The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 14, 1927, Page 4

Page Four HE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Daily, Except Sunday (3 Firet 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 $8.50 six months $2.60 three months $2.00 three months ieshebbacteepeetieeneinen enenenannemeendinin Addrees ali mail and meke out eneeks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Phono, Orchard 1680 J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE puaneyeats esecee + Editors BET Ma eo cise ec cenes Oe. business Manager Ri Sathandedeaar verte: Entered as second-class raai! at the post-office at New York, N. Y¥., under the act of March 8, 1879. => Advertising rates on application. en nate a A Neglected Strike and Official A. F. of L. Scabbery. Communists, Socia'ists and Hero Worship An Answer to the Letter of a Sympathizer By BERTRAM D. WOLFE has its heroes, and greater than the| learn to treasure that tradition and In The DAILY WORKER of Apri! | heroes of the bourgeoisie. Greater, for| accumulate it and utilize it and spread 26th was printed a letter from a sym- they can think as well as fight (there-| it to atl our class, pathizer, S, Richarts, in which he ob-, in s was inferior to Ruthenberg) | American Traditions. jects to the amount of space given to and greater because they serve not a! ant . Ruthenberg’s life ‘and. W class alone, but in the long run, all| J the new world war that is ap- DAILY WORKER. He fe mankind. Aion cigar oars ti och eprint beneath the mmunist dignity Not Hero Worshippers. Bia aaetent veeBerialice sil dake “grown-up scientifically-minded we are not hero-worshippers prove! a priceless Aimesicun ieide ple.” He compares it to “the So ense that we do not believe | shove all that of Ruthenbere, whe « ist Party slop about Debs. ‘Tho j at men make history. But!s,)° rcater thinker than Debs, cae he speaketh He feels that “this our theory of history does not do away} the first American to Geaite 4octaas sort of thing has not helped the So- | wit at men. On the contyary it! late the struggle to change imperial- cand, . .will not | ¢ them as the leaders of move- | jst war into class war, into cle! war as those who see clearest and jt jg our task to make the whole fore point the wa) huse Who | Wootinielaga, hamnanibencand Sidon: » our cause.” Ruthenberg and Debs. march with surest and est step Elizabeth: Allen has replaced | Sylvia Field in the role of Billie | Moore in “Broadway” at the Broad- | hurst theatre. | | | “High Hatty” will be the name of the new musical comedy which Ber- nard Lohmuller and Christopher T. | Scaife will produce early this seasor. |The book and lyrics are by McEl- ‘bert Moore and Phil Cook, Music by | Owen Murphy. | Charles Winninger, last seen in In the I think Cr Riche and therefore maréh in front, as ; Stand and build upon that tradition, |“Oh Please,” will be featured in the Let us conserve and spread the mem- | “ershwin-Kaufman musical comedy, paring our those who help to build the move-| ory of it lest they tell us “Resistance The production of eighteen open shop mines of the Pittsburgh Coal Company in the Pittsburgh district in May was 493,035 tons against 451,690 tons in March. A coal miners’ strike has been in existence since the first day of last April. It is pertinent to inquire what has the officialdom of the United Miners of America been doing to help win the strike and defend the present standard of living of the mine workers? It is also pertinent to ask what has been the contribution of the officialdom of the A. F. of L. to the winning of the miners’ strike? Careful investigation has failed to convince us that the Lewis leadership of the United Mine Workers of America has put forth a serious effort to defeat the bosses. John L. Lewis, whose reso- nant voice thunders so loudly at conventions against the radicals, has been comparatively silent since the rank and file of his unions brought up their tools from the mines on the first of last April. The red-baiting hero crotiches like a frightened rabbit before the with the So: of Dek Tt was th rest > paper c " gre words that marked the degen f know the Party he did not have the cour- uge to break with. It was the con tradiction between the militant spirit of struggle he stood for and the cringing spirit of ¢ collaboration in which the officialdom of the S. P. is acting. It s the contrast he- tween hi * record and the Party’s “respectability,” his desire | for unity of all labor forces and the S. P.’s splitting tactics; his friendship for the Russian revolution and the Oneal-Cahan hatred of it; his partici- pation in united fronts and the S.} P.’s sabotage of them—in short, it was the contrast between words and deeds that made the use of the heroic figure of poor old Debs as a fig-leaf : nt ale Ay Mert Purists them. We | to Imperialist War-—the conversion a a ie out eh HN the ' of imperialist war into civil war— general is nothing but we! American’.” also that a. good Arig needs al And Ruthenberg represented much good general and without 6fficers an} more than that. As great in courage army is no army. Y i 5 ly. i jas Debs, he was far greater in clar- ‘ But of bat erence be ae | ity. The constitution of our party is sue! s De xs or Ruthenberg after | his work. Its most important theses is dead? ah uals Pick | were written by him. He saw our _ Teen Agee i nga? mrade | (1288 as a whole, its allies ‘and its 'o answer that question, Comr: i i lati At Se Aeanaratehal the | armies and its relation to other ts, aust " eat classes more clearly than any of the part that revolutionary tra ition | rest of us. plays in the Fete oe pr aiNetaa,| Pointing out and avoiding’ their er- ary movement. : he radition 0: a | rors, we must keep alive the memory Haymarket martyrs gave us May) of Debs and De Leon. Yes, and we volution and of ’48 gave France the| American workingclass heroes (such Paris Commune, The tradition of the| as Sylyis) whom we have permitted Paris Commune gave Russia 1905 and | to become nameless, But/above all we the tradition of 1905 gave us 1917. must keep alive and carry to all our Day. The tradition of the French re-| must revive the memory of other | | “Strike Up the Band,” which Edgar| Selwyn is producing. | Elizabeth Risden of the Theatre Guild company will play the part of | Helena and Beatrice Miller the role | of Puck in the Actor’s Fund perfor- | Milne’s | mance | of “A Midsummer Night's | fluffy comedy now in its final week | Dream at the Stadium, Forest Hills, | at the Garrick theatre. ) next Sunday night. | ~ In “Mr. Pim Passes By,” The vaudeville acts at Moss’ Broad- way this week include? Guy and pearl Magley and Co; Bill Robinson;/| | Lang and Haley; Jean Granese; Wal-| jlace and May; “Behind The Wall”;| jand the Martels. | MR. PIM PASSES BY GARRICK 65 W. 35th. Ev: Mts. Thur.&Sa' 340 Next W’k: Ned MeCobb’s Daughter The SECOND MAN | “Tale About Girls,” a new musical | | will open at the Waldorf theatre to- night. to cover the S. P.’s naked betrayal The bourgeoisie tries to make us! cjass the memory of Ruthenberg for forget our workingclass heroes and | jo 4 bosses. He is leaving a gallant army disorganized to do the best they can against a powerful and well-disciplined enemy. So much for the direct leadership of the United Mine Workers of America. What about the executive council of the A. F. of L.? What part has it taken in this struggle? What it has not done in winning the strike for the miners is a matter of common knowledge. But it has not been idle in the meantime. It has been engaged in strike activity or rather strike- breaking activity. William Green, president of the A. F. of L., is a member of the United Mine Workers of America and former secretary-treasurer of the miners’ union. Under Mr. Green’s direction and directly led by Matthew Woll, a vice-president of the A. F. of L., a committee of labor fakers and gangs of underworld thugs have been busily engaged trying to break a strike of fur workers in New York city. This corrupt outfit has not a word to say in behalf of the|knecht and Luxemburg; the French| tionary miners struggling to maintain their present standard of living, but it has time, money and gunmen to spare to break a strike of fur workers. This gives as clear a picture of the character of this strike- breaking aggregation as could be penned. The facts need no embellishment. They speak for themselves. The only addition that need-be made to this indictment is that every class-conscious worker in the country must see the necessity ef organizing the left wing in the trade union movement and burying those fakers, politically, beneath an avalanche of rank and file resentment. The strike-breaking officialdom of the American Federation of Labor must go. Pilsudski’s Guilt Nir idles: Not even the most gullible can longer doubt the responsibility of the fascist government of Poland for the assassination of the Soviet minister, Comrade Voikoff. Saturday official announce- ment was made by the bloody Pilsudski-government that the mur-! derer, because of his youth, would probably be lightly dealt with, as “Poland exercises extreme clemency in cases of crimes of minors.” A request that the culprit be turned over to the Soviet government was declined, as was also the demand for an investi- gation in an effort to definitely establish the identity of the in- stigators of the murder. This attitude of the Polish government sheds a glaring light] upon the real murderers and proves our contention that Pilsudski and his fascist government are vassals of Britain, the mad-dog of | Europe, in its conspiracies agains the workers’ and peasants’ gov- ernments comprising the Soviet Union. The whole thing becomes perfectly clear. The murderer was| chosen for his youth, instructed to commit the crime, whereupon | he would be instantly taken into custody by the Polish police, where he would be in safe and friendly hands. The “apologies” and messages of condolence sent by Pilsudski’s underlings to Moscow were all part of the plot because the wretched hirelings of British imperialism knew that Moscow would see through the pretenses of Poland and would demand stern repression of the hordes of white-guard terrorists who are colonized in Warsaw and| other cities for the purpose of plotting murder expeditions against the leaders of the revolution. The murder at Warsaw was part! and parcel of British provocation against the Soviet Union that has been consistently carried on since the tory gang of forgers| came into power. The profuse apologies on the part of Poland} were part of the plot. The murderers could hardly be expected openly to gloat over their act, but their role was to pretend to| abhor the act while at the same time conducting themselves in such a manner that the Soviet authorities would know it was merely adding insult to injury. Tory Britain has chosen fascist Poland as its agent in the) plot’ to create a bloc of nations against Bolshevist Russia. This! fact. is plain to everyone capable of the slightest political under- standing. The capitalist press pretends that Russia is indulging | in absurd exaggeration in placing the blame for the murder where it properly belongs—at the door of Britain. But the imperialists who pay the pen valets of capitalism also know the game and they are alarmed that the Soviet leaders have the courage to expose to the world the real forces behind the series of provocations cul- minating in Voikoff’s murder. The Soviet government exposes the real menace in Europe to world peace by ripping from the face of Britain its hypocritical mask. The pent-up fury of the masses of revolutionary Russia is being directed into channels that will make more powerful the mighty Red Army. The limit of provocation has about been reached. One more step may be the last before the signal is given for the defenders of the proletarian dictatorship to avenge the deaths of the martyrs who have perished at the hands of the im- perialists. If the command is given to crush the fascist agents of Baldwin and Chamberlain these criminals will not only face the » 4 do that. of the class struggle so disgusting. But as to honoring Debs, reprint- ing his speeches, commemorating his life, even we who see his weaknesses And I think we will do more { of it as the memory fades of his final failure to break with a degenerating and decaying party that was feeding on his name and reputation, and as the things he stood for—unity, soli- darity, industrial unionism, struggle | against war, uncompromising class struggle—stand out more and more. Richarts Ignores History. You say, Comrade Richarts, that “revolutionary parties, scientifically- minded people” don’t do that. How bout the Russian Party with its Len-| in; the German Party with its Lieb-| our workingelass traditions of strug- gle. It tries to tell us that “May Day is un-American” tho it originated in America. That “revolution is un- American” tho America was born of a revolution. It tries to make us for- get the left wing of the American re- jvolution, the Daniel Shays and Thomas Paines and those who are too prom- inent to be forgotten, the Patrick Henrys ane Thomas Jeffersons—it conceals their revolutionary charac- ter. Because the master class controls ithe schools, the press, the church— our memory is painfully short. We must struggle to preserve the precious heritage of workingclass heroes and workingelass struggles. Without such a continuous and growing revolu- tradition each generation | is the outstanding figure the American workingclass has‘so far produced. The DAILY talks too much about Ruthenberg? |My complaint is that it does not talk about him enough. Chicago Launches | Drive to Increase Subscription List CHICAGO, June 13.—A WORKER | CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) the Labor Party has won 15 seats, the same number it held in the last parliament. The -govertiment party is faring badly, the de Valeraites | running closely behind it. When this | was written the government party |had only 25 seats against’ 61 for the | combined opposition. ” . *. |THE defeat of the Government |* party would mean_ additional | anxiety for the British government. | The Free State government is simply special |® Puppet of British imperialism and) of the 152 returns still to come in| i y with its heroes of the Com-| must begin again from the beginning. Surely the workingcelass also | Our class will grow in ripeness as we avenging hosts of revolution on foreign soil, but will have to reckon with their own revolutionary forces at home who will take advantage of the crisis to fan the flames of revolt in the “mother” country. Weakening the Building Trades Unions. The various plumbers’ strikes taking place in Greater New York furnish a fine lesson for those who want to avoid the weak- ening of organized labor through lack of united action. Plumbers’ local No. 1 of Brooklyn is conducting a strike against the bosses. They have been left in the lurch by their international officials who came before them and advised arbitration, which was repu- diated by the rank and file. While they are out there is also a lockout against the plumbers in Staten Island and Queens. All these strikes and lockouts are being betrayed by the build- ing trades council which permits other building trades workers to stay on the jobs in spite of their provisions against handling scab ‘material or working on buildings where scab labor is used. Then the plumbers themselves, in turn, arg damaging their own chances | of success by refusing to unite with the plumbers’ helpers who are on strike in Greater New York. If they would unite with the helpers, who are organized into a body trying to get recognition by and admission to the American Federation of Labor, against the bosses and carry on a determined fight to induce the other building trades to go out with them they would soon bring the employers to time. But, under the present conditions the employ- _ers of Brooklyn are taking advantage of the confused conditions among the unions and the traitorous acts of the international offi- cials to begin the organization of a company or employer-con- trolled “Amalgamated” union of plumbers—the first in the build- ing trades in the city. It is not yet ‘too late to repair the damage done by this series of blunders and betrayals—t.e plumbers’ helpers being neglected by the plumbers, who in turn are being betrayed by both their international officials and the building trades council. If the strikers will close their ranks and start .a determined drive to enlist the support of the rest of the building trades, even over the heads of the Building Trades Council, they still can save their unions and win their demands, Another Paid Liar of the New York Times, That notorious hag of the journalistic red-light district, the New York Times, maintains the world’s greatest staff of paid liars whose duty it is to malign and villify every effort of labor throughout the world to strike from its body the chains of cap- italism. Two of them are noteworthy. In China they have Fred- erick Moore who concocts mendacious tales against the national liberation movement. In London they have Ernest Marshall, who acts as press agent and editorial writer for the Baldwin govern- ment of forgery. This worthy, writing what purports to be a news story abut British reaction to the executions in Moscow of. the paid spies of London banking houses, indulges in editorial fury against the Soviet Union. This pen prostitute calls the leaders of the Soviet Union “the Moscow murderers,” and adds that their “extermination is a neces- sity for the well-being of the rest of the community.” From the safety of his London room, Marshal! and his ilk can hurl maledictions against the revolution in Russia, but let them dare try to turn their words into action and they will find not only | an invincible Red Army to smash any force his masters can hurl) against the revolution, but thousands upon thousands of class- conscious and revolutionary workers in the capitalist countries who will do all in their power to cripple any army sent against the Soviet Union, committee, headed by S. T. Ham-| 9” official of the Dublin cabinet re- \mersmark, Chicago representative of | cently. stated that should England en- The DAILY WORKER has issued a| &48¢ in war with a foreign power |eall for a conference to be held at|the Free State would be morally ob- | the Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch | ligated to lend her assistance. It is | Boulevard, on Friday, June 17th. A not at all unlikely that this state- | mid-summer subscription campaign) ™ent may contribute as much as any jis to be launched and all Party units 'and supporting’ and sympathetic or- | ganizations. are to be busy obtaining | subscriptions between ‘now and July 15th, when the drive will end. At the meeting reports will be | made by Comrade Arne Swabect:, and the delegates including representa- tives of the foreign language press. On July 2nd, a special Chicago edi- will be issued for wide distribution. This activity is by way of reply to the attacks on The DAILY WORKER by the courts and other reactionary forces. ‘Large Audience at Reading of Poems of the Revolution $262.21 was realized from Poets’ Nite,” held for the henefit of The DAILY WORKER, it is an- nounced, This affair was arranged by Nucleus F-4, sub-section 1-B, Workers (Communist) Party. A group of the most prominent of the radical poets participated in the unique event held at the Labor tion to be edited by Thurber Lewis} “Red | other single factor to the defeat of the Government. ‘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 had 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. | Twant to become a member of the | Workers (Communist) Party. Name | Address Aetna nee ene eeereeeeeenees |Occupation .. | Union Affiliation...........sssseee | Mail this application to the Work- |ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New Workers Party, 1118 W. Washington Blv., Chicago, Ill. phlet, “The Workers’ (Communist) Party, What it Stands For and Why Workers Should Join.” ‘This Ruthen- | York City; or if in other city to! Distribute the Ruthenberg pam-, JILD Thea., W, 52 St. Bvs, 8:80 GUL Mats. Thu’ & Sa Ned M’Cobb’s Daughter JohnG Th.58,E.ofBwy.|Circle Goldene pare ser 5678 Next Week: Silver Cord Little Theatre GRAND y. of B'way. + a0 STREET AND SATURDAY, 2:30. FOLLIES d T SYD 1% THE MISSING LINK moss COLONY Brower an. Contin. Noon to Mignight—Pop. Prices The LADDER Now in its 7th MONTH CORT, th § CHAPLIN , Hast of B'way. ' MAT Ww DAY —==Screen Notes! Lew Cody and aileen . Pringle, | Metro’s new co-starring team, who | have just completed work in “Adam and Evil,” will next appear in “Be Your Age,” an original story by Neher < and Fanny Hatton. Greta Garbo will play the chief role in “The. Divine Woman,” an _ adaptation of Gladys Unger’s story, | “Starlight.” Victor Seastrom, who | has just fimished directing Lillian | Gish’s new vehicle, “The Wind,” will | be at the megaphone. John McCarthy will direct the Cosmopolitan production, “Lovelorn,” | based on a story by Beatrice Fairfax. | Renee Adoree, the heroine of “The Big Parade,” will have the title role of “Rose Marie,” in the adaptation of the musical play which was seen on Broadway two seasons back. William Nigh, who directed Lon Chaney's “Mr. Wu,” is in charge of the produc- tion. 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, 33 East First | Street, New York City, or to the Temple. The program presented was | berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- | National Office, Workers Party. 1112 the first of its kind held, revolution- !W. Washington Blvd., Chicage, 1. phlet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. ary poetry being read in many lan-) guages, including English, Yiddish, | Russian, Chinese, Hungariag, and | Japanese. Moissaye J. Olgin, editor of .“The | Hammer,” Yiddish Communist month- | ly, presided. | Among the poets represented were | Michael Gold, who read “An Ameri- | can Funeral”; Abraham Raisin, fam- ous Yiddish poet; H. Laiveck; author | of “Shop” and “The Golom”; Adolf | Wolff, Joseph Freeman, A. B. Magil,| Mani Leib, Max Stengel, Louis Egri, Hungarian poet and author of “Rap-; id Transit”; Siego Ogino, Simon Fel- | Lars be vepa eae shin, Ho Su-shing and Eli Siegel eee : resets pamphlet) The committee in active charge con- sisted of A. Finkelberg, Rose Baron, | S. Shipman, A. Wolff, M. Woll and J. Nekon. What the Daily Worker Means to the Workers More Encouraging Contributions to Our Emergency Fund. _ Canton, Ohio Pledges $90 At a hastily called meeting of DAILY WORKER readers held in Canton, Ohio, $90 was pledged, $37 immediately being given to Comrade Gari in cash. The balance will be forwarded soon to the Daily. By Wm. Z. Foster EMPIRE SOCIALISM By R. 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