The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1927, Page 4

( Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by tie 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 \T By H. M. WICKS of the present administration is an odious record of systematic suppres- sion of the native legislature, which HE history of the Philippine policy | in public utilities. | | Seto the independence bill: unquestionably reflects, though some- Address%gll mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE | times inadequately, the overwhelming sentiment of the Filipinos for inde- | pendence from the ravages of the im- |perialist plunderers of the United States. Coolidge Philippine Veto dividends to the American investors Says Coolidge in his message that | “In the calendar’ year 1926, 761,000,000 pounds of sugar were imported into the United States from the Philippine Islands. The duty waived on this sugar was slightly less than $17,000,000. Of this $3,000,000, approximately ac- the same thing about the demand for independence on the part of the American colonists of 150 years ago. But the colonists began organizing | secret, conspiratorial revolutionary “committees of correspondence,” which | { Broadway Briefs The Theatre Guild will present Pi- eventually penetrated every part of | randello’s “Right You Are If. You the Atlantic seaboard and ‘convinced” | Think You Are,” at the Garrick The- his Britinnic majesty in a most salu-|atre for evening performances begin- | tary manner, * |ning tonight. Coolidge further reveals his no- { ALFRED LUNT BERT MILLER Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under | the act of March 8, 1879. SP. Se Judicial Vengeance in New Jersey The frightful sentences:meted out to active workers in the} Passaic strike again brings before the working class the neces- sity of continuing the fight against the textile tyranny that dominates every branch of state government, from the bullying * constable to the judges upon the bench and even reaches into the senate at \Vashington where Edwards and Edge represent the scab shop gang in that august assembly. Adolph Wissenefski was sentenced to serve from five to twenty years in the penitentiary and Paul Kovac and Nicholas Schilliei were sentenced to serve from one to five years. The charges against them was the notorious “bomb” fake that was invented to be used against the strike as it was drawing to a close. | Ten other workers are already serving terms of three years on charges of being implicated in the same case. On the same day the three men were sentenced, two small Italian women were) given three months each on charges of “assaulting Passaic po-|Thompson is not in favor of independ also imposed upon 19 other men conduct” for picketing. licemen.” Heavy fines were who were accused of ‘disord This judicial savagery is a part of the campaign of vengeance | violence carried out by Wood. that has been waged for more than a year in Passaic against the workers for daring to organize themselves into a union and chal- lenge the power of the mill owners to enslave them. Passaic workers have learned how to fight on the picket Jines against the industrial tyranny of the bosses. Those who are permitted to vote now have an opportunity to rebuke the political defenders of the mill owners by rallying to the support of the labor candidates running on a labor platform in the com- ing municipal elections in that city. Passaic has the “non- partisan” commission form of government, hence the candidates run as “individuals city commissioners are to be elected. Three labor candidates are |relation to the Philippine problem on | the part of the Coolidge administra- ; tion has indicated a vicious suppres- | | sion of the will of the people of those | Advertising rates on application. | islands. The veto of the independence = | plebiscite bill is the climax of a whole | Slaves who produce the sugar? | series of acts of despotism against th Major General Leonard H. Wood, wen- | plantations. crued to the producers of sugar in the Philippine Islands in the increased price thereof. The large Producers of sugar appreciate this.” Indeed they do! Every act and every utterance in But how about the Of vhat interest is it to them that the anking and industrial capitalists who legislature of the islands. Coolidge, i his message to congress last year de-| invested money in order to enslave lared: the workers of the Islands benefited tions of independence and its effect upon suppressed peoples by the obser- vation: “To submit to a man the ques- | tion whether he desired to be in- | dependent, or not, is really trif- ling with the sacred feelings innate in humankind.” What would a former president of the United States who more than a} | Wednesday matinee and Thursday and | | “What Anne Brought Home”. at| Wallack’s Theatre will give a special | Easter week matinee on Tuesday, | April 19th. | { This week’s repertory at the 14th} Street Theatre is as follows: tonight, | Saturday night, “The Cradle Song”; | Tuesday and Fridaygnight, “Tnheri- | hundred and fifty years ago sat down | tors”; Wednesday night, “The Master | “There are indications that more authority should be given to the governor-general, so that he will not be so dependent upon the local legislative body to render effective our efforts.” The swash-buckling military despot, because the duty was waived on this | and penned that document that began | | sontinegiiat - as Ants suahe ne bs | “When in the couse of human events” | duty was waived by the nitec States | say about this miserable apology for | | government not for the benefit of the | despotism from the pen of the puppet | | inhabitants of the I lands but in order | in the White House at Washington} | to benefit the cabitalist exploiters | today? | | whose money is invested in sugar| But we have trayelled a long way | That there is a small} since the Declaration of Independence. | Builders”; S: Night.” , The schedule at the American La- boratory Theatre for the week will be as follows: Moriday, Tuesday and evenings, “Big Lake”; Thursday, aturday matinee, “Twelfth In the cast of “The Second Man,” {the new Theatre Guild production \opening at the Guild. Theatre tonight. apni | this performance, Mr. Zaslawsky has ted a free hand to enable him further | strata of native capitalists who profit | Jefforson and the revolutionists who | Friday and Saturday ‘evenings, and | chosen an all-Russian program, to inerease his autocratic ruje. Even Col. Carmi H. Thompson, who went on a roving expedition to the: Philip- pines in the interests of imperialistic America, reported that the Wood regime was a blunder and urged that | the governor general’s office be de- vized by substitution of capable}, wr vil officers for soldiers. Of course, ence, but thought that a softer policy would better serve the interests of the | American investors than the policy of But the Coolidge government would not even consider the Thompson recom- mendations. Its policy is the iron fist. * * * HE next move in the Philippines came when the legislature passed a bill demanding the right of the peo- ple to vote on the question of inde- pendence. Wood vetoed it. It was re- |passed by a two-thirds’ vote of the legislature in-spite of the fact that | Woed and the low renegade and trai- * but they all have a common platform. Five} already in the field. They are Albert Weisbord, leader of the, strike; Simon E. Bambach and Simon Smelkinson. Passaic has set the pace for industrial organization of the unorganized masses in the industries of New Jersey. It is to be! hoped the present election campaign will establish as firmly a local labor party and thus lay the basis for a state Mbor party,! and give impetus to the growing demand for a national labor| party. Weanwhile no stone must be left unturned*to aid the victims of the judicial marionettes who, at the behest of the mill owners, tor, Aguinaldo, tried to mobilize all available forces against it and even went so far as to try to terrorize the legislature. After being passed over the veto of General Wood it then went, under the provisions of the Jones act, to the President of the United States. Coolidge also vetoed | it and that veto is final as far as the confines of legality are concerned. 28 IKE _ Torquomedo, the dungeon builder of the Holy Roman _in- ‘quisition, who assured ,his victims at | exclusive privilege of exploiting the ‘the stake that their bodies were being | Tich natural resources of that terri- |from sugar and other industries, goes | wrote that document were the leaders | | without saying. It is: a well-known | of the struggle against the reaction phase of imperialist policy. to bribe, | of their day. Hence their proclama- | through distribution of stock, certain’ | ions were virile, dynamic with the | favored natives, who can thereby be | indignation of a rising class entering | relied upon to support the policy of | the conflict against its oppressor. To- | the predatory nation. | day Coolidge personifies the reaction- | The same is true of tobacco which | ary tendencies of a class that no| shipped duty free into the United | jonger serves the forces of progress | | States, and the motive is the same.| hut is trying, with all means at hand, | Tn the same vein the president re-|{o maintain itself against the course | gales the Filipinos with the matchless | of history. | benefits derived from the absence of , | duty on cocoanut products, cotton. and | \other commodities, concluding with the | | observation: | | “Briefly there was waived on | Philippine products entering the * * HE veto of the demand of the legis | ature of the Islands for a vote o: the’ people upon the question of in-| dependence is also dictated by the | general policy of the United States in | United States duty amounting to | the Pacific. Certainly American im- $42,000,000.” perialism now endeavoring, with other | | He does not mention the fact that | powers, to crush the national libera- | most of these commodities are held by | tion movement in China, is not going | | the great American trusts. Nor does | peacefully to surrender control of the jhe draw the logical conclusion that Philippines. If useful for no other jeven though independence were gran- purpose the Islands would serve as | ted the Islands these’trusts would not | they do serve for a naval and military |Rermit their government of the United | hase for operations’ in the Far East. States to force them to pay heavy} Furthermore, independence for the! duty for the entrance of their Philip- | phitippines would give the natives a/ pine products into the American mar- | free hand against their own exploiters ket. | and the probability is not remote that : they would follow the lead of the ie is not the present holdings alone | nationalist movement in China, that, | that the government at Washing-| in the course of the struggle, is de- ton is concerned about, but thé fact | veloping toward a workers’ and pea- |that. the Philippine Islands are still | sants’ government. jeapable of absorbing enormous | | amounts of investment capital and the | mands from legislative bodies are “un- American bank capitalists want the or, gee Saturday matinee, “The Sea Woman’s loak.” The new Theatre Guild production, ‘The Second Man” opens at the Guild Theatre this evening. t Music Note==—= A concert of American. music will be given at Carnegie Hall, Friday afternoon, April 22, under the aus-| ices of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. pianist, Francis Macmillen, violinist, | and Mme. Francesca Peralta and-The American Orchestral Society, under the leadership of Chalmers Clifton, will take part. The Beethoven Symphony Orches- tra, Georges Zaslawsky, conductor, | gives its second concert at Carnegie | sas, Music Festival on April 27, | Hall on Friday evening, April 29. For! and 29. Ernest Scheliing., | Robert Goldsand, Vierinese pianist, will give his second recital at Town ‘Hall, Tuesday evening, April 19th. Guy. Maier and Lee Pattison, pianists, are making an extensive concert. tour in Europe appearing in Berlin, Paris, London, Amsterdam |and The Hague. Dusolina Giannini, soprano, — will give an aill-Italian program in Car- | negie Hall on Sunday afternoon, April 24th. She vill sing a group of old | Italian arias, a group of modern Ital- {ian and a group of Italian folk songs, | | Paul Althouse has been engaged to sing three performances on the Steel | Pier, Atlantic City. The first will take |place this Sunday. | Arthur Middleton, baritone, has | been engaged for the Pittsburg, Kan- 28 2 Theatre Guild Acting Company in ‘burned that their souls might be are bent upon jailing as many workers as can be brought into, 4 Ne De J e e cleansed, Coolidge tells the Filipinos their clutches. tory. A native Philippine government might permit the investment of other mi the Kouminchung, are de- mies Week Apr. 18--Ned MeCobb's Daughter | MADISON SQUARE GARDEN THE SECOND MAN | TWICE DAILY Week Apr. 18—tyamation ‘TOMORROW AFT. “YY"Yxp"s GUILD fiite-"rmurs and Set, 228 | RINGLING BROS. Coolidge has said that mere de- ~ — | sane) : RIGHT YOU ARE BARNUM & BAILEY convincing.” Such demands on the _ IF YOU THINK YOU ARE Incl. among 10,000 Marvels PAWAT part of the nationalists in China were bi Lie tae ®249 SACRED WHITE ELEPHANT equally unconvincing. Today, their GARRICK {;,; ‘s. and Sat.|TICKETS at GARDEN BOX OFFICES arguments, fortified by the organized || ~— THE SILVER CORD 8th Ave. and 49th s nd a» s. Cor. 6 Only the power of the working class, fighting on ali fronts, can finally wipe out the blot upon the face of the earth that is the mill owners’ Passaic. Kellogg’s Bluff Called by Calles The state department at Washington maintains a discreet silence on the latest developments in Mexico in relation to the alleged stolen and forged documents. containing military plans against Mexico. Those familiar with the wiles of what passes for diplomacy at Washington will not be deceived by the claims of Kellogg. The documents were neither stolen nor forged. While we do not know precisely what occurred it is nevertheless possible to reconstruct the crime through familiarity with the methods of the criminal— in this case the state department. For a long time Washington has been trying to bluff the Calles government into abandoning its antagonism to certain American interests, particularly the oil interests. Failing to achieve the desired results through ordinary channels, it is plain that the plans of the government toward Mexico were revealed PROGRESSIVE MACHINISTS ISSUE STATEMENT ON that it is his sacred duty to force them | foreign capital, or even develop its Civi ‘ Ay. & 14.3) cisively convincing. } Civic Repertory Tel. Watkins LB to abandon all hope of independence for their own good. Their manifest destiny, if they are to be saved from themselves, is te abjure agitation against their benefactors in the United States and grow rubber for Ameri- cans, raise sugar cane for the sugar trust and tobacco for the American tobacco trust, besides guaranteeing ELECTIONS COMING With the approach of the electio: | Machinists, the progressive and militant members have begun to consider ‘candidates in opposition to the two slates of misleaders already in the tield. The Progressive Machinists’ Group has issued the following state- ment: * * The Machinists Election. The progressive machinists group * |Tepresenting the militant and pro-! | gressive forces in our union through- to Calles in order to frighten him into yielding to the demands out the country calls upon the mem- of Wall Street. Evidently Calles called the bluff and demanded explanations from American Ambassador James R. Sheffield.| Confronted with its own duplicity the state department at Wash- ington now tries to conceal its perfidy with the crude invention that the documents were stolen from the American embassy and then forged in order to arouse distrust on the part of Mexico} against the United States. {bership of the I. A. of M. to support the candidates who stand for a mili-| tant policy of struggle as against the jruinous policy of surrender to the bosses pursued by the present admin- istration. Only those candidates who have shown in action that they stand for progressive policies should receive The only thing that is now required of the miserable cor-| support from the progressive forces poration lawyer in the state department is his resignation and| his return to private life to take his place with Dougherty, Denby, | Fall, young Roosevelt, and the other heroes of Elk Hill and Tea- pot Dome. His resignation, however, will not remove the menace of a predatory war against Mexico in the interest of American oil, | mining and land interests. But the expose of his policy ought to reveal the sinister machinations of American imperialism in Mex-! ico and help create a determination on the part of the American! masses to energetically fight against any move toward conquest of that territory. ‘All Is Grist That Comes to the Fascist Mill John Thomason, a 17-year-old youth of Phoenix, inadvertently | threw a match on oil-coated waters at Canyon Lake, Arizona, causing a fire which resulted in the destruction of the Italian seaplane commanded by the fascist aviator, Francesco de Pinedo, which was resting on the lake. Always alert to find an excuse for fresh outbreaks of violence | against those courageous elements in-Italy that still fight against the black reaction of fascism, the brigands who supported Mus- solini immediately denounced the destruction of the plane as an anti-faseist plot and began a serié¢s of “reprisals” against its enenues, The bloodthirsty fascist papers that demanded more blood- letting in Italy were ably assisted by the asinine American am- hassador to Rome, Henry P. Fletcher, who referred to the affair as “an aet of criminal folly” avithout having the slightest infor- ination on which to base his opinion. : The serious fighters against fascism in the United States \of L., J. Weudert, No. 390, Chicago; | and throughout the world do not have to resort to incendiarism ‘ ae v in our union. For executive council, United States, Peter Jensen, Lodge 492, Chi- cago; for executive council, United States, A. T. McNamara, No. 1341, Baltimore, Md.; for executive council, | own resources for the benefit of the | Pilipino masses, which would be un- | thinkable from the standpoint of the American plunderbund. 9 i) summing up his reasons for the { veto Coolidge states that such a vote, if taken, would be unconvincing. | George HI of Britain said identically | * * UP IN THEIR UNION | ms in the International Association of } fi sider of utmost importance at ‘this | time for our union can be briefly stated in the following points: 1.—A general wage increase of | wages in the entire industry, on the railroads by restoration of the 1920 wage scale, 2.—Immediate organization cam- paign to organize the unorganized based upon a united drive of all the crafts both on the railroads and in the machine shops generally, the union to pay more attention to the unskilled and semi-skilled. specialists | and also take the initiative to organ- | ize the auto industry. | 3.—Amalgamation of all the craft} unions in the metal industry. 4.—Militant struggle against com- pany unions and the B. & O. plan, Watson-Parker Law and other forms of class-collaboration. It is to be hoped that the Filipino | masses soon generate that accumula- | tion of force and energy necessary to convince even Calvin Coolidge that they mean what they say when they demand independence. In this they will have the loyal support of the vanguard of the working class in tris } and every other country. H divided inte two groups, although it | must be understood that these groups ; are not divided due to a difference in policy, but as we have stated on | numerous occasions, it is the old story of the “ins” and “outs”. One group consists of the adminis- tration slate formerly headed by Bill Johnston and now by Wharton with the same old reactionary policy of surrender, only more brazenly pur- sued. Wharton is ably assisted by the present secretary-treasurer, FE. C./ Davison, who is well known for his | role in the ballot stealing during the last election, and the new addition to the grand lodge machine in the person of Vic Gauthier, expulsion ex-| pert from Toledo who had to get the) militant fighters expelled in order to protect a few reactionary grand lodge pets in office. The additional “yes- men” Pete Conlon, Nicherson, Thorpe, Brown et al. add no prestige to the administration slate. This adminis- tration ‘has pursued a policy which can in the long run lead to the com- plete ruin of the union. It is more militant in fighting the progressive members of the union than in fight- ing the bosses. | Karl Carroll 5.—Removal of racial bars on ac- count of race, color, ete, 6.—Freedom of political expression in the union. Canada, J. E. McGovern, No. 111, Montreal; for delegate to the A. F, for delegate to the A. FP. of L., W. Waterworth, No. 118, Chicago; for, 7.—-Bi-annual conventions, law committee, U. S. A., J. Friedrich,, 84~Militant struggle against in- No. 66, Milwaukee, junctions by the union supporting and The progressive group make no re-) participating in the movement for a commendations on the other 4 candi-| labor party. dates. We take the same ,position' The above mentioned candidates | Spoils System. The B. & O. plan after having been | proved a failure to accomplish any- thing substantial for the workers in| the railroad shops is now being intro- duced into the contract shops with the aid of the bosses. Instead of ap- ‘thing to the present administration TIMES SQ. Thea., W. 42 St. with James le & Chester Morris, The LADDER Now in its 6th MONTH WALDORF, 60th St. East of B'way. Mats. WED. and SAT. MARTIN BECK Pearne, SI Evs. 8:30, Mats. Wed. and JED HARRIS Presents ‘SPREAD EAGLE’ by George 8. Brooks & Walter B. Lister | FARL CARROLL ‘Thea., 7th Ave. & 50th St. Mats. Thurs. & Sat. 2:30 BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Vanities EVA LE GALLIENNE SONG” eRITORS" | Tonight. . fomorrow WALLACK’S West 42nd_—sStree*, Evenings: 8:30. |, Mats. Tues, Wed, Whurs. and Sat. What Anne Brought Home A New Comedy Drama | "Sg TH EB A TOR |HAMPDEN s 62nd St. at iatcad ee Byvs. 8:15. Matinees Wed. and Sat. watter HAMPDEN in CAPONSACCHI BROADWAY PRICES EVES, $1.10 TO. $3.86. a pee Sam THEA. West 42nd St. A HARRIS Twice Daily, 2:30'& 8:20 WHAT PRICE GLORY (Mais, (exe. Sat.) 50c-$1. Eves. 50c-$2. In spite of the fact that our pre-} amble states clearly “that the LA. | of M. favors independent political ac- tion of the workers” the administra- tion continues to support the old ban- krupt policy of “rewarding our friends and punishing our enemies” and car- ries on a unceasing warfare against those members who dare belong to a working class political party while the reactionary elements of the re- publican and democratic bosses’ par- ties are putting their policies into effect with the blessings of our so- called “leaders,” Convention decisions and establigh- ed policies do not amount to any- and it is due time for the rank and! file to refuse to vote them into office. | Other Candidates, While the. administration has a, complete slate the rest of the candi- | dates—with the exception of the pro-| several attempts to force these can- didates of the former Anderson group to express themselves on policy be- fore the membership and~help build one’ united opposition movement against the reactionary administra- tion, but have not been able to get any satisfaction which makes it im- possible. for the membership to see the difference between these candi- dates except for those who stand for a militant policy as enunciated by the program of the progressive group. . | During all elections the progres- sive group has refused to carry on its agitation on any other basis that for a definite and fundamental pol- icy as against personal polemics. We shall continue to carry on our campaign to acquaint the membership with our program and carry on this struggle to make the I. A. of M., an the class struggle.—Machinists Prov pointing capable organizers; the Wharton administration appoints such “pensioners” as Bill Johnson and Reilly as additions to the already gressives—are composed of a number gressive Group. 5 of individuals who have no policy and who are only carrying on a communi- cation campaign in which not a word f ( The “Party Organizer” relative to the delegates to the A. F. of L, and the law committee. We support only the candidates as stated above, who are the only ones who have expressed themselves on any progressive issues facing our union and the labor movement in general, A Fighting Policy. The policies proposed by the pro- gressive group are well known to all militant and progressive members of the I. A. of M. The program we con- have expressed themselves at numer- | ous occasions for most of points in this program and have carried on a consistent struggle for its realization in our union. We will call upon the jrank and file to actively support these candidates in order to be able to give expression to a real progres- sive policy in the leadership of the I. A. of M. Administration Policy and Candidates The rest of the candidates can be to voice their protests against Its crimes are known to every enlightened worker. the monstrous regime in Italy. Serious long list of lame ducks parading as organizers, Instead of taking te initiative to organize ;the auto workers afte the |, last convention of the A. F. of L, our officials pursued a policy of “do nothing” thereby proving to the rank and file that only hot air was fur- nished by them in Detroit together with Green & Co, For Arbitration. The Wharton administration sup- ports the Watson Parker law and have not done anything to stimulate the rank and file demand for restor- ation of the 1920 wage scale in spite fighters are too busy organizing mass sentiment against the black shirt tyrants and mobilizing the workers to give aid to a mass movement in Italy that will eventually sweep from power a regime despised by the vast majority of Italian workers and which only exists through frightfulness, to stoop to the level of the fascists even in fighting against them. ‘ of the fabulous profits of the rail- road corporations. ' Although our union is committed in favor of amalgamation, the present administration launches war against any member who insists upon this licy being put inte addect. is said about the needs of the union and which contain no criticism of the present administration, It is more ‘striking when among these candidates we find such out- standing figures as Anderson who led the opposition to Johnston during the last election and who at least at that time claimed to be in opposition to some of the surrender policies of the Johnston administration, Fry With Wharton, The former Anderson group in Chi- cago, led by Fry, has practically gone over to the Wharton machine and are pursuing a more reactionary policy than ever carried out by the Johnston group in District No.8, al- though for a while they professed to To Keep You Informed mi ¢ CHICAGO, April 10.-The National Office has issued an interesting and instructive pamphlet for the Pariy membership—“The Party Organizer.” “The Party Organizer” sells for ten cents and is to be issued nthly. The first issue contains the following articles and material; | “Why the Ruthenberg Enrollment,” \by Jay Lovestone. ‘ “Resolution On the Results of the Reorganization of the Workers (Com- munist) Party of America,” issued by the Communist International. The Ford Worker, by Ford Shop Nucleus Organizer. h ; Problems of the Trade Union Frac- stand for certain progressive mea- sures during the last election cam- paign. ay The progressive group. has made tions, by Jack Johnstone. New Jorsey—One Year After Re- organization, by Jack Stachel, Subseription price $1.00 per year. . effective instrument in the service of,’