The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 8, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JU. 8, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER The British Trade Union Bill and Its Place in the Published by tae DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Excep: Sunday 85 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 Phons, Orchard 1680 Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, Ny Y. Framework of World Imperialism There exists a very great danger in the fact that the bourgeois world underestimates the forces of the national liberation movement, which is proceeding in China. is hardly conceivable that it can: b e checked with armed div . This movement has such strength that it ions or whole armies. Therefore the obstinacy of the imperialists in continuing military intervention in China will inevitably lead to a great imperialist war, This war will be fought on the coasts of the Pacific Ocean, for the hegemony of which several coun- | | For the Movies, Says Reinhardt BH ene Russians are’ not the only ones \* who take the movies seriously— j A Shakespeare Needed tries are fighting; hence the extreme probability of this war turning into a world war. (A. I. Rykov, Presi- || who consider that films are not a lux- J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ~chlg CU A a Ree ESR Ree Editors dent of the Council of People’s Commissars, at the Fourth Congress of Soviets of the Soviet Union.) ury but an absolute necessity, and WILLIAM F. DUNNE tines % therefore. the best writers should not BHT MILDER. viceturevsccsbess business Manager By WILLIAM F. DUNNE reformist trade union leaders lible sign of the preparation for an|hesitate to consider the moving pic- \ THE IT of Amsterdam and the Second In- | offensive against, the labor movement | ture as an outlet for their sincere ef- ternational who in Italy surrendered | and the whole workingclass, |fort. Max ReinHardt, the noted Ger-! to fascism, the socialis eee | —That far from being a matter of | man Leta who is widely known as : veer) a stesn'| foisted nationwide militariza-|~ concern only to the British working-|®2 authority on such matters, takes h the unions completely, to wipe si, upon the French masses and whol class’ the Treads Ut Bill ig-|UP the cudgels for the screen, and them out of existence now?” Lace : Rios "0 | class, the Trade Union Bi a sig-|UP : To this question we can ‘answer:Jom with the French imper lists in| nal to us in the United States that | insists that the moving picture art is thatthe’ tastes iahond a Eee the the denunciation of the Soviet Union | we must prepare for struggles in| ly in its infancy, and will develop | wee Pelee er ~. |and war on the Communists, the} which » party and the left wi further when the advanced writers unions into instruments of imperial-|) <,; | which our party and the left wing : ' t 4 it . .,| British Labor Party and Trade} wil) have th k of or; izing the| take to the movies to express their ist government but in answering it) 7, . * 4 ‘ | wh ave the task of organizing the | “ : es Union Congress official@om which be-| masses for new battles to preserve | Views, and at the same time serve as Article IV. HE question may be asked: “Does | ~ the British ruling class want to| Advertising rates on application. | . eee a nant ee Entered as second-class mai! at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879, | who The Assassination at Warsaw. The assassination at Warsaw of M. Wojkoff, the Soviet min ister to Poland, by a creature described as a young Russian stu- dent with monarchist tendencies, has a much deeper. significance | , Despite the weak explanation of the! i than appears on the surface. Polish government + no police protection was furnished because the Soviet minister did not request it, the criminal neglect of the ' Pilsudski regime must be condemned in the strongest terms. Especially is this neglect more pronounced inasmuch as A, P. Rosengoltz, former Charge d’Affaires in London, expressly ex- pelled by the Baldwin tory government, was with M. Wojkoff at the time, and such attacks, inspired by London, could be expected. The facts at hand at this writing are too meagre definitely to! , place the blame, but we venture the opinion that this is algo the handiwork of the dastardly British tory government of forgery and provocation that has been contriving by every low device to provoke a war against the workers’ and peasants’ government of ‘Russia. Credence is given to this interpretation by the malignant at- ‘tack upon the dead ambassador by the semi-offieial London Eve- ening News, which cha without a scintilla of evidence, that 8M. Wojkoff gave the orde #amily of the Czar. Says this reptile sheet: “By this assassination at the hand of a royalist retribution has come to one of the chief perpetrators of one of the foulest murders in history.” This red-baiting and ‘anti-Soviet publication expresses sentiments of the Baldwin government and is contributory ev ‘dence that the tory criminals have now added ssination to their vile deeds against the Soviet Union. They hoped thereby to provoke the Soviets into a war against Poland, but the Pilsudski government has evidently been quick to disavow the deed. Brit- ain’s game in this was loathsome as all tory practices. It hoped to provoke a war between Russia and Poland, then spur other European countries to a defense of Poland—the same old game of trying to use other nations as pawns in its imperialist game, But the workers of Britain will know how to meet this latest move on the part of their hated rulers against the peace of the world and heavy and frightful as is the loss of its minister, the Soviet Union will not be marfeuvered into war. Nothing short of actual intervention of Soviet territory by the armed forces of Britain will evoke retaliation by Soviet armed forces, who will then defend the revolution with a determination that will smash the imperialist hordes to pieces and arouse the working class of Britain to another general strike and revolution. War Clouds in the Balkans Diplomatic relations between Jugoslavia and Albania have) been broken. British tory intrigue and Italian fascist rapacity are responsible for this move toward a Balkan*war. Back of Albania stands fascist Italy, back of Mussolini threats to Jugo- slavia is the secret diplomacy of Great Britain, striving to make yassal states of all the Balkan nations for the triple purpose of ‘1) strengthening its power in the Near East so it can weaken ‘Surkish influence in the world of Islam, which has direct bearing upon fis colonial policy in India, (2) strengthening its fight for control of the Balkan and Near East oil fields, (3) building a bloc against the Soviet Union. Mussolini, although having designs of his own upon Jugo- slavia, plays the game of agent of the British government. In his recent provocation against Jugoslayia, when that country threat- ened ‘o apneal to the Council of the League of Nations, it was Pritain that enabled the fascist brigand to bluff his way through and avoid defending his course before the league. The actual break occurred over the arrest in Albania of a representative of the Jugoslav government who was accused of spying activities. Jugoslavia demanded the release of the pris- oner. Backed by Italy the Albanian government, a vassal of Italy by the terms of the treaty of Tirana, (November 27, 1926) impu- dently refused to release the representative of Jugoslavia. A break in diplomatic relations followed, precipitating a situation reminiscent of the dark July days of 1914. Italy has been carrying out a policy of most flagrant provo- eation against Jugoslavia since the rise to power of the black- guard government of Mussolini. After’varied struggles it suc- ceeded, through treachery of politicians in Albania, in putting through the treaty of Triana, which signed away the independence of that nation and gave Italy exclusive rights to the exploitation of the Albanian oil fields. So Italy has her own special interests to serve, while at the same time playing the game of Britain. It is noteworthy that Albania has laid the case before the League of Nations. This action would never have been taken with- out consent of Italy, that same fascist government that refused to consider the proposed league investigations of the Albanian situation a few months ago when Jugoslavia wanted a hearing on the question. Now that Italy, through provocation by including its vassal state to arrest a member of the Jugoslav legation, has contrived to manufacture a case, it-is anxious to go before the league. But it would not want the question referred to the league were it not perfectly aware of the fact that Britain’s representa- tives in the league council will back Albania. In this crisis France is also involved, because of the struggle for spheres of influence with Italy and also because the French support the claims of Turkey against Greece, which is also backed by Britain, at the bottom of which there is the fight for oil. Although apparently involving but two smgl! nations, this break in diplomatic relations is one of the symptoms of the great clash of imperialist forces on the stage of world history. Every country in Europe is either directly or indirectly involved and re- gardless of how this particular event is disposed of the intrigues, the realignments, will go on until a point is reached where the adroit conspirators of the league of nations can no longer attain that resulted in the execution of the| f to emasculate the unions was preced- we can and must make sisons and draw a few lessons for We heve here in America 7 fsrm as compared yo ) nst the trade here ee for 1) bande to effi- agreements with the capital- 2.) The Watsca-Parker railway act by which the government becomes openly an instrument for enforcing the pol of worker-employer cooper- ation—partial “governmentalization” of the unions. As in other countries the measures taken here by the official leadership ed by a wave of strikes and left wing jagitation and organization. , It is enough to mention here the nation- | wide strikes of the coal miners and | railway shopmen, the rise of the left ing in these organizations in 1922- lopment of a powerful Communist and left wing bloc in the needle trades and to recall that the cam- paign for efficiency unionism and the offensive against the left wing goes | hand in hand, to establish the connec- tion between these mena. INCE as in other countries the of- cial leadership has quit fighting | for the interests of the workers, and since the program of the left wing represents both the immediate and s needs of the trade unions and the mass the drive against the unions takes the form of direct strug- j@le against the Communists and the left wing on the part of the govern- ment, the capitalists and the official labor leadership. | In Italy the rise of fascism came |after powerful revolutionary manifes- ; tations had shattered the structure of capitalist “democracy.” N France the bill militarizing the population (sponsored by Paul Bon- cour, right wing socialist and sup- ported by all parties of the left wing with the exception of the Commun- ists who conducted a campaign against it) the jailing of the most prominent Communist and militant trade union leaders now. being carried out, has come after some important Communist parliamentary victories and a_ strong campaign against French imperialist policy. We have already seen that in Great | Britain the Trade Union mill follows a great swing of the masses to the | left. | The first phase of the process of | “rationalization”—placing the chief burden of rebuilding and maintaining capitalism on the workingclass and the lower sections of the middle class—-which bégan with the estab- lishment of the Dawes Plan, has about run its course It has not solved the important questions of markets and sources of raw materials—it has not been able to abolish the fierce struggle for tizlds in which to dispose of surplus commorlities, Neither has it toned down class contradictions to any marked degree —legislation like the British Trade bill and the recent Italian Fascist Trade Union bill recognize this latter fact by setting up new machinery for suppression of the ever sharpening class conflicts. 'N the United States the rulingclass meets increasingly keen competition in foreign markets (aitho this is not knows that the reduction of the liv- ing standards of the European work- ary measures taken by the rulers of Great Britain and the continental countries will intensify this competi- tion. is The official labor leadership in its drive on the left wing is expressing its own fears and serving very well the future interests of American im- perialism. 4 x few com-| trayed the general strike and the| their organizations and living stand-| 4 outlet for their talent. cod | . the labor party movement, the de-| various pheno-| ] of major proportions as yet) and it 7 ers which will follow the ertraordin-, (aan % }miners, and which now refuses to} mobilize the work: tion of the unio: and expels Communists and left wing- ers instead, the so st bureaucrats who support the capitalist rationali- zation plans and the new colonial de- jmands of tee German rulingelass in| “the interests of the father'and,” the | leaders of the Amer Federation | lof Labor who are des ng whole | unions as in the needle trades in their | frenzied efforts to cruci: all class con- | sciousness out of the 12%2 movement —all are seen to he playing the same | | game. | |} The scope of the, various anti- | labor y rams and the extst to | which the govern self ap- | pears as the main instrument of | suppression approximates the de- | | gree of internal instability and | | the extent to which each country is affected by the unfavorable | | world situation. | (Pending imperialist conflicts, the Chinese liberation movement, other colonial and semi-colonial in- dependence movements, the pres- sure arising by virtue of the exist- | ence of the Soviet Union and the construction of socialist economy within its borders.) HE conclusions to be drawn from our analysis are: —That the present period of cap- ‘italist stabilization has run its \course and that new extraordinary | measures to prevent additional de- | moralization and retain such benefits | las have been derived from its past | | efforts are being taken by the capi- |talists and their governments. —That the new measures have the “further purpose of reducing the workingclass to a status where it can| no longer threaten effectively the equilibrium of the system. 3 —That the new offensive against “the workingelass. inevitably will | produce gigantic new class conflicts. —-That the capitalist system has} “been able neither to solve the question of class relationships or of markets and sources of raw mater- ials and that the instability of im- perialist relationships makes the dan- ger of war of first importance. —That while the British Trade “Union Bill and the Mussolini Trade Union Law show the extreme sharp- negs of the struggle in Europe, there are bound to be repercussions in the United States some of the effects of | which are already apparent in the attack on the coal miners, the in- creasing number of conflicts in the hitherto stable building trades, etc. We must consider also that recent supreme court decisions like that in | the Bedford Cut Stone Company case, | which outlaws ordinary trade union activities, and that in the Indiana- polis Street-Carmen’s case, (under which two union organizers are serv- ing jail terms for trying to form a union) are of a fascist character | similar to the British and Italian measures. 6 That the new offensive against “the Chinese liberation movement and the Soviet Union, and the drive on the workingelass and its organiza- i are parts of the same cam- trade union struggles and im- perialist politics can not be separated, as the Second Internationalists try to convince workers should be the case. Where any considerable number | of workers are inwolved in any im- portant industry, there is no longer any such thing as a “purely indus- trial” struggle. —That as in the past this new drive against the workingclass has | been heralded by preliminary at- tacks on the Communists and the left wing by the official trade union leaders or the government or both. (Italy, France, England, the United States.) a. That in view of this fact we are justified in concluding: that con- sistent attack on a Communist Party in any given country, or ina group of countries, is practically an infal- their ends by subterranean dip] other and more devastating war In all the world there is but one great power that pursues a omacy—then will flare forth an- than the last one. | cago ards, to increase the power of the ship What the Daily Worker Means io the Workers More Encouraging Contributions to Our Emergency Fund. Comrade I. Cohen, of Richmond, Va., sends along a postal money order for $20.40 “from friends and sympa- thisers of The DAILY WORKER” to help keep the Daily alive. * * * At a farewell party given by Chi- comrades for Comrade Russia with a Commune, a collection was taken up to aid The DAILY WORKER in its fight against the re- actionaries, and a check for $15.00 en- closed. * * Comrade Chas. Kratochvil, of Chi- eago, sends a money order for $10.00 for the defense and sustaining fund of The DAILY WORKER, and says: “T would like to donate a larger amount, but for the present time it is impossible for me to do it; but I will try my best to collect as much as possible amongst my fellow-work- ers and friends. Long live our Daily.” ae Seen ra Comrade J. T. Crandall, of Evans- ville, Indiana, sends his personal do- nation of $10.00 with a protest against the persecution by the powers that be, of The DAILY WORKER and its editors and business manager. . ° * Comrade Joachim Katchmar, of Watervliet, N. Y., sends a personal contribution of $6.00 and an addition- al $6.00 collected from sympathizers and friends. “I shall send more as soon as I can collect it,” says Com- rade Katchmar. “Every member of our Party should be trained to under- stand that this is the time that money talks. Kick, comrades, kick; kick hard!” . * * $5.00 from Columbus, Ohio, collect- ed by a’Chinese comrade, K. S. Hu- ang, is accompanied by a note which says: “I feel very unhappy indeed when I find that I could not do much! Smaily, of Detroit, who is leaving for’ “Why should not the screen become | @ gclass for a strug-| unions, to build a labor party—and/the instrument of a genius who will | iclo| &@ against the contemplated destruc- | to defeat the official labor leade be able to write veritable master- which denounces | which now leads the war on militant | Pieces for an international audience?” trade unionism and the offensive against the Soviet Union. (The End.) ; says he. “Why should not a Shakes- |peare come for the movies? In their |time Shakespeare and other great | writers were, too, handicapped and had to write plays that were ordered, They had to please certain classes | just as scenario writers and directors are doing now. The pinnacle of mov- |ing picture art will-be attained, how- jever, when a real genius is able to jadopt the same subject at an oppor- tune moment to all minds. | “It is not absolutely certain that |the genius will be an American, the |land where screen art has every ad- |vantage of great technical perfection, |the most beautiful studios in the en- |tive world and unlimited financial re- jsources, But we must admit that jeach time that 2 film artist, no mat- ter in what country, seems to prom- ise to become a genius of the movies, America doesn’t hesitate to invite him and to give him the means to achieve his career! 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. jers 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 want to become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party. | Name | Address Occupation Union Affiliation...........ssee008 Mail this application toythe 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 Why | Is back on Broadway in a revival of “Lombardi Ltd.,” which opened at the Geo. 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Escamillo, will be played by phlet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive.| Victor McLaglen and Don Alvaradoé Every Party Nucleus must collect service for The DAILY WORKER at | 50 cents from every member and will present as I wish and ought to; but, Yeceive 20 pamphlets for every mem- be sure that The DAILY WORKER | ber to sell or distribute. will always have sympathizers, and| Nuclei in the New York District light shall banish darkness, sooner or! Will get their pamphlets fromi the Dis- will have the role of Don Jose. Others in the cast are Fred Kohler, Ben Bard, Nancy Nash, Carmen Costello and Mathilde Comont. Milton Sills’ new stirring picture, | owetz, 2.00; Anna policy of peace and that is the Soviet Union and but one great force that fights against the threat of another war and that is the revolutionary proletariat of the world. That is why the imperial- ist bandits are provoking attacks against Russia and against the working class of their own countries. They hope to weaken the anti-imperialist, anti-war forces so they may be free to again turn! the world into a slaughter house. Against these conspiracies the working class must hurl its battalions and smash the imperialist monsters. later.” ‘ * + * L. Objiler, $.50; Uolstein, 1.00; Stein, .50; F. Krakoveky, .50; Ros- enthal, .50; Stoler, 1.00; Mysin, 1.00; | Walter Sweey, 2.00; Josef Kropf, 1.- 00; Robert Mausser, 1.00; Alex. Pasi- chackman, 1.00; Art Stein, 1.00; Ed. Epstein, B. Rosenbergh, 1.00; Theodore ance, 1.00; Max. Epstein, 1.00; Saul Goodman, 1.00; David Marshak, 1.00; George Winsberg, 1.00; Frank C. Japich, 1.00; Thomas Snegur, .50; T. Cuckovich, 1.90; Becky Miller, 1.- 00; Chas. Kratochirl, 1.00; atochirl, 1.00; Stefan Soijci John Vrabel, 1.00; Anton Mosovs 1.00; John Dendur, 1.00; Johnson, 1,00; Nich. Car S. Zollinger, 1.00; Harry Greenwood, 1.00; Olaf Brown, 1.00; M. F. Raj-| kovich, 1.00; W. Rodgers, 1.00. | Mor- BUY THE, DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Li Po. Jr., Post of Chinese Revolution. At “Red Posts’ Nite” Li Po, Jr, promising Chinese poet,- will read from his unprb- lished writings at the “Red Paets’ Nite” tomorrow at Labor Temple, 14th Street and Second Avenue. Hailed as one of the best of the younger revolutionary poets, Li Po, Jr, has attained especial favor since the beginning of the Chinese nationalist revolution, Others who have been announced to appear on the ptogram are Mike Gold, Joe Freeman, Max Eastman, | A. B. Magil, Floyd Dell, Genevieve || Taggard, Adolph Wolff, Lola} Ridge, Babette Deutsch, Langston | Hughes, Countee P, Cullen, Abra ham Raisin, H. Laiveck, Simo Felshin, Main Laib, and others. 1.00; | Marie Er- | Kk, 1.00; } | trict office-108 East 14th St. “Framed,” formerly called “Diamonds | Nuclei outside of the New York in the Rough,” from a_ story by | District write to The DAILY WORK-, George E. 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