The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 21, 1927, Page 4

— — ee rea) somes er ast eRs a 4 __ ers who mourn for Sacco and Vanzetti but to the class which mur- Page Four. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPT.-21, 1927 SS ee THE DAILY WORKER The Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address SUBSCRIPTION By Mail (in New York only): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 “Daiwork RATES By Mail (outside of $6.00 per years ew York): months “Address all mail an THE DAILY WORKER, 33 3 ~ LOUI WILLIAM F. DUNNE § BERT MILLER. Entered as Editors . Business Manager t New York)N. ¥., under | on_applicati Advertising rat President Green’s Greeting Go.to Those Who Rejoiced at the Murder of Sacco and Vanzetti and Not to the Workers Who Protested. The cablegram sent by President Green of the American Fed- eration of Labor to Howard P. Savage, commander of the Amer- ican Legion, released for publication Monday, constitutes a repu diation of the struggle waged in the United States and thruout the world to save the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti. The cablegram is a slap in the face for the French labor movement which, irrespective of political party aff i united in protesting against the American legion convention as a demonstration of mass resentment at the murder of two innocent workingmen by American “justice.” The first sentence of the cablegram is an insult not only to the memory of Sacco and Vanzetti but an insult as well to Amer- jean workers who know the strikebreaking and: terrorist role played by dozens of posts of the American Legion with full offi- ‘ cial sanction or without official rebuke. Green says: In behalf of the officers and members of the American Federation of Labor I extend greetings and assurance of our continued co-operation with the American Legion upen mat- ters of mutual interest. What are these “matters of mutual interest” where there is to be “continued co-operation?” By far the great majority of the former members of the na- tional army mobilized in 1917 are outside the ranks of the Amer- jean legion. The legion can claim at best only some 760,000 mem- | bers and the greater part of this membership is fictitious. Many of the posts are organized as direct auxiliaries of big corporations and are a bulwark to the company unions in such} open shop coneerns as the United States Steel Corporation, vari- ous railway companies, The Western Union Telegraph Company, General Electric, etc. An examination of the legion membership discloses the fact that it does not include any high percentage of the actual workers who were in the national army. What then are the matters of “mutual interest?” “<oThey can be only joint offensives against the militant section of the labor movement, joint pressure upon congress for legisla-| , ‘tion from which only the official caste of the unions and legions | will benefit and joint approval of imperialist enterprises like mil-| ifary training camps, bigger navy campaigns. In short, all of the! measures by which, under the euphemistic name of “national de-| fense” the militarization of the working class is being carried out. The immediate purpose of Green’s cablegram of course is to! show that the officialdom of the American Federation of Labor does not sympathize in any way with the efforts the French masses are making to prove to the Legion and to the whole world that they look upon the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti as a crime against the world’s working class. President Green, when millions of workers thruout the world were joined by hundreds of thousands of liberty loving persons of other walks of life, in trying to save Sacco and Vanzetti when their lives hung in the balance, sent only a wire to Governor Fuller requesting a stay of sentence but not expressing confidence | in their innocence. The world of labor knows by this time that had the official- ! dom of the American Federation of Labor given real support to| the Sacco-Vanzetti campaign, had it used its influence to mobilize} the labor movement against the executions, Sacco and Vanzetti | would be alive today. , The cablegram of President Green is the final proof that the official leadership of the A. F. of L. did not exert its power to save the two workers whose seven years of torture and death stirred the masses of the world as they have not been stirred for| many years. It shows also the reason why, in spite of convention | decisions, the A. F. of L. leadership made only the coldest and | most formal requests for clemency. The reason is that this lead- | ership was aligned, not with Sacco and Vanzetti and the labor | movements of the world, but with their enemies. | “Had Green dipped his pen in the blood of Sacco and Vanzetti| when he wrote the cablegram of greetings to the American Legion \ his conduct could have been no more shameful. | Black as was the blot upon the record of the American Fed-| eration ef Labor leadership when it allowed Sacco and Vanzetti| to be murdered without exerting its power to the limit, Green has | made it blacker still. | Every worker who belongs to a union and who does not work and fight to drive such leaders from the labor movement must fo¥ever meet his fellows with his head bowed in shame. + Only labor officials-who hate and despise the fighting tradi-| tions of American labor, only a leadership which ean join with.the police informers, the gangsters and gunmen of the bosses as in * ; This is the ninth install- of the report for the Political made by Jay nt Fifth The shortcomings of the | groupings have been very largely re- vedi his struggle and by the ism of the C, I. I refer to the ism made by the C. f. of the | majority of the former Polbureau. | These comrades have been properly jand correctly criticized because they i deals with “The rty’s Shortcomings, Mistakes and Problems,” 2 | This criticism, I am convinced, has arding the two main historical | gone a long way toward removing this treams in our Party—Our Party was|Shorteoming of this section of our as a result of the splitting away |Party leadership and membership. the left wing of the social-demo-| » Other comrades of the former Pol- s from the secialist party. A cer-|hureau have been criticized for the tain section of our Party is therefore} use of factional metho: We feel to be found laregly in the elements | that these comrades have taken the g out of the socialist par AS | criticism earnestly and positively have ty developed it reached a learned their lesson. I am sure that ge where it was able| all comrades will be nearer unifica- ct s from the trade|tion after this convention, When the Henhy reamed that ) Our Party, comrades, has been mo- t reached one of the most im- | hii2eq more effectively for mass work periods of its development. | arin ae, P 2 x clopmens. | thru reorganization. This is another Here we have the second main stream Comrades, when we we do not speak id another there, y marking tem- nporary si at | factionalis I think there is a greater will in the depths of our Party for unifica- tion. This is very important because ll as our Party may be, still there cannot continue remnants of faction- m so long as our leadership is ious ‘that deep down in f jou’ Party there is a desire and will for unity. Our leadership will respond to this and will do its share as. the leadership to unify the Party. We are and tired of iactio m, de- rite the fact that we all now and | then. show vécurrences. We must rec- to develop the ideo- of the working S$ necessa homogenei a class in t ry to deve! as it i in tk will logical homogen: clas: <1 homogene y in our own rank than ever before, today the two e no longer appearing as | fACe & ae on danger cannot b two streams, but more and.more ap- Habe ares oy : Chaat ihe va pearing as one stream, the Party|*UsPicions of individual against in dual. No comrade who has ever contributed anything to our Party » are other groupings in the! I speak concretely of the com- Party: rades known as the Cannon group. It jcomrade who has a place in our Party. A few words about hegemony, uni lective leadership. It is wrong fuse the term majority with ¢ unity is of such character that it becqmes the unity of all grouping: ot only no first and, second class citizens, but no two and a half class. No persecu- tions; no discriminations. This may not be. immediately realized, but the test of our policies must be to what extent are we making a conscious effort towards that end. I am sure the incoming ©. E. C. will consciously follow a policy to ‘Danger and By ROBERT MINOR have reacted too often as a group.| |factor making for the elimination of | ognize that the need for unity in the | Party’s Shortcomings, Mistakes and Problems hegemony. A ©. E. C. may have a majority, but a majority does not nec- essarily mean hegemony. The es- tion of hegemony is answered in the | de 4 ade <0} sense of the attitude of eom comrade, in the practice of taking |ecmrades into confidence, of g2 | tugether on a basis of equa! the manner and spirit of wor! ether which determines whether there | is hegemony in our Party or not. We | say, convention there will }be no such problems and issues and |that unity can be and will b hieved jin. the aevelopment of our Party. of |all comrades, not only in the top, fer fmaximunt equal participation in the fe | task cf building 2 mass Communist ) Party. What must the majority of the in- coming C. E. C. do toward this end? | been taxen in thi thet in a ere ecmposed on a bas nm the proportion of strength in the | District Convention is a sign that the Party is moving forward. The fact that the Paty D. E. C.’s ase now |laregly composed on the basis of the utilization of all constructive ‘ele- ments, rather than on the basis of’ the thmetical strength of the conven- to be weleomed as an auger {of unity. We must work together, | dropping group attitudes. Our divis- lion of work must not be on the basis f division in the past, but on the s of comrades being able to con- |trikute to a maximum extent. Only this will help the growth of our y. The Party must step forward efore the masses. The comrades ap- pearing before the masses must be n on the basis of ability, not on s of groupings. The relations fr | the b 0 lin the development of our Party must must be treated as anything but a_ be on the basis of Comniunist to Com- | | munist, not on the basis of past prej- | udices, not on the basis of past griev- lances or past differences which no mger exist. (To be Continued) The Communist International, The War the Role of American Imperialism | tensification of the role of American In our opinion a big step has already | ' “The Cat nd the Ca-! nary,” at the Colony Theatre INEZ COURTNEY STARTING from the premise that | the only aim of pictures produced | in this country is to provide “enter- tainment” and “thrills” at any cost, we hereby recommend to you a film! that will keep you both thrilled and} f entertained every inch of its length. : “The Cat and the Canary” is, how-| ever, a genuine} technical achieve- | ment. An atmos phere of weird-| j ness and deadly} suspense is sus-} | tained thru the whole showing in| a manner remin- | | { One of the bright stars of “Good iscent of “Calig- |News,” the new Schwab and Mandel wari,” ? Paul | musical show at Chanit’s 46th Street Leni, who de-| Theatre. signed the sets for “Variety” is the |~ director of this film. With the ma-| terial at hand he has done a splendid} job. The well-known German “angle” | photography has been used very ef-| fectively. A masterful combination of lights and shades remind one of} Bellow’s mad-house interiors and testifies to the talent of the German | { eo | Laura La Plante GRAND STREET 0 FOLLIES TODAY AT 2:30 ND ENEMIES” YBASHE at Popular Prices. 41 St. W. of B’way . Mts. Wed. &Sat.2:30 DS Presents Mary Dugan” SPECIAL MATINE! artist. The story is thin and puerile. Only masterful direction saved the day.) Judge for yourself. A millionaire | dies, instructing his lawyer to read | his will twenty years after his death. | Upon the expiration of said twenty | years his money-mad relatives as- semble in the Mediaeval mansion of the dead Croesus, “where his ghost wanders thru the deserted corridors.” Every nook and corner of the im- mense, deserted building speaks of death and horror. Every hallway sends a shudder vibrating down your) back. Every face of the assembled | relatives is grim and ghastly. The| whole tale centers around this night spent by ten people in the mansion. } A’ supplementary clause in the dead man’s will requires the inheritor to! undergo a sanity test and if found insane to turn the, shekels over to the one named in a sealed letter held | by the lawyer. Somehow, the rela-| tive named therein “gets wise” to the whole affair and proceeds to carry out plans to drive Annabelle (original inheritor: young and demure!) insane before the doctor arrives.-~ That night a desperate lunatic causes “LOVERS A Also Sept. 2 National A. H. “The Trial of By B ‘d Veiller, with ANN HARDING—REX CHERRYMAN The Desert Song with Robt. Halliday & Eddie Buzzell 11th Month CASINO 29 St. & Bway. Ma Wed. and Sat. The LADDER Evs. 8.30 2.30 The latest Fox picture “Sunrise,” directed by Fred W. Myrnau will have its premiere Friday night at the Times Square Theatre. break down, to remove these prej- udices and suspicions of groupings as} groupings until all groupings end. When we speak of the unification | of the Party being achieved primarily | thrusthe unification of the two main | streams, we speak of it not in the sense of mistrust or suspicion or de- ecation of any group which still exists, but in a realistic manner. It is an indisputable fact that the larg- est number of members and the sharp-: est differences in the Party have been in these two main groupings. But to- day, all groups have only one task left and that is to get out of business, that is, to liquidate themselves, that is, te try to merge themselves into one, the Party unified. This convention will mark a period when more than ever before the in- coming C. E. C., not any comrade of | the C. E. C., not any combination of {structure Bucharin has described as | | imperialisms (Continuation of Convention Report) joe e the Facitic Ocean, - saa a A jalist | Policy in ina, its policy in regar This tremendous U. S. imperialist | ( the: Piilinpikess whens: the 1dae . ion, | Vestige of independence has been de- opposite pole to the Soviet Union} ‘ 0 4 p 5 Ameri. | Claved to be dead, its policy leads to- ps: Cena oon) Serceayy “Oe es ward that position where the United can imperialism is nearest to us, and Stat 3 iali ill as becomes our frist adversary. Ameri-|?*#°eS Imperialism wi Mok: hang, back, but will take an active, initia- can imperialism is of unprecedented |’ 5 oR aa absolute strength. It came through | lve, part in the world war which is the war without the need of a|Comne. stabilization of its capitalist system.) However, the- tremendous exhibi- Comrades: don’t make the- mistake of | tion of strength of American im- speaking of the stabilization of|perialism, is accompanied by the American capitalism in the same|seeds of its own destruction. The sense in which European capitalism | sceds of destruction lie in the very was partly and temporarily stabil-; fact of the tremendous development ized. American imperialism came) of this imperialism. I will not dwell out of the war capable of acting as/ upon the general facts, but will speak the stabilizing agency for the other/of the crystallization of the Latin of the world. This} American bloc against American im- American capitalism takes a position | perialism which appears to be already dominating’ the world to a large ex-| in the offing. We see Mexico, which tent. As has been pointed out already’ suffers first of all from this Ameri- this monopoly position does not ex-|can imperialism, beginning to show havoc in the house. After hair-rais- ing’scenes and situations, he is caught and discovered to be—the relative named in the sealed letter. From then on, all’s well. Annabelle marries her simple minded cousin Paul Jones, and all material for further “thrills” being exhausted, the thing’s over. You'll enjoy this film if you have any nerves at all, but do not try to be too critical with the story, or you'll spoil it all. I might, while I’m at it, whisper in your ear that “The New Ford,” a semi-futuristic _ machine-dance the well-known Marmein Sisters, is the best number on the Colony’s pro- gram this week, and that includes “The Cat and the Canary.”—S. B. by ; The premier of Al Jolson in “The Jazz Singer,” is set for Thursday night October 6th, at the Warner Theatre. . | | “The Student Prince,” Metros pic- |turization of the popular Heidelberg story, will have it initial showing at \the Astor Theatre this evening. Ernst |Lubitsch directed the picture which ‘co-stars Ranon Novarro and Norma | Shearer. “The Big City,” another story of night life among New York night ‘club gangsters on Broadway, will be Lon Chaney’s next starring vehicle, written for him by Tod Browning. | What the Daily Worker =~ David Feyer, Skeston, N. Dak. ..2,00 | Ladies Auxiliary, Stamford, Conn. 1.00 groups, not any hloes, but as a C. E. tang to exactly the same universal C., not as a combination of groups,| degree as the British Empire’s mon- but as a collective leadership, will ‘opoly in the past. But this American fight for the removal of factional | jmperialism now stands before the prejudices in the Party. There are whole world as the universal bully basic reasons for this. The last de-| of all nations. Since it plunged into cision of the C, L, the resolution on|the World War on the side of its the tasks of the Party, the supplemen-! financial allies, American imperialism tary decision, the various cables, have| more aggressively uses its military laid the basis, helping the Party -to| power to attack those nations which remove its factionalism. We ‘are no|happen to possess raw materials and longer in a struggle in the Party for | minricets which are desired. The in- Reviving the Farm Bloc Elusion. Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, forecasts the organ- ization of a “militant progressive bloc” in the senate to fight for farm relief and flood control. Senator Norris of Nebraska is pro- posed. for leadership of this combination. Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa and ten other senators are said to be in favor of organ- ization for control of the “balance of power” in the next session of the upper house of congress. day This all sounds very well to the-uninitiated, but it falls flat upon careful examination of the facts. The balance of power is pure myth as was clearly revealed one] major issues before the last session where the republican-democratic Wall Street coalition put thru every reactionary measure with only the handful of opposition senators now advocating organization of their forces under the leadership of Norris» On the world ‘court issue this self as a future center and rallying ‘point for opposition. That is in spite jof the recent evidences of supine | Policy on the part,of the Mexican | government. Comrades, Latin Amer- | a .is to play a big role in the war jwhich is coming. This is of first importance to us, because Latin | America will be primarily concerned | with the struggle for liberation from | the yoke of United States imperial- jism. We find the bourgeoisie of the United States very busy through jmany agencies in “preparing the rear.” First old Sam Gompers and then Bill Green, working through the Pan-American Federation of Labor try to break the spirit and to corrupt the entire organized labor move- ment of Latin America, in order to facilitate the subjugation of these countries to United States imperial- ‘ism. Comrades, through Mexico, through. Nicaragua, through the other Latin American countries, we owe the vevolutionary movement led by .the Comintern a duty of the highest. order. In regard to the Philippiner, whozo.ive~see the poli» of Amcrica leading most directly: to ;ward friction with the Soviet Union we find that we must not be satisfied with the small beginnings which we jhave already made, but we must the war on the left wing of the needle trades, can hold out the|bloc stood alone against the coalition; it stood alone on the ques-| male the most aggressive and earns hand of fellowship to the militarists, and the tools of the mili-|tion of European debt funding as_on_the Mellon tgx-scheme;.to-/ est.attempt to eta real.movement. tarists now in France, who cheered for Governor Fuller and were convulsed with jackal-like laughter as the deadly current leaped , thru the bodies of two workingmen murdered because they were loyal to their class in the way they understood loyalty. In the years to come the cablegram sent by Green will take its place beside the perjuries of Harry Orchard in the Moyer- | idge had;-for political reasons, appreyed it.the supreme-court} Haywood-Pettibone case, the\lies of Oxman in the Mooney case | and oath of allegiance to the British king sworn by Benedict | Arnold. | - Even a Greencan go too far. He will find that his endorse- ment of American capitalist justice and his studied insult to the labor movement of France will meet with no support in the ranks of American workers. } His latest action has torn from him whatever covering of a labor character he possessed and leaves open to the gaze of mil- lidns of workers, organized and unorganized, the real Green agent of American imperialism whose heart goes out, not to the work- dered them and to the mercenaries of this class who condone their jalone on all questions of international policyeThe MeNary-Hauge J farmers, day the official spokesmen of the two old ‘parties “indicate by their published interviews that the opposition bloc. will, stand supported by fhe majority in the Senate only t would be vetoed by Coolidge. And if Cool- farm relief bill was because they knew would have declared it unconstitutional. ; The revival of the farm bloc is merely @ maneuver to fool the farmers of the West and the South into support of the two old parties. As long as the farmers.have: confidence in such futile alignments the old parties are safe from a serious threat of a class | party of workers and farmers. In this sense the farm bloc in the senate serves as a reaction- ary tool in behalf of the Wall Street coalition. Just so often as the farmers place their hope in so-called “progressive” opposition just so often will they be deceived and betrayed. — The only hope for the impoverished inhabitants of the agri- cultural areas is to strive for the creation of a class party that will embrace the workers of the city as well as the exploited ‘ =; developed eountiies—a on-Yoot. > Comrades, in Europe American im- | Perialism is subyy industrially ' « thing “never \before to an appreciable extent ac- complished by any imperialism. We see the recent itlocd of -sentiment against capitalist America in Europe, /not cniy in the lat press, but in the petty héurgeois press, and even in le section of the big bourgeois Euro- pean press. TH¥oughout Europe, South America, throughout the entire world, tens of ‘millions-of more than one class are cursing capitalist Amer- ica for its murder of Saeco and Van- zetti. This does not mean that the bourgeoisie of European countries has suddenly become tender-hearted in its attitude toward labor agitators. It means that the latent spirit of re- sentiment against American imperial- ism was enabled to find an outlet through the means of this protest. ' (To Be Continued) | R. Huebner, Sioux City, Iowa . \E. J. Kerka, Los Angeles, Calif. 1.00 | Anna Shakman, Detroit, Mich. 2.00 | R. Newstrom, Duluth, Minn. .. |M. Lundqust, Rockford, Ill. . | J. Martens, Moline, Ill. .... | Wm. Maranar, Philadelphia, Pa. 1,00 John Gruezlowski, Cleveland, Means to the Workers More Encouraging Contributions to Our Emergency Fund. S 5 { ONION dea ys scccun cas aniess 3 2.00 G. Kurak, Garfield, 1 Pees +1,00/ Workers Party Branch, New T. Shular, Wheeling, W. V: -1.00 (Haven, Conn.) fies sci sees 35.00 M. Roselas Short Creek, W. ica S. Pobersky, (collected) Dyluth, teens feteeees ++ 1.00) Mit is okt Ns Saleem ee 6.3! 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