|Ployees ask for special permission to| ‘The people of the play are Mexi- Fast 14th street. Phone Stuyyfsant ‘ eas FLEMINGTON, N. J., March 31,| movement. | (Page 357, citing extensive author: do so. No one is to go to Mr. Henri|cans portrayed by one who lived 6584, Two Hundred Finnish Thirteen state troopers today; “At the open grave of our leadex | ities). Sub-normality is a,universal| Bendel and ask for his authority to| == A Sms seeped | pleaded not guilty to charges of man- {slaughter in connection with the Workers Will Journey ; ‘ by shooting of *Miss Beatrice Meaney lh Soviet Republics pei a siege of the Meaney home- stead at Jutland by troopers last De- Bail of $3,000 was fixed on }each of the men named in the in. |dictment. i ber. | LENINGRAD, March 31—In the | Gach middle of April there will arrive here a delegation of Finnish work- U ing of two hundred mem- first delegation of this | No Extra Session, | | ALBANY, N. Y., March 31.—Pree will stay in this city pects of an extra session of the legis- days, and afterwards will | lature to repass Governor Smith’s cities of the Union of constitutional executive ‘budget pro- ‘Soviet Republics. ‘posal had waned considerably, } wae WacesuieMyrotves neal 1 we pledge to do our utmest to build | concommittant among such homeless a powerful left wing to fight under types, the percentage running 33% the banner of our dead comrade. jand 250% respectively in two large “His heroism and leadership in! series of “repeaters” studied in the many battles of the workers will al-| Juvenile Detention Home in Chicago, ways be an inspiration in the strug-| while in another detention home 50% gles that are ahead of us in the Amer- | were found to have inherited physical ican labor movement.” defects, and "30% were feeble-minded. * 3 * As soon as a child either comes Jewish Section, Workers Party,|in off the streets, or else because. it Pittsburgh, Pa.—The Jewish work-| has gotten into trouble it is brought ers of Pittsburgh are shocked by the |in, it is cleaned up and examined death of our Comrade Ruthenberg.|and treated physically. Every re- May his death give us more inspira-|source at the command of modern| tion to work harder for our ideal.” science is employed to win it for enna waive this rule. It applies to every one employed here. No one is an ex- ception.” Must Pay For Licking Fencer | . LOS ANGELES, March 31.—Ger- ald’ de Merveuz, Hollywood fencing master, today stood victor in his sen- sational damage suit against Com- modore J, Stuart Blackton, motion picture producer. By a vote of 9 to 8, the jury awarded de Mervenx 0 of the $26,000 damages he sought for an allged horsewhipping col-| administered by the defendant. é ‘ Number ‘wo. HAS JUST ARRIVED. ‘This magaaine, issued by the International Publishing House of the THE WORKER’S CHILD Young Communist International, deals with the lives of children the world oyer.) No Communist interested in children can afford to. be without it. 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