The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1927, Page 4

Vage Four , THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by tae DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Daily, Except Sunday 83 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 38.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Phons, Orchard 1680 | Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL itt 3 WILLIAM F. DUNNE {°° aa BERT MILLER.........ececcecees business Manager Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under | the act of March 3, 1879. Es Advertising rates on application. The Pan-Pacific Labor Conference Rallies Millions for Common Struggle Against Imperialism The convening of the Pan-Pacific Labor. Congress, now in) session in Hankow, means two things: ett 1. That the labor movements of the Pacific are preparing for’ common action against imperialism and colonial capitalism. 2. That the young Chinese labor movement by reason of its heroic struggle against both these forms of oppression, has been | given the leadership of this great joint movement by common consent. : The Pan-Pacific Labor Conference, follawing closely upon the world conference of colonial peoples in Brussels to organize the struggle against imperialism, is of the greatest historic signifi- | cance. Not only is it the first conference of this kind to be held (the only other effort in this direction being a conference of transport workers in Canton in 1924) but it convenes at a time when the Chinese labor movement is confronted with the task'| of organizing and leading the struggle for national liberation. The hostility with which world imperialism regards this con- ference is shown by the arrest of the Japanese delegates and the yefusal of visas by their government to the representatives of the Australian labor unions which sponsored the conference. Planned for Canton originally the treason of Chiang-kai Shek } and the armed aggression of imperialism in China made it neces- | sary to remove the conference to Hankow—the industrial center | of China and the stronghold of the revolutionary nationalist gov-| ernment. | The militant trade unionists of America, France and Great} Britain are represented at the Conference and its sessions will) formulate plans for linking up the labor movements of both the imperialist and colonial nations in a common struggle against world imperialism. | For the American workingclass, whose rulers are rapidly be-| coming the dominant factor in the Pacific, the Conference in Han- kow is a call to action, side by side with the millions of colonial workers and peasants of the Philippines, China, Japan, Java, India and Korea. The Conference marks a turning point in the history of the! world labor-movement because it brings into the ranks of world! labor in organized form the colonial and semi-colonial labor move- ments which the reformist leaders of the Amsterdam and Second | International and the reactionary officialdom of the American labor movement have so far considered as unimportant factors to Which no attention need be paid. ALL THE OLD EGGS. ARE ROTTEN i AS FRESH + AS THE DAY THEY WERE LAID! the workers a chance to vote for something interesting to them. Great Britain Meets Defeat at Geneva. The debate which has taken place at the Geneva Economic Conference on the question of relations with the Soviet Union has |shown clearly the sharpening antagonism between British and American imperialism. The British representative, Sir Arthur Balfour, voted against the compromise resolution submitted by Henry M. Robinson, American yepresentative, which had as its purpose the preven- tion of an open break with the Soviet Union representatives at the conference. This resolution declared that “participation of ali nations irrespective of their economic systems is a happy known heretofore, have never been | augury for the pacific commercial relations of ‘all countries.” Inasmuch as the raids on the Soviet Union embassy in Peking, | in which Great Britain took a leading part, has been followed by | the raid on the offices of the Soviet Union Trade Mission in Lon-, don and the tories are working openly for a break with the Soviet | The capitalist parties have no real issues—the points of difference between them are of mimor importance, and largely such as can not be taken frankly to the voters, F cratic campaigns therefore are fought over fake or obsolete issues—only the Workers Party gives The republican and demo- | Wicks to Give Economic | Interpretation The series of four lectures on | China to be given by H. M. Wicks, at the Workers’ School, 108 East 14th | Street, beginning this Friday even- ing, is the first attempt to depict 'the events in that country from a strictly economic standpoint. From jevery part of the world material for | these lectures have been gathered and | ‘facts dug up about China that, if | co-ordinated so that they could be understood in relation to each other and to the events happening in China today. . Without understanding the econ- omie factors involved in the great | seen ty the authors, and consists in | ments for your heresy than from the CUSED AMUSEMENTS, Gt “Ruddigore,” or the Curse of Timely Satire Reviewed By VERN SMITH “All philosophical pessimists should see “Ruddigore.” The fact that its burlesque is almost pointless to half the audience shows that the world makes progress. The novel and melodrama of the cursed noble family, the true heir living in dis- guise and concealment, the animated picture gallery of ancestors, the ruined mad maiden, which it is the principal task of “Ruddigore” to laugh out of existence, happily no longer exist. If Gilbert and Sullivan’s quaint little opera continues to sur- vive, however half heartily, it lives like Don Quixote, without what must have been the real salt and flavor its contemporaries tasted in it, As for me, I got my kick out of watching the middle class ladies in the orchestra trying dutifully, in memory of Lucia and Ophelia, to feel sorry for poor mad Meg. | They do it well at the Cosmopoli-| tan—well enough—the music is} charming, the color scheme neatly worked out, the traditional costumes, and the acting equally so. Nothing is so eternally unchanging in its pres- entation and costuming as a Gilbert and Sullivan opera, and in this one there little room for real genius. The original touch is something that could not have been ‘fore- superimposing on the comfortably athletic lines of the modern chorus girl costumes invented for the wasp- waisted beauties of years gone by. Violet Carlson is an excellent May Rosebud; she tried to make under- standing to an age of jass the bur- lesque of a character on which the peace that passeth understanding has rested for half a century and more. True, I doubt greatly whether any maiden ever managed her emotions by the book of etiquette, but in the | days of Gilbert and Sullivan there! were those, we are told, who thot! they did. But if you're tired of jazz, there is no better way you can gather argu- good .old tunes, They’re pretty. Such things are rare today; do not let your radicalism interfere with! their enjoyment. Gidbert and Sulli-| van may be ancient; they may be one of the duties of middle class society; but they are intrinsically enjoyable. And if you’re anyways radical, you can’t help liking the sacrilege with REGINALD MASON Gives a realistic tone to his role’ of philosopher in “Right You Are If; You Think You Ave,” the Pirandello comedy at the Garrick Theatre, nanimity of heart sparing every powerful French frigate they meet —‘only a darned Moénsoor.” On such, say Gilbert and Sullivan, rests the fame of British fair play. Beside the chorus of bridesmaids, there is a male chorus. Its only rea- son for existence is to provide sup- port for the glowing hussar coats whose flapping sleeps bob thru the decorous melee that properly ends a comic opera act. Herbert Waterous as twenty-first wicked baronet of the House of Mur- gatroyd, and Alexander Clark as Robin Oakapple are good actors and good singers. “The Mikado” Will Be Ames’ Next Production Winthrop Ames is planning to pre- 'sent “The Mikado” early next season. This means that his plans for “The Gondoliers,” which was originally an- nounced, is laid aside for the time be- ing. The Gilbert and Sullivan oper- etta will open in September -at the Plymouth Theatre, where his last two productions “Iolanthe” and “The Pi- rates of Penzance,” made such a suc- cess. The Ames company, which has been touring the Eastern cities, and is now which the fame of Britain, ruler of| the union jack are handled. The! claws of the villain pro-tem are about! playing in Boston, will form the nuc- leus of “The Mikado.” Performances of “Iolanthe” and “Pirates of Pen- zance” will probably be included at to clutch the throat of the lady in| special *matinees—for both of these distress, and a sailor waves the flag | operettas proved very very popular above her—“Foiled, by a-union jack!” here. The production of “The Gondo- Thirty hearts-of-oak cruise the seas/liers,” may also be done later in the in a little sloop, out of pure mag-| season, ee Union, the American resolution is a slap in the face given Amer-) revolution in the Orient it is not HEATRE GUILD ACTING CO- ‘ican imperialism’s chief rival. |Possible to really know anything The Achievement of Lindbergh. —; A former United States mail airplane pilot, twenty-five years | of age, is acclaimed by the whole world because of his intrepidity in conquering single-handed in a monoplane the 3,800 miles tha’ separates New York from Paris. The feat was accomplished in| thirty-three and a half hours—an average speed of more than a} hundred miles an hour. No one begrudges young Charles A. Lindbergh his acclaim. |. His modesty, that caused him to regardavith something approach- ing indifference the plaudits that greeted his record-breaking} flight with but one stop from San Diego,’California, to New York, | thence’a continuous flight from New York to Paris, is in striking} contrast to the gang of naval aviators that the United States gov-) ernment has been advertising in order to popularize the idea of} military glory before the masses of this country. Such a person | as Lindbergh is not to be mentioned in the same breath with the) Italian, De Pinedo, the cheap, publicity seeking, contemptible fas-| cist propagandist lickspittle of Mussolini, who has been cavorting | around the United States the past few weeks. What may become of Lindbergh now that he has achieved The Soviet Union representatives voted against the com-/ promise, the Turkish delegation abstained from voting and both! delegations thus stand committed to the original demand for a| declaration by the conference -of peaceful intentions toward and trade relations with the Soviet Union. | British imperialism has met defeat at Geneva. Not only has t been forced to watch the revolutionary diplomacy of the Soviet ion tear great gaps in the European front against the Soviet Union which it nas been so busily engaged in building but it has been given a public rebuke formulated by its main imperialist enemy. The resolution of course is meaningless insofar as it affords a guarantee of no further offensives against the Soviet Union but the conference has shown to the world’s workingclass the de-| sire of the Soviet Union for peace as well as the indisputable evidence of the fact that even a temporary solution of Europe’s economic difficulties is impossible without trade relations with the population in a country comprising one-sixth of the earth’s | worth while of the conflict. A Treat For Students. Those who have listened to Wicks’ former lectures on international pol- icy. know that a treat is in store for them at these lectures. Careful out- lines have been prepared and will be given to each student on attendance at the lectures. No one can obtain the outlines who does not attend. At each lecture the outline will be placed in the hands of the student befare the < of the lecture, so that it can followed point by point. Many of those who heard Wicks lecture last year on “Locarno and the World Court” and his lectures this year on “China,” have requested that this course be published, so arrange- ments have been made to take the lectures down in short-hand in order | that they may be published serially in the Party publications and later l Broadway Briefs I! So RE SS The Bronx Opera House, begin-! ning tonight will show “Fog,” the! work of John Willard, author of “Cat) and Canary,” the mystery play which has been playing at the National The- atre for many months, will have the, following players in the cast: Ben Hendricks, Jay Adair, Margot Lester, | Alexander Clarke, Jr., Wilfred Jessup and Fred Garland. | This week’s vaudeville program at Moss’ Broadway will include: Princess Wah-letka, in her psychic act; Ruby Norton; Billy Glason; Val Harris and Vera Griffin and Esmond and Grant. The Theatre Guild has acquired for production next season Romain Rol- land’s “That's the Game of Love and RIGHT YOU ARE IF YOU THINK YOU ARE GARRICK 65 W. 35th. Evs. 8:49 Mts. T) & 140 r.8 ae Next Week: Mr. Pim Paws By The SECOND MAN GUILD Thea., W. 52 st. Bvs. 8:3 Next Week: Pram The SILVER CORD John Golden™h-58,E.ofBwy.\Circle Next W'k: Ned McCobb’s Daughter Evgs. 8:3 inees Thurs. & Sat., 2:30. Now in its 7th MONTH WALNORF, 60th St, Hast of ‘Mts.Thur.&Sat.| 5678 THEA., W. 42 St. The LADDER Mats. WED. and SAT. A : 2 2 as Death.” The play was announced for| Bronx Opera House 149th , Street, fame is problematical. The American ambassador to Paris, Her- surface, issued as a book. | production Sy Ake Nelghtiorhbod- Play sida dt? in Delo, wei ok agg Ave rick, was on the job to welcome him and, although it was a private | veriture, the government will try to utilize him for jinga propa-| ganda, especially in view of the fact that its own would-be trans- Atlantic flyers of the Byrd calibre have thus far failed even to get started to Paris. Already young Lindbergh has received offers of hundreds of thousands of dollars from movie theatre magnates, always on| the.alert to capitalize fame or notoriety in. any form. He may Wall Street at Work in Nicaragua. Dr. Sacasa, head of the Liberal forces in Nicaragua, ac.ord- ing to dispatches, has sailed for Guatemala with his staff but intends to return in 1928 to contest the elections against Wall Street’s puppet Diaz. In the meantime the Liberal troops are being digarmed by ‘Iron and Bronze Union house sometime ago. “Abie’s Irish Rose” begins its sixth Hold Meeting Tomorrow lyear at the Republic Theatre tonight. A very important general member- ship meeting of the Iron and Bronze Workers’ union will be held on to- morrow evening, at the Rand School Building, 7 East 15th Street. “Spread Eagle,” the anti-war sa- tirical play now running at the Martin Beck theatre, is. reported to have been banned from the films be- cause it is “unpatriotic.” “FR O Gg” Thrilling Mystery Melodrama, sy> CHAPLIN IN THE MISSING LINK B. 8: BROADWAY MOSS" COLONY AT 63rd ST. ; Contin, Noon to Midnight.—Pop. Prices, ee is , j y i i i . ry f aah 7 Beginning with the. first release! = oe recover from his modesty and rest on his laurels and wealth that| American marines in a most brutal manner. The twh marines| The first nomination for all officers | |” cieture coming|°2™ HARRIS, THEA. West, 42na. st. is flowing his way. What becomes of him is of importance only|who were killed recently lost their lives when they went into| 9 the union will be made and reports | for next season every picture coming| 1H. Shh ail lg lr Nad / ri ia ‘ Py ‘ ft concerning the union’s activities and|from Warner Bros.’ studio wiil he J to If and those closest to him. action against Liberal forces who had made no attack upon them.| the conditions in. the secompaniéd: by Vitaphone musical WHAT OP LOE GLOR ¥ 7 “This flight brings Paris nearer to New York by many hours and is one more indication of the development of the technique of ‘transportation that erases distances and geographically welds together the nations of the earth, _ While fully joining in the general acclaim of this achieve- ment, we must at the same time remember that the stupendous |8 designed to crush all opposition to Wal Street’s candidate so| adopted. pean Wee Lestat publicity attached to the flight, possibly even against the desires |that in 1928 Wall Streef, government can proclaim triumphantly ee Brown wil he oe era eeeea At Manhattan Lyceum of Lindbergh, all bears the stamp of militarism. And the thought| that its candidate has been returned “with the support of the|Street Car Workers Ask |which has becn arranged for Friday ' that irresistably clutches the mind of all who are even slightly aware of the clash of imperialist interests throughout the world is that this and other air flights signalize a revolution in war- fare... (No longer will the actual combatants be fhe’ sufferers, but today, in 33 hours, heavily loaded planes can leave New York and bomb Paris or London or vice versa. It means that in the next war the fear so acutely felt when German dirigibles, easily detected and destroyed by anti-aircraft guns, hovered over the fog banks of England, will become a reality as the comparatively small, Swift-travelling planes sweep over cities leaving death and destruction in their trail, Every step in advance in the technique of industry or trans- portation is utilized by the war-mongers and young Lindbergh is hailed today and his heroic achievement connected with militar- ism and heralded to the werld in order that all young men may come to regard war and everything connected with it as glorious. Dispatches state that bullets flying over the camp of the marines were considered sufficient excuse for the attack on the Liberals. Diaz’ army consists of American marines engaged in what the state department calls “pacification” of Nicaragua. This pacification, which is in reality war upon the Nicaraguan masses overwhelming majority of the Nicaraguan people.” This war upon the Nicaraguan people|is being waged “with- out the,advice and consent” of Congress. | It is a bandit adven- ture of which the.American masses do hot approve but Wall Street-Coolidge-Kellogg government goes \ahead with its plans for erecting a government subservient to jts interests upon the wreckage of liberty and the bloody bodied of murdered Nicara- guans, American imperialism is seen in acti fate of Nicaragua is the fate that Wall prophesied for all of Latin America. It is the duty of our party and the American workingclass to form the closest possible alliance with|the masses of Latin America—to set up a fighting front againjt American imperial- ism and defeat its murderous purposes by all possible means. that n omatter how brave and daring they are they will ‘perish in Nicaragua. The reet government has trade will be given. Y There are some recommendations of the Executive Board to be acted; upon, also the rest of the recommen- dations of the unemployment benefit committee will be discussed and Aid in Injunction Fight WASHINGTON, (FP) May 22,— Support by all branches of organized labor—local, central and state—for the appeal made to the federal su- preme court against the injunction secured against thé Amalgamated Street and Electric Railway Employes in Indianapolis, is asked: hy the executive council of the 4@erican Federation of ‘labor. The injunction aims workers to go on strike. to forbid International Branch 1 sub-section 6-A will hold a mass meeting to- night, 8 p. m. at 46 Ten Eyck St., score. Bishop Brown to Speak! Daily Worker Defence evening, June 3rd at 8 P. M. at Webster Hall, 119 East 11th Street.; To this meeting, left wing organiza- tions from all parts of the city are being invited including trade unions, Workers Party branches, left wing minorities, fraternal organizations, clubs, ete. The purpose of the conference is to take up the question of the defense of The DAILY WORKER, now the target of attack from a number of patriotic societies which are seeking to suppress the paper. Specifically it will take up the question of the Giant Midsummer Carnival and Fair which has been arranged for Satur- day and Sunday, July 23 and 24. A number of organizations have Brooklyn as a part of the Ruthen- already promised to take a prominent Meeting Tonight of Registered Furriers | Registered members of the Fur- riers union working in shops of the Associated Fur Manufacturers will meet tonight after work at -Manhattan Lyceum, A meeting of all shop chairman will be held in the same hall, to- morrow night right after’ work. Hyman Chesak, Active. Worker, Dies in Pa. PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May 22.— the Workers’ (Communist) Party and the Freiheit Singing hoster was | buried today. Funeral services were held at the Workers Party head- Mats. (exc. Sat.) 50c-$1. Eves. 60c-§3, ~ Hyman Chesak, 30, active member of © quarters, 521 York Ave, Tonight marks the three hundredth performance of “2 Girls Wanted,” the Guan Unger play at the Little the. a ‘ Such’ propaganda makes recruiting easier. The youth of the working class who are lured into the war machine in the hope of emulating Lindbergh must be taught that when masses of them co into the fray there is no individual records of heroism, and ignobly and unknown in an infamous cauje—the cause of the imperialist bandits of Wall Street, London, ters of bank capital; a cause in which ne worker. should risk a hair of his head berg Recruiting Drive for new mem- | part by pledging to take charge of bers for the Workers * (Communist) | one or more of the attractions which Party. are being arranged. Invitations have All workers are invited to attend | been sent to all of the organizations mentioned above, and bring their friends,