The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 25, 1927, Page 4

, \ Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by tae DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 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 98.50 six months $2.60 three months $2.00 three months Phones, Orchard 168 Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 Firat Street, New York, N. Y. | J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F. DUNNE { BURT WILLE sco aoc) fee business Manager el Entered as second-class rail at the post-office at New York, N. Y,, under the act of March 8, 1879. Advertising rates on application. Sc attl Tory Government of Forgery Takes to Suicide. Insane with fury at their utter inability to stabilize the coun- the Baldwin-Chamberlain-Hicks government of forgery has traversed the path from madness to imbecility. The decision of the tory cabinet to abrogate the Russian trade agreement and break off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union was expected, It was the inevitable climax of the policy of forgery inaugurated even before they got into office. Their madness is born of desperation. British diplomacy, widely heralded as the most astute on earth, becomes downright insanity in face of the steady decline of Britain as the first world power. No matter how stupid the diplomacy of the past, the power of Britain could make it appear invincible. Today, no mat- ter what is done to salvage the economy of Britain, it appears tutile and foolish The cons against the Soviet Union, launched at Locarna by Chamberlain as his first act on an international scale, went on the rocks in face of the irreconcilable conflicts between the Euro- pean nations. His attempt to organize a bloc against the revolu- tion has not been a howling success. Every subsequent attempt to maneuver on an international scale has likewise failed. In- stead of gaining recruits Britain became more isolated; was com- pelled more and more to go it alone. Its maneuvers in Persia, Irak, Turkey in order to maintajn its cil concessions for the Royal Dutch Shell have been defeated by the European agents of the great American trust, Standard Oil. Baku oil in Russia is beyond its reach and even there the Standard is in a superior position to Britain. Its failure in China to induce other nations to play its game has only added to its desperation. The final blow was delivered at Geneva when the American dele- gates refused to follow British policy and took a favorable turn toward the Russians. The revolt of the working class in England develops in inverse ratio to the loss of prestige in Britain's im- perial domain. Unable to overcome the contradictions that his- tory itself has placed before it the tory government tries to smash its way through. It perceives Russia as the great obstacle to its continued colonial domination, hence it has from the beginning ef its infamous career conspired to isolate and erush the revolu- tion, only to be met with failure abroad and increasing hostility on the part of labor at home. The shutting off of super-profits from the colonies makes impossible the bribing of a sufficiently large strata of labor to ensure domestic tranquility, hence the threat of a revival of the general strike movement. The tories meet this with the introduction of the anti-strike bill. The Arcos house.raid was designed with a two-fold purpose: Ye divert attention from the trade union bill and to endeavor to! provoke Russia. It failed of both objectives. But once such a’ desperate step had been taken there was no possibility of dig- nifieu retreat. The final break was a matter of course. Most amusing is the declaration of the Baldwin forgers to the effect that Arcos house was a center of conspiracy against the United States as well as Britain. That is a crude attempt! to embroil the American government in the mess. But the Amer- ican imperialists have their own little game to play and they are meeting with considerable success. They know that the trade formerly conducted with England will be transferred to! the United States and Germany, financed for the most part by) American capital. Present indications are that the American policy towards Russia is undergoing modification. As the strug- | gle in the Near East for oil becomes more acute between the British and American trusts the policy of the government must change to conform to the demands of Standard Oil and the Na- tional City Bank. England faces a world wherein its own markets are becoming smaller, while the American market is growing larger. Its break | with Russia means a greater intensification of this condition. | KING CAPITAL:—Kneel to me with the rest of them Players’ Club to Revive | “Julius Caesar” This year's revival by The Play- | {ers’ Club will be Shakespeare's | “Julius Caesar,” and as in the pre- | vious revivals will include an all star | cast. The tragedy will open at the | New Amsterdam theatre, Monday, | June 6th and will be. given tor one | | week. The players have made it a | point to draft some of the best) | known actors and actresses along | | Broadway. This year’s revival will’ | have Margaret Lawrence, who will | | play Calpurnia, Tyrone Power. will ,| be Brutus, Basil Sidney will ordain | the role of Mark Antony. and Wil- | Hare Courtleigh will have the Hosea role, | | | Of ‘the other players in the cast, | Basil aRthbone will apear as Cas- sius, James T. Powers as the Cobbler, | Pedro de Codoba as Decius, Joseph Kilgour as Trebonius, Ted Emory as} - Volumnius and William Gustafson as|in William Haines’s initial “Metro Popilius. John Craig staged the | starring vehicle, “Spring” Fever,” an production. | adaptation of the stage play. _ A neweomer to the screen, piays | the leading role in, the film version jot “ith Heaven” which opens at the | Sam H. Harris theatre tonight. Lionel Belmore has been added to the cast of the new Marion Davies | production, “Quality Street,” an a ; elaborate version of Barries famous | .Countess Maritaa,” now at the} play. Other players include Conrad | Shubert theatre will conclude its en-| Nagel, Helen Jerome Eddy, Kate gagement on Saturday, June 4th, and | Price an | the following Monday, Texas Guinan | | in “Padlocks” will begin an engage- | ment at the same theatre. d Margaret Seddon. | An open-air. performance of | Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night's | oe SNE A ONE CAE PO | Dream” to be given at the stadium | i | * soe Hills for the benefit of The | , Neighborhood Playhouse. | Actors’ Fund next month, with a cast | li ft | of leading Broadway players, now be- | Grand Street. Follies saz |ing organized. The staging of the|EVery Evening (except Mon.) Mat. | production is in the hands of Richard | — Boloslavsky, | t. HEATRE GUILD ACTING ange } RIGHT YOU ARE | IF YOU THINK YOU Mary Boland has been engaged for | GARRICK 6 W. S5th the leading role in “Women Go On! Next Week: Me Pee Pai Forever,” a new comedy by Daniel Rubin to be presented here early in| August. | When the Neighborhood Playhouse! closes, as it will with the performance , or I shall destroy you! /RUTHENBERG ON THE IMPORTANCE OF The SILVER CORD - If Sunday evening, the “Grand | Street Follies will move to the Little;| 7°" Golden™h.58,2-ofhw Je . A ts,Th 7 Let’s Fight On! Join | theatre, opening there Tuesday night. Next W'k: Ned MeCobles Daughter | Helen Arthur, business manager of RECRUITING NEW MEMBERS By JACK STACHEL. (Acting General Secretary New York District Workers’ (Communist) Party) In the present Ruthenberg Drive to roll new members into the Party it is worth while to state how im- portant Comrade Ruthenberg himself considered the recruiting of new membefs into our Party. The Workers Party! the interest of the American workers | as a class, and particularly of his In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- anti-war record. berg the Workers (Communist) Par-| | Our Party membership and par-;ty has lost its {cremost leader and ticularly our functionaries in their|the American working class its, work in the Ruthenberg Drive must | staunchest fighter. This loss can only | |work in the spirit of Comrade|be overcome by many militant work. Ruthenbere. _ The importance that| ers joining tha Party that he built, | Comrade Ruthenberg gave to the re | Fill out the application below and | cruiting of new members must be | mail it. Become a member of the | the importance that every active) Workers (Communist) Party and Comrade Ruthenbergs last words| were “Build: the Party.” One could| member of our Party gives to the carry forward the work of Comrade r vive ty recruiti Ruthenberg. hardly imagine that Comrade Ruthen-| Ruthenberg Drive for the recruiting berg pee pre ray ake tec sree, of new members. tae oe ie become a member of the | his last will. For Comrade Ruthen-| Many New Members. ii ers (Communist) Party. | berg never at any Party mass meet-| The drive thus las BING sos sa padon ys guy eels onvenesi ve ing for about 5 ing or Party membership meeting! weeks in this Di rict has already failed to urge the comrades to build | brought into the Party over 300 new the Party, to strengthen the vanguard| members. This is a good beginning, of the proletariat. but this work must be manifoldly in- I do not recall a single time that! tensified in order that we may carry I came to Chicago, or when Comrade out this Ruthenberg Drive in the Ruthenberg visited the New York| point of Comrade Ruthenberg. District Office,‘that he failed to ask|——. how many new members we had | taken in during the month. I Sool Letters From Our Readers | ber that prideful smile that would) aie come over him when the number I Reading the article of Fred Har- mentioned were satisfactory. Like-| ris (as printed in The DAILY wise there was always the gentle} WORKER of May 17) one is lead to criticism coupled with suggestions | believe that Cleveland is an oasis in for improvement when the number I| the desert—as far as jobs are con- stated did not meet with his approval. | cerned. H Address Occupation Union Affiliation Mail this application to the Work-| ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New| York City; or if in other city to orkers Party, 1113 W. Washington Blv., Chicago, Ill. Distribute phlet, the Ruthenberg pam- “The Workers’ (Communist) , What it Stands For and. Why ¢ Should Join.” This Ruthen- berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- et thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. Nucleus must collect ry member and will receive 20 pamphlets for every mem- | Ruthenberg As Organizer. Being one of the many thousands | “Legend of the’ Bear’s Wedding.” Ambkino Production, Comrade Ruthenberg attached the| that have been tramping the city for lt also means more unemployment for the workers in the Ma-| greatest importance to the every day vhinery, metal, electrical and other industries that have pro-| detail organization work of the duced much of the exports to Russia. So, both at home and/| Patty. While he was busy writing the ee i eRe Sion Bed ee a friavitabl | Programs of the Party abroad the economic situation becomes worse and must inevital Y | its policies, and leading the Party, have its political reaction. {he was never too busy to write the This move against Russia, which will be instantly recognized | most detailed letters to the District by British labor as a further move against the already miserable Peete on bs orery day prob- standard of living, will evoke retaliation on the part of the work- ;¢” TanMAATE Gatien nee ing class. The agitation of the Communist Party of Great Bri-| of its pre tain for a new conference to elect a new general strike committee, In the present Ruthenberg Drive will receive tremendous impetus because of this imbecile act. ssl haha our Party does “ Councils of Action will be formed throughout industrial England | (20° (hor staat Thin catwpeion and the fight that has been concealed beneath parliamentary | is based on the mass activity of the futility will burst forth into the white hot flame of the class | Party struggle and seal the doom of the government of forgery. and is connected up with Silence Regarding Political Career of Lindbergh’s Father, lorganically. It is on the basis. o! }to join our ranks. We also do not The Washington representative of The DAILY WORKER in-| a a AD Ast Pall forms us that correspondents of several large newspapers, among | raelitontcation at | the ateiek +4 them The New York Times, prepared stories for their papers deal-| thi country and the stru for ing with the anti-war activities of young Charles A. Lindbergh’s | —— formulating | sing | rship and the cireulstion| it) | the work of our Party in leading the! {struggles of the masses that we ap-| | peal to the workers of this country: ' despise these slimy creatures who want to use | work, I quite disagree with him that |“on the whole the labor situation is fair.” : It isn’t so very many weeks ago that the American Plan Association’s own figures showed an army of 50,- 000 unemployed. The one thing on people’s lips is carpenter got a dollar 's all newspaper talk, but are you working? All construction job entrances have |the same sign “No Help Wanted.” | Factories refuse to interview you when seeking jobs. - Department stores loexted all along Euclid Ave- |nue, sandwiched in between large banking houses and the hotels, in- cluding the “Statler,” refuse even to allow anyone seeking employment to fill out application blanks. Employes working for bosses for years (in my case si® years) are be- ing constantly laid off, and others ' substituted who work for nearly half, should know that), | father, and that th “they are not desirable at this time.” The elder Lindbergh, though elected on the republican ticket, was one of the few insurgents who refused to follow in the wake of the maniacal hordes who plunged this country into the late war in order to make the world safe for the investments of the House of Morgan. For daring to challenge the holiness of the cause of Wall Street he was set upon by the jackal pack of pro- fessional patriots and blackguarded .as a pro-German spy and traitor. Millions of dollars were aoe to defeat him as non-par- tisan league candidate for governor of the state of Minnesota. During this hectic period young Lindbergh, now acclaimed for his aviation achievement, was sixteen or seventeen years of age and was reviled by local yokels as the son of a disloyal father. The memory of his father’s heroism must still have a pro- found effect upon young Lindbergh when the war-mongers fawn | upon him and endeavor to capitalize his achievement for jingo) propaganda. If his intelligence transcends that of an experienced mechanic and enables him to perceive political value he must i 2 i \ A ‘ yo ese stories were suppressed on the ground that! | duce other young men to serve as cannon fodder for the rapacious jaims of American imperialism. | Why doesn’t the Times and the other spokesmen for Wall | Street publish the facts regarding the father of the aviator? They | published column after column of diatribes against him when the / War was on, and indulged in patriotic rejoicing when he was de- feated by the plunderbund. The answer is plain. They would |rather not have the public know that a popular hero could be the | son of a father who had the courage and the intelligence to defy |the pompous hypocrisy of the late Woodrow, American manhood. It would hardly do to admit that he is but one generation removed from one who less that a decade ago was branded by the one hundred per centers as all that is abominable /in the patriotic scheme of things. Young men who think they may emulate Lindbergh would do better for themselves and their class if they would also include the father among their heroes—if heroes they must. have. him as bait to in-| They laud the young man as a synthesis of all that is best in| Nuclei ill in the New York District et their pamphlets from the Dis- st 14th St. Ika to sell or distribute. the New York | Disere write to The DAILY WORK- ER C b Fast. First | Stre or to the | National Office, Wor Party, 1113] Ww. \ ngton I cago, UI! I know of cases where men who nave worked anywhere from 10 to 21 years were laid off with only an hour's no- tice, and others are taking their places for barely an existence. Comrade Harris must have passec through Cleveland pretty fast, not to have noticed that: 1.-—All_ the employment ° offices including both city and commercial ‘are packed to the doors every mor); ‘ing with men and women secking wo? 2.--The large number of stores go ing out of business on account « ‘ conditions. The chain stores in all ‘ines are driving the small store owners out of business, thereby swelling the ranks of unemployed. T. just got back from going the rounds of factories, Speaking to an employe of the Sterling Brass Com- , pany, I find they make $.40 cents an hour. The Verden Company pays $.35 an hour, Department stoves are | paying its male help $15.00 to $22.50 a week; and its female help $12.00 to $15.00 a week, Charitable organizations are. over- whelmed with applications for relief. Hospital clinics are crowded with people seeking free medical care. Such is my idea of conditions in | Cleveland, and I hope you will p: this to correct the idea that F | Harris’ article puts into the minds of |The DAILY WORKER readers, GEORGR ELSON | me Kezman Rd, Cleveland, 0.) the Neighborhood Playhouse since its) TIMES SQ | organization, Agnes Morgan, who! THEA. W. 42 St. staged and wrote the “Grand Street | Eves. 8:30, Follies,” and Aline Bernstein, the i aera ‘5 aaa bias ae signer, will continue with’ the layers| FAY OUTSCON se in the uptown venture. 5 The L A D-D E R Now in its 7th MO; WALDORF, ——— B'wa). Mats. ==Screen Notes——=|| ——?™" |Bronx Opera House Poy. Prices, } | es | 149th Street, iB. of ard Ave. Mat. Wed. & Sat. “FOG” ‘Thrilling Mystery Melodrama. Austin Strong’s stage play “th Heaven” which ran on Broadway for almost two years will be presented in screen form at the Sam H. Harris | os theatre tonight by William Fox. The| sam HARRIS, leading. roles, formerly - played fy | n ewes DANY, 208 we hae Helen Manken and George Gaul, are| William Fox iy in the hands of Jenet Gaynor and| Presents 7th HEAVEN Charles Farrell. The production coat | M@ts: (exe. Sat.) 50c-$1, Eves. 500-1.50 over $1,300,000 and employs 2000 peo- ple in the special scenes. THEA. West 42nd St sy>_ CHAPLIN 8 THE MISSING LINK COLON Y BROADWAY [ f elv j AT 63rd 8T. will be given the feminine lead’ Gontin. Noon to Midnight:—Pop, Prices. Joan Crawford who will play oP-| Bg, posite John Gilbert in “Twelve Miles | ssoss° Out,” Produced for Daily Worker Benefit Readers-of The DAILY WORKER will have an opportunity to see the world famous Russian film, entitled "The Legend of the Bear’s Wedding.” This picture is produced by the Amkino artists, including the finest actors in Moscow. The story of the film is taken from an old folk tale of the Russian peasants. It depicts in the most graphic form the life of the Russian peasants as the background of a powerful tragedy. The picture is one of the finest examples of the new. Russian film photography, with the wonderful methods worked out by the new Russian studio. t Tickets for this production are now on sale at the Local Office of The DAILY WORKER, 108 East 14th Street. ‘Prices are 50 cents for the after- noons, 75¢ for week nights and $1.10 for Saturday and Sunday. Of. course The DAILY WORKER will benefit by this performance. AT PPECIAL PRICE? A Bronze Button of Lenin FREE © ‘An attractive bronze button of Lenin—one inch in size—which you’ will be*proud to wear on the lapel of your coat—will be sent without charge to every worker who will purchase a copy of : LENIN ON ORGANIZATION ina cloth library binding.. This book should be included in every work- er’s library. The book—and the bronze Lenin button will both be sent for nh $1.50 Books offered in this column on hand © in limited quantitgss, All orders cash e and filled in turn as received.