The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 16, 1927, Page 3

2422 as, Se b 2. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1927 ae | | Here are additional facts revealing the nature of the American Legion in its struggle against the working class itt this country. scheduled to open its convention in Paris, Monday. see in the American Legion the beginnings of an American fascist organiza- tion, even if the workers in this country are not yet aware of this fact. Read the accompanying facts concerning the activities of the legion in the| past and judge for yourself, | The legion is The French workers | * * * HE action of the American Legion; jected to its contents. The leaflets | in Detroit, when William D. Hay-; contained the program of the World| wood at that time head of the In-| War Veterans and an appeal for} dustrial Workers of the World,|members. planned to speak there shortly after Agitation in the Legion for the his conviction in Chicago, is a notori- | “pro-German” and pacifists has been ous incident of interference with pub-| 1! pronounced lately than it once | lie officers. (Y During and directly after the| Mayor Couzens said that Haywood! war whatever side thot first of call-| had a right to speak and would be|ing his opponent “pro-German” won permitted to do so as long as he re-| the argument. This reply is now less mained within the law. When David convincing as the sole answer to an! G. Jones, adjutant of the Charles A. opinion with which one does not! Larned Post, No. 1, heard this, he re-| 2 e, while it is again becoming al-|Schlee, are circling the globe in “The plied, according to the Detroit} most respectable to be a paci It| Pride of Detroit.” The Japanese goy- Journal: “Regardless of what Mayor| must not be forgotten, however, that | ernment is watching to see they cross Couzens says, Haywood will not speak|American Legion opposition was Wo_military areas. in Detroit. At our regular meeting | largely responsible for upsetting the| —~ Wednesday night a vigilance commit-| concert tour of an artist of interna- tee was appointed for the very pur-|tional reputation, Fritz Kreisler, in pose of preventing any speech by| the winter of 1919-20. Flier Brock, who with his partner, ainst German According to ble correspondent “The agita- port the campaign ag: motion pictures, ar Haywood in Detroit. He will not! The New County organization of! tion le ding up to this riot (that at speak, : * % | the Legion attempted to its| the theatre) made no attempt to con- es ley a we :, | Voice in defense of the violinist by in-|ceal the simple economic motive. DISPATCH from Lodi, California, viting him to play at a concert under About 90 per cent of the Hollywood Post of the Am i em- t o the San Francisco Examiner, its auspices, but pressure from other! can Legion are Jan. 28, 1921, said: quarters than the Legion led to the ployed in the film industry, or ra “Called upon the carpet before the, @bandonment of the project. unemployed in that American Legion meeting here upon| Objection by the Ameriean Legion 2 a charge of defacing a picture of|to the attempt to revive German President Wilson, which was displayed | Opera in New York State led to riots, | film which w in the office of their*reality firm,|while efforts to aid even German or| Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Samuel and John Lochenmaier, an children by American charity | novel of Upton Sinclair! wealthy residents, have since been or-| have been resisted. | I - : dered to dispose of their property and) When the Mayor of Pittsburgh gave|, According to recent information the leave Lodi. The notice was served by permission for “a tag day” for such| legion is responding handsomely to Major Garrison, commander of the|a purpose, the humane Legionnaires ‘eae’ post.” | 6f the city declared they would not|Ptain from COREL ESE permit collections, threatening even| _ Against German Of course the Legion has always t? patrol the streets with rifles, and) New York World co ’ is from a a prohibitive firms. mments: been keen in the persuit of anything | Compelling the mayor to leave the re-| ey ‘ Une es ea branded “radical” or “bolshevist,” Viewing stand before they would pass vw oe th, Putt i“ | Thus the People’s Charge, of Lonis-|it in the Armistice Day parade. ae NEN ak indu: | supposed to b r has to be competition in the world uinst foreign e shoes or clothes? ville, Kentucky, was compelled to di continue because of “economic pri One of the most recent and in many | sure” brought by the Jefferson Post, ways remarkable anti-German out- which charged John G. Stilli, the pas-¢breaks of the Legion is that in the i wendeeal ev ponceived ? they | tor, with anarchistic teachings. The motion picture industry of California. happen to be the most costly, that “economic pre e” consisted chiefly The Los Angeles Times of May 8, di piviitave? was pr aired "hs be of visiting advertisers in. the pre-|1921, said: offset by their superior quality. . ferro pubeation and inducing them) “The American Legion at 8:40 | Motion production in this draw their upport. In New Brunswick, New Jersey, a campaign was made against “extre- mist” newspapers end magazines by visiting all the dealers and getting them to withdraw the offending pub- lications from sale. One of the Le- gion’s most brutal pieces of interfer- ence was directed against the Men- o'clock last night won a complete victory in the first open fight in country on the German made film i sue, when Hollywood post. after a y | Competit of picketing and rioting lasting more where e than six hours, caused Miller’s The- atre to stop its performances of the German made “Cabinet of Dr. Cagi- gari” and to put in its place the Los ng from inflation, ste and inefficiency zes that condition. . . from Germany or any- ould help instead of hin- Practise. nonites of ssippi, because of Angeles made film. Lon His eee ne their German speech and pacifist) “The Playhouse, which had started been lacking protests within the or- doctrine. The state convention called | the picture early in the afternoon for ganization, but they have not: been upon the prosecuting officers of/a two week's run, capitulated only backed by utterances of a contrary Mississippi to proceed against the § ; I | after it had been picketed for hours Mennonite settlement and asked Le-| ‘5 | by hundreds of men in uniform and gion members to take lawful steps to! after the disturbances at its entrance prevent discontinuance. What t lawful | had gone to such extremes that two sort from equally important sources. Mention has already been made of Franklin D’Olier’s warning against interference with public officers. Un- |World Tourists to See | art to be inspected by the party of | |one hundred American workers parti- an attempt to use it as a catspaw to| The | -|of them carries a book. These have SCULPTOR LAUDS: SOVIET RESIME October Celebration | Foremost of the many objects of | | cipating in a tour of Soviet Russia | arranged by World Tourists, Inc., will | | be the famous bust of Lenin executed | by the French sculptor N. L. Aronson. | | This bust is an exceptional work of | art and its exhibition is a great} } event. The marble breathes life; in| it can be seen that concentration of will to victory, that irresistable per- sistance without wavéring that made| him the great mass leader that he} was. | The sculptor recently spent some | |weeks in Russia and returned to France an ardent enthusiast. His | impressions, as given to a_ cor- respondent of the Leningrad “Prav- da”, are illuminating. Lauds Soviet Union. et “The weeks I spent in Moscow andj Leningrad will never be forgotten. I} | more than any other visiting foreigner can judge of the changes which have taken place for I was born in Russia and have felt all the ‘blessings’ of | | the autocratic regime. | | “Lf am judging not according to)! | street impressions only, but aceord- | jing to attentive study of the whole| |of Soviet life. I visited factories, | clubs, talked with soldiers of the Red | Army, with Communist youth and | the workers, The first thing that) impressed me was the sight of the! streets and the crowds. Here there| is a distinet contrast with the erowds | of London and Paris. In the large | | European city we see the glaring luxury, and side by side with it the| feakful poverty which is still more | depressing because of the vivid con- trast. In Soviet Russia the people | | are not thus contrasted by a bourgeois | style of clothing. All are dressed neatly and clean. - Workmen who ride jor walk to their factories early in| |the morning are not the former | drunken and tortured masses of the days of the czar. Now they walk! firmly and joyfully, and what more important, practically every 01 “I CAN NOW DIE IN PEACE,” SAYS SEVENTY-FIVE-YEAR- OLD REVOLUTIONARY ON VISIT TO THE U.S. S. R. Za “I can now die in peace, knowing 1S\ that all the turbulence and persecu- ne | tion to which the revolutionary move- ment has been subjected since I be- | learned to think, to read Of the Beeb een subj D | ber in 1876 has not been jlems that they have made such Gee: sa eeapers © eee sip |Sress In conquering. These are ‘the words of Herman | Tourists Sail Soon. | Meyer, seventy-five years old, who “I talked a great deal with Com-|last July set forth with the othe munist youth and I am convinced that! men and women making up the first jin them Soviet Russia has a genera-| delegation of American workers who tion which will be able to replace the| visited the Sovict Union on a tour ar-| |old fighters; a generation which has|ranged by World Tourists, Inc. not upon its back privations and slav- This man traveled over three thou- |ery, but endowed with the birthright it was placed in a museum dedicated to the history of the Communist Party. turbulant youth, when he had thrown wholeheartedly into the work the liberation of the workers, and ny of the incidents he brought vidly to. mind w found recorded the documents of a vast collection f revolutionary literature. Comrade Meyer has found ce. He has seen the crystalliza- on of his dreams, the practice of his theories, the liberation of a people. At resent he is in the USSR, having sand miles from Seattle, Washingtch, of freedom and knowledge of life in a| for the chance to witness the fruition free country.” |of long years of toil. This carpenter | original red card of membership, and} He recalled the years of his} his | olonged his stay to witness the gala | steps it was possible for Legion mem- bers to take was not indicated. Nor does the Legion disdain to use the cover of “100 per cent’ Americanism” to attack its rivals. * * * In El Paso, Texas, a couple of months ago, the said council forbade the circulation of a leaflet of the World War Veterans because the at- torneys for the local Legion post ob- |mob rushes had been attempted, rot- {ten eggs had been hurled, and police | and provost court forces had been) reinforced until they numbered thirty- |five men.” Ten days later the same newspaper announced that at a meeting of the loyal American Film League it had heen decided to send a representative . to Chicago, New York, Washington Var . -),| did not allow advanced age to bar his fortunately, almost simultaneously,| This is the new Russia that el ealing the long and tiresome the American Legion Weekly quoted receive the visit of the tourists. Those | journey. The ideals he had struggled editorially: |fortunate enough to ‘obtain reserva-|’ a |for when those ideal vere in their infancy provided him with the neces- sary vitality. Joined Party At 24. “Local posts may be said to have’ tions will return to this country with plished a sharp vigil over the|a steadfast goal, an image of what functioning of local government. They|mdy be done in a coyntry of the are seeing to it that neither sins of workers. The tour sails the middle! or commission are permitted of October and returns eight weeks | h when it comes to matters | later. Most of the time spent in the and order and sound Ameri-/U, S, S. R. will be divided between Marx and Engels, whom he met three | Leningrad and Moscow, the two cities years later in London, little sensing Meyer had become an active revolu- tionist fired by the teachings -— | where the achievements of the people! the long and bitter struggle the fu- |may best be judged. There the mass |demonstrations, the festivals and} would realize those dreams. When At the age of twenty-four Herman | of | \ be ture held before at least one country | cei festivals on the tenth anniyer8aéty of the Russian Revolution. He may return with the ranged for by World Tourists, Inc. of 69 Fifth Avenue, New York. The second tour, of two months’ duration, will sail October the- 14th, and ative in Soviet Russia in time to participate in those celebrations so anxiously being awaited by Comrade Herman Meyer. He, and other mem- of the first tour who have re- extensions of time for the pose as well as those going on the pur occasion of the| cond party of tourists, now being} A JUBILEE TOUR SOVIET RUSSIA The Land of Amazing Achievements EIGHT WEEKS Exteasiv 2ageants am GALA FESTIVALS That Will Mark the Tenth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution. | stage productions in honor of the| Meyer came to the Soviet Union he|second tour, will receive places of | |tenth anniversary - |something already. | Revolution will be held. There the contagious spectacle of a people re- | joicing may be witnessed, to serve as la mighty inspiration. i | According to the latest information | aeons at the office of World Tour-! ists, Inc., at 65 Fifth avenue, New {York, all the reservations have not: yet been taken. There is still time,| though the time is short. Cabinet Secretary ‘Looks for Jeb as § | Ungopularity Grows | WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.--Secre- | tery of Agriculture Jardine had under consideration today a tentative offer ‘to retire from the cabinet and be- | come head of a “cooperative” market- ing organization for Florida fruit and vegetable growers at a salary about $35,000 annually. No Extra Session Probable. President Coolidge has not made up Be his mind regarding the calling of an ‘extra session of congress, it was id at the White House today. A general intention of administra- | |tive leaders is not to do anything of the kind, as it will give an op- | portunity for demands to be made |for relief for the farmers, and for jeriticism of the cabinet for not doing Any actual gov- {ernment relief would interfere with the bankers’ plans to use Hoover's |eredit corporations to tie-the flooded | farmers down with a network of mort- | | gages. Because of a tariff war threaten- ing between the United States and France, revision of American tariff duties cropped out today as a major issue for the new congress. There has been no tariff tinkering since the Jordney-McCumber act of 1922, Spurred by the controversy with |France, leading democrats have ini- ‘ated a move to revise the tariff! Ug Tariff Fight Coming. a of the Russian| exhibited to the Russian comrades his !honor during the celebrations. Never Forgive! of | ie Nicola Saco The Defense of Class War Prisoners A Strong, Militant Labor Movement A Labor Party and a Labor Government The Protection of the Foreign Born The Recognition and Defense of the Soviet Union Hands Off China EEE Support The Daily Worker, which led the struggle to save them. Defend The Daily Worker against the attack of those, avho murdered Sacco and Vanzetti. Help to maintain The Daily Worker to carry on the fight for which Sacco and Vanzetti died. 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