The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 24, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPT. 24, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Cable Address SUBSCRIPTION By Mail (in New York only): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months Address all mail and make out check THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New Phone, Orchard 1680 By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per years $3.50 six months $2.00 three months J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE BERT MILLER Entered as second-class mail the post-o of March 3, =: Advertising rates on application. LENIN SAYS: Who emphasises “the proletarian tenden- ey of our movement”; who insists that the | worker does not fear organization, that he| has no sympathy with anarchism and that | he responds to the stimulus: “Organize | yourselves!” who warns us that the bour- | geois intellectuals are thoroughly imbued | with opportunism? The Jacobins of Social- | Democracy. (Lenin’s group in the Russian | Social-Democratic Labor Party.) And who| drags the radical intellectuals into the Party | and are generally concerned about the} The Big Show at Chicago. | | When millions of dollars are involved in betting on the out-| come of a gladiatorial contest in the prize ring a trivial incident like a knock-out of the scheduled winner is not permitted to in- terfere with the outcome. There was a time, before prize-fight- ing became a “big business,” that when one of the fighters was down for the count of ten he was declared the loser. On Thursday night this was reversed and the man knocked-out emerged from the conflict as the winner. The decision in the Dempsey-Tunney show at Chicago was beyond the shadow of a doubt reached by the gamblers before the two men entered the ring. The only way Dempsey could possibly have regained the title was to have slaughtered Tunney—and even then the referee would have probably declared it a foul blow and given the dead man the decision. Let it be said right here that we are not partisan to either one of the contestants. We simply recall the events in connection “with the performance in order again to remind our readers that capitalism pollutes everything it touches. There is no such thing as honest) or fair-play in a major sporting event. It is notorious at organized baseball is simply a form of organized graft and abt the professional manipulators of gambling pools control that * y game. ; 4 As to the Dempsey-Tunney bout, there is another factor that must be considered and that is the military aspect of the affair. The American fascists in convention in Paris were heavy sup- porters of Tunney, the ex-marine, who has been used asa recruit- ing decoy since the farce a year ago in Philadelphia when his opponent was doped before he entered the ring. The war-mon- gers were among the heavy backers of Tunney in this fight and they saw to it that their hero got the decision whether he deserved it or not. Intelligent workers should hold such performances in utter | contempt and should not for a moment be deceived regarding the | nature of capitalist sports. | Sports are valuable and useful for the working class and | should be encouraged, but they should be of a mass character so} that the workers themselves can participate directly instead of | paying enormous admission fees to watch a framed farce such as was cbviously pulled off at Chicago on Thursday evening. Former Socialist Leader Lauds Coolidge. in an article in the October number of the Nort Amer w predicts that Coolidge will be drafted to head the republican ticket in 1928. Spargo, with his usual cheap twaddle, says of Coolidge: “He does not ‘choose’ to be a can- didate but I believe that he will be chosen and that the nomination will be brought to him on the proverbial silver platter.” We are not here concerned with the merits of the present Spargo argument about Coolidge’s intentions next year. It is the author rather than the subject that interests us. This piti- fully puny individual, mentally and physically warped, a former Mr. John | sulted “ Morgan, Morgan the Raider, and Morgan the Terrible Man’ --- Line from an Old Civil War Poem By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. The White House announcement that Dwight W. Morrow had ac- cepted an appointment as United States ambassador to Mexico was no great surprise to Wall Street.... The president’s announcement re- in HEAVY BUYING OF MEXICAN BONDS, several issues advancing from 2 to 4 points. It was apparently felt... THAT AMERICAN PROPERTY RIGHTS WILL BE MORE FULLY SAFE- GUARDED WITH MR. MORROW AS AMBASSADOR. —The New York World,Sept. 21. * * * HE house of Morgan, in which the recently appointed Mexican am- bassador has been a partner since 1914, holds approximately $500,000,000 worth of Mexican bonds. Thomas Lamont, another Morgan partner, is cha’sman of the bankers’ committee which took over the Mexican obliga- tions with a lien on the Mexican rail- ways and other national enterprises. It therefore is not remarkable that the appointment “was no great sur- | prise to Wall Street” or that it “re- sulted in heavy buying of Mexican bonds on the New York Stock Ex- change.” ie is highly probable that those who knew of the coming appointment, |now known to have been agreed upon |at the conference in Rapid City be- {tween Morrow and Coolidge, turned their knowledge into many honest | pennies by ridiculous stock purchases. But this is a minor detail in connec- tion with a political act which identi- | fies American government so openly | with the house of Morgan that all | official denial and explanation are juseless to disguise it. | Rumors are that the Mexican ap- |pointment is only a stepping stone |from which Morrow will leap into the state department and become its |head, displacing the inept Kellogg. | However this may be, the fact remains | that this latest acknowledgement of |fealty to the house of Morgan will |have far reaching consequences both |in international politics and domestic j affairs. |THE New York Times, the leading | democrat organ of Wall Street, | heartily approves of the appointment, but in-what is undoubtedly one of the | weirdest editorials appearing in. this usually complacent sheet, predicts a tremendous wave of popular protest. The Times, altho applauding the president’s courage in picking a part- |ner of the house of Morgan for what {he regards as the most important | diplomatic. post next to that of am- |bassador to Great Britain, “calling | upon a close friend and trusted coun- |selor,” is worried as to the outcome. | It says: “The very audacity of this de- fiance of the large body of Ameri- can minute men ready to raise a tremendous outcry about Big Busi- ness may for a time deprive them of breath. But they will un- doubtedly quickly recover it and the Oregon will soon hear*many sounds, | besides its own dashing, while the | long howl about the Coolidge ad- | ministration having at last un- masked itself and appeared as the willing tool of the Money Power | will reverberate from state to state.” | LOOKING at it from a different angle than does The Times, from the viewpoint of the workers and far- mers of the United States, we believe | that our readers will agree that Cool- idge showed neither courage nor “au- dacity” in bowing to the will of the lords of finance who hold a $500,- 000,000 mortgage on Mexico. | A well known phonograph company | has popularized the picture of a dog |listening with pleasure to “His Mas- ter’s Voice,” but no one has ever \sity of finance-capital having a firm {grip on foreign policy. |THE special qualifications in this | connection Morrow possesses are | emphasized by the well-informed capi- | | talist papers. The New York World, for instance, says: “Mr. Morrow long since ceased to be merely a legal partner of J P. Morgan and Company, assuming broader functions. He wag the | RECOGNIZED ECONOMIST OF | THE FIRM and acted more the Going to Mexico part ,of the FINANCIAL | | SCHOLAR THAN THE BANKER.” | ment in an editorial with the hypo- | \crital heading: “We Send Mexico a) | Friend.” ‘ | “Mexico needed,” says the World, | “and desired, an American ambassa- |dor who should be familiar with the ‘details of finance, experienced in | foreign undertakings, distinguished jby breadth of thought, and a friend of | peace.” mit evidence showing that Mor- | gan’s partner is a “friend of peace” | and therefore we may be pardoned for {our doubts since the greater part of Dwight W. Morrow, of J. P. Morgan & Co., New York, has been named by President Cool- |eonnection with military enterprises, ane The World also proves the appoint- (THE World does not bother to sub- | Morrow’s “public service” has been in ’ oil markets, the complications arising out of the conflict between America’s high tariff policy and some $18,000,- 000,000 loaned to Europe, on which interest must be paid, the constant export of capital, the indication of by the new French duties on American goods, the open attempts of Great Soviet Union, whose oil supplies Standard Oil wants to purchase, those countries which owe Wall Street billions of dollars, the kaleidoscopic situation in China which will not per- mit of diplomatic, military and finan- cial mistakes without the’ risk of ist interests—all point to the neces- _ ote meme re mmm Ne “Attend Union Square Protest Today,” Call N. Y. Young Workers the anti-war demonstration to be held at Union Square today at 1 p. m., the Young Workers’ League has is- sued the following appeal: The danger of a new war is no longer a probability of the far distant future. A new war is imminent. The imperialist powers openly speak about it and are feverishly arming them- selves. Particularly the United States, which is today the strongest imperial- ist state struggling for world: su- premacy. The main danger is the war against the Soyiet Union and the Chinese rev- olution. The consolidation of the Sov- an attempt at tariff reprisals shown) Britain to organize for war upon the| severe damage to American imperial-, Commenting on the importance of | aeee ‘7 succeed James R. |such as chairman of the president's eme! as ambassador to | aircraft board and as director of the Mexico. | shipping of army supplies and muni- (International Newsree!) |tions during Morgan’s war for which |he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by General Pershing. } In effect what The World says to the Mexican people relative to Mor- row’s high qualifications is the same kind of consolation given by Governor Fuller to Sacco and Vanzetti_the privilege of being executed by an ex- pert. Toe steady and rapid concentration in the hands of the Wall Street plunderbund of the huge profit-mak- ing enterprises which have a direct relation to military adventures, (Gen- eral Motors, automobiles and trucks, Dupont, explosives and chemicals, United States Steel, etc.) the recent rocket like rise of the stocks of these icompanies on the stock exchange, \taken together with the Morrow ap- pointment are signs of the most sin- ister character for the masses in in- dustry and agriculture. | No substantial and decisive opposi- ‘tion to the Morrow appointment is likely to develop either in the Foreign Relations Committee or on the floor of the senate. ORAH already has adopted a “wait and see” policy and shows no in- dieation of opposing the appointment of Morrow on principle. Some for- mal opposition may be expected from the democrats ‘since a_ presidential campaign is just around the corner, but the industrialization of the south bringing with it the energetic entry of Wall Street into southern politics thru its investments in water power, iron, chemicals, coal, ete. rapidly weakens the influence of the agricul- tural groups and tends to align the democrat politicians with finance and heavy industry. | “Progressives” | Norris, Frazier, like LaFollette, etc. and the lone iet Union, the success of socialist con-|farmer-labor senator Shipstead, will struction and the development of the raise a rumpus but outside of Minne- Chinese revolution in spite of all be-'sota there is no mass party repre- trayals, constitute a basic danger to)senting the workers and farmers. world imperialism and capitalism. |Lacking clarity and organized ex- Preparing for War. | pression, the revolt against the Mor- ‘ ss we intment will fritter itself The American imperialists are fev- POWs EPpony 3 : ffectual protest against erishly preparing for these wars. The hg, eee P + vd United States built up a strong army, ine acne bigad Dariy, machine, the most powerful navy equipped with JO the American labor movement, the most deadliest weapons. New bat- to the exploited farmers, to the tleships are built, large appropriations Unorganized workers, the appoint- are made for a strong air fleet, our Ment of Morgan’s partner as Mexi- industries are made ready to be put ©?” ambassador is a challenge that on a war basis in the shortest possible °4" be answered effectively only by time and on’ the whale the war ma: building and strengthening the labor chinery is perfected: |movement and basing on it a mass % ‘political party, speaking and fightin; One of the most important forms of | for workers and farmers and atabe IT ALL DEPENDS— The Government had money to burn for the patriotic Lindbergh reception— But there’s no money to build new schools to relieve overcrowding. —By Wm. Gropper Current Events simmmn (Continued from Paze One) jsystem. And that is just the reason mitted the master class to kill Sacco| why they are taking their coffee and and Vanzetti and to bury Tom Mooney | doughnuts standing up and happier and scores of other proletarian|wrapped around the.» than a heavy- leaders in living tombs. Which is all) jowled cloak and suit man loaded with very true, but— | Long Island roast duck pickled in * jhigh balls. * * * * "THOSE who feel that they are mak- 4 ing a sacrifice for the workers by| HE Coast Investor and Industrial joining the radical movement are} Review of San Francisco not be- either lying pleasantly or else they | ing content with catering to the needs don’t belong. If they are in the move- | of investment bankers and industrial- ment from a desire to assist it to the | ists saw fit in a recent editorial to best of their ability, they are in it | spew a lot of venum on the Soviet because this kind of activity gives) Union. The reformed hill-billy that them the biggest thrill that life can | deliverd the attack, was sap enough to afford. And this is their compensa-| strike at the pet foe of world capi- tion. So where is the sacrifice? It|talism in its least vulnerable part. It is true that most of those who give|is generally admitted by even the their entire services to the radical/spew a lot of venum on the Soviet movement could make a comfortable) Union that education has made tre- living selling insurance, hot dogs,|mendous strides in that mighty coun- orange groves under the sea or|try since the Czar’s toes were pointed grape juice in kegs, but it is doubt-|to the stars. But the yokel from the ful if they would get the kick out| west coast evidently has not heard of either of those avocations—not/| of this. We took a crack at him and even out of grape juice—that they| now he is grunting like a frightened get out of hammering at the capitalist \ boar. | The New Plays “SPEAKEASY,” a melodrama by Edward Knoblock and George Rose- ner, will open Monday night at the Mansfield Theatre, produced by William B. Friedlander with the following cast: Anne Shoe- maker, Leo G. Carroll, Arthur R. Vinton, Dorothy Hall, Edward | Woods, Marie Pettes, John Crone and Beatrice Lee. ; “THE MERRY MALONES,” with book, tunes and lyrics by George M. Cohan, will open the new Erlanger’s Theatre in West 44th | d | 8 eve preparation for war is the militariza-. hornl: ‘ . | Street Monday night. The large cast is headed by Mr. Cohan, ‘ acher, a bourgeois intellectual and for years one of the fore- thought of writing a eulogy of the|tion of the youth. Through its agen- PEDIY CHROBING Bt every point the { and includes Polly Walker, Alan Edwards, Robinson Newbold, j pre . rd s sides : |courage of the canine so depicted a fe Fy Bt program of progressive robbery of | | : KEE § « ¢ most figures of the socialist party, has never in his life written) a, 5 picted. _|cies like the CMTC’s, ROTC’s, Na-|the masses at home and conquest] | Dorothy Whitmore, Marjorie Lane, Frank Otto and Ina Hayward. * anything worth serious consideration, hence his attempts to in- HA oolidge defied the wishes of tional Guard and others the youth is abroad which the appointment of “THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY,” 2 new comedy by James ie h tives of the puppet, Coolidge, are worthless Wel the house of Morgan by the ap-| trained to serve as cannon fodder in Morrow symbolizes. Gleason, will be presented by Crosby Gaige and Earle Booth C4 olan i motiv . o wed eri re Sac cepene a eedene aoa & ‘someone ei outright | the imperialist war. | Morrow of the house of Morgan, in| Monday at the Martin Beck Theatre. Mme. Gleason, Lucille a mention Spargo only in order to reca reer |opposition to its imperialist policy, Urges 0; ition 40-1 | Mexico City on his way to the state Webster, Harry Tyler and Percy Moore head the cast | 4 2 seas eae watt i sociali . He| there would have been some hires eee nt de: i “ wn IN.” a t an | i : of the working clas SW thin eylersrs < ve gory haedese Sleredit him with fe ea een International Youth Day which is ise ate acini aoe Kann by|| “JIMMIE’S WOMEN,” a comedy by Myron C. Fagan, is due at the | | was, then as now, a garrulous individual and a prolific seribbler | vyicintment of Morrow merely con:| Celebrated by the revolutionary youtn {hing that stands aran ebetecle te ne Biltmore Theatre Monday night. Minna Gombel, Beatrice Terry, 4 of books. He hefouled everything he touched. He wrote a sO-| firms our previous estimates of the, the world over as a mobilization of just for world domination whether te| Ohasles: Bibsnmerey: jenitin,, Alexander Clark 4 and Willen 1) called “life of Marx” that was such a distortion of the facts and/ Coolidge character, that his “cour-| the working class youth in the strug-' be the masses of the United jg Kelly are in the cast. so stuffed with mendacity that Franz Mehring of Germany branded the thing “an insult to the memory of Marx and a di grace to the international movement.” But that denunciation did not prevent the socialist party circulating the thing—in fact it still circulates it today, though it is utterly worthless from every point of view. His other works on “socialism and religion,” and “syndicalism,” are equally rotten. When the first blare of the trumpets of war resounded throughout the land this poltroon fled to the camp of the enemy where he has since thrived as one |velopments in line with the program | the fullest cooperation and support. | of their most willing and debased scavengers. Praise of Coolidge is part of his present degrading work—a fit climax to the illus- trious career of a yellow socialist leader. | age” is simply the class consciousness {of the ruling class of the United ates, that in defying what is called ublic opinion” he does .so | Street is strong enough to |'way no matter what voices | Bent. have its may dis- HE appointment of Morrow un- } doubtedly presages important de- ;American imperialism has mapped out for itself—both in Latin America, the Far East and Europe. Morrow, as the acknowledged | spokesman of the class whose instru- with the | |firm belief that the power of Wall! gle against imperialist war and capi-| or of Latin America. talist oppression should be made this | year a gigantic demonstration against | war, against American imperialism and exploitation of the young workers. Said to Prevent Burns | ; The demonstration called against so” A zs |war and militarization of the Amer- | Even if Dentist Crazy | jican youth by the Young Workers’ aE | |Communist League for Saturday on} | Union Square, 1 p. m., must be given | MONTREAL, Sept. 23.—Perfeciion | of a “fool proof” x-ray machine for) dental work, claimed tcday in} The workers must counteract ie area da lntnte TR le ocad | poisonous propaganda of the war mon- | Bay aston ia a peveciene Hyentgen |gers. It will be disastrous for us to | Experts Toit out that epinle| permit American imperialism to train | ,._ iehiniea | x-ray machines are 100 per cent safe | jour youth as cannon fodder. The|in the hands of skilled users, there | Invent X-Ray Machine “THE LETTER,” by Somerset Maugham, will open Monday night at the Morosco Theatre with Katharine Cornell, John Buckler, Bur- ton McEvilly, Eva Boyne, James Vincent, Sam Kim and Allan Jeayes in the cast. “MANHATTAN MARY,” a musical comedy, book by William K. Wells! and George White, ies by B. G. de Sylva and Lew Brown and music by Ray Henderson, at the Ap night. The cast is headed by Ed. Wynn, Elizabeth Hines, Harland Dixon, George White and Lou Holtz. “BLACK VELVET,” a new play by for the Liberty Thoatre Tue tured. M. J. Nicholas is the producer. “THE UNINVITED GU Yas EG ard MecOwen, will open Tues- day night at the Belmont Th Peg Entwistle will head the cast, “THE GARDEN OF EDEN,” a com.dy, by Avery Hopwood from the i ees Willard Robertson, is scheduled y night, with Arthur Byron fea- However, there is one redeeming feature even about Spargo, : i v 3 ri : ;ment American government is, will| working class cannot remain passiv low and base as he is, when we compare him with those leaders | direct the policies of the state de- to fhe tenevaticell for “a aor a has always been danger from mani- German of Rudolph Bernauey and Rudolph Oestreicher, opens who still remain at the head of the socialist party. .At least he| partment whether he be merely | did have the decency to stop posing as a labor leader and now is/ 2 directly on the payroll of the capitalist class whom he has always | served. The remaining yellow socialist leaders could do a real) A service to the labor movement if they would emulate again their | old leader and openly get their pay from those whom they serve | instead of existing as leeches upon the working class. | eee ———= Mexican ambassador or secretary of State. MERICAN imperialism is disap- pointed with the policy of picking puppets for key positions in its gov- ernmental machine. The rapid de- velopment of the rivalry between Great Britain and America, apparent at the Geneva conference on arma- ment, the open struggle between Standard Oil and Royal Dutch Shell for control of the richest available sources of the world’s oil supply and in which we will pay with our lives and blood. This demonstration must be a warning to the American work- ing class of the grave dangers facing them and as a challenge to the Amer- ican imperialists who are seeking more. territory to exploit and more docile colonial slaves to oppress. Come to the Union Square demon- stration! Bring your young shopmates! pulation by those with only an ele-| mentary knowledge of x-ray. The| new machine, which to date has been perfected only for dental work, will render the equipment 100 per cent safe, it was said. Prominent roentgenologists from throughout the world are attending the convention. Dr. David William Coolidge, of Schenectady, discoverer of the cathode ray tube, which har- nesses an intense and powerful ray, is scheduled to deliver an address to- Save the youth for the working class! day accompanied by an riment with his invention. af Pn Tuesday night at the Selwyn Theatre. Included in the cast are Miriam Hopkins, Alison Skipworth, Russ Whytal, Douglass Montgomery, Stafford Dickens and T. Wigrey Percyval, “ROMANCING ’ROUND,” by Conrad Westervelt, will be presented at the Little Theatre Wednesday night by L. Lawrence Weber. Ralph Morgan and Peggy Conway are co-featured. Others in the cast include, Beatrice Blin, Fleming Ward, Mott Hawley and Charles Ritchie. “MURRAY HILL,” a farce by Leslie Howard, is due at the Bijou Theatre next Thursday night, presented by the Shuberts. The cast includes: Genevieve Tobin, Glenn Anders, Gaby Fay, J. H. Brewer, Florence Edney, Leslie Howard, Alice May Tuck and Harry Lillford.