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Co.'s SURPRISE This Worker.

Editor, Daily Worker:
l. have just read in The DAILY
WORKER about the arrest Of the
two members of the Young Workers
league for distributing leaflets on
Union Square.
Once for all we,t the people Of Amer
icaEshould see that the laws Of our
constitution should not be trampled
on by any petty Judge or policeman,
oai% 9TH orr money. Once for all,
we should see too, that those we pay,
should work for the people, and not
for any Tom or Dick, who will give
him some pin-money, or whoever has
a pull in politics.
Our judges and policemen are here
to see to fair justice, humanity and
freedom, and not to prosecute their
fellow-men, and free born citizens.
l am surprised that a policeman who
is a citizen and besides human being
should dare to act so animal-like to
one who is like himself, a man.
BENJAMIN.
April 2s, 1927, 8 p. m.
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workers are compelled to labor under
whatever conditions imposed upon
them, with a military guard in every
sugar mill and plantation.
If worker or peasant suddenly
disappears or is found to 'have COM
mitted suicide" crimes which are
easily traced to the police hoodlums
or to agents of the Dept. of Public
Order, there comes on the scene the
expert on crime concealing, Of the
Machado clique, the chief inquisitor,
Barraque, or his underlings, Eguilior.
They investigate" and instruct the
judges and magistrates how to "hush
up" These gentlemen obey without
question. So the grim acts of
Machado's henchmen are yelled, and
silenced.
The towns of the interior, and
around the sugar centrals, countless
men in rags and half starved
wander about jobless. This army of
unemployed will soon be many times
increased by the termination of the
grinding season. The sufferings of
the workers who depend upon the
sugar industry for their existence
has been further augmented this year
by the restriction, per order Of
Machado, of the sugar output so as
to retain or raise the prevailing sugar
profit and thus assure the bulky prof
its of the sugar corporations.
The graft and corruption pervading
the high government officials, reflects
on the sanitation and health condi-
tons of the country. The housin,
conditions of the workers and their
surroundings are almost beyond des-
cription in their rottenness. Streets
are unpaved, not cleaned, particularly
in towns in the region of Cameguey,
with mosquitoes and other vermin
breeding freely. Such conditions in
the tropics mean. for the workers
malaria, typhus, hookworm, and even
occasionally yellow fever, and the
death of thousands of workers babies.
Such is the lot of the Cuban
workers under Machado, who is now
being entertained and feted at Hotel
Biltmore, by theNew York bankers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-03
Don't Be Passive.

In Evolution in the Light of Mod
ern Knowledge Geological section,
professor William w. Watts, says:
"The development of armour has
throughout geological history been a
constant temptation and one highly
dangerous to those that have taken
this primrose path A few exam
pies may be given; the heavily plated
fishes of the Devonian Period, the de-
velopment of granules, scales and
spines by the dinesarus, followed by
groups more and more heavily plated,
encased, and spined; the occurrence
of horned, armoured, and plated forms
in some of the Tertiary mammals
In the majority of cases where
this method of passive resistance has
been resorted to, the form adopting it
have gone under in competition with
those which have developed weapons
of attack, teeth and claws, necessarily
accompanied by activity, speed and
movement, and attack"
| was struck with the wonderful
neatness of this passage as applied
to the pacifist of our day. Further
comment seems to be superfluous.
(Eaphasis mine) A. ]. L.
Los Angeles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-03
BROOKLYN Bag Makers Also.

BE IT RESOLVED that we, the
membership of the Paper Plate and
Bag Makers Union, Local LOT in
meeting assembled, declare our deep
rooted conviction that Sacco and Van
zetti are guiltless Of the Crime
charged against them and that their
execution would constitute the most
unjustified, cold-hlooded and brutal
case of judicial murder on record, and
BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED
that we demand a new and immediate
trial and the freedom Of Sacco and
Vanzetti, and
BE TT FURTHER RESOLVED
that we urge a National Conference
in order to help free Sacco and Van
zetti, and
BE TT FURTHER RESOLVED
that copies Of this resolution be sent
TO the Governor of the State of Mas
sachusetts and to the press.
M. Gordon, Secy.
WORK Frs! STOP THE MURDER
OF 5ACCO AND VANZETTI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-03
LETTERS FROM OUR READERS
PRINTERS FIGHT HARD.

Editor, Daily Worker:
The strike of the printers who were
locked out on April 16 by the White
Printing Company here in Chicago,
has been progressing very favorably.
The open-shoppers of the White
Printing Company have fetched up
scabs from all over the country, and
brought them here to bring the strike
together with the Thompson strike
breaking police and thugs, which are
very numerous around the White
plant. The company is unable to pro-
duce third Of the work it did before
the lockout. The little work that is
being produced, is done in such a way
that the customers may refuse to ac-
cept it, because the inexperienced
scabs are unable to do a printers
job.
To date the unions involved in the
lockout have succeeded in transferring
the printing of six publications from
the open shop plant to union shops
1t is believed that more will follow.
The open shoppers will long regret
this onslaught they have made upon
the Printers Union, involving five of
them. In the hearing on the injunc-
ton, the bosses-owned judge, Wilker-
son delayed the action for another
week.
Comradely greetings.
DAN POLLIN.
1868 Walton Street, Chicago, ILL.,,
April %, 1927.
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The Theatre Guild serves Mr..
Mines pastry on the best silver
ware: Laura Hopes Crews, Erskine
Sanford, and Dudley Digges are pure
sterling. From Broadway producer
such a performance would be alto
gether praiseworthy. The Guild
claims to be more radical, more ex-
perimental, more advanced, more
daring. Yet to produce Spread
Eagle" "Pinwheel," "Rapid Transit"
loud Speaker" Earth" "In Abra-
hams Bosom" took more courage,
and in some instances more discrim-
ination than is shown in anything l
have seen by the Guild this year.
The Guild gets sore if you say this
bluntly. They have cut off my re-
view tickets because l have said so
bluntly. I'm glad to find Mr.. Wool
colt of the World saying the same
thing politely. Pm sure he'll
still get tickets; and maybe his re-
marks will affect the Guilds future
policy. It's pity to see an organiza-
tion that started out so brave, go
flabby.
If you're tired, if you want to be
amused lightly, if you feel it's spring
and you're fired of heavy stuff-"Mr.
PIN Passes By" may be worth your
1920.
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Canadian Legion Like American

CANADIAN Legion Like American
Legion.
Editor, Daily Worker:
l read The DAILY WORKER very
closely as regards opinions of the
American Legion in getting two
teachers fired from jobs. 1t seems as
thought they believe in Employs pol
icy, "treat 'em rough" and that our
country is not always wrong. Our
Canadian Legion is not always right
and uses very poor judgment in all
lowing some of its members to have
too many privileges. Some of the
Canteeners among the returned SOL
diers here had protested about the
Cantonese flag flying on a certain
day over the National League 1t was
simply the anniversary of the forma-
ton of the league and was satisfac-
torily explained.
l wish we could send some Canadian
Legionnaires with the American Le-
gion to Paris so that all the drunkards
could drink themselves to death.
Yours for emancipation,
THOMAS ASHTON.
Alberta, April 10th
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-03
Philadelphia Youth
To Hear III. M. Wicks

PHILADELPHIA, May I'll. M.
Wicks will lecture on Present Day
China" Sunday, May 8, at p. M at
Grand Fraternity Hall, 1926 Arch ST.
This meeting, arranged by the
Young Workers League, will assure
all those who attend of clear cut
analysis of all the forces at play in
the Chinese revolutionary arena, and
Of an explanation of all the latest de-
velopments. Admission is free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-03
VI DRAMA II
Drama Bath, Shave and Haircut
mr.. PIN Passes By" Turns Radicalism Over to
the Upper Classes
Reviewed BY HARBoR ALLEN

ReNieMeu ny HAkbOk ALLEN
Socialism gets bath, a shave. and
a haircut in the Theatre Guilds latest
production. "Mr. PIN Passes Bv."
by A. A. Milne, revived at the Gar
rick, is devoted to proving that YOU
can be Socialism, the old sense,
hence a radical-and still be
gentleman.
by the time the play is over the
dapper young Socialist is much less
OF Socialist; and the Snug conserv-
alive little less snug. They become
good friends and marry the right
women. A comedy made to order for
English liberals: hence American lib-
erals will love it.
A Civilized Play.
This does not imply that "Mr. PIN
Passes By" is without merritt YOU
like that kind of play. It's a gentle,
playful satire on English morality, on
English knuckling to church and state
and fear of publicity. 1t says, politely,
that George Marden, J. P, with his
set ideas on art, his old English home,
his preference for talking about pigs,
and his termagant female relatives
George Marden may be cad and a
coward and rag in the wind of pub
llc opinion; but after all, don't you
know, he's a pretty fine fellow. To
succeed thus in tight-roping the top
of the fence, in saying something and
yet saying nothing, in kidding 'em
along" and yet offending nobody is
what the critics call writing a
Civilized" play. Nobody could be
more civilized than Mr.. Milne.
Mr.. PIN Passes By" shows what
happens to radicalism when the up
per classes get hold of it. They
bowdlerize it, dress it in white pants
and tennis shoes, lean it against a
baby grand piano, and wreathe cpl
grams in its hair. Naturally it losses
virility; but then, it gains in grace
fulness. Gracefulness is Mr.. Mines
forte: he has touch of Shaw and
barrel of Barrie.
English Pastry.
| can see that there must be room
in the theatre for English pastry
Personally, I'm fed up on pastry, I'm
tired of polite laughter on the stage
The theatre is to me a place where
you should be moved, made furious
made cold and hot and ecstatic. A
good play is to me torrent Of
emotion, swift pattern of action
feeling set free, ideas without but
tons on the end to prevent their
getting under your skin. Shakespeare
knew how to write a play; SO die
Schiller, Lope de Vega, Calderon
Moliere. None of them were afraid
Of horseplay, roughhousing, Of
swat and bang and good coarse
language. The man who wants to
write for a labor audience would dc
we'll to study them. He would do well
to ignore the Barries and the
Mines.
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Book BARGAINS
AT 0PECIAL PRICEO Y
First Notice to Readers

In this space, EVERY DAY,
will appear notice of books be-
ing offered at unusually low
prices. These prices are made
on books and pamphlets left in
small lots-or on books we have
been able to purchase at espe-
cially favorable terms. Stocks of
books offered will be limited.
Orders will be filled in turn as
received. Cash remittance must
be made. No discounts allowed.
Watch this space daily and rush
your orders to secure the unu-
sual advantages offered.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-03
May Dance and Festival.

The Lower Downtown LID. Branch
is arranging MAY Dance and Festi-
val" for Saturday, May 81, at the
downtown Workers Club Rooms, 80
East End Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-03
BUY THE DAILY WORKER
AT THE NEW SSTANDS

Riihonen, AL G. Stone, and Sam OEss.
This Council, in turn, elected AL G.
stone, secretary, who also officiates
as the secretary of the school. The
students plan to publish a school bull
letin, having elected an editorial COM
mittee.
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broadway Briefs

Louise Carter and Lyons Wickland
have been added to the cast of "He
Loved the Ladies" the Herbert Hall
Winslow play which opens at the
Frolic Theatre May 8.
"The 10Th Hole" is the title selec-
ted for Frank Cravan's new play.
Rehearsing will begin Immediately
under the direction of Sam Forrest,
and the first performance will be
given in Atlantic City, May 80, prior
to the Broadway showing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-03

BUY THE DAILY WORKER
AT THE REV SSTANDs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-03

WORKERS! STOP THE MURDER
OF 5ACCO AND VANZETTI
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sam HARRIS THEA. West 42nd ST.
II. Twice Daily $3.50 a. $50
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-16
MuSSOIini Likes
R. 0. T. C. Idea and
May Adopt Scheme

Mussolini is combing the world for
ideas to bolster up his blackshir-t die
tatorship Of Italy.
Brigadier-General William Verbeck
brought this news back from Italy
with him yesterday when he landed
from the liner George Washington.
Mussolin has ordered a comprehen-
sive study Of the organization and
methods of the American Army Re-
serve Officers Training Corps in his
Overwhelming search for new ideas
to safeguard his fascist rule, the
brigadier declared.
The American general was decora-
ted as a Commander Of the Grown
of Italy" last January, and went to
Rome to acknowledge his gratitude.
A fascist himself in his sympathies,
Verbeck was greatly impressed with
Mussolini and extremely enthusiasts
tic over his work. The supreme
blackshirt gave the humble American
general IS minutes for an interview.
Likes r. o. T. c.
"a substantial part Of those valu-
able eighteen minutes" General YER
beck said, "was devoted to a discus
sion Of the training corps school idea
and the possibility Of its Introduction
in Italy.
He seemed deeply interested in the
idea, and asked me to send him full
data on the organization and main
Thence Of the training camp school.
He seemed fully in accord with the
idea. and most anxious to introduce
if or its counterpart in Italy"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-16
Class War Going
Strong in India Says
Revolutionary Leader

LONDON, (By Mail) when I
went to India ! was accused of intro
ducing the class war into the coun-
try" said S. Saklatvala, NJ. p, when
interviewed by a DAILY WORKER
representative on his recent visit.
1T is not a question Of bringing
the class-war into India. It is there
already, and nobody can stop il, said
Saklatvala.
ION the one hand you have the
comfortable Indian gentleman leading
q life of traditional Oriental luxury;
on the other, conditions of restitution
more intense than anything imagin-
able in Great Britain.
"In many industrial districts the
death-rate for infants under II months
Of age Excluding plague and other
infectious diseases) stands az the APP
palling figure of 600 out of every
1,000--in Bombay it is $50 per 1000.
That This enormous percentage of
deaths is due entirely to the half
starved condition Of the infants par
ents and TO the insanitary environ
ment into which these babies are born
is shown by the infantile mortality
among the richer classes, which is
: " 50 per 900.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-16
Results Of the Conference Of the Trade Union Committees and
Consumers Cooperative Organizations on Price Reduction in USSR

of cooperative and state
trading organizations which work
along parallel lines and through
maximum reduction Of state retail
trade in those places in which the CO.
operatives have the financial and or
ganizational possibilities of attending
to the requirements of the consumers,
preserving thereby the credits and
commodity supply to the cooperatives
organizations which were formerly
supplied to the state trading organ
izations in the districts.
By eliminating parallel organiza-
tons in the trading system we will
undoubtedly be able to further reduce
retail prices, as this would load the
cooperative apparatus to its full
capacity, and, consequently, would re-
duce their overhead expenses.
The conference also recognized the
necessity of taking steps towards the
reduction Of the expenditures which
are not under the control Of the coop
erative organizations. These are;
better accountancy in transactions
with the industrial organizations,
rent rate regulation through legisla-
ton. The reduction of retail prices
must be carried out in each individual
case in accordance with the special
conditions of the various districts.
Attention must be paid to the local
conditions and particularly to the ex-
isting level of retail prices. Those
districts and organizations which
have already considerably reduced
the retail prices, should reduce less
than those which have as yet done
very little in his respect.
In order that the retail price re-
duction campaign should be carried
on systematically, the conference "re-
cognizes the necessity of strengthen
ing the regulation and control with
in the cooperatives and raising the
responsibility Of the higher coopera-
tive centres for the work done by
the lower organizations. Personal
responsibility must be laid upon the
heads of the trading organizations
for the timely and full realization of
the decisions concerning the reduc-
ton of prices
This decision recognizes that prin-
ciple of unity of the cooperative sys-
tenn which makes the entire sytsem
responsible for the work of each of
it's parts and places upon it the task
of instituting regulation and. control
within the system.
The above does not cover all that
the conference decided concerning the
retail price reduction campaign. The
conference recognized that this cam
paign can bring the desired results
only on condition that the population,
the social organizations and the press
will take part in it. Insofar as the
reduction of prices can be accom-
plished only with the active partici-
patton of the people and the social
organizations, we must secure the
participation Of the trade unions, the
auditing and shop commissions and
the press in the campaign"
Such, IA brief, are the results of
the conference
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-16
British Fascist Are
Aiming Against the
Next General Strike

LONDON, (By MaiD.-The fascists
are arming for the next general
strike!
There can be no doubt that the
various factions who describe them
selves as fascist" have recently re-
ceived large supplies of arms and
cieved large supplies Of arms and
money from certain groups in Britain.
My informant, writes our special
correspondent, is a socialist who has
regarded British fascism as menace
from its inception. He is now in a
position to secure valuable informa-
ton regarding the facist movement.
Huge quantities Of arms and am
munition. he says. have been secreted
in various parts of the country. Not
only small arms, but machine-guns
and artillery have been obtained from
certain mysterious sources.
Secret Gang.
Standing above the open fascist or
CARNATIONS is a secret "grand coun-
Gil" composed Of highly-placed army,
navy, and air force Officers, and a
group Of wealthy civilians.
Tho existence of this council is
known only to trusted few, and only
half dozen persons know the names
of its members.
The council believes that labor will
meet the Anti-Trade Union Bill with
direct action. They believe that there
must, sooner or later, be real gem
eral strike, and see in this an oppor-
tunity for proving the value Of fascist
organization TO the government.
The open fascist organizations are
composed Of irresponsible middle-class
youths who are taught to regard the
senseless slogan, "god, king, and
country" as a political program.
But although they apparently lack
capacity to think, these youths are
receiving military training, and will
prove a formidable fighting force
Whether British labor likes il OF
not, it will find. as Italy, Germany
Belgium, and other countries have
found, that fascism will have to be
fought.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-16
RUSSIAN PARTY
ASSAILS SPEECH
OF C. zINOVIEv
Talks Unity for Fac
tiCnal Purposes

MOSCOW, May 15.-Gregory Tin
oviev's speech of May Q, before a
non-party meeting in celebration of
Press Day and Fifteenth Anniversary
of the founding of "Pravda," is now
in the hands of the Central Control
Commission of the Party. The Cen
trail Executive Committee of the
Communist Party severely denounced
the descriptive speech of Zinoviev for
its attacks on the Central Committee
as we'll as upon the editors of Pravda.
The Central Committee considers
Zinoviev's speech as unprecedented
in Bolshevist ranks and as absolutely
inadmssable and disgraceful The
speech was in direct violation of all
the Party decisions and of the
agreement of the opposition, includ-
ing Zinoviev, to cease all fractional
activity.
Denounced BY Membership.
Leading committees and function
aries of the Communist Party in
both Moscow and Leningrad empha-
size in adopting resolutions against
latest fractional outburst of Zinoviev
that his speech is clearly of a dis
rupting anti-Party nature and that
it was intended to sap confidence in
Party Central Committee ard Pravda
editors.
Fake Unity Proposals.
Zinoviev tried to conceal his dis
ruptive speech under fraudulent
plea for unity. Instead of trying
honestly to achieve unity in ranks of
Party, instead of submitting to the
Party decisions and fulfilling his
promises to cease factional activity.
he talks about unity. but in such a
manner as practically to destroy
such unity. His speech was new
step toward developing struggle
against Party in absolutely mad
missable form.
Furthermore, the fact that this
speech was delivered before non-Party
meeting is an attempt to mobile nom
Party masses against Party, for the
purpose of obtaining outside the
Party support that the opposition bloc
could not obtain within the Party.
The Moscow and Leningrad resolu-
tions declare his speech is a signal for
split from Party and demand that he
be called to strict account for his ac-
tons, considering especially the fact
that Zinoviev is not an ordinary
member of the Party, but a member
of it's Central Committee.
The Moscow garrison claims also
that Central Committee and Central
Control Commission should put an
end to disorganizing tactics of the
unprincipled and bankrupt leaders,
opposition.