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

Page Four a THE DAILY WORKER 'W YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1927 Ofticial Labor Reaction Meets Political Defeat THE DAILY WORKER Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Daily, Except Sunday { 63 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 | | oats acted acl ead SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): | 68.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $8.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and THE DAILY WORKER, 33 Firs J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F, DUNNE ( BERT MILLER......... be ke out checks to Street, New York, N. Y. . Editors - business Manager 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. >. —— The Conflict Between the Imperialists. q By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. ARTICLE III. HILE the coal barons were putting | John L, Lewis thru his paces and} proving up to the hilt the contention! of the Communists and the left wing} that unions and labor movements | must fight to live and fulfill their functions, thesSupreme Court was getting ready a little demonstration of its own, For years the ears of American militants have been assailed by the proud boasts of labor officialdom whenever it secured some mild and more or less meaningless legislative | reform, This was the case with the passage of the Clayton Act which was supposed to free labor and labor | the enemy. has been cut at the quarries by ‘seabs’ without aiding and abetting Observance by. each member of the provision of their constitution which forbids such ac- .tion was essential to his own self- protection. It was demanded of each by loyalty to the organization and to his fellows. If, on the un- disputed facts of this case, refusal to work can be enjoined, Congress | created by the Sherman Law and | the Clayton Act an instrument for imposing restraints upon labor which reminds of involuntary servi- tude.” 'HE Greens, Wolls, Lewises, etc. are of course greatly shocked by this manifestation of reaction. For| The Supreme Court Translates the Fair Words of the Civic. Federationists Into Plain English. trying with might and main to de- stroy the backbone of the labor movement—the handed out a supreme court decision which makes illegal the most elemen- tary activities of unions: Surely this is a political defeat of major proportions for the efficiency unionism and class’ peace policy. In addition to these two smashing blows at the labor movement there are such things as the defeat of the carpenters junion in San Francisco, the lockout | ; of the plumbers union in New York, | the open shop offensive begun by the Regan Printing company against the typographical union in Chicago. 'HE attempt to railroad Ben Gold, Shapiro and eight other militant UMWA—and_haye| them it is indeed unfortunate. Here| Furriers to prison, attempt in which { \National Theatre to House English Players | | Street will house an English company | beginning May 9, when the Yiddish | players go on tour. Among the Eng- {lish players that will appear under |the direction of Charles D. Pitt are ; Mildred Leaf, Charles Ellis and Mor- |vis Strassberg. The Broadway players will open with “Welcome Stranger,” the Aaron Hoffman com- edy, which is to be followed by “White | Cargo,” “Is Zat So,” “The Gorilla,” ‘The Fall Guy,” “Potash & Perl- mutter,” “We Americans” and others, The National theatre on Houston | The state department at Washington has officially announced | unions from the provisions of the | they have making war on the “reds”| the leadership of the American Fed- that the American government will not participate with the other | Sherman Anti-Trust law. and making great capital out of what| eration of Labor took part openly, : . * _ 1 ” = | they have claimed was “a new era.”|has also left a bad taste in the powers in a new note to China, in reply to the note of Eugene|G@AMUEL GOMPERS |'The labor leaders got out and helped| mouths even of many who supported [_Broaivay Briss} “Talk About Girls” a new musical | indulged in | Chen requesting an investigation of the Nanking incident. This |", Panegyries. He hailed the Clayton! the posses with a right good will, At|the right wing as against the left | Comedy based on a play by John Hun- | . decision is as deeply unre by Americans in China, according ah atl - ‘enacghucvetiincdon sh) Pe i of commerce, banquets, at) wing. The bapa s dingrace-| brought to: New York ry. ll ia nous PO se cre to press dispatches, as by the British imperialist agents them-/ Scialdom, without knnieing wheat the| som club luncheons and at conven-| ful revelation of the depths to whic! |Harry H. Oshrin and Sam Grisman, | 2"¢4!*®: selves. | American residents in China have been rudely awakened to the fact that the government is not back of their demands and they cannot understand why their opinions are swept aside as of no moment. They imagine the government, which has always been so loyal to American investments, ought to take its orders from them. They do not understand the fact that the govern- ment is not the defender of their own immediate and, by com- parison with Wall Street, petty interests. The government is the agent of the great bankers and industrialists, as a class, and its policy in China is determined by the interests of that class. The American colony praises the British policy of frightful- ness because it knows that the triumph of Britain will enable them to operate their slave pens in China today.. The immediate opening of the industries in China through imperialist “pacifica- tion” of the country would serve their purposes and the aggres- siveness of Britain promises them that. But at the same time it would establish Great Br as the dominant power in China. | The rise to power of the Tanaka cabinet in Japan is a victory for British policy inasmuch as Baron Tanaka is an avowed ad- yocate of the Anglo-Japanese alliance which was maintained for years against the United States. Against the aims of Britain and dapan the United States clings to its old policy of the “open door,” which in reality is a demand for a free hand in China in competi- tion with all the other imperialist powers. Considering the posi-| tion of the United States as the banker of the world it is abso- | lutely imperative that this government pursue a policy separate | from and opposed to England. If Britain and Japan can extend their “spheres of influence” in China it means the shutting out of American investment cap- ital in those territories under their control. And if Wall Street | ofits surplus in the format investment capa ie wil nce stagnas STATEMENT ON SENTENCE OF TWO YOUNG WORKERS ISSUE BY DISTRICT 2, WORKERS PARTY tion, because a gold supply that cannot be turned into capital will | speedily bring about the collapse of the gold standard. It is true} that American investments are much smaller than British invest-| ments. But it is not the present investments that determine Magna Charta was, were greatly im-! pressed. | President Wilson presented Gom-| pers with the pen he used in signing | the Clayton Act and Gompers was} rjoyed. He said: | “This pen with which the President | signed the Clayton Bill has been added to the collection of famous fens at the A. F. of L, headquarters —trophies of humanitarian legisla- tion secured by the workers of | America, This last pen will be| given the place of greatest honor—it | is symbolic of the most comprehensive and most fundamental legislation in behalf of human liberties that has been enacted anywhere in the world.” N April 11, 1927, the Supreme Court, by handing down the de- cision in the Bedford Cut ‘Stone Com- pany case which outlawed the Stone Cutters Union because its members | refused to use stone quarried and cut by strikebreakers. This decision be- comes the law of the land and it means simply that a union is deprived of the possibility of declaring any product unfair even for its own mem-| bers. | quence. Brandeis, in his dissenting | opinion characterized this phase of the question as follows: | “Members of the Journeymen | supreme court, would fight the labor tions they have been whooping it up for efficiency and abolition of waste | in industry. If the bosses will just} give the unions a chance like good old Dan Willard has on the B. and 0O.,/ they said, the unions (under able of- ficial direction, of course,) will show that they appreciate it by turning out} two or three times as much work as ever before. No more fighting, just good feel- ing and lots of work. The Supreme Court felt the same way—hence the Bedford Cut Stone Company decision. UT what becomes of the theory of | peace and democracy in industry? | What becomes of the kindred theory that by supporting capitalist party | candidates the bosses’ government | will reciprocate by not. being too} rough? It has gone the way of all such| miserable excuses for reaction and it is certain that many union men and women are wondering why it has been necessary for Green, Woll, Lewis, ete. to denounce, expel and try to jail Communists and left wingers who predicted that the coal barons and government agencies, such as the moyement just the same—whether reds were in the trade unions or not. UMMARIZED, it means that the four-year war on the militant ele- Stone Cutters’ Association could not work anywhere on stone which ments in the unions has placated the capitalists to the extent that they are leading union officials have sunk, has drawn a sharp line between thou- sands of union members and official- dom, ERE is. no hope for the leader-| ir P hip of the A. F. of L. but the membership: will learn from the events dealt with in these three ar- ticles. As the New Republic said in commenting on the Supreme court de- cision: - “Labor has now for long been subdued by the siren propaganda of “prosperity.” A severe jolt was needed to awaken the more inno- cent even of the trade unionists from the illusions of the Civic Fed- eration, of dinners with the mighty, of all the prattle of “identity of interest.” The spectacle of the United Mine Workers faced with defeat, and the fact of the arrogant attitude of American capitalist government as shown by the Bedford decision after labor officialdom has crawled on its collective belly to the capitalists, means the beginning of a_ revolt against the worker-employer-coopera- tion policy. The left wing must and will show that these attacks of capitalists can be answered tnly by great organizing campaigns, but a labor party and by repudiation of the class peace theory. Read The Daily Worker Every Day. The Workers (Communist) Party, authorities will take in silencing op- District 2, has issued the following|position to the imperialist plans of opportunity to the police to interfere. The comrades in charge of the meet- ing declared that they would strongly | protest this action on the part of the Amalgamated officialdom and the Joint Board. This is another proof of the kind book. Harald Orlob and Stephen | Jones wrote the. music and Irving | Caesar. the lyrics. The cast will in. clude Andrew Tombes, Russell Mack, | William Frawley, Jane Taylor ‘and Frances Upton. Robert Milton is planning: to pyro- duce in September a new play ealied “All the King’s Horses,” by Fulton Oursler, co-author of “The Spider.” Oursler will also have another play produced next season, “Behotd This Dreamer,” a dramatization of his novel of the same name. Richard Herndon is planning to present his new revue on May 30. Net Receipts of May Day Celebration Sent BALTIMORE. — Dear Comrades: Inclosed find check for $30.55 which was collected from our May Day cele- bration. By a decision of the con- ference, the collection, after all ex- penses are-paid, is to be turned over ie The DAILY WORKER.—Wn, Wil- ins. Sends Check for $15.50 To Ruthenberg Fund Editor: I am sending you a check for $15.50 for the Ruthenberg DAILY WORKER sustaining fund, It was collected here,—Seey. S. N. No, 1. | William Carey Duncan adapted the | LUZERNE, Pa., — Dear Comrade | | | = —=Screen Notes=—== | | ‘Anna Karenina,” Tolstoi’s famous ) novel which is now being filmed will | have” many: ‘prominent: stars in the east. Greta. Garbo. will star, with | Ricardo Cortez, Lionel Barrymore, Helene Chadwick, Dorothy Sebastian and Zasu Pitts.as her support. Sidney Howard’s play, “Lucky Sam | McCarver,” will be the next starring | vehicle for Thomas Meighan. ‘We're |All Gamblers,” will be the screen | title. = Heading the long list of Columbia’s schedule of releases for the coming | season, will be “The Blood Ship,” adapted from Norman Springer’s |novel and to feature Hobart Bos- | worth. This will be one of a num- ber of specials, others of which will be “Alias the Lone Wolf,” from Louis Joseph Vance’s novel; “The College Hero,” by Willard Mack, “By Whose Hand?” by Channing Pollock, “The Sporting Age” and “The Way of the | Strong.” | Will Hays, the Czar of movieland, lhas, it seems, approved “The Green Hat,” for the films. Fox will produce Michael Arlen’s story, with Virginia | Valli playing the role of Iris March. Edward Peple’s successful stage farce, “A Pair of Sixes,” will be filmed shortly with Johnny Hines in the star role, of free speech that Sidney Hillman, Joseph Schlossberg and their lackey, Salutsky, believe in. If Local 54 had American imperialist policy in China, but the fact that China is/ statement: Wall Street. | « ‘ is i fabul mi inv n! i in! ‘The sentencing of Herman Mos- F se | ; agro absorbing a ee amounts of investment capital 79 | kowitz 6: ake onths imprisonment Continue Agitation. | | by Justice Weil in the Fourth District eae Britain, by pursuing its policy of ruthlessness, has aroused | so much hatred among the Chinese that it dare not turn back, but | must continue on the road it has mapped out for itself. It cannot | reverse its policy without admitting defeat. And defeat in China| means the beginning of the end of the British empire because the| natives of India, Egypt and the other colonials and semi-colonials| would rise against her domination. This explains the unre-| strained savagery with which Britain and her agents are trying| to defeat the nationalist movement. And the simple-minded | American minister to China, MacMurray, played right into the! hands of Britain by permitting Armiral Williams’ petty officials/ to aid in the shelling of Nanking. | The imperialist conflict between America and Britain that | rages throughout the world, in one form or another, is now be-| coming quite clear in China—is assuming definite forms. | While in its refusal to participate with the other powers in| a new note to China the American government objectively aids the Chinese nationalist movement by preventing a united im-! perialist front, it must always be borne in mind that this action is in pursuit of its own imperialist policies which are equally as| malignant as that of Britain. And all defenders of the Na-| tionalist liberation movement in China will continue to demand | that this country get its warships and marines and missionaries | out of China and keep them out. | In view of the conflict with Britain and Japan the demand} for Hands Off China should be incessantly made because the| present situation carries with it dangers of another world war. | China is today a powder magazine and the slightest spark may) explode it with a detonation that will rock the whole world and| start a conflagration in which untold millions of workers will be| called upon to lay down their lives to decide whether, America| cr Britain shall have the privilege of exploiting the rest of the| peoples of the earth. | Outlawing the Revolution. Just one year after the great general strike in England the | working class celebrated Internationa] Labor Day by denouncing | in unmeasured terms the “trade disputes and trade union bill,” calculated to outlaw general and sympathetic strikes. Each sec-. tion of the leadership of the working class clearly revealed its character in its manner of approach to the question. The re- actionary leadership, the Thomases and their ilk, deeply deplored the short-sightedness of the Baldwin government and tried to; persuade the Tories that the same results could be accomplished! by more liberal methods. They endeavored to scare the ruling class by telling them that such legislation “played into the hands | of the extremists.’ By extremists they’ mean, of course, the Communists and the Minority Movement. | ; Other elements urged that the only reply to the threat to! outlaw the general strike is another general strike. The Com- munists fight with every weapon at hand against the proposed | Jaw, but they are under no illusions regarding the action of the! government in face of another general strike. They know that the government will use its full power against another strike the! same as they did last year. And hundreds of thousands of work- ers learned, in the general strike, that such a mobilization of workers will always meet with the fiercest resistance on the part of the capitalist government and therefore, from the beginning) Magistrate’s Court is an act of gross}moment deter the Workers (Com- disregard for the rights of freedom of|munist) Party from continuing the expression which is afforded the|agitation for hands off China and for American people by our constitution. |preventing another great imperialist | For Mentioning China. catastrophe in which the American | “The action of Justice Weil has|workers will give their lives for the! been sponsored not for the violation |interests of the big bankers, We will of any city ordinance but is prompted |take every step to defend our rights by the fact that this leaflet called|of freedom of speech and will sup- for “Hands Off China” and-for stop-;Pport Herman Moskowitz and Mat- ping the murder of unarmed and de-|thew Kushnir, whose cases have been fenseless Chinese inhabitants. taken up by the International Labor “This sentence. reminds one of the | Defense. days of the actions of the courts and| “Workers (Communist) Party, Dis- police authorities in the last war, and|trict 2. W. W. Weinstone, General is a forerunner of what steps these Secretary.” HOW THE AMALGAMATED CELEBRATED INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY ON MAY DAY By BENJAMIN GITLOW. hall discovered that I was to speak at Local 54, of the Amalgamated |the celebration of Local 54, they took Clothing Workers of America, held a/the matter up with the Joint Board May Day celebration at the Amalga- | office. mated Temple in Brooklyn, New|~ There it was reported that the Joint York. Board under no circumstances would When the committee of Local 54,| tolerate my speaking on May Day for in charge of the May Day celebra-| Local 54 at the Amalgamated Temple. tion, appeared before the manager of | First, because I was expelled from the hall, Greenberg, on the matter of | the Amalgamated and second, because hiring the hall for their celebration. |I might criticize the Amalgamated. - Greenberg informed them that the Gangsters Mobilize Steps were then taken to prevent Amalgamated would not rent them the hall if they had any Workers|my speaking. Before the meeting Party speakers speaking at their May | started the committee in charge of Day celebration. The committee, how- | the hall and the meeting, was given ever, did arrange to hold the meeting | to understand that if Gitlow was per- with the Workers (Communist) Party | mitted to speak the meeting would be broken up. Strong-arm forces were speaker, Bert Wolfe, being obtained as the English speaker. mobilized at the meeting for this pur- pose. He Might Criticize. Before May Day, Bert Wolfe was| The comrades in charge of the meet- called out of town and I was desig-| ing were of the opinion that it was nated to substitute in his place. I highly inadvisable for the meeting to was informed that when the Amalga-|be broken up and the impression be mated officialdom in charge of the | given that a‘riot took place, giving an Raab Satie Ba rh it must decisively challenge the power of the capitalist class and openly proclaim to the workers that it is the first step on the road to revolution. The ruling class have also learned this lesson and when they outlaw the general strike they know they are outlawing the revo- lution. But when was revolution anything other than outlaw from the standpoint of the class that is about to be overthrown? The British Communists fight against the bill in order to expose further to the workers the true character of the govern- ment, in order to make them despise the government as the in- strument of oppression in the hands of their enemies. They do not fight because they believe that the absence of such a law will make the final struggle any easier.@ And, as for the ruling class, the passage of the bill will only reveal its futility, because the insurgent workers, being ground down by the mechanism of imperialism, will rise and fight against their oppressors, t j To try to outfaw a general strike in an imperialist country “These actions will not’ for a single | invited the psalm-singer exploiter of labor, Nash, to speak, Hillman would have hailed it as a great victory for workingelass solidarity. What About Civil Liberties? It is well also that the American Civil Liberties Union should know this act on the part of the Amalgamated, because Hillman and Company have strongly protested to the American Civil Liberties Union and have re- peatedly reiterated that under no cir- cumstance have they been guilty of denying freedom of speech. The May Day incident of Local 54 is only proof of the fact that the bull-dozing fascist braggadacio of Beckerman, the pres- ent manager of the Amalgamated, is the prevailing mode of the Amalga- mated. WORKERS! STOP THE MURDER OF SACCO AND VANZETTI Let’s Fight On! Join The Workers Party! In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- berg the Workers (Communist) Par- ty has lost its foremost, leader and the American working class its staunchest fighter. This loss can only be overcome by many militant work, ers joining the Party that he built. Fill out the application below and mail it. Basch « member of the Workers (Communist) Party and carry forward the work of Comrade Ruthenberg. 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