The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 8, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Daily, Except Sunday 63 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 | | Phone, Orchard 1680 | $2.60 three 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 BERT MILLER SeseE: | Business Manager | ——————eeeeSeSeSNESeSeSNSNSFSSSSSS Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under | the act of March 8, 1879. | Advertising rates on application. SP. ————=— Race Wars—An Ever Present Danger The danger of a race war in Chicago produced by the un- The Chinese Liberation Movement Goes to the Left The Labor Movement Takes Power In Shanghai—How It ARTICLE VY. By WILLIAM F, DUNNE Tee city of Shanghai was taken! over by the trade unions a day and | a half before the Peoples Army en-| tered. The executive committee of the conference of Peoples Delegates, with the trade unions playing a leading) and decisive part, became the Pro-| visional government of Shanghai and | 80,000 persons took part. The chief Spanish Gained Its Strength. : | plied in practice, The Congress criticiz-| ed the weaknesses of the trade unions | with the greatest sharpness. It work- | port the insurrection which they |ed out plans for establishing better | declared formed an integral part | connections between local branches} of the national-revolutionary move- | and the central committees and secur- | ment.” {ing common action on the part of | | separate unions, At a central meeting today over appeal of the speakers was to sup- Reviewed by HARBOR ALLEN. Only a_ backward, HE armed uprising which was the A common program country like Spain could have pro- answer of the labor movement to the murderous atrocities of the mili- tarists, and the aid given them by the | {and the structure for industrial fed-|“The Cradle Song.” And then only \eration worked out. * |the most backward poctions of. Spain. priest-ridden | for the whole movement was adopted | duced in this day and age a play like | Lullab “The Cradle Song” at Civic Repertory Theatre, Goes Off to a Quiet Corner JACOB BEN-AMI | | imperialist forces, was preceded by a maintained its authority. Y : eae ’ A ity were the | Strike in which 300,000 workers took | dakar anid eller oe apart pated bon | part. (There is an estimate total of | armed and_ disciplined organized | 500,000 workers in Shanghai). | THe Congress also dealt with the | Red Barcelona, industrial nub of the! . é ; {peninsula, would have a different | alliance between the working class | story é ‘tell. | Here are all the trappings of a medieval idyll. A nunnery, pious and the peasantry and went on record for the building of a powerful fed- t |ples Army. allies of the imperialists out of the city and opened the way for the Peo- A Shanghai Inprecorr scrupulous campaigns waged by the democrat and republican! dispatch dated March 22 stated: party politicians preceding the recent election brings forward | sharply the constant menace created by the friction between Negroes and whites in America. The capitalists themselves love the sight of white worker competing with black worker for a job. The poisonous doctrine | of the racial inferiority of the Negro with which the white work-| ing class has been fed is relied upon to set in motion a whole) stream of prejudice which will prevent unity against the com-| mon enemy—the capitalist. But prejudiced as many white work-| ers are it is nevertheless true that racial hatred is less deep-| seated in the workers than in any other class in modern society. William Pickens, field secretary of the National Association | for the Advancemient of Colored People, out of his wide experience | with workers of the black and white races, says: “Contrary to the popular superstition about the attitude of the ‘poor whites’ toward the Negro, I find the white working people more open to the claim of unqualified equality for colored working pepole than are any other classes of American whites. | One gets this impression if he speaks in their forums or confers | in their other meetings. “Tn addition, Negro labor is becoming more and more organ- ized, co-operative and articulate, and is offering greater and} greater resources of power to any Negro movement that will in- clude them. And American colored people are still laborers in greater proportion than are the people of the white race. An active concern in the industrial and other economic interests of this people will enlarge the power of any organization.” The ally of the white working cla: oppression is the Negro working class which is still more op-| pressed. The most powerful ally of the Negro masses in their struggle for social, economic and political equality is the masses of white workers whose social status differs in degree but not-in kind. The American labor movement could make no greater im- mediate progress than by abolishing all bars—open and secret— against the Negro workers’ entry to the unions. It is the ex- perience in unions where black and white meet on the common) ground of unity against the capitalist and his government egencies that it is here the racial lines tend to disappear most rapidly. “The Unity of Labor is the Hope of the World,” and today} this includes, as Lenin pointed out, all who are oppressed by the|Camp Nitgedeiget, the summer play- | crushing weight of imperialism—workers and farmers, white, | Forkers? Co-operative, composed of |ization Department, all members of | capacity up till November, 1922. Re- brown, black and yellow. The struggle between black and white workers in America will be replaced by a common struggle against the exploiters of | both—the American capitalist class. Unity elementary struggles is the first step toward unity in the poli- tical struggle. Criticising America—The Attack on The DAILY WORKER. The DAILY WORKER editors and business manager are ate on al basis of $8-$10 a week, no | charged with publishing “lewd and lascivious” material in a poem |single child, however, being permitted | in the magazine section of the March 12) entitled “America” number. | “The insurrectionary workers who have driven out the Shangtung | troops, are arming themselves speedily by disarming the police and the remnants of the Shangtung troops. The whole of the old and | new Chinese town up to the borders of the foreign and French conces- sion is in the hands of the insur- rectionaries who are maintaining revolutionary discipline and order.” HESE were the “wild mobs” de- scribed by the imperialist press correspondents who a few days be- fore had been lauding the barbarous | executions of workers and students to the number of 200 and more by the headsmen of Chang Tsung Chang— the Shantungese bandit chieftain, Another dispatch stated: “The whole southern district is | reminiscent of the first days of the Russian October revolution. The armed: workers look like typical | Red Guards patroling the streets. This impression is still. stronger in the chief tramway depot which served as the mobilization point for the staff of the insurrection- aries. There the workers are not only armed with rifles but with workers who forced the Shangtungese The Chinese labor movement, in | eration of all labor organizations of women, an air of peace and resigna- | spite of the courage, solidarity and | | political understanding it has dis- the Far East. Finally there was the strike move- played in numberless strikes ‘since | ment which developed in Shanghai in | 1922 was notoriously weak organiza-| the early part of 1926. | strike after strike as follows: | tionally. There was | tion, for humor a cranky sister, for | vivacity a mischievous novice. For i8 modern touch there is a heretical j}doctor: be at ease, a gentle one. | Prayers, rosaries, afternoon sunshine | movement. | |ing. The nuns are human, simple, It was in a movement of the char-| naive; they talk the language of liv- ‘acter statistically sketched above|ing women, A warm flood of senti- Wwe have already mentioned the tre-| that the Shanghai workers, under the | ment and piety flows over you. At mendous influence of the events | increasing pressure of imperialism | times you are moved. Generally you previous to the capture of Shanghai | by the Peoples. Army? | |in Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang |and militarism, and with the example | #re only drugged. upon the development of the struggle | of the struggles of their comrades in| Opiate For Middle Class. for liberation. The struggle against central China before their eyes, de-/ Maybe that’s why “The Cradle the imperialists had become sharper | veloped the couragé, skill, knowledge | Song” has become the Civic Reper- and this had tended to broaden and|of organizational methods and the | tory Theatre’s most popular play. It’s at the same time solidify the labor| revolutionary. discipline which en-|4 great opiate for the middle class. abled them, in-spite of the mass ter-| People who go to the theatre to be The Third Congress of the All-/ror; to overcome their enemies and|charmed, amused, touched—a little— China Federation of Labor and the| establish in place of their rule the | not too hard—will get their’ moriey’s measures adopted there to strengthen| authority of the Conference of Peo-|worth from this Spanish lullaby. the labor movement also had a tre-' ples Delegates. ; They can go home adoring it. They mendous influence on the labor move-| Previous to May, 1926, it had little | No. of No. of ; : | centralization—that is, there was the | Month Strikes Strikers eared ti dco sie ais et | poorest of connection between the cen-| January § 8.080 | Sentiment and Piety. | tral authority and the provincial and) = February 8 4.376 | Into this retreat comes a child, the city organization. In addition to this, | March 4 10.374 | daughter of a woman of the streets. scot Bi buhabs following the strike and helspennal of | April 11 6.150 | The nuns bring her up, spending their! Now playing in “The Idiot,” Dos. strikers in Shanghai in 1925 many te May 20 32.854 |pent-up mother love on her. Light- | toyevsky’s psychological drama at the the outlying unions had practically | June 38 57.030 leen years later, a pretty, happy girl, | Irving Place Theatre. : Deeeen ie ociaie ‘hii forthe} bare ‘ “ no she goes off with her lover. - They 88 | Augus' 29.12 28 Shanghai labor movement to show September 18 34.237 | Bless her and — over her and feel | “The Sea-Woman’s Cloak” and “The oe aie bility | Septem |a genuine loss when she is gone. Trumpet Shall Sound.” The cast in- such oreneieanan and ages ny a October 10 14.308 |. This material the Martinez Sierra! ¢iudes Helen Coburn, who made such —to actually become bo’ toon an | brothers have handled with real feel-| a personal triumph in “The Trumpet ing and driving force in the struggle Total 164 204.189 Shall Sound,” Stella Adler, daughter of Jacob Adler, Frank Burk, and Grover Burgess. | George C. Tyler, before sailing for | Burope this week gave out his plans |for next season. The first. of these | will be the re-written and re-named | Tarkingto..-Wilson comedy, © “The |Man from Home,” which will be pre- |sented in Chicago in September with | Elliott Nugent in the leading role. | The: second will.. be “Behold this | Dreamer,” a dramatization of Fulton | Oursler’s novel of the same title, in {which Glenn Hunter will be starred in the struggle against |——— hand grenades and machine guns. | ment when these decisions were ap-! jean go home feeling that the world) and which will open in October, Tyler Read The Daily Worker Every Day | is serene and safe and beautiful: how | has two other plays for Hunter. Pau- ~}could it be otherwise with all that} line Lord will be the star of another |mother love. Reiss, Active Party in labor’s most|¢2¢e materialize, a separate children’s | Bureaus will attend this conference. | | } | | PARENTS’ CONFERENCE OF YOUNG PIONEERS PROPOSE! CHILDREN'S CAMP FOR THIS SUMMER = Children of New York workers will | have an opportunity to enjoy vaca-| tions next summer at their own co-| operative camp. This was determined at the “Parents’ Conference” held yes- terday afternoon at the headquarters | of the Young Pioneer Camp, 108 E.| 4 conference of all leading Work-| anceen g the past three summers be- | tS Party functionaries in the district | tween 50 and 75 children spent periods } let oak cera athe al ranging from one to three weeks at! tice 108 E. uae At Toth 46 | All members of the District Organ- | Party Functionaries | Hold Meeting Sunday | On Ruthenberg Drive | ground maintained by the United| active radical trade unionists. |the Section Executives, all Sub-Sec- Separate Children’s Camp. . | tion Organizers, all Party Editors, If the plans of the present confer-|and all secretaries of the Language camp, probably located near Nit-| The conference will take up the gedeiget will be built during the next | Ruthenberg Drive in this district and few months. Whereas the private | plans will be worked out for all the profit-making camps for children | departments, the press and the lang- charge between $300 and $350 for a/uage fractions. season of 9 weeks, the present camp; The District Executive Committee | for workers’ children expects to oper-/ calls upon all the leading function- aries enumerated above to be present. The conference will be called to! remain longer than three weeks. | order at 10 A. M. sharp and will ad-| Martin Gottfried is director of the! jown at 1 P. M. ;Same year he was sent on an or- | proposed camp, and David Lyons is secretary. Those desiring details The charges have been preferred by some patriotic societies about the plan of the new venture are but the issue of patriotism is not raised in the complaint. The Passaic Branch, Work- | stricted~to C. E. C. work. January, 1926, up to the present time, | Member On Way Thru. New York to Moscow (By L. P. RINDAL) (Worker Correspondent). LOS ANGELES, Calif—Paul C.| Reiss, local all around. Communist or- | ganizer, and representative in South- ern California for The DAILY| WORK, will leave for New York on} April 17th—then to Moscow, Russia. | In May, 1921, Comrade Reiss was} appointed District Organizer of Cali-| fornia for the United Communist Party (U. C. P.) Worked in that} signed said office on account of sick- ness. From the spring of 1922 to the summer of 1924 he was manager of “Labor™Unity,” a San Francisco labor newspaper. In the latter part of 1924 he went into the Labor| Party campaign and other working class activities in Los Angeles. This ganization trip in the Northwest. Dur- ing the city election, 1925, he was! manager of the campaign at which } Comrade Emanuel Levine, running | for the Board of Education, got over 26,500 votes. The following’ winter | 1925-26, his activities was mainly re- From charges specify simply that the publication of the words cited is in violation of a certain section of the penal code—the section under which there have been a number of prosecutions of play- wrights, producers and actors. The method in which the representatives of the patriotic so-| cieties have proceeded is thoroly hypocritical and we hope that before the case is over that we will be able to make it clear that action of the complainants constitutes an attack on the right of free press and free speech. The DAILY WORKER does not attempt to justify the par- ticular phraseology used in the poem. As a matter of fact the poem was published only as a result of the confusion created by having a magazine editor in Chicago while The DAILY WORKER itself is in New York. We consider the phraseology objected to as perhaps the poorest way that could be devised of saying what the writer seemed to want to say. But we do defend the right to criticize America and its insti-| tutions. This is the right that is under attack. We believe that every person in the United States who sees and understands the nation-wide-effort now being mad eto muzzle the press, the trade unions, workers’ political parties and all organizations expressing | 6:30 P. M., at 100 W. 28th St. the discontent of the masses, will support us in our effort to repel Prat this attack and expose it for what it is—part of the drive of re- | of the Philippines even to voice their desires for independence at action against all individuals and organizations in opposition to the theory that only Wall Street has the right to own and only Wall Street government has the right to rule America. Another Blow Against Philippine Independence. Calvin Coolidge, by his veto of an act of the Philippine leg- islature proposing a plebiscite on the question of the independence of the Islands, clearly reveals the fact that he knows the over- whelming majority of the inhabitants of the Philippines would vote for immediate, absolute and complete independence from the imperiglist tentacles of the Wall Street government at Washing- ton. In a long note, reeking with sophistry, the president states that such a vote would be unconvincing, that discussion of the question of immediate or proximate independence is untimely and that submitting the question to a vote of the Filipinos, unless such action were requested by the American congress would be disturbing to good relations. Coolidge, spokesman for the American imperialists with their heavy investments in public utilities, municipal bonds, rubber, sugar and tobacco industries, brazenly throws off the usual mask of democratic hypocrisy and flatly refuses to permit the people| his masters. jinvited to write to the Young Pioneer Comrade Reiss has been the local rep- | | | | | ‘have been arranged as follows: ers Party Meets Sunday 7.—The (Commu- Camp, 108 E. 14th St. cy PASSAIC, N. J., April All Sections Meet |Passaie branch Workers nist) Party will have a special mem- Beginni ril 18) egi ng Ap 1 18 bership meeting this Sunday, April | Section Membership Meetings will|10, 7 P. M., at the Jewish Workers’ be held in all Sections thruout the | Home, 781 Main Ave. W. W. Wein-| city during the week of April 18th as } stone will report on the Ruthenberg part of the general campaign of the| drive. The election campaign will Ruthenberg Drive. | also be taken up. gue members These meetings are the first step | must also be present. in the general campaign to raise the ideological level of the Party mem- bershin and also to promote the BUILD THE PARTY, RUTHEN. | BERG DRIVE. The Section Membership Meetings Section 4: Friday April 22nd, at} 8 P. M., at 81 E. 110th St. Section 5: Tuesday April 19th at 8 P. M., at 1347 Boston Rd. Section 6: (2 meetings Williams- burg and Brownsville), 6A & 6B: Tuesday April 19th at 7 P. M., at 29 Graham Ave. 6C & 6D: Wednesday April 20th at 8 P. M., at 63 Liberty St. Section 7; Wednesday April 20th, at 8 P. M., at 1940 Benson Ave. Section 1: Monday April 18th at 6:30 P. M., at 66 E 4th St. Section 2: Monday April 18th at 6:30 P. M., at 100 W. 28th St. Section 8: Thursday April 21st, at the polls. He tries, with crude ingenuity, to persuade them that it is for their own good that they are prohibited from expressing their opinions regarding liberation from the thralldom of imperi- alism. Nothing else was to be expected from the White House. Not enly is his decision influenced by the investments of American dollars in the Islands, but it consistently carries out the decisive orientation of the imperialist policy of the government in the Pacific. The decision affects China no less than the Philippines. It is the policy of Wall Street to keep enslaved the Philippines in order to have a base for military operations against the national liberation movement in China. In this connection it is also plain that the success of the nationalist movement in China has given new hope to the great masses of oppressed colonials throughout the world and the advisers of the puppet in the White House aré aware of its influence upon the Filipinos. It is to be hoped that a Proper reply will be forthcoming from the Filipino legislature. The only answer to the contemptible and despotic document issued ffom Washington is to hold the plebis- cite in spite of and againstf Wall Street imperialism and to follow up the decision with actionjthat will be convincing to Coolidge and | resentative of the DAILY WORKER, | the only Communist daily in the Eng- | lish language in the world. He estab- | lish¢d a Workers’ Book Shop and Library, a Daily Worker Club and a Workers Correspondent Class, all in| Los Angeles, Calif. | Breaking Chains Plays'| Passaic This Evening PASSAIC, N. J., April romance, hate, revolution—all are| vividly portrayed in the sensational | seven reel Russian film “Breaking | Chains” which will be shown in this | city Friday night, at Kanter’s Audi. | torium, 259 Monroe Street. =, | “Breaking Chains” is a dynamic | and forceful tale of the early days of the Russian Revolution. It is a film) comparing in technique and sustained interest with the “Volga Boatman” and the “Cruiser Prince Potemkin,” the first of which was shown to capa- city crowds in this city last summer. The picture is being presented un- der the auspices of the Internationa) | Workers Aid, as a benéfit for the tex- tile strike prisoners and their famil- ies. 4 The showing will begin at five o'clock and will be continuous to eleven o’clock. 7.—Love, | Read The Daily Worker Every Day . . . Flora Anna Skin Ointment | for PIMPLES, BLACKHBPADS, LARGE PORES freckles, rash, itching skin, eczema or stubborn skin trouble of any kind will be banished by use of FLORA ANNA SKIN OINTMENT, $1.00. Sold on money back guar+ antee, Ashi NEW WAY LABORATORIES 278 Went 48rd st, ~ New York City* 25% of all, Sales are donated to The DAILY. WORKBR. Always mention The DAILY WORKER on your order, Radicals won’t They'll think: feel that way. “This is’ pretty, yes. But it doesn’t satisfy, it’s too remote, | |it doesn’t get under the skin. I want! something with teeth in it. all gums. Andis this really all there is to modern Spain? Where are the wretched Spanish peasants, the beg- gars, the bull fighters, the gaudy crowd in the cafes of Puerta del Sol, the soldiers of Ribera, the, insurgents who are fighting him? The nunner- ies are there, but they can’t be more than a corner, a corner} covered .with | cobwebs and dust. Why do the Mar- tinez Sierra brothers run off and hide in this corner? Is it because the center of the Spanish scene is too grim, too real for them to handle. Or is Spain still asleep, still. fast in-the Middle Ages?” On Minor Writers, It would take a sound historian, a sound economist to answer. About Spain I’m ignorant. Any author, of course, has the right | to hide himself in a quiet corner when things get too hot for him in the open. You can’t stop anybody from being a very minor writer if he wants to be. Maybe Spain hasn't anything but quiet corners left for | it’s authors. I don’t know. I. do know that if there is no revolt, no tumult, no fight in modern Spain} it can’t produce any important art. SEE IE EELS a8, [ Broadway Briefs } “Big- Lake” by Lynn Riggs, will open this evening, at the American Laboratory Theatre, It is a play of native backwoods life in Oklahoma and is entirely experimental, both in subject and treatment. “Big Lake” will alternate at the Laboratory playhouse on East 58th Street, with Drydock 7516 very Eve. (except Mon.) Mat. Sat. mmedia dell’Arte {2 AniYsl THEATRE, 45 St. MARTIN BECK § Ave. Evs, ‘8:30. Mats. Wed, and Sat. ARBRIS Present: ‘SPREAD EAGLE’ by George 8. Brooks & Walter B, Lister : Vanities CARROLL | Barl Carroll gate disse sees 3 WALLACK’S West 42nd Stree’, Evenings 8:30, Mats, Tues, Wed,, Thurs, and Sat, What Anne Brought Home PRTG dhe ec a gn HAMPDEN’S %,. HE ALT RB, Hive, 8:16,, Matinees Wea ane ee WALTER PDEN in CAPONSACCHI BROADWAY PRICES ZVES, $1.10 TO $3.86, — le ame, Sam ] THEA, West 42 a” HARRIS ret onun ge eens WHAT PRICE GLORY Mate, (exc, Put.) 50c-$1, By : 500-$2, This is| | production in view also opening in | October. This will be followed by a \new play with Helen Gahagan in the leading role. | “Father Walks Out,” by Grace Liv- \ingston Furniss, will be presented by |Mary Forrest April 18 at Parson’s | Theatre, Hartford. The play comes | to Broadway later in the month. Kathleen Kirkwood, director of the Triangle Club, on Seventh Avenue and Eleventh Street, announces a fourth subscription ‘bill to open next Tuesday night. The bill of one-act plays includes: “Daffodil,” a Thomas Burke “Limehouse” story, dramatized by Y. Herbert; “The Silver Frost” and “The Victim,” by David Divin; |“On,”. by Hemsley Winfield; “The |Dance of Death,” pantomimed by Jean Wohl, and “The Bridge,” a war playlet by Stuart Hamill. “Enchantment,” a fantasy by the English playright, J. Jefferson Far- jeon, will be presented here April 25, by a new producting group, The American Theatre Association, which is composed of over 1,000 subscribers. | “Queen High,” at the Ambassador | Theatre, will celebrate its 250th per- formance tomorrow. Barbara Newberry, recently in “Betsy” ‘will be in the cast of “Tangles,” the musical version of “The Importance of Being Earnest.” | “Piesta,” the new Michael Gold |play did not open Wednesday as | planned. Following the dress rehear- sal on Tuesday, the New Playwrights Theatre announced that several changes in the cast would take place, and the play opened some time next week, YWRIGHTS! THEA 306. West “Col, 2398 Mats. 2:45, Saturday . e. AGVs.. 8249, | Matinees Thursday and A A OF o 7 asbopices Theatre Guild é Rochester American Opera Com) Tonight—*Marriage of Figaro” Sat. at. —— “Abduetion, : m From the me i MILD tind; Wiens ae GUILD inure, and Sat. 2:16 6M Week Apr. 11—9he Silver Cor John Golden h..5% Boot Bry |Circte Mts:Thu, & Sat.) 6078, TIMES SQ. EE The LADDER Eyes, 8 Mats, Wed, 2:30 | with Mats, iD. an Bronx Opera House 149th. Street, p: Prices. Mat. ie Eo The Most Sensa- Po om tional Play Ever Produced With HOWARD LANG, Cor. 6 Av. & 14 Tel. Wwatiane hen 5 ‘CRADLE, SONG". “INHER TORS “4 SST RR Civic Repertory Saturday ivening: ve