The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 19, 1927, Page 4

AEROSOL N00: SOIR LA AONE AE AML BEE IIE EELS AARC TNL ON Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WED SDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1927 BZBOOKSS af REVOLUTIONARY CLASSIC. THE PEASANT WAR IN GERMANY, by Friedrich Engels. Publishers. $1.50. Thi | International originally written to connect the lessons of the Peasant War he revolutionary wave of 1848-50, in which Engels Z in its atment of the class struggle, class rela- as when it was originally published. b book, out in all its ree feudal payments and scevices to r af the rack, excommunication and refusal of The ter ility. nakedness the decadence of nobility of four! ~Norman Hapgood’s Defense of | Holmes and Brandeis By H. M. WICKS. R. NORMAN HAPGOOD, the eminences of American liber- alism, in the October 19 issue of The Nation, expresses the opinion that it was better for Supreme Court Jus-} ter with bolts of lightning the bodies; of Sacco and Vanzetti than to violate | | deis’ refusal to act, Hapgood declares | vile and vindictive con. one of| that he was prevented by a “personal| mit judicial class murder | disqualification.” “He has always acted on» the principal that. he would not sit in a case where he had any personal minimum wage board. He looked upon himself. as disqualified in the | jfrom any act which would interfere with its consumntation, instead of} snatching the victims from the gory | hands of the executioner. | ciate such fine distinctions. * x % | 'New Playwrights Thea-} ‘tre Opens Tonight With | “The Belt” The New Playwrights Theatre will | begin its second season tonight, at} | their new home, 40 Commerce Street. | Preparations for this and succeed-' ing productions have been under way When all the : legal means for exploiting and suppress-|tices Oliver Wendell Holmes andj imterest. He kept out of a mini- No ordinary» mortal, not familiar |The ie to Dey epaced pet bility resorted to banditry, ordinary Louis D, Brandeis to permit the| ™¥m-Wage-case because. one of his | with the higher, detached, transcen-| “/he . play Dy | ’ Tn addition there were the refine-| Mas achusetts executioners to shat-| @ughters had been working on a ,dental mind of liberalism, can appre-| itton, ' | idtoV: i % A 5 bert crane ; .|for months with all of the play- | he church, was a horrible threat to the Catholic serf. that metaphysical entity, known as| S4¢¢0-Vanzetti case is aaed he ae our materialistic minds WE al | Or ecaeteo a LEW Gb penta | : ‘i the ethical code of the judiciary. | family had been actively intereste not view this performance of Hap- anliterary work. For the first offer | hru the entire course of the Peasant R This remarkable contribution to| i getting the men o good in defense of Holmes and Bran. , John Dos Passos designed the | rst military gathering took place in March, id May the peasants carried everything [he feudal war that was going on ermany of the prince mercenaries. over France at Pa , the princes | ing peasants. won the victo ce against the rev r, when Ger t chein whole f The peasants could not withstand this com-| The bourgeois his- | with such | On the} , there were deeper liberalism was evoked because a num- ber of readers of “The Nation” took This observation is followed by an exhibition of the most loathsome so deis as anything more than dirty lib- |! ral sermonizing; playing the role of | Mr: ‘Happoodoto task ton on antiala | Phistry—a piece of vicious, murder-| liberal priest to the capitalist class| he wrote eulogizing these two judi-| cial lackeys as friends of humanity. | jIt seems that some of the followers| |tioners while the supreme court re-| viewed the frame-up against Sacco and Vanzetti, and TAN, wrote |“The Nation” to that effect. The let-| ters were turned over to Hapgood and ous special pleading that has never, been excelled even by the most open and servile apologist for reaction.| Justice Holmes or Justice Brandeis would have.been justified in ex- ceeding his powers in order to ac- complish one result, then Judge | Thayer was justified in abusing his opportunities, as he did, in order to murderers. Such observations may be | clothed in all the highfalutin’ banali-| ties of liberalism but they can never | Hapgood asserts that the people who conceal the debased features of the | again confirms our, contention that| the Sacco and Vanzetti case was not! ja local Massachusetts case, but a! |piece of class vengeance, carried out | {with the aid of every instrument of| |the government, federal and state. | settings, En Jo Basshe arranged the complex sound effects, while Michael Gold, Francis Edwards Faragoh and John Howard Lawson have been! | wrestling with numberless routine business problems. Here is the} |selecting for their springboard pro- duction, | play. Gail De Hart Lawrence Bolton, } Jane Barry and Ross Matthews head the cast of “The Belt,” with a sup- a rugged, native, industrial | Gives an impressing performance in| |“The Trial of Mary Dugan,” Bayard| | Veiller’s tense drama at National! 7 no means a rare sidelight of this phase of the /of the aiverak UA anne could | | wetote the iotles 4 “Tee Nation” are | journalistic mrcsdetee| fete of Be ene ener munis. 2 ed by fifteen thousand of the)2°t reconcile Hapgood’s eulogiums | pn jada - jing their script to concentrate on a s were aided by | with the refusal of Holmes and Bran-| 2° lawyers and adds: _, |. The attitude of Holmes and Bran-} |season of new American dramas, and -- ne very same nobility which were at each| \abisitonatonsene Handy oti che ee “They do not understand that if |deis,'‘and their press agent, Panpoods| and fact, entertaining if not eleva- ting. Ben He who did not find litera- ture lucrative enough went to Holly- wood with his knowledge of Chicago |gangsterism and the booze-racket, to! victorious princes. The group that won|" Wrote his astonishing letter in send Sacco and Vanzetti to the | The difference between Thayer and | Porting eed as oe uae includ- | contribute this ‘share ‘towards a tion amidst utter disunion, The rep-|"¢P chair because he happened to think |Vuller on the one hand and Hap-!tisnel Ferrend, Illen Gorse, June | eee oni pene screen drama. | He n, the princes, mustered the greatest| Liberalism consistently ignores the| them guilty. President Lowell | good, Brandeis and Holmes on the | white Hon Cote ei aaa ee oy Hollywood, if -he hadnt strength All other c s were divided. Therefore, the princes|lass character of the state. It would then be justified in his in- lable the tiapeteetotmer! ai cap bie ee elen Johnson, Hlizabeth | learned before, that what one forgets won the all the other classes in the empire. | wedded to the illusion that the go’ ScuvAEe and hanicnal’ neat be the le maBibiliky fon the exerci : s | Keenan, Herbett Bergman, Murray jis often worth more than what one pe ate: se: ‘ i jernment is something that stands | pasaraae . ss : E rasa he vished jepe a had or the execution of Sac-| Franklin, Herman Bandes and FE dward | remembers. So this picture of the . * | 2 wet eter ese a record to reach a resu! e wished |co and Vanzetti while the latter try! Buckman. Edward Massey directed | Chica, © underworld forgets’ a lot. : . ‘i jits impartial majesty, above the class ache it ‘ . way to get {to evade th iA ree ibilit 2 tions, the princes had the greatest strength struggle. Rather than intervene and| cera eb ae | bate Miele euete He reanoney mty the production. | There isn’t even a suggestion of po- All the other classes acted separately); Ue&° 2 vic-| 2bead, to meet one judicial lynch- | by hiding behind exalted ethical prin-| \Tickets for “The Belt,” can be| s beat them all, one at a time. ciolc per treatment of the Peasant War, none of the bourgeois| eee Enge. _Even whan a ee ea: historian has the| r y evidence, such as Oman} to slander the leader ation, which he plainly chieved by the revolt. (Wat ablest of early revolutionary leaders.) * * ning and belittles the results f the * r just a formal sociological study? to be drawn from it. No, says Engels. serfs antl t the prole t farmers can only rely upon are so burdened with mort- The small landowne To understand fully the} by such action admit that the convic. jtion of Sacco and Vanzetti was an act} of class vengeance, Holmes and Bran-}| |deis; true to the traditions of libe | ism, hid behind the flimsy device of | |some vague ethical “principle.” | | On August 22, 1927, a few hours ; before he went to the electric chair} |to join labor’s host of martyrs, Bar-| |tolomeo Vanzetti sent a letter to | Prof. Henry W. L. Dana, properly) stigmatizing the inaction of Holmes and Brandeis: “Judge Holmes repelled our ap- peal on the ground that the state supreme court had passed on the | ease and he does not want to in- | ing by a state by clamoring for an- other kind of judicial usurpation. The two greatest judges in Amer- ica would not be the men they are if their conception of their powers an@ duties changed because their sympathies were in- x o* JORMAN HAPGOOD and all the! liberals in the world may try to} apologize for the attitude of the two, “radical” supreme court judges, but the working class will refuse to re- spect hig fine ethical considerations} that decree that if Holmes and Bran-| |ciples. ok ae * APGOOD does not close his com-) munication to “The Nation” with |his legalistic and ethical apologetics, {but goes farther and declares that |“while Thayer is entirely unfit, the | basic evil of the Sacco-Vanzetti case} jis not in the law, faulty as the Mas- | sachusetts law is, It is in public! opinion.” To the mind of a liberal journalist this observation may be easily recon-| ciled, with the preceding defense of Holmes and Brandeis, but to us it seems a flat contradiction. If it is! hased at The DAILY WORKER ice, 108 East 14th Street. =—=Screen Notes== Underworld’, a Thriller | ‘at the Cameo Theatre N innocent drunk is wending his unsteady way past a bank build-} ing in the wee early hours of the | }morning when an explosion within} the bank shakes him into curious lice dishonesty, no breadth of polit- ical scandal, no hint of the connec- tion between the ways of the under- world and the City Hall. The author jcontents himself with a story that gives but one side of gang life— clever, hokum-loaded, swift moving jand with many original touches. | “Underworld” is splendidly cast, | well photographed and above all has excellent direction. Particularly the acting of George Bancroft in the Jeading role of Bull Weed is unusual characterization. The supporting | east of Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent and Larry Semon is high caliber. The ; director, Joseph Von Sternberg, es- Bee : Se eaten cna oi pat eens deis intervened to save Sacco and/merely a case of public opinion, if it tight ators helen ther | Pecially, moze than author and cast, \ ted es at the mercy of the bourgeois Gleelg oe also, jl vade the state court ground. Vanzetti or even to urge a new triallis a fact, as Hapgood contends, that | Fis. aeddted ae ‘tigethion Seek deserves credit for the picture. Here to the prole On the middle and big estates, the laborers form the most | Yesterday, Justice Brandeis re- fe f th otorious hatred of| publi M. id is intelligence deserving of better numero’ Since they are wage slaves, they are the farm proletariat| pelled our appeal on the ground of in Kags s rie the bitt faa Spuugrian Massachusetts: was) giimer Jeane out One the “Penk vee material. a and are the closest to the industrial proletariat. Judge Webster Thayer, ie er/in full cry for the blood of Sacco and! the fruits of his labor. He sees the ™® Because the industrial pro- majority, winning these groups of peasants as allies, k of 1870.” t the rgent ta leta: are no formed the mo personal reasons; to wit, because he or members of his family are favorably interested in our case, as vindictiveness of Governor Alvan T.| Fuller and the class prejudices of President Lowell of Harvard and the | Vanzetti and the legal phase was un- | important, why did not those heroes of bourgeois radicalism, Holmes and drunk, takes a quick chance look, | throws both the drunk and money into his car and speeds away with a fol- Don’t look for artistic honesty in “Underworld.” If you don’t, you will find (at the Cameo) simple, swift The winning of the farm-proletariat remains one of the biggest tasks| demonst we by the tee Pee other members of the “advisory com-| Brandeis, step in and prevent the lowing fire of the police. From this|moving entertainment. It is fast, hls suc, lepers as the world over. The lessons of the Pe gear te oe Bie ie gan mittee” that enabled them to accept | lynching? If this second interpreta-| dramatic opening the same swift ac-| Vivid, hard-boiled hokum with hair ‘s Va yermany in 25, revolutionary waves of 1848 and 1870, revolutionary heritage. Two factors have slightly changed the agrarian class divisions. Serfs have disappeared, machine agriculture | empty house of Justice Brandeis, in Dedham, Mass. as fact the testimony of the most de-| praved hirelings of the state and to revile the witnesses for the defense jtion is correct the action of Holmes jand Brandeis is still more contempti- ble. ion continues thruout this picture of | iengo gang life. {on its chest.—W. C. Tt is a breath- | 'BUIL D THE DAILY WORKER! has d ‘pheae Gwe fuse th 1 taking vivid mixture of movie fake aeons ese two justices are the sym- ‘they would be in the same class with| ‘Thus the liberals seem to have a 2 alte ees as AEST | Unqu Engels’ “Peasant War in Germany” is the best book} bols of liberalism in the federal | Thayer. fey laphiiens thenpynt eatin One meGeee FR ar ii dealing t revolutionary movement and is indispensable in order! supreme court and they turned us According to this liberal interpre-|them claims that the remedy for such fl LL Wie LEY to get 2 of the peasants of four centuries ago, and at the same! their shoulders.” ae talon the tevamol the dwonmen are:ot appalling legal murder is to be found time ee oe N) of aic of today —CHARLES P, FLETCHER. SONGS AT SUNRISE. MY PIOUS FRIENDS AND DRUNKEN COMPANIONS. Collected Frank Shay. Illuminated by John Held, Jr. Macaulay. $2. In the “ neties’”—the period from which most of these drinking are ta ey were restricted to the saloon. Hours of labor were ger then. The twelve hour day—and longer—was in vogue and the great fight for the eight hour day was on. Many weary w went to the song 1 to us in understanding the farmers and the farm prcletariat |! * R. HAPGOOD, from his self-con- stituted promontory, views with | disdain the criticism of the two su-| preme court justices and defends |their liberalism, no.consequence. .All that matters is that. judicial ethies be upheld. To have overruled Thayer’s vicious de- cision, would have thereby justified | his decision, according to Hapgood.| Speaking of Bran-|The proper liberal way to rebuke al AD WORKERS PARTY CAMPAIGN FUND in. better legal procedure, a better) |code of law in the state of Massachu-| setts. The Hapgood school contends that it is not a legal defect but public) | opinion. | Of course it would be childish to} | expect: either of the camps to recog-) nize the fact that all laws, all legal| |formula, all procedure under capital-) ___ ism must, of necessity, be determined | |by the desire of the ruling class to |impose its will by force and violence WALTER. HAMPDE in Ibsen's comedy “AN ENBMY OF Hampden’s Thea., Byening: latinees Wednesday and S: The Desert Song with Robt. Halliday & Eddie Buxzell CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 105 W. 14. St. CHELsea 0054 Presents GOOD HOPE” NIGHT at 8:30, “THE Opening 1 The Theatre Guild Presents PORGY Guild Th., W. 52d. Evs. 8:30 saloon for the 1 magic that eased the pain in their weary bones and lupon the working class. It was pre- 11th Month 3 Mats.Thurs.& Sat., 2:30 made them forget the world they lived in, So it is not strange to find even What have you done to help the Workers (Communist) Party |eisely the imbecile faith of the bour-|Century West. “wveninge at $0 : i here so h on labor. “Casey Jones,” of course, and strangely | “@2mpaign. | geois liberals who influenced the Sac- Mats. Wed. and Sat., 2:30. LITTLE | HELEN MacKELLAR Bye and Bye,” uncensored, tho only one verse and | What has your organizatien done to supply the funds with|co-Vanzetti committee in Boston to Sea aE Le & RALPH MORGAN song of the Negro Chain gang, not! which to carry on our campaign? | place their hopes in the fairness and | National 330, Mts, Wed.&Sa 230 |M fact that not drinking songs as such, but unprintable songs (in their original ver: ion) are the reason for the appearance of this volume. their nares have been washed so they may “Their s hetoric, their vulgarities have; The actions of Brandeis atta emits Movietone Accompaniment A ou. Altho they are songs of| Fill out the blank below with your contribution and forward | Holmes and their journalistic apolo-| pimes Sq. OES aatler tee 7 could well be sung in the home. They are as synthetic! to the Workers Party District Office, 108 EF. 14th St., City. gist, Mr. Norman Hapgood, eS i ~ SEATS § © as the liquor that has followed the songs there. | William W. Weinstone, 108 East 1th Street, City. [gid tn Someining ate Vou car gan |e REN Ki OF" TH, SUSTAINING CUL All the lusty ¢ s are included, from the innocent “Hail, Hail, The} ; Lee ee TLE The ony TRAE UND. AT EME Ry arerreNcel| FULTON six" Cie re s All Here!” to the sophisticated “Frankie and Johnnie,” “Colombo,” | Enclosed please find my contribution of............ Jor the, electign ane Vee ee ee oa ae : } dia Pinkham” and others in the advanced class. All, of course, not only} * : Sap TeV On Oieranee cor = |: Qrevcenommommoe: f ee ee ee i ces washed,” but given a full bath, doused in lysol, picked | ssa See 8 Lee NES: eee Se a Winer OT Se) ean ae en He ergnined Dover oF ae ? a en: wusitia Sesed hy the : ; working class, si P 7 ¢lean, purified and passed by che x e censcrs. | PMA RONG 55.5 505, alee Fey Wa a ma union affiliation ..........++6+ aoa ought to arouse the deepest he New favre heatre { j : | ‘ ‘ i the whole _ liberal S § ; It’s’ a curious collection. Here are songs from the bar-room, the zea) ees Pate sll checks Payable to Wm. W. Welnstone. tide on atone of every intelligent Nishi Seth BHEAERUEC URS Sta. West Side Suueaye ies oe the army, wor jiteratu 1 G h Vil % a, i i There is no di Sei only. ACkbod inse dee wot worker im) America, perenne ate Ao j THE ONLY HOME FOR LABOR PLAYS IN AMERICA a good man tL Bee Nikely.<to: hearin any” canestres \erowa. eee 7 Bags Mie aaa es Announces a season of productions dramatizing the class war! man} J e ) 5 rande! s 12 Because in m c 1 included, the book is worth having—but only | i : of Sacco if you can afford to buy it in addition to other books very much more} ‘ an Pane a Le ate OPENING WEDNESDAY NIGHT g worth while. As a collection of songs essentially of interest to labor they! | have no value. P ‘ | H E B FE i 4 I Better than the tamed versions of the songs are the wood-cut illus-| AT PECIAL PRICE (What the Daily Worker : ji ; H trations by John Held, Jr. The bar-rooms, ballad singers, beery-sentimen- | ae 4 An industrial play with an acetylene flame { 1 talism of the gay nineties—all of it is here in glorious burlesque that will) ° ° | 3 by PAUL SIFTON. make the older boys sigh for the “good old days”—those days when saloon On the Ame Ce R | ti | Meais to the Workers Other plays to be selected from f ang “My Rosary.” Held pictures this scene, engraved, as he ex-| Th an eve U on s Rees SINGING eM ee tate rite pion Sindials. , i “with a lump in his throat.” It will make you weep with laughter. a : || More Encouraging es Oo ae Brie Basshe The book is attractively bound. The songs, poor things, should have and American Labor History He eeee eae ee i ; been left in their native environment, the bar-room, where they thrive much| bia i | better being properly nourished there, -WALT CARMON. COMMENT song, finds itself in-strange company.| Why more songs of labor were not included can likely be explained by the| What have you done to rai mates? The Workers (Communist) se money amongst your shop- Party needs your help at once. of The DAILY WORKER and Freiheit, etc. Don’t wait—do it at onee. America also has i ing class strugg] be included in ev has a labor history illuminated with brilliant work- These three pamphlets should work revolutionary traditions— 's libr: We present | justice of the political agents of capi ¢ talism that constituted the eee defect of defense activity. This lib-| eral illusion was supplemented by the | look upon history as the acts of in- dividuals. | John Stomp, St. Nuc. No, 10, De- | troit, Mich. i | Steve Anderson, St. | Detroit, Mich. .. “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, with ANN HARDING—RBX CHERRY MAN ISUNRISE F. W. MURNAU By HERMANN SUDERMANN (in AAO *Round’ Issuing the} 3 POPULAR PRICES. Best seats able version does not improve them. | There are just a few weeks more. Much work must be done | similar illusion of the anarchists whe va) ae EDEN cen AR Tere $2.20. RT THEATRE, 48th St Lea | . aie rm " ox prese e icture EL 3 Eves. . Matl- “are presented in their tawdry garments, unpret-|to print literature, arrange indoor rallies, get out special editions |?°%2"4 the state as a myth and" who Wm Directed by _ tees Wee aidvSee ue iso, 0 NEW rors NEWEST Cita Tickets on sale at DAILY WOR KER offite, 108 . : an opportunity to secure them at a special rate. 1c. Ra en, Nuc. eeer a vomen's ‘Ch, De “Ww m. xc ‘Coatley, N. S. Peshoahy ‘es is sity iv yeasie Hares) Py nmi ‘ A aa et ale OUR HERITAGE FROM 1776 iM. O’Sullivan, Kansas ee Fried. 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