The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 29, 1927, Page 4

€ ¢ 1 i r f ¢ ° a v 0 is SeSary ni SHRFSS RB FF Os VPage Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER, Published by te DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Daily, Bxcept Sunday 35 First Street, Now York, N. Y. Cable Address 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 $6.50 six months $2.60 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out enecks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Phons, Orchard 1689 “Daiwork” J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Sear a i SURNE } pee Seer Editors BERT MILLER..........-.cceeees: business Manager ————$__—__— Entered as second-class raai! at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of Merch 3, 1879. >. Advertising rates on applicuwom Sacco and Vanzetti’s Court of Last Resort-the Workingclass With the flippancy and cynical indifference that has charac- terized its deliberations Governor Fuller’s “advisory commission” reported its “findings” in the case in less than forty-eight hours| after hearing the closing arguments of attorneys for the defense and prosecution. Two of that committee are known to be utterly hostile to the two wo who are victims of this monstrous frame-up. They are former Judge Grant and President Stratton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The third mem- ber, Lowell, president of Harvard, could hardly be sympathetic to workers whose activities challenge the profits of the parasites who support Harvard university. Forty-eight hours’ time is en- tirely inadequate to review the evidence submitted to that com-! mittee in the course of its hearings, which were closed to the public because they themselves were merely part of the con- spiracy to railroad the condemned men. Each of the committee members held in his hand a brown envelope when he entered the governor’s chamber, which he left with the governor. Just what these envelopes may contain is) speculative. One thing is certain, however, and that is that if the decision had been for the victims of the attempted judicial murder it would have required more than forty-eight hours to perfect it, for the simple reason that it would necessitate not only a criticism of the flagrant conduc# of the trial by the extremely prejudiced Judge Thayer, but a triticism as well of the Massachu- setts judicial procedure, which prevented any person other than Thayer passing upon his own actions in the As heretofore, the fate of Sacco and Vanzetti rests, not with ° the Massachusetts governor and his various committees, but with the working cle In four days the decision will probably be made public, because it is on Wednesday that the governor's council meets for the last time before August 10, the date set for the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. This council must pass upon any recommendations for clemency. World-wide agitation must shake the complacency of the state house at Massachusetts and the federal administration at Washington, which is equally guilty with the Massachusetts mill owners and slave drivers in this case. Tonight the workers of New York will demonstrate by the, thousands and demand the immediate liberation of these two) workers. The police department of New York has barred the demonstration scheduled for Union Square under the fake pre- tense that the traction situation is still critical, but meetings will take place in various parts of the city under the auspices of the’ Sacco and Vanzetti Emergency Committee. All workers should attend these meetings tonight, the locations of which are pub- dished elsewhere in this issue. What Did the Traction Workers Get? As we stated the moment the details of the so-called traction settlement became known, the only provision it contains that means anything is the proposal, carried out instantly by supine labor officials, that the strike should be called off. The traction workers got no guarantees and the officials of the Amalgamated Association and Hugh Frayne, A. F. of L. or- ganizer did not insist on any other guarantee except the word of the mayor, that some dozen workers, discharged for refusing to train scabs, be reinstated. The mayor will not and cannot protect these workers. has he said one word that encourages any intelligent person to believe that the I. R. T. and other traction companies have agreed not to discharge and blacklist men for joining or showing sym- pathy with the Amalgamated Assocaition. | Cominter American Labor and the Chinese Revolution By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. HE T national, in facing “The War growirs: out of the develop- ing imperialist attack against the So- Union and the intervention nst the Chinese Revolution, a in more th This becom study of the decla adopted on these two questions at the Plenum of the st International. The immediate problem of our Workers (Communist) Party becomes the application of +the lutions j adopted on these two problems to the actual situation in the United States. Comintern resolution on the hinese question 5 The e) itive nmittee of the imposes upon all sections the obligation actively to support the Chinese revolution and to put up an active fight a: China by. mot ganizing the re: ce of the masse to the despatch of troops, arms, ete., ete. “The Comintern imposes upon all its sec- tions the obligation to explain to the broad masses of the proleta the toilers generally meaning and signific: nese Revolution, the connection be- tween counter-reyolutionary _ inter- vention in China and the preparations being made for new wars and with the domestic crusade against the working class.” * * * HILE this “domestic takes the form of the anti-trade union bill in Great Britain; the Mob- ilization Laws in France, and the Fascist terror in Italy, we have in the United States the declaration of the Supreme Court that the vicious ninal syndicalism law: tutional,” the attack launched 1 organ of the Workers (Commu- problem of the Communist In-| ecutive Committee of the Com-, st intervention in| ing the masses, or-| executive committee of the! | fish with worms and again with flies, | ident i for the \the old fire engines are dragged out |far back his memory can go. t The DAILY WORKER, cen-| I used to be a bill collector original saying: “So’s your old The DAILY WORKER will three best ¢ York City a PRESIDENT COOLIDGE IS GUNNING FOR THESPIAN VOTE CUSTER, South Dakota, Jul - Calvin Coolidge, our cowboy president is getting re for the next act in (the great political farce staged here among the hills of South Dakota. | Having been photographed catching | in cowboy costume and in his Sunday | best while listening to a youthful} elist throw light on the inner} of the divine brain, the pres- | ow ready to go into costume | Gold Rush.” | This is not a revival of the Chaplin comedy for the benefit of the natives | of South Dakota but the kind of a} thing that is usually pulled off in a country village on the anniversary of the building of the local jail, when and the oldest inhabitant tells how In this town there is an annual pro- duction « Gold Discovery Days” and this year no less a person than Calvin Sommunist International imposes up- on all its sections the imperative duty yearly paid-up subscription for $8.00 in New} 3.00 in the rest of the country. jby the Coolidge cabinet. Seeretary of Who Am Te. in Vermont and first became a ‘national figure thru breaking a policemen’s strike. While vice-president of the United States (capitalist) Trust [ was a contributor to the La-| dies’ Home Journal and exposed radical conspiracies in homes for supperanuated politicians. I spend my summer vacation saving hay or catching fish. I am an expert on suckers. I am the author of the famous man.” | give to the person making the | Coolidge will take part in the drama. | Which should at least win him the amateur thespian vote. Herbert Hoover was here a few days ago.and talked with the presi- dent on many matters including the | Mississippi flood. Hoover has not yet declared himself in favor of a third term for the president. “The president is keeping in close touch with the Geneva naval confer- | ence and there are rumors that he re- | ceived a-long confidential report on} the Pan American Federation of Labor conference recently held in Washing- ton, from an officer of the Federa- tion It is believed here that the pol- icy followed by Green and Woll at the conference was dictated directly Labor Davis is a close friend of Will- iam Green and John L. Lewis and he is reported to be the liason officer between the cabinet and the executive of the A. F. of L. “The Decoy” Bound for Vas . ais EMILY STEVENS Broadway—Shaw’s 71st Birthday Jeanne Eagels in “Her Cardboard Lover” will close tomorrow night at the Empire Theatre. After a short vacation, Miss Eagels will reopen the play on tour in September. Leslie Howard will eontinue in the support- ing cast. The Empire is scheduled to reopen on Labor Day with Frank C. Reilly’s “Pickwick.” Sanford E. Stanton will present “The Decoy” a new play by Hugh Stanislaus Stange, author of “Gla- mour” and. co-author of Booth Tark- ington’s “Seventeen. ’ The presenta- tion is scheduled for an out of town showing August 8, and opens here a week later. Skowhegan, Maine, is giving a try- out of Louis Beach’s new play, “The Lady Wears Laurels.” The produc- tion is being made by the Lakewood players for Rosalie Stewart with Martha Hedman as the star. Has the role of Mrs. Kendall Frayne in the Behrman comedy “The Second Man” at the Guild Theatre, | | | | Wallace Coyle and Irving Rose are | the latest additions to the cast of “Good News,” the Schwab and Man-| Little Theatre GRAND del musical comedy which is coming | 44th St., W. of B'way. STREET to the Ambassador in September. nak Bsc AND THURSDA FOLLIES George Bernard Shaw is celebrating his Tist birthday with a visit to Italy. 7 Ae LADDER London rumor has it that the noted} All seate'are redaosaitar tye playwright is working on a new opus. | Best Seats $2.20. Te, 48 St. EB. of tinee Wednesday. Let’s Fight On! Join The Workers Party! Rudolph Friml has completed the| score for the musical version of “The; In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- Squaw Man,” which Russell Janney| berg the Workers (Communist) Par- will bring out in September. ty has lost its foremost leader and the American working class ite “Crime,” which has been playing here since February will close to- morrow night at the Times Square, and reopen in Chicago in two weeks. tion of the Communist International and of the revolutionary proletariat is particularly necessary.” defects shall be speedily rectified, and to this end calls upon all the sections to take resolute measures in staunchest fighter. This loss can only ome by many militant work. gy the Party that he built: and other Communist} of explaining to the working class | the very evident inten-|and the peasantry the fundamental > * i this direction along the following | | Fill out the application below and ECAUSE of the extremely poison-| lines: publieatior | mail i* Become a member of the Nor) tion to bring Sacco and Vanzetti in| fact that the imperialist troops, which the electric chair, support by the|have practically occupied all the im- ous nature of the American capi-| (a) “Agitation and propaganda in| Workers (Communist) Party and courts of anti-picketing decrees and|portan: industrial centers of China,|talist press propaganda against the/| the press. carry forward the work of Comrade other assaults against trade union|are the main counter-revolutionary | Chinese Revolution, the masses of} . (b)’ “Work in the trade unions and Ruthenberg. activities, especially during strikes, | forces in China, | workers in this country easily suc-| other mass labor organizations. | I want to become a member of the * 8 * | “The relatively weak Chinese bour-| cumb to the view that the partial de-| | (c) “Work in the colonies and de-| Workers (Communist) Party. HE statement of the Comintern) 2¢°isie would not represent a serious feat of the revolution in China is in-|pendencies of the respective im-| sete Ae RSE eS MRENG Hac 2 1 then continues to analyze the for- ces that make up the counter-revolu- tionary bloc. Chinese bourgeoisie is not the great- est danget to the revolution but rather the forces of international im- perialism. imperialism appears ground. Thus clares: “The Executive Committee Communist International places on record that the series of bourgeois counter-revolutionary coups (Shang- hai, Nanking, Canton, etc., ete.) represent partial defeats of the Chi- nese Revolution and a real acquisition of strength by the counter-revolu- tionary bloc. “The Executive Committee of the Communist International, however, regards the view as incorrect that | these defeats menace the fate of the revolution as a whole. “This view is wrong for the rea- son that it eonsiders the Chinese in the fore- | bourgeoisie as the greatest danger to the revolution. The combined forces of Chiang Kai-shek would have been crushed by the victorious revolution- ary armies, however, but no% the principal strongholds of the counter- revolution been supported by the It points out that the) In this array American} the Comintern de-} of the| menace to the Chinese revolution, if it were not directly and indirectly }supported by the foreign interven- tionists. “The latter are concentrating their rmed forces, blocading ports, iso- \lating the revolutionary centers, fi- nancing the larmies, exerting continuous |matic nressure, supporting bourgeois | conspiracies in the territory of the | revolutionary government, organ- |izing the sabotage of industry, trade “It is particularly important to and Commu suppress the peasant movement and to isolate the Soviet Union.” * * * IT is of first importance at this time to wage a struggle against the in- ;correct liquidatory view that : in the Chinese Revolution is a and eredit, by the foreign and native | generals, | bourgeoisie, ete. | working class organization in. spite! point out the frantic effort of the im-| growth of the Communist Party and| perialists to break up the trade union|the Left Wing Koumintang are all organizations, to) important symptoms of the further| the | aptly shown by the fact that in the! stead a complete disaster. heey Sone 3 a against the partial defeat of the revolution, we have the fact that it has passed instead to a higher stage of development and that a more intensive mobilization of the} counter-revolutionary | masses has commenced. The growth: diplo-| of the peasant movement, organiza- | tion of armed forces, of insurgents, | the serles of victories achieved by) the spontaneously organized forces | over the armies of the treacherous | the preservation of the! of the raging terror, the continuous | development and _ intensification of | |the Chinese Revolution. | * * ” | HE swiftness with which the Chi-| nese Revolution moves is very | May Plenum of the Comintern, the prolonged defeat and creates a new) declaration was adopted that, “The| 1 situation. ’ declared the Plenum internatio: “This | Executive Committee of the Commu-| of the utive Committee of the Communis of the construction of Socialism in International, “is just as} vance wrong as the pessimistic estimation | (in the Hankow territory) can. mean| nist International considers it in-| | expedient at the present time to ad-| the slogan of Soviets, which | | nothing less than a slogan proclaim- | perialist countries. (d) “Work among the which are being sent to China. “The Executive Committee of the} 5 Communtat’ Intemational draws at (oes tention to the necessity, for serious . mT ats preparations to be made etfestively:| ee Dai to really top the despatch of troops; Mail this application to the Work- and arms to China. | ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New “The Executive Committee of the York City; or if in ‘other: city to Communist International imposes | Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington upon all its sections the duty to con-| Blv., Chicago, Ill. duct most energetic work among the| )istribute the Ruthenberg pam- imperialist troops and urge upon them | phlet, “The Workers’ (Communist) to go over to the revolutionary troops |Party, What it Stands For and Why of the Chinese people. | Workers Should Join.” This Ruthen- “The Executive Committee of the | berg pamphlet will be the basic. pam- Communist International instructs | palet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. the central committee of the various | Every Party Nucleus must collect sections to draw up concrete measures | §9 cents from every member and will in the direction indicated. receive 26 pamphlets for every men- “The Executive Committee of the! per to sell or distribute. Communist International sends fra- Nuclei in the New - York .District ternal. greetings to its Chinese sec-) . i get their pamphlets from the Dis- tion and promises it the warmest sup- | trict office—108 Bast 14th St: port a its great revoluttonary | Nuclei oxteide of the thew. Valk PEP a ade | District write to The DAILY WORK- ‘HE strength of the Communist In- | Raa ean Cite Hae ternational, however, is the sum) National Office, Workers Party, 1113 total of the strength of its many na-| W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, II. tional sections. hee plas. Lge The Workers (Communist) Party | as the American Section of the Com-| TOTCOR | Addheshyy wid. sssssansscriensaaneter .. WASHINGTON, July .28.—The the Soviet Union. Since it is wrong} ing Soviet rule.” in substance it cannot but serve as, But, two months later, in July, contract. for the Albany-Cleveland forces of international imperialism, air mail route, via Schenectady, Syra- | which employes all<methods and has with| Munist Internatioasl must add every | | possible particle of strength to the _ their sabotage and cowardice. When the traction workers are toid otherwise by union of- ficials, they were deceived. The workers were cajoled into throw- ing away their only weapon—the strike—and were left defense, less. ——-— ~ What we have witnessed in this struggle is the open use of no adequate explanation, except that of reaction and cowardice, the power of a government agency—in this instance a city gov-| can be given. ernment—against the labor movement and a big section of the The organization of the traction workers must go on but it working class. will have to be carried on by workers whose record in the strug- The traction companies made no concessions. They keep|gle against company unionism is not marred by surrender to it their company unions, they keep their yellow dog contracts, they | without a fight. retain complete control of the transit systems, they announce | : : igen Not Diplomatic Denials but Deeds Are What Count. openly that they will permit no union to organize the traction workers. There may be people, particularly in America, who believe that The union officials made peace on this basis and they are we are actuated by imperialist notions, but they are quite mistaken. still talking idiotically of “appealing to the mayor.” whatever government is in power now in England, and for a long time A labor official who does not know that Mayor Walker is| *® come, seeks the peace of the world and will always try to avert war. part of a political machine which serves the interest of traction | crash of Reading, former British ambassador to x aise é | ashington in the course of a speech delivered to magnates is so mentally deficient that he should be in a home} the English-Speaking Union in London, July 27, in for the feeble-minded, or knowing this and still prating to work-| \ honor of visiting American editors. ers of the “fairness” of the mayor is so crooked that he could} Seeking the peace of the world and trying always to “avert not be trusted with the proceeds of a W. C. T. U. collection at| war” the British government raided the Soviet Union Trade Mis- a brewers’ picnic. {sion and broke off relations with the workers’ and peasants’ re- There are only three conclusions to be drawn from the dis- | public, it finances’ organizations of monarchist murderers, or- graceful debacle which has taken place in the traction workers’ | ganizes bomb outrages in the territory of the Soviet Union, backs organization campaign. They are first, that the Amalgamated! the fascist governments of Italy, Poland, Finland, Lithuania and Association officials, the officials of the Central Labor Council Latvia and Rumania and tries to establish an economic blockade and President Green of the A. F, of L. had no serious intention; of the Soviet Union as a preliminary to war against it. of leading a real struggle for organizing the New York traction Such statements as those quoted, in the face of the facts industry. cited and the open imperialist rivalry evident at Geneva are to Second, that having been at all times in close relations with|be taken as the smoke screen with which imperialist diplomats, the Tammany Hall machine, they agreed to call off preparations! including America’s, attempt to cover up the ever-increasing dan- for a strike which they were afraid would take place in spite of | ger of imperialist war. | Not words but deeds are what determine the approach of _. Third, calling off the strike without any guarantees for the} war—the denials of diplomats mean nothing in the face of new ‘masses of traction workers has given a damaging blow to the) alignments of the imperialist powers, the militarization measures, whole organization campaign and has intensified the distrust and| the attacks on the labor movements of all capitalist and colonial suspicion of the labor movement which is carefully capitalized|countries and the ceaseless building of war vessels which con- by the stoolpigeons of the traction companies. tinues in spite of all pious wishes for disarmament. Organization work is made immensely more difficult. The Now is the time to resist all imperialist war preparations. sole asset of the Amalgamated Association was the confidence| Every working class must fight first of all the imperialists of elements of the national revolutionary the proletarian ranks, front. be particularly harmful at the pres- “The Executive Committee of the| ent time, when unity of will and ac- of the men. This its officials have forfeited by actions for which| its own country or be drawn into the war machinery. j i \ f « 1— its own agency among the vaccilating | an instrument for the disruption of | the betrayal of the Revolution by the which would | bourgeois elements of ‘the Hankow | ent, the question of the or-| ation of Soviets, in the words of | the Pravda, the central organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, “is put upon the order of the day.” Thus the Chinese Communists develop a propsganda for the Soviet idea. * * * IEVERTHELESS, in May, the Plen- um of the Comintern had, predic- | ted the changed policy that would | have to be put into effect in July when it said:, iy “With the further development of the Revolution which will mark the | beginning of the proress of develop- ment of the democratic revolution in- to a Socialist revolution, it will be necessary to organize Soviets of; Workers’, Peasants’ and Soldiers’) | Deputies, and the slogan for the for- | |mation of Soviets will become the! principal slogan of the party.” This development coincides with the | period of the going over of the petty | bourgeois elements in the Hankow government from the revolution to the camp of the counter-revolution. ” * * aac the standpoint of the generat, | stimation, therefore, of the sig- |nificance of the role of the Chinese! revolution, the Executive Committee | of the Communist International | places on record that: I. “Most of the sections of the! Comintern have not sufficiently re- alized this significance and’ have dis- played insufficient activity in the matter of supporting the Chinese Revolution. 2. “That the same inadequate ac- tivity is revealed by the Communists belonging to the Anti-Imperialist League. “The Executive Committee of the Communist International considers it absblutely ess~al that these | growing effort demanding, “Hands|¢use and Buffalo, was awarded to- Hands Off the Soviet | day by the Post Office Department ‘to the Colonial Western Airways, Inc, of New York. CHICAGO, July 28—Official an-| When the government went out of nouncement that the Tunney-Dempsey | the air mail carrying. business, a heavyweight title bout will be held|small scandal developed over the pur- about September 15th, in Soldiers’|chase at the last minute of fine new Field, Chicago, will be made here to-| planes, to be sold at half price:to the morrow, it was indicated this after-|firms bidding for contracts as pri- noon. vate carriers. 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