The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 3, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Phone, Orchard 1680 | SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): 68.00 per year $4.50 six months 3 $2.50 three months By mail (outside of New York): | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months | $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to | THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. | J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F. DUNNE prt BERT MILLER . Business Manager Entered as secondgrlass mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. | Advertising rates on application. | OUR READERS FOR CHI } WORKERS Editor, Daily Worker: I would like to add my little mite assist the Chinese workers and to farmers in their struggle against the, imperialists that infest that great land. Being a member of the Com- munist Party, I have carefully studied the history of the Russian revolution, likewise all of the imperialist move- ments that have taken place in the last quarter century The Kaiser seeing that Russia was to continue the war made it pi ble for Lenin and all of the radic to return to Russia. They, of course, wére ,welcomed by the masses and put forth the workers’ program, which is summed up as follows: Immediate peace, land to the peasants, industries to the wage worker This program caused the army to leave the battle- field; whereupon Kerensky turned what was left of his army on the Bol- sheviki. Needless to the Keren- sky. government sooh replaced by. the Bolsheviki, which in turn was attacked by the Kaiser’s army. This, of course, met with the approval of the allied powers as they hated a workers’ governme more than they did--the imperia! n of the central powers. As proo: ticed. that the allies laid low on the west front all the while the German army invaded Bolshevik territory. After the Kaiser forced the. Bolshe- viki to sign the tre at Brest the allies again began the: ttack on the Kaiser's army. This continued until the uprising of the German worker: led by Carl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemberg caused the Kaiser to ab- dicate. This brings us back to the above mentioned F Ebert, who did not want to see the German masses launch the workers’ republic. So he adopted the first plank of the Bol- sheyik program which was peace. ‘The situation in China is the same as that of Germany on the day the armistice was signed, and the rene- gade socialist was placed at the head of the government. The workers and peasants of China must never lay down their arms or listen to a peace slogan until the last profit monger is driyen from their soil. The refusal to lay down their arms will of course give the foreign powers an excuse for armed intervention. In this event, every class conscious worker on the face of the earth must do all in his or her power to block any at- tack’ coming from the imperialist plunderbunds. If they will not keep their hands off China and Russia, they will give the workers of other nations another chance to get what the people of Russia have. That is, a workers’ re- public. A.C, Miller, Williston, N. D., April! 20, 1927. “Rally to Daily Worker. Editor, Daily Wor Inclosed is my contribution of $5.00 for the defense of The DAILY WORKER. I shall not be called the sentry who has slept at his post of | duty. We must do our utmost to support our paper, The DAILY WORKER. Without it we would be’ at a loss, especially at this moment when the reactionary forces are employing every means of destroying the revolu- tionary movement Tt is our duty to support and up- hold “the only English daily paper, which fights for the interests of the exploited masses. Frate y Yours, Comrade MRS. F. MLADINICH. 215 Roxbury Rd., Garden City, L. Cops Surprise This Worker. Editor, Daily Worker: Ihave just read in The DAILY WORKER about the arrest of the two members of the Young Workers Ve§ene for distributing leaflets on Union Square. ice for all wegthe people of Amer- iea@should see that the laws of our constitution should not be trampled on by any petty judge or policeman, a0i% *r4th our money. Onee for all, We ‘should see too, that those we pay, sepia work for the people, and not for any Tom or Dick, who will give t him some pin-money, or whoever has 1 in polities. ee to fair justice, humanity and lom, and not to prosecute their fellow-men, and free born citizens. im surprised that a policeman who is & citizen and besides a human being sh@uld dare to act so animal-like to one who is like himself, a man.— ‘ BENJAMIN. April 28, 1927, 9 p. m. BUY THE DAILY WORKER “AT THE NEWSSTANDS . a { REMI * "LETTERS FROM of this fact we no- | I, |comment seems to be superfluous. ir judges and policemen are here * PRINTERS FIGHT HARD. Editor, Daily Worker: | The strike of the printers who were | locked out on April 16 by the White | Printing Company here in Chicago, has been progressing very favorably. | The open-shoppers of the White | Printing Company have fetched up| scabs from all over the country, and brought them here to bring the strike | together with the Thompson strike- i breaking police and thugs, which are very numerous around the White | plant. The company is unable to pro- duce a third of the work it did before the lockout. The little work that is being produced, is done in such a way that the custome ‘Ss may refuse to ac- cept it, because the inexperienced scabs are unable to do a printers’ job. To date the unions involved in the | lockout have succeeded in transferring the printing of six publications from | the open shop plant to union shops It is believed that more will follow. The open shoppers will long regret | this onslaught th the Printers’ Unic have made upon} nvolving five of them. In the hearing on the injunc- | tion, the bosse ed judge, Wilker- | son delayed the action for another | Comradely greetings. DAN POLLIN. 2659 Walton Street, Chicago, Ill. | April 28, 1 Canadian Legion Like American Legion. iditor, Daily Worker: I read The DAILY WORKER very closely as regards opinions of the; American Legion in getting two; teachers fired from jobs. It seems as thought they believe in Empey’s pol- | icy, “treat ’em rough,” and that our | country is not always wrong. Our Canadian Legion is not always right and uses very poor judgment in al- lowing some of its members to have too many privileges. Some of the Canteeners among the returned sol- diers here had protested about the Cantonese flag flying on a certain day over the National League. It was simply the anniversary of the forma- tion of the league and was satisfac- torily explained. I wish we could send some Canadian Legionnaires with the American Le- | gion to Paris so that all the drunkards | could drink themselves to death. Yours for emancipation, THOMAS ASHTON. Alberta, April 19th . ‘ Don't Be Passive. In “Evolution in the Light of Mod- ern Knowledge,” Geological section, | professor William W. Watts, says: “The development of armour has | throughout geological history been a WL Tacs (1a NAVAL COSTS RISE Reviewed By HARBOR ALLEN | Socialism gets.a bath, a shave, and! | a haireut in the Theatre Guild’s latest | production, “Mr, Pim Passes By,”| by A. A. Milne, revived at the Gar- | rick, is devoted to proving that you! |can be a Socialist—in the old sense, | jhence a radical—and still be a | gentleman, i} By the time the play is over the} | dapper young Socialist is much less | | ative a little less smug. They become | good friends~ and marry the right | | Women. A comedy made to order for| English liberals: hence American lib- erals will love it. | A “Civilized” Play. This does not imply that “Mr. Pim| Passes By,” is without merit—if you! | like that kind of play. It’s a gentle, | playful satire on English morality, on) | English knuckling to church and state | | and fear of publicity. It says, politely, | | that George Marden, J. P., with his| set ideas on art, his old English home, | his preference for talking about pigs, | | and his termagant female relatives— George Marden may be a cad and a! | coward and a rag in the wind of pub- | | lie opinion; but after all, don’t you! | know, he’s a pretty fine fellow. To; | Succeed thus in tight-roping the top | | of the fence, in saying something and | | yet saying nothing, in “kidding ’em| = | along” and yet offending nobody is a |what the critics call writting a/| | “civilized” . play, Nobody could be} ° |more civilized than Mr, Milne. | ve: Care oo | “Mr. Pim Passes By” shows. what | } | happens to radicalism when the up- | |per classes get hold. of it. They | bowdlerize it, dress it in white pants | By J. NEVAREZ. In Cuba, one of the West Indian provinces of the American Dollar Em- pire, there now exists a reign of terror against the working masses of that Island, which in its horribleness and in its bloodiness can rival the white terror of Zankov against the Bulgarian workers. The list of out- rages perpetrated against workers in Cuba is too long for the space al- lowed; it is enough to say that Ches- | ter M. Wright of the Pan A. F. of L., who recently returned from that) |Island reports that 200 of the out- standing trade union leaders of the) Island have been treacherously and most brutally murdered, hundreds of militant workers linger in prisons or on prison ships where they are subject | to the most unhuman treatment. Wall Street Reaction. Prior to the introduction of the | present reign of white terror, the| |labor movement of Cuba was making | rapid strides in development towards | militancy; the trade union movement, | particularly among the railroad and) tobacco workers, grew rapidly, and} | promised to give expression to the} anti-imperialist consciousness of the Cuban masses. This was topped by! the formation of the Communist Party | of Cuba, and the growth of a strong | anti-imperialist political movement) among all elements of the natiye | population. The development of a| strong anti imperialist labor move- . The Murderous Machado Government | and tennis shoes, lean it against al | baby grand piano, and wreathe epi- grams in its hair. Naturally it losses | virility; but then, it gains in grace- |fulness. Gracefulness is Mr, Milne’s der later result in such assassinations as the direction of Crowder, con-| workers are compelled to labor under| forte: he has a touch of Shaw and} trives the crimes to be perpetrated| whatever conditions imposed upon | # barrel of Barrie. against workers and citizens of Cuba,| them, with a military guard in every | but these criminal schemes, such as} sugar mill and plantation. | English Pastry. Ei I can see that there must be room} If a worker or peasant suddenly|in the theatre for English pastry. | of a Socialist; and the smug conserv-| » |“Mr: Pim Passes By” Turns Radicalism Over to the Upper Classes LON CHANEY In “Flesh and Blood” the filmefea ture at the Cameo theatre. The Theatre Guild serves Mr. Milne’s pastry on the best silver ware: Laura Hopes Crews, Erskine Sanford, and Dudley Digges are pure sterling. From a Broadway. producer such a performance would be. alto- gether. praiseworthy. The Guild claims to be more radical, more ex- perimental, more advanced, more daring. Yet to produce. “Spread Eagle,” “Pinwheel,” “Rapid Transit,” “Loud Speaker,” “Earth,” “In Abra- ham’s Bosom,” took more ‘courage, and in some instances more ‘discrim- ination than is shown in anything I have seen by the Guild this year. The Guild gets sore if you say this bluntly. They have cut off my re- view tickets because I have said so bluntly. I’m glad to find Mr. Wool- cott. of the World saying the same thing—more politely. I’m sure he'll still get tickets; and maybe his re- marks will affect the-Guild’s future policy. It’s a pity to see an organiza- tion that started out so brave, go flabby. é If you're tired, if you want to be amused lightly, if you feel it’s spring of Enrique-Varona, organizer of rail-| disappears or is found to “have com- | Peysonally, I’m fed up on pastry. I’m) and you're fred of heavy stuff—*Mr. ‘mitted suicide,” crimes which are | tired of polite laughter on the stage.; Pim Passes By,” may be worth your road workers or of Thomas Grant, official of Railroad Brotherhood, are given form and carried into execu- tion by the~ so-called. “Minister of Justice” one Dr. Jesus Maria Barra- que, a Cuban of Cataunian origin, a reactionary of the blackest type, one who in other times would have made a slave owner. the police and the second the army. The first of these last two is Ro- gerio ayas Bazen, an ignorant im-|4Tound the sugar centrals, countless | language. petuous individual but. a long time|™e" supporter of Machado. And _ the second one, the army commander, is Rafael Ituralde, an imbecilie char- acterless person who is an easy tool for the clique. Aside from his cabinet, Machado has to aid the legislative body, who unquestiofably approve all decrees submitted by Machado. legislator dare to question in the slightest any act of Machado, then he is ruthlessly persecuted and threatened to be deprived of 1000 dol- lar monthly bribe ‘awarded to’ all members of the legislature. This | money comes from the heavy reven- constant temptation and one highly | ment in Cuba could not be tolerated | ues derived from the Machado sanc- dangerous to those that have take | this ‘primrose path.’ A few exam: “| ples may be given; the heavily plated | ‘or one moment by the Americ. 21} mperialist rulers, at a time when the | Wall Street empire intends not only | tioned lotteries and all forms of gambling. General Machado, thus, with the fishes of the Devonian Period, the de-| to retain what it already has in its | aid of these legislators, issued a de- ve groups more and more heavily plated, encased, and spined; the occurrence | - « + Inthe majority this method of passive resistance has | been resorted to, the form adopting it | have gone under in competition with | those which have developed weapons | of attack, teeth and claws, necessarily | accompanied by activity, speed and movement, and attack.” | | I was struck° with the wonderful | neatness of this passage as applied to the pacifist of our day. Further | (Emphasis mine) A, J. L, Los Angeles. | Brooklyn Bag Makers Also. BE IT RESOLVED that We, the membership of the Paper Plate and Bag Makers Union, Local 107 in | meeting assembled, declare our deep- rooted conviction that Sacco and Van- }zetti are guiltless of the “crime charged against them and that their execution would constitute the most unjustified, cold-hlooded and brutal case of judicial murder on record, and BE iT FURTHER RESOLVED hat we demand a new and immediate trial and the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we urge a National Conference in order to help free Sacco and Van- +zetti, and | BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED | that copies of this resolution be sent |to the Governor of the State of Mas- sachusetts and to the press. ! M. Gordon, Seey. WORKERS! STOP THE MURDER OF SACCO AND VANZETTI } aa A { ; { of Latin America. | The militant labor movement of | other Latin American republics. S, Erect Despotic ‘Government. To facilitate the crushing of Cuban | labor, Wall Street had to have a na- tive government completely sub-/ missive to its will;.and under, the | auspices of one of its military men, | General. Crowder as “ambassador” | thru fraudalent methods imposed on the Island of Cuba, a government headed by a General Machado, who upon ascending the Presidency of the | government gave his oath to the | American bankers that he will “be a) better Platt amendment that the Platt | amendment itself.” The first blow) struck by the Machado Government, | naturally, was against the Com- munist Party, with the imprisoning | of its leaders, including Julio Mella, and ‘their ae, assassination or ex: | pulsion from the country, then fol-| lowed, to present’ day, a period of | systematic terror in. which the ef-| forts of years were destroyed, com-/ plete disruption of the trade unions, | the kidnapping, and the murder in cold blood of hundreds of workers, the | breaking, with military force, of, strikes of colonos in the sugar plan- tations and centrals and the forcing | them to accept the brutal terms for labor, dictated by the superintendents | of the centrals. / The following is a picture of the | make up of the Machado-Crowder | government, | Machado acts as the President of the clique of which he is in reality} nothing but a mouthpiece, and whose | real but silent director is the Ameri-| can General Crowder. Machado, un-} [ opment of granules, scales and | clutches, but plans further aggression | cree (decree No. 1100),, which prac- spines by the dinesarus, followed by | and subjection to its will of the rest) tically abolishes civil rule, by handing supreme tribunals power with to the military whose: . dealings no of horned, armoured, and plated forms | Cuba had to be crushed, it is a fore-| civil functionaries can interfere. in some of the Tertiary mammals | runner to the submission of Nicara- | These military tribunals are respon- of cases where | gua and the plans of attack upon| sible for the execution of numerous workers in the sugar- growing re- gions, and at the present moment the | Following this bri-| judges and magistrates how to “hush getting under your skin, Shakespeare gand we face next the Secretary of | up.” These gentlemen obey without} knew how to write a play; so did | Public Order and the Secretary of | question, War and Marine, the first heading|Machado'’s henchmen are, veiled, and! Moliere. | has been further augmented this year | easily traced to the police hoodlums | The theatre is "to me a place where or to agents of the Dept. of Public) you should be moyed, made furious, Ordér, there comes on the scene the | made cold and hot and ecstatic. A expert on crime concealing, of the | good play is to me a torrent of Machado clique, the chief inquisitor,| emotion, a swiftepattern of action, Barraque, or his underlings, Eguilior. | feeling set free, ideas without but- They “investigate” and instruct the tons on the end to prevent their So the grim acts of/ Schiller, Lope de Vega, Calderon, None of them were afraid| |of horseplay, a roughhousing, of | interior, and|swat and bang and good goarse | The man who wants to} in rags and half starved| write for a labor audience would do| wander about jobless. This army of | well to study them. He would do well unemployed will soon be many times|to ignore the. Barries and the increased by the termination of the! Milnes. ? grinding season. The sufferings of | silenced. The towns of the Louise C have been added to the east of “He Loved the Ladies” the Herbert Hall Winslow play which opens at the Frolic Theatre May 9. ‘arter and Lyons Wickland “The 19th Hole” is the title selec- ted for Frank Crayan’s new play, Rehearsing will begin immediately | under the direction of Sam: Forrest, and the first performance will be given in Atlantic City, May 30, prior to the Broadway showing. the workers who depend upon the sugar industry for their existence! by the restriction, per order of} to retain or raise the prevailing sugar profit and thus assure the bulky prof- | its of the sugar corporations. | | TWICE DAILY, 2 P.M & 8 P.M. The graft and corruption pervading RINGLING BROS. CIRCU | the high government officials, reflects | | and BARNUM& BAILEY on the sanitation and health condi-|!¢l- among 10,000 Marvels PAWAH | tions of the country. .The housing) | SACRED WHITE ELEPHANT conditions of the workers and their! TICKETS at GARDEN BOX OFFIC surroundings are almost beyond des-| 8th Ave. and 49th St., and Gimbel Bros, | cription in their rottenness. Streets re e | are unpaved, not cleaned, particularly | Theatre Guild Acting Company in PYGMALION in towns in the region of Cameguey, \ LD THEA., W. 52.St. Bvs. 8:15 with mosquitos ‘and other vermin elgg it clad Pe oh = 2:16 | breeding freely. Such conditions in} ~ es ee the tropics mean. for the workers) ‘ nat 1 MR. PIM PASSES. BY | RRICK $5 W. 35 St. Ev's, 8:30 | Mats. ‘Thurs. and Sat. | Next Week—Right You Are malaria, typhus, hookworm, and even) occasionally yellow fever, and the | \ death of thousands of workers’ babies. | |} j Such is the lot of: the Cuban| NED McCOBB’S DAUGHTER | workers under Machado, who is now || sonn Golden (1.58. B.of B'y |Circle being entertained and feted at Hotel | Mts. Thu-# Bat.| 5678. rs Biltmore, by th few York bankers; | Next Week—The Silver Cord | 00K AT PECIAL PRICE? First’ Notice to Readers In this space, EVERY DAY, will appear a notice of books be- ing .offered at unusually low prices. These prices are made on books and pamphlets left in small lots—or on books we have been able to purchase at espe- cially favorable terms. Stocks of books offered will be limited. Orders will be filled in turn as received. Cash remittance must | at 10:30 in the morning, ending at| be made. No discounts allowed. Watch this space daily and rush your orders to secure the unu- sual advantages offered. | Sam HARRIS | WHAT PRICE GLORY. Twice Dally, 2:80 & 8:20) HEN AMUSEMENTS, Should Ne atest or eg) of the sugar output so as, oul TIMES SQ. Thea., W. 42 St. Eves, 8:30, Mats. ‘Wed. & Sat, 2:30 with Jam The LADDER Now in its 6th MONTH WALDORF, 50th St. Mats. WED. d SAT. Bway. Bronx Opera House 2°57 94° X08 Pop. Prices, Mat. Wed. & Sat. ‘KATY DID” A New Domestic: Comedy WALLACK’S West —42na. str ngs 8:30. Mats. Tues. Wed., Thurs, and Sat. What Anne Brought Home A New Comedy Drama GROVE ST, THEATRE Bloek So, of Christopher St. Subw. Sta, D (@) R Ss H A presents the THEATRE of the DANCE Featuring three new ballets, East of ‘Training School Gets Down to Spring Course | Saturday night, April 23, at 8:00 Pp. M, the Young Workers League Training School on Organizational Policy opened its first course at 62 Chambers Street, Boston, Mass. F | Fourteen students were present, ‘eager to get started. These students ‘were selected from various units in ‘the League who are active in their | work. \. This semester is divided into seven} | sessions with a period of an hour and | \a half for each session. Beginning | ‘| with May 1st, the course will start |12 noon. Then the class, after the} lunch hour, will either go on hikes, | outings, picnics, or any other form | of recreation, The director of the school, Nat Kay, is also the instructor of this course. . To date, students have elected a Mais, (exc, Sat.) 50c-$1. Eves. 500-82. | pin seh only (May 2 to May 7), — | iia Peanigs ig eine Sat. 2:30, ARL V ror 13 Spring 1092. |CARROLL anities BUY THE DAILY WORKER | Marl Carroll (nts thurs é‘sautas) AT THE NEWSSTANDS | s - Pre, Riihonen, Al G. Stone, and Sam Ozes, Young Workers League | pis Coundil, in ,turn, elected Al G, Stone, secretary, who also officiates us the secretary of the school. The students plin to publish a school bul- letin, having elected an editorial com mittee. Philadelphia Youth To Hear H. M. Wick: PHILADELPHIA, May 2.—H, Wicks will lecture on “Present China,” Sunday, May 8, at 8 p. m. Grand Fraternity Hall, 1626 Arch St, This meeting, arranged by the Young Workers’ League, will assure all those who attend of a clear cut analysis of all the forces at play in the Chinese revolutionary arena, and of an explanation of all the latest de- velopments. Admission is free, May Dance and Festival. The Lower Downtown I.L.D. Branch is arranging a “May Dance and Festi. val” for Saturday, May 21, at the Student Council composed of Bessie jDowntown Workers’ Club Rooms, 35 Leafland, Elizabeth Azer, Reynold iy ist 2nd Street, iter Morris, ©