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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-11
Every Worker Who Attended the Ruthenberg Memorial
Meetings Is Potential Supporter Of the Daily Worker

The Chicago and York Ruthenberg memorial meetings
the Communist Party Of America has support
among working class far out OF proportion to It's numerical
strength.
The tragic and unexpected death of Comrade Ruhenberg
the executive secretary of the has brought great out
pouring of sympathy for party in its bereavement
characteristics of these great meetings are Oh great
Importance the work Of party in the immediate future
They
IA survey of the crowds attending these demonstrations
shows that they were composed WORKERS The liberal and
lower middle class elements were in great minority
2These huge meetings occurred at time when the drive
against party in the unions is at its height and IN spite Oh
the that Comrade Ruhenberg was known Tar more as
Communist Party leader than as mass leader
conclude therefore that there substantial reservoir
sympathy among the American working class Tor our party
Party and that its program has WIDER appear
the present period of rising capitalism than we nave
estimated
ng to express their support party This support may at
present be somewhat sentimental character but exists ana
we must see that dissipaed 1t does not mean that these
workers are ready take the cudges for our party
or even openly wrath and eprsa of union otcadom
in the present struggle in support of the left wing
mean however that these masses can be nooaea
for struggle for partial demands that there an opportunity Tor
our party its base extend the circulation OF us press
and Law its foundations firmly the American labor movement
1t is conviction that the best of all approaches to these
sympathetic workers through The DAILY WORKER With
circulation within the next six months or even WITHIN
year party will be able to uthuy that 1t has turned
from its action and building and extending the party
of the working class for which Comade Ruthenoerg
The obiective-25OO0 readers of The DAILY WORKER
within years entirely aainable one If the party as
whole will opportunity its weakness and the way OF
correcting it. without press said Lenin, "a mass Com
muns Party impossible It the collective organizer OF the
party and the masses.
The memorial meetings will be over but comrade
can hold memorial meeting of his day by getting
new reader or subscriber for The DAILY WORKER
Every worker who attended the memorial meetings viii be-
come supporter The DAILY WORKER if we make him see
the connection press and the with which ne
sympathzes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-11
IniunctiOns and Faith in the TmparaEy Of the Courts

DAILY WORKER in complete sympathy ana supports
to the best ability the fight of the unions against nJuncons
It's the struggle against nnnctions the pro-
gram of Workers Communist Party and 1t can be stated
briefly as disregard injunction wrts and violation OF
their edcs
This program does not exclude demonstrations such the
labor delegation Albany the other day advocacy of anti
Injunction legislation but does put the emphasis the
struggle of the workers where it beongson their organized
mass power. -
Legislation ouawing inunctons against union activities
in general right strike in particular can be forced
once the capitalists convinced that the union membership
win continue struggles for better wages and working con-
don spite njunctons if this means filling the Jas
The capitalist system organized against the workers and
for this reason say that uerances such those Of
labor officials in Albany wherein they stressed the necessity of
contamination egislation-the Lupowicz ackenberg bo
convince the that they not Disseminated against
and to increase their be in the mparaty of the courts is
of more danger the working class than njunctions.
The first any labor official is to show the by
concrete examples of the daily struggle that the judicial system
of the United mechanism established for class the
cana class there is such thing mpartialty
Inunctons expression of this class systethey
one of the weapons of the working class That
they have great kepcsm the
relative mpartay of the courts the only benefit the
workers have derived from them.
We hope antniunction legislation will be passed
at Albany the labor movement that just the
judicial exempted unions from the provisions of
Clayton antitrust law has not prevented its against unions
will the niunctions continue long labor does not
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-11
The Managers Corner
THE RUTHENBERG MEMORLAL MEETINGS

Throughout the country, of corlrS congre-
eating to do honor to the memory of Comrde eatenberg.
These meetings must be arranged aso of the ut
most practical catue to the Increment for tcch Comrude
Rhen6er9 his life Every effort should made to
utilise these gatherings to increase the size OF the gro0inG
army of DAILY WORKER readers and supporters.
The regular squad of DAILY WORKER Builders should
be on hand July organised and Gqpped Signs advertising
The DAILY WORKER should be displayed prominently in
the meeting hail. DAILY WORKERS should be sold by
special committee chosen for the purpose Subscription
blanks should be placed every seat.
AT least Of the speakers of the evening should make
address The DAILY WORKER concentrating qpon the
appeal for the Rathenberg DAILY WORKER Sustaining
Fund The memorial meetings to be the signal for the
starting of this campaign. The Sustaining Fund blanks
should be collected ioth the initial payments
These are some Of the methods suggested ,chereby the
R@thenberg memorial meetings mag be turned into giant
mobilization not oy for the party bit also for ghting
oygon The DAILY WORKER.
BERT MILLER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-11

THE White House spokesman says
4 that Coolidge is going west for
his vacation.
The theory is that the president,
residing in some quiet and unpre-
tentious cabin with no more than Is
or 80 rooms, will get close to the
soil, sniff the acrid odor of the barn
yard, toss the new-mown hay, slop
the hogs, drive home the kline in the
cleaning and in general soak him
self in the atmosphere of the wide,
open spaces where Frank Lowden
has been husking corn on his mill
lion-dollar farm, and getting his
pitcher took for the papers, and cul-
tivating a wide circle of acquaint-
ances among farmers who hiss
the mere mention of Coolidge.
Farmer Banker-B Banker Farmer
General Dawes is also a farmer,
but unfortunately he is a farmer
who is known as a banker, whereas
Lowden is banker who is known as
a farmer Governor of Illinois from
1917 to 1921 and a serious contender
for the republican nomination in
1920, Lowden has tended the sprig
of discomfort among the farmers Of
the middle west with the care of an
expert florist.
He speaks with racking staccato
sobs of the need for cooperation in
agriculture and unlike Dawes he has
been for farm relief, properly man
aged by the bankers, ever since his
mortgage loan companies found it
difficult to make farmers pay up.
Lowden, it may be said, has put
cut the most successful line Of
friend of the farmer" bunk that has
ever been peddled along the reaches
of the Ohio, Mississippi and Illinois
rivers.
The White Headed LOwden.
Like Harding, Lowden has a mop
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-11
Picking Restful Spot for Coolidge

ers, who use the attitude towards
farmer relief as test Of loyalty to
their interests, have now no real
standard to go by. Brookhart has
been tanned and practically absorbed
in the Iowa republican machine. The
field is left open for such fake farm
ers' friends as Lowden who grows fat
on the reaction to Coolidge.
Young LaFollette has not The pres
tige of his father. Wheeler of Mon
tana in the democrat ranks makes no
particular appeal to the middle west.
Borah fights Coolidge on foreign af-
fairs but fires no imagination on
other questions.
A Farmer-L Labor Party.
None of these insurgents has
shown any sign of being willing to
lead bolt from the two old capital
list parties and failing this the farm
ers fall back on the most demagogic
of the regulars like Lowden.
The farmers have been whipped
around the stump very successfully
SO far and the insurgents by their
compromise with the bankers have APP
piled the lash most effectively Of all
the groups that want to save the
farmers without getting off the farm
ers' backs.
The officialdom Of the trade unions
in the states where the farmers dis
content is hottest are linked up
solidly with the various state ma
chimes Of the democrat and republican
parties.
If there is any sort Of a crystalli-
cation of a farmer-labor party in the
next election campaign, it will take
place, as in Minnesota, without the
cooperation and against the opposi-
ton of progressive" congressman,
trade union officials and heads of
well-to-do farmers organizations.
At present the farmers are simply
anti-Coolidge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-11
W. DRAMA IN
WORKING CLASS PLAYS
WANTED BY NEW PLAY
WRIGHTS THEATRE

DLAYS that appeal to working-class
4 audiences 'less jaded in response
than the cultured people who have
hitherto patronized the arts" are
asked for by John Dos Passos, ia
nous novelist. in a letter to the labor
press Of New York. Dos Passos is one
If the five insureent playwrights di-
recting the New Playwrights Theatre
at Sind Street and Eighth Avenue.
THE aims Of the New Playwrights
Theatre" writes Dos Passos, fare to
work out methods of theatrical pres
entation that adequately expresses
American life We want to make
workers rather than professional
people or millionaires the foundation
OF our audience because we think
that we can find in them less jaded
response than in the cultured and
Europeanized people who have hith-
erto patronized the arts.
eve want this theatre to be in
continual and immediate contact with
the mass life of America. For that
we have got to have continually fresh
plays, plays that deal with work,
money, chewing gum, roadbuilding,
mines, chemistry, walking delegates,
Communism, anything except straw
lights and library set Though if
anyone can make straw lights and
library set important we are ready
to be shown.)
I'VE want plays to read for next
season. We appeal especially to
writer's whose work is not suitable
for Broadway, and who run counter
to the present trends of dramatic
criticism. We don't want to be used
as a launching platform for budding
geniuses whose only aim is to make
the Roaring Forties roar their praise.
We want at least to be able to clear
away the rubbish and clutter that
has been piled up to divide the thea
ire from the circus, the ballfield,
vaudeville, life. Send us your plays"
The New Playwrights Theatre is
now producing John Howard Law
sons Loud Speaker" a political sa-
tire, and EN- 10 Basshe's Earth"
Negro folk play. These two plays
are alternating, each playing one
week. A reduction of POO is offered
to workers who show union cards at
the box office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-11
BROADWAY EhIEFS

Observation-Disclosures" a Anew play
by Latos N. Egri sponsoiped by the
Provincetown Players in asSsociation
with Horace Liveright, waA placed
in rehearsal yesterday undeik direc-
ton of James Light. The American
adaptation was done by Charles
Recht.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-11

moment Of our unfathomable griei
Comrade Ruthenberg is no more.
Comrade Ruthenberg has gone from
our midst. Ny consciousness some
how or other refuses to accept his
being gone. To me, the death of
Comrade Ruthenberg is the most
horrible crime of nature.
But let us 70 forward to battle
with unbounded determination to win.
Yes, farewell, Comrade Ruthen-
berg. farewell our leader.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-11

Of silvery white hair and exudes an
air of substance, geniality and i'm
peccable respectability. The lords Of
coal, iron, steel, copper and railroads
have nothing in particular against
him, compared to the drab and unin-
spring Cal he is a colorful person
atty, and in addition to all these
qualifications he will probably have
the powerful Illinois delegation be-
hind him in the convention.
Lowden, if elected president, will
skin the farmers much more grace
fully and inflict less pain while the
operation is in progress than has the
laundering Coolidge and exactly for
this reason is more dangerous to their
interests.
Dawes will get little support from
farmers in spite of his eleventh hour
conversion to farm relief.
His connection with Wall Street is
too well known.
Coolidge evidently has been adj
vised that the farming districts hold
his fate in their hands and his vaca-
ton will be anything but pleasant
one. He will be lucky if a posse of
enraged farmers armed with pitch
forks and other homely instruments
does not run him up some arroyo and
leave him there
We would suggest, if a quiet vaca-
ton in the middle west is his desire,
that he rent the 132nd Regiments
Armory in Chicago and swing his
hammock in the cellar.
Pooling the Farmers.
Seriously, there is not the slightest
doubt that the united front of banker
congressman and senators and the So
called progressives which put over the
McFadden bill for the financiers in
return for their votes for the Nc
Nary Haugen bill which was vetoed,
has demoralized the farmer revolt in
the middle west and west. The farm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-11

ed many. many times.
For myself. as IN active party
member, ! hope to be worthy in my
future work OF my guide and leader,
Comrade Ruthcnbcrg. Than this, /
have no other wish. / give thanks
that have had the priceless oppor-
tunity OF working so closely with the
heroic leader Of our party for so
many years.
Close the Ranks.
Let us close our ranks in this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-11

adopt carry the policy of resisting them by every
in its power
To be for annjuncton laws simply because they will add
the prestige Of the courts among the workers play the
game the BOSSES This attitude accepts the theory of govern
renS all the people and shuts its eyes to such plain facts
as domination Of local. state and national by
financial and industrial capitalists
Inunctons for the purpose Of gripping the labor
ent for this alone they must be fought Anyone
loyalty the working class first will require
entering the struggle against nuncons and the
capitalist class which them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-11
Farewell, COmrade Ruthenberg; Farewell Our Leader
organized left wing movement.

left wing movement.
Takes Lead for Unity
At the first Communist Party
Convention in the Smolny House on
Blue Island avenue, Chicago. in Sep
TENDER, 1919. Here he led the strug-
gle for the unity of all Communist
forces and against the left sickness
of infantile Communism. 1t was only
when Comrade Ruthenberg declared
that he would serve as secretary of
the Communist Party that our first
Communist Central Executive Com
mittee in America felt sure that we
were going to lay the foundations
for the development of mass Com
munist Party in the United States.
The greatest forward step in the
history Of the American labor move
ment was the founding of the Com
munist Party. Comrade Ruthenberg
was the leader of this forward step
When we speak of a Communist Par
ty in America, the bulwark, the
citadel of world imperialism, we
speak of a Communist Party living
and fighting under the most ire
mendous difficulties. The existence
and growth of a Communist Party
in America is of paramount inter
national significance. Comrade Ru-
thenberg's decisive role in the Amer
lean Communist movement as its
founder and leader makes him an
outstanding leader of the interna-
tional working class movement.
No wonder that the Central Com
mittee of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union tells: 1--WE deeply
grieve with you at the loss of Com
rade Ruthenberg, leader of your par
ty and of the international labor
movement, whose ashes will rest be-
meath the Kremlin together, with the
heroes of the November Revolution"
Yes, Comrade Ruthenberg died,
fighting and working for the victory
of the American proletariat and the
international working class.
Came the great steel strike. Gen
eral Wood is leading his cohorts of
highly armed, uniformed, strike
breaker American soldiers to smash
the ranks of the workers. Comrade
Ruthenberg's mighty revolutionary
appeal in the slogan Eight against
the govern men t strikebreakers"
aroused and inspired the thousands
of steel workers of Gary to the most
valiant resistance displayed in the
whole strike.
His Courage Was UnbOunded.
Comrade Ruthenberg's courage in
the class war was unbounded. Some
of the best years Of his life he spent
in Jail. There was an imperiahst
war; Comrade Ruthenberg was the
first to go to Jail in resisting it.
The left wing of the Socialist Party
was to be organized; Comrade Ruth
enberg went to Jail for playing the
leading role in organizing the revolu-
tionary forces.
| recall scene at Bridgeman.
Comrade Ruthenberg was directing
the organization of the comrades
leaving the grounds. said Come
along. begged Comrade Ruthen-
berg to go in our group. He said, "No,
I'll stay until all are gone. must
do that. The splendid services Com
rade Ruthenberg rendered to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-11

delivered by Jay Lovestone, chosen by
the party's political committee to take
up Ruthenberg's tasks, at the Chicago
Memorial Meeting on Sunday)
THE severest shock have ever had
1 in my life came with the death Of
my closest guide, leader and friend
Comrade Ruthenberg.
To me, Comrade Ruthenberg was
more than an individual-even more
than Party comrade.
&C. E.", as | called Comrade Ruthen-
berg, was to me the symbol of our
Party, fighting increasingly an uphill
battle against tremendous odds,
against the most brutal, the most
powerful imperialism the world has
known.
Party Suffers Greatest Less
In the passing of Comrade Ruthen-
berg, our Party has suffered the
greatest loss in it's history. All Anne
rican labor, the entire American work
ing class has suffered the greatest
loss in its history. Our pain is as
great as our loss. Comrade Ruthen-
berg has been and will remain an i'm
portant example for our whole Party,
for the entire working class to follow
Comrade Ruthenberg's whole life was
one of immortal service to the Amer
lean working class.
Comrade Ruthenberg was the first
man in the history of the various left
wing movements in the Socialist Par
ty to realize the value of organization.
1t was Comrade Ruthenberg who first
understood that if the Socialist Party
was to be a Party of revolutionary
Socialism, the left wing forces had to
stay within the Party and to organize
themselves.
Comrade Ruthenberg was the first
one in the United States to be con-
victed and sent to Jail for inspiring
and organizing masses of workers to
resist the drive of our imperialists to
throw the American working class in
to the death orgy of the great war.
The ten months Comrade Ruthenberg
spent in the Canton Jail for his cour-
ageous anti-war activities arc ten
months which will forever live as an
inspiring sacrifice to the American
workers. These ten months will be
powerful force for arousing the
American proletariat to turn our next
imperialist war into n civil war
against the exploiters and oppressors
Of the workers.
Held Important Post.
Comrade Ruthenberg was the driv-
ing force in giving a nationwide or
ganized basis to the sweeping left
wing movement Of the Socialist Party
after the Proletarian Revolution in
Russia in November, 1917.
Well do | remember how was sit
ting with John Reed and others in our
left wing headquarters in West Goth
Street, New York City, anxiously
awaiting to hear to how decisive q
victory Comrade Ruthenberg was
leading the left wing in Cleveland
When we learned Of the magnificent
success in the Cleveland Socialist Par
ty under the able leadership of Com
rade Ruthenberg, we felt and we knew
now we were assured Of a national
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-11

Anne Nichols, author and producer
of "Abie's Irish Rose," sails tomor-
row for London, where she will
supervise the production of "Abie."
Later she will visit Budapest to
supervise its production there and
the translation of the play into Hun
garian and German.
The Theatre Guild announces that
the total number Of subscribers has
passed the 10000 mark.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-11
BY JAY LOVEsTONE.

Editors note: This is the speech
delivered by Jay Lovestone, chosen by
the party's political committee to take
up Ruthenberg's tasks, at the Chicago
Memorial Meeting on Sunday)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-11
A CORRECTION

In the next to the last paragraph OF the article
the Thursday March 10th issue by William Dunno entitled
Forming the Imperas Front Against China the following
words But the propaganda coming from Shanghai
and other explained only by the vagares OF news
paperrnen" should read: NOT be explained" etc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-11

Brandon lyman will have an iAr
portant role in "The French Kiss
which opens at the Ritz Theatre neIS
Tuesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-21
THREE KILLED IN
TRAFFIC M|SHAPS
Two Toll of Autos; Negro
Dies Under Street Car.

Three traffic accident deaths, oc-
Cured here over the weekend.
Raymond Noe, %, of Bloomington,
Ind, died at the Methodist Hospital
Saturday night of injuries received
when his automobile was struck by
a machine driven by Harry Seitz, 80,
of 1412 Prospect ST., at the inter-
section of Union and Morris SITS.
Friday night. Seitz is held on a
charge of involuntary manslaughtsr
\ William Jenkins, 81. of East
Chattanooga. Tenn, died at the
Robert Long Hospital Saturday
night, of a fractured skull shortly
after he was struck by an automobile
while walking on the National Road
west of Morris st. Wade Johnson,
%, also of East Chattanooga, who
was hiking with him sustained
broken nose and fractured jaw. Ora
Highlands, SO, of Bridgeport, Ind,
driver Of the car was charged with
involuntary manslaughter.
Dies Beneath Car
An unidentified Negro was killed
instantly Sunday night when crushed
beneath the trucks of an Indiana
Ave. street car at Twelfth and West
SITS. Charles Patton, S6, the motor
man, told Lieut.. Fred Drinkut and
squad that the man, apparently in
toxicated, staggered into the street
and fell in front Of car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-21
QUESTION
STARTS TILT IN
FORD-SAP|RO CASE
Issue Brought to Fore on
Query to Editor by Plain
tiff'S Counsel.
BIZ United Press

BIZ UHttcd Press
DETROIT, March 21.-The So
called Jewish. ISSUE" Stunned so
assiduously by the defense in Aaron
Sapiro's million dollar libel suit
against Henry Ford, broke Suddenly
upon the case today.
An apparently innocent question
asked William j. Cameron, editor OF
the Dearborn Independent, by Will
liam Henry Gallagher, attorney for
Sapiro, brought two of Ford's law
yers to their feet protesting; the jury
was excused and the session turned
into a deep legal argument full Of
citations of decisions Of other courts
and fine drawn logic.
Sapiro's attorney argued that he
must be permitted to show not only
what the Independent charged
against Sapiro, but also to tell Of it's
charges against "a band Of Jews"
with which Sapiro allegedly was con-
nected, in order to prove the extent
of the alleged libel.
Ford's lawyers vehemently pro-
tested that what was said of Sapiro,
and nothing else, was pertinent to
the case.
The court indicated it considered
the argument would determine the
extent to which Sapiro's relations
with Jewry and with international
Jewish bankers" would become a
part Of the evidence.