The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1927, Page 4

) Vago Sour Published by «ie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, | Daily, Except Sunday | 85 First Street, Nsw York, N. Y. Phoas, Orchard 1680 | Cable Addrezs a 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 96.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months “Daiwork” Address all mail and make out enecks to THE DAILY WORKER, 53 First Stroet, New York, N. Y. ated THE DAILY WORKER NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1927 By MANUEL GOMEZ, (This is the fourth of a series of articles analyzing the Pan-Amer- ican Federation of Laber and its recent convention at Washington. * * * Nothwitstanding the many polite surances of autonomy for all affili organization which are reiter- Labor Leaders and Pan-Americanism WHO AM I?. Tam ‘almost the richest man in the world and certainly the homeliest. I.am the big oil and dough ‘'New Owen Davis Play | On Wagner List Alice Duer Miller’s new play, which was tried out in Atlanta this Spring under the name of “Vickie,” will be Charles L. Wagner’s first production pci JOSE RUBEN’ | man, but I have'to live on crack- ated at each succeeding convention, of the season at the Mansfield the-! J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ae Mditors the so-called Pan-American Federa.| e’s and milk because my stom- atre, which he has leased from the! - WELLIAM f DUNNE ("°° * "sae St tion of Labor constitutes an unmis-| ach cannot tolerate anything Chanins for the coming as Madge | BERT MILLER............s00e0% business Manager |takable attempt on the part of the| more substantial than milk and | Kennedy and Sidney Blackmer will} | A. F. of L. officialdonf to penetrate Entered as second-class raai! at the post-office at New York, N. Y., undez the act of March 8, 1879. —_. SS. Advertising rates on applicatiotk Trying to Frighten Alisa Workers in Sympathy With Sacco and Vanzetti. Albert Johnson, ignorant peanut politician, a that benighted outfit known as the lower house of congress, and chairman of the immigration and naturalization committee, staged a little publicity stunt for himself by joining the jackal pack in full ery fcr the blood of Sacco and Vanzetti. This miserably small person, who depends upon bile as a substitute for brains sued a “warning” to alien workers not to participate in demonstrations for the liberation of these two Italian workers whom Johnson, without any evidence whatsoever, called “bandits and murderers. Johnson’s venomous attack was published conspicuously by the reptile press yesterday morning in order to frighten the masses of foreign-born workers who are aroused over the plot to muraer Sacco and Vanzetti, but fortunately it had little effect as member of the Latin-American labor moverhent and force it along a definite line. American-Owned. There can .be no question as to where the effective control of the “Pan-American” body lies. Its head- quarters are in the A. F. of L. build- ing at Washington. Its president is, und has always been, the president of the A. F. of L. Three of its four of- ficers, are members of the A. F. of I. Three of its five conventions have been held in the United States, and at every one of those conventions the functioning head of every committee without exception has been a delegate of the A. F, of L. No resolution has ever been adopted without the support of the A. F. of L, delegates. Seldom has there been anything like a contest on the floor and nearly every decision has been unanimous. The history of the Pan-American Federation, therefore, the history cf the “foreign policy” of the A. F. crackers and my brain would food revolt at any mental stronger than the bible. I have a birthday once a and give money to promising youngsters but never more than a dime to one person. I think that the government of the Soviet Union is composed of thieves and criminals but I vose__ RRs buy their oil just the same. I am a fairminded man. Among the achievements for which I am famous is the Lud- | low massacre where I slaughtered striking workers. I believe} OnE Ome, head the cast of the production, which may be retitled “The Springboard.” Mr. Wagner’s second play of the season will be a mystery play. The name and theme will be withheld un- til later. “Robert and Marianne,” by Paul Geraldy which Claudette Colbert translated, will be produced during the season. Owen Davis’s play “Two Shall Meet,” which was written for | Owen Davis, Jr., will be produced about christmas. Edith Wharton’s novel “The Old Maid” is being drama- tized by Zoe Akins, and will be given a production with Josephine Victor head the cast. “Concerning Marguerite,” the play Who will: be seen here in the new | Edward Knoblock-George Rosener drama “Speakeasy,” due here early | ext month. very strongly in god and support a number of his business estab-|of old New Orleans by William Du-| lishments, | ed foreign policy of the United | {States government! conscious agents of American capital- tegra ism, and of American’ imperialism. The Monroe Doctrine. The policy of American imperialism | in Latin-America is carried on under | V the an of the Monroe Doctrine. | The Monroe Doctrine is spoken of in The Sensitive Plant. | Indeed, when delegate Martinez of | f ucla attacked the United States | | gevernment he was promptly r by President Green, who buked vered | Bois, is another play in view. Wal- ter Huston, heading “The Barker,” will go on tour on August 29, azd the Chicago company, headed” by Blackstone theatre until the middle of September and then tour the middle West. Will Rogers, also under the Wagner management, will commence his tour January ist. Mary Garden | Richard Bennett, will continue at the, Th e E A DDE R All seats are reduced -for the summer, Best~Seats $2.20, Cort Theatre, 48 St. By of Bway. ‘Matinee Wednesday. t 4 of L. machine, al parlance as a “unilater-| himself of the following resumes her concert season November, Little Theatre GRAND was evidenced by the proportions of the demonstrations. American capital now exploits work-| 2! agreement,” that, it is proclaimed) “Our young friend from Venezuela | 1, i4a . W. of Bway. OTREET So raw was Johnson’s cheap threat that even the labor de-| 2. in oyory dountevd (hn A and maintained by the United States|has engaged in a bitter denunciation 2 | eyGpiae, Bt ei Se: FOLLIES partment at Washington, which is responsible for the enforcement | American erialist can ment bat it has never been|of- the government of the United | AND THURSDAY, 2:30 On of the immigration laws, issued a statement repudiating him and declaring that participation in Sacco-Vanzetti demonstrations “would not serve as cause under the law for the deportation of any alien.” Johnson, an inordinate publicity seeker, tries to bask in the light shed by this world-famous case and denounces two workmen | whose shoes he is not fit to wipe. It is to. be hoped that the workers in Johnson’s district in Washington are able to place a labor candidate on a labor ticket in the field against him in the coming elections and expose him for the vicious, low, mendacious whelp‘that he is. The Meaning of the Agitation for Soviets in China. Again the wisdom of the invincible leadership of the Commu- nist International impels the admiration of the revolutionary forces of the world in its direction given the Communist Party of China in that difficult situation. Some weeks ago the Interna-| blished its protectorates in West Indies and in Central America, has made the Caribbean “an American lake” and threatens the national in- lependence of a score of Latin-Amer- ican countri Out of these facts there has arisen a natural impulse toward all-American labor. unity seainst the lords of Wall Street and¢ Washington. The “Pan-American Federation of Labor,” a paper or- ganization as far as most of Latin- America is concerned, was created to orofit by and to distort this natural impulse. Unless we appreciate that it is a ‘reature of the A. F. of L. bureau- eratsa we shall not be able to under- stand the role of the P. A. F. of L. in the contemporary period of ad- vaneing American imperialism. Trade Union Imperialists. 9/1 to by Latin-America. Stripped all verbiage it is a doctrine of the “closed door” Latin-America for ull foreign powers except the United ing the Ameri¢an Federation of La-| States. In practice the Monroe Doc-|bor in this conference. A proper re- trine has meant that Latin-Americans | spect for the feelings of these dele- | ave denied the right to appeal to any | gates ought to serve as a restraining other great power for assistance | force in the temper of his language. against the imperialist aggressions of | We have listened with patience be-| Walt Street and Washington. The! cause we believe in free speech but 1| United States government assumes | wish to make this brief and emphatic | the right to “maintain order” in La-| statement so that it may be under-)| tin-America, in other words to order! stoed that the American delegation | things as best to please Wall Street | has not been in agreement with all} and Washington. | that has been said by the Venezuclan| Machinery of Pan-Americanism, | delegate against the United States The Monroe Doctrine is the slo- 8°vernment. ; gan; “Pan-Americanism” is the the-| Martinez had heen speaking cl out | ory which is supposed to justify the | the outrages against the peoples of slogan. Pan-Americanism bears some- | Haiti and Nicara; ua—whose feelings what the same relation to American | Seemed to strike 1 Green as par ' ‘mperialist policy as “Pan-Germanism j ticularly important. No place outside | | States. This notwithstanding the fact | that there are five delegates here who are United States citizens, represent- | Needle Trade Defense Self Defense. With the campaign for the Work- ers’ Self Defense only a few days old hundreds of workers ave already en- rolled and carry the Workers’ Self ense Red Cards. The office of the Joint Defense and Relief Committee is receiving scores of new applications daily from workers and sympathizers who are pledging themselves with a weekly tax of 50 cents to $3.00. This Self Defense organization can | beeome a tremendous mass organiza- tion for the support of the fighting cloakmakers and furriers, and every- body should push it. A hundred thou- ‘sand workers and sympathizers. can be enrolled in this army of Self De- I——Music Note-=== Verdi’s tuneful “il Trovatore” will ‘be the fifth of a series of free Open- Air Opera performances given every Thursday night in Starlight Park | Stadium. The cast this Thursday |night will include R. Scossano, G. | Puliti, Julia Benson, Zara Jay, | Josephine La Puma, KE. Palazzi,.P. | Calvini, and E. Dalle Molle. Alexis Kosloff, of the Metropolitan Opera House, has just formed a per- |manent ballet and dancing touring company, with which he will travel | and appear in all the big cities of the | U.S. His first performance under the new policy will take place in the open air arena of the Starlight Park Sta- i 5 . 5 2 bore to the policy of the ex-kaiser and|°f the Pan-American Federation of} fense, This quota must be reached|dium in the Bronx, Friday night, tional demanded that the question of the formation of Soviets in ; eee of a ayirep eal trae “Pan-S Ste to She policy of the | Labor would Latin-Amer listen | quickly, altogether to join the Self) Where he will offer dances from PH] 7 el % 5 do not have to be told at Green, nee 2 7 A ea ti vthing like that! |p , . “ i sy Mid: China be raised. At the same time the struggle was to goon for Woll, Noonan and their henchmen do| /2t¢ (ar. A whoie series of organiza-|Complacently to anything like that! | Defense, ince Igor he Midsummer mastery of the Kuomintang, the party that served asthe rallying- | not represent the interests of the work- point of the early stages of the revolution and whose traditions | ingclass in the United States ov any- had strong support on the part of the masses of workers and| Where else. Basing themselves upon peasants. sept nes, chepoupaeaas a tegue meats The demand for the slogan of Soviets was raised so that in| which has been permitted to share in case of failure to wrest the Kuomintang from the control of the |a tiny portion of the profits of Amer- bourgeoisie, whose revolutionary role in China is now a thing of | ican capitalist exploitation, and which the past, the Communist Party could appeal’ to the masses to|i veturn has aecepted the point of : PDAs «4, | view of the ruling class. Unable to further develop the revolution through the organization of Soviets | Tacoma Gente. tate | realize that against the bourgeoisie. It was revolutionary preparation for! must be,bound up with that of the the next step. | workingelass as Rs whole, oe labor The next few days will determine whether the control of the) ted ie wee at aN Kuomintang shall pass into the hands of the bourgeoisie or workers of the textile factories, the whether that party shall still serve as the organ of revolution) steel mills and the coal mines. The against the bourgeoisie, the agents of imperialism and the mili- | bor fakers (Green, Woll, etc.) carry tarist adventurers. The renegades and counter-revolutionaries |{his Yendeney still further, They lead in the Wuhan government are using their military: power to crush | unions from organs of militant strug- the proletarian elements in the Kuomintang in preparation for |gle into organs of “labor banking,” tional instruments have been creatéd | Follow the Leader! for “furthering the Pan-American! There was no resolution at the idea.” Perhaps the most notorious of | Ww: shington convention on the ques- these is the Pan-American Union, | tion of the United States aggressions with headquarters in Washington. An-|ggainst Mexico, which have been the | other-is the: Pan-American Federation | object of protest thruout South and | of Labor. The P. A. F. of L. is the| Central America. There was not a labor instrument of the Monroe Doc- single resolution of any kind dealing trine. | with U. S. aggressions except those’! From the origin of the P. A. F. of harmless ones adopted to head off L. to the present day, its directors | others which had been introduced di- have used it to defend American capi- rectly criticizing or protesting against talism and. -American _ imperialism. | acts of the United States government This was so at the Laredo convention, |—as in the case of Nicaragua. when the dispute between the A. F.| At all stages of the debates, the of L. delegates and the as yet rather! United States government was pre- ingenuous Mexicans arose over the! sented as the natural leader of the na- question of whether or not there were | tions of the Americas—as their elder any political prisoners in the United | sister, who sometimes inadvertently | States. It was so at the Mexico City |wronged them, but with whom their conventions, where the United States | interests were essentially safeguarded. government was thanked for what it It superfluous to say that the Every member of the Self Defense organization will receive a dues book and stamps will be issued for each payment on a pledge. * * * Come Fix Your Shoes: The Co-operative Shoe Repair Shop opened at 419 Sixth Ave., is now in full swing. Come in with your torn shoes and leave with a good-as-new pair. Bring the shoes today. Bring the family shoes in the morning, on the way to work, and get them back | repaired when you go home from work in the morning. This shop is the first opened by the | PROLETCOS (Workers Co-operative | Stores) which is preparing to open a number of co-operative chain stores ight’s Dream,”, “Schohorozade,” and | special divertissements. A cast of more than 100 dancers and the Rus- sian Symphony Orchestra, Pacob Alt- | scheuler conducting, will appear. in | his support. | The needle trades workers of Ro- |chester held a picnic for the defense | of the N. Y. fighting cloakmakers and furriers. The first proceeds of which was $60. It was immediately sent to the office of the defense. Bie eh ok Another Donation From the House of Joy. i A check for $30 was received from the guests of the House of Joy Hotel lin Fallsburg,.N. Y. This is the fourth ‘time that the guests of this hotel have | throughout the city. Fifty per cent | made substantial donations to the de- |of the profits of this fire store goes | fense. to the Defense for the Cloakmakers | - = £ “ i -uni j-| had done for Santo Domingo! It was |P. A. F. of L. has never organized, or and Furriers. $23 Fi E Mountain Hi 2 r week. They are con-| “labor insurance,” “trade-union capi- oe Ria : ae s rom Eager Mountain House. the plenum . be prigahicd -— bg . of oe eek ist Mi a talism,” “class collaboration” in al] |S0 at the Washington convention just | attempted _to organize, trade-union | bee The guests of Eager Mountain } ducting systema 16" Wholesale MUFGEES Of (COMIMUMISUS ANG. MAY | eornai! When the ordinary instru- | Passed—where a wholesale attempt |action against any manifestation of /$45 From Jewish Workers Relief In| House sent a donation~of $23, -Al- j succeed by carrying further their designs and succeed in con-| mentalities of business under these |W#8 made to explain away the rape| American imperialism. ‘That it has| Paterson. though they are on their vacation, and i trolling the Kuomintang. circumstances “labor capital” becomes us reddy Haiti, Panama eee pee eee bee ety ae hapon | 5 ‘ few vee ago gee existed in jfar from the city, they have not for- i ; i i r i viets S involved in the whole complex. of |t¢?itories as “mere excesses ing | has ready amply demonstrate ‘aterson a Jewis: orkers Relief | gotten the fight of the cloakmakers | ee oe eae en eS Sore bee > American capitalism, is drawn into the |0 essential connection with the in- ‘in the course of these articles. Committee which collected funds for|/and furriers and send their’ contri- | A S 7 ; |general stream of the banking sys- : |the workers of Soviet Russia. There |butions regularly. They hope to‘ be j under the leadership of the Communist Party, to its next stage— tom, and part of it is exported abroad LOS ANGELES YUGENT CLUB IS STIMULATING | was still a balance of $45 in the bank, | with us very soon to help in the ace | the stage of the revolutionary mass struggle against all the organs|as part of the billion and a quarter | so aac to donate this money |tual battle. | italis lass. ‘ dollars which the United States in- to the Joint Defense and Relief Com- * * ag } of the capitalist class vests in Latin-America and other {or- COMMUNIST JEWISH YOUTH TO NEW ACTIVITY | mittee, Brother pane Leib had the Volunteers Wanted. | | eign countries every year. Thus a sec- honor of delivering it to the office.| There is an abundance of work in | ; | tion of the workers is partner, altho] 10S ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 8.—jwith the working youth, through our SE pa the office of the Joint Defense and i The Oil War Takes a New Turn on ast insignificant scale, in the re is only a“year since the Fretheit' Yu-|social evenings, lectures on revolu-| |W. C. Branch 355 Sends $10, | Relief Comanltton: Every worker ana | ee rs ‘ eee : aly Proms of co’onia’ and semi-colonial | gént Club has existed in our city, but jtionary subjects, live newspapers,| Receipt of $10 collected at a meet- sympathizer who can spare a few ' Fi Like all forms of cooperation between the imperialists of the investment, wrung from intensely ex-| in this short time our club has shown and, last but not least, hikes and oe. |ing of Progressive W. C. Br. 355 is |hours during the day is requested to h United States and the imperialists of Great Britain the apparent ported semi-colonial labor whose lower | that it is worthy of its existence and |ings to the most beautiful places of | acknowledged. come to the office of the Joint. De- unity of action between the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and living standards are brought into com- | that it has fulfilled the promises put |southern California. | bakes) * fense and Relief Committee and ask the Royal Dutch Shell of Britain only conceals the conflicts that | petition with the standards of the | forward when it was organized. $60 From Rochester T. U. E. L. | for Lena Chernenko. rages beneath. While uniting for a limited time on a given policy both concerns strive for the advantage. Walter C. Teagle of the New Jersey concern and Sir Henri Deterding of the British con- trolled Royal Dutch Shell united in rabid denunciation of the Soviet Union when facts regarding the oil deal -between the | Standard of New York and the Vulcan concern on the one hand| and the Soviet government on the other. Teagle agreed with Deterding only because he feared his concern would bear the brunt of a world wide oil war, since the Standard of New Jersey comes in direct competition in many places where the Royal Dutch Shell has a strong foothold. But while agreeing to follow the line of Deterding, the New Jersey magyate, Teagle, frantically strives to make financial con- nections that will eventually enable him successfully to fight De- terding. While the Standard of New York smashes the Royal) branch of Standard Oil is to have the benefit of this Se mee International, Dutch Shell by getting in on the ground floor on Russian oil, the | which gives it an added advantage over the Royal Dutch Shell, every young worker, and it is sae COMMUNIST WORK IN THE FACTORIES Standard of New Jersey carries on its fights with more indirect It is not improbable that in the near future the New Jersey duty to join us, and help us forward | grtatrie® simple Youtline of the work of factory methods. While Mr. Teagle was issuing joint statements with Sir) Henri Deterding in denunciation of the Soviet oil deals of the two other American companies (members of the same corpora- tion) he was also negotiating with Herr Bosch, head of the Ger- man dye trust, for an agreement to cooperate in exploiting the erude oil and oil patents of that concern. The agreement has just been concluded. The German dye trust deal seems to be something separate and apart from the general campaign of Standard Oil against the Royal Dutch Shell. But in this era of trusts and international cartels it is necessary to be able to penetrate beneath the surface to discern the real movement instead of the apparent movement. Indirectly Teagle will be able to get the benefits of trade with Russia because the German dye trust already holds important oil concessions in the Soviet Union. Mr. Teagle’s moral indigna- mass of American workers. The labor fakers, who lead a life more akin to that of the capitalists than of the workers, join the National Civie Federation, in company with One of the main objects of the club is to bring the great mass of the ! Jewish speaking working youth, who are still under the influence of the Zionist movement of the yellow “For- some of the foremost “open-shoppers”| ward,” nearer to the revolutionary of the country. They invite the Amer- | left wing in the labor movement. To- ican Legion to send speakers to A.|ward this aim we are working and F. of L. conventions, They put thru] striving, and to some extent, we have resolutions endorsing the military! achieved it. training camps. They act in the la- Live Activities. bor movement as the conscious or un- Our club is rapidly gaining contact tion against the Soviet Union does not preclude indirectly deal- ing with the hated Bolsheviks through the German trust. The German trust has developed a process whereby it pro- duces synthetic gasoline from coal lignite. The New Jersey concern will secure sufficient vantage points by penetrating vari ous European oil concerns to hurl defiance at Deterding and his; Royal Dutch trust and line up with the Standard of New York and Vacuum Oil. The tone of high moral indignation-emanating from the head of the unprincipled oil trust is amusing and fools no one of or- dinary intelligence. The old game of ‘baiting the Soviets is about finished. The mighty reconstruction going on in Russia and its steady economic advance, especially in all lines of heavy industry force respectful consideration even from -the most, vicious trust on earth. The oil kings know that*if they get any of the Rus- sian oil they will have to deal with the Soviet Union, which is a’ tribute ‘to the ability of the Russian proletariat and peasants | the colony. under the leadership of the Bolshevik party to realize socialism in their own country in spite of the enmity of the capitalist world. ‘ Besides the social purposes of our | entertainments, a great many of them | were organized for the purpose of helping financially some strikes, or other important events in the labor ;movement, ~ Outing Netted $120. Recently the F. Y. C., together with the Women’s Consumer League, ar- ranged an outing, and the result was $120 for the striking furriers in N. Y. and $65 for the DAILY WORKER. The Freiheit Yugent Club is spread- ing out its activities in various fields, In the very near future we plan to | organize a dramatic section, and a sport section, in our purpose and aim. We meet every Saturday night at the Gooperative Center, 2708 Brook- | lyn ave. RS | Rey. Purnell Very Sick. | ST. JOSEPH, Mich. Aug. 9.— |“King” Benjamin Purnell, leader of ithe House of David, is suffering from a chronic case of tuberculosis in both lungs in addition to neuritis and dia- betes, Dr. C. N. Sowers, the cult chieftian’s physician testified today in the State’s dissolution suit against » “He may love a year or two longer, but he probably will die within the next 12 months,” Dr. Sowers said. _AT PPECIALPRICE? 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