The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 26, 1927, Page 3

FOERST ee Boston Students Rap Chinese Intervention | At Education Meeting. ~ | BOSTON,: April | 25.—Resolutions | scoring the bombardment of Nanking | by British and American warships | and demanding the immediate release of Sacco -and Vanzetti featureli the | fifth annual convention of the work- | ers education bureau of America, which opened at the Boston Public | Library; Friday April 22nd. | Both resolutions were introduced} by representatives of the Boston Trade Union College, and were re- ferred to the resolutions committee. Wants Workers Economies. Preceding the proposal of the reso- lution, Professor A. D. Sheffield led a discussion of workers’ educational problems. “Workers’ economics”, de- clared Scott Nearing, who attended the conference, “should teach work- ers how to shape a new social order. There is a distinction between work- | ers’ economics and capitalist econ- | omics”, he continued, “and workers | education should inelude workers | economics,” (Matthew Woll’s report | on behalf of the executive committee | preceded the discussion) | A storm of applause greeted James | H. Maurer’s statement that the pro-| blems of the Chinese labor movement | were the problems of the American labor movement. Professor Dana also stressed the international char- acter of labor in his plea for the! endorsement of the council for the! protection of the foreign born. Pro- | fessor Dana attacked the Aswell bill | as un-American and anti-labor. Opposes Carnegie Subsidy. A resolution opposing the accept- | ance by the workers education bureau | of a subsidy from the Carneigie fund! or any other source that is opposed | to the interest of the working class | was introduced by students of the | Boston trade union college. The Car-| negie fund is the chief support of the | bureau. | Prof. Pleads for Peace| With Mexico; Says U.S. Stops Ref | .WASHINGTON, April 25.—Speak- | a cose Program |ing out frankly while other anti-ad-| PHILADELPHIA, April 25.—The| “Mexiean problem” is “that of the} vested interests of foreigners versus | the reform program of a backward people,” declared Professor J. Fred | Rippy of Duke University, well-known | authority on Mexico, yesterday at the | annual meeting of the American Aca- | demy of Political and Social Science. | Declaring at any attempt to coerce Mexi¢o-would be both useless and costly, Professor Rippy made a plea for arbitration of the differences between the United States and Mexi- co as “more in accord with our na- tional ideals” and a procedure “which may prove just as profitable in the end.” Withdrawal of recognition and the lifting of the arms embargo would probably be more destructive to “our interests” than the oil and land laws, Professor Rippy said, | { EERLAIN AS THE DOVE OF PEACE IN CHINA sa pr errrrn —— — “The:Government Pursues‘an Absolutely | Neutral Course.” THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY APRIL 26, 1927 | Radical Workers | Norris Calls Third Term for Coolidge Step toMonarchism By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press) ministration leaders have whjspered and hinted and nudged one another forward, Senator Norris of Nebraska ‘has declared that the Coolidge third term movement is “a long step to- ward a monarchical form of govern- ment.” He has opened the way for Borah, Hiram Johnson, Mosgs, and any others who have plotted to raise the third term issue in a direct challenge to Coolidge, to go at it. Norris has asked a question, but it is not addressed to the man in the White House. It is addressed to the American people. | “Strikes Fundamental Principle.” |. Im a lengthy statement published |in the Baltimore Sun, replying to a canvass of republican national com- mitteemen by the Washington Star, Norris ignores the interest and am- ‘bition of any eandidate, and points to the significance of this attempt to keep one man in power for a long \and indefinite period of years. “This strikes at the very funda- mental principle of our form of gov- ernment”, he says. “The president | has a@ power that extends into every Whats What*Washinétor |Dry School Loses Profs community in the land. It is suffi- ‘ciently powerful, under ordinary cir- cumstances, to control a national convention. When we remember that under our system a nomination is necessary for an election, we begin Declare Martial Law In Lithuania; White Terror Fears Revolt | LONDON, April 25.—Declara- tion of a state of siege in Lithu- ania, as the result of “Communist agitation,” is reported by the Ex- change Telegraph correspondent in Copenhagen, who states that Kovno messages indicate that the Lithu- anian Government fears disturb- ances. Coolidge next year by acclamation in the republican convention. Washing- ton politicians are talking of this as a probability. The anti-administra- tion elements has not dared to laugh at Coolidge—to hold him up to ridi- eule as perhaps the smallest, most} reactionary, and most ignorant of all | the long list of standpatters who! have sought the presidential office. By Presidential Edict A recent ukase by President Cool- idge has resulted in the loss of a large proportion of the “faculty” of the Government Service Institute, a two- room institution that opened at 56 W 45th St., a couple of weeks ago. | Intended to prepare candidates for | any of the 2,500 federal prohibition | agents’ jobs with the aid and guidance | of high governmental officials, the school has received what might turn | out to be a death blow by the presi- dential order forbidding U. S. em- | ployes from having their names asso- | ciated with such “colleges.” | | lence. ‘2000 N.Y. Halians Protest Propaganda _ By Fascist Embassy | j | Charging the Italian ambassador | |in the United States with carrying | | on open pro-Fascist propaganda, 2,000 | \Italians packed Cooper Union Sun-| \day to protest against the spread of | |the Faseist terror to this country.) | Professor Gaetano Salvemini, for-! |merly of the University of Florence, | | Dr. Charles Fama and Carlo Tresca’ | were among the speakers. | | A resolution protesting against the | | Faseist ambassador’s activities was | sent to Secretary of State Kellogg. | | The resolution follows: | | “Whereas, the Italian Ambassador | to the United States of America, about } | two weeks ago, at a banquet of the | | Italian Chamber of Commerce of New York City, voiced an appeal to the Italian peojile in America, stating among other things: ““T appeal to the American citizens | of Italian extraction to aid me in| fighting the Italian renegades in this | country who are actively opposing Fascism, to take the necessary steps | to eradicate this menace for the sake of Italy, its government and its noble | traditions,’ | “And whereas such propaganda and | uch sentiments invariably tend to in- ‘ite class warfare and resultant vio- | “We, therefore, unanimously resolve | that the Secretary of State take cog- nizance of this dangerous movement | and take such precautions as are com- | mensurate with the honor and repu-| tation of this, our beloved country of | adoption.” } Says Europe On Decline. Economically, politically and cul- | turally western Europe is on the | | tions Unifying Norway Labor Movement: OSLO, Norway, April (By Mail).— The trade union movement began to develop in Norway more than 40 years ago, in the early 80’s, Simul taneously with trade-union organiza political groupings closely bound up with the trade unions began to form themselves among the work- ers. In 1887 the Norwegian Labor Party was formed from all these or- ganizations, circles and groups—a/ party in its structure strongly remi- | niscent of the British Labor Party. Up till 1920 the Norwegian Labor Party remained the only one. Not long before the war Martin Tranmael, a very talented journalist and politi- | cal orator (formerly a house-painter), became very prominent in the Party. The growth of the Left spirit with- | in the Norwegian Labor Party after the war, the October Revolution in Russia and the revolutions in Ger- many, Austria and Hungary, were taken advantage of by Martin Tran- | mael and his adherents to seize all the | administrative posts in the Norweg- | ian Labor Party in 1918. In 1920| the Party joined the Communist In- | ternational, This led to the leaving | maelites) with the infinitesmal organ- ization of the right social democrats, under the gracious patronage of the reformist leaders of the Norwegian trade unions. The other congress pub- lished a protest against the non-ad- miasion of the gates to the Tranmaelite-social-demo- cratic eongress and worked out a pro- gram of action for the struggle for the every-day needs of the Norwegian working class. Besides this, this con- gress of revolutionary organizations set up a party, whick, on the basis of the resolute class struggle, united in | its ranks all the Communist and re- volutionary elements in the working | class. This party was called “the Par- ty of working class cohesion.” Elias Volan, 4 Communist and prominent tvade-union worker, and chairman of the Norwegian Builders’, Unien, was elected chairman of the party at the congress. Thus, instead of the three parties which existed up to the present ,in Norway, there are now two. The Tranmaelites, who turned down all the Communist attempts to ereate a real fighting unity among the Nor- wegian proletariat for the struggle with the bourgeoisie, must be held re- sponsible for the continuation of dis- ruption. Moreover, a threat of dis- ruption in.the Norwegian trade union movement is also created by the open adherence of the leaders of the Nor- wegian trade union leaders to the new reformist party. The Communists, true advocates of trade-union unity, have made the re- of the party by the Right social-dem- | alization of unity beth on a national ocrats, who set up their own party/ group. Had Short Stay The Norwegian Party, however, re- mained only for a short time in the | ranks of the Comintern, The revolu- | tionary wave that had swept over) Western Europe subsided, giving} place to the organized counter attack of capital at the strongholds of the | working-class. Tranmael and many, of his adherents, who were never in| reality professed communists, but chocolate-soldier revolutionaries, be- } gan to show definite leanings to the | right. In the end of 1923 the Nor-| wegian Labor Party broke off rela- tions with the Comintern, and only a/ small part of it, consisting of work- ers sincerely devoted to the further- ance of communism, formed a Nor-/ wegian Labor Party as a section of | the Communist International. Thus by the end of 1923 there were as many as three parties in Norway, | instead of the former single Nor-| wegian Labor Party, struggling to get a hold over the working-class. These’ were—the Communists, the Tranmaelites, and the Right, social-! democrats. For United Program Considering disruption within the working class as injurious to its true interests, the Norwegian Communist | Party in the end of 1925 came for-| ward with a suggestion for the set- ting up of such a political centre for | the working class which might facili- tate its every day struggle. The Com- munists brought forward a project for the creation in Norway of a labor party on the British model, on the basis of the autonomous affiliation of | all its sections. | This suggestion of the Norwegian Communist Party to set up a political | Federation on the model of the Brit- | ish Labor Party was met by Tranmae!l | and his adherents with their usual demagogy. They demanded that all political parties should be fused un- conditionally, the Secial Democrats to leave the Second International and the Communists, the Communist. In- | ternational. | Obviously the Communists could not agree to such a counter sugges- tion. { That was just what the Tranmael- | and on an international scale, the cor- | ner-stone of their work. At the con- gress, where the foundations for the creation of a new revolutionary party in Nerway was laid (“the Party of Working Class Gohesion’”’), it was de- cided to set up also a Norwegian- Finnish-Soviet-Committee of trade union unity. This committee will set itself the task of carrying out the straggle for internalional unity of the trade union movement, and for the closer unity between the workers in the Scandinavian countries and the workers of the U, S. S. R—HALSEN. revolutionary dele-; Condemn Frame-up- In May Day Meeting (Continued from Page One) in ita determination that Saceo and Vanzetti must not be murdered, even if Governor Fuller refuses to go through the legal hokus-pocus needed to “review” the case, : * * . BOSTON, April Representa- tives of over 17 organizations meet- ing on the initiative of the Upholster- ers’ Union have unanimously decided to demonstrate on May Day for the re- lease of Sacco and Vanzetti and in demand for “Hands Off China, Nica- ragua and Mexico.” The demonstra- tion will be held at Scenic Auditorium, 25 25.- Street and Warren Avent, Sunday, May 1 at 2 o'clock, The committee planned originally to en- gage’ Boston Common for this pur- pose, but the permit was not secured. Among the organizations partici- pating in the conference there are the Upholstevers’ Union Local 37, Bakers’ Union bocal 45, Carpenters’ Union Local 157, Capmakers’ Union Local 7, The Socialist Party of New England District, The Workers Party of Amer- ica, District No. 1, The Young Work- ers League, The Left Paole Zion, and several of the Workmen's Circle Branches, and other fraternal organi- zations, including the Ukranian Edu- eation Society and the Lithuanian Or- ganization. ead! any a BUFFALO, N. Y., April 25.—The Evangelical Brotherhood Federation, the largest protestant men’s ergani- | zation in Buffalo, representing the combined men’s club of the Evangeli- cal Synod churches, at its regular quarterly meeting held at Christ | Evangelical Church, Sunday afternoon | April 24th, unanimously adopted a ) resolution demanding a stay of ex- ecution in the Sacco-Vanzetti case and | urging Governor Fuller of Massaehu- | setts to pardon both men. Read The Daily Worker Every Day. They Shall NOT Pass The test of our Party and the test of our movement is its ability to resist and over- come attack. The present attempt of the va- rious patriotic societies, acting as the agents of the organized employers, to suppress The DAILY WORKER, must be met effectively, if we are worth the name of revolutionists. The workers, the country over, will watch this attempt with interest and concern. If we are to earn their confidence and respect for future struggles, we must meet this test, courageously and with the determination that The DAILY WORKER will be main- tained in spite of them. Ae Speeches and declarations of loyalty will to realize what a powerful partisan political influence a president has, to obtain his own renomination. “Admitted To Be Corrupt.” “Already, in the Southern states, decline, according to Louis Fischer, | . j CURRENT EVEN TS | Seales deste Me for the Nation |ites wanted. They then Appealed | ‘whe spoke at the Temple Emanuel | solemnly to the aig social-demo- | (Continued from Page One) | Forum, Fifth avenue and Forty-third Ree with a mane to ‘aren one | HINA will be unified into one | street Sunday afternoon. ~ vooge eb — pees & | mighty nation, despite all the ef-| The future lies with younger and|® *Tiedric a, Sees O A P R I L, 2 Bi us republican machine, which is vir- (1860) The Birthday of our Leader L Choose this appropriate time to read what he has to say E on tha simplest, most nec- essary things in the revo- N lutionary movement. This work teaches fundamental \ ae problems. It includes all \ his speeches and writings ON ORGANIZATION $1.50 In a cloth-bound library edition. The DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 88 First Street, New York, N. Y. So tually admitted to be corrupt, is pre- ‘paring to send Coolidge delegates to the next‘ republican convention. They are doing this as a payment }for the federal offices which they |now hold and control. The same in- ‘fluence ean be extended to every town and hamlet in the United States.” When this influence is ‘combined and used for the perpetu- ation in office of,the head of our | government, it is a danger to free in- _ stitutions and strikes at the very _ root of demoeracy. Political machines held together by federal :patronage constitute the greatest danger to the perpetuity of a free government. K; King Coolidge. “Such a danger leads directly to- /ward a monarchy and takes away from the people themselves the right to select their own chief magistrate. The power of the federal machine at present is almost unlimited. Any ‘other candidate (than Coolidge) has to begin with a solid opposition from (the Southern states, controlled, man- ipulated and handled entirely through | federal patronage, Added to this is the activity in every state, every city, (every county, of federal appointees who will work day and night for the securing of Coolidge delegates. . . Big Trusts For Him. “When you add to this influence | the help of big corporations and mon- opolistic combinations that always unite with the faction in power, you ‘have an influence that is, for practi- cal purposes, insurmountable. And |no particle of this influence any- where comes from people who are unselfish.” Norris’ protest was. made in order | \to awaken yet country—if that be possible—to tl veer the pre- sent dvitt tobeit halbued of » U forts of the capitalist powers, whether they war on the revolution | by cannons or by the more subtle but | hardly less dangerous methods of | secret diplomacy and corruption. As} Chiang-Kai-Shek has been bought off | by money and a promise of a seat) among the world’s mighty so will his | purchasers try to bribe other prom-) inent leaders in the Nationalist cause | to desert their followers and bow the) knee to Baal. This has been done in| all subject countries and by all im- perialist powers. “Divide and Con- quer” is an old motto but it is still going strong. eee, det ND when our capitalist scribblers tell you that the Soviet Govern- ment is responsible for the revolt of the workers and peasants of China against the foreign. imperialists and their native agents I would suggest that you read about the working con- ditions in British, Japanese and Chi- nese mills,/where women, with their children in baskets under the work benches, toil for twelve weary hours for the equivalent of 40 cents a day. This is the kind of benevolence that the Chinese people are struggling against. ‘The Communist Interna- tional is giving them every possible assistance in organizing themselves so that they can raise their standard of living and better their working) conditions. The Soviet Union has extended a friendly hand to the struggling Chinese republic while the | imperialist buzzards are shooting doses of christianity and capitalist civilization into the minds and bodies of the oppressed masses. Buy The Dail, Special May Worker Issue stronger peoples, he said. Dewey Assails Super Patriots as: Meeting Raps School Ousting PHILADELPHIA, April 25.—John | Dewey, professor of philosophy at! Columbia University, assailed super-| patriots for attempting to. stamp out , free speech in American schools and colleges at a meeting called to pro- | test against the dismissal of two pro-' \fessors at the West Chester State ; Normal School for alleged radicalism. “I have read and heard much lit- erature from the headquarters of our super-patriots, “said Professor Dewey, “they are greatly concerned about persons who are boring from within and weakening our institu-' tions. It seems to me, however, that }if there is anybody who is likely to | | leave our institutions nothing but a) | hollow shell, it is the persons who | jave afraid to permit freedom of | | speech—not those labelled Bolshe- | vistic and seditious.” | The two ousted teachers, Dr, Ker- | lin and Kinneman, and Morris Ernst, | other speakers. The meeting was | held under the auspices of the Civil Liberties Union. ‘Carlinville Council Protesting Fare CARLINVILLE, Ill. (FP).—Ap- pealing for a pardon for Sacco and Vanzetti, the Carlinville Trades & | Labor Assembly has wired Gov, Fuller | | Second | maelites, New York lawyer, were among the | categorical refusal. International, graciously | agreed to this proposal, The Tran-| social-democrats and re- | formist leaders of the Norwegian trade unions set up a committee of | 32 persons for the convocation of «| congress in the end of 1926 to bring about the fusion of the Tranmaelites and the social-democrats. | The congress was fixed for the 30th January, 1927, and only delegates ac- | cepting in advance the draft-pro- | | gramme of the future labor party | were allowed to attend it. Such an) extraordinary interpretation of unity | |evoked indignation in working-class |eireles. Many focal trade union and | | political organizations resolved not to | submit to this outrageous demand, but | to elect delegates for the coming con- | | gress without reference to any pro-| grams whatsoever. Reformers Opposed Unity, When the congress met in Oslo) there turned out to be about 900 dele- gates elected on the principle of sub- mission in advance to the program, and about 460 freely elected, The freely elected s ad- dressed the reformist Unification Con- , @ress with a aiomand to be allowed to attend the latter. To this the organ- | izérs of the congress replied with a_ Thus on the 30th and 8ist of Janv-| ary two labor congresses were held | jin different parts of Oslo: one at- jtended by 900 Tranmaelites, social | ‘democrats, and trade union members | |of reformist tendencies, und another | attended by 460 delegates of Commun-_ ist organizations ani! revolutionary in- | ter-union groupings. | | Rights Join Reformists. ‘ The Sims Cy eo with the No Fagen 4 “4 iW not suffice in this situation. 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