The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 29, 1931, Page 4

: Page Feur DAILY ee NOT ONE ee T POR, MILIT:! BRIS — ALL Ww AR FUNDS FOR UNEDS aes Frank Pease, Evolution of a Fascist By VERN SMITH. p men, to e being with long blue documents Defend- can (The Blue S ed slogan and “L y to Country.” the lit the remark “Bisen- stein went! Amtorg must go!” The first batches of the stuff had a let- terhead address: “Marblehead, Mass.. Birthplace of the an Navy,” but later offerings s address pasted over with a slip reading, “P. O. Box 33, Station O, New York City.” Part of the literature is usually a letter addressed to factory owners, and offering to scab on the private détective companies: “You must be aware that hitherto a great deal ot expense and effort have been put forth in corréctive and punitive ac- tivities... . Our purpose is to make a direct working connection between loyalty to industry and loyalty to fo We show employees that it © in their own in- teresits that the shop be purged and kept free from agitators. ... We hold it is better that a shop full of ‘Blue Shirts’ makes it impossible for a red to work and agitate in the same plant with them, than for a dis- charged red to win the power and sympathy of ‘martyrdom’ because, as he always claims, he has been| arbitrarily fired by the Front Office. | Industrial self-discipline, autonomous shop morale, maintaining economic sobriety in the plant by harmony | between the Front Office and the shop and the suppression of all in- dustrial ‘rackets, these are part of our purposes.” Bold Boasting With this stuff goes a card which says: “We obtained for that un- patriotic anti-military propaganda | film, ‘All Quiet On the Western | Front,’ its wide prohibition in Amer- jea and its complete suppression in Germany, and the expulsion from America of Eisenstein. Next, Am- kino’s imported Red Propaganda film must be excluded. Also, Amtorg must go!” Eisenstein is the great director of Soviet Union films, recognized as the master of technique, ‘who came to America on a contract with Para- mount films last year to produce Dreisser’s “American Tragedy,” was | double-crossed and sabotaged for) months, and finally driven out, and | another director put in charge of the American Tragedy, evidently | with orders to ruin it. Amkino} films are known to many workers} as almost the only really vital and | honest movies on the screen today. Amtorg is the agent of the Soviet Union industries in America and handles practically all trade between Russia and America, ‘The “Blue Shirts” program, there- | fore, is to do injury to the workers | and peasants of the Soviet Unidn in | whatever way it can. The man who signs as “National Commander” all the “Blue Shirt” stuff is Major Frank Pease. A Censorship. This individual appeared before the Fish Commission September 26- 27, 1930, at its open hearings in| New York as “President of the/ Hollywood Technical Directors’ As- | sociation.” The Blue Shirts were not | at that time formed, and seem to| be a secondary racket, probably an | outgrowth of the first. Major Pease swore that he was not a director, | but “a writer by profession,” that he had organized the directors “es- pecially from the physical aspects, technical direction, to prevent the| occurrence of radical propaganda in the film.” He said that he had been in Uollywood for two years, that he was American by birth, had served in the American armies during the Spanish American war, had lost a Jeg in the Phillipines, and “served in the world war, also, with one leg.” Telegrams and cablegrams read into the record by Pease told of his connections with the “International Entente Against The Third Inter- national,” which has a permanent bureau in Geneva, end whose” pres- ident is Theodore Aubert. For Pogroms. One letter from Pease to Jesse Lasky, president of Paramount Pic- tures, brings in the anti-semitic angle, thus: “Israe] is forever com- plaining that it is an innocent vic- tim of other races. Yet it is just such unrestrained, lawless and so- cially irresponsible acts as Lasky's brazen importation of an avowed Communist enemy (meaning Eisen- stein) of America which has made and can again make Israel the scape- goat of history.” At other points in the Fish tes- ;a “radical,” sheviks were or the and other staffs, and with the Fascist So that is eno! on Frank Peas general s present activities running a more or racket, he is probably boasting of more than hé does, but | one of several like him and studied as a type of fascist Let us see now how he grew he leader. up and what sort of animal these professional patriots may be. Pease, The Radical Pease did serve in the Spanish War. He came out mouthing his disgust of militarism, claimed to be hung around with left labor leaders and anarchists. will find in the International So- | cialist Review an “inspirationat ar- ticle’ on May Day in New York, 1913. He wrote occasional articles and short stories for the liberal magazines. He had published a play, so far as I know never played, called | “Lenin” with a preface, quite flat- | tering, by Bernard Shaw. | He was in Seattle when there, 1921 He was regarded by | the revolutionary movement with | mixed feelings of admiration and | suspicion. He had been very active, | was a pretty good speaker. He had been foremost in organizing the “Workers, Soldiers and Sailors Coun- cils,” those somewhat ultra-left ex- | pressions of early Communism in America, in 1919 and 1920. The} comrades in the “councils” found | that money was always unaccounted | for in the offices set up by Pease. | They couldn't prove much, but they | “eased him out” and the accounts balanced better after that. Spying Pease had a wife who worked in the office of Attorney Vanderveer, I got| |who had ali the big labor ‘cases to | | defend. Wobbly, afterwards a Com- | munist, Walker C. Smith, was vis- | iting a friends’ house to which this | wife also came, and found in some documents she laid down an ex~} Department of Justice, He exposed her, and Pease repudiated her/‘said he had no idea she was doing any- thing like that. There were a lot | of general suspicions. Pease and his | wife had been living in a beautiful | bungalow in’ the West End, with a completely electrified kitchen. He boasted that he never paid for any- | thing he got, never paid his elec- trical bill. The place was a hang- out for the bohemian radicals; Pease had a fine library of erotic liter- ature, which he lent to the youth. “Against Tyranny!” The struggle that developed, under | « the leadership of now known stoo! | pigeons and crooks, to swing the I. | W.W. from its support of the Rus- | sian Revolution into opposition to it | was just gettiig under way. None so fervent for the workers to rise against “Bolshevik tyranny” as Frank Pease. He spoke all the time at Wobbly meetings. His main point was that Lenin and the old Bol- abnormal, monsters, and he provef’ it by long range | psycho-analysis. Freudian phrases | rolled well off his tongue, and fairly —Drawn bya young Chicago worker, Axel Carlson cozed from his well modulated, rich, rather beautiful voice. A Quspicious Line He used to write lots of articles for the Industrial Worker, L.Ww.W. paper in Seattle, all against the Bol- sheviki, never against the bosses. 1 was editor of that paper, and I always kept the articles carefully until Pease wanted them back, but I never printed any of them, The last I heard directly of Frank Pease was about 1926, while talking to a man who had been a western director of the Red Cross during the war. “You bet I know Frank Pease,” he said. During the war he had charge of, a. collection district. There timony, Pease boasted of his in- fluence with the French, Belgian was always” something wrong with the accounts. We never could catch Avanguardista.” | for the moment | You | | Evening Graphic, | the waist, with the marks of ), whip SH PHERI WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1931 —By GROPPEF “GRAPHIC” USES FAKED PICTURES By James B. Gibson y, sis of a embalmed # talisman, on the erty RDAY FEBRUMRY | — ,2eross his back. From what the| By HARRISON GEORGE, Graphic” said in the caption and| Ce it is necessary to clinch; the headline, you might think that | the nail of truth with the ham-| this man who was whipped had been| liar tried to get you to believe that| mer of proof, Daily Worker published a story on the front page, exposing the forging of photographs by which on Feb. 28) |had published a whole double-page | |pense account in her name, of the blast against the Soviet Union. | We then exposed the fact that the| |“Graplite” had faked every photo- graph it used. Workers, you must learn how these photos are faked, just as you should learn why they are faked Read carefully, and observe what we poin' out First, look at the big pbatteranhie reproduction of the page of the | “Graphic”—above. See the big headline about “Red Russia’s Lumber Camps”. Under the first word of that headline is a photo of Ramsay MacDonald, fake ‘socialist’? and premier of ing George's government of Great Brit-| ain. Under his picture, the “Graphic” tells you that MacDonald — “is in- vestigating stories of frightfulness to convict labor in Russia.” It is added that—“He has had submitted to him evidence that men are flayed as the one in the photo to the right.” Now, that “photo to the right” You see a man standing, stripped to On April 28th, the Daily Worker | told you,..and truthfully, that the | the New York) Photo of the man was taken in the| the Tessenoe Protehtrte te A Corporal pun jat all. | find an original of this same photo Fandion's coupe, de {Litem em Ame eect in ine Ueited Et ware, and not in the Soviet Union We told you that you could at the “P. & A. Photo Agency” in New York City. It was also pub- lished in prison stories in America. United States, in the State of Dela-s.of the original, | Hardly! TO LIE ABOUT WORKERS’ RUSSIA man who is (note the whip in his right hand). Does that man look like a Russian? It is no “Bolshevik,” but an American prison warden! Just as the overalls and the turned down Now we offer further proof. Look | Y7on- -suit of the prisoner, both re- at the photo to the right, another man is shown. where ; That was the original photo, before the “Gra- | phic” photo forger got to work on/| it. We republish it here as it was | printed in Germany in 1928, in a| | large book of photos showing how | brutal capitalism treats prisoners in| all parts of the world. , Because this bogk was meant for international - circulation, were printed in four languages. will see here the title given in Rus- sian, German, French and English, saying “Corporal punishment in the United States.” Yet the “Graphic” On April 28th, the | treated that way in the Soviet Union.| it was taken in the Soviet Union! Compare the twq! See that every- thing, every detail is alike, but that “Graphic” cut gff the left side its titles| You! | forger has “retouched” | veal that he is an American—since ‘ such garments are not used in Soviet Russia. You may be puzzled because the Three Lashed for Theft of Turkey. WILMINGTON, Del., May 16 (®.- Three men from Henderson, Md., | who had been sentenced to be whipped and to serve six months each ; in the county workhouse, for stealing turkeys, were lashed today by Wer- | the’ work: | iin Elmer Ne figure is slightly larger in the “Graphic” and because there are marks of lashes on his back, which do not appear in the photo to the right—the original. The figure is a bit larger because it has been en- larged. And the “Graphic” photo the photo, faking in the marks of lashes which were not really visible in the or- iginal, ‘ We have told you that it was taken in capitalist America, Soviet Union. To prove that pris- oners are whipped in Delaware, we show you a photo reproducing a little news item in the New York Times of May 17. Look up above, 4 It says that three men “were lashed today by Warden Elmer J. Leach at the workhouse.” ‘That was in Wilmington, Delaware—not in the Soviet Union! Now, workers, you see how the capitalist press lics about the Soviet Union! They lie to you to make you think it would be a good thing to make war on the First Workers’ Republic, Soviet Russia! ‘They try to conceal the truth, to lie to you. Only the Communist press, the Daily Worker, will tell the truth to you. Are you contri- buting your bit to help the Daily keep up this work? Send in your | donation today to its Fighting Fund! him red handed stealing the money, but the money was always stolen. When we fired him, the accounts af- ter that were all right.” Just the same experience as the impromptu Soviets around Seattle had. There is a curious thing about | the “Blue Shirts” application blank, | and about all the “Blue Shirts” liter- ature. Usually these jingo rackets make much of “defense of the fam- ily,” “preservation of the sanctity of | American womanhood against Bol- |shevik immorality and natidonaliza- | tion of women, etc.” Different From Most But the Blue Shirts do not. Their application blank has 33 clauses which the prospective member must answer to. The Blue Shirt neophyte agrees to “federal prohibition of the abuses the Communists make of free speech, free press, and free assem- blage.” He agrees that “employers and employees have everything in common,” and that “loyalty to coun- try means loyalty to industry,” and that there must be an embargo on purchases from and sales to the, Sov- iet Union, and that there must be @ large standing army, and that there should be Federal criminal syndicalism laws and laws making it illegal to have intentions to over- throw this capitalist government and barred from the mails, and for “ab- solute preservation of the altar.” But nothing about saving the fam- ily or the “sanctity of American womanhood,” as is usual in such documents. Which reminds me that the first time I ever heard of Frank Pease, was at a little party in Seattle, at- tended by Reds, radicals and sym- By C, FRANCIS. From Gropper’s striking sport cover—full of life and vigor—to the breath-taking adventures of Freckles and his friends in the Land of the Soviets, on the end cover by Wex, the June issue of the “New Pioneer” is vibrantly alive—the nattiest snap~ piest children’s magazine yet! There is a zest about the “New Pioneer” which is infectious and makes one feel glad that so fine a magazine is a very beautiful girl, who was vastly bothered about an ethical point and sadly disillusioned about a great la- bor leader, namely Frank Pease. Pease had proposed to her that the two of them start a very high class house of prostitution, of which Pease would be the manager, and the girl “NEW PIONEER” now available to all working-class children. ‘The June number has a rich diver- sity of contents: An outdoor story by James Lerner, a story of Mexican Life by Albert Morales, Bill Hay- wood, Pioneer; Tom Johnson tells the “Story of Scottsboro” for the kids. Bill Siegel illuminates some of the dark chapters in American His- tory pictorially. Capitalist history has long needed this re-dressing in its proper clothes. This series should be continued, Hardly a field of ju- venile interest is left untouched— puzzles, music, jokes, cartoons, pop- ular science, how to make and do things, sport news, pictures—all are here, Of particular interest is the godly number of contributions by young people. The “Dear Comrade Editor Page” by the kids is colorful and the main drawing card, “to make some money for the movement and a good bit for ourselves.” She didn’t think that was just right, and she didn’t know what she should do, So far as I know nothing was done, and the house if it was started, had other personnel than this particulax that Communist literature must be | girl But I think it may be-that Pease, whose evolution from disgruntled ex- soldier we have traced to fascism, through Bohemianism, theft, stool- pigeon work, and plain racketeering, this Pease who would steal from the Reds and from the Red Cross, this Pease apparently unprincipled, had actually and does still have one prin- ciple in his life, He does believe pathizers, Among the latter was in prostijytion. \ lively. They tell about experiences at school, at play, at demonstrations and group activities with a clarity and forceful directness which is de- lightful. “Ten Little Children.” by Hal Post, is unusually fine, Para- phrasing an oft’ used jingle, he has comprehensively caught the whole tragedy of child labor under boss ex- ploitation. ‘The healthy, class-con- scious ending of the poem shows how quick children are to feel and realize the crassness of boss rule and the remedy for it. Only by mass circulation will the magazine be able to continue, Get busy and circulate it. “New Pioncer” belongs in the hands of every work- er’s and farmer's child, A Share Cropper Speaks By LOUIS HINDES, “Things are pretty bad ‘round here, cap’n,” said a Negro farmer of 35, in blue overalls, who drove me in his dilapidated old Ford from Elliot to Bishopville, S. C., a distance of ten miles, “I hear, white folks say that farmers in this county are so poor that they live on one meal a day, They can’t pay no taxes and no interest on the mortgage, and their farms are in auction sale, but nobody ain’t buyin’ them, ‘cause, you see, there ain’t much profit in farming nowadays. “I am a crop sharing farmer, We raise cotton, corn, oats and some vegetables. The boss gives the land, the mules, the seeds and fertilizers and me and my wife does the labor, and for that I gets one-third of the crop. I don’t know if I gets the ex- act third ’cause, you see, I ain’t much good on figures (schools for colored folk in these parts are scarce and they are open only three months a year. I went only through the third grade, because I had to go to work when I was a youngster), but I take his word for that. “How are things up North—are they any better? Gee, I wish Icould go there to ¢t work, but, you see, I ain't got much education. I can read only big-lettered signs, and that, I reckon, ain’t enough to get work up there. And, ‘sides, I can’t git away from here. I'm always in dedt to my boss. If he caught me he might put me in jail and then I would be put on the chain gang on the road. “No, I can’t take no chances. 1 got a wife and three kids to sup- port,”” where it shows the | whipping the prisoner | not in the | ‘Revolt In Tayug, Pangasinan, Phillipines By HELEN KAY The scarlet flower of revolt bloom- ed in Tayug, Pangasinan, Phillipine Islands, Back of the picturesque village of Tayug rose the Cordilleras Moun- | tains, rippled the Agno river, and in the open stretches of tropical coun- try outside the town, toiled the op- | pressed peasants. ‘The farmer of Tayug, even more than the farmer of Arkansas, is a chattel of the rich landowners. Huge estates are controlled by a few, Ten- ant farmers cultivate the lands, pay huge rentals, usurious interest rates on loans, and starve the year around. He lives in a state of virtual slavery. His lands stolen, his life is made} unendurably horrible. Rebellion is not new in Tayug, Pangasinan. The volcano of oppres- sion has often crupted. In the early part of January, 1931, | hundreds of men and women, armed only with clubs, and bolos, marched into Tayug. They set out for their direct oppressors, representatives of Wall Street and the Filipine tools of American dollars, the military of- ficers, those who collected the taxes: and kept them in poverty. They stormed the shambles. In spite of the fact that the workers had neither guns nor ammunition, shots were fired into their midst. One of the workers was murdered. The angered workers attacked with their clubs. The lieutenant who shot their com- rade was killed. ‘The frightened officers fled into the night. A soldierj opened the room containing the arms and ammuni- tions. The rebels were thus provided with guns, rifles, revolvers, and car- tridges. They went back into the streets; set fire to the constabulary quarters; took over the Municipal Building. Tayug was in the hands of the workers! Thousands of ex- ploited farmers had rebelled against the yoke of vicious oppression, They had taken matters into their own hands, The uprising was a spontaneous protest against starvation and stifling oppression, Cesare Abe, leader of the rebellion, declared that he was not trying to overthrow the government, but wished merely to secure a re- distribution of land and wealth in order to help the poor people free themselves from oppressive debtors. 4 Sete ‘The whole of the Phillipine ruling class was aroused to the danger. These “bandits” must be quelled. The authorities at Manila sent 200 riflemen to Tayug. Other detach- ments from surrounding districts were ordered to make all haste to the “troubled area.” The detachments arrived; drove the Tayug rebels from the Municipal Building. The “bandits” sought re- fuge in a nearby convent, and refused to come out. Guns, rifles, all the methods of war, were turned upon them in order to quell their spirit. After hours they were taken. They could no longer hold out, Three of , thes Sharpshooters were dead. Six | workers were killed, two women and four men. The bravery of these workers was remarkable. Women and girls took an equal part in the fight. They were as heroi¢ and as bold in the struggle for freedom as were the men. Ever in the foreground, they were always the most desperate fighters. During the siege of the convent, the Iasf_stand of the rebels, banners flew from the windows. They were red banners of rebellion, symbols of their, struggle. A penant was shot down, One of the girls walked out of the shelter of the convent boldly waving’ a flag. Their banner must not fail, She was shot dead. Seventy were rounded up after the battle, and held on charges of sedi- tioi. and’ murder, waiting long terms in the torture chambers of the Phil- lipines,,,.At the trial in Manila 41 were sentenced. Cesare Abe and Pedro Kalosa were given life impri- | sonment, Thirty-seven were condem- neg “to seventeen years and two to fourteen years, Young girls, many of them as yet in-their teens, were among the seven- ty* prisoners. They faced sedition, A newspaper reporter said of them, “Tuey had given society no quarter, and they could now expect none.” Indeed, #hese brave young rebel wo- men expected none. They had re- volted against the system which reaped profits from the sweat of their labor. ‘Bhey realized the import of their “crime,” and stood up for it. ‘The same newspaperman asked one of the young girl students why she was fighting the soldiers, and why she was with the other prisoners. “They are my comrades,” she an- swered,.“‘we're fighting against un- bearable conditions.” “The girl would. say no more. Her fair and youthful face showed no expression of re- morse, It was not a bandit’s face, | It was matter of fact, , composed, serene. Then, the guard led her away to be questioned.” Soh ae All is quiet again in the Panga- sinan district. The revolt was drown- ed in blood and prison sentences. But it is the peace and quiet that preci- pitates an earthquake. Forty-one are behind. bars and in dungeons, sen- teng an American and a Fili- pingfudge—symbol of the unity of Wall=Stueet and the native bourge- cisiée=béveral were killed. But their rebellious spirit did not die. The story of Tayug lives on. ‘The peaSants of Pangasinan are still vicl- ous loited, is 3s not only a problem of | Tayug or of the Pangasinan area, but of the thirteen million Filipino toil - Organization is ine cane seed, sproyting root, blossoming among thes@gspontaneous rebels."A fight for the freedom fo these fearless rebels is ifffull swing. The Filipine Com- mumigt Party is in the lead time the worker rebel, they will not be so easily suppressed, and Tayug will remain in their hands for more than a day, Gir Prisoners of Tayug with their banners.—Notice the Blood Stains on their Dresses, REV oL.T With the first slave I was born, Back in history’s dim dawn, Sired by fear and born of Hate, In each Kingdom soon or late, I arise; before my tread, Kings are humbled or lie dead, Age on Age my ‘watch I keep, Save when free men bid me sleep. * Beaten down but never slain, From defeat I rise again. Ban of church or bribe or fear, Shall not alter my career, gi Nor falter, for God's scourge am } Grayes_ are theirs or victory. ‘ Rome of old my deeds could tell, France and England know me well, Russia. tgo, my power has known, I left2h6 slave nor lord nor throne .| Red my path, and strewn with ‘graves, Yé 1 scorn contended slaves, One law I know: who would be free, — Mi their all and follow. me. Each and all who would be free ‘|With the first slave there was I~ Must leave their all and follow me,| With the last slave I will die, i) Et