The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 14, 1927, Page 4

: I } “merits of the case but is only too will Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 14, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cab Address SUBSCRIPTION RATE By Mail (in New York only): By M $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $ three months Phone, Orchard 1680 “Daiwork” ATS .00 three months THE DAILY WORKER, 33 Fir ‘J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE BERT MILLER.... New York, N. Y. .... Editors ress Manager od 5 's N. ¥., under Entered as second-class York, N rates on application, | The United Frent Agaiust Panama. the | The reactionary Kellogg, Wall Street’s secretary of state, | “Iiberal” Senator Borah and the feudal-minded Senator Swanson | of the committee on foreign relations, have spoken with the same | tongue in denunciation of the appeal of Panama to the league of | nations. 4 All unite in hurling defiance at the rest of the world aime in announcing withor+ equivocation the intention of American im- perialism to take & ‘ hold any part of Latin America it desires | to incorporate in the American empire. ae c None of these spokesmen of American imperialism deigns to| discuss the appeal of Panama on its merits. They state quite simply this is the business of American government and that no} outside interference will be tolerated. As for the league of nations it too cares nothing for the g¢ to strike a responsive chord in the breasts of millions of Europeans by taking a crack at| “Uncle Shylock. The case of Panama will receive consideration in Geneva onl) for the purpose of imperialist politics. The people of Panama will get a sympathetic hearing for their grievances only by ap pealing to the m s of North America and Latin America, by making their loss of sovereignty at the hands of Wall Street gov- ernment another count in the indictment against American im- perialism. é ae The people of Panama can fight American imperialism only by joining with the peoples of other Latin can countries in the broad movement against imperialist aggression which is in process of development. ; ‘ The case of Panama differs in degree only and not in kind | from that of other Latin American republics. Rulers, bribed or cajoled, surrender to American imperi n. The Latin American republ have acted as individual entities instead of as a unit| against encroachment from the north. As Manuel Ugarte says in his “The Destiny of a Continent’’: | “Our diplomatists, pretending to have found the solution of | a struggle which they did not dare to face, have given their consent to a policy of indefinite capitulations, which has no end or limits, because a series of successive abdications ends in a darkness in which renunciation can hardly be distinguished from | servility. And the most astonishing thing is the trifling advan- | tage which they have succeeded in obtaining by this attitude. | Once they were prepared to treat with imperialism, it would have been better to face the difficulty and lay down some definite limits to the exactions of one side and the sacrifices of the other.” American imperialism moves steadily ‘southward, by finan- cial penetration, by military force, by encirclement of refractory republics. Its intentions are clear. It intends to do as it pleases with those who oppose its oppression. | Unity of policy and action against Wall Street aggression | thruout Latin America, unity of the worker and peasant organ- jzations against imperialist agents, unity of the revolutionary forces in the United States and Latin America for struggle against the common enemy are elementary needs which the con-| temptuous attitude of American imperialist spokesmen toward the appeal of Panama brings sharply to our attention. Recent Developments in the Chinese Liberation Straggle. General Chiang Kai-shek has been asked to resume command of the counter-revolutionary nationalist forces according to, a Shanghai dispatch to London. The reason given is that “the Nanking government fears that the Communists will regain con- trol following the defeat of the Northern troops.” The above news fits in with our dispatch today from Canton which reports that the two worker and peasant armies led by Yeh Ting and Ho Lung are approaching Canton and that_their advance is supported by wide masses of workers and peasants. From a half dozen pr@fin come reports of the activities of the} militant peasant organizations while strikes are taking place in Canton, Shanghai and Hongkong. The fears of the “moderate” nationalists, the elements which | are playing the game of the imperialists by warring upon the| mass organizations of the workers and peasants, murdering and jailing Communists and labor union officials, are not without foundation. With the Northern troops menacing the southern bank of | the Yang Tze and, with open support from the imperialists, | threatening to again overrun central and southern China, there | was undoubtedly a disposition on the part of the masses to let down in the struggle against the right wing of the nationalists. With the northern armies defeated or with their advance checked for a considerable period, the workers and peasants will, under the leadership of the Communists and left wing elements, proceed directly and energetically against the betrayers of the people’s revolution masquerading as leaders of the Kuomintang jtion ¢ Y }sense of the word. \d jis a | organization, | simultaneously. The NOTE.—This is the third install- a of the report for the Political ttee made by Jay Lovestone, 2 recent Fifth tional Con- m of the Workers (Commu- ) Party held in New York Ci his installment It. COMINGS OF OUR PARTY. MISTAKES AND SHORT- 1 Now for some mistakes and * shorteomings of our I: Iw not enumerate them the order of mportance, but mer sunt them. 2; mpaign: not locally but nation: learn to participate s a Communist Pe pate, in the electic must énd our under importance of election 2 condly, there timation of organization ¢apitali of th various political trade union campaigns of our y. We go into strike like F , or we go into another campaign---we go into a ,4. miners’ campaign; we go into a cam- .. paign for the protection of the foreign-born. Large 2s have thus been mobilized in str our Party has not yet orga zationally, s proportion the ene campaigns. We must pay more at- tention to this. Here is one of the undamental weaknesses of our Party. 3. Thirdly, the Party did not re- act quickly and well enough to the British general strike. Our Party could have Gone much more than it did in, mobilizi for the 3ritish generat 4. There is insufficient political tion to the work of the youth. It sad commentary on our that the YWL is so small compared with the membe ship of our own Party. The youth is not to be blamed for it, but the Part leadership. I speak of no group to blamed. ‘The Party aS a Party mu correct this error. 5. In reorganization we have ms mis es. On the whole, reorgani: n has been a suc a step f¢. ward. However, we have mac takes, nationally and locally. Natiob- ally, in having too mechanical an aq proach; locally in approaching in th into these masses American Party—nineteen language’ federations to® reorganize, nineteen Parties to be welded into one Bol- shevik Party. The mistakes we have made have been costly. We have lost a too great number of member In \speaking of reorganization, v must learn how to hold the new wor ers coming into our Party since re- organization. We have increased our membership by more than 5,000 but have not been able to hold all of them. This is one of the worst s comings of our Party. The cos ive turnover of our membe ip must be ended quickly or the life of our Party will be sapped. 6. Further a too weak b True, we have made progress here, but our trade union basis is still too We have an insufficient propor- tion of native elements in our Party I speak not in a deprecating sense of Party members, bat we must, in this country, if we are to ourselves a Bolshe’ must show bigger capacity to attract native elements, the workers born in this country, because our leadership in this country depends largely upon our capacity to draw such workers into our, ranks. In the past two years we have drawn an increasing number of such workers into our ranks, but the Party as a Party is still weak in this respect., The ideological level of our Party is low; the number of efficient Communist functionaries is too small. 8. The sub-committees of the Party apparatus are not functioning well, and this applies to the CEC as much as to the sub-division of the ense, we +Party apparatus. 9. Another weakness has been the launching of too many campaigns We start on one campaign and before the Party mem- . | tain problems arisé. * ine briefly some of these problems} : mas: Party x ; IV. OUR MAIN PARTY PROBLEMS, Let us consider the problem of the | | COMRADES, as a result of the ob- | jective conditions in the country and the weaknesses of our Party cer- I want to exam- now facing u The following are the six outstanding problems confronting our 1 effect of imperialism on the ‘ working cl I would speak of this problem to a large « tent under the heading, the bourgeois- ification of the American class. The trade union work of the Party, the meaning of the offensive of the reactionary bureaucracy and the government against the P; B The problems of developing a anti-war campaign. 4. The labor party problem. 5. The role of the Party in united front movement: 6. Last but not le; lem of developing in the districts a capacity to utilize local issues. To. Handle the last problem first: speak of local issues not in a deprec ting sense, -Our district organiza- tions have:been weak inthe sense that they hate been too lar; t and not suffi Political... Not enough of our orga’ zations -are=able-to’ pick up local sw nd apply to these local is: ndamental general principles of i This applies to every grees. The extent to which a district of the. Party can be called a well- functioning district is directly in proportion to th extent it has been le to respond to local issues and utilize local issues for fundamental class purposes. In New York, Pitts- burg, Minnesota, our comrades have shown increasing capacity for this work. In all districts there has been an increase in the ability to react to local issues. But our Party is still and this is one of our out- ding problems, working | the| , ; the prob-, ct of the Party in varying de-! Party’s Shortcomings, Mistakes and Problems’ effect of American imperialism on jour working class and the resulting | | problem of bourgeoisification. The | bourgeois press and its economic ex- | |perts have been propagandizing the | | country with the idea that the Amer- ican working class is bécomirig capi- | talist. This propagnada has been} made not only by the bourgeois press | but also by the so-called Socialist ex- | perts. The “Sociali perts, such as Evans Clark, have} spread in some measure the theory | that the laboring masses are becoming | capitalist in this country. These propagandists are pointing to the in-/ crease in the number of stockholders, | to the increase in labor banks, auto- | | mobiles, gas stations, radios, saving accounts. They even maintain that ere are 10,000,000 stockholders in country. They also point to a wth of the middle class in the Tnited States. Instead of seeing the rise of technicians as the dominant |! ;source of the middle class in ne count with the development of large scale production, they speak of | the middle class increasing as a class | |without analyzing its composition. | ; They fail to see that large masses of the petty bourgeoisie, particularly | jamong the farmers, are being ex- propriated. They fail to see that the highly advertised wealth diffusion in America is an illusion, not a reality.| This propaganda, comrades, has had effect on the working cl It has | been a powerful, a well-planned, well- | | organized propaganda. It has effected | all ranks of the working class, for 3 reasons. These are: primarily be- | cause of the power of American im- |perialism; secondly, because of the role of the labor aristocracy at pres- {ent; thirdly, the labor movement’s | going to the right to the extent that it has gone. The Party must. fight peas effort of the bourgeoisie. The |Party must fight this effort ‘of the bourgeoisie and their agents ideologi- |eally and organizationally. (To Be Continued.) Danger and he Communist International, The War the Role of | American Imperialism | Speech of ROBERT MINOR. At Workers’ Party Convention. ™ (Continuation) F course you know that much of the attention and energy of the Comintern during the past year was given to the unrest and disturbances in colonial countries, especially the heroic insurrection in Indonesia, I am not going to go into the question of the Indonesian affair for the rea- son that a careful treatment would not be possible in the amount of time at hand. A few words about the work in regard to China. From the very that I arrived in Moscow e Comintern machinery was given over night and day to the most care- ful following up of the Chinese events. The development of the tremendous olut novement, the victori- ous march which reached its peak in the capture of ‘Shanghai, the sympa- thetic demonstrations of the workers throughout the world during that period are closely related to the work of the Comintern during that period. You know that that period of victory continued up to a certain time, when the traitor Chiang Kai-shek made his coupe’ d’etat! in 1927. dom of. the Communists in the Kuo- mingtang, the declaration of the counter-revolution, the declaration of the bourgeoisie against the prole- tarian elements, the effort to break the growing ascendancy of the pro- letarian movement, followed as a re- sult of the deyelopment of the prole- tarian phases of the revolution. Since that time we have seen the downfall of ‘Chiang Kai-shek, his defeat and his retirement. . We, of course, know that there ate and that there is an inner play of intrigue between the | different capitalist. imperialist pow- ‘ers. You know of course that the The martyr-|* bership is ideologically prepared and British government is working for the mobilized we launch another cam-| preservation of their trade monopoly paign. This is a weakness of the|}in Southern China. You know that Party, and the incoming CEC must’ Chiang Kai-shek was not in accord correct this. This diffusion of energy | with the British policy, you know that must be stopped. ; two smaller generals were given a 10. In Negro and women’s work,| sudden supply of financial and other there are weaknesses which must be, support to give them a mysterious corrected. ability to defeat Chiang Kai-shek and 1 | Sn | and their retreat thru Nankow pass but there is this important difference: | That period served for the gathering of the forces of the na- \tionalist revolution under the leadership of the capitalist and and followers of Sun Yat-sen. From Manchuria also comes news of the rise and spread of anti-Japanese agitation. In Mukden a crowd estimated at 50,000 staged an anti-Japanese demonstration and anti-Japanese pos- ters have been distributed by the thousand. There is no unity of purpose among either the northern mil- itarists or the right wing nationalist forces except that of hostil- ity toward the Communists and the worker and peasant or-| ganizations. { It is evident that a unified command with sufficient author- | ity to weld the counter-revolutionary elements into a solid bloc is impossible. Meanwhile the mass movement spreads thruout} China and is already of such strength and decisiveness that it has | prevented the imperialists from realizing any material gains from the treachery of Chiang Kai-shek and the Wuhan generals and intellectuals who surrendered to him. The present period can be compared in some respects to that which followed the vt of the Kuominchun armies before Pekin » ® middle class elements with power concentrated in the hands of generals who expressed the desires of these classes. The present period is still one of gathering the forces for the national liberation struggle but this time jthe forces, consist of j . vast masses of workers and peasants undey revolutionary leader- ; ship which will be welded into armies direttly under the control of a revolutionary party conscious of the fact that the indispen- sible social basis of the whole movement is the labor movement and the peasant organizations. | The length of time required for the present phase is uncer- tain but one thing is sure: Tho Chinese national liberation move- ment has sloughed off the counter-revolitionary classes which weighed it down and now is moving foryard again at a fairly rapid pace. Support for the Chinese revolution injevery possible form is the duty of the working class of all countrips. Demand the withdrawal of all troops and battleships from China! ‘ oo eee pao The British} cause his retirement. government was at work. You know the role that was played by the Uni- | | ted States in that affair. I am going to omit a reference to or a descrip- tion of the policy of the United States ! government in China for the reason that I share in the exposition of that policy which was put forward by| Comrade Lovestone who reported on| behalf of the Political Committee. I} am going to make only a few re-| marks about subsequent events. We know, of course, that the Chinese} revolution has not seen an even course | of successes. We know that the most tragic defeats have been faced, we know that the road of the Chinese | revolution may have many more de- feats, many more set-backs. We have seen the Chinese Communist Party and we have witnessed the t of a part of the leader- ship failing to live up to its test. We have found the Youth, the Chi- nese Communist Youth, taking a bet- ter position and playing again the role of standing by the Comintern and preserving the Communist line. The Communist International has been obliged to level most severe criticisms at our Chinese Communist Party leadership which was in oppo- n to the Comintern policies, which flouted*the instructions df the Comintern, which took the position that the Comintern could not under- stand the conditions China, and which led from defeat to defeat through their weak and vascillating policies. When the Comintern under- stood and declared to the comrades of the Chinese party that it was neces- sary to turn loose the peasant revo- lution, to turn loose the masses of peasants to the immediate seizure-of the land, directly and without hesita- tion, the majority of the Party leader- ship refused to obey the decisions and made the declaration that these in-/ structions were not practical. The re- sults are to be counted up in defeat | after defeat. When the Comintern | saw these actions, and saw the gen-| erals one by one betraying and lining | up in coalition with the servants of | imperialism, the Comintern © called | for a bold stand by our Communist | Party and the left wing of the Kuo-| mintang. The Comintern demanded the establishment of revolutionary tribunals to bring these generals to! the judgement of the working and| peasant classes, but the Party leader- | ship was not-up to the measure. Com- | rades, you know that there has been! a revival of the revolutionary prole- | tarian elements in the Chinese situa- | tion and we hope for newer and} better developments in the future. T} will not undertake to go into an an- alysis on events which have occurred | since my return as I have been able to | get nothing except the capitalist press | reports which information may not be reliable. But comrades we are confident that the Chinese revolu- | tion is no temporary affair and thaty these defeats will not mean the e: tinction, the non-existence of the Ch nese revolution as a major factor in| the present world situation. This is the period of decline of capitalism. (To be Continued) in THINK OF THE SUSTAINING | FUND AT EVERY &*ETING!) The Romans in J udea '“Ben-Hur” at the Capitol With Ramon Novarro Playing Leading Role. Despite the generous quantity of¢- ’ economic ex-| christian hokum and superstition in- | jected into “Ben-Hur” it is a gripping | drama. story by Lew Wallace of the Roman} occupation of Judea in the days when the tread of the Roman legions made the ground tremble tically every part of the then known world. The exac- tions of the con- querors aréused a spirit of rebellion among the down- trodden and cruel- ly-taxed people. They were await- ing a leader to or- ganize them and lead them against the foreign tyrant. Judah of the house of Hur and his family may have suffered from the pin pricks of wounded national pride because of the presence of the Roman conquerors but they are permitted to retain their slaves and live in luxury. The Romans knew how to divide and} conquer. They may have invented | the political trick for all I know. There is Messala the renegade who went over to the conquerors and out- Romans the Romans in his hatred for his own race. Once~a friend Judah, the two become bitter ene- | mies after a scene in the Hur house. | And when the Roman general Gratus | while riding in his litter thru Jeru-! salem and Judea, collides with a stone which is accidentally pushed from its position on the roof of the house from which Judah and hi mother and sister viewed the parade. Ben-Hur is condemned to the galleys and his mother and sister are sent to prison where they leprosy. \ Judah’s escape from the galleys| thru the intervention of Quintus Ar- s, the Roman commander whose} e he saved, his return to Jerusalem } to seek his mother and sister, the great chariot race at Antioch where Ben-Hur defeats the renegade Mas- salo, are thrilling scenes, that create} the mood to forget the pestilent chris- | tians who crawl like tape worms thru | the play. What is otherwise a splen- did piece of work is ruined, except for the philosophical materialist, by | the most banal christian propaganda that I have ever seen outside of a church, tho like Abie’s Irish Rose it is designed to please both orthodox Jew and christian gentile. The oppressed Judeans wanted a leader who would lead them against the Romans with swords in their hands and curses on their lips. In- stead of such a-leader they were giv- en a human worm who carried the | cross on which he was crucified and raised the slogan of Peace and Hu- mility instead of Rebellion and Free- | dom. | The oppierice is saved from the usual idiotic love-making that bedey- ils most sereen dramas. The film ed- itor may have served an apprentice- ship as a monk. Of course the hero falls in love and presumably marries the prettiest girl in Jerusalem, after his victory over Messala, but he does it with as little beating around the bush as a tired business man would indulge in when about to spend the evening at a snappy burlesque show. Ramon Novarro is a tidy piece of animated protoplasm and he fills the void left by the departed Valentino to my satisfaction. There was one sheik in the play and he had whiskers. Evidently Novarro thot one was enough. Those who can fortify themselves against the religious propaganda and h be | ae. tee in prac-| The movie is based on the} of | - contracted is | includes, |Brecher, Josephine Hutchinson, Sayre can leave the theatre without plug- The noted comedian is featured in “The Desert Song,” now in_ its eleventh month at the Casino Theatre. Little Theatre GRAND FOLLIES nees We DESERT SO N 7. HH 5) 2 N.Y. & Lor 1 Sens. With Kobt, Halliday & 4ith Month 39 St. & B'way. CASINO ats. Wed. and g the exits to keep the bile from aping could spend their time to worse advantage than with “Ben- Hur.” -—T. J. O'F. “The Good Hope” in Rehearsal—Veiller’s New Play Opens Monday Eva Le Gallienne has placed in re- hearsal “The Good Hope,” the real- istic drama from the Dutch of Heijer- mans, which will open the season of the Civic Repertory Theatre on Oc- tober 18th. The permanent company Eva Le Gallienne, Egon Crawley, Leona Roberts, Beatrice de Neergaard, Alma Kruger, Paul Lays- sac and Ruth Wilton. The organiza- tion has decided to abandon the sub- scription. Instead they are introduc- jing the \Civie Repertory, Club with jdues of one dollar per year, which vill entitle members to the privilege of a ten percent reduction in the pur- chase of seats. . Florence Edney and Harry Lillford have been added to the cast of Leslie Howard’s new play, “Murray Hill,” now in rehearsal under Mr. Howard’s direction. 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