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INSURGENTS HOLD BALANCE OF POWER BUT THEY HAVEN'T AN IDEA WHAT TO DO WITH IT (By A Staff Correspondent) few “hot speeches for his benefit.” WASHINGTON, May 8.—The so-| This is the limit of his resistance. All called insurgents or independents who| last session when the reactionaries in 1924 instituted the La Follette-! were running rampant, neither he nor Wheeler presidential race and who! one of his brother progressives lifted after its collapse lapsed into innoeu-| theiy voices, seriously, to stem the ous office-holding propose to “fight”! looting. Coolidge’s re-election “within the par- | Blaine, Demagogue. ty.” | Besides La Follette, there is Blaine, Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr.,; who defeated Lenroot and wll take who from being his father’s seeretary| hig segt in the next Senate. Blaine at a nice fat salary,. became his suc-| has a bad labor record. He was cessor when the elder died in 1925, re-/ bitterly denowinced by the Wisconsin cently informed press inquirers Gl Federation of Labor. He is'a blatant he “believed” it was the plan of the’ windjammer and a demagogue. He “progressives” to fight Coolidge js a political opportunis® and a man within the party ranks. What he| without even a glimmering of what meant was simply, that cozened and! the class struggle is all about. well-salaried he and the rest of the | He will undoubtedly eventually group of impotent liberals in Con-' byeak with what meager progressive gress intended playing the old politi-) ties he now has and will become an- cal game that his father was such a! other Lenroot, whom he was able to master at. / defeat only by a 25,000 vote margin, Will Make A Noise. |in spite of Venroot’s hundred-per cent They will go to the sean de-| bad record, : ; mand certain progressiy “planks” | Piweviean Beason and grab off much publicity. They); . will he return to their States and| Of the other Senators there are i ‘ indi i | Frazier, former Nonpartisan League amid much righteous indignation de- . ? North "bore in nounce their reactionary party bed-| 80Vernor from Nort! ‘ota, sto fellows and run for re-election on 2%d impotent; Nye, a young editor liberal “platforms.” Those of them of a backwoods North Dakota weekly who are not up for re-election will|#"d also a Nonpartisan Leaguer, not ‘go off vacationing in choice summer | duite By ROE STUS AL RERE ped spots. i d 4 ‘f Ss se progressives |i8 going on and what to do about it ante Prong Shey oui in the | 48 the former; Dill, from Washington, Senate. As a matter of fact they can who recently married $5,00(,000 in the pretty nearly control legislation in| Coy feminist champion Rosalie Jones; the two Houses. But outside of a| Wheeler of Montana, an easy going little lasidasical chatter about “get-| 8rowler who after he has let out a ting together” and “formulating a/ few barks lets it go at that; Howell, program,” they have taken no steps|0f Nebraska, a graduate of the navy or:done nothing to use this power that | College, Annapolis, a well trained en- will be theirs if they had the cour-/Sineer and of a sincereity that is on age, the fight, the capacity to use it,;@ par with his colleague Norris, Not One Worker. muah arere She eerey ne Ee from i i so-called pro-|# radical; Borah, Reed of Missouri, Pca a het 12 similarly |Constitutionalists and legalists, who progressive representatives in the! Play their own games and who really next Congress. Not one, with the ex-;make no claim to being liberals; ception of Senator Norris who has an- Brookhart, a mouthing ass who has nounced that he-is fed up with what curbed to heel and will continue to do he designated as the hopelessness of $+ Shipstead of Minnesota, the so- the situation and will retire to his|¢@lled Farmer-Labor Party senator, State, Nebraska, at the end of his! who is probably the biggest fake of term, have any capacity for leader- all. ship, or a consciousness of the great Shipstead of the 400. class struggle that is going on. one bas a worker’s antecedents. Most of thet are life-long politicians, men who have lived long and well from the publie trough. Runs th Wealthy. Take the senators. La Folictte was reared in the Washington wlans bere. He is sleek, well groomed, and socially acceptable: His sociai assuciuics aie the” sdns ‘and “datighterS of the wealthy and the powerful. Recently when he went off for a yacation he! went to that playground of the social |! ‘The | elite, Raleigh, North Carolina. papers carried pictures of him attired in the mast fashionable riding clothes consorting with lily-scented belles of the best families. Let Workers Wait. Last winter: when textile delega- tions from Passaic came to Washing- ton to urge him and his progressive colleagues to have «= federal inquiry imto the textily imiastry, he lev them cool thi Yhe reason was simp!e. of L. bosses, who are his pveiitieni advisers, demanded that he lay off, an® he did. The correspondent recalls one oc- casion when the reporters asked him point blank why he and Senator Wheelex, member of the Senate Com- mittee on Manufacturers, did not go over the committee’s head and call upon the Senate to take action. He was non-committal, beyond say- ing that Senator Phipps, ultra-reac- tionary from Colorado against whom | charges of excessive campaign ex-| penditures are even now pending be- fore the Senate campaign fund com- mittee, was’ fighting the idea very Not | Shipstead plays the social game in Washington and no one can do that | here and escaped unscathed. His wife | particularly is a social fan. She chases after the big numbers in the social-political field and apes their foibles. Shipstead is a complete dud. He lets out a little hurray now and then, but more than that in the five years of his service in the Senate, he | has done nothing. Fundamentalist Nelson. That completes the list in the Sen- ate. In the House the line-up is even |more pitiful. The progressives con- | sist almost entirely of the Wisconsin ‘delegation. The leaders in this group are Kepresentatives Nelson, Frear and Lampert. The first was national chairman of the La Follette-Wheeler campaign. fie is an unadulterated babbitt with a fundamentalist slant. He views |everything from the standpoint of | whether it is politically expedient. He | goes in heavily for religion “of the | good old bible kind,* and until re- cently, when he became alarmed at rumors of strong opposition against jhim in his district, was engaged in spending most of his time and that of his clerks on the government pay- | roll in gathering material for a book |to prove that fundamentalism was “scientific.” He is now preparing himself to go back to the hustings |to convince the suckers that he is {carrying on the banner of progress, They Play Politics. Nelson has been in Congress for | twenty-two years. pet are pretty close to that record. Po eee Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, the former Virginia Fair, daughter of the late Senator Fair of Nevada, wealthy mine owner, has filed snit for divorce in Paris, France, against her husband, William K. Vanderbilt II. And he has sur- prised by filing a counter suit in Paris. BRON WILL HEAD AMTORG TRADING CORP, NEXT YEAR Expansion in Trade Is | Foreseen by Manager | | Saul G. Bron, who has held: various | important executive positions in the |trading organizations of the Soviet | Union, has been elected chairman of pal organization in American-Russian trade. He succeeds Alex V. Prigarin, | who retires for pressing personal rea- | sons. Bron recently arrived from | ; Moscow. Amtorg, a New York cor-| poration, represents the principal in- dustrial and trading organizations of | the Soviet Union and has a business | the board of the Amtorg Jrading Cor- | poration, 165 Broadway, the princi- (Continued from Page One) ; Soviet Union the mightiest in the | Communist International, had offi- jcially received the ashes of Ruthen- | bers, Saturday evening, April 16th, i from the local organization that had ‘takerthem into its care on their ar- | vival from New York City the day | before, As the singing of “The Interna- | tional” ceased, the magnificent Red | Banners carried by the workers, the | banners of the local party, the trade || unions and Red Front Fighters’ or- | ganizations, were ‘slightly lowered. They were raised again as 1 responded |to Kasper, Then|Herman Osterlohr, ithe party secretdry for Northwest | Germany, also spoke. Tt was a day made memorable for |the workers of this small seaport |town, where labor also toils in its | vast shipyards. ‘heirs had been the! great honor of receiving the ashes of Ruthenberg and giving them in tum to the national party, Kasper came on during the day from Berlin, He was accompanied by | Osterlohr from Bremen, They had found the urn containing the ashes on view at the Party Headquarters, A Guard of Honor made up of mem- | bers of the Red Front Fighters of | Bremerhayen was continually on |duty under the direction of tkeir| leader, Ludwig Ehrier. Red banners | flanked the crimson covered dais on | which the Um rested. Thousands of | {workers filed past during the day. | Toward sundown the march to tne | Railroad Station began. With the! ‘roll of drums, of the Red Front! Fighters’ Drum and Fife Corps,| | Sounding the funeral march, with red banners waving defiantly, with the Ashes’ Urn carried by four Red! Front Fighters and accompanied by an Honor Guard of Twenty, the representatives of the local and na- tional party, we proceeded thru the working class districts to an assem- bling place on the waterfront called “Rote Sand” (Red Sand). Here the ) Procession was joined by the main body of the Red Front Fighters, the | “Rote Marine” (Red Marines), the; Rote Madchen and Frauen Bund, and | hosts of workers, From here the procession continued to the railroad station located in Wesermunde, neigh- | | boring cityfof Bremerhaven. In fact, | the two touch so that anyone walking down the street would not notice where one left off and the other started. The Police Are Busy. We were accompanied on our march j by members of the various kinds of | German police. There are the green, and the blue, also the black police, the Schupo and the Noske police, to mention a few. In addition there was Page Three the voice of the martyrdom of the} German working class, of the blood T that has been sacrificed in its struggle y 5 for victory. Only such working|class defiance as Kaspar uttered could'come in a land where there are 2,000,000 of J § § p A p CHI A unemployed, where 1,000 political) WeWaQaita prisoners still languish in the capital-! eiWhES bastilles, where hunger and misery) WASHINGTON, May 3.—In Octo BHP. great mas of the people, | ber of this r the representatives where revolutior struggles have | of practically every government in the : Karl Lieb-| world will meet in Washington to gainst| vise the international laws gover armies the use and operation of radio b where ,| casting. Russia and China, the two Kaspo a ¢ story - Of most populous countries in the world, ie life and of. his cone will not be represented. uous struggle for 20 years in the is 2 ‘ revolution a movement in America. %, Btais Be eer eae He told « henberg being sent to! ee Kellogg, prison during the war, of the part } leith nu Ba ae toutes tee tks an | Nelly,” hi led the international Communist Party, oi his being sent conclave, but China and Russia are to prison i second time, and of the | ‘l#ssed by it with such lands as Li- ten year sentence to prison that hov- beria, the little oppressed Negro Re- ered over his head when death | Public ee who will not be stepped in and struck him down.|?¢?! sented. This brief biography seemed to reveal! Mr. Kellogg’s explanation as to why to the German crs, more than| Russia has not been invited is : anything else possib nature of the American capit: public. It showed that American “democracy” was of the same brand} ner, “and we haye nothing to do with of tyranny that ruled in Germany un-| them.” der the kaiser. I responded in part Which raised the interesting ques- as follows, tion of what about the economic con- could, the real “We have not recognized the § ist ag of Russi he coughed in his characteristically apologetic man- “T bring to you, wor of Bremer-' ference at Geneya to which Soviet haven, the ashes of Com : Ruthen- Russia is si delegates. Ameri berg. They are symbol of the soli- can representatives will also partici- pate in this meet. Of course, it is not being held under American auspices or in the United States, but the fact that Americans officially representing the United States eet on diplomatic grounds with Russians offi. darity and the unity of the workery of the United States and Germany. And as I bring them to their final resting place in the Red Wall of the Kremlin at Moscow, they become a symbol of the unity and solidarity of y rep- the workers thruout the entire world. | resenting Soviet Russia is certainly a “Ruthenberg was a member of the| change in conditions. Some months presidium of the Communist Inter- He was our foremost stan- | paper ago Mr. Kellogg was asked by news- national, dard) bearer in the social revolutior men about t fact, but he brushed it aside by pointing out that “Ruthenberg was our Karl Lieb-| Russia refused to attend any confer- knecht. When the Wall Street im-jences in Geneva. Recently, with perialists joined in the world slaugh- | Switzerland backing up and apologiz- ter, Ruthenberg, before masses of|ing for the murder workers gathered in the public square | making reparation: at Cleveland, Ohio, declared, ‘Not one penny to help pay for the imperialist war! Not one man, not one drop of workers’ blood, to help fight the 1m- | perialist war.” | “For this he was put in prison. Following the war when he raised the standards of the newly organized Communist International in the Uni- incident as well as , this pitiful alibi has been taken from Kellogg and soon the world will see the extent of the }sham about American recognition of oviet Russia. Yaquis Rise Again, NOGALES, Ariz, May 3. to thirty Mexican soldiers, including | General Armenta, were dead today [wenty GERMAN COMRADES GUARD RUTHENBERG'S ASHES CAL CALLS RADIO\************* Put Some Power In That Kick! Don’t waste your energy in idle protest. When reaction attacks The DAILY WORKER and you want to fight— strike your blows where they will be most ef- fective. Kick in With a Sub. Every subscription is a striking answer to the enemies of Labor—every sub is more strength to the blows that are dealt every day by The DAILY WORKER. Don’t only kick... Kick in! SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Outside of In New York Per Yr, $3.08 4.50 The DAILY WORKER 33 First Street ted States he was again imprisoned. “Ruthenberg was a Leninist and a Marxist. He knew how to lead, he} was our best leader in the revolution- ary struggle in America.” Then Osterlohr spoke briefly re- viewing the significance of the ‘act that the ashes of a leader in the! American revolutionary movement and Torty others were wounded as the result of a hot engagement be- tween Yaqui Indians and federal troops seven miles southwest of No- gales, Sonora, Mexico. battle raged for five hours, ng to word received here. It is estimated that a band of 250 Yaqui viors took part in the attack. turn-over of close to $50,000,000 a | 4m auto truck load of additional gend- year. The change was announced yes- | armerie who always hovered in the OF SACCO AND VANZETTI were being brought across the At- Frear and Lam-! ighting i f that and the well-tilled bitterly. Of course he was fighting it, Outside o: and so was Senator Butler from Mas- | Purses they have and the property sachusetts, a big textile operator and! holdings they possess, they have noth- President Coolidge’s best friend. Never Did Anything. Senator La Follette never did any- thing on the Passaic matter. The strikers and their attorney, Frank P. Walsh, finally turned to Senator Borah, who likewise did nothing, although he did make an effort to bring the workers and employers to- gether, privately. La Follette is a Politician, without consciousness of a fundamental economic program or a fundamental economic idea, other than keeping his berth, He has a ready mouth for the cus- tomary liberal blah and gushes readily. He has already informed friends that if Coolidge vacations in Wisconsin this year he will make a Vose Will llustrate ' Calverton’s Series on Negro Life, Struggles A series of articles on “The New Negro,” by V. F. Calverton, illus- trated by Vose, one of our popular cartoonists, will appear soon in The DAILY WORKER. These ar; ticles will deal with various phases of the life and struggles of the American Negro masses and are intended to stimulate interest in this importhnt problem of the American labor and revolutionary movement. | Watch for them! |ing to show for this service, They ‘are politicians whose sole purpose is ‘ve-election, They have no more con- sciousness of a class-struggle than if it did not exist. Revolution gives them the creeps. They are as vigor- ous in their denunciation of the idea as their reactionary associates. | They Drift. | This then is the line-up which, will | hold the balance of power in the coming session, They will meet this opportunity without leadership, with- /out any of them having the capacity | for leadership, without a program, or ‘ideas for a program, other than to continue in office, Anything they | do will be forced on them—but it is highly improbable that they will do \anything, The elder La Follette, for all his short-comings was a ready and aggressive fighter. He commanded and the others jumped. They Shy Away. Now without a ring master, the im- potence and sham of this crew is readily visible. They will no doubt remouth the old’ words, thump their desks, decry to empty walls—but to galvinize into action, to get underway an effort of fundamental issues and problems, they will shy off. It is not for them, they are constitutional lib- erals, evolutionary progressives, Seize Liquor Laden Boat. « Coast guard officials yesterday seized the British trawler ‘Cabriella with $0,000 tons of grain alcohol aboard off Staten Island after she | | had attempted to slip past quarantine. terday. | Bron issued the following state- | ment at his office: | “Because of American unrivalled | machine production, trade with Amer- | iea is considered of great importance j in the Soviet Union. It was a com- | mon practice in pre-war days to trans- | act trade between the two countries | through European middlemen. Soviet | policy now aims to carry on the trade | directly to the fullest extent. This | policy will be of benefit to both the | American exporter and importer and j jthe Soviet consumer and exporter, | Retain Engineers. | “Industrial leaders fn the Soviet Union are fully awake to the value of | utilizing American technical and in- | dustrial skill to assist in developing the rich natural resources of the coun-! try and promoting its industrializa- |tion. A number of pre-eminent Amer- j liean engineers have already been re-| {tained by the Soviet authorities, | jamong them Col. Hugh L, Cooper, | Who is now in the Soviet Union in| |connection with the Dnieper River | hydro-electric development which will | | feed power to the whole southern min- | jing district. | | “Trade between the United States | and the Soviet Union during the past | {Soviet fiseal vear aggregated nearly | $80,000,000. of which imports from | jthe United States constituted $63,- 000,000, over 50 per cent greater than the pre-war figures. * Expect Expansjon. | “Further development of trade he- tween the two countries depends to a | large extent on the credit terms whieh American manufacturers are willing | to give on purchases for the Soviet Union. I am sure that in view of the | plans prepared by Soviet industrial organizations, further expansion of American-Russian trade can be ex- ted.” ron was born in the Ukraine and is 40 years of age. He spent a good part of his early years in Germany, France and Switzerland, taking his degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Universities of Zurigh and Kiev, While abroad he studied the grain trade and worked in this field after his return to Rus: After 1917 Bron held for four vears the post of Minister for Foreign Trade for the Ukraine and served on the Supreme Economie Council. During the past two years he has been presi- dent of “Exportkhleb,” the federal grain export organization of the Sov- iet Union, besides serving as a mem- her of the Collegium of the Soviet Commissariat for Trade and a direc- tor of the Roseombank, the Bank for Foreign Trade. Unions Enrolls New Members, ST. LOUIS, (FP) May 2.—The Or- der of Railroad Telegraphers enrolled 410 new members in March. Sacco and Vanzetti Shall Not Die! OF SACCO AND VANZETTI neighborhood thru which we pro-|lantic Ocean and over Europe to be ceeded. They all wear short swords | buried in the free soil of the Soviet and carry revolvers in full view. Even| Union. The speeches had to be cut the government officials who came|short since train time was rapidly | on board ship to view our passports | approaching. | and landing cards, cartied long) Again taking up the march, led by swords and wore brilliantly colored! the Red Front Fighters carrying our | military uniforms, The whole system crimson banners, and with Comracc smacks of the militarism of the Kaspar carrying the Urn, and ali! kaiserdom that is supposed to have | singing “The International,” we pro-| been deposed. Thus, under the ceeded thru the huge waiting room| watchful eye of the German capitalist; of the station. The procession did republic, we carried the ashes of not halt until it drew up alongside the Ruthenberg to the station from which train waiting to start for Bremen. we were to depart for Bremen, Thus the journey overland to Mos- Unlike railroad stations in the |.cow continued, after it had spanned United States, those in Germany| the more than 3,000 miles of the usually have a large open plaza in! ogean’s width. | front of them. It was here that we / During the day arrangements had | ended the march, where large num- Yeen made to go to Berlin by way of bers of additional other workers were | Bremen and Hamburg. It was in the| waiting for the procession. latter city that the Young Communist Comrade Kaspar, spokesman for|League of Germany, with 10,000 the German pagty, is a brilliant | delegates present, ~was holding. its | speaker. As he spoke of Ruthenberg, | annual congress over the Easter Holi- one could feel the power of his words,|days. But first te Bremen. DARROW, ADDAMS "yr™,,Qrsaniztion TO ADDRESS CH To Boost the Flag; Headed by Coolidge A new method of boosting patriot- ism is the recently formed United} We Will NOT Be Silenced It has required the most heroic self sac- , rifice to establish our paper. Thousands of workers in the mines, mills, factories, and farms have given their utmost to found The DAILY WORKER, labor’s militant fighting organ. For three years it has been maine tained ‘by the dollars and dimes which the CHINA MEETING States Flag Association. It has been organized with Coolidge as honorary workers have painstakingly eked out of their president and the following founders; Cardinal O'Connell, Rabbi Abram CHICAGO (FP) May 3.--A mighty Simon, Bishop James E. Freeman, gathering AL AaR ae cative for- Senator Oscar W. Underwood, Sena- ces, rarely attained in Chicago in re- tor Irvine L. Lenroot, Curtis B. Wil- cent years, is announced for the bur, Governor Alfred E. Smith, Mrs, Hands-Off-China mass meeting to be | Thomas G. Winter, Judge Elbert H. held in the Ashland auditorium May Gary, Mr. Samuel Gompers (in mem- 6. Among the speakers will be Jane orium) Dr. Robert R. Moton, Hon. Addams, Clarence Darrow, Paul Thomas R. Marshall (in Memorium). Hutchinson of the Christian Century, , The money subseribed is to be held congressman A. J. Sabath. John A.|!" @ permanent trust fund, the inter- Lapp of the Natl. Catholic Welfare fet only of which will be used to conference, Manuel Gomez of the All-) foster reverence for the flag of U.| America Anti Imperialist league, | S- and combat all influences, condi- | Atty, Wm. A. Cunnea of the Socialist | tions and forces hostile to the ideals, | party and several Chinese of the, traditions, principles and institutions Kuomintang. | of which the flag stands. Th i Pe inclidad Vosides | One doliar is all you subscribe to eye neg ae | become a permanent part of the liv- these speakers, John Fitzpatrick and| ing Hag. Youd. Makes ahanute E. N. Nockels of the Chicago Federa- | ied lah te te wl soe nd hs tion of Labor, Margaret Haley of the! phionat if pe. Chicago Teachers federation, Prof. . Ferdinand Schevill, Ella Boynton of Norway, Opens Legal the Women’s Intl. league for Peace! A and Freedom, Carl Haessler and Atty. | Sale of Strong Drink OSLO, Norway, May 3.—Legal sale | Wm. H, Holly as secretary. ee ea “seu Mapor ro been in progress for | : S am | two days following more than | many gar adel Teo siNE Gen. years of prohibition, but there has! ni ji i, Pes a ap ot its | Been no increase noticeable in drunke- moe De vib haath pledg Te tha| Mess according to veports gathered seating Naatine pee as In.| here and elsewhere throughout Nor-’ A “| way today. | doctors dry Ag eh hiro og vine Hundreds of spectators during the| the Hankow. government after several,| P2%* two days have watched the my | weeks of hesitation in which it waited | ce *hepherding the crowds of thirsty Zon, Chisato) revadl; wine tx ls into the legalized liquor stores. Only, ‘or ing to a a 4 four persons were allowed to enter) true colors as a militarist, at atime. The crowds.good natured- ly enconraged the hard worked wait- ‘Phe Daily Worker Every Mayers “ty be patient.” meager pittance, Shall we now allow our paper to be sl- | lenced by organized reaction? 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