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

| . to exp. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1927 t FRICAN CONGRESS FAVORS UNIONIZATION ~ | THE DAILY WORKER fini ! Dal OF NEGRO WORKERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday | Popast Street; New York, Noy. oaiwor Phone, ‘Orchard 168 By ESTHER LOWELL. gro” descent. “His estimates-of} ie Sd aby aoe — ‘ | Organization of colored workers in| Negro populations under variou SUBSCRIPTION RATES I Junions, in cooperatives and for poli- flags was graphically depicted by a| By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of } tical action wre hotly disc a} prov n of young women bearing | $8.00 per year $4.50 six $6.00 per years $3.50 at the 4th Pan-African Con- flags and placards carrying the fig- | $2.00 three month: ures (in millions): nee, 25; U. S., 11; Abyssinia, 10; id in New York. Delegates g 155 attended from popula- 50 three months t checks to Addr > a c 3 rst Street, New York, N. Y. tidy’ groups of Negro descent scat- zil, 9; Belgium, 8.5; Portugal, 8; | ee DML WORKER, ire ® : —|tered around the world. Egypt, 4; Liberia, 2.5; Haiti, 2;| J. LOUTL DAHL a urge the white workers of the Dominican Republic, 8; Cuba, 8} WILLIAM F. DUNNE \ | world to realize that no program of Italy, and Dutch colonies, 1. The} labor uplift can be successfully car-| total is 132.3 millions. | BERT MILLER.... od through in Europe or America so} Firestone Rubber Concession. Entered as cation, apy Advertising rates on r| jlong | power, |final summation, colored labor is exploited and * Liberian and American Negroes ved and deprived of all political| were warned to be on the alert lest ” the congress declared in its|the Firestone rubber concession “en- }eroach upon the political indepen- Caribbean Policy Criticized. {dence of Liberia.” | United States policy toward Ne-| Greetings and a message of soli- | groes at home and towards Caribbean/|darity. from the executive of—the Islands was severely criticized. M.|League Against Imperialism meeting Revival of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. Insistent denials in the capitalist press of a new Anglo-Jap- lliance only serve to strengthen the belief that such an |pantes Bellegarde} Haiti’s delegate to ailian . foreign offi loudly | the 1 f Nati til the U alliance actually e The Japanese foreign office oudly |the League of Nations until the U. ‘illiam I and with an excess of protestations denied that such a perfidious |S. occupation objected, won from the | Association for the Advancement of ‘ : ets . s Pe ;|congress a “demand that actual self-| Colored People. Pickens reported on conspiracy against the United States could be thought of. by government be restored” to the black|the Brussels conference of the Tokyo. in Cologne was read to the congress | by William Pickens of the National ts. republic,, Withdrawal of all U. S.| League in February—the first such} When it is recalled that the collapse of the pitiful farce at/ military, naval and other officers ex-| meeting of delegates from oppressed Geneva, called by Coolidge to discu in behalf of Wall Street, |cept regularly accredited diplomatic | peoples. Pickens declared “that a} the question of naval armaments, forced upon Japan the realiza- Peart rate oc alah ee Wane: umemmranes rte | palaceep is, tion that America was definitely committed to a navy that would Wast ‘Tadiisas wend Iifeed “bo becin one sen cthantaod similarity of tremendously strengthen her military power in the Pacific, it is}an earnest movement for the federa-|skin-color or nose shape.” not surprising that a secret revival of the Anglo-Japanese Al- on of these islands; the reduction of Moore Speaks. | liance would be brought about. In fact it would be political idiocy |their present outrageous expenses of Richard Moose, organizer for the| i i outcome. For ty very obvi ; the broadening of edu-| American Negro Labor Congress,} to expect any other immediate outcome. For two very ObVIOUS | ¢ational facilities on modern lines 1 pointed out that most American Ne- reasons the revival of the old alliance for the purpose of serving |jabor legislation to protect the wo istorical nece {ers against industrial exploitation. mperialist conspiracy against the workers’ and|Color prejudice among. themselves | ti iet Union, Britain needs the as should bs pe OF as the first step condly, Japanese statesmen know | Ni eien ee nee Sa a can st the Chinese revolution, Brit-| 5, ss stated, a voice in their own| iveness, would be forced | governme native rights to the! “The Negro began to learn class} to rely upon Japanese co-operation, while the United States aims j|land and its naturat resources; mo-| consciousness as well as. race con- ‘ it China to the exclusion of ev 7 other nation. With |dern education for all children (voca-|sciousness when he came in contact | gs he erable sais 7 i {tional or otherwise was much dis-| with industry and organized labor in| Britain dominant in China, Japan would at least share in that lcussed); development of Africa for the years of the war and in the mi- exploitation; with the United States do ant the Japanese na-|the Africans and not merely for pro-|grations to the north,” declared Rob- tionalists and imperialists know that they would be reduced to fit of Europeans; re-organization of jert Bagnall of the N, A. A. C. PL sassals of Wall Street commerce and industry to make the, The congress expressed apprecia-| RI asa beara . ettns main object of capital and labor the tion “to the Soviet government of| Of course this s peration between Britain and Japan also} welfare of the many rather than en-|Russia for its liberal attitude towar has its limitations, inasmuch as each of the two nations hope |yiching of few; treatment of civilized|the colored races and for the help eventually to dominate Asiatic policy. Japan’s rising imperialism | men as civilized despite differences | which it has extended to them from oint action with Britain, but hopes also of birth, race or color. ‘ ; time to time. A committee was} tion in trade unions. He cri-| ed the congress for not delving eeply enough into colored workers’ | |problems. He proposed alliance with | other groups working against imper- ism, new aims was a First, in its peasants’ government in the Sc sistance of Japan as any ally. Si full well that in the struggle ag: ain, although taking the lead in ager hopes to gain today thru j ! tee, Dress oe eae Sins ‘am caal a aoe Pan-Africa was explained by pre- chosen to work toward establishing a that tomorre it will be Sune enouny to oust Britain. On the iding officer Dr. W. E. N. DuBois| permanent and continuously function-| other ha Britain longs for the day when she can again recover the total of peoples of African|ing organization. her old place of world supremacy and reduce Japan to a state of | vassalage, while Yankee imperialism maneuvers to oust them | both. | But, in the midst of the rivalries of the Far there is always present lonial revolutions and to the north of China lies the vast proleta-| rian country of the Soviet Union, a great power coyeting no ter-| ritory, the enemy of imperialism and colonial despotism, and the | friend of the oppressed of all the earth. So long as that power) exists the imperi: s dare not ignore its portent. All of the three imperialist marauders in the Far East per- | the imperialist powers in, he ominous threat of co-| “ceive that their immediate enemy is the Soviet Union which sets) its face like flint against the imperialist plundering of peoples and so they co-operate in an effort to overcome their class enemy. | In their fight against the Soviet Union they and their sycophants, | the newspaper writers, the professional patriots, the pacifists, | the social democrats of the Kautsky stripe and others, circulate | the monstrous nder that the greatest menace to peace is pre-| cisely revolutionary Russia. But behind the fight against the Soviet Union can be clearly | perceived the gigantic antagonisms between the imperialist pow- | ers.as they prepare for every more titanic struggles between| themselves. One of the principal reasons they all wage war, openly or covertly, against-the Soviet Union is because they are afraid to plunge the world into another imperialist war in an at- tempt at a new redivision of the world between them with the Soviet Union still intact and the working class in the home coun- | tries able to offer even a slight resistance. In that respect alone, | through the fear it inspires among the powers that are preparing | to fly at each other’s throats, the Soviet Union has-been the great- | est force for peace in the world. | To prevent the materialization of the frightful implications | arising from a new secret Anglo-Japanese Alliance it is necessary | to combat with all energy the imperialist fight against the Seviet| Union and the Chinese revolution and at the same time fight like | tigers against the contemptible agents of the imperialists in the ranks of the labor movement in America, England and other im- perialist countriés who are trying to aid the capitalists prepare the next world blood bath by devitalizing the labor movement of -its militant elements so it can be delivered bound and gagged into the hands of the war-monger: Connecticut Campaign Capital in China. ; One of the Coolidge administration stalwarts in the senate, Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, is receiving considerable pub- licity on a Chinese pipe-dream. The eminent lackey of the insur- ance swindlers and defender of American imperialist depredations modestly claims credit for having persuaded the Manchurian ban- dit, Ohang Tso-lin, to spare the life of Borodina, the wife of M. Borodin, sometime adviser to the nationalist government. The gentleman from Connecticut, according to his own version of the story—which, by the way, is not confirmed by Chang—is that he told the war lord he would be considered a “beast” and a “bar- barian” if. he executed the woman prisoner. This nursery tale of the gallant yankee persuading a China- man to save the life of a lady might be political capital among the yokels of Connecticut who vote the republican ticket, and is not particularly harmful anywhere, but we respectfully suggest that | word from representatives of the Soviet government would bear | much more weight with the Manchurian bandit lackey of imperi- alism than a pudgy American shyster lecturing on etiquette. What we are interested in is whether Bingham and the rest of the yankee meddlers who have been in China are going to voice approval of the American policy of bombarding defenseless Chi- nese or to demand that the armed forces be withdrawn so that) the Chinese masses can settle with the Chang Tso-lins and other bandit chiefs in the pay of imperialism. If Senator Bingham is really desirous of obtaining a reputation for saving the lives of |- women he might do something of a practical nature by getting the murderous marines, sailors, soldiers and other gun-men of Wall Street out of China so they can no longer indulge in whole- sale murder as they did in the shelling of Nanking. | cals. {he is a citizen, will be deported as|favor Let them get out the | Works.? we're lost. bunch of idiots. | “Here, what happened to the unions * * * How the Socialist “Brain” Dear Comrade: i Not desiring to be sent to the elec- | trie chair, the writer did not partake} in: the following discussion, although | he must admit that it was with much} difficulty that he kept in gun intact. ... “What did you say,” the so-| cialist interrupted with marke d| anger. “The left-wingers? All Com-| munists are idiots. They’re a bunch) of idots.” | 4 “Why,” the interruptee asked po-| litely. “Why?” “Because they’re a bunch of idiots. We have all th i igration law: x we veal Shes omg 0"! Uta Senator Flays U.S. come into the United States. And| Dictatorship in Haiti; ‘Calis for fvacuation) wait, that’s nothing. On account of es | them, the Communists I mean, we are going to have laws to revoke the citizenship of all those who are radi-| SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 29.—De- Any foreigner, no matter how|claring that “if the voice of Haiti | long he has been here, whether or not|could be heard it would be 99% in| United States withdrawal,’ | soon as it is found that heAs connec-|Senator William H. King of Utah| ted with a radical movement. And|characterized American occupation of don’t you think the United States will|the island republic as “force,” “sup- be right? Who wants radical)ression” and as an aid “in breaking foreigners here anyhow? They come}down the confidence that the South to make money and they actually| American and the Central American despise the country. Let them go out.| nations have in the United States.” Let them go back to Russia, their! “By secret treaties and by loans, | paradise.” |with their expected future obliga- ‘So far, your boss seems pleased| tions,” King said, “the United States about Russia. The first few cables has sealed Haiti’s subjugation for the Baht e g favorable. i /next forty years.” The senator called th oe new oe changed, | upon the United States government | abs why the first Impressions are/to restore to the Haitians the inde- ee. eave les ant ease ane h 4g | Pendence taken from them by the even + go to foland, waich ts) American banks supported by the really a reactionary country, I would United States marines and American like it because it is now different! oon than it was before the war. pan ae orcas, “Poy telling “you the Communiats| Haiti lost its independnece as a re- are a bunch of idiots. Look how they fae of eocab aH Ute by the United behaved towards the Satco-Vanzetti) tates’ fires dnuing os Wilsons ad: case. A bunch of idiots I’m telling | ™nistration, in 1915. The occupation you. Instead of protesting in a|°@™e ghee inst: of; futile diplo- friendly, yet dignified American man-| ™atic attempts to foree the Haitians ner, like Green, for instance, they ac- | accept the loans of a group of New ted like lunatics. They went to Union| York banks whose capital was to be Square, a bunch of Jews and Italians, | secured by customs receipts. The to protest. What right have they got Haitians failing to fall into this trap, to protest? Who are they? They | the marines were introduced and the ought to. be tickled they're here. Let /|!oans forcibly effected while Europe’s them get out. And did you read what| attention was distracted by the war. happened after the demonstration? | They caused a riot. They had their} ‘1 Wt heads split. Good for them. Lucky | West Virginia College we had enough police there. But b: | Fires Two Professors; the way, do you know why there v ye such a big police force? Not because! K ailed to Boost State CHARLESTON, W. Va. (FP) “That was a vulnerable spot where you pounded the capitalist class in| your editorial: ‘Mr. Broun’s difficul-| ties with the World,’ in today’s issue. | A spot where much pounding will do a lot. of good in my opinion. I delight in the exposure of the prostitute cap- italist press, especially such cowardly pretending sheets as the New York World.” \ffhat American imperialist interven- ever, when he found himself perilous- | ‘(Crouch Tells of China~ 1 Revolution to Packed Middle Western Halls “The resignation of Chiang Kai- hek marks a new stage in the rapidis changing Chinese revolution involv- ing probably a rapproachment be- tween,the Hankow and Nanking gov- Great Britain, 50;|ernments” in the opinion of Paul} Crouch, rebel ex-soldier whose ad- dresses urder the slogan of Hands Off China have stirred wherever he has spoken. Village Meetings Packed. Crouch, who knows American -im- | perialism from the point of view of a/ jp soldier detailed to an American colony | in the Far East, is speaking under | the auspices of the All-American An-| ti-Imeprialist League (United States | Section). He is now in Minnesota from whence he will proceed to Ch cago and points east. The extraor- dinarily large attendance even in small towns, like Great Falls and Plentywood, Montana, indicate that the mass of the American people sym- pathize with the Chinese revolution }and want the withdrawal of United | States military and naval forces from | Chinese soil. Referring to the much-discussed resignation of General Chiang Ka shek, Crouch points out that a rap- proachment between Hankow and Nanking at ‘this time can mean only that the Chinese revolution is becom- ing more and more a movement: of the workers and peasants of China. “The Hankow government,” he ex- groes are workers and urged their | Plains, “has moved rapidly to the right | of late and has carried on‘a per- sistent campaign against the trade | unions. This is done under the pre- text of attacking the Communists. “I should not be surprised to see | Chiang Kai-shek creep back into the picture as a supporter of the Hankow government after a few months, “Whatever form the revolution for the unification of China and against imperialism may take, however, one |thing is certain, that the great mass of the American people wil! demand that the Chinese be permitted to de- termine the course of their own move- | ment as they may find necessary. For- | Peggy Entwistle, seen last in “Tom-| eign intervention must cease. All merican war ships and marines aust be withdrawn. It is not the in- erest of the common people of Anier- ica, but the interest of Wall Street ion in China continues.” Crouch began his tour immediately upon being released from prison last June. His tour was interrupted, how- | ly near a break-down as a result of illness contracted in prison. However, as soon as he was able to go ahead, he continued on the road. He says that he is “merely atoning to the oppressed peoples of the Far East” for his years of service in a im- | perialist army of occupation, English Workers Starve As Duchesses Roll Past; Army of Workless Cross LONDON, Aug. 29.—The Board of Works has decided to tear up Pic- cadilly to renew the multifarious pipes beneath to relay the street com- pletely. Traffic is to be diverted, the familiar buses are to use the Mall. , The News Spreads. The word has percolated thruout Great Britain. The hopes of the gigantic army of the workless rose as| they heard of the thousands of men wanted to ply the hammer and drill on the concrete of far famed Picca- dilly. They moved in on London this workless, hopeful,army; young men, middle aged men, elderly men in shabby clothes, men who had lived in trenches, fought in No Man’s Land, cheered to the echo -and loaded with decorations when the war was over. At six o’clock in the morning the famous street was filled with the army. They had spent the night in the parks, braving the damp and cold of an English summer night, while the aristocracy slept. But they rose with hope. Just seven men were taken on to augment the force that opened the work, the regulars. The work goes ou, the hammers ring, the compressed air drill grouches and} grunts, the jobless stand by, hungry and heartsick, unwashed, penniless, | clothes crushed with many days sleep- ing in woods'*and outhouses; shoes dusty with the tale of long miles on} country roads. Army of Jobless Recedes. Today the army is*dwindling. The! silk hat can find room to pass, the! duchess has space for her daily exer-| cise; many of the army slept on the | embankment last night under the shadow of the Cecil and the Savoy. The o!d men are pathetic sights as they lean wearily against the barri- eades. ‘I haven’t worked for a year” says Herbert Brown, “I have been a builders’ labcrer all my life. Yes I am old, sixty-three. They won’t give me a chance. My son was. shell shocked in the war, lives with me. they expected trouble, but to protect the property around the Square.” | Aug. 29.-Among the reasons given for the summary discharge of two} “And you, you who distributed red literature during the Czar, you hold teachers at Marshall College is their| failure to become “enthusiastic over | such views,?” expressed the chief listener in surprise. West Virginia and the United States | government.” .One of the teachers | “That’s nothing, In account of the) Communists Sacco and Vanzetti will be executed. Remember! _ We so- cialists would have saved them. Years ago we wero strong. We puiled a big yote, In Washington we had London | of the American Mercury from the and Berger, Berger was appointed College library. They were heads of on.a committee in charge of the ef-|the departments of philosophy and fairs dealing with the Philippines, | economics. He fought for their independence and | they got it.” | Aug. 29.— “What the Phil...” Vera Reynolds, film actress whose "Yos, yes, The Philippines have | first important screen role was that charge-of the school paper and. the other protested against the barring HOLLYWOOD, Cal., was too close to the students inj} We live in a garret, the wife gets a little from the local guardians.” War “Herds” Starve. The man with the lined face wears a ribbon on his breast. “That’s the| |D. C. M. fought at Gallipoli and France. Three years I.have covered this country from end to end. No | work, I have a small pension and can get a doss for six “pence, some of the others are worse off than I,” A Hand Feeds the Poor. go about as usual. A sister of the pavement stops and regards a group of travel: stained men, speaking the tongue of Wales. She smiles across a weary face and puts her hand into independence now, Yes, we made of a suicide in “Feet of Clay,” today ourselyes heard, Washington care-| was recovering from what police de- fully listened. But now that tho |?! re was an attempt to end ber own Communists came in from Ruassia, | life, a torn handbag. She holds out a silver coin to one, says a word in audiences | | dienne and eccentric The army dwindles slowly, the rich| elsii and moves on. } The Mikado’ | On Way—Civie Reper-| tory Planning Junior} Group. t _ Willard Robertson’s play “Black | | Velvet,” which is due here shortly | | will have the following players: Ar-| thur Byron, Leona Hogarth, Lota! ;Sanders, Kate Byron, Nelan Jaap, | rank Sylvester, and Leonard Doyle. | The Civic Repertory Theatre has! completed plans for the organization \of a Junior Group which will give to | | the younger actor some freedom from | |the routine work of the every day! theatre, and to the novice an ideal and horizon in his craft. The group,! similar in some respects to a theatri- jeal workshop, will be under the {supervision of Anne Moore, Withrop Anne's: revival of “The Mikado,” due at the Royale Theatre | Sept., 19, will have the following | jcast of Players: The Mikado, John| “ives an impressive performance Barclay; Ko-Ko, Fred Wright; | a8 the hero in “Blood Money,” George | Nanki-Poo, William Williams; Pooh-| Middleton’s new melodrama at the Bah, William Gordon; Pish-Tush, J./ Hudson Theatre. Humbird Duffey; Yum-Yum, | | Bennet; Katisha, Vera Ross; Pitti- Sing, Sybil Sterling; Peep-Boo, Pet- tina Hall. | Alfred E. Aarons, is planning to | Stage a new play by Bruce Reynolds titled “Playing the Game.” Mr.! Reynolds the author of a novel “A/| | Cocktail Continental.” “My Princess |an operetta which Mr. Aarons is now | rehearsing will have Hope Hampton| - | as-the star, and will be seen here early | 7 ges sh son: “"" Blood Money “comes into the HUDSON to chill and thrill at the trig- ger's touc' Journal. 4s The LADDER { All seats are reduced for the Seats $2.20, Sam H. Grisman, co-producer with! Harry H. Oshrin. of “Talk About) Girls,” early this summer, has placed| ° in rehearsal a new play, “The Unin:| GRAND |vited Guest,” a comedy drama in! |three acts by Bernard J. MeOwen. | ening * + Sis, war STREET tA. LUE y ‘ ons FOLLIES fee has the leading role. Others in| #8? ™ Sia ee? S \the cast are Helen Strickland, Elmer L in he cs s , os Angeles ready to begin her screen | Grandin, Mabel Colcord, Robert Con- career pcs Florence in “Baby Mine,” a pasted? HT _ and Walter | George - Kk. Arthur—Karl Dane star- deat Russell Mack is staging the |; ng: picture, which Lew Lipton is play which is scheduled to open in filming for Metro. New York late in September. x { | Prints on the second Sovkino | special “Ivan The Terrible” have just _arriyed in this country according to jan announcement” by the Amkino } Corporation. This picture has had a | tremendous success abroad equalling John Carmody “The Garden of Allah,” Rex In- gram’s latest production ‘for Metro, will open the Embassy Theatre, Fri- 4 : |the success of “Potemkin” and day evening. The new film is an|“Mother.” In Paris “Ivan The Ter- adaptation of Robert Hichens’s popu- | ible” played five capacity weeks at lar play and novel. The cast is headed | the huge by Ivan Petrovich a Serbian actor and | Elysees. “Le Chine de France,” lead- with Alice Terry in the feminine lead.|jng French film journal, | writes: The supporting cast includes: Claude) “This is a savage film, so great, ras Fielding, Marcel Vibert, Humberston peautiful, in its ferocity that it dom- Wright, Michael Powell, Ben Sadour,! jnates you, grips your mind irre, nae Paquerette and Armand Du-| sjstibly. There is in ‘Ivan The Ters , - rible’ estonishing novelty, but above all, a realism so sharp, so painful, that. it constitutes a form of art au- © dacious' and gripping.” Theatre des Champs Charlotte Greenwood, stage come- lancer, is now in | Current Events xan (Continued from Page One) : Legion ad- another worthy deed and the artist | vance agents were indignant. French )ean Legion coming for? jbusiness men were equally so. Ac- : F \tion was demanded and gotten. And, UT rare indeed is the great joy|who should be made the scapegoat ? that is not followed by a great| None other than Thomas Ring, poor sorrow and such was the case with | “Big Hearted Tom” as he was known the bliss of the American philanthro-|in the Latin Quarter. Tho he spent pist and his beneficiary. It came to his money like a Russian nobleman, pass that a puritanical Frenchman|when Russian noblemen had money, who: purchased one of the trays had j the American Legionnaires would not yet finished his second bottle of spend more and the French” bour- champagne when he took a look at | geoisie are nothing if not business- the sculptor’s product. And the/like. So Thomas Ring was given sight that met his eye shocked and forty eight hours to leave the coun- amazed him. The design on the tray |try. Sorry, Mr. Ring but if you were showed \the returning American a real patriot instead of just a doughboy hastening to embrace the | wealthy money maker..you. would figure of a nude woman, under which | never have circulated or caused to was inscribed: “Allez Up, American | be circulated such a base slander on Legion, 1927.” {the moral character of the American “ | Legion. HIS was too much. What was | ————_———— France coming to and the Ameri- PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS wept over his good fortune. * * * * * aS AT PPECIAL PRICE? 2 8 —and Strategy In these books you will. find a thrilling, acc ‘ picture of two great.Americam. Labor strugegi 3 and an indispensible guide f6¥ the future strugg: of Labor. Put them.all in. your libr ~ THE PASSAIC TEXTILE STRIKE By MARY HuATON J book just is- sued, {ustrated with man graphs, writter = by the noted noyetist and ’ =A PASSAIC BY ALBERT W iight by its le word picture is JS Smertcan Labor, STRIKE STRATEGY By WM. Z. 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