The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 6, 1927, Page 4

<u vage Four Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 32° First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: SUBSCRIPTION RATES : By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New Soe) 3 $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per years $3.50 six mon! $2.50 three months $2.00 three months __ Phone, Orchard 1680 “Daiwork” i ‘Address and mail and make out chec THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N.Y: ee J. LCUIS ENGDAHL | WILLIAM F. DUNNE BERT MILLER. Manager York, N. ¥., under The Calles Government and Mexican Reaction The swift death which met General Serrano, one of the two chief leaders of many of his lieutenants, doubtless will give rise to a wave of sym- pathetic slush in the American capitalist and liberal press. There will be eulogies of the courage of these individuals and much praise for their readiness to die for their convictions. There will be shaking of heads and queries relative to the wisdom of the course taken by Calles. , All of which is so much poppycock. When class fights class courage becomes a commonplace. The feudal class of Mexico has not yet submitted to the revolution of the rising capitalist class which began many years ago and now seems planted firmly enough to suppress its landlord and clerical enemies providing there is no aid given them by American imperialism. The Calles government, as opposed to the Mexican landlords | and hierarchy is a nationalist revolutionary government with dreams of establishing a Mexican capitalism. This presupposes the development of a working class out of the peasant population and to this Wall Street is opposed, even tho the working class develops under the hegemony of the Mexican middle class. ; Wall Street wants Mexico as a source of cheap raw materials principally and only such industrial population as is necessary to furnish the “common labor” is desired. Its general policy to- ward the Calles government is determined by the extent to which Calles fails to enforce the provisions of the Mexican constitution relative to ownership of natural resources, freedom of organiza- tion and political expenses for the workers and peasants, penalties on employers, etc. To what extent the ofl companies are behind the present re- volt is not yet apparent but that they have a hand in it is certain. The Frenchman, Delaisi, in his book ‘‘Oil,” shows that for two decades every reactionary revolt in Mexico has been financed by some group of oil concerns. ; It is probable that the revolt was hastened by the appoint- ment of Morrow, the Morgan partner, as ambassador to Mexico, with the intent of weakening the position of the Calles govern- ment in negotiations in connection with the Mexican debt and oil concessions. The weakness of the Calles government consists in the fact that it makes an open challenge to the catholic hierarchy and the landlord elements by its separation of church and state, without at the same time actively and honestly carrying out the division of the land and thus building a firm base among the peasantry Neither does it encourage the labor movement to develop free from control of corrupt government officials. The Calles government proceeds as all rising colonial capi- ialisms proceed—by trying to win independence for itself from feudal institutions and imperialism at the expense of the worker and peasant masses. It is nevertheless the duty of the American working class to support the Calles government against Mexican reaction and im- perialist reaction, while at the same time aiding by every means the workers and peasants to organize and take power. Tammany Must Furnish Graft For Its Hoodlums One expose of Tammany graft follows close upon another these days when the wigwam on Fourteenth street is trying hard to convince the voters of the country that the tiger has changed his stripes. The supporters of Al. Smith’s candidacy for presi- dent have not yet been able to cover up the graft connected with the sale of polluted food through the simple device of bribing the food inspectors. The purchase of immunity for poisoning cer- tain sections of the working class population by the miserable petty thieves who conduct food shops was so raw that it de- manded action. The Tammany administration of Walker tries fo place the blame at the door of the former Tammany adminis- tration of Hylan. eG But now comes another expose of graft. This time it is in connection with the collection of ashes in the city. Tammany overlooks no chances for graft and no matter how menial the work may seem to be the graft is bound to be there for the simple reason that the machine maintains itself as an octopus upon the éity only by virtue of its ability to furnish its hoodlums oppor- tunities for graft. No wonder the hooligans pack the galleries ¢ democrat conventions and make the welkin ring for Al. Smith and Tammany when they see visions of. national graft looming upon the horison of their vivid imaginations. he latest graft has to do with the letting of contract for ash collecting. This contract was let to a Tammany subsidiary called the Brooklyn Ash Removal Company which is to realize $14,155,477 for a five-year period. Theoretically such bids are to be competitive, but the adroit political crooks eliminated that trifling formula. Now the republicans are peeved because they are shut out from the graft and raise a howl wherein they charge that Tammany is getting a clear six million in graft over a five- year period. The republicans scem to perceive that if the Tam- many gang gets control at Washington they will get all the graft future Teapot Domes may hold and they will have lean and hun- gry years. ect es ’ We do not hold to the reformist illusion that the elimination of, graft would “purify” politics, nor do we accept the doctrine that all the highfalutin’ talk cmanating from the New York perfectly honest as far as capitalist standards are concerned and still be the most ferocious oppressors of labor. We only refer to the record of graft and corruption to prove that all the high falutin’ talk amanating from the New York Times-and the World about a “new Tammany” is simply plain deception. Capitalism breeds graft and the city political machine known as Tammany has always existed and now exists because of the graft it can. obtain to keep its henchmen in idleness. ! . The only way to strike a blow at the pollution of the capi- talist system and to fight to prevent the wholesale poisoning of working class by the old party grafters is to support the ‘ty of labor in this municipal election, oe Mh hocen een Party, which along, stands for the. element man a sparty of labor, | be ee queer snes : Renierie Editors | Year’s “Achievements” {Executive Council Admits Unions Have No Legal Status— Unions Legal Existence—Leaders Promis: “Most Efficient Production” In Return— Injunctions Strangle Labor Movem2nt—No Concrete Proposal To Com- bat Them—Still Insisting That Injunctions Are “Un-American” By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. | Th | generosity. Nag tee of life is at once beginning | and fruition.” ~ | With this profound sentence the jexecutive council of the A. F. of L. {opens that section of its report head- ed “Outstanding Problems.” | In this section and those related the revolt against the Galles government,. and to it, the leadership of the American | \labor movement makes some of the |most remarkable admissions ever penned by labor officialdom in an {advanced capitalist country. HOCKING as it may be to those who listened to President Green raising the slogan of “America First” |in opening the Los Angeles conyen- | tion and to his impassioned speech | pledging American labor to the de- |fense of American institutions, the j executive council is forced in its re- |port to admit that the trade unions {in the United States HAVE NO LEGAL RIGHT TO EXISTENCE. Why then all this clamor about the unmatchable benefits of American capitalist democracy? The answer is | To convince the bosses that they have nothing to fear from union labor, that with its present policy and lead- ership it can take its place proudly |beside other American institutions | and give guarantees that it will do {nothing to disturb the stability of American capitalism. 'O WORKERS: who ate uncorrupted by propagandists of the National Civie Federation it seems that -the struggle for the legalization of the ence over all else. If the American labor movement has no legal stand- ing under capitalist law it would seem that this fact and a program designed |to arouse the masses to struggle for it, might very well be the keynote of the convention. The executive thinks otherwise. With the utmost mildness it cites the degraded status of the American unions under the head “Legal Sta- tus.” The executive council says: | “In order TO GIVE THE TRADE council, however, ISTENCE BUT THE RIGHT TO EXERCISE THEIR NORMAL FUNCTIONS, two legislative reme- anti-trust and anti-combination legis- lation to prevent restriction of normal union activity . . . and definition of the jurisdiction of equity courts.” Gueety in all labor history there is no more disgusting spectacle knowing as it does that the rulers of America have never granted the legal right to unions to exist, trying to alist in laudine American government —the instrument which is used |against the workers in every strug- | gle. | WHAT reasons are advanced by the | executive council to back up its wish for recognition of the right of unions to exist and function? The reasons given are of the same servile character as the appeal, namely, that if granted its petition, the executive council will see to it that the bosses labor movement should take preced- s | UNIONS NOT ONLY LEGAL EX-) outshout the most patriotic imperi-} apitali will) have no cause to regret their Ifthe kind capitalists | | will only give Labor legal standing, | Labor ‘officialdom in turn will be bet- jter able to persuade the union mem- ; bership to work harder and faster.! "| No other conclusion can be drawn ifrom the following s nent: | “We believe there ld be free-| |dom of association for economic agencies because ASSOCIATED EF- | FORT IS ESSENTIAL FOR THOSE EXPERIENCES AND ECONOMIES NECESSARY TO MO {ENT PRODUCTION REI lon the other hand, ass lis necessary for MOST CONSTRUC- ted effort |‘ Irish Players Coming j ih Here Next Month st Parties To Be Asked To Give eer. The Pl led engagem of George C. Tyler. O’Casey’s “The Plough and the § The injunction campaign the | will be the first play offered in capitalists and their government York. The drama has been curre means death to the unions if it is con- | at the New Theatre, London, for more tinued without the whole labor move-/than a year. The entire original com- ment and all sympathetic elements os of pened e, heedes, by Ar. ing rallied for open struggle agains ur clair, Sara Allgood, Ms vane rallied for open struggle against O'Neil, Kathleen O'Regan, meee If this is not one of the wajor tasks | Ore"2. an’ Katherine Drago, confronting the leadership of the la-| "Xe fbei euncarace ete, bor moveme : he Plough and the St we ald like some one} q 1c. = eoroulle ; Sean O’Casey turns his keen dramatic to tell us w more important. of will . sense and Irish humor on the pathos UT with the restraint which is to; and humor of the Rebellion, with the be noted in the utterances of the ene, laid in Dublin’s tenement dis- council when it deals with | tricts. “The Shadow of a Gunman,” around which there is the|by the same author, and other plays of a great struggle de-| of their reperto which includes TIVE FUNCTIONING OF ALL|Veloping, and which it wish 0 avoid | more ‘than forty works, will be pre- |GROUPS ASSOCIATED WITH PRO- in line with its policy of “shifting at-/Sented during the season. The forth- | DUCTION.” tention from problems of defence or it of the Irish Players will | HEN comes a threat which will 8@&tession to those of constructive | be their th _ The t occurred in IT a) mn . threa » Will! puilding,” the report s the exec-|1911, and their second two y cause every intelligent capitalist | itive council” ha ously considered | later. During those vis they pre- to give vent to a burst of merry) ine terms of the various orders listed | sented pl by Yeats, Synge, Robin- chuckles. |herein. It has resolved to urge our|son and Lady Gregor art of “We shall submit to Congress legis- lative drafts and give these measures priority in our legislative efforts. We me on a visit later in membership to protect them in every the company ¢ conceivable manner and to insjst that “The Whitehaired Boy | Shall eth ti pak | the rights LAWFULLY theirs be per a es shall Seek the cooperation of other) mitted to them and not destroyed! pov]; Ss Dy interested groups.” | OF curtailed in any such manner. Ti aveling Moving Pic- You see how this works. The A. F. of L, executive council supports the candidates of the two capitalist parties. Then the executive’ council lsends its legislative representatives to congress to ask the legislative representatives of the bosses’ political | par’ to give the unions legal stand- | ing. No wonder the sounds of Homeric laughter come from Wall Street while an of L. convention is in} IX pages of the convention report} are devoted to listing and deserib- ing injunctions—more space than is en to any t with the ception of ju disputes and international relation One does not have to read the re- port to know that in the injunction the capitalists have found a weapon which combines in an almost ideal ‘form the power of the bosses and the |government. As the lawyers say, it ‘is a matter of public know » that | any effective strike is now met with an injunction—state or federal. The} activities of unions are being limited | so rapidly that it can be said without exaggeration that any rike to be dies must be enacted: amendment of | effective must be carried on in the|the targets of injunctions, to know facé of court decisions outlawing it. Naked the report was written the! decision of the federal court in {the case of the Pittsburgh Terminal | | Coal Company has been handed down. | The sweeping nature of this decision than that of the present leadership| which makes illegal the strike of the’ la of the American labor movement,| United Mine Workers against a com- tinued to increase in number and pany owning 42 mines and therefore | foceuping a decisive position in the) coal industry, has been set forth in| other sections of the DAILY! | WORKER. It is enough to repeat! \here that it establishes the precedent | for outlawing all strikes against cor-| porations or individual concerns} whose products are articles of inter- | state commerce. OT only have the unions been denied | the right to a legal existence but | by a whole series of recent decisions they are prohibited from carrying on the struggles for which they were or- ganized. The Results By JOSEF STALIN (Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.) (From the “Proletari”, Aug. 30, 1917) ‘HE Moscow Conference is at an After the “sharp contest between the two opposing camps,” after the “bloody battle” between Milyukov and Zeretelli, after the “fight” is at an end the wounded have been brought in—it may “perhaps be permitted to inquire as to the issue of this Mos- cow “battle.” Who has won and who has lost? The Cadets are rubbing their hands with satisfaction. “The party of the liberty of the people can be proud that its slogans have been recognized as—slogans for the whole people.” (“Ryetsch”.) too, are satisfied. They speak of the “triumph of democracy” (read: of the Fatherland defenders), and assure us that “democracy emerges consolidat- ed from the Moscow Conference.” (“Isvestiya”.) “Bolshevism must be exterminated” pronounced Milyukov at the Confer- the representatives of the “living forces.” “We are already at work for it,” re- plied Zeretelli, “for an emergency law ee already been passed against Bol- shevism.” tion” (read: counter-revolution) still inexperienced in the fight against} the Left danger’’—let us first collect experience. The Cadets, too, are fully agreed that it is better to exterminate Bol- shevism gradually, not at one blow, and not directly, but rather at the hands of others, preferably those of the “socialists,” the defenders of the Fatherland. 4 “The Committees and the Councils ‘must be removed,” says eneral Kal- end. | The defenders of the Fatherland,! ence, amidst a storm of applause from, Besides this, “the revolu- | is} edin, and the representatives of the “living forces” agree with him. “Very true,” replies Zeretelli, “but not yet; we cannot remove this scaf- folding until the structure of the free ;vevolution (read: counter-revolution) has been completed.” Let us first “complete” the building, and then we can remove the Councils and Commit- tees. The Cadets are fully agreed that! jit is better to degrade the Commit- | tees and Councils to mere appendages of the imperialist mechanism than to exterminate them abruptly. The result is “general triumph” and “general satisfaction.” | It is not for nothing that the news- |papers report that “there is now| |much greater harmony between the! |socialist ministers and the ministers | lof the Cadet party than before the) | Conference.” (“Novaya Schisny”.) And now you ask, who has won? The capitalists, For the govern- |ment has undertaken at this Confer- lence “not to permit the interference (the control!) of the workers in the jmanagement of the undertakings.” | | The landowners, too, have won, for} {the government has undertaken “not| |to introduce any radical reforms in| {the land question.’ And the counter-revolutionary gen- erals have won as well, for the Mos- cow Conference has approved the! death penalty, | Who has won, you ask? Counter-revolution has won, for it }has organized itself on a national seale by gathering around it such | “living forees” of the country as |Ryabuschinsky and Milyukov, Zere- telli and Dan, Alexeyev and Kaledin. Counter-revolution has won, for it has obtained that decree on the so- called “revolutionary democracy” of the Moscow Conference jcan only be revealed by the near fu- th. Rit ae, Fonte N.. ¥ ture. H. ‘Johnson, ; a: ; M Business Is Business, WILKES-BARRI, Pa., Oct. Your executive council is deeply con- | cerned with finding a solution to the intolerable burdens which have been placed upon us BY SUCH UN-| AMERICAN PROCEDURE. -It has resolved to find such a solution. To/| shows tr this end the best thot and judgement anoth i of the entire labor movement is being | fits cove directed.” | IRS$, it is to be noted that the executive council persists in de- seribing these anti-labor injunctions as “un-American.” There is nothing more typical of American capitalist legal procedure than the use of in- junctions against labor unions unless ture Shows Popular in Russia re no less than 1,212 picture veling from Soviet Russia. These ot the small towns and throughout the vast territo a. | received large ine we 26 traveling shows The report further states that the number now in existence would be much larger but the makers of portable sets cannot meet the demand. Out- it is the frame-up system. Every| put has risen from 200 machines in student of American institutions} 1995 to an eo ted output for the know this, so does the executive coun-| eyyrent 000. cil whose anembers spend a good ‘or renting, the films share of their time trafficking with|in the villares reached some 630,000 the legal fraternity. This section of their report then is a brazen attempt to deceive the mem- bership. ECOND, it will undoubtedly be of |roubles. Considering the reduced es under which the pictures are hown the revort character the “amount as quite respectable.” These rentals are an increase of 100 per cent great aid and comfort to the|v°t last year. min evicted by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company and the thousands of other workers who are === Screen Note-—=| that the executive council has resolved | to find a “solution” for the injunc in “The Jazz ger,” will take place problem. |at the Warner Theatre tonight. It will be recalled that the late a Samuel Gompers hailed the Clayton} Johnny Walker has been signed by et as “that great Magna Charta of|the Warner Bros. for one of the or.” but that injunctions have con-| Principal roles in their new.. melo- drama, “Good Time Charley,” which is being screened for an early show- ing. The premiere showing of Al Jolson iciousness since its enactment. 'O combat this menace the executive council makes not one single con-| crete recommendation. Its faiiure vo do so convicts it of the most sfiame- less disregard of the interests of the labor movement. Likewise it fails either to recom- mend the opening of a struggle for the legalization of the trade unions or to put forward a program which} would build the labor movement in| spite of its handicap of illegality. (Next Article—Organizing the | Unorganized) The Roxy Theatre, beginning Saturday will show “The Gay Re- treat,” a new screen comedy. The featured players are Ted McNamara seen and Sammy Cohen, last in em THE ONLY HOME FOR L Announces a season of product The counter - revolutionaries longer stand alone, tionary democracy” is working for them. Now they ‘have the “public opinion” of the “country of Russia” at their disposal, and the defenders of the Fatherland will not be slow to make use of their opportunities. The crowning of counter-revolutio —that is the result of the Moscow Conference. no Now all “revolu- Other pl SINGING JAILBIPI yr THE CE by { | | i] | THE one place to|f The NewPlaywrights Theatre “The Theatre Insurgent” OPENING OCTOBER 19 with An industrial play with an acetylene flame by PAUL. SIFTON. ADELE} HOPE HAMPTON eo y Princess,” a new Edward Sheldon and opening at the tonight. “What I by the man. rice cartoo’ ‘i he Living N The pie- t ello’s “King I be pre-re- les heatre soon, will be the screen Cameo, beginning beginning National Be RSO, Mts Wed aSate-30 . %: “The Trial of Mary Dugan” ANN HAR es ue X CHERRYMAN The Desert Song with Robt. Halliday & Eddie Buzzell Mt t CASINO LITTLE @ Mats Romancing “Round with Helen Mac Ww cellar & Ralph Morgan |W. Fox presents the Motion E ure ISUNRISE - w'Nerxau y HE ¥ MANN ompaniment Thea Times Sq. 1 ABOR PLAYS IN AMERICA ions dramatizing the class war! BELT ected from The Fatherland defenders, enthus-| ing over the “triumph of democracy,” | are blissfully unaware that they have simply been made the-lackeys of the triumphant counter-revolutionari This, and this only, is the political import of the “honorable coalition” of which Mr. Zeretelli has discoursed so “imploringly,” and against which Mr. Milyukov and his adherents do| not object. a This is the “coal Fatherland defenders and the “living | 4 forces” of the imperialist bourgeoisie, against the revolutionary proletariat and the poor peasantry. This is the sum total of the Moscow Confe: V || More Encoura | to Our Emergency Fund. ion” between the » Oakland, ats . St. Louis, Mo. , Minne., Minn | counter-revolutiohary | J’ sf very long or not, y, Detroit, } Detroit, Mich » Klein, Dynamite placed in the stock room of the Pittston plant of the Wilkes-Barre Maid Candy Company ea today wreeked the structure, injuring ¢wo men and damaging six adjoining structures. . William Belski, a watchman, suf- fered injuries about the head when he | ¢ was thrown against a boiler by the Nilson Tarkoff, ewich, Boulder, poklyn, ooklyn, 00 00 oh, New York City. fimehuk, Brooklyn, N rooklyn, rash, Brooklyn ‘kimuk, Brookly Brooklyn 00 00 00 00 which may now serve as a conven- ient shield against the anger of the people. : ‘ a, blast. William Smelski-was lacerated | 4. oh, Brooklyn , by flying glass. Residents in nearby | ;\’ tad “ homes were thrown from their beds, E. NOt ar Steger. ml 2.00 , ;_| Nucleus 26, Los Angeles, Ca’ P but suffered mostly from shock. Busi. BpakaneAMuclaume Bpokane ness rive’” -*e suspected, ty Wash. (collected) a mt ay s “linstantly killed 1 00 | oo |* 0} 00 | ‘i200 |vem..and, Hartford railroad tracks { 8.00 | here, £80.00, 10.00 1.00 Mex Worker Killed M.T. Local Train 40 years old of ck inspector T. lines, was when a Man- train on the Fourth ran over him near the Station, Brooklyn, and zainst the third rail, yed for 35 minutes. hattan-bound | POR‘ N. Y., Oct. 5. |The body ‘lea Miller, 30, @ |painter. of Glenville, Conn. was: |found early today lying badly man- jgled beside the New York, New Ha- of Ch the “Westchester avenue ; il i 3 ‘ { I ose t i i . t i 4