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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08
Race Wars-An Ever Present Danger

The danger of a race Chicago produced by the
scrupuous campaigns waged by the democrat and republican
party politicians preceding the recent election brings forward
sharply created by the friction between
Negroes and whites in America.
capitalists themselves the sight Of white worker
competing with black worker job poisonous doctrine
class been fed relied to set motion whole
of prejudice which will prevent unity against the
enemy-the capitalist But prejudced white work
it is nevertheless true that racial hatred less deep
than any other in modern society
William Pcken field secretary of the National Association
for the Advancement Cored People, out of his wide experience
with workers of the black and white races, says:
Contrary the popular superstition about the attitude OF
whites the Negro, find the white working
people open the claim of unqualified equality for coord
working pepoe than other classes Of American whites
One gets this impression he speaks their forums coners
in their other meetings.
addition Negro labor is becoming organ
ze cooperative and articua and is offering greater and
greater power Negro movement that will in
cude them And American coored people still aborers
greater proportion than the people of the white An
active industrial and other economic interests
this people will enlarge the power of any organization
The ally of the white working class in the struggle against
oppression the Negro working class which is still
pressed The powerful ally of the Negro their
struggle for social economic and political equality is the
of white workers whose social status differs in degree but not in
kind
The American labor movement could no greater
mediate progress by aboshng all barsopen and
against Negro entry the unions. 1t is the
perence unions where black and white meet the
ground of unity against the capitalist and his government
agencies that is here the racial lines tend to disappear most
rapidly.
1.-The Unity of Labor Hope of the World" today
includes pointed all who oppressed by the
crushing weight of and farmers white,
brown black and yellow.
The struggle between black white America
win be replaced by struggle against the epoters of
botthe American capitalist class. Unity in labors most
elementary struggles the first step toward unity the poll
teal struggle
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08

The DAILY WORKER editors and business manager are
charged with publishing wd and ascvous material in poem
entitled America in the magazine section of the March IL
number
The charges have been preferred by patriotic societies
but the issue of patriotism is not raised in the complaint The
charges specify simply that the publication of the words cited is
in violation of certain section of the penal codhe section
under which there have been number of prosecutions of play
wrghts producers and actors.
The method in which the representatives of the patriotic
cees have proceeded is thoro hypoca and hope that
before the that will be able
action of the compliments constitutes attack the right
free press and free speech.
The DAILY WORKER does not attempt to justify the par
cular phraseogy used the AS matter of fact the
published only result of the confusion created by
having magazine editor in Chicago while The DAILY WORKER
itself in New York We consider the phraseoogy objected
perhaps the poorest that could be devised of saying
the writer seemed to want to say.
But do defend the right criticize America its nsti
utons This the right that under attack We believe
every in the United States who and understands
nationwide effort being mad muzze the press the
unions workers political parties and all organizations expressing
the discomfort of the will support effort repel
this attack and it for what ispart of the drive
action against all individuals and organizations in opposition
the theory that only Wall Street has the right to only
Wall Street government has the right to rule America
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08

of the Philippines to voice their desires independence
the polls He tries with crude ingenuity to persuade them that
is for their good that they prohibited from expressing
their opinions regarding liberation from the thradom of mper
alsm.
Nothing else expected the White House. Not
only his decision influenced by the investments of American
dollars in the Islands, but consistently carries out the decisive
orienaton of the mperaist policy Of the the
Pacific The decision affects China less than the Philippines
is the policy of Wall Street to keep enslaved the Philippines
order to have base for military operations against the national
liberation movement in China In this connection it is also plain
that the of the nationalist China has given
hope to the great of oppressed cna throughout
the world and the advisers of the puppet White
aware of it's influence upon the Flipinos.
be hoped that proper reply will forthcoming from
the Filipino legislature The only contemplate and
despoc document issued from Washington to hold the pebs
cite in spite of and against Wall Street Imperialism and to follow
the decision with action that will be convincing Coolidge and
his masters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08
The Chinese Liberation Movement Goes to the Left
The Labor Movement Takes Power In Shanghai-HOw 1t
Gained It's Strength

piled in practice. The Congress criticiz-
ed the weaknesses of the trade unions
with the greatest sharpness. 1t work.
ed out plans for establishing better
connections between local branches
and the central committees and secur-
ing common action on the part Of
separate unions. A common program
for the whole movement was adopted
and the structure for industrial fed
Grafton worked out.
THE Congress also dealt with the
alliance between the working class
and the peasantry and went on record
for the building of powerful fed
Grafton of all labor organizations Of
the Far East.
Finally there was the strike move
ment which developed in Shanghai in
the early part Of 1926. There was
strike after strike as follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08

AT a central meeting today over
10000 persons took part. The chief
appeal of the speakers was to sup
port the instruction which they
declared formed an integral part
of the national-revolutionary move
ment"
THE armed uprising which was the
answer of the labor movement to
the murderous atrocities of the mill
tarists, and the aid given them by the
imperialist forces, was preceded by a
strike in which 100000 workers took
part. There is an estimate total Of
100000 workers in Shanghai).
The Chinese labor movement, in
spite of the courage, solidarity and
political understanding it has dis.
played in numberless strikes since
1922 was VIGOROUSLY weak organiza-
tionally.
Previous to May, 1926, it had little
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES is, there was the
poorest of connection between the cen
trail authority and the provincial and
city organization. In addition to this
following the strike and massacre of
strikers in Shanghai in 1925 many Of
the outlying unions had practically
been destroyed.
How was it possible then for the
Shanghai labor movement to show
such organization and political ability
to actually become both the lead
ing and driving force in the struggle
previous to the capture Of Shanghai
by the Peoples. Army?
WE have already mentioned the ire
" mendous influence of the events
in Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang
upon the development of the struggle
for liberation. The struggle against
the imperialists had become sharper
and this had tended to broaden and
at the same time solidify the labor
movement.
The Third Congress of the All
China Federation of Labor and the
measures adopted there to strengthen
the labor movement also had a tre-
mendous influence on the labor move
ment when these decisions were APP
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08
Another Blow Against Philippine independence.

Calvin Coolidge by his veto of act of the Philippine
ature proposing pebce the question of the independence
OF the Islands, clearly reveals the fact that he knows the
whemng majority of the inhabitants of the Philippines would
vote for Immediate absolute and complete independence from the
ton In long note rekng with sophstry the president states
that such vote would be unOnncng that discussion of the
question OF immediate proxmate independence is unmey
and that submitting the question Of the Fpnos
such action requested by the American would be
disturbing to good relations
Coolidge spokesman for the American mperiasts with their
heavy investments in public utilities municipal bonds rubber
and tobacco industries brazeny throws off the mask
of democratic hypocrisy and fatty refuses permit the people
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08
PARENTS CONFERENCE OF YOUNG PIONEERS PROPOSE
CHILDRENS CAMP FOR THIS SUMMER

Children of New York workers will
have an opportunity to enjoy vaca-
tons next summer at their own CO.
operative camp. This was determined
at the Parents Conference" held yes
terday afternoon at the headquarters
of the Young Pioneer Camp, 1OS E.
14th st.
During the past three summers be-
tween 80 and rs children spent periods
ranging from one to three weeks at
Camp Nitgedeiget, the summer play
ground maintained by the United
Workers Cooperative, composed of
active radical trade unionists.
Separate Children's Camp.
If the plans of the present confer
ence materialize, a separate children's
camp, probably located near Nit
gedeiget will be built during the next
few months. Whereas the private
profit-making camps for children
charge between $500 and $3.50 for a
season of weeks, the present camp
for workers children expects to oper-
ate on a basis of $3.50 a week, no
single child, however, being permitted
to remain longer than three weeks.
Martin Gottfried is director of the
proposed camp, and David Lyons is
secretary. Those desiring details
about the plan of the new venture are
invited to write to the Young Pioneer
Camp, 108 e. 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08
Party FunctiOnaries
Hold Meeting Sunday
On Ruthenberg Drive

A conference of all leading Work
ers Party functionaries in the district
win be held on Sunday, April 10th,
at 10 A. M. sharp at the District Of
flee, 108 E. 14th St., Room 46.
All members of the District Organ
ization Department, all members of
the Section Executives, all Sub-Sec-
ton Organizers, all Party Editors,
and all secretaries of the Language
Bureaus will attend this conference.
The conference will take up the
Ruthenberg Drive in this district and
plans will be worked out for all the
departments, the press and the lang
uage fractions.
The District Executive Committee
calls upon all the leading function
aries enumerated above to be present.
The conference will be called to
order at 10 A. M. sharp and will adj
joun at l P. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08
All Sections Meet
Beginning April Is

Section Membership Meetings will
be held in all Sections thruout the
city during the week Of April 18th as
part of the general campaign Of the
Ruthenberg Drive.
These meetings are the first step
in the general campaign to raise the
theological level of the Party men,
bership and also to promote the
BUILD THE PARTY, RUTHEN-
BERG DRIVE.
The Section Membership Meetings
have been arranged as follows:
Section /: Monday April 18th at
$50 p. NJ, at &C + 4th st.
Section 2: Monday April 18th at
6:30 p. NJ, at 100 w. 28th st.
Section 3: Thursday April 21st, at
6:30 P. NJ, at 100 w. 2Sth st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08
ARTICLE V.
BY WILLIAM f. DUNE

THE city of Shanghai was taken
over by the trade unions day and
half before the Peoples Army en-
tered.
The executive committee of the
conference Of Peoples Delegates, with
the trade unions playing leading
and decisive part, became the Pro-
visional government of Shanghai and
maintained it's authority.
The base of this authority were the
armed and disciplined organized
workers who forced the Shangtungese
allies of the imperialists out Of the
city and opened the way for the Peo-
pies Army. A Shanghai Inprecorr
dispatch dated March % stated;
"The insurrectionary workers
who have driven out the Shangtung
troops, are arming themselves
speedily by disarming the police
and the remnants of the Shangtung
troops. The whole of the old and
new Chinese town up to the borders
of the foreign and French conces-
sion is in the hands of the insur-
dictionaries who are maintaining
revolutionary discipline and order"
! THESE were the wild mobs" de-
l scribed by the imperialist press
correspondents who a few days be-
fore had been lauding the barbarous
executions of workers and students
to the number of 200 and more by the
headsmen Of Chang Tsung Chang
the Shantungese bandit chieftain.
Another dispatch stated:
"The whole southern district is
reminiscent of the first days Of the
Russian October revolution. The
armed workers look like typical
Red Guards patroling the streets.
This impression is still stronger in
the chief tramway depot which
served as the mobilization point
for the staff of the insurrection-
aries. There the workers are not
only armed with rifles but with
hand grenades and machine guns.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08
Reiss, Active Party
Member On Way Thru
New York to Moscow
(By L. P. RINDAL)
(Worker Correspondent.

LOS ANGELES, Calif.-Paul c..
Reiss, local all around Communist or
ganizer, and representative in South
ern California for The DAILY
WORK, will leave for New York on
April 17th-then to Moscow, Russia.
In May, 1921, Comrade Reiss was
appointed District Organizer of Cali
fornia for the United Communist
Party u. c. P.) Worked in that
capacity up till November, 1922. Re-
signed said office on account of sick
ness. From the spring of 1922 to
the summer of 1924 he was manager
Of Labor. Unity" a San Francisco
labor newspaper. In the latter part
Of 1924 he went into the Labor
Party campaign and other working
class activities in Los Angeles. This
same year he was sent on an or
ganization trip in the Northwest. Dur
ing the city election, 1925, he was
manager of the campaign at which
Comrade Emanuel Levine, running
for the Board of Education, got over
26,500 votes. The following winter
1925-26, his activities was mainly re-
stricted to c. E. C. work. From
January, 1926, up to the present time,
Comrade Reiss has been the local rep
resentative of the DAILY WORKER,
the only Communist daily in the Eng
fish language in the world. He estab-
lished a Workers Book Shop and
Library, a Daily Worker Club and a
Workers Correspondent Glass, all IN
Los Angeles, Calf.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08
Breaking Chains Plays
Passaic This Evening

PASSAIC, N. j., April Love
romance, hate, revolution-all are
wildly portrayed in the sensational
seven reel Russian film Breaking
Chains" which will be shown in this
city Friday night, at Kanter's Audi.
forum, 259 Monroe Street.
Breaking Chains" is a dynamic
and forceful tale of the early days OF
the Russian Revolution. 1t is a film
comparing in technique and sustained
interest with the "Volga Boatman'
and the Cruiser Prince Potemkin,
the first of which was shown to capa-
city crowds in this city last summer
The picture is being presented un.
der the auspices of the international
Workers Aid, as benefit for the tex.
tile strike prisoners and their famil-
les.
The showing will begin at five
o'clock and will be continuous tC
eleven o'clock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08

1t was in a movement of the char
acter statistically sketched above
that the Shanghai workers, under the
increasing pressure of imperialism
and militarism, and with the example
Of the struggles of their comrades in
central China before their eyes, de-
veloped the courage, skill, knowledge
of organizational methods and the
revolutionary discipline which en-
abled them, in spite of the mass ter
ror, to overcome their enemies and
establish in place of their rule the
authority Of the Conference of Peo-
pies Delegates.
Rnad The Daily Wnrker Euaru Day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08

S p ani S h Lula b Y
"The Cradle Song" at Civic Repertory Theatre,
Goes Off to Quiet Corner
Reviewed by HARBOR ALLEN.


Only a backward, priest-ridden
country like Spain could have pro-
duced in this day and age play like
"The Cradle Song" And then only
the most backward portions of Spain.
Red Barcelona, industrial nub of the
peninsula, would have a different
story to tell.
Here are all the trappings of a
medieval idyll. A nunnery, pious
women, an air Of peace and resigna-
ton, for humor cranky sister, for
vivacity a mischievous novice. For
a modern touch there is a heretical
doctor: be at ease, gentle one.
Prayers, rosaIies, afternoon sunshine
on cloister walls, playful hint Of
Freud. Above all, the ''fear of Cod"
Sentiment and Piety.
into this retreat comes a child, the
daughter of woman Of the streets.
The nuns bring her up, spending their
pent-up mother love on her. Eight
cen years later, pretty, happy girl,
she goes off with her lover. They
bless her and weep over her and feel
genuine loss when she is gone.
This material the Martinez Sierra
brothers have handled with real feel
ing. The nuns are human, simple,
naive; they talk the language of liv-
ing women. A warm flood of senti-
ment and piety flows over you. At
times you are moved. Generally you
are only drugged.
Opiate For Middle Class.
Maybe that's why "The Cradle
Song" has become the Civic Roper
tory Theatres most popular play. It's
great opiate for the middle class.
People who go to the theatre to be
charmed, amused, touched-a little
not too hard-will get their moneys
worth from this Spanish lullaby.
They can go home adoring it. They
can go home feeling that the world
is serene and safe and beautiful: how
could it be otherwise with all that
mother love.
Radicals won't feel that way.
They'll think: This is pretty, yes.
But it doesn't satisfy, it's too remote,
it doesn't get under the skin. want
something with teeth in it. This is
all gums. And is this really all there
is to modern Spain? Where are the
wretched Spanish peasants, the beg
gars, the bull fighters, the gaudy
crowd in the cafes of .Puerta del Sol,
the soldiers of Ribera, the insurgents
who are fighting him? The hummer
les are there, but they can't be more
than a corner, corner covered with
cobwebs and dust. Why do the Mar
tinez Sierra brothers run off and
hide in this corner? Is it because the
center of the Spanish scene is too
grim, too real for them to handle. Or
is Spain still asleep, still fast in the
Middle Ages?"
On Minor Writers.
1t would take a sound historian, a
sound economist to answer. About
Spain Pm ignorant.
Any author, of course, has the right
to hide himself in quiet corner when
things get too hot for him in the
open. You can't stop anybody from
being very minor writer if he
wants to be. Maybe Spain hasn't
anything but quiet corners left for
it's authors. l don't know. do
know that if there is no revolt, no
tumult, no fight in modern Spain, it
can't produce any important art.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08

Section 4 Friday April 22nd, at
s P. NJ, at 81 E. 10th st.
Section s: Tuesday April 10Th at
s P. NJ, at 1347 Boston Rd.
Section 6: e meetings Williams
burg and Brownsville).
GA & 6B: Tuesday April 10Th at
Z P. NJ, at 20 Graham Ave.
&C & CD: Wednesday April goth at
8 P. NJ, at 60 Liberty st.
Section z; Wednesday April goth,
at 8 p. NJ, at 1910 Benson Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08
Broadsoay Briefs

big Lake" by Lynn Riggs, will
open this evening, at the American
Laboratory Theatre. It is a play of
native backwoods life in Oklahoma
and is entirely experimental, both in
subject and treatment. "Big Lake"
will alternate at the Laboratory
on East 18th Street. with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08
Passaic Branch, Work
ers Party Meets Sunday

PASSAIC, N. j., April THE
Passaic branch Workers (Commu-
nist) Party will have a special MEM
bership meeting this Sunday, April
10, Z P. NJ, at the Jewish Workers
Home, 7S1 Main Ave. w. w. Vein
stone will report on the Ruthenberg
drive. The election campaign will
also be taken up. League members
must also be present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08


cludes Helen Coburn, who made such
a personal triumph in "The Trumpet
Shall Sound" Stella Adler, daughter
of Jacob Adler, Frank Burk, and
Grover Burgess.
George C. Tyler, before sailing for
Europe this week gave out his plans
for next season. The first of these
will be the rewritten and renamed
Tarkingtol.-Wils comedy, 1.-THE
Man from Home" which will be pre-
scented in Chicago in September with
Elliott Nugent in the leading role.
The second will be Behold this
Dreamer" dramatization Of Fulton
Oursler's novel of the same title, in
which Glenn Hunter will be starred
and which will open in October. Tyler
has two other plays for Hunter. Pau
line Lord will be the star of another
production in view also opening in
October. This will be followed by a
new play with Helen Gahagan in the
leading role.
"Father Walks Out" by Grace Liv-
ingston Furniss, will be presented by
Mary Forrest April Is at Parsons
Theatre, Hartford. The play comes
to Broadway later in the month.
Kathleen Kirkwood, director Of the
Triangle Club, on Seventh Avenue
and Eleventh Street, announces a
fourth subscription bill to open next
Tuesday night. The bill of one-act
plays includes: "Daffodil," Thomas
Burke "Limehouse" story, dramatized
by Y. Herbert; "The Silver Frost"
and "The Victim" by David Divin;
"On," by Hemsley Winfield; "The
Dance of DEATH" pantomimed by
Jean Wohl, and "The Bridge" a war
playlet by Stuart Hamill.
"Enchantment," a fantasy by the
English playwright, j. Jefferson Far
jeon, will be presented here April %,
by a new producing group, The
American Theatre Association, which
is composed of over 1000 subscribers.
Queen High" at the Ambassador
Theatre, will celebrate its 250th per-
Torrance tomorrow.
Barbara Newberry, recently in
Betsy" will be in the cast of
"Tangles." the musical version of
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
"Fiesta," the new Michael Gold
play did not open Wednesday as
planned. Following the dress rehear-
sal on Tuesday, the New Playwrights
Theatre announced that several
changes in the cast would take place,
and the play opened some time next
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08

"The -Woman's Cloak" and ''The
Trumpet Shall Sound" The cast in
cludes Helen Cobun, who made such
a personal triumph in "The Trumpet
Shall Sound" Stella Adler, daughter
Of Jacob Adler, Frank Burk, and
Grover Burgess.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08

Read The Daily Worker Every Day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08
Criticisng America-The Attack on The DAILY WORKER

The DAILY WORKER editors and business manager
charged with publishing ewd and ascvious material poem
entitled America in the magazine section of the March II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08

'Father Walks Out" by Grace Liv-
ingston Furniss, will be presented by
Mary Forrest April Is at Parsons
Theatre, Hartford. The play comes
to Broadway later in the month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08

Queen High" at the Ambassador
Theatre, will celebrate its 250th per-
Torrance tomorrow
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