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7 ‘ Friday, March 7, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER SOCIALISTS IN _ PLANTO ANNEX THE G, P,P. A. S. P. Dying, Orphans Seek New Breadwinner (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 6.—While the New York Call still dragged along a weary and disreputable existence, the Socialist Party was able to show some indication of vitality but with the passing of that discredited jour- nal the activities of the Socialist. Party have been so reduced that a serious doubt now exists among even the most hopeful Socialist Party functionaries whether it can be kept going much longer, The demoralization that has fol- lowed the exit of the Call can be seen in the fact that the once power- ful locals of New York Kings, Rich- Frightened people passing grave- ee and Queens are to be merged. yards often whistle to maintain their courage and on the same principle one of the liars on the staff of the local Socialist Party weekly, offers the organization of a new weekly in New York to take the place of the daily Call and a youth monthly as evidence of growth rather then decay. __ Salary Doubtful. Socialist Party deterioration is not confined to New York. The Socialist Party in Massachusetts has advertised for a man to accept a position as or- ganizer in New England with a guarantee of an adequate salary but nobody can be found willing to take the job. This means that payment of the salary is very much subject to doubt as it is not likely that the So- cialist Party functionaties who are now available would hesitate to at- tach themselves to a pie counter be- cause of any scruples about connec- ting up with the rotten carcass of the Socialist Party. The Socialist paper in Buffalo, The New Age, is going on the rocks. Rats are known to desert a sinking ship and it is significant that Pat Quinlan, editor of that sheet, wrote his editorial obituary’ in the current issue. Pat’s excuse was that the treasury showed signs of exhaustion and that he was asked to do too much work. His Majesty's House Organ. The local socialist sheet acts as the press agent of the ministers it hes been in office only a few days it has made a most favorable impres- sion on the public mind,” it says. “None of the terrible anticipations of the capitalist press has been re- alized,” it continued. With the sup- ort of the Tories no doubt the So- cialist darling MacDonald can con- tinue to build warships to threaten France, repudiate the Capital levy, the. promised revision of the -Ver- sailles treaty and shoot Hindoo re- bels so long as he has a stomach for such “socialist” policies, i The socialist paper edited by Oneal was almost hysteric in its ‘praise for J. P. Morgan for turning over his father’s collection of rare ‘books for the use of scholars, not workers mind you. . We will quote, part of the Morgan eulogy: / “Good For You Morga’ “The library with its p: lections of rare manuscripts and paintings, with its volumes of manu- script documents to the historian, was assembled as a. diversion of the spare time of the elder Morgan and now his son decides that it of right belongs to the public. “Good for you, Morgan! Far bet- ter that great wealth be employed in collecting books and giving them to the public than in riotous dissipation like the wastrels of Newport and Palm Beach or the corruption of gov- vernment by hiring of high officials for their supposed influence. “Mr. Morgan’s gift is a princely one; and his father’s hobby was a noble one, No one criticizes one or the other.” That is sweet and so perfectly help is immediately YOUR SHARE! fend in your 9 a.m, at the place THE DAILY WORK: VILNIS, 2513 8. VOLUNTEER! GERMAN RELIEF House to House Canvass on SUNDAY, MARCH 9TH Millions of men, women and children doomed to die unless forthcoming—AND THE HELP WILL NOT BE FORTHCOMING—UNLESS YOU DO Room, 307, 166 W. Washington St, (State 5959) or call for your supplies and instructions on Sunday, March 9th, NOTE.—Here is another install- ment of the speech by the promi- nent Russian Communist, Stalin, to members of the Russian Com- munist Party on the problems now facing the Communists in the First Workers’ Republic. In this install- ment Stalin reviews the struggle against the residue left over from the war period thru which the party was compelled to pass. The views of Stalin will be followed by the views of other prominent Rus- sian Communists. Stalin spoke as follows: Pies | WHAT ‘STALIN SAID: organization of the and destroying the old. and really iron discipline. Russian Com In the second place the activity| members of the same Party family, | of the masses of the Party must be|that they are all working for one inereased by bringing up for discus-} common cause, for the indivisible sion all questions of interest to the | cause of the proletariat; around the masses, insofar as these questions | Central and around the local organi- yan be dealt with publicly, in order | zations, there must be created an} that all may be given the possibility of free criticism of the Party insti-| possibility of controlling the practi- | tutions and their actions. This is|cal experience won by our respon- the only way to transform Party | sible functionaries in every sphere discipline into a really copscious|of work, and of giving these the In the third place, it is necessary that all Party functionaries, unless insuperable obstacles lie m the way with regard to too short a member- ship of the Party, etc, should be chosen by election, The practice of ignoring the will of the majority in the organizations when appointing comrades to responsible positions in the Party must be completely done away with in actual practice. The principle of the election must be realized in fact. Regular Conferences Necessary. In the fourth place, it is necessary that the Central, as also the leading Party organizations for the gouverne- ments and districts should hold ac- N the first place a fight must be|tive conferences of the responsible taken up all along the line|functionaries of every branch of against the residue and rudiments | workers, economists, Party workers, left over from the war period in our/trade unions, and military, These Party; against the wrong idea that} conferences must take place regu- our Party is a system of institutions| larly, the questions considered neces- and not a new and creative fighting | sary by the conference are to be dis- proletariat, ' cussed, contact between the function- | thinking actively, acting’ on its’own|aries of all categories must be kept initiative, permeated with new life] up uninterruptedly, all functionaries must be made to feel that they are environment giving the Party the} opportanity of experience. gems, Oneal and Goldstein. did not take part im the social move. Peter Collins and Davy Goldstein be. fore many moons. ite House in any kind of a reac. tionary labor combination. the accursed communists. A socialist leader confided to the} Morrison today by the Chicago writer a few days ago that the so- cialist party in America would very | partially the conditions and progress likely pay in the conference for] of the strike of the International political action a role similar to that | Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union in class (un). conscious that it almost makes us, unconscious of the days when Jimmy Oneal used to talk of the “class struggle.” There are other On the editorial page in the issue of March ist, Mr. Oneal, comment- ing on a statement issued by the Catholic propaganda bureau in Min- nesota to the effect that if the church | ments of the day the movements. Mf would pass the church by, says that, Crowe bd Stand Causing the church program “differs little | from that of the Socialist Party.” It | would not surprise us to see Mr.) Oneal on the same platform with! The socialist party, however, is not | by officers of Attorney so far gone that it has completely|2nd the gross partiality shown to lost hope. The coming to office of | “ee clothing barons by city officials the British Labor Pafty has brought has ne forced citizens not in- the water of expectation to its teeth | Volved in the strug and it actually licks its hungry chops|®-View to bringing about a settle. over the prospect of ambling into the | ment. A meeting of progressive ele- in the House of Commons. “Altho | Whi Hence | statement was issued by Walter R. its efforts to prove—which can be| Mee, secretary of the conference: easily proven—that the British Labor party is eminently respectable unlike} sons of this city were called to- PROBE GARMENT WORKERS’ STRIKE Bitter Feeling | The arrests of citizens found walk- .|ing in the vicinity of dress making establishments where strjkes are on, ‘owe's office struggle to step in with .| ment met yesterday and the following “A group of representative per- gether for luncheon at the Hotel -| Church Federation to consider im- In the fifth place, it 1s necessary | ponents constituting our Party nuclei- that our production nuclei occupy | Comrade themselves with the course of events | touched upon the assertion that our | in the works and trusts. This must| Party nuclei have be carried out in such a manner that | the non-partisan ma: the nuclei are kept au courant with | them in point of quality. This asser- | respect to the work being done by/|tion must, of course, not be general- | the leading organs of our shops and|ized and applied to all nuclei. Zinoviev’s article already remained behind | @ surrounding | Page Five munists Fight Residue Left by War|THE THEATRE BERNARD SHAW ON HERESY Review of Saint Joan By FREDERICK KUH (Federated Press) EVER has Bernard Shaw been more impressive than in Saint It | Joan, which is enjoying its first pres- associations, so that they may be| would be more correct to say that | entation on any stage thru the The- able to exercise an influence on this | our Party nuclei would, for instance, | ater Guild in New York. work, You, as representatives of|stand upon a higher ‘cultural level | sterling production, at that. One the nuclei, know very. well how great | than they do now, if we did not re-| feels that, in this play, G. B. S, has is the moral responsibility borne by | move from these nuclei those per-| unleashed the pent up, hot emotions our production nuclei with regard}sons whom we are forced to emplo; to the non-partisan masses, in re-{ for other work, ' Alter Conditions of Admission. | Tf all our comrades, the workers, ‘ 5 In order that the nucleus shall be |in the unions, removed by us during bound in satire. spect to the cowsse of events in the shops and factories, Improve Party Nuclei. Y | which, in his most successful works, he has subordinated to cold intellec- | tuality. é Not that Saint Joan does not But this is the placed. in a position enabling it to|the last six years from the nuclei, | Weakest. aspect of his powerful stage bear the responsibility for this course | were nuclei, chronicle. The jibes at the English i ; ; in Saint Joan often verge perilously of events, it must be kept well in-| would any further proof be required ‘" rk formed, must have the possibility | that these nuclei stand at a much fpr Ar hay ra pei ai of Ped of influencing matters in this or that | higher cultural level than even the OWS &* the Cathohe church, a te direction. It is, therefore, impera- | most tive that the nuclei be called upon | ers? to ae part in the debates on a the rey shine nomical questions connected with the | ments for the $ A i works and factories, that from time | state apparatus and is obliged to re- his Soe one, Save sence _ ha to time economic conferences be con-|turn to this source again and again. pees i i bg renee re We must free ourselves from that | left us to do more of our own de-) often vened by the representatives of the nuclei belonging to to improve the quality of the com- undertakings | superfluous p . forming part of a trust, for the dis- | shown by our Party when admitting vit serve “64 ia lee mature | cussion of questions dealing with the |new members to the Party, when ailty 7a and beauty of the play as a affairs of the trust. This.is one of| these belong to the working class, | ¥"°!¢ the surest of the methods required | We must not be go ruled by formal- a \ for the enrichment of the economic|ism. The Party can and must facili-| of Joan virtually intact. an experience of the masses, and for the | tate the conditions of admission to|™merely shorn of the superstitions organization of control from below.|the Party for members of the work-| Woven around her legend. In the sixth place, it 1s necessary | ing class. (To Be Continued Saturday) before being booked. booked they were taken to the So. Clark Street police station. The desk sergeant was not told they were in the women’s quarters and it was several hours before the t!awyers for the union were able to bail them out. The manner in which they were frighten the other pickets. The at- union of The girls arrested were: sky, Lillian Libbin and Lena Mor- So. Clark Street police court this morning. lowska were discharged in the So. Clark Street police court yesterday when the two scabs who had signed complaints -against them charging them with assault and battery, dis- tent to kill failed to show up in court. | ag by the sion sites Labor | this city, now going on, Those pres- ‘arty in England. “W: knowledge of economics and our ex ith our superior | ent, numbering about fifty, organized -| themselves into a_ Citizens’ Commit- perience in putting out propaganda | tee, with Father Fredric Seidenburg, we should providing we can keep! Dean of the Department of Sociology you-fellows on the outside (the com-|o¢ [Loyola University, as \chairman, munists) gain complete control of|and Mr. Walter R. Mee, Executive whatever comes out of the July 4 secretary of the Chicago Church conference.” He then went on to tell a little story of what transpired on the reso- lutions committee of the C. P. P. A. at the recent St. Louis meeting. Federation, as secretary, to gather facts and take such action as may then seem desirable, “A sub-committee was also ap- While they were considering the reso- | Pointed, consisting of Father Seiden- lutions, fear was expressed that they | urs, Mrs. B. F. Langworthy, First were too radical. illquit suddenly Vice-President of the Woman's City j¢-| Club; Mrs, V. Frank Brown, Chair- teewho were never, at one time or|man of the Women in Industry of another members of the Socialist |the Illinois League of Women Vot- Part ‘ ers; Dean Bod rg Mer wie’ eee dent of the Chicago Church Federa- one responded and he Thomas F. Holgate, Presi- Socialist ticket. After t the af-| tion; Mrs. Ab Simon, President of fair proceeded smoothly. The Socialist Party is but a corpse. the Conference of Jewish Women's | Organization, and Mrs. George M. Otto Bransttetr left the national of-| Mathes, Director of the Women’s De- fice without any regrets even from | partment of the Anti-Saloon League, It appears that he |for the purpose of investigating the ‘quit only when the cash was gone, | Present conditions of the strike and His successor is begging for funds to|to confer at once with the city offi- “The big question | cials regarding them. now agitating socialist party breasts is “Can we capture the Conference | cago citizens of the present strike his own cronies. pay her salary. for Progressive Political Action?” FOR name and address immediately to nearest your home: 1640 N, Halsted St. St. FREIHEIT, 1145 Blue Island Ave. LIBERTY CLUB HOU: 3420 W. Roosevelt Road Boulevard WORKERS LYCEUM, 2733 Hirsch Night and Morning Have Clean, Healthy Eyes, If they Tire, ond Murine o Sites Snel Taaror Ade. Ata for sok, BM \e Eve nods Co., “In view of the importance to Chi- this Citizens’ Committee expects to enlarge itself materially for the pur- pose of securing a settlement based as far as possible on the true merits of the situation.” Not Daunted by Cold. junctions and the brutality of the police the striking ent workers kept their picket line filled along every street in the garment districts yesterday. ‘ The most significant development of the day was that the regular uni- formed police have followed the lead of the police attached to the state’s attorney's office and have begun to treat the striking girls in a fiend- ishly brutal manner, i Strikers believe that Capt. John H. Alcock, who has been put in charge of the strike detail of police by order of Chief of Police Morgan ‘ollins, has ordered the police to; help State’s Attorney Robert E.. Crowe's police break the spirit of the | strikers and the strike. { Police In Military Array. | Yesterday was the first day Al-| cock was in charge of the police de-| tail. There have been assigned to strike duty more tnan 100 police officers, Most of them are stationed in the strike area along Market, Adams, Quincy, Wells and Van ren streets, That the district where the big dress manufacturers from 8:00 a. m. till'6:00 p. m. They concentrate their energy on arrest- ing pickets during the evening when fates are returning home from When the pickets got on the job ig Market street yesterday ‘morn- ing’ five of them were arrested and brutally handled and thrown into pa- trol were taken to the First J station, where In spite of snow and cold and in- | Pl |The identity of the persons is held Lily. Shankman, Ethel Siegel, Fanny Ornstein, Bertha Sadler, W. U. and who has been active in the strike, Minnie Parish, Olga Levin and Julia Radunicki who had been arrest- ed earlier Wednesday were also ar- raigned and demanded - jury trials. They were released on bonds. In the West Chicago Avenue police court Susan Pieffer, Catherine Satka ee and Angelica Kramer were arraigped and released on bonds when the; demanded jury trials. Mechanical Partner Does Team Work with Miss Menth| By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN Herma Menth, a Viennese pianist ‘pew to Chicago, played a recital at the Playhouse on the afternoon of March 4. Miss Menth proved to be not only a musician of exceptional gifts, but also a person of a new and different stage personality. She has much youthfal vigor and energy, and good insight into the spiritual quali- ties of the music which she played. { She was not afraid to talk to her av- dience, not too stiff to tell her hear- ers all about what she was about to jay. ; Part of the program was given over to two-piano music, the first piano part played by a reproducing piano, the second by Miss Menth. The re- producing piano has been perfected to a point where the difference be- tween its interpretation and that of the artist who made the record is difficult to detect. Accordingly, it has served to make possible the per- formance of two-piano music more often, without the necessity of an as- ing artist, and with a great in- crease in the possibilities of program making. The only disadvantage is that, once a record is made, the inter- pretation must remain fixed and un- changing, limiting the performer to only one style of rendition. State’s Attorney of Crawford County Is Held as Bootlegger DANVILLE, Ill., Mar. 6.—State’s Attorney Charle: E. Jones of Craw- ford County, was indicted here today by the Federal Grand Jury on a charge of conspiracy to violate the nal The charges in- Natio Act, have their shops. The police work vyolve all Be BY with others. Thirty: indictments were re- turned today. More than half of the indictments concerned Williamson County cases of dry law violations. secret until the arrests are made. Disease Under Control. OAKLAND, Calif., March 6.—-Offi- cials today believed they had the foot and mouth disease epidemic un- der control. pias veins | Confusion of Sound at Radio Bedlam 2 . oclasm becomes the sanctified respec- in New York City) taviity of today. And when, in the ice to report the arrests. | while 0 Fannie | squawks in competition from an-|. . Yawnes, Eva Baskin, Ray Wytiskov-| other, both drowning a harp solo,|® reincarnated Henry Dubb, reveals has some idea of what it sounds|S0mething akin to genuine under- standing of Joan’s spirit—and he, of | Exvept that at the show at the |COUrs¢ is merely on furlough from Hotel Pennsylvania ‘they have no hell. That makes it worse. Here, side by side, one demonstra- power of clerical and secular hier- tor is tuning.in on Pittsburgh, Pa., while vitz. They will be arraigned in the like at the radio council’s exhibit. Florence Corn and Eleanor Sad- | partitions. arrested Wednesday evening and not of a dozen room where the Bessie| show is being held, is a conglom- Chaley, Yetta Kressler and Clara | eration ST. LOUIS, ge ag gd comes at a time when Montana non- automobiles in downtown streets and construction stop in all cities to relieve traffic congestion, a half dozen traffic ex- American Electric Railways Association meeting here todi Long distance banking is simpler and easier than walking to your neighbor- hood bank in your own city. (0 Send me material for a \ ‘ are telling, while many are over~ Labbe Pre eaten ihe stressed. In the second act, wherein no other ele- improvement of the the archbishop of Rheims unveils the shams of his cult, one wishes that bunking. But these vulnerable pas- Shaw leaves the traditional story Joan is Her be- havior is rationalized. And she stands before us, the unripe girl, obedient to her conscience, courage- ously defying church and state in her resplendent faith. The eternal price of heresy is the recurrent theme. Last century’s icon- epilogue Joan reappears before her NEW YORK, March 6.—Auditory | inquisitors, who are now her hamble arrested and handled plainly showed hash is being served at the radio | worshippers, we are made to realize that they were arrested in order to | Show. t Anyone who has gone into a pho-|again at the stake, were she to re~ tempt failed. The pickets kept up|nograph shop to buy records and|turn in the flesh. We are reminded their slow march and only one per-|has heard “Hot Lips” welling from that, because men possess so little son dropped out of line to go to the|one ‘hin, glass partitioned cabinet, | imagination, a new saint must be ay “Cohan On the Telephone” crucified for each generation. that they would avidly burn her Only the shabby English soldier, In the 15th century, it was the heresy of nationalism, menacing the archy, of which Joan was guilty. speaker | x , it is dissent fi our gives its hearers Seattle, Wash., and pebkirtly li ayaa orderly conduct and assault with in- a oe beh ay ook just | that is the cardinal sin. And in the show is a national and at/be invented, that we may replenish Thirteen girl strikers who were times international babel, The voices|our larder with freshly crucified pio- doz cities speak at once.|neers? “How much longer, oh Lord, A ded that | The air is a confusion of sound as|how much longer!” is Joan’s cry er eet jon ale ena sare the same antennae pick up for the|in the wilderness. roma on $400 bonds each. They various adjusted receiving sets the|that cry being echoed in the prisons were, Mary Oppenheim, Rose Yank- lecture on “How to Wash Dishes,”|and death cells of our contemporary owits, Ida’ Giffin, Clara. Krasnowsky, from WEAF on 500 meters and the | western civilization.~ Emma Goldberg, Jennie Lieberman,|C@rp Trio” at Atlanta on 660. The grand ball nationalist institutions next century, what new heresies shall How oiten is Plan Montana Labor Bank. GREAT FALLS, Mont., March 6.— receivers,|—-Local labor organizations led by Gabin, Clara Gabin is one of the|phusiformers and varicouplers, a na-|the railway unions have appointed a| militants expelled from the I. L. G.| tional capital of noise. committee to investigate and report on the advisability of opening a labor bank in Great Falls. This move labor banks are failing right and left: An expert in labor banking from the must |east is expected to arrive here soon to survey the situation. What are you doing Sunday, March 9th? Tell the F. S. R. THRU THE . Convenient Workers Mailing Department OF THE Amalgamated Trust & Savings Bank 371 WEST JACKSON BOULEVARD CHICAGO, ILL. WORKERS NO MATTER HOW SMALL HAVE YOUR OWN ACCOUNT IN CHICAGO’S ONLY LABOR BANK Check the squares below that interest you, and fill in your name and address before We will write you at once. ( Send me your pamphlet, “THE LABOR BANK.” (0 commercial (0 savings ( Send me information about your MAILING DEPARTMENT. A BANK OWNED AND OPERATED BY LABOR IN THE INTEREST OF LABOR. Resources More Than Two and a Half Million Dollars. WHERE TEN THOUSAND WORKERS BANK TODAY. And aj Workers in many states carry their accounts with this labor bank thru the t account, OUTLAW EDICT AIDS COMMUNISTS GERMANS FIND Like Days Bismarck Fought Socialists (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Press)’ BERLIN, March 6.—‘The decree outlawing the Communist Party in \Germany is doing for the Commun- ist movement what Bismarck’s anti- Socialist law did for the Socialist jmovement,” Wilhelm Bartz, Com- munist member of the reichstag, claims. In discussing the effects of |the decree issued under the state- of-emergency act by the military die- tator, General von Seeckt, Bartz told The Federated Press that “Just as Bismarck’s actions stimulated inter- est in Socialism, so the ban on Com- munists is making Communist con- verts.” Bartz has returned to Berlin from a speaking ‘campaign in Saxony, Thuringia and Mecklenburg. Ban Is Failure. z “How did you manage to hold ‘meetings when the party has been de- clared illegal?” I inquired. “That was s le and at the same time a good illustration of the way bureaucracy works,” Bartz replied. “We were not allowed to call meet- ings of the Communist Party, nor ask people to vote the Communist Party ticket, but groups of Commun- ist voters could band themselves to- gether as ‘Communist voters’ ¢om- mittees’ and as such obtain permis- sion to hold campaign meetings. The judiciary committee of the reichstag had decided that nobody can deny a candidate the right during slechiay time to address his constituents. e therefore gets up a voters’ committee and that committee arranges the cam- paign meeting. Meeting Anyhow. “At the meeting we are not al- lowed to say, ‘join the Communist | Party,’ or ‘vote for the candidates of ithe Communist Party,’ but we must 'say ‘become adherents to Commun- | ist thought,’ or ‘vote for Communists.’ | By complying with these technical- ities we get by and hold our meetings |just as tho nothing had happened. |Of course, at times there are dis- |turbances and interference, and we must expect to be arrested during such meetings. Only the other week {I was held in jail for three days | after being arrested at a voters’ meet- ling. | “The main thing is that we can thik jto our voters and win them over for Communism. And here the element jof ‘forbidden fruit’ enters to our ad- jvantage. There is more of romance jand of personal bravery connected” with being a Communist now than | before the stupid edict was issued.” Cleveland, O., Readers, Notice SECOND ANNUAL Entertainment & Dance At GRDINA’S HALL, 6021 ST. CLAIR SUNDAY, MAR. 16, 3:30 P. M. 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