The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday $3 First Street, New York, N. Y Addres: Phone, Orchard 1680 “Daiwork Ca SUBSCRIPTION RATES ‘ 3 By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per years $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months make out checks to First Street, New York, N. Y. padres all HE DAILY WORT ‘J. LOUIS ENGDAHL | WILLIAM F, DUNNE BERT MILLER.. ‘sie seis gia Rea SR pve Editors Who emphasizes “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-Democratie Labor Party.) And who “ and are generally concerned about the }used th drags the radical intellectuals into the Party |. | D. BENJAMIN (Assistant Director Worke: The workers. of New Yo! y and New York State are now facing the question of electing assemblym aldermen, municipal court judges and |other officials of the c By School). was elected, well as United States. It times we ask our! tions: what have these done to improve the conditions of the workers, what have they done to build uo id organizations, what have they ¢ e the interests of the worke and try as capitalist agai * Reaction Rules. A thorough analysis of the present shows that the Coolids the the Walkers, down to t Ss ymen of the state of Nev the members of the board of alder- | actionary policies and plans—this has | mi York City. The city|been the character of the national, | th men of New magistrates and judges have r power to aid the bos: even in their ds of the wor publican and democratic p in the Stone Cutters Union case pre-; workers of this country must wake venting workers from refusing to|up to these facts, must cease to sup- andle non-union material; the whole-| port those who attack them day. in |sale arrests of strikers and pickets in} and day out, must begin to realize this city in the strikes of the furriers,;}that the workers must organize if lothing workers, shoe workers,,paper| their interests are to be protected. Labor Party Class Need as City Voting Nears | 0 etnie apitalist Diplomacy and coun- Last year the governor of the as con- men; the year before, the may- whom the votes of the Workers are | mers supposed to have elected into office, ttempts to lower the living| |box makers, painters, bakers, plumbers, subway workers, etc.— these point to the reactionary char- | acter of the times and the active par- | ticipation of the Demoeratic and Re- No did the poor and working far- are any better at the hands of the government. Even such a weak \palliative as the MeNary-Haugan Bill was defeated last year. Not a cent trengthen the working class|out of the billions collected by the e to| government every year was spent to relieve the suffering of the poor far- | poor farmers of this state and coun-|mers in the Mississippi flood areas. | the interests of the! The rulers of this country did not even | | think it important enough to summon {a special session of congress to deal | with the problems created by the | flood. | Labor Party Vital. Somplete -subservience to Wall , a willingness to carry out re- ;state and city government. The | zh |The workers of this country and of | this city must understand that the | Republican and Democratie parties jhave never represented the interests of the workers but only those of the and, in 1924, the president of the| publican parties in the policies of|employers, that the socialist party! s well that at such| their masters, the bankers and manu-|has betrayed the workers, that the Ives several ques-} facturers of this country. officials, | workers must have a Labor Party of |their own based on trade union |fraternal organizations of workers, | working class political partie: and that only then will the work be able to resist the reactionary at- tacks of the employers and be in a position to make moves for the im- provement of conditions and the rais ing of their status. The workers of this city |that they understand all this, ithey understand the relation between “reaction” and the capitalist parties, | that they understand the necessity of ‘a Labor Ticket in this city—the work- | ers must show that they are deter-} ed to havé such a ticket and that will do away with all obstacles impede that step. \tha -Lovestone Summarizes Discussion of must | ' demonstrate at the coming elections | that | France and Spain Sign Secret Military Treaty for Colonial Despotism in Africa ; || GEORGESIDNEY Tae title of the play “The Command | to Love” now on exhibition at the Longacre Theatre is not happily | named. It is derived from the main| episode which depicts a military at-| tache of the French} embassy in Madrid, | Spain, seducing the/| Spanish war min-" ister’s wife, under| specific orders of his | superior, the French | ambassador. | In order to protect | the imperialist as-| pirations of France in| Afriea (Morocco) it| is imperative that a} secret military agree- | |ment be reathed with Spain. The; Spanish war minister is opposed to} the conspiracy. It is known that his | | young wife influences him. Her own} : opinions are determined by the par-| |; |tieular lover she happens to have at) [gas : ik ce the time. Hence the French foreign) [s co-starred with Charlie Murray minister sends as military attache a| in “The Life of Riley,” the film fea- young man who is an adept with the|ture at the Broadway Theatre this young wives of the somewhat | week, Mary Nash weather-beaten bourgeoisie. His par- ticular social achievements commend | ; Re ‘ rench foreign minister, misses a him:to the diplomatic’ service; ifine opportunity for satire when he ever been ready to help the American | \capitalists to put across one of the | | darkest reactionary periods the work- } professors, the students, the individualists and the radical youth? The Girondist Axelrod and the Girondist Liber. (Elements who His Report for the Political Committee wanted to open the Party doors to intellectuals, ete.) —LEN N| ON ORGANIZATION, p. 164. A Task for the American Labor Delegation to Russia Returning from the Soviet Union whence it had gone to} - conditions in general, the American Labor Dele- gation is enthusiastic about the marvellous development of that country under the workers’ and peasants’ government. The Fed-} erated Press article by James H. Maurer, president of the Penn- sylvania State Federation of Labor, published in today’s DAILY WORKER, fully confirms the statements of fact that have been published in the columns of this and other publications serving the interests of the working class. Maurer’s statement is a com-| plete refutation of the diatribes against the Soviet Union of such | servile agents of capitalism as William Green and Matthew Woll. Travelling thousands of miles thru Russia, given free access to every form of industrial life, permitted to examine books show- | ing earnings of workers, output, and hours of labor; freely visit- | ing the homes of workers and going in general when and where} they pleased, the conclusions reached impel all fair-minded peo- ple to accept them as valid. That the facts as revealed by Maurer and the committee will not be accepted by the dirty lackeys of < imperialism at the head of the official labor movement goes with- | out saying. Their loathsome task is to blackguard the workers of the Soviet Union until their masters tell them to change their | tune. i lia “While we have nothing but praise for the reports thus far| published by the various members of the committee and particu-| Jarly commend the report of the chairmansof the delegation, we | must emphasize the fact that a mere report is not sufficient. Now , that the mission is today returning to the United States it is | their obvious duty to carry on an aggressive campaign among the | trade unions of the country for recognition of the Soviet Union. | It is to be hoped that this experience will galvanize Maurer into action as one of the militant leaders of organized labor, a posi- | tion he once held, and which enabled him to stand high for a long time among the workers because of his past traditions. If he is really desirous of serving the interests of the international | working class and aiding the heroic workers of the Soviet Union in their efforts to hold the gains they have made; and continually advance as he admits they have advanced; if he is really con- vinced, as he says, that the Russian masses wish for peace above everything else, he will go to the convention of the American} Federation of Labor in Los Angeles, in his capacity as. president of one of the largest and most important state federations in the country, and there raise the demand for the recognition and the} defense of the Soviet Union. | By implication, of course, Maurer’s letter can be considered a plea for this recognition, but there is no specific statement to that effect. This is a grave defect and it is to be hoped that the delegation remedies this by an unequivocal demand for recogni- tion. : The Doubleday, Page-Doran Book Publishing Combination \._ The combination of the two big publishing houses, Doubleday, Page and Company, and the George H. Doran Company fits in well with the series of mergers taking place in other industries. The new combination controls by contract many of the most popular writers and is understood to be carrying on negotiations with many others. That a movement toward monopoly in the “hook publishing business is under way-there can: be little doubt. This trend in the book publishing industry recalls “the fate of the independent magazines of two decades age. This was the} golden age of the “‘muckraker,” there were a whole series of ex- posures of local, city and national political corruption and the methods and policies of the trusts were the subjects of hundreds of articles in magazines of wide circulation. Wall Street got busy. Publishing companies were purchased outright or forced into bankruptcy. Once more American period- feals became “respectable.” Ida Tarbell who first gained fame by her exposure of Standard Oil and the Rockefeller family, closed her career by writing a fulsome biography of John D. There is today a tendency apparent in American literature | which is skeptical of the wonderful claims made for American} capitalist civilization by its press agents. Many of the younger school of writers show actual hostility toward imperialist mani- festations. While we have not the facts at hand at present to substan- tiate our contention fully, we are nevertheless convinced that it will not be hard to prove that the Doubleday-Doran combination marks the beginning of an attempt by Wall Street to trustify the book publishing industry under its control and extend its power investigate labo of this country have faced. Instead ing the open-shop drives of oyers, the terrorism of the cists, the war moves of the imperialists, the government| from top to bottom, from president to mayor, from congressman to alder- man, from supreme court to munici- pal court, has been a willing. too! in carrying out the wishes of the ruling The present period is one of reaction: the goyernent and capital- ist parties are “agents of reaction.” They must be held responsible by the workers of this country. One, need only summarize the main events and developments of the past year to realize the correctness of these assertions. The war danger involved in the imperialist attack on the Sov- iet Union and the Chinese revolution is the greatest threat to the well-be- ing of the working class of this coun- try. The evergrowing conflict bet veen America and the British as evi- denced by the break in the Geneva Disarmament Conference, and the quarrel over the question of debts, is a constant cloud hanging over the lives of the workers and farmers of the U. S. The murdering of hundreds of Nicaraguans by “American democ- racy,” the sending of battleships and marines to China, the attack by Amer- iean imperialism on the rights of the people of Mexico and Panama means war for the American people. The stent refusal of the American wvernment to recognize the Work- ers’ and Peasants’ Republic of the Soviet Union, the appointment of Dwight Morrow of the House of Mor- gan as the ambassador to Mexico— show that the American government is but the executive:committee for the American capitalist class. The Bosses’ Offensive. Then witness the “legal” murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, This was a shot directed at the very heart of the working class. It was a notice given by the American business class that they would not tolerate attempts on the part of workers to organize and improve their conditions. It was a de- cision on the part of the manufac- turers and mill-owners to stifle all signs of protest against the present order. This was in line with the pol- icy of the coal operators, textile, clothing and shoe manufacturers in their attacks upon the unions in those industries. The coal operators have shown that even class-collaboration agreements do not satisfy them; they are out to destroy the Miners’ Union or reduce it to impotence. The cloth- ing manufacturers of New York are to reintroduce the old sweat-shop con- ditions. ‘Fhe subway company in this city fought tooth and nail the at- tempts of the subway workers to. or- ganize. There is the concentrated and bit- ter attack of American capitalism upon the foreign-born workers. Not only were attempts made at the last congressional session to pass laws ¢ finger-print, register and photog: foreigners (an attempt to divide labor movement) as a preliminary ‘. wholesale intimidation, strike-bre. ing and deportation, but, at the pre: ent moment, there are plenty of si that the American reactionaries -are determined to attack the entire labo: movement by concentrating on one of its weaker sections. The series cf bomb frame-up cases against foreign workers, following the execution cf Saceo and Vanzetti; the statements of Secretary of Labor Davis and immi- gration officials that millions of for. eign-born workers are illegally in t country and are subject to deport» tion; the injunction issued in Oh against the right of miners, who hap- pen to be foreign-born, to picket all these show the part played b: government officials*in the preset! period of reaction. The attack on The DAILY WORKER and its being hailed before the federal courts; the raid on t/ offices of the Workers (Commun Party in Detroit and California, di ing the Sacco-Vanzetti agitation: t! ACW ERIN" sentencing, of Anita Whitney t& prison in California under the er inal syndicalism laws; the inuncti.. | | NOTE: Following his report to the Fifth National Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party | for the political committee, there was a lengthy discussion among the- delegates. Jay Lovestone, the re- porter for the committee, then summarized the discussion as fol- lows: * * = THINK Comrade Foster erred in |* at least one section of his speech. |He said I am going to say he made 1a rotten speech. He made a mistake. \I am not going to say anything of |the kind. | I want to deal with some of the problems which apparently have not been cleared up either in my report or in the discussion. First of all, I think we all agree that the character of the discussion. though unsatisfac- tory in some respects, is far above any discussion we have had in any Jof our conventions before. Secondly, I propose to try to help elevate this discussion by entirely disregarding the maneuvering, manipulations and in- sincerity. That must be expunged, if not from our stenographi¢ records, at least from our Party records and our Party relations. We have had enough of that. Not coming here as a his- torian of our Party, I will not refer {to the Jast convention in 1925. . \ Comrade Bittelman has said that the report of the Pelcom is unclear in certain respects. Comrade Krumbein has charged that the report of the munist movement in the United States and underestimated the favor- able conditions for a Communist Party. | Beware of Illusions. We maintain that the objective con- ditions prevailing today in the United States are not favorable for the de- velopment of a mass Communist Party and it would be a crime against the Party to develop such illusions among the members if we were to say that the conditions for the de- velopment of a mass Communist Party are favorable. Where we dif- fer very vitally from the enemies of our Party and from those who have pessimistic ideas regarding the de- yelopments of the class struggle in the United. States is in this: we say that these unfavorable objective con- ditions are temporary and passing. We do not base our strategy and we do not base-our program on such con- ditions as absolute and eternal, but accusations of trickery, clever words, | Polcom over-emphasized the unfavor- | able objective conditions for a Com- | as transient. At this very moment, | though on the whole the trend is un- ;favorable, we see many favorable jsigns and increasingly favorable fac- j tors. | The comrades of the former oppo- port of the Poleom in general, hut they disagree with it in the following | ways: (1) China; (2) Needle Trades; (8) In the attitude toward the trade junion bureaucracy; (4) In the ques- tion of organizing the unorganied; (5) Perspectives for the Party; (6) | Unity. | Analyze Differences. | Comrades, we want some deeds, not words. Let us have the deeds. now. Let us examine the diiferences. I any differences. We assure the com- rades of the former opposition that together with them we -will never again make the mistake of hiding, dif- ferences and limiting them to the com- mittee rooms. but instead we will take those differences out in the open, ti the entire Party membership in the Party as a Party, not in the groups as groups, so that these differences do not become causes of struggle for faction power, but differences which as they are cleared up, will help us and will be mileposts along the road towards the correct policy. Comrade Browder speaks of China. | Let us talk a little about China, be- cause China is an American problem |and we cannot Americanize ourselves unless we understand America’s pol- iey towards China. What did I say? First of all. I spoke of stages, not of vacillating currents; I don’t speak of fluctuating currents. There are three dominant stages characterizing American imperialism in China: First, the open door. It does not mean that our imperialism will never again use the phrase or enforee the open door policy, but the characteris- ties of American imperialist open door policy in China have disappeared as the dominant features of Wali Street’s Chinese policy. They may be resorted to only here and there. \ (To Be Continued). Hull Fights Mexican Immigration. WASHINGTON, (FP). — Harry E. Hull, commissioner of immigration, comes out for restriction of immigra- ticn of workers from Mexico into the United States, in a letter to the South Texas Chamber of Commerce at San Antonio. ae (_ATPRECIAL PRIC Thvee Pamphlets From the Recent Past One a Fine Story Because they were stage of the revoluti By Mary Marcy. THE DRHAM OF DEBS An unusually good story by Jack London. Books offered tn this column on wana | NOTE: in limited quantities, All orders cash * and filled in turn ag received. t All for 25 Cents + masoreares " “1 because each of them have a great deal of interest for every worker—they should be included in every workers’ library. We give them at this special price: INDUSTRIAL, SOCIALISM By William D. Haywood and Frank Bohn. INDUSTRIAL AUTOCRACY is EY? issued in a differen: onary movement-—and —10 —10 —.10 x | sition have said they accept the re- | ertainly don’t propose to smother | Unfortunately, instead of carrying | neglects to make up as M. Briard. out orders, the young man devotes his | Henry Stephenson as the French am- talents to the wife of his superior and|hassador is excellent; Violet Kemble scorns all other women. His reputa-| Cooper plays the part of theswitedin tion is tarnished; it is feared he has} per usual “competent manner, while | lost hi technique. But, to be sure, | Mary Nash is gorgeous as the rata of |the wife of his superior, knows dif-|the war minister. Basil Rathbone, as | ferently. |the military attache, does well, A diplomatic erisis is approaching | although he frequently mouthes his because of the stubborn stand of the|lines, in a slovenly manner, an af- Spanish war minister. The French! fectation of so many otherwise com- foreign minister, himself, journeys to | petent performers. | Madrid and leaves orders that the| | military attache must exercise his) | charms upon the wife of the war | minister. |. The wife of the French ambassador |is furiously jealous and comes to the). apartment of the attache while the| other woman is there. He manages | to hide her and diplomatically averts | f s a scandal. While his wife is there| _ Beatrice Swanson, who retired from the war minister also calls with a re-| the stage some years back will return quest that the young Frenchman use| t© the theatre in Theresa Helburn’s his influence to obtain for her a| NW Play, “Denbigh.” “medal for virtue” from some inter-! national morality society. He agrees) Winthrop Ames’ production of John to assist in this worthy enterprise and | Galsworthy’s “Escape,” which is due after he leaves the object of the vir- | here the last week of October. Leslie tue award comes out of the bed-room | Howard will appear in the leading }in red pajamas to hear the glad role, acted in. London by Nicholas | tidings of great joy. |Hannen. Frieda Inescort will be seen The wife of the war minister is in| 85 The Shingled Lady and Henrietta due time properly persuaded and in| Goodwin as The Girl of the Town. }turn convinces her eminent husband | that, as a patriotic Spaniard, he| Harry Webb’s Broadway’ Company should agree to the secret treaty pro-| pen Hanae epi pee ae ai iotie F _ | tractior oss’ Broadway beginning poet by the equally patriotic French lfoday. Violet Maye, is featured with ; |the Webb Company. On the screen * The two final acts of the play are |... ae highly amusing inasmuch as they ae Be Sake Suprie pid wid ae veal the nicetieseof bourgeois morality | Oph ar if Rie ” a Bet eee at their best. In the final scene the | smd runes two women hold a conversation in the | presence of the military attache who has seduced them both and the Span- ish woman declares that she ‘will con- | Hee in her closest friend, the French ° 3 ambassador’s wife. It looks as though | the game is up for a few Saeeee| Th é Ly A D D E R moments. But the great secret she POPULAR PRICES. Best seats is to confide in her friend is that she $2.20." CORT THBATRE,. 48th St, has been awarded the medal of virtue. Poa Eee at. at 2:30. apes Besides being a sparking comedy, : ; bordering on the farcical, the play has social content, inasmuch as it re- veals the role of the kept ladies of the diplomats and eo George Jessel in “The Jazz Singer” is playing a week’s engagement at the Bronx Opera House beginning today. . i Theatre, 41 St. W. of B'way National {YS3'50 atts Wweaesat no 1 “fy A. H. WOODS Presents i he other political | Trial of Mary Dugan” agents of imperialism. To see the By Bayard Veiller, with | REX CHERRYMAN play is to confirm ones contempt~for 1k Gi the ruling class and its political pup- The Desert Song pets. | With Robt. Halliday & Eddie Buzzeil The cast is beyond criticism, ex-| ee eon cept that David Glassford, as the, CASINO Mate Weaetand at: Eye LS a a a a a a eS ‘Tee Temptress 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. } RIP OR HENRI AR NE MOE ORO L020 0D ERP IDR A AED EE A eae vem “The Theatre Insurgent” THE ONLY HOME FOR LABOR PLAYS IN AMERICA Announces a season of productions dramatizing the class war! OPENING OCTOBER 19 with \ THE BELT. An industrial play with an acetylene flame ~ by PAUL SIFTON. Other plays to be selected from SINGING JATLBIRDS, we Upton Sinelair ‘ THE CENTURIBS, by Em Jo Basshe HOBOKEN BLURBS, By Michael Gold PICNIC, by Francis Edwards Faragoh AIRWAYS, INC, by’ John Dos Passos and a play by John Howard Lawson. 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