The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 10, 1927, Page 4

Page Four ~ umf DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBE® 10, 1927 hea | ARS Se } Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING co. Daily, Except Sunday 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Addr “Daiwork” : SUBSCRIPTION RATES ; ): By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New Yor te $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per years $3.50 six mon! 0 three months $2.00 three months ; ag = and make out checks to 3 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Adar. THE DAILY WOR "J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE BERT MILLER d IER, 3) Editors Entered as New York, N. ¥., ander What Is the Department of Labor? 2 eign-born workers, was one of the principal speakers at the A. F. of L. convention. His department is one of the government agencies that is placed at the disposal of the bosses every day in the year to assist them by hounding any foreign-born worker suspected of loyalty to his class. Another section of the government machinery, the bureau of immigration, is also always at the disposal of the bo: Mili tant activity for union organization in unorganized industries, opposition to labor officialdom, sympathy with or membership in the Communist Party, is sufficient to bring the threat of depor- tation. The appearance of Secretary of Labor Davis at the A. F. of L. convention as a principal speaker signifies the united front of labor officialdom and a department of the government which is one of the most efficient agencies of American capitalism. There is nothing abstract in this community of interest. It is an immensely practical working agreement and is a powerful weapon in the hands of both the bosses and the trade union bureaucracy. Against the left wing, the bosses, the bureaucrats and the department of labor unite. A Washington dispatch to the “Salem (Mass.) News” for Sept. 13 makes the categorical statement that “the United States department of labor for some time has been backing the conserva- tive elements of American labor in their campaign to rid their ranks of Communism.” The dispatch, obviobsly of an official character, states that the influence of the labor department “is vigorously put behind thar 8 coho nau those forces, whether of capital or labor, which are fighting Com- ; munism there is close cooperation between the conciliation service of the labor department and the department’s immigra- tion bureau in handling this problem.” What every intelligent worker has long known, the official publicity agent of the department of labor now admits in almost so many words that the labor department “‘conciliators” are gov- ernment spies under another name. “Organized labor,” continues this official dispatch, “some- times serves as a bulwark for capital against Communism.” For organizefl labor read “labor officialdom” and we have the third factor in the united front of reaction. But there is a fourth factor, altho its role is a minor one _. within the circle of general reaction—the socialist party leader- ~ ship. The dispatch from which we have quoted has this to say about it: “The conservative employer may regard a socialist with deep distrust, but the department will back a socialist against a Red any day. . 8 It is not surprising, in view of these admissions, to find Secretary of Labor Davis, the Los Angeles police department and A. F. of L. officialdofh, cooperating in jailing a Communist work- er and unseating a Communist delegate from the office workers’ union. ; Actually, of course, the whole upper section of the labor leadership is American imperialism’s department of labor. seo Tenth Anniversary Preparations The approaching Tenth Anniversary of the Bolshevik revo- lution in the Soviet Union finds the workers’ and peasants’ gov- ernment the center of attack by the imperialist brigands of the ‘world. Since Locarno, in the late fall .of 1925, the malignant forces of reaction have been striving openly to prepare a new ‘military attack against the Soviet Union. During the decade of revolution three distinct stages are dis- ‘cerned in the reactionary struggle. The first was the actual armed intervention on the part of British, French and American imperialism aided by a motley crew of white guard military ad- -yenturers. This was crushed before the iron battalions of the Red Army. The second attack took the form of low diplomatic intrigue, when the wily diplomats tried to achieve by subterranean measures what they could not then achieve openly. Lenin, him- ‘self, proved to the adroit manipulators of capitalist diplomacy that the leaders of the proletarian revolution were their masters. This was followed by the third period, characterised by a long- ‘range policy whereby Britain took the lead in an attempt to iso- date and destroy the revolution. It is toward the consummation ‘energies of some of the ablest spokesmen of imperialism are directed. Thus the approaching Tenth Anniversary celebrations, aside from the fact that they mark the close of the first decade of the ‘world revolution, are doubly significant inasmuch as they impose upon the class-conscious workers the task of convincing the broad “masses of the working class of the new threat of world war in- _-yolved in thes? conspiracies. ‘ ~ Throughout the world the workers will celebrate this great istorical event. In the United States the Workers (Communist) arty is preparing for a whole week of intensified activity in ‘an effort to create in the minds of the workers a determination ‘hever to fight against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, ‘and to not merely refuse to fight but actively to challenge with fall their might the imperialist government that dares take up farms against the workers’ and peasants’ government. It is not ‘sufficient to remain neutral—that is the road of pacifism, a form of service to imperialism. The Tenth Anniversary celebrations must be of such a char- acter as to serve notice on the imperialist conspirators that in a ar against their own working class at home. If the working ass of the imperialist countries take a decisive stand they will be able to stay the hand of the war-mongers and on the approach- ‘Tenth Anniversary the workers should dedicate themselves to task of making impossible the realization of the war plans inst the revolution. * Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, the sworn foe of the for- B fof this stage of the ten-year drive against the revolution that the war against the Soviet Union they will also have to wage a second} THE DAILY WORKER Bertrand Russell Disrobes Ramsay MacDonald Writing In “The Forward” For September 25, Against Indian Independence,” the British ‘“Phil- Labor Bares Agent of British Imperialism osopher” Inadvertently Strips Socialist Mask From I should favor, at the IE RETENTION OF TO DEFEND THE and prevent internal By WILLIAM F, DUNNE. jlead to chac AMSAY MACDONALD and Ber-| Very. eke trand Russell write especially for) pRONTIER the Sunday English section of the|(.* 7” Jewish Daily Forward. - latest contributions | civil war.” Russell is himself an imperialist. on Oc-| He shows it by such phrases as “some and September 25, respec-|day the Indians will be sufficiently of great value in forming | civilized to be left to themselves,” and e of the character of the|}y speaking of British atrocities in bor Party leadership. India as “the oppr pecially are taey of value in esti- agitators,” ete. mating the sincerity with which the Labor Party leadership opposes the program of British imperialism. ACDONALD’S article is a defense of the actions of the recent Edin- burgh Trade Union Congress in ex- pelling Trades Councils affiliated with D IKE more open imperialists of the type of Baldwin, Russell feels that the Labor Party leadership is es- sentially loyal to the empire. Russell so in so many wor s another La- bor Government, it will not do half the left g—the National Seana as much as I have suggested. The Boney nd = BAe ae Pane majority of the leaders of the Labor with the Anglo-Russian Unity Com-' party ‘are. keen imperialists who mittee. would at the most slightly relax the It is evident that MacDonald is | sey, y of political persecution in jubilan And in this jubilant and) {ndia, They privately favored’ the careless mood he lets several cats out | dispatch of troops to Shanghai this of the bag. The Trade Union year, and were reluctantly forced in- effective activities of ment, the proposal for mn of one union in each juestions upon the correct olution of which the life of the British labor movement depends, he dismisses in a sentence. which outlaws the labor mc the form to public opposition by the pressufe rank and file. They will al- accept the judgement of British ff on ‘the sp in preference to that of any one else.” “The only thorough-going op- ‘of on of a few} and | Party Leader || |ponents of British imperialism are |the Communists. . . .” |PLEASE remember that Bertrand |F Russell has been a candidate of |the Labor Party, that he is’ one of its} strongest supporters and that he sees nothing discreditable in the Labor) | Party leaders being imperialists, and therefore sees no reason why he} should not tell the truth about them. But for the more slippery Mac- |Donald the Russell statements will |prove very embarrasSing. So far he |has been able with some little success, | |to conceal his real subservience to} | British imperialism by abuse of the) Communists, the left wing, Commv- | |nist International and the Soviet} | Union. Bet he will not be able to explain} away the categorical statements | of Russell, who, without any thot of | |doing so, has rendered a great ser- {vice to the labor movement. | We shall take great pleasure in dispatching a certified copy of Ber-| |trand Russell’s article in The For- |ward to the Communist Party of Great Britain and to the National Minority Movement. | We are sure that our British com- |rades will know how to use it to the best advantage. . O him the fight on the militant sec- * tion of the labor movement—the left wing and the Communist Party— was all important. It is evident from his article that MacDonald does not regard the tory Trade Union Act as wholly bad since it outlaws mass strikes, political strikes, and other ef- | fi weapons which the Commu- “Why a Local By BERTRAM D. WOLFE. The Workers Pa: stands commit- ted to the use of all its energies for the building of an American Labor Party on a national scale. Neverthe- less, the instructions of the Central xecutive Committee to the districts of the labor movement as is Baldwin.|in the 1926 campaign declared: “But the immediately decisive thing | “There will be three forms in which done in Edinbifgh,” says MacDonald, the party will go into the elections: ‘vas to cut our trade, union move-| (1) Thru existing Farmer and Labor ment off from Communism... | Parties; (2) thru placing united front |the Communist has had too much labor tickets on the ballot; (3) by tolerance in our midst... . Now he|placing Workers’ Party tickets on the is the “Minority Movement,” now “the | ballot.” International Political Prisoners Aid| The question naturally Society,” now the “Hands Off China | this flexibility of tactics Comméttee” and so on. . *. variety of forms? “In all, he has been little better than | American political conditions, un- {a lying scoundrel, sustained with | jike those of England, are such that | Moscow money. and, eth slavish ab- a National Labor Party tends to come | Jectness, doing Moscow’s bidding. into being by the foundation of!vari- rE will be noted by those who read|ous local and state Labor Parties, gradually converging towards an the MacDonald apology for reac- tion, that he is much more bitter and| American Labor Party and. finally crystallizing when the national senti- abusive toward the movements men- tioned, all of which are a challenge to| ment for their unification and for the creation of a single Labor Party on British imperialist policy, domestic and foreign, than he is toward the|a national scale is powerful enough. Sane in Va., Insane in N. Y. tory government, the instrument of British imperialism. Economically, the United States is The Minority Movement, for in-|a single unit, but because of this fed- stance has rallied a million workers|eral system of government, the states \for struggle against the Trade Union| have widely divergent laws and dis- Act, The International Political | tinct administrations. Thus, in ex- Prisoners Aid Society, (its correct} treme casés, men have been known name, which MacDonald does not|to be divoreed by the laws of one seem to know, or it may be to6 ob-| state and yet, marrying again, become noxious even for him to write, is the bigamists by the laws of another. “International Class War Prisoners|-phere have even been cases, such as Aid.”) organizes and carried on re-|the Chaloner case, where a man was lief work for the hundreds of work-|i,cane in New York and sane in Vir- ginia. ers who were jailed by the Baldwin government during the last two years | When the interests of big business for strike and political activity. Tel entre it, “state rights” are prompt- was the only mass organization in| ly forgotten and by all sorts of legal Great Britain éarrying on this work. | fictions a oinited Hauonal law in a “THE Hands Off China” Committee | given field is put across. Conversely, organized huge meetings to pro- test against the dispatch of gunboats and troops to suppress the Chinese liberation movement and against atrocities like the bombardment of Nanking, ete. Communists were a small fraction of the workers supporting these |movements, but since they serve to }embarrass British imperialism they \irk MacDonald very much indeed. As for “Moscow money,” Mac 1ists and the deft wing have been urgirig the labor movement to adopt as part of its tactics. MacDonald is st as hostile to the militant section arises, why Why this |tional law, the theory of state rights \is zealously upheld and the law is nullified and declared unconstitutional as an interference with state sover- eignty. In this manner, every child labor law thus far put on the statute books has been set aside. The Constitution of the United | States prohibits the passage of laws limiting or abridging freedom of Ip : f speech, press or assemblage, or limit- | onald will have a hard time con-| ing the right of every citizen to bear eee. the British miners, whom he! zyms, But the Constitution has been | betrayed to the Baldwin government, | interpreted that any state may that the $5,000,000 boat by the RUS-| freely adopt criminal syndicalist laws, pet ihesral a ooy aot pan Slee jl forbidding the carrying of arms, fee the. stat de ag Lae pane ES forbidding mass picketing and labor Man VeNNeHh 7 other forms of free assemblage. Nev- y |ertheless, when the war broke out a T is when we turn to Bertrand Rus-| national “espionage” act was passed sell’s article that we get a correct} which was effectively used on a na- slant on MacDonald’s statements, that! tional scale along with the numerous | We are able to see that when he uses| criminal syndicalist and criminal an- | such terms as “the usual swill of|archy acts of the various states. }abuse” in describing the letter re- Brakes On Progress. ceived by the General Council from; The courts of the United States the unions of the Soviet Union, he| have been one of the chief instruments expresses not only his own attitude,|for blocking legislation which ex- but that of the imperialists—one of|presses the needs of the working whom he is. class. They have always appealed to USSELL writes with especial refer- | precedents established in a period PIR an arate ala saen ake | when there was no workingclass and |could very well be the subject of an- 2 no modern industry. jfrowedee CASA apa arti measures, social insurance, ete., have {no one will question, furnishes the | pees pate “sola Uuhes enero ust ends mi bere tiaras the tional ones, therefore the labor sigan: er ;movement has had to fight in each leadership) are believers in British lig ete ‘ state separately for the passage of the real reason for their war on the (moun BCHYAEOS, Oe a en Senannsiinl: aid. thes jMtivwine vata local nature. It is only when such laws hi i ; 7 jare finally passed in a given state ‘in and declares them unconstitutional, ERTRAND RUSSELL says in his and, as a last resort, if the bosses article in The Forward that “if I lose, they appeal to the national were Prime Minister I should not|supreme court, which gives the final favor an immediate evacuation of the|death blow to the measure in ques- peninsula (India); that would merely} tion, For this they use “ss “rue pro- " | cal activity tends to be the local Cen- |when capital wishes to block a na-| ee cals. ik baie cae waviene Labor protection measures, child cca tgl a See that Rideall. howe | labor laws, regulations of the length | = gheind “of the work day, minimum wage Labor Party? |cess of law” clause of the 14th amend- |ment which was smuggled by a cor- |poration lawyer into the constitu-| | tional amendment supposed to safe- |guard the rights of the Negro in the ) South. The Central Labor Union. | Again, the natural basis for politi- tral Labor Council in municipal mat- jters and the State Federation of La- |bor in state matters. These bodies |are much closer to the rank and file | particularly the former of them) than | lis the executive council and the na- ‘tional convention of the American | Federation of Labor. Consequently \it is in the Central Labor Council that |the demands of labor for independent | political action first make themselves | felt and most strongly so. Local Governments as Strike Breakers The greatest’ stimulus to the for- PORG “PORGY,” a folk play, by Dorothy and Du Bose Heyward, will open Monday night at. the Guild Theatre, presented by the Theatre Guild. In the cast are Rose McClendon, Frank Wilson, Evelyn Ellis, Georgette Harvey, George Moore, Jack Carter and Perey Verwayne. “CHAUVE-SOURIS” opens Monday night at the Cosmopolitan Thea- tre, with Nickoli Balieff in his famous role of past seasons. “THE FIVE O'CLOCK GIRL” at the Forty-fourth Street Theatre, Monday evening. Book Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson; lyr- ics and music by Bert mar and Harry Ruby. Mary Easton and Oscar Shaw are featured, “SYNTHETIC SIN,” a new comedy by Frederic and Fannie Hatton, will be presented at the Forty-ninth Street Theatre, Monday evening, with Dorothy Burgess, Allan Birmingham, Peggy Al- lenby, Helene Sinnott, Louis D’Arclay and Valarie Valiare in the cast. “THE 19TH HOLE,” a golf comedy by Frank Craven, will be pre- sented by D. L. Erlanger, Tuesday evening at the George M. Cohan Theatre. In the cast are Mr. Craven, Mary Kennedy, Kitty Kelly, Marion Abott, Homer Barton, Cochrane, John Har- wood, Robert Wayne, Adora Andrews and Charles MacDonaly. “JUSY FANCY!” a musical adaptation by Joseph Santley and Ger- trude Purcell of the A. E. Thomas comedy, “Just Suppose,” is scheduled for Tuesday night at the Casino Theatre. Joseph as Meyer and Philip Charig compored the score, and Leo Robin supplied the lyrics. The players include: Raymond Hitchcock, Ivy Sawyer, Mr. Santley, ¢ Blore, M Thomas Whiffen, H. Reeves-Smith, Marguerite and Gill and John Hundley. “WHITE LIGHTS,” James.La Penna’s musical comedy, will have its premiere at the Ritz Theatre Tuesday evening. Paul Gerald Smith is the author of the book, and J, Fred Coots composed the music. In the cast are Rosalie Claire, Lee Donnelly, Sam Ash, Margaret ‘Lange, James S, Barrett and Mollie O'Doherty. | “THE MATRIMONIAL BED,” a comedy, will be presented by A. H. Woods, at the Ambassador Theatre Wednesday evening. The play is a comedy in three acts, adapted from the French of T. Mirande and Mouesey-Eon by Seymour Hicks, who has been playing it for the ‘past year in London. John T. Murray and Vivian Oakland are featured in the company which includes May “Vokes, Lennox Pawle, Lee Patrick, Kenneth Hill and Clay Clements. “THE SPRINGBCARD,” a comedy by Alice Duer Miller, will open Wednesday at the Mansfield Theatre, presented by Charles L. Wagner, with Sidney Blackner playing the chief role. THEATRE GUILD PRODUCTION | 49th ST. Y A OPENING SYNTHETIC SIN A new play by Freder ‘anny Hatton | LITTLE | HELEN MacKELLAR ‘a0, |& RALPH MORGAN | in ‘Romancing ’Round’ in Ibsen's comedy \mation of a Labor Party is the use} “AN' ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE” = <tr PAE lata duaees SRS jof the courts, police and other gov-| Hampden’s "28:8 way at St.| |ernment agencies as strike breaker. matinee Wednesday and Satur 0! Th é L A D D E R | Yet, except in the basic industries in | big national strikes such as railroad jand coal strikes or the big steel | Strike, it is the local or state courts and the local police or the state con- stabulary and the local and state | governmental agencies generally that \do the strike breaking. Consequently, | again the first national step of labor | towards independent political action jis aimed at the loml government |which is used against him and he | makes a demand that a workers’ gov- ‘ernment be set up in the city and | state. | Thus, because of the great extent of territory of the United States (it is as if all the countries of Europe were fused into one), because of the |division into states containing in- centers, because of the ified nature of the farm in- dustry, because of divergent laws in jeach state and the state and local courts with their injunctions and be- cause it is generally the local police jand the local government rather than the U. S. army and the national gov- ernment that have been used against strikers, and because of the doctrine of state rights and the innumerable separate state legislatures, and finally because the government of the United States has only recently become a centralized government and still is not nerely so centralized as are the governments of most European coun- tries—for all these reasons and for the reason also that local labor coun- cils are most responsible to the needs and desires of the rank and file, the natural mode of formation of a labor party in America is thru the formation of various local labor and farmer labor parties, at least in the states most favorably disposed. | as s preliminary to the formation of a national labor party, There are times, however, such a° the period 1920-1923, when the im- petus for a national labo® party is very much stronger. 4 The Task Before Us. This year, however, it is obvious that no national labor party will be formed and therefore it is the task of our districts, according to local conditions, to make the biggest pos- sible steps forward toward the for- mation of local labor parties and thé creation of a sentiment for a na- tional party. There are some states in which Farmer-Labor Parties al- ready exist and the problem of the Communist is to strengthen and broaden. them. There are others in which a labor party can be created, and still others in which a united Ia- bor ticket, as a first step toward a labor party, can be set up. If the various units of the party 2’ over the country create the prope pre-conditions from below, we car trust the government to create th: proper conditions from above so thr iY nate bdsei a atonal pres’ lential camp: a tio! 0) | with Robt, Halliday & Eddie Buszell Century \W pee cee cee ee ame ame em ee aR > eR a ae ae ey is —- —_ ee Pocscaaee aS. The Desert Song, Ei yes"! s Wed. 11th Month W. 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