The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 18, 1924, Page 5

i ro < _danuayy 10, 1264 , THE DAILY WORKE R SACCO-VANZETT! DEMONSTRATIONS IN SO. AMERICA Strikes Also Called by Militant Workers (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass.—Detailed stories of the recent -demonstrations in South American cities on behalf of Nicola Sacco and Barthalameo Van- zetti have just been received by the Sacco-Vanzetti Committee. In Montevideo, Uruguay, a huge mass meeting was called for Lib- erty Square. When the meeting was opened, the square which is larger than several American blocks, was crowded from edge to edge, Dozens of speakers ‘were necessary to tell the crowd to hear the story of Sacco and Vanzetti and how they had been the victims of a frame up in the free United States. Use of Halls Forbidden After the demonstration a general strike lasting forty-eight. hours was called, In Buenos Aires, Argentine, a movement for a general strike was well under way when the military was called in and the use of all halls forbidden and all radical pa- pers suppressed. Officers. from American ships in the harbor asked what all the striking was about. “Who are Sacco and Vanzetti,” they wanted to know. The workrs told them, South America has been the scene of dozens of demonstrations on be- half of Sacco and Vanzetti. The workers there know the story of the prosecution of these two foreign- born’ workers probably better than the workers of this country do, New Trial Plea Still Up Judge Webster Thayer, trial judge in the famous Sacco-Vanzetti case, refuses to give attorneys in the case any idea when he will decide motions for a new trial now pending before him. There are five motions awaiting decisions by Thayer. Four of them attack the credibility of witnesses. If, as the defense hopes, they can shake the judge’s faith in their character the judge will be bound to grant a new trial. State Witness Is Discredited If the judge decides not to grant a mew trial then the defense will appeal to the supreme court of the state charging error’ in the trial. Tf, however, Thayer does grant a new trial he will tix a date for the trial and with most of the state’s witnesses discredited an acquittal is certain, * Watch the “Daily Worker” for the installment of “A Week,” the ~sic of the Russian revolution, Wiens wane B tentew weiter Pee eed It will start so | ATTENTION! Milwaukee, Wis. ATTENTION! THE FIFTH YEAR’ Vivid 9-Reel Motion Pictute SOVIET RUSSIA is coming to Milwaukee, Wis. SATURDAY EVENING, JAN. 19 at PABST THEATRE, East Water and Oneida Sts. One showing only at 8:00 P. M. Sharp. Many Greetings to THE DAILY WORKER from The Radical Inn The place where you can enjoy an interesting discussion while having a special Mrs. Smith’s own cooked meal or drinking a Russian Tchei- nick (pot) of tea with Mrs, Smith’s own ome made cake. Arrangements for services for par- ties, organizations and private gatherings made at any time, Mrs, Smith's Tea Room 1431 8. SAWYER AVENUE Phone Rockwell 0202. FOR RENT ‘ Neatly fureished room for light ° bousékeeping. Greenwood, 508 So. Irving Ave. UNION SPECIAL NOTICE: Those holding at the Wo: Educa‘ Militant Miners’ Chief Is Very (By The Federated Press) GLACE BAY, N. S.—The most popular prisoner in the provincial jail during the holiday season was Jim McLachlan, the imprisoned former secre- tary of the Nova Scotia miners. He was convicted of “sedition” for his strike activity. Aside from a host of visitors who called, Jim got a vast number of Christmas and New Year gifts and messages from all sections of @anada and the United States and some from England. He also received a delayed check for his salary as secretary-treasurer of District 26, United Mine Workers of America, during the month of July before International President Lewis deposed him. when the miners were on strike. MeLachlan refused the check, sending it back to his enemies, the provisional miner officers, on the ground that it would be accepting “blood money” if he took it from them, Particularly encouraging was a message from Mother Jones. It read: “You are behind the bars for a holy cause. Courage, my brother, and do not falter! Cowards and traitors die often; and, oh God, they have some horrible deaths at that.” Worker Fears that Communism Will Steal His Individuality To THE DAILY WORKER: I have been reading some of the literature issued by the Workers Party and I hope you invite criticism, I am not going to speak about the merits or demerits of your party. But I would like to call your attention not to overlook some of the merits and good features of so-called capitalism. As you speak in the name of the working-class, what assurance have you got that after capitalism has been overthrown, that the working-class will respond to a theoretical program. Nobody disputes that conditions are such what we would not want them to be, But do not overlook the fact that the despised capitalist system has given you and me a certain amount of individuality which you and I are revolution and abolish the power of the capitalists, and until the bour- geois ideology is outgrown. This transitory vernment will assume the form of a dictatorship. The workers cannot be exploited Popular Even Behind Prison Bars | talasxt_ enemies? is by undertaking the job and put- is necessary in order to protect the fin sects lend. ehh cnrtn team nin ade acs tn en METAL WORKERS AND FOOD WORKERS, come to the DANCE at the ‘WICKER PARK SMALL HALL, SAT. NIGHT, JAN. 19, for the benefit of the National Bulletins of the two groups TICKETS 50c IN ADVANCE, 65¢ AT THE DOOR vs Lyceum will kindly notice the change of the Hall, due to unf. circumstances. Auspices: Metal Trades and Food Trades Group of the Trade Union tional League, Local cherishing. Will the Communist state guarantee the same? In re- gards to workers being exploited by the capitalists will they not also be exploited under communism to sus- tain its regime? As somebody will have to support the government whether it be a political or industrial. As no matter what kind of a gov- ernment you have somebody will be on top . I doubt even if a Commun- ist would want to see a system where everybody would he levelled down. What a nionotonous state of affairs we would have or would we not? Anybody can rave against capital- ism if such one exists but I prefer the present system until it can be proven that the workingman has the ability to govern himself, ARTHUR MULLER, OUR REPLY.—We are glad to learn that the literature you read had enough punch to it to induce you 'to write as judging by your grammaw your acquaintance with the King’s English is not very intim- ate, which is one grievance you should register against the capitalist system, You fail to mention even one of the merits or good features of the capitalist system except the very doubtful individuality which it has given you. Your main argument seems to be that until the workers prove that they have the .ability to govern themselv you will sulk in ae Senay ee your capitause veny ang revuse participate in the work of develup- ing a workiig class movement that will train the workers to govern themselves and run industry for the benefit of the producers, By the way are not the Russian workers governing their country fairly well, inspite of the legacy of ignorance they inherited from the Czar and the attacks of their capi- "The only way the workers can prove they are fit to rule ting: the capitalists to one side, just as they did in Russia. Communists do not “rave” against the ont system. They state that it fulfilled its function in developing the industrial machinery necessary to produce commodities to such a state that enough of the necessities of life can. be produced in a few months to supply all human needs for the rest of the year. This tre- mendous productive power of our present society gluts the market with commodities which cannot be bought by the workers who receive only a smalt portion of the product of their toil in the form of wages, The result is unemployment and misery. Production is now carried on for the sake of profit and not for use. Every year the few grow richer and the many grow poorer. Capitalism is no longer able to satisfy the needs of the people. In Europe it is al- ready standing on the brink of the precipice. It is doomed. Communists assert that the next step in the upward climb of the hu- man race toward a higher state of existence will be a system where production will be carried on for use and not for profit, This will free mankind from the last form of class rnle and usher in the classless society, As rule of one class over another by force; the abolition of capitalism and class rule would mean the elimi- nation of it. But in the transition period from capitalism to communism a Workers’ en’ MUSIC tickets for this affair advertised Chicago Near 7th Avenue FOR PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK, DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street Rendering Expert Service for 20 Yoars it! of the Sa po f Dental 1627 Center A: the workers’ by themselves under a system of society where exploitation cannot exist. Exploitation will not be tole- rated. , The workers, once they se- cure power will no more go back to capitalism than the bourgeois revo- lutionists wen! back to Feudalism. The hands or. the clock of evolution cannot be turned back. Of course the workers will sup- port their oyn government but_ it will be THEIR government. Why should they not? And those who will occupy the highest positions in the workers’ government aré those best fitted for the positions. Like Lenin, Trotsky, Chicherin in Russia. Everybody wilt not be levelled down under communism, The levelling will be UP. There will be plenty of use- ful activity to break the monotony of. existence’ under communism, in the effor: to make of this world the heav- en that the preachers tell us exists in the skies, I believe it will com- are very favorably with the “varied” ife of the wage slave under the pres- ent system of society who works at the machine when he is lucky enough to get a job only to be thrown on the scrap heap when the boss can nd longer grind profits out of him, Fear not the loss of your indivi- duality if this glorious system should be lost to you. We will try and fit you out with a new soul under the Communist repubz:ic, NEW YORK MASS AT HIGH RENTS Crystallize Sentiment Against Landlords (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK.—High rents which are causing much suffering in work- ing class districts, will be discussed at a series of mass meetings called by the United Council of Working Class Women. The council has been working’ hard on-the rent situation for some time and decided the occasion was oppor- tune for crystallizing the anti-land- lord sentiment into effective action. The women of New York’s crowded tenement sections are up in arms against landlords who charge high rents and then do not furnish heat or ‘hot water, Family Incomes Reduced The boosts in rents have cut into family incomes to such an extent that much suffering has resulted. At a recent meeting of the coun- cil, where it was decided to call the mass meeting, it was also. decided to issue a pamphlet in several lan- guages telling the story of the work- ers’ sufferings as a result of high rents. Feeling against the profiteering landlords ran high at the meeting, despite the fact that it was a work- ing committee which met and did its work surprisingly well. One woman, not a member of the com- mittee, said she came from a wom- an’s organization in the Bronx and that she couldn’t help coming as she had to “pour her heart out” and tell those who were so deeply interested in the housing problem what a ter- rible time she was having. The woman said she lived in an apartment house at 60 West 119th St., that she had moved into “six dark rooms” five months ago, paying $70 a month for her flat while the older tenants were paying only $50 and $55, and that “absolutely no heat has as yet been provided, no heat and no_hot water.” Both had been solemnly promised her for the first of January, where- upon she paid this month’s rent. The ‘woman was in tears, the first sharp snap will bring pneu- monia. “My landlord,” she said, “owns 28 houses but he himself lives in the finest hotel in the city. He has com- fort and warmth and gets it out of the freezing bodies of our little children and the broken hearts of their parents.” How We Lead the Junior Groups Article No. 2. Experience has proven the correct- ness of the principle on which the formation of the Junior Groups is based—that the organization and leadership of the children’s groups is a task belonging particularly to the Young Workers League. Except for a few individual instances the mem- bers of the Young Workers League have proven themselves to be best fitted for the leadership wf the chil- ‘dren’s groups, in the following re- spects: (a) They adapt themselves more easily than the adults to the peculiar features of the children’s psychology. (b) They are not so much inclined to be “no-political and humanitarian” as are the adults, (c) They understand better than the adults how to build up the activi- ties of the Junior Groups so that these become a natural preliminary stage of the Young Workers League, preparing the children to enter the league. These points are all brought out in the decisions of the First Interna- tional Conference of Children’s Leaders which was arranged by the Young Communist International, We now come to the question: Have our Young Workers League members tne requisite ability and experience for teaching? In reply to this we assert that the formation of the Junior Groups is not prim gogics. It struggle, a political task, a struggle to liberate the proletarian child from the mental servitude imposed upon him by capitlism; it is the en- rolment of the child into the ranks working class. The question of knowledge and of pedogogic ability is important, of course, but its importance is second- ary. The first requisite is that the education shall be revolutionary and of a communist nature. We have— and we say it with pride—in the Young Workers League, communists in the best sense of the word, and being communists they are naturally better qualified to conduct this work of communist education. ; There is still another matter: the Pas ae of the capitalists, even ose of the most progressive cle- ments of the capitalists, are not fitted for our purposes, Working class pe- cageaics has yet to be evolved. ey cannot be learned from books, but must arise fro! rience. m expe- . Pedagogs cannot be adacat: ed, they must educate themselves. Thru their devotion to communism, ficnwmumice. ont ANENE PAL LIAS | | | way to the minds and hearts of the children and eventually solve the probiem of pedagogics which are, after all, based upon this approach. (Watch for Article No. 3 of this series: How we start to organize a MEETINGS TO HIT She has aj child of five at home and fears that “Eternal City” Reeks Fascism Any doubt as to the political laan- ings of our movie trust is quickly of sponsors for the Fascist prop- aganda film, “The Eternal City.” Here is the line up: Distributed by “First . National,” presented Samuel Goldwyn, directed by George Fitzmaurice. The story runs as follows: A pair of childhood sweethearts are sepa- rated by the war, the boy is reported killed, the girl accepts the sponsor- ship of a wealthy patron of the arts, and despite the fact that this wealthy | world- e Baron buys up her ‘“mas-| terpieces’”’ and pays her board bill, she returns pure and undefiled to her re lover who wasn’t killed after all. On this innocent frame has been hung one of the, most vicious anti- working class propaganda attacks ever screened. The rich art-patron, Baron Bonelli, is made into a war profiteering capitalist, who seeks to become Dictator of Italy by the road | of the proletarian revolution. The wickedness of “red strikers” is pic- tured by putting axes into the hands | of. a crowd of roughly dressed “ex- | tras” and setting them to making kindling out of a railroad coach. Their “brainy leader” is a Ghetto] Italian. ward-heeler type (named “Smirnoff”) who, while not engaged in holding small soapbox meetings or | pulling sheets off a tiny flat bed press, goes around in person bribing noble young Fascists with oodles of the Baron’s money. If the Baron could not hand out subsidies big enough to | buy a better printing press, he cer- tainly deserved to be beaten. Two] jand a half counter-revolutions could | be: run off at slow speed by the time| this dinky «press printed the first | “Proletarian Dictatorship Proclama-| tion.” The brave youths return from the war, and find that their medais and | banners are not properly respected. | So they organize into mobs, and fling stilletos bearing anti-strike warnings | at darkened doorways. When the reds | organize to counter-attack, they are | dispersed by the police, but the title | writer explains that Italy was fortu- |nate in having a King with enough | | sense to turn the government over to Mussolini, the “man of the people.” Mussolini and the King appear in per- | son of course, Barrymore seems ill at ease in thas obviously impossible character pre- }sentation. Except for his attempt to |eapture the Fascist leader, there is |not single action of the rich benefac- jtor that can be called even unkind. | His “connection’’ with the Reds is ex- | |traneous rubbish. The star could} |have made much of a sympathetic presentation of the character. | | | |_ Barbara LaMarr plays the beautiful | Italian girl to perfection. She is 100 | dispelled by one glance at the list | by | Page Five j Year Membership Unions | 1890 23 63 | 1900 677,000 5F | 1910 2,017,000 2" 1914 48 1918 50 1919 52 1920 ¥ 52 1921 0,000 62 3.4 1923 (2nd quarter) 8,06) 1923 (3rd quarter) 7,721,290 In 1921, 150,000 workers organized in the trade unfoxs were affiliated with the Red International of Labor Unions and the number of sympathizers was estimated at two millions. The figures of this year show a regrettable decrease of membas. This is partly due to the bad economic situation, but mainly to the dissatisfac- tion and disappointment of the rank and file. The present new decrease of the trade union membership in. the fourth quarter is really fatal, The General Trade Union Federation today—altho it is greatly regrettable that the trade unions are thus weakened—no longer has the right to speak on behalf of eight million workers organized in the trade unions. However, it still does so, and of course in favor of the employers. What is more, it recently helped to establish the military dictatorship and the overthrow of the Saxon and Thuringian workers. The collapse of the trade unions becomes especially evident in their finuancial aspect.. The treasuries are empty. This is so serious that the membership dues are no longer su..cient to pay the employees, Naturally under such circumstances—if one judges from the only too well known trade union point of view—one cannot carry on struggles, one can only sabotage and stop such struggles by means of the bureaucratic apparatus and with the assistance of the unjustified authority that goes with it. Blaming It On God ST. LOUIS.—Society is again, A day and night gu: to be maintained over civilization to protect it from the “labor agita- tor.” This is to be done by the self- THE FOOD TRUST styled “St. Louis Association for | Better Citizenship,” organized few} eee “f Boost Scheme for Chain know when, where or how, but seem- | ingly with an unlimited flow of coin of Meat Stores (By The Federated Press) at its disposal. This good citizen) factory is buying large chunks of} newspaper advertising space for its | peopangads, of which the following WASHINGTON.—Charles J. Brand is a sample: ASHINGTON.—Charles J. Brand, pa ti HESS former protege of Joe Cannon and claemplorgs are not hard, as a | Herbert Hoover in the days when Sher who intites iqloucy | Heney and the Federal Trade Com. trouble maker who incites jealousy, | .o:ci), scl yak an ae te Chlecge not forget that the agitator owes ier bs ek ap 6 special ploader, hig living to the false circumstances | *°" the Packing trust. he can bring about. His is a busi- In a press release from the office Hoot eager making—the more tg acai bed gti bane oat trouble he stirs , the greate> sr pax Satpal lgpebadhese Bones icc hie. pit, oe ” National Livestock Association is in “It in good to remember that | 8¢2#ion, Brand is quoted as arguing ; . : that the big packers ought to be bl roe Ce Robern oe } betmifted to operate chain stores for xf os yale retailing meats. This is now pa more of ability than to Ininited by the “consent deqreat®. ga others, more: skill than to others, der which the Big Five evaded the more thrift than to others, In- prosecution which the federal ad- ministration was forced to institute against them in 1919. _ “Retailing meat thru large omgan- izations operating chain stores would tend to cut down food costs at the | greatest single point of expense,” says Brand, “and would benefit both producers and consumers.” Secretary Wallace describes Brand NEW PROPAGANDA s=iBY PLEADER FOR dis} equalities can be provided for to the end that all are adequately remunerated for the labor they | perform. . . .” Letters to ‘The Daily’ Glad to Get “The Daily” |Per cent convincing at all times, the | aistorted story permits. | But Bert Lytell has a hard time trying to make a heroic character out of mighty shoddy material. He is a street waif who kills his aged bene- factor by his sudden repudiation of the old man’s pacifist principles. He robs his childhood sweet heart of | \father, happiness and home, and jlater, at the head of a gang of nood- \lums, smashes a war memorial made \by her in his own memory. Her |society friends run from her like I you ever notice how glad a b ‘when he gets some money to buy a piece of candy? way I felt yesterday morning when | stand. | the Amalgamated Trust und Savings Bank and lars that I withdrew from the cap- \frightened rabbits after this public \“rebuke” at the hands of the mob, children’s group.) |blameless woman, For a moment he | \feels the pangs of remorse «nly to |viciously assault her a moment later | jon suspicion of intimacy with the | Baron. She comes throuh his trial | by strangulation successfully, sc for a | brief time he believes in her and she | loves him more than eve To sauare herself with the Baron, she holds un | P. O. Chiefs With Minds of Eight (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK. — “Broom”, which; terms itself an international maga-| e a zine of the arts, has felt the unmail-| auction sale of the stuff doucht w'th | able fist of the Post Office Depart-|his money. She asks to wari ment. The January issue of that|brave Fascist of a plot periodical has been declared unfit /life, is s ected of treact for circulation by the postal author-| p: , and only “wins 4 jities. The Solicitor General of that |goifig to jail for one of his killings. | Department has communicated to hig » Aided heroines are gluttons for pun-} effect to Mathew Josephson, edito¥ | ishment. —or is it wielder?—of “Broom”. 7 s néboral The Post Office Department gave settings and good camera work, the he Seeear for its action, ey. picture is poor even from a purely | assuming that vey he TOVI- | technical standpoint. The mechanism etn "e peng we ereupon| 4¢ propaganda making is s* obvious | ni egret mae Dnterstand that it creaks. Every bit of bre on . |neyed hoakum known and generally Josephson asserts that he and his discarded in Hollywood is trotted out colleagues are at a loss to under-lin this film. The bov vagabond who | peer calls for this act of sup-| afterward becomes the Fascist, este a : _|is shown rescuing a raged Italian ipa bane studied the intue carefull trom accrowd of other wehina— nographie is it.” ba ae viees ago yapeatgera pa- 4 triotism. ere the relations between is ermgile we Wsestese oka coe Palace and Vatican so fricudly forty arts and pleads for freedom of ex- odd years ago? i, : pression in artistic matters. He does| The book was written in 1901, not consider this to be a just ground|about characters then in their twen- ties. It was conceived whon Fascism f ssion, Wee was undreamed of and when Musso- “Wel., well,” was the only com- ment made by a New York artist to-|lini had achieved no fame even as a ranting Social This alone shows day, when informed of Josephson’s that book and author are only used opinion. 8 camouflage for a hideous Fascisti $2 to Sinclair Lewis nic ‘ The suppressed issue contains four|Propaganda edtoil wisich m the enmity of America’s workers. poems by E, E, Cummings, author Organizing the Discontented. PT Nl Enormous Room”; stories by ilipe Soupault and Kenneth Burke NEW YORK.—What may be term-) ed a Bok consolation tournament is and the announcement of a $2 prize to Sinclair Lewis for his work in ad- vanci! the American novel. The| being organized by the Women’s, latter is a jibe at “The Dial” which} Peace Union. The Union has request- recenty awarded $2,000 to Van Wyck| ed contestants who are dissatisfied, with the Bok award. to send copies) of their projects to the headquarters Brea tom!” enjo; literary and a of this pacifist group, The Union! mentions that it has no money for a rales and unsuccessful competitors its su ion is generally regard ed as iy the mental age of postal Ray x in the Bok $100,000 contest are offer. | ed a fair hearing and a chance to, a reputation for tic excellence and chiefs at thru their understanding of the im-| Don’t be a “Yes, But,” supporter of | vent their disappointment. Wide, co of the coming generation ‘The Daily Worker. Send in b> licity is ised to candidates ee bee love | scription at. once. meee: in the ‘Bol mi-finals,” Tosoabare fiod thelr bib bos. a RN The Land for the Users as “eananitine enerialict in mevbat. Editor, ‘Ine Daily Worker: ing for the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture.” When the packers’ secret correspondence files |were captured by the Trade Com- Well, that’s ‘the | mission some years ago, it was found that Brand was considered one of the safest friends whom a packer lob- byist could consult when in Wash ington, The story of packer control of chain stores, told in the investigh- tion, was one of deliberate s ing of competition, followed by ing of prices to the consumer and cut- ting of prices paid to the farmer, saw the Daily Worker on the news- The Daily Worker brought me to I deposited a few dol- italist bank.—A. Saleni. ae ee Likes “Daily” Editorials To The Daily Worker: Your edi- : ‘ torials are superb. ied | d. Sh bold- and accompanied by wasteful over- Get unity thru the Labor Party! leas tha share? ana pal sal him It is needless to say I am 100) head expenses in the beef trust it- a with his cowardice in striking with| Per cent for your entire program.— self. 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