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Gy Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by te DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, St TE are. Discuss Schools 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 98.50 six months | 2 $2.50 three months $2.00 three months { Pioneers to Hear | Jobs Get Still Scarcer in Wknois | By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press). ‘With Russian Picture The only important job gains in| decline in March, a month sooner |in March. | Illinois employment which started | urers all reported fewer workers than to | than in 1926, continued the slow down- Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. | ices cnenieesarnaeeN ce ee ner J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE (tttttese4 Vvvcvsenes Editors BERT MILLER..........ceaceviesesi business Manager | ee | 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. SP. New Conspiracies at Shanghai. val in Shanghai from Peking of Sir Miles Lampson, British minister to China; the departure from Hankow for Shang-} hai of Basil Newton, and the arrival in Shanghai from Nanking of the imperialist hireling, Chiang Kai-shek, can have but one meaning. These conspirators from the three alleged capitals of the conflicting forces trying to establish or maintain governments are to hold conferences in order to devise means of dealing with the situation confronting the imperialists. Regardless of the official screen behind which these confer- ences will be at least partly concealed one fact stands out clearly. These marauders are preparing new attacks upon the nationalist liberation movement. Britain is exerting itself to the utmost to The “Young Pioneer Camp” have | between March and April, according | tiles and 1.8% in building material arranged a symposium on the ques-| to the Illinois department of labor. | industries: tion: “Does the present educational sys- tem in the United States meet the needs of the children of the American Workers?” Speakers on this most important | + | Subject will be: Prof. Scott-Nearing, Bertran D. Wilfc, Director Workers School, Dr. Benzion Lieber, author of “The Child in the Home,” Joe Freeamn, just re- turned from Soviet Russia, and others. | In addition, a very fine program | will be given by the “Young Pioneer Campers.” A short play, recitations, demonstration of activities and life in camp will be staged by the children. Workers of New York will help the “Young Pioneer Camp” and will spend a profitable evening and enjoy a good time. ‘ Tickets can be obtained at Jimmie Higgins Book Shop, 106 University Pl. and at 108 E. 14th St., Room 41. ‘Pass Resolutions in and a |ward trend with a decline of 0.6% | This brings April employment in Ill- | inois factowles to a\level 3.9% below | April 1946 and establishes the lowest |mark since August 1925. | There were fewer workers on TIl- inois factory payrolls this April than The reduc- 1923 {in any April since 1922. compared with April | tion |amounts to 13.7% which means loss | | of jobs to upwards of 90,000 workers. | Many Want Work. With the begining of the outdoor work season the free employment offices reported 154 applicants for h 100 jobs in March, But in spite | of this improvement the number seek- ling jobs is higher than in any April since 1921 when the industrial de ion was at its worst. In April 1 there were 129 gpplicants for each 100 jobs. The department remarks that the {lockout of coal miners which began April 1 has increased the competi- | tion for jobs at only 1 of the free em- | ployment offices so far. Offices re- April were increases of 2.8% in tex- A new intimate theatre, especially h 100 jobs compared with 174 for | | built for the showing of pictures, will There was a seasonal | open tonight at 154 West 55th Street. | gain of 9.4% in workers employed by | The Fifty-fifth Street Cinema, as the | building contractors, | playhouse is called, seats but 299, all Worse in, New York . State }on one floor, The theatre is spon- | Employment in factories in New | sored by the Art Cinema League, a , York state declined even more sharp-}new organization headed by M. M. ly than in Illinois, according to the |Maiman, who seeks to present films New York industrial commissioner. | of special merit, which may not have The reduction between March and/an opportunity of reaching the April was about 2%, bringing em-| screen elsewhere, ployment nearly 5% under April 1926. | The commissioner says: “This year March failed to show an increase and this fact together with | 2 decline at leastgiiarge as usual in' April leaves the employment index The premiere program will feature | |“The Marriage of the Bear,” the! second Russian picture to be released | in America by Amkino, the pro-| ducers of that remarkable film “Po- | for the month from, 4 to 5% lower | temkin.” The opening program will) |than a year ago. ‘The employment | also be composed of specially selec- | |level for the first Qyenths of 1997| ted short subjects, including a color| as lower than for®he same period film with Maude Adams and a short; lin any year since 1922”. | picture titled. “Magician | of Talao” | Heavy reductions in the clothing 8 Arabian night story in aie foal ‘industries and: considerable reductions | Silhouette by Ewald Schuramacker, |in most of the metal trades more than by the German artist and director, | | balanced gains in building material! produced by F. Merle Johnson ex- |and auto jobs. Employment in New| Pressly for the Fifty-fifth Street |York factories is now nearly 15% | Cinema. Star of “Her Cardboard Lover,” at the Empire theatre. cast: Joan Bourdelle, Dennis Cleugh, Joan Gordon, Gail De Hart, John Buckler, Ethel Martin and Doris Bryant. maintain the leading position in the fight against the revolution. It is sorely disappointed because its bought-and-paid-for lackey, Chiang Kai-shek, was not able to consolidate a government, The failure of that traitor and the right wing elements of the Kuomin- tang to stage a counter-revolutionary putsch, disguised behind revolutionary slogans, imposes upon the imperialists the necessity | of devising new plans to achieve their aim. The Nanking “gov- Favor of Advancement Children’s Movement ference held Monday evening at the Labor Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave., resolutions were adopted in- dorsing the work of the conference. jporting high ratios of applicants to|of jobs to about 150,000 workers. At the Young Pioneer Camp con-/| | jobs were Cicero with 186 for each} 100 jobs, Quincy with 173, Chicago with 186 and Aurora with 162. Fewer Tailors Needed. Clothing establishments led the de- jcline with a drop of 4.5% in employ-; (ment. The April cut in women’s ‘clothing jobs was the greatest in 5 years. Meat packing establishments | Two lockouts remain a menace to Chicago labor. The White (form- erly Regan) Printing House persists in lame attempts to run openshop in| spite of a heavy loss of business. | Over 200 men and women are on; strike pay as a result. The union millright shops which locked out 3,000 inside carpenters last week are not jlower than in 1923. This means loss M : Broadway Briefs At the Cosmopolitan theatre this evening Lawrence J. Anhalt will of-| fer his revival of Gilbert and Sulli- van’s merry burlesque, “Ruddigore,” with a cast including many of the players who appeared in -the Park E Neighborhood Playhouse 466 Grand St. Drydock 7516 Grand Street Follies ,2f, Every Evening (except Mon.) Mat. Sat. ernment” has remained nothing but a military staff without an army. The mercenaries that still remain are insistently demand- ing money for their services. Chiang will probably demand from his British and American paymasters that they place substantial funds at his disposal. His attempts to impose heavy taxes upon the merchants have failed, because thesfirst demand of the bour- geoisie, face to face with the demands of the wo@kers and peasants making up the overwhelming majority of the Kuomintang, was that Chiang and his Nanking “government” stop making grandiose gestures about a march toward Peking and make peace with Chang Tso-lin. | Sir Miles Lampson is at least officially, if not actually, the head of the British diplomatic forces in China. He has been watching events in Peking. His underling, Basil Newton, has been spying upon the Kuomintang government at Hankow, and his departure for Shanghai was accomplished by the announce-/yunning a Spring festival and dance | M. ment that Britain will not deal with that government “because it has failed to make good its claim to govern in accordance with} the standards of a responsible modern government.” In Shanghai they will take inventory of the situation and concoct new military ventures. This action of the British was followed by an announcement seamen. It stands for the aetive stim- | | consider a splendid example of how | , They point out the need of build-|igiq off 1.8% of their workers, oil ing children’s working class organi-! refineries 5.1%, shoe factories 5.2% zations as an effective means of! and leather factories 4.9%. A drop {counteracting the anti-labor propa-|o¢ 3.1; in furniture was largely re- ganda they receive at school and thru| sponsible for the 1.8% decline in em- the work of such organizations 4S| ployment in the wood products group. the boy scouts. Machinery, electrical apparatus and The need of a permanent workers’ | agricultural implement manufact- children camp is indorsed in the reso- | lution and the campaign to raise | $15,000 by the sale of $5 shares is | approved. | Dance For Seamen’s | Editor, The DAILY WORKER: unable to get contributions to Club: for May 28th nitg now, but am sending my own check for $20. Wishing you The Youth Center of Brownsville is | great success, Sincerely,—Mrs. T. Nagle, Wesleyville, Erie Co., for the benefit of the International | Penna. Seamans Club. ‘It is to take place on | at ee Saturday evening, May 28th, at 63 | Editor, The DAILY WORKER: Liberty Ave., Brooklyn. I am closing an article from “The The International Seamans Club is | American Appeal” (which paper is a center for progressive and radical | peing mailed to be unsolicited), which LETTERS FROM OUR READERS {attempting to operate with scabs. A, \number of the shops have reopened | at the old scale of $1.20 an hour, $1.25 is demanded by the union and $1.10 |was offered by the bosses. (The Federated Press erroneously reported the old seale as $1.25 in a previous ) notice.) ¥ Theatre reviyal ‘six years ago when “Ruddigore”* ran beyond 200 per- formances. “Tampico”, from the novel by Joseph Hergesheimer, adapted by the author and Bartlett Cormack, is announced. for early production next season by | Jones and Greeh. This is said to be Hergesheimer’s first play to appear jon the stage. , Don Tompkins, a youthful hopeful who has been appearing with “Queen | High” in Boston and Philadelphia. | has been engaged by Schwab and Mandel for their new college musical | comedy, “Hold ’Em Helen.” declines to take a stand openly on the side of the revolutionary Chinese masses. The only thing he does is to “shrug.” Are the present-day Wobblies thinking in harmony with the other | petty-bourgeois liberals, yellow so- cialists and other pink supporters of | the present order, who also “shrug” and fail to see the significance of present-day events? Force Leaders to Take Stand I should like to ask the Wobblies: r Richard S. Aldrich, manager of The Jitney Players, announces that | tour of New England and Long Island will include “The Duenna” by Rich- ard Brinsley Sheridan, with the musi- cal score the repertory for their fifth summer | oad THEATRE GUILD ACTING CO MR. PIM PASSES BY GARRICK ty rhurkeat 240 Next Week: Right You Are __ PYGMALION Next Week: Second Man Ned M’Cobb’s Daughter John ] Th. of Bwy.|Circle Go! deny ur.&Sat.) 5678 Next Week: Silver Cora sD CHAPLIN 'X. THE MISSING LINK Sat., 2:30. hee. CRIME THEA., W. 42 St. } 8:30. Mati bare | Sam THEA. Wes H, HARRIS tae Daily, from an inspired source at Washington that “the state department a ple of vgetiot o will not follow the lead of Britain and break relations with the} Sie Medien Hails ecsin-yoine aad government of the Central Yangtze valley” (Hankow).e Neverthe-| port and river workers. less the U. S. government carries out its own interventionist ‘pol-| — increases its armed forces in. Chinese soil and in Chinese | (et?g Fight On! Join The Workers Party! Failure to induce the other powers to plunge madly into offi- | cial intervention, in place of the underhanded war that is now being waged against the nationalist movement, imposes upon the agents of that nation the necessity of trying to get what it can out of the old game of subsidizing military lords. If Chiang Kai- shek gets further support from Britain he will have to agree to peace terms with Chang Tso-lin and participate in a concerted drive against the nationalists. That much is perfectly clear. That this latest move of Britain will result in another fiasco} is indicated by the fact that while the conferences are proceeding at Shanghai the army of Feng Yu-siang, formerly known as the “christian general,” now in command of nationalist forces, is driv- ing toward Honan-fu, while the main force of the nationalists is sweeping upward from the south toward the same objective. The) military strategy of the Hankow forces !s for both armies to meet! at Chengchow, where the Peking and Lunghai railways cross.| That point is the key to the entire northern military situation and| will place the revolutionary forces in the strongest position they have ever occupied. Without the meddling of the imperialist agents in China, the nationalist liberation forces would make mighty short work of their native enemies. The one thing that stands in the way of| | Union Affiliation | In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- | berg the Workers (Communist) Par- |ty has lost its fcremost leader and ,the American working class its | staunchest fighter. This loss can only | be overcome by many militant work. jers joining the Party that he built. Fill out the application below and mail it. Become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party and carry forward the work of Comrade Ruthenberg. I want to become a mémber of the Workers (Communist) Party. Name Address Occupation ..... Mail this application to the Work- ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New York City; or if in other city to Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Blv., Chicago, Ill. | the “Appeal” carries on the struggle | for the workers. | As a worker I am not Interested | in the opinions of the employers’ | groups, even tho they are voiced, as | the editor points out, “by one of the jmore liberal of American business ;men.” It is about time that self- | styled “labor” paper cease preaching | class collaboration and defeatism and | come out in the open on the side of the employers. Please find the small sum of one dollar (will do better next time) which I have enclosed to help The DAILY WORKER.—Fred T. Doug- las, Boston, Mass. Editor, The Daily Worker: Iam enclosing an article from “The American Appeal” (which paper is being mailed to me _ unsolicited), which I consider a splendid example of how the “Appeal” carries on the struggle for the. workers. As a worker I am not interested in “| the opinions of the employers’ groups even tho they are voiced, as the editor | points out, “by one of the more lib- {eral of American business men.” It |is about time that self-styled “labor” papers cease preaching class collabo- |ration and defeatism and come out in | the open on the side of the employers. Can they see no difference between! ‘the propaganda of British imperialism ‘and that of the Communists? Can the I. W. W. find no group of class interested in the Chinese revolution to line up with? I know that the rank and file of the | I. W. W. (especially on the west coast) have a strong sympathy not | Jerome; “Comedy & Tragedy” by! by J. B. Buckstone. ; by Alfred Reynolds; “Charming Leandre,” by Theodore de Banville; “Sunset,” by Jerome K.| WHAT PRICE GLORY Mats. (exe. Sat.) 50c-$1. Eves. 50c-$2, Bronx Opera House 149th . Street, E. of 3 Pop. Prices. Mat. Wed. & iat “BLOSSOM TIME’ Sam Janney, author of “Loose | ‘The Musical Hit of Ages W. S. Gilbert; and “The Dead Shot Ankles” is going in for producing. The L A DD E R only with the struggling Chinese | He will present his new comedy, “A masses but also with the Soviet Un-| Very Wise Virgin,” at the -Bij ; paeat! jou Now in its 7th 4 |ion. It is time that they demand, theatre, on June 2, with the following WALDORF, ‘Soin St, ast ot |some open stand on the part of the | —— te B'way. Mats, WED.'and SAT. leaders. | coiaonlgeagts Dave Rappo: Chicago, Ill. ‘Educational Symposium ‘Tonight For Pioneers | “Does the present educational sys- | tem meet the needs of the children | ‘of the American worker,” will be ithe subject of a symposium, tonight | |at the Labor Temple Auditorium, 14th | |street and 2nd Ave. | The proceeds will go to help the | “Young Pioneers’ Camp,” for workers’ | children. : | The speakers will include Scott |Nearing, Bertram D. Wolfe, Director | Workers school, Dr. Benzion Liber, ¥ AT PECIAL PRICED Just to Get You Acquainted Four copies of the new issues of the Com- munist International (Vol, 4—No. 1-2-3-4) containing splendid articles on CHINA, NICARAGUA, UNITED STATES, FRANCE, ENGLAND and other countries, by outstand- ing figures in the world revolutionary move- Distribute the Ruthenberg pam- phlet, “The Workers’ (Communist) Party, What it Stands For and Why | Workers Should Join.” This Ruthen- | be phYet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. Every Party Nucleus must collect | 50 cents from every member and will receive 20 pamphlets for every mem- ber to sell or distribute. Nuclei in the New York District consolidation of a centralized government in China is the inter- vention of British, American, Japanese and other agents of im- perialism. The Class Angle of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case Must Not Be Blurred. There is grave danger that the great outpouring of protest pamphlet wil] be the basic pam-7 Please find the small sum of one|#Uthor of “The Child in the Home,” | |dollar (will do better next time) |and Joe Freeman, just returned from |which I have enclosed to help The|the Soviet Union. | | DAILY WORKER. The evening will be rounded out) i FRED T. DOUGLAS, | with a visit, at the invitation of the! Boston, Mass, | Chinese Workers Alliance, to their | Aeltnnh {unique affair, “A Night in China.” I. W. W. and The Chinese Revolution sags RATE Editor, The Daily Worker: ‘Open Air Meeting In In a recent ‘issue of “Industrial | Williamsburg Tonight | Solidarity” there was devoted consid- | ment, will be sent to any single address in the U. S. for 25 CENTS eee This is, frankly, an unusually attractive offer so that these splendid contents’ will induce you to do what you ought to do— : subscribe! ($2.00 a year—$1.25 six mos.) against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti now coming from liberal sources which have remained silent during the six and one-half years of mental and physical torture to which these in- will get their pamphlets from the Dis- trict office—108 East 14th St. Nuclei outside of the New York District write to The DAILY WORK- erable space to the present trend of events in China. But while the news |columns show a sympathy for the |Chinese liberation’ movement and | An-open air meeting ‘will be held | tonight at Grand St., Ext., and Have- |myer St., Brooklyn by the Williams- Books offered in this column on hand | ER publishing Co, 38 East First n limited quantities, nocent workers have been subjected, will blur the class lines of the case, If there was ever a case in the United States in which the defendants were railroaded to death because of their activities and opinions as workers, the Sacco-Vanzetti case is it. As in the Mooney case from the day the accusation was laid the radical activities of the defendants have been stressed by the prosecution and have furnished it with most of its ammunition. Little is heard of this aspect of the case in recent protésts. The motives of the recent liberal recruits to the Sacco-Vanzetti defense are plain—the wish to counteract the widespread dis- SHlusionment among the American masses relative to the impar- tiality of capitalist courts which has grown up as a result of the exposures of the objectives and methods of the law enforcing machinery in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. To a large section of the middle class and professional ele- ments, a new trial or a review of the case has become a burning necessity. Otherwise there will remain among millions of workers the opinion that American courts are purely class instruments— a corregt opinion but one which is so dangerous to capitalist and middle class peace of mind that even Judge Thayer may be sacri- ficed as the lesser of two evils. The defende of Sacco and Vanzetti has suddenly become res- pectable and bpeeia lies the danger. The American workingelass J } f / Street, New York City, or to the) shek, there is an article on the last | National Office, Workers Party, 1113 | page in which the writer shows him- |W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill.‘ self to be opposed to imperialism, but movement must not allow the would-be murderers of these two workers to explain away their crimes on the basis of the vagaries of one or more individuals. The class angle of the case must be kept to the front and the revolutionary section of the working- class which began and kept up the fight in the case of hostility and apathy must not allow the Sacco-Vanzetti case to be used to prove that no such thing as the class struggle exigts in Ame- rica. Sacco and Vanzetti must be freed. They must be freed by the mass pressure of American toilers just as this mass pressure has kept them from the clutches of the executioners of capitalism so far. We welcome the support of those elements which even at this late hour protest against the execution of two innocent men | but we cannot allow the fact that Sacco and Vanzetti have sut- fered the tortures of the damned for more than six years because | they are revolutionary workingmen, to be hidden under a last minute flood of humanitarian appeals—many of which, as already stated, have as their purpose the preservation of the fiction of the impartiality of ain a courts |against the betrayal of Chiang Kai-/ burg Section Workers (Communist) |Party. The speakers will be A. Bim- ba and Sylvan A. Pollack. . ‘School Library Closed; ‘Volunteers Are Needed |} C0 2 @ Ue a For one week beginning next Mon- | |day, the Workers School library, 108 |) East 14th St. will be closed while the |}! system is being reorganized, Volun- | ° teers are needed to assist in this |{) Sustain work. Report any evening next week | | to the Workers School office. | = — ing and -10,00 1,00 S$2-SS 5D-1D, 2F |Co-operative Youth | SS 2A-F D1... 3.85, » Dance Saturday Eve. | 3p15s 2.95 | ater | 8D-38-48 2.00 The Co-operative Youth will hold|g gp-F D1. {a dance Saturday evening at their|g5_py, 9 Ber headquarters, 2700 Bronx Park, East. gon-y 1 FP, 4.00 All young workers are invited to be g gp-v ar . 4,00 [present and become acquainted with|sg 2p.2F .. 80.00 | SS _8-Unit 2 F . PROT Fs. SS 2-BV1F. Womens Council No. 12. 1.70 4,00 - 100.00 5.00 sata | SACCO and VANZETTI| SHALU NOT DIE! . | NOTE: and filled in turn as received. These Comrades Responded to the Call for Ruthenberg All orders cash pete Te $ 7-Int Br. 2 .. William Wolf D. Jonesco .. L. Kling .. James Boras, Window Cleaners Window Cleaners . Harry Leff Prosper Geephert . Anry Anklowitz .. Pauline Gutterran J. Lombrozo Arthur Sokol Pledge Arthur Sokol