The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1924, Page 5

j Thursday, February 21, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER 1924 CRISIS GIVES WORKERS PARTY ATS OPPORTUNITY Ruthenberg Puts Situa- tion Before Branches The following appeal by ©. FB. Ruthenberg, executive secretary of the Workers Party, will be read at every Party Branch. It describes the magnificent opportunity . before the organization that has come with the wrecking of the reputations of both old parties and asks for the full- est support at once: “Our party has before it a great opportunity. During the past year we made great progress, as test! fied to by the letter to our conven- tion from the Communist Interna. tional. We have before us now the opportunity for even greater achieve- ents. “A crisis of major importance ia haking this country. For two years be farmers have suffered under con- ditions which have driven millions. of them from the land. As a result there hag developed a widespread movement among the farmers for a farmer-labor party and independent political action, Oil Bespatters Both Parties. “Now comes the Teapot Dome ex- posure—showing corruption and rottenness in high places unequ: ed in the previous history of this country. Both of the old parties are being splattered with the oil from Teapot Dome. They stand before the workers and farmers as the corrupt instruments of. the exploiting. class, using the power of the government to loot the na- tion in the interest of this class. “The result of the Teapot Dome exposures has been a great impetus to both the movement for a third party and a Farmer-Labor Party. Literally millions of farmers and industrial workers are moving away from the old parties and are prepared for independent political action thru a Farmer-Labor Party. We Must Lead Movement. “It is our work to crystallize this movement. It is our work to give it definite form and to become the leaders in this movement. If we do not take the place in the forefront of this movement, these workers and farmers, who are moving toward in- dependent political action will fall under the influence of petty bour- geoisie Third Party leadership, They will be misled and the class move- ment of workers and farmers will be delayed for years in its crystalliza- tion, “Is our party equal to the oppor- tunity which lies before it? Are we strong enough to win the farmers ~—and-industrial workers for the class movement in a struggle with the middle class leaders? The Central Executive Committee believes that our party is capable of undertaking this struggle and to win new suc- cesses for the Communist movement in the United States. Our successes during the last year prove our strength to go forward to new struggles and new victories. “The Central Executive Committee has launched the campaign for class Farmer-Labor Party in connection with the Teapot Dome exposures as the medium thru which to build 4p our forces. Again we have taken the position of leadership.. Now we must thru intensive work in this campaign prove our right to that position, Need Funds to Build Movement. “The immediate need of the Na- tional Office in order to take full ad- vantage of the opportunity which lies before our party is financial assist- ance. For nearly.a_year the Na- tional Office has made no appeals to the membership for funds. It left the field clear for the DAILY WORKER campaign, to which the membership responded so ey The result of the DAILY WORKE Fe eh however, was that the National Office’ suffered financially, All its revenue was reduced tes the fact that the membership were ving all i could to the DAIL WORKER. “Now the national organization faces a great opportunity to build jour movement with a / treasury. It must have the Teapot Dome-class Labor Party campaign. It m have funds for the many politica! conferences which are part of the maneuvers in this cam Executive Commit. party soialberdia to's Farmer-Labor Campaign Fund ot $15,000. There will be no compul- sory assessment, but the Central Executive Committee feels assured for Men & Send in Your News The Daily’ Worker urges all members of the party to send in the news of their various sec- tions. Every Party Branch should appoint its own correspondent and make him responsible for the news that ought to be sent in to The Daily Worker. The Party Page should be the st page in The Daily Worker. Help make it so. Address all mail to the Editor, The Daily Worker, 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill, ae that every party member will rée- alize the significance of the pres« ent situation and make his contri- bution. $1.00 From Each Member. “Attached are Farmer-Labor Cam- paign Fund emblems. We ask that every member of the party contrib- ute $1.00 and put one of these em. blems on his dues card. The pay- ment is not compulsory, We ask that each party member assess himself voluntarily to enable the party to go forward to great achievement. “Each branch of up to twenty-five members should be able to raise at least $10.00 thru these emblems and each branch ‘of over 25 members at least $25.00. That is the standard. “The money is néeded quickly. Take the matter up at this branch meeting. Collect as-many dollars for the emblems as possible and remit them to the National Office. We do not want a long, lingering campaign. Let us show that we can act quickly even in a financial campaign. Can- vas every member. during the. next two weeks. Send in the remittance promptly, “The National Office will transmit 25 per cent of the receipts from each district to the District Organizer to finance the work in the district. “Comrades, we are going forward tunde for | Farmer- Shose —Furnishings-—Hats Open Thursday and Saturday to greater struggles and greater vic- tories, Your contribution to Farmer- Labor Party campaign fund will fur- nish the means for the biggest cam- paign the party has waged. Do your part—do it quickly and well. Fraternally yours, C. E, RUTHENBERG, Executive Secretary.” From Austria to Spain Misery Rules Capitalist Europe ‘Special to The Daily Worker) — * NEW YORK, Feb. 20th.—Dis-| | pene to commercial institutions of lew York in one day sketch a de- pressing picture of Europe as fol- lows: The bank employes of “recon- structed” Vienna went on strike for wage increases so that they may buy sufficient bread to keep them. alive; There was “some disturbance” re- ported in French industry because of rising living costs with le success reported for the governments’ tempt to cope with the stiuation by means of restrictions on exportation of certain kinds of food stuffs, coal and leather; Industrial disturbances in Norway; Conditions in unoccupied Germany are “increasingly unsatisfactory” thanks to “a serious transportation breakdown and foreign competi- tion.” Continued dullness in Spain; Only “slight infprovement” in oc- cupied Germany due to the stabiliza- tion there of money. Norway’s strikes are of metal and dock workers. They are spreading. In France prices are rising rapidly as the franc drops, and buying for export is increasing at the expense of domestic busines. Unemployment is increasing. This is France’s first taste of unemployment. And — significant! — French com- mercial syndicates are advising mem- bers to calculate their selling prices on a dollar basis to avoid replace- ment losses! Soviets Reject Jap Offer; Say Trade it. KLAN METHODS T00 CRUDE FOR NICHOLAS BUTLER Goosestep President in War on Night-Gown (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. 20—Dr, Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, has accepted the leader- ship of a movement to center a fight against the Ku Klux Klan by unseat- ing Earl B. Mayfield as junior United States senator from Texas. Convinced that if the Klan is to be stamped out Mayfield must be unseated, fifty men of affairs in New York have beeh asked to grant moral and financial support to Texans now working in Washington to evict their junior sen- ator, Butler, in announcing the confer- ence’s purpose to obtain financial as- sistance for those prosecuting the Mayfield ouster, said: @ “My interest in combating the Klan movement arises from its lawlessness. The Ku Klux Klan is one of the new- est and most active forms of. that lawlessness which surrounds us on every side and which threatens the foundations of our government and our social order. “The. very professions of the Ku Klux Klan, to say nothing of its acts, are in violation of our fundamental law. We guarantee to every man freedom of conscience, freedom of worship and equality before the law. The Ku Klux Klan denies and violates all of these principles, “It is fundamentally un-American and un-Christian-and it must be stamped out at all costs without de- lay. We serve this notice upon time- serving politicians and office seekers who expect to gain personal advan- tage by compromise with this evil thing. “The attempt to keep Mayfield as senator from Texas is not an ordina- ty political enterprise. It is a dec- laration of war on the American gov- ernment and it affects and challenges the whole nation, not merely the peo- ple of Texas.” * * * * Another Juicy Scandal. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Validity of the first ballots counted in the Mayfield election investigation was challenged today by opponents of Senator Earle B. Mayfield, Texas. Returns from seven precincts in Anderson county were questioned cn the ground that variation is shown in the handwriting purporting to be the signatures of the presiding election judges in those precincts, The recount of the ballots was be- gun yesterday under orders from the senate committes which is investigat- ing Mayfield’s election, ; Ballot Boxes Absent. The committee- has completed the recount of the first county. bae the totals were not made public. Luther Nickels, attorney for George E. B. Peddy, the contestant, claimed that the differences in signatures may indicate some of the ballots were not signed by the presiding judges who have that exclusive power, Several boxes from Anderson coun- ty—a strong Mayfield district—were said to be missing, *.* © © Young Granted Injunctions, EAST ST. LOUIS, Feb, 20th.— Forty-seven temporary injunctions closing as many saloons in Herrin and Marion, Williamson County, were issued today by Federal Judge English in Federal District Court here, on affidavits sworn out by 8. Glenn Young, leader of Ku Klux Klan liquor raids in that county. Fifty informations charging viola- tion of the Volstead law were filed against Williamson County residents by Young and his assistants, Both informations and injunctions, together with about eighty other liquor cases, already under prosecu- tion by the Klan, are returnable at Federal Court in Danville, M., Awaits Recognition TOKYO, Feb, 20-—Japan's proposal ‘eb. apan’s proposal for business relations with Russia have been turned down. Russian re- prubenantives say they will agree to no half-way measures, that Japan must aA do without be it “yan * tion of Busein fo betag urged onthe on Chinese government. Farina Declared Guilt; W YORK, Feb. 20--Join Fari- ne wird nen be convicted for of two bank messengers ~ Aes Ntavscsbers was setiy Coley’ by 6 tery fast Salve at deliber- ated salve Shi bahenonk & tol Boys it diplomatic recognition or| q 4 | schools, distribution of all educational March 8rd. ** @ 6 Young to Go, HERRIN, Ill, Feb. 20.—A com- pe between Sheriff George Gal- igan and the Ku Klux Klan, which provides for a cessation of “dry” raids by the klan, the removal of 8. Glenn Young, paid employe of the organization, and two n’s ne foloary was revue: | toda: a zens’ committee that frouent about the compromise. The Land for the Users!) New York Teachers’ Union Starting Big Membership Drive (Specisl to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb, 20.—Th - er’s Union is preparing for phere ;| bership drive in March. The organ- ization which has under 1,000 mem- Z| bers, wants a bj bo grees of Ni York’s total of S00 teachers nail The technic of the drive, as ex- B\plained by Dr. Henry R. Linville, President of the union, is to include personal letters, at homes of teachers as repo in special litera- ture explaining the aims of the un- ion, and conferences in a rhage of which have already boon eld. Ata cave ee of or- ‘ohn L, eres ger y, a ivisional superintendent of schools declared that the union should have every one of the 25,000 teachors as members, and when it did have them conditions might be transformed over night, A aul BAILY WORicn” Eat en MENTIONING THE M By PROJECTOR. OVIES The Woman of Peris. HIS first venture of Charley Chaplin into the admittedly seri- ous is worth all the praise bestowed upon it by the critics—and then some. In taking the most tawdry and trite of dramatic material—the threadbare French “cabinet drama” —and thru sheer directorial skill making it the vehicle for supreme expression of almost every emotion known to man, Chaplin again proves himself the foremost genits of the film world. There have been other great actors who could move their audiences alternately to thought, to tears and to laughter, altho no one on the silver screen does it so well | as this supremely human, lovable clown, Chaplin here proves that he ean do the vastly more difficult job of making other actors, and by no means the best known of either, do all the subtle thrilling little tricks that. makes the screen illu- sions of life.so real as to seem life itself. » This picture is an emotional field day. One sees the private property pride of the French father whose services in marriage agreement have been Le ia by impetuous, callow young lovers, pride that sends one @ld man to death and the other to a lifetime of loneliness. One sees mother love in its true colors, glo- riously selfish, meddling in the boy’s love affairs “for his own good” even tho it brings him to a wretched death. In “The Woman” one sees love, pique, jealousy, vanity, and above all a trader’s dissatisfaction with the deal no matter how profitable the commerce. One. sees little old “Eco- nal interviews | had nomic Determinism” make the fine dame ludicrous and the tramp a philosopher. “Judge not that, ye be not judged,” is the underlying theme of the} picture. A splendid antidote for an overdeveloped morality. A rap on the door at the-wrong time by a doctor called to attend a corpse, busts up a village elopement and makes the country girl into the “Woman.” A studio door left- open by an indecisive boy breaks up the wedding a second time and results in the most artistic suicide ever screened. And the old mother is cheated of a violent revenge by her lack of a limousine. This is truly an ail-story picture, each player lives in his role and the result is perfect characterization. Edna Purviance is technically the star, she is regally beautiful most of the time, but the honors really go to the “Villain.” His acting is flawless but then the part is the most sympathetic in the play. On} the other hand the poor “Hero” Is ‘iven a very rough deal by charley. | Fie is made a callow, narrow-minded, indecisive weakling whose one re- deeming feature is that he made a beautiful corpse, especially with his face, This is just like Chaplin. The villain’ has “been the under-dog ~ in American movies too long, it is about time he came into his own. Direction is perfect, one might al- most say, inspired. It shows what we can hope for when changed social conditions permit production for art rather than for the box office. The aforementioned suicide, the arrival of the train portrayed by moving window lights, the mother cooking a frugal supper while her boy’s body is being- borne home on a police stretcher, the reporter breaking the news with the question, “How old was your son?” the wooden-faced message expert, all these are pure penile The kitchen scene with the over-ripe wood-cocks approaches very, very close to the pie-slinging slap- stick for which Charley is famous. I wonder tho if a man who shoots with his left hand really loads with his right, and if even the suavest villain would not have been just a little mussed up after a two-minute tussle with an infuriated lover fifty pounds and six inches the better man? The end is bosh. A dozen pretty orphans and a rotund village priest are the woman's consolation for the loss of both love and luxury. And in company with her near-mother-in- law! As sticky-sweet and messy a: the jam on the cherub’s face. Typi: cal American hokum, Hell, Charley couldn’t even you rise above that? Strike of Filipino Sugar Workers in Hawaii Is Coming GERMAN R than | R ELIEF ISSUE IN BOSTON CENTRAL BODY Progressives Won't Let Machine Shelve It (Special to The Daily Worker BOSTON, Feb, 20.—The Botton Central Labor Union today referred to its executive board the question of sending two delegates to the sec. ond Conference for German relief called by the Boston organization of the Friends of Soviet Russia and of Workers Germany, George Kraska, secretary. Accompanying the request was a statement describing how the F. 8, - has been thoroly investigated by an impartial committee of represen- tative men. from unions and political organizations; and by the district at- torney of New York, who found no basis for charges. An interesting discusston ensued after a motion was made by Dek- gate Simons to send the two deie- gates requested, Conservative Machine Objects. Members of the conservative ma- chine objected on the grounds that the Central Labor Union had already appointed a committee, at the re. quest of the A. F, of L. to help the German trade union movement. ‘ Delegate Abrahams answered, show- ing the difference between the two plans, The A. F. of L. was trying to save the trade union machinery by providing funds for the salaries of officials and other administrative expenses, The proposed conference, however, was for the relief of the German workers who were suffering from low wages and undernourish- ment, and large numbers of them starving. He appealed to the dele- gates on behalf of the kiddies in need, and urged the sending of dele- gates, Investigation Excuse. Delegate Gillespie stated that he was not a Friend of Soviet Russia, and amended the motion to read to refer to the executive board for in- vestigation. To this Simons replied that if investigations could have killed the beneficial work of the F. S. R., it would have been killed long ago. It was a legitimate organiza- tion for the gathering of relief funds and clothing, first for Russia and now for Germany. Action was impera- tive at this meeting. If any delegate who urged further investigation Would state grounds for further in- vestigation, very well, but this was not done. While the C. L. U. would be investigating thousands of Ger- man workers and children would be starving. What would you say, if under similar conditions in America, with hundreds of thousands starving, those in other countries would delay relief by carrying on interminable investigations? The passage of the amendment re- ferring the matter to the executive board made a poor impression -on many delegates from organizations newly affiliated with the central body. The question of relief raised at today’s meeting will come up again before the Central Labor Union, and will not be downed. More and more delegates are now fighting the Gom- pers’ policy that have been Tuling in the Central Labor Union under the leadership of McCarthy, A. F. of L. organizer, Stage Setting Helps Create Mysterious Air About Rachmaninoff By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN Sergei Rachmaninoff gave a piano recital at the Auditorium Theater Sunday afternoon. There is always something mysterious about Rach- maninoff, caused ‘by the tall and gaunt appearance of the man, and the stage setting in which he plays, The iron curtain is always lowered, pin Baie! piano is on the half-lighted PI ‘enium. Rachmaninoff always ‘surprises one with the genius of his playing. One moment we are borne by great, overwhelming billows of fiery tone, the next second all is soft and far away, like echoes from a great distance. His is the deep interpreta- (Special to The Daily Worker) HONOLULU, Feb. 20.—Filipino laborers on the sugar plantations il suddenly. Snnouncement of ‘the date has bee made, - Wit » The Filipino workers are organized. strike may: spread to Japan cre who are separately organ- the city and substit buses will be operated by the Kansas Electric Power company, which also the franchise for street car service. The had been Claim Bandits Are Active. in|! tion of a great and wonderful artist, * Georges Enesco, Roumanian vio- linist, played his first Chicago con- cert at the Studebaker on the same day. His stage was decorated with Christmas wreaths. These were not timely, but they were not out of of date. He is not a young man, and his playing sounded logy an lifeless. This was contrary to ex- Pectations, because his symphony, layed some weeks ago by erick easy is a most beautiful composi- tion, * * Carolyn Schuy! a young = iste,.made her debut at the Play- house the same afternoon, We heard her play an utterly useless work by ebussy, the title of which, flippant- and freely translated, is “The long of the Goldfish.” Her subse- quent numbers revealed in her an excellent musiciag, and thoroly capa- PEKIN, Feb. 20.—Large forces of|ble. Perhaps she is a little inclined Thibetan Lama have stormed ig, murder- oreign 1M, Pe~ ond French merchant N. Y. Snow. New YOR b. 20.—A of| her personality most pleasin, » Feb. An arm: recruited Ten tractive. two thousand hagtil of tt in Atuntze,|tralto, sang at Pad in a telegram to the local of-jon Sunday aftern s bandits under the Nanka| towards an excess of sentiment, but this is not too great a fault. (Sigrid Onegin, the Swedish con- Orchestra Hall, also oon, We were able to hear her for chly a moment, but that moment was thoroly Her voice is of beautiful uailty, and afternoon of een ta American bases Page Five THE THEATRE By D'FERRIER vi 'O SAY that “Peer Gynt’ is amus- ing nonsense might be construed as implying disrespect for one of the most austere masters of dramatic art; Henrik Ibsen, Nevertheless, such is the attitude towards this poetic fantasy that this department is prepared to maintain. There is considerable discussion as to whether or not Ibsen ever intended “Peer Gynt” to have a stage pres- entation, but this question cannot be answered after viewing the altered version of the drama, Suffice to say that, in certain respects, the cur- rent presentation justifies its exist- ence, The play chronicles the adventur- ous life and imaginings of Peer Gynt, a turbulent yet jolly character as played by Basil Sydney. Sydney is at his best in the fourth act} wherein he undergoes various ex- periences on, the continent of north- ern Africa. The best bit of acting in “Peer Gynt” is contributed by Nannie Grif- fen, who makes of Ase, Peer's mother, a living. and breathing cre- ation, Arthur Hughes, as the master of a Cairo madhouse, gives an enjoy- able performance. This madhouse setting is a masterpiece of the grg- tesque, Asya Kass, playing a wanton dane- ing girl who gyps the infatuated Peer of much worldly treasure, proves good enough to join the “Fol- Kes.” In the Norwegian trolls, the Guild has combined a slap-stick comedy with a fairy tale to achieve its effect. There is little poetry in “Peer Gynt” as presented here, but this loss (if a loss) is more than made up for by the charmingly naive spirit injected by Mr. Sydney and his asso- ciates. There is also much delightful incidental music, composed by Grieg. The play is in the repertoire of the Theatre Guild, a most estimable organization, who will also stage at the Great Northern theatre in this leity® “He Who Gets Slapped” and Bernard Shaw’s “The Devil’s Disci- a * * * * Guild Produces “Fata Morgana.” NEW YORK, Feb, 20.—The The- atre Guild announces the complete cast of “Fata Morgana” by Ernst Vajda, opening March 3 at the Gar- tick with Emily Stevens, Morgan Farley, Helen Westley, Josephine Hull, William Ingersoll, Orlando Daly, Helen Sheridan, Armina Mar- shall, Edith Meiser, Charles Chelten- ham, Patricia Barclay, Sterling Hol- loway, Aline Berry and Paul Martin. Philip Moeller is directing the pro- duction, Lee Simonson has designed the setting and costumes. Jakira to Discuss Miners’ Meet at Phila. Open Forum (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20.—Th Workers Party local is arranging for an Open Forum to be held every Sunday at 3 p. m. at 521 York Ave., corner Spring. Garden and Fifth Sts. The Forum will open next Sun- day, Feb. 24, with a lecture by A. Jakira, district organizer of District Three, on the “Lessons of the In- dianapolis Convention of the Miners.” The Indianapolis convention repre- sented a continuous battle between the famous steam roller of the reac- tionary officialdom and the rank and file delegation. It finally broke up amidst turmoil without having fully completed its regular order of busi- ness. The lessons of this conven- tion, at which more than 1,800 dele- gates were represented, are of ut- most importance not only to the miners but to the American labor movement as a whole and no one|: should miss the opportunity to hear the story told by one who attended all the séssions of the convention and who takes an active part in the American labor movement. Admis- sion is free. League Aske Ruse Tariff Pact. MOSCOW, Feb. 20.—Upon a re- port by Mr. Hannoteaux on the cur- tailment of customs formalities, the Council of the League of Nations has endorsed a proposition of Lord Robert Cecil to approach .the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics with a Tequest to sign the newly-drafted | tariff convention. | LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING SUBJECT: |What Lenin Meant to the Darker Races SPEAKERS: Robt. Minor and Otto Huiswood HELD AT COM. CENTER, 3201 S. Wabash Ave. Friday, Feb. 22, 8 P. M. MUSIC BY Y. W. L. QRCHESTRA ALL INVITE OPEN FORUM | 208 East 12th St. | NEW YORK | Workers Party, Down-Town English Branch | FEBRUARY 24TH | | 8:30 P. M. Sharp Speaker: LOUIS B. 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