The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YURKK, MUNDAY, AUUUds o, 200+ THE DAILY WORKER The French and Bel Published by tte DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Daily, Except Sunday 85 First Street, Nsw York, N. Y. Phons, Orchard 1680 = » Addrezs: “Daiwork” SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): by mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year 98.60 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out cnecks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL eae poi } Be NS Editors BERT MILLER.........-.5 sm apenas business Manager —————$___——- Entered as second-class raai! at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of Merch 8, 1879. —_— Ss, Socialist Perfidy in Sacco and Vanzetti Case. No epithet of degradation i fficiently strong to stigmatize *he infamous conduct of the socialist leaders of New York, who from the beginning have tried to use the Sacco and Vanzetti case in their own intere while totally disregarding the fate of these two victims of capitalist class vengeance. Time and again the Communists have proposed to the socialist leaders that they unite with us on this one pressing issue. So often as we have proposed united action, so often have they refused.» But each ‘re- fusal has expesed their true character as enemies of the work- ing “class to more members of their own party. Each act of treaehery on their part alienates more members from their ranks and brings new and sincere proletarian elements to ours, with the result that today they are bankrupt leaders, without a fol- lowing. But cach loss of membership makes these distredited leaders more malicious and mendacious. ; So low has that party sunk that even its leadership re- flects its decrepit condition. August Claessens is local secre- tary of the socialist party and its official spokesman, and. to him Advertising rates on applicatiomh | By Imperialist Masters QPPORTUNISM, ; p | Y growth that infected the labor move-| of opportunism. The French party ment through the decades of the! did not perceive that to organize suc- peaceful development of capitalism, | cessfully such a movement requires impelled the French and Belgian so-! ey i cialists to follow in 1914 the path of | motive force, ; ithose German Social-democratie re-| indicated in that they did not under- negades who formulated the poli stand -that a general strike has its of August 4th and voted the war|0wn tremendous implication—mobili- credits for the government of the/| 2&tion for the revolution. kaiser. The same forces that gave Instead of such unrealistic resolu- impetus to the diseased growth in! tions. the question before the French Germany also’ produced war jingoism | P@tty should have been the conduct of in France, Belgium, and England and/ its parliamentary representatives in had its reflex in Russia as exemplified | the chamber of deputies. For a time by Plechanoff and Alexinsky. at least these deputies could have Pre-war opportunism which carried | iver revolutionary direction to the the germs that produced war jingoism | Proletariat. By hurling” Semgnee. 8 was based upon the union of the up-| the government, by daring speeches per strata of the proletariat with the | in the chamber, they could have spo- |lower bourgeoisie. The German party | ken to the masses on the outside and in particular, a& the leading party of | started the movement for a real fight the second international, suffered | ®ainst the war danger. The arrest greatly from this disease growth, this °f ®@ deputy or a number of deputies devastating blight. y other powerful opposition party hence | tow die gs. thousands of bourgeoisie elements | 'eVo!utionary activity. : {were attracted to the social-} But instead of taking revolutionary }demoeracy,. The right-wing of the| @ction the leaders of the French party | proletariat and the left-wing of the|im the chamber,’ as soon as they bourgeoisie both received certain fa-| learned of the action of the German | vors in the way of crumbs that fell; members of the reichstag ee | from the hands of the imperialists and| to the government. Instead of ex- | both groups, united in one party, felt | Posing the ‘treachery of the German | their interests endangered by the de- social-democrats by appealing to the |mands of the mass of proletarians.| Proletariat they joined their own gov- |In times of peace this manifested it-| ernment in its fight against the rul- | self most frequently in attacks upon| img ¢lass of Germany. |and suppression of the “impractical”; ules Guesde, the old leader of the | views of the “extremists.” This op-| “Marxist” wing of the French party | portunism consciously distorted all} became foreign minister in the war There was no| Would:have been useful as measures} ‘d ‘nobilizing the workers for} gian Socialists Join Their H. M. WICKS that malignant ' doctrine of spontaneity is itself a form|gium, not only became miserable ve action of the party as the | prostitutes. Further confusion is | {openly for the defeat of their own | governments, have rallied the work- prostitutes of imperialism, but they tried to cover the masses with their] own shame. To a prostitute all are Had these creatures been revolu- tionists instead of vile flunkeys of the bourgeoisie they would have voted against the war eredits, have spoken ers to struggle against the war, have demanded fraternization of the soldiers in the trenches and made preparations for the publication and distribution of illegal among the workers in the war indus- tries and the soldiers at the front. In every way and under all conditions this work should have been carried on against their governments for the |purpose of inciting strikes in the munition works, mutinies in the ranks of the army and preparing for the situation would be at hand—a situa- | tion that every Marxist should have recognized as an inevitable con- |comitant of the war and a situation try participating in the war before two years had passed. |e Belgium the leading figure of the second international, Emile Van- deveede, followed the footsteps of the German and French renegades. He became minister to the king of the Belgians, one of the greatest of the war criminals. The action of Vander- velde deserves special attention be- literature | time when the objective revolutionary | | that actually did exist in every coun-| \Ibsen’s “An Enemy of! | the People’ Here | Next Month | | Axthur Hammerstein announces | |that his New Hammerstein theatre | | being built at Broadway and Fifty- | third Street, will open about October | lith with “Golden Dawn.” The cast | | includes Louise Hunter of the Metro- | | Politan Opera Company, Marguerite | | Sylva, Olin Howland, Barbara New- | | berry, .Robert Chisholm’ and Paul | | Gregory. | “A midsummer Night’s Dream,” | recently done at the Forest Hills Sta- | dium, is to be repeated for three per-| formances at the Lyceum theatre! Friday matinee, August 12th, Sun- | day evening, August 14th, and Mon-| day afternoon, August 15th—all for! the benefit of the Actors Fund of | America, Plays a leading role in “Paid To | Love,” a screen story of the Balkans, which will be shown at Moss’ Broad- way beginning today. John Hundley, last seen ‘in “Twin- |kle, Twinkle,” has been engaged by Joseph Stantley for “Just Fancy,” scheduled for September. Other ad-| ditions to the cast are Kathryn Burn-| | side, Lita Lopez, Spanish dancer, and | Peggy O'Neill. Th é L A D D E R Richard Herndon has chosen Helen | eeats Siero eceee eer | Chandler for the leading feminine role | Cort Theatre, 48 St., B. of |in “Creoles,” the new play by Sam-| B'way. Matinee Wednesday, uel Shipman and Kenneth Perkins n ] |Little Theatre GRAND {with which he will present next o ss “An. Enemy: of the People,” has | “NP Wiebe it a |b the theories of Marx and Engels re- !eabinet and devoted his talents to in- was assigned the task of refusing to sanction a united front on| garding the revolutionary struggle |citing the government against every- thé Sacco and Vanzetti strike set for tomorrow. a low attempt to conceal the treachery of the socialist leaders and befuddle their own membership. He declared: jand insurrection. According to the | heroes of the second international all necessary achievements for the work- His reply is|—street fighting, the general- strike | one within the borders of France who dared hold aloft the revolutionary | standard that he had so shamelessly disgraced by his treachery to the of that party by referendum vote defeated the Hillquit-Berger-| ing class could be realized within the | working class. Vaillant and Sembat “If it had not been for the Communist ‘crew of wreckers’ the labor movement would have been in a.position to win freedom for Sacco and Vanzetti as it did for Moyer, Heywood, and Pettibone. * They knew that their ‘united front’ request would be rejected and made it only as a public gesture.” Claessens is guilty not only of plain mendacity, but exposes complete ignorance of history. He neglects to state that the socialist party of 1905-6 was a living virile factor in the labor movement, comprising in its ranks militant elements of the work- ing class, while the socialist party of today is a mere travesty of its former self, the best elements having been driven out in the series of expulsions, beginning in 1919, when the membership of that party by referendum vote defeated the Hilluit-Berger- Oneal outfit and elected the entire left wing slate. the left elements that caused the split in the socialist party, but the right wing élements who refused to obey the democratic man- date of the membership, and instead called upon the Chicago police to help them maintain control of the party machinery. Claessens and the socialist party leaders do not dare to ex- plain the role of the reactionary leadership using its power on behalf of the capitalist class to weaken the labor movement so it will be unable to resist any assaults of any kind because they have aided and abbetted that crime against labor. Sincere fighters in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti will unite | The main supporters of this resolu- | in spite of their differences for joint action to liberate these tortured workers. i plight ef Sacco and Vanzetti for their own aims. The Commun- ists stand for unity; the socialists oppose unity. the workers. Major General Leonard Wood, During the past decade the name of Major General Leonard Wood was a symbol of despotism to millions of workers in the United States as well as to the whole liberty-loving population ef the Philippine Islands. servant of American imperialism were inseparably bound up with) campaigns of frightfulness against unarmed populations. He was not particular whether the objects of his depredations were American soldiers returned from the slaughter house of France | into industries or suppressed colonial peoples striving for inde: | pendence. It was sufficient for Major General Leonard Wood | that they wanted to improve their condition at the expense of | American imperialism. All who struggled against Wall Street were his enemies, because he was the good and faithful servant of th4t murderers’ row that has a church at one and the river at, tha other. ‘i Wood earned lasting obliquy for his reign of terror against the striking steel workers at Gary where he commanded a part of the United States army in 1919-20. His achievements there made him the logical candidate for the post in the Phillippines, and he fulfilled all expectations of his imperialist masters, who alone will mourn his loss. He was a man of presidential calibre— that is of the calibre we have today. He was Elbert H. Gary’s favorite candidate in 1920, but his record in the steel strike made nis success at the polls doubtful. Reluctantly Gary had to con- cede the merit of the ¢laim that a yellow dog could get more votes. among workers than could Wood. This phase of his career is illuminating inasmuch as it re- veais some of the tricks of American politics. His position in the army when the United States entered the war made him the Jogical commander-in-chief, but Woodrow Wilson’s democratic advisers told the professor that to send Wood to France would enhance his prestige and make him a presidential possibility. So “Black Jack” Pershing was sent instead. Then when the steel strike came on and Gary called for fedezal troops, Newton D, Baker, Wilson’s secretary of war, placed Wood at the head of those sections of the army that occupied Gary, Indiana. That was a political move of more than ordinary astuteness as it elim- inated Wood as a serious contender for the presidency. spectacle was edifying to a revolutionist. One gang of Wall Street flunkeys conspired to knife another aspirant to a higher stage of flunkeyism, ; Puppets of history, these creatures strut for a time upon its stage, to pass into oblivion and leave room for others. Wood is gone, but the foul system that spawned him still exists to create others of his type, until the system itself is swept away. A solemn thought in connection with Wood is that he often boasted that the reds would have to be exterminated, but today é It was not} Charlatans and fakers will try to utilize the| Tt will requine | a more astute apologist than Claessens to conceal that fact from | Marxist wing of the French party | | frame-work of the capitalist state and | within the confines of capitalist class | legality, in all those countries where workers could vote. * * = | / eee the main current there de- veloped an opposition that in its |most pronounced form embraced syn- dicalism and the general strike as a substitute for all other class action. This tendency predominated in France just before the opening of the world | war. At a special congress of the | French socialist party held on July 15th-17th, to discuss instructions to delegates at the international socialist congress called in Vienna for August | 23, 1914 (which was never held be. cause of the war) a resolution was earried declaring that: “The French party considers the spontaneous general strike of the | workers of all countries, combined with anti-war propaganda among the masses, as the most workable of all means in the hands of the workers to prevent war and t4 force international arbitration of the present dispute.” | tion were Jean Jaures, Edward Vail- | lant and Marcel Sembat. Jules Guesde |vefrained from voting, although he vigorously opposed the resolution. Guesde, who was the leader of the pleaded that he was not opposed to | the general strike on principle, but that the international congresses had |not sanctioned it therefore it could |not be used. The resolution itself is | weak and un-Marxian inasmuch as its realization is based upon the spon- taneou action of the masses. The also went over to the jingoes, as did Gustave Herve, who had served long terms in prison for anti-war agita- tion. * % IKE the German heroes of the second international the French social-patriots declared that they were fighting a war of defense. While | the German socialists declared they {were fighting against Russian | despotism, in spite of the fact that | the German general staff directed its first blows against France by strik- ing through Belgium, the French so- | cialists proclaimed that they were | fighting against the menace of Ger- man despotism. Instead of carrying out in action the decision of the Basle congress to fight against. their own governments they fought for their governments. - In the most servile manner the traitors tried to justify themselves by proclaiming that the masses had gone over to the side of the “war of de- fense” and that they as their leadérs had to follow them. As a matter of fact the masses never had an oppor- tunity to voice. their demands. De- leaders, disorganized by treachery within, it was easy for the military power of the government to drive them-into the army and the war in- | dustries. i peen accustomed to look for leader- ship .to these identical parliamentary representatives and when that leader- ship failed them they were helpless. So. the. social-patriots, the leaders of the second international, in both France and Germany, as well as Bel- | the fact. | represented, Labor Banks on During the first six months of 1927 labor banking in the | So it will be with the social system, a part of which he the Down Grade. serted in their hour of need by their | The social-democratic masses had | | Vandervelde, head of the second in-| His outstanding achievements as a| 0d is gone and the reds he so despised are still here to record ternational, as minister in the king’s | United States suffered its first decisive reverse in history. Since | the beginning of this festering growth upon the labor movement of the United States labor banking has made steady progress as far as statistics of deposits and resources are concerned. They attracted the savings of that relatively small section of the Amer- ican working class that has a favored position in the imperialist scheme of things—the labor aristicracy, bribed by the super- profits realized from the imperialist exploitation of colonials and semi-colonials. The apex of labor banking was reached last year. | This year there has been a steady decline in the resources of these | institutions. ; * During the first six months of this year, according to a com- | prehensive and accurate survey made by the Industrial Relations | Section of the Department of Economics and Social Institutions |of Princeton University the resotirces of all labor banks were $124,655,752 on June 80th, 1927, as compared to $126,015,666 on December 31st of last year, a decline of $1,859,914. Apologists be overcome, but such argument is based upon the wishes of the stitutions rather than upon economic facts. The real reason for | the decline is to be found in the part-time work and unemployment |that exists in many industries, affecting even the higher strata | of labor. It means the privileged workers are forced to withdraw | their savings in order to exist, and this falling off of resources is still more significant because it indicates that thousands of work- The ers, who formerly made regular deposits, no longer are able to! save, Lest some demagogic apologist of labor banking arises and proclaims that the recent collapse of the great chain of Brother- |hood banks is responsible for this decZine and that the other deal with the period just previous to the collapse of the Brother- hood schemes. + When we get the figures on the effect of the venture launched by Warren §. Stone, “the father of labor banking,” the} reverses of labor banks will readily be recqgnized as a debacle; \ 4 for labor banks may argue that this is a slight decrease that may! labor fakers who try to fool the workers into supporting such in-| banks are advancing, let us emphasize the fact that these figures | i s @ fi |been decided as the opening produc- cause it was his duty as head of the | tion by Walter Hampden. The revival international to issue the call to the} will begin in September at the H. parties of all belligerent countries for | joy, thease He aly a sa a determined stand against the war. | eas d ou nn eg he = he Even after Suedekum, Scheidemann | 2.2% Dased on The Tight of Asia,” by 3 | Sir Edwin Arnold, and Shakespeare’s and the German reichstag members } «Coriolanus,” which has not been ac- had betrayed the workers it was still} prt be 3 és | ted in New York for forty years. Re- possible for the international bureau | vivals of “Hamlet” and “The Taming to repudiate them and try to organize | of the Shrew” are also listed the masses for the revolutionary | struggle without them and against | Eddy Foy in “The Fallen Star,” 3 : them, | But instead of fulfilling his duty to | the international proletariat Emile | Vandervelde and his associates in the | Belgian socialist party became a} lackey of King Albert, who in turn was the servile tool of British and| French imperialism. | When all the facts of the world} war are gathered and classified and | some proletarian historian sits down to write the authentic history—the | . i history that will be the textbook of Broadway this week is headed by the future—of the part played by Al-| Pickard’s Syncopaters, Bobby Ran- bert and his ministers, including the | dall, Slim Timblin and Co. in “South- social-patriot, Vandervelde, he will|™ Capers;” the A. D, F. Trio, Reed show that the Belgian government | nd Lucy, Royal Gascoignes, and |could have spared the life of every Mary Cowerd and Larry Braddam. | Belgian working man who spilt his | St. Louis Unit Holds Successful Picnic to ‘Support Daily Worker | blood in the interest of imperialism. | Albert deliberately threw his subjects ST. LOUIS, Mo.—The South Slavic Section of the Workers Party of St. written and staged. by Tom Barry, is the headliner at the Palace theatre this week. This is Foy’s 57th year on the stage. The other acts include: Kitty Doner; Robert Chisholm, Aus- tralian baritone; Violet Heming and Co., in “The Snob,” a comedy by Ed- win Burke; Billy House and Co; Three Swifts and Beehee and Rubyette. The bill of vaudeville at ° Moss’ into the mouths of German cannon ‘and onto German bayonets in the in- terest of Britain and France and for} ;no other reason, Those two imperial-| ist powers (Britain and France) | knew the danger of an unhampered march of the German army through Belgium and, although the kaiser’s ‘government offered to reimburse the Belgians for any damages incurred during the march through their terri- tory the Entente persuaded Albert cand his government to pile their own workingmen in heaps of corpses be-| fore the well-trained German forces. | | Albert murdered his own workers, not | jfor any interests of his own country, |but in the interest of foreign im- |perialist powers and Emil Vander- yelde was his first assistant murderer. our press, and knowing how neces- sary and important this paper is, unanimously voted to hold a picnic exclusively for the benefit of the workers press. The picnic was held on the 24th of July. There were around 500 present. There were workers on this picnic, that were never before on our gather- ings. People came from the surround- ing cities. Among these were quite a number of Bulgarian Comrades from | Madison and Granite City, Il Also, there were workers from the striking mining district. In general this pic- nie was a manifestation of solidarity and consciousness of the workers to- wards the press, At 6 p. m. Comrade Zinich, who spoke last Sunday in St. Louis for the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti, gave a speech. We must not forget to an- nounce that the Women comrades did jeabincé of this hireling government, of this ignorant Catholic and vicious jruler sank lower in his perfidy, ‘his |treachery and betrayal of the work- ing class he professed to represent than even Scheidemann sank in his efforts to preserve the supremacy of ae kaiser. Among the traitors to the working class Vandervelde was ss ;the most monstrous of all, because their utmost*to help along. Comrades ; history imposed upon him the role of W reisky and Skiljan donated a pair \lackey of the most vile of capitaliss {of pillow cases for the press, and | governments. | Comrade ae a Haat for the eee ‘HE working class of the world, on phrthie piri arate Silda hie ieattieseenit ahniversuins ot of other things, which brought a sum f around $76.00, A fe ibers | these series of betrayals, must study Sey round P1000 ‘ew subscribers Louis, Mp., knowing the situation of} | were gotten and some books. sold. | Our sympathizers also worked with will. Some helped the barbacueing, some behind the bar, and others sell- ing tickets. They worked like com- rades, in a way that showed solidar- ity and kindness towards the workers press. When the-guests were leaving fer home, one could see satisfaction | with the picnic and service. Proceeds from the pienic were $274.00. The expense of Comrade Zin- ich’s railroad tickets was added to the expense of the picnic, because the S. S. Section called him to be present on these several occasions. The proceeds were divided as fol- lows: The principal Party press The DAILY WORKER, $100.00; The Rad- nik Daily, $100.00; The Delavac | Weekly, $74.00. Total $274.00. We thank the arrangers, and the guests for their work and wonderful attendance. * This is only one more answer to those who wish our press a down- j fall, and to those who think the work- ers’ paper does not need the support of the workingelass of this country. Now we appeal to all comrades and readers of The DAILY WORKER, RADNIK and DELAVAC, that each and every one to do their part as much as possible, so that we may help the workers’ press, and with this do a great part toward helping the work- ingclass. We must not giye the capi- talist the satisfaction of seeing our press take a downfall. We in St. Louis will-continue our work with greater effort than ever, and hope to double the. work by work- ing in harmony. |Debs Book Out; Former Leader Tells of Jails CHICAGO, Aug. 7.—The national office of the Socialist party, at 2653 W. Washington Blvd, Chicago, an- nounces publication of a posthumous book by the late Eugene V. Debs en- of his: experiences as a political pris- oner in County jails, state prison and federal penitentiary. Debs has none of the illusions of the prison reformer of the liberal ilk. The prison prob- lem, he says, “is directly correlated | with poverty and poverty as we see it today is essentially a social’ dis-- ease.” FUND. AT EVERY MEETING! THINK OF THE SUSTAINING | the lessons of 1914 in order to be abic ;to meet and defeat this cancoro» growth of opportunism which a sumes its most malignant form < social-patriotism. The same infe | tion, the same virus that spawned ¢. great betrayal of 1914 exists toda, hin the American labor movement anc jin all capitalist countries of the worlé and one of the most effective methods of combating the threat of new Wars is to fight against opportunism wherever it raises its head. a” * ToMORROW—The American Social- ist in 1914, : | oss \ estioudintinondioostinnginiontioai a te ee} ORDER NOW?! zetti, by noted radical poets. Price 25 Cents Order through THE DAILY WORKER 33 First Street By Wm. Z. Foster AT PECIAL PRICEY? A Small Library on Russia Within the Means of Every Worker We offer this set of books on Russia covering many phases of Russian life at a special price. 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