The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 19, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKERTNEW Yonn, IMURSDAY, MAY 19, 1927 THE DAILY WORKE Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 85 First Street, New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): §8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year 98.50 six months $2.60 three months $2.00 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 Address ali mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F, DUNNE fc IT Piva ec ele acakccnaeg business Manager OATES maiiebie a Shvet nen einen Editors the act of March 8, 1879. SS. The War on the Chinese Liberation Movement Continues! The Hankow government, the genuine expression of the Chi- . : 7 Ags ag 8 i itation, has expressed itself i mass up- | nese liberation movement, is growing stronger each day by rally-|fesult of continued exploitation, has expressed itself in a mass up |tives from their states who share in the “pork-barrel” graft con-| | nected with appropriations for the system of “levees only.” But | the culprits are aided by the wide-spread prevalence in the South | lof the benighted doctrine of fundamentalism, which enables the! ignorant preachers and priests solemnly to assure them that the! recurring floods are a visitation from heaven in order to test} | their faith in the all-highest. The dirty sermonizing of the re- | ligionists supplements and justifies the plundering of the poli- | ticians, Pennsylvania Labor Party Plans Strong Fight in Campaigns | { Broadway Briefs | Again we must emphasize the fact that the official bureauc- racy of the labor movement in this country shares in the responsi- bility for this state of affairs, lieutenants of the capitalist class, sabotaging every attempt on | State Federation of Labor conven- the part of the workers and farmers to create a class party of la-| tion, laid plans for'a continuous cam- by persistently, in their role of | bor that would make issues of just such situations and force the Entéred as second-class raail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥., under government to take steps to remedy the appalling and totally pre- ventable suffering on the part of the impoverished cotton grow- Advertising rates on application, | CI's of the lands bordering the river. The Peasant Uprising in the Philippines. | The tremendous discontent among the Filipino peasantry, the|at their recent convention. ing to its support the masses of workers and peasants and the|7ising for which the American imperialist press gives only a re- honest elements of the middle class. i This is now definitely established in spite of the daily predic- spondents. cabinet and with the exception of the son of Wu Ting-fang, who has no following outside of the wealthier Chinese and their hang- ers-on, he has no outstanding supporters. Wu so far have been to the imperialists and not to the masses ng, by his wholesale murders of workers in | ligious background. It is well known to Marxists that agrarian revolts, both in : . 4 . pcltck shane a | Europe and colonial countries, and including even the earlier up- ions > fal ank ade by the imperialist press corre- i a : Beet eel On an Now THAde OY GH Oa iene surges among the American farming population, have always had Chiang Kai-shek has not been able to organize a complete | % Strong religious tinge but that their causes can not be found in this fact. | Brady and Wiman in association | % with John Tuerk will produce next HARRISBURG, Pa., May 18.—The | season Herman Bernstein’s transla- | state labor party, at a conference here [tion of “The Command to Love” by following the adjournment of the | Rudolph Lothar and Fritz Gottwald. | Another play listed for early showing ‘ ait z jis “Women Go On Forever” by paign of political education among! Daniel N. Rubin which Brady and the Pennsylvania workers. | Wiman will present in association Charles Kutz of Altoona, was| with John Cromwell, ; elected chairman, Charles Oyler of | |this city secretary and James Kelley | Etienne Giradot, the original |of Lykens, treasurer. Rae |“Charley’s Aunt,” will play in The 20,000 miners of District 2,| “Merry-Go-Round,” the revue which U.M.W.A., in Central Pennsylvania, | will open at the Klaw theatre, May 8lst. Francis Gershwin, a sister of Z i Local | George will also be in the new Hern- | unions were instructed to organize| don production. labor party units where none existed. | | | The Pennsylvania Federation of | “Padlocks | labor dehy id J of 1927,” the Texas | Labor, through its president, James | Guinan revue, is slated’for the Shu-| Maurer, has also been very friendly | | ert theatre beginning June 6th. In to the labor patty. | addition to Miss Guinan, the cast will ; include Helen Shipman, Bobby Wat- Opening of Fifth |son, Connie Almy, Jans and Whelan | | Summer Season of | reaffirmed their support of the party jand Bert Hanlon, There is a sad lack of data on the economic and social status | of the millions of Filipino plantation workers and the sponsors | of the movement for Filipino independence, almost exclusively middle class in origin and outlook, have contributed little to en- » A Camp Nitgedaiget At its opening for the fifth summer season which will take place on Dec- | “Fog,” the mystery play by John} | Willard, author of “The Cat and the) i ae CRM | Canary,” which was last at the Na-|. Plays the principal feminine role | tional theatre will come to the Bronx i" “The Desert Song,” Sigmund Rom- |berg’s musical show at the Casino : : : : 5 hghtenment on this important subject. Shanghai a other strial centers (it is estimated that more Uneh ee ee Stree lennatriel cotters 4 ea The revolt of some 400,000 Filipino peasants therefore ap- ated all support of the labor unions. The peasant organizations, Sp ote ad thing Sper ie ne independence movements: ecuially wgainst which he has adopted the same murderous methods in|!" ea powertal proof that there exists a mass basis for the inde-| behalf of his landlord following, are also united behind the Han-|Pendence movement which its middle class leaders have neglected entirely—preferring to niake their appeal on abstract grounds of than 2000 trade unionists were slain in Shanghai alone) has alien- kow government. ; pone ; , ? | justice, humanity, American tradition, ete. It is of the greatest significance that one of the reasons for | }USUCE, Ke mn, etc. x we ida tenses Nor can the influence of the Chinese liberation movement be General Feng’s recent victories in the northwest was the support : : y i i " a liscounted in estimating the social forces involved in the Filipino | ‘4 by e Red Lances—revolutionary peasant or aniza- © Aw’ : Bien piet by. th i it) baie eae. Pak yi uprising. The fact that, according to dispatches, the utterances The imperialists are trying to hold the Hankow government ied ame Miles eu one visit to the Philippines, relative to in check while Chiang consolidates his forces. But there has crept |'?¢Pendence and freedom were connected immediately with their tions. into even the inspired Br despairing note. itish dispatches in the last week or so a/*tTuggle by the masses is further evidence that this is not simply Chiang’s negotiations with imperialism are ® movement of religious fanatics but that it has its roots deep in known to all of China and the attempt to force upon the Chinese hoe ep. a tre vodedtpel these agricultural workers, who have liberation movement a choice between compromise with imperial-| "4" of the slogans of the Chinese revolution. oe For our party and the American working class the striking ism and closer relations with the labor unions and peasantry, has resulted in the isolation of the right wing from the masses. Beginning with the intention of expelling and crushing the control of revolutionary leadership. The policy of Chiang is a policy which the imperialists, with some reservations, can endorse. He and his followers ask for recognition of a nationalist government which will continue the horrible robbery of the Chinese masses with the Chinese capitalist and compradore class more firmly in the saddle. It can be said that the traitorous desertion by Chiang Kai- shek marks a new phase in the development of the Chinese revo- lution—the struggle which went on between classes in the Kuo- mintang came into the open and the enemies of the Chinese masses who were able to cover up their treason to some extent while inside the Kuomintang ar the masses. Without the support of the imperialists Chiang Kai-shek would be overwhelmed quickly by the armies of the Hankow gov- ernment. and Japan give him what strength he has. defeated and is now in the same position as the northern mili- tarists with whom he is carrying on negotiations. Withdrawal of all troops and battleships from China must be | developments in the Philippines are a signal that there exists in this colony of American imperialism the same forces which have ss : i : ‘ i . a4 challenged imperialism in China and Indonesia—an army of work- Communists and the left wing of the Kuomintang, Chiang has reals a 3 ‘wor sueceeded only in leading the capitalist and upper middle lees ees oa le pany rie sere nab phones a ts out of the national liberation movement and leaving it in ag ae oun Wilt give tt @ tremendous driving nba we bas satin e power and link it up with the colonial liberation movements of the | world. | ats What i*Washin ATTEMPT POWER GRAB AT NATION'S CAPITAL By LAURENCE TODD, WASHINGTON, (FP). — Power trust arrogance has outdone itself, in e now seen clearly as enemies of jthe opinion of public-ownership advo- cates, in the application by the Bylles- |by branch of the power combine for a | preliminary permit to harness the |Great Falls of the Potomac, at the The battleships and troops of America, Great Britain |VeTy door of the national capital. Politically he has been} Three times the senate has adopted the Norris bill, providing for construc- tion of a great power dam at this site |by the federal government. The re- publican machine in the house has forced by the workers of Great Britain, America and Japan. Open blocked it, under the guidance from | warfare on the Chinese liberation movement has ceased tempo- | rarily only because the imperialists believe they have in Chiang Kai-shek a new counter-revolutionary hero who will do their fight- ing for them. The moment his ultimate defeat becomes a certainty to the the power trust lobbyists. Now the trust itself goes before the federal power commission, while congress is in recess, and demands the site. Cost Not Excessive. Under the Norris plan, based on foreign offices there will be another onslaught against the Han-|T¢Peated and careful studies by gov- kow government. ment and we must not be fooled by the lull between two offensives. Stop the war on China! Withdraw all troops and battleships! |ernment engineers, a power dam cost- Byes 4 4 55 , 3 ‘ jing from $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 | War is still being made against the Chinese liberation move-|could be constrycted at the Great) Falls, and from it could be developed sufficient power to light the city and loperate all machinery now in use in the District of Columbia. This electric current could be sold jat the plant for half a cent per kilo- The Responsibility for the Floods. |watt hour. It could be delivered to One disaster follows another as the Mississippi waters burst at new points their graft-constructed levees and sweep before the rushing torrents thousands upon thousands of unfortunate human beings. This sort of thing is totally uncalled for, and the blame rests entirely upon the shoulders of the United States government that has neglected in the most criminal manner the constructing of safe-guards for just such eventualities as the present holocaust. Even in the face of wholesale devastation Calvin Coolidge re- fuses to call into session the seventieth congress so that adequate appropriations may be made in order to somewhat atone to the flood sufferers, who are the victims of an organized cynical policy of graft and pillaging of government funds extending over a long period of years. He knows that a special session would dramat- ically place before the world the black record of American states- men who enriched themselves through false levee construction at the Mississippi bottoms. the sacrifice of the lives and poor belongings of the dwellers in| has no parallel anywhere on earth. , Boasting its superiority over other nations we now have a condition in the mid-southern section of the United States that! For century after century the annual rise in the waters of the Yangtze river in China, has been controlled by a system of spillways that divert the Waters fromthe main channel and let | them travel through other courses to the sea. The Egyptians in| the great Nile valley inaugurated a similar system that is still in vogue to this very day. In other parts of the United States the spillway system is in operation, But the inauguration of such a system here would not furnish such splendid advantages for per- petual graft as does the idiotic and unscientific attempt to con tine. the Mississippi to one channel. Once established, the main tenance of such a spillway system would require but a fraction of the money spent yearly to maintain the treacherous levees, <= The forlorn victims of recurring Mississippi floods, if aware of the real cause of their distress and of the criminals responsible for it-would retire from office all those senators and representa- \ ee a |consumers in private homes at less than 3 cents. The rates charged by the local company for many years were 10 cents to the householder, until |a public utilities commission reduced jthem to 7 1-2 cents. This electricity is produced in steam plants. General Electric In It. The Byllesby application is made | Corporation, in which H. M. Byllesby & Co. of Chicago—one of the import- ant “independents” actually controlled by the General Electric group—has a one-half interest. Robert Bulkley of Cleveland is president of the Potomac River Corporation, which talks of a $55,000,000 development, involving a possible 300,000 horsepower. Its ap- plication was submitted by Col. Charles Keller, a foymer army engi- neer and district commissioner, who is now a Byllesby agent. Citizens Object. of reasons for bringing congress back to Washington in special session. Citizens’. associations in the capital, |however, are taking action to persuade the federal power commission that no preliminary permit to the applicant should be considered. They look upon this move as a threat, if not the ac- tual deathknell, to all future reduc- tions in rates for electricity in this re- gion. They favor government owner- ship and government distribution of electricity because they expect to get the rate down, by that means, to 8 | read: Scott Nearing. Dunne, : —By C. B. logether— AT PECIAL PRICE? This group of books covers the period preceding and time of the great general strike of England— one of the greatest events in recent working class history. All should be included in a workers library. Buy all—give those you have to another worker to BRITISH LABOR BIDS FOR POWER—By THE BRITISH STRIKE—By Wm. F. THE MEANING OF THE GENERAL STRIKE—By R. Palme Dutt. THE REDS AND THE GENERAL STRIKE THE GENERAL STRIKE AND THE GEN- ERAL BETRAYAL—By J. Pepper. A total of 65 cents worth of books—-if bought All for 50 Cents Postpaid. Books offered In this column on hand @ in limited quantities, e and filled In turn as received. —l0c —10¢ —l0e —10c —25e All orders cash jto the tents, a new athletic field for! oration Day week-end, May 28th, | Opera House on Monday. 29th and 30th, Camp Nitgedaiget will! ments as: a new auditorium that has °80 biblical dramas this week, apon- a capacity of a thousand seats, new | Sored by A. Winfield Hoeny. The swimming pool that is six times as | Plays are “David and Bath-Sheba, large as the old one; a new comfort) 2nd “The Death of Judas” both by} house with hot and cold showers close | 5@lly Bruce Kinsolving. | The final production of the Neigh-| ball, base ball and other kind of borhood Playhouse, “The Grand gymnastics. Street Follies of 1927,” will open to- | The preparations for educational) Might at their intimate theatre on) work for the summer season are in| Grand Street. This marks the closing} full progress, This work, because of | of the long and often brilliant career) its experiences, will excel all the pre-| of this interesting group—for they | vious activities, end their work on the East Side in| all sport activities as tennis, foot- | theatre. The Grove Street theatre ts housing | SE. HEATRE GUILD ACTING CO. MR. PIM PASSES BY GARRICK Next Wee . | Neighborhood Playhouse |466 Grand Sst. OPENING TONIGHT AT 8:30 Every Evening (except Mon.) Mat. Sat. /Grand Street Follies ,2f Drydock 7516 65 W. Evs, 8:40 Mts. 1 The incident adds to the long list | Ass’n on Thursday, May 19th, till Monday, May 23rd. Registration for those who are not members of the Co-operative will start on May 23rd. 4 The camp will. not accommodate those who are not registered. A very elaborate program is being prepared for Decoration Day week- end, The opening will be celebrated with a ball, concert, and represenia- tives of the Co-operative as well as of \the Progressive Labor movement will be the speakers. The members of the | United Workers Co-operative Ass’n should not miss this celebration and therefore should register as early as possible. Unofficially the Camp is open already for the summer season and more than a hundred campers are there weekly. under the name of the Potomac River (| Letters From Our Readers | To the Editor, The Daily Worker: I believe that hundreds of the readers of our paper should accept the invitation of The DAILY WORKER to express their opinions on various current subjects, especially in view of the fact that it is the only medium which we have that aids the workers’ |struggles from day to day. I was pleased to notice that the DAILY WORKER Will soon publish a series of articles on “The Negro in American Life.” You are to be con- gratulated on your effort in this direc- tion. We must prove to these racially and economically persecuted workers that we are their only friends. And this we must do by our own loyalty and honesty to their interests. Comradly yours, Charles W. Fulp, Primrose, Washington County, Pa, i ‘ Brooklyn, N. Y. Editor, The Daily Worker: As an American born eitizen, 47 years of age, I desire to add my pro- nocent men,—Sacco and Vanzetti. I am convinced that they are the vic- tims of a frame-up, and in the name of decency and justice should be freed. I used to feel rather proud of our institutions, when I could see justice landed down to each and everyone alike, but of recent years I am forced to confess that there has been a large number of decisions handed down (and this is one of them) that has given cause for much dissension and the re- sult of which has to a very large de- gree, produced all kinds of agitation and unrest. The pages of all history are be- smirched with innocent blood, and this condition must not continue. I earn- estly hope that the state of Mass- achusetts will not permit itself to use write another page in its history.— F. G. Van Gosen, Fort Landerdale, Florida. . Post Of Workers Issue Paper. LOS ANGELES.—(FP)—May 18, —The Guidon, monthly publication | of Post Office Laborers Union 17899 of Los Angeles, makes its first ap- pearance with the May Number. It ‘is a 4-page tabloid, speaking in the interest of 4000 post office laborers all over the country. Walter C. Gay- hart is editor. It is published from Box 1602, Los Angeles, at 75 cents a year. DLY THE DAILY WORKER AM’ THE NEWSSTANDS Registration for Decoration Day) two weeks. | PEGE ag week-end will be open for members of | ——- eh PYGMALION the United Workers Co-operative The Central Park Association, | test against the execution of two in-| the blood of these innocent men to! which is interested ‘in the restora-| | tion of Central Park, will receive the | entire receipts of the 6th year per-| |formance of “Abie’s Irish Rose” at ‘the Republic Theatre, next Tuesday | | night. | gee Wee aE REP IE | Clare Eames will direct a play fur} SYD C H A P L ] N the Civie Repertory Company, next! .. | season, “Invitation au Voyage.” by sik exe Tey ey , LON Y | Jean Jacques Bernard. She will not po act in it however. First National will star Colleen TIMES SQ. H Moore “In Lilac Time,” adapted | pygs. 9:30. Mating | |from Jane Cowl’s vehicle, written by | ‘Thurs. & Sat., 9 West 42nd St, aily, 2:80 & 8,36 Miss Cowl and Jane Murfin, Sp ines HARRIS," ; John Gilbert will be starred in “Twelve Miles Out,” adapted from the WHA T PR ICE G OR Yy melodrama seen here last season. Joan | Mats. (exc. Sat.) 50c-$1. Eves. 50c-$2. Crawford, Ernest Torrence and Betty B 0; H Tbh CAE Compson will be in the support pave hase! ane uit wth of ard v | . fs . Wed. at. The Moscow Theatre Habima will |¢ ” make its fafewell American a ea B L 0 S $0 M T I M E ance at the Century Theatre. to- | The Musical Hit of Ages morrow evening with a. program of single acts from its repertury. The The Eb A D D E R organization has been trouping in Now in vs th MONTH ‘ St. Hast of re ‘ALDORF, the big cities. B'way. Mats. WED. and SAT. These Comrades Responded | ito the Call for Ruthenberg | Sustaining and Defense Fund L Neibrief, B’klyn, N. Y. ... SS, 2A-UFD S Sirotnick, Youngstown, Ohi 00! Br. 4, Sec. 5 . A. 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