The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 24, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 2» THE DAILY WORKER | Published by tae DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. | | ' Daily, Except Sunday | 8S Firet Street, New York, N. Y. Phones, Orchard 1680 Cable Addrezs 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 £2.50 thre: months $2.00 three months $$$ $$ $$ | Address ali mail and make out enecks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y, oS eth aaeore ce eM TS CoA kt SRE Bees LL ES, J. LOUIS ENGDAHL “Daitvork” \ WILLIAM F. DUNNE (ccetttttesrtssttess Editors BERT MILLER... 2... es ecevesees business Manager ED Entered as second-class mai! at the post-office at New York, N. Y¥., undev the act of March 8, 1879. hse Siberia oaeeceeannne P-., Advertising rates on applicadon aaeaenemnansnanieneessennet* Lackeys to Their Masters, the Bourgeoisie. Following the policy laid down by the Baldwin-Chamberlain- Hicks tory government of forgery, provocation and murder, the General Council of the British Trades Union Congress echoes the | Daily Mail and other reactionary organs by denouncing the Soviet | Union for its execution of conspirators against the lives of the leaders of the revolution. This council of the great betrayal, that came to the rescue of the tory government during the great general strike, just at the time it bid fair to develop into a political struggle against the state power, is so utterly debased, so devoid of even the slightest independence of view, that its resolution against the Soviet Union is taken word for word from the scurrilous mendacity of the tory politicians and press. The General Council states that it “pro- tests against the policy avowedly adopted by the Soviet govern- ment of persons innocent of the murder of Voikoff in reprisal for that murder.” Concluding it observes: “To meet murder by mur-| der is a policy which degrades the standards of civilized lite and} which can be productive of nothing but harm to Soviet Russia.” These miserable poltroons, and servants to his majesty’s gov- ernment, are indeed gravely concerned about harming the Soviet Union, as their actions show. But they have to cover their crimes against the workers’ and peasants’ government by hypocritically professing to give friendly advice to the Soviet Union, while strik- ing with the venom of rattlesnakes. A group of so-called labor leaders that are so debased that they place in the same category with the defenders of the proletarian revolution in Russia the foul ezarist agent of British toryism and Pilsudski fascism who mur- dered Voikoff is capable of any crime against labor. Only agent provocateurs for the mad-dog of British imperialism would resort to such deliberate falsification. The executions were carried out against the terrorist hire- lings of Britain, because they conspired to repeat on Soviet soil the murderous assaults their masters paid other scoundrels to perpetrate against the Soviet diplomats in capitalist countries. The dishonesty of the general council is still further emphasized by the fact that while they condemned the Soviet Union for de- fending itself against the hired assassins of British imperialism they said not one word in condemnation of the tories for inciting the murder of Voikoff. But no one can expect this general council that has doyally and persistently aided the tories in the fight against the workers | of Britain to defend the workers’ government in Russia. Their! joining in the anvil chorus against the revolution is also for the! ‘ purpose of assuring their capitalist masters that in case the gov- ernment attempts a war against the Soviet Union it will have their support, just as it had their support in the world war. In its fight against British imperialism and the tory govern- ment that has delivered crushing blows against it, the working class of Britain must drive from the labor movement the Thomases, the Clines, the MacDonalds and their ilk. They should} be repudiated now so that they cannot be in position to play the} parts of murderers of the working class when the masters in their final extremity can find no other lackeys to defend the citadels of capitalism. The Law in Its Impartial Majesty— United States Attorney General John S. Sargent, successor to the odoriferous swindler, grafter and political crook, Harry M. Daugherty, delivered a speech before the Pennsylvania bar association at Bedford in that state yesterday wherein he pro- claimed his conviction that jeers at legislation and law are a national peril. According to his expressed beliefs the law should . be strictly enforced, and those disrespectful “writers, publishers, soap-box orators,” who sneer at it should be sternly dealt with. Like all of his class Mr. Sargent favors law enforcement in the abstract; but concretely he enforces it against only those whom it is designed to hold in subjection—the workers. Certainly he cannot expect intelligent workers to have any| respect fr a government or a code of laws that permit the Daugh- ertys, the Denbys, the Falls, the Roosevelts and others of the Teapot Dome eminences, to remain at liberty, while innocent vic- tims of capitalist vengeance like Sacco and Vanzetti, Tom Mooney, Warren K. Billings and hundreds of other workers rot in the foul prisons of this country. Illustrations by the thousands are available to prove that the so-called impartial majesty of the law is an »~pty jest, fit only to be despised by all intelligent workers. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS | A Positive Way to Build Our Party. * The members of our unit, Four F, Section 1, have launched a campaign of industrial activity. The plan is a/ ag one. It will merely require! doing of some systematic work, especially on the part of the urion members in our unit. The inauguration of this activity will be proposed by party members, who will present their nanes to the Trial Subscription Comm'w-« elected by the unit. The members. who receive trial subscriptions for their “prospects” | must strive to achieve two main re- sults: First, the enrollment of the) prospect as a regular subscriber to liminate a hitherto serious problem! The DAILY, Second the. bringing confronted our unit and which! into the party of the new DAILY} yow probably exists in other units.) WORKER reader. low to carry on Communist activity! The party member who is respon- in reactionary unions and on the; sible for the ‘starting of the paper| job? This is low we decided to! must “work” on the new reader and “carry on!” We elected a special] report on the progress that is being made, to the industrial meeting of the unit, The unit will then be able to plan out, if necessary, the strategy to be employed in the winning over of the potential convert. ILY WORKER committee to} wotiate with Comrade Bert Miller} for the purchase of a hundred dol- worth of subscriptions to The ILY WORKER. The subscrip- THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM By WILLIAM F. DUNNE, NCE more the Lewis leadership of the United Mine Workers has shown that it has no policy except) that of surrender. In the third month of the strike there is still no sign even 6f preparation for an organization drive while the most recent news is that in Ilinois, the largest district of | ies. the union, the union officials have of-} fered to agree to substantial changes in the working rules provided the $7.50 per day scale is nominally con- tinued. . * * N other words the officials have al- ready agreed, without undertaking | serious organization” work in such fields as West Virginia, where non- union miners produce 40 ‘per cent of | the total national bituminous tonnage to what amounts to an actual reduc-| tion of wages and a worsening of working conditions. It is proposed that the miners do more work for the) same money and under provisions} that disregard. rulings secured by} union pressure over a long period of | New Retreats by United Mine Workers Officialdom Concessions to the Coal Barons—The Herrin Battle Again— Need For Greatest Vigilance and Activity of Militant Miners RIEFLY, recent developments are conclusive proof that the coal ba- rons are working deliberately for the destruction of the most important union in the American labor move- ment in those fields where it has either a strong foothold or is dom- inant, and to prevent any extension of its influence to non-union territor- To such a program the suspension of work in union ‘fields is not an effective reply and this too has al- ready been shown. The offer of con- cessions to the coal barons by the union officialdom is proof that the union leadership recognizes this fact. But it does not act on its knowl- edge. Its policy means death to the United Mine Workers of America and a crushing blow to the whole la- bor movement. * * HE only elements in the union which have a clear idea of the seriousness of the crisis and the steps which must be taken to overcome it are the Communists and left wing. In addition there are immense masses of the membership which sense the asad | danger and feel that the present of- . |ficialdom is leading them straight to ECONDLY, the Illinois proposal is) gisaster. new evidence showing that district! That the officialdom is fearful agreements are to be substituted for) that it may be called to account and one national agreement—a major|has interpreted the signs of revolt principle for which the United Mine) jn the Peoria convention exclusively * * * Workers has contended for years and the securing of which brought the union to the peak of its strength. The coal baronsare active. only is production being stimulated in big non-union’ fieldg like West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky, but at frequent intervals there are} statements that former union mines are starting operations on a non- union basis. In the Western Pennsyl- vania and Ohio fields this is to be noted particularly, The reports of sums spent for coal and iron police | coming from various sources shows a substantial increase which is in di- rect proportion to the strike-break- ing activities of the coal barons. * * * Fe from attempting to arouse the rank and file of the whion to the seriousness of the situation and raise the morale of the membership in conjunction with the advocacy of a militant program, the official lead- ership of the union seems to. play down the necessity for struggle de- liberately. There is as yet no organ- ized campaign for strike relief nor any evidence of intention to do any- thing but wait from time to time to offer concessions to the coal barons, * * * Fc is important to note that Illinois coal barons have rejected the of- fer of the union officialdom and con- tinue to insist on a formal reduction of the wage scale. In addition to the desire for the larger profits which this would bring there is another mo- tive actuating the coal barons in their insistence upon an actual reduction. |membership to struggle and make Not} as a danger to its rule rather than as a guarantee of the will of the tremendous sacrifices in order to de- feat the operators and save the union, is, evident from the stoolpigeon at- tack on the Communist members of the union by Ellis Searles at a con- vention of babbitts in the klan-ridden state of Indiana on June 21. * * * EARLES, editor of the United Mire Workers Journal, has become a sort of weather-cock who, when he comes to rest after a period of rapid swiveling, rarely fails to point to some new atrocity which officialdom is about to inflict upon the member- ship. In 1928 Searles handled an “ex- posure” of Communists and Commun- ism, which was syndicated to the cap- italist and official labor press- and which was followed first by a cam- paign of persecutions and expulsions directed against the most loyal mem- bers of the union and later by the in- famous “jzentlemen’s agreement” in connection with the Jacksonville con- tract to drive 200,000 miners out of the industry. * * THIS was the beginning of the real decadence of the United Mine Workers which had been forecast by the expulsion of Alex Howat and his associates while in jail for resisting the union-smashing Kansas Industrial Court law. , 5 Now, with the union forced to strike by the refusal of the coal ba- rons to consider anything but a re- tions were for one month and cost 75 cents a piece. The unit therefore Yeceived 134 monthly subscriptions Which it will use up in from three to} The members of Unit Four F mean business. They have assessed themselves five dollars each, to be paid in weekly installments, for the duction of wages, and after there have been offers of district agree- ments and the abrogation of favor- able working conditions by the union officialdom all of which have been The coal barons know that any reduction of the Jacksonville scale will do two things: One, seriously lower the morale of fulfillment of this work, They in- The subscriptions will be distrib-| vite other units to follow ‘their ex- uted free of charge to sympathizers! ample. Who is next?—C. K, Miller, six months. the union membership and two, make it'very difficult for the union to offer\ sufficient inducements to and “promising” shop workers. Can-| Chairman Trial Subscription Com- didates for a trial subscription will mittee, Unit Four F, Section One. the minera in the non-union fields to union. refused by the cocksure coal barons as a basis for settlement because they hope for still better (terms) Ellis Searles once more plays the role of police informer and tries to arouse public sentiment against the one sec- tion of the membership which has made not one single mistake in esti- mating the extent of the bankruptcy of officialdom—the Communist min- ers. * EARLES resurrects the hoary lie that Communists were responsible for the armed struggle with gunmen and strikebreakers which took place at the Lester Strip mine near Herrin during the strike of 1922 in which the company tools were defeated. He says: “During the miners’ strike of 1922 nineteen paid Communist organizers were sent from Communist headquar- ters in Chicago to Herrin, Il, and these nineteen paid plotters, aided by sixty-seven Communists who lived in Herrin, fomented and were responsible for the Herrin massacre in which more than a score of men were killed. It was all a part of the Communist plot to seize the United Mine Workers’ strike and convert it into the beginning of an armed revo- lution against the government.” . EFORE we draw a conclusion or two from the fact that such accu- sations are,/made at this time, a few other things need to be said, In the * * * * first place, the headquarters of the} Communist Party were not in Chi- cago in 1922 but were in New York. This is however a minor error. But it is sufficient to show the utterly unprincipled character of the Searles’ statement to recall that the Herrin battle was started by the shooting of a union miner by an imported gun- man who fired from behind the barri- cade surrounding the Lester Strip mine. It is also pather bad for Ellis Searles that all the union miners ac- cused of taking part in the battle were vequitted by a jury in spite of the fact that the Illinois Chamber of Commerce raised a minimum of $50,- 000 to prosecute them. ‘ * * r is also interesting to note that John L, Lewis, in a written state- ment, accused Frank Farrington, then president of the Illinois district, of receiving $190,000 to allow the Lester mine to operate during the strike. « Farrington, deposed after having been discovered receiving $25,000 per year from the Peabody Coal Com- pany while an officer of the union, is not even mentioned by Ellis Searles in connection with the strug- gle in Herrin. Searles prefers to continue to demand the noose for miners whom a jury refused to con- viet. « | * AVING in mind the fact that at- tacks of this nature upon Com- munists have always been followed by..some new attempt to betray the workers in general,, we believe that| the militants in the union must in- crease their vigilance and intensify the efforts to initiate organization! campaigns, build up relief machin-| ery, acquaint the membership with the grave danger which the union faces and to put the whole union on a fighting basis, pg Many Novelties Slated for Stadium Concerts At least twenty-five novelties are| announced for the Stadium concerts, which will begin their tenth season | on Wednesday evening, July 6th. Ac- | cording to the preliminary programs | submitted by Willem Van Hoogstra-| ten, conductor, and Frederick A. Stock and Pierre Monteux, guest con- ductors, the following works, new to the Stadium repertoire, are to be played at the Lewisohn Stadium by the Philharmonic Orchestra this Sum- : _Alfven: Symphony No. 3; : Hymn to Apollo; Bloch: Three Jewish. Poems; Casella: Suite from “La Giara;” Converse: Flivver Ten Million; Delius: Brigg Fair; Dopper: | Gothic Chaconne; Dukas: La Peri;/ Bach-Elgar: Fantaisie and Fugue in Cy minor; Handel-Elgar: Overture in D. minor; Enesco: Rhapsody No. 2; Gershwin: Concerto in F; Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Glazounow: Ruses d’Armour; Hindemith: Concerto for Orchestra; Holst: Selections from “The. Planets;”.Liadow: Baba Yaga;| Ravel: Valses Nobles et Sentimen- tales; Reznicek: Overture, “Donna Diana; Schmitt: The Camp of! | Pompeii; Skilton: “Primeval” Suite; | | Tchaikovsky: “Thornrose” Suite; Pro-| kofieff: Suite Scythe; Gretry-Mottl:| Dance Suite. Another addition to the repertoire this season will be Mendelssohn’s| “Elijah,” swith chorus and _ soloists. | Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony will also| be performed, and there will be al special choral festival, conducted by| Dr. Stoeck.. Willem Van Hoogstra-| ten will conduct for the first three | weeks, Frederick A, Stock the fourth and fifth, Pierre Monteux the sixth, and Mr. Van Hoogstraten again for the final two weeks. ” Vincent Lawrence’s new comedy, formerly called “The Conflict,” has now been changed to “Among The Married.” The play opens in Atlan- tie City on July 11. The cast in- cludes Loyis Calhern, Warren Wil- liam, Helen Flint, Kathryn Givney, William David and Milano Tilden. “Countess Maritza” will close its run at the Shubert Theatre this Saturday night. Texas Guinan and her new show “Padlocks” will open at the same house on Monday night. “One For All,” now housed at the Princess, will be transferred on Mon- day night to Wallack’s Theatre. Beginning with next week, the matinees of “Crime,” the Shipman- Hymer melodrama at the Times Square Theatre will be discontinued. of Searles in a Ku Klux Klan strong- hold comes at a time whet further offers of surrender are made to the coal barons by the officialdom of the Illinois district. The purpose is plain. It is to shift attention from the fact that the union officialdom is not leading the union in effective struggle but is playing into the hands of the coal barons and is an attempt to throttle all opposition to this bankrupt lead- ership. All Aboard for Cleveland Picnic. _ CLEVELAND. The Workers (Communist) Party picnic on Sun- day, June 26, at Avondale Garden, 25 Kinsman Road, will be a great af- fair. Bert Wolfe, director of the Work- ers School, of New Yorly will be the speaker. There will be dgncing to the tune of a fine orchestra; there will be rac- ing and other games—and a baseball game. “Sea Rover” Arrives. PLYMOUTH, England, June 23.— Captain Thomas Drake, “Lone Sea Rover,” has arrived in port here after a 54 day voyage from Charles- ton, S. C., in an eight ton schooner. a eee Star of the merry comedy “The Road to Rome,” now in its sixth month at the Playhouse. ‘HBATRE GUILD ACTING CO—| The SECOND MAN GUILD Thea., W. 52 St. Bys. 8:30 Mats. Thurs. & Sat., 2:39 The SILVER CORD Jchn Th.58,E.ofBwy.|Circle i Goldentn riman eset | 5678 The LADDER Now in its 7th MONTH CORT, 48th St., East of B'way. MATINEE WEDNESDAY Little Theatre GRAND fveninge at e30.", STREET FOLLIES 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 | 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. 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