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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-27

cas want the field early so they are to have
mating convention in January.
To their convention invited delegates of various
farmer and labor radical groups We Communists are specif
cay given honorable mention The socialist national committee
does not think DESTROYS Cooperating If the socialists
expect accept their leadership abandon our duty to the
working class to them against the pitfalls socademoc-
they right Certainly group sense of respon
sbty to the working class the program the social
lists and follow their leadership To would be to land in the
swamp of opportunist reaction.
But if the socialists really to see labor ticket behind
which all in the labor who broken with
the capitalist parties unite we not only are desros of
operating but will in the future have the past do
everything within to bring about unity of abors
forces behind labor candidates and labor program.
In spite of the fact that the socialist committee has
already announced that will have nothing with united
labor ticket and that they will enter the campaign alone invt
ing other groups to accept THEIR program we will still con-
tinue to fight for labor ticket and possible aid building
labor party in the United States that will to mobilize
the widespread discomfort of the workers and farmers
test every old party candidate in the country.
the socialists persist refusing to participate in such
movement we will sgmaze Them have the past as
enemies OF the working class who totally
the elementary demands of the working class united front
face of the terrific capitalist offensive that raging against
labor throughout the world.
If the socialists presidential candidate they will only
expose to all the working class their weakness no longer
have Eugene " Debs to bear their shield with his
past record of service to the working class the present pey
the socialists who New York are TRAVELLING tho
inclined plane of fascism by aiding the reactonary and
vicious elements in campaign of violence and
provocaton against the militant elements in the labor
they persist in going alone this campaign it will be their
last stand legal political party they will not receive
enough votes most of the states to again the
petitions
We hope there will be enough class delegates at
the January convention of the socialist party rebuke their ma
ona executive committee epudate their action and accept the
Communist proposal for united front the coming elections
that will enable abors forces to stand united common pro-
at the time permitting group to put forth its
own ultimate program while at the time supporting the
united ticket
To refuse such demand will brand the socialist party as
traitor and disgrace the working class deserving of nothing
but condemnation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-27
international Labor
Defence Will Picnic
June 10, in Chicago

CHICAGO, May 26.-Members and
sympathizers of International Labor
Defense will have a good time on
Sunday, June 10 at the Summer Fes-
tival and Picnic to be given under the
auspices Of Local Chicago Of the LID.
at Brands Park, 1869 Elston Ave.
Manuel Gomez, secretary of the
Anti-Imperialist League of North
America will speak on the relation of
Mexico to Latin-America and the Uni
ted States Imperialist policy toward
our southern neighbors, While c. T.
Chi. of the Kuomintang Chinese Ma
tionalist Party) will tell of the pres
ent Revolutionary Situation in China
and the aspirations of his people.
Sam Kissin's famous Russian Or
chestra will furnish the tunes for
the Parks noted dancing pavilion.
Games will be played continuously.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-27
By CY OGDEN.

The present conflict within the
American churches between funda-
mentalism and modernism is of suffi-
cient social Importance to require the
careful attention of all who are inter-
ested in Analysing correctly American
social and economic conditions. No
Communist can disregard this ques-
ton merely because the dispute is one
of religion. AS Marx has pointed out,
struggle over religion may be mere
ly the covering of deeper social con-
flict which takes this particular form
because of lack of understanding on
the part of the oppressed of the I'M
DERIVING social factors of their OBJ
preston.
Peasant Reaction.
Any person who has spent some
time in the American "backwoods"
realizes the important part that this
question of Fundamentalism PLAYS in
the minds of a large percentage of the
population. To many individuals,
sometimes even to whole communities,
Fundamentalism is the greatest issue
of the day before which all other
issues sink into insignificance. What
is the nature of this issue? What, if
any, is its social basis? Why has it
taken such hold at the present mo-
ment?
Disregarding all the intricacies of
dogma on which the question of Fun
damentalism is based, we can gener-
alize the whole matter by saying that
Fundamentalism is reactionary
movement, movement back to the
ideas of their grandfathers, protest
against the modern spirit, against
the changes in ideas that have come
up in the last fifty to g hundred
years.
Among the Country Poor.
What social classes are affected by
this reaction? Firstly, there is some
Importance in the fact that the con-
troversy has been fiercest among the
Baptists and Methodists; protestant
sects of emotional character which
have their strongest holds on the
poorer classes of the country, the
petty bourgeoisie and workers of the
small town, the poor farmer, the mass
OF the Negroes, etc. Secondly, the
strength of the Fundamentals move
ment is in the small town, on the
farm, in parts of the country like the
lower South where there is a low
standard of living for the masses.
The center of the attack of the move
ment is the large city with its great
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-27
The Fundamentals Controversy

wealthy churches supported by mil
lionaires.
Among the Baptist Fundamentalists
the bitterest object of attack is the
Park Avenue Church in New York
City which is supported by the Rookie
fellers. The name of Rockefeller has
for years been symbol to the small
town for advancing monopolistic cap
italism. 1t is against Rockefeller and
his wealth that the Fundamertalist
Baptists have directed theil attacks.
Again and again at Baptist conven.
tiOns protests have been raised
against the influence of the Rockefel-
Ter millions in the church. One Of the
reasons why that hypocrite of fun
damentalist, John Roach Straton, has
captured the imagination of the small
town Fundamentals is the belief that
he is carrying on the battle in the
very camp of the enemy, in the CEN
ter of American wealth and plutocra-
cy, New York City.
"The New Freedom" Again.
What is the basis of this move
ment? 1t is a reaction against the So
cial and economic changes that have
taken place in this country; reaction
against modern capitalist develop
ment; a blind reaction striking out
against evils which it feels but does
not understand, The attack on Sci
ence and evolution is dimly connected
with the cities which Science has
built, with the factories, the banks,
the great magnates who have taken
over the wealth of the country. The
cry of Back to the Bible" Back
from Science" means also Back from
capitalist concentration; Back to the
period of free land; Back to the period
before sons and daughters were drawn
to the slavery of the factories; Back
to the period before mortgages, ten
ant farming, and control of the bank
ers.
The Issue 0bscured.
Religion is the opiate of the people.
The fundamentalist controversy is a
blind deceiving the masses about the
true character of the social struggle.
The advances of monopolistic capital
ism are hidden by the dust of religious
controversy. The masses are con-
fused, are made to forget the real
issue. Our task is to uncover the eyes
of the backward masses, to show them
that the direction is not backwards
but forwards. Forward by organiza-
ton of society that will have no place
for economic oppression, mortgages,
and wage slavery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-27
Gotham Rhymsters
Decide to Do Something
Useful at Long Last

Dear Comrade Editor:
Intelligent proletarians 9TH 1t
means all of us) omuivorous prole-
tarians, ditto, vegetarian proletarians
and even those who dine exclusively
on flesh meats are urged to come to
L abor Temple Auditorium, 14th
Street and End Avenue on Thursday
evening, June 9th. P. NJ.
Were you ever poet? If not you
don't know what you have missed,
The poets have gotten us into lot
of trouble but we forgive them, darn
their hides. Because they are in
teresting and probably do some good.
But doing good is the last thing that
occurs to poet which proves that a
poet is neither born nor made.
What self made poet wants 20
do, while he is normal is to disturb
people. If a person is married and
living with his lawfully welded wife
he paints the delights of concubinage
for him. And if he is living in sin
he expiates on the pleasures of con-
formity. In other words a poet is
never in accord with his compeers.
That's why poets are tolerated.
On the night alluded to a group
of poets will poetize for the benefit
of The DAILY WORKER. DONE as
sumo that we are ready to die he
cause we accept straw. We ave
really out for a jolly good time and
our poets are unusual. That is, they
don't take themselves seriously They
are not half as conceited as some of
our columnists and only few Of
them sent self-addressed envelopes
with their contributions.
You will hear a good deal more
about this phenomenon before the
night Of June 8. But this is enough
for once.
Fraternally yours, the publicity
man Of nucleus F-4 sub. I-B. WP.A.
In l.. w. T.
P. S.-Tickets for this affair can
be secured at The DAILY WORKER
office 93 East First Street; Workers
Party Office, 1OS East 14th Street;
Freiheit Office, Union Square, and
100 University Place.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-27

Lunacharsky, Author of
"The Legend of the
Bears Wedding"

Russia's second contribution to the
American cinema market, "The Le-
gend of the Bears Wedding" W, +
is now showing at the Fifty-fifth
Street Cinema, the newest little mo-
ton picture theatre devoting itself to
the presentation of "art" films, was
written by A. V. Lunacharsky, Peo-
pies Commissar of Education in Soviet
Russia. The story, based on a legend
long current in Russia folk lore, deals
with the ravaging effects of prenatal
Influence upon the son of noble
woman attacked by a bear lust prior
to his birth. The son, played on the
screen by K. V. Eggert, who was also
director of the film, suffers from an
overpowering desire to make bear-like
attacks on women whenever love
burns in his heart. The leading fe-
male role in the Legend Of the Bears
Wedding" is played by Vera Malan-
ovskaya, Lillian Gish type, who has
gained considerable eminence in Rus
STA as a screen actress. Mile. Malan-
ovskaya is the daughter in real life
of the manager of the Moscow Art
Theatre.
The fifty-fifth Street Cinema.
where the film is enjoying the Ameri
can premiere, opened few days ago
with a policy Of presenting the most
intelligent American and foreign mo-
tion picture productions. On the
same bill with "The Legend of the
Bears Wedding" is an interesting
program Of short subjects. The one
which has created the most comment.
both here and in Germany, where it
was produced, is "The Magician of
Talao," done entirely in animated
silhouettes. Other films on the bill
are "Knee Deep in Love-" produced
by E. Merle Johnson, and color
film, which accompanies the over
ture, on which the Eastman Film
Laboratories in Rochester, spent
$250,O00 during experiments.
Tickets for this performance are on
sale now at the local office of The
DAILY WORKER, 1Os East 14th
Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-27
LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

l am a reader of The DAILY
WORKER, but not a member of the
party. / just want to ask you whether
we will ever have a union again here
in the stock yards of Chicago, where
| work.
We are working just like slaves.
We have the bonus system, Oh Boy,
and we have to work for that bonus
of two dollars a week.
You can't say a word about the
union to anyone, because if you do,
you are fired, and the men are afraid
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-27

to talk to one another. They don't
need any bosses, they watch them
selves.
| don't like what you say about
the priests. There is good and bad
fH all of us. In the last strike we
ha,. here, we had few priests on the
picket line every morning. Tho some
others were telling the strikers that
if they didn't go back to work they
would go to hell.
l wish you would write something
about the Yards.-M. W., Chicago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-27
T. u. E. L. Picnic to See
Lively Baseball Clash

A fierce diamond clash between
the Old Militants and the Young Mill
tants is scheduled to feature the 7th
Annual T.U.E.L. picnic at Koltze's
Park, this coming Sunday, in Chicago.
The old birds may be rather shaky
in the underpinning, but they sure
know how to use their noodles, and
they hope to outwit their youthful
opponents. The young guys are full
of pep and go, as all young militants
should be, and they have boosted all
over the city that the game is as good
as theirs. The opposing lineups are
as follows:
Old Militants
Maurer, 3rd base-Captain
Loeb, LIST base
Ford, Pitcher
Abern, Catcher
Johnson, Center field
Matheson, Left Field
Wolfe, Short stop
Phillips, Right field
]. Edwards, 2nd base
Young Militants.
Fam, End base
Murphy, Left Field
Gilman, 1st base
Angelo, Right field
Yusem, Third base
Glotzer, Pitcher-Captain
Zalisko, Shortstop
Herman, Catcher
Greenberg, Centerfield
The game will be played on the ex-
cellent diamond in the center of the
grove, and will start at sharp. Sam
Ham, famous bookseller, will do the
officiating. ed. Poor Sam, what did
he do to deserve this p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-27

According by Victor Berger the meet
ing of the national executive committee of the socialist party re-
Gently held in Esburgh decided that presidential candidate
will be nominated that ticket for the 1928 elections
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-27
PatrOnize Our Advertisers.
Labor Sports Union Has
Biggest Athletic Meet
Scheduled for Waukegan

CHICAGO, May 26, (FP).-The
Labor Sports Union announces
what promises to be the biggest
labor athletic meet in America for
July 30 and 81 at Waukegan, Ill.
Baseball, soccer football, track and
gymnastic events will feature the
2-day meet at Electric Park.
The Labor Sports Union at 453
North Ave-, Chicago, welcomes
labor sports entries and inquiries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-27

A new producing firm composed Of
Bernard Lohmuller, production man
ager and art director for the Earl
Carroll Vanities, and Christopher T.
Seattle, company manager of the Van
tiles, are planning a musical show to
be produced next month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-27

Talk About Girls" the new must
cal comedy which Harry H. 0shrin
and Sam H. Grisman are sponsoring
will open at the Waldorf Theatre
Monday evening, June 6. 1.-THE Lad
der" the J. Frank Davis play now
playing there will be transferred TO
the Cort theatre on the same date.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-27
BroadUay Briefs

"a VERY WISE VIRGIN" COM
edy by Sam Janney, author of Loose
Ankles" is due at the Bijou theatre
Thursday June End. The play will De
given tryout in Stamford, Monday
and Tuesday and in Mamaroneck on
Wednesday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-27

NeighbOrhOOd Playhouse
i66 Grand st. Drydock 1919
Grand Street FOllies 1877 Ss
Every Evening Except Mon.) Mat. Sat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-27

Read Ths-2aily Worker Ever Liza
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-23

swayed opinion Of those chiefly re-
sponsible for preservation of the
beautiful ideal.
Outside Map Limits
Some idea of the drift of popula-
ton away from the Federal city as
planned by the founders, may be
derived from the fact that nearly
all permanent embassies and lega-
tons have been constructed outside
the limits Of the original map.
The high-class residential section
Of the city also has drifted from the
course originally anticipated. The
new National Cathedral, greatest
Gothic structure of modern times,
now under construction, is over a
mile outside L'Enfant's map.
The facts of modern conditions
involve the necessary construction
of a network Of boulevards, tying-in
the new residence areas with the
Mall and centers of governmental
activity.
It VIII be necessary also Tor ex-
tensive plans to be made to assure
the harmonious development of the
District of Columbia with neighbor-
ing areas in Maryland and Virginia.
Memorial Is Important
The commissions report describes
the present construction of the
Memorial bridge across the Potomac
river, connecting the Lincoln Memo
rial with Arlington House, once the
home of Gen. Robert E. Lee, as the
most important recent advance in
the development of the city Of
Washington.
Large possibilities for beautifica-
ton of the city are foreseen also In
judicious expenditure of the $780,
100000 appropriations authorized
by Congress for governmental build
ings.
The original plans for the capital
city. according to the reports, sought
to dispose Of public buildings
throughout the city in convenient
fashion, and to enhance their at
Effectiveness with ample park spaces.
These open spaces were arranged
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-23
HEALED BY PASTOR;
COMPENSATION is LOST
Workman Contends He Was Cured
by Prayer; Halt Payment.

Workman Contends He Was Cured
by Prayer; Halt Payment. :
BIZ Times Special
NORFOLK, Va, Sept. 23.-Be-
cause he commended he had been
cured of injuries by prayer, E. H.
Boush, a former employe Of the
Richmond Cedar Works, may lose
a compensation ranted him under
the employers liability act of Vir-
ginia.
Boush was injured while at work.
He attended prayer meeting con-
Quoted in tent here by the Rev.
A. G.. Carr, an agent Of Mrs. Aimee
Semple Mcpherson Of Los Angeles.
Carr said he was healer, and
when Boush came upon the plat
form he caused a sensation. He
left the platform saying he had been
cured,
The Richmond Cedar Works i'm
mediately stopped his compensation
because under the law a person
must be disabled in order to receive
money for injuries suffered in line
of duty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-23

with the purpose not only OF giving
to each building its individual land
scape setting, but also with the idea
Of making park connections between
the Capitol and the White House.
Designed AS Work of Art
TN short, the Federal city was
designed as a work of art, each part
of which was vitality related to all
other parts as to produce a sense
of unity and grandeur.
1.-THE prevailing motives in the
design were taken from the French
royal city of Versailles. designed for
Louis XIV by his architects in as
ISOLATION with lie Notre, greatest of
landscape architects, whose designs
have been followed throughout the
civilized world"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-23
WASHINGTON TO
CROW BY PLAN
MADE IN 1892
Drift Of Population Is Far
From Program Outlined
by 0riginators.
BY HARRY w. FRANTz
United Press Stan Correspondent

OHIJtu Tfb5B 5IaH CUfTBSUUnutHI
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.-The
City Of Washington, complex topo-
graphical dream Of George Wash
ington, Thomas Jefferson and the
French engineer, Pierre Charles
L'Enfant, will continue to evolve,
according to the oligirial plan of
1892, if views of the National Com
mission of Fine Arts are permitted
to prevail.
Capital population has migrated
heavily to areas outside the limits
defined in the so-called L'Enfant
plan and there has been much agi-
taticn for drastic modification Of
the original map, but this has not
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-23
HOLD MARRYING PARSoN
Orders Are Cancelled at Meeting Of
Clergymen.

y EE EksiS5 Nd, Sept. 2s.-Rich-
ard T. Western. former marrying
parson," has been indicted by the
grand jury of Cecil County, charged
with illegally performing a mar
riage ceremony on March 10, 1927.
Minutes Of meetings of the Will
mington conference OF the Meth
odist Episcopal church were read to
the jurors. These contained testi-
mony which led a jury Of clergymen
in 1921 to cancel the orders of West
rem, who was charged with "com-
mercializing the Office Of marriage"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-23

Rent your vacant property. A
want ad In The Times tells over
100000 daily about your place. Call
Main $500. Your credit is good.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-27
Alteration Painters
Hold Meeting Where
Men Can Join for S.

To give all non-union painters an
opportunity TO become union men, the
international Progressive Alteration
Painters Union will hold a special
meeting Thursday evening at their
headquarters, So East 116th St., where
all painters can join the union for IS
on that night only. The regular in
itiation rate is S25.
AS the books of the Painters Union
are now closed and more than $4,000
painters in greater New York are not
union members, the Independent AL
teration Painters Union is means Of
organizing the un-organized painters,
who latter can attempt to become af-
filiated with the Painters Union. Most
Of the un-organized painters are al
iteration men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-27
WOLL-FRAYNE GANG ACCUSED OF.
DOCTORING NOTES IN FURRIERS' CASE
(Cont inued fro1n Pnae o.

Continued from Page Oae)
to in the committees report, which
was never submitted to the Joint
Board Tor correction as had been
promised.
Quizzed On Edited Notes
Asked by Assistant District kttor-
ney Brothers how he explained the
fact that such statements appeared
in the report II they were never
made, Samuel Liebowitz said:
81 believe the committee was very
much interested in getting us into
trouble in an effort to bring us into
disrepute with the membership"
Just where this police bribery talk
originated may be sur1nised from
certain Of yesterdays testimony. All
four members of the Joint Board tes-
titled that Matthew VOL, head Of the
investigating committee and also
head Of the National Civic Fedora
ton, kept questioning each Of them
repeatedly as to how much money
they had paid the pollce-assuming
beforehand that they had paid.
Samuel Resnick stated that Frayne
said to him:
81 am an old man and you are a
young man. know what the police
are. You cannot build anything, not
even a church in this city, without
paying the police. Now tell US what
you paid"
Resnick told him, as he repeated on
the witness stand yesterday, that he
had never paid penny. This is the
answer quoted by Miss Kesin in her
report; but in Mr.. Frayne's report
the answer quotes Resniek as saying
he paid out $500 a week.
Gold In Two Places Same Time.
This was but one of many contra
dictions in the two stenographic re-
ports. Gross pointed out another
when Assistant District Attorneys
Brothers read from the committees
report Of what happened during one
period when both stenographers were
out of the room. The report says,
"Gold told Shapiro to tell all he
knew"-implying, all he knew about
police graft. Yet Gross stated yes
terday that Gold was not present on
that occasion at all, but was in Bos-
ton speaking at a meeting.
Frayne's report has another error,
which was eagerly quoted by Vol
when he was on the stand several
weeks ago. It states that the Amer
lean Civil Liberties Union endorsed a
loan for the Furriers' Joint Board;
whereas the statement made by Nor
ris Fl. Cohne, who is quoted in this