The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 25, 1927, Page 4

Page Four RAG RRA SRR a on ammo THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1927 What the Daily Worker Means to the Workers More Encouraging Contributions to Our Emergency Fund. Ukranian Womens Educational Ass’n, Detroit, Mich. 10.00 O. Bercy, (collected) Bronx, _ jas in China with ps | N. Y. 4.85 ence to Manchuria and Mongolia. Nucleus No. 11, Cleveland, Ohio 13.00 policy the former Japanese J. Kost » Cleveland, Ohio >! eovernment, under the leadership of Nucleur No. 2E, Cleveland, Ohio 7.00) the more or less Liberal Party Ken- R. G. Meyers, San Francisco y one of “non-i Sale affairs. This Richard H. Kidder, government, of course, kept an alert watch over Chinese event which is s took a turn not quite con- to Japanese imperialism, but ghted enough to res' and refrain from open in- see sitiews ‘ 10.00 kovich, Queens Village, Santo De i ».90 | terference in Chinese affairs. Japan- ENG Oe ~"|ese public opinion gave entire support Gustav Walter, Glover: 1.00 | to the policy of “non-interference.” Mi ates s, 1.00 Economie “Penetration. ee ie : With a vivid memory of the results Jeane ects |B 5.00 (of the anese ‘policy. of in= Paul Brown, Philadelphia, Pa. 1.00] terv ng in Chinese hatred Rose Bender, Philadelphia, Pa. ..1.00|of Japan and a boycott of Japanese to Jap- kai gov- Jacob Ostrow, Wilmington, Dei. 1.00] goods, causing colossal los ‘has Gatos, Calif. 3.00}anese industry. The Ker lif. 1.00} ernment, and. its supporters in com- mercial d industrial circles under- j .00 | stood y well that it was much more ‘ancisco, es the interest of Japan in China to Cali a ea 1.00| carry on a policy of peaceful ceonomic Joseph Maneri, Jersey City J. 7.00 | penetration than one of oy military Section 7, Br. 4, Brooklyn, N. Y. 8.00] intervention. And this discreet policy L. Chanin, Detroit, : 1.00} was really, as it turned out, extremely Samuel Lesiuk, Detroit, ¥ 1.00 | profitable for Japan. The of B. Brenner, Detroit, Mich. -2.00| hatred of the Japanese. imperialists H. Harbein, Detroit, Mich. . 5.00| which has been sweeping China for E. Deyne, Detroit, Mich. . --1.00 | decades, gradually died down. Night Workers Unit, New York SSAC-1, F-1, New York Cit SS 1-Ac-F-7, New York City ..12.00 SS 1D F1, New York City ' .00 Want Open Intervention. With the movement of the Southern troops on the North, however, and their consequent approach to Shan- tung and Manchuria, in which places the economic interests of Japan are specially involved, the Japanese au- thorities began to lose their hea¢ A struggle began between the sup- porters of “no y n supporters of open intervention in China. Victory finally remained with the supporters of “the firm hand” in China. The Kenseikai government gave place to the Seiyukai govern- mt of General Tanaka, one of the chief instigators of Japanese inter vention in the Soviet Far Ea: The “new” Japanese pol 2F-SN3, New York City . ew York City . New York City ANNAN ew Yo -F3, w York ¢€ 8D-F6, New York C: 3E-F1, New York Cit u-F3, New York City 5A, International Br. No. 1, Rronx, Section ARANRANANARARAN sending of Japanese troops to Shan- tung ostensibly for the protection of the lives and interests of the Japanese residen but actually f a RNANRNADARAN RAY ing the Northern militarists ~~ troops. : 20.00 Section » 4, Bronx, with their assistance the armies of the mY. North made successful resistance to SS, 6A, Brooklyn, N. Y. ... the Southern troops. The SS /6B-SN1, Brooklyn, N. Y. ..10.50| indignation throughout China and the $S/6C, Int. Br. No. 1, Brooklyn, 7, s of the more liberal Japanese ie and workers forced the Section Int. f Ginsberg, New York City . / #tein, New York City troops from Shantung. The Japanese government, in giving in with such comparative ease to the withdrawal AT PPE 20 Stalin All for 50 cents Add 5 cents for * ‘a mited quantities, ° All orders cash NOTE and filled in turn as recelved. Books offered in this column on oy LMM ald SOShevism With a book by Stalin Here is a splendid fascinating account of the = great header—a book on the following differences in the Party,—and a book by Stalin pointing out the road of the Russian Party. These three at a special rate—send for them today. LENIN—His Life and Work by J. Yaroslavsky 225 3 Z 4 About two weeks remain until Election Day. WORKERS PARTY CAMPAIGN FUND ers on the vital issues that are involved. Are you collecting money among your shop-mates for this|of non-ci fight? s What have you been doing to help this work? The Workers (Communist) Party needs your help at once. Much work must be done in the comparatively short time that! ticular about thei remains—the printing of literature, the arrangement of indoor | doubtful if they could rallies, special editions of The DAILY WORKER and The Freiheit, ete. Don’t wait—do it at once. to the Workers Party District Office, 108 E. 14th St., City. William W. Weinstone, 108 East Lith Street, City. Enclosed please find my contribution of NN EY GRMN EB is ilo ph anes gens ved nal Boca pats, Address ...... teteeseeeeeeessecececss Union affiliation .........00006 = Make all checks payable to Wm. W. Weinstene. H Japanese troops from Shantung, however primarily actuated by a e to camouflage with this appar. ly peaceful step its predatory, or} s it prefers to designate it “positive” ! icy in Manchur' Japan’s “Positive Poli: The population of China, and the population of Manchuria even more understands perfectly well the mean- ing of the “positive” policy of the Japanese imperialists in Manchuria. This is proved by the telegram sent | in the middle of September to the Pek- ing government by the provincial meeting of the Kiri churia) and other social organizations in this province. “Japan,” runs the telegram, “wants to realize its 21 de- mands and to convert Manchuria and Mongolia into a part of its territory. Letters F rom n province an | Hf Japan is able to fulfil its ambi- tions in Manchuria this will mean the loss of Manchuria to the Chinese Re- public.” Learn Lesson from British. The movement against Japan’s “pos- itive’ policy in Manchuria is daily growing in China. It is worthy of particular notice that this company was the precurser of the present-day British rule in India. Japan and Chang Tso-lin. It is an ironic fact that the Japan- |ese government accuses Chang 'Tso-lin himself of supporting the present an- ti-Japanese movement, expressing in- dignation at his “insincerity and double-dealing.” The Japanese gov- ernment is not altogether wrong. Chang Tso-lin is not such a fool (and New Phase of Japanese Policy in China this is recognized by the Japanese | press also) as to sacrifice his own in- terests and those of the Manchurian ; population for Japanese bribes, =| ever solid these may be. Chang Tso- lin understands perfectly well that the “positive” policy of the Japanese gov- ernment in Manchuria would in the} last resort make Chang Tso-lin super- | fluous for Japan. It is therefore per-| fectly obvious that he is now forced} to pursue a line by no means to the} | tastes of the Japanese imperialists. The last word, however, will remain | neither with the Japanese imperial- | ists nor with Chang Tso-lin (always | at the services of Japan), bul with| the broad masses of China, and esve- | cially with the population of Man-| desire to share the fate of Korea. Our Readers j Thinks DAILY WORKER Improving Editor, The DAILY WORKER: Time was, not long ago, when bought The DAILY WOKKER more} from duty’s sake than as an actual | need, But those da I hope, will never return. The recent improve- ments in the paper are remarkable. The “old” paper used to give me the impression that a worker on rising |in the morning was then and there -interference” and the | or the purpose | 8- against the attacks of the Southern | government to, withdraw its | The Workers ule © (Communist) Party is waging a campaign to enlighten the work- | seized by a score or more capitalist cutthroats ready and anxious to do him to death. The victories of the workers re- ceived practically no mention, but if |a needle-trades workers was hit on the head by one of Sigman’s Coney Island bouncers, no headlines were too big for this “unusual” occurrence. Obviously, there was a confusion of values in properly presenting the news. different. And for the better! The prominent announcement in today’s issue of the conclusions reached by the First American Labor Delegation to Soviet Union was very cheering in- |deed, And the skillful way in which |the writer connects the news favor- was very quickly materialized in the | able to the Soviets and the news (the xecution of the 20 counter-revolu- onists) “unfavorable” to it, is an jexcellent piece of Communist report- Further, H. M. Wicks’ article “Hapgood’s Defense of Holmes and Brandeis” is equally good. Finally, the high level of the books jon The Japanese achieved their aim; | Column exceeds in my opinion the best that can be found in any of the bour- geois “cultural” periodicals, includ- outburst of |img the highly literary Nation itself, Ther | “Dai the are other feat of the ews from have made indispensable to every ac- worker who wishes to keep ast of the news. In the long run comrades will support a paper when actually fulfills their needs, and if “he DAILY WORKER continues im- roving as it has done, there need ‘2 no fear for its growth. the paper tive ‘raternally yours,—Joseph Poore, iberty, N. Y., Oct. 19. Too Tolerant with Payne. Editor, The DAILY WORKER: The letter of Joseph Payne, Jr. of Somerset, Colo., has just come to my attention. With rather a wry smile { read his comments following “Let some of your readers see what an American thinks about them.” Well, here’s what another Ameri- can thinks—-and I’d like to compete with Mr. Payne on American lineage, if that is the basis of his ideals. My ereat-great-grandfather, Sheilah Smitson came here over a hundred and fifty years ago. He sold the old {grist mill (ruins still standing at Great Falls, Virginia) to the Wach- lington family. My great-great uncle |was one of the first governors of Tennessee—-Governor Bell. We have ‘a revolutionary lineage—--Grandfather Smitson under Washington, Grand- father Bell in the Mexican, Grand- father Duckson in the Civil, Dad in |the Spanish-American and brother in ithe World War, Does that make me jan American? s to what I think of your read- they are the vanguard of the new -the new America. It is only | persecuted as that handful which even the reactionaries respectfully refer to as “The it of '76." The fact that Mr. Payne’s letter was printed | is evidence of a too lenient tolerance for these so-called Americans who lude from our shores, all but the foreign aristocra In retaliation of Mr. P ful sugge: to ayne’s help- the treatment I suggest that he and thos the “Rus zV¢ Tt would; probably be a sate disposition, for Mr. Pyne, as even mongrels ar: par- diet and it is “stomach” the | vitriol generat by such unreason- able race hat Corrinne M. Gray- |son, Dayton, Ohio. Fill out the blank below with your contribution and forward | naitor, DAILY WORKER: You will find enclosed check for 5.00 donation to The DATLY WORKER from V. Petroff, Los An- geles, California . ‘oClection $10.00 different individuals). 00 donated by M. Babb, San Bernardino, from oo al | the } ne expected that they sheuld be as | * Ik be thrown to |§ omrade C. K. Miller Was Mistaken— The Centralia Case Was Not a “Frame-Up.” Comrade C. K. Miller, in a letter to The DAILY WORKER published Oct. 14 complains that in my article “Frame-Ups in the American Class Struggle” in a recent issue of the magazine, I did not include the Cen- tralia case. Comrade Miller says: “Surely the raiding of the 1.W.W. hall and the farcical trial at which the wobblies were charged with having caused the death of some of their murderous attackers, was a most flagrant class frame-up.” Tt seems that Comrade Miller does not have a clear idea of what the American “frame-up” is. It is dis- tinguished by the fact that workers are PLACED ON TRIAL FOR OF- FENSES AGAINST EXISTING LAWS WHICH THEY DID NOT COMMIT AND WHICH HAVE LIT- TLE OR NO CLASS SIGNIFI- CANCE, By this method the class issues are blurred and the task of using the working class and organizing defense and protest made immensely difficult. Not a “Frame-Up.” The Centralia case does not fall into the category of frame-ups. It we use this term to include ALL neasures taken by the capitalists and their government to suppress the working class. So far as the CLASS angle of the case is coneerned the question of whether Gene Bernett and the other members of the L.W.W. still in Wella Walla (Wash.) prison actually killed any of their attackers, does not en- ter into it. This is a legal question they were responsible for the deaths. But no ene has ever denied and ne one will deny THAT THE ARMED STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE I.W.W. AND THUGS OF THE LUMBER TRUST ACTUALLY TOOK PLACE. An hepertant Distinction. The Centralia fighters were tried and imprisoned fcr their part in this struggle. They were not accused of | Lombing and killing innocent persons jas were Mooney and Billings, they were not tried for the murder of a paymaster as were Sacco and Van- zetti, they were not accused of mur- dering a governor as was Bill Hay- | wood, they were not accused of bomb- ing and killing persons attending a ; meeting as were the Haymarket mar- tyrs. | The Centralia defendants were sent |to prison and Wesley Everest was tortured to death becavte they fought |in open struggle against the class enemies of the workers and in de- |fense of the I.W.W. hall. | The issue here was clearly one of class struggle and no accusations that these workers had committed ordinary \criminal offenses, or used terrorist | methods with which the working class has little sympathy, were made. | I believe 1 have made clear that the reason the Centralia case was not included among “frame-up” cases was that it was not a frame-up in the | sense in which the term is used cor- | rectly. | A Little History. | In justice to myself I believe it hould be szid that if the Centralia |case could have been used to illustrate the points I wished to make that I | would be one of the last to overlook it. T was in Centralia 48 hours after the battle and wrote the first pamph- llet on the case entitled “The Truth | About Centralia.” The pamphlet was published in the plant of “The Butte | Daily Bulletin” of which T was editor at the time and was ready for distri- bution less than a week after the lletin was the only daily pa- 1 carried the correct story struggle the day after it oc- curred and was the only daily paper jin the Ur tates which defended without 1 vations the right of the jCentralia lumber workers to shoot, and kill, if nece y, lumber trust and Amevican legion thugs who in- vaded their hall, To look upon the Centralia case as ® “frame-up” is to run the danger of missing the class significance of one of the outstanding struggles in Amer- iean labor histo: -BILL DUNNE. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS can be called a “frame-up” only if | and in court it may be denied that! ‘The Business Men Uplift Plentywood: Priest Saves Lawn (By Worker Correspondent.) | PLENTYWOOD, Mont., Oct. 24— The pillars of Plentywood society have protested against the rotten con- ditions’ and the criminal institutions | of this town, About thirty irate re-| spectable citizens asked the city coun- | cil to call an open meeting where these problems can be discussed and, something done to “clean up the town.” Among the notables present | were business men, the clergy, one| “house” owner, the mayor and coun-| cilmen, and one owner of a “blind! pig. | W. J. Wagner, city atorney began’ king people to co-operate with! government in cleaning up town, to which speech, another respectable jadded the statement, “All those in fa- \vor of improvements in this town, {please stand.” And everybody stood | “I Mean Financial Standing.” | Another attorney in town began quoting law showing héw the town of- ficers could arrest on mere suspicion ,ny person running a gambling hall, drinking parlor or house of ill fame, and objected to the presence of the |“‘house” owner, stating he should not have the nerve to come among decent, law-abiding citizens. The attorney then quoted more law to show the! “house” owner to be a vagrant, and/ asked him if he could show that he! had any visible means of support. The | reply was a cynical snarl, respectable citizen I mean,” the at-! torney went on, “not necessarily a person who is moral and clean, but | one who has a good financial standing | in the community. Someone interrupted and asked if this “house” owner did not have a good financial standing in the com-! munity. “On that is different,” the | attorney replied, “he is a vagrant! anyway, and guilty of misdemeanor | and felony and what not, and if the jofficers of this town did their duty, | they would arrest him right now.” No Arrests. | All the officers of the town were nt, but not one moved. “Well, why don’t you arrest them?” someone asked. Mr, Jack Bennett, city postmaster, , who had been protesting most vehe- mently against conditions in this town | saved the situation by Saying, “We! didn’t come here to start any rough | house.” pr Stock Chews. | The meeting then turned into a con-| fessional where all respectables dis-| played their virtues, and excused themselves if they had strayed oc-| casionally. One of the bankers claim- ed he had broken about every law and made a few laws himself, but when it came to anyone enforcing the laws. in a group, he was with them. And one of the ministers claimed he did not think much of a religion that worked for a heaven that was far off, he wanted it right on this earth. The Reverend Catholic Father said some! persons objected to some of the laws we have, but as long as they were laws they should be upheld, and he knew they were not being upheld be-| cause the town police were allowing stock to run and chew up his lawn. Finally the meeting closed with Mr. Bennett benevolently stating, “We can clean up this town, all right with- out any legal procedure, We have started public opinion in our direc- tion, and it won’t be long before all these evils will just fade away.” i The meeting then closed with no further action taken, BUY THE BAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS . (By Young Worker Correspondent.) | In a very short time the busy sea-| son starts again in the Auto-Strop| Razor Co, Many hundreds of young | and adult (primarily young) workers, | most of whom were thrown out in| slack time, will be taken in again, to be nost brutally exploited by the of-| fizials of the company, starting with| the foreman, watchmen, superinten- dent and other agents of the com- pany, while the bosses enjoy them-; selves at the expense of the workers, | What are the conditions in this fac- tory which is, by the way, the largest of ell the factories owned by this { | churia, which has not the slightest | aig venereal: “And by | - By E | ANN HARDING—R "LONG HOURS 1S LOT OF YOUNG WORKERS IN AUTO-STROP RAZOR COMPANY American Laboratory | Theatre Plans Three | Productions The American Laboratory Theatre | announces its season, opening Novem- | ber 3, in Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing.” Beginning with the coming season the theatre will have a new home at 222 East 54th Street. |. The seuting capacity of the new play- house will be some 300. The company is again under the direction of Richard Bolesiavsky, and at the present time three plays are In addition to “Much Ado About Nothing,” re- hearsals are being held in “At the Gate of the Kingdom” by Knut Ham- sun ,and “Doctor Knock” by Jules Romains. The Hansum play will have its first production in America. ‘The Nobel prize winner, best known in America for his “Growth of the Soil,” | : eA the Actor-Man: rs roduction he conceived as “a trilogy of life’ | ss . ‘, i more than twenty years aed) BISReuE tonight at the Little Theatre. Knock,” likewise, will have its first | Me a 4 5 professional production. The play actin Manesere fibre cormae Grand is well known in both France did |e Noles Devers) Sera England. In addition, the theatre | Lod Dunsany's comedy “If” at the will revive some of their early pro- j Little; the Garrick layers ae issih duetions, including “Granite” by | S¥dney and Mary Ellis will introduce Clemence Dane, and “Big Lake” by 2 modern dress version of “The Tam- : ged ng of the Shrew” and “The Hornet’s Lynn Riggs. | Nest” opens at Wallack’s Theatre. | Edwin Maxwell, who has been do- Broadway Briefs ing some stage direction is going into the producing field. His first play The Civie Repertory Theatre’s | will be “The Woman in the Fog” by second production, goes into rehearsal | Wilson Collison and is due here in today. It is the first play by a new | December. author, Walter Ferris, The play is| n adaption from a story by Mary | Heaton Vorse. “My Princess” is continuing at the {Shubert Theatre, and the present plans calls for the transfer of the The new plays will have their first attraction week after next to another rcadway showing tonight. The | theatre. lanagers ARRICK PLAYERS with Lord Dunsan StL SYDNEY and MARY ELLIS Boer “TAMING of the SHREW” Mats. Thurs. & Sat. j IN MODERN DR ——__—____________| Garrick Thea. 2% WALTER ee SOAR A Rd H A M P D E N CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. in Tbsen’s comedy HY 14 SL_& 6 Ave. Prices 50c to $1.50 “AN ENEMY a Hampden’s * Matinees Wednesda: EVA LE GALLIENNE Tonight—"THE GOOD HOPE" hentre Guild Presents PORGY Jnild Ty W. 62d, Guild sate thence National “The Trial of 41 % Oo; D ” aigan fy Veiller, with i X CHERRYMAN The Desert Song Wm. Fox presents the Motion Picture | Ss U N R Bh S E ee coke by i | With Robt. Halliday & Eddie Busxzel W. MURNAU By HERMANN SUDE) 21th Month ANN | Century Symphonic Movietone Ace 62nd St. and Central Park West. Fvenings at 8:30. mpaniment | ii 5 Thea., 42d St., Times Sq. wien Mats. Wed. and Sat. Secret I ea RST RARE aN ~The LADDER “Audience Quaked Delightedly, POPULAR PRICES. Best seats —Woollcott, World. $2.20. CORT THEATRE, 48th St. ~~ A CULA E. of Lives. we Mati- ew vark's | ay. nees Wed. and Sat. at MUSIC sewest Shudder \SELWYN = FULTON 87a, 46 St Eves. 39 0 THIS AFT. AT 3 : dea Wed & Sat... 2.39 Matinee Performance ae a Also 'Thurs, & Fri, at 2 and A | | | THEATRE | h Selwyn Present BUY THE DAILY WORKER ‘The Don Russian Quartette AT THE NEWSSTANDS Direct from Paris and London. | In a Series of Russian Songs, | Seats Now—Prices 50e to $2. Plus 1 | The NewPlaywrights Theatre 40 Commerce Street, near Sheridan Square Greenwich Village TELEPHONE WALKER 5786. | THE ONLY HOME FOR LABOR PLAYS IN AM. | THe BEL? The first modern labor play to debunk company unionism and the so-called prosperity in the Ford factories, | | | | Presents Paul Sifton’s play i | ' | | | | / i | i | | | cos f | What T. J. O'Flaherty says of The Belt in the Daily Worker’ | | “A labor play that shows the havoe created by speed-up system .. . the evils of class collaboration, | devoting one's life to the interests of a ‘benevolent’ master, this grotip | of artists that have undertaken the task of producing labor plays | should be supported and encouraged by the workers.” j the industrifu and the folly jof pi Soh eS $$ fj | Help support this theatre and The DAILY WORKER by buying | tickets at The DAILY WORKER office, 108 East Mth Street. company throughout the United, 7 States? Forty-eight hours is the) yy, peri on Wake mvorking: well | ‘om. hese wages, if a worker. A Constant Watch. ;eomes a minute late, 15 minytes’ Under the close watch of the fore-| wages are deducted. The health con- man, watchmen, under-watchmen andj ditions under which we work are un- what not, the worker cannot stop eyenjimaginable and it is no wonder that for a few minutes for human neces. | a er number of the workers are sities. _fvom time to time forced to stay home Most of the young workers get | because of sickness. There are prac- from $12-$18 a weck, Particularly is) tically no safety devices, so that many this the case with the girls. Only a/ accidents oceur. Under the pressure tew get $18-24. A few semi-skilled) of the foremen and watchmen a work- workers get $24-28. Besides there|er must labor quickly and if for some are aboat 25-35 tool and dyemakers reason or another he does not work who are members of a union who ob-| intensively he is immediately dis tain a better wage. charged without notice,