The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 22, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER (hicago Politics in Prose and Picture Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, | | Daily, Except Sunday es : Bie (i 83 First Street, New York, N. ¥. ? Phone, Orchard 1680 | By T. J. O'FLAHERTY, 'HE recent campaign in Chicago, SUBSCRIPTION RATES |4 which resulted in the election of By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): | William Hale Thompson as mayor, $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $2.60 three months $2.00 three months 4f}) AEE | DRAMA JULIUS TANNEN Civic Repertory to Give! Seven Plays in Clos- ing Week j LAWN Wr | Wigs | The Civic Repertory Theatre will $3.50 six months | on a platform of “America First” and | = \\\\) f \ \ \\\\ WW | King George of England last, has al- ready been treated in the columns of | |The DAILY WORKER, but pictures | sometimes speak louder than words {and the illustrations that accompany this sketch will probably give a clear- er picture of the political mentality | {of the majority of Chicago’s hundred | under | percent voters than the most learned} theses that ever dripped from the pen 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 | close its first season at the 14th | Street Theatre on Saturday evening | April 30th, with a performance of Tchekov's “Three Sisters.” After | seven months successful work, Eva Le Gallienne and her company (opened with Benavente’s “Saturday | Night,” Monday evening, October Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New, York, N. Y., the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. >. Workers and Farmers! Stop War on China and the Soviet Union | The imperialist powers in China, failing to provoke the| Soviet Union into a declaration of war against the bandit gang) of Chang Tso-Lin who raided buildings in the compound of the, Soviet legation two weeks ago, have made a second assault upon | the legation at Peking. _ This time it is a band of international | hooligans, composed of five Americans, five English, five Japan- | ese, five Italians and five French, under command of Col. Little, of the United States marine corps, who used sledge hammers to break open gates of the compound and forcibly occupy it. | Imperialist arrogance can go no further and the imperialists are arrogant because they know that the Soviet Union would sac- of a social psychologist. The outstanding feature of this contest between Tweedledee Dever and Tweedledum Thompson was the obscene lengths to which both went in their efforts to use the Negro ques- tion in the’mad scramble for the priv- | ilege of looting the city of Chicago} for the next four years. | It is no credit to Thompson that} Dever’s campaign managers sinned | more heinously against the Negro than | he did, because the ignorant Negro} voters: are traditional republicans, worship the shade of Abraham Lin- coln and are led: to believe that the election of a democrat would mean the resurfection of Jefferson Davis and the return of the overseers of!/load of Negroes to Chicago. slavery days. They have not yet real-| - Will Start for Chicago April unless you stop it April 5th William Hale Thompson pictured at the throttle of a train carrying a Friday night; “Twelfth Night,” Sat-| Carroll Theatre. Dever propaganda. if . | 25th, | On Monday, May 2nd, the players | begin their tour at the National The- atre in Washington, D. C., Baltimore, | Philadelphia, and Boston will follow. The plays selected are: “Cradle { Song,” by Sierras; ‘Master Builder,” | ; by Ibsen, and “La Loaandiera,” by | Goldoni. * | | The final week will include seven | |plays. They are as follows: “Cradle | | song,” Monday night and Wednesday matinee; “Master Builder,” Tuesday |night; “John Gabriel Borkman,” Thursday night; “Inheritors,”| Featured in the “Earl Carroll Van- Wednesday night; “La Locandiera,” | ities,” in. its third month at the Karl urday matiness, and “Three Sisters,” | — | Saturday night. |the Andreini Trio, Spanish musicians, | were added yesterday to “A Night In Spain,” the new summer revue | which the Messrs. Shubert are bring- |ing here Monday evening, May 2nd. Dorothy Dilley and Vivian Mar-| lowe are the latest additions to “Oh,; The revival of the Henri Bern- Ernest,” the musical comedy version | stein’s drama “The Thief,” which was of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of | scheduled for Tuesday. night, will Being Ernest,” which opens here! take place this evening at the Ritz ized that their race brothers and sis-|the same motives; a share in the/ization on the near south side and) ters are being lynched with impunity | spoils of office. Both tried to prove would not tolerate any opposition | ° : . ; : |inside the confines of the federal jur-|to their followers that their favorite} among his lieutenants. Now this| Broadway Briefs rifice even the lives of its representatives rather than fall into the | j.aiction of the United States, while| political candidate was a friend of la-| mighty man has fallen and, more pli- trap set by the impe sts and their tool, Chang Tso-Lin. It is'a silent republican Cal looks on with|bor. One set of labor fakers won. | able boases ave rege mis pines, who! } Sovi i its ees ati in- | neutr: ve. y vi e to| The er se’ st. ill do their best to keep the Negroes | not tha e Soviet Union, with its Red Army, impatient at in-|neutral eye. They have not come to|The other set lost. All the workers | wi ir be : 5 that we CE ae es ome arialist provocation: is. not able to| se the approach to similarity be-| who voted for either lost. So much/in the capitalist fold for the benefit | action im the face Ope bi aiken Mas fey rags tween the brutal lash wielder of the| for the disgraceful part played by the | of the employers of Chicago and the | fight. But, unlike the imperialist nations, the Soviet Union, | southern cotton plantations to the| “official” labor leaders in the elec-| political bosses who still have a hold| does not make even such deliberate insults the pretense for War. | stockyards foreman in Chicago, whose | tion. on their imaginations. soon, 4 tility to the efficiency unionism policy of the A. F. of L. and It is to be noted that, according to recent dispatches, Chang) Tso Lin has executed 14 members of the Kuomintang arrested IN THE BRITISH CONCESSION. This is evidence that Britain) insists on the inviolability of her concession only when enemies of | the liberation movement take shelter there. Provocative tactics are being used on the Western frontier of the Soviet Union as well, and Bucharest dispatches tell of the massing of Roumanian troops on the Bessarabian frontier. The flagrant vandalism in Peking is only the latest of a series of provocative acts, deliberately staged in an effort to embroil | the Soviet government in a Chinese war so that the forces now in China can be supplemented and endeavor to hurl armed forces into Russian territory from Manchuria and Mongolia, while the servile governments of the European nations bordering Russia irvade Soviet territory from the West. 8 Just as the former provocation failed, so this latest attempt will fail. But the very attempt should arouse the workers of the imperialist nations involved to a realization that their govern- ments are capable of any foul act in an effort to provoke war. The imperialist powers believe that this is the time to strike. | _ They believe that the treason of Chiang Kai Shek and the propa- | g@anda and murder campaign against Communists, the labor unions and the peasant organizations has demoralized the mass Support of the Chinese liberation movement and the Soviet suffi- ciently to enable a successful offensive to be launched. | This is not the time to argue as to the correctness ar other- wise of these imperialist beliefs. What is needed now is one huge concerted effort by all haters of imperialist war that wil] halt the| bloody plot of these mass murderers. | Realizing that their governments will resort to any enormity | the class conscious workers of America, Britain, France, Italy and Japan must throw all their energy into a struggle against the imperialist conspiracies against China and the Soviet Union. An attempt to extend the war against China and invade the] territory of the Soviet Union should be answ ary-challenges to the imperialist brigands; in Japan, England and the Continental! European countries the general strike as. a -fitst step toward insurrection; in the United States agitation for transportation strikes to prevent the shipmen of munitions aml instruments of war to the imperialist battle front. Stop the imperialist war! Workers and Farmers! Force the government to repudiate this imperialist plot. Hands Off the Chinese Liberation Movement. Hands Off the Chinese Labor Unions and Peasant Unions. Hands Off the Soviet Union! Stop this threatened slaughter before it is too late! Smash This Infamous Conspiracy Against Militant : Trade Union Men! The Furriers’ Union and the leaders who headed the strike! struggle which resulted in obtaining the 40-hour week of which President Green boasted at the Detroit convention of the Ameri-| can Federation of Labor, are now the victims of the most despica- | ble conspiracy in trade union history. | Ben Gold and 10 other officers and members of the local | unions supporting the New York Joint Board are on trial in Min-| eola—a notorious Ku Klux Klan community—and are confronted | with alleged evidence of “assault”—the prosecutor’s term for) picketing—which it is plain to anyone familiar with the case | has been furnished by the “Special Committee”—Woll, Frayne) and McGrady—appointed by President Green of the American Federation of Labor. ~ Ben Gold and his fellow defendants are being tried for hos- vivian Vitis refusal to smirch their records as union men with endorse- it of this policy. If anyone doubts this statement let him spend a day in the Mineola court room and listen to the oft-repeated question hurled at defense witnesses by the prosecution: “Has not your union been expelled by the A. F. of L.?” The testimony of Greeve, a detective who arrested two of ” lash is the threat of dismissal and the) The leaders of the Negroes in the prospect of hunger on the jobless|“black belt” played a similar role. slavemarket of modern capitalism to|Those shepherds of human lives also the Negro worker, unless he drives split, one faction supporting an inde- his weary body to produce as much| pendent republican candidate and the profits for the beef packers as the| other and stronger faction supporting beef packers think just and reason-|Thompson. able. " . | Negro communities thruout the There are fifty thousand votes in| country are agitated over the results the famous “black belt” of Chicago, | of the election. The Thompson vic- as poor and dilapidated a residential| tory is generally acclaimed, few district as ever the human eye rested| Negro publications to the contrary. on. It was for the votes of those| Yet it is a safe prediction that the living conditions of the Chicago Ne- THOMPSON = groes will not be a whit improved ME IC during the incumbeticy of Thompson. The present mayor chartered a steamer to take a party of his friends A clever piece of work. Thomp-| son's slogan: “America First” and “Me First.” celebrate the emancipation of Chicago from King George. ‘The papers did not say whether Negro leaders were included among the guests. The Negro vote in Chicago re- mained republican as usual. The only change in the situation was the over- - throw of the old republican boss of poverty-haunted and _ hovel-living|the second ward: Edward Wright, wage slaves that William MHale|who split with Robert E. Crowe, Thompson angled with promises he, state attorney, and refused to support knew he could not fulfill and it was| William Hale Thompson, Crowe’s to catch the votes of the race-hatred-|candidate. Wright lined up with poisoned whites in the “white” wards| Fred Lundeen, a gentleman with K. that Dever’s campaign managers|K. K. tendencies, who entered Dr. flooded the city with the most vicious John Dill Robertson against his for- anti-Negro propaganda that an/mer political bedmate, Thompson. American community was ever insult-| Wright was appointed to the Illinois/ ed with. The pictures of the propa-|state commerce commission by Len ganda shown here tell the tale. | Small and felt that he owed some- It is not necessary to deal here with thing to his friends. He supported the conduct of the labor bureaucrae’ rank L, Smith at the slush fund They were for sale as usual. Politi earings under the direction of Sen- is a gamble to them. The leaders|ator Reed and attracted considerable red with revolution- | split, some of them supporting Dever | notoriety when he boasted from the) and another faction supporting|stand in the hearing of Robert E. Thompson. Both were animated by Crowe, that he was the Crowe organ- THINK OF IT! The NEGROES now boast of 1 Colored Judge 50 Colored Employees In the office of County Treasurer 2 Colored Aldermen under Geo. F, Harding, Thompy 1 Colored Senator son’s Campaign Manager. 6 Colored Representatives 500 Colored Employees 1 Colored State Utility be the City Hall placed under ee jompson. noner . Civil Service during Thompson's | 200,000 Negroes of Chicago 3 regime. Working in the Stock Yards, In- 5 ternational Harvester and’ in 00 Colored Policemen huntireds of other factories, 200 Colored Firemen Ponce election will insure other publie offices for the col- 500 Colored Teachers ored people. ‘They will flood the Do you want them to teach your white neighborhoods — and what children? will you do, Stop that now! The “EMANCIPATOR” a paper for the colored people of Chicago expects a colored Mayor in Chicago in about 15 years Reproduction of a democrat circular designed to make white aspirants for city jobs activa'y support Dever under threat of an influx of colored job holders should Thompson win. men who scored one of the outstanding’ victories for labor in 1926. We have been accused many times of specializing in invec- tive to the exclusion of argument but now we freely admit that We are at a loss for words to characterize adequately the actions of Green, Woll, Frayne, Sigman, Schachtman and company, as- sisted to the best of their ability by socialist officialdom. There is one reply, however, that can be made and for which {down the Mississippi for a holiday to} The Chicago election proves that) |the task of weaning away the Ne-| groes from capitalist politics has | Hawk,” have accepted a new play by | |barely begun. A heavy task lies in| Herbert Hall- Winslow, titled “Six \front of our Negro comrades and one| Women for tiaramdltnte: production. | that should be given the hearty SUP- | «The Night Hawk,” by the way, will port of the white workers who under- | ° tad rig stand the tremendous role that will | M4 Tee ong tn At the Prone next be played in the working class move- ment of this country by the ten mil-| lions of exploited and persecuted workers and peasants of another col- | The producers of “The Night! Tito Coral, Spanish baritone, and Theatre. Alice Brady and Lionell Atwill are the featured players. Gladys Baxter has replaced De- siree Tabor in the title role of “Countess Maritza.” Miss Tabor will be the prima donna in the new musi- cal show, “The Circus Princess,” which opens Monday at the Winter Garden. Theatre Guild Acting Company in iy PYGMALION Next Th | | MR. PIM PASSES BY \GARRICK §; ee Here Thompson is pictured kissing | ]} Next ‘Weekt minh You Are | ja Negro child while a white boy begs |] — ~ ee ————— | |for attention. A reproduction of a | NED McCOBB’S DAUGHTER | |piece of Dever propaganda. John Golden BY Pag tA cn | |or who are now beginning to feel the | ~— thrill of conscious strength. | Along with the organization of the |Negro workers, in order that they} jmay be able to fight for better con-| ditions of life and against the race| ~~ prejudice that sears their souls as| TIMES SQ. hot iron burns the flesh, must go the | Thee. Wi 42 St. * = 5 \Eves, 8:30. Ma organization of the white workers.: Next Week Cord | 466 G d St. Drydock 7516) Every Eve. (except Mon.) Mat. Sat. ill of Lyric Drama) CRIME | Wed. & Sat. 2:30 The low level of political conscious-| With James Remnie & Chester Morris, ‘ness among the workers, black and} \white, in Chicago, may have been \more dramatically pictured for the! delectation of the nation, by the anti-| WALDORF, 50th St. East of | Negro propaganda of Dever and by Set: Mats, ee, ate. 65: ;the buffoonery of Thompson in the| WALLACK’S West 42nd _ Stree. u | se , | ens, ae one ve more ad-| mats, Tues, Wea. "Thuresand sat | | e cap- | \italist confidence men in other cities, What Anne Brought Home| but there is only a difference in de- A New Comedy Drama | gree. The LADDER Now in its 6th MONTH | Chicago is a typical American city PS Tie ew ALT Re and the majority of the white work- HOMPDEN tua Sr Ate rORamay | jers are blinded by the smoke-screen| watter HAMPDE N of capitalist prosperity which is/| in CAPONSACCHI shared by only comparatively a few} of the working class, while the colored | workers are still flopping around in| the Lincolnian puddle and permitting | Neighborhood Playhouse \. ‘Bronx Opera House Patronize Our Advertizers. \TWICE DAILY, 2 P.M & 8 P.M. RINGLING BROS. pARMUM & BAILEY CIRCUS Incl. among 10,000 Marvels PAWAH SACRED WHITE ELEPHANT TICKETS at GARDEN BOX OFFICES Sth Ave. and 49th St., and Gjmbel Bros. PROVINCETOWN || 133 Macdougal St. PLAYHOUSE || Tel. Spring 8363. RAPID TRANSIT Mon., incl. Sun. at 8:40 SATURDAY, 2:40. Civic Repertory for S$ 4v. & EVA LE GALLIENNE 14 St. 1767, night .. .“CRADLE SONG" morrow HREE SISTERS” morrow ning..“CRADLE SONG” FARL “a: carrot Vanities 5 Thea., 7th Ave. & 50th St, Earl Carroll Thurs. & Sat. 2:36 THEATRE, 45 St. Mats. Wed. and Sat. JED HARRIS Presents 2 Drama ‘SPREAD EAGLE’ 149t Street, K. of 3rd Ave, Pop. Prices. Mat. Wed. & Sat. “NEW YORK EXCHANGE” The Sensational Comedy themselves to be sold like cattle at a fair to the profit and glory of their own corrupted race leaders and the profit of the employers. Let’s Fight On! Join, The Workers Party! Only when capitalism is abolished jand a socialist society substituted for it, will the race discrimination and all \forms of human exploitation cease. |The program of the Workers (Com- | munist) Party in America shows the way to freedom to both black and white workers. Hundreds of Dollars Reach Defense Office; But Thousands Needed The response to the $100,000 Fund Roll Call campaign has been so prompt and satisfactory that the de- Other activities ceased as the entire this rush of subscribers. Bunches of certificates accompanied by dollar | bills are received with every mail, At the end of the day the income from this source alone totals hun- dreds of dollars, but this is not fense office was taken by surprise. | office staff was put to work to*handle | In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- ty has lost its foremost leader and the American working class its staunchest fighter. This loss can only |be overcome by many militant work. ‘ers joining the Party that he built. | Fill out the application below and | mail it. Become a member of the | Workers (Communist) Party and | carry forward the work of Comrade | Ruthenberg. | I want to become a member of the | Workers (Communist), Party. | Name | Address | Occupation | Union Affiliation Mail this application to the Work- ‘ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New York City; or if in other city to -| Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington | Blvd., Chicago, Nl. | Distribute the Ruthenberg pam- |berg the Workers (Communist) Par- | | | | World, the negative. | phlet, “The Workers (Communist) enough when thousands are needed, | Bhle' What it Stands For and Wh: so some workers have hit on the, P@rty, pe ae . Thi of th is plan of paying for five or ten certi-| Workers Should Join. is Ruthen-| ficates at a time, and as each certi- berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- 4 | phlet thruout, the Ruthenberg Drive. the militant furriers, to the effect that he spent two hours in the Sigman-Schachtman headquarters “working on the case of the whole eleven” defendants is decisive in making clear the con- words are not necessary. stoolpigeonism in te labor movem Every worker who hates and despises ent can resnond to the appeal fieate carriers with it a separate receipt, these workers are the proud possessors of blocks of five and ten receipts besides the sealed and stamp- Every Party Nucleus must collect 60 cents from every member and will receive 20 pamphlets for every mem- nection between the Civic Federation—headed by Matthew Woll —the Sigman-Schachtman right wing, the Mineola prosecution and the A. F. of L. committee. ) We have said it before and we repeat it again that the Min- sola case is without precedent in the American labor movement-— highest union officials working hand in hand with employers, ives and prosecuting attorneys in an attempt to jail union of the Joint Defense Committee of Furriers and Cloakmakers and answer the conspirators who plot to imprison militant union men for carrying on union activities honestly and efficiently, with dollars. Every cent given for defense of these workers, every kind of support given to the locked out furriers, will be a blow directed at an infamous conspiracy at the memory of which the American labor movement will soon hang its head in shama ber to sell or distribute. Nuelei in the New York District will get their pamphlets from the District Office—108 East 14th St, Nuclei outside of the New York District write to Daily Worker Pub- Club, will be held at its elubrooms, | lishing Co., 33 East First Street, New 29 Graham Ave., Brooklyn, on Satur-| York City, or to the National Office, ed certificates. Watch “Unity” for the names of all who subseribed. Sport Club Meets Saturday. A meeting of the Red Star Sport Debate on A. F. L. Vs. I. iW. W. Held In Seattle, Wash. the American Federation of Labor is the’ best. instrument thru which the progressive workers of the United States can accomplish the emancipa- tion of their class and the est&blish« ment of the Workers’, Cooperative Commonwealth, was the proposition debated at the regular open forum meeting of the Seattle Labor. College. John C. Kennedy of the S. L. C. took the affirmative side and C. B. Ellis of the Industrial Workers of the Kennedy declavéd that the right kind” of a labor organization must function in two ways:* it must pro- tect the worker today and it must aim at the final emancipation of the work- ing class. In order to be efficient i must possess power—the powerof bi masses, it must be class-consciousy it must be built on right principle: must fit present day conditions afd it must be militant. 1 Ellis claimed that far more import- ant than big numbers to make a la bor organization efficient were just principles and proper structure, 'He pointed to the achievement of the in- significant I. W. W. in the Northwest in the lumber industry. He admitted its present decaying state, but this Was not at all the question to he de- bated. To challenge for numbers he replied that there are still in the United States 38,000,000 unorganized workers. We were not to be guided in our tacties by authorities dead for countries. 7 day evening at 7:30, New members| Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington are welcome, Blvd., Chicago, Tl. Aead The Daily Worker Every Day SEATTLE, Wash., April 18.2:That ~ many years and who lived in other