The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1927, Page 4

Acentt Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING co. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address SUBSCRIPTION RATES 3 By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 pe $2.50 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 “Daiwork” and THE DAILY WORK t Street, New York, N. Y. _. |GACCO and Vanzetti were victims of Bee ne eg eee 4 © the ame-up system which is an J. LGUIS ENGDAHL Editors established part of American police WiLTLAM Hh DUNNE f° 557 Cet er” ie methods far as labor prisoners are .Business Manager BERT MILLER under New Yc LENIN SAID: The whole question now is: Has petty bourgeoi democracy learnt anything from the pregnant events of this half year, or has it not. If not, then the revolution is in danger, and only the victorious rising of the proleta can save it. If it has} learnt something, then the next step is the forma- tion of a firmly established power. For nothing short of sucha power can be steadfast in a period of people’s revolution, that is, only such a power | can arouse the masses of workers and peasants to life. It must be a power based consciously and un-| conditionally on the majority of the population — Rabotschi Puty, Sept. 27, 1917. (Ten Years Ago.) The Betrayal of the Coal Miners Takes the Form of Separate “Efficiency Unionism” Agresments---Defeat It! The coal barons, not the coal miners, have won a victory in Illinois—and nationally—as a result of agreement on terms which puts the Illinois miners back to work pending arbitration of the} Jacksonville wage scale. The biggest bituminous union district thereby deserts the national strike and will sign a separate agreement—something the coal barons have been trying to attain ever since 1922 when a separate Illinois agreement was proposed by Frank Farrington— later exposed as an agent of the Peabody Coal Compa and vetoed by the revolt of the rank and file against such a suicidal | policy. | The Lewis machine, nationally and in Illinois, has led the| miners into a trap. An “impartial” commission is to be set up| which will not only consider the wage scale but ways and means| of increasing production and lowering mine costs as well. Thus what was formerly the most militant and powerful sec- tion of th® United Mine Workers, itself the strongest union in the American Federation of Labor, discards its traditional policy of struggle, accepts the policy of “efficiency unionism’’—worker- employer cooperation, and leaves the rest of the union member- ship to shift for itself while facing the destructive attack of the coal barons carried on under the protection of federal injunctions. Here is treachery in the face of the enemy practically with- out parallel in the American labor movement. It comes at a time when the drive against the whole labor movement forces the executive council of the A. F. of L. to back a conference, follow- | ing the A. F. of L. convention, to attempt to stem the attack in the sector where it is the most dangerous—against the United Mine Workers. That the Lewis machine, rather than rally the union for an organization drive in the non-union fields, chose to surrender completely to the coal barons, is shown by the fact that the first} step taken was to release the Illinois officials from the control of the national policy committee set up by the union. Ohio is the only other union district where coal production is actually crippled. If the same policy is followed there we can expect to hear that this district also has made a separate settle- jevitably follow in the future. | break up the protest movement. A Living Monument to Sacco and Vanzetti | By JAMES P. CANNON. (Reprinted from the October number of the Labor Defender). concerned. In all of its main features, the case was a repetition of the many legal lyn s of labor leaders that ve taken place in the past and aj fore-runner of others which will in- Tt was not simply an extraordinary “miscar- riage of justice,” as many apologists of the capitalist order attempt to neither a “criminal” case nor a “Massachusetts” case, but a class | frame-up with the United States gov- ernment behind the prosecution all the time. It was clear from the beginning that the stage was being set for another Haymarket. This was understood by the militant and conscious workers, and their insistence on a policy based on this point of view brought them into constant conflict with those ele- ments who sought to blur the class character of the case and conduct it| in an orderly and “respectable” man- ner which would not offend the judge and the governor and other execution- ers of the capitalists. The infamous rding funds hurled against the I. L. D. by the Boston | committee in the columns of the capi talist press, was a reflection of this basie conflict over policy and was in reality an attempt to demoralize and In spite of the bourgeois liberal in- fluences that dominated the official defense committee at Boston, the mili- tants would not allow the defense to be confined merely to the narrow Sy sachusetts legal techni- calities. With indefatigable work and sweeping vision they painted the whole monstrous frame-up on a can- vas big enough for the workers of all the world to see. The I. L. D. devoted much of its | resources and energies to the work of | organizing the protest mass move- |ment in America and throughout the | world. It was due to the work of the j militants that the crucifixion of Sacco |and Vanzetti was not prepared and |carried out in a quiet and “orderly” | way in whispered consultations be- hind closed doors, but became a tu- |multuous issue, storming through the streets and factories of the world. The industrial masters of America, through their legal hirelings, plotted and carried out the execution of Sacco and Vanzeiti with the aim of dealing | thereby a blow to the labor movement. But in summing up the case now, and drawing the lessons for the future, it must he plainly said that they were not without allies, both conscious and | unconscious, in the camp of the work- | ers themselves. | | We will only do justice to the mem- | jory of Saeco and Vanzetti and to the | cause of labor which they lived and died for, if we speak openly about |all these questions. Sacco and Van-| zetti will have died in vain if the real | | ernor. in organizing the protest movemeni in their behalf, the I, L. D. pever con sidered the case as simply that of twc individuals involved in a trial at law. We always pointed out its direct con- nection with the general issues of the struggle between the cla deavored to link up the fight for ther with the general defense of the scores of labor prisoners coxifined in the peni- ientiaries today and with the broadei fight of the toiling masses for libera- tion from the yoke of capitalism. Viewing the case always as an is- sue of the class struggle, we had no illusions about the possibilities of “justice” from the judges or the gov Time and again we warne: igainst these illusions, against con- fining the defense to the task of col- lecting money for lawyers whose vision did not extend beyond Judge Thayer’s courtroom. The best defense for Sacco and Vanzetti was to concentrate all ene-- gies in arousing the protest move ment of the masses. Sacco and Van- zetti themselves understood this. These humble workers saw with clear-eyed vision that their hope lay in the masses and not in the courts or the governor’s commission. The contemp- tuous refusal of Sacco to sign the legal papers brought to him was a gesture more eloquent than all the arguments of all the lawyers. Every utterance that came from them was infused with this spirit. Sacco and anzetti were blood-brothers to all labor militants, Sond by a thousand ties to the labor figthyers in the front ranks of the class &truggle and to those languishing in the prisons today for the cause of labor. The deathless heritage of the two great martyrs be- longs to the militants, and they need | no one’s permission to carry on their work in the name and spirit of Sacco and Vanzetti. For those who saw the long torture and cruel death of the two heroic workmen as a personal affair or an isolated miscarriage of justice, the case of Sacco and Vanzetti is ended. For some people who connected them- selves with the case in one way or another without really knowing what it was all about, the whole affair is a piece of business which is to be wound up now, the books closed and a “final” statemient rendered. All big fires draw moths which flutter about them for a day. So let it be with them. But for the labor militants who fought with and for them, the light of Sacco and Vanzetti burns more brightly and fiercely than before. For us the last word has not yet been spoken. We have work to do and we must be about it. The great move- ment of the working masses for Sacco and Vanzetti must not be allowed to dissolve. The first and foremost task n honor of the memory of the mar-| yrs is to bind this movement more | losely together and to infuse it with} \ stronger spirit and a broader vision | ind understanding of the manifold} ‘uestions which were involved in the | jaceo-Vanzetti case, | We must especially endeavor now} o turn the attention of this entire | novement to the many other labor | orisoners and create a new reservoir of strength and power for a deter- mined nation-wide fight against the | frame-up system. | The experiences of the Saceo-Van- | zetti_ case have demonstrated more tlearly than ever before the great e of the International Labor De- ense as an arm of the labor move- nent, and the necessity’ for str h ning its effectiveness and of enroll- ‘ng tens of thousands more of the| mpathizing workers into its ranks. ‘he fight against the frame-up sys- tem will acquire significance and} power to the extent that those,who oppose this system take part in the crganized movement against it. Such n organization is the I. L. D. Its sition as the leading and organiz- ing center of the movement has been plished not by words but by deeds, the course of the fight. To strengthen the I. L, D. is to strengthen the fighting capacity of the labor movement. The electric flames that consumed the bodies of Sacco and Vanzetti il- luminated for tens of thousands of workers, in all its stark brutality, the | essential nature of capitalist justice jin America. The imprisonment, tor- jture and murder of workers is seen | more clearly now as part of an or- | ganized system of class persecution. Against this system—the s labor frame-ups—we must deliver our heaviest blows. The defense of ‘in- dividual workers, the material sup- port of their families and our general work of defense agitation must he carried on as a part of the fight ‘to build a wall of labor defense against the frame-up system. The Third Annual Conference of International Labor Defense will or- ganize its work around this slogan. The conference will meet in New York City on the fortieth anniversary of the Haymarket martyrs and will bear testimony to the fact that their mem- ory like the memory of Sacco and Vanzetthremains a powerful inspiring force for the movement of the labor militants. From the conference a_ stronger, more united and determined movement for labor defense on a class basis will emerge—a movement which will in- corporate in its work and achieve- ments the spirit of Sacco and Van- zetti and thus become a living monu- ment to their memory. n Letters F vom Our Readers | | Calls Attention to Errors. . Editor, The DAILY WORKER: I wish to register my protest to notice anything on the dangers of lacquers. As sprayers we know how it feels |maintain a respectful distance. “Black Velvet” at the Liberty Theatre Gives a Picture of Negro Oppression. Ga John William Darr (Ar-! thur Byron) the southern planter, in Willard Robertson’s play now ap-! pearing at the Liberty Theatre, was | willing endugh to be nice to his “peo. | ple,” the Negroes in the southern! town which he owned, but they must} The} General got along nicely until a) northern industrialist got a look at! the lumber on Darr’s property and | | proposed the building of a mill. There} was a fortune waiting here for both. | Northern money would employ cheap! Negro labor and the white owners} would get rich. i But the game was almost lost! when a northern labor agent arrived to lure Negro workers away, with a} promise of ten dollars a day. The} General thru: his overseer took care | of this problem by filling the agent! full of lead. Tho Mr. Harper, the | northern capitalist did not look kindly on murder unless it was absolutely necessary, he was glad when his ven-| ture was assured of a plentiful sup-| ply of labor. | Mr. Harper’s daughter who was en- | gaged to the General’s grandson re-| minded the old planter of his dead| wife who, it developed later on, was| killed by a Negro, and a good deal of emotional balderdash is introduced, apparently to justify the conduct of this blood-thirsty old parasite. The| general’s grandson is carrying on) with Cleo, the mulatto maid, at the| same time he is expressing his deep love for Miss Harper. When’ the| General hears of this liason he deems | it his duty to inform Mr. Harper of | the illicit relations existing between | his grandson and the mulatto girl. The hard-headed northerner asked. if | they loved one another and when satisfied that it was only lust on the young man’s side, Mr. Harper laughed it off and insisted that al trivial matter like this should not be | permitted to interfere with a. busi- | | | : — HELEN MacKELLER In “Romancing ’Round,” a new play by Corad Westervelt, opening tonight at the Little Theatre. “One of the Finest,” a new play, is the attraction at the Bronx Opera House this week. “Out of the, Night,” the new melo- drama, will have its out-of-town pre- miere at Pittsburgh on October 8 and move into a Broadway theatre a week later. James Spottswood, Mary Loane, Herbert Heywood, Diantha Pattison, Jack Motte and Vessey Far- rell head the cast. The dancing team of Marguerite and Gil, well known in vaudeville, will join the cast in Joseph Santley’s -pro- duction of “Just Fancy,” which opens in Wilmington Wednesday and comes here next Monday. meaning and the causes of their mar-| ment. tyrdom are not understood in all their ‘an editorial note to the impressions | and how it feels to inhale it. It takes against the failure of The DAILY|to spray lacquer on bodies one after WORKER editorial staff to attach|the other drawn along by a chain, ness. proposition, Lew Cody, the noted film star, The General, however was intent on| ™@kes his vaudeville debut at the protecting the family honor, so he in-|Palace today. The other features vited his son out on the veranda, of the program aré: Nellie and Sara where he sat in \his chair with a|Kouns; Harriet Hoctor, with William loaded shot gun. Unfortunately be-|Holbrock, and Simeon Karavieff; fore the son had time to appear the| Venita Gould; Benny Rubin; Run- General was seized with an apoplectic er Four; Sim Collins and Lew | Hart. fit and died. I would have liked to AMUSEMENTS, see that actor get the contents of the | The LADDER § traying the southern hypocrite who glorified female chastity and hated Negroes\, while indulging in sexual! relations with their women. The play is interesting and well| acted, tho one is constantly in’ doud: | whether the old General represents rifle, so well did he succeed in por-| Best seats R ‘s ). Mts. Wed. oO “The Tidal of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, with BRYMAN The Desert Song New Version. of “The| Ladder” Opens at Cort ‘Tonight A NEW and revised edition of “The By this method, aided by the Lewis machine, the two strong- est districts of the union will be isolated, “efficiency unionism” settlements made’and the United Mine Workers wrecked as a fighting union. It is becoming absolutely clear that this is the real policy of the Lewis machine, that this band of corrupt and incompetent bureaucrats constitutes a far greater danger to the union than! do the attacks of the coal barons. In Illinois and Ohio there should be started at once a militant campaign by the left wing to ~ ally the rank and file against what is patently a scheme of the coal barons put forward by union of- ficials. No separate agreements and no efficiency unionism must be the slogan throughout the United Mine Workers. Against this policy of surrender must be opposed the militant policy of organization of the West Virginia, Kentucky and Penn- Sylvania non-union fields and a national campaign for relief and defense of the striking coal miners. The Communards March Again The French Communist Party, the French soldiers and sail- ors and the French working class are upholding the best tradi- tions of the country of the Commune. With almost all their best known leaders in jail the Com- munist Party has not lost any of its influence among the masses but_instead, every day brings news of fresh outbursts against French imperialism in the navy, the army, the factories and even in the prisons. No class-conscious worker but will be thrilled by the story of the mutiny of the sailors in Toulon which followed the prison demonstration two days ago. No worker but will understand that the long series of militant protests against the militarization of the French working class, against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, in protest against the breaking of relations with the Soviet Union, are indicative of something far more important than the demonstrations themselves—the rise of the Communist | Party of France to a position of tremendous influence and the} weakening of the grip of imperialism upon the French masses. _| Our French comrades are writing some glorious pages in! working class history. ‘Here in imperialist America we must ac- quaint our class with the fact that these work ive the bearers of the heritage of the ComMunards who 56 years ago established in Paris the first workers’ republic, and raised and held aloft the crimson banner of Communism until it was torn from their dead hands by the armies of capitalist Europe. |tions or strikes. implications. In the front ranks of the allies of} the executioners of the heroic rebel | workers, the official leaders of the American labor movement, Messrs. | Green, Woll and company took their | place. Their role was to rush up the protest movement of the workers and to frown upon all talk of demonstra- Under cover of an appeal for “clemency,” Mr. Green pro- posed to the governor that Sacco and Vanzetti, who were innocent of any crime, should be impgisoned for life | in the Massachusetts penitentiary. Never have these black-hearted trai- tors exposed themselves more clearly than in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. | Unlike Debs, who played his part | in the fight nobly till the day of his death, certain elements of the social- | of Lawrence Todd, in a Federated Press despatch, on a three months trip in Europe, in The DAILY WORKER of Sept, 26, P. 3. The corrections should have been made on the following: 1. Reference to the July uprising in Vienna as the work of a “small group of hoodlums.” What the Communist International heralded as revolutionary justice by the workers of Vienna is called by Todd “a riot.” Those whom the Communist Interna: tional called proletarian fighters ar called by Todd “hoedlums.” To per- mit such a statement in. The DAILY WORKER without correction is to my mind impermissible. about ten minutes after we have started spraying to fill the place with lacquer and dust so that it looks like a London fog. If a match or spark flared up there would be~an explosion immediately. The masks used by the Sprayers are of little help. The sprayers cannot keep the masks on their faces because of the heat; be- cause they can only breathe the foul air through it. ‘ We have to endure nine hours of this tiresome work and inhaling of lacquer foul aif, etc., that, as one of |the sprayers remarked at quitting | time, “I feel all doped up and all in when I come out of that, joint.” | I am sure we workers would want é vith Robt, Halli : Dadden? will heceegetey oe with Robt, Halliday & Eddie Bussell . SASINO 39 St. & Bway. I 8.30 ' onae pans ae CASINO. Siete Wea and set. fa6 , e Sh Ane EET crating waite, this| OAKLAND, Cal, Sept. 80—The ithe play ae 1S! seven-passenger monoplane, piloted incarnation by s by Eddie Stinson, noted Detroit avia- Frank Davis which has been playing on Broadway since last | October, | The revised play will have Carroll MacComas and Reginald Goode in the principal roles. Margaret Auglin staged the new production. Carroll McComas tor, was at Oakland Air Port today, having ved here late yesterday from Portland. BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Sept. 30. —Norma Shearer, screen star, and Irving G. Thalberg, youthful film exe- cutive, today were motoring to Van- couver, B. C., following their wedding here yesterday. 2. Todd’s analysis of the British | to work five and six hours a day in situation is an apology for the labor a clean, airy sanitary place; we betrayers and their tactics, as op-| would like to be provided with all the posed to the tactics of the minority | necessary comforts and modern de- ist party were behind Mr. Green and} company only to the extent that their influence was smaller. First, by re-| fusing to participate im any kind of | uitra-imperialism, of a capitalist united front action with the left wing world-state, and of the league being and the Communist workers and, see-! other than capitalist-imperialist. ond, by trying to discredit and sabo- ‘The entire article is shot through tage all protest activities undertaken | with Feformist illusions. It is wrong independently by the left wing, these }teaching for the readers of The office boys for the big labor fakersi DAILY WORKER. And if it has any did their bit to hamper and demoralize} news value at all, it must be ac- the organization of the mass protest !companied by editorial corrections. movement of the workers which was —V. Q., Chicago. the only possible salvation for Sacco and Vanzetti. The baseless attacks on the International Labor Defense, the organizer of the protest movement,| In reading the article “Industrial on the ground of “misuse of funds,”| Poisoning” by Dr. Liber in The were merely a part of the game of |DALLY WORKER together with a demoralization. |few sprayers working in the Hayes In appealing to the workers for sol-| Hunt Corp., manufacturers of auto- idarity with Sacco and Vanzetti, and! mobile bodies for star cars, we failed movement. 3. His analysis of the League of ations implies the possibility of Workers Fight Poison. Editor, DAILY WORKER: Paris, lie in Pere Lachaise cemetery, but their descendants live and are today dealing blows to French imperialism that inspire the working class thruout the world. The Communards march again and French imperialism trem- bles. The Commune lives in the Soviet Union: and it is an interna- tional army of Communards and millions of workers with which imperialism must deal, not with a few thousand ‘half-starved Parisian workers whose blood could be spattered on a few yards of wall and whose bodies could be buried in a convenient trench. The Communards they could kill, but Communism, the Com- Murdered with cold-blooded cruelty, the bones of the Com-|munist International and the revolution which it leads, they can- munards who did not die fighting on the walls or in the streets-of | . pecan not kill. ‘ ; | Vices to remove lacquer and dust like jthey have in Soviet Russia, where | the workers control and rule their }own country. When the means of |production and distribution will be wrested from the hands of the eapi- | talists and capitalist combines by the | working class, and be under the con- | trol of society as a whole, at the dis- | posal of society as a whole, then we} will be able to get our demands.—W. Chespole, Newark, N. J. How Our Martyrs Live. | Editor, The DAILY WORKER: | Enclosed please find ten dollars. I have been a member of the Spanish | war auxiliary and the Methodist” church, but since @e murder of Sacco | and Vanzetti and the cowardly part) of the church in not proclaiming their innocence, I am done with both. I) have always and shall ever continue} to proclaim their innocence and I am sure their murderers will be con-| founded. I want to get newspaper pictures | of Sacco and Vanzetti and-will frame | these together with ‘a copy of the in my living-room where all may see them. I am writing many letters to congressmen, ete. Am a widow and also have to help my sister, but I will send another | contribution when I can.—Freda. Y, Kin, Santa Barbara, Cal. | —— { Are You Doing Your Bit for the, Big Red Bozaar? f y « funeral eulogy and I shall hang these + The 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. This SUNDAY, Octcber 2, 1927 Admission 65c. MUSIC BY MOSCOW TRIO. Major part of house bought-by:DAILY WORKER and FREIHEIT. 0 Pe vemeieED 2am The NewPlaywrights Theatre { 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 JAILBIRDS,Ay Upton Sinclair . THE CENTUR by Em Jo Basshe HOBOKEN BLUES, By Michael Gold PICNIC, by Francis Edwards Faragoh ' AIRWAYS, ING, by John os Passos ana a play by John Howard Lawson. The DAILY WORKER has purchased a special block of tickets. ike A a ew ,