The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 7, 1927, Page 4

‘ i 1 i 1 a Pree me mn ee Page Four THE Lee WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by ihe DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday ® Firet Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Addrecs: SUBSCRIPTION RATES ; By mail (in New York only): By maii (outside of New York): ‘sie 00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per yuar $8.50 six months $2.60 three months $2.00 three months ASST Sei (ieee ae ME MOLE CZ SS ES Address all mail and make out enecks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } “Dalwork” WILLIAM F. DUNNE BERT MILLER.. Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., unde? the act of March 8, 1879. E>: Advertising rates on application, | Inaction Aids Reaction in China. Instead of facing the dangers confronting the ihan govern- | yolution by launching a ter inst all and semi-spies it now becomes clear that need of the responsible members of that gov- policy of de- ment and the r the reactionar even the most adv ernment have succumbed to a defeatist polic) spair. Aft of the Feng Yu-Hsiang, an eventuality easily to hz perceived, which ‘left the revolutionary gov- ernment wit y, there was but one strategy possible: to imme the peasant revolution, to strive to incite n widest possible of the libera Yu-Hs imperi es of F mong the openly x toward the arme of the workers and ¢ ufficiently agg e uld gain the support of the small bourgeoisie) can the revolution be saved from a disastrous set-back. At the very moment when the most decisive action was de-| manded the nation nucleus of the government at Hankow de- bated with itself while the workers in the unions were being dis- armed. While the forces of reaction, were being armed they did nothing to prevent it. In other words they failed to disarm the reaction and arm the revolution. Even Tang Ping-siang, Com- munist minister of agriculture of the Wuhan government anc and bourgeois Chiang Ka feudal forces , adopted | Toward a War Policy at Geneva By WILLIAM F. VA has stepped to in at Geneva. struggle at Geneva continues to develop along the main line already noted—open cleavage between Brit- s nd American imperialist in- DUNNE. the front ut on one point there is tacit agreement. It is that both nations need more war vessels. There is a t show of indignation by the can delegation at the British Ame’ demand for 600,000 tons of cruisers. But Bri , having placed her figure | for cruisers much higher than she ex- pected find agreement for, now signifies willingness to reduce it to 460,000 tons. The American maximum was originally 300,000 tons, but there ap- pears now a disposition of a part of the delegation at least to boost this to 400,000 tons, according to dis- patches. IIS would mean 40 cruisers apiece | of 10,000 tons each—a juicy plum for the armament manufacturers of | both nations. On the question cf the allotment of | onnage—the number and tonnage of | ssels which will make up the| 100,000 tons—there > will probably be| dowing the bicker’ an and British repr the dec made by | to the of the Am The imperialist powers are prepar ment will be held out to the workers of eas! their future. Chinese | league of nations, Speaking in the name of the Na |tionalist government—and not in the name of the fict 1 Peking govern: —the Chinese delegate serv upon the conference that “the | confound Great Br nand Japan. | Government and people ‘of China” | Japan is in no position to openly uld refuse to re: ize as binding| join hands with Great Britain on al m then any decisions or agree-|common Chinese program. To do so | ts dealing with China “ar: tuation is far from eanules But it ce: n that there is being con- dered in the highest official Ameri- The picture shows the, future of the wai d|can circles some such bold move to] SPOILED BY WAR | | | ing a new world war. Every induce- every nation to rally to their flag and tusi on to the British Navy.’ To save our readers tr soit we state that to understand this, one] “rain” as “reign.” unnecessary insult is typical of | sness with which a war at-| mosphere is being created around and} the Geneva. conferenee, the strug-| gle for control of the Chinese masses |wage earners of this country, may | AND THURSDA Hampden to Cine Sea- | son With “Enemy | of the People” “Allez Oop,” a new revue,- is scheduled to open Aug. 1, at the Earl | Carroll Theatre. The book is by J. McEvoy, who was responsible ‘for the clever and satirical “Americana” of last. season, and the lyrics and music are by Leo Robin, Phil Charig and Richard. Myers. Carl Hemmer, the producer, has engaged Helen Broderick for a principal role. A new. edition of ‘“Merry-Go- Round” was introduced at the Klaw theatre Monday night. The Saturday matinees, discontinued a few weeks | ago, are again being given. | “Ex-Officer,” a new play by Sam- uel Spewack and Bella Cohen opens out-of-town August Ist, and in New York, a week later at one of the Chanin houses. “Rang Tang” the new Negro revue. with Miller and Lyles starring, will| ‘ opening next Tuesday night at the} Royale theatre. The stage comediza is appearing in anew film, “Rubber: Heels,” show- ing at Moss’ Regent Theatre this week, AMUSEMENTS, The LADDER All seats are’reduced for the summer. Best Seats $2.20. Walter Hampden may open his sea- son in September with Ibsen’s “An| Enemy of the People.” He is also} planning a stage version of Joseph Conrad’s novel “The Rescue.” | ‘Daily Worker Builders|777,, T A 11H Of Oakland, Calif., Busy z Th , 48 St, BL of _OAKLAND, Calif.—On Sunday ev: Bway. Matinee Wednesday. ning, June 25, there gathered here: “al a - eee |noteworthy audience. The plutocrats,| Little Theatre GRAND | thirsty for the life of the most fear-| 44th St., W. a B'way. less English daily mouthpiece of the | Suneeset.s a STREET 330 FOLLIES well clamor for its death. The bosses an inexcusable folded-arms policy and requested a long leave Of) }y the present or any other confer absence on the ground that his health was poor. ence in which China is not repre- Tang, in a statement on his resignation, asserted that the te denberein equally in “political situation is so serious that I cannot bear responsibility | ‘"® C°7PeTaons for directing the peasant movement the correct way.” If the poli- | LTHO rather belated, tical situation was such that he could no longer work with the|” little doubt but that this is the RESIS ina ay oy aeldine S | reply of American imperialism to the gover nment t 7 Is no excuse LOL Rae ing to panic, Anglo-Japanese bloc which made When such situations arise Communists: should proceed re-| brief appearance in the earlier days lentlessly to exterminate the last vestiges of counter-revolution | of the conference. among their associates in such a government and dominate it, or| iy conclusion hye" the more nae d th luti i i | plausible as we read carefully the in- openly quit the thing and carry on the revolution under o her | terpretative and semi-official dis- forms through taking advantage of the tremendous mass discon-| patches from Geneva. The New York tent that has thus far been directed by Communists even bere correspondent ae participating in the nationalist movement with elements that w ere | Mate eee ae ae because of their social position, to leave the revolution at | feck that it is based not alone on a certain stage compatible with their economic interests. | rumors, but on facts tending to show] The Chinese revolution has entered upon a new stage, a stage | |a line-up of great powers against the foregoing in which the Communists, by pursuing a correct Leninist policy, »| tude towata Chink i sis nail As wow | will crystallize the mass movement into the labor and agrarian | regarded as ‘a nuisarice’ and also as| a stumbling block’ to the plans of | revolution against imperialism, its feudal agents and the miserable | | liberal bourgeoisie following Chiang and Feng into the camp of | both Great Britain and Japan.” her | In addition to the sensational state- imperialism. |ment of the Chinese representative | | there is also the fact that the Japan- ° . ° oy ese delegation seems to have gone A United Front in Spite of the Yellow Socialists. into temporary retirement—at least it is saying nothing at present in sup- The magnificent demonstration in Philadelphia last Sunday | port of Great Britain. in behalf of the movement for freedom for Sacco and Vanzetti was | AS we stated day before yesterday, a splendid tribute to the effectiveness of united front policies fol- the possibility of the recognition lowed by the Workers (Communist) Party and a staggering re-! of the Nanking government by the buke to those yellow socialists who tried in every way to sabotage | United States is increasing. There eS deradnstrs RAL |are two principal reasons for this. Aes . x 5 i | One, the fact that the Nanking gov- Fully 20,000 workers, representing labor unions, Italian labor | ernment has convinced the American and fraternal benefit organizations, and the Workers Party, | imperialists by its war upon the labor Young Workers League and the International Labor Defense, pa- |the Ku the peasantry, left wing of the K t: id the C ts raded through the streets of Philadelphia, while thousands upon! ieee it is willing to et aeees thotisands lined the streets for blocks, cheering the demonstrators. t ccaaiowie in return for recognition— The mass meeting on the Sesqui-Centennial grounds was one of | that is, it is willing to become the 3 | slave driver for American capital. es vere eel 1 Be Rot ees fo Can Be ee Ace Second, the events at Geneva have ved at| would mean to jeopardise her credit} and their lackeys may try to clamp B.S. Moss | Warner Bros, Present | United States, whose persistent atti-| (huge Japanese loans have been made }to her already bad reputation the jodium which attaches to all things | British in China. If in spite of the obvious dangers, Japan lines up with Great Britain, it will mean that a definite war polic ill disclose it- self in British ese and Ameri- can foreign office laa openly sneering dispatches to a paper like the New York Times, long considered Anglophile, is further indication of the increasing tension. Its dispatch of July 4th for instance stated that the Geneva crowd at the celebration of independence anni- versary “laughed over the orchestra’s | rendition of ‘It Ain’t Gonna Rain No | More,’ which was considered a sly al- | and the enormously rich natural re- |by the house of Morgan) and to add|s rees of their country. iT? make clear to the American masses the danger which they face from their ruling class and to arouse the American labor movement to ac- tion against the increasing menace of imperialist war is the main task of our par’ ‘ty at the present time. ere is the equally pressing danger that the probability of a drive on the Soviet Union from the east is| increased by recent developments and that on this program the three great | imperialist nations could reach agree- ment. Not since the organization of our party has there been a_ situation which demanded such clear thinking and energetic and effective action. By BERT MILLER. A good general makes it his busi- ness to take a bird’s-eye view of his |that he may secure the proper per- spective of the entire battle area. This holds true also in the present struggle between the right and the left wing, a strugglé which is in fact a fight for the most elementary and basic rights of the trade unions to organize, strike and picket. An ob- server close to the picture, and in- volved in the thick of the conflict, is apt to feel overawed by the combina- tion of powerful forces against the F. of L. officialdom, the underworld, the police and the employers. But certain developments indicate that the ferocity of the attack against the left wing is to some extent an indica- tion of the deepening differences and the weaknesses in the ranks of the shown American imperialism that the The yellow socialists had no part in the demonstration. most effective way of establishing hegemony over a substantial a part |of China and hampering its two prin- cipal rivals, iseby taking the counter- revolutionary Nanking government under its wing. Amalgamated Clothing Workers. to sabotage the Sacco and Vanzetti agitation in that city by call- ing a conference at which they at first invited the Communists. The invitation was only a maneuver to get a chance to refuse to! seat the Communists who always respond to invitations for joint action on the part of labor. But the Philadelphia Communists did not abandon the idea ef a united front demonstration just because the socialists, the Jewish Daily Forward gang and the Amalgamated fakers tried to| sabotage it. Instead the Communists approached the Italian or- ganizations, then preparing for a demonstration. The Italians ac- cepted, with the result that the Workers (Communist) Party mass meeting of Thursday evening was supported by Italian labor and | fraternal organizations. The climax of the demonstrations came with the great parade and demonstration of Sunday, July 3. The} socialists had cynically predicted that the demonstration would be a failure. But in spite of lowering clouds and threatened rain it surpassed anything staged in the Quaker City since pre-war days. The suecess of the demonstration proves that effective united front work can be carried on without the yellow socialists and, if necessary, in spite of and against them. Already reports indicate that the few workers that were with the socialist gang until last week have sworn to desert it and henceforth will devote their activities to. supporting the policies | and campaigns of the Workers (Communist) Party. The united front tactic has such a fundamental appeal to in- telligent workers that not all the dirty conspiracies and lies of the Socialist Party leaders can defeat it. Mr. Frayne’s Political Discourse Hugh Frayne, who draws pay as organizer of the American Federation of Labor, but who has never been known ‘to. organize anything except assaults upon militant: labor, came forth with a radio discourse upon the defunct and discredited political program of the A. F. of L. Repeating the familiar and dreary monolog about the condition of the American worker being above that of wny other worker in the world he attributed this alleged prosper- ity to the fact that the A. F. of L. followed the policy of refusing Nei-| ther did the union they try to dominate in Philadelphia, the | This yellow combination tried | opponents to the left wing, of the new wave of progressivism in the ranks of labor and the revival of the time-honored trade union fighting. traditions which revival constitutes a new threat to the American employ- ing class. This is exemplified by the recent fight on the floor of the New 'HE possibilities are stated here in their most simple terms while the to launch an independent labor party in the United States. In- 'dulging in low bombast, Mr. Frayne asserted that the American | labor movement has been more successful and made more progress than any other labor movement in the world. It was safe for Frayne to indulge in such palpable falsehoods | within the walls of a broadcasting station, but certainly even the | most backward trade unionist among the highly-paid workers | could refute him on this point. It is a matter of common knowl- | edge that labor has been beating a steady retreat for a number of years and that many of the formesly most powerful unions are being wrecked by the open shoppers without and their agents of the type of Green, Woll, Lewis, Frayne within. The radio orator was careful not to attempt to give statistics of the membership of the labor unions and the extent of the spread of the non-union; fields in the mining sections, nor to refer to his own union-wreck- | ing activities in the needle trades situation in New York. | Furthermore Mr. Frayne only indulged in the most evasive generalities about the success of the “non-partisan” political pol- | icies of the A. F. of L. There is not one piece of legislation passed since the adoption of the non-partisan policy that has benefited |labor; every piece of legislation that was hailed by the labor} lieutenants of the capitalist class, such as the Clayton Act, as a} victory for labor, was turned against labor with devastating effect. | But then no one can expect the agents of the employers in the ranks of labor to advocate a labor party, for the simple reason that |such a party would force them to break their political ties that bind them definitely to the capitalist class. In New York Tam- many Hall is the connecting link between the labor fakers and Wall Street. John L. Lewis, head of the miners’ union, aligns him- self with Andrew Mellon’s republican machine, which directly con- nects him with the steel trust and the anthracite coal combination. These creatures know that a labor party will force them openly to serve the master class they now secretly serve while posing as labor leaders, which is one more valid reason why the rank and file of labor should fight for the creation of such a party. | Another Breach in the Line York Central Trades and J.abor Coun- cil, in which the treacherous policy of Matthew Woll against the striking |battle front from time to. time, so | furriers, was completely repudiated. It is exemplified anew by the ditch- ing of William B. Prenter, $25,000 a year president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. These are the first warning drops of the new wave of progressivism, in the American la- bor movement, which will be born out of the coming struggles against the capitalist attack on the trade union movement. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has long been considered left wing, i.e., the right wing, the A.|as being’ in the front ranks ‘of the labor aristocracy, and therefore im- mune from any taint of progressiv- ism. The removal of one of the most powerful bureaucrats of this organi- zation is distinctly a milestone in the path of the march of the progressive element. The fact that the ousting of one of the most outstanding notorious “labor lieutenants of the capi- talist class” comes at a time when the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers has decided to repudiate the attempt which was being prepared to place the control of the Brotherhood’s banks in the hands of the Mitten in- terests, adds to its significance. From these few indications there is reason to believe that beneath the stratified shell of the labor bureau- cracy, which has been crushing the life and vigor of the American labor | movement, there is slowly but ‘surely | gathering an. upheaval of the most | far-reaching proportions a progres-| sive revolt under the pressure of the | growing offensive of the American | capitalist class. These indications are | clear portents of the coming develop- | ment of a broad, fighting left wing in| the American labor movement in the} not distant future. Social Science Pub. to Give All Profits for Daily Worker Dees | Before ing the Social Science Publishers, the Executive Board at a meeting held Tuesday night voted to donate all of its sur- plus funds*to The DAILY WORK- ER. The total, it is estimated, will exceed $400, Social Seience Publishers was ‘or- ized for the publication and the ribution of “bodks* and” pam- phlets by Seott Nearing. Last fall its policy was altered to include the distribution of other revolutionary literature. In the year and a half of ‘its ex- istence, Social Science Publishers sold and distributed close toa hun- dred thousand books, most of them by Sectt Nearing. hawt pe eae atone ewer em the lid down upon the seething rebel- | lion which they themselves bring | COLONY (“The First Auto” B'way at 53rd) with shed Oldficid about, but the “kettle” keeps on boil- | Continuous ing, and boiling with greater and ever | Midnite NEW VITAPHONE greater power—the lid won’t stay put. This gathering was not an over-| 573 MOSS , THE ‘FILM SENS/ ATION whelming crowd. It was not a crowd | OF BUROPE |eome to be excited and amused, a| CAMEO | “Streets of Sorrow” | crowd greedy for sensationalism, it, | With GRETA GARBO was not a crowd that sees, listens, and | 42d & Bway! R KRAUS soon forgets, but it was a crowd of! workers who have been put to the| \Let’s Fight On!. 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