The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 17, 1927, Page 4

Page Eour THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday * BS First Street, New York, N. Y. 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 mgnths $2.50, three months $2.00 three months | Phone, Orchard 1680 By H. M. WICKS GAIN the diminutive, warped, mendacious flunkey of imperialism |and former ornament of the Socialist party, John Spargo, slimily creeps Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL e over the pages of the reptile press, WILLIAM F, DUNNE } Steer ereenceneeeeens Editors jleaving behind a trial of venom BERT MIG eee ciccinse cents Business Manager | against the working class, the class —— | that for years enabled him to exist |and satisfy his exaggerated .ego by strutting as a leader. This time Spargo appears as the | defender of that other apostate, Mus- |solini. In a laudatory article appear- |ing in the Sunday book review section | of the New York Times, this mounie- bartk, under pretext of reviewing a book titled, “Italy and Facismo,” by | Luigo Sturzo, formerly a supporter Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879, S:. Advertising rates on application. Nicaragua Cannot Achieve Freedom by Submitting to United States but now an exile from the wrath of Encouraging reports are coming out of Nicaragua to the ef- fascism, indulges in the most debasing fect that many thousands of the forces successfully struggling | praise of the blood-streaked monster, against the government of the Wall Street puppet, Diaz, have| Mussolini, that has yet appeared in ‘ : i - fs print it any language. refused to jay down their arms and will continue fighting. Some} Boe of them even declare that they will lay down their lives rather | : : , deavors to traduce Lenin. He says: than submit to a government imposed upon them by the power |“what Lenin represented in the lead jership of the destructive forces that : : ; : were unleashed in Europe, Mussolini Reports of wholesale disarmament appearing in the kept| became in the leadership of the con- press are probably considerably exaggerated, but there is un-|serving and constructive forces.” doubtedly a large number that has disarmed under the threat | sone pened spr ga cg > SSeS alla Ra OR ole : Coase ERE y a shambles, wi e sew- | of the Coolidge emissary, Stimson, to wage war against them | ors overflowing with the blood of the | with all the forces at his command—which means sufficient to| flower of the working class and who | crush the liberal government and maintain the usurper, Diaz, in| maintains his power by means of| power, in spite of the fact that he is despised by the overwhelm- | Whole LE ar ge silgks nacieaPart peta n aera q aap Seeigie etary ‘ ; s » jq| Sassination against every element in ing majority of the people of Ni aragua who know that he is ociety except the powerful capital- merely the bribed tool of imperialism. |ists whom he serves and the black- ‘, Juan Sacasa, the liberal president, whom the United |%¥@™ mercenaries who make up his | goers : | armed forces, is eulogized by Spargo | s trying to destroy because he would not yield to the} as g constructive force. This butcher blandishments of Wall Street, announces that the liberals will} who boasts that he has trampled un- | have nothing to do with the Diaz government. However, he does|derfoot what few liberties the Italian yield to the threat of Stimson and explains that his army “can pee kot bisa ioe ied only sacrifice itself or submit to the strength of a foreign power] vasts ike Suh sou all tale’ ant which, instead of being a bulwark of justice and right, has nulli-| who indulges in ludicrous bombast | * N praising Mussolini, Spargo en- of foreign bayonets. Spargo’s Journey from Socialism. to Facism able parody of the worst elements of German social-democratic opportun- ism, Spargo would long ago haye been kicked out of the party as a scoundrel and swindler fit only to sell himself to the people who now pay him for his services that he donated to then gratis while at the helm of the social- ist forces, His first outstanding crime was to write a book wherein, by a series of crud? inventions, distortions and downright forgerivs, he tried to prove the compatibility of socialitm and re- ligion. For this he was severely con- demned by the Marxists of that day, including the present writer. But the offigial Hillquit, Berger, J. Stitt Wil- son, Walter Thomas Mills, executive of the socialist party, defended Spar- go and accused us of conspiracy to dis- rupt the party. To distort Marx in the most shameful manner was a virtue, to defend Marxism a crime against the party. However, we in the United States were not alone in our denunciation of Spargo. It was not long before he wrote what purported ‘to he a life of Marx. So low, so vile, so utterly unprincipled and frandulent was this work that when it was translated into German the social-democratic party prohibited its circulation and Franz ANNIE LAURIE | ,The producers of “Annie Laurie” have done it again. Under the wealth ' of: scenic beauty they have liant revolutionist branded, the thing as a disgrace to the international i . (the pre-war second international) | °°Yered the poverty of the picture, jand an insult to the memory of Marx. The days of old Scotland when the His only rival in Marx distortion was | ©!@ns fought each other to keep their James Oneal whose ability to twist ¢@ttle and property are pictured here. the works of the theoretical founder | Justice emerges triumphant in the of the revolutionary movement is only | ¢"d. Of course it is not as simple as equalled by his mastery in perverting | all that. There are many thrilling American. history. |moments; there are rivers of blood, | But the exposure of Spargo by Me-| Colorful battles, vigor, strength and hring did not prevent the soc t | Just oodles of patriotic high fervor. party circulating his disgraceful | Brotherly love and peace are event- work and he still remained one of its|Ual victors in the struggle of the kright and shining lights. | Campbells and the McDonalds. What was a Mehring in Germany| The poor but honest mountaineer Spargo, in the United States? Campbell, who represent wealth and Had the socialist party heen a| corruption and have misused the or- Marxian party there would have been | der of the King. All is finally lovely no Spargo of yesterday and therefore | for King, Country and Justice, no Spargo of today. He and Frank | : aes Bohn constitute the rottenest offshoot arte ae pe Recger teen pige id of socialist opportunism, but ‘others | traction, is wall cast.—A. pa Gln are on the road to keep thém com- | sy 3 om pany and sooner than many expect! = = = — old sociaiist acquaintances will be ., renewed and old alliances resurrected | Broadway Briefs J under the bloody Lanner of fascism. % at Just as Spargo’s career in the so-| Butler Davenport, director of the cialist party indicated the road he| Bramhall Playhouse, announces the would eventually take, so the present | production of two plays at his little activities of his former associates | theatre on Twenty-seventh Street Mehring stalwart Marxist and bril- prove that they are headed in the) and Lexington Avenue. Beginning same directign. | tonight he will present his own com- WORKERS SCHOOL DIRECTOR ANALYSES CHANGING AMERICAN WORKING CLASS; ROLE OF RIGHTS The Workers School Open Forum]only give bribes to the stratecially| hood Playhouse, Sunday evening | placed sections of the working class. closed the 1926-27 with a lecture by its director, Ber- tram D. Wolfe on “The Changing American Working Class.” It was held at the school’s headquarters, 108 East 14th Street. Wolfe pointed out that the Amer- jedy “The Importance of Coming and | Going” and “David Garrick” by Tom Robertson, it _Aline Bernstein, the. talented de- | signer of costumes for the neighbor- will have an im- | portant role in the new “Grand Street Upward Trend Continues. | Follies,” which opens Thursday night “How long will the privileges con- | at the Grand-Street Theatre. ‘ tinue and are they going up or down? What is the trend? It is still up-| Read The Daily ward, ‘American capitalism having | Worker Every Day compared to the ex-pulpit-pounder, | McDonalds finally defeat. the clan|" ———————————————! Erskine Sanford gives a realisti¢ and amusing performance in the role of Mr. Pim in the Theatre Guild re« vival of Milne’s most delightful com- edy at the Garrick theatre, a SRR SCAR APRN See A late premiere announced for this week will take place tonight at Wal- lack’s theatre where Clement Giglio will present his musical version of F. Marion Crawford’s “The White Sister.” Josie Jones and Eugene Scudder play important roles. Chester Morris took over James Rennie’s role in “Crime” at the Times Square Theatre last night. Frank M. Thomas will play the for- mer Morris part. not yet reached it zenith, the peak! ——- PERTH AMBOY, May 16.—Alhert | Weisbord, leader of the Passaic tex- tile strike and recent candidate for | City Commissioner of Passaic on the of its power.” Wolfe then pointed to the develop- ment of trusts as the recent merger among bakerys, ice cream and florist | | fied the popular, will of the Nicaraguan people as expressed in| about the glory of the Caesars is said iene panel cue witht Ne Pnac antion ie TORE ratifio, a be fie . ,| by Spargo to have “attained such i- age? rapier etn Bc the free election of 1924 and ratified on the battlefield for the | oe are Mois Ohh be Rad fs vival (the privileged position held by Great past six months. | | Britain up to the time of the world Ella Reeve Bloor | him.” Sacasa goes on to express his admiration for the United} States and is an ardent advocate of “real Pan-Americanism,” in} spite of the terror practiced against and the deception practiced | upon his people. These are not sentiments of a determined | fighter, but of a puerile liberal. | Sacasa, to justify his leadership of the Nicaraguan masses in their struggle against American imperialism, should emphasize the fact that the Pan-Americanism we hear so much about is only an imperialist snare in which to enmesh the southern re- publics. It is a Pan-Americanism with the United States playing the part of overlord, just as Pan-Slavism so energetically promul- gated by Czarist Russia was a slogan of vicious reaction that uximed.to achieve ezarist domination of all Stavic counuries, wren the final ambitious goal the domination of all Europe, To justify himself as a leader of the Nicaraguan rebels against Wall Street’s government at Washington, Sacasa should not only refuse to sanction disarmament by ,he American marines, but he should utilize his present position to discredit the Pan-Americanism of the banking houses and try to rouse all the neighboring republics against the frightfulness of the im- perialists who continuously make bandit raids upon the nations of Latin-America. Furthermore, instead of giving up their arms, the liberal forces should keep them. If the invading hordes of the United States are too overwhelming they should resort to deception and conceal their arms they now have and get as many more as they | | of the smatterins ~ As opposed to his picture of Mus- | solini, Spargo, places Lenin, who, as| war. A majority of the world’s tele- the leader of the Bolshevist Party,|Phones and automobiles are manu- rescued the workers and peasants of Russia from their age-long thralldom, and brought hundreds of thousands, nay millions, of them into active audi- ble political life and inaugurated a svstem of government that is a thousand times more democratic than the most democratic capitalist gov- ernment on the face of the earth. This man, the greatest insurrectionist who ever wrote his name on _history’s pages, the most far-seeing and daring liheratar of all time, the man whose very name is the symbol of the epoch tem humanity will ever know, and who, with infinite pains and profound understanding of the problem con- fronting him began to build socialism cut of the ruin left‘in Russia by the war and the counter-revolution, is traduced by the miserable scribbler, Spargo. But to be reviled by a defender of and apologist for Mussolini is there- by to be honored. Lenin’s name is written so large in the history of man- kind that no Spargo can ever detract from it or add to it. Regardless of the oceans of ink that may be spilled in publishing the diatribes of Spargo can obtain to hold in readiness when Nicaragua and other na- | and his ilk history will record the fact | tions suffering under the blight of Wall Street can rise and drive, that Lenin was the leader of the factured here and that more than one half of the gold in the vaults of the world are in» American banks. Most Productive. “The American working man,” con- tinued Wolfe, “is-the most produc- tive in the world. He produces as much as 2 to 7 workers of other coun- tries. “United States capitalism invests in other countries $1,000,000,000 a year, 1927 will see that marked pass- C9: prdinee"iaa..also, mots, hinher rates anwagy methods imeluding monoplies and exploitation of colonial countries | in Central America and South Amer-} \ica, wherever U. S. marines use their! bayonets to drive them to work Jone} hours for low wages. | Pay Tribute. | “The capitalist of the other coun- tries are paying tribute to the United States who is able therefore to throw out crumbs to is own workers. It can bribe large sections of the Amer- iean working class. In fact, if it wanted to, it could give concessions to the entire working class of this country.» But it does not do so; it corporations, He said that no in- Labor ticket will speak Thursday | evening, May 19, 8 P. M., at Colum- bia Hall. With him there’ will be plants. | + ‘: . “What effect will this upward other speakers, including Juliet Stu- trend have on the American work-| more clever method is* used, that of ing class?” he asked. “This tactic|the trade union officials leading the of corrupting parts of the working| raids, class will continue and will drive! “In 1919 it was the C. i ‘ 9 sommunist E y i parts of the working class of this| Party that bore the brunt of the at- sty a athe Ml eae country to the right. This situation | tack and today again it is the organ- iD as! talc EE ils eh will continue as long as American | ization that is being fought. Why? WORKER in its fight against the capitalism is on the upgrade and con-| Because as a result of the reorgani- | Various patriotic societies which are tinues its briberies.” | zation of the For Upper Strat | ertrate into the basic uni ial- vho is wi Referring to Matthew Woll, Wolfe | dis Weta lcaeie ee sclusad. nas. ctagstuatt |1s_ into the United Mine Workers.|a speaker and as a veteran organizer wants. the, 11 it hac haan landing. onana. i — 4, + of the workers being opposed tol Lis policy is to abandon Siri in behalf or The DAILY “WORKETE using them as organs of working | When the official labor leaders want |May 15th—San Francisco; May 16— class struggle. Therefore he is op-|to limit unions to the skilled work- |Oakland; May 17—Carmel; May 18- possed to strikes and any sharp form/|ers only, the Communists organize|19, Santa Barbara; May 20, 21, 22— for the working class struggle. the unorganized workers.” Los Angeles; May 23—Long Beach; For Class Peace. Wolfe also referred to the divisions | May 24 to 26 Los Angeles; May 27— To Tour the Coast For Daily Worker dustry in running to capacity of its “The present drive against the left|in the executive council of the A. F.|San Bernadino; May 28—Riverside; support him find it necessary to drive | ---a right wing, center and left wing. | cities a cordial reception is promised, were made directly by the govern- AMUSEMENTS, asad secant on . Wall Street Declares War Upon Labor wing and the Communist is a move) of !., proving that Woll, Green and|June 1—San Diego; June 2 to 6th— for class peace. Woll and those who; Nivunvn, repr sent three tendencies, |Phoenix, Arizona. In each of these out the left wing so they can fulfill ioe their-promise. In 1919 the red pics { ment under the command @& A, Mitchell Palmer that expose the state | In 1927 a} F ——THEATRE GUILD ACTING CO, 'TIMES S THEA., W.-42 Q. ‘|| MR. PIM PASSES BY || GARRICK 65 W. 35th. Bys. 8:40 Mts. Thur.&Sat. 2:40 CRIME Eves. §:30. Matinee: Thurs. & Sat., 0. party it is able to pen-| seeking to suppress the paper. Com- : ‘ forces that first’ broke through ee ag Next Week: Right You A ee ene eS the invaders from their shores, | id mi (Continued from Page One) ae a bared Bhs She hd wane THEA. West. 4nd Bt oe raptin | aid ORE, RN ade a signal that the workingclass must take decisive action in| PYGMALIO {Sam HARRIS 2HEs Pitas ry dt Tammany Defends Right to Steal Elections Tammany Hall is in.an uproar. Judge Olvany, office boy for Governor Al. Smith, Wall Street’s and pope’s candidate for the democratic party nomination for president, and the Tammany | » . 4 | district leaders held a secret meeting the other night at which | they endeavored to devise plans to defeat the introduction of voting machines and a reduction of the number of election dis forces that will enable society to rise | to new and immeasurable heights, while Mussolini will be recalled only | as a lackey of capitalism, of reaction, | who tried to stem the tide of history and make slavery for humanity eter- nal. ROM socialism to fascism, is the road travelled by Spargo. A road hat has no retreat, the logical, in- iwo directions—also supplementing each other: | 1. In all strikes, lockouts and boycotts the decision in the, Bedford Cut Stone Company case must be disregarded—there | must be organized mass resistance to this new form of slavery. | 2. Intensive agitation and organization work for a labor) party must be started in all sections of the working class move- GUILD & Next Wee W. 52 Ste ‘h : Second Man Ned M’Cobb’s Daughter | Next Week: Silver Cora ment. | That a new drive on labor has been prepared and has en SYD (¢ H KA P E I N launched already against the coal miners, certain sections of the} building trades, the garment trades, etc., there cannot be any} '\ THE MISSING LINK’ WHAT PRICE GLORY Mats, (exe. Sat.) 50c-$1. Eves. 50c-$2. id eS |Bronx Opera House }/°t , S's 1 , Pop. Prices. Mat. Wed. & Sat. ‘BLOSSOM TIME” The Musical Htt- of Ages The LADDER : = ‘ ‘ | evitable goal of those who, like Spar- Si civina ater a iets. Such an innovation would throw out some hundreds of |” ' BS. BROADWAY Now in its 7 . tricts ‘go, started on the inclined plane of| doubt, | Moss" COLONY AT 53rd ST. Fe eis WHE nad GAT ‘Tammany election officials and disrupt the present machinery built up for the purpose of election steals. ; No one should labor under the illusion that the introduction of voting machines and the reduction of the districts 25 per cent would guarantee correct returns on election day. Tammany ob- jects to the introduction of the new system because it will force it to’ reorganize its machinery for stealing elections, not because it believes it will guarantee an honest count of the votes. It will devise a means of fixing the machines so that they will be equally us-effective as the approved Tammany stunt of stuffing ballot boxes. ‘ “Ten years hence the level of life in Russia will be far higher than it was before the war, and in the rest of Europe it will be lower than it was before the war,” reluctantly asserts John May- nard Keynes, the .bourgeois economist of England. Mr. Keynes, of course, is banking on the hope that the rest of Europe will then be capitalistic, otherwise he would have to qualify his state- ment. Al Smith’s articles of faith and patriotism which were cal- culated to aid him in his campaign to secure the democratic nomination for president of the United States fall rather ‘flat in the light of the exposure of the fine Italian hand of the agents of the Pope in Mexico who staged the sanguinery train massacre a few days ago. . { neem _———_:——————————_ES|LL is | apostacy by first defaming the revo-| lutionary elements of the working class and rapidly sank to the lowest depths of which human depravity can | descend. Of all the renegades pro- duced by the Socialist party only one other has plumbed the depths with Spargo—that worthy is Frank Bohn, one-time leading figure in the revolu- tionary movement who is also a con- tributor to the columns of the New York Times, But many other assailants of the travelling that road. Sigman, Oneal, Hillquit, former associates of Spargo, to mention only a few, will soon join him. Still denouncing fascism Ttaly, they practice it in action against the workers of the United States. Their theory will soon con- form to their action, * * |‘T°O the Marxists of the United | States, the defection of Spargo came as no surprise. Long before the first blast of the trumpets of the war that signallized his desertion to the camp of the imperialists this man dis- played his dishonesty and his vicious ignorance. His crimes egainst the working class while he was stil! one of the outstanding leaders and “theo- reticians” for the socialist party evoked the opposition of the Marxian elements, Then, as now, this ex- militant working-class are rapidly | in | The two reactionary decisions of the Supreme’Court coincide} with the beginning of this new offensive. The decisions also) coincide With the new developments in the imperialist policy of aggression in Nicaragua, Mexico, the Philippines, China and else-| where. Externally Wall Street government is pursuing a policy of | forcible and underhanded conquest of colonial and semi-colonial | woples. | { Internally, the policy of Wall Street government is aggression | against the working class and its organizations. | The policies and methods which secured gains for the work- ers during the pre-imperialist epoch are obsolete and ineffective | now, We have been able to The identity of interest of workers and employers—the | theory uyon which the unions have based their policy and tactics —is obviously a dangerous delusion. | The Supreme Court decisions are class decisions—decisions in favor of the capitalist class. | The “nonpartisan” political policy—“punishing enemies and) rewarding friends” in the ranks of the two Wall Street parties—| is bankrupt. Wall Street welcomes this sham struggle and its supreme court welds the shackles tighter on the limbs of labor. The time has come to fight. If the present leadership of the American labor movement evades the struggle and its.implications then a new leadership must be built. | Whoever, in the face of the declaration of war upon the American working class made by the two decisions of the Supreme Court, advocates a continuation of the old methods, whoever is by leading figures in arts and letters. ing. preacher and ego-maniac was a vol- uminous writer and everything he touched he perverted. If the Socialist party in the United States had been a Marxian party, instead of a miser- / against disregard of these decisions and against the organization of a mass party of labor, is an enemy of the working class and an apostle of surrender. ; | American workers must organise and fight! suis Cloth Bound Volume of the Liberator for 1922 ber of these volumes . . usual for the revolutionary worker. volume there are included splendid articles by best American writers; poetry and art In addition here is record of the revolutionary movement of that day for ready reference. In attractive cloth bind- Formerly selling at $4.00. NOW $2.50 Books offered in this column on hand e in limited quantities, e and filled in turn as received. Baral ) yj AT PPECIAL PRICE secure a limited num- + something un- In this present day American All orders cash 7