The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1927, Page 4

Page Four VHE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER (Coolidge Glorifies Imperialism! Published by te DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. REE a" travesties of humanity? Why not let| and brought victory to the cause of | 83 First Street, New yak ee: arnt ear By H. M. WICKS them be seen, instead of the mobs of| liberty in a world convulsion.” NOTHER Memorial Day has/ American legionaires who, for the How about the Philippine Islands? | SUBSCRIPTION RATES passed, The patriotic orators of most part, did their patriotic duty far} Have they or have they not been By mail (in New York only): By. mail (outside of New York): | the nation again praised the dead of 4way from the hell of war? The &n-/ robbed of their independence? » How | 68.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year 98.50 six months | 9}! past wars in order that deluded | 8Wer is plain. It would be too real;| about Haiti and Santo Domingo? Both | $2.50 three months $2.00 three months workers may be willing to die in fu-| it Would depict the aftermath of war! robbed of every vestige of indepen-| hl ee a SSCS™S~S~SS:«C tre wars, The spokesmen of Amer-/ 2S itis and would not be a paying! dence by the brutal invaSion of Amer- | Address all mail and make out checks, to \ican imperialism glorified those who | Proposition for the war mongers | ican marines without even a declara- | THE DAILY WORKER, $8 Viet Street, Nev, Yeh N. ¥- | met death in the service of the master; Memorial Day is used to slander) tion of war. Today in Nicaragua, the Walter Hampden Planning Season of Shakespeare Unless certain plans go amiss, the, plays of Shakespeare will retirn to Phone, Orchard 1680 . ra 5 att : POLE ue Broadway next season, Walter J. LOUIS ENGDAHL class but they had no word of encour-| the st = ere ue Hehe tee aod Coolidge-Kellogg _ administration Hampden, in his latest announcement WILLIAM F, DUNNE pee |agement, no promise of relief for|of war. The boys that rot under the/ maintains in power a hireling (Diaz)| sotos, that he will devote a consider-| BERT MILLER. Business Manager |those victims of imperialism’s holy | $04 cannot rise to warn thers that/ whom they have placed at the head | able portion of next season at Hamp- _——————= | crusades whose maimed and shell-| their deaths are being utilized to be-| of a shadow government in plain vio- | 7 i | ies liv y of | iving youth, of the land into} Jation of the expressed will of the Ente: t-office at New York, N. Y., ‘under | shocked bodies live on. The army of| ‘tay the living yout a Di 2pm: eat oF sarch & sBr0. ; {the crippled, the blind, the palsied, the shambles. The boys that are} people of that country. When the —_———___——. |the human wreckage that managed |¢tippled are kept from sight on that} American. military forces took the Advertising rates on applicatio®| +. survive the ordeal were not in evi-| day and their fate is silently ignored. | field there it was certainly not to ex- |dence. They would add a discordant | But we will not ignore them. We will} tend “the area of self-government” isti iotic | derous band of im-| but to stifle every semblance of in- e ° we |note, a realistic chord, to the patriotic | unmask the mur Campaign of International Forgery Spreads to Philippines. lies of the spread-eagle orators, The | Perialism and warn the sons of the| dependence, and the armed forces r The raucous and frequently discordant brass band of inter-| dead cannot speak and give the lie to| Working class to refuse to participate| main there in order to uproot every those who sent them to the trenches|in another imperialist slaughter and] attempt at self-government. national forgery has a new recruit in the person of an American |to die like sheep in order that the in-/0 fight today with all their might admiral tooting a tin whistle in the rear. With an abandon re-| vestments in Europe of the House | @gainst the conspiracies that are now Pate 1s ree Pease) ae “Pirates |°f Morgan might be made safe. But} foot against them. miniscent of one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s characters in the “Pira €8 | the living dead, who in their suffer-| It is impossible to go through the of Penzance” Rear Admiral Sumner E. W. Kittelle, commandant | ino have died many times over, would | list of Decoration Day orators and re- of the sixteenth naval district, asserts that “certain radicals pro-| take from the day some of its artifi-| Ply to all their arguments, so we will posed and discussed a plot to destroy the naval ammunition dump | cial glamor. Some of them can speak| for today confine our remarks to the den’s Theatre to Bard’s plays, which | dramatist he has neglected this year | because of the success of “Caponsac- | chi”. He is preparing. to appear in | two plays in’ which he has never acted, |“Much Ado About Nothing” and “Co- |riolanus”, .In addition he will revive | “Hamlet?” and “The Taming of the | Shrew”. Not in fifty years has “Co- | riolanus” been acted in New York, or since the days of John McCollough, one of whose most famous parts the >. Again we ask a pointed question of the eminent down-east yankee? | When and where and under what con-| title role of this drama was. The ditions in the last half century has | lose saa tosh revival of eta AT capitalist government of the Uni-| About Nothing” was made by E. H.| i ‘ soca papas lifted a finger to rescue| Sothern and Julia Marlowe more than! _ A bright light of the new ,“Grand afflicted people from oppression? | ® dozen years ago. | Street Follies,” which is moving up- Another of the town this evening, taking up ‘new at Cavite,” in the Philippine Islands jand hurl fierce imprecations at those| Present nominal leader of the war at G ; slands. | Supporting his statement he cited “certain documents” found in the recent raid on the Soviet Embassy at Peking, China. That these documents were written by agents of the British tory gov- ernment of forgery is of no concern to this lackey of American imperialism. The story is quite obviously concocted with a two-fold pur- pose. First, the 2,600 workers at the arsenal are organized into | a labor union. The vicious administration of Major General Leonard H. Wood, who gained his greatest fame in the eyes of capitalism by commanding the strike-breaking forces at Indiana, during the great steel strike, follows the Coolidge strike- | breaking policy in the islands. The rear admiral tries feebly to steal the thunder of the British forgers in order to terrorize the workers into abandoning their labor union. Secondly, the Wood regime wants to strike another blow at the independence move- ment in the Philippines as is evidenced by the statement of the} rear admiral to the workers: “If you boys desire to follow some | Filipino leader, why not follow General Aguinaldo,” | Aguinaldo, native military leader of a quarter of a century ago, has long been the servile vassal of American imperialism. “He is a good Filipino and an excellent citizen, loyal to the Ameri-| can flag.” A Filipino who is loyal to the flag of the invaders | is in the same category as a colonist who, in the days before the outbreak of the American revolution, was loyal to George II, that is, a traitor to his own people. Every American worker with brains enough to perceive the | class struggle sympathises with the trade union movement in| the islands and urges the workers in the arsenal as well as all other workers ®under the iron heel of the Wood despotism to refuse to disband their untons in spite of the torgers’ threats. | Unquestionably the struggle for national liberation in China against the imperialist powers is exerting a strong influence on! the Philippines and we hope the day is not far off when the major generals and rear admirals will be driven from the country. ' In their struggle against American imperialism the Filipinos will have the support of the militant section of the working class in tne United tates, Bill Green Does Not Speak for Labor, William Green, president of the American Federation of La- bor, who uses his office for the base purpose of assailing every honest effort on the part of labor against its oppressors, has is- sued a statement denouncing the proposed trade union delega- tion to Russia. This delegation is composed of prominent trade unionists and not by any stretch of the imagination can they be considered revolutionists. Yet Green comes forth and proclaims that they do not speak for labor and he wants the world to know it. Green, alone, speaks for labor, according to his opinion of him- self. However, there are thousands upon thousands of trade unionists for whom he does not speak. They belong to interna- tional unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and pay no attention to the ravings of creatures of the Green calibre. Many !ocal unions would not permit Green to address them any more than they would invite the chairman of the open shoppers to harangue them. Furthermore, labor in the United States, though suffering from the blight of a reactionary and traitorous officialdom in most of its organizations, has never expressed its desires re- garding a trade union delegation to Russia. The reason Green tries to prevent a delegation going to Rus- sia to investigate conditions for itself is because he knows they will discover that his anti-Soviet campaign is a plain concoction of ‘capitalist lies. He doesn’t dare endorse such a mission as a matter of self-preservation. The real facts easily obtained by an impartial committee would brand Green as a lying, vindictive agent of the capitalist class and an enemy of the working class. | i Preparing for Further Looting of China. Every move of the new Tanaka cabinet of Japan is contribu- tory evidence that a secret conspiracy exists between Britain and that government to revive the Anglo-Japanese alliance in plain violation of the Washington treaties of 1922, when the old pact between those two countries was dissolved. The Peking government under control of Chang Tso-lin has protested against the projected occupation of Japanese forces of Tsing-tao, a strategic point that will give Japan control of one of the rich provinces she relinquished at the Washington con- ference. It is not because Peking is opposed to Japanese im- perialism that the agents of Chang-Tso-lin protest, but because! the Manchurian war lord has been discarded by Japan and is no longer on her payroll. He wants to convince Japan that she needs him to do her dirty work in China, The whole game in China is becoming ever clearer. The contemptible apostate and traitor, Chiang Kai-shek, sold out togBritish imperialism in an effort to arrest the northern drive of the nationalists in order that England could seize coveted territory. Then, with the rise to power of the Tenaka cabinet, Japan followed British policy on the basis of assurances that she would be permitted to retrieve | her own former “spheres of influence,” as a result of a victorious imperialist conquest. Britain and Japan are pursuing their old policies in China and although they do not openly assail the position of the United States every move indicates that they are preparing for a strug- who herded them to slaughter, Their | very existence is a warning to other workers, who have come of age since the saturnalia of agony and ashes and bloodshed of a decade ago, not to supinely yield to the seductive lan- guage of the spell-binders of imper alism, The boys who are today dying by inches in cheap, graft-ridden govern- ment barracks, away from the eyes | of the rest of the population, who | have been*refused even that consider- mongers, President Calvin Coolidge. * * * VE paragraph of his Memori ;“ speech is particularly worthy c | note inasmuch as it is wholly at vari |ance with the facts. There is not one |that is not calculated to deceive and |is not wholly false. Says Coolidge: “We have’ robbed no people of. their independence, we have laid on no country the hand of oppres- sion. When our ry forces ’ | Havemeyer ‘and the like.” We presume Woll, like the rest of the professional have taken the field it has been to enlarge the area of self-govern- ment, to extend the scone of free- dom, and to defend the principles of liberty. We have established our independence, sted encroach- ment upon our sovereignty, main- tained our national union, rescued afflicted people from oppression, ation accorded the dogs of those for whom they fought the war, must smile sardonically when they hear re- ports of the speeches made over the} dead of all past wars. Why do not} the patriots for profit, the swivel-| chair fighters and their political | henchmen stage parades of these boys! whom the last war made veritable} which plays its own game in that part of the world—a long-dis- tance policy, the aim of which is to endeavor to secure the ex- clusive right to exploit China. Britain and Japan will not sur- render without a bittew struggle; at first carried on through diplomatic, economic and military maneuvers without an open clash between the great powers, but inevitably leading to such a clash, which will plunge the world into a war of such magni- tude that countless millions of workers will be slaughtered. Only one thing can prevent such a war and that is the victory of the nationalist forees, which can be fully realized only when the armed forces of the imperialist nations are withdrawn or driven out of China. The demand on the part of the working class for withdrawal! of forces from China is not only calculated to aid the nationalist liberation movement, but is a matter-of simple gelf-preservation. I'very day the imperialist forces occupy China brings nearer the hour when another world war will burst forth. The alignments for such a beginning are already plain. Britain and Japan on one side and the United States on the other at first. As the conflict progresses other countries will be rapidly drawn in until the earth again rocks beneath the tread of the legions of imperialism as they again march to the human slaughter house to decide which gang of avaricious bandits shall attempt to rule the world for another decade just as they tried to decide in the last war} the fate of the world the past decade. | Everywhere the demand should insistently be made to get out) of China and stay out and permit the Chinese people to work out! their own destiny. Woll Makes Fascist Appeal. Matthew Woll, speaking as acting president of the national | civic federation, launched a fascist tirade against reds in general | in which he even included an attack upon the constitution of the United States. He doesn’t object to it as a class document. His | is not by any means a Communist criticism of the uses to which | it is put as the defender of special privilege. He objects to it because, in order to cloak the fraudulent democracy of the ruling class, it must on occasion pay lip service to free speech. While we were not aware of the fact that free speech is very widespread in this country, Mr. Woll, the galant servant of big business and self-appointed union wrecker, deplores the fact that the constitu- tion permits Communists to express certain restricted opinions and he advocates “requisite laws” to prevent Communists giving voice to their demands. As a Communist publication The DAILY WORKER has ex-| posed the low practices of Woll so effectively that even the or- dinary reactionaries in‘the American Federation of Labor are letting him severely alone. Naturally he flies in a rage and tries, in typical stool pigeon fashion, to work up a case for the govern- ment against us. His latest outburst followed the raid of the British tories upon the trade delegation ih London and the sub- sequent breaking off of relations with Russia. Woll wants similar rdids here. He wants to silence every agency favorable to the Soviet Union and advocates raids upon the trade agencies, “news and telegraph agencies, cultural and educational agencies patriots, includes in his list of subversive agencies the various| liberal organizations that cannot swallow his brand of Ameri-| canism. Just as Mussolini has stifled every semblance of free speech in Italy, so Woll and his cohorts would repeat the performance |here if they had the power, Again, we must not forget that this outburst has wider im- plications than the antics of Woll as an individual. Woll is one of the principal agents of reaction in this country. Behind him |stands the labor-hating aggregation of the National Civic Fed- |} eration—bankers, industrialists, insurance magnates—who are |unquestionably preparing for a new anti-labor drive on a national |scale, Woll’s tirade, brainless as it is, may be the first symptom of a general offensive, first against the Communists and the left | wing and then against the main bedy of labor. Organized labor, if it has learned any Jessons from the bloody |regime of fascism in Italy, should instantly repudiate the Woll propaganda designed to destroy what semblance of free speech | we still have in this country, He should be told that if he wants to ape Mussolini he can confine his antics to the Civic Federa- tion where such performances are appreciated, but that he can- gle avainst the tremendous power of American imperialism, ¥ 1 not use the labor movement as a mask for fascismy ¥ Does he refer to Cuba? McKinley, as the tool of Mark Hanna, waged war| against Spain in the interest of the Sugar Trust and the American tobacco company as this na- n took its first step upon the stage world imperialism. The Cubans sentence of the following quotation] staved under the benevolence of the United States just as they did under the depotism of Spain. One may search the pages of history for one lone case wherein this government ever aided any oppressed people and there cannot be found one single in-| cident to justify such a claim. As to the boast that American im- perialism “brought victory to the cause of liberty in a world convul- sion,” comment is almost superfiuous. Coolidge refers to the late war. Is there anyone living who believes that} this country and its allies fought in the cause of liberty? The stakes of the United States in the world war were nothing more nor less than world domination. The real reason for this country entering the| war was to defend the investments of Wall Street in Europe and nothing else. Emerging from the war as the mightiest power on earth its policy } | play which is seldom produced here, | (drawing power | staunchest fighter, This loss can only |érs joining the Party that he built. actor-manager’s productions for next season will be} |of Henrik Ibsen’s, “An Enemy of the People”. Mr. Hampden placed this | in rehearsal last January but j of “Caponsacchi” prompted him to postpone its presen- | the %& quarters at the Little Theatre. Broadway Briefs Richard ~ Herndon’s “Merry-Go-Round” new opens revue, the at tation until autumn. A new play — the details of which are lacking is| also slated for production. But two! plays were produced by Mr. Hamp-| den the present season; “The Im- mortal Thief” and “Caponsacchi”. Let’s Fight On! Join The Workers Party! In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- berg.the Workers (Communist) Par-| ty has lost its foremost leader and |the American working class its | be overcome by many militant work. 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 member of the | has since been one of open imperial- ist conquest. Its agents today roam the whole earth seeking places for investment of bank capital in foreign lands. Its} diplomatic representatives carry on} the vilest intrigues in order to job | other countries out of their share of | the plunder, Warships and marines in China are symbols of its greed—they are there in the interest of American finance and industral capital and for no other purpose and ought. to be forced to get out and stay out and would not be there if what Coolidge said in his speech were anything but a pack of lies deliberately calculated to deceive the people of the United States as to the real character of the Wall Street government at Washington. The Philippines, South and Central America and other lands are victims of the rapacity of Wall Street; no land with wealth of any kind is ex- empt from Yankee imperialism. * Let fo one be decieved by the glor- | ification of the victims of imperial- ism. In their lives most of them were workers, despised by the ruling class; | el workers are considered dirt be- neath the feet of those for whom they slave. Most of them had slaved all their early lives to produce surplus for the capitalist class. When that class could not waste it*or invest it in the United States they took it to foreign lands and then forced the very workers who had produced that surplus (unpaid labor of the work- ing class) to go and lay down their lives in order that their masters might exploit still more workers in other countries. Then the surplus value extracted from labor from all over the world piles ever higher. It has to be invested in still other ter- vitory. But there then ensues a con- flict with the capitalists holding sur- Plus produced by workers of an- other‘ imperialist country Diploma- | Workers (Communist) Party. Name 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| Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington | Bly., Chicago, Il. | Distribute the Ruthenberg pam- | phlet, “The Workers’ (Communist) | Party, What it Stands For and Why | Workers Should Join.” This Ruthen- | berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- | phiet 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 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- | | ER publishing Co., 38 East First | Street, New York City, or to the } | | | National Office, Workers Party, 1113 | W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Girl Workers Raise $30. The thirty-one women: workers in the Perlmutter & Blumenfeld shops have raised the sum of thirty dollars to help save The DAILY WORKER in the present crisis. This amount was collected thru the generosity of the girls working there, and has al- ready been received with gratitude by the management of The DAILY WORKER. These workers are all members of the Millinery Hand Workers’ Union, Local No. 43. SACCO and VANZETTI t Klaw Theatre tonight. The book and lyries are by Morris Ryskind and Howard Die mn tz. ‘Music Notes=—= Beethoven Symphony to Give Seven Concerts The Beethoven Symphony Orches- tra, of which George Zaslawsky is the conductor, will present during the coming season a series of seven sub- scription concerts to be given at Car- negie Hall on three Wednesday eve- nings and four Friday evenings, Octo- ber* 12, November 16, December 21, January 13, February 17, March 9 and. April 13. The programs will in- clude standard classical works, and new symphonic works by American composers. The Beethoven is one of the newest symphonic organizations in the musical field and gave two.con- certs the past season. Zaslawsky re- ceived high praise for his conductor- ship. ——THEATRE GUILD ACTING CO—; MR. PIM, PASSES BY GARRICK 95 W. 35th, bys. 8:40 Mts. Thur.&Sat. 2:40 Next Week: Right Are W. 52 St. Evs. 8:30 Sat., 2:30 Man GUILD Bees Next We Ned M’Cobb’s Daughter John Th.58,B.ofBwy.|Circle | G Iden’: Thur. &Sat.) 5678 Wisk) Silver Cong TIMES SQ. THEA., W. 42 St. Eves. 8:30. Matinees The LADDER Now in its 7th M WALNORF, bou Se. hast of Biway. Mats. WED. ana SAT. LITTLE Theatre, West 44th Street Eys. 8:30. Mats, Wed, &Sat. Grand Street Follies Sem HARRIS West. 4 t. Twice Daily, 2:30 & 8.30 William Fox Presents 7 t h H E A VE N Mats. (exe. Sat.) 50c-$1, Eves, 500-1.60 sD CHAPLIN 'X THE MISSING -LINK Bh, COLON Y+ progpw ay THEA, West, 42nd st SHALL NOT DIE! Contin. Noon to Midnight.—Pep. Prices, 1 ‘ie intrigue fails and war flares forth. Then the master class, unable to set- tle their own fight between them- selves call upon their slaves to mur- de? each other to decide which mas- ter class shall have the right to ex- ploit stil! other workers. That is our Memorial Day lesson. That is the real cause of wars. Do not let Mr. Coolidge or any other parvot of im- else. Prisco 1.L.D. to SAN FRANCISCO, monster picnic of the International | Labor Defense will be held at East} Shore Park on July 4h under the! joint auspices of the San Francisco, | Oakland and Berkely branches of the | organization, All workers are urged | to attend for a good time and a labor | Fourth of July, and to help in the) building up of the movement for la-| bor defense which is especially im-| portant in California where there are | still so many class war fighters in| prison, with, every_prospect for in-| creased reaction as a result of the re- cent Supreme Court decision in thy) cases of Charlotte Anita Whitney and) William Burns, under which the vicious California Criminal Syndical- ism Law was upheld by a unanimous | opinion of the members of the Su-| Pienic. May 30,—A | freme ourt. perialism make you believe anything | BOOK . THE GREAT STEEL —By Wm. Z. Foster Labor (with photographs) | in every worker's library. j ‘ AT PECIAL PRICE? ON STRIKE! 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