The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 15, 1927, Page 4

Page FE ‘our THE DAILY WORKER SIGNS OF THE TIMES Published by t:e DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, | * Daily, Except Sunday | (The Racial Elem 63 First: Street, New York, N. Y. { SUBSCRIPTION RATES By, mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): §80Q;per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $8.50 six months <°"* $2.60 three months $2.00 three months ent in the Chicago Mayoralty Phone, Orchard 1680 Campaign) By B. SKLAR, its support to Dever. Many prom-| HE mayoralty campaign in the city |inent republicans switched their sup- | of Chicago was a bitterly contested | port to Dever. Among them is in- campaign, a historic campaign, we | cluded Julius Rosenwald, the sup- | may say. | posed friend and benefactor of the | It was not the personality of the| race, a member of the National As- | rival candidates that made this cam-| sociation for the Advancement of the | paign so outstanding. There is noth-| Colored People. (Will the N. A, A. ‘ing outstanding about Mr. Dever, Mr.| C. P. still tolerate him in its ranks?) -__——= | Thompson or Mr. Robertson. Nor is} Deep Industrial Changes. Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N.Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F, DUNNE BERT MILLER . Editors Business Manager Entered as second-class raail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under, there anything unusual in the) INDEED the Negro vote was a he act of March 3, 1879. charges of corruption flung at each!* decisive influence in the recent} Copies Tp: aa Sees += | other by the rival candidates. As/ elections. Indeed the very bitterness a1 — Advertising rates on applicatio™) ysy9] each candidate declared him-|of the attack launched against the = | self a true friend of the laboring peo-| colored citizens of our city proves 7 4 promise to be forgotten as they|into the political life of the country. The Chinese Middle Class Must Choose. usually are on the day following the| The mayoralty campaign in Chicago ng ae anita: Cutenwteodtnte |: t C5 v0 ax | The “leaders” of labor too acted! duced by the world war. Hundreds called aga eee S organizations is the first sign of} 5 the usual manner in the Chicago! of thousands of Negroes came into compromise with reaction. | campaign. Now thousands more are China, allied with the peasantry, and the middle class elements |“reward your friends, and punish/coming and they are here to stay. |ple, made the usual pre-election’ the arrival of a new powerful factor i \ . The disarming of workers and their organizations by so-| election. )reflects the deep going changes pro- ‘ ‘ Proclaiming themselves|the great industrial centers of the The struggle now going on between the working class of | true to the bequest of Mr. Gompers | north. represented by Chiang Kai Shek again raises sharply the question | your enemies” they were hopelessly |The significance of-this fact is tre- THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1927 “America and the POETIC DRAMA “Big Lake’ Is Long on Poetry, | Short on Drama, Next War,” Topic For Sunday Night Jay Lovestone, Acting General Secretary of the Workers Party has | been secured for the Forum Lecture to be delivered at the Workers School |Forum, 108 East 14th Street, this Reviewed By HARBOR ALLEN Barrett Clark, the critic, finds in ; Lynn Riggs the coming poet of the American theatre. Judging by Riggs’ i i first play, “Big Lake,” at the Ameri- | Sunday night (April 17) at 8 P. M.| can Lanoratore Theatre he has @ | His topic is “America and the Next! jong way to go. , | War.” | “Big Lake” is a pseudo-primttive |play about Oklahomans. It has one dramatic scene, close to standard | melodrama. A murder, a bad woman | with good heart, a moonshiner trying to shake off his bloody trail, a crazy | boy drowned in the luke, sheriffs, gun play. The rest is “poetry.” Thin po- etry, too: long, monotonous passages that sound like a primer: “I like the | The lecture consists of a report on the analysis of the world situation | made by the last Plenum of the Execu- | tive Committee of the Communist In- ‘ternational to which Lovestone was a delegate from the Workers’ (Com- munist) Party of America. The find- | ings of the Plenum will be supple- |mented by an analysis of recent de- | velopments such as the developments 1 : « |lake, Ah, Big Lake. It’s so nice, It jin China, Nicaragua, Mexico, etc.| sparkles in the sun. It is like a eup This forum lecture is the first public | ¢ gold. Don’t you like the lake? report made in the United States on as to the direction of the Chinese liberation movement and the} role of these elements. | The Chinese nationalist revolution has two alternatives: It can make peace with the imperialists by suppressing the workers | ant peasantry and allowing imperialism to continue to exploit the Chinese masses thru its investments in the natural resources and industries of the country. | In return for this a supine Chinese government can secure | nominal recognition. The other alternative is the complete defeat of imperialism | and the nationalization of the resourcés and industries. The Chinese middle class—merchants, bankers and small in- dustrialists—now have to make a choice. By disarming workers | during the height of the struggle against the imperialists and their allies, the northern militarists, they show that they have already travelled far on the road that leads to the betrayal of the} liberation movement. | The Chinese middle class must choose—it is either China| freed by a revolutionary movement with the working class in alliance with the peasantry as its dominant force, or it is impe-| rialist rule—somewhat disguised perhaps but still imperialist rule! founded on robbery of the masses. If there is a continuation of the attempt to subordinate the interests of the working class of China to that of the middle class and- sections of the capitalist class, it will mean that the right wing.of the Kuomintang will cease to represent anything but a} comparatively small section of the population—a relatively priv- | ileged section—and because of its lack of mass support will make alliances with imperialist elements against the masses. If the right wing is afraid of the masses, it will surrender to| imperialism. | The present period appears to be the Kerensky epoch in the} Chinese revolution and already the right wing struggle against) the working class has given imperialism’s agents in the north a! bréathing spell without which their immediate defeat was a} certainty. | = A‘hundred thousand workers on strike in Shanghai is proof | was the friend and who the enemy. HAT is it then that singles out the present campaign from the previous ones? It is the racial issue which was | brought into this campaign with a| vehemence unknown heretofore in the | politics of Chicago. It wag as tho | the South with all of its race hatred | and race prejudice invaded our great | city. The “white supremacy” was de-| clared to be in danger. Police brutal-| ly raided the section of the city in-| habited by the Negro citizens making | wholesale arrests in order to create the impression of their criminal and dangerous character, Try To Arouse Race Hatred. N° other campaign witnessed such vicious methods of arousing race/| i hatred and race prejudice as were | coming industrialized. applied in the present one. A sign was placed in one of the largest pub- | lie parks reading: “Do you wish the Negro to rule| Chicago?” ‘ Thousands of dodgers were seatter- | ed around the city spreading the mes-| sage of race-prejudice and race- | hatred, “Do you want to work for Negro| wages?” read one of them. It de-} nounced Mr. Thompson because dur-| ing his administration the Negro population of Chicago increased by | 100,000, the contention being that this | influx resulted in lowering the wages of the white workers and deprived them of their jobs. Fake “Labor” Politics. THE labor bureaucracy had also 4 joined this Negro baiting cam. paign. Mr. Victor A. Olander, th | divided on the question as to who/| mendous. | It means as much for the move- {ment for the liberation of the race |as the birth of the working class of | China meant for the nationalist |movément there. The Negro pro- letariat is born. The former farmers and farm hands of the south are drawn into the huge factories, mills and mines, They are being welded together by the conscience of their common interest and by the feeling of power of their concentrated great numbers. They are being permeated with a rebellious spirit of discontent at the humiliation, inequality, perse- cution and exploitation which they suffer as a race. Proletariat Will Lead. "THIS process is not being confined Ato the north alone. It embraces the south as well.. The south is be- The Negro proletariat is being born in the south, It was the new born working class of China that furnished the backbone, the indominitable spirit, the driving | power, the unconquerable strength, the real leadership to the nationalist movement of China. Tt is the working class, that will play a similar historic role in the liberative movement of this oppressed race in our country. Capitalism Makes Concessions, 'HE white ruling class already scented the advance of this force. The recent decisions of the supreme | court of the United States declaring unconstitutional the disfranchisement ‘of the Negro in the state of Texas, ‘declaring unconsitutional the segre- gation in the schools of Louisiana, re indications that American cap- alism fears the awakening Negro of thegleep resentment arousefl among the masses by the acts of | Secretary of the Illinois Federation! and is willing to make concessions the right wing which are receiving much praise from imperial- ism’s apologists. = It isa signal to the middle class that it must choose an alliance with the masses or an alliance with the native and foreign ene-| mies of the masses. | * The Chinese masses will not be swerved from the course they | have embarked upon and the direction in which they are trav-| elling—to a workers’ and peasants’ government in alliance with) the lower sections of the middle class. The masses may be be-, trayed in the present period but the Chinese revolution will con-} tinue to march against. all its enemies—native and imperialistic. | ; than of Labor, affixed his signature ® an/| Committee”, reading in part: “During the year 1921 of the | Thompson administration more | 70,000 non-union Negroes | were imported, most of them for the purpose of breaking the strike of the Stockyards workers. | “Mayor Dever is opposed to the | importation of undesirable labor | for the purpose of breaking dgwn | the working conditions and wages of Chicago labor.” in order to avoid a rebellion on the jappeal by the “Dever Trade-Union| part of the oppressed black citizens in the south. The Chicago mayoralty elections reflect the inevitable trend of events. It is true that in the present elections the splendid rebellious spirit of the Negro masses found its expression in the support of Thompson who is not deserving of it. There was no other spokesman of the interests of the colored citizens so they flocked | to the standard of “Big Bill” who to-| The DAILY WORKER, | morrow in all probability will betray | New York, N. Y. the last Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist Inter- national and therefore should be of special interest. On the following ,Sunday night, April 24, Joe Freeman, well known proletarian journalist who returns | Why don’t you like the lake?” These | | may not be the exact words: it is the | effect. | “Big Lake” would have made a passable one-act play. The rest is |padding. As for the poetry, it sticks jout like prize gimeracks in a cake. Principal player and guiding genlus The Chinese middle class may be willing to forget the Wah-| Mr. John Fitzpatrick, the president | them. sien and Nanking massacres, but the working class is not. The of the Chicago Federation of Labor | Will Find Own Champions. way to avenge it is the method stated in the program of the also joined the ranks of the sup-| AS the racial movement will grow : * reagan = ee : | porters of Mr. Dever, the campaign|44and mature it will find its own nese Communist Party—-nationalization of the land, natural| of the “white supremacy.” | spokesmen, men and women of vision, resources and basic industries—not suppression of the working| 4s 9 climax of the vicious cam- | power, and determination, by the side class, the most decisive factor in the Chinese liberation movement. | paign came the exposure of a plot to|of whom “Big Bill” will cut a small | draw conspicuously thousands of Ne-| and pitiful figure. from Russia this week, after a stay of over 6 months in that country, will speak on “Russia in 1927.” Minneapolis D. E. C. the sense of thinness. i Broadway B Produced under the direction of Plans F armer-Labor, |Egon Brecher of the Civic Repertory Theatre and comprised of an all Daily Worker Drives | Negro cast, “Goat Alley,” by Ernest The full District Executive Com-| Howard Culbertson, a tragedy of Ne- mittee of Minneapolis has just con-| 80 life in the slums of Washington cluded one of its most important |is scheduled to open next Wednesday Very immature acting only adds to! of the Civic Repertory Players who |are in the final three weeks at the | 14th Street Theatre. | expressly for this occasion, will be a | feature of the 25th Anniversary con- cert this evening at Washington Irv- ing High School. The compositions, are titled: “When into Thine Eyes f Gaze,” from a poem by Heinrich Heine, “Will O’ the Wisp of the Dis- }mal “Swamp,” from a poem. by | Thomas More, and “Deathsong,” words from an Icelandic folksong. meetings. The major tasks confront-| night at the Princess Theatre. The ing the party were given full consid-| Play was seen here some seasons back eration. The farmer-labor party! @Md created much interest. | campaign, anti-war campaign, trade! |union work, DAILY WORKER, were} “When Ships Come In” a drama by |among the principle questions dis-| George Middleton has been accepted cussed. for production by George C. Tyler The Ruthenberg drive was given| With Pauline Lord as the star. |thoro consideration by the entire| other play planned with Miss Lord in jcommittee and plans were laid for! View is a revival of Henry Arthur | mobilizing all party members in the|Jones’ famous drama, “Mrs. Dane’s campaign, Defence.” (1) All units of the district are| ! arranging to pledge themselves to} Laurence Schwab and Frank Man- |contribute to the Ruthenberg DAILY | del announce that they will produce | WORKER Sustaining Fund. | “Show Boat,” the new Hammerstein- | (2) Every party member is pre-|Kern adaptation of Edna Ferber’s | paring to secure his shopmates to fill | novel, out the new Ruthenberg application | | cards. | “New York Exchange,” will be the | (8) These applicants will then be | attraction at the Bronx Opera House examined as to their qualifications! beginning Monday. for membership in the party. (4) A special Ruthenberg Drive! ° Committee is being set up in every! Music for the Masses city of the district. w * (5) Wherever possible the various) 4S 2 tribute to Franz X. Arens, units of the party in the district will| Who founded the People’s Symphony also select special Ruthenberg Drive | Concerts a quarter of a century ago, Committees, | three compositions by Arens written Montana Workers Hail | i The Daily Worker as | Theatre Guild Acting Company tn THE SECOND MAN Week Apr. 18—Pyem 5 GUILD THEA, W. 52 st, RIGHT YOU ARE IF YOU THINK YOU ARE Week Apr, 1S—Mr. Pim Passes By GARRICK 65 W. 35 St. Ev's, 8:30 Mats. Thurs. and Sat. - THE SILVER CORD ‘Week Apr. 18--Ned MeCobb’s Daughter Bert Miller, Business Mgr., s. 8: Mats. Thurs. and Sat. 2:1 Dear Comrade: The readers of The DAILY WORKER in this district send you | | sincere greetings as the only national | labor daily. The only American paper | which is fighting for the world unity | An-| |The program will be rendered by the |Chamber Symphony Orchestra of |New York, Max Jacobs, Conductor, | assisted by Henry Clancy, tenor. |Severo Mallet-Prevost, President of | the Society will deliver an address. | The People’s Symphony Concerts | were inaugurated in 1900 through the |eooperation of the People’s Institute, | with a series’ of orchestral concerts |at Cooper Union. The concerts were | conducted by Franz X. Arens, with |the object of bringing music to stu- dents and workers at minimum prices, | the admission were made as low as jten cents. The chamber music con- j certs which began in 1903 have been | continued to the present time, at the ‘old price of six concerts for one dol- ‘lar. Last year, in addition to the | chamber music concerts, a series of | artists’ recitals were given, also at the rate of six for a dollar. Among the artists appearing this past season were Szigeti, Munz, D’Alvarez, Van Vliet, Tarasova, and Sokolsky-Fried. Arens, who retired from active ser- vice in the Society in 1917, is.now in Los Angeles. | MADISON SQUARE GARDEN | TWICE DAILY, 2 P.M & 8 P.M. | RINGLING BROS. CIRCUS ni BARNUM & BAILEY among 10,000 Marvels PAWAH SACRED WHITE ELEPHANT TICKETS at GARDEN BOX OFFICES 8th Ave. and 49th St. and Gimbel Brog, Neighborhood Playhouse 486 Grand St. Drydock 7516 pete pi Leader of Labor Fight Incl. *, | ti into the d 3 Handcuffs and Dress Suits—Gold and Green. | Sse" cls chy’ Soe abe Gompees af | The officials and members of the Furriers’ Union who are | oy trial in Mineola are brought into court in handcuffs, are re- fused bail and in general are treated worse than the most de- praved criminals. Ben Gold and his fellow unionists ARE criminals in the eyes | ofjthe capitalists and their agents in the labor movement who are | résponsible for the prosecution. | These workers fought a strike and won the 40-hour week | tha period when A. F. of L. officialdom is busy openly selling the’ unions to the bosses by means of their efficiency unionism schemes. To win a strike is bad enough in the eyes of these Civic Fed-} eration tools. To win it by militant methods-is still worse. It is to be noted that John L. Lewis lost the anthracite strike, that! even the offer of district agreements has not tempted the coal barons into settling with the miners in the soft coal fields, that the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, under the leadership of Hutcheson, suffered a disastrous defeat in San Francisco and that at least partially as a result of their own incompetency and lack of the will to fight, union officials have come to the conclusion that strikes cannot be won, ; Now they are acting as strikebreakers. After trying to _ settle the furriers’ strike over the head of the New York Joint Board of the union, and failing, they are trying to railroad the leaders of the strike to prison, ; - 4 Shameless, cruel, doing the dirty work for American capi- talism, steeped in stoolpigeonism, the Greens, Wolls, Fraynes, Sigmans and McGradys have reached the lowest possible level. | They must be exposed before the whole American working} class and driven from the labor movement. If Gold and the rest of the furriers now on trial are sent to prison their sacrifice must be made the slogan for renewed activities of the left wing in the trade unions—the only force that gives promise of cleansing the labor movement of its high- salaried Judases. Green and Woll appear at Civic Federation banquets in dress suits. Gold appears in court in handcuffs. Here is cause and effect. But more and more workers.are beginning to understand that they must strike at the cause responsible for jailing militant and capable strike leaders—the corruption of the labor officialdom, itz. complete subservience to American capitalism snore = arousing thru this demonstration the! wrath of the whites. Fake invitations bedring the signature of Wm. Hale Thompson were mailed out to 10,000 Negro voters, requesting the reci- pients to come to the Hotel Sherman and visit with Thompson. Special badges were enclosed in the en- velopes to lend weight to the invita- tion and allay suspicion, The plot fell thru but its evil intent persists, Party Lines Smashed. r the bitter struggle which we at- tempted to depict the party lines were smashed. The “Chicago Tri- bune”, the republican mouthpiece bitterly attacked Thompson and gave To help crystallize such a leader- ship is the duty and the pressing pro- blem of the Workers (Communist) Party of America. The Communist movement alone will be capable of ac- complishing this task as it is accom- plishing it in China. Such is our view upon the elections in Chicago. To interpret them merely as a contest between the republicans and democratic parties, as merely a fight of rival groups of capitalist in- terests, to overlook the importance of the part played by the racial element, is in our opinion, to be blind to a development that is destined to play a decisive role in the great struggle for freedom of the working classes of America, Wilkes Barre Rallies - To Support of Worker The comrades of Wilkes Barre, Pa., called a meeting Monday to take up the question of support of The DAILY WORKER and raised the sum of $45 when they immediately sent in. They declared that other comrades have pledged additional. money so that a like amount will be forthcoming in a very short time, They further state that they will do all in their power to raise funds from sympathetic workers whose guide in the struggles in the anthra- cite field is The DAILY WORKER, Demonstrate for Sacco and Vanzetti. Comrades Sacco and Vanzetti are facing the death sentence. Children of workers are called out to demonstrate together with the older workers on Saturday at 1 P. M, at Union Square. Show the bosses of this country that you are with these two innocent workers who have been the victims of the capitalists, Meet at Pioneer Headquarters, Satur- day, 11:30 A. M.! Read The Daily Worker Fvery Day, » ; \Three ‘Cheers for Four ‘Ye ars of Pioneer Work The Bronx section Young Pioneers are celebrating their fourth anniver- sary with a concert and gntertatn- ment on Saturday evening April 16th Boston Road, Everyone should come down and enjoy a good time. Admission is only 85 cents and children 10 cents, BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Ruthenberg Memorial Meeting Friday. A Ruthenberg memorial meeting | will be held Friday evening at 1873 43d Street, Brooklyn, under the aus- pices of Section 7, Workers (Com- munist) Party. Bertram D. Wolfe and Ben Lifshitz will speak. Spring Festival Dance Next Saturday. A spring festival dance will be held Saturday evening, April 28 at the Astoria Mansion, 62 East Fourth St. | It has been arranged by the downtown section of the Young Workers League. Let’s Fight On! Join The Workers Party! In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- berg the Workers (Communist) Par- ty has lost its foremost leader and the American working class its staunchest fighter. This los2 can only be overcome by many militant work- ers joining the Party that he built. Fill out the application below and mail it. Become 2 member of the Workers (Communist) Party and carry forward the work of Comrade Ruthenberg. Workers (Communist) Party. Name Address Occupation ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New York City: or if in other city to Workers Party, 1113 W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, ll. Distribute the Ruthenberg ywm- phlet, “The Workers (Communist) Party, What it Stands For and Why Workers Should Join.” This Ruthen- berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- phlet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive, Every Party Nucleus must collect 60 cents from every member and will receive 20 pamphlets for every mem- ber to sell or distribute. will get their pamphlets from the District Office—108 East 14th St. Nuclei outside of the New York District write to Daily Worker Pub- lishing Co., 33 Fast First Street, New York City, or to the National Office, Workers Party, 1118 W. Washington Perd.. Chicago, Ti. : I want to become a member of the | ...|Hands Off China and . Ruthenberg Campaigns Nuclei in the New York District’ of labor, we feel that The DAILY ff jonn 'Th.,58, E.of B'y |Cire} very: Biva; ce: WORKER is the most appropriate |b” Golden sitetiue saci Sets mmedia dell’Arte i Abnual medium for the expression of our! TIMES Q0——_—_ | — fit Bh abt at sentiments, ‘ +4 Civic Repertory or & Ay. & 14 St H Great Falls Labor Press, | Zhoe, wee ® RI M E pertory Ter Watkins 1767, Willis L. Wright, Pres, | Wee: & Sat, 2:00 | BVA LE GALLIENNE ’ { with James Renate & Chester Morris, Tonight ...... “INHERITORS"* 3LFTH NIGHT". CRADLE SONG"~ st 42nd _— Street, Evenings 8:30. Mats, Tues. Wed., Thurs, and Sat. What Anne Brought Home A New Comedy Drama <a a Tomorrow Mat. Tomorrow Eve: NTH RF, 50th St. East of | Bway. Mats, WED. and SAT. MARTIN BECK 7 St. HEATRE, 45 St. Ave. Evs, 8:30. { JED HAMMIS Presents HAMPDEN’S THEA TR B: “SPREAD EAGLE? | #5, senate i see DEN in CAPONSACCHI PRICES EVES, $2.10 TO $3.86, ay } WALTER fa ee ammo. Vanities | CARROLL (Barl Carroll Sitar 2AQAS 00" 95 | Read The Daily Worker Every Day. Earthquake in Valparaiso, SANTIAGO, Chile, April “14— Heavy earthquake shocks were fe] early today in Santiago and Valpgr- aiso, The tremors lasted a minutd or | more. Are Picking Up Speed Thruout the districts, the Party |members are tying up the HANDS | ~~ »OFF CHINA campaign, the campaign ‘Ruthenberg Enrollment and the against the imperialist war, with the ‘HANDS OFF CHINA CAMPAIGN, | Ruthenberg Enrollment. One of the main organizational At the best attended membership tasks to be achieved in the Ruthen.. meeting that the city of Detroit has’ berg Enrollment for the Party is the seen for a long ime, over 250 Party |increase of the regularity of dues members gathered to listen to Com-/ payments by Party members. These rade Lovestone speak on the Ruthen- | efforts have already netted some sub. berg Enrollment. In the course of his stantial results. talk, Comrade Lovestone indicated | Not all the dues reports are at han, d that the Ruthenberg Enrollment is) yet, Still it is obvious that tho the the very synthesis, crystallization, the | drive has not, yet gained full momem- composite campaign of all the drives! tum in the month of March, stilj the being conducted by the Party, dues payments will be considerabiy Thruout the Philadelphia and Bos- | higher this month than in any of the ton districts, general membership | previous months, since the last con= meetings are being held to mobilize | vention. the Party in the HANDS OFF CHINA | The advance in dues payments for: and Ruthenberg drives. The keynote | the month of March is not limited=: / of the last monthly bulletin of the | to one district, but is general thi iS: Boston district is to he found in the|the Party. ie: { \