Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, , THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Communists, Socialists and Hero Worship Published by Lie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. DRAMA Daily, Except Sunday fef' tt 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 By 11. M. WICKS. similarity between phenomena, but dulge in myth-making, nor do we use IINDEIi the above heading there ap- also detect the differences. To a very the language of the religionist or the RATES be- SUBSCRIPTION *■' peared a letter in Tuesday’s issue slight degree there is a similarity sentimentalist. On the contrary, we God, the Enemy By mail (in New York only); By moil (outside of New York): of The DAILY WORKER, written by tween the role of Ruthenherg as the depict his life and his contributions SB.OO per year $4.50 six months 'G OO per year $3.60 six months S. Richarts, one of -our readers, in leader of the Workers’ (Communist to the 1-evolution precisely as they $2.60 three months $2.00 three months which he criticises us for what he Party and the role of Debs as the al- were. The reason we emphasize his Paul Revolts Against the Tyrant the calls our “continual glorification of leged leader of the socialist party, life is not because we conside- him Green’s of Address all mail and iimke out checks to Ruthenherg.’’ The correspondent First, let us consider the role of a Messiah or because he was in- THE 33 Street, New N. Y. Southern Farmer DAILY WORKER. Flrs\ York. grows almost delirious when he con- Debs as leader. In no sense was he fallible, but we declare, without fear j j" templates the campaign that is being ever the political leader or the or- of successful contradiction, that Com- Reviewed By HARBOR ALLEN ,.. LOUIS ENGDAHL J 5 „ DOROTHY SANDS Editor* carried familiarize the workers ganizer of that party. Its real lea- rade Ruthenherg was the personifica- For WILLIAM F. DUNNE [ on to one and a half acts “The the role of Ruthenherg ders were the Hillquits, the Bergers, tion of the highest development of the God,” BERT MILLER business Manager with Comrade Field by Paul Gi’een, at the in the labor movement of this coun- the Abe Cahans, who used Debs as revolutionary movement in this coun- Greenwich Village Theatre, is a a campaign standard-bearer for their try. To familiarize the Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under try and of the world. working beautiful and honest play. Then Says Party• because, for obvious reasons, masses with the life struggles the act of March 3, 1879. the indignant Richarts: and softness creeps in, the same watery, ‘‘lt would be all right for sob- none of the real leaders could func- and sacrifices of Ruthenherg is to poetic mysticism that marred “In Advertising rates on application. sisters, a religious sect, Messiah tion in that capacity. His virtues as dramatize for them the last two de- Abraham’s Bosom” by this young peddlers and the like—but for a working class leader were utilized cades of labor history in this coun- Southerner. Paul Green seems un- try. represented grown-up scientifically-minded peo- to cloak the utter poverty of the so- lie the best in the able to face his charactei'S when they ple, for non-hero-worshipping revo- cialist leaders. Naturally, in such pre-war days and the best in the hit the core of their tragedies. He A Labor Party Should Be the Reply to Supreme Courts lutionists, it is absolutely the bunk. circumstances, they had to create and days of black reaction after the war. turns their eyes heavenward and perpetuate We want of It is like the socialist party slop the Debs myth, which the workers America shoves a few lyrics in their mouths. Anti-Union Decision. about Though Jailed smacked strongly of religiosity. In to realize that this is the beginning Still, of the Debs—“ He of newer American play- Speaketh.” The socialist party has criticising the socialist party for the a new era; that Ruthenherg was wrights he’s as good as the best; The Supreme court Com- is the in the decision in the Bedford Cut Stone 'lost its heart and soul and'is forced Debs myth our reader on solid outstanding figure new I and thei-e are scenes in “The Field pany case, outlawing the ordinary activities of labor unions, has to sustain itself with legends about ground. It requires but little per- leadership of labor of this era, the , God” which glow as nothing era of I have as the only good feature about the fact that has unmasked the purity, etc., of the Messiah ception to detect the socialist fraud. the breakdown of capitalism ; seen this year in New York. it it and the proletarian been basing its upon a theory Debs. Now, let us consider the role of revolution. We Fight a labor officialdom which has policy want them to understand the God. “This sort of thing has not Ruthenherg. Was he the idol for differ-! Sitting on his porch step —which it may or may not believe—that there are no classes in ence between era in North helped the socialist party. It will political manipulators back of the the of DeLeon, j Carolina, Hardy Powderly, Gompers and Gilchrist and Neill the . not help our cause. Childish hero- scene? Did he absent himself from Debs—other j Sykes are waiting leaders passed for the arrival of By its decision the Supreme court has shown to anyone will- worshipping antics amuse outsiders. the Party conventions when there who have within the i Rhonda Campbell past years—and from Durham. “This letter is not meant to was a conflict over policy as did few the present j ing to be convinced that it is an agency of American capitalism.; de- time. Hardy is a titan of a man, rugged, tract from the services that Com- Debs? Did he austerely stand aloof feai-less, of it has kicked into the ashcan the whole worker-employer co-oper- In this campaign afraid neither God nor rade Ruthemberg rendered to the from and above the conflict? Every- there is no re-1 man. His wife, Etta, weak, policy of religious mummery, sickening old, God- Now playing in the Neighborhood ation labor officialdom. movement. He played hjs part one knows he did not. no j l-idden, is lead tales of sentimental drivelling, around his neck. Etta Playhouse Bill of Lyric Drama at The Greens, Wolls, and Lewises have been telling the organ- gallantly and loyally. But is The Even as far back as 1912, at the no! comes, young, alive, loving soil, messianic dithyrambics such the good, fighting DAILY WORKER so poverty- Indianapolis convention of the social- as the strong like Hardy, like him their little theatre on Grand Sti-eet. ized workers to be to stop with the boss, to inter- socialist party bestows upon scornful stricken ideologically that it must ist party, when the Hillquit-Berger- Debs. I of the “just” God who has est themselves in increasing production, to turn their unions into And indeed one suffers from a most 1 created work itself into a religious frenzy Job Harriman-Stitt Wilson combina- the idots of the neighborhood, ' daring in the hands of a Southerner. efficiency organs and arbitration instruments. pathetic form of political myopia who burned over his death?” tion put through the notorious Article the farmer’s crops, killed their cat- Here is l-evolt against the iron piety * * * cannot perceive The Supreme court comes along and tells the trade unions 11, section 6—a convention from which the difference be- tle, ground them spiritless, of the South. God is the enemy, cries tween the socialist party feeble. they no right anything AT the beginning of his letter Mr. Debs absented himself during the de- hero wor-! Idiots, diudges, Paul Green; God is a tyrant, that have to do that interferes with the ship of Debs and the Ruthenherg burned-out farmers, vicious Richarts informs us is bates on the question—Ruthenherg, a gossips, preachers, gallery muddle-headed, robbing profits of the capitalists. Apparently the Supreme court had not that he a campaign of slaves; a and mean and reader of our paper and is young man in the movement, fought the Workers’ (Com- of of our us leadership of Woll Lewis the a Com- Party.* characters worthy of a Chekov or! us strength, cheating of our heard that under the Green, and munist, but he against the conspiracy to out munist) faith in man, in Except that is not a Party railroad * * * a Dostoyevsky drift across stage, life. for the really working profits cap- the I: unions were to increase the of the member. We will not quarrel at this of the party, those militant elements all sprung from the soil, speaking | end where Hardy i-ants in blank verse MOR is it un-Marxism to recognize italists. ; time with our correspondent over around William D. Haywood, who led an earthy language. Theirs is real jabout “the inner light,” this revolt the fact that individuals The usual formal protests and promises of great efforts to : that peculiar type that claims to ac- the losing fight against the yellow in their poetry. The glossy words Paul Green' is a roaring song, full of rich peasant cept own lives and achievements frequently be made have emanated from official labor circles, but no serious Communism in theory, but re- element. pulls out of the mouths of his leading poetry, full of yearning for the soil, frains from action by remaining Then, five years later, at the St. personify a definite class or a class characters in the full of the warmth of animal and proposal for struggle against forces tendency. is only final scenes is fake j united the decision and the away from the Party, except to state Louis emergency convention, it was It the most absurdly poetry. human life. With this material, once mechanical perverters of which lie behind it have been made. that one cannot be a Communist and Ruthenherg who played the outstand- Marx who Hardy, in love with Rhoda, frozen j he hits his stride, watch Paul Green belittle the role of individuals in Nor will such proposals be made. There will be appeals of neglect the first and most obvious ing role in formulating the party pro- mak-, by the withered piety of his wife, | kick up dust. Meanwhile, help his ing history. part parcel duty of a Communist—that is, to join gram against the imperialist war. It It is a and sets out to fight the greedy God plays keep alive. course to so-called progressive democrat and republican congress- of that bourgeois of.; and support and accept the discipline was also Ruthenherg who was first same delusion that j his fellowmen. Etta dies cursing j Ben lovely study men and senators and probably some legislation advocated. But of frequently raises its and clamor- ; Smith does a of the Party. Communism is not a to defy the courts when the draft act head him. Neill goes bad and kills him- j farm boy Fritz is was ously criticises Communist writers and the Neill. Leiber labor officialdom will not do what done in Great Britain when dead dogma, but a synthesis of revo- was signed by Morgan’s president, self. Hardy’s hogs of cholera, j he isn’t posing. speakers for “attacking die fine when But the the Tass Vale decision outlawed labor unions—begin the organiza- lutionary theory and action. To pro- Wilson, and to go to jail for it. individuals”' His neighbors shun is Ruth Mason, is a painful instead of talking j him. His bam girl, a political labor. less to accept the theory and remain When the socialist party leaders en- “theory and “eco- burned by lightning. he tion of party of i nomics.” Men, it true When amateur. away from the party is sectarianism, of is are puppets marries Rhoda, new deavored to maintain control the of miseries rip at There are two ways of replying to the Supreme Court decision history, products of j - unscientific and therefore anti-Lenin- party after they been by their environ- him: a puny baby, church l=!: had defeated ment, they folk who ‘ j —by mass resistance to its provisions and by the establish- | it also smacks of religiosity, in their own membership and had forced but also, as Marx ob- call him murderer, who beg him to served, make history, and Broadway ment of a labor party allied with the farmers which will, first by i spite of our reader’s protests to the the split, it was Ruthenherg who be- revolution- i save them from the boll weavel and Briefs ists are charged —' - its by activity, | contrary, because it presupposes that came the first secretary of the young not only with un- the cholera by “l’epenting.” At last the fact of existence and second its draw the cor- ravelling the mysteries Marxism is something can Tarty. He was the one of the past, i Hardy is He out Margaret Anglin, exponent of the rect conclusions from the Bedford Company decision—that is, that be Communist of utilizing broken. rushes in divided into two parts (theory and outstanding national figure among but that understanding to j a storm to meet face, Greek drama, will appear in two must fight as a i make history God face to to that the workers and farmers of America class practice). One who fails to realize the older national leaders o& the so- better than it was ever learn which is the stronger man. special performances of the “Elec- Can anyone read that against the robbing and ruling class which the Supreme court that Marxism cannot be separated in- cialist party who travelled the road made before. God wants revenge—blood for tra” of Sophocles in the Metropolitan magnificent product blood. represents. to two parts does not understand to rev olution instead of sinking in- of historical A Daring Opera House on May 3rd and May Eighteenth Southerner. dialectic materialism, hence is quite jto the swamp of reaction with the materialism “The Brum- While he is gone, the baby dies. 4th. < aire of Louis Bonaparte” penned likely to fall into precisely the errors Bergers and Hillquits. by So that’s the kind of God he is, afraid Marx, in which he a that impelled our reader to upbraid In the long travail of building a erected monu- of the strong, avenging oji Maurice is planning a ment of that impostor, himself Schwartz Coolidge and Kellogg Are Making War on —Stop It! us for what he imagines to be our Communist Party in this, the most shame to and 1 the weak, the Hardy’s Yiddish Players not perceive how innocent! tour of the Art fol- own shortcomings, when in reality the powerful citadel of imperialism on one individual can faith in himself is restored. He and lowing the close of their season here Joint bombardment of Chinese cities by American and Bri- personify a class society ? fault is to be found in his own super- earth, Ruthenherg remained the out- in Did Rhoda will go on fighting this God June 1. , Cincinnati, warships Marx excoriate Palmertson in tish continues. The excuses given for these atrocities ficial outlook upon the revolutionary standing leader, the unifying force his' —and whipping him. Cleveland, , and “Eastern because he Detroit are of the most puerile character and, since there is firing across movement. among the conflicting elements that Question” be- j To a radical this may seem old; Buffalo will be visited by the organi- * * * lieved in the great theory ? then of necessity and must man Was i you mustn’t : the Yangtse river by the Nationalist and the militarist armies, arose arise it mere stuff. But belittle its 1 zation. CERTAINLY one who cannot dis- during such transition periods. To rhetoric when he denounced and British and American ships are in between, there are always Thiers his tinguish between the Ruthenherg the day of his death he occupied the in “Civil War in Fx-ance,” j dodged by as personifica- stray bullets to be the fearless Yanks and Britons campaign of the Party and what he position of Party leader. the most consummate i • • of protected by the steel walls of their armored ships. calls “the socialist party about * tion the corruption of the class he slop served? These war vessels have no more right to be in the Yangtse Debs” cannot be credited with any IN our campaign to popularize the pronounced * Likewise, would our indignant erudition in the realm Party among the masses by rela- Artinj? Company Than a Chinese fleet has to sail up the Mississippi and fire in- reader condemn for ' Theatre Guild in i MADISON SArt'ARE GARDEN of dialectics, where ones must not ting the life and achievements of Fredei-ick Engels j discriminately his estimation of great- THE SECOND MAN TWICE 2 & 8 into the cities on its banks. only be able to estimate correctly the Comrade Ruthenherg we do not Marx as the | DAILY, P.M P.M. in- est genius of past niTTT.D THEA..W. 52 St. Evs. 8:15 These aggressions are becoming more frequent. Step by the century? Was i Mats. Thurs. and Sat. 2:16 RINGLING BROS. Lenin indulging in Next Week—Pygmalion step the United States is making war upon the Chinese liberation vapid sentimental- ] (WIIC ism when, in 1917, he praised Karl j & VIiVUUU movement. It is making war without declaring its intention and RIGHT YOUARE~ BARNUM BAILEY Fascism In City Hall Plaza Liebknecht as the foremost leader of I Incl. among 10,000 Marvels PAWAH Coolidge Kellogg, imperialists the working class in and IF YOU THINK YOU ARE this is evidence that and and the the } r’A'RRTPK' 65 w - 35 St. Ev's. 8:30 The democratic mayor of certainly displayed VjAWXViV/IS. Mats. SACRED WHITE ELEPHANT who own and direct them, dare not make public their real plans. embodiment of the struggle against Thurs. and Sat. TICKKTS at GARDEN BOX OFFICES! his respect for democracy Monday when he welcomed the agent imperialist Next Week—Mr. Plm Pnsse* By Never in the history of the United States, not even at the war? The list could be! Bth Ave. and 4Dth St., and Gimbel Bros. of the detestable fascist government, Francesco de Pinedo, indefinitely continued to prove that: phrases a mad to THE SILVER CORD time when Wilsonian intoxicated millions with all Marxian revolutionary John Th.,68. Neighborhood Playhouse the city. De Pinedo is one of the flock of aviators that Mussolini leadei’s j (ioldpnuoiaen IYof H y IClrcls blood lust, has there been a more hypocrital policy* followed in have fully recognized the Mts.Thu. & Sat.| 6*78. 400 Grand St. Drydock 7518 sends to various parts of the world for propaganda purposes. dialectical Next Week—Ned McCnbb’s Every Eve. (except Mon.) American government. connection between the individual and j Oisshtcr Mat. Sat. The city hall plaza looked like a bandit retreat as some two hun- We »‘ ill of Lyric Drama In all the welter of civil war that has found the imperialists the historical movement. WALLACE'S Evenings B „ 8:30. dred black-shirted plug-uglies stood in military formation while * * * Mala. Tues., Wed.. Thurs. and Sat. Got, ® av. & financing and encouraging the bandit chiefs and militarists who CivicV.IVU, ReDertorvxvcpeiLuiy 14 su De Pinedo posed on the city hall steps with Tammany’s Broad- TO refrain from depicting the role Tel Watklna 7767> have burned, murdered and raped, one American has been killed. * way butterfly mayor, Jimmy Walker. of the individual and to neglect to What Brought EVA LE GALLIENNE Anne Home Tonight Even the usual imperialist slogan of “protecting lives and popularize the work of an individual ! A Kerr Comedy Drama .... “John Gabriel Borkman’* Elaborate preparations were made by the police and other Tomorrow Eve. .. “LA property” has had no basis in fact since no American property who embodied as did Ruthenherg the LOCANDIERA'* to agent regime on officials see that this of the foulest the face revolutionary movement in the United 49 has been confiscated. Bronx Opera House j. £? of the earth was unmolested by anti-fascist elements during his States would be not only inexcusable CARROLL Pop. Slavs’: warships up Yangtse, Vanities Prices. Mat. Wed. & Sat. But American cruise and down the stupidity, a against stay in the city. In the morning the bomb squad detectives but crime the Earl Ave * soth st. they Nanking Carroll Mats. TlfUrs. Sat. 2:30 ' have bombarded and murdered hundreds in and _ visited the headquarters of the Workers (Communist) Party and international Communist movement. “ON APPROVAL” they are working hand hand with the other powers. To criticise us popularizing the The Comedy Success in everyone building for MARTIN BECK THEATRE. <5 St. j Coolidge searched in the and informed the Italian mem- life and work of Ruthenherg in order 8 Ave. Evs. 8:30. say • and Kellogg lie when they that their attitude Mats. Wed. and Sat. bers that they would not be permitted to leave the building until that masses of workers may come tc TIMES SQ. ===== toward China is a friendly one. The roar of the guns in the JED ItAft HIS Presents a Dramn after 4:30 in the afternoon (after De Pinedo had been welcomed know of our party and Its history is ; Yangtse and the shells bursting over the cities, towns and villages part fe:Yo. Mats. JLj by Walker). The threat to telephone in order to obtain legal anti-Marxism. It is a and parcel j Wed. & Sat. 2:30 C RLY AT AViM F along its shores give these two procurers of mass murder of empty, ‘SPREAD EAGLE’ the aid caused the bomb-squadders to leave carrying out that didactic, spurious j with James Uennle A Chester Morris. lie. without Marxism that abjures all l’eference their threat to hold the Italian enemies of fascism prisoners The American workers and farmers must know that Coolidge in to individuals and that dwells only in BE SURE TO GET THE their own rooms until after the city hall performance. the realm of obstractions. The LADDER and Kellogg are plotting war and making war. Now in its oth MONTH The fascist aviator was well protected by cordons of police WALDORF, 50th St., East of From this knowledge will follow action. There is not a single Rogers SPECIAL ISSUE, MAY FIRST b'tvay. Mats. WED. and government agents, and his reception was such.that he de- Will Aids Poor Farmers. and SAT. worker or farmer in United wants to poorest the States who aid in the clared that he believes “New York the city in “The people we have in j slaughter of is best fascist the renter Chinese workers, peasants and students who fight world.” America, the farmers” were against foreign domination. referred to by Will Rogers in his wire ! What has A1 Smith, the real head of Tammany Hall, to say to the New There is not a single worker, member of a union or not, who .York Times, Tuesday. These Comrades Responded to this? Many of this class, one of the most wants to aid in smashing the Chinese trade unions so that native Has anyone heard of Secretary of State Kellogg objecting exploited under American capitalism, and foreign robbers can have easy pickings. are flood sufferers Mississippi to the Call for to the presence in this country of a fascist organizer and agitator, in the Ruthenberg Yet these exactly things valley. are the that Coolidge and Kellogg, whose hands drip with the blood of the Italian working masses? by using the armed forces of the United “Most of the people need help even j Sustaining / States without authoriza- Do we hear any objections from patriotic societies and other when there is no flood,” Rogers ad- j and Defense Fund tion from any source that has legal standing, are doing in China. defenders of the faith about the activities of this agent „of fascist mils. He will stage a benefit for them They have the blood of Chinese workers and peasants on dictatorship? at the ZiegTeld theatre next Sunday j night. J. Goretzky; N. Y. C 2.00 J. Latin; Detroit, Mich 6.00 their hands already. They must be allowed to shed no more. E. Charleston, Not a whimper! , Gaumberg; W.Va. .2.00 O. Molnar; N. Y. C 2.00 Let Coolidge and Kellogg know that William Green of the A. Coles; N. Y. C . .1.00 A. Nogine; Winchester, N. H Which proves conclusively that the pretended respect for Bankers Dole Out Prizes. 2.00 American Federation of Labor does not speak for the of A. Ci. Arness; Pequet, Minn 1.00 C. Bayles; San Jose, Cal. 13.50 masses democracy on the part of the political agents of capitalism—re- Blood money offered by Nassau American workers when he approves the Coolidge-Kellogg policy. H. Oamlcer; Los Angeles, Cal... 10.25 G. Sinko; Kenosha, Wis 5.00 publican and democrat alike—is as fraudulent as is their demo- County bankers for the arrest and J. Bonzar; Utica, N. Y 0.00 Wilkes Away state department—Civic N. Borich; Barre, Pa,..13.R0 with this Federation leadership of cracy itself. conviction of the robbers of the First K. Pultor; Findlcn, Mass 4.00 H. Sehmies; Detroit, Mich. 2.00 the American labor movement. National Bank of Bellmore, L. I. Seattle, Wash It proves that the government’s objection to the representa- was' J. Lawric; 9.00 R. Sehreiber; N. Y. C 1.00 split yesterday among a dozen claim-1 A. J. Young; Mt. Vernon, Send in from every local union, fraternal benefit society and tives of the is not because a Wash. .2.50 M. Kushinsky; Coney Is., N. Y...2.00 there is dictatorship ants. A private dick got $2,250 of 1 H. Less; N. Y. C 10.00 H. McKierman; N. co-operative the demand for immediate withdrawal of Bklyn, Y 1.00 all armed in Russia, but because it is a proletarian and not a capitalist dic- the $6,000. H. Levine; Chicago, 111.; 8.00 A. Dunkefelt; Detroit, Mich.... 100.00 forces from China. Let Washington know’ that we of the Ameri- tatorship; it objects because it is a dictatorship that is at the M. Tnssman; Bronx, N. Y 5.00 M. Spongati; N. Y. C .1.00 can working class have no quarrel with the Chinese masses and same time a thousand times more democratic than the SBO For Sustaining Fund. W. Heyden; Bronx, N. Y 50.00 S. Halpern; N. Y. C 3.0® demo- LUZERNE, Pn., April 27.Eighty B. Robins; C that we will not be a party to a conspiracy which, beginning with cratic republic of the United States and because it represents N. Y. 5.09 J. Booker; Bronx, N. Y 5.00 the dollars for The DAILY WORKER' ,1. Mares; N. Y. C 1,00 H. Rappoport; Bronx, N. Y war on them, threatens to engulf the whole world in a bloody majority of people country, Sustaining 8.50 the of that while the lascist dictator- Fund has been collected | Finnish Work. So.; N. Y. C 50.00 A. Kanolla; Superior, Wis 5.00 struggle to which the world war was child’s play. ship is that of a minority and far closer to the brand of Wall here by Frank Vratariek, which has | J. C. Taylor; Oakland, Cal 90.00 B. Pankevich; Haverhill, Ma55.,.6.00 been sent to New War is being waged against China. Street dictatorship here that is defended alike by Smith and York. Kirkgaard; Chicago, 111 1.50 Bishop W. M. Brown; Gnlion, 0..6.00 M. Marks; N. Y. C 1.00 M. Tassmnn, Bronx, N. Y Stop it. I Walker, Coolidge and Kellogg. BUY 17.00 THE DAILY WORKER B. Cole: N. Y. C 25.00 M. Barabosoff: Cleveland. Ohio. .10.00