The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 27, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 85 Firat 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 $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE BERT MILLER 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. —.. > 2, [ Great Britain, having failed to secure the expected endorse- ment for her policy of boycott and war against the Soviet Union at Geneva and in the various foreign offices, has determined to act alone and try to stampede the other nations into following her lead, There has been no such tension in international circles since 1920 when the Red Army thrust back the Polish offensive. Of all the European capitals Moscow alone remains calm. The Soviet Union foreign office, having told the world for the last year that British Imperialism-The Mad Dog of Europe. | Great Britain was preparing an offensive against Russia, and| having prepared, on the basis of this knowledge, for all possible contingencies, can watch the scurrying in the foreign offices of the imperialist nations certain that they know nothing now that the Soviet foreign office did not know months ago. But that a madman is loose in Europe must not be for- gotten. British imperialist government will decide on more ex- tensive acts of provocation and violence if it succeeds in crush- ing the British labor movement. The trade union bill and ‘the character of the fight made against it by British labor becomes therefore of decisive impor- tance. Dispatches from Shanghai report that British warships loaded with tons of barbed wire and with deckloads of sandbags have sailed up the Yangtze for Hankow. This can be interpreted Sects of emotional character which} only as preparation by Great Britain for war on the seat of the The Fundamentalist Controversy | By CY OGDEN. ) Wealthy churches supported by mil-| The present conflict within the} lionaires. American churches between funda-| Among the Baptist Fundamentalists mentalism and modernism is of suffi-|the bitterest object of attack is the T. U. E. L. Picnic to See Lively Baseball Clash | Lunacharsky, Author of | |cient social importance to require the careful attention of all who are inter-| vsted in analyzing correctly American |social and economic conditions. No Communist can disregard this ques- \tion merely because the dispute is one of religion. As Marx has pointed out, |a struggle over religion may be mere- ly the covering of a deeper social con- t wnich takes this particular form because of lack of understanding on the part of the oppressed of the un-}! derlying social factors of their op- pression, Peasant Reaction. Any person who has spent some time in the American “backwoods” ‘realizes the important part that ‘this! question of Fundamentalism plays in the minds of a large percentage of the population. To many individuals, sometimes even to whole zommunities, | Fundamentalism is the greatest issue | of the day before which all other issues sink into insignificance. What is the nature of this issue? What, if any, is its social basis? Why has it taken such a hold at the present mo- ment? Disregarding all the intricacies of dogma on which the question of Fun- jdamentalism is based, we can gener- alize the whole matter by saying that Fundamentalism is a reactionary movement, a movement back to the | ideas of their grandfathers, a protest against the modern spirit, against the changes in ideas that have come ,up in the last fifty to s hundred years, Among the Country Poor. What social classes are affected by | this reaction? Firstly, there is some importance in the fact that the con- troversy has been fiercest among the Baptists and Methodists; protestant have their strongest holds on the poorer classes of the country, the ‘captured the imagination of the small Park, this coming Sunday, in Chicago. Park Avenue Church in New York City which is supported by the Rocke- fellers, The name of Rockefeller has | for years been a symbol to the small} town for advancing monopolistic cap- italism. hi It is against Rockefeller and | wealth that the Fundamertalist | tists have direeted thei: attacks. | Again end again at Bapt.s Bekiy | tions protests have heen raise : z seatenn tis influence of the Rockefel-| A fierce diamond clash between ev millions in the church, One of the} the Old Militants and the Young Mili- reasons why that hypocrite of a fun-| tants is scheduled to feature the 7th damentalist, John Roach Straton, has| Annual T.U.E.L. pienic at Koltze’s town Fundamentalist is the belief that| he is carrying on the battle in the very camp of the enemy, in the cen-| The old birds may be rather shaky in the underpinning, but they sure} know how to use their noodles, and | | with the ravaging effects of pre-natal “The Legend of the | Bear’s Wedding” | Russia’s second contribution’ to the | American cinema market, “The Le- | gend of the Bear's Weddine” ws is now showing at the Fifty-fifth | | Street Cinema, the newest little mo- | tion picture theatre devoting itself to the presentation of “art” films, was | written by A. V. Lunacharsky, Peo- | ples Commissar of Education in Soviet Russia. The story, based on a legend | | long current in Russia folk lore, deals | influence upon the son of a noble-| woman attacked by a bear just prior | they hope to outwit their youthful}? his birth. The son, played on the ssp Noe oe ant PN | opponents. The young guys are full an a ass +9. * of pep and go, as all young militants waste vem, Hreedom” Again. | | should be, and they have boasted all at is the basis s ye=| se : cial and economic changes that have} : “7 ag waaatiny, | a5 follows: taken place in this country; a euskal Old Militants against modern capitalist develop-| Maurer, 3rd-base—Captain ment; a blind reaction striking out} Leh tat base against evils which it feels but does| Ford, Pitehar not understand. The attack on Sci- Abern, Catcher | Screen by K. V. Eggert, who was also} | director of the film, suffers from an overpowering desire to make bear-like attacks on women whenever love burns in his heart. The leading fe- male role in the “Legend of the Bear’s Wedding” is played by Vera Malan- ovskaya, a Lillian Gish type, who has gained considerable eminence in Rus- sia as a screen actress, Mlle. Malan-! ovskaya is the daughter in real life Starring in “When a Man Loves,” at the Warner Theatre. a new producing firm composed of Bernard Lohmuller, production man- ence and 2volution is dimly connected Johnson, Center field with the cites which Sciences has | Matheson, Left Field vilt, with the factories, the banks,| Wolfe, Short stop the great magnates who have taken| Phillips, Right field over the wealth of the country. The} 9; ue nent J. Edwards, 2nd base ery of “Back to the Bible,” “Back Young Militants. from Science” means also Back from Zan, ond ene capitalist concentration; Back to the Murphy, Left Field period of free land; Back to the period Ellman, 1st base before sons and daughters were drawn | Angelo, Right field to the slavery of the factories; Back Yusem, Third base to the period before mortgages, ten- Glotzer, Pitcher—Captain ant farming, and control of the bank-| Zalisko, Shortstop — Herman, Catcher Greenberg, Centerfield The game will be played on the ex- : ne | cellent diamond in the" center of the blind deceiving the masses about the} grove, and will start at 3 sharp, Sam true character of the social struggle.) Ham, famous bookseller, will do the The Issue Obseured. | Religion is the opiate of the people. | The fundamentalist controversy is a/ f th ager and art director for the. Earl lhestectitn ofthe ‘Moscow ABUT cesenll Vanities, and Christopher T. | : Cinema, | S¢aife, company manager of the Van- | The fifty-fifth Street | ities, are planning a musical show to where the film is enjoying the Ameri ‘be produced next month. can premiere, opened a few days ago 7am with a policy of presenting the most} intelligent American and foreign mo- |tion picture productions. On the | same Dill with “The Legend of the! Bear’s Wedding,” is an interesting program of short subjects. The one | which has created the most comment, ; both here and in Germany, where it! ; was produced, is “The Magician of ! Talao,” done entirely in animated! silhouettes. Other films on the bill! are “Knee Deep in Love,” produced | by E. Merle Johnson, and a color film, which accompanies the over- Neighborhood Playhouse {66 Grand St. Drydock 751¢ Grand Street Follies ,°f, Svery Evening (except Mon.) Mat. Sat. ———THEATRE GUILD ACTING CO, RIGHT YOU ARE IF YOU THINK YOU ARE mA GARRICK 65 W. 35th. Evs. te Mts. Thur.&Sat. The advances of monopolistic capital-| officiating. (Ed. Poor Sam, what did ism are hidden by the dust of religious! he do to deserve this?) controversy. The masses are con-| fused, are made to forget the real ture, on which the Eastman Film) | Laboratories in Rochester, spent, | $250,000 during experiments. i Tickets for this performance are on | Next Week: Mr. Pim Passes By The SECOND MAN GUILD Thea., W. 52 St. Evs. 8:30 People’s government—war which will begin the moment that Bri-| petty bourgeoisie and workers of the tish imperialism believes one of two things, first that it will have | small town, the poor farmer, the mass/ a certain amount of support from other imperialist nations or of the Negroes, ete. Secondly, the| eaten [ second, that they will not interfere openly. War is in the air. If Great Britain cannot provoke war her rulers will have suf- fered a defeat. Their whole maneuver has heen to bring about a joint attack on China and the Soviet Union and to give new im- petus to drive on the militant sections of the labor movement thru- out Europe. In this connection it must not be forgotten that the French government has launched an attack on the Communist Party and the Unity Confederation of Labor and has already jailed many of their leaders. The whole force of the American working class must be thrown into the struggle to smash this war plot. We see now that the drive on the Communists and the left wing in the American labor movement has coincided with the in- ternational offensive—that like in all the other imperialist na- tions the reactionaries in America are trying to wipe out all pos- sible centers of resistance to imperialist war. The slogan of solidarity with the workers and farmers of Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, China and the Soviet (Union against war must be the rallying cry with which to gather into a solid front all sections of the American masses willing to struggle to prevent another blood bath for the world’s worki’ng class. The British Labor Party and the Break With the Soviet Union According to London dispatches the Parliamentary Labor Party will not move for a vote of censure on the tory government | ¢xPect us to accept their leadership and abandon our duty to the. for its raid on the headquarters of the Russian Trade Delegation Working class to warn them against the pitfalls of social-demoe-| and the breaking off of relations with the government of the acy, they are right. Certainly no group with a sense of respon-| Soviet Union. Instead the right wing leaders will put down a mild resolution which expresses the opinion that the termination of diplomatic relations will have a damaging effect on imperial econ- omy, will injure trade and have serious international consequences. The appointment: of a select committee is suggested to make an examination of all the relevant documents captured in the raid. This is not the language of workingclass spokesmen. It is ‘the language of apologists for the tory government and for the system that this gang of second-story workers represents. Instead of calling attention to the real character of the new Anti-Soviet drive led by Great Britain, those labor imperialists would draw the teeth of the resentment which the attack on the Workers’ Republic is certain to arouse among the British working- class. The tory drive against the Soviet Union will not be blocked by polite speeches in parliament, except so far as those speeches are calculated to arouse the masses into struggle against the Forgers’ Government. In fact, the right wing of the Labor Party is heart and soul with the tories in this conspiracy and there is more than a reasonable doubt that if the government was not as- sured of the benevolent neutrality of the king’s labor fakers, it would never have acted with such disregard for its agreement with the Soviet government. The workingclass movement of Great Britain is not repre- sented by the right wing labor leaders. The masses are not going to lie down while workers and peasants of the Soviet Union are under attack, by the very government that crushed’ them during the general strike and leads the capitalist offensive against their already low standard of living. The militant British workers know that the attack on the Soviet Union is also an attack on the revolu- tionary trade movement at home. The British Communist Party can be depended on to show the workers how to fight and to organ- ize them for the struggle. Should the situation develop as sharply as is now indicated the workers will have little use for the Mac- Donalds, Clynes and Snowdens. They will follow leaders who are not content with slapping their masters gently on the wrist. They will follow leaders who believe in giving the capitalist system a _close shave from the shoulders up. Socialist Presidential Possibilities. According to an announcement by Victor L, Berger, the meet- ing of the national executive eommittce of the socialist party re- cently held in ssburgh decided that a presidential candidate will be nominated on that ticket for the 1928 elections. The so- strength of the Fundamentalist move- | ment is in the small town, on the| farm, in parts of the country like the} lower South where there is a low | standard of living for the masses. The center of the attack of the move-| ment is the large city with its great! LETTERS FROM I am _a reader of The DAILY | WORKER, but not a member of the} | POTENT CaS issue. Our task is to uncover the eyes Gotham Rhymsters of the backward masses, to show them | i 1 that the direction is not backwards, Decide to Do Something but forwards. Forward by organiza-!| Useful at Long Last tion of society that will have no place} for economic oppression, mortgages,| Dear Comrade Editor: and wage slavery. Intelligent proletarians (that | means all of us) omnivorous prole- OUR READERS |on flesh meats are urged to come to |Labor Temple Auditorium, 14th | tarians, ditto, vegetarian proletarians |and even those who dine exclusively They don’t | Street and 2nd Avenue on Thursday | evening, June 9th. 8 P. M. to talk to one another. need any bosses, they watch them- party. I just want to ask you whether | selves. | we will ever have a union again here} I don’t like what you say about in the stock yards of Chicago, where | the priests. There is good and bad I work. em all of us. In the last strike we We are working just like slaves.| had here, we had a few priests on the We have the bonus system, Oh Boy,| picket line every morning. Tho some and we have to work for that bonus/ others were telling the strikers that | of two dollars a week. if they didn’t go back to work they | ¥ou can’t say a word about the} would go to hell. union to anyone, because if you do, I wish you would write something you are fired, and the men are afraid ; about the Yards——M. W., Chicago. Were you ever a poet? If not you don’t know what you have missed, The poets have gotten us into a lot of trouble but we forgive them, darn their hides. Because they are in- teresting and probably do’ some good. But doing good is the last thing that oceurs to a poet which proves that a poet is neither born nor made. What a self made poet wants to do, while he is normal is to disturb people. If a person is married and | sale now at the local office of The! |DATLY WORKER, 108 East 14th! | Street. { [Broadway Bris) Mats. Thurs. & Sa 30 Next Week: Pygmalion The SILVER CORD John Th.58,E.ofBwy.|Circle Golden Tr etinarasat | 5678 Next Wk: Ned MeCobb’s Daughter y “ THE, § edy by Sam Janney, author of “Loose Evgs. 8:30, Matinee Ankles” is. que at the Bijou theatre | Thurs. & Sat., 2:30. | CRIME | Thursday June 2nd. The play will be | ===> ni sina The LADDER | given a tryout in Stamford, Monday | | and Tuesday and in Mamaroneck on) Now in its 7th MONTH { WALDORF, 650th St., East of Wednesday. | B'way. Mats. WED. and SAT. “A VERY WISE VIRGIN,” a com. TIMES SQ. A., W. 42 St. “Talk About Girls,” the new musi- |Bronx Opera House }{°th , Street, cal comedy which Harry H. Oshrin| Pog. Prices. Mat, wed a ae and Sam H. Grisman are sponsoring, | will open at the Waldorf Theatre| Monday evening, June 6. “The Lad-| cn O G” Thrilling Mystery Melodrama, der” the J. Frank Davis play now | -—~—————— ae ae eae playing there will be transferred to! Sam HARRIS tree Danan :ta ae 58S the Cort theatre on the same date. | William Fox i Presents 7th HEAVEN Mats. (exe. Sat.) 50c-$1. Eves. 50c-1.50 International Labor cialists want'to get into the field inating convention in January. To their convention are to farmer and labor “radical groups.” ically given honorable mention. | does not think we are desirous of | living with his lawfully wedded wife | he paints the delights of concubinage for him. And if he is living in sin | he expiates on the pleasures of con- |formity. In other words a poet is| $4, 5 4 " never in accord with his compeers. The socialist national committee | That’s why poets are tolerated. “co-operating.” If the socialists! On the night alladed to a group |of poets will poetize for the benefit of The DAILY WORKER. Don't as- | sume that we are ready to die he- cause we accept a straw. We ave early so they are to have a nom- be invited delegates of various We Communists are specif- Defence Will Picnic | June 19, in Chicago 'sy> CHAPLIN 'N THE MISSING LINK CHICAGO, May 26.—Members and | moss © 9 LON Y BRoapway sympathizers of International Labor Defense will have a good time on| Sunday, June 19 at the Summer Fes-| tival and Picnic to be given under the | auspices of Local Chicago of the I.L.D.. at Brand’s Park, 3269 Elston Ave. Manuel Gomez, secretary of the 63rd sT. | Contin. Noon to Midnight.—Pop. Prices. Patronize Our Advertisers. Labor Sports Union Has | sibility to the working class can accept the program of the social-| |ists and follow their leadership. To do so would be to land in the | swamp of opportunist reaction. | But if the socialists really want to see a labor ticket behind | which all groups in the labor movement who have broken with | | the capitalist parties can unite, we not only are desirous of co-| | operating but we will in the future, as we have in the past, do| everything within our power to bring about unity of labor’s forces behind labor candidates and a labor program. | In spite of the fact that the socialist national committee has |already announced that it will have nothing to do with a united iabor ticket and that they will enter the campaign alone, invit- |ing other groups to accept THEIR program, we will still con- tinue to fight for a labor ticket and, if possible, aid in building |a labor party in the United States that will endeavor to mobilize |the widespread discontent of the workers and farmers to con- test every old party candidate in the country. If the socialists persist in refusing to participate in such a movement we will stigmatize them, as we have in the past, as enemies of the working class who are totally unconcerned about the elementary demands of the working class for a united front | in face of the terrific capitalist offensive that is raging against labor throughout the world. . : If the socialists run a presidential candidate they will only | expose to all the working class their weakness. They no longer | | have Eugene V. Debs to bear their standard and shield with his |past record of service to the working class the present perfidy lof the socialists who, at least in New York, are travelling the! \inclined plane of fascism by aiding the most reactionary and | vicious elements in an unprecedented campaign of violence and | provocation against the militant elements in the labor movement. \If they persist in going it alone in this campaign it will be their last stand as a legal political party for they will not receive enough votes in most of the states to again get on the ballot with- {out petitions. ‘4 | We hope there will be enough class conscious delegates at |the January convention of the socialist party to rebuke their na- tional executive committee, repudiate their action and accept the Communist proposal for a united front in the coming elections | that will enable labor’s forces to stand united on a common pro- gram, at the same time permitting each group to put forth its own ultimate program while at the same time supporting the | united ticket. | To refuse such a demand will brand the socialist party as a traitor and a disgrace to the working class, deserving of nothing but condemnation. really out for a jolly good time and our poets are unusual. That is, they don’t take themselves serious They are not half as conceited our columnists and only a few of them sent self-addressed envelopes with their contributions, You will hear a good deal more about this phenomenon before the night of June 8. But this is enough for once. Fraternally yours, the publicity man of nucleus F-4 sub. I-B. W.P.A. In L. W. T. P, S.—Tickets for this affair can be secured at The DAILY WORKER} office 33 East First Street; Workers Party Office, 108 East 14th Street; Freiheit Office, Union Square, and} 106 University Place. | Let’s Fight On! Join The Workers Party! | In the joss 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. ers 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 went to become a member of the | Workers (Communist) Party, | Name ... Address, Occupation Union Affiliation............. Mail this application to the Work. | ers Party, 108 Fast 14th Street, New York City; or if in other city to) Workers Party, 1118 W. Washington Blv., Chicago, Ill. Distribute the Ruthenberg pam- phlet, “The Workers’ (Communist Party, What it Stands For and Wh: ; Workers Should Join.” ‘This Ruthen- | berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- | phlet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. | Read ‘Thgaaily Worker Eves Baw | f/ ted States Imperialist policy toward | | T PPECIAL PRICE? : A Bronze Button of Lenin FREE . Anti-Imperialist League . of North! America will speak on the relation of | Mexico to Latin-America and the Uni-, Biggest Athletic Meet Scheduled for Waukegan CHICAGO, May 26, (FP).—The Labor Sports Union announces what promises to be the biggest labor athletic meet in America for July 80 and 31 at Waukegan, Ml. Baseball, soccer football, track and nastic events will feature the’ 2-day meet at Electric Park. The Labor Sports Union at 453 North Ave., Chicago, welcomes labor sports entries and inquiries. our southern neighbors, While C. T.! Chi. of the Kuomintang (Chinese Na- | tionalist Party) will tell of the pres- ent Revolutionary Situation in China and the aspirations of his people. i Sam Kissin’s famous Russian Or-' chestra will furnish the tunes for the Park’s noted dancing pavillion. | Games will be played continuously. | SACCO and VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE! SE EEN eianeeenee ee anette nee 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 in a cloth library binding. LRA This book should be included in every work- - er’s library, The book—and the bronze Lenin button will both be sent for $1.50 Books offored in this column on hand © in Mmited quantities. All orders cash e and filled in turn as received. [NOTE