The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 23, 1927, Page 4

¢ Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER \[ore Attention to the Present "Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHIN Daily, Except Sunday $3 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address SUBSCRIPTION RATES 2 5 Oe By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New Pavia $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per years $3.50 six months 0 three months $2.00 three rnonths CO. Daiwork cks to New York, N. Y. Address mail and make out WORKER, 33 First Street, THE DAILY J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ’ WILLIAM F. DUNNE } BERT MILLER... .......essece0ee Business Manager Editors New York, N. ¥., unaer Enterea opty application. rates ¢ Advertising Municipal Judge Issues Baltimore Injunction. Baltimore goes most cities one better in viciousness against labor. No matter how insignificant the office or how puny the judge, any of that gentry can issue injunctions against labor in that place. } is jl ued an injunction against the upholsterers’ union prohibiting its officers and members from picketing and in other ways con- ducting a strike against a combination of petty manufacturers whose impositions upon the workers became unbearable. ; Without a chance to defend themselves or even to state their ease the injunction was, as is usually the case, issued hy the kept judge. : : This is a typical example of cl oppression and ought to reveal to the workers of Baltimore, who for the most part sup- port the political parties of capitalism, the class nature of the courts. They ought to learg that one of the most effective meth- ods to use in -hting against injunctions is to create a labor party that will challenge the political agents of capitalism in the old parties. ’ In this particular instance they should do as an ever-increas- ing number of strikers are doing—defy “the ‘injunction and con- tinue the fight in spite of it. : Deceptive Twaddle About the War Guiit. : . A number of prominent American monthly magazines are conductii bility for the last war. as the as licist: With a diligence that would serve a better purpose the learned | eentlemen have all proved their cases to their own satisfaction at least. They have marshalled an imposing array of facts that prove conclusively the contentions of*Communists that the world war was the result of imperialist conflicts. However, none of them reach the Communist conclusion— which is the only historically correct and scientific conclusion— that all the nations were aggressors. In an imperialist struggle for power there is no such thing as good and bad nations. Such concepts belong in the realm of bed-time stories and other nurs- ery tales. eas 4 Regardless of the wordy battles of the two conflicting camps, it is essential that workers of all imperialist countries understand that the question of placing the war guilt is plain clap-trap, un- adorned piffle, and that every imperialist nation involvéd in the war, including the United States was an aggressor and is guilty | of the slaughter of its own workers in order to defend its imperi- alist interests. workers may come to perceive the Bolshevik principle that in- stead of working for the victory of its ruling class it is the duty of every working class to consciously and aggressively strive for the defeat of the imperialist government of its own country. This principle holds good in case of all wars between impe- rialist pewers. However, it is not applicable in case of an impe- rialist war against a workers’ and peasants’ government. In thg case of the present conspiracy of imperialist powers against the Soviet Union it is, of course, essential for the workers of that country to defend their own government, which in every sense of the wor in reality theirs and for the workers of the imperi- alist countries to aid them in every way.’ Also it is necessary that workers of colonial and semi-colonial countries defend the country against imperialist attacks and strive aggressively to combat the minions of imperialism. Only in such cases can one really speak of defensive war and only under such conditions is there justifi- ‘eation for the shedding of a single drop of working class blood. But there can never be such a thing as a defensive imperi- alist war, regardless of the spectacular brain contortions of the pen valets of capitalism who are now holding post-mortems on the last war in order that workers may be deceived into participat- ing on the side of the imperialists in the next war that is now in preparation. - . Another Crude Anti-Soviet Forgery. The reptile press has again been raving about “Soviet con- spiracy.” This time its fury is aroused over a report to the effect that the recent uprising of natives of Bolivia was a Communist plot originating in Moscow. The Bolivian government is in pos- seSsion of a document purporting to-preve its-charge. The falsity of the thing is obvious from reading the press reports of its con- tents as well as from the fake signatures. It is signed by some non-existent individual called “Salkind,” who is supposed to’ be One James P. Gorter, a municipal judge, has just) Pe discussing the coming election) campaign, it is necessary to re-| peat once more the Party’s policy re- garding participation in _ election’ campaigns. This necessity springs from the fact that there is still too) great a skepticism and even opposi- tion on the part of large sections of our membership to participation in| parliamentary elections. The fact {that our membership largely | foreign-born in composition is by no} is means the complete explanation for|ward masses believe in parlia-|be able to overthrow the capitalist our shortcoming in election work.|mentarism. Misled by the capitalist! state, but during election campaigns Our language comrades in many in-} stances participate whole-heartedly in the work, though by no means to the extent that. this work requires. Skepticism Regarding Election Work. Skepticism affects larger circles than our foreign-born comrades. This is due to the fact, on the one hand, that our Party is weak, and on the other that the Party has in the course! of the last few years recruited a new membership. It is not far-fetched to say that one-Half of our Party mem- bership since are new members. New Membership. These members have come in as the result of our intensified trade union work, our work in organizing the unorganized, ete. They have been drawn to out movement because of disgust with the labor bureaucracy | and because they ‘believe that our Party has a real program for rebuild ing the trade unions and conducting a militant struggle. Many of these new members tend to look upon our Party as an “industrial” party. The| collapse of the Socialist Party has} also tended to discredit parliamentary | work and prejudice these workers} against it. For that reason much of; the education that we have done on| mm oma Hlection Campaign vor proletarian dictatorship, partici- pation in parliamentarism com- promises the program and these ta tics. What these comrades fail to understand is what Lenin has said: that it is not only necessary for the Communist vanguard to understand the need for establishing proletarian dictatorship in place of the bourgeois republic, but the downtrodden and ignorant millions must become con- vineed of this also. These back- ress, the church, the school and by all the“ agencies of publicity the American masses believe that demo- eracy affords them a way out of capi-| talist state. talist oppression to their emancipa-| affords us the possibility of greater | Tt is necessary to work among} exposure of the tactics of the capi ‘tion: these masses in order to educate them that only through proletarian di tatorship can the workers be emanci- | pated “from capitalism. be done by mere general agitation but | must be-doné-by utilizing bourgeois | parliamentarism itself, by putting up | jour candidates against the Pearse of the capitalist class, by demonstra- | ting through the actual experience of | the workers that parliamentarism | cannot serve the workers and through , the concrete experiences of the work- ers preparing them spiritually, politi- | cally and practically to accept the so-| viet regime and disperse the bour- eois democratic republic. ‘i re Immediate Demands Reformistic? | Are not immediate demands | formistic? Are they not cut out of | the same reformistic pattern as those | of the Socialist Party? Are we not} duplicating the tactics of the Socialist | Party if we put up our candidates and | run in the elections? Quite the con-| trary. The fundamental doctrine of This cannot | fighting not merely the employers symposiums in an effort to determine the responsi- | One set of writers, educators, historians | and philosophers contends that the evidence is against Germany | ssor, while other equally profound savants and pub-| 3 place the blame upon Britain, France and Czarist Russia. ! the question of parliamentarism since Leninism is stated with the greatest 1919, and the lessons that our Party |Clarity by Lenin in his Left Commu- has drawn from it, have not been ac-|nism. Lenin pointed out that the| quired by these new members. |masses cannot be gotten to fight for Re-statemént of Policy toward the proletarian dictatorship merely | Parliamentarism. | by agitation of the slogan, but only | A re-statement of the fundamental | the day to day struggles, fighting for policy of the Party towards parlia-| increased wages and better working mentarism therefore becomes urgently | Conditions, fighting against war, etc. | |necessary if we are to mobilize the| Will the masses be educated to the! lentire Party for more intense work | fact that these struggles alone are | | on the election campaign field. Many | 0t sufficient and that it is necessary | | members accept our participation in| to overthrow the capitalist system in| j election campaigns as a sort of neces- | Order to solve the problems affecting | |sary evil. They are in fayor of agita-| the workingclass, and this conviction | tion and education of the workers and | will be gained only from their own | | they regard the election campaign as Practical experience. The program of | |a means of reaching the masses, but|the Communist International states | | | | | tion on the part of the Party to a issues, as well as national and inter-! national issues is a burning need if} } Wwe are to carry out the fundamental | , tasks outlined by Lenin of getting the | | workers into motion as a class and (developing their class consciousness ‘and separating them from the capi- |talist parties and capitalist influ- | ences, Through election campaigns and parliamentary victories we will not By WM. W. WEINSTONE ii jand through our parliamentary repre- | | sentatives we can expose the chief ; enemy of the working class—the cap The election campaign} | talist class in keeping the workers. in | suppression and of demonstrating to millions of workers the necessity of but the executive committee of the} employing class of the country—the capitalist state. The American work- ers, more than any other working-! class in the world (because of thei literacy and because of their “demo- eratic” traditions) participate in the election campaign, swallow the flood pr ganda poured out by the capi- talist press and other institutions, and have their minds poisoned against class-conscious activity. Trade Union Work Not Sufficient. It is necessary to carry on the widest and most intense election cam- paign in order to counteract these influences that work among the broad masses of people. It is not sufficient merely to do trade union work. This inadequacy is brought home with striking force when we note that in New York City, where we have been able to. rally tens of thousands of workers behind the mili- tant Communist leaders in the trade unions we nevertheless see that in the| elections our vote is only several thousand. This means that we have not yet won over these workers to the banner of the Communist Party. It is our task to overcome this disparity between the trade union successes and our parliamentary failures. And only when our members become convinced of the necessity for more intensified activity on the election field, only when they overcome their prejudices against immediate demands and begin to work for the election of our cand dates, only when they abandon their A Sing Sing Philosopher The Gas House Gang in “Four Walls” at the ? John Golden Theatre BENNY: HOROWITZ, was the leader | of the east side gas house gang} before he made a bum steer and drew a five year stretch up the river. There he read books and did some thinking, two forms of mental exer- that disqualified him for the kind of life he ; formerly _ lived. But Benny did not blossom forth as a “Bald Jack Rose” as a CARROLL McCOMAS psalm _ singing Q evangelist. He : Ags was F decent; A. leading player in J. Frank chap. He be-| Davis’, “The Ladder,” now in its came a cyni¢,.a | @leventh month at the Cort Theatre. form of de-|= = generacy it is, Windov Why every one at a true, but a) Machine or at a desk is a prisoner. rather tolerable Every man who falls in love with a dissipation pyo-| Woman is her prisoner. He would vided those con-| Shout this so all the world could hear cerned can af-| him, so that the hundreds of millions of slaves in other countries would fee : ; jhear him and they would all go _ While Benny Horowitz Was sServ-| marching thru streets and smashing ing time in the Ossining university,| doors, . . , another strong man took his place as a] : gang leader. Monk Eastman not) Sens easnnae fata eae iia we only stepped into his shoes but Hele, ae eannge gaa . ogled' his way into the affections of|ticcrtuce the eee eee : k .. |Yival over the roof to his death. Benny’s ‘sweetheart, Frieda. Here i3)- The women in Benny’s life shield the makings of a feud. him. Bertha and his mother altruis- Another girl who enters Benny’s | tically, but Frieda would use her in- life, tho not very far, is Bertha, who side knowledge as a club to shackle is as homely as Frieda is comely.| Benny to her. Benny sees nothing But Bertha is good while Frieda is| but gyves of one kind or another in bad. Which means in real life taav| front of him so he gives himself up because Fridda is comely and full of| to the police and is on his way to vitality, she finds it almost impossible |Sing Sing and perhaps the electric to be chaste in the rough environ-| chair. ment of the gas house, while Bertha) Muni Wisenfrend, as Benny Horo- would be safq on board a battleship. | witz, plays the leading role excel- Needless to say Bertha hates her |lently. Indeed the acting on the whole rival, \is on a high level and is a tribute to Shortly after Benny’s return from|the Yiddish Art Theatre from which Sing Sing to his mother’s home he | Most of the-cast sprung. pny receives a visit from the gang which| If “Four Walls” does not make has now reformed and changed its; money for its owners, it will be be- name to something like “The East|cause it is not sufficiently loaded Side Political and Social Club” with | With hokum.—T. J. O'F. Monk Eastman as boss. The Monk| — impresses on Benny the wisdom of going along with the gang and cut- ting in on the profits. Benny decides to get his profits out of his pay en-| Muni Wisenfrend ford the luxury. eR a This understanding is necessary in order that) | they do not like the idea of putting up candidates and a program of “im- {mediate demands” and thus fall into |the error of what Lenin criticized as/| | “active abstentionism.” | What is the Party’s attitude toward | Parliamentarism? | Our Party is opposed to parliament | (Congress, Senate, etc.) as a means} |of transforming the capitalist system | jinto Communism. Parliament and) |bourgeois democracy, which it repre-| jacnie are a veil behind which is con-} cealed the bourgeois dictatorship. We} | favor the proletarian dictatorship | | based upon the system of soviets. Wel recognize that the workers will be compelled to utilize force in order to overthrow the capitalist state. How-| ever, our Party as a revolutionary | | party, in order to win the masses for! |the proletarian dictatorship and for| |the establishment of soviets, partici- |pates in all fields of struggle of the | workingclass: in the trade unions, co- | | operatives, and in the election field. jIt recognizes that participation in| | election campaigns affords a means | lof rallying the workers to the ideas | jof Communism and that the candi-| dates of the workers can, by utilizing | |Congress» itself, speak to larger} }masses and to the most backward |masses (who believe in Congress) in order to expose the dictatorship that + | rules the country, | Differences with S. P. | It is true that the Socialist Party | | and other parties also engage in these | activities, but we differ from the So- cialist Party and reform parties gen- these fields of activities are directed toward mobilization of the workers! and preparation of them for over-| | throwing the capitalist state and for| lestablishing the proletarian dictator- ship. The Socialist Parties and the! jreform parties generally work within | ithe framework of the capitalist sys-| (tem, accomodating themselves to it capitalist’ system. The Socialist Party | wishes to change the capitalist sys- | }tem by -peaceful means, They do not; | recognize that the financial oligarchy! | which rules America will not give way | \f land in the-end serve to maintain the}, general secretary of the Communist International. ‘There is no|to the workingelass without the such person as Salkind. The signature of the “president of the|severest struggle—-a struggle which these tactics as follows: “In its struggle for the ultimate goal of the proletarian movement, the party must take into considera- tion concrete circumstances, the correlation of class-forces; the de- gree of capitalist strength; the de- gree of proletarian preparedness, the attitude of the intermediate strata, and so on. The Party for- mulates its slogans and the manner of its struggle in conformity with these circumstances. While ad- vancing a whole seriés of | transi- tional slogans and partial demands, which are determined by the given circumstances, the party must sub- ordinate these demands and these slogans to its revolutionary goal of the capture of power and over- throw of bourgeois-capitalist so- ciety. Hence, it is inadmissible for the Party-either.to hold~aloof from the everyday needs and everyday struggles of the workers, or to limit its activities to these every- day needs and everyday struggles, It. is. the task of the Party, while starting out from these needs, to direct the thoughts and action of the working class beyond these limits, ie, to lTead the working class to the revolutionary fight for power 2 5 3 “To -neglect the formulation of the partial demands and transition slogans is incompatible with the tactical principles of Communism, for it unavoidably leads the Party to passivity and destroys its con- nection with the masses.” ‘ Immediate Program. An examination of our immediate program as compared with that of ee Socialist Party will reveal the ‘act. (1) That our program reall the needs of taaoikers: Set (2) That it is of a character that can appeal to the workers and get them to struggle for these ends. (3) That it helps to strengthen the class-consciousness of the workers, to build. up’ their, morale. and to strengthen theit organizations, thus preparing them for greater struggles, Our attitude toward immediate de- mands and. immediate struggles dif- |to combat the capitalist politicians, ni ‘|second play from Eugene O’Neill, erally in that our participation in {Difference between S. P. and W. P=| Comintern” is also false, because that office has been abolished since the seventh plenary session of the Executive of the Com- munist. International. The information bureau of the Communist International states that this latest forgery is the invention of a group of white- guard conspirators who recently operated a forgery factory in Paris, which was liquidated last June by the arrest of Salovsky, chief of the forgers. It is a known fact that representatives of South American governments purchased such documents from that source. 5 : No matter how often these forgeries are exposed the capital- ist press continues to publish them as authentic. The fact that such documents contain signatures of people who do not exist is a trivial matter as far as these hack editors are concerned. They have their orders to publish as many lies as can be concocted against the Soviet Union and the Communist International and they do so. Moker. | will compel the workingclass to Yre- ies from that of the Socialist Party hort to all their strength and to open) 2/8 in that. éven where our program |combat in order to defeat the im-|™@y¥ be similar on a specific issue as, ! perialists and the counter-revolution. for example, Sacco and Vanzetti, the | Because of these peaceful reformist Socialist: Party will be found waver- {illusions the Socialist Party in the |!"8: vagillatin, - and betraying, and in \day to day struggles does not arouse ithe cnd.forring to develop mass} | the workingclass, does not build up “@vements, resorting to purely legal | its morale, does not unite it and does Measures (hecause of fear of the not prepare it as a real fighting body ™4Sses and of clashing with the or the revolution. /capit + forces), finally withdraw- | Parliament and Class Power. ing from the struggle or sabotaging | | On the other hand, the Communist the movement. This has been the ex- |Party, because it realizes that in the Perienee with the Socialist Party in | period of imperialism it will be pos-i the recent Saceo-Vanzetti case, and| |sible to conquer the capitalist state Senerally characterized the attitude | only by throwing the full weieht of of the anarchist committee in control |the working against’ capitaliom, Of the campaign, This was illustrated |participates in the daily struggles, With striking force in the attitude as-| favors industrial uhions, the unity of sumed by the Socialist Party in Ger- | the workingclass, engages in mass ac- | Many on the question, of the confisca-— tion, utilizes all issues, small and, tion of the royalists’ estates, and is: llarge in order to approach and win 4 commonplace today in the tactics} over ever new sections of the work- assumed by the bureaucracy in the ingclass, and thus prepares the wor labor movement. 6 ingelass for revolutionary strugg! i Local Issues. Many of our members knowing th’ Not less immediate demands and | believe, however, that because we f: wAmediate struggle, but more atten-! | half-heartedness toward this field of | activity (which attitude in the end | amounts almost to a boycott and to! pure and simple anarchism), can we advance to a political power and help build the mass Communist Party. The capitalists every year are im- posing more and more reactionary laws against the workers. Because of the lack of a strong political party these lackeys of the bourgeoisie have a free hand in fastening the chains of oppression on organized labor, In this election campaign we find issues of the greatest importance to the workingclass which call for the ut- most effort of our membership for a successful campaign. These issues we will discuss in the next article, | Fascists May Lose Citizenship. | BALTIMORE, Sept. 22,-Foreign- ‘born Citizens in Baltimore who -are ; members of Italian fascisti may lose |citizenship, according to Jesse M. ‘Thomas of United States department of labor, dstrict director in charge of |naturalization, because, he believes, fascisti oath holds interests of Italy above those of any other nation. Theatre Guild to Do An- other O’Neill Play’ This Season : i The Theatre Guild has acquired a “Strange Interlude,” and which they will produce sometime in the Fall, | The other O’Neill play planned by! the .Guild is “Marco Millions,” “Sttange Interlude,” goes the an-} nouncement is one of the longest | plays ever written. It is in nine acts! and of such length that when it is produced performances will probably start about 6 p. m. The Children’s Classes which have, always been an important part of the work of the Neighborhood Play- house will continue this seeson ever though the theatre itself will be used by another organization. Registra- | tion dates for former members of the classes are Sept. 24 and Sept. 26; for new members, Sept. 29th and 20th from 4 to G6 p. m. The classes be- gin next Saturday morning, October Ast. , S._N. Behrman’s “The Second Man,” now current at the Guild The- atre, has just passed its 150th per- formance. Lee Shubert has acquired fo? American presentation the London comedy, “And So To Bed,” by James B. Fagan. The play, based on the diary of Samuel Pey will include the original Bnglish Cast headed b~ ‘Mary Gray, Yvonne Arnaud, Fred O'Donovan, A. Storie, By Shaw, Gyles Isham and Emlyn W! liams. , Dorothy | Donhelly, who wrote tf book and lyries of “My Maryland.” is at work. on a libretto based upon the life of Richard Wagner. The story centers about his love affair with Liszt’s daughter, Cosima, ' | the seductive wailing of saxaphones velope and things look promising for an ordered and respectable life for him when the charms of Frieda and} in’ Tom’s restaarant captured his wandering soul. | With half a dozen shots of Tom’s hootch under his belt Benny decides, to get squara with the Monk. While the “Black Rats” are disturbing the) slumbers of the neighborhood with a! fusilade of shots directed at the mem~._ bers of the Eastman gang, Befany carries Frieda up to the roof after | weakening her into again admitting her love by sheer force of muscig| power. “You talk awful nice” Says | the soft and’ silky siren and indeed | Benny squirted some up-to-date ideas. into the moonlight. The whole world! \is a prison, he thinks. Those factory! ~ GRAND STREET FOLLIES i Theatre, 41 St. W. of B’way National ys s'30, arts Wed. gone 88 +3 A. H. WOODS Presents The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, with HARDING—REX CHERRYMAN The Desert Song with Robt. Halliday & Eddie Buzzeli C INO Pigg ng Month AS St. & B'way. Evs. 8.30 S. Mats, Wed. and Sat. 2.2 The LADDER POPULAR PRICES, Best. seats $2.20. THEATRE, 48th St. kh. of Biwa Eves. 8:30. Mati- nees Wed. and ‘Sat. at 2:30. Little Theatre 44th St. W. of B’way 8:30. MATINEE DAY ONLY, 2:30 ANN Somme m mere em emnomve veniam oamvecvemuan senesced venvanoanvaselonaneawe ‘Tse Temptress A Motion Picture by V. BLASCO IBANEZ | Revival of Charlie Chaplin’s “THE CHAMPION” The funniest of his productions at the WALDORF THEATRE, 50th St, East of 7th Ave. SUNDAY, October 2, 1927 Admission 65c. MUSIC BY MOSCOW TRIO. Major part of house bought by DAILY WORKER and FREIHEIT. _AT PPECIAL PRICE? 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