The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 7, 1927, Page 4

aad Page Four see enor putes THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 7, 1927 Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address SUBSCRIPTION RATES 4 By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per years 3 0 six months 0 three months $2.00 three months st Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 “Daiwoyk” aes Address all mail THE DAILY WORKER, ; J. LOt IS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F. DUNNE BERT MILLER.. Entered as at the post net of March second-class r SS. rates on application. Look at the American Legion Workers in this country today have an opportunity to get a correct estimation of the emb ascist organization of the United States-—the American Legion. They must make the most of this opportunity : The French workers are doing a giant service to American abor in exposing the Legion, that has seized upon every occasion possible to do the masters’ bidding and war on the workers in this country. From Centralia, Washington, to Passaic, New Jer he whole history of the Legion crowded with anti-labor ies. It seeks to parade that hostility in Paris, following the <illine of Sacco and Vanzetti, but the workers of France thunder fa loud “No!” Each sear the conventions of the American ‘Federation of “abor, in sickening succession, have adopted declarations of ful- some eulogy of this strikebreaking outfit, it has sent’ fraternal delegates to the conventions and it has done its best’ to smother all criticisms of this band of labor’s worst enemies. The policies originated by Sam Gompers, car g out the cle ¢ solidarity etween the labor reaction and these militarist foes of the work- ers, have been continued under the regime of Green and Woll. ‘An effort will be made to put a new labei of endorsement on this policy at the forthcoming convention of the American Federa- tion of Labor opening Oct. 8rd, at Los Angeles, Calif. There yet time, in the few weeks ahead, for every local labor union in the land to take action; to state whether it de- sires the A. F. of L. to continue its alliance with the militarist puppets of the big capitalists, or to repudiate that position; whether it desires to take its stand with the workers of France, in the class fight against. the exploiters and all their lackeys, or whether it intends to turn its back on the brave fight of French labor. This decision is on the order of the day and vannot be | with the possibility of sifting out the | ignored. active revolutionary fighters and without any guarantee for the sov- ereignty of trade union meetings.| France Wants a New Loan Attention was attracted to the attempt of the French gov- ernment to float a new loan of $100,000,000 in the United States thru the action of Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, in urging the state department to withhold approval of the loan until the two governments have reached an agreement relative to the ad- -justment of the French debt. ‘ While the state department has no legal power to forbid | the ist of May 15,000 copies of this| friend, is regarded as eminently safe | ington took the bother to clear his for journal were sold at meetings of the| and sound and in the particular good | skirts of the insult implied nor would| private bankers from making loans to foreign countries, obvious reasons no banking firm would dare incur the displeasure of the government by acting counter to its wishes. There is reason to believe that the French government is seriously considering following the footsteps of the British gov- ernment in its anti-Soviet policy. The inspired capitalist press of France is conducting a vicious campaign against the Soviet am- bassador and demanding his recall, some papers even going to the extreme of demanding a rupture of diplomatic relations with the government of the U.S. S. R. Perhaps the French government needs this trifling sum to make the necessary preparations in the event of England being successful in the near future in lining up enough forces against the U.S. S. R., to make it advisable from a political, diplomatic and military point of view to resort to open war against the Work- ers’ Republic rather than the campaign of assassination and the boycott policy now pursued by the government of the British Empire. , Morgan saved Mussolini’s neck with -a $100,000,000 loan when his regime tottered after he assassinated Matteotti. The govern- ment Sanctioned the fascist loan, and the government will sanction the loan to the imperialistic government of France unless the protests of the American masses are strong enough. Large Crowd Attend Memorial Meeting. Editor, The DAILY WORKER: On Sunday evening, August 28th, some 500 people attended the open air Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial meeting held under the auspices of the Interna- tional Labor Defense. Speakers representing the A. F. of L., unions, the Industrial Workers of the World and the Workers’ Party paid their fitting tributes to the martyrs of La-| bor. The speakers also explained to the crowd the nature of the class struggle raging in present society and the necessity of all workers join- ing the defense organizations. The International Labor Defense is the one big organization that is getting the workers into one big solidified form to cope with the situation of de-| fending workers who are framed bj the capitalist courts and judges and! prosecutors. A large number of the current is- ste of the Labor Defender which deals especially with the Sacco-Vanzett! case were sold. Quite a number of! workers also made application for “Enter Be tee We Obie mk | Week enthusiastically recelyed by the -—Lee W. Lang, Stockyards Sta.,| Denver, Cal. * Letters From Our Readers sibilities to our brothers. Something must be dones to teach us what brotherhood means.—-A Mother to All Humanity., Methuen, Mass. ‘WorkersCrowd Oakland Sacco and Vanzetti Memorial Mass Meeting OAKLAND, Sen Mor? than a thousand cl: conscious workers of Oakland congregated at iUth and Broadway te listen to the speakers at the Sacco-Vanzetti memorial meeting, held under ihe auspices of the Inter- national Labor Defensa. i Three excellent speakers addressed his audience, Tw9 of the speakers represented the Iptternatienal. Labor Defense, anil one the Workers Party. These speakers spoke @pon tho portant subject of Sacco and Van- * * Calls For Boycott. } THE DAILY WORKER The Congress of the C. G. T. and Trade Union Unity By Js BERLIOZ (Paris) The 19th Congress of the © (Confederation Generale du Tra ) s held in Paris from 26th to 29th This Congress had been ted impatiently by the working class of France and in particular by the supportprs of trade union unity, he 550,000 members of the J, (Confederation Genera du Travail Unitaire) and by the Left wing of the C. G. In fact this Left wing had made great progress in the last three months, and it was expected that at the Congress it would measure its exact forces and its po- litical powers. The C. G ., Which has never ceased to carry on energetic action for unity, had, right up to the meet- of its national Committee in followed the tactics of a joint congress of the trade unions, which would result in the formation of a united C. G. T. by amalgamating the two Federations under the leade. of both centrals. The C. Jouhaux has stuck to the fo its two past congresses (Pa is 1925): “The C. G. T. alone represents the movement in France; those who left it in the year 1921 have only to enter the trade u T. again, without submit- condition regarding the in tender ire nula of 1923 ies.” ecided in April to make a las sion. It met its rival half way and made the offer that the unitarian trade unions should return en bloe into reform unions, with the essential g each tendency to have to e: s opinions; no ex s account of membership to a group tendency; trade union democ majority rule. The reformist lead replied that the right of opinion its ranks had never been called The © in in question, and that the unitarian trade had only to apply to the or- ions of the C. G. T. This reply meant thet, instead of the re-entry en bloc, it offered individual re-entry, Thus there was no change in the at- titude of C. G. T. leaders. The movement for unity among the members of trade unions, however, continually increased. It was sup- ported by the agitation of the group of Friends of Unity, a group of the} Left minority, as well as by their journal “L’Unite” which, since May 1926, has appeared twice a month. On | [ue | Opens at Royale Sept. 17 quences of the financial stabilization. | But the economic situation is work-| | 2 4 ing in favor of the Left wing. The| bring his revival of “The Mikado” critical situation of industry renders | S0mewhat earlier than first sched- urgent the question of rationalization. | uled. He is planning to open the Gil- The struggles of the workers are in-| bert and Sullivan operetta Saturday, sing in extent. The C. G. T., in September 17th, at the Royale The- Spite of its 600,000 members, is not| atre. He also makes it known that conducting and will not conduct any! Prices will be the same as last sea- fight. is son. Following the opening, or a} The essential task of the C. G. T,| Short time thereafter, a Gilbert and U. is to engage even more than in tHe | Sullivan repertoire will be introduced, past in the immediate daily demands | with ‘The Pirates of Penzance” and to set up through its organizations Tolanthe” as the other productions. | exact programmes, and to win for its! Along with the news of the revival, | slogans and its methods the whole of| comes a London item that Cassell &/ the workers, including those organ-j Co., of that city, will publish “The ized in the C. G. T. This will be the| Life and Letters of Sir Arthur Sulli- best means of developing the unity| van,” compiled and written by Her-| movement into a mass action and in-| bert Sullivan and Newman Flower. ducing the more enlightened workers | Herbert Sullivan, a nephew of the to turn away from the deceptive pic-| noted composer, is said to have had ture of a new Left bloc led by the! in his possession a private diary,*let-| socialists which is being dangled be- | ter d other matter hitherto un- fore their eyes for the elections in| published, and which is included in| 1928. | the present volume. =: | stain from voting (in the year 1925, 1628 voted for, 15 against and 16 withheld their votes). On the resolu- tion of the trade union of the Paris railway for, 31 abstentions and 100 again: (In the year 1925 only Winthrop Ames has decided to 18 trade unjyns voted for unity.) This sligiat but noticeable advance. that a shows 2 important thing i based on the cla ned, which interve arnestly, logically while two years only isolated and gle w the debates consistently, ther ago week cism. he Congress showed, however, a further swing to the right on the part of the C. G. T. The m important questions of the movement were not dealt with at the Congress. The question of de-| fending wages and the fight against the strengthening of French militar- ism were not mentioned; nor was any reference made to the reprisals $ kers, and the conse- “Women Go On Forever,” by Daniel - Rubin will open at the Forrest) atre tonight. Mary Boland heads |the cast. George Rosener, who is playing in| “My Maryland,” has another play, | titled “The Third Hour.” This is his| first. dramatic effort. | Let’s Fight On! ‘Join i OLD PARTY POLITICS IN WASHINGTON PROCEEDS IN UTTER DISREGARD OF RELATIONS TO LABOR WASHINGTON, -Sept. 6 (FP).—, what Hollywood more commonly Even the oldest correspondent in the| knows as “It” is the sole method of ’ national capital cannot remember a, choosi between the presidential The Workers Party! time’ when the business oligarchy in} control of the United States govern- | po: es. If a candidate hasn’t got “It,” he might as well get out of In the ioss of Comrade Ruthen- berg the Workers (Communist) Par- | ment held such undisputed sway. The | the race. x ; ee ty st its f st le: is trilinglys sepetent’ in Smith Will Get It? AAs wi alka leader andi the realms of political gossip emanat-| The democratic prospects are| ~ SBN Ae "i This | viewed with more or less apathy here. | Hapsmeni Ligeia ines Soe Smith i es = z verec y m c 4 Al Smith is the democrats’ only log. Jers joinii.y the Party that he built. | ical candidate, and he could never be! fe . |elected,-it is generally conceded. ‘Any} Fill out the application below and | g from the hundreds of typewriters | manipulated by the mighty band of newspapermén who scout the capital | in the interests of their publishers back home. candidate would stand even a mg Become a member of the | Dull day after dull day these cor-! chance, ie oneeee cama) Party. and| adents te endlessly about; Organized labor’s part in the presi-| S@™™Y 7orwar the work of Comrade s, Hoover, Al Smith, Dawes, 1 campaign scems to be nearly | uthenberg. | ail: the legate nl Jebeor laril- ble. If Smith gets the demo-|; 1 want to become a member of the | cratic nomination, nearly all the votes | controlled by trade unionists in the larger cities will go to him. But if ithe southern drys pick the candidate | Address and: the republicans name Hoover, | i unionists will take little a¢tive part| QconpAtION 4. is ccc ces ewcaccusesses in choosing between the two evils. | Union Affiliation..'...... Trad i athy vhole P A % rade union apathy on the whole/| Mail this application tothe Work- question was never more clearly; > shown than in the reaction to Secre- eae aces Hagges Cee hl rity; if | Each and every candidate has the|tary of Labor Davis’ impudent lie & a : | stemp of business approval upon him,}that a majority of labor officials re- Workers. Party, 1113 W. Washington | : Ds 4 ee ‘A Blv., Chicago, Il. and that is all that matters. Even|gret that Coolidge is not going to run Dictate’ ie crutkeabe Lowdi th urportsd farmers’/again. No labor official in Wash- : ie. the: - Ruthenberg “par | sre age £2 ee eels bas agree |phlet, “The Workers’ (Communist) | | varty, What it Stands For and Why Workers Shou!d Join.” ‘This Ruthen- Workers (Communist) Party. Name a seeking the presidency. But in all their outpourings -you will fail |to find the slightest mention of these idates’ attitude toward labor, or attitude toward them. Ap-| parently labor’s attitude is no longer of much concern to either of the dom- inant political parties. Like Peas in Pod. Revival of ‘The Mikado’ |. Featured player in “The Uninvited Guest” a new play by Bernard J. Me- ; Owen, at the Bronx Opera House this week. Little Theatre GRAND tah St. W. of B'way. oTRERT f FOLLIES Blood Money CHILLS AND THRILLS T y W. 44th St. Eves. 8:30 HUDSON N Matinee Saturday. The LADDER All seats are reduced for the summer. Best Seats Cort Theatre, 48 St., E, B'w Matinee Wednesday. ==—=Screen Notes== the odta sireet Cimemia is present- ing this week Frank Molnar’s “The Guardsman.” On the same bill is a revival of ““Tillie’s Punctured Ro- mance” featuring Marie Dressier, Charlie Chaplin and Chester Conklin. Bert Roach and Mary McAllister appear in the supporting cast for Lew Cody and Aileen Pringle in “Mixed Marriages.” New Warner pictures now before the camera are “The College Widow” starring Dolores Costello, “Roulette” starring "May McAvoy, “A Dog of the Regiment” with Rin-Tin-Tin and “Sailor Izzy Murphy” with George Jessel featured. 3. G. T. On the 8th of May a Na-/ graces of LaSalle St., if not Wall St. any be quoted. Only the nomination} tional Conference of representatives|The only distinctions discernible, of Dawes could possibly upset this | of the “Group of friends” worked out | among ‘the republican candidates re-!apathy on the part of union leaders, a plan for a campaign. This confer-| late to vote-catching abilities, for the |but just what they could do other| ence was followed by several district | ideas of Hughes, Hoover, Dawes and (than conduct a negative fight against | {berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- let thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. Another production announced for very Pariy Nucleus must collect | 2” early screening by Warner Bros. 50 cents from every member and will | iS “The Girl From Chicago,” directed Conferences. May, a joint Committee of trade unions of both tendencies of the Paris State Railway drafted a resolution which included. with all the necessary | practical details, the proposals of the C. G. T. U. for re-entry. On the 30th |of May this draft was agreed to by a Congress of 97 reformist railway trace unions: three days later the |G. T. U. adopted it in its entirety. Dozens of organizations of all cate- gories in turn agreed to it. tendencies desiring unity and which up to then hed heen seattered, crys- tallized round this resolution, | In face of this imposing attack the C. G. T. was compelled at first to re- | treat and then to manoeuvre. It came forward as the champion of “complete unity,” but upon far wider bas@s than that of the resolution of the railway workers. and empowered the trade unions and the local bran- ches to organize the re-entry of the vnitarians as they wished. At the ‘same time they prenared alterations in their statutes (articles 86b) aiming at inere: the possibilities of ex- |Pelling disturbers of discipline. At the 19th Congress of the C. G.| 7 ment organs, in the national nomic council. in the League of Na- tions etc. and to rely only on inter- vention in Parliament and on colla- boration with the government and the employers. In the face of the gathering of 800 to 900 trade unfon functionaries and jin spite of a brutal hostility which caused it to vacillate on the first day, the onposition conducted a brave | struggle. There was a big discussion jon the annual report which occupied | | two and a half days of the Congress, |The results of the voting are as fol- dows: On the Annual Report: 1870 trade unions for, 57 against, 26 ab- Los Angeles Elects New Finally, on the 8th of | All the! T. there took place a hard struggle. | The policy of the C. G. T. had aimed! at getting represented in all govern-| eco- | the rest are as alike as peas in a jpod. “Availability,” as the corre- | spondents say, or the possession of FARMERS ARE SLAVES ALL YEAR ROUND, REPORT OF ANNUAL AVERAGES REVEALS By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. More than 3,000 hours of physical work, plus experienced management, | plus the benefit of $10,000 to $15,000 propert 1 for $858. That’s what the country pays its farmers for producing the food, cotton and other agricultural products which are the basis of its existence. If we disregard entirely the work of the farmer’s family and the farmer’s capital, his return on his own work figures at considerably less than 30 cents an hour. Farmers Work 3,005 Hours. The department of agriculture has ‘tried to answer the question, how many hours does the average farmer work? From records kept by 282 farm’ operators in 11 farm states the department finds that<the hours of the average farm operator vary from 2024 per year on cotton planta- | tions in Texas to 8405/per year on dairy farms in Wisconsin. The un- | weighted average for the 13 states is 3005, hours. per. year., “The hours of work she \the department, “includ | physical labor performed. The hours | shown. consist of work .in the fields ‘on. crops, feeding and: caring for livesto and miscellaneous. main- tenance and repair work about the farm. In addition the farm operator performed the duties incident to management™ of the farm, including thes nm of. the -work .done by other workmen.” Figures Show Long Lahors. The department's figures, showing rent states the average 1 by the farm operators . per Sunday and per year, vn,” says only the} receive 20 pamphlets for every mem- | >y Ray Enright. Graham Baker is ber to sell or distribute, | preparing the script from a story by Nuclei in the New York District | Arthur Somers Roche entitled “Busi- will get their pamphlets from the Dis- | "¢S8 is Best.” Myrna Loy will be in ‘trict office—108 Mast 14th St. | the cast. Nuclei ogtside of the New York AR geeaRS asa District write to The DAILY WORK- | Meet Over Taxes. wR publishing Co, 38 East First! PLEASANTVILLE, N. Y., Sept. 6. Street, New York City, or to the'—A call was out today for a State National Office, Workers Party, 1113 | Tax Conference to be held at Saranac Inn on Sept. 14, and 16 to consider him is uncertain, for the democratic | candidate may be little more ac-' (ceptable, Colorado. In Kansas it is winter W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. ¢ : wheat and in fhe Dakotas spring A SIE EAE EEE: the tax situation in many sections of { wheat. In southern Minnesota, Ohio | New York State. Armour Wills Million. CHICAGO, .Sept. 6.—The will of the late J. Ogen Armour, millionaire | | packer, filed for probate here today, | leaves an estate estimated at con- and Iowa the fi, come from di- ied crop and livestock farm while in northern Minnesota and Wi consin it is d Carolina far | Hivertoek and the ‘ Even in W Women Writer Suicide. Depression over ill health and poor i anaes today was attributed by ise | friends-as the reason for the suicide cotton, | idetably more than $1,000,000, The, of Mrs, Ruth Makon Rice, 45, author, *|bulk of the estate is willed in trust | jocturer and poet, aaa bode. ey to the widow, Mrs. Lolita Armour and found in the gas flooded kitchen of ! to the daughter, Mrs. Lolita Armour. her apartment. The gas was escaping f worl farm | y4j 7 a thiiaamie raeunt ORE Mitchell, wife of John J. Mitchell, Jr. | ¢rom seven open stove burners. hern Minnesota worked i i : while another worked | lest dae eg Rich Youth Seeks Freedom. There was also seasonal | CHICAGO, Sept. 6.—Hearing of a LANSING, Mich., Sept. 6.—Attor- AG tis latea ea by | Petition to halt the Tunney-Dempsey neys for Arthur Rich, son, of a The de tion i loperators i |farmier in no jonly $48 how | 3943 hours. | variation i Phe’ daventiouttons Lin: cake Dakotas | fight here September 22 was con-' wealthy Battle Creek family, who is |farm operators worked about 7 ho tinued today wuntil Friday by Circuit serving a life term in Jackson Prison \per week day in the winter montl Judge Otto Kerner. The writ of in-| for attacking Louise King, Battle |10 hours per day in the spring and Junction was sought by B. E. Clem- Creek college co-ed, today received takki and 93,- hothe in the Mall; |oOe% Chieago promotor, who claimed consent of the State Supreme Court |Taking the countr hole, the | be holds a contract for Dempsey’s| to carry the case to the United States ‘department estimates that i AN isa | Supreme Court. jand sur 4 eae Aes Pa es EL | farme: \day wi the corres jfor fall 9 hours | hours. AT J?PECIAL ~~ PRICE? Ce: ON RELIOION LA ne devastated the 5 | Laszki, the dispatch sai |ing 54 houses. The Vi: | rising rapidly and it is feared t} | the low-lying sections of Warsaw will | be inundated, | Two well known books at an especially low rate. re | New York Park Grows, Through an exchanges of property | betw en W, A. Harriman and R, R. ive years of thought and study have gone book which has hceome one of the best known of the many books of the great propagandist. —50 ‘ISM VS. CHRISTIANISM By Bishop Wm, M. Brown. A book that has sold into many thousands of copier and has been translated into many languages. Like the book above by Sinclair, this will prove not only of interes’ In reading—but also a good book to give (o your fellow-worleor for propaganda purposes, T am so full of resentment that 1} cannot rest one moment, until I write | you and ask that request that evory| worker in the world boycott all ticles ete in Lege F} nf shoes. loti tl tate Massachusstts, “Whatever hardship| DAILY WORKER, and Idndrod pub ft may bring us here is deserved for | lications, and are strongly wupporting K mot waking up to our own ,pespon- them, nett, tainted AAs * | are: | Harriman and the Commissioners of, ittinie, tinge “htop Bites Worker Representative | Farmer's Weeki Sun- Full) be Palisades Interstate Park, a laka, | te th ; a e; y hours days days year, known as Island Pond, with about [murder of ‘acco ad, Vanactil, "All fmecting of tho, Bub-Dintsey Conseie| Co}rmd0 77 SL 2590/50 acres of water soctace and neaziy | ec zotti, ae a ee : oh i Re oe -! Montana >, 8,3 4.2 2831) 800 neres of Woodland, soon will be| | largest audience that has ever gather- | taht tie 80, ‘ P ‘Rind sep ae nae oy ae 8278 | Aces Savatage cet all natal eit ‘the pint @ 10th ae (might, Aug, 30, L, P, Rindal W85 | North Dakota 98 4.7 8076 | the highlands of the Hudson, it was (ee corner 1 an road. | elected As yepresentative of The | South Dakotn ,.., 92 4.8 §098/8nnounced today, | ff ni DAILY WORKER for Loa Angeles, |Minnesota (south), 9.6 4.7 8224) ° | The usual evow of DAILY WORK-| - The Comrades aro yory buny those | Minnesota (north), 9.6 4.5 8242) Ad Wolgast Insane, | | ER salesmen were in evidence ond | days with thelr preparations for the |Wicconsin ssss+1+, 9.9 6.2 $405! LOS ANGELES, Sopt, 6—Ad Wol- sold moro than one hundred and fifty | Press Plente et Plumer Park, Bept, 11, [Ohta (south) , 9,0 8,9 8027) gast, former lightwoight boxi ng! copies of tho DAYLY WORKER, and|Tho profit will go to Tho DAILY Ohio (north) , 9,7 4.5 283i champion of the world, was today, ar- | About ono hundvod copies of tho Labor | WORKER, tha fighting daily and Towa siisisseseres Of OL BAB) committed to the Blalo Asylum for especially | Defender, Tho workers of Oukland foremoat champion of the Interest of |Norih Caroling ,,, 8.7 14 2781) the insane, at Patton, following a} ave becoming acqueinted with the | the working class as as 1 sien ee oh ;, ee 20284 ie 3 spe the County Lunacy poe he Colorado and Montana figures | Commission, ‘ BUY THE DAILY WORKER cover Irrigated diversified crop farm- : AT THER NEWSSTANDS: ving, with sheep feeding included iniikess Up #* Sustaining Fund ‘ j Aes : t Mase Kis ti louis adel 25 Both for 50 cents postpaid. 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