The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 2, 1927, Page 3

. {was at first felt that I should go by Engdahl Writes af ‘by way of Latvia into the Soviet Union. But the French consulate in H H {New York City insisted on a multi- is BmiOns if 10n | tude of official documents, which it | asian be submitted. Then the re- | quest for the transportation of the On Soil of Germany « the foreign office of the French | government at Paris, with no telling = | how long it would take to unwind the | By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. | neccessary red tape and get a return | BREMERHAVEN, Germany (By | favorable. | Mail).—It, was the familiar Hammer | Changed Plans. { and Sickle on the red background of | at the last moment, therefore, the a pin worn by a Bremerhaven com-| plang had to be changed and instead | rade on the lapel of his coat that es-| of sailing Tuesday midnight, April, Workers (Communist) Party of the | France, I left Wednesday noon, April United States and the Homma 6th, on the United States Lines, Pres- | Party of Germany as the President | jdent Roosevelt. Topearelly on wale 5 bed ig waived Following the Ruthenberg Memor- | | ie H Central Opera ‘ Carnegie Hall, the Cen ¥ The symbol of the unity of the | House and the New Star Casino, the workers end farmers of the Enian of |urn containing the ashes were placed Soviet Republics, that has become we in a safety deposit vault where they | suai of “ Unity Sect ere were kept until I was ready to sail. OL e wor! over, reve! Hi “| kept the urn which, when not on view, pee Sd Sag ae Paginas ad boat enclosed in a wooden es in my arty Jor the reception of the ashes | cabin Altho this was a three-pas- of our late Jeader, C, E. Ruthenberg, | Conger cabin, I had it to myself, made and their fitting conveyance over the | possible thru the light travel going lie on their way to their final rest-| Thus a multitude of obstacles were | a) place in the Kremlin Wall at |evercome. Another stage in the! Moscow, jou , r dead ; : journey of the ashes of our ad | The steamship ticket carries all jgader, in compliance with his last | passengers thru direct to Bremen, request that his remains be buried | that, howeyer, like Hamburg. is not | been completed. reached a beg ari ag liners. Red Front Fighters. Met By Comrades. a . icipality of HS re, But} Even in this small municipality ¥ have Lah pn there other- | Bremerhaven, with its 30,000 popula- | an comrades P 1 | washed by the same waters a I mi the Ge: yee April 15, which marked | rnoon ri . which mar! 1 ; bos a Sang id the Easter holidays | City, rage i ve migiiy steel | in Germany, to make a “favorable | of the German Comm ae t the tide? It, therefore, came to anchor | The local party takes charge o: e | way of France, then Germany, then jashes had to be forwarded by cable (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) | roply, which might even then be un- | tablished the connection between the | 5th, on the Cunarder, Berengaria for | Bremerhaven Harbor. jial Meetings in New York City at break in the impressive program pre- During the voyage over the Atlantic 1] soil of the German capitalist repub- \to Europe at this time of the year. ene of Germany's Jargest seaports | in the Kremlin wall, in Moscow, has | ur ship came in too late Fri- | tion, the Atlantie that toueh New York Czecho-Slovakia Unions Are Split By Right Wingers PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, April 4 (By Mail).—The Amsterdam Inter- national very often comes ont in de- fense of trade union unity. It accuses Moscow of disruptive activities. It does all in its power to prove that the | “anited front” is only an agitational Kengers, the baggage and mail. as had previously been done at Ply- mouth, England, and Cherbough, France. So our German comrades came out with the tender altho this is supposed to be “verboten.” They came over the side of the big ship it- self. . It was Folkert Potykus, a Bremer- haven party functionary, who wore the Soviet emblem. With him were Josef Sackreider, another party func- tionary, and Otto Lindau, one of the editors of the Arbeiter-Zeitung, of Bremen, that serves the entire north- west district of Germany. They im- mediately took charge of the urn con- taining the ashes of Ruthenberg, on iyy the harbor and a tender had to y= alongside to take off the pas- behalf of the organization localliy, | Thru previous arrangement with cus- toms officials everything went thru without a hitch, even my own bag- gage escaping the.nsuel,thoro search. Encdintered Dilay. It may now be told, in explanation of the short delay encountered in sending Ruthenberg’s ashes on their way to Moscow, following the tremen- dous memorial gatherings in New York City, that numerous obstacles had to be confronted and overcome. | First of all, it was decided to send the ashes legally. After being selec- ted, therefore, by the party political committee for this mission, I made application for a passport in New York City. The application was for- warded as usual to Washington. The passport is usually granted in three or four days, I waited a week and then telephoned Washington from New York to be told that the appli- cation was “under consideration” but would be acted on immediately, Sey- eral more days ‘passed. Then I was told that the department of Justice had been asked to give a report on my anti-war activities and that this report was not yet forthcoming, ‘that 1 had not presented sufficient evi- dence that I was born in the United States, and that even my father’s ap- plication for citizenship papers was being questioned. That didn’t look favorable, Several more days pas- sed. Then I sent a telegram on Fri- day, April 1, to the department that I was coming to Washington person- ally to make a direct demand for the passport. The same day a telegram came back from Washington that the Passport was on its way and would arrive on Saturday, as it did. French Official Red Tape. In the meantime obstacles were be- ing confronted in the taking of the ashes from New York to Moscow. It lashes, and then in turn surrenders | them to a guard of the local organi- zation of the Red Front Fighters | (Rote Frontkampfer Bund) the pow- ‘er of which may be judged from the | fact it is planning to hold a national | gathering in Berlin on June 6th, with | 300,000 in attendance from all parts 'of what the Germans call the Dawes | Plan Republic. The local organiza- tion in Bremerhaven has 360 mem- ” | bers, not including “Rote Marine”! | (Red Marines). and the Rote Mad- j chen and Frauen Bund, the organi- | zation of girls and women. A total of 2,000,000 Red Front Fighters is claimed for the whole republic. “The Closed Fist.” | The insignia of the Red Front | Fighters is the closed fist. The sal- ute consists of raising the right hand | to the right shoulder, closing the hand \in a fist as it is being raised. The Red Front Fighters have their own {publications and. literature. | They have a very characteristic uniform, that quickly distinguishes them wher- lever they may appear. But the laws of the German capitalist republic of | the socialists, Ebert, Schneidemann and: Noske, do not permit them to bear arms of any kind. Awe the Fascists. Then constitute an important part of all Communist demonstrations and Communist activities, altho they | are not all Communists. In fact ‘some of them are militants who still | claim allegiance to the socialist party, honest workers who have not yet |come over to the Communist Party. This “Red Front” constitutes a migh- ty weapon in carrying on Communist |activities. No fascist attack is ever made on a Communist gathering of |any kind without getting its proper | rebuff. Many of the members of this | “Red Front” were school boys during the World War who have come of age and grown to full manhood with the great slaughter came to an end. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxem- bourg had no such Red Front to ar- ray against the forces of reaction when they raised the standards of the German workers’ struggle for all power in January, 1919.. If they had had such a power, history would have been written differently. In the next bid for power on the barricades the German workers will be better pre- | pared. It was the Bremerhaven organiza- tion of this Red Front that took the ashes of our comrade, Ruthenberg, | into its keeping. BUY THE DAILY WORKEK AT THE NEWSSTANDS PHILADELPHIA ANNUAL BAZAAR the passing of the nine years since | DANCE and CONCERT of the INTERNATION AL LABOR DEFENSE FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 6th SATURDAY AFTERNOON and EVENING, MAY 7th NEW TRAYMORE HALL Franklin and Tickets for both days, 50c. (Including Columbia Ave. Single admission, 35c. Wardrobe.) slogan of the Commnuists. The words and actions of Amster- dam, however, diverge appreciably. Facts are not wanting to prove the | disruptive tactics of the Amsterdam | International. One of the recent suc- _ cesses of Amsterdam’s policy of dis- ruption is the split in the militant al- |liance between the reformist German | Railwaymen’s Union—“Verband” and the railwaymen’s section of the One ig Union (OBU—Red Federation af- | filiated to RILU) in Czecho-Slovakia. The present instance is very in- structive as all the disruptive ma- chinations were carried out on the | initiative and under the personal guid- jance of the president of the Amster- ‘dam International—Oudegeest him- self—who personally attended all the meetings of both trade union centres. To Carry On Struggles. Coordination of activities between the “Verband” and the Railwaymen’s Section of the OBU was agreed upon by both organizations in order to car- yy on the. economic struggle jointly and to coordinate their struggle dur- ing the re-elections of last year for the railwaymen’s sick benefit societies. Of a total number of 188,415 votes, this block was supported by 44,000. Such an increase of the opposition j alarmed the government as well as the | reformists, who considered their po- sition among the railwaymen secure, and the former, through the agrarian press, began to speak of the danger of Communist control over the rail- waymen. Brodetsky, secretary of the reform- ist Czech Railwaymen’s Union eon- demned as treason the action of the {German Railwaymen’s Union (reform- ist) “Verband” in coordinating their | activities with the Railwaymen’s Sec- tion. Collaboration between the German reformists and the revolutionary union was, however, short-lived, and on the 12th of February a meeting was held of representatives of the “Verband” and Railwaymen’s Section, which, de- spite the touching speeches of the re- formists, virtually led to a break, At this meeting Grunzner, the rep- resentative of the reformist “Ver- band” made a few remarks bearing interesting testimony to the “warm” relations existing among the reform- ists. Hampered Negotiations. “We shall do everything,” he said, “to guide the union in the right way and coordinate all the forces of social- ism. We know that Brodetsky ham- pered the negotiations as much as he ‘eould and will continue to do so in _the future. He does not wish to talk ‘with you, while it is our aim, on the contrary, to preserve mutual contact and friendly relations.” The reader |naturally asks: Why this sudden friendliness? Grunzner considers The fact is: that “in accordance with assurances received during previous meetings (with the reformists) the opportunity arises for you to leave the OBU.” “Perhaps,” continues Brunzner, “that will be the only way for the Rail- waymen's Section to get freedom of action.” Tt appears then that the “friendly” relations of the reformists towards us depend on our breaking with ‘the railwaymen’s section of the OBU, These are not very brilliant tactics. Our comrades gave a worthy an- swer to the Amsterdam proposal: “You should not forget,” said the secretary of the Railwaymen’s Sec- tion, ‘that we, too, belong to a defin- ite International and to a trade union centre. We, too, have our principles || and our obligations.” Grinned and Bore it, In breaking with the Railwaymen’s Section the reformists were well aware that antagonism among, their own yank and file members would be | Blyd. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1927 ‘Butcher of Cuba Off For Slaughter Houses Gerardo Machado, butcher-presi- }dent of Cuba, left today for Chicago after a week of gadding about town in the company of Sugar Exchange and other Wall Street hosts. Before leaving, Machado was the| guest at a luncheon tendered by the | |New York State Chamber of Com- merce. Afterward he made a tour’ of inspection in the Times plant. Royal Academy Snubs Shaw. LONDON, May 1.—George Ber- | nard Shaw suspects that the Royal Academy has discriminated against ‘him. He intimated this suspicion to- day, discussing the decision of the | Hanging Committee of the Royal. | Academy in rejecting a portrait. of | Shaw by the honorable John Collier, | although it aceepted Collier's portrait of Aldous Huxley. Shaw said if the public was tired of seeing his portrait and would pre- | fer to see Huxley’s he would be glad | to give way to a younger “and much | less shop soiled colleague.” Paris Plane Ready Soon. With special radio apparatus being |installed, the Bellanca monoplane | | which will be used in the attempt at |a New York-to-Paris flight, will be | ready for the hop-off soon. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS roused. It ‘was“Yor this reason” they | endeavored io grin and bear it. Despite this it became plain to their members that the collaboration of the “Verband” with the Railwaymen’s! Section came to grief over the inter- ests of “federating” the trade union | |movement. .The muddled policy of Amsterdam makes this paradox seem quite normal. This time the criminal activities of Amsterdam in splitting | the workers’ front is thrown into om- | inous relief. The disruption of the militant collaboration of the “Ver- band” with the Railwaymen’s Section | has been caleulated to coincide with | the impending struggle of the Czecho- | Slovakian railwaymen which will be of the greatest service to the govern- ment in their struggle against the | | vailwaymen. | | The “Verband” is uniting with the |“union,” ie, “federation” being | ‘achieved at the expense of splitting | \the revolutionary unions. | This is the very latest from Am- sterdam. Let’s Fight On! Join — The Workers Party! | were MARINES HAVE LANDED—CHRIST AND THE PROFITS ARE SAFE! | Darrow and Hayes Take Up Sormenti Case With Davis Clarence S. Darrow, the famous Chicago attorney, and Arthur Gar- field Hayes, Darrow’s associate in the famous» Scopes “evolution” case in| Tennessee, are to plead before Secre- tary of Labor Davis at Washington Monday the case of Enea Sormenti, | the Italian anti-fascist leader, under | sentence of deportation. The date for the deportation is set for May 3., Sormenti’s deportation to Italy means certain death at the hands of the, fascist regime, which has made num-! erous attempts: to murder him, not onty in Italy, but also in the United States. Recalls Similar Case. Carlo Tresca, ‘speaking for the Anti-Fascisti Alliance, recalls in con- nection with the order to deport Sor- menti to the Italian butchers, the famous case of Jan Janoff Pouren, ja Russian revolutionary, whom the government of the Czar tried to. ex- tradite from this country in 1908. The then secretary of state, Elihu Root, absolutely refused to use the machinery of the government to place in the hands of the Ryssian black hundreds the political enemies of the Czar. In the Outlook of September 1908, an editorial appeared, which closed as follows: * “To return a revolutionary to Russia, whatever his offenses, is to return to his torturers a man who has been goaded by them into the crimes which he has com- mitted.” The same publication on October! 31, 1908, reports Secretary Root as refusing to issue the warrant that would place Pouren in the hands of | his political enemies in Russia and) declares the action “will be approved | by all Americans who do not wish to} see Russia use American courts and the American government to get back into its own hands men charged with political offenses.” Shielded Political Offender. | In his opinion on the Pouren case. delivered March 30, 1909, Tmmigra- tion Commissioner S. M. Hitcheock, refused to send the defendant to}! Russia and stated: “It is only necessary for me to determine whether the accused has | established his defense, that the of- | fenses with which he is charged, committed incidentally to, and as part of, a political distur- | bance or revolutionary movement.” | Certainly, if the decision of the! Page Three 1922, tiat he was set upon at Al- lesandcia by a horde of fascists who took him out of a hotel and into a dark street and beat him into in- sensibility and left him for dead After this experience Sormenti was in a hospital for over two months. Fascists Murder Comrade. Then after the fascist march or Rome in 1923, Sormenti was ag as- sailed in Trieste and arrested for a | Soviet Union exceeded the pre-war “plot against the state.” During the || rate, while agricultural production time he was in prison a gang of fas-'| virtua equalled it, is pointed out cist hoodlur in the Commercial Handbook for who had forgotten his menti. He w ken from the | 9,000,000 less at the beginning of and first beaten and tortured, after|| the , because of loss of terri- which his eyes were gouged 1 away ‘by capitalist ther: he rdered. adventures, of these re ted meni and his cide to Yaided the house of hi 1927 issued yesterday by the Soviet ki lly attacked his ,| Union Information Bureau here. brother had nev engaged i page at the end of political activities because of hi : ed that of 1913 by 8,656 outh, There was present in | miles, the handbook states, while another young man named || the population of the present ter- , who we mistaken for Sor. ritory of the t Union was Soviet Union Handbook Shows Industry and Roads Exceed the Pre-War Totals WASHINGTON, D. C., May 1— That industrial production in the , Bronx taxi driver, exonerated on any with the death of ef the Violet Grampeer, former White Plains Sorn r n August,/girl. The district attorney’s office 1923, the fascist government of Mus-| dropped all charges against Fisehter solini, thinking that his spirit would nvestigation proved that the surely be broken by th prolonged | girl fell down a flight of steirs in campaign of terror ag t him and|the apartment house where she because the fascists were then in| roomed. Fi - had been held in the control of the government Came to America. belief that he y have pushed her was the case is the fact that the But instead of yielding to the state department instructed the de- Mussolini gime he continued to’ partment of justice to investigate the fight against them, but s finally ties of Sormenti. When first compelled again to leave i Sormenti was accused of il- to Algiers, in Africa, @ legal entry and anarchism and charged short time learned the p was set for him by the fascists and was forced te leave. He boarded a bi as a stowaway, not knowing where was going and finally America in September, 14 with being the editor of Il Martello, the Italian organ which was then and * is today edited by Carlo Tresca. ake Offer by Government. The state department has offered to let Sormenti go where he pleases, In the loss of Comrade Ruthen-| &vernment was against deportation berg the Workers (Communist) Par- | °f Pouren because he was a political) ty has lost its foremost leader and ©"¢™y of the Czarist government, the | the American working class its | *@™Me procedure ‘Showld hold in the staunchest fighter. This loss can only |°#5¢ ®f Sormenti who, since he be- be overcome by many militant work. |C@™e cf nye and able to participate ers joining the Party that he buil. 1° politica! movements, has beep Fill out the application below and | hounded by the fascist terror both mail it. Become a member of the | i™Side and outside of Italy. Workers (Communist) Party and_ Long Enemy of Fascism. | carry forward the work of Comrade, The story of Sormenti’s political | Ruthenberg. ' ‘persecuiion by fascist tyranny is one I want to become a member of the of the most amazing in the history! Workers (Communist) Party. ;of Evropean despotism. On many | occasions he was beaten and stabbed WOE: 25 Sek sseeeerovceeseeeess | almost to the point of death and on one occasion he was left for dead in Address ...+..sssscceeseeeeeesess|a dark street in Allesandria. . His tortures began in December, Occupation ......ssessseseeeeeess» | 1991, before the fascists came to |power, On that occasion he was Union Affiliation..... Mail this application to the Work- | kidnapped in Trieste, his native city, |taken into the woods and stabbed -, /ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New York City; or if in other city to Workers Party, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, Distribute the Ruthenberg pam- phiet, “The Workers (Communist) Party, What it Stands For and Why Workers Should Join.” This Ruthen- berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- Every Party Nucleus must collect 50 cents from every member and will receive 20 pamphlets for every mem- ber to sell or distribute. Nuclei 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- lishing Co., 38 East First Street, New gore Date. or to birt Setiaoel Office, orkers Party, 11 + Washington Chicago, 1) i” with daggers, the marks of which he still carries on his forehead, He was, then forced by the fascist terror to leave the city. 1 | Marked for death by the fascists, | jhe fled to Germany, where a fascist! | spy caused his arrest as an “unde-/| sirable alien” by the German author- | | ities, who placed him in a detention phlet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. In March, 1922, he returned to , Triesie, where he remained until May, | when a fascist band of outlaws raided | the Haliah Chamber of Labor in an effort to kill him. As they shot at him a young comrade of his, named Gherliszza, threw himself before the blazing guns, meeting instantaneous | death. Sormenti was on that occa-| sion stabbed in the face and lips, but managed to escape in spite of his dangerous wounds. left in Street For Dead. “© @ few weeks later, in | July, nt etapa emneeneenneneneenenesrteslllimmety, 2} endeavored to acquaint It im this! but they know full well that he will jcountry with the true facts about be barred from every other eountry fascism. which has diplomatic intercourse with Arrested in 1926. ithe United States. Only in Soviet In October, 1 Sormenti was) Russia would an enemy of fascism be arrested on a deportation warrant and! weleomed and it is questionable if taken to Ellis Island where he was} the state department will let him asked the question: “DO YOU KNOW choose that country. Aside from that WHY THE ITALIAN GOVERN-. country, the only place he could be MENT WANTS YOU?” This ques- sent is Italy which means certain tion reveals the fact that it was at death when he lands, if he is not mur- the instigation of the Italian govern- ment that action was taken against Sormenti. Further evidence that this dered on the boat before he gets on Italian soil, which is by 20 means gn isolated occurrence in such cases. Held For Special Sessions. The case of the Patriots vs. The DAILY WORKER was held for Special Sessions by the magistrate.on Saturday morning. This time the Patriots were aided by former As- sistant District Attorney Roarke, who helped to send Ruthenberg to jail, This move con- firms our prediction that the case is being utilized ‘by the enemies of labor in an effort to secure the suspension of our paper and the conviction of members of its staff. The trial in the Court of Special Sessions will require a great deal of legal assistance. | The prosecution is bent upon putting through its plans. We have reason to believe that the Post Office is preparing its material to aid im the prosecution of the case. The forces of reaction are being thor-- oughly mobilized against The DAILY WORKER. Able counsel and plenty of money will be forthcoming. Will you sit idly by and watch them crush your paper? Don’t you realize what the loss of our mailing priv- ileges would mean to you and to the entire working class of this country? This is no time for empty theoriz- =-->--------~ i 5 m DAILY WORKER ing or idle speculation. ss First Street, It is a time for action, | \ysscce tc my cometet . effective and immedi- | piri i he ri ate. This is the time when your devotion and loyalty to The DAILY WORKER will be put Sng | Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund |for a stronger and better | DAILY WORKER and for the | defense of our paper. I will pay the same amount regularly PYATY «0.05 e4ededi.ansiegemay to the supreme test, Same sino enti You must meet that res . test. You must do your | Sity ree State 2.342 share, Do it now. Attach check or money order, eee ar