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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-31
TELEGRAPH WORKERS LOSE OUT ON BONUSES

and other improvements. This was
taken out of the profits and figured
in as expenses, therefore, we received
smaller bonus. We paid with our
bonus for new improvements. The
immediate results of these improve
ments already has been felt by the
Morse operators who were either
laid off or put on part time basis.
Plenty Of Net Profit.
The sum taken in during 1926 was
1876 million. Net profit,-after de-
Quoting maintenance expenses, de-
probation, repair taxes and appropri-
ations for new contracts-was 15A
million dollars. Last years total in
come was 100 million, with a net
profit of Is million dollars.
The big appropriations for new
circuits accounts for almost the same
net profit as year before, although
the business exceeded by 7 million
dollars that Of last year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-31

hope of the workers ?" How can
such words be interpreted as moth
ing will convince the worker of the
inefficiency of the capitalist system,
so far as he is concerned, more than
the voice of some one standing Shout
der to shoulder with him in his i'm
mediate fight? ?" Or such, criticism
as "They did not really wish to soil
their hands by too much contact with
the honest-to-God workers." Blu
denz SIS careful" He pleads mot for
the capture of the unions by certain
socialists or radical groups or lea
ders-a policy doomed to complete
defeat-but for penetration of the
unions by radical philosophy, based
on a sympathetic desire to attain VIC
tory for the workers, now and in the
future"
n Budenz were a more diligent rea-
4 der of Communist literature and
keener observer of the left wing tao
tics, he would understand that the
aim of the left wing is not to "cap-
ture," but to penetrate" To cap
ture control in the unions, brother
Budenz, is possible only by force in
the interests of a minority or gang
land this purpose is being pursued
now by the right wing union smash
ers), but to penetrate" means
through correct tactics and constant
contact shoulder to shoulder with
the masses las the left wing is do
ing) to win over the majority of the
members and with the help, of true
representatives of the workers to
work in the interests or the rank and
file, exposing the treacherous lead
ers and their gang.
pUDENZ' advice to be realist,
u that is to endeavor to size up the
situation in given industry and to
lead the struggle in accordance with
such correct estimate is Communist
strategy.
THIS is Leninism, brother Budenz.
l. A feminist is not afraid to "soil
his hands" by the contact with the
masses in their daily struggles. The
feminist program is to go into the
unions, to help to build them, to or
ganize the unorganized, yet never
forgetting the ultimate goal of the
movement. Leninism throws out the
slogan of building of "labor party"
yet does not regard parliamentarism
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-31
The DisintegratiOn Of the Socialist Party

militant slogan of the Workers Com
munist Party! For this activity are
its members hunted by the A. F. of
L. and the S. p. hounds. Is it pos
sible that the editor of "The Labor
Age" does not know it?
ME already saw that Budenz crit
w icizes the parliamentarism of
the socialist party, yet he is not al
together opposed to political activity.
He is for labor party. In
the labor party, he says, the social
list groups can very successfully serve
on the educational field as the indie
pendent labor party of Great Britain.
There they should support the follow
ing program:
81. Extension of unionism, as the
chief hope Of the workers.
2. Specialization of industry, with
workers control, as the full fruition
of the workers hopes.
3. No compromise with war or
economic Imperialism, and the neces-
sity for extending international CO.
operation between the labor move
ments of the world.
a. The need for labor party, as
auxiliary to these efforts-largely to
solidify the objective of the workers"
OVEN if Budenz' information about
II the Communist movement in the
United States is third rate, he would
have to acknowledge that his plan is
taken from the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party, and though it is copied
very badly, nevertheless it is bor-
rowed from the damned" Commu-
nists. The question here, to be sure,
is not about a copyright, but about
that naivete of Budenz when he
thinks it possible to cheat the old
birds, that is that such a program
could be acceptable by the socialist
party only for the reason that he
would call it socialist and not Com
munist. But" it will be objeeted,
nothing is here said about dictator
ship and Sovietism." True, but Blu
denz advises to speak the "Ameri-
can language" and, therefore, he
avoids those terrible" words. Well,
and what is the meaning Of such
words as Specialization of industry,
with workers control as the full frui-
ton of the workers hopes" or tex
tension of unionism, as the chief
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-31
BY DAVID KVITKO
Article V

IN the motley crowd of reaction
L aries, liquidators, adherents of
watch your STEP" and "every dog
has his day" theories, the position
of l.. F. Budenz 1.-THE editor of the
Labor Age") in the Socialist Party
is a very peculiar one. The reason
is that his standpoint is a proletarian
one. One wonders what kinship is
there between him and the socialist
party, which according to his own
characteristic, is "middle-class."
WITHOUT suspecting it Budenz
w speaks a language of a semi
conscious, near-communist. That is
what he says in his criticism of the
socialist party: Lost in the mazes
of parliamentarism it has all to long
neglected the obvious fact that the
primary struggle of the American
workers for control of industry is
still on the industrial field, rather
than in the halls of Congress, and
probably always will be :"
IT may be of interest to Budenz to
L learn that at the beginning of the
Communist movement its syRdicalist
wing criticised the parliamentarism
of the socialist party in a similar
manner. 1t is not important for us
now to analyze Budenz's confused no.
tions. What we wonder is how can
such a view live in close proximity
to party for which parliamentarism
is an idol? How can these following
words appear in paper whose chief
editor is Mr.. Oneal? "The call to
the socialist party is to build up the
trade unions, to carry ahead the fight
of the trade unions, to peer into the
fields where unionism does not exist.
1t should confine itself to the econ
omic fight against the capitalist sys-
tem--expressed through the trade
unions and through the consequent
widespread educational activities,
which go hand and hand with this
idea"
nOES not Budenz know that the
~ trade union bureaucrats with the
help Of the socialist party prosecute
the left wing exactly for such activ-
ity? To organize the unorganized,
to work in the unions-this is the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-31
BY SIDNEY Topper,

"Why did we get smaller bonus
this year compared with LASTS the
question asked by the workers of the
Western Union Telegraph Co. The
company made more money and did
a greater business, during the last
year Of 1926 then in the previous
year.
Some workers simply shug their
shoulders: 1--WE do not know how
they figure the bonus, how much
they have to have before they give
us something. One thing we do
know. This year we got only half
Of the sum received last year"
Less Bonus-Fewer Jobs.
Others who understand the COM
panys figures, state: 1.-THE Western
Union Telegraph Co., has spent about
four million dollars for installation
of new simplex automatic machinery
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-31

where the life and work OF Comrade
Ruthenberg will be discussed and par
ticular emphasis laid on work among
the farmers, among women, among
workers, youth, anti-imperialism, the
role of the Party, the importance of
organization work, etc. The agit-
prop will prepare special bulletins
for the speakers for these discus
sions;
d. Meeting of all Trade Union
Fraction Secretaries to mobilize for
the drive in the unions;
e. Every Section, Subsection,
Trade union and Language Frac-
tion as well as every shop and street
nucleus to elect committee to be
in charge Of the drive. These COM
mittees to send regular reports on
the drive to the District Organiza-
ton Department;
f. The Organization Department is
to report on the drive to the Politi-
cal Committee of the District at least
once every two weeks.
Shop Meetings
6. The drive should utilize the fol-
lowing means in its course:
a. Regular Shop Recruiting and
DAILY WORKER Builders meetings;
b. Section Mass Meetings;
c. DAILY WORKER Readers Con-
ferences by Sections;
d. Open Educational Meetings of
the nuclei-effort to bring large
number of sympathizers to these
meetings;
e. May Day and other mass meet
ings-appeal and recruiting, also APP
peal for The DAILY WORKER at
all Mass Meetings.;
f. Open Forums, Picnics, Concerts,
etc, arranged by the Party;
g. Utilization of the Trade Unions
Fractions;
h. Special effort to recruit Party
members from the T. U. Z. L., the
l. L. D., the Women's Councils, etc.
i. Special recruiting by the Street
Nuclei in their neighborhood.
Negro Workers
z. The drive shall utilize and en-
phasize special appeal to:
a. Negro Workers;
b, Women Workers;
c. Specially worked out appeal to
native American elements;
d. Effort to secure young workers
to join the YOUNG WORKERS
LEAGUE under the general slogan,
"a LEAGUE UNIT WHERE
THERE is A PARTY UNIT"
e. The building up Of the children's
movement, the YOUNG PIONEERS.
The committees and departments in
charge of these activities are to work
out material and supervise the special
appeal in each case and see that it is
utilized thruout the Ruthenberg
Drive.
Special Features
8. Special features of the drive:
a. Turnout the drive there shall be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-31

concentration points as for example
week devoted to New Jersey, an
other to Section /, etc. When con-
centrating upon given territory the
campaigns should be directed to ap-
peal to the industry concentrated in
that territory and special literature
published as for example Sec. 1, will
have a special appeal to the Printing
trades, the Waterfront, the Jewelry
Workers, Section a special appeal
to Needle Trades Workers, etc.
In these concentrated weeks The
DAILY WORKER will carry mater
ial dealing with the local municipal
problems and the particular industry
involved. The sections should pay
for a quantity of DAILY WORKERS
to be distributed free in the shops,
the union meetings, and from house
to house distribution of the works Of
Comrade Ruthenberg. His writings
and pamphlets should be properly
organized and turnout the drive the
pamphlet, WHAT THE WORKERS
COMMUNIST PARTY STANDS
FOR AND WHY EVERY WORKER
SHOULD JOIN" is to be distributed.
Special leaflets dealing with the
Party campaigns on which the drive
is based are to be distributed.
All leaflets are to have an appeal
for membership and an appeal for
The DAILY WORKER CIRCULA-
TON.
9. The winning back of the old
members must be given a great deal
of effort and energy. This is to be
accomplished by visiting committees
organized by the sub-sections and the
nuclei and by special appeals thru
the press.
10. The District Executive Com
mittee will give a large picture of
Comrade Ruthenberg to the section
that in proportion to its size will Sc
cure the largest number of new mem
bers. This picture will hang in the
headquarters of the section that wins
the prize.
Give Prizes.
The District Executive Committee
will also give other prizes to individ-
ual members who will excel in the
drive. These prizes will be most
'i.lely the collected works of Comrade
Ruthenberg. Detailed announce
ments will be published later.
The District Executive Committee
will put it's main energies in the
Ruthenberg Drive for the next few
months, so that we may make good
the will of Comrade Ruthenberg en-
bodied in his last words, LETS
FIGHT ON AND BUILD THE PAR
TYP in an effort to overcome the
great loss to our Party and the Amer
lean workingclass.
The District Executive Committee
calls upon the membership to rally
in full strength behind the drive, to
achieve the aims outlined above.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-31

partment, the Negro Depart
Rent, the Cooperative Depart
ment, the Young Workers
League, the Industrial Depart
ment, and all Section Organizers
will be in charge of the drive.
Outline of Drive
The following is a brief outline of
the Ruthenberg Drive in the New
York District:
l. The Drive is to begin with the
membership meeting and last to July
9Th.
2. The Drive shall be based on the
following campaigns of the Party:
a. Fight against the right wing in
the unions that are now making
drive against the Communists and
the left wing;
b. Organization of the unorganized;
c. For a United Labor ticket in the
coming elections;
d. Anti-imperialist campaign
China, Mexico, Nicaragua, etc;
e. For the protection of the foreign
born.
Slogans
8. The slogans for the Ruthenberg
Drive in addition to those slogans
arising out of the general party cam
paigns shall be:
a. EVERY MEMBER GET A
MEMBER;
b. DOUBLE THE PARTY MEM
BERSHIP;
c. LETS FIGHT OBJECT
Ruthenberg Member;
d. BUILD THE PARTY"
e. Lets Close Our Ranks;"
f. Ruthenberg Died Building the
Workers Cause-Communism;
e. BUILD THE WORKERS COM
MUNIST) PARTY.
Aim of Drive
a. The aim of the drive is to achieve
the following results:
a. Recruiting of new members;
b. Win back the old members who
dropped out from the Party;
c. Build the circulation of The
DAILY WORKER;
d. Build The DAILY WORKER
SUSTAINING FUND;
e. Raise the theological level of
the Party membership;
f. The activization of the Party
membership.
5. The following steps shall be ia
ken to mobilize the Party for the
drive: ,an
a. General Party Membership
Meeting-to dramatic the cam
paign;
b. Functionaries meeting to con-
sist of all Section Committees, Sub
Section Organizers, all members of
the Organization Department, all
Language Bureau Secretaries, all
Party Editors-to mobilize the mach
inery for the drive;
Hold Section Meetings
c. Section membership meetings
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-31

as the ultimate aim, but only as a
weapon in the hands of the toiling
masses.
DETWEEN the views Of Russell
ID who advises forgetting socialism
and following the footsteps of the A..
f. of L. bureaucrats, of Hillquit
to whom parliamentary action is the
only hope of the socialist party, and
that of Budenz, who almost turns his
back on political activity, there is
such a distance that the socialist
party, which has dwindled into a
handful of people, will never be in
q position to cover. OF course, it is
possible to prolong the agony of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-31

The Death Sentence
Chicago" With Wide Grin, Says That Amer
lean Courts Have Fatal Sickness
Reviewed By HARBoR ALLEN

NCNACWCu ny AiNDON ALLEN
1t is late in the year to praise
Mau1ine Watkins Chicago" (pro-
duced by Sam H. Harris at the Music
Box. But the critic for The DAILY
WORKER doesn't get tickets as cas-
lily as the critic for the New York
Times. No good at crashing the
gate, he sometimes has to buy his
way in.
In spite of having to buy my way
into Chicago" l think it's a good
play. Together with a hilarious
audience, snickered and laughed and
roared and smirked and slapped my
knees. Chicago" is the best COM
edy I've seen for years.
It's the kind of play that person
ally, get soft about. It isn't a great
play: too ephemeral, too noisy, too
limited, too repetitious. But it has
elements of a first-rate working class
satire. 1t starts with bang-liter-
ally, a revolver shot. It is full of
action. 1t is not afraid of horseplay
or slapstick humor. It is simple. 1t
has suspense and a stout story. 1t
goes in for crowds and the unshel-
tered places where life is boisterous,
real and kicking. It's material is
drawn from the tabloids. Its speech
is the speech of the people. From
the first minute-when Roxy Hart
kills her lover-to the last when she
thanks "all youse guys of the jury"
for acquitting her-the story is the
old one you've read once a month in
the Graphic. Didn't the Greeks use
the peoples stories for their dramas?
So does Maurine Watkins.
A Tabloid Debauch
But Chicago" is not all just belly
laughter. 1t has a target which it
hits not only with gusto but with
dead aim. No scholar in ten volumes
could do so much to convince the
people that our courts are circuses,
our judges and prosecutors publicity
seekers, our cops boobs, our lawyers
highway robbers, our moralists hum
bugs, our jails bedlams, our public
officials crooks. Under Miss Wat
kins' laugh is a snarl. Under her
horseplay is the conviction that JUS
tice is sort of drunken debauch for
the tabloids.
We revolutionists ought to get
lot of courage out of watching the
crowds pack Chicago" Ten years
ago Miss Watkins would have been
lynched for questioning the sanctity
of American courts. Today even the
hardened Broadwayite laughs with
her. Who respects the courts today?
Who thinks American justice is any,
thing more than a farce today? And
who can doubt, when he sees not only
Chicago" but the audiences of "Chi-
cago," that our government is so rot
ten, so ready to fall apart that it has
to laugh at itself; is ready to hang
itself with senile glee.
A Very Sick Patient
Go see Chicago" Go early for
tickets: the scalpers snatch up the
good ones. Go and convince your
self that all the whole worm-eaten
structure of capitalism needs is a
good push to topple it over into junk
and kindling. Another war, another
ten years, another twenty. Chicago"
is one of the doctors pronouncing the
death sentence. Chicago" says the
patient has spinal meningitis, loco
motor ataxia, and softening of the
brain; nothing on Gods earth can
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-31
New York District to Open Ruthenberg Drive
with Membership Meeting Tuesday, April 9Th

District Executive Committee the New York District the Workers Communist
with Party membership meeting Manhattan Tuesday April 5t
e o TO drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-31

"Hearts Are Trumps," a comedy
from the French of Felix Gandera
will be presented by Henry Baron at
the Morosco Theatre next Tuesday
night. The cast includes Frank Nor
gan, Vivian Martin and c. H. Croker
King.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-31

Lynn Riggs, the author of big
Lake" which the American Labora-
tory Theatre has in rehearsal for
production in April, is the author of
"Sump'n Like Wings" an Oklahoma
play announced by the Actors Thea
tire last year but as yet unproduced.
Ernest Vajda, author of "Fata
Morgana" and "The Crown Pince,
will address the European history
classes Of Columbia University this
afternoon Vajda is planning trip
to California to engage in moving
picture work.
'Pogrom," is the new title for ''The
Message" which opens next Monday
night at the Bronx Opera House prior
to showing at a Broadway theatre.
Howard Lang and Elizabeth Spencer
head the cast.
Hal Forde will play leading part
in the forthcoming musical version of
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
The production is now in rehearsal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-31

Francis Edwards Paragon, author
of "Pinwheel", which just closed at
the Neighborhood Playhouse, has col
Elaborated with Irene Lewiston in a
number which is to be feature of
the bill of Lyric Drama which opens
next Tuesday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-31

Edith Fitzgerald, who plays the
part of Kitty in Chicago" at the
Music Box Theatre, is now working
on a new play. Miss Fitzgerald is
the author of "The River" to be pro
duced in the fall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-31

Marjorie Gateson has been engaged
for the part of Gwendolyn in "Tan-
gles," the musical version of Oscar
Wilde's "The Importance of Being
Earnest" Flavia Arcaro will play
Lady Bracknell.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-31

save it. Only, the doctor is funny
and says it with grin. It's better
that way. People listen to funny
doctors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-31
BROADWAY BRIEFS

"Queen High" will celebrate the
end of the first year at the Ambas-
sador Theatre tonight.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-04-15
Student STRIKERS
MAY Be DISMISSED
Head Of West Chester School
Considers Drastic Move

West Chester. Pa. April Is Pl--
With the 1900 students having left
for their Easter vacation. the cam
pus at the West Chester State Nor
NAL school was deserted today. but
the controversy over the dismissal
of two professors and the attempt
ed suppression by the school au-
,horities OF the Liberal club con-
tinued una batcd.
Reports that the 80 members of
the Liberal club would receive let
ters while they are home informing
them that they should not return
TO school could not be verl-
fled. DR.. Andrew r. Smith. princi-
pal OF the Normal school. said he
was the only person who could an
ewer that question and that he
would not say anything for publica-
ton.
Il will say. however" added DR..
Smith. that if certain students con-
tinue TO seek to wear a crown OF
iHltti ~ i'4cill, AlNy W III S"4iilii'i ~ ~"
dismissed. When | issue an order,
am doing it for the good OF the en-
tire school and am not yielding to
outside influences
Referring to allegations OF the
local American Legion post that
communist and soviet teachings had
been spread through the educational
institutions of the state by Liberal
clubs, Dr. Smith said he "surmised
that some OF these charges may be
true
The principal asserted that his
order disseminating the student pub
LEGATION, The Green Stone OF
which Prof. John A. Zimmerman.
one OF the instructors dropped. was
the faculty adviser had nothing to
do with the kerlin- kinneman-L LIB
.lal club affair, but had been agreed
upon month ago at a meeting of
principals OF State Normal schools
in Harrisburg.
DR.. Robert r. Kerlin. the other
dismissed teacher. in a statement
4iliiit5 lltS IlOoltIoh u illt
negro race, said he had been
misunderstood He denied that he
had advocated an amalgamation of
the white and black races and at
tributed the allegations to the
same sources as the attack on the
Liberal club
telegram congratulating the
Legion post on its protest against
the alleged radical teachings In the
school and asserting that schools
aocialistic and so-called liberal
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-04-15
ONCE BIG CAMPS
NOW BUT GHOSTS
Old Mining Towns Quickly
Disintegrate

Denver. Colo. April IS P>-The
decline in mining. once this states
great claim to fame, has brought in
its wake the virtual abandonment of
Villages and towns that in the hey
dey OF the industry boosted an ag-
gresate population of several thou
sands persons.
Seven such towns, perusal OF the
Colorado state board OF inmigra-
TONS records reveal, now have a to-
tai population OF but 227 persons.
Sawpit, Florissant, Frisco, Glilette,
Ophir. Poncha Springs and St. Ell
mo, names that formerly meant the
life OF gold mining in the state. are
Incorporated towns now carried on
the rolls as ghost cities.
Not one of them lies lower than
=, 400 feet above the level OF the seas
Sawpit, the lowest in altitude, today
is the lowest il population. but two
persons being credited as residents
OF the once prosperous community.
Frisco, Gillette and Poncha
Springs are credited with so inhab-
ltants each. Florissant has As. Ophir
81 and st. Elmo Is.
The remaining Inhabitants are
those OF the former day. optimists
always. who confidently predict the
revival that will restore their vii
lagos TO former glory.