The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 23, 1927, Page 4

{ _ under most miserable conditions is to call a strike at once. _ a'Strike officially called by the Amalgamated, which is affiliated _ b@#epudiated by those members of the Amalgamated in this city Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 2:4 $7 THE DAILY WORKER Published by tue DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Daily, Except Sunday 6S First Street, New York, N. Y. | Phone, Orchard 1680 | Cable Addrezs: “Datwork” 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 morths Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE \ seeee re Editors MEINE PATRAS vip chi hop cn cn geese business Manager ER SUSE ace eR LNA ENON Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. Advertising rates on application, | ce | a sadt Greater and More Effective Efforts to Free Sacco and Vanzetti. Rumors of a reprieve for Sacco and Vanzetti and the presen-| tation of a petition whose huge number of signatures tends to be discounted by the fact that it asks only for a public investigation | of the case, must not be allowed to slow down the agitation for the release of these two innocent workers whose sufferings have become a symbol of the persecution of their class. should require nothing more than the fact that in the face} of the gigantie international popular protest and the widespread | conviction that Sacco and Vanzetti are guiltless of the charge of | which they were convicted, based on the mass of evidence show- ing the methods of this monstrous frame-up, Sacco and Vanzetti are still facing the electric chair. Nothing has as yet moved the Massachusetts authorities to the point where they are even willing to assure the condemned men that they will not be murdered. Nothing will move Massachusetts officialdom except a con- tinuation and an extension of demonstrations showing the deter- mination of the masses that Sacco and Vanzetti shall not only not die but shall be given their libesty. Humanitarians and other well-meaning groups are easily de- luded by the impartial pretensions of capitalists and their spokes- men who have murder in their hearts. July 10 approaches and no guarantees for the safety of Sacco and Vanzetti have been given. | It is clear that more decisive measures are necessary on the} part of the working class. There must be an end to the danger- | ous tender ,v to regard the issue as settled bec2i # :o many “promineni people have said kind words for Sacco a..u Vanzetti. Now more than ever it is clear that only the working class | can save their lives and force freedom for them. This does not mean that the efforts of other sections of the population are with- out effect but the base of the whole protest, and its driving force, comes from the workers and their organizations. With this fundamental] rule in mind there can be no cessation of the campaign to free Sacco and Vanzetti. Whatever form the protest movements take, be they partial strikes, mass meetings | and demonstrations, they can be made effective only if we never | forget that we, American workers, can free our comrades and that we must free them if we are not to be the laughing stock of our enemies, and that if Sacco and Vanzetti are not freed there will) beséther victims seized from our ranks to make a bloody celebra- Lid of the victory of American capitalist justice. 3 cc ~ Traction Workers Should Demand Action. * The ruling class of this country, accustomed to labor leaders grovelling before them, is sometimes astonished at their shame- lesB servility. Mr. Samuel Untermyer, conducting hearings be- foré the state transit commission in an effort to break the Dahl- Chadbourne control of the Interborough and turn it over to the control of the House of Morgan, received an unexpected visit from three alleged labor leaders, Hugh Frayne, general organizer of the American Federation of Labor, and Patrick J. Shea and James H, Coleman, officials of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees. He expressed surprise at the visit and the assurances given him by the self-appointed delega- tion that there was no foundation for rumors of an impending stfike on either the Interborough or the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit. It was too much even for Untermeyer. * The day before the visit to Untermyer these worthies, who profess to speak for labor, held a conference with Tammany ap- pointees of the state department of labor and issued statements to the effect that no strike is contemplated. Untermyer, in the course of his investigations, brought out the fact that the company union maintained by the Interborough isa plain fraud and that discrimination is practiced against or- ganized labor. Whether he approves of it or not, the investiga- tion paved the way for intensive organizational activities among the traction slaves. The most effective way to organize the work- ers who have suffered from a series of wage cuts and who work Such | thes the A. F. of L., would meet with almost unanimous approval and support on the part of the population. To fail to act now is to into the hands of the traction magnates and give a new lease fe to the company union. The contemptible action of Frayne, Shea and Coleman should! a stern demand should be made for instant action. i By their servile crawling before the state labor officials and e Untermyer these “leaders of labor” have proved that they int to persuade the traction magnates that they can be depended to use their power to hold the men in subjection the same e company union. In other words it is an offer to relieve the gement of the necessity of maintaining such a union by play- he familiar role of labor lieutenants of capitalism. +> The workers on the traction systems should join the Amal- ited now, as its officials are pretending to be conducting an ‘izational campaign, and should then force the officials to act ist the company union and to obtain living wages, shorter and decent working conditions. Jimmy Walker Decorated by Fascia Agent. Tammany’s male Broadway butterfly mayor, Jimmy Walker, ved from Mussolini’s ambassador to the United States, de Martino, the decoration of the order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, the most exalted within the power of the black- government of murder and terror to bestow upon any fe This is the same Walker who last year refused to take action police terror in the traction strike, whose chief of police most frightful brutalities against the striking furriers, / AS GENEVA WOULD HAVE IT CHORUS OF CAPITALISTS:—If we can only get along only enough expensive guns to shoot discontented workers. Organizational Problems By ARNE CHAPTER VII Members of a Communist Party should be equipped for leadership in the class struggle. They must mot only understand its theoretical basis, but. also. possess the necessary knowl- edge of practical application of party | policies and tactics. Our regular par- ty training should, therefore, embrace the largest possible numbers and par- ticularly be taken up in the nuclei so that education becomes available for all members. Self-education can be practiced ef- fectively in the nuclei. Shop talks at regular intervals by comrades selected for the purpose would be a good be- ginning. Such shop talks should be approximately 15 or 20 minutes and take up events in the shop, in ques- tion, the conditions of the workers there, the methods of propaganda and activities pursued by our comrades. These talks could also be made on the experience of comrades thru their ac- tivities in trade unions or other work- | ing class organizations; the position of the organization in question, its struggles, and the methods and tac- ties of the left wing. Talks on ac- tivities in election campaigns, the re- actions of workers and their organ- izations to our candidates or labor candidates. Illustrations of the gen- eral method and technique of election campaigns would not only prove high-| ly instructive, but generally aid in throwing our party units much more} into parliamentary election activities. | Discussion on such talks. should, of} course, be conducted mainly with a view to further elaborate on the sub-| ject, to bring out any weak points in our methods and tactics and to get| our members more interested and more active and more fit for party work, | A further effective method of self-|¢¥eT is not a mere course of lectures, | education by the nuclei is c9'lective| (im and} reading from books on Marx Leninism, While every member should) himself read the specific chapter as- | signed before the meeting, one mem- ber should be selected to lead the dis- cussion and every one be urged to participate. press, or on important party state- ments, setting forth its policy on a certain event or situation, should be conducted in the same manner. To make party training real, it is of the greatest necessity that any systematic educational activities be~ linked as closely as possible with the everyday work of the members. Party literature should, of course, always be at hand and books. or pamphlets containing educational ma- terial or lessons ‘of certain events should be réad by all members in ad- dition to their regular large scale dis- tribution of party propaganda litera- ture. Wherever possible, the organization of non-party study groups is, of course, very desirable and in general either of the methods outlined before can be applied. Moreover, our com- vades should definitely strive towards establishing contact with sympathetic workers in their shops or organiza- tions to which they belong and en- deavor to draw them into such groups not only for the purpose of study, but for general support of party activi- Discussions on general! political events, based on the party} Means to the Workers SWABECK. s More Encouraging Contributions : to Ou? Emergency Fund. workers the events during the last| strike of a union or of a shop, the issues in the last elections or similar Es avis »jeets based on the party press and |" GS yakd etree se m. party .statements in regard to them|<: »'29} Chicago, ml. will bring such workers closer to the M. Beigel; N. Y. Cc. ah party and help ¢larify their under-|J- Rushton; Detroit, Mich standing. |J. J. Cook; Dallas, Texas. In cities where possible, it is taken n: Dn chee Be is, M m for granted that party schools will) yy A ie ia ae R ao > he Re be established giving the various) ¢”.“y Sate oo ee. ee grades of classes, the more elemen- | °°: PRP he ug Peet i ames tary and the more advanced. It a ge oA Ph Con eat ys |G. Ecke; Rye rs however, important that such axpeaye Works Clevelada (0: not be merely isolated educational ac- 7 xi 4 aS tivities, but become an integral part! South Slavic Fr, WE; Weat Allis, -1,00 1.00 1.00 5.00 2.00 1.00 of our general patty training so that| Wise. +... se eee eeeeeee eee 15.00 from the courses conducted in the|Local WP; Hartford, Conn. 15.00 | nuclei, the members, preferably on a|C. A. Brown; Alma, Calif...... 1.00 selected basis, pass on to bigger tasks,|E. L. Bonas; Kansas City, Mo. .1.00 to the training in the party school.|I. Chilman; Bklyn, N. Y...... 2.00 This should not mean that there be}D. Schlossberg, Sec. 1, 2, 3; any limitations upon the school. The! Cleveland, @ more comrades who can go thru an|N. fSloyonoff; Fort Wayne, Ind..1.00 intensive training, the better. Nor|A. and R. Goetz; Detroit, Mich. .2.00 should there be any limitations ‘of| W. P. Suckut; Chicago, Ill..... 1.00 party membership, but non-party|/J. K. Chaplik; Berkeley, Calif workers should be particularly wel-} (collected) . 17.00 comed. In certain cases, non-party/ Lithuanian Sec. Club of Phila; instructors may also help to broaden Bilia:. Pas the scope of the school. et Hegner; Irvington, N. An elementary educational course," Benson; Chicago, ill conducted in the party units has al-!¢ Jureie; Whiting, I ready proven of great value. It canit Johnson “The Vola be organized in every city. The Buffalo, N. Y broad outline of the course, commen-} pas surate with the needs of elementary | ©: education for a Communist Party! 5" membership, should be worked out by/%: 8 % the Agitprop Committee and the best | F- Hagerstrom; Enfield, Minn. .3.00 fitted comrades selected, to first re-| &- Néibrief; Bklyn, se aes ceive a short course of training in the | Schwartz; N. Y. C.. subject themselves and then make the|J- Kertz; N. Y. C.. round of the nuclei. There the les-) Working Men’s Singing Society, _ sons should be conducted serially on, Comr. Pilat; N. Y. C...... 35.00 the basis of the class method. Dr. E. Hillinger; S. Chicago... .1.00 The most effective method, how-|D. Schackwan, A. Schackman, R. Kapetansky; Detroit... .3.00 but rather a series of questions, well /M, Miroff, St. N-26; Chicago,..15.00 prepared by the comrades functioning} Lith. W. Womens A. of A., N. Y..5.00 J. B. Kouzanidas, N. Y......- *. 5.00 These questions J, B. Kouzanidas, (Bond), N. Y. 25.00 |should be addressed to the nuclei|Bronx Women’s Council, N. Y...20.00 |members for them to answer with a} Scandinavian Fraction, N. Y. final summary by the teacher. |D. Axelrso, N. Y... PASS SEK Schwartzberg, N | Wm. Beck, N. Y... Bishop Brown, N. Y. Elkrewitz, N.Y... Women’s Council No. 1. Lampros; Chicago ¢(col.)....3.! Sakanovich; Barberton, O....1.00 |as teachers, and following the out- |line of the course. PHILADELPHIA, June 22. — A “Hands Off China” protest meeting | will be held tomorrow night by the West Philadelphia Workers’ Club at |the Progressive Library, 4035 Girard |S. Rosenham, N. Y. Ave. G. Maynard, N. Y. P. T. Lau will discuss the present |B. Meyers, N. Y. situation in China, and the policies of | Bertha B., N. Y. the Kuomintang. Questions and dis-'|L, E. Katerfield, N. Y. cussion will follow the meeting. \J. Grolsten, N. 10.00 "3,00 8.80 \ | White’s Scandals,” |C. R. Hedlund; Minne., Minn. ...1.00| “10.00 | : July. 0 Leather Goods Workers, N. Y. CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD, the musical version of “Just Sup- pose,” to be produced early in the | season by Joseph Santley. The little Hastings twins, Barbave| and Ardele, recently seen in “George and big sister | Patty are preparing for a vaudeville} | tour in a comedy playlet now in pre- | paration, Uaying discontinued the Saturday matinee, the “Grand Street Follies” at the Little Theatre has introduced at its Tuesday and Thursday matinees a special range of prices, from two dollars for the best seats to one dol-| lar. The Neighborhood Playhouse | group seems to be on the right path.| Every evening has its usual quota) of standees. James LaPenna’s new musical Headlines biog the Palace pRogrars | play “Ritzie” will open a preliminary | this week, appearing in ‘Why Gentle- | tour in Long Branch next Monday. | 1°? Reey't pepeee a new comedy | Ashbury Park and Atlantic City will | St DY Anéy Bice. | follow, with the production coming to, | Broadway shortly after. The cast in-! : j.eludes: Ann Milburn, Leo Donelly, | James B. Carson, Rosalie Claire, | | Jack Squires, James Barrett, Ma | Daly, Frank Leslie, Maxine Carson | | and Jimmy Lytell’s Orchestra. Hugh| | Stanislaus Stange wrote the book, | | with the music by J. Fred Coots and} |'the lyrics by Al Dubin. | : | The SILVER CORD [ Screen Notes—=| 1 2ehe Golden ys thuréeat| 6678 : The LADDER Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt, the well! known cantor will make his first ap- | pearance in the movies with Al Jol- | son in “The Jazz Singer,” which will THEATRE GUILD ACTING CO—| [The SECOND MAN e-4 gr ‘Thea., W. 52 St. Evs. 8:30 GUILD Mats. Thurs. & Sat., 2:30 | Now in its 7th MONTH | CORT, 48th St., East of B'way. MATINEE WEDNESDAY be done with Vitaph i-| Little Theatre ND athe Ke ee {are ‘W. of Bway. beac gs at 8 STREET MAT 1 Rudolph Schildkraut’s next produc- + 2:30 FOLLIES | tion will be “A Harp in H He will begin work in it under the direc- ion of Renaud Hoffman at the De Mille-Metropolitan studio early in ” 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 staunchest fighter. This loss can only be overcome by many militant work. ers joining the Party that he built. |S. Yachymetz, N. Y. |M. Zalarsky, N. Y.. | Martha Vanansdalt, N. > 26 + 2.00 2.00 |S. Palliman, N. Y...... ~ Polish Branch I. L. D. 48, N. Y.. .5.00 M. Hoffman, N. Y.... --26.30| Fil) out the application below and | Anna Halperin, N. Y. -1.00| mail it. Become a member of the \J. Maynard, N. 1.00) Workers (Communist) Party and | Trefenberg, N. carry forward the work of Comrade |Conrad Ex., N. Y..... -++1.00| Ruthenberg. Int. Br. W. P., Stamford, Conn..100.00/ | want to become a member of the L. Tenanfaum, Coney Island... .2.00' workers (Communist) Party. A. Wilinsky, N.Y...... 2.0058 -5.00 Workers, Crotona Dress Shop,...8.00| N@M@ +ssecseesererseesseceseeees Isidor Moskowitz, N. Y.. 1.00 Aad H. Wood, N.Y... “1.00 TOBE fee ceeccecccccccccccesees, Rinchuck, N. Y... - 7.00 Women’s Council No. 12, N. ¥.. .10.00 Occupation .....ccccccccesesevcces wooo 1.00 | Ben Gordon, N. Y... -1.00 Morten, N. Y.... Theodor Masian, N. Y. |J. Greitzer, N. Y...... P. Golpfent, N. Y... B. Axelroad, N. Y. H. Leff, N.' Y..... Jack Rothstein, N. Y. Group of Barbers, N. Y. Barbers’ Local 913, N. Y, S. Rosenbloom, N. Y. S. Zinnack, N. Y.. Paul Chused, N. Y. Anna Shalon, N. Y.. H. Fox, Elizabeth, N. Y. P. Kutt, N. Y:. +. 1.50 2 Vet., Soc. Relie: .» Katekail 4.00 Miss Halperin, N. Y... 4 E. Zuckerman, N. Y. Harrison, N. Y.. Com. Spiro, N. Y. Aron J, Bursky, N. 8. H. B., N. Y.. Women’s Council No. Fanny Magolis, N. Y. Horowitz, N.. Y..,...... Union Affiliation.....2...sseseeees 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 Blv., Chicago, Ill. Distribute the Ruthenberg pam- phiet, “The Workers’ (Communist) Party, What it Stands For and Why’ | Workers Should Join.” This Ruthen- berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- phlet 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, +3.00, Nuclei outside of the New York -5.00/ District write to The DAILY WORK- -2.00/ ER publishing Co., 33 East First -2.00| Street, New York City, or to the 2.00} National Office, Workers Party, 1113 -1,00| W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ml. 6.00 :1.00; Walters Y. Pincus, N. Y. -1.00 | Steve Zimmerman, N. Y. -1,00| Anna Shalit, N. Y.. -1,00| A. Rosenblatt, N +1.00}8. Angel, N.Y. ++1,00 |Local Union 901 H. Rantor, N. Y.... Wilinsky, N. | Goffer, N. | A. Lubin, N. Y. | Bella Glick, N. Y.,.. a>) its. CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) driven them from the pages of the capitalist press? Even Lindbergh had his day and our murderers and rapists are having a chance to break jinto the news again. Those things jare important and it is not our pur- |pose to deprive the christian inhabi- | tants of this christiat nation of their ; mental fodder, But the Soviet Union covers one sixth of the earth’s sur- face and a few dozen revolts in the Workers Republic should be deserv- ing of consideration. Is it possible that the capitalist papers were not ties. Naturally discussing with such telling us the truth? but who remains the darling of the Tammany dominated Central Trades and Labor Council officials. The New York labor bureaucracy professes to oppose fascism in Italy, but it is certain that they will refrain from adverse com- ment upon Tammany’s musical comedy mayor accepting the deco- ration, which would be rejected as an insult by any person who professes to uphold the traditions upon which this.country is sup- posed to be founded, We cannot expect one agency of Tammany to assail one of its bright and shining stars and consistency is out of place on the part of those alleged labor leaders, who play the filthy game of capitalist politics in an effort to prevent labor acting on the political field in ita own interests through a labor party, F Aristide Briand, French foreign | minister quits his post ‘and if Ben! Turpin gets his trick orb straightened out or gets involved in a domestic! scandal, the Frenchman should be} able to make a good and honest liv- ing with his diplomatic eye. When-| ever Briand gets into a diplomatic) jam at league meetings, he hangs a sheet over his left optic, and make: a bee line for Paris. No sooner does! he hit his office than he recovers, | and the eye return#to normaley. An’ eye like that ie worth a fertune to a} diplorhat. What would it not be worth to a Hollywood director? | . . * | A’ the recent session of the league council in Geneva, France was dickering with England over the terms of an anti-Soviet alliance. England is always willing to make concessions at the expense of others. She wanted Germany in the alliance, but had nothing to give in exchange except something that France had. Briand, it appears, was willing to go thru with the deal, but Poincare was not. So, in all probability, Briand was advised to take down his trick eye, polish it up and hang a flag on it, He did this and went home, Now we learn that Briand and Poincare are liable to break, but there is not a word paaut the eve, , FOR THE by Frederick Engels AT PPECIAL PRICED — Workers’ Library SCIENCE AND SOCIALISM by Robert Rives Lamonte SOCIALISM, UTOPIAN AND SCIENTIFIC —.10 —.25 ] } —— : BOLSHEVISM—Some Questions Answered by I. Stalin —.25 These three booklets will make a splendid addition to a worker's library. If you don't own them, take advantage of this offer of 60 cents worth of books for 50 CENTS offeréd in this column on hand NOTE: Bootatted quantities, All orders cash je and filled in turn as received,