The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 2, 1928, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY MARCH Ht 2, 194 1928 Ruthenberg Memorial Meeting Will Aid Defense of the Daily Worker WORK OF LEADER THE ROLE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY ty C.E. Ruthenberg C. E. Ruthenberg | | What is the goal of the Communist Party? Wherein does it differ from other labor political parties? What is the role of “IN MANY CITIES the struggle for the emancipation of the workers? ... imperialist war was the beginning of the decay and disintegration of the capitalist system. “Although the capitalists, financiers, and statesmen have striven mightily since 1918 to find a solution to the financial and economic problems brought upon them by the war, the process of disintegration still goes on. At times there are slight improvements only to be followed by worse conditions. Financially and economically Europe draws nearer and nearer to the brink. The Communists point out to the working class that the capi- that it cannot be reformed or Prominent Communists Will Speak {Continued from Page One) plished so easily in all Kling stated. “I made visiting every nucleus asking every member indi sections,” a point of his pledge. Every agent re: talist system has outlived its day, structions to raise the iseme of the| reconstructed, that the misery and suffering which are the lot Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund at every| of the workers can only be ended by the workers establishing ome diseussion meeting and to w on it by the membership. The result has been an almost one hundred per cent success. “Today the amount in the oniateaes berg Sustaining Fund of Section isielimbing into the upper two hu- dmeds. In a short time it will reach | three hundred dol it | the object of our secti four hundred dollar a month fund and we expect to do this within tw: months,” Kling said. their rule and proceeding with the work of rebuilding the econ- }omic system on a Communist basis. jover night. The struggle against the capitalist system may still iast for decades, and even after the workers achieve power will go on for years. The Communists do not attempt to deceive the workers by teaching them that the social revolution is a pink tea ernment. have attained power-—Soviet Russia—shows that after the work- ers’ government is established, an iron dictatorship must rule as the instrument through which the struggle against the ex- ploiters is carried forward there. The Communists recognize the historic truth that. no. privileged class has ever given up its spe- cial position, its power te live in luxury through the exploitation of the oppressed class, without a bitter struggle in which it has resorted to every means within its power to retain its privileged Ruthenherg’s Legacy. “Charles E. Ruthenberg left the | American w: the tradition of an indom onist to fol- low, equal and sur Kling as- serted. “He also em the duty of, building and defending their mili- tant daily press against all attacks | wae from the American hosses. Today |Position. ble revolu Ss > the Communist Party—in this country the Workers Party—in} The Communists.accept as their guiding policy that the world } The Communists are under no illusion that this can be done! | affair to be achieved in the legislative halls of the capitalist gov-| The lesson of the one country in which the workers | ing Fund |28 their chief immediate proposals the amalgamation of the| The accompanying article by the leader of the Workers (Com- ago today is printed by courtesy of International Publishers from a booklet soon to appear under the title “Voices of Revolt; | Speeches and Writings of Chas. | Ex: Ruthenberg,” 4 Born July 9, 1882. Died March 2, 1927. munist) Party who died one year | fleaders i in the struggle to bring about amalgamation and the form- | ation of a Labor Party, this does not mean that when this goal is | achieved the task of the Communists is at an end. | For the Communists, the amalgamation of the trade unions into industrial unions and the formation of a Labor Party to fight the political battles of the working masses of this country ‘are but the first steps toward the ultimate goal of the Workers’ Government and the Communist society. When these means of struggle are achieved there will still | remain for the Communists the task of bringing to the masses of the workers of this country the realization that the struggle against capitalism must be a struggle to abolish the whole capi- talist order. It must teach them that the problem which the working class faces under the capitalist system cannot be solved through ameliorative measures won. in the legislative bodies of | ‘the capitalist government or through victories won in the fight ‘on the industrial field for better wages and working conditions. |The Communists will still have the task of educating the work- ing masses to the necessity of their establishing the rule of the workers in place of the rule of the capitalists. They will still have before them the work of bringing to the masses of the workers and farmers the understanding that the existing capitalist gov- ernment is an instrument for the service of the capitalists, that ‘it cannot be the form of government through which the workers | may rule, but must be supplanted by a government growing out | of the experiences and struggles government. The Communists | It is because, after the first |—forward against the enemy in ithe workers is won. of the workers, that is, a Soviet will still have before them the task of educating the working masses of this country to the need shing a Soviet government and wit €) he > dictatorship of the proletariat. the governmental power in ‘in the Mterest OF the-workers as openly as it is now used in the interests of the capitalists. it the rule of hich will use steps in the United States in the form of the organization of a Labor Party and the amalgamation lof the trade unions, there will still remain these great tasks, that there must be a Communist Party—a separate, distinct organ- lization which will have in its ranks the best educated, disciplined, and most militant workers, such as the Workers Party of America. The role of this party is to be the battalion at the front jleading the working class hosts—industrial workers and farmers spite of all persecutions, in spite of the efforts of the oe to destroy it, until the victory of saulted on all sides by the agents of |talism in Europe and America will not differ from the class strug- American canitalism, =~ legge \gles of the past and that the workers in the fight to emancipate and patriotic societies and the United |themselvés must be ready for this struggle. A Militant Example. si uthenbe' th ‘Lied a es oe re declared. trade unions into industrial unions and the formation of a Labor ahd breadth of this country follow! =~ {he example and the tactics of see Li tion 1, New York in building up the Fi. h t t wy ight to Vic ory,’ as “Let the American workers follow | R 4 ee Oe nace -uthenberg’s Last Message neryies per pean every av: ghle cont to the Ruthenberg Sustain. iy orger.’ \cialist Soviet Republics from the.attacks-of world imperialism. es of Ruthenberg Memorial) This ‘is what Ruthehnberg and the Communist movement stand zs are being arranged thruout/for, Remember this when you hear of the preserit-day exploits | the leader of militant Ameri- en class. |recently held Pan-American conference in Havana. feeting in New York. Resist. the capitalist -attack upon your Wages, your unions and standards-of living: Save your’unions by ridding them of the York District will fill the Cen-| wre. Opera pace ee lash oe 3rd’ into militant industrial unions. Help win the miners’ strike by Avenue at 2 p. m., Marc oO Psy, | driving Lewis and his reactionary gang out of the union. This berg. Plans are being made to scat|iS What Ruthenberg fought for. This is what-the Workers (Com- ths big crowd which it is expected | M0) aesemble in the large auditorium Mobilize your forces to combat unemployment. Follow the er of District 1, Workers (Com-|lead of our party in organizing the unemployed to struggle against “munist) Party, William Z. Foster,|the capitalist system—the cause of unemployment—and for im- “Secretary of the Trade Union Educa- Bat Agitprop Director, and Jack| will commemorate the achievements. of a brave proletarian fight- hel, organization secretary of the| ‘er. Thus you will strengthen your class against the capitalist skers Party will address the meet- |class. Memorials Thruout U. 8. | Reject the non-partisan fakery of the union reactionaries. Fight _ Chicago will hold its big Ruthen-|9n the political field as a class. Organize a labor party to take berg memorial meeting on Sunday,'the field for the American workers in the coming presidential tt Minor and Max Bedacht as the | elections against the Hoovers and the Smiths. ipal speakers. jof Ruthenberg’s life and the message of the Communist Party. Is} preparations aoe Suuilee: soeenorials To the workers who are still following the socialist party— ited States. Meetings will be held Philadelphia at the Labor Insti-|berg’s life and experiences have a particular significance. Like 810 Locust Street on March 3,/Debs, Ruthenberg was for many years.a militant proletarian lead- Gibtary of the ‘Workers (Commu | & in the socialist party. Unlike Debs, Ruihenberg possessed the nist) Party will address the workers. y Ml ns = In Youngstown, Ohio, the Ruthen-|the end against the opportunists of the socialist party, who be- \trayed the American ‘socialist movement... EVen-more than Debs, the struggles of Ruthenberg, his. challenge to Americ: i The DAILY WORKER is. being as- | Everything points to the.faet.that the struggle against capi- States courts. In the United States the Communists today are advocating “Let every m thru the length Party.--.While-the Communists int the United: States are the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund. the peta of het ingorttahie tay Fur4 erd the defense of their! (Continued from Page One) States ° th ed States to commemora‘e “*\of American imperialism in Nicaragua, in Mexico, and at the Thousands of workers from the! 1 reactionary bureaucracy and organize the unorganized workers homage to the memory of Ruthen-; munist) Party calls upon you to do. where William W. Weinstone, or- mediate relief to the five milli j re f 3 Hional League, Bertram D. Wolfe, Na-| e millions of jobless: workers. Thus you ne snieremiens Break with the capitalist parties and capitalist politicians. hiand Auditorium, with ! ng ey Vinay and Max Bodach This is the lesson bei laborated thruout the . z 2:3 evga a which is no longer-a socialist nor a workingmen’s party—Ruthen- > ma Jay Lovestone, Executive revolutionary strength and Marxian understanding to fight to berg Memorial meeting will be held at 369 E. Federal St., at 7:30 p. m. ’ Pittsburgh workers hold their meet- ing March 2 at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St., with William W. Weinst ne “@s the principal speaker. © Cleveland will observe the Ruthen- | g memorial on Sunday, March 4, 2 p. m. with William W. Wein-! _ Stone as speaker. “i wThe Detroit meeting will be April with Jay Lovestone and H. M. ‘icks as the speakers. meeting at New Haven will be; ors (Berger, g the foundati a Communist ates, When it became fully apparent, as it did in 1918-19 that hon- jest and true working class socialists could no longer remain in one party with the Bergers, Hiliquits and Oneals without betraying y at 38 Howe St. with Alex Bit-|the most vital intercsts of the workers, Ruthenberg boldly chal- $: n as speaker. ‘lenged the domination of the opportunists and reformists, broke every city where the Workers| with them completely and finally and together with the bulk of . inunist) Party has an organiza-\+he proletarian membership of the socialist party, founded the niyat toting be held Communist Party of America, section of the Communist Inter- ; national. a district Norman H. Tallen- Boe Moan cheer And in doing so, they have carried over into the Communist - ‘and Schoan will cover many|Movement the best traditions of the American socialist move- ment, among them the best proletarian traditions of Debs. But they went beyond these traditions. They incorporated into the Communist movement the lessons and traditions of the great revo- lution in Russia, the working class experiences of the late im- movement in 1 the Unit s Vainly Try Capture Sandino, pairs This is what the Workers (Communist) Party is made of. That is why our Party is the truest expression of the aspirations and everyday militant struggles of the American workers. That ‘separate detachments of United were moving north- afternoon, in the hope of | the Sandino troops who am- U. S. troop train yesterday. Dunlap and Colonel Wallace party must break with their treacherous leaders and join the nd of detachments from | Workers (Communist) Party of America, The emancipation of the working class demands the building up of a powerful Communist Party. ‘To prosecute effectively the every-day struggles against the: capitalist. exploiters the Amer- jican working class needs the conscious and concentrated direction by a provisional mount- under the command of key. Other detachments ing northeastward from Esteli is why the working class members or followers of the socialist. OPEN DRIVE FOR “MINERS. TODAY Campaign To Continue Until Sunday | The special collection ‘drive’ for ‘miners’ relief will be held today, to- mozrrow,and §undag by the nsyls vania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Co; ey 7 mdway, it Was announced last night... Stations will be open through- out the city during the three days. The Workers’ International ee p 1 Unio ; Cooperating with ,the committee. | Printers Contribute. | The members of the New York American and New York Journal Chapels of the Typographical Union, Local’ 6, pressmen and. other organ- ized workers, have been active in do- nating’ funds and collecting clothing for the relief of the striking miners. Several collections have been taken ‘among them. Their largest contribu- tion thus far is one of $200. The section relicf committees in arlem and Brownsville report in- eased miners’ relief activities, the Pennsylvania-Ohio-Colorado Miners’ lief Committee, Room 236, 799 roadway, reports. The Workers’ ternational Relief is cooperating ith the committee. Many. Affairs Arranged. sympathizers’ are arranging for miners’ relief. M. Perl- stein, of Local 12, United Council of Working Women, yesterday brought 50, proceeds of an affair for min- conducted. by the council. Workers’ University’ is e, the studen collecting ‘re- oO donati ion lists fur Ukrainia » hag re- le at “the ‘City | Club, of MW its pledge nference for Miners donation of $25. The Upholsterers’ \Union, Local 108, has contributed $30, |the result of a collection among the members. The La Fubinese Society, Inc., of 409 W. 44th St., has serit in a check for $50 from its treasury. The 5 anian Benefit Club has given Bronx Dance Saturday. Et Cloakmakers’ Council No. 1 of Bronx, U. C. W. W., has arranged an affair for miners’ relief to be held Saturday evening at 1472. Bakton Ry the Bronx. An elaborate pro- eram has ben arranged, to include a concert and dance, The Bronx min tt scheduled for Mo: ight has been postroned until S: March 18, at Ambassador Hall at 2 p. m., it was announced last night, Relief with a} Now Attend Great expansion of the Workers’ e branches mm the eleven pont ecueele of the coal diggers in the United States with the niost ¢ynical ‘triconcerh! bet Tho the fate of American trade unionism is at ‘stake in the titantic battle between ‘the rank and file, of ca and the coal, steel and rail barons, the reply of the secretary of the In- ternational Federation .of_ Trade Unions to the appeal of the Pennsyl- vania-Ohio Miners’ Relief: Commit- tee of 611 Penn Avenue, Pitisburgh, ing gesture anda falling back on rules and regulations for an excuse for this criminal lack of international workingclass solidarity. Committee Appeals. About one month ago, the Pennsyl- vania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee sent out an appeal to trade unions and federated labor bodies in all countries in behalf of the striking coal diggers. This is the answer of the secretary of the I. F..T. U.: McLarnin Challenges Mandell to Fight Jimmy MecLarnin filed a challenge with the New York Boxing Commis- sion yesterday afternoon for a title bout with Se my Mandell, light- fe champion, and posted the cus- 500 forfeit. By this move, ork obtained the edge over New Chicago in the battle between Tex Rickard and Jimmy Mullen, rival pro- moters. NOTES An attractive supporting program }has been arranged for the Tony Can- zoneri-Andre Routis world’s feather- weight bout at Madison Square Gar- den on March 23. Three eight round honts will take place’ as follows: Sammy Dorfman vs. Dominick Pe- trone, Archie Bell vs. Kid Francis and Al Brown vs. Benny Schwartz. Palen ween ROSTON, March 1, — Charles E. Rrickley, former Harvard football eantain was today found vuilty of conducting a bueket shop and of lar- eony by a jury in Suffolk Superior Court. He was charred with stealing ‘gles of Charles E, Ruthenberg. | struggles against the capitalist Workers! Fight your enem, ernment! Follow in the footsteps of a the Communist International. oO perialist war and the teachings of the great proletarian leader, of the revolutionary political party of the proletariat—the Work- ers (Communist) Party. This is the lesson of the life and strug- Ruthenberg is dead. But his ‘contributions are alive in the exploiters led and engaged in by the militant workers of America. The Party which Ruthenberg | built and led calls upon you, on the first anniversary of ‘his death: y, the capitalist class and its gov- great proletarian leader! the United Mine Workers of Ameri-! Pa., is a Pontius Pilate hand-wash-: More Than 2,000 Stutionis Workers School School is shown not only by the tre- mendous increase in registration atthe central school at 108 E. 14th St. but of the school in-ail sections. of the city, Dear Comrades: We have recéived your circular asking for financial assistance for the striking miners: Our rules, how- ever, prevent us from instituting re- lief actions. unlegs we have) received an application from a national center to-do so. In your case, therefore, it Benjamin, assistant director, reported Des ee eenarear rere ta he ver 2, workers are attending classes either in the central school or in one of the various branch schools. Spring ay 1s will begin within the next week. § The followi wit is a list of the branch schools,''the courses being offered, the nemes of the instructors and the address of the school’s quarters where registration is. taking place and where information can be. ob- tained: BRONX BRANCH 2700 Bronx Park, East Six classes in Elementary, Inter- (Continued on Page Seven) } SPORTS IN BRIEF Gillette Safety Razor Compeny stocl. and $2,195 in cash. * LOS ANGELES, March 1. — Joe Dundee, welterweight champion, and Max .Waxman, his manager, were here today for their tria! before Municipal Judge Pore on charges of false advertising. The charges grew out of a sched- uled fight between Dundee and Ace | Hudkins which failed to come off last November. Dundee refused to go on without receiving his share of the purse in advance, . ator Sforts The Labor Sports Uni, cond an- nual indoor Meee Held recon y in De- troit far outstripped the one held las‘ year, in regard to the number of athletes competing, the variety of events and the turnout of spectators. Over 200 athletes from nine differen! s'ates in the country took part ir the meet, and 2500 people were in at tendance during the competition. The high spots of the two day’: program were the boxing, wrestling basketball, and the apparatus work Ten 3 round bouts featured the box- ing program, and some classy miti slinging was exhibited by the young ‘labor athletes. Pal Moore of the | Electrical Workers Local Union 58, fighting at 128 pounds won a decisive victory as did Walter Burke, a mem- ber of the executive board of the Street Car Men’s Union and presi- ‘dent of the Detroit District of oe Labor Sports Union. A high standard of sce anAniily) both on the part: of the athleies and the crowd prevailed thruout the course of the mect. Numerous De- troit Labor officials attended the CAPPELINI AND LEWIS’ GUNMEN. PLAN KILLINGS Traction Workers Form Shop Committees (Continued from Page One) for having shot and killed the gunman Agati in self defense. That the reactionary officialdom of the United Mine Workers of Amer- iea, the coal operators and the police fear this rising resentment of the workers, is shown in the order of Mayor Gillespie, refusing to permit members of No. 9 Colliery Local to hold a meeting last night at which it was intended, it is said, to replace the present officers of the local by the insurgent and progressive min- ors. Nevertheless, a huge mass meeting of miners is called for Sunday, March 4th, at 2 p.m. at Armory Hall, Pitts- ton, Pa. Among the speakers sched- led tos¥peak under the auspices of Save-the-Union Committee are Joe Victor, acting president, Local Union 1703, Joe Savage, financial secretary, Local Union 1703, Chas. Licata, acting ° recording secretary, Local Union 1703, Stanley Dziengelewski, chairman of the Save-the-Union . Committee of the anthracite Tri-District, Powers Hapgood, prominent rank and file leader of the miners, Geo. Papcun, secretary of the Save-the-Union Com- mittee of the anthracite Tri-District. The movement for the defense. of Bonita and protest against the rule of Cappelini and Lewis, is growing swiftly. C. E. RUTHENBERG AS REVOLUTIONIST Appreciation of Party Founder (Continued from Page One) © kage struggles of the working mass- ‘He was a realist in the Marxist- and in various New Jersey ci.ies, D7’ Leninist sense of the word. The bour- geoisie\ were driving the masses. into the imperialist war. Ruthenberg _re- Misdyy ‘Down with the Imperialist. War.” | There was an election campaign in Cleveland. Ruthenberg said to the workers: “Make this election count in your fight.” Ruthenberg did not suf-, fer from parliamentary illusions. He was not a victim of parliamentary. cretinism. In April, 1912, he said: “We are not in the business of electing mayors. The election of a mayor or any other party official is merely an incident in our work. It registers the increase in our strength and that is about all.” By 1920 Ruthenberg’s estimate of the official Socialist Party theory of capturing power by the ballot was this: “The Socialist Party emphasizes the participation in elections and the election of certain officials. It had become more or less a vote-getting machine to elect certain persons to public office rather than an orzani- zation which sought to bring about a fundamental Ni sys- tem.” Asa nw ae Ruthiénbers always kept in the forefront the main objecte ive of the Communists in the class. struggle—to revolutionize the minds and struggles of the masses and to build a powerful Communist Party to lead the workers to final victory. In all his numerous activities in the daily struggles of the workers, Ruthenberg never forgot that the primary pur- pose of the revolutionary working class movement in the United States is to overthrow American capitalism and to establish a sal tac dic- tatorship. As the years go a and the A: can revolutionary movement of whicl he was so much a part broadens and deepens among the American work- ing class, a proper appraisal will be made of his place in the American labor movement, and the quality of his leadership will become more pro- nounced. But he will not only be a part of the revolutionary traditions of the American labor movement. His incomparable services to the cause of the emancipation of the workers of the world have made him a part of the traditions of the world’s proletar- iat, the loss of Comrade Ruthenberg, lead- er of your party and of the interna- tional labor movement, whose ashes will rest beneath the Kremlin to- gether with the heroes of the Novem: ber Revolution,” cabled the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to the Workers’ (Communist) Party of America, when. they learned of Ruthenterge untimely death. The honor accorded his memory by bury- ing his ashes in the Red Square in Moscow bespeaks the esteem in which the Russian workers held the activi- meet and all were unanimous in in-'ties of haart in the reyolution- Join the Workers (Communist) Party, American section of | gorsing the idea of labor sports ac-|ary movement of proletariat. tivity. the international on “We deeply grieve with you at