The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 12, 1927, Page 4

“How American Feder- ation of Labor Officials Bully Mexican babor\... Does Not Know Whether to Shiver or to Shake at “Dracula” in the Fulton Theatre i) Page Four i pe ne, What the Daily Worker | Means to the Workers More Encouraging Contributions to Our Emergency Fund. A. Kocubuk, Central F A. C. Karl Marx’s Statt fle) De ue as is r | The Foreign Policy of the Executive Council—Following the Lead | : = i Bireman’” aS of the State Department—Pan-American Labor Relations— AMATIC critics with weak hearts} DOROTHY BURGESS were warned to stay away from! “Dracula” or else take a ‘woman | Eben Women’s Club, Eben Junc- “Purifying” Mexican Labor—Immigration and Political tion, Mich. 40.00 oo - —--—_- at 4 n Ini Y ani , i : he Br nD Wee Fa Cacia nas WiC RANT Refugees—The United Front of Cayital and Labor along. Men who are timorous when pear oC aN ree TALEPHONE SERVICE @ETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO in the Pan-American Commtrcial Conference alone or in the company of other| 1.00 | wonTéitey | BY BRESIDENT COOUIDGE IN WASHINGTON AND PRESIDENT CALLES —wWoll’s Great “Victory’—The Cloak of jmales develop the courage of a lion} a TNL) cee | IN MEXICO CITY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1927 when accompanied by a fear-ridden | 1'00| Democracy. female. When Bernard Jukes as the Irving White Celia Sinow Fannie Bronx, } 3ronx, -1.00 1.00] .1.00} 1.00 . 1.00 1.00 -1.00 -1.00 -1.00 1.00 -1.00 1.00 -1.00 . Phochiow, Whe G. G , Whee Cordoglou, . Manolakis, Wi G. Dometupoilis, Wheeling,.. F. Simons, Wheeling, W. V: 1.00 S. Phillips, Wheeling, W. V - 1.00] J. DePoro, Wheeling, W. Va 1.00 P. Kuvanty, Wheeling, W. Va...1.00} K. Demetr Wheeling. . .1.00 1.00 L. Spout: aros, Wh 1.00} T. Mulahias, Wheeling, W. Va...1.00/ J. Radriguez, Sarasota, Fla.....1.00| Baltimore, Md. , Ybor City, Fla. -1.00| Roslyn, Wash. 2. an, Boston Brooklyn....... Baltimore, Md. Warren, Ohio.. , Loc. 6, A. F. W. -1,00} 200! 1.00} 3.00 | Jersey C C. Garingo, s ., Bloomville, V n, Brownsmead, Or Bloomville, Wis an, Gleason, Wis. 3 ia, Gleason, Wis A. Kihwit, Bloomville, Wi: M. Molk, Bloomville, Wi J. Jacobson, Bloomville, Wis J. Gut Gleason, Wis. A. Wagner, Bloomville, Wis. | mittee has unanimous {and the Comintern. jaries, and membership meetings where jresolutions were introduced, the vote y tions the executive council of the iM | American Federation of Labor shows { \its real colors. counter-revolution started. Resolifion on the Opposition in the Communist Party of sxe or the Soviet Union and the (Continued from Page One) © The Central Executive Committee the Workers (Communist) Party }con mned the opposition in the Com- jmunist Party of the Soviet Union \the beginning of the year 1924, by a resolution adopted with only one neg- ative vote, that of Ludwig Lore, javowed supporter of Trotsky who h since been expelled from our Party for opportunism. The Party has followed the contro- versy in the Russian Party closely and at all stages since the expulsion of Lore, our Central Executive Com- supported the | Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Comintern. We have carried on an active cam- paign thru publications, reports and discussion to make clear to the mem- bership of the Party the issues. in- volved in the opposition’s Leninism and on the unity of the) Communist Party of the Soviet Union, At all function- of has been unanimous or with a max mum of one or two negative votes or} abstentations. We have also endeav-} ored to eliminate tendencies, related) or analogous to Trotskyism, such attack on|§ | Its relations with the International tly the policy of the state ent toward the league of na- Just as Wall Street’s state de- nt maintains connection with the league of nations thru the at- envoys at the various conferences held under league au- and “observers” who attend {the league sessions, so the A. F. o L. executive maintains contact with as ——_———— |the LF.T.U., seeks to mold its course such Korsch, Fisher, low, | to conform to A. F. of L. policy and Souvarine, ete. Thus the opposition| unites with it, as does the depart- has been menacing the unity of the|™ with the league, against left Communist Party of the Soviet Union| Wing and re volutionary movements. and objectively leading ‘towards an Ve nee affiliated international attempt to form another Party, At] unions, Machinists, United Mine he same time, it has been leading to-| Workers, etc. are allowed to affiliate | with the respective internationals of t \the ILF.T.U., but the correspondence i | between Green and Oudegeest, secre- AS BSN en) te eee cee |tary of the LF.T.U., was referred to! energetic measures against an oppo-/ +n. J.o; Angeles: convention without sition which has so completely dis-| lati . . z i ‘ecommendation. » credited itself, so cynically violated} If and when Wall Street govern- all its pledges and the TmOEt elemen-| ment joins the league of nations, the tary precepts of party discipline, and} A. F. of L. will become part of the which has undertaken to revise or} [ #-P.U.--a dominant part. Geplace Leniniam,in the programs of [JPON the Mexican Federation of La- the Communist Party of the Soviet} por, A. F. of L. officialdom aaane | exercises continual pressure—as Wall ; | Street government does upon the It is time to put a halt once and} Mexican government. for all to the activities of the oppo- ine pages of the executive coun-| ion, particularly because of the) cil report arc devoted to Latin Ameri. critical international situation and can ‘relations. Most of this space i the open preparations of the interna-| devoted to detailing the process by! tional bourgeoisie for a new war|which the A. F. of L. leadership is| against the Soviet Union. In this| making the policy of the Mexican la-! difficult period, the opposition, by| bor movement ‘conform to A. F. of, trying to throw doubt on the Socialist | requirements. | character of the Soviet Union, tends) August 6, of this year, a con. to weaken the defense of the Soviet ference of representatives of thi Union by the workers of the entire|two federations met in Washington, world in the forthcoming war. Its in-|D. C., and arrived at the following | Communist International the formation of a “Fourth In- nal.” war Union Communist Interna- tional. ct on of Trade Unions follow |” 1.00! City and Wall Street, just about the time a member of the House of Mor-| alm e 1,00) gan was appointed ambassador to Mexico and a few days before the Gomez de | All throats and compels them to an agreement which if followed divorces ions of the rest of the world. The A. F. of L. executive council is using the domfnant position which t has as the head of the labor move- ment of the greatest imperialist na- tion, to create a Pan-American inter- national of trade unions which can be used by American imperialisr against the masses of the Latin American coufftri and for the ing terest of Wall Street. LMOST three pages of the report are devoted to an exposition of | the activities of Vice President Mat- thew Woll as a delegate to the third} Pan-American Commercial Confer- ence. The question naturally arise as to what an official of the Am can labor movement was doing as a delegate to a commercial conference, but this is understood if we recall that A. F. of L. officialdom seeks repre- sentation at these gatherings as part | of its united front with the bosses | and government. Woll was one of the American delegation APPOINTED BY THE STATE LABOR DEPARTMENT. He refers in the report to the following capitalists as “my colleagues,” mak- | ing up the Amerizan delegation: Lewis S. Pierson, Chairman of the | Columbia Bank and Trust Com- | pany; John H. Merrill, President American Cables; Gano S. Dunn, President, J. G. White En- gineering Corporation; F. Abbott Goodhue, President, International Acceptance Bank; Frank D. Water- man, President and _ Treasurer, Waterman Fountain Pen Company; Roy D. Chapin, President, Na- | tional Automobile Chamber of Com- | merce; Franklin C. Remington, | Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Foundation Company and Daniel G. Wing, President, First ational Bank of Boston. ee Loreism. . The Central Executive Committee} of the Workers (Communist) Party approves action of the Executive Committee of the Communist International in re- D, Wagner, Bloomville, Wis. J. Grinberg, Bloomville, Wis. R. Bolder, Gleason, Wi John Anton, Gleason, V K, Shultz, Bloomville, Brukowski, Bloomvill r, Jackson, Calif.... . Ginlietti, New London, Conn . Gandengi, New London.. Councoi, New London... Gandenzi, New London . Attelio, New London .. Romane, New London Ginlietti, N ww S 8 vitch from the Executive Committee | | Union have shown great patience in| dealing with the opposition and given jit eve opportunity to correct its| deviations and cease its activities | 1190 | 2gainst the unity of the Party and; 1.01 1.00) the Comintern. The opposition has | Loo merely utilized these opportuniti 1.00) for continued violation of Ramon: . Gudzin, Galent, . Gudzin Schenectad: Urbons, Schenectady Slegiatis, Schenectad Storinel, Schenectady 3 M. Rosenberg, Brooklyn, N F, A. Graca, Fall River, Mass C. Reichel, Cleveland, Ohio. pledges and secret and open intensi-| fication of their activities, so many | times condemned, and their reopening | of questions so many times settled by | the competent committees and by the | vote of the entire membership of the | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |and the entire executive of the Com- intern. The opposition, in spite of new op- BEEP pHa daHe Jos. Firon, Cleveland ..... .00 | a ; _ di erty |portunities given them to discuss le- F. Pe pomerdinger, Cleveland. .00 gally in the columns of ‘the Commu- G. C. Vogel, Cleveland..... 1.00 its differences with the 2 nist press, F, Fortkaller, Cleveland... 1.00 coment Party of the-Soviet Union, Hungarian Home, E. Pittsburgh 4.00} .ng despite its solemn pledge to cease Section 4, Boston .. -45| a1) factional activities, has continued Collected list 7680, Cleveland. 25!+o attempt to build up a factional or- A. M. Fraise, Oakland, Ca 1.00) ganization parallel with the organi- Mrs. L. Mueller, San Francisco 1.00| zation of the Communist Party of the Theodore Mueller, San Francisco 1.00| soviet Union, an underground press Dr. L. Mueller, San Francisco ..1.00| and a system of international connec- J. Solomon (col.) Los Angeles. .2.50|tions with eléments fighting against A. J. Young, Mt. Vernon, Wash...5.50}and@ expelled’ from the Comintern, AT SPECIAL PRICE? On SOVIET RUSSIA Ilere are four small booklets that give the laws, the care of Labor and a picture of the world’s first workers’ government. Get a set to give to your shop-mates.,. CONSTITUTION OF SOVIET RUSSIA $2.00 a hundred) 05 LABOR LAWS, SOCIAL INSURANCE, Ete., IN THE U.S. S. R. 10 MARRIAGE LAWS OF SOVIET RUSSIA 10 RUSSIAN TRADE UNIONS Organized Russian Labor at the time of Revolu- tion and immediately after. 10 All for 25 Cents * SEND A DOLLAR FOR 4 SETS! Books offered in this column on hand NOTE: in limited quantities. All orders cash * and filled in turn as received. : ; |correct proposals on rural economy | agreement: j tend to weaken the worker-peasant|} bloc. Its attempt to propagate the Communist Party of the Soviet Union| and the lessening socialist character | moving Comrade Trotsky and Vuyo-|0f the Soviet Union tends to weaken | tion. the leadership and the will of the} by imperialism and by the Second In-| ternational in their campaign, in| which such renegades from Commu-! nism as Korsch, Maslow, Fischer and Souvarine take part, to justify war against the Soviet Union and to! |lessen the readiness of the workers} WHICH, IN SUBSTANCE, of the Workers’ State. mt} The Central Executive Committée of the Workers (Communist) Party | not only endorses the action of the} Executive Committee of the Commu- nist International in removing Trots- ky and Vuyovitch but feels that the | forthcoming Congress of the Commu-| take all steps necessary to terminate, | once and for all, all factional activ- | ities of the opposition tending to} weaken the discipline or authority of! the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Comintern or to isolate the Soviet Union and weaken the will} of the masses of workers and op- pressed peoples of the world to de- fend with all their might the Soviet) Union when it is attacked by impe-| rialist powers, | The Central Executive Committee) instructs the Agitprop Department to prepare discussion in the press ané in the units of the*Party along the | | lines of this resolution. P| Jardine Farm Hokum. | WASHINGTON, (FP) Oct. 11.—} |in face of statistics published at in- tervals by his own department, showing the increasing economie¢ misery of millions of American farm- ers, Secretary Jardine has announced that the “farm situation is now better than at any time in the past six years.” : Coolidge Opposes Government Barges WASHINGTON, (FP) Oct. 11— President Coolidge, according to the white house publicity spokesman, is absolutely opposed to any policy of permanent government operation of the barge lines now carrying freight between New Orleans and St. Louis and the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis. | Piedmont Rail Extensions Rejected. | WASHINGTON, (FP) Oct. 11.—!) Examiner Haskell C. Davis for the) Interstate Commerce Commission has | reported unfavorably to the Commis- | sion on the application of the Pied-| mont & Northern Railway in North! | Carolina for permission to build 128 miles of extensions, WANTED — MORE READERS?! ARE YOU GETTING THEM? Piri’ ¢ nist Party of the Soviet Union should J | sions i E would think that a labor union official would feel a little out of 1. That the Mexican government be petitioned to adopt a restrictive | wholeheartedly the recent! legends about the degeneration of the, policy, and if necessary, to enact place in such a colleetion of capital- legislation to that end, excluding all/ists. But not Vice President Woll. peoples of oriental birth or extrac-/On the contrary, he reports a great ictory for labor. True, the victory | 2. That consideration be given to is not evident except to the trained | of thé Coniintern. The Comintern and| Working class-of the Soviet Union. It! the exclusion or restriction of other | eye of an efficiency unionist, but the Communist Party of the Soviet/serves also as a weapon to be used | Classes of immigrants deemed un-| Woll writes lyrically as follows: | suitable TO THE MORAL, PHYS-| ICAL, POLITICAL, AND ECON- an OMIC INTEGRITY. |seven years ago and frowned upon 3. That the Mexican government n both occasions, was unanimously be petitioned to consider and to/@Pproved at this time.” enact a restrictive emigration policy, | What is this glorious achievement SHALL| Which puts another star in the crown “Thus I am happy to report that | their|of the world to rally to the defense | CONFORM TO THE IMMIGRATION | of the executive council? LAW REQUIREMENTS OF "THE it consists in the fact that Woll was UNITED STATES. | authorized by the kind-hearte 4. That the Mexican government capitalists who were his fellow-dele- | be petitioned to adopt a method of gates, to introduce a resolution which regulating emigration so as to give recommended that future conferences full and complete enforcement to the! should have as one point on the immigration policy herein recom- agenda “the subject of improving the mended. |material standards of life and labor 'N return for this surrender of the of the masses of the people of thie Mexican Federation of Labor, the respective countries.” representatives of the A. F. of L.| It is true that the resolution com- agreed to continue to allow Mexican mittee of the conference amended workers to come into the United this high sentiment by adding the States without the quota restrictions) words: “so that by improving the which apply to other countries. jconditions of labor preduction fo- Point Two of the agreement puts mented and consumption increased, the Mexican labor movement on thereby contributing to the develop- record against political refugees of ment of commerce.” all kinds and is designed to set the, But the undaunted Woll remarks minds of American imperialists, in- in his letter to President Green cluding the executive council of the; quoted in the report that: “. , .the A. F. of L., at ease by preventing change ... is one only of form and workers persecuted by European gov- not of substance.” ernments finding an asylum in Mexico| The policy here expressed is again and ferhaps continuing in that coun- that of efficiency unionism try activ in behalf of the working, Worker-employer cooperation ass—which might have repercus- international scale. the United States. |THE report hi rnati R - This is the crux of the whole ques-| Lanal nies ee Beis: tion and the other three points of the council to the Los An eles ia lave agreement are intended to strengthen tion reveals~ official colts bestia Point Two. workin, i TL is clearthat the. A..F. of L. exec- | Stroet eat an es utive council gives its purely nominal | capitalists to undermine the ;Support to the Mexican labor~move-'of Latin American labor mov. |ment only on condition that it aban-|carrying out its policy of coo erati |don what remnants of revolutionary| with all imperialist econcien ta this integrity it still possesses. |sphere as it does em, is |=-In reporting on the Pan-American policy, Federation of Labor convention, the; executive council gives further evi-|of the L; dence of its malign influence upon) tke United States is carri 4 the an laborsmovement. In the | the gue of seen sa ine ¥esolution submitted to™the conven-! official labor leadership inter; i oa tion by the A. P. of L. delegation, and support of the poliey of the | ee adopted under its pressure, there is ment of the United States’ a complete repudiation of the interna-| masks its role as a capitalist di tat tional character of the labor move-|ship by giving favors to labor . ne ment and a declaration of hostility to i leads internationalism. T is the “Monroe Doctrine of Ameri-|on the lists of both the capitalist can Labor” that is put forward in’ parties, and continual war ae the such statements as: “.. .we pledge militant sections of the Ameria ourselves severally and jointly to re- working class. oe big sist with all of the vigor and resources| The activities of the A. F. of h. at our command any and every at-| executive council in relation to the dempt on the part of some other la-| league of nations are also wf gre, hor movement to interfere openly or importance and of a aimtlay ae, covertly with our affiliated organiza- but must be reserved for a laday on an with Wall American militancy ‘ements—- in its domestic atin American countries and tions, or to attempt to dictate or de-' article, termine the policies which shall govern us.” t oy “The A. F. of L. of course is not WANTED — MORE READER iterfering with the rest of the labos ARE YCU GETTING THEM? fs ; eae RD stor Cadi: eas ee wed and} OPENING OCTOBER 19 with This betrayal of the working class! t »N 1.00} DISTANCES ; | F lunatic of the piece emits one of his J_Hemmug, N. 1.00 Luis poTos! Tapio Raposo a aaa | By WILLIAM F, DUNNE. movements of the western hemisphere | growls, the spine has a -tendency to/| J. Nykola, - 1.00 \ | Laredo - Mexico City 736 | NY the: field -of international’ xrela-| when it forces the “Monroe Doctrine | make itself felt and when Bela Lugosi | -1.00| ~ | TOTAL, WASHINGTON - MEO CITY 3387 Mies | j[N the field ‘of American Labor” down their! as Count Dracula, who has been dead| {them from the working class organi- | | parently jthe ease for five hundred years makes one of | k frequent appearances in unex- pected guises, the bold escort has| an opportunity to show his mettle, | which should consist of saying’ to, his v r companion: “Fear not, I am here. There was a vampire loose in| England who was doing a great deal | of harm. The daughter of Dr. Seward | (He rbert Bunston) suffered from per- nicious anemia, as the medicos thot, but in reality from the attentions of the vampire who reposed in his cof- fin by day, but came forth at night! to. feast on her blood. In Dr. Se-! ward’s sanit: m, there was a pa-| ient, suspected of. being a lunatie, | who was able to escape from ap-| Fredric and Fanny Hatton, which escape-proof places with | opened. Monday night at the 49th : of a Houdini. He could! Street Theatre. climb walls like a fly. In fact he| dined sumptuousl i ‘ spiders. . ee ele g 8! fat | ond his keeper contributed to the But this poor devil was just | ;, another Vietim of the vampire te ae cae Basa ea Ba was training him for the vampire | nq acted a if they fea graduated business. This fellow Dracula was | fom a correspondence school. Per- ” a new play by hima fa Hele: exp around | aps ad had to ee this ai but I Things lo ¢ am of the opinion that a better way Helsing (Edward Vausloan) who,| ened without much difficulty. with the aid of the “blessed sacra-| Sees ment,” a dispensation for using it r s area e ceived from a cardinal, and some de- | BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY OR- | darhed thing. | tient acted like a legitimate lunatic prano, objective sought eleven and again with J | | | | | ‘ers and the upper strata of labor in| )Teturn for their support of candidates F labor leadership An industrial play. with an acetylene’ flame f CHESTRA OPENING CON- CERT TONIGHT. tective work rangdown Count Dracula | into his last coffin, (he had “six of | them) and killed the “undead”. de: | ceased count, thereby curing the luna: | tie and Dr. Seward’s daughter. |thoven Symphony Orchestra will be If the play «is -intended as a, given this evening at Carnegie Hall. burlesque on spiritualism, the mirac- | Georges Zaslawsky, the conductor, has ulous powers of sacred wafers and|arranged the following program: on hokum in general, it is good. But| Overture to “Egmont,” Beethoven; one cannot resist the feeling that | Symphonie Fantastique, Berlioz; Cor= the author believed his own hokum, | Macabre, Copland; Overture, hence the indecision how to take the| “Carnival,” Dvorak; Polonaise, from by it '“Mignon,” Thomas; Bell Song, from Bernard Jukes as the howling pa-| “Lakme,” Delibes; Luella Melins, so- s the solois The opening concert of the Bee- ° AMBASSADOR j! ee ‘a MATRIMONIAL BED” ING TONIGHT AT 8:30 T. Murray & Vivian Oakland TITTLE | HELEN MacKELLAR : 49th 87 Sai, a0 WS) @ RALPH MORGAN SYN H ol Bk SIN [x lin ‘Romancing ’Round’ ; ae | ——— , by = HATTON ar Cast. Wa g MPDE in Ibsen's comedy AN ENEMY OF TH Hampden’s ""s 3 Matinees Wednes The LADDER POPULAR PRICES. $. RT TE { | Fox presents the Motion Picture ISTLN RISE .. beret es F. W. MURNAU By HERMANN SUDERMANN e A The Desert Song times sq. eieisne ohne W. of B’way 8:30. Mts. Wed.&Sa 0 “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard viller, with ANN HARDING CHERRYMAN paris Bessel, Oo a: ventral Park | National at 8:30. Century W ; M Ww nd Si 2 WANTED — MORE READERS! ARE YOU GETTING THEM? 1 A AE A RE R 2A t The NewPlaywrights Theatre “Phe Theatre Insurgent” Semen ee THE ONLY HOME, FOR LABOR PLAYS IN AMERICA Announces a season of productions dramatizing the class warl | THEEBELT - BIFTON. 7 { selected from nelair im Jo Basshe By Michael Gold dwards Faragoh by John Dos Passos and a play by John Howard Lawson. Other DS, b: PURIE SINGING JAILBI THE CL. Upton by. BLU, Vicwle by AIRWAYS, HOBOK @ The DAILY, WORKER has-pure SO em RMR eR eR Nem! | Letters da. special block of tickets. From Our Rea Girl Worker Slaves. j; I am a constant reader of The Rditor, The DAILY WORKER: |DAILY WORKER.—G. D. M, New Iam a working girl of 18 years of | York City. age and have worked on bathrobes for the last two years and have not ‘as yet made anything out of my life. Jt is slave day in and day out and never get anything for it. Why? Be- cause of the low wages the workers ‘receive, Shop conditions are becoming’ ‘almost unbearable. It seems that the bosses have gained in all their under- The Workers Behind the Workers. | Weitor, The DAILY WORKER: | Enclosed please find one good |American dollar. While I was reading your letter a smart guy happened to be present. He asked me a very per- tinent question: “Who is the backer must be some rich man behind it.” lous struggle, takingg and trying to bring to nothing the conditions that we work- rs introduced after a hard strenu- In answer to his question, I got o1 my dollar bill, saying: “I am one the ‘rich’ men of The DAILY WORKER? There