The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 9, 1927, Page 4

Page Feur THE DAILY WORKER Behind the Scenes of American “Public Opinion” Chicago Tribune Buys Forgeries In Published by t1e DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 8S First Street, Nsw 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 months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out enecks to THE DAILY WORKER, 38 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 “Daiwork” By S. BORKSEVITCH. HE Moscow trial of the famous forger of Soviet documents, | J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Mdltors Druzhilovsky, provides interesting WILLIAM F. DUNNE \ eres Bisa ae ha. ‘and sensational material about the BERT MILLER....:..i552. .-.-.+- Business Manager {machinations of bourgeois govern- |ments and different groups offended | Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., unde¥ | by the October Revolution, These doc- | the act of Merch 8, 1879. uments are intended to hamper the im- | Ss. }same Gam, “an This forgery, intended to aroused | public' opinion in the United States | against the U. S. S. R., gave instruc- tions now to organize elections of the executive committee and in an ex- planatory note on one of the points it was stated that “the Executive Committee of the Comintern rafified | the assignment of 40,000 dollars to Comrade Ruthenberg as the first ;monthly instalment (beginning with | January 1 ) of 25,000 dollars to cover the needs of the Party and that Comrades Ruthenberg, Foster and Stoklitsky are put in charge of the money.” The forgery was signed by | Kolaroff and Stewart. * * * |THE Polish spy Patserkovsky and Druzhilovsky with this document | to the American Consul in Berlin, and to Druzhilovsky’s old friend, Gam, a Party of America which is- bought with Soviet gold. The content of the document, ac-| cording: to Druzhilovsky, was dictated to him by Gam, an employee of the American embassy in Berlin. Druzhiloysky made another gery, also under instructions of the instruction of the Executive Committee of the Commu- nist International to the Comunist Party of America concerning its re- organization.” A forgery of no less interest was manufactured by Druzhilovsky by or- der of an employee of the New York Herald named Shaplin, alias Kaplan. This gentleman ordered a document “about the sales of diamonds in America by the Soviet Government through the Comintern,” Druzhiloy- sky forged the document under Shap- lin’s instructions in the form of in- structions of the Executive Committee of the Communist International to some fictitious controlling organs about investigating whether proper deductions have been made from the sale of diamonds in America for the agents of the Comintern. That document was also sold to the | American Office on Neue Wilhelm- Strasse No. 8. * * LL American forgeries were trans- lated by Gam into English. Gam took down copies and handed them for- | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1927 Sermany and Publishes Them In U. 5S. | Fover to the United States Ambassa- | dor; Druzhilovsky then sold them to| | representatives of the American press nd to the Information Bureau. The money which he received was shared by the whole clique. It is difficult to enumerate in a newspaper communication the mass \of falsified documents which Druzhil- ‘ovsky and his friends told to the | American Embassy in Berlin, which ‘were produced by order of dubious American journalists and correspon- dents. One thing is certain and that jis that the sensational disclosures made at Druzhilovsky’s trial showed clearly by whom and how world pub- lic opinion ts moulded and particularly |the public opinion of the United States about the U.S. S. R. The trial of the forger of diplomatic S45 Sete VREEZe| ‘Brady and Wiman Plan! for the Season William A, Brady Jr., and Dwight Deere Wiman announce that their first production of the new season, which will be made in association with John Cromwell, will be Daniel N. Ru- | bin’s new play, “Women Go On For- ever,” in which Mary Boland will be featured. The tryout performance will take place in Great Neck, August 24th. From there it will go to Mamaroneck, Stamford and Asbury | Park. The New York premiere will take place, September 5th at a house to be announced later, avid Lan- | dau, Constance McKay and Warburton | Guilbert are also in the cast. The second production will be done in association with John Tuerk, and | will be “The Command To Love,” by | Rudolph Lothar and Fritz Gottwald, ly with the adaptation by Herman Bern- | Stein and Brian Marlow. Basil Rath- bone will be one of the principals. <E DOROTHY JUSTIN In “Merry-Go-Around,” the spright- revue at the Klaw theatre. Stamford will see the play on Sep- tember 2nd, with Philadelphia and Washington to follow previous to the Broadway opening which is scheduled for September 26th. Later in the season Brady & Wiman | are planning to present a revival of documents which caused inestimable ‘harm not only to the Soviet Union, |but to the labor movement of vari- {ous countries, clearly showed how |forgeries are produced in the various |countries. It lifted the veil which The LADDER All seats are reduced for the ed the dirty work carried on| @ € e summer. Best Seats $2.20, iy several ae aoencics to disrupt the | “Peter Ibbetson,” with Basil Rath- Cort ‘Theatre, 48 St, HB. of peace of the world and to involve hu-| one in the title role. No definite he inl a kaa ig ht alse ase ‘ . d for this production, however, |, | y ew wars and disasters, | d@tes P : lice Peace the Eales of the fa-| has been arranged for as yet. ) Little eee ar GRAND mous “Zinoviev letter” and the Bul-/° $?zmana( t STREET |garian forgeries. It is in the in- FOLLIES terests of the broad masses of. hu- ane | The 55th Street Cinema has secured Emil Jannings’ first film “Power” and will show it in a week or two, King Vidor’s “The Jack Knife Man” manity to stop the dark activities of \the hideous, sneaking scoundrels who found an asylum in the capitalist countries after the world war. Wesley Ba: whose many freckles at one time made him the most fa- mous “kid” actor of the films, return . ; Jidor, i i Nee » featuring Florence Vidor, is also to the screen in “In Old Kentucky,” siated for showing at the’little play- which Metro is filming from the house ‘stage play. pee “The Desired Woman,” a new War- The film Arts Guild has taken over === | lies and the United States of Ameri-| sky, and contained an “instruction for motion for a new trial in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti. This | utive Committee of the United States frame-ups in history, pointed it out in their decision. to injury and shows again the cynical contempt for the opinions only these depraved swine are considered by the Fullers and the the state supreme judicial court who refused to grant a stay of Nothing other than this outcome could be expected from the | sent Druzhilovsky with a letter of The latter called Druzhilovsky’s at- these victims of capitalism to be sacrificed as a warning to other ;name was not properly written (Rut- berg) in the forgery, but Druzhilov- sky declared that it is the same per- son and showed him another forgery | eee they dared to dream of a better system of society, and, what is more, because they dared to translate their dreams into words and acts, Sacco and Vanzetti are to be shrivelled to death in a Massachu- setts electric chair on August 10th. jes seven years of unimaginable torture, after. innumerable false {ner film, will have Irene Rich as its|the Oxford theatre, in East Orange, IS family was hounded and threat-| star. The basis of this romance of and plans to inaugurate a film art ened. Their home and property) the desert is a story of Mark Can-, policy in that cinema commencing were confiscated and in desperation! field. William Russell, William Col-; August 22nd. Its opening program they fled to Ferney, the home of Vol-/ lier, Jr., Jack Ackroyd and Douglas | Will include Lya de Putti, in Manon taire. He sheltered them and cared! Gerrard are appearing in the sup- caut.”” Shortly thereafter it, will for them and listened to their story! porting cast. |present Von Stroheim’s “Greed.” of medieval barbarism. As the meantime the Church con-|@— { tinued to betray the people, to live e® __-~——~ | provements of inter-relations between | : ca. Druzhilovsky’s first forgery was! ‘ ade by or in ¢ Other Massachusetts Judges Join Thayer, Fuller and the 2¢s,bv order of the Berlin agent of Murder Commission. the preparation of elections in the! |executive committee of the Profin-! malignant fiend, whose prejudiced was so glaring that even the |°% “meric commission of learned men chosen to whitewash the conspirators Farcial in the extreme was the action of Chief Justice Walter Perley Hall of the superior court of Massachusetts. who selected of the vast majority of the population of the civilized world. The only opinions revered by the Massachusetts judiciary is that of Thayers and to hell with the opinion of all others. Yesterday morning another judge added his name to the list sentence, issue a writ of habeas corpus or issue a writ of error when presented with facts regarding the known prejudice of | Russian officer. kept judges of Massachusetts. They have unanimously refused to | recommendation to the American stay the hand of the executioner. This latest exhibition of fiend- | Journalist, Seldes, in the Berlin office countries on to more militant and determined action against the | tention to the fact that Ruthenberg’s carrying out of this execution. But a few hours remain in which workers not to dare to challenge the right of the mill owners to /on a notepaper of the official govern- exploit their slaves even beyond the limit. of human endurance | ™&nt organ of the U. S. S. R., which hopes and starts for the road of free-/ off their tithes and to aid in their! | Advertising rates on applicawo™& the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- | the Polish General Staff, Patserkov- Judge Webster Thayer has for the eighth time denied aj tern.” It was addressed to the “Exec-| who plotted to murder these two victims of one of the most foul Thayer to pass upon his own prejudice. This was adding insult the murderous, decadent Back Bay codfish aristocracy of Boston; of would-be assassins. That was Judge George A. Sanderson of Wiaver Thayer. Gam, on seeing this “document” ot S of the Chica Tribune. ishness should spur the workers of the United States and other | ee to show by its mass power that the workingclass will not permit " : 3 he had received from the Buonsted as they do in the benighted state of Massachusetts. | detective bureau stating that “the dom, Governor Fuller has slammed his bloody fist into their faces and irrevocably said, “Die.” oppression and enslavement. The court was corrupt and harbored courtesans and panders. Frisco Maps Out Daly Worker Drive Let the answer of the workers to the whole gang of cca boi ea to the Communist Party titutes upon the Massachusetts bench be mass strikes and a mili- | 0! the United States is despatched by 4 > i |the Comintern to Ruthberg-Ruthen- tant fight to liberate Sacco and Vanzetti. | berg.” a omer Stoklitsky also had never been in |the American party, having returned | to Russia, after Foster came into the Party. Hence they never could have Mr. Dawes Announces His Candidacy. E world of intellect has pleaded JN 1765 a youth named La Barre, not with the Massachusetts legal hier- yet seventeen years of age, was archy for their lives. In vain. The 2trested on the charge of having militant vanguard of the working) mutilated crucifixes. This was the class has protested and demanded’ frame-up charge used in railroading | that their comrades might live. Also|Yadicals in the eighteenth century. | in vain, Emminent jurists, thinkers, Today it is “killing paymasters. | for The DAILY WORKER has been mapped by the comrades of San | Francisco, Cal. It offers an excellent model to other districts. | The following two objectives are the guide in the campaign,—Make ;The DAILY WORKER the Collective Organizer of the Working Class.” 1. The DAILY WORKER. a. Raising of immediate funds. 'HE following plan of action for securing Five Thousand New Readers | | ' himself a candidate. Vice President Charles G. Dawes, Chicago banker, labor- hater, organizer of fake patriotic societies and notoriously con- nected with the Lorimer slush-fund scandal in Illinois, is a can- didate for president of the United States. He announced his can- didacy at Buffalo during the ceremonies dedicating the new in- ternational bridge between the United States and Canada. It is true that Dawes did not, in so many words, proclaim But his speech criticising the Geneva naval conference and proclaiming against naval competition between the two countries was the best possible method of announcing his desire to become the republican candidate for president. It is a typical shyster political speech which can be inter- preted favorably by either the pacifists or the militarists. He does not object to ships that are beneficial in strengthening the imperialist flotilla of the United States navy, but he objects to the particular form of competition he imagines may result from the Geneva fiasco: “If in their respective programs, under the principle of equality, the United States requires heavy cruisers which Great Britain does not need, there is no excuse for inaugurating a competition under which ships will be built which neither of them need.” Dawes’ speech is very significant politically. It emphasizes the suspicion that he is the favorite candidate of a very substan- tial element in the republican party. That Frank 0. Lowden is not to be considered a serious contender is obvious in view of the notoriety attached to him when his lieutenants were caught buy- ing votes in the state of Missouri during the 1920 campaign. The republican machine didn’t dare accept him then—and he was sec- ‘ond choice after the elimination of Major General Leonard Wood. Certainly the bosses of republicanism who get their orders from Wall Street will not accept him today—or tomorrow. Lowden is a stalking horse for Dawes. He represents the same middle-west interests that made Dawes a national political figure, and will receive his reward as a member of a Dawes cabinet. Mr. Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, is an active can- didate, but his chances are slim because of the hatred for him in the middle-west. The farmers have not forgotten his price-fixing .on wheat during the war when the industrial and financial prof- teers were realizing enormous profits from their unbridled price- oosting. His exploits in the flood crisis in the South make oover’s name despised in that section. This latter is not, how- ever, a matter of first rate concern to the republicans, anyway. Altho the favorite candidate of the Wall Street gang of pi- rates, Hoover can hardly be counted upon to make an impressive campaign. Dawes is the most logical candidate at this time because of the fact that he is a political bridge between Wall Street and La- Salle Street. His services to the House of Morgan in helping im- pose the plan that bears his name upon Germany are undisputed. At the same time he, himself, is a LaSalle Street banker. He has openly come out against the veto of the MeNary-Haugen farm relief bill; because of its political effect upon the farmers’ vote. He now appeals to the middle class. will be placed in the background so that in case everything’ goes well for him and he gets the nomination he can appear as the champion of the middle class and the farmers. When in office, of course, he will serve his masters and the government will remain, as before, the government of Wall Street. The farmers should not be fooled by any of the crude tricks of the old party politicians. Their only hope is a class party that will defend their interests as opposed to the Wall Street gang. Such a party must unite the two great producing groups, the workers and farmers. That alone is the way to fight against their oppressors, 4 His Wall Street affiliations |~ | been on any sort of commission to- | gether. At the bottom of the notepaper | Druzhilovsky added that the “Tzves- | tia” office is a “branch of the Exec- |utive Committee of the Comintern,” | . . * | GEEDES paid Druzhilovsky for the | “document” and published it in |his Chicago Tribune of February 15, | 1926, Simultaneously the document was also published in the New York Times of the same date. Druzhilovsky sold these documents for 100 dollars also to an American office on Neue Wilhelm-Strasse No. 8 which gathers all kinds of information for the United States, and for 50 dol- lars to an employee of the American Consulate, George Meyer, a former Russian officer. Druzhilovsky could sell this so ments on condition that his clients returned them immediately after they had taken down photographic copies. Apart from these documents Druz- hilovsky prepared forged instructions of the Executive Committee of the Comintern, on notepaper prepared in bassador of the Comintern, Section 2” in which the Comintern thanks the “Ambassador” “for his successful campaign in favor of the recognition of the U.S. S. R. by the United States of America;” it also states that 20,- 000 dollars have been assigned for secret expenditure. The instructions also pointed out the necessity of tak- tion in the personal relations between Senator Borah and Coolidge, Presi- dent of the United States, pointing out that the “physical elimination of Warren who was advanced by Cool- idge to the position of General At- torney may help Coolidge in his foreign policy which is favorable to the U.S. S. R.” * Pe the same forgery it is stated that “Petkovsky, Soviet Ambassador in Mexico has to inform some Baianke that a credit account has been opened for her to the amount of 20,000 Amer- ican dollars.” The forger made it his aim to dis- credit in the eyes of American public opinion the Soviet Union which al- legedly supports and finances, through its embassies, the Communist movement of America and organizes terrorist acts and the Communist * * many times because he sold his docu-| his own printing house to “the Am-) and writers have begged that they be} returned to the class which bore them. But Governor Fuller has said, “Die.” EVOLUTIONISTS the world over have demanded that these victims of the class war be surrendered, but Fuller has banged a_ blood-stained door in their faces. oe fighting, thinking youth of the world have shouted, “Let them live’-—-and. four old men, senile and crafty, have muttered from out of the dust-laden corners of their safety- holes, “Let them die.” iNet insatiable blood-lust on the part of the ruling class, is one of the virulent symtoms of a society ready for the surgeons knife. These things have happened before. It happened in the few decades before 1789, when the suffering workers of France threw off their bloodthirsty masters in a glorious spirit of revolt. It will hap- pen again. 'N Toulouse, as in Massachusetts; in the year 1761 as in the year 1927; the religious hierarchy then, as the legal hierarchy now; glutted with power, in a frenzy of hate decided to crush all opposition to its almost omnipotent power. A heal CALAS, a protestant, living in the city of Toulouse had a ‘daughter who became a convert to ing measures “to prevent a deteriora-! catholicism, Shortly thereafter his son committed suicide because of fail- ure in business. NOW, there was a ruling in France at that time, that the body of a suicide was to be placed face down- wards and dragged by horses through the streets of the city and publicly hanged on a gibbet. Jean Calas loved his son and to avert this mutilation asked friends and relatives to testify that the son had died a natural death. {hee catholic oligarchs spread the ru- mor of murder. They said that Calas murdered his son because like his sister he preferred catholicism to protestantism and to prevent the con- version the young man was murdered, HERE was not the slightest shred of evidence to support this fan- atical view, but they took the old man and secretly put him to torture, they applied white-hot irons to his flesh and they tore out his finger- nails. When the old man began to weaken under the torture they exe- cuted him. OF THE C. I. meeting held August 3: A RIMRA Sartinn Ores stron . THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF SECTION VI IS FOR! THE STATEMENT OF THE POLCOM AND THE RESOLUTION | The following motion has been passed by the Executive Committee of | have learned-—“crush the infamy”— | Section VI, Dist. II, Workers (Communist) Party, Brooklyn, N. Y., at its! there will be no neutral ground until, “We greet the resolution of the Communist International on the Amer- ican party and pledge ourselves to carry it out in letter and in spirit. We also wholeheartedly endorse the statement of the Poleom of our party on the decision of the C. I, and on the discussion within the party. We prom- ise to do everything in our power to help the Polcom to unify our party.”, ™, NDER, diabolical torture La Barre| b. New subscribers, renewals and distributions. sR TS | ¢. Organizing the above so as to be a regular party procedure and not | confessed to the “crime.” In the} ly This d t lud ial | public square his head was cut off ee as an emergency measure, is does not exclude special (eave nee pitt: Pens | 2. Correlating DAILY WORKER activities with other Party work, | | stood by and cheered. A copy of|| 4 During political or other campaigns publishing of special articles | | Voltaire’s “Philosophic Dictionary,” | or news items. 7 | which was found in his possession was b. Regular workers’ correspondence with paper. : . jalso publicly burned with his body. | ce. Sending copies of papers with special articles or news items to in- | YOLTAIRE, the writer of philos-| dividuals or shops and factories immediately éoncerned (to be dis- | © ophical satires, the creator of| | tributed at shops and factories), | witty conversation became a serious | d. Sending notices and if possible paid “ads” of affairs, dances, lec- | man for the first time in his life. | | tures, ete. | He thereafter devoted his life to the Organization steps for above program, | overthrow of a system where inno-| | 1. Committee for raising funds funds; committee of 3-5 to include repre- jcent people were tortured and de-| sentative. Visit subscribers and sympathizers for direct donations. | Stroyed. His pen became biting and . Special committee to copy and district names and addresses of sym- | purposeful. He adopted as his now- pathizers, workers in shops, registered voters, workers registering as Socialist declined to state particularly. (Choosing the working class districts.) Typeing and sending names to DAILY WORKER. |famous slogan, “Ecrasez l’infame”— | | \crush the infamy. IN a letter dated November 11, 1765,| |3. Organizers of Street Nuclei and Shop Nuclei responsible for the allot- he wrote, “Come, brave Diderot, in- ing of names to comrades. trepid d'Alembert, ally yourselves;! | 4. Special articles, news items under direction of Agitprop department. overwhelm the fanatics, destroy the| | 5. Organize a DAILY WORKER Club to co-operate with various phases insipid declamations, the miserable | | of above program. . A committee of five, consisting of one from each of the first four com- mittees and the DAILY WORKER representative. This committee , will act as the driving force for The DAILY WORKER Campaign. The District Office is building up a large mailing list and districting these names so that comrades can be assigned names which can be easily | reached. Each comrade is held responsible for these names and must | report what_action have taken on these at each nucleus meeting. The omrades are assigned specific territory. This program should give The DAILY WORKER immediate funds, | institute regular work for building up subscribers; put the comrades in | direct touch with new workers; assignes practical agitprop work to each | comrade; brings every phase of party work to as many workers as we | can reach in this manner, at least two thousand, All of these steps would sophistries; do not let those who have sense be subjected by those who have none; and the generation which is be- ing born will owe to us its liberty.” 'F FORTS were made to bribe him, | the king’s mistress offered her body, the pope offered him a car- dinal’s hat. He hurled their bribes into their teeth. He ended all his letters with “Crush the infamy.” He wrote, “The man who says to me,| ‘Believe as I do, or God will damn| you, will presently say, ‘Believe as| I do or I will assassinate you.’” | OLTAIRE did not live to see the revolution, but thirteen years after his death the National Assembly | of the victorious revolution brought | his remains to Paris and he was) buried in the Pantheon. His remains | were carried through the streets of | Paris on a funeral car on which was: inscribed, “He gave the human mind! a great impetus; he prepared us for, | freedom.” ! |WE have no Voltaires today. This is not an age of great person-' alities. This is an age of great move- ments. The militant vanguard of the | working class is our Voltaire today. Today the Calas case is th® case of | Sacco and Vanzetti. Today there is no powerful religious absolution. To- day we have a c igarchy. [TUE infamy of Volt still | with us, sligh AT PPECIAL PRICE? 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