The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 11, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by <1e DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 5 First Street, New York, N. Y. blo Address: e Phone, Orchard 1630 “Daiwork” 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 $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out cnecks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. | J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } | JAM FODUNNE) | [rrtesteossaceecenees Editors | TMT bo os. panics eweat business Manager | Entered as second-class mai! at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under | the act of March 8, 1879. Advertising rates on application a renee m That Socialist Threat to Boycott Communist Political Prisoners. Abe Shiplacoff, an ornament of Abe Cahan’s socialist party of New York, has again exposed himself and the party he repre- sents as the enemy of the working class. His action at the Sacco} and Vanzetti de stration at Union Square was not only a blow against united action on the part of labor—an attempt to divide} the workers into two hostile camps—but was particularly loath- some inasmuch as he was so unprincipled as to disregard the threat of death that hangs over the two Italian workers in whose behalf the demonstration was arranged. By his action in dis- rupting the meeting with the assistance of Tammany Hall police rather than yield to the overwhelming demand on the part of the audience tc r Ben Gold, leader of the furriers, he proved that the socialist party leadership in New York can still sink to depths formerly undreamed of. After this vile attack against the united front of labor striv- ing to save he electric chair the victims of the Massachusetts frame-up, Shiplacoff issued a public statement in which he de- clared that he would ask labor to boycott the Communist political prisoners of Europe. The dirty lying implication is that the so-/ cialist leaders of this country once defended Communist political prisoners in Europe. | Far from defending Communist political prisoners in Europe} Shiplacoff, Abe Weissberg, Sam Friedman, Eddie Levinson, Au-| gust Clae and the rest of the gang that aided the police in| their attacks upon the Union Square meeting have allied them-| selv with the jailers and the executioners of Communists in ype and publicly defended known spies of imperialism in their | attacks upon workers. The contemptible scoundrels who went over to their governments in the world wa the heroes of the | second (socialist) international—are today in the capitalist gov-| ernments of various European nations and are defending capital- ism against the rising tide of revolution by the most atrocious persecutions against those who remained true to the traditions of | the proletarian movement. The demand of the socialists upon the labor movement to re- fuse to defend the Communist victims of the socialist ministers to various kings in Europe is a slimy effort to prevent the bloody assassins of labor who are international comrades of the yellow socialists of this country being known to the workers. When they speak of boycotting Communist victims of capi- talist tyranny in Europe the socialists of this country should be asked by labor: When and where and under what conditions did you ever defend, since the world war, the enemies of capitalist | reaction in Europe? Where were the socialist leaders of America when their comrades, Scheidemann, Ebert and Noske, agents of E 1 the capitalists of Germany, murdered Karl Liebknecht and Rosajtem and Luxemburg? Shiplacoff and the rest of the socialist party gang who played |partments. They have no right to or- the roles of police agents at Union Square may want the world to} | | countries. comrades, the social-democratic ministers, but we will never per-|corrupt officials to crawl abjectly be- forget the murders of the flower of the working class by their mit the memory of these crimes to fade from the mind of mankind. 3y their action at Union Square the socialist provocateurs proved to all the workers of America that if they had the power | in the United States as their comrades, the heroes of the second international have in Europe, they also would slaughter the work- ers in order to defend for a while longer the domination of capital over labor, just as they now aid the jailers of the left-wing needle trades workers in the interest of the bosses. Coolidge Studies Farmers’. Crop Prospects, The “summer white house” in the Black Hills of South Dakota, whence President Coolidge journeyed in the hope of build- ing his political fences that have been badly shattered because of the persistent farm crisis and his cynical veto of the McNary- Taughen farm relief bill, was the scene of a conference of “best minds” to try to obtain correct information upon the problems confronting the farmer. The experts with which Coolidge conferred were Howard| Eliott, chairman of the board of directors of the Northern Pacific Railroad; Hale Holden, president of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and Charles E. Perkins, a director of both railway systems. The railroad magnates reported that, according to their observa- tions, the crops would be the best in seven years. This said to have greatly encouraged the President, who perceives an oppor- tunity to claim credit for the good crops in order to remain in of- fice another term. The careful scientific manner in which the railroad magnates surveyed the agricultural situation is revealed by the deep re- search of Mr. Elliott of the Northern Pacific who left New York on July 4th and made a daylight trip across the country to ob- serve from a window of his private car the crop conditions. The other data, furnished by the other gentlemen, was gathered in the same spirit of detailed observation. Incidentally, the hard working Mr. Elliott was in New York during the unpleasantness of the summer, when most other gen- tlemen of affluence leave the city for cooler parts, in order to file application with the interstate commerce commission for a permit to consolidate the Northern Pacific with the Great Northern. When the merger is granted, new stock issues, based upon new capitalization of millions of dollars, will be placed upon the market and the freight rates for hauling crops will be boosted so that the rail magnates will get a still larger share of the product of the labor of the farmers of the corn and wheat belts. Coolidge’s optimism is doomed to fade in face of facts. The farmers have had very good crops many times during the past seven years, but other agricultural countries also had good crops ..-the total being more than the inhabitants of the earth could buy. The railroads, however, get their fr t rates and profits, whether the farmer gets the price of production for his crop or not. ~ ‘ | just adopted a resolution calling upon “The Mating Season”: Due on Broadway Next Monday Beginning today, B. S. Moss’ Broadway, will change its vaudeville program. The acts include: Paul Kirk- land & Company; Harris and Holley; Joe Wilton and Rex Weber; the Mur- ray Girls and the La Rays. | | | | | “Half a Widow,” the new musical, | written by the late Frank Dupree and | Shep Camp, goes in rehersal today. | | Camp also wrote the music and Alex | Sullivan, a newspaper man, the lyrics. | Among those in the cast are Ger- |trude Lang, Halfred Young, Geoffrey | O'Hara, Milton Wallace, Kayo Tor- toni, Beryl Halley, Lew Christie. Vivian Martin, Nan Traveline, Doro | Balli and Tino and Belle. Stella Bloch will have an important ! part in “The Manhatters,” the Law-| rence More musical revue which| opens at the Grove Street theatre, July 18th. “The Mating Season,” a sophistica-| ted farce by Wm. A. Grew, author of |“The Sap,” will have its formal show- | ing on Broadway, Monday evening, July 18th, at a theatre unannounced. | The cast will include Lilliam Walker of moving picture fame, Gladys Feld- | man,, Ethel Martin, Gwendolyn Pates, | Kenneth Manion, Walter Paulter, | Jack Coyle, Edward T. Colehook and| Wm. A. Grew, the author, under) whose direction the play was staged.) | Frank Fay, remains a second week | at the Palace. William Harrigan and| Company in “Memories of Harrigan, and Hart.” Vannessi with the Gam- ble Boys and Sonny Hines; Sylvia Clark; Gaston and Andree; guerite Padula and Company; Torino; Brooks and Ross and Black and Gold Crawling Politics By BERT MILLER. The Joint Committee of the Patrol- men’s Benevolent Association and the Uniformed Firemen’s Association has matically corroborated by a news item from South America. Says the New York Times, ‘Pressure upon the Hert- zog government of the Union of South Africa by the labor members of the are the other acts on the bill. Little ‘Theatre GRAND | Breninde at $30 STREET AND THURS! 230 _FOLLIES Mar- | a {Sacco and Vanzetti Shali Not Die! in “Rich Men’s Sons,” which will have its premiere showing on thel Broadway theatre screen today. ASTUSENENTS | The LADDER ts are reduced for the t 20. DAY B.S. Moss COLON B'v Warner Bros. Present Y “The First Auto” y at 53rdj}with Barney Oldfield ntinuous and Noon to NEW VITAPHONE PARTY ACTIVITIES | NEW vOREEY uae | Harlem Closes Ruthenberg Drive By Recruiting 13 New Members. attacked the war-profiteers of 2nd BIG WEEK AND THEY ROSE IN REVOLT- THE PEOPLE OF THE | ‘STREETS of SORROW’ unbearable suffering patrolmen and firemen of New York | State and their relatives and: friends to vote “yes” on the proposed con- South African Parliament has brought about the withdrawal of the so-called sedition clauses in the Native Admin- | tioned jafter they get a raise. istration bill.” Thus the black work- ers of South Africa have succeeded in killing a most vicious anti-labor measure. The wholesale utilization of | government agencies against stitutional amendment to increase the pay of.members of the legislature from $1,500 to $2,000 a year. This proposal was undoubtedly accepted by the members of the two above-men- organizations as a means whereby certain concessions. might be cecured from the grateful legislators, The members of these two organizations~ have re- peatedly asked for increases in salary, and have repeatedly heen turned down by republican and democratic admin; istrations alike, They are subjected to the most rigorous check-up sys- are compelled to comply with most exacting demands of their de- the workers, the police and the courts,} the use of the injunction, the passage ; of anti-labor legislation should quick- |ly open the-eyes of the American workers ‘to the necessity. of having |their own political party of labor, ! which will fight in the interests of} American labor as effectively as the} Labor Party of South Africa. 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. jers joining the Party that he built. ganize in labor unions, as do other} civil servants, especially in other | Yet they are led by their fore the very politicians who are their | bitterest enemies. | The attitude of the patrolmen and \firemen is but a further expression jof the ridiculous policy of Frayne,) Fill out the application below and Woll and Co., the policy of “rewarding | mail it. Become a member of the |your friends and punishing your ene-| Workers (Communist) Party and! |mies.” It is this policy, which if car-| carry forward the work of Comrade Tied out to its logical conclusion, | Ruthenberg. would so completely undermine labor's | I want to become a member of the ‘confidence itself, that not only would! Workers (Communist) Party. the idea of a labor party be aban-| doned, But even the idea of labor| Name unions would give place to amorphous lorganizations like the Patrolmen’s| Address | Benevolent Association and the Uni- | formed Firemen’s. Associations. . It is | | this suicidal: policy of Frayne, Woll i, jati | and: Gaseahich has-letectha seaming Union Affiliation........sssceesees lelass of this country, politically, help-, Mail this application to the Work- less. Mr. Abraham Epstein, of the ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New |Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, York City; or if in .other city to has pointed out in a recent article,, Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington that the American worker, in spite) Blv., Chicago, Ill, of the exaggerated claims of his pros-| | Occupation er esecccveseccceccccces than his fellow workers in most coun-| Party, What it Stands For and Why tries of Europe, that he is totally un- | Workers Should Join.” ‘This Ruthen- protected by social legislation, such as| berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- we find in Germany, England, France, | palet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive, Sweden, Switzerland and other coun-| Every Party Nucleus must collect tries, and that his conditions of work! 50 cents from every member and will jare almost completely at the mercy | receive 20 pamphlets for every mem- |of his employer. Nowhere among the | ber to sell or distribute. \leading capitalist countries, except in| Nuclei in the New York District |fascist Italy, are the workers more | will get their pamphlets from the Dis- |vulnerable to the attacks of the em-/ trict office---108 East 14th St. ployers through the courts and gov-| Nuciei outside of the New York jernment agencies in general. This is| District write to The DAILY WORK- \the result of the suicidal non-partisan) ER publishing Co, 33 East First | political policy which the American | Street, New York City, or to the | workers must learn to reject, | National Office, Workers Party, 1113 Incidentally our conclusion is dra-' W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Ill. Working farmers and poor farmers will not easily be deceived | by the twaddle of the “best minds” and “agricultural experts” |who haunt the summer white house. They will not fall for Cool- idge, but there is grave danger of their being taken Jn by such swindlers and political crooks as Frank 0. Lowden, Vice President Dawes or some of the other millionaires who have suddenly be- come defenders of the farmers. The only hope for the farmers of this country is by striving with the advanced elements of the working class ‘for a class party that will fight for their joint interests. The natural political ally of the working class in this country is the exploited farmer, and the impoverished inhabitants of the corn and wheat belts should not for a moment, imagine that their interests can be served by supporting the Wall Street government of Coolidge or any of the | WORKER for free distribution may Distribute the Ruthenberg pam-! | perity, is economically more insecure} phlet, “The Workers’ (Communist) | The Harlem Section of the Party closed) the Ruthenberg Recruititig Drive Friday with three large open air meetings that were attended by thousands of workers. The speakers included Abraham Markoff, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Pat Devine and repre- sentatives of the Young Workers League. ‘Three thousand copies of The DAILY WORKER were distribu- ted and 200 copies of Ruthenberg pamphlets sold. Thirteen new mem- bers were obtained for the party. * * * Notice To All Units. numbers of The Back DAILY be had by party units on Thursdays and Fridays of each week for use at open air meetings. * Party Units, 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. * * Labor Organizations Local 35 Meets Tonight. A general membership meeting of Local 35, International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union, will be held tonight right after work at Manhat- tan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St. Louis Hyman and Ben Gold will speak: TEL. Meeting Thursday. A very important meeting of the Trade Union Educational League, all trades, will be held Thursday, right after work at Stuyvesent Casino, Second Avenue and Ninth Street. All members must attend as important GRETA GARBO ASTA NIELSEN See this remarkable film-sensation of Europe with a great cast including Vienna who thrust them into WERNER KRAUS JARO FURTH A Film Arts Guild Presentation “EXCELLENT ACTING THRUOUT”—Vern Smith, The Daily Worker. B.S. CAMEO 42nd STREET MOSS’ & BYWAY NOW—MAMMOTH COOLING PLANT Be auroe eur s | | | | | Current Events west impelled Ford to call off his | yelping mongrels.at this time! It is not hard to guess. Tho ther are reports that he has presidentia ambitions, the principal reason foi By T. J. O'FLAHERTY (Continued: from Page Once) ARTHUR BRISBANE, our foremost literary man of elastic virtue, was the medium thtu which Ford conveyed his apology to the public. One might gather from Arthur's eulogy of Ford! his action is a business one. Libe that it is more meritorious to sin on} suits do not make good advertising a large scale than to be chronically; for his animated tin cans and Jew: virtuous, for the greater glory there! baiting has lost a good deal of its is in repentance. To commit errors! value with the decline of the Ku Klw for the sake of admitting them might| Klan. Ford has no more chance 0} be alright, but for the fact that} being elected president than Willian errors like small pox leave ineradic-| Randolph Hearst. Should Ford’: able marks. And no matter how| name be seriously suggested for thc many respectable Hebrews praise| white house it will be merely ¢ Henry for hitting the sawdust trail in| cheaper way of bringing his product his eleventh hours hike to the sacri-| to public attention than by buying ficial altar, there will be millions who|advertising space. Ford may will attribute his change of heart to| be several kinds of a fool, but hi less worthy motives than a desire} knows his millons, and Coolidge suit: to atone for wrong committed. ‘him down to the ground. LO EE A SPECIAL CONFERENCE for DAILY WORKER Carnival and Fair. DAILY WORKER Agents and heads of yolunteer committees, special talent and assistants—re- port without fail on WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, at 8 P. M., at 108 East 14th Street, for closing arrangements. Reservations, showing exactly what space is needed by each or- ganization, is to be made at this meeting. Space and booths must be j reserved ahead of time to receive attention. | | questions will be acted upon. * * U.C.W.C.H. Needs Funds. All workers organizations and indi viduals who received tickets for th banquet of the United Council o Working Class Housewives are re- quested to turn in tickets or money. Office: 80 East 11th Street, Room 237. * * Iron Workers Election Tomorrow. A special meeting of the Iron and | Bronze Workers union will be held tomorrow evening, at the Rand | School, 7 East 15th Street, 8 P. M. | The election of new officers will be the only order of business. * * duty of every member to be present! the election. | and participate in } * * * The newly formed branch of, the International Defense in the upper Bronx held a_ suecessful open air meeting last Thursday night at Aller- ton and Holland Street. The Sacco- Vanzetti case was discussed. Bert Miller Speaks at Boston Meeting BOSTON, July 10.—Bert Miller, business. manager. of The DAILY WORKER will speak on “The Danger of a New World War” at a general membership meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party to be held at lackeys of capitalism now trying to appeal to them for their sup- port in 1928, Credit Union Hall, 62 Chambers St., Tucsday ~sht at 8 P. M. 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