The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 24, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1927 SOT Pee ees THE DAILY WORKER 2g SSSR SUR NR A eR Sal Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 8S 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 98.50 six monthe $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Phons, Orchard 1680 | Address all mail and mske out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 38 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE BERT MILLER business Manager Entered as second-class rail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. | Professional Patriots Must Live. ' The war with its hysteria still persists in the carcasses of a}| E> |eral Secretary | Our Party Moves Forward By JAY LOVESTONE, Acting Gen- Workers (Communist) Party It is now only a little more than one month since the various districts of our’ Party Organizations have swung into full activity in the Ruth- enberg enrollment. Already the re-| of the vitality of our membership. Party, to close ranks and build the Party. Party Membership Grows. Immediately the new Communist spirit showed itself in the status of our organization. We Communists don’t view organization problems as questions distinct from the political. To | sults achieved are gratifying evidence | US Organization and political problems are invariably tied up as part of one upward swing in the number of work- jers initiated into party membership. The total initiation stamps sold in} January 1927 was 214. In the short! month of February last the number! rose to 278. By mid-March most of the districts had not yet swung into the Ruthen- berg. Still the few days which most of the districts participated in, the Lathe eats nee Oe peice ice the | Whole problem and task of building! drive told appreciably in the influx Ruthenberg enrollment our Party) members showed their capacity for| work, their ability to meet diffier and spirit and devotion of the fii magnitude to respond ener,etically to the party’s tasks under the severest hardships, Here, our leader, Comrade Ruthenberg, died. A vicious offensive by the labor lieutenants of American imperialism, the employers | | a mass Communist Party in the United States, For the month of March 1927, the payments rose to nearly 9,500— to be exact 9,490. This is the highest dues payments we have had since September 1925. We must here keep in mind the fact that many hundreds of our members are at present in- volved in the severe disemployment in the needle trades in New York and of new members. These figures of jnew members will be &specially im- portant for April. Yet, tn March last, 336 initiation stamps were sold. This means that a minimum of 336/ workers were admitted to party |membership in March. This is the ‘highest figure reached in many | months, Of course, there were many ‘hundreds who applied for member-}| | ship in the rousing Memorial celebra- ing Themselves eye “Grand Street Follies” Final Bill of the Neighborhood Playhouse The fifth edition of the Grand ALBERT CARKOLL Street Follies will meet with the ap- proval of those small bourgeois ele-| ments who get a kick out of a bur-| lesque of their own foibles and who} satisfy their own inferiority complex- | es (to use the stupid language of { psychoanalysis) by laughing at the} ridiculous antics of their kind. It is! a Menckinesque concoction. | The second incident is a slam at| the police-censorship of the New | York stage that certain small but noisy strata of the population of the country.| and the government, had been going! i, the strike of the United Mine resulted in Mae) | tions held immediately after Comrade | West doing a stretch in prison for) They still work overtime at the business of professional patriot- |" f°" months against our Party. All) Workers of America. The largest ism. Public interest in their antics has long ago subsided to the freezing point. Among intelligent people they are regarded with | the same disdain that is accorded professional inhabitants of Greenwich Village and other freaks. But somehow they manage to make an easy living preying on the gullible newly rich (and some of the older rich) who made fabulous sums out of the graft atecompanying the war, They are, kept busy concocting new “menaces” to the fortunes of these parasites. They have constantly to manufacture scares that will induce their gullible supporters to contribute money to their shady organizations, most of which exist merely to keep a few incom- petents who cannot exist under normal conditions and in honest occupations in an eas our enemies were busy singing our requiem, We, the Communist Party, in America were a thing of the past. We were no more. And what was even better for the bourgeoisie and their socialist lickspittles of the species Oneal and other fake histor- ians, we could be no more—no, no— never—never again, Some nificant Figures. Here are some interesting figvres that will make the socialist his- torians of the bourgeois chairs sit up and be paralyzed with disappoint- ment. In September 1925 our Party coun- proportion of these party members refuse to take exempt stamps and prefer to wait in their dues payments until such time as when they can! afford to pay up their back dues. | This means that we now have an active party membership of more than twelve thousand. April reports are not yét complete. | All indications point to the upward swing in dues payments being con- | tinued. The number of initiation stamps | Ruthenberg’s death. Not all of these | workers were immediately enrolled into party membership. |Party Organization Moves Forward. | zation has taken a turn for the better. We have seen our most difficult days | ‘in the immediate post-reorganization period. We still have many serious problems of reorganization to solve.! Some we have not even scratched the surface of in the least: But oft the | whole we have turned the corner— for the better. are not an exact index of the number | of new members entering the party |during a particular month. | Some It is precisely this stripe of creature that is behind the per- ted 14,037 dues-paying members. Of/ units even permit a new member to TABLE SHOWING CONDITION OF THE PARTY ORGANIZATION It is clear that the Party organi-! producing a play called “Sex.” There | are a number of. he-virgtns furnish- ing a background for the ladies who} ave been guilty of appearing in pro- | hibited shows, all doing time on Blackwell’s Island. Mr. Albert Carroll, one of the old favorites of the Neighborhood .Play- house, situated on East Grand, gives) 5 ; 7 5% remarkable impersonations of Mrs. | The ‘dynamic genius of the “Grand eer ‘i s Follies” the new revue at the Fiske’ and Ethel Barrymore, which | Ghee serves to remind one of how mas-|Nei@hborhood Playhouse. “AMUSE culine are the voices of these two] Broadway favorites. Most amusing was the skit involv- ing “Cautious Cal,” president of the| U. S. A.. and “Nervous Nellie,” sec- secuti ‘ The DA 7 WwW ae ee i 2 this number there were at least from) be in the party months before secur- ecution of The DAILY WORKER. They see in the frame-up threa: ty four -hotasnd whe: wers ile Emini theta timeion: opticog tie against the editors and management of our paper a chance WO: CIR*| nted abs anebere thine he dual| necessary initiation stamps. Yet, cularize their list of suckers and try to extort money from them stamp column; that is, they were inaccurate an index of the influx of on the pretext that they are still holding aloft the sacred banner! wives of members who purchased | new members as the sale of initiation of patriotism and heroically defending the citadels of privilege. | dual stamps—one stamp for husband] stamps may be, it has quite some Aside from the well-known fact that the ruling class-is constantly on the alert to crush us, these slimy creatures jump into the lime- hight in an effort to prove to their paymasters that they alone ete capable of silencing the militant labor organizations and our most ganization Department issued its call /f the party organization on the old Initiation Stamps 214 effective present-day weapon, our press. They are parasites upon parasites. Tt is an easy matter to account for these particularly nauseat- ing swindlers. Before the war they were never heard from. They | had just emerged from the most|™onth of reorganization, October| in disappointment. But the Workers’ | are misfits, unable to exist by following legitimate occupations even in the society they pretend to defend. The war with its de- mand for professional patriots—four-minute men, red cross work- ers, poison propagandists, forgers, provocateurs, liberty bond salesmen and saleswomen, foreigner-and-red baiters, flag wavers. army chaplains—enabled this gang of semi-vagrants to live better "eorganization, were only 7,213. By) than they had ever lived before. Hence they must, of necessity, in order to live, fan the flames of patriotism or again sink into the insignificant strata of society from which they emerged to thwart the evil designs of the Kaiser and help the late Woodrow Wilson make the world safe for the investments of J. P. Morgan and the rest of the brigands of Wall Street. They are part of the back- wash of the war. The serial we are running on “Professional Patriots” exposes the antics of this diseased growth upon the body politic, but does not explain the rotten objective conditions that gave rise to them. This is written as a supplement to the “Professional Patriots” articles in order that our readers may know the real motives be- hind their exalted paens to patriotism and be able to expose them | and wife. Particularly among the| value as an index of party organi- former language federations was this| ation progress, Let us again examine practice in vogue. some figures. In October 1925 the National Or-| _1n September 1925—the last month for the reorganization of the Party basis of language federation branches on the basis of shop and. street —286 initiation stamps were bought nuclei. We proceeded with great from the national office by the various energy to reorganize the party. We Federation Bureaus. With the first | 1925, the number fell to 253. It con- tinued to fall to 158 in November and | to 135 in December. By January 1927 | the new units began to function with increasing regularity. There was an costly, disastrous factional struggle our Party had ever experienced. Practically only half of our member- ship responded to the reorganization call. To be exact, the dues payments in October 1925, the first month of 1925 : retary of home and foreign affai Oct. Nov. Dee. A person properly insignificant was Dues Payments ..7,213 8,064 8,154) chosen to portray Cal and he ‘lid a! | Initiation Stamps 253 158 135 | good job of it. ae But the part dealing with the “or- |i igin of the black bottom” fell flat. =| Certainly the directors of the thing, ought to get something to substitute | Dues Payments ..8,389 |Initiation Stamps 104 ir Na, for it. | an. Feb. Mar. | All in all it is a good eveaing’s | Dues Payments . .8,368 U4 9,490) entertainment for those who enjoy| 278 “9 seeing the serious antics of the. Broadway barnstormers made u-} lous, and some of the acting is bette than that of those they imitate. —H. M. W. roadway The pessimists may throw sand into their own eyes. The enemies of the party may hope in vain and perish | r _ “Speak Easy,” a melodrama by4 | Edward Knobloch and George Rose- — | (Communist) Party of America is a jliving, growing force, moving for-| | ward in the revolutionary spirit and jline of its dead leader, Comrade ) Ruthenberg. | Neighborhood “Playhouse 466 Grand St Drydock 7516 Grand Street Follies ,°f Every Evening (except Mon.) Mat. THEATRE GUILD ACTING CO——, RIGHT YOU ARE IF YOU THINK YOU GARRICK 6 W, 35th, Next Week: M The SECOND MAN GUILD Thea., W. 52 St. vs. 8: Sat., TIMES SQ. 1 i THEA. W. 42 St. | November of 1925 the number rose Letters From Our Readers ULE, CRIME ner, will be given a spring try-out by | EY®s. tinees B. Friedlander. Donald Meek, Anne | urs“ 58‘ °° to 8,064. In December it mounted to| Editor, The Daily Worker: 8,154. By January 1926 the figure) | believe that.the big farce of the reached was 8,389. In March 1926) year was the Conference on “Youth we totalled 9,052. This was the high| and*the War System” held last Sat- point for some months to come. The | urday at the Labor Temple. Not one summer period drew on and our dues} speaker was invited by this “open | payments naturally shrunk. minded” society to present the Marx- Reorganization Difficulties. ‘ast point of view on this question, In- No one will deny that due to reor-|stead of that an evangelist, who ap- ganization our party has been re-| peared to be neither a worker nor the duced in size, numerically, to an ex-|¢on of a worker told the audience “to tent which some of us did not expect. | forget al] about the class struggle and But we must keep clearly in mind| capitalism, but remember God, say that the loss of dues-paying mem-| ‘peace be unto you’ and there will be bers is not as great as it would ap-|no more war”. An elderly lady who represented Chicago T | ago e | Shoemaker, Dorothy Hall, Allen | | | Moore, Clay Clement and’ Kathline | | | Niday are in the cast. Phillip Dunning who collaborated | with George Abbott in the writing of | | “Broadway,” has a new one, a comedy | Plans Gay Picnic For Next Sunday | of back-stage life, titled “The Under- study.” Jack Donohue is collaborating | CHICAGO, May 23.—J. W. John. | ‘his time. stone, active in the local labor move-| Henry L. Cort and Clark Ross will | ment, will be the principal speaker at |P¥Oduce a new play called “The| |the seventh annual picnic of the Chi- | Brigand,” by Paul Fox and George | cago local general*group of the Trade Tilton early next season. This will | Union Educational League to be held | be followed with a musical comedy The LADDER Now in its 7th MONTH WALDORF, 50th 5t., y B'way. Mats. WED. a Bronx Opera House / 9‘) . Stree Poy. Prices. Mat, Wed. & Sat. “Fh O ed Thrilling Mystery Melodrama, sve CHAPLIN 1X THE’ MISSING LINK B. COLONY Broapw. M AT 63ra next Sunday at Kolze’s Electric Park, | by Cort called “The Radio Girl.” | Contin. Noon to Midnight.—Pop. Pric so that all readers will hold them in the contempt their execrable | pear to the superficial observer. First | 6352 Irving Park Blvd. | another humanitarian organization conduct so richly deserves. | Smashing Tory Government Is the Next Task of the Labor Movement. The British government, following the raid on the Soviet Union Trade Mission, and its failure to isolate the Soviet Union} at the Geneva Economic Conference, can choose now to break off} relations, a move which is obviously a step towards war, or to let | the whole matter drop, make the Churchill-Birkenhead-Joynson- | Hicks combination the laughing stock of the world, increase greatly the prestige of the labor movement as a tvhole and the Labor Party in particular, and proceed to a general election in much more unfavorable circumstances than prevailed two or three months ago. The British government has made errors in the past and sur- vived. It has “muddled thru” until its ability to do so has become a tradition. But all this was before British capitalism entered a period of sharp decline. Strong systems can make mistakes— weak ones cannot afford it. : It is generally acknowledged now that the introduction of the bili for the suppression of the unions was a huge—a blunder of desperation. 5 The raid on the Soviet Trade Mission was to have been linked up with the drive on militant unionism, other nations were to be drawn into the front against the Soviet Union—then with British labor smashed and demoralized, the way would be clear for war “pon Russia. But the government has failed to rally any substantial sup- port for its policy. On the contrary it has alienated those indus- Hialists who want and need trade with the Soviet Union. The $0,000,000 loan to the Soviet Government which the latest dis- p oe say has been agreed to by the directors of the Midland nk is a very substantial straw showing which way the wind drding to a London dispatch to the New York Times, a re- on in prices of pig iron has failed to bring any new busi- 5, more coal mines are going on a short time operation basis, outlook for new contracts in the shipbuilding industry is poor indeed, the textile industry reports a discouraging fu- ete, *olitical maneuvering has failed to bring British industry | )normal, The defeat of the general strike gave the British | y class a new lease of life but this too is nearing its end.} 1ew attack on the British working class, directly connected the conspiracy against the Soviet Union, has aroused ‘the! mses to the danger. ‘There is undoubtedly now in Great Britain the basis for a ful drive of labor against the government—a drive which! d have been the next step in the general strike, but which, and treachery in the leadership prevented, The policy ation put forward by the MacDonalds, Thomases, and of all, a minimum of twenty per cent of our dues payments before reor- ganization were not dues Stamps actually sold to individual members but were only dual stamps—stamps given away to wives of comrades who iT | were members of the party a” grace of their husbands holding member- ship in the party. After reorgani- zation, this social-democratic practice was dropped. There are no longer also urged the audience to “forget |the struggle” and remember that “we }are all brothers,”--as a means to |avoid future wars. J ‘tensen, who was once a candidate for president on-the Farmer-Labor ticket, | said that Esperanto was the only way }to end war. After a few more speak- lors fed the audience with similar | Workers’ Hall, 788 W. Van Buren St.; |—-Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the Still another fellow, named Christ- | { An elaborate program of music and} entertainment is also being planned. | Proceeds from the affair will be de-| voted to building the left wing move- | ment in this city. Tickets (50 cents) can be obtained at the following places: T. U. EB. L., |156 W. Washington St., Room 26; |1113. W. Washington Blvd.; Greek } Brock Pemberton has acquired for early production next season, a new comedy called the “Colonels’. Ladies,” by Fannie Heaslip. Policy of Tories Attacked Before West Roxbury Picnic On Decoration Day WEST ROXBURY, Mass., May 23. any dual or “by-grace” members. _trash, the chairman announced that those who wished to take part in the Furthermore, the newly erganized - % ae ta discussion could do $0, but said he |19 S. Lincoln St.; “Freiheit,” 3209 W. | Workers’ School of New York, will | Roosevelt Rd.; “Vilnis,” $116 S, Hal- | be the principal speaker at. the Decor- | sted St.;. 2003 N. California Ave.; | ation day picnic next Monday at Cale- Boston Consulate shop and street nuclei units do not all function well enough and regularly ‘yet. There are many party members —far more active than many of the “regular dues-payers” in the pre- reorganization days of our party— would not tolerate any mention of |“Communism or class war,” and also declared that “Youth and War” was the subject of the symposium. A storm of protest came immediately “Rovnost Ludo,” 1510 W. 18th ies and from members of the T. U. E. L. | | |Let’s Fight On! Join donian Grove. There will be a program of enter- 2 7 tainment and music for dancing will BOSTON, May 23.—A ‘lange crowd be provided by a seven-piece orches- | P#'ticipated in the demonstration in tre, . front of the British Consulate which was arranged by the local Workers \from the audience and the chairman | yielded. A few young Communists, including myself, then took the floor and ex- exposed this “ideal of Christianity.” We pointed out that Rockefeller who is responsible for the loss of 7,000 lives -at Nanking, has contributed $900,000 to the Y. M! C. A., which is poisoning the minds of young work- ers. One speaker told the audience why England, a “Christian” nation, --is trying to make war on Soviet Russia, while Soviet Russta, an \“atheist” nation, is preventing war. These so-called peace societies only becloud the minds of the young work- ‘ers so that when war comes they will be fooled by nice phrases. Fraternally yours,—S. Magidson, who, because their units to which they are attached do not function as well) as they should, are unable to pay dues regularly. We make these remarks, not by way of seeking to explatn away anything or hiding any of our weak- nesses. The case is quite the con- trary. We are here pointtng out one of our most serious shortcomings. Rally to Ruthenberg Enrollment. The death of our leading commu- nist fighter, Ruthenberg, was an irreparable loss to the party. This} has been recognized by our sworn foes as well as by our most loyal followers. But the party set itsetf to work with a zeal and a determina- tion to make good as much as possible the loss thus suffered by us. The Ruthenberg drive to build our Party | was launched under the most trying circumstances, The response of the membership exceeded the most sang- le uine hopes of the most optimistic in| Enclosed find $2 for my monthly our ranks. There was a new spirit/ pledge fund. This month I feel in the Party. The inactive, to a large lucky, so I have added $1.00 extra extent, became active. The active for this month over my regular members redoubled their efforts, | pledged amount. Better results were evidenced in all Wishing The DAILY WORKER all our fields of activity. Every secticn the success, I am, Fraternally yours, of the party responded promptly and J. C. DAS, New Orleans, La. vigorously to the call of the Politica] pleat Committee, the leadership of the) Read The Daily Worker Every Day Sends An Extra Dollar. Dear Comrade: allowing just such surges of reactions at home and in China as have been indulged in. The time has come for British labor*to admit the correct- ness of the estimate made by the Communist Party of Great Britain and the revolutionary practicality of its program. { The government, now severely discredited, Hut still de-| | termined to take its revenge on the working class, can be routed completely if the rank and file of British labor permits no more betrayals. ; We believe that the British workers have learned in the last few weeks that there is no such thing as separating questions of relations with the Soviet Union from the question of the life and struggles of the British working class. The Workers Party! “California Limited” Wrecked.— | LOS ANGELEs, May 23.—Dis- In the loss of Comrade Ruthen-| Patches to the Sante Fe Railroad berg the Workers (Communist) Par-| Headquarters here state that between ty has lost its fcremost leader and | twenty-five and thirty persons were the American working class its | injured today when the two sections staunchest fighter, This loss can only | f the California Limited, the Com- be overcome by many militant work. | pany’s crack flyer, collided four miles ers joining the Party that he built.| West of Flagstaff, Ariz. No deaths Fill out the application below and| were reported. mail it. Become a member of the | (Communist) Party. The demonstration was in the form of a protest against the bombardment of Nanking, the general intervention policy in China, and the recent raid on the Areos offices in London. Fifteen signs carrying the slogans, “Hands Off China”; “British Empire Plans» New World War,” ete., were carried by the demonstrators, Workers (Communist) Party and) carry forward the work of Comrade. Ruthenberg. I want to become a member of the. Workers (Communist) Party. Name Address Occupation Union Affiliation... Mail this applieation to the Work- ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New. York City; or if in other city to | Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington | Bly., Chicago, Ill. Distribute the Ruthenberg pam- phlet, “The Workers’ (Communist) Party, What it Stands For and Why4+ Workers Should Join.” ‘This Ruthen- berg pamphlet will be the basie pam- ‘phlet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. Every Party Nucleus must collect , 50 eents from every member and will | receive 20 pamphlets for every mem- ber to sell or distribute. | Nuelei in the New York District! | 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 the problem of a great out of it, every worker CLASS STRUGGLE Vs. Bertram D, Wolfe William F. Dunne ~ AT PPECIAL PRICED Learn About Class-Collaboration These booklets present, in simple language, ican Labor. Whether in the trade union or teresting and important booklets—and then pass them on to another worker in the shop: TION—By Earl R. 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