The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1927, Page 4

THE DAILY WORKE i Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Bxcept Sunday (s Piret® Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Addrezs: Phons, Orchard 1689 “Daiwork” SUBSCRIPTION RATES mail (in New York only); By mail (outside of New York): 0 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year 98.60 six months - $5.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out enecks to THE DAILY WORKER, 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. © J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F. DUNNE - Editors BEPT MILLER.........-.. Soe business Manager J A Eee ‘ Entered as second-class raai! at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under : the act of March 8, 1879. PAS AORND Ler E mt) - z=: Advertising rates on applicaciod. | ‘ _ LCI AOC "i The Reply to Reaction. The mass demonstration in Union Square Saturday under the _ auspices of the U nity Committee of the Furriers’ Union, attended | ‘by 15,000 enthu tic workers, gave a decisive answer to the at-} tatk of the bosses, the Woll-Frayne-McGrady Special A. F. of L. committee, the Forward and the socialist party bureaucracy and their allies—the Tammany Hall political machine—upon the strike _ of the Furriers’ Union and the right to picket. A phalanx of banners with slogans setting forth the issues @round which the struggle of the union centers and naming the @nemies of the union who have exposed themselves in the course "of the fight, raised above the sea of massed faces, shared the| bs "applause and cheering with the speakers. ; But more important than the exposure and denunciation of | "the enemies of the labor movement the huge meeting applauded, ‘was the appeal to all sections of the labor movement for support f the Furriers’ strike on vital principles of union policy, organi- zation and tactic The speakers stated and the meeting agreed with thunderous shouts that the striking furriers are now the shock troops of the! labor movement, that their defense of the right to picket is a struggle in which the whole labor movement should join. To the whole working class of the United States and espe- cially to its organized section the thousands of workers who have endured for month on month the savage attack in which their enemies have used every weapon—slander, gangsters, framed-up prosecutions which have jailed workers for strike activity, alli- ances with the bosses and police to smash the picket line, injunc- | tions, perjury—the Union Square meeting put the following questions : Will you permit officials of the American Federation of Labor to use¢heir power and prestige against the interests of a union on sirike and to attempt to secure, as did Vice-Pres- ident Matthew and Organizers Frayne and McGrady in their recent letter to the New York Central Labor Council, the services of union men and women as strikebreakers and scab- herders? Will you permit these so-called labor leaders to unite with the bosses and the police to destroy the right to picket and to send strikers to jail for picketing? It is sufficient comment on the disgrace which the Woll- McGrady-Frayne committee has brought upon the labor movement sand the sterling services it has rendered to the bosses, that 15,000 workers meet in a public square in the largest city in the United States and correctly characterize these actions as stoolpigeonism of the rankest kind, a blow at the very foundations of the labor movement and irrefutable evidence of a common front with the bosses to destroy one of the cornerstones of American trade union tactics—ceaseless struggle for the right to strike and picket. The Union Square demonstration was the first action in a eampaign which the Furriers’ Unity Committee has begun and which has as its object the exposure before the whole labor move- ment of the reactionary alliance and its destructive activities in Nihe New York needle trades. The meeting marks the opening of a new phase in the struggle of the rank and file under left wing leadership to build and main- tain honest and effective trade unions from which all boss control has been eliminated. - It will mark the revival of a rank and file offensive against stoolpigeonism in the labor movement and we are certain that with the full information relative to the monstrous methods used in the needle trades by the National Civic Federa- tion officialdom in the ranks of the labor movement at its disposal, the answer of the membership of the American labor movement will be sharp and clear—will be the answer given by the Union Square meeting; but magnified a hundredfold. The Signal for Cruiser Building. The Geneva conference has dramatized the naval program of the Coolidge administration. Its insistence upon extending the 5-5-3 rationagreed upon to cover capital ships at the Washington conference six years ago being cxtended to lighter naval craft ean mean nothing other than the prelude to the most ambitious | Program of building naval vessels ever launched. It is ridiculous to expect Britain to scrap a sufficient number of its 804,000 tons cruisers to reach the level of the 95,000 tons maintained by the nited States. Even if Britain accepted the proposals of the Amer- delegation it means that the naval power of the cruiser class ald be increased by 209,000 tons. Regardless of the outcome of Geneva the “big navy” gang win its demands. The very existence of the conference is ed with loud huzzahs by the apostles of a big navy, the ship- rs, the armor plate manufacturers, the munition manufac- _ The horde of naval officers turned out at Annapolis (all propagandists of the war-mongers and profiteers) are already iting on easy jobs in the new and bigger navy that will surely lize, The hodse and senate committees having jurisdiction naval construction are prepared to ask congress to appropri- {| minimum of $200,000,000 this coming winter to bring the power of the United States up to the British standard. e race for naval armaments is on even while the lackeys the three imperialist powers—the United States, England and apan—preparing for the coming war in the Pacific are trying to the features of Mars, the god of war, beneath pacifist t the same time this naval race is being launched we see the powers engaged in the most stupendous strides on the of aviation. This is supplemented by chemists frantically ng to concoct more deadly poisonous gases, liquid fires and destructive agencies, the use of which will devastate not armed forces but whole populations. No thinking person can view the present world situation it perceiving the malignant designs upon the lives of mil- ‘of the working class. The by the most cc ion fee the next worl IE DAILY WORKER By T. LOAF, | HE first report of the Strese- | man speech which we saw after | writing this article is but a,sum- | mary of his previous Jtterances. We shall return to it when Mr, Stresemann will give explanations to the expected interpellations of the Communists and the National- ists. While it is true that the latter cannot, because of their own poli- tical compromises with the “West- ern orientation,” seriously endang- er his position, it is equally true that they will not let pass a splen- | did occasion to attack their poli- | « tical antagonist. As to the Communists they will! {surely demand better proofs of Stresemann’s loyalty to the Rapallo | and Berlin treaties with the Soviet | Union than his ‘ “‘hongrable word.” By! the way, the latest" utterance of the | | Polish Minister Zalewski, directed agttinst Germany and showing a lean- ing toward an understanding with the Soviet Union is but another proof of the absolute instability of the pres- ent world situation), T. L. * * * N Thursday, the 23rd, the German foreign minister, Stresemann was |expected to explain in the Reichstag | what had happened at the recent ses- | sion of the Council of the League of | | Nations at Geneva and at the same time to answer the “latest” aggressive | speech of Poincare, directed against | the “conciliatory policy” of the French | Foreign Minister Briand towards Ger- many. According to press informa- tion, Stresemann would raise the whole question of the Locarno treaty and its value to Germany while ex- plaining why he, Stresemann, has, against hopes and expectations, re- turned from Geneva “with empty hands” instead of bringing with him the demanded reduction of the French military forces of occupation in the Rhineland as well as other “compen- sations” for the planned-betrayal of he Soviet Union. IMULTANEOUSLY the news pub- lished here’ about the behavior of the Polish authorities in the matter | }of the murdering of the Soviet Am- | bassador Voikoff—particularly after the surely ordered declarations of the Polish Minister Zalewski in Geneva —shows clearly that a good deal of the stories coming from Geneva and j telling of Poland’s urgent pleading | with the big powers not to “irritate” the Soviet Union by a united campaign against her was mere propaganda. Apparently the back of Mr. Zalewski has been “stiffened” in Geneva as only this can explain the manner in which the sentence against the coun- ter-revolutionary youth has been com- | mented upon in Poland as well as the government (N. Y. Times, May 21); both, if true, are absolutely indica- tive of a more rigid attitude on the part of the Polish government in the negotiations now being conducted with the Soviet government. é konteis dispatches mak but the first repercussions of the “blow up” in Geneva. However, the failure there, which for the present has made dif- ficult a concerted attack of the powers upon the Workers’ Republic and thus relieved somewhat the anxiety and tension felt by all revolutionary ele- ments throughout the world, is by no means over. The enemies of the Sov- iet Republic, and foremost among them the English die-hard govern- ment, are intriguing against her af- ter the Geneva failure with no less energy than before. In the best case they have but delayed their attack up to the time when they are able to overcome the differences arising from their greedy imperialist covetings. Moreover, there are indications that the tory government and some of its satellites are now engaged in a vic- ious scheme by all means to provoke the Soviet government to some rash action. Still, the truth remains that the Geneva session of the council has proved with regard to the anti-Sov- iet schemes an absolute failure, that will necessitate a new series of diplo- matic bargainings, concessions, threats and all other means to bring about a united counter-revolutionary front, which in the language of the capitalist press is called the “peace of Europe,” OWEVER, in order to get a clearer view of the present situation with regard to the attack upon the Soviet Union and to understand the mean- ing of the mostly veiled press reports from the capitals of Europe (and , | purposeful levity with which the mat- | | ter is now being treated by the Polish | DANGER AHEAD! sometimes from Washington) we shall consider more fully the “problems” and the “work” of the recent session | of the so-called League of Nations. We say “so-called” because seldom has the League of Nations fraud been ex- posed in such a drastic and convinc- ing manner as exactly during the last jfew months—the “hopes and beliefs” jot our hazy liberals of the New Re- | public calibre’ notwithstanding. HIS session primarily was scheduled to confirm and continue the pro- 'gram of the “World Ecommic Con- ference,” which had gatherid in May in Geneva with the participation of delegates from the Soviet Union and from the United States, About the | program and the results of that Eco- nomic Conference we shall say a few words later on. We mention it now, for while the ostensible purpose of the Economic Conference was to find | ways and means for economic stabili- zation of Europe and to restore peace- ful conditions for capitalism, the League Council cynically and without much ado shelved this peace program and has actually turned itself into a War Council outlining the attack up- on the Soviet Union, If this war coun- cil did not come to an understanding as to the propitious time and manner to launch this attack—it surely was not consideration for the peace of the | world or its concern for the welfare of the Russian masses which know from bitter experience the true inten- tions of these bloody imperialist hyen- as. The actors were merely too “in- dividualistic” in playing their roles at the first rehearsal and the show had to be delayed. I. tale session of the League Council that started on the J. of June and ended rather abruptly ¢2 the 16th —with the departure 0. t'2 French minister Briand—may prov? to have heen of the greatest inportence for the allaying of the immediate danger to the Soviet Union. Then the Eng- set everything in motion in order to successfully put through the main point of their present international program: the complete isolation of the Soviet Union and in consequence |a united war campaign of the powers upon the hated workers’ republic. It was the English die-hards, the Churchills, Birkenheads, Amerys and “Jixes” who through their now “con- verted” and obedient servant, Austen Chamberlain, gave the keynote to the session: and it was their anti-Soviet campaign that became the center around which there were focused all the imperialist ambitions and covet- ings and the consequent bickerings of all the powers. HE question to be setfied was of a double nature: first, whether the time has arrived for a combined in- ternational front against the Soviet Union and the immediate inaugura- | tion of actively hostile steps provoca- | tive of war—this all under England’s leadership; second, whether England could successfully patch up at pres- ent the differences between the im- perialist powers-—among others - her own differences with France—in or- der to unite them all upon this “holy expedition.” In other words, the question reduced itself to another one, namely whether and in how far the English tories would succeed in transforming their program of a final struggle between British imperialism and the Soviet Union into one of a far-flung battlefront of world capi- talism against the forces of world re- volution in general and the power of the Soviet Union in particular, for many months the English con- servatives have been engaged in a silent but continuous work of adyanc- ing their program that consisted in weakening—by sapping or direct blows—the strength of the Soviet Union and revolutionary China. They did everything to encircle the Soviet Union with a ring of hostile fascist states, Rumania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Esthonia and Finland, ready to do the bidding of their English master. NE need but to reeall the recent history of these states that almost all have gone through a well engi- neered fascist uprising with a conse- quent policy of hostility towards the Soviet Republie-—and the hand of Britain will beeome revealed without fail. If-—as in the case of Latvia or |Poland--the Soviet Union was. still able not only to maintgin the status war, peasants of the Soviet Union. against the nationalist liberation Italy provoke a war situation in the Balkans. The British government of forgery, provocation and mur- der carries on a world-wide campaign against the workers and The powers temporarily unite movemert:in China, Britain and France cynically YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1927 lish diplomacy has for weeks before | quo, but even.to work for the im- provement of her relations with these | states—this was due to the truly peaceful policy of the workers’ public, as exemplified in the proposed treaties of “non-aggression.” Latvia has been on the verge of signing a neutrality pact with the| Soviet Union; a report had it that Finland and Esthonia—surely not without a tip from Britain — have raised the alarm that this act would be contrary to Latvia’s obligations as | a member of the League of Nations. | In the case of Poland the Polish government itself admitted that the slain Soviet Ambassador Voikoff had been working together with the Polish diplomats upon a treaty of “non-ag- gression.” It can be judged from Polish sources this treaty would put Poland in the orbit of the states uni- ted with Russia in a so-called “East- ern Locarno Pact,” so dreaded by i im- | perial Britain. GURILAREY the tory government of | England has been using all its in-| fluence and exercising pressure upon} Afghanistan, Persia and even in Tur-| key to change their friendly attitude | i towards the Soviet Union. The huge | ery and propaganda let loose in the fall of last year about an “Asiatic (League” centering around the Soviet Union will be surely yet remembered. The occasion for,that outpouring of| the capitalist pref was a meeting be- tween Chicherin and the Turkish For- eign Minister, Tewfik Rushdy Bey, re-| affirming the good relations between the two states. | | wit Afghanistan the Soviet Union| has concluded a non-aggression and neutrality treaty while with Per- sia the negotiations were somewhat more prolonged; recent news dis-| patches from Moscow spoke of the clearing up of all disputed questions which finds its corroboration in a re- ported threat on the part of the Bri- tish government against the Persian! Shah, Reza Khan Pahlevi. | Britain threatens the Shah with de- thronement if the latter persists in his | friendly policy towards the govern- ment of the Soviet Union. In a later article we shall show that new man- ipulations are being instituted now in Turkey by the powers with the double purpose of drawing Turkey away from the Soviet Union and of play- ing her off in the imperialist game of rivalry between the “first class” powers, HE rumors connected with the visit | of Kemal Pasha to Constantinople, | the new French approach to Turkey to| | counteract the influence of Italy in| the Balkans, particularly in Greece,/| and last but not least the recent ac-| tion of the U. S. government that de- cided to send an ambassador to Tur- key although the senate had rejected the Lausanne treaty—all these facts are not without their significance as to a “new Turkish policy” to be launched now by the imperialist pow- ers. yest of these intrigues were but a} part of the British machinations | against the Soviet Union, aimirig at a creation of, a continental block against the Soviet Union. In the case of some states like Poland and particularly Rumania, united with Czecho-Slovakia and Yugé-Slavia in the so-called “Little Entente,”. this “continental” program of Great Britain has created bad blood on the part. of France whose interests are tied up with that post-war baby over which she is trying to exercise a jealous control. Moreover, with put- ting its foot into the Balkan affairs Great Britain has antagonized France by supporting various claims of Italy directed against France and Yugoslavia. Thus the anti-Soviet | policy. of Great Britain was inter- | twined-with the rivalries between the imperialist powers themselves. A most important field of the Bri-| tish anti-Soviet activity lay how- ever in China where England was partly successful in forming a united) front against the Soviet Republic. It! was and is China that is the sore spot of British politics now. And it) must be most emphatically under-| lined here—against the assertions of the capitalist press—that it was the! failure of England in China and not. the Soviet activities in the Far East’ that have determined the aetion of the British government. | The first sharp note of Great Bri-| tain to the Soviet Republic, in Feb-| ruary of this year, that gave already an inkling of the Hvitish intentions, was sent because, and after, the flir- | tations of the British diplomacy with the Nationalist movement have by all visible tokens proved futile. T should be noted that it is not only the United States whose policy in | | | Chi re- | led to bring an agreement between jsame time again to “settle” the ques-| ‘act as chairman at open-air meetings “One For All,” the drama by Ern-| ‘est and Louise Cortis, now playing | at the Princess Theatre will move| | to Wallack’s Theatre Monday eve- ning. “Bottomland,” a new revue, will! have its premiere at the Princess Theatre tonight. Eva Taylor and} Clarence Williams head the all-Negro | ‘ cast, | Charlotte Greenwood, remains at the Palace for a second week, appear- ing in a new program. ‘Fhe other acts | are: Maryon Vadie and Ota Gygi and| the Maryon Vadie Dancers; William and Joe Mandel; Owen McGiveney, in scenes from Dickens; “The Wag- 3” Ed Healy and Allan Cross and tea Ghezzis, | The Albee Theatre in Brooklyn will have a program of acts ingluding Marion Harris; The Ingenues; Valer- ie Bergere; Keene and Eline; Ed. J. Lambert; Jack Hanley; Hayes, Marsh and Hayes; and The Del Ortos. integration” of Hankow, so copiously | | duplicased in this country, Te policy of encircling and isolat- ing the Soviet Union, tenaciously | pursued by Chamberlain in all parts | jof the world, necessitated, however, | two conditions: First, a complete} | agreement in the British cabinet as) to the means and the tempo of the) campaign; second, the patching up— for a time at least—of the various | conflicts between the imperialist pow- | ers which particularly in the recent weeks have become rather sharp. 'HE state visit of President Dou- mergue of France to London which | ended on May 19th after a series of | conversations between Briand and Chamberlain, was apparently design- France and Great Britain not only upon the question of the Soviet Union but also upon all the other questions | of difference. The purpose was to| set down the “reward” to be meted} out to Stresemann for his “loyalty” to the League of Nations and simul- taneously to press down tog high de-| mands on his part, to allay the too} troublesome Mussolini and at the | tion of the Mediterranean, further to reach an understanding about the;lu? | “Little Entente” and the Balkans and In a word, the two mdin imperialist fiddlers met to agree upon their tune at the approaching session of the council of the League of Nations. But it seems that the precipitate ac- tion of the die-hard clique of the Baldwin cabinet has forced matters before the whole show could be well staged. This is one of the reasons for the “fizzling out” of the Geneva session. The others are the imperial- ist differences that just now come more sharply to the fore. This phase of the situation the role and the game of the other various “imperialisms” including that of the United States we shall present in the following chapters. (To be continued) Party Activities A. B. C, Class in Coney. ‘Tomorrow, 8:30 p. m,, at 2901 W. 29th St., Coney Island, there will | be a reading and discussion of A. B.| C. of Communism, by Buckharin. Comrade Katz will lead the discus- sion. | * * * To Members of Section 1, | All your units will meet on Wed- | nesday, June 29, 6 p. m. sharp, at your unit regular headquarters. ° * * * To Section 1 Speakers. All speakers of Section 1 who can In the new picture, “The Secret Studio,” which will be shown at Moss’ Broadway beginning today: E mer GUILD A ACTING Oo—| The SECOND MAN T Thea., W, 52 St. Evs, 8:30 GUILD Mats. Thurs. & Sat., 2:30 The SILVER CORD John Th.68,B.ofBwy.|Cirele Goldene thure Sat) 6678 Little Theatre GRAND ine St., W. ti of B'way. STREET FOLLIES The LADDER All seats are reduced for the Best Seats $2.20. Theatre, 48 St, E. of Matinee Wednesday, summer. Cort B'way. B. S. Moss | Warner Bros. Present COLONY |“The First Auto” B'way at 53rd with Barney Oldfield Continuous | on the screen and Noon to in person Midnite and New Vitaphone | are to report on Thursday, June 30. 7 p. m. to 51 East 10th St. two flights up. * NB Party Uniis, Attention! All notices of party affairs, meet~ ings and other activities for publica- tion in The DAILY WORKER should be addressed to the Party News Edi- tor, The DAILY WORKER, 33 First St., New York. * * *. Passaic Branch to Have Outing. The Workers Party Branch of Pas- saic will run a bus ride Sunday, July 3rd to Horse-neck Bridge. It will start 7 p. m. from the Workers Home, 27 Dayton Ave. Tickets one dollar, For children 25 cents. * * * Industrial Organizers of Section 1 Meet Tonight. A special meeting of the industrial organizers of Section 1 will be held tonight 6 p. m. at 108 East 14th St. * * * Talk on British Trade Union Bill. Charles Mitchell will speak on the | British Trade Union Bill at the edu- cational meeting of sub-section 8-E, tomorrow evening, 6.15 p. m. at 100 West 28th St. New Oil Lands Discovered. MOSCOW, June 26.—Nearly 2,700 acres of oil-bearing lands have been recently discovered in the Kerch te gion of Crimea. Borings: will. begin during the next-fiscal year. - AT PECIAL PRICES - Three Valuable Booklets Everyone of threse three should be read by * every worker and kept for ready reference on a worker's book-shelf. Take advantage — enmeereoncrn ae ee watches the performance at Geneva and calls new classes to the colors. The United States intensifies its aggression in Central and +South America while its greedy and avaricious agents roam the whole world trying in every conceivable manner to extend its power against its imperialist riv Behind the sccnes at Geneva the American agents try desperately to induce Japan to abandon | its new orientation toward Britain and throw its lot in with the jackal pack of Wall Street. The gathering clouds of the next world conflict hover omi- nously over mankind, Henceforth every effort must be made combat the war madness by launching a counter-offensive against! the diplomats who are gambling with the lives of unnumbered! millions of workers and farmers, The hypocritical pacifist mas must be ripped asunder and the hideous features of the war con spirators expo8ed in all their ugliness so that the potential canno: fodder—the sons of the workers and the farmers—will fight th a in armaments is| class struggle against the imperialist monsters, instead of the im perialish war for them, a iy “Waciating,” of Great Britain and for that matter of Japan also—-have for some time shown a marked “vaeillation”, The February note was in accord with the new policy of Great Britain, ia soon to be shown by the raid of Chang Sass ‘that the poliey Tso-lin on the Soviet mission in Pek-! ing-a raid obviously engineered by} Great, Britain and clearly intended as a challenge to the Nationalist move- ment. Likewise it was not by mere chance that the final break with the, Soviet government in May coincided, with the withdrawal of Basil Newton, | representative of the British minister | to Peking, Miles Lampson, from the Cantonese government at Hankow. Thus Great Britain was revenging her failure in China by her attacks on the: Soviet government—whatever be her lying propaganda about the “dis- 4 y of the lower rate to get all three. COMPANY UNIONS by Robt. W. Dunn CLASS STRUGGLES IN AMERICA by A, M. Simons THE CLASS STRUGGLE by Karl Kautsky All three for 50 CENTS Books offered in this column on hana e@ in limited quantities, All salt cash | eo and filled bd turn ae. recely