The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 30, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, Sa PURDAY, APRIL 30, 1927 8 winner saenainmasnrtnan THE DAILY WORKER Published by ‘.1e DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): §8.00 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months Address all mail and THE DAILY WORKER, 33 Fi By mail (outside of New Yori): $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.00 three months make out checks to rst Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE BERT MILLER . business Manager By WM. F. DUNNE I. | REACTION in the American’ labor | movement has suffered a political | defeat in the last thirty days. | If the left wing is able to drive |home the lessons of this defeat to | tional expression to the disillusion- | fensive again in the near future. | ther, the workingclass and give organisa? |F Ofticial Labor Reaction Meets Political Deteat (Big Capitalists and Their Agents Discipline Their Labor Leaders) 2) that the strikes organized and led by the left wing were unnecessary when the capitalists were ready to come to an understanding, and fur- interfered with the sweet peace which enveloped that these strikes worker and capitalist alike. clearly that any disposition for a truce ABOR officialdom is for peace but American capitalism is for war |ment and resentment which is bound | and in the last month it has shown | to arise, it will be able to take the of-! Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under || the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. | in the class struggle that may exist 'T MUST be understood to begin} is solely in the breasts of labor of- with, in this article a distinction | ficialdom. |is made between reaction in the la- bor movement proper and the general | wave of reaction which is sweeping | | the United States and which is bound | up intimately with its predominant | How has this been shown? By two important events and by a number of minor ones. Occur- rences of a major character which show that American capitalism is false sense of is our duty to the party and to the working class. this alone will we make it possible for the whole mass (and not | class struggle (these leaders have a casually selected group or study-circle) of influential party | never acknowledged the existence of workers to know their leaders AND TO PLACE EACH ONE OF | the class struggle) but it repudiates the rank and file militancy, shown “offense” to this or that leader. LENIN SAID: There is not a single political worker who has not experienced defeat at some period of sition in which the Greens, Wolls,| his career, and if we desire to speak seriously | Lewises—the whole leading circle of | about exercising influence upon the masses, | about winning the “good will” of the masses, | j,omselves, | we must exert every effort to prevent these|yT Is hardly necessary here to give defeats from being concealed in the vitiated atmosphere of study-circle and groups; they must be submitted to the judgment of all. At first sight it would seem that this is not propriety must be overcome; i THEM IN THEIR PROPER PLACE. November 25, 1903.) Hankow and the Chinese Eastern Railway— The Imperialist Front. The two things,that remain clear in the Chinese situation, that stand out thru.all the confusion created by imperialist cor- | ganizations. By this and | imperialist position. | reaction which is partially American Federation of Labo: its socialist allies—now fi the and It is exactly the | great depth of this general wave of | respon- | sible for the impossible political po- | r | ind | in detail the evidence (listed in| |many previous articles) which shows! was celebrated by just a small group that the leadership of the American labor movement has adopted a pro-| ‘ 7 gram having as its central point the | liberated workers and peasants took a proper thing to do and that it would give | castration of the unions and the re-| this day as the most cherished holi- But this | placement of virility by organizations | day. The class conscious workers fol- on the offensive are: 1.—The closing of their mines by the coal barons rather than con- tinue the wages and working con- | ditions specified in the Jackson- ville agreement. 2.—The decision of the United States supreme court handed down on April 11 in the Bedford Cut Stone case outlawing even the or- dinary defensive activities of unions in so brazen a manner that Justice Brandeis in his dissenting opinion referred to it as “an instrument for imposing restraints upon la- bor which reminds of involuntary servitude.” These two blows at the labor move- ment cannot be understood in their full importance as complete and un- answerable refutations of the work- er-employer cooperation doctrine un- less they are seen in, their relation to the recent history of the labor! movemc” (To Be Continued.) | By RACHEL HOLTMAN. Not long ago, the First of May in the big industrial centres. Then came the Russian revolution and the ¢| which are to be instruments for pro- | lowed them and soon there will not | moting increased production. i Hy in strikes, boycotts and armed strug- (“Lenin on Organization”—From a letter to the Iskra, gles which made the American labor | movement as forceful as it is. i baa policy, to be successful, must This policy does not merely abandon the be a corner in the globe where this day will not be recognized as the most praised workers’ holiday. It is hard to believe that the reac- of Labor, the ones that now persecute workers, the ones that go hand in hand with the bosses—that this American Federation of Labor should have been the first over thirty years be based on a truce in the class|ago to propose at the International struggle—agreement by the capital- | Congress in Paris, that the first of ists to abandon their aggressions! May be considered as the day ot against the workers’ organizations, | struggle for the eight hour day. their wages and working conditions | and all attempts to lower the political | cepted unanimously) the A. F. of L. status of the workers and their or-| put herself in the forefront as the struggle | vanguard to fight for better working The class With that proposition (it was ac- respondents who do not know what is actually going on to begin arises from the fact that the capital-| conditions, with and who in the second place atmosphere, are: wish to create an intervention ist class never treats the working | class as anything else than a subject | class. 1.) The attack of the imperialists is centering on Hankow, need to be explained here.) the stronghold of the labor movement, of the Kuomintang gov- ernment and the important indust 2.) The offensive against the Soviet Union is being developed by means of attempts to seize the Chinese Eastern Railway and eliminate the Soviet Union from the management committee or- capitalism. rial district of China. ganized jointly by them and the Chinese. Battleships of the great powers numbering from forty-five to fifty (estimates vary) are anchored in front of Hankow “with HE official leadership of American labor has acted on the theory | courts, that in the United States there is no such thing as the class struggle —no class division. In the American Federa- tionist for June 1923 (about the time the present offensive against mili- tant trade unionism got under way) we read that the American Federation their guns trained on the city,” to quote the imperialist press.) of Labor is “squarely for the defense Wild rumors of disorders in Hankow, which would furnish an and maintenance of the existing order | adopted the It does not fight Now They Change. Never before was it so plain as it (The reasons for this do not! is now that the leaders of the A. F, | of L. are closely connected, are going |hand in hand with the government bourgeois press and the | bosses. Never before were the class |lines so sharply drawn as they are ;now. Never before were there such |disruptions in the workers’ move- | ment as there is on this first of May. | The A. F. of L. has completely for- | gotten its ideals—the cause for which | jit stood. It is no longer celebrating | the First of fMay, but instead has or day which ts so excuse for intervention, have been cabled to the American press | "4 for its development and improve- ardently being celebrated by the ever since the treason of Chiang Kai Shek occurred. But to date nothing of the kind has happened and yesterday the news comes ef a resumption of business by Japanese concerns by agreement’ cooperation”—the with the labor unions and the Hankow government. It seems that the “demoralization” of the labor unions and | °* the left wing government, which the imperialist correspondents ment.” Pr practice the above statement has expressed as “union-management Baltimore | Ohio plan, the Watson-Parker bill, Flowing out of this denial of the class struggle has come a flood of apologies for the discarding of the have been so industriously propagating, is pure fiction. Not only policy of struggle for obtaining de- is the Hankow government consolidating its influence in the three | mands made by the unions. great industrial cities of Wuchang, Hanyang and Hankow but it} is, according to the New York Times, whose correspondent is bit- terly hostile to Hankow, sending four armies southward to Canton. whose sole purpose is to justify |the embrace with American capital- ism. Every two-by-four “economist” has been prating about the “tremend- This certainly is evidence of strength and not weakness. On ous new developments in American the other hand, Chiang Kai Shek h ize a civilian government in spite of strenuous efforts in this as not even been able to organ- | industry,” preaching against “waste jin industry,” lauding the “sane and constructive” policy of the Greens, direction but is still operating as a dictator with but little author-| Wolls and Lewises, forecasting a ity over subordinate commanders. “new. civilization,” ete. The concentration of imperialist naval and military forces at) THE Workers Education Bureau, Hankow is in itself a refutation of the tales of the weakness of | the anti-imperialist and labor government there. World imperi- beginning"as something of a revolt | against the absolute lack of any edu- | cational. activity in the A. F. of L. alism knows that the Hankow government, with its base in the | program, has rapidly become a prop- labor unions and peasant organizations, with millions of sup-|aganda porters in and around great centers of population such as Shang- hai and Canton, is the only powerful force opposing it in China. This is the secret of the huge fleet 600 miles up the Yangtze and the constant bombardments conducted jointly by British and American gunboats. These two great imperialist nations, both of them seeing in the rise of the Soviet Union and the Chinese liberation movement the beginning of the end of their careers of robbery, and aided by| Japan and France when necessary, are striking at the heart of the mass movement in China. Japan again is inciting Chang Tso Lin to aggression against the Soviet Union. To end the war on the Chinese labor unions, the peasant or- those sections of the middle class which are honestly fighting against imperialism, is the task of countries. We can be certain that the workers in the imperialist if the present plans of the im- perialists mature and the Chinese liberation movement is crushed temporarily (it cannot be destroyed) that there will be a new und more destructive wave of world reaction. The Chinese masses hold the first line trenches. We must instrument for effictency unionism, Its principal function is to give as much theoretical justification | as possible for the wrecking of the | unions as weapons of the workers. GAINST the Communists and the |** organized left wing the principal | arguments used by the efficiency | union apologists have been 1) that they insisted on basing a policy on the class struggle when no such clash existed in democratic America and and) WHOLE literature has developed | | American bourgeoisie, namely, the | first Monday in September. | Call It “Health Day.” Yet, the bourgeoisie is considering {this great international holiday and the manner in which they are cele- brating it is by taking an account of the great work they have done for | society. They are trying high and low to show how much they have done to bring up a healthy generation, healthy | physically and morally. The Child Welfare Association is jorganizing May 1, celebrations throughout the States, the attractions | with which they hope to draw people are with May Day Parties, prizes for \the best fed children, etc. Naturally —who are the best fed children? | Certainly not the children of the great masses, who are compelled to go to work before they are physically de- veloped, for a low unearthly wage that is not even enough to give them |the mere necessities of existence. Workers Look to Future. May the ist, when the workers gather to account for everything they have done and decide what should be done; it is also the duty of the working class woman to take stock of what she has done to enlighten the lives and better conditions of the work- ing women, in the factory, and home. What is the situation now? For the last year into the class struggle were The Second Party Women’s Indus- | trial Conference will be held Friday, May 6th at 8 p. m., at 126 ast 16th | Street, New York City. All delegates at first conference plus the following comrades must at- tend: 1.—Representatives from shop nuc- lei in shops empleying women. ‘MEETING FOR WOMEN MEMBERS OF WORKERS PARTY ganizations, the militant nationalist student organizations and| 2.—All Party industrial organizers. 8.—Individual comrades working in shops employing women. 4.—Section and sub-section organ- izers for women’s work. This conference will be of especial interest. Report on activities and new tasks will be taken up. The First of May and the Working Woman | tionaries of the American Federation | drawn in elements as were considered impossible to get hold of—i.e. the ‘women. Women Unionists. The heroic fight in Passaic, where | 80 per cent of the working women are now organized in unions shows clearly what a power women can be| when organized, The excellent relief work during the strike showed clearly what the women have been able to achieve. For the last year, the women grew up and developed men- tally. She is beginning to under- stand that the struggle of the work- ers is her struggle. This historic mass meeting of the 3000 women workers in Cooper Union is the best proof that the woman is on the right path and in the right place. Give Relief. For the last year the women have built up and developed their organiza- tion, They gave relief wherever and whenever it was necessary. They | took part in picketing, in different protest meetings, bazaars and educa- tional work, With the best of hope and aspira- tions, the women may look towards the future and with enthusiasm con- | tinue the struggle. | On the day of May 1st the working | women of America are sending to all the oppressed and enslaved the world over their comradely greetings. Sisters, unite with the men workers in the fight for a better, more | beautiful world. LL.D. Bazaar In Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, April 29.—The jannual bazaar of the International) Labor Defense, Local Philadelphia, will be held at New Traymore Hall, | Franklin St. and Columbia Ave., on | Friday evening, and Saturday after- |noon and evening, May 6th and 7th. Secretary Lyman claims that this bazaar will certainly measure up to the high standard set by their pre- vious bazaars, and invites all who wish to help in the work of defense | for political prisoners to participate. | Anyone wishing to contribute! money or articles to the bazaar should send same to the local headquarters | at 521 York Ave. | Young Pioneer League, May Day Celebration. The Young Pioneer League will celebrate May Day on Saturday after- noon, one o'clock at 525 East 72nd Street. The program includes a play, “The Rose Bush” and a talk by Joe Freeman, who has just returned Sore Hossa, on May Day in Soviet ussia, e also brings etin from the Russian Pioneers. oe Let’s Fight On! Join . The Workers Party! In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- berg the Workers (Communist) Pan 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 bce aSeecaiet) Party and ‘orwa: ie wo! se oy rk of Comrade I want to become a member of the | FOOT * staranded in Shanghai. The letter appears in full in the college Workers (Communist) Party, Name Address Occupation TOPE eee n ee eeeneaseresees Union Affiliation. ............ec008 me BY KUGENE LYONS FROM RAGS TO RICHES: A SUCCESS STORY. By Jake, the Demon Reporter. From rags to riches—that in brief is the story of Herbert Klotz, the multimillionaire rags dealer, a self-made man who attributes all his success to his mother, This reporter, being softhearted, wiped a tear as Mr. Klotz unfolded the stirring story of his career, No man (since the last one we interviewed) has had so many obstacles to contend with before rising to his présent pinnacle of wealth. “You see, young feller,’ Mr. Klotz said from the side of his mouth which was not occupied by a cigar, “it was this way. When I got to this here country I was just a kid, you know. And I was interested in a lot of nonsense. I liked music, for example—Bach and Mozart and Beethoven and the rest of the heavyweights. Get me?” ° ? “Yeh,” the reporter interjected. “But my mother, God bless her memory,” he continued, signing large checks for charity, perhaps a little sadly, “my mother she says, ‘Herbie,’ she says, ‘y’gotta get over it. There aint no future in it. Money talks in this here country, see? Now look at Uncle Gerhart,’ she says, ‘just look at uncle Gerhart.’ ”* Mr. Klotz did. This uncle was born with a fine tenor voice. In the old country he had dreamed of becoming an opera star. But in America he decided to put his voice to better use. He became an old clothes collector. No one could resist his sweet resonant cries. | Women rushed to sell their husbands’ Sunday suits for next to nothing when his “Any ol’ clo’s .. .” echoed through the streets. And so Uncle Gerhard was established as a prosperous rags dealer, with a cellar all his own, then two cellars, and so on. “T became apprenticed to my uncle,” Klotz deglared, ab- sent-mindedly tearing up the checks he had signed, “but it was no cinch. Always at the wrong moment music would come into my head, and thoughts about birds and spring and that sort of stuff. But I thought of my poor old mother and her hopes for my future. I crushed those thoughts and got down to hard tacks. And after a while I got on quite nicely, thank you.” Then came a great day when he discovered that there was another kind of rags, a'kind that his uncle knew nothing about. Klotz discovered that his great failing, music, could help him. He began to specialize in musical rags! “Ragtime music was just going into style,” he said, toying idly with $20 gold pieces. “That was my chance! I began to corner the market. At last my love of music was a Business Asset. I began to buy up bits of Bach and Bee- thoven and Mozart and the rest of the big boys; tag-ends, snatches, ‘seconds’ from all the masters; tunes torn out this place and that... . I had them all turned to good honest rags. Orders came faster than I could fill them and now I have a factory in Rutherford, New Jersey, another in Gary, Indiana, and a third—but let me show you.” He led the excited reporter to the show-room. Radios and victrolas and mechanical pianos were going full blast. Hundreds of uniformed composers were at work. “You see,” he said, “business is just humming.” “Humming ain’t the word for this racket,” thé reporter agreed and rushed off to beat the deadline. The Battle of Banker Hill. At the Battle of Bunker Hill our men saw red and stabbed at those straps criss-crossed on the chests of lazy shiftless fellows And Lost! At the Battle of Banker Hill (And other Socony Hills) our men saw clouds _ of red—red—red ... and sent speeding, sizzling shell . . . shell . . . shell and Won! —SPULL. God and Gunboats, “Some mean people are saying,” Norman Studer advises this partment, “that the missionaries have forsaken God for Gunboats China, but don’t you believe them. To prove it, I am sending quotation from a letter written by a one of God’s own salesmen, paper of Chowan College, Murfreesboro, N. C. Here it is: “ ‘We do crave the prayers of our friends at home.. It is ourselves that we are concerned, but for the native Christians, tive pastors, the native evangelists and the native Bible women, are having to undergo all kinds of persecutions at this is no one to protect them. ... For our protection there from America and Britain here in the harbor, and which we could be put on boats at short notice. .. .’ “In an exclusive spirit-world interview for this paper I discovered why the missionaries are right in praying for the native Christians while they rely on Gunboats. It is so busy protecting the native Believers from an awful hands of the enemy that it would be downright ingratitude to bother with a mere handful of missionaries.” ask Him Literary Intervention—A distinguished group of Jewish writers has,/ published an open letter to the needle trades workers of New York. give all possible aid. 1928, with “guaranteed participation of the liberals in the con- Mail thi 1 literary gentlemen Have been watching the internal for a } Every imperialist government must be exposed by the work-| servative government,” to be followed by elections “guaranteed | .... p, Zt ape ication to the Work-|'They saw the bloodshed, the starvation, the threat the very } : f > ‘arty, 108 East 14th Street, New| the unions involved. But they did not feel that they interfere, ers whom it oppresses at home. by the United States if both sides request it. York City; or if in other city to|however, something worse happened, In the fervor of the fight the The demand for Hands Off China can be made so powerful This brazen attempt to disarm the opposition and establish | Workers Party, 1118 W. Washington| batants fi their manners. The Yiddish tongue was being by that imperialism cannot carry out its program for establishing | Diaz as the undisputed dictator is too flimsy to escape detection aa eee m1. gross . That was more than they could stand, wherefore the public anew the enslavement of the Chinese masses. by the liberals. Certainly the Diaz side will not request an elec- stribute the Ruthenberg pam-/ letter peace. phlet, “The Workers (Communist)! Party, What it Stands For and Why| wi} Workers Should Join.” This Ruthen- Now it only remains to see how Messrs, Woll, McGrady, Frayne meet this appeal to their literary conscience. i x shen berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- phlet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. Further Suggestions For An All-Star Every Party Nucleus must collect Comrade \ 50 Laight dca be ath and will | for the recei ‘or vi ber to sell or anceinnte, ve Nuclei in the New York District will get their pamphlets from the tion that might endanger their position, therefore no election will |be held unless a reign of terror is established that will assure the disfranchising of the masses and a fake election that will cloak Diaz’s dictatorship with legality. The liberals should refuse to disarm and should continue the fight against Diaz, the Wall Street agent, as well as against Coolidge’s gunmen of imperialism and the industrial magnate, Mr. Stimson, until the whole mess of them are driven from the country and the people permitted to choose their own form of government. In their defiance of American imperialism they will have the support of all workers and farmers in the United States wh: are awakened to the menpce of the administration’s provocati policy in the South and Central American republics, f y Nicaraguan Liberals Should Reject Stimson Plan The combination of American marines and subsidized Diaz forces having thus far failed completely to subdue in the interest of imperialist policy the liberal forces supporting the legally sel- ected government of Sacasa, the Wall Street-Coolidge-Kellogg government has sent Henry L. Stimson, secretary of war under President Taft and one of the directors of the American Super- power Corporation, to utilize dirty diplomacy in an effort to dis- arm the liberal forces. Stimson, under orders of the Coolidge administration, has. proposed to the supporters of Sacasa that they disarm and per- mit the usurper Diaz to remain Np office until December 31, f } ok) Sam Levine volunteers the following recommendations | all-star staff of reporters being mobilized by Footnotes: History—Henry Ford. | Communism—Abraham Cahan. q Latest News From Russia—Alexander Kerensk: | District Offi ui Noclel ooulila ake ee ods Left Wing Trade Unionism—Matthew Woll. District write to Daily Worker Pub- fe lishing Co,, 88 East First Street, New | schon ists W's: READ THE DAILY WORKER EVERY DA Workers Party, 1118 W. Washington ~~ ‘ 'Blyd., Chicago, Il. ‘ t ? f ’