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

we ’ 1 = Page Four ne Ni RL cH DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1927 ] ed by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday Street, New York, N. ub) Phone, Orchard 1680 eer Speech of ROBT. MINOR At Workers’ Party Convention. (Continuation) We have discussed the capitalist preparations for the coming war t from the angle of “strengthening of “Daiwerk SUBSCRIPTION RATES rk only): By Mail .50 six months $6.00. pe 50 three months outside of New York): yea $3.50 six months $2.00 three months By Mail (in New $8.00 per ke out ct E DAIL RKER, 33 First Street, New York, N.Y. the rear.” Now let us look at the al ci se ipnwS mobilization of the front—that is, J, LOUIS ENGDAHL + . Editors the direct military preparations. WILLIAM F, Dl BERT MILLER.... find that, the budgets, the amounts of money given to military prepara- tions, are almost double since the Business Manager Seen ane euec On Macally a New Yorks N. fy under |war of 1914 to 1918, If we have even came? —— ~~" the slightest inkling of understand- Advertising rates on application, ing history, we know that that Fan Seer doesn’t mean peace. We find that these budgets are not only nearly double, but they are rapidly increas- ing. We find a race for the building of further war machinery. In France today, in time of peace, the indus- tries are humming in the production of material. We find very pecu- liar development in the technical means of warfare. For instance, you know how, in the course of develop- ment of industrial machinery, the labor of man to the machine proportion of capital inv The Sele Screen at Geneva. - Under the pretext of propoSals to outlaw war the antagonisms between nations are being fought out in the eighth assembly of the league of nations at Genev : On the surface the small nations appear to be staging a revolt against the domination of the big nations. The capitalist press, with few exceptions, interprets the movement of forces at Geneva in that superficial manner. They mistake the apparent movement for the real movement. ; The chief of the Polish delegation, M. Sokal, is preparing to introduce a resolution to “outlaw war” by making an act of aggression of one nation by another an international crime. This is mere verbiage, for the simple reason that the gathering an- tagonisms that lead to an armed clash between nations are always of stch a character that each of the belligerents claims that the enemy guilty of aggression. The attitude of the neutral na- tions i determined by their alliances or enmities. Even today, thirteen years after the outbreak of the world war there so that the ed in ma- X in wages—that i ng of labor. A curious development, although the compari son is not, of course, an exact one, is to be found in the de of war technique. Fewer men, tively speaking, and more mi ‘ The number of machine guns in the ag: We! is transferred from the hand) chinery becomes larger and larger in; proportion to the amount of capital fs THE DAILY WORKER The Communist International, The War | _ Danger and the Role of American Imperialism tariat, as the Soviet Union, and in; Germany, Breitscheid raises his voice eonjunction with these states their to say that the policy of Stresemann | allies in the form of states represent-|is the policy ing of the Social Demo-| non-imperialist national revolu-| cratic Party. We find D’Aragona | These on one side, and the im- in Italy helping Mussolini to destroy | perialist capitalist powers on the the workers’ organizations and to! other. The Social Democrats are | build counter-revolutionary organiza- | preparing not only to mobilize the tions. We find, comrades, even down, fo.: their imperialist masters |to these miserable little worms of | merjul, but especially to mobilize Social Democrats that you New them against the Soviet Union and. York comrades are pestered with| against the Chinese revolution. Let here on the Hudson River, August | me show you how. As an example, | Claessens and his type, even going so | |in the Marseilles congress of the Sec- | far as to speak against the call for al }ond International recently there was! strike to save Sacco ,and Vanzetti, | |@ veritablé orgy of propaganda sent | thus helping in the hanging of Sacco {out throughout the world, propa-|and Vanzetti so as to preserve the |gandg calculated to establish in the | prestige of the American capitalist workers’ minds that there is now an|class state. Comrad concretely in | €Poch’ of peace under the present im-! the case of China, we find a whole | | Perialist tule, and that the danger chorus of social democratic leaders Pe gee world Bolshevism oats dis. ging the song, as it comes. from urb the peace. That a world war | cf France, there: are not | s igh French troops sent to China Th er | wou'd break through the aggressive ae ig aceon of ane Soviet | to preserve order. That is the voice ton. We find» the world ‘today | of the social democrats. In the case | oded with propaganda about the of MacDonald of England, it is a de- |claration in favor of “adequate” | troops for the. British interests” in | China, That is what they have to say |and even when Chiang Kai Shek, the | traitor who very nearly destroyed the Chin reyolution, performed: - his | treachery if was to-the universal ap-| plause of the social demo tic parties of the 2nd international. Every. at- tempt of the working class, every ef- fort to establish the hegemony of the | working class in any national revolu- | supposed terror in the Soviet Union. We find the rag tag and the bob tails of the petty bourgeoise—the petty- bourgeois “radicals” and anarchists, Social Demoerats of the right, and ial Democrats of the left, with the patronage of the bourgeois press, oining in a great singing soci in oncert against the “red imperialism” jof the Soviet Union. This is an orgy of treachery which, on the part of the leaders, is calculated republie in zainst the worker |“Dracula” Being Read-| | | York this Pee Ye RA STANWYCK a _ BARBA ied by Liveright—An-| other Ben Hecht Play Horace Liveright placed “Dracula.” his first production of the season, in rehearsal on Monday. Ira Hards, who staged “The Cat and The Canary,”| will stage the production. “Dracula” has been seen in the provinces of England for the past | three years. The Hamilton Deane | version of the famous Bram Stoker} thriller is now playing at the Duke} of York Theatre, in London. John Balderston, whose play “Berkeley Square” will be presented in New season, has made the Americanized version. Berhard Jukes, | who played one of the important roles | in the London production arrived! here this week to play his original role in the Livewright production. Gives an impressive performance in |“Burlesque,” Arthur Hopkins new | Production at the Plymouth Theatre. Cleon Throckmorton has been chosen to design the sets for the open- | ing production of Herman Heijer-; mans’ realistic play of the Praten |: cs seaboard “The Good Hope,” which} will be presented by the Civie Re- pertory Theatre on October 18th. Sam H. Harris announces that the! cast. for “The Man-Eating Tiger,” by Ben Hecht and Rose Caylor, will in- clude the following players:’ Tom! Powers, Helen Flint, Robert Keith, | Carlton Brickert, Cecil Secrest, Car- lotta Irwin and Edward Rigby. The Blood Money HUDSON W._##th st. Next Matinee § : still rage heated debates among the historians of capitalism as to whether the centra powers or Britain, France nad Russia were the aggressors. The conflicting opinions of the historians them- srmined by their national and class prejudices, which eak. y the Polish proposal is only a smoke screen behind which the intrigues of the great pow re carried on. The illusion that the proposals of the small nations are directed against the big powers as a bloc must be categorically rejected as unreal, in view of the well established fact that the small nations are vassal states serving as pawns in the game of the big nations. That does not mean, however, that each small nation is the tool | of one specific power. Quite frequently the inner political life of small nations is motivated by conflicting interests serving an- tagonistic big nations. Poland is an example of such a nation, Britain has for a number of years been striving to dominate Poland and overcome French influence.. In spite of the fact that the coup of Pilsudski in Poland was a move in behalf of Britain | there still exist strong French influences. And the action of the Polishdelegate to the assembly of the league of nations indicates | that behind the scenes the wily Aristide Briand. is manouvering | jcombatant bodies, and, in short, a modern army in proportion to the| number of men, the power of the! guns, the size and power of airplanes, | the greater weight of which they will car There are now being built one man) tanks, small tanks each containing | one man, so that a whole army of} men, each individual soldier enclosed | in a separate steel tank, can sweep | across an enormous field of territory. | The development of flame-throwing material, materials by which great | armies can be burnt up with one dis- | charge of chemical substance. Ac- | cording to the most serious informa- | tion, even that which we had thought | a short time ago was a mere night-| mare or fancy—the development of | disease-germ warfare—is actually be-| ing undertaken in laboratories of Eu: ropean military departments. ; So, comrades, in this coming war we will have a change of technique, a change of the composition of the change all around in the conditions, explosives | ¢ all such things | me are showing upheard-of development. js therefore to fight them: In France, wi these laws I have described ing the nation up as a war ne, Paul Boncour, the French ist leader, took the lead in es: tablishing and Passing this law. In/ (Continued from Page One) | ports of the offending nations and the | shelling of their principal cities un- less appropriate and abject apology ; was made. ee | ACCORDING to a Geneva report in| one of the capitalist paper the! three principal tuchuns of the league, | Chamberlain, Briand and Streseman, | are waiting with diplomatic daggers | parked on their hips, for the most favorable opportunity to bury them | in the backs of their rivals. While; to align forces against Britain’s domination of the league. . Britain | political, social, _tilitary and tech- _immediately launched a counter-blast through its agent, M. Pol-| nical, under which we must work. e ee ay * 4 sass * This requires a ehange of tactics on itis, chief of the Greek delegation, who criticized the Polish | je part'ef Every Comminiet Party) proposals. | or rather an adaptation of the revolu- No one should be deceived for a moment regarding the inde-| MOnaSy. eee to the mer Aineton, : y i Whi s i “4 ve! n passing, let me remark at 1e pendent role of small nations. While these ews powers = ye © development of the technical means, their own specific national interests, history has decreec tha lcepectally tie-atmlune wattate, weane they remain tools of the great powers as long as they remain cap- |a certain obliteration of the differences italist nations. | between the front and rear, so that eee jor s idered isthe actual blood-spilling of warfare Another fact, and a major one, that must be considered is | will occur not alone at the front line, the role of American imperialism which is now inextricably in-|pyt throughout every inch of terri. volved in all the economic and political struggles of Europe. Many American loans to Poland, the Wall Street proposal to place at the | disposal of France a hundred million dollars at six per cent to! refund a debt on which it now pays eight per cent, proves that} the United States cannot be a disinterested party in regard to the | factories, then the workers’ organ-|/fJ[NLESS Mussolini cabals at Geneva. Tho not a member of the league, its position | as the banker of the world enables it to exert its tremendous eco-| nomic and political power in its on interests. The eighth assembly of the league of nations is one more danger signal for the working class of the world; reveals again} the antagonisms between the powers. The only thing that pre-| vents their flying at ohe another’s throats is the fear of the con- the most powerful influence for peace in the world today, and altho not at the league council tables its presence-is felt and its | unrelenting opposition to imperialism is feared because of the | effect of its existence upon the working class of the great powers and the suppressed masses of the colonial countries. \ | Loyal Servants of His Majesty’s Government. | The mercenaries of British imperialism dominating the Edin- burgh meeting of the British Trades Union Congress have fol-| lowed the policy of the Baldwin-Churchill-Hicks tory government | in the vicious attacks now being made against the Soviet Union} by breaking the Anglo-Russian trade union committee. J. H. Thomas and the right wing group have long been the servile lackeys of British capitalism. Their apostacy is notorious. During the British general strike the so-called left under the leadership of A. A. Purcell and George Hicks also showed their true colors as enemies of labor and servants of the union-wreck- ing die-hards in the tory government. These British labor lieutenants of capitalism run true to form. Their type is the same thruout the whole world. When the government of Britain recognized the Soviet Union they then advocated closer relations of labor with the workers of Russia. Now that the imperialist conspirators against the Soviet Union have broken off relations simultaneously with their action of con- New | tory of belligerent nations. pene of imperialism |about, not a war danger, not an ag- lessons are to be drawn. As it s| obvious that. under such circum-| stances as I have described, with a militarization of the workers in the| izations will have an even bigger role, and even more important, a some- what different role, in the develop-| ment of our movement. More aa portant than ever before becomes the | trade union work of the Communist | Party. | There has been a preparation for! i cal Z ‘ | this coming war along the lines of|de Revel, head of the Fascist move- sequences because of the existence of the Soviet Union, which is | propaganda. There has been a prep- aration of the propaganda ma-| |chinery. The ideological phase of the! fighting has to be and has been care- fully considered bf the capitalist |powers. It is curiously interesting to note that this phenomenon means | first of all that the leading cadres | of the Social Democratic parties have | become conscious parts of the war machinery of the capitalists. The de-| velopment of the ideological appar- atus has gone so far that it is almost incredible when we look at the evi- dence. For instance, we find there is a whole field of literature, so- called socialist publications, throuch- out the world, including America, which are intensively at work in} justifying war between imperialist } nations. In justifying war ‘between | imperialist nations, these reformis up to that point, are merely doing | the same thing the Social Demoerats | did in 1914. But there are further developments. There Js a wide prep-| agation of what they call the theory | jof “ultra imperialism.” A develop-, which brings gressive imperialism. but a sort of | benevolent. pacifie imperialism. We find that being spread in the Social cocting a malignant series of forgeries, provocations and murder | the labor leaders follow suit and break off their relations with | the trade unions of the Soviet Union. As in every country in the world the British working class is | forced to wage a struggle against their reactionary and traitorous | labor leaders as a part of the fight against the capitalist class as tions, the Dawes plan, Locarno,| predicted that in a few hours the crew a whole | “democratic” diplomacy, ete., all of and passenger of “Old Glory” would Democratic press in all of the world. They are cultiva’ a pacifist epoch inst at this these same Social Democrats are ¢ laborating in the preparation for the war. We find the Social Democra’ today praising the League of Na- But altho the leaders who have so shamelessly betrayed the| Which is merely ideological prepara- | workers of Britain may declare that the trade unions of Britain} |into loyal support of thei \tion for the working class to be swept | once Arthur had not talked with god rialist > his sponsorship of the great hop this situation is undoubtely thrilling it does not indicate the presence of that spirit of brotherly love which is supposed to be characteristic of the capitalist system. Indeed, we can- not conceive of any state of society, even the caricature of socialism repre- sented by capitalist apologists, being more at odds with the common con- | ception of civilized social order than} | the murderous economic system under | whichwe live. We shall watch the | bourgeois charlatans at Geneva, con- fident that their “peace” fakes bode no good to the workingclass and that] none of their peace, protensions in-| clude a friendly attitude towards the Soviet Union. # * ® isunusually un- grateful he will confer the title of Alliance of North America on mayor Walker, who seems to be incapable of conversing on any other subject since his arrival in Italy, but the virtues of Mussolini and Fascism. The mayor's guide in Italy is Count Thaon ment in the United States. © Is Fascism so popular among the Italian population in New York City that! Walker finds it politically expedient to be so prolific in his praise of that murderous regime? * * ra i bedi’? more sacrifices on the altar of capitalist greed are Hill; Ber- taud and Payne, whose lives were lost in the ill-fated attempt of “Old Glory” the Heart monoplane that attempted a non-stop flight from the United States to Rome. Tho Hearst‘disavows any circulation motive in the backing of this fatal adventure, his disavowal must be taken with a large pinch of salt. Had it been successful the pub- lisher would have first claim on the accounts of the flight’ by the three flyers and the prestige accruing from would have brought more shekels in- to his coffers. * * * UCH tho we deplore the loss of three lives we cannot help com- menting on the fact that the flyers had a papal blessing and that a priest sprinkled “holy” water on the air- ship before she winged her way over the ocean. The papal blessing proved a dud. its talismanic value was about as nil as that~of the rabbit’s foot} that toted around by superstitious Negroes. s)he HE omniscient Arthur Brisbane in his column of last Wednesday be conversing with Mussolini. For before he turned his wisdom into the have no relations with the Russian trade unions the rank and file | governments in the coming war. of labor and the real leaders of the left will maintain ever closer | a comrades, ae pe elit ‘ ry 7 ne i) aital Tni crats are going ‘urther an ar. relations with the workers of the Sov iet Union. _ Altho the | the CACHAN. OF ail aptia tee ee Thomases, the Purcells and Hickses do all in their power to aid baringlant onlytor the ee eue BEE their masters, the tories, in the attacks on the workers’ and peas-| preparing for this wedi kind cat 4 ia, the workiag class of Britain will|war.. I remarked a while ago tha its Soy Grune pt Buasia, the is ; we » heads of the a pad unique factor of the coming war fight against these conspiracies and over the hea Phe iat te yall besekween. weAbee bed tates continue the re in action regardless of the fact that resenting different classes, There formally it no longer exists. yn \dictaphone. Another disappointment ‘for Arthur is-the established fact that successful non-stop flights over the | Atlantic from Europe to America are 'still to a great degree dependent on chance, which makes it a little more difficult for Arthur to get his cus- tomers excited over the probability of ‘mighty fleets of*war planes sailing | the world. Just to illustrate the role tionary movement is met by the cry | of the Social Democrats and the need | of these jackals, the cry against “boishevist violence,” “bolshevist ter- ror,” ete. And the “left” social dem- ocrats, by the way, are almost pre- cisely identical in their attitude to- wards these questions, (To be Continued) CAE | Letiers From Our Readers | ea a RN re An Unbiased Judgement. To the Editor: Since 1 am neither Communist ‘nor ocialist, I have no factional axe to id in the recent bitter war of g words between these two groups over the Sacco-Vanzetti memorial demon- strations. But during the last week when I helped with arrangements for the memorial meeting, I was aston- ished at the attitude and the tactics of certain Socialists. For example, Former Assemblyman August Claessens, announcing in the New York Times of Aug. 28, that he was speaking for the Socialist Party—self-appoined spokesman, by the way—flatly asserted that the |New York Memorial Committee was “a self-appointed group taking ad- vantage of the grief of sincere mourners to further the ends of Communism and anarchy through sensationalism. Furthermore,” he continued, “it claims to be acting for the Boston Sacco-Vanzetti Commit- tee, whereas the latter committee, which we recognize as a responsible group, has repudiated any such dem- onstration and has\asked us and other sympathizers throughout “the country to conduct funeral meetings, ete.” e Now I happen to know that Mrs. Clarina Michelson, on Friday, Aug. 26th, showed Mr. Claessens various |Honorary President of the Fascist| letters and telegrams from the Bos- ton committee, authorizing her to go ahead as chairman of the New York committee. She showed him one tele- gram in particular which expressed the Boston committee’s hope that all liberal, radical and labor groups would cooperate with her .committee in New York. His statementas self-" appointed spokesman of the Socialist Party was therefore false and delib- erately made against the facts in his possession. I happen also to know that Mrs. Rose Sacco was a guest in Mrs. Michelson’s home and that she and the organizer of the original Sacco- Vanzetti Defense Committee fully co- operated with Mrs. Michelson. I think Mr. Claessens owes Mrs. Mich- elson a publie apology. I was further amazed at the atti- tude of the Socialists when I noted their official organ, The New Leader, in its issue of Sept. 8, wholly ignored Monday’s huge mass meeting in Union Sauare and never mentioned the demonstration at the Second Av- enuc Casino where, as a witness. I can say literallv, thousands of work- ers filed ough all day and evening to vay tribnte to the tio executed radicals. Why this ‘attitude on the vart of a paner to be friendly to the Saeen-Venzetti cance? STELLA WARD. THe Torch Bearers. Editor, The DAILY WORKER: Sacco and Vanzetti are \dead in body, but their names will never die, It is the duty of every proletarian to keep their heads up and remember the sacrifice at the capitalistic “altar” of two pure and simple workers, a fish peddler and a shoe worker, who energetically propagated for the wel- fare of the down ridden workers. Governor Fuller and his private as- sassins who obey their masters’ voice —Wall Street, might die ten times over and over, vot their just -disap- pearance from this earth would be hardly missed by the proletariat. Saceo and Vanzetti have died onee and an untimely death at the hands of a filthy system, but their sacrifice is not in vain, their names will be the signal for the battle cry of prole- tarian freedom. Long live the honest and humble spirit of true soldiers of from Tokio or London to dvop de-! the ‘vmv of Suppressed.—Jack Kal- will he states renresentine the nrole-' vastatine hembs on American cies + evening except Mondays at the Pro- Bosom,” which reopened Tuesday night. There will be a matinee on Saturday. Needle Trade Defense | The picnic for the benefit of the |cloakmakers and furriers, arranged by the Freiheit Singing Society will at Pleasant Bay Park, Bronx. “Sig- man Follies,” an operetta recently written will be produced at the Park by the Singing Society. Revolution- ary and working class songs will be {sung by the chorus. There will also | be other features and attractions, the most interesting of which will be the famous giant Alex Fox, who bends iron bars with his hands, and demon- strates his strength in various other ways. During th eafternoon, there will be athletic games, races, ete. The dance hall will be open all ‘day, with a famous jazz band supplying the music. Tickets are 40c in ad- vance and 50c at the Park. They can be gotten at the office of the Defense Committee, 41 Union Square, Room 714, and from members of the Frei- heit Singing Society. Profits of the pienie will go for the fighting cloak- makers and furriers. Settle for Your Tickets. About $8,000 worth of tickets is outstanding from the Starlight Jam- boree. Every one who has tickets or money should turn-it over to the of- fice immediately, thereby help =the committee straighten its accounts and also to carry on the struggle, Tomorrow Welcome Banquet for Oscar Mailoff. Tomorrow night, Sept. 10, all friends of Oscar Mailoff, recently re- leased from jail where he served six months due to a frame-up will come to greet-him at the banquet arranged 14th St. A large crowd is expected. Get your tickets at 41 Union Square, Room 714. Workers’ Self Defense. The workers’ self defense is the to the Sigman gang whose latest move is to put behind prison bars the leaders and writers of the Left Wing movement. Through this move the betrayers hope to,hinder the brave struggle of the cloakmakers and fur- vinceton Playhouse, during the three | weeks engagement of “In Abrahams | be held this Sunday, September 11th, for him in Sollins Restaurant, 216 E.! power that will deliver the last blow} Farce opens a road tour September | l h é | A D D E R 16th at Allentown, Penn. | ia y vi ‘ ohh POPULAR PRIC Best_seats Performances will be given every $2.20, CORT THEATRE, 48th St. i. ne of Bway. Wed. and Mati- ; John Barrymore will be the screen jattraction at Moss’ Broadway next week in the greatest vehicle he has }ever had in motion pictures, his pic- }ture “Don Juan.” The supporting east includes: Mary Astor, Phyllis | Haver, Myrna Loy, Jane Winton and | Montagu Love. “If I were Single,” announced first las a tentative’ title for May McAvoy’s next starring picture following “Rou- \lette,” will have Conrad Nagel in the | principal male role. Robert Lord did |the script from Gregory Royer’s story. John Miljan and Carroll Nye have been added to the cast of Irene | Rich’s next’ Warner picture titled “The Silver Slave.” Audrey Ferris will play the role of the ingenue. Howard Bretherton is directing. “The Little Corporal” the French picture which will open the little Mayfair Theatre on West 44th Street, as soon as the interior decorators pack their brushes, is one of the last pictures edited by the late June Mathis and has for its central thread /an.episode in the life of Napoleon. {riers. This must not happen. An army of a hundred thousand workers and sympathizers who will prepare weekly the necessary ammunition will help us through to final victory. Ev- ery worker must join the Workers’ Self Defense. $45 From “Greene” Kretchme. After hearing a report of the pres- ent situation in the needle trades, the sum of $45 was collected as donations from week-end guests at the Greene |Kretchme, Berkeley Heights, N. J. To date about $200 was received from |this hotel for donations. Bureau Heads Isolating | Negro Clerks | Negro clerks in the Pension Bu- reau, Department of Interior, Wash- ington, D. 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