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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
By ABRAM JAKIRA.

Several comrades in small steel
town in the Pittsburgh district, with
out asking the District Committee OF
even their own nucleus for a policy,
registered republican" and voted the
republican ballot in the recent prim-
airy elections. These comrades had an
idea that they were following a cor
rect policy by supporting elements on
the republican ticket who pretend to
be friendly to labor and by helping
to defeat the candidates of the X, K.
K. sponsored by the steel corpora
ton.
While this may be an isolated case,
yet it deserves the attention of the
entire party. There are undoubtedly
similar cases in other districts.
The comrades who voted the re
publican ballot showed that they al
lowed themselves to be influenced by
the general wrong conception of par
Iamentary action now prevailing
among the masses. What is the gen
eral situation compelling even Com
munfsts to vote the republican ballot
The same situation is general thru
out the coal and steel towns. The
candidates running for office in these
towns are usually the candidates of
the coal operators or the steel mag
mates who own and control these
towns. In most cases no one dares to
oppose these candidates.
Here and there, however, the small
business interests or even some rival
big business interests choose their
own candidates. This is exactly what
happened in the city under consider
alton. Here a contest took place be-
tween the candidates of the K. X. X
who had the support of the dominat-
ing business interests of the city and
the candidates of small business men
who for business considerations have
shown a more friendly attitude to-
wards labor and civil liberties. The
comrades considered that between the
two evils it was best for them to
choose the lesser one and cast their
support to the elements running
against the Klansmen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13


edy the situation at no matter what
cost.
His brother Peter, the stout and
conservative burgomaster, chief OF
police and chairman of the Baths
Committee looked on his brother as a
well-intentioned but mpractic a !
dreamer who was always making
trouble for others as we'll as for him
self, The doctor, in haste to acquaint
the public with the result of his in
vestigation gave the information to
Hoystad, editor of the peoples Mes
senger" who promised to rouse the
people to action with the revelations
But no sooner had Peter the burgo-
master, etc, heard the news than
things began to happen entirely con-
trary to the genial doctors expecta-
tions. Indeed the scene of the
play could have been laid in any one
of thousands of American cities where
a word from the industrial boss is
usually sufficient to make priest and
parson, editor and publisher do his
bidding.
When the burgomaster frowned on
his brothers plan to make the baths
safe for the inhabitants at the cost of
much money the doctors supporters
quit him cold, nay, turned against him
with angry words. The editor re-
fused to publish his revelations and
the little shrimp representing the
compact majority" branded him an
enemy of the people. Only a lone
sea captain who did not believe in
governments of any kind and his wife
and children stood by him until the
end, Ibsen's anarchist tendencies
perrneate the play but if he had in
tended to expose the futility of an
archism he could not have done it
better Thomas Stockmann was play
ing lone hand. He would appeal to
the people. He did and they hurled
curses and stones at him. After all,
the fat burgomaster had an organi-
cation and he talked bread and but
ter. The doctor talked eloquently
about ideals. The people would prob
ably have no objection to killing the
germs that infested the baths if they
could see their way clear to eating
while the slaughter was taking place
So they presented their would-be
savior with a fine collection of rocks,
which they hurled thru his window.
DR.. Stocllmann did not like parties
that grind all the brains of its mem
bers into one mass like a sausage
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13

machine and the play ends on the
heroic note that "the strongest man
in the world is he who stands most
alone" This is a hallowed phrase
but the essence of bunk. If DR.. Stock
mann had organized the masses
against the corrupted owners of the
Baths instead of waging war a la
Don Quixote on the germs he would
have accomplished something for the
people. His grand gesture was pro-
test of the individualistic petty bour-
geoisie against the machine era. And
ironically enough it always happens
that those apostles Of untrammeled
democracy are themselves the perfect
autocrats who refused to submerge
their own personalities in the common
social stream to the degree that is
compatible with the social good. Ib-
sens play is a splendid portrait of
the corruption that is inevitable in a
society that suckles on the capitalist
system, but his solution-a voice cry
ing out the truth in the Wilderness
belongs in he political mausoleum.
Walter Hampden as DR.. Stockmann,
gave a masterful performance and c.
Norman Hammond as the burgomas-
ter did justice to his role. Cecil Yapp,
as the representative of the compact
majority" comported himself to the
satisfaction and temporary detestation
of the audience and Marie Adels as
the doctors daughter contributed
beauty and spirit to the performance.
The rest of the cast did their bit as
expected of them. Dramatic critics
are agreed that this is the most ade-
quate presentation of can Enemy of
the People" yet seen in the United
States. II. j. OF.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
BY ROY c. MAHONEY.

NEGRO has chance to show what is
in him." says H. L.. Mencken in re-
cent article in the New York World.
The above quotation was written in
bold headlines across one of the pages
of the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the
biggest Negro papers in the country.
Mr.. Mencken goes on to say, Most
Of the educated Negroes of my ac-
uuaintance seem to be convinced that
the social attentions now being law
ished upon their race in New York
represents only transient fad, and
that in a short time the colored lion
will be out in the cold again. 1 doubt
it. The plain fact is that New York,
or, at all events Manhattan, has got
to be so cosmopolitan a town that it's
old social distinctions undergraduates
are in decay and can never be revived.
Anyone who is presentable may go
anywhere. Some of the current
Aframerican pets are highly pre-
sentable; others are surely not. The
latter will return to Harlem whence
they came"
There is no doubt but what the
highly conventional pets" will re-
main, just as the pets-canine, feline
or human-always responding to
given customs and certain planned
lines of behavior are always allowed
to remain. But | fear if the pet
showed too great an individual mi
tiative, or transgressed certain well
planned American customs, or criti-
cized some existing social institutions,
or too strongly recommended the rev.
authorizing of the position of the Ne
gro in general, he would cease to be
the social lion of the new Manhattan
and would return to his noisy Har-
lem with the other less presentable
ones.
Mr.. Mencken states "True enough,
those admitted constitute only small
minority of the race. 1t will be time
enough to invite Pullman porters,
colored preachers and witch doctors
when white Turkish bath rubbers,
orthodox rabbis and chiropractors are
invited. The acceptance Of the edu-
Gated Negro socially removes his last
ground for complaint against his fate
in the republic" Therefore Mr.
Mencken voices the fact that only a
certain we'll trained and conventional
group are acceptable.
The Negro as a whole desiring to
show the world what is in him, had
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
By WILLIAM sCHNEIDERMAN

by WILLIAM SUI NEIDEhmRN
THE American Federation of Labor
L has found new friends while hold
ing its convention in Los Angeles. We
have heard of strike-breaking exploits
in other centers, but as if anxious to
prove that these reports were not IN
the least exaggerated, the "labor
leaders" have out-done their previous
exploits by exposing more than ever
before the role they play in bounding
militants out of the labor movement.
''Red Batting"
The proper "anti-red" atmosphere
was set with the first statements to
the press when the Executive Coun-
ell arrived for the convention. Every
welcoming speech, from government
officials to labor leaders alike, praised
the A. F. of L. as the greatest enemy
of radicalism.
Every day, Green arose and de-
hvered his little sermon against the
Communists; no matter what the sub
iect was under discussion. The news
papers joined in the paean of praise
for the leaders who were so loyal to
American first" as Green put it.
Even the Los Angeles Times, who
only last week denounced the high
wage theory of, the labor movement
as economic absurdity,' applauds
the courageous" attacks upon the
left wing. The Evening Express adds
to this sentiment that "they Green
& Co. y are not such foes of the open
shop as they would like to make out"
Both of the above papers declare that
the open-shop "is here to stay"
Vol and Hynes.
1t was with this background that
Matthew Woll and Frank Morrison,
appointed as a special committee of
the Executive Council, reported that
the writer cannot sit as a delegate in
the convention, because he is Com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
A Wall Street LaborzLeader at Geneva
How Not To Participate In
Parliamentary Elections

What was the policy that the COM
rades should have followed under the
conditions? First, it was the duty of
the comrades TO act not as individuals
in such an important matter. They
should have considered this problem
in the nucleus, they should have re-
ported to the district office asking
for a policy. Second, the comrades
should have raised the question of
the labor party, they should have
made an effort to form local labor
party or labor party committee and
to nominate candidates on its ticket
only a small number of signatures
being required to nominate candi-
dates in the primaries. This they
failed to do.
They should have then issued an
appeal to the workers of that city
pointing out that the workers have
no ticket in the field this year and
calling upon them to build the Work
ers Party, so that in the future they
may be in d position to participate
in the elections thru party of their
own.
AS it is, our party members fol-
lowed at best an opportunist policy,
a policy which is in line with the A.
F. of L. policy of "rewarding the
friend and Furnishing the enemy"
which we have exposed time and
again as being nothing short of be-
trayal of the workers. The republi-
can and the democratic parties are
the parties of the coal operators and
steel magnates and must be consid-
cred as a whole as the enemies of
the workers. 1t is not question of
good or bad" men, it is a question
of the party as such.
1t is our duty to speed up and
deepen the division between the big
and the small business interests, who
themselves feel the iron heel of the
big corporations. This, however,
must be done by building the labor
party based upon organized labor and
getting these small, dissatisfied bust
ness elements to support it and its
candidates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STOOL PIGEONS

munist With the Committee, in
Frank Morrison's office, was William
F. Hynes of the "Red Squad" Chief
of the Police Intelligence Department,
who was responsible for the Sacco-
Vanzetti raids and arrests. On the
desk of Frank Morrison, were docu-
ments which the police had seized
during those raids and had evidently
turned over to the A. F. of L. During
the convention, this individual was in
constant conversation with Secretary
Buzzel of the Central Labor Council.
The police department knew in adj
vance that the writer would be I'M
seated, as they were no doubt kept
informed by Messrs. Vol and Morri-
son.
Threaten Communists.
The arrest of Sidney Bush on the
following day was undoubtedly with
the knowledge of the A. F. of L.
convention.
Every known Communist who came
NEAR the convention hall was threat
ened, and one of the prominent labor
officials was seen pointing out Com
munists in the hall to the red squad,
who thereafter kept them under close
watch.
The newspaper reports stated can
didly that "This notorious red was
arrested because it was believed he
had anti-imperialist resolutions in his
possession"
Just Forget China.
Confidently with this arrest, the
following morning President Green
made violently Communist
speech to the convention in his reply
to the report of the British delega-
ton, Pugh, Sherwood, and Coppock.
A rumor has been spread in the press
row that the Executive Council would
>tart expulsion proceedings against
"red" delegates if any showed them
selves on the floor A resolution on
Hands Off China" introduced by the
instructions of the Hotel and Res
taurant Employees convention, was
accidentally" left out of the pro-
ceedings.
AS if to affirm the united front be-
tween the police department and the
A. F. of L., Green and his associates
went on a sightseeing trip thru
Southern California in police cars,
driven by uniformed officers. Green,
Vol, and Morrison should take one
OF those numerous gold badges being
handed out freely to fraternal dele
gates, and decorate the breast of the
distinguished head of the police in
telligence department of Los Angeles.
as an honored visitor and guest of
the convention. Green, VOL and
Morrison have proven themselves
worthy allies Of stool-pigeons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
Battle Over Remus Cash.

LANSING, Mich. Oct. 12.-This
state will not permit George Remus
or anyone representing him to re-
move the contents of any safety de-
post box that may have been rented
by Imogene Remus, the wife he
killed, Ralph Hughes, chief public
administrator, declared today.
Hughes said that if Mrs. Remus
left $1,000 600 in a safety deposit
box within the state, there is an in
heritance tax amounting to approx
mately 100000 standing as a first
lien on it, also the money might be
used for defense or to finance ex-
posures by the defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
By WILLIAM F. DUNE.

THE labor delegate" appointed by
= the Coolidge administration tc
represent the American workers al
the Geneva Economic Conference Of
the League of Nations was John P
Frey, editor of the Molders Journal
and now the secretary of the Metal
Trades Department.
The American Federation of Labor
thus took part in this conference as q
government agency. The report OF
Frey is included in the report of the
executive council to the Los Angeles
convention without comment or rec
ommendation.
EREY'S report is an exposition OF
the mind of official American la
Dor and shows the invaluable service
labor officialdom is rendering Amer
lean finance capital in aiding it to
beat down the living standard of the
European masses.
Frey says approvingly:
"The outstanding action of the sec
ton on industry WAS ITS AP-
PROVAL OF 'RATIONALIZA-
TON, the European term for what
was cnce known in this country as
scientific management"
The representative of the American
Federation of Labor dismisses here in
one sentence the life and death strug-
gle which the European workers have
been waging since the armistice to
prevent the whole burden of the war
being placed on their shoulders.
EVERY country outside of the Soviet
Il Union has witnessed and is still
witnessing these tremendous battles.
The workers and peasants of the
Soviet Union solved their problem by
taking over government and industry
in 1917 and putting the cost of the
war on the former ruling class.
But in England, France, Italy, Ger
many and the other smaller countries
the workers have suffered reductions
in wages, increases in hours and a
generally lowered standard of living.
This is what is meant by RATIONALE
zation"-forcing down the economic,
social and political level of the work
ers so that the damages of the i'm
periafst war will rot come out of the
Golfers of the capitalist class.
nF ali this, the representative of the
v American Federation of Labor APP
proved. Frey, officially credentialed
by Wall Street government and the
A. f. of L. executive council, lined up
with the exploiters of the European
workers and against the European
masses as he admits in his report.
More than this, Frey proves that
the conference itself was RATIONALE
cation" conference and that the two
principal speeches for this program
were delivered by Hunt, an American
engineer and Mauro, an Italian fas-
cist efficiency expert.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
EVA LIE GALLIENNE ANNOUNCES
OPENING PLAYS FOR
NEXT WEEK.

The Civic Repertory Theatre, UNI
der the direction of Eva lie Caffeine,
will open their season, Tuesday night,
October 18 at the Fourteenth Street
Theatre, with the production of "The
Good Hope play translated from
the Dutch of German Heijermans, by
Lillian Saunders and Carolina Heller
mans Honwink. The play will be
repeated on Wednesday matinee, and
on Thursday and Saturday evenings.
"The Cradle Song" which proved
so successful last season, will be re-
vived on Wednesday evening, and re-
peated on Saturday afternoon. LA
Locandiera" ("The Mistress of the
Inn'') will be revived on Friday night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
John P Frey Appointed by CoodgExecutve Council Reports
His Trp-A F. L. Representative Helps to Force IRA
- tionaizaon'' European Workers-Hs Hero Was
Sir Arthur Balfour-The Insult to the Soviet
Union Delegation-The Official Labor
Viewpoint
Viewpoint.

"CIR ARTHUR BALFOUR, leading
" British imperialist, was the rea
hero of the conference, according tc
Frey. Sir Arthur was against com
pany unionism, says this keen observ-
err. He assures all and sundry that
Sir Arthur's statement, (Which was
accepted without protest by the con
ference" on the question of manage
ment-labor cooperation means GO
operation between management and
the official Representatives of the
trade union movement" This, says
Frey, means chat true cooperation
can be established"
WE find then that the American
" Federation of Labor thru it's Of
ficiai representative is aiding the re-
formist labor leaders of the Interna-
tional Federation of Trade Unions
and the various governments to put
over the same efficiency unionism
schemes which the A. F. of L. lead
ership foists on the American work
ing class.
The loans made before and after
the establishment of the Dawes plan
must be paid to the House Of Morgan
The interest and principal is sweat
ed from the European working class
and American labor leadership is do
ing it's bit to make this possible.
This is the significance Of the re-
port of Frey as Wall Street govern
ment's labor delegate to the Geneva
Economic Conference.
PUT Frey is not satisfied with mere
~ ly carrying out instructions. He
feels it necessary to prove that to
aid in the oppression of the Euro
pean masses is for him a labor of
love- What better way to do this
than to insult the Representatives of
the only labor movement in the world
which is steadily raising the stand
ard of living of it's members and the
whole working class in it's country
the Soviet Union?
THE delegation from the Soviet
Union to the Geneva conference
fought against naturalization. u
They fought so ably that they forced
the respect of their bitterest Euro
pean class enemies. But for Frey the
rule of the working class over one
sixth of the earth's surface means
nothing. He lists by name the petty
reformist leaders of every two-by-
four country in Europe but the repre-
sentatives of the Soviet Union he in
cludes with those Of fascist Italy and
describes them as "the Russian dele
cation who, tho apparently all intel
lectuals, professed to represent moth
ing but labor"
The abysmal depth of ignorance
and corruption reached by A. F. OF
l.. leadership perhaps is better shown
by this last sentence than by its open
espousal of the Americanization" of
the European working class and
European industry under the auspices
of the House of Morgan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
Phone Company Advertises
Welfare Work.
Federated Pressl

Welfare work for it's hello girls
is advertised to phone users by the
New York Telephone Co. Leaflet No.
3, picturing the non-union phone COM
pany's camp and the city kitchen-one
of those preparing total of $4,000
meals a day for operators, is en-
closed with the latest bad news-the
months bill.
Storing up summer smiles. for
winter voices" is the blah the company
gets off about the girls camp scene.
But the phone company fights every
effort of its girls to organize a
union. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13

PASS the Paper 80 a Fellow Worker!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13

Quaint and Clever
can Enemy Of the People," Starring Walter
Hampden. Pleases It's Patrons

Doctor Thomas Stockmann, med
zeal officer of the Baths in Henrik
Ibsen's masterpiece, "An Enemy of
the People" was naive lover of hui
mainly who expected the inhabitants
of a SNUG Norwegian town to hail
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13

him as a savior
when he discover
ed that the baths
of which the cit
liens W ere so
proud and from
W h i c h some of
them drew profit
were a source Of
danger to the pub
lie health. Indeed
this good man did
not expect those
who profited from
the baths to inter
pose the slightest
ODDOSition To rana-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
MachadO Man Loses Loot.

TORONTO, Oct. 1.-THE loss of
several thousand dollars worth of
Jewels from the apartment of Senior
and Sonora Don Cesare Barranco,
Cuban consul here, was reported to
the police today.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-10
BOSTON SYMPHONY

Despite the fact that the opera
 season opened on the night of tho Boston symphony orchestra's re- cent concert in Chicago. Novembcr }. Orchestra hall was filled 10 ca
 pacity. This was the first visit oi the orchestra to Chicago in 12
 years. and the initial appearance of
 Serge Koussevitzky there. The im- ! pression which the conductor and orchestra made is indicated in the ! following review:
 f Herman Devries. in the Chicago
 Amercan: Serge Koussevitzky and
 the Boston Symphony orchestra make me regret that one has so often used superlatives. for now what Is there left to say. Apoo- getically. ] offer the words magnifi- cent. sublime. but I assure this glorious orchestra and it's cx- traordinary master that the words stick in the typewriter. They are not good enough for these dem- gods.
 '1f one writes with the hot blood of the twcntics, it is because these men are a Neritablc elixir Of youth. beside which I would not trade a million doses of Ponce de Icon'S compound. The first part of the program was in truth so marvellous that when int"rmission came no one had anything left 10 give. The audience was bled dry Of emotion and nerves and ecstasy. It is in deed good 10 live in this America of ours. There is nothing like an other such organization the world over"
New Britain herald., 1927-11-10
AT THE, STRAND

The new program today at the strand theater is i'll keeping with the Armisticc Day at hand. The feature photoplay for the weekend bill starting today is story Of the war prison camps and features Pola Nesri This film is heralded as about the best thing that the poru- lar star has done since her mcmor- able. Passion The vaudeville for Thursday, Friday and Saturday will he headlincd by Demo and Rochelle, one of the foremost dancing turns in big time vaudeville and Hollywood Bound. q satire on Movieland with Van Blake and Mann Sisters and Jack Moore; Ray Fern and Marie in vaudeville diversions: DiXon Riggs Trio in Sensational Feats' and others.
 Next week is anniversary week at the Strand. The anniversary pro- gram starting next Sunday will be featured by Marion Davies in the most sensational college comedy ever screened.