The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 26, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER A Reply to Robert Julius Ruthenberg Film in Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 03 ' Firat Street, New York, N. Y. Stole. iene tetialadadaee SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 sfx months $6.00 per year $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and THE DAILY WORKER, 33 Fir: J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F. DUNNE ¢ out checks to Street, New York, N. ¥. Phone, Orchard 1680 i tales. Db stadanenviie,Deteced $3.50 six months | By T. J, O'FLAHERTY. IN our issue of Friday, April \* Robert Julius Kenton expressed dis- | agreement .with the editorial com- ment made by me on the defection of | Chiang-Kai-Shek from the Koumin- | tang Party and his desertion from |the Nationalist Revolutionary move- Kenton ‘Chicago May First; j tional. The C, I, pointed out that the Koumintang is the political organ thru which the Nationalist revolu- Also Olgin Speaks tion is being pushed forward and that the Communists must stay inside it,| CHICAGO, April 25,—The’ film strengthen it and struggle to increase | taken at the Chicago Ruthenberg their influence withif its ranks. |Memorial meeting showing the huge this world people are obliged to: as- sociate with all kinds of undesirables | inch, portraying the various speakors | hall filled with workers to the last) eases f Reviewed by A.B. Magil. | | It is perhaps unfortunate that |“Gods.of Vengeance” Is Slap at Jewish Religious Bourgeoisie MARGARET LAWRENCE BERT MILLER {ment. I declared that Chiang-Kai- | | and-citing certain parts of their mes- | plays, like ordinary. material objects, | | Shek dealt a serious blow to the Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥., u8@e®| revolution. the act of March 3, 1879. ee x eee | mistic, that in fact Chiang’s treach- Advertising rates on applicatic lery was a good stroke for Chinese emancipation movement, since it is | now clear that Chiang had always in- >. ———. No Support of the Coolidge-Kellogg War Program! in the middle class and a product of The landing of a force of marines in Hankow last Thursday | his class.” With all due respect to is another step towards war on the Chinese liberation movement, | Comrade Kenton, this is the bunk. It is significant that just as at Nanking, where Standard Oil] company property figured largely in the news of the wanton bom-| The Kuomintang Party is composed could be united for a struggle against Comrade ees Be is of} |the opinion that I was unduly pessi- | | tended to stage this coup “since he is | of all elements of the population that | bardment, so in the news from Hankow we discover that Standard | Oil property and Standard Oil employes furnish an excuse for the | landing of marines. | We are being driven into war in behalf of the biggest robber corporation in the world. | The leadership of the American Federation of Labor follows the policy of the state department—that is, it gives the Chinese | masses fair words of friendship, but in the same breath announces that Washington has no evil intentions but is merely “protecting | American lives and property.” That the property is Standard Oil| property and the lives that are falsely claimed to be endangered | foreign imperialism and for the uni- fication of China. and the strategy of the imperialists from the start was to split the Kou- mintang Party before the spirit of revolt sunk so deep into the masses that it would be impossible to stop} its onward march, The counter-revolutionary elements are composed of the militarist cliques and the contractors and big traders. | Those elements have the support of In this alliance) there were many clashing interests! but since it is inconvenient to get rid ‘of them, people must make the {best of the situation, Likewise, in the revolutionary movement it is not | feasible to turn a mental X-ray on all those who happen to unite for a time as allies in a common struggle in order to divine what they may do or turn out to be ten years from now. Those who think that the Nation- alist revolution in China is similar to the October revolution in Russia are ‘away ahead of the developments. That stage will come; when, it is not safe to predict, But it can only come when the proletariat has the hegemony of the revolution. The Communist International, or- gan of the C. L,, in its issue of Decem- ber 30, 1926, says: “The Chinese proletariat has .al- ready become a factor in the Chinese revolution. We must harbor no il- 'lusions about this fact, however; we must realize that’ the proletariat has not yet the hegemony in the revolu- tion.” | sages is now ready and will be pre- | sented forthe first time at the Chi- | cago May Day meeting, which will be | Sunday evening May First. | ‘To those who participated in the |Ruthenberg Memorial meeting, the Ba Soon of this film should be an added attraction on, and a valuable addition to the célebration of the In-| lutionary.) ternational Labor holiday. Anti-Imperialist. , The most important feature of this | meéting, however, will be¢ome its de- | finite character of an anti-imperialist | demonstration. With the powers pre- | paring for war in China, the workers will. gather to voice their protest against war and their solidarity with | the Chinese revolution. | A message from the Chinese work- ers -will be presented by C. T. Chi,.a member of the Kuomintang Party, who has just returned from Europe, | where he participated in the Brussels }congress of oppresses people against world imperialism, | Started In America. sometimes. outlive, their usefulness, | This is an ancient chapter in the his- | | tory of the drama, literature and, in| | held at the Ashland Auditorium, on/ fact, of mary’ of the agitations’ of | the human-mind. Present-day drama- | | tie critics like to ‘refer to Sir Arthur | Wing Pinero as a case in point. (It| | still “is fashionable to ‘consider. the | moth-eaten liberal, Galsworthy, revo- | “The Seeond Mrs. Tan-| | queray,” which the -regpectable Eng-| | lish, bourgeoisie of the. nineties found | so shocking, now seems stale and hy-| sterical, a pretty bad imitation of Ibsen. % , Several years “ago “The God of | Vengeance,” a play by Sholom Ash, a distinguished “Yiddish .writer, was given in English translation on Broadway. But the smuthounds of the law, pulpit and press raised such | a howl that the play. was dragged | off the boards after’one of those epic | struggles in the courts which causes the sensitive conscience of the New | Yorw World to burst with ‘righteous | front-page indignation. are the lives of individuals who have been plundering the Chinese; the foreign imperialists, but the lat-| masses for years, does not strike President William Green as/|ter have also aimed at splitting : e, 5 | Koumintang by catering to the right cai eked ae Sess eae wing represented by the industrial Green is quoted as follows: bourgeoisie still comparatively weak “The United States has disavowed any intention of ter- | in China to oust the left wing and ritorial encroachment or the enjoyment of any material ad- the Communists. vantage in China. It-has officially declared its only purpose i[N view of the gigantic task con- is to protect American lives and property in China.” fronting all honest revolutionary “The laboring people of the United. States would be op- posed to our Government doing anything more in China than to extend the protection to American lives and property which the Government of the United States is under obliga- tion to give to its citizens when in danger.” Pee til grt ia ae Green takes for granted the truth of the hypocritical Abe) dha pita tbgpaten. 2 bode ments relative to Chinese policy emanating from the White House! The foreign imperialists were shak- and the state department. It means nothing to Green that Amer- ing in their shoes. Great Britain in “allies” would only play into the | hands of the foreign imperialists. The |movement was gathering force and elements in:China it is quite obvious | that a forced split with these shaky | | the propaganda of , Tevolution was | Epitaph to the Dead. Now “The God of Vngeance” has ae implies the necessity for the, Although a symbol of international | been revived in the original: Yiddish continuation of the alliance with| Working class solidarity and deter-| even the Nationalist revolutionary mination to struggle, May Day has) at the Yiddish‘Art Theatre, under the elements who would be quite satisfied | particular significance in America, | direction of Ossip Dymow, and it has with a petty-bourgeois republic, but| 8S it grew out of the great strikes | faién to my ‘lot to write a sort: of which they cannot have because the | for the eight hour day in+1886. | epitaph” or prayér for’ the dead for foreign imperialists will not let them ‘The militancy of the workers of | this terribly immoral work. have it, at least not yet. Many of that period will never be forgotten,|" “The God’ of Vengeance” still has those who stayed with the Hankow| and while the official trade union | some fire smouldering in-its lines, government, the legal government, leadership today is endeavoring to| put it is a wizened, gasping fire. and have denounced Chiang for his turn the attention of the workers in| Th¢ story’ is of a tawdry simplicity |treachery may possibly follow in| the opposite directiof, there are/gnq ig in the best traditions of the |Chiang’s footsteps later on, but it, nevertheless from time to time, signs | Jewish Daily Forward, to which Ash | would be the policy of insanity toin-|0f revival of the militancy. of the| has been an honored contributor. for | vite them to take a walk for.them-| Sreat strikes of the eight hour day. | many ‘years. a selves now, since they are liable to This will naturally form one im-| “4 ‘respected-member of the Jewish desert a few years from now. This| Portant. part of the May Day. demon- | community happens to make his liv- would suit the imperialists who. are Stration, and become a subject to be | ing by running a whorehouse. This | |keenly disappointed because Chiang | dealt with by such nationally known | p1ous, bearded Jew, Yankel Shapsho- Star of “Mixed Doubles” a new comedy of Frank Stayton; opening ‘at the Bijou’ Theatre tonight. and, on the whole, rather absurd: Yet the author’s honesty’ and serious pur- pose cannot, I feel, be doubted. “The God of Vengeance” was intended as an indictment of ‘the smug Jewish bourgeoisie, the economic. and religi- ous tradesmen, But the indictment is prosy and pedantic, without~ elo- quen¢e’ or real perception. And Ash fails to make full use of /the possibil- ities of even his cheap plot. The holy Scroll jef the law which Yankel Shapshowitch gives to his daughter as worthy of her great’ purity, is lit- tle more than a piece of’ sentimental stage furniture, when it might have become the grotesque and ironic sym- bol of the moral bankruptcy of the entire Jewish religious bourgeoisie. Yankel Shapshowitch and his strug- gle for respectability constitutes a was unable to bring any appreciable speakers as Wm. Z. Foster, M. J. witch by name, having united himself | But I feel that ‘most ican warships have already taken part in mass slaughter of Chi-| particular saw the handwriting on | nese men, women and children, that American gunboats are in| every Chinese river and sea port, that additional forces are being | rushed to China and that troops have been landed in Hankow. Nor does the head of the American labor movement have a word to say in support of the Chinese trade unions, whose leaders and members are executed wholesale by-the militarists operating under the protection of the guns of the imperialist fleets. The policy of the A. F. of L. officialdom is the policy of the American state department. The official spokesmen of American labor support American imperialism. They will allow war to be prepared ‘and when it comes they will.outdo the imperialists themselves in beating the tom-toms and suppressing all protest. If war on the masses of the wall. She had more interests at stake in China than any other coun- try, had and she left no stone un- {turned to line up all the other powers | for joint action against the revoiu- | tion before it developed invinc'ble | | power. She succeeded partially but {not decisively, | Kai-Shek’s desertion and treachery, a | severe blow to the Nationalist move- | |ment, but not a fatal one. Comrade Kenton is of the opinion | that it would: be worse had Chiang | waited until after the capture ot! Peking, when he would have all the} |militarist mercenaries _ incorporated Then came Chiang-! the Chinese workers and peasants is to be prevented American into the Nationalist armies, when the workers must understand that the Greens, Wolls, Lewises, ete. | southern ee would og oom ure in the camp of the imperialist enemy. Hebe: habe sus and Chiang’s Each day brings news of the increase of imperialist forces in, Tits ‘ta “foo “atakpla: ie hue Gibests. China and new depredations and outrages committed by them.) Granting that Chang-Tso-Lin instead Only a forma! declaration of war is needed to finish out the picture | of fighting,.took to poetry or opium-| of armed aggression against the Chinese liberation movement. eating a8-a permanent recreation, the Once again, the Communist Party American working class that it stands-face to face with war. No other conclusion can be drawn from the continual repudiation by deeds of arms the lying statements of the heads of the gov-} ernment relative to peaceful intentions toward the masses. The American masses must make their protests heard in} Washington. They must go over the heads of the leaders who, support the war program of the government. Emphatic resolutions demanding the immediate withdrawal of all armed forces from China should be passed by every union, | of America warns the | Westion might be well asked how) | would. the exchange of Chiang-Kai- | Shek for Chang-Tso-Lin strengthen cap jthe cause of the northern militarists | 49, and their imperialist allies? It should Chinese | be understood that the Chinese people | were not following Chiang’s person- ‘ality but the cause for which he stood, and if he refrained from consum- mating his act of treachery until he \had planted the Nationalist standard in Peking, he would find it much than now, since the masses would | number of, his former governmental ‘colleagues with him. But to minimize the severity of the blow inflicted on the revolution by his desertion would be like whistling to keep up, one’s! courage passing a graveyard. The/| possession of Shanghai is a tremend- ous strategic and financial advantage | to this traitor, Besides providing | him with one million dollars a month | in import taxes it is the base of oper-| ations of foreign imperialism. Its re- ; conquest by the revolutionary gov- ernment will cost time ‘and thousands of lives. But the job will be done. | THE character of the Chinese revo- | “ lution is thus described in the Com- | munist International, official. organ ‘of the C. I, in its issue of December | | 30, 1926: “The Chinese revolution is a. na- tional revolution in every sense of |the word. In the first place its aim jis to unite the country in the fight jagainst the semi-feudal and semi-/ list predatory militarist cliques, | | minating several provinces of the! |country with the aid of mercenary} jarmies. Secondly, its aim is to! {emancipate the Chinese nation from | | the state of a semi-colony and from | |the oppression of the imperialist | powers.” | The same organ goes on to say) | pleted, hence calling for the organi- | Olgin, Max Shachtman, and others. | Olgin To Speak. M. J. Olgin, has become a recent tragic figure. \ih holy matrimony with an: alummi of his jolly finishing school, begets a | daughter, who when the play opens | | trade union bureaucrats. addition to the program for the Chi- | ‘ ‘, cago May Day Meniog and will pay} ie pment ath ve Bae ee | particular attention to the despicable | innocence, with a. mind. of. ‘such de-| eke played Ld the Jewish Daily For- | Blorable immaculateness as to be al-! , t ically ai to one of her the combined senegal jt father's. star pérformers and is led eW- | by this woman upon the path to se- = Daily: Forward g celebrating its | duction. When the father learns what bear of treason to the | has happened, he goes half mad and i E TO leven the assurances of Reb Elieh, t La ue he poe eae a the garrulous matchmaker, that his es te FS , Tah ace aa | slightly soiled daughter is as mar- oe Lr eee while to! ketable as ever cannot console him. workers to attend this year’s Chi-| cago May Day demonstration, on Sunday evening May First at the Ashland Auditorium. Admission will ‘be 50 cents. Districts Hold Picnic. | Moral Bankruptcy. | | | j i af hor PRIOR ie SEE SE evenness “The story -is- cheap, sentimental | the incidental music. THEA, W.'52 St. Evs. Workers Party will be held on July ogy I eR 4th at the F. Gajda Farm Chewick, PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 25.—The | ) Theatre Guild Acting Company in | annual picnic’ of District 5. of the | THE ‘SECOND MAN | Pa.: It is the same farm where the pienic was held last year and which attracted nearly 3000 people. CHICAGO, April 25.—A May Day | vecherinka, concert and dance will! be given by the Russian branch of | the International Labor Defence Sat- |more difficult to betray the cause | that this task is far from being com- | urday, April 30, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division’St., beginning Next Week—Pyaemalion RIGHT YOU ARE 1 Ik ¥OU THING | FOU Pe st |GARRICK 66 W. 35 St. Ev's, 8: Mats. Thurs. and Sat. Next Week—Mr. Pim Passes By THE SILVER CORD lgonn Th.,68, B.of B'y (Circle I Golden if, & Sat.! 5678. Next Week—Ned MeCobb: WALLACK’S West | 42na - Sti wen: of the tragic quality is due to the magnificent acting of Ben Zwi Bara- toff; one of the truly great actors on the contemporary Yiddish stage. | Broadway Briefs J “Mixed Doubles,” the new Frank Stayton’s comedy starring Margaret Lawrence will have itSinitial showing tonight at the Bijou Theatre. Among the early productions planned by David Belasco for next |season will be Franc Molnar’s “The Red Mill.” Edwin Ludwig is writing MADISON SQUARE GARDEN (TWICE DAILY, 2 P.M & 8 P.M. BINGLING BROS. CIRCUS an BARNUM & BAILEY: Incl. among 10,000 Marvels PAWAH SACRED WHITE ELEPHANT TICKETS at GARDEN BOX OFFICES sth Ave. and 49th St., and Gimbel Bros. Neighborhood Playhouse 466 Grand St. Drydock 7516 B Every Eve. (except Mon.) Mat. Sat. ill of Lyric Drame co-operative and workers’ fraternal society and forwarded t0 have been better organized, educated |2ation of a government along Soviet at 8 P.M. Admission 40 cents. Cor. 6 Ay. & Washington. Down with the war plans of Wall Street government. Standard Oil do its own fighting. Hands Off China! Vandervelde Accuses Baldwin Government Emil ‘Vandervelde, hero of the socialist international, and foreign minister to his majesty, the king of Belgium, in a recent session of the council of the league of nations, accused the Eng- lish government of supporting and inciting the terrorist govern- ments in the Balkans. As usual, the league did nothing. Of more than passing interest, however, is the complaint of the notorious jingo war minister who aided in the great be- trayal of the international] socialist movement at the outbreak of the world war in 1914 ahd who to this day is the leading politi- cian in the capitalist government of Belgium and one of the stalwarts in the imperialist conspiracy known as the league of nations. While there are no words in any language sufficiently strong enough to condemn the acts of capitalistic Eng- land, the United States and other countries subsidizing the white terror in the Balkans, the last place in the world effectively +o potest against highwaymen is in their own headquarters, |and steeled in the fires of revolution Let|and the foreign imperialists would genous Koumintang Party is consid- |be less able to assist him than they | are now. |\(OMRADE KENTON’S attitude . is “not a-unique ‘or isolated one, A | section: of the Communist Party and | the Russian Party opposition « of China were infected with the diseased idea that. since there were in the Koumintang elements that the pro- |}etariat must eventually fight, it is better to fight them now than later on. But time works on the side of |the hegemony of the proletariat, |lines and breaking with the hetero- | | jered premature. According to dis-| | patches from Moscow that have’ ap=/ |peared in the press yesterday the) | plenum of the Central Committee of | |the Communist Party of the Soviet | Union “decided, against some op- position, that the Communists must | continue to fight side by side with | those who are fighting for a reborn | China, but would fight against the | right wing elements that are’ flirt- ling with the militarists. | | ea of all the revolutionary | Mats. Tues, Wed., Thurs. and Sat. Let’s Fight On! Join The Workers Party! FARL 00% . Spee x carrout’ Vanities, Earl Carroll nts: thurs ieee 24 | Mate. Wed..and Sat. » JED HARRIS Presents Drama 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 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) carry forward the work of Comrade | BE. SURE T0 GET THE ‘SPREAD EAGLE’ § jsomething the Chinese workers, forces in China for the struggle haven’t secured yet over the Chinese | #&4inst foreign imperialism and the revolution. And it must not be for- | UMification of that mighty country gotten that the Chinese Communists 8 the need of the hour. The correct land the’ revolutionary left wing are | Policy for the Koumintang Party to | steadily increasing their power and | follow is one of alliance between the | while the right wing, being funda-| the peasantry. Since the “petty- mentally pro-imperialist, is losing | bourgeoisie is another name for out. Naturally an early split is to! ‘middle-classes and since the Com- \the advantage of the latter, while | ™unist International is in favor of ‘unity, as long as no fundamental | Keeping the middle classes in the principle of policy or aim is com- | Yevolutionary alliance, Comrade Ken- their hold on the Chinese masses Petty bourgeoisie, the proletariat and | Address Ruthenberg. I want to become a member of the ‘SPECIAL ISSUE;. MAY FIRST, Civic Repertory $f {vaviine te. EVA LE GALLIENNE Tonight -...... “MASTER BUILDER” pomorrow Mat. "CR. Tomorrow, # “Pop. Prices, Mat. Weil. & Sai “ON APPROVAL” “Yhe Comedy Success te tele stig hoe (er Morrie DER : : ONTH ate SOR tate it Name Workers (Communist) Party. is Occupation 1... ..00 6 evedeesersers Union Affiliation...........6....5 Mail this application to the Work- ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New York City; or if in other city to These Gomrades Respon to the Call for Ruthenberg 3 pare ed especially when one is also one of the chief criminals. Particularly | promised thereby works to the advan-/ 00'S, explanation of —Chiang-Kai- Sustaining and Defense Fund | Workers Party, 1118 W. Washington STS SEAS SY ee Veen tee ridiculous is the complaint of that socialist renegade to the league | tage of the revolutionary elements. ot nations for the simple reason ‘he himself sat on the league|,~ gMALL section of the Chinese councii when it sanctioned the British steal of Mosul oil from! Communist Party favored with- Turkey, when it whitewashed the French government for its | drawing from the Koumintang declar- frighttulness in Syria and the imperialist conquest of Morocco) by and Spain and today sanctions the international ban-| ditry in ‘China; one of the allies in the world war for democracy | and self-determination: of nations and who for its pains was): ing that {t was a moral corpse and should be destroyed. This attitude was condemned by the executive com- mittee of the Communist Interna- Shek’s defection falls to the ground with a thud, In attempting to. ex- | plain the general’s desertion it would ‘be wise not to ignore the general's personal ambitions. To claim that a man’s social origin is an infallable and all-sufficient explanation of hi conduct is to fly in the face of thou- sands of facts to the contrary. Blvd., Chicago, Ml. Distribute the Ruthenberg pam- phiet, “The Workers (Communist)! 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