The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 23, 1928, Page 4

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1928 senate te RAS SRE | Leninism-- aS WORKERS PARTY PROCLAMATION ON ANNIVERSARY ‘\ LES Four Years Have Seen a na . Many Struggles The following Lenin memorial 4manifesto has been issued by the sa» Worke (Communist) Party of Ameri Four years have passed since the death of Lenin. The militant work- ers of all the world still feel keenly | the loss of our leader. The personal, practical direction of the world labor movement by the man who led the Russian workers to victory in No-} vember, 1917, and led the s-con- scious workers of all countries to or-| ganize the Com International as the general staff of the world re- volution, cannot be replaced. Yet even while the millions of Rus- sian workers were bearing Lenin to his rest, they engraved with signs of fire on their banners and hearts: “Lenin is dead, but Leninism lives. Lenin’s voice rings and will continue ringing from generation to generation. Lenin is with us and will be With us as long as the working lass fights against capitalism and *for workers’ rule!” Four years have passed since then, four years of struggle and experi- ences which have verified the correct- ness of his teachings as a guide to » the struggles of all exploited and op- pressed. The tendencies outlined by him in his analysis of imperialist de~ velopment have grown still more ap- parent than they were in his life- ‘time. Capitalism has not only failed to ‘introduce peace and stability into the eworld, but it has continued to accumu- date fresh elements of struggle. * U. S. Squeezes Europe _Sharp competition of the capitalist’ sgroups rife. European manufac- =hrers organize in international car- stels to break their American rivals. The American capitalists use their “monster investments in Europe to *squeeze their European foes. All of ethem are running a wild race for is smarkets in the Orient, in South} ,rAmerica, in every ner of the world “the spirit of war abroad. «= New and undreamed of means @f destru€tion are accumulating gume world. Tho League of Nations @piled by the “socialists” of the Second 5 ¢imternational as a power of pe is Fe Sih reality an agency of the great im-| Yherialist states. > The internationalhdisarmament con- ‘ferences were shameless farces. Dip- | Tomatic babble about “outlawing war” yhide preparations for new mass sslaughter. . Among the imperialist powers, the atest is the United States of Amer- tea, led by the financiers of Wall Street. With the phrase of peace and friendshiv on the lips of its dinlo- gmMats. with the name of “Ged” in the Souths of its politicians, it augments “ifs armament on a gigantic scale. only this year having decided to build 80 new large battle-cruis at the ex. pense of 800 million dolla: It holds (under its iron heel the Philippines, 4 *Hawaii, Porto Rico. It throttles the } Sovereignty.of Mexico and the South 5 SAmerican républics. It moves stead: H sly towards converting the Central i American republics into colonies of oe ‘American finance capital. and just stibw it wages war against the freedom of the Republic of Nicaraeva. It played the role of butcher at Nanking. Mass Struggle Spreads. The four years that have passed | ssince Lenin’s death witness a gigant } Biveep of in China. i “Mexico, " . India, Jav wBorneo, Nicarag The immediate @Menace to world capitalism has b } 2 H#pme the Chinese revolution whieh ir ae t only a strugele for Chinese n fbral indenendence, but a struggle f the working class and the peasan- © ‘ty under the leadership of the Com- " munists against the power of native ‘ahd foreign landlords, native and for- eign capitali: a struggle not only 2 rainst imperialist exploitation © of ‘China but also against the Chinese 2 Shia classes who, fearing the “eworkers and peasant. 3 ace with the imner: nse of the people. enin Lives in the Struggle of the a3 Colonial Slaves. =In spite of the smashing attacks of Aenpitalism upon the working class, in “Bpite of socialist treachery and be- al by a corrupt union bureau- 'y, the spirit of revolt and strug- is active among the working asses, Lenin lives in-the struggle of ‘the working class for organization, for political development, for power. ¢Lenin taught the workers to be- ve of traitors appearing in the cloak friends, When the world war broke ‘but, Lenin was the first to declare Mliat the “socialists” who had made ace with the capitalists for the sake ‘of war, had betrayed the cause of the workers, had actually gone over to the side of the exploiters. Lenin Tought the greatest ideological and have made sts at the ex- { shies Y. co" in their} 1%§ no more than a smoke screen to| ‘anizational battles against the so-| state and the counts are a part of the sal-p triots who appealed to the| capitalist machine. of their coun- rkers and peas- workers and peasant tries to slaughter v ants of other countries for the benefit of the home capitalists, instead of appealing to them and helping ther } to unite with the workers and peas. ants of the opposing countries in or- | der together to break the rule of ‘capi- talism everywhere. Lenin taught the workers to understand that a leader who disbeliev in working class r volution is a misleader, that a social- ist who opposes the militant labor ovement is a tr r, that a union 1 who ma peace with capitalism is an enemy within the camp of labor. Four yéars after Len- in’s death the. workers of all the world, and more particularly, the workers of the United States, é¢an realize the truth of his warnings and the - significance of his struggle against the renegade leaders. American working class is continually hetrayed’ by the bureaucracy of the American Federation of Labor and the socialist party. The labor traitors hate militant struggle. They are afraid of the masses. They have made peace with the imperialist rulers. They have given aid to & venture, including the massa workers and peasants in China and Nicaragua. Militant Action Against Union. These agents of the capitalist class within our ranks have resorted to the use of capitalist courts, junctions, against | police, in- gunmen and gangsters the fighting needle trades While the very life of our unions is in danger, the bureaucrats and their socialist tools have beer | militant not against the bosses but | against the unions and their left wing fighters. We must rid ourselves of | this cancer of treachery within la- | bor’s ranks and save and strengthen | the unions for class struggié. | Union of Socialist Soviet Republies. | “Lenin led the workers to victory | in Russia and helped them to bu‘ld the new Soviet Republic under the leader- ship of the Communist Party. Four | years after Lenin’s death, the Soviet} {Union has reached a stage of eeo-| jnomie up-building, cultural growth, unity and stability which exceed most optimistic expectations of y: ago. Soviet industries are flourish- jing. The Soviet village is slowly ris- |ing to a new level. The rule of the | working class is accepted as the force that creates a new life and a new freedom for the masses. The Red | Army is vigilantly keeping guard over the land of proletarian rule. ready to fight imperialist attack. The minority nationalities enjoy full free- dom of self-determination and cul- tural creativeness unknown in other countries. The working class is uni- ted in a determined effort to car the revolution to its goal—a social. ist order. The Communist Party has increased its unity and strength not- withstanding the attempt to weaken it by the opposjtion. The working class under the Party leadership is vigor- ously and hopefully buitding socialism in the Soviet lands. The private busi- ness man is gradually dislocated from his economic position and reduced to an ever diminishing auxiliary role e is under con- are becoming the es of exchange not s but also in the rural City and village mutually understand and support each other. The future is full of splendid pros- pects. The foes of the Soviet Union may look with fury upon the progress of | the only proletarian state, they may lot and conspire to put obstacles in its way or to invade it by force of arms—this product of proletarian re- volution remains the great beacon of light for the workers of the whole globe, it shows them concretely the fruit of victory over the capitalists, it points the way for all other coun- tries, Lenin Lives in the Union of Soviet The village bourgeo Co-operati accepted trol. | | | Republics. Lenin is not dead because Leninism alive. Lenin'sm is alive not only or the n proletariat but for ul of us, Leninism teaches us never fo despair even in times when capi- talism .is strong. and the working s to be weak. Leninism ys to the American workers: You |are faced by the most unscrupulous and most hypocritical ruling capi- | talist clique in the world. Your gov- | erument consists. of millionaires like | Méllon, Hoover and Morrow, and of obedient lackeys of Wa"l Street like | Coolidge and Kellogg. Trade union leaders, like Green, Woll and Lewis, in abject abasement offer our ex/| ploiters shameful peace which the lat- ter spurn beeause they wish to wage |a war of attrition against us, our organizations, our homes, our ele- mental rights. You are being shot} and killed in Colorado by order of your masters, because you had the audacity to go on strike against the] kings of coal and the king of Amer-| ican capitalists, Rockefeller. They | are trying to break the backbone of | our labor movement in the attack | | upon the United Mine Workers of America, in Ohio and Pennsylvania. You are being outlawed everywhere | if only you raise a voice of dissatis- | faction. Your rank and file leaders are being jailed and your dispersed wherever most. You cannot look for protection | in the law or the courts because the law is jn the hands of the capitalist We are faced | The}, Apologist for Empire Lieutenant-Commander J. M. Ken- } worthy, whose recent book “War or | Peace?” is reviewed by William F. | Dunne on Page 6 of this issue. Ac- | cording to Dunne “the book neg- lects the class struggle entirely, puts forward ‘nationalist senti- ments’ as the main cause of war without explaining how nationalist prejudices are manipulated to serve the interests of the imperialists.” Driver Wins Suit JERSEY CITY, N. J., Jan. 22.— Thomas Hurley, of New York City, who sued the Public Service Railway Co. for $50,000 for the loss of a leg m a truck he was driving was caught in a defective railway switch, throwing Hurley under the wheels, was awarded $10.000 damages in su- preme court. yesterday. with mass unemployment, mass mis- ery and starvation this very moment without the state even as much as considering ‘it a problem. Foreign-born Persecuted. The foreign-born among us are made the butt of particular persecu- tion, with plans of registering and finger-printing them in order that they may be deported if they go on strike. The government sends war- ships to China to shoot down work- ers and peasants fighting for freedom. Our masters, endeavoring to subju- gate Central America and to secure a second canal between the Atlantic and the Pacific, are right now waging a cruel war against the brave San- dino in little Nicaragua. Your legis- lators do the bidding of big business whether they be republicans, demo- crats, conservatives or so-called pro-~ gressives. The schools, churches, theatres, movies, papers, books and other means of education are all owned by capitalists who try to enslave your mind. You millions upon millions of able-bodied, intelligent, active and forward looking men and women, how can you tolerate such misery and degradation? Leninism calls to you to awaken. Leninism tells you: Organize! Drive out the betrayers. Save the unions. Form our trade unions into the n-o8t powerful industrial unions to face the great corporations. Break the shameful paralyzing alliance with the capitalist parties. Form a mass la- bor party based on the trade unions. Leninism tells you: Do not allow your masters to intimidate you and to crush your movements whenever you demand even a small share of the wealth you have created. Defy their orders. Defy their injunctions Fight against their interference. Or- ganize mass demonstrations against your masters’ wars on foreign coun- tries. Leninism tells you: Prepare to wage war against war by waging war against the makers of war, the capi- talists and their state apparatus. Do not allow. yourself to be fooled by the preachment of patriotism or the | protection of your country because patriotism is the catch-word of your masters to bait you into their ser- vice, and protection of the country is protection of the fat profits of the Fords, Morgans, and their brethren Leninism tells us that without a clear- sighted, theoretically well - grounded, organizationally centralized and determined Workers Party no victory of the working class is pos- sible. Such are the Communist Par- ties welded into the Communist In- ternational. Leninism appeals to you, American workers, to join the Workers (Com- meetings | munist) Party of America, and follow) you need them | it in its struggles to organize and! strengthen the working class and a overthrow the capitalist system, WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OZ. AMERICA. | Soviet Union. | TRADE. UNIONISTS ~ REPLY T0 WOLL | In a letter to the American-Rus- ian Chamber of Commerce, the Rank jand Union Delegation, which recently returned from a trip to Russia, denounces Matthew Woll | |for the open letter he recently sent | to that business organization in the jname of the National Civic Federa- tion. Well is acting president of the Civic Federation and vice-president |of the American Federation of Labor. | The Trade Union Delegation tells | Woll that he should “devote one- tenth of the time now absorbed by j his. coneern in Russian affairs to the relief of hundreds of thousands of | | hard pressed, striking miners in Penn- | | sylvania, Ohio and Colorado, and to | |the unionization of Ameriica’s still | | largely unorganized industries.” Unemployment Cited. | Woll’s letter, sent last week, called | iipon the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce to cease working for better business relations with the Trade “Further industrial development in the Soviet Union is limitless,” the let- | ter adds. The delegation’s letter concludes by saying that the most effective revo- | lutionary propaganda in America is low wages, long hours and miserable living conditions in America’s basic industries. Newark Lenin Meeting Next Friday. Evening | NEWARK, N: J.¢ Jan. 22—Mois* saye J. Olgin, member of the Central Executive Committee’ of the Workers | (Communist)” Party, will be the main |speaker at the Newark Memorial meeting organized by the Newark local of the Party, to commemorate |the fourth anniversary of the death of Lenin. The meeting will be held next Friday, at 8 p. m., at New Mont- gomery Hall, Montgomery and West Sts. | Bert Miller, organization secretary |of the New York Local of’ the Party, and Phil Frankfeld, of the Central Executive’ Committeg of the Young Workers (Communist) League, will be the other speakers. - According to Emil Gardos, organizer of the Newark Local, the meeting will also be a mass protest against the war of American imperialism against -the | Nicaraguan people. f The workers of Newark are deter- | mined to make this meeting success- | ful because of the interference of the police with the meeting arranged in November to celebrate the 10th anni- versary of the Russian Revolution, Gardos said yegterday. A Casualty UNION CITY, N. J., Jan. 22. —| Sergeant Otto Spitzmiller, of this city, died yesterday at Brooklyn Navy Yard of a tropical disease contracted while fighting in the Marine Corps against the natives of Haiti. is in New York since 1923. Oceu- pation, printer. Last address Lenox Hill Advertising Agency, 1318 Sec- ond Avenue. If anybody knows of whereabouts kindly inform MRS. A KAROLY, 1230 N, 4th Street, |preach or pretend to believe. | | the theft. Galsworthy’s Play of Class Justice Revived At the Morosco SZIGETI A vivid comparison of class justice and a damning indictment of lib-' eralism is found in John Galsworthy’s first play, “The Silver Box,” now re- ived at the Morosco Theatre. It was originally produced 20 years ago with Ethel Barrymore. | The story concerns a liberal M. P.,| who when faced with a situation of | importance acts as all so-called lib- ; erals act—in a manner that places | their words as mere phrases and their acts the exact opposite of what they The son of the M. P. steals a wom- an’s pocketbook when drunk. Later | in the evening he invites to his house | an unemployed worker whom he meets on the street. The worker accepts. In | the house the unemployed man takes a silver cigarette box. Later, the unemployed man’s wife who happens to work as a charwoman | in the M. P. house, is suspected of | The husband confesses to} save his wife and is arrested. When brot to court he is sentenced to al month’s imprisonment. Every attempt by | worker to mention that the liberal} leader’s son had also stolen, is silenced! “Simba,” a new film by Martin by the judge. On top of that the M. | Johnson on his African expedition, P. and his son snub the wife after | will have. its’ premiera: ab the /Hail the husband is sentenced. | if The court scene is the most immpor- [CoP 7Ol Pigatre Apaday ae tant part of the play. It is difficult to describe in a short review the mas- terly fashion in which Galsworthy de- scribes the different treatment the worker and the son of the M. P. re- ceive in the same court, The worker | is jailed, the charge against the son} is laughed out of court. | The acting is of a superior fashion. | All members of the cast fit in well) with their respective parts. Special mention must be made of Halliwell Hobbes as the M. P.; James Dale as the worker and Isobel Elsom as his } wife. The rest of the cast is on an| equal high plane. The play is produced by Henry} Baron, who is to be commended for} the revival. The play has been staged The violinist will appear in recital the arrested |@t Carnegie Hall this evening. ic Th, W. 424, Bvs.8:40 Republic Mats. Wed.&Sat.,2:40 EUGENE O'NEILL'S Marco Millions Week Jan. 30, ‘The Doctor's Dilemma’ jig Ths \W. 524. Evs. 8:20 Guild Mats\Thurs.& Sat, 2:20 WINTHROP AMES u JOHN GALSWORT vs HLY'S: by Laurance Hanray. —S. A. P. E S Cc A Pp WeRstre | Thea., W. 45St. Evs. BOOTH ‘yict Broadhurst 3; Laura La Plante is starred in the) | GEORGE ARLIS new film at the Colony Theatre this| 1/2 SHE MERCHANT oF VENICE 5 | ee week, a comedy titled “Thanks for! ——~ 23 RTS save the Buggy Ride.” Glenn Tryon plays ULA | oi “Sharp Shooters,’t is the screen at- | : traction at the Roxy Theatre this FULTON ys bead aca sey Me the principal male role. weck, with its leading roles portrayed | fo es x a ve by George O’Brien and Lois Moran. | oe PHAR See Bae Sat. & == =Screen Notes—= inter Garden Eves. 8:30. Mats. Winter Garden tron, 8. MEG WORLD'S LAUGH SENSATION! “The Divine Woman,” with Greta The Only Path to Victory of the Working Class of America RIGHT WING ACTS AS GOVT AGENT DETROIT, Mich, Jan, 22.— Angered by the loss of control of the | Jewish Painters Local 723 of Detroit in the elections held recently, right wing officials of the union went to immigration authorities to bring | charges of Communism against all progressive members of the union | who were not citizens. While the immigration service has not as yet acted, all those whose names and addresses were turned in were called for a hearing and se- verely quizzed. When the workers appeared for the hearing they were told that the charges had been brought by the for- mer right wing officials, who stated the union would be glad if they were deported. Unemployment Victims Crowd Police Stations BALTIMORE, Jan. 22.—Increasing unemployment is resulting in a steady enlargement of the number of those applying at, publie lodging | houses and police stations throughout the city. Over a score of men last night asked to be put up at the cen- tral police station. Sixteen others | sought refuge in other stations in the | city. » “Flop” houses where a bed costs a dime, report that-“business is good” although most of the workers who are taken in have no money for | the chedp soup and bread that is sold at these ANTI-WAR The ENEMY ASTOR Theatre, B’way at 45th St. Twice Daily, 2:30-8:80. ERLANGER’S Thea. W.44 St.Bvs.8.30 ERLANGER’S ™yiais. Wed. & Sat. * THE MERRY MALONES with GEORGE M. COHAN ; , 41 St. W. of Bway National Z¥s‘eis0. mits, Wed.&eSat.2:30 “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, with Ann Harding-Rex Cherryman MUSIC AND CONCERTS MERICAN OPERA COMPANY 1st N Y. SEASON, SUNG IN ENGLISH GALLO THEA. Evgs. 8:20. Mats, 2:20. 54th, W. of Bway. PHONE COL. 1140. Mon., Wed. Eve., Sat. Mat., Marriage of Figaro—Tues., Thurs. Sat. Eve. Pa~ gliacei & The Sunset ‘Trail—Wed. Mat., Fri. Eve, Faust. Gitta Gradova, pianist, returns here for her only recital this season Tues- day night at Carnegie Hall. The pro- gram will include compositions by Haendel, Bach, Chopin, De Falla, Rogers plays the chief role. The cast also includes Louise Fazenda, Lilyan A \|{ Philadelphia, Pa. Tashman, Ann Rork and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | are being b | UNITED WORKERS’ COOP. ASS’N 2 , #4 Opposite - Opposite Bronx _ 2 Bronx Park uu GO aI Park j2 ROOM APARTMENT 2 Blocks of '| Cooperative Houses Co-operative Workers’ Colony by the Come right now and select an apartment of 2-3-4 Airy, Sunny, Spacious Rooms Office: 69 5th Avenue, corner 14th St. TEL. 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