The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 30, 1927, Page 4

seed Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1927 Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. « Address Phone, Orchard 1680 SUBSCRIPTION RATES __ ; New York only): By Mail (outside of Ne By Mail (in eT ee | Following his report to ® Chronicle of Events in| DAILY WORKER [pyestone Summarizes Discussion of His Report for the Political Committee tionally. This paper would be much| ! \“The Living Dead Man”*~ at the Fifth Avenue | sit ' ; years $3.50 six months i. . j stronger if,comradés had not brought ; year $4.50 six months $0.00 per years $8.50 six mont the Fifth National Convention of | A Melons sia : Slav aif. Playh | 50 three months $2.00 three months the Workers (Communist) Party ;Russia SSR CE ore gO A ear a ynouse i Address and and make out che to for the political committee, there +-2— © Party. IRANDELLO, the author of ne H THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, a eke ee en ue KRONSTADT GOES TO THE LEFT. Haves We Perspectives: i “ving Dead Mana an aint J. LCUIS ENGDAHL } porter for the . committee, then | cSept. 9-—Kronstadt pests aa A few words about the Party’s admirer of Mussolini and has long} Y., under LE} Without doubt the main question of every revolu- tion is the question of state power. The decisive thing is, which class has the power in its hands. And when the new per of the greatest govern- the “Dyelo Naroda” com- supplies were being forgotten in the dispute, then the only reply to be given the Social Revolutionaries You accuse yourselves. For it is the indecision and the irresolution of your party which are more to blame than anything else for the “antics of the ministers,” for the eternal postponement of the Con- summarized the discussion as fol- lows: * « x ie.) (Continued from last iss South Slav Situation. The comrades of the former opposi- cusations as to differences. For in-| stance, they give as one of the di | ferences and one of the obstacles to! un the famous South Slav buga-| boo. China is a source of difficulty | for unity. The Jugo-Slav question is} a difficulty. Comrades, you can go} you will not interfere with the unifi cation of our Party, because the b: obstacles have been removed, first by our Party development, second by the} Communist International decision, | thirdly by this Convention, and what- ever is all of us can get together | Leningrad). elects” a |chairman of the Soviet Executive. Kerensky. orders the troops march- Hing on Petrograd (Leningrad) to re- treat,—Korniloy orders them to ad- vance. |. “SBODSHEVIKS VERY ACTIVE. tion have brought here a series of ac-| Sept. 10—Korniloy calls on the Cossacks to support him. The Bolsheviki enlighten the peo- ple by proclamations in their press. Bolshevist meetings everywhere pass fighting resolutions. The Southwest Front takes sides with the revolution. The first conference of the Petro- grad Young Workers, representing 13,000 organized young workers, de- clares its solidarity with the Bolshe- viki. BOLSHEVIKI ATTACK KORNILOV | perspectives:—(Interruption) | Wein- Jugo-Slavia is an Ameri- { hope Comrade Wein- j stone says can problem. did in the past to solve this Ameri- can problem, The comrades complain we didn’t deal enough with the Varty’s spectives. Comrades, I must con- fess there were a hundred and one problems, multiplied a few thousand times, that our report of two hours did not deal with enough. Our re- port of two hours was a birds-eye kview ot the Varty’s progress in the last two years ot the Party’s imper- ment party in Russia ea at slat nl 4 last | 0 plained recently (No. 147) that the question of the mA fatiaa mali et nue et YOUNG WORKERS SUPPORT . | fections, weaknesses, problems, per- phies simply because they know that Constituent sembly and the question of bread oe ’ stop y> BOLSHEVIKI. spectives, and tasks. 1 submit that|they help to distract the masses’ this discussion has supplemented and helped and strengthened the report of the Polcom. When I say this dis- eussion, I am not referring to the comrades from any of the groupings alone doing it, comrades of the former opposition, at but the stone will help us even more than he} per- | former | {ago been nominated for the Hall of | Fame by Vanity Fair. His reputation | |among the American intelligentsia” is of high standing and his play | “Right You Are, if you Think You | Are” achieved great success at the! | Guild Theatre recently. Signor Pirandello is primarily al | philosopher, using the play and novel | only as mediums to tackle such eter- |nal problems as the futility of life, jthe fallability of human truth, and| |the mysteries and intricacies of the| | soul, | Statesmen of the Mussolini brand | {sponsor and endorse such _philoso- |minds from those problems that are! |of real import in their lives. Hence | |the reason for Benito permitting | Pirandello to go on. Z | “The Living Dead Man” is just the | kind of a picture that will both con- |fuse and puzzle the mind of any man | One of the big features at the film | offering to be given this Sunday, at |the Waldorf Theatre for the benefit stitutent Assembly, and for the frustration by awe Salk Rete Ee | PUTSCH. Susi is Wine Wax thie etirades fiom] qe ie ReSt Gaeict cee re ot te Alby AV ORRIR: capltallstarnr the messires projected and accepted’. What was the South Slav situa-! Sept. 12—The “Rabotschi” pub-|the majority of this convention. will not annoy you :with any‘ detaila| jinoa ey a. pod? tho. Wnolien for the bread monopoly and the afeguarding of the bread supplies of the tion? Has factionalism in the South! tishes an appeal of the Bolsheviki on You complain about perspectives. | of the story. “Sketched in two onde ‘And So To Bed,” the English country.—Rabotschi Puty, Sept. 27, 1917. (Ten Years Ago.) Slav section caused difficulties in the| the Kornilov putsch. We have said that the outlook for/the tale of a young man, who, hav. Comedy based on the diary of Samuel , Mass Persecutions in France--What We Can Do About Them in America Part Comrade Cannon says ye y that this is just one in- here Comrade Cannon h s conclusion on tempora: al phenomena. And and super ‘ou The provisional government ap- points Kerensky commander-in-chief of the whole army. The “Social-Demcerat” calls. upon the workers to arm. : the economic situation is as follows: There is no depression immediately lin sight, though there are signs of a serious recession. A depression may develop. It would be wrong to say |that a crisis of the kind of 1921 is Pepys, will be seen on Broadway the later part of October. The author and producer, James B. Fagan, is in New “ together with his wife, Mary and his daughter, Gemma Fagan, both of whom have parts in ing feigned death to escape his dreary environment, plays into the hands of a thousand psychological situations | | that drive him back to his old identity |and his home. Two personalities had |begun to live in him and torture know it very well, Comrade Wein-|,[#NINGRAD SOVIET SUPPORTS) che: z a aalise Bere A * 3 5 3 s ‘ PAN ED - oa Oi dead hore ; ; He : play. Charles Bryant is also in Thirty years in prison and a fine of 18,000 francs. |s00%¢ ae es Sey csi Cae | Aes Saye ave that there are chang- | the ok ee epsheCcheovea | tte cares This is the sentence pronounced upon Jacques Duclos, Com-| 77 TOF Unity, ue | de Cannon) ‘The Petrograd (Leningrad) Soviet] ino class ali Pate ERA Ehene ane th ipa aH UE ses takes another position today. The! accepts the Bolshevist resolution by ane Class BEB HreU ey eee ae ¢ only way out and returns to his “A Night in Spain,” now at the munist Deputy, by a French court. fight in the South Slav Fraction ii |forees making for the breakup of all old home-town only to find his for 3 ind his former 44th Street theatre will move to the Q : : 279 votes to 115 and 51 abstentions. i ae aie if) Ament Hein as Andre Marty, idolized by the French workers for hig heroic|not a cause for a fight in the Party,| |the reserve armies 0: merican | wife remarried. hae i A services to the labor movement, leader of the mutiny in the! but the fight in the Party is the cause | KORNILOV IS ARRESTED. _| capitalist reaction We have said) Here is a problem that does HOt ates ies we Ce ay ae ing, 4 Heavies m | |the industrialization of the South | concern us in our everyday lives. Such | etober 5 e Circus Princess French Black Sea fleet in protest against its use to war on the Russian workers and peasants, is sentenced to ten years. He jof the fight in the South Slay Frac-/| tion. mon And you comrades who, in your nt of factional bitterness, have Sept. 14.—The government is re- constituted; Avksentyev, Sarudni and Skoboley resign. |tends to break up the reserve of the | Negroes for capitalist reaction. This is an important factor for us in the which is now current at the Winter things can only happen when people | Garden will Gol oll to Boston ONGTHS | who, like Pirandello, probably having | |nothing better to do, set their anti-|S@™M¢ day. : he 3 @' +¢ ay >: ies by » Fre rorkers | eontri anaes BES re pease on”? , + ks has been sent to the Chamber of Deputies by the French workers | contributed essentially toward mak Novaya Shisn” (New Life) and | consideration of the development of| social brains working. Even the aclu: in every election since the Black Sea revolt. The French Communists are sentenced for the specific “crime” of urging soldiers to refuse to fight for French imperial- ism in China and other spheres of French influence and for their | activity for Sacco and Vanzetti. For France, these sentences are of a harshness almost with-| out precedent in recent years but-they are only the beginning of a new phase in the merciless drive French imperialist govern-| ment has under way against the Communist Party and the French | working masses. | Most of the leaders of the Communist Party, the Young Com-! mitinist League and the left wing unions, are in prison. Included! among them are such well-known workingclass fighters as Cachin, Semard, Doriot, Bernard, Thorez, Monmousseau, Berrar, Raynaud, Belangey, Chasseigne, Gilbert, Midol, Bonnefons and Barbe, in uddition to those already mentioned. When Andre Marty wrote from his prison cell a burning reply to the recent declaration of Marshal Foch for war on the Soviet Union, he was deprived of all rights as a political prisoner and incarcerated with common criminals. Writing from Paris, Michel Hollay tells of the wholesale con- - demnation of militant workers for anti-militarist and trade union activity. He says: : “21 workers have been sentenced in all to 359 months’ im-| prisonment, 6 Communists to 196 months, 9 sailors to 485 months, | 9 soldiers to 618 months, 12 army reservists to 196 months. In! Negro and white working class contained in the steady dissemina- the last few months there have been imposed altogether 1967| months of imprisonment as well as enormous fines. The wave ofl * suppression is rising still higher.” _ working class ‘paid work in the huge Gary steel plants. {war makes glear—it serves to divide the steel workers along racial, The reasons for this wave of persecution are to be found ‘in| the aims of French imperialist diplomacy which finds in the Com-| munist Party of France and the great sections of the working | class which accept its leadership, its most powerful enemy. | French finance can be stabilized only at the expense of the} masses and the Communist Party leads the fight against this. War on the Soviet Union can be waged successfully only if the Communist Party can be crippled and the militant labor moye-| ment suppressed. There is the further reason that the most reactionary sec- | tion of the French ruling class is trying to form an election bloc! for the perpetuation of the present government on the basis of | an anti-Communist campaign which is designed to frighten away | any support for the Communists among the parties of the left. | : French government finance is directly dependent upon Amer-| ican banks and American imperialism must therefore bear much of the responsibility for the reactionary campaign now in| progress, Here in the United States we can pay part of the debt we owe to the prisoners of French and American imperialism for their splendid struggle for Sacco and Vanzetti and against war | on the Soviet Union, by organizing the largest possible protests | against their persecution. | We must not remain silent while imperialism takes its re-| venge on our comrades who led the fight in Europe against Amer- lean capitalist justice. : The Threat of a Racial War in Gary, Indiana In the steel trust city of Gary, Indiana, named for the late head of that concern whose picture is on the city’s official seal, there is being brewed a bloody racial and class conflict. White pupils at the Emmerson High School have struck be- cause Negro children have been admitted to the institution. “We}| won’t go back until Emmerson is white” is the slogan on placards} thruout the city. Police have been posted around the high school | and “IN THE NEGRO DISTRICT,” according to dispatches. The posting of police in the Negro district, while it is from the white districts the danger of violence comes, is indicative 'of the sympathies of the authorities. There is a huge Negro population in Gary—overwhelmingly in character. Negroes do the hardest and most ill- Only last summer an xplosion killed and mangled fourteen Negroes who were ac- ounted for, but the total number will never be known, The steel trust has followed the policy of encouraging the mployment of Negroes for the reason that the threatened racial ASR TRE x ing more difficult the situation in the “Rabotschi” (The Worker) are pro South Slav fraction, have not helped | hibited. unity. We are given a picture of chaos in the South Slav Fraction.! What are the facts? Let me mention, z just three facts about the South Slav; (3) Since the last Convention, situation: | Comrade Foster said in spite, yes in (1) The South Slav fraction has| spite of attempts to bring factional- the’ highest proportion of comrades|ism of the Party on the ground of of all the language fractions who re-| South Slav difference which don’t ex- mained in the Party after reorganiza-!ist, we have developed the paper from tion. a paper appearing three times a (2) In one of the major campaigns| week, into a daily and the South Slav of the Party, the mining campaign,| daily is a powerful weapon in the the South Slav comrades have carried! hands of the Party against Lewis and the banner of our Party forward|his gangsters and gunmen who are more energetically than any other | infesting the ranks of the miners. section of our Party in the mining|This paper exists because the South territory. \Slav comrades have acted not fac- Kornilov arrested. and joint political action more dif- lines, make union organization ficult and keeps wages down. : Indiana, where kluxer sentiment is still a powerful factor, is a state where the authorities would probably welcome a racial war that would serve to shove into the background the recent scandalous exposures of widespread corruption in official and klan circles. The situation in Gary, even tho it may not result in bloody racial struggle, is still symptomatic of the danger to both the tion of anti-Negro literature and the perpetuation of anti-Negro prejudice. There is no more tragic sight than that of a white wage slave, completely at the mercy of capitalism himself, railing against Negroes. There is no more dangerous .and destructive activity in the United States than the agitation against the Negro race. There is no better way of serving the enemies of the labor movement than the encouragement of such outbreaks as that in Gary. “On this question the labor movement, black and white, must take a stand. Negro organizations like the American Negro La- bor Congress will have to intensify their activity in setting up inter-racial committees and both Negro labor organizations and the left wing in the labor movement must strive ceaselessly to break down all discrimination against Negro workers. Against the racial divisions the bosses and their agents seek by all means to perpetuate in the ranks of the working class, the slogan of solidarity of black and white workers must be raised, popularized, and practiced. ° More About Admiral Magruder President Coolidge has confirmed our estimate of the results which will.accrue from the little tempest created by Admiral] Magruder’s Saturday Evening Post article on the low level of ef- ficiency in the navy department. We hinted that any officer who begins a crusade for greater efficiency in the chief arm of American imperialism would not receive any severe punishment. A Washington dispatch to the New York Times for Sept. 28 gives the White House viewpoint as follows: “The president assumed that Admiral Magruder’s article meant to say that the navy’s efficiency could be increased by spending the same amount of money differently. be accomplished, it would be gratifying to the president and he would welcome any investigation that would produce such a re- sult.” «“ the president did indicate that he felt that the sug- gestions were intended to be helpful, constructive and worthy of investigation.” Efficiency is the watchword in the naval department since the Geneva conference and the increasing tensity in imperialist relationships. American imperialism wants an efficient navy in Latin American waters and in the Far East. Advocates of effi- ciency in the navy will not be disciplined. They. will be rewarded because Wall Street and its government are travelling the bloody road which it is hoped will lead them to world domination over the shattered bodies of the working class and the colonial peoples. Admiral Magruder’s much-discussed article is a signpost on this road. If this could|in considering the choice of Party | }elass forces in this country. We |tion of the problem that Pirandello| Lyn Harding has been engaged for jsaid that America’s dominant posi-| offers would get us no further and| “Out of the Sea,” the new Don Mar- |tion of imperialism cannot be main-|no more than the solution of a diffj-' (is Play. tained as long as that of Britain, be-|cult chess problem. And, certainly, | ‘cause unlike that of Great Britain | Pirandello plays; he plays with tane| “Porgy” will not open next Mon- |there are other forces challenging its |tastie and unreal ideas. And at that|day as previously announced but will extension — and the Soviet Union|no explanation is offered in the end.|have its premiere at the Guild The- is in existence. The American labor A bit of mystery does not harm in a|atre, Monday Oct. 10. “The Second aristocracy will not hold its position | theme calculated to keep you guess- | Man” will continue at the Guild for as long as that of England. We have | ing. an extra week, closing here October said the migration of the Negro work-| The movie is adapted from the|8, and then going to Chicago. {ers from the South to the North is|novel “The Late Matthew Pascal,”| ja force for breaking away from the | Marcel L’Herbier, the director, as if) bourgeoisie one of the most power-| to make things worse, has succeeded | ful armies of reaction. The ex-,in putting over the most intriguing | propriation of #@he farming masses | camera tricks. This is not commend. | takes away a powerful weapon from | able in a film the story of which is | the bourgeoisie, because the expropri- already so complicated—S. B. | Th e t. D D E R ated farmers largely go into the ei = 5 ~) | POPULAR PRICBS. Best seats Broaaway Briefs J ranks of the proletariat or become | $2.20. CORT THEATRE, 48th St. lallies of the proletariat. t of Biway. 8:30. Mati- 's Wed, and 30. |- You say we have no perspective. If you cannot see these powerful labs Ludwig Sat al A 'N ti — 1 a SERGE 4 forces at work, or if you refuse to : z will open his season ;National Theatre, 41 St. W. of B’way leonsider them as part of our per-| fonlght at the Public Theatre, Second | A. a Woobe brace | spectives, if you say this is pessi-| venue and Fourth Street, appearing) “The Trial of Mary Dugan” mism, I say after the convention, you| 7, musical comedy titled “Grand-| By Bayard Veiller, with will do better because you will know , P45 Sweetheart. | ANN HARDING—REX CHERRYMAN better. | | eae ey A few words about unity: I don’t | Bernard Shaw after all, is not Lhe Desert Song propose to deal with unity as a sort| Writing a play on Oliver Cromwell,| With Robt. Halliday & Eddie Bazzelt of an oath. Too many comrades in rumor had it some time ago that) a, qin giith Month this discussion have made it a pract-| he was in the midst of such work. CASINO 2 Bre Sway, a: he Ae ; hate | . Mats. Wed. and Sat. 2.30 j ice of going on and saying: Now T| will say ‘unity’ and close”. This is|* what I call words and not deeds.! But we will forget about them. Com-} rade Cannon, speaking as one of the! voices from the depths, has made | he 3 special plea‘for unity. Comrade Can-| non has gone into the depths in recent =— weeks and has come back, as we all | ee OO EE a camer do, much improved, so I propose to} take his remarks seriously. He has! pointed out a number of important | 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. This SUNDAY, October 2, 1927 Admission 65c. MUSIC BY MOSCOW TRIO. Major part of house bought by DAILY WORKER and FREIHEI®. problems in unity, but first let me} deal with some of the other ques-| tions. | Hegemony—What Is It? | I will touch on the question of | hegemony: I thought hegemony was | dead. Comrade Bittelman says it is) correct in general and in the abstract | to speak of hegemony and majority | as two different concepts. It would| by confusing where we have a speci- fie question, a situation in life, to blur such questions. Therefore let us, | in this specific situation in this con-!| vention, deal with hegemony con-, eretely. i Comrades, we-have the majority of this convention. We have discussed the Party problems here to the best of our abilities, jointly. We don’t think we have evolved any theories of hegemony. We believe that al! comrades have contributed their share in the discussion. I don’t thin! the spirit of this convention has been that of hegemony. I don’t think the manner in which we have approached the problems of this convention has been such. Comrade Cannon only pieks un the threads of the argument which Comrade Bittelman dropped. We exnect you, together with us. 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Tf you want guarantees that nobody will be removed, such, guarantees yon wil! not get, because comrades of both groupings deserving to be removed will be removed. And if you will follow that policy. no matter what you do, you will not be helping rmity. In the name of the majority of this convention we pledge ourselves to consider this and, we will not eaijoled, terrorized. esrrced ov what- not by any slogans of “unity.” “0 be Core imed) Now—.50 —1.00 —.25 he and filled in turn as received. See See ee