The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by tae DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Daily, Hxcept Sunday 8 /First Street, New York, N. Y. 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 © $3.50 six mo $2.50 three months $2.00 three out cnecks to treet, Now York, N. ¥. Phones, Orchard 1689 “Dalwork” r) Address all mail and m: THE DAILY WORKER, 33 Firs: J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ‘ WILLIAM F. DUNNE {‘¢t7*17*rcs°°°° oro oMiditors | E MIL DIOR osc cacs sac cacneees Bbasiness Manager ——— cntered as second-class mai! at the post e at New York, N. Y., uace? the act of Merch 8, 1879. 2. In the Shadow of Another Slaughter We Must Remeni! ay Austria opened warfare agai Russia declared war against Au Aavertising rates on appl Thirtee Serbia. Wi Germany : and the wor ; = The imperialist antagonisms had reached a point where diplomatic intrigue could no longer serve the designs of the mas- ter class, so these conflicts were fought out on the gory field of battle. | The imperialist butchers, in an effort to decide which group} of powers should have the privilege of exploiting the world, sac- rificed 9,988,771 slaughtered outright; 6,295,512 hopelessly crip-| pled; 14,002,512 severely wounded. | In carrying on its frightful desolation the world war also} perfected new and more deadly agencies of destruction and dur-! ing the thirteen years that have intervened since then human| ingenuity has devised even more deadly instruments of annihila| tion of peoples. During the world war we were told that it was| to. be the last war, but no one today longer believes or repeats that shabby fiction. More than ever the workers of the world have reason to re-| member thirteen years ago, because at this identical moment} stmister and malignant and murderous forces of imperialism are} prepering a new world war. Already imperialist war is being) waged against revolutionary China, the great powers are ¢on-| spiring to provoke a war against the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union. These are the outstanding international charac-| teristics at the present moment. | The two conspiracies merge into one when viewed in their| political perspective; a fight on the part of imperialism against) the colonial uprisings and against the one great anti-imperialist | power on earth. But in addition to the war and threats of war against China and the Soviet Union there are sharp antagonisms between the powers themselves—the United States and Britain, the United States and Japan, England and France, Italy and! France, France and Germany—that will be fought out in new wars if the imperialists have their way. He who shuts his eyes to these antagonisms, to these dan- gers of war, who tries to lull the workers into a false sense of security by minimizing the war against China, the conspiracies, the forgeries, the provocations and murders against the Soviet Union, the great rivalries between the capitalist powers is play-| ing the game of the imperialists. Today, in the shadow of another world slaughter, on the thirteenth anniversary of the outbreak of the world war, the cap- italist class and their pacifist apologists would have us forget! 1914, but we refuse to forget and reiterate that it was not to make} the world safe for democracy, or to destroy the kaiser, but solely | to try to settle the question of division of the earth among the im- perialist powers. Here in America we must remember that it} was not for freedom that the youth and young manhood of this| country went into the war a few years after its beginning, but in| order to protect the investments in Europe of the House of| Morgan. On the thirteenth anniversary we must renew with greater | determinat he fight against the menace of a new world war, not by sic ifism, but by preparations for a determined struggle a That implies in this country a fight to strengthen the labor movement, to fight ever more firmly against the attempts of the employers and their agents, the labor fakers, to weaken and destroy the unions in order to impose industrial conscription upon labor. class party of labor that will defend also the interests of the poor | and tenant farmers. It means also a fight against imperialism| within the ranks of the soldiers and potential soldiers at training | camps and every other place the virus of imperialist militarism | manifests ‘ nis and other work must be carried on so that | we may lay the foundation for exposing the conspiracies of the imperialists and developing the struggle into a real war against ‘war. A Pious Bishop Assails the Soviet Union. t eminent cathedral builder, Bishop William T. Manning pal diocese of New York, a favorite soothsayer of delivered one of his customary diatribes against the s of society before the American club in Paris the by assailing the Soviet Union as “the dark spot of the Tha of the Wall St useful m pi and holy man has on more than one occasion dis- tinguished himself for his enmity to or in this country, so his CRO The Communist Academy in | Moscow a Powerful Aid to ‘the Party and Government By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL (Ee main task of the Communist Academy, at; Mos- cow, is to help the Communist Party of the Soviet Uni d the Soviet Government of Workers and Peas- ants bu > solve the gigantic problems facing them in toward Socialism. problem ready solved to Josef Stalin or Nikolai pol ory are not developed that way. ie, * ¢ They mad * * the staff of “The Academy” does is to take a » that is assigned to it, and then gather all the is problem. It is this material, with sugges- s, that goes to the officials of the Party and the is of the Government. le raged as to the relative importance of the well-to-do, the middle and the poor peasantry, and the attitude to be taken, against or in favor of these various strata of the agricultural population. Suited * “The Academy” was also a great aid in preparing the “Gosplan”—the five years of economic work—of the Soviet Union. It helps in settling the continuous prob- lem of how to develop Soviet industry. This task of “The Academy” has taken on huge pro- portions since the ending of the intervention and the civil wars, epecially since 1925. The Institute of Soviet Construction has been created as a special pepartment of “The Academy” to develop this activity along scien- tifie lines. * * * Then there is the problem of national autonomy with- in the Soviet Union. There are about 100 nationalities under the banner of the Union of Soviet Republics. Ev- ery one of these nationalities presents its own peculiar problem. A scientific approach must be found to all these problems in order to provide correct solutions. While “The Academy” has no students, nevertheless, it gives special courses for Party workers and those in responsible positions in the Soviet Government. I was shown a reading room where a large number of Soviet officials of various ages, were busy at their studies. Many of them had no doubt served well in the zevolutionary movement before czarism fell. They had, without doubt, acquitted themselves heroically in the Red Army in, the days of military Communism. Now they were faced with new tasks and new problems—the |problem of Socialist construction—to which they must not only bring an unbounded enthusiasm, but also an equipment of knowledge capable of getting the desired s not mean that “The Academy” attempts to | : ; 4 . A agrarian section, a section on co-operatives and its sec-| , of the Party, or to Michael Kalinin, Alexis I. | tole Lunacharsky of the Government. | happened during the agrarian crisis | - | There are 18 members on the presidium of “The Acad-| terial that tends to shed light upon a solu- | tion, developed as an aid to the 20,000 local Soviet gov- results, So they are taken from their positions, where they are badly needed, sent to Moscow to study and de- | velop for two years, and then returned to their positions, with an improved mental equipment. The same for! Party workers. Thus “The Academy” helps develop a} greater efficiency in Party and Government. * * * M. N. Pokrovski, the historian, is the president of | “The Academy,” maintaining close contact with the gov- | ernment thru the fact that he is an gssociate of Lunacharsky, the People’s Commissar of Education. emy,” including some of the best minds of the Soviet) Union. Kosolapov is secretary of “The Academy.” | Nachimson, the economist, is head of the Institute on | World Economies and World Politics. Thus “The Academy” specializes in economics, labor problems, philosophy, the history of religion, literature and the fine arts, law and the theory of the state, the history ‘of revolutionary movements, also including an} tion on nationality problems, | Last year there was established an Institute on the | Natural and Exact Sciences, to study the different theo- | ries of these sciences and to give an‘interpretation of | these theories from the Marxist point of view. | In connection with the Institute of Soviet Construc- | tion, there is a section on Improved Soviet Administra-| ernments that exist thruout the Union, In this connec-| tion there is publised a weekly called “Soviet Construc- | tion,” and in connection with a section on statistics a publication called “Statistical Methods.” | * * * One of the biggest tasks, however, now being under- taken, and to which every member of “The Academy” is making some contribution, is “The Grand Soviet Ency- clopedia.” During:the capitalist era the world has been flooded with encyclopedias written from the viewpoint of the present social order. Of these the Encyclopedia Britannica is probably the most noted. “The Grand Soviet Encyclopedia,” one of the products of the new social order, that views every subject from the Marxist standpoint, has proved a giant undertaking. It is planned to have the Soviet Encyclopedia contain 50 volumes, compared to 30 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica. The first volume appeared last fall. Dur- ing my visit to “The Academy” I was shown the sixth volume just off the press. It is printed on lightweight but durable paper. The binding is good, the illustrations are excellent. My only regret was that I could not read it, for here is a new storehouse of knowledge that must be made available for the workers of the world. * * * The Communist Academy is a product of the Bol- shevik Revolution, just ds the internationally famous Academy of Sciences at Leningrad developed according to the political and economic theories that were accepted under czarism, There was no desire to destroy the Len- ingrad “Academy,” in spite of the fact that it was frozen in the past. It has its contribution to make, even under the Soviet Power. But the Moscow “Communist Academy” had to be established as the real interpreter of the new social order. It is often forced to combat vigorously many of the theories ardently advanced by the Leningrad “Academy.” Thus the new, also thru sheer power of intellect, suc- cessfully overcomes the old. The New York Times Bosses in the Defeat of the Traction Workers | By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. ITH characteristic acumen, the New York Times, leading organ of American capitalism, has issued a call for anti-strike legislation follow- ing the surrender of the officials of the Amalgamated Association and the A. F. of L. to the city administra- tion and the traction barons. Says The Times: “Mr. Untermyer holds sirongly to the opinion that strikers on a | ready endorsed and worked for the Points Out Lesson for The Times concludes correctly that the present leadership of the organ- ized labor movement will not and can- not wage a militant struggle against anti-strike legislation since it has al- Watson-Parker bill program in the | railroad industry—has given official sanction to this anti-strike law. Bee anti-strike legislation must be | fought and defeated. It is clear, however, that this can- not be done without fighting and de-| public utility should not be tolera- ted. He has, in the course of the recent troubles, added to his knowl- edge of organized labor, and per- haps would be willing to volunteer | his great legal abilities for the drafting of a measure to make the usually forgotten public an active and efficient agent in preventing wanton or wicked strikes.” HE working class pays in more than one way for the acts of re- jactionary leaders. It pays not only It implies a fight for the building of a} in the loss of immediate objectives— | the extension of organization, in- reases in wages, better working conditions and greater political power—but pays the price of restric- tive legislation enacted by the capi- | talists and their agents following de- | feats resulting from incompetent and treacherous leadership. ike capitalist class, ever alert to take advantage of every weakness in the labor movement, and knowing that it can depend always upon the truckling respectability which Amer- ican labor leadership calls ‘“Ameri- canism,” enacted a whole series of |suppressive laws during the war | period as soon as the servility of la- bor officialdom to imperialism had been shown by its persecution of all | workers who were against the war. Similarly, the knowledge that the official leaders of the railway shop- men’s strike of 1922 would not advo- joining of the anvil chorus of the imperialists against the Soviet Union is only indicative of the fact.that he re-echoes his master’s desires. He is a megaphone thru which predatory American cap- italism broadcasts its propaganda. There is, however, this disadvantage for Dr. Manning. He may have to sing another tune because a numher of his masters, including the Rockefeller family, do not hold the opinions ex- pressed by him and have come to the conclusion that the Soviet Union cannot be defeated by a frontal attack and who are im- pelled by their economic interests to deal in Soviet oil whether | they like it or not. The good bishop may have to change his tune in the not distant future. Of course ‘he will not have the honesty to confess error, otherwise his game would be up, so he will say that conditions have changed. ‘ As to his present attack it is not to be “expected that a churchman would tell the truth, even tho he knew it. Such cre- atures are parasites upon parasites—they exist off the big plutocracy. Their livelihood depends upon their telling lies and closing their eyes to all facts, historical as well as scientific. Long before Manning’s cathedral on Morningside Heights is completed the Soviet idea and the Soviet system will have con- | produced the sweeping injunction is- | sued by Judge Wilkerson. i the case of the traction workers |" organization campaign, and the | proposal for anti-strike legislation | voiced by the New York Times, the | capitalist group whose mouthpiece it is, and the capitalist class as a whole, knows that the present policy of la- bor officialdom is a worker-employer cooperation anti-strike policy and it knows further that the clamorous solicitude for the welfare of the pub- lic, to the exclusion of any anxiety jover the welfare of the traction workers, shown by labor officials in the traction situation, creates a fa- vorable atmosphere for anti-strike legislation, HE Times doubtless has in mind also the atrocity campaign waged against the cloakmakers and furriers unions by the same band of A. F. of L. officials in an effort to crush the militant sections of these unions and verted that pile of junk into something more useful than a monu- ment of ignorance and superstition. unionism policy in the industry. { a cate and lead real resistance to it, | feating a labor leadership which puts | | weapons into the hands of labor’s) | enemy while at the same time disarm- | | ing the labor movement. How silly then are the proposals | of the reformists and liberals who de- | plore the struggles inside the unions for a fighting program and honest | and capable leadership! They would |have this struggle waged in a |“gentlemanly” manner without any | | of the name-calling in which uncouth | | Communist workers indulge. CCORDING to these sensitive souls | it is tactically incorrect to state} bluntly that labor leaders like Wil- liam Green, Matthew Woll and Hugh Frayne are agents of the capitalist | \class, that they defeat the aims of the labor movement, attempt to make it | part of the production machinery of | capitalism, thereby weaken its | morale, disrupt it organizationally and open the way to exactly the kind of suppressive measures advocated! by the New York Times following the defeat of the traction workers, 'N the end it all comes to this—that the official labor leadership and its supporters among the intelligentzia prefer the present conditions in the traction and other industries, with the known facts for unrestricted com- pany domination over the workers established, to open struggle for or- ganization of the workers against all forces opposed to this. This condition is called “peace.” | Labor officialdom and its apologists join with the capitalist press in de- nouncing as enemies of “society” any individual or organization—the Com- munist Party, for instance—which points out that peace is an abstract term and the correct way to approach the question is to ask: “Whose peace is it?” At whose expense is this peace maintained?” 1 any worker not sunk in twi- light slumber by the soporifics of the capitalist “hop” peddlers, it is | capitalism as the New York Times to policy of the labor leaders jn the traction industry—as enemies of the labor movement and agents of the bosses. N° section of the working class has ever gained an additional ounce of bread by choosing surrender in- stead of struggle. the. only—guarantee against sup- pressive legislation is a powerful la- bor movement, built and steeled by struggle, conscious of its power and willing to use it whenever the oppor- tunity presents itself, UST as official cowardise and treachery in the Italian, French and British labor movements have weakened the working class organi- zations and encouraged the capitalists and their governments to enact labor- smashing legislation, so has the de- feat of the traction workers, brought about by the surrender of the offi- cial labor leaders without a struggle, encouraged such official organs of demand an extension of the powers of the state against the unorganized and organized workers. UT in making this demand the capitalist spokesmen have them- selves broadened the struggle. Here is an issue around which every ac- tive and honest section of the labor movement can unite— the link has been welded which will unite such different elements as needle trades workers and traction workers in a common struggle for the right to or- | Sanize and strike. TBE New York Times, which takes the lead in the fight on both needle trades and traction workers, and Hugh Frayne, playing a leading role in smashing the needle trades unions and betraying the traction workers, furnish first class symbols of the for- ces opposed to the workers an out- right organ of capitalist reaction and a labor leader who carries out the bosses’ program inside the labor movement. Both must be fought and defeated jand one cannot be separated from the other only at the risk of confusing the main issue in the struggle for union | organization and the right to strike. ; Boston Meetings. Sunday, July 24 at 4 p. m. on Bos- ton Common under the auspices of the Workers Party there will be held a demonstration of solidarity with clear that “industrial peace” is maintained at the expense of the working class and that the longer this peace lasts the worse off the workers are—politically, ecomonic- ally and socially. c is one of the major immediate tasks of the Communists and the organized left wing in the labor movement to shatter to bits the de- featist conception that ‘peace in in- dustry” is possible except at the ex- establish an anti-strike and efficiency| pense of the masses, to expose the preachers of peace at any price—the the Hunger Strike of Sacco and Van- zetti, Speakers from New York and Boston will address the crowd. . . . Sunday, July 24 at 8 p. m., Earl Browder, who has just returned from China will speak at Paine Memorial Hall on “The Chinese Revolution.” The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Trade Union Educa- tional League. New Playwrights To Build Own Theatre The New Playwrights’ Theatre, which came into existence the past |season at the Fifty-second Street Theatre, and where they presented | plays not usually seen at the com-| |mercial theatre, announce that they | will build a small playhouse of their own for the continuation of their pro- ducing policy. The theatre will be | somewhere in the vicinity of Union| Square, and will be ready in October. | The seating capacity will be but 299. | Francis Edward Faragoh, one of | the directors of the group, states | that the season will open with an in- | dustrial play “The Belt,” by Paul F. Sifton, a newspaper man. Michael | Gold’s “Fiesta” is also announced | for the same month at a Breed yey| theatre. William Anthony Macguire, author of 14%t season’s “Twelve Miles Out,” | and “Six Cylinder Love”, has sub- mitted to Messrs. Lewis and Harrts, two plays: “Onward Christian Sol-| dier,” and “A Bad Penny” which they | will present this season. | Gabrielle Dorziat, famous French) princjpal Canadian cities this fall. She will bring her own French com- pany, including Georges Mauloy, who will be co-starred with her. Her re- pertoire includes: “The Comedienne” and “L’Epervier” (“The Hawk”). | “The Man-Eating Tiger,” by Ben Hecht and Rose Cayler, is scheduled for production here next season by Sam H. Harris and Albert Lewis. star, will be seen here and in the | pe { JUNE KELLY In the new J. P. McEvoy revue, “Allez-Oop,” which opens at the Earl Carroll Theatre Monday night. =—=<Screen Notes== Louise Fazenda and Clyde Cook have started work on “A Sailor's Sweetheart,” the first of a series of co-starring vehicle for Warner Bros. William Demarest, John Miljan and Myrna Loy have important roles in the production. Folstoy’s “Power of Darkness” is ing held over for a second week at the 55th Street Cinema. The little Cameo Theatre is con- tinuing to show “Passion,” in which Emil Jannings and Pola Negri play the leading roles. Edward Martindel, noted charac- ter actor, will have the part of Col- onel Brierly in “In Old Kentucky,” which Metro will film from the play |by Franz Dazey. A. P. Younger pre- Don’t Forget the Sustaining Fund! pared the screen adaptation. | “ALLEZ-OOP,” a new revue by J.* | Carl Hemmer. Phil Charig an and Leo Robins the lyrics. Hascall, Esther Howard, Cha: The New Plays will be presented Monday night at the Victor Moore, Bobby Watson, Lon | banks and Evelyn Bennett are in the cast. P. McEvoy, author of “Americana” | url Carroll Theatre by | Meyers wrote the music | id Richard J rles Butterworth, Madaline Fair- | LOW PRICES ¢RE REDUC Let’s Fight On! Join The Workers Party! In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- berg the Workers (Communist) Par- & has lost its foremost leader and the American working class its staunchest fighter. This loss can only be overcome by many militant work- ers joing; tha Party that he built. Fill out tho appifcation below and mail {* Beoome a member of the Workers (Communiet) Party and carry forward the work of Comrade Ruthenberg. 2 I want to become s member of the Workers (Communist) Party, Name Address Deen Omer eeeeereeereerersnes See mereeneaseeeeeseeenes Occupation Union Affillation.......sssseeseees Mail this application to the Work- York City; or if in other city to Workers Party, 11138 W. Washington Biv., Chicago, Ill. Y. W. L. Track Meet. WINCHENDON, Mass., July 29. A great track meet is being arranged by the Young Workers’ 1927, 11 a. m, A colorful program 1s prepared as follows: Boys: 12 lb. shot put, high jump, polo vault, hop-stop-jump, 100 meter dash, Uirls: 8 Ib. shot put, broad jump, 60 meter dash. Special: Swimming legged race, sack race. All sportsmen in Gardner and vi- cinity are invited to witness this great event. 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Thurs. & Sat. 9 The SILVER CORD Jchn 'T 8.53, B.otBwy.|Circle Golden tr otnunesctl son i} | Leagua| Training School at Lake Dennison, Winchendon, Mass., Sunday, July 31, | The Joint Branches of the Inter- national Labor Defense in Newark will hold its first annual picnic at Fachers Grove on Sunday August 7th, All the proceeds will go towards the relief and defense of the class war prisoners, Buses will leave every hour from the Hungarian Workers Home, 87 16th Avenue to the Grove, |