The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 23, 1927, Page 4

- Whatever be the implication of this disacknowledgment, there can be no | Page Four am DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23, 1927 ° “THEY TOOK TWO WORKERS—” SACCO AND VANZETTI: L MARTYRS. ternational Labor Defense. By Max Shachtman. In- | ITH the number of political and labor frame-ups ever on the increase and with a new Sacco-Vanzetti case looming on the horizon this excellent | booklet is doubly fnteresting. It interesting because it tells the story of Sacco and Vanz etti in a vivid and colorful manner and it points the | militant way to successfully combat the frame-up as an institution. The International Labor Defense deserves much credit for getting this much-needed booklet out so soon after the murder of the two revolutionaries, It is attractive, well printed on excellent paper and sells at a price that should place it in the hands of very intelligent worker. The rapid-fire narrative starts with the Palmer raids of 1919 and moves at a quick pace on to the fateful morning of the 23rd of August, 1927, when Sacco and Vanzetti heroically met their deaths. Shachtman’s booklet definitely exposes the utter futile and tragic mud- dleheadedness of the Boston Defense Committee. He is merciless with the vacillating, e: ooled liberals. Discussing Gov. Fuller’s report Shacht- man says, “Lies, insinuations, gestures, words, words, words. That was the statement of Governor Fuller who, The Nation has assured us, had‘ won | a reputation for courage and independence, who was honest and fearless.” And then later: “Not only Thayer, but every prosecution witness in the filthy was graduated with Harvard honors by Lowell and his | frame-# commissioners. The classical comment was made on the testimony of one of the most reprehensible witnesses, Lola Andrews: ‘The | woman is eccentric, not unimpeachable in conduct; but the com- mittee believes that in this case her testimony is well worth con- sidering’ “After all, why not?” * x * | And as @ne reads of the infamous, blood curdling frame-up with its | all-too-tragie conclusion one feels with the author, a justifiable contempt | for the puny defense committee in Boston which blocked and sabotaged every militant proposal which might have saved the two tortured martyr “The liberals nursed and fondled their illusions, but the mili- tant workers would have none of it. They kne’ Sacco and Van- zetti knew that only the daily, persistent mobilization of the people, the masses, held any guarantee for vindication and freedom. Their | bitter experiences in the struggle against the oppressing class had | taught them to look for no mercy from that quarter.” The booklet ends with a spirited appeal to the workers to build a “warm and | g movement of labor for the defense of the victims of class jus t must be a militant army of fighters who resist the per- | secutions of the blood-thirsty master class with their organized might.” This booklet is particularly interesting with the Greco-Carrillo frame- | up now before the workers of Ameri From it one learns that it is quite obvious that the only tactics which will defeat the frame-up are those of militant mass action such as strikes, demonstrations, mass meetings. —-CHARLES YALE HARRISON. | BRITISH IMPERIALISM SPEAKS. CHINA AND FOREIGN POWERS. By Sir Frederick Whyte, Oxford Uni- | versity Press. 1927. 78 pp. $1. | HIS “brief review of the history of British relations with China” was published under the auspices of the British Royal Institute of Interna- tional Affairs. In the preface, we are told that the views expressed in the hook are not the official views of the Institute, because that body “as such, | shall not express any opinion on any aspect of international affairs.” | doubt that the book has absolutely no claim to be an impartial and scholarly study. Indeed, it is by no means too strong a characterization to say that it is primarily an apology for British imperialism in China. Sir Frederick divides the history of China’s relations with foreign pow- ers into four periods: namely, the period of Chinese seclusion and foreign exclusion—from early times to 1793; the period of European admission— | from 1793 to 1861; the period of European aggression—from 1873 to the | Great War, and the period of Chinese revolt—from 1900 onwards. It will readily be seen that this arbitrary division is at once me- chanical and meaningless, and conceals the real character of imperialist en- croachments in China. Compare Sir Frederick’s method of approach with, for instance, that of Mr. Wong Ching-Wei in his China and the Nations, and one will not fail to see how much more scfentific latter is. In treating of the period of Chinese seclusion, Sir Frederick complains | vehemently of the “extractions, restrictions and indignities inseparable | from the Chinese trade.” (p. 2.) That complaint may have been justified. | But Sir Frederick should have, in fairness both to his readers and his | conscience, shown that much of these “restrictions and indignities” were largely a result of the lawless character of early foreigners, more particu- larly those from the British Isles, who went to China in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. (See Davis: China and Chinese and Asia: Studies | in Chinese Diplomatic History.) As an apology of British imperialism, it is not surprising at all to find Sir Frederick justifying the Opium War of 1839 and the Arrow War of | 1856; defending the Anglo-Japanese Alliance “as an asset of no mean value” (p. 11); hailing the Consortium as the “only remaining bulwark of her (China’s) political integrity” (p.. 22); claiming for Great Britain the credit of initiative in calling the Washington Conference; declaring com- placently that-“China was the chief—dand, indeed, a very large—beneficiary” of the Washington Conference (p. 27) and insinuating naively that the “wonderful w of Sir Robert Hart in the Customs Administration, and the no less brilliant, though more meteoric, triumph of Sir Richard Dane in reorganizing the Salt Administration, both of which so greatly en- | hanced the British prestige, might be repeated in other fields”! (p. 36.) It | will be a very tedious operation to take Sir Frederick to task at every | point. The reviewer will simply refer those who wish to learn the truth of these things to Wong Ching-Wei’s China and the Nations, Elinor Burn’s British Imperialism in China, Wellington Koo’s Status of Aliens in China and Essays on the Chinese Revolution compiled by the Chinese Young Com- munist Party. and penetrating the | * * * The apologetical character of the book becomes even more distinct when Sir Frederick begins te review the “main features of British policy” (pp. 34-38). In this section, the author deliberately abandons the impersonal third person “Great Britain” in favor of the more direct and personal “we” and “us.” Thus, on page 35, the author says remorsefully that “they (Brit- ish statesmen, from Gladstone onwards) and our modern Chinese critics alike forget that our main purpose (in waging the Opium War) was to secure both equal status and security for our nationals in China, and that other nationals did not fail to profit by our action, leaving us to bear the brunt of the odium.” (Boldface ours.) The policy of Great Britain to- | wards China is said to have been “dictated pri cipally, if not solely, by the commercial interest” (p. 34). She has never Wad any imperial aspirations | in the Far East. “Even the acquisition of territory... was made in order that British merchants should have a secure base for their lawful occasions” | (p. 84). Wherever this argument does not seem, even to the author, to Square very well with facts, the author finds shelter in the supposition that “Great Britain was drawn forward on the road to territorial acquisition, against her will, and against the fundamental principle of her policy in| China till, at the end of the century, she found herself on the brink of the | or ‘Partition of China’” (p. ¢ Elsewhere the author says the main motive of his bighearted govern- ment is the altruistic one of helping China to establish a stable government, presumably a ménarchical government, for “it was well known that in the opinion of the British Government ... a limited monarchy under the Manchus was probably the most advantageous government for China” (p. 14). Thank heavens! fortunately “England did not wish to force that opinion on the Chinese” (p. 14). Finally, a book like this will not be complete with- out a vehement denunciation of Soviet R To Sir Frederick’s warped mentality, the purpose of that country in China is none other than “to re- assert the territorial rights and claims which had’ been established by the autocracy” and “to pursue the traditional policy of Russian penetration” (p. 29). As an apology of British imperialism in China, the book is as good as any of Sir Austen Chamberlain’s speeches. But as an impartial and scholarly study of China’s foreign relations (if, by chance, the author had this in mind), it is a total failure. —TI-TS THE NEW GOOSE-STEP TWO STUDENTS AT COLLEGE OF CITY OF NEW YORK ARE iD FOR CRITICIZING JINGO DRILL AT THE INSTITUTION. The Case By CHARLES YALE HARRISON 'HE Italian community in New York like foreign communities is very clannish. Drawn together by nation- al and cultural ties, they live in groups and neighborhoods of their own. A large section of the lower lend of New Vork is knwn as “Little Italy.” Here the wares from the old country are temptingly offered for sale, here the musical Italian lan- guage is heard in the streets. All are known to each other. Even those who have moved away from the con- | gested quarters of “Little Italy” to the more spacious, but less colorful parts of the Bronz and Brooklyn, live | on streets on which Italians are to be found almost exclusively. Greco and Carrillo were known to their fellow-countrymen. They were industrious, honest workers who took an active part in the life of the com- munity. They were both members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Locals 63 and 149. The |news of the beastial atrocities of the | fascisti at home in Italy aroused them to protest against the murderous re- gime. discussed with their fellow-workers the things which were of interest to them as anti-fascist workers. ix weeks elapsed between the day A SHORT COURSE | of ECONOMIC SCIENCE) By A. BOGDANOFF Revised and supplemented by S. M. Dvolaitsky in conjunc- tion with the author. Trans- | lated by J. Fineberg. OMRADE BOGDANOFF'S book is a comprehen- sive and popular intro- duction to the study of the | principles of Marxian philos- ophy. It was, as the author | says in his preface, written in the dark days of Tsarist reaction for the use of secret workers’ study circle serves today as a te “ hundreds, if not thousands, of party’ schools and study circles “now functioning in Soviet Russia.” | The first edition of this | book was published in 18 and the ninth in 19 It w | first published in English in 1923-—this new edition, just issued, is the second. $1.00 | | | | | | ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL | | | EDUCATION —By A. Berd- nikov and A, Svetlov. Paper, $1.00 Cloth, $1.50 LENIN ON ORGANIZATION Cloth, $1.50 em meet HAE RnR ER Rt WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, Inc. 89 E, 125th St. New York. They attended meetings and! | man Made Picture at the Cameo LL that in which Emil Jannings |#4 glitters is not gold. And neither is “Husbands Or Lovers,” now show- ing at the Cameo Theatre. It is a revival of an old German picture from the pre- (movie) historic era of peg- top pants and long skirts and does n credit to the Emil Jannings and Con- rad Veidt of today, both of whom it features. No pic- ture having two such stars is a total loss. There was some good screen acting» even in those days. Generally | however, it is pain- | fully over-acted, even in occasional outrageous “ham” fashion. A ho- kum-loaded set of sub-titles does not help it. Above all the story is guilty. It’s the eternal triangle again, and— believe it or not—the wages of sin is death! The poor woman makes a de- viation from a straight matrimonial |line and what happens to her would make any undertaker happy. | The story is taken from the Rus- sian and was origitfally produced |some years back under the name of “Nju,” which happened to be the name of the woman in the picture. The story is taken from the Rus- sian. Unless the producers have tam- | pered* with the story, I'll wager that lafter the October uprising, the Cheka {had the author on their visiting’ list. Much of interest on the same pro: | Emil Jannings Drawn by M. Pass. UMMARILY SUSPEND- of of the demise of Carisi and Amor- roso and the day of the anti-fascist raids on which Greco and Carrillo were arrested. During these six weeks Greco and Carrillo worked and went about their business, they did not hide nor act in a suspicious man- ner. They had never been arrested in their lives before. Nevertheless they were “identified” and charged with first degree murder. | The fascisti who identified Greco and Carrillo as the “murderers” of Carisi and Amorroso were members lof the “squadrista.” The squadrista are those in the fascist organization who volunteer to operate in squads; | punitive, marauding squads. .These ‘military units ‘are officered, uni- |formed and armed. They parade, sal- jute and take salutes and when march- ing past the reviewing stand utter their barbaric fascist war-cry. For what purpose is this foreign military organization maintained here in America? Imagine what would hap- pen if a militant labor group armed themselves with steel-tipped whips and loaded walking sticks and paraded through the streets of America! | The titular head of the squadristi jin Italy and America is Mussolini. Initiation rites take place when new recruits are sworn in, and the recruit swears, with his hand on a dagger and a bible, that he wiil defend at all costs the fascist regime at home and abroad. Mussolini is the god of these military squads and violence, torture and perjury the altar at which they | worship, Xecently Il Duce wrote in his paper “Populo d'Italia”: “Is it not criminal insolence for the unclean reptiles of the Italian sub- versive parties not yet stamped out by the Fascist Party, to raise a howl if some traitor to fascism is more or less noisily chastised. . . . He who betrays, perishes.” Imagine the effect of words such. as these on a lawless military organ- ization composed largely of the same class as is the personnel of the east side New York gangs. It is reason- able to assume that if the punishment |for betrayal, i. e., being an anti- fascist, is death, on a lesser occasion it might be convenient to frame up |two innocent workers as is the case with Greco and Carrillo or an at- tempted murder as in the case of Giacoma Caldors, the fascist leader who broke away from the Fascist |gram at the Cameo Theatre, is “The i |Emil Jannings in Ger-| Greco and Carrillo | L@ague of North America and formed | Tl Duce Fascist Alliance. When the news that Greco and Carrillo were being held for the mur- | ders of Carisi and Amorroso reached | Rome, Dr. Di Marzio, general secre- tary of fascist branches of foreign countries, started to pull internation-| al diplomatic wires which gives the case an international aspect of great importance. Di Marzio wrote to the American ambassador, Fletcher, and asked that | the envoy do everything in his power | to see that Greco and Carrillo were punished to the fullest extent of the law. No question was made of the guilt or innocence of. the two im- oned workers. It was enough for Marzio to know that two anti- Di fascisti were arrested in New York to set the machinery going to do the | men to death. It is more than rea- sonable to assume that the July 11 raids were ordered from Rome and that Di Marzio’s letter to Fletcher was part of a carefully laid plan which was to result in the death of two anti-fascisti. Fletcher replied: “I received your | most courteous letter dated July 12, | in regard to late arrests made in! New York on the killing of Carisi and D’Ambrosoli. I am sure that every attempt wiil be made to secure tne guilty justice. Witn cordia: saluta- tions, Fletcher.” It will be seen from this letter that Di Marzio knew of the arrest of Greco | and Carrillo on July 12, one day after the raids. It is known that the Ital-| ian Embassy in Washington directed | the raids and agents of the fascist government in America worked in| cooperation with the police. Detec-| tive Casso, who built the case against | Greco and Carrillo and who concoct- | ed the fantastic yarn about Carlo/ Tresca and Dr. Fama planning the) assassination, is an intimate friend of Count Di Revel and is known as an avowed fascist. Thus all the agencies of pergecu- tion were brought to play to bring about the frame-up of the two work- | ers, the fascist government in Italy, the American ambassador in Rome, the Fascist League of North Amer- ica, and an important and a_ re- sponsible fascist police officer in the pay of the city of New York. (Continued Tomorrow.) WANTED — MORE READERS! ARE. YOU GETTING THEM? office, 108 East 14th 133 MacDougal Street. Buy your tickets at The DAILY WORKER DAILY WORKER and this theatre. Limited Engagement From November 22 to December 4 The NEW PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE production of THE BELT now playing at the PROVINCETOWN PLAYHOUSE | Performance every evening (except Monday) including Sunday at 8:40, Matinees Thanksgiving and Saturday at 2:40. The first modern Labor play to debunk company unionism and the so-called prosperity in the Ford factories. Street and help The | Telephone Spring 8363. | Eternal Student.” material from Jewish life, or so it} [time to the stud: \E Here is authentic The Eternal Student of the almud and the Torah, giving a life- y of Jewish religious laws, in the Yeshiva, undergoing the greatest privations, everlastingly ask- |ing “What Does It Teach Me?” This is what you will ask at the abrupt conclusion of a picture that promises so much, that is so well directed, so capably acted . . . but which ends in unconvincing Zionist high ecstacy. —W. C. | Broadway Briefs “Porgy,” the Theatre Guild pro- duction of the Negro folk play, by Dorothy and Du Bose Heyward was transferred from the Guild to the Re- public Theatre, Monday night. Fannie Brice returned to vaudeville at the Palace in “Words and Music” by Ballard MacDonald. Other acts Cole Porter; Rosita and Vivian Dun- ean; Yvette Rugel; Frank Davis and Adel Darnell; Ruiz Rosita, with Gel- Mann’s Novelty Quartette; Joyner and Foster; Claude and Lucille Fon- | |daw and The Kitayamas. Camila Quiroga, and her dramatic HAMPDE in Ibsen's comedy “AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE” 9. Thea., B'way at 62d St. Hampden’s Evenings at 8:30. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday BOOTH 45 St., W. of B'way Eves, 8:40 inees Wed. & Sat. at 2:40 urs. (Thanksgiving Day) ~ ESCAPE with Leslie Howard New Play 8:30. Mts. Wed.&Sat.2:30 Extra Mat. Thurs. (Thanksgiving Day) “The Trial of Bayard Veiller, with By ANN HARDING—REX CHERRYMAN | The Desert Song with Robt. Halliday & Eddie Buxzell ~ 2 | IMPERIAL nd Year THEA.,, 45 St.W.of B'way Evenings 8 Thurs, and Sat., 2 Mats. AWALLS : with MUNI W The “ John Golden LADDER ts, 0 WwW. B' we. of s. Wed, GARRICK yet Sh, BASIL SYDN With Garrick ELLIS layers in the Modern TAMING of the SHREW in’ the IMMORAL ISABELLA 7%" Juliu Dh, W. 48th SQ Mats, W Vicke as Peggy Wood will act the role of Portia when George Arliss appears as Shylock in Shakespeare’s “The Mer- chant of Venice” which Winthrop Ames will present here in January. Mary Dugan” Chanin’s W THE ) Symphonic { i | | | \ | | | | In Reinhardt’s production of “A Midsummer's Night’s Dream,” at the Century Theatre. company from the Odeon Theatre, |Buenos Aires, will open a two weeks engagement at the Manhattan Opera House, December 5, with “La Fuerza | Cieza’ (The Silent. Force) by M: tinez Cuitino. “The Silent Force” is a drama of the typical cabarets of |the underworld of Buenos Aires, Margaret Anglin will make her re- appearance “Electra,” at the new Gal- |lo Theatre, on Wednesday night, Nov. 30. The play will be continued |through the following week, with |matinees on Fridays and Saturdays. Ralph Roeder, who played Orestes in Miss Anglin’s Spring production of the play at the Metropolitan Opera House, will have the same role in the revival. | Carl Reed announces the opening jof a new play, “Let’s Move,” Mon- | day, Novebmer 28, at the Klaw The- ;atre. Russell Mack heads the cast, |which also includes Betty Lawrence, |Maude Eburne, Russell Fillmore and | Dorothy Tierney. George Cukor is directing “Trig- \ger,” the Lulu Vollmer play which | Richard Herndon has placed in re- hearsal. | Ftederick Lonsdale’s “The , High jare: Billy (Rose, Jesse Greer and{ Road” will be produced by Charles | Dillingham in January with Ina Claire playing the principal role. | “Martine” by Jean Jacques Ber- Inard, recently acquired by the } American Laboratory Theatre, will {be produced in January by that or- | ganization. aN i 3 eet Bernard Sha DOCTOR'S DIL Ph. 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