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

Page Four BOOK REVIEWS. THE GRECO-CARRILLO FRAME-UP NEXT PLE The Story of Greco and Carrillo. By Charles rison. ‘International Labor Defense. Fifteen cents. Harrison’s pamphlet is an excellent summary of the salient facts of this, the latest conspicuous frame-up. The facts concerning the slaying of the two fascist re related, together with the methods used by the Fascist League of North America and the police authorities to “get” vic- tims, thus avenging the murder which they were unable to solve and at the same time vindicating the “honor” of fascismo. In a section entitled “In ‘Sunny’ Italy on, in a few 4 hundred words, pr graphic pic- Yale Har- o Greco of Greco and Carrillo.” I read this 24-page pamphlet during a recess in the Bronx County court where two intelligent, eager clothing workers are now being tried for murder. Each morning, for the past ten days, the bailiff of the court shouts: “Donato Carrillo and Calogero Greco at the bar!’’ And the two tailors are led to the table of the defense lawyers by two formidable-look- ing, listless jailors who sit at their side until the youthful, unimposing, begowned judge turns to the jury and say “We shall now adjourn until 10 o’clock tomorrow morning. I appreciate your co-operation; I know you have been inconvenienced. The men who have you in charge will now take you to your hotel.” of New York pamphlet will it is possible, A photograph of the electric chair owned by the ate and kept at Sing Sing prison, which illustrates this exciting speedily explain the meaning of its title. Some ma feel, that the frame-up system as an American institution is but a recent “achievement.” This peculiar contribution to Anglo-Saxon jurispudence, however, was brought to a fine fruition many years ago. Thus, the work- ing cla’ in simple self-defense, is achieving a systematic technique to save its more militant and hence more conspicuous members from its class enemies. The two men now on trial were not arrested untif July 12, six weeks * THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1927 i By BERTRAM D. WOLFE. (Article II. in the series on the Opposition in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union). | ]WANY workers are very much puz- zled by the controversy now going cen in the Communist Party of the | Soviet Union, They say: | “How is it that Communists can- |not agree with each other on a com- {mon program? Why do they fight with each other so much? What are |munist Party are due primarily to | differences as to the policies that the Party should pursue. When there are | such differences, they must be dis- | cussed and settled. Where those dif- |ferences are of a fundamental char- acter, sharp controversy often results. The individuals who are identified | with one or another policy tend to | tified with it, and the conflict between | policies appears to those who do not understand political events as a con- |flict between persons. | Controversies in the Republican Party | ALL parties have such controversies, \44 in the course of their development | This is true not only of the working |class parties, but of the capitalist po- litical parties as well. |. Take for example, the republican symbolize that policy and be iden-| Leaders and Faction Fights — Marx and His Opponents. HUS, while Marx was alive, than when no man had more authority | in the revolutionary movement of his | day, there were continuous controver- sies between the tendency that he represented and contrary tendencies. One need only mention the bitter controversy between Marx and Bak- hunin, between the Marx and Proud- | hon, getween Marx and Lasalle, be- tween Engels and Duhring; or, after | the death of Marx, between the re-/ cused of having a reckless love for | controversy. | { Lerin’s Controversies. | i movement during the life of Lenin. | One need only mention the controv- | jersy between Lenin and the Populists, | between Lenin and the Economists, | jaud Mensheviks, the controversy in- | | side the Bolshevik Party over the | question of boycotting the Duma, etc. | {:,Or we may jump to the period af- | ter the revoluticn of 1917 and find! {thetscontreversies continue inside the | jfar more homogeneous Communist | | Party: There was the struggle over | litself and his power for harm has} | their movement. jstate publishinghouse and are used he represented an enemy of the work- | HE same is true of the develop-| account of his former influence ment of the Russian revolutionary | Prestige. be misled by their tribute if they | - went to his funeral. ek Has Ring Plekhanoff’s Memory. Lardner Play For Early Showing Now that he is dead, now that the | Russian revolution has consolidated disappeared, the Russian working class is ready to acknowledge his great services in the development of George M, Cohan is branching out this season. Plekhanoff’s works have been pub- lished in a tremendous edition by the ture oR | the. activ of Mussolini's they fighting about? Is it a struggle |visionists and the Marxists, to see | third play here “Los Angeles,” which squ the gue ill arm of cism, les power between individual lead-|that the whole history of the move- | 25 text-books and spread broad-cast |opens Monday night at the Hudson wines nee He ee a ais lers? Is it a question of personal likes} ment that built up the Second Inter- | #mong. the Russian masses. But when | Theatre. In addition, he is preparing | campaign of _murder pillage, Tepe and and dislikes, personal ambitions and|national was a history of such con- |he died in the midst of the revolu- | three more productions, one of which | me aot En np Le Arwen ore -d |antagonisms? How do they expect to |troversies about fundamental political tionary struggle, while,counter-revo- | will. be..a.musical review. Qn. the The anti-labor, tyrannical, meer lead the working class if they cannot | differences. {Iution - still threatened, and while | road the> producer is presenting his | ous regime not content with the success Necross with each ethers? * We know now ‘that these differ- | there were hostile armies on the soil] old success “The Tavern,” Mr. and | of its rapacity in Italy, bar the Bue Difvecknces Ga Bolle: ences represented differences of class jof the Soviet Union, then the Rus-;Mrs, Voburn as the stars. | thor, “has now reached out for the lives pag Se Wadtional’ serugeles within a Com-| viewpoint, but to many of the work- | sian Communists were too busy mak- | The new plays in view include: | ers of that day, the differences were jing history to be overnice about rec- | “The Stokes Case,” written by Mr. | incomprehensible and Marx was ac- |oTding it. It was far more important! Cohan and goes in rehearsal next to attack his misleadership than to| week |give credit to his past services, for} hands of Marv with the leading roles in the Ryan and William Harrigan. Another will be Ring Lar ing class all the more dangerous on | pey’s comedy with a baseball -back- and | ground. Walter Huston, who recently |closed his tour in “The Barker” will ‘play the principal part. Mr. Lard- ner’s comedy may be titled “The Na- | tional Game” when it hits Breadway. As soon as these two plays have The Renegade Kautsky. SIMILARLY, there is the case of Kautsky. Today he is an enemy between Lenin and the Legal Marx- jof the working class, and there is NO | opened; preparations will begin for lists, the struggle between Bolsheviks | Conscious worker that does nct hate} ine “Cohan Revue.” and struggle against him. Yet in the past Kautsky, too, gave important service to the international | iabor movement. | Today the thing that is important | about Kautsky is the fact that he is| Three openings are listed for this 2 renegade, an enemy of the. working | evening: George M. Cohan’s latest class. Perhaps long after his death, | production, “Los Angeles,” by Max Not satisfied with two | successes on Broadway, “The Baby | | Cyclone” at the Henry Miller The- | | atre and “The Merry Malones” at Er- | ‘langer’s Theatre, he is bringing a! | The comedian is featured in two | films, in “Grandma’s Boy,” at the | Cameo, and in “From Hand to | Mouth” at the Broadway Theatre. Gilbert Miller’s forthcoming pro- |duction of Alfred Neumann’s “The | Patriot,” will have as translator and adaptor, the well-known English play- wright-critic, Ashley Dukes. ‘ Butler Davenport, head of the Dav- enport Theatre, which is now housing jhis production of “Hamlet,” an- ;nounces a New Year’s Day reception lof the Davenport Theatre Club at the theatre on Sunday afternoon, Jan. | when his power for harm is gone and | Marcin and D. O. Stewart at. the Hud-|1, when Molicre’s “The Impromptu of arty. istory e republican’ | Brest-Litovsk, the controversy over after the murder of the two fascists. Nor were they until a much later erat ae Usted Claes be are NEP, the controversy over the /When his power to hurt the labor son; “Juno and the Paycock,” at the | Versailles” will be presented, in addi- . date charged with the murder. | controversies concerning policies, /nationalization and militarization of movement is at an end, there may | Gallo s Theatre and “Playing the | tion to a musical program. Admis- Greco and Carrillo were jailed as a result of a general dragnet of | This 1s due primarily to the fact that | the trade unions, the controversy over | be more emphasis placed upon his |Game” at the Ritz. |sion will be free. active anti ts. They were taken from their homes at 5:30 in the | the republican party is not a homo- | the question of democratic centralism, | Past services \and contributions tg| = morning, and “identified” by ommodating fascists who had been pre- | geneous party. It is a combination | the’ Workers’ Opposition, and ‘many | Marxism and a little less upon his | Nise Retna’ oa ; Chamberlain Brown has a new pro- viously provided with photographs of the two men. haf’ various Castes, such as big busai-'|utore. | treachery and rpnegacy. eaepae mina ceeenaty uction of |duction called “The Rat-Catcher,” | | |“Danton’s Tod,” scheduled for this| written by John Goldsworthy, and an-unusual show of s “They were taken,” reported the New York Times of July 12, “with to the Highbridge police station in an, isolated section of the Bronx. Even the relatives of the men could not learn where they were until late in the evening, and District Attorney McGeehan, who came to the station to question them, would not disclose at first why they were taken into custory Both Greco and Carrillo’ live in Brook Traveling by subway from 183rd St. and Third Ave., the scene of the murder, to their homes it would take at least two and a half hours, so that they could not have been back in Brooklyn before 10:15 A. M. Still, writes Harrison, neighbors and tradesmen will testify that Greco and Carrillo were separately seen be- tween 8 and 9 in the morning on Decoration Day. Also, before the case is finally given to the jury it will be shown that Greco and Carrillo were strangers to each other until they were shackled together on the day of their arrest. ye-witnesses,” all fascists, proved a dis- appointment to the prosecution as a result of the raking fire of Clarence Darrow’s cross-examination. But the jury has not rendered its verdict. Yery appropriately, Harrison concludes his vital pamphlet with a quota- tion from a statement made by Nicola Sacco just a short time before he was murdered: “You must not forget that the enemy does not fight fair, that it will stoop to any infamy and it already has. It isn’t safe to be optimistic with such scoundrels to deal with. I only hope for a demonstration that will frighten them and prevent such a crime as they have done to us ever again committed upon some one else. SENDER GARLIN. The prosecution’s trained “ey ness, the petty-bourgeoisie, and large sections of the farmers. Changing conditio: and the pres- | sure of these various classes upon the political line of the republican party cause the controversies. To mention jonly a few of the recent ones, there |wasethe conflict between Roosevelt /and Taft. which caused an open split }in the republican party in 1912 and {the formation of the Bull Moose or | progressive party. There was the struggle between LaFollette and Cool- lidge, which caused another break in |the republican party during the 1924 elections. At present, there is the controversy | between the so-cailed progressive bloc lor insurgents and the standpatters, | which expresses itself as a conflict | between the Norris-Borah group and j Coolidge. | Democratic Party, Too. The democratic party has a similar j history. To mention only a few x cent instances, there was the diffe ' ence between the Populist West, sym- bolized by Bryan, and the financial East, symbolized by such men as ' Engels Saw It In 1882. | | Engels commenting upon this fact j that parties, can only form a correct |poliey ky discussion and argument jabout which policy is correct until | | they have settled it, often after seri- | ous controversies, expresses himself as follows in a letter to Bernstein in | } | | “Apparently all labor parties in bi | countries can develop only in the pro- ‘cess of internal struggle in complete | accordane with the laws of dialectics, | Antagonisrs eannot be concealed for | |long. They can only be settled by | \fighting them out.” | When Do Controversies Occur? | {PN periods of revolutionary develop- | ment, changes in historical condi- } | tions are particularly frequent and | abrupt. Such changes require a change | jir the strategy and tactics of the rev- jolutionary party and it is precisely at such moments that controversies | (of a sharp character are most likely ! jto oecur. At such moments, when }eondiione change rapidly, when his- tory makes a sharp and abrupt turn ja place in the recording of the. past, | stitute for present. services. | “What Are You Doing Today?” / | evening has been postponed until to- Many workers find it hard to think | morrow night at the Century. Paul clearly about comrades. like Trotsky | Hartman will play the role of Dan- and Zinoviey. They are blinded’ by | ten. their past services and are not even | willing to attempt to analyze the| ‘The vaudeville bill at the Broadway present political significance of their | this week includes Harry Coleman; actions, and theiz proposals. | Elsie Pileer; Dudley Douglas and Past services, while they entitle to | «poots” McKenna; and a Boy and Girl Revue, in the writing of history, are no sub- A man is only a leader because he “Reckless Women,” a comedy by sees farther in the right direction | Sydney Stone, produced by Anna Held, than do others, because he points out | JT-, will have its premier at the Mor- the path and himself takes the lead | °S¢o Theatre, Monday afternoon De- in marching along it. The same man, |Cember 26. Mary Young heads the when he sees less clearly or when he | C#St_ which includes Eric Ka!khurst, sees wrongly and points a path in a/ Wilfred Lucas, Elsie Hitz, Lelia er. Let him not dare to say: “Look | #nd ‘Robert Crozier. what I did for the movement yester- | day.” For the working class must always answer: “But what are you doing for the movement today?” It is useless for him to urge: “On such an such an occasion I was right” , when it is clear to all conscious work- | Oa 45 fa, W. of Bway Eves, 8:40 BOOTH Macunees Wed, & Sat. at 2:40 which he intends to place on Broad- way soon, “The Silent House,” a new play by John G. Brandon and George Pickett, English writers, will open Friday, De- cember 23, at Stamford, preliminary to its New York premiere, which takes place a fortnight later. Extra matinees of the musical piece, “The Five O’Clock Girl,” at the | Forty-fourth Street Theatre, are an- ‘nounced for Monday, Dec. 26, and Monday, Jan. 2 « he Actress” has been selected as | the title of Norma Shearer’s new star- ‘ring film for Metro, which is based | wrong direction, is no longer a lead- | Frost, William David, Madeline Grey | on Pinero’s play, “Trelawney of the Wells.” — The Theatre Guild presents — |* ard Zinoviev to believe that they represent a tendency hostile to the ‘interests of the working class today, Bs it was hard for admirers of Kaut- | is necessary to cut off on a new }voad or cut across fields onewhich no path has yet been chartered. Thus the same leader, continuing | Parker. 7 6 " a . 7. Winthrop Ames | In the last presidential election lin a new direction, many elements | €?s that on the present oceasion he is nee point ESCAPE the las bl fat t sean ity for a | Wrong. John Galsworthy’s j i there was the Smith-McAdoo conflict, | {il to recognize the necessity for a | WTons é New Play. with Resie Hewsed| R ey ae New controversies are preparing in| “hanze of Rests ee gas Neo Room for Blind Hero-Worship. —— — epublic jiats WeakSat,2s40 the democratic party at the present | marching ahead on the same roa qs: avdoPor <adniivevesots Deatwley BY tre, 41 St. W. of B'way a x vere F . " | a BKY Evs. feel | that they were following before, when Bernard Shaw’s Comedy “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller with ANN HARDING—REX CHERRYMAN One-Class Parties Are Not Homogeneous. COMMUNIST PARTY is far more | ® DOCTOR'S DILEMMA’ Guild 38... $ 130. Mts, Wed.&Sat.2:30 | | Mat 0 Just Issued in the New Workers Library i eegie sky to helieve that of him in 1914, | < t . 7 homogeneous in its class charac- | t® lead in the same direction when a | “°° ‘ 4 Hee aE NO. 1 NO. 2 5 a net SS AIRE or for admirers of Plekhanoff to be-} Beginning norrow Night at $:00 saetate me ae" 0: e republic: _|new direction is necessary. becomes | © . = - 1 1% . %, . tHE TENTH YEAR— THE COOLIDGE PRO- AN- fete ie republican or the demo ‘a mtaléader, and ichemmed neraskary eran tt oe Tam an 1917" artes a s esert ong Max Reinhardt’s Production of The Rise and Achieve- GRAM—Capitalist Dem- SAN | CY arty. 5 ceo teat 5 ; | But the revolutionary movement | ¥!™ eonard Ceely and Eddig Buzzell “ m Be eughinl ) egaecsi ce -arivecine - With | poabadcincee Byer tue / Work rid HHiae Gear ops Stone we |has no place for blind hero-worship. IMPERIAL THEA 3 BeW AoE ver nN cama phe 5 Wiese in a brief By Jay Lovestone. the American Trade Un- | ¢lass Is not homogeneous. | : “| History subjects every leader to con- | ** S Dvealags 8:30 |CENTURY e 62nd St. vs. 8:00 ry Simple way 2 ‘The perfect answer to NPL SLD qo any Seance strata or layers | No Right to Mislead. tinual test, and the workers ask at! Mats. Wed. and Sat., 2:30 | Mats. Fri./and Sat. at 2. 2 picture: 0 © all the pre-election bunk st in- |in the working class. There are skill- | | ' + «Wy | ~ progress in the Sy (he pr of the most in- is s r, . le y moment: “Where are you lead- | | sya igre : % first. workers’ OF Prosbe " 3a sting and valuable |ed workers and unskilled workers, Peper Sigel pemmanen ene te) WA LLS Beet y OhcLEScaDY Make Gree ohae nie: ae eyes Lncnte eleanor tentos ySsuecn Te~ | There are recently de-classed individ- | fee ae Teel ea pie. ca vanguard of the working class | i ge es Winthrop Ames NA. ” PNGoules'y, Siere et eeatatin Inte GE S | uals from other classes, who have be- | Ment there can be no such things as 4 f bli fas ane ee eee Gibert & Suliy as Mikade T 100 or more. ‘ 5 is if 4 self-appointed leaders. de up of blind followers, and John Golden ™B..W.588 Opera E © > copies for one dollar. | come a party of the labor movement. | the wisdom of no individual is greater | Wed.&Sa “LOLANTHE” OF TE 2 LABOR BANKS—The Collapse of the and Inves O: Read ‘Als ment Compe of the Brotherhood of Locomotive E Wm. Z. Foster. The most the evils of class collaboration that has yet been pub copies for one dollar. | There are elements who have entered | the labor movement from the farm- ling population and carry with them some of the old tendencies from, the Workers Lrprary Pustisuers, 39 E. 125 St., New York, N. Y. Defeat the Imperialist War Against Nicaragua LENINISM TEACHES US: : “The victory of the working class in the advanced countries and the liberation of the peoples oppressed by Imperialism are impossible without the formation and consolidation of a common revolutionary front. “The formation of a common revolutionary front is possible only if the proletariat of the oppressing countries supports directly amd resolutely the moyement for national independence of the oppressed peoples against the Imperialism of the mother country for a people which oppresses others can never be free.” The Workers (Communist) Party asks you to join and help in the fight for: The Defeat of Imperialist Wars. Smashing Government by Injunction. Organization of the Unorganized. A Labor Party. The Defense of the Soviet Union and Against Capitalist Wars. A Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. -- Application for Membership in Workers (Communist) Party (Fill out this blank and mail to Workers Party, 43 E. 125th St., N. Y. City) Address ........ State Occupation class which they have come. There are elements entering into the com- position of the working class which carry with them different traditions and outlooks. Workers Influenced. not operate in a vacuum, but operates |in a world in which other classes exist. Some elements of a working class party are more responsive to the pressure of the viewpoint of other classes than are other elements. Sometimes by reading the capital- ist press, sometimes by association with members of other classes, some- | times from members of one’s family or from friends, sometimes by coh- tact with the bureaucracy of the trade unions and even while in struggle against it—in short, in all sorts of ways, scme members of the working class parties are affected by and ex- press the pressure of other sections of the population upon their method |of thinking, and thus bring into the | working class party the viewpoints j of other classes, although they genu- inely believe that they are express- ing the working class viewpoint. If Lenin Lived? Many workers believe that if Lenin were alive, there would not now be such a controversy in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This is not so. The history of the German labor movement while Marx was its leader and the history of the Russian labor movement while Lenin was its leader are full of records of such controv- ersies, come from different countries and! Finally, a working class party does | He who leads aright is followed./| | When he leads in the wrong direction |then the conscious and revolutionary | working class party ceases to follow | jhim, or marches to its own destruc- tion. The revolution is not respecter lof persons. | Tn fact; the more prominent a lead~) er-has been in the past, and the great- er his réputation, the more dangerous | his inflyence for bad becomes when ‘he attempts to lead in a wrong direc- | tion. The Case of Plekhanoff. | ISTORY is full of such cases. There is the case of Plekhanoff. | Plekhanoff was the founder and; outstanding theoretical leader of the Russian Social-Democratie Party. He! stood forth as the champion of Marx- | ism against the Revisionists, and | made original contributions of his own | to the field of revolutionary working | class science. _ Yet when Plekhanoff failed to grasp the situation facing the Russian } working class, when he offered guid- ance in the wrong direction, when he attempted to lead the working class } away from the path that its interests dictated to it, ther they’ceased to fol- low him. Th e compelled to for- get his past services and to attack him and undermine. his. influence in the revolutionary movement. | As it became more apparent that ihe policy he proposed was really a policy contrary to the interests*of the working class. And in the interests of its enemies, it became necessary -to fight Plekhanoff. When he died, the leaders of the Communist movement decided not even to go to his funeral, although the Russian revolutionary movement owed a great debt to him for some of his past services. They decided that they were in a fight, that he was on the wrong side in that {see beyond persons to p than the collective wisdom of the | party that judges him and that places | him in a position of trust and removes | jhim from that position according to | how he serves at any given moment. | Therefore, in considering the ques- | tion of the controversy in the Com- | munist Party of the Soviet Union, | it is nece$sary for workers to strip | themselves of personal prejudices in| favor of one or another individual and to examine closely the tendencies that each individual represents. One must eal trends, beyond eloquence and blinding phrases | to their objective content, beyond evens the subjective intentions of individ- | to the actual objective direction ich they are leading. ‘ot even the question of personal | sincerity is involved for very often a! leader may firmly believe that his proposals are for the good of the working class and they may be just the contrary., Trotsky and Zinoviey “Revise” Leninism. it sufficient to note that Zi v and Trots! alty: to-Leninism; while» they~are at- tacking the principles that it repre- sents, mas, 4 The revision of Marxism. by the Bernstéins“and other revisionists was earried on under the slogan of “sav- ing Marxism” precisely as the pres- ent revision of Leninism by the Oppo- of restoring the. principles of “true Leninism.” In short, neither words nor person- alities are to be considered, but the direetion in which the proposals of the Opposition would lead the work- ing class of the Soviet Union and of the world. ~Phis forms the-subject-matter: for fight, and that many workers would - othe articles, y still swear loy- | sition is carried on under the slogan | Thea., 656 W. 35th. 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