The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 9, 1924, Page 5

F ‘ 3 4 Wednesday, April 9, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER Page Five HUGE MEETINGS |The Story of John Brown’ 17%!" FOR MAY DAY (UNITED FRONT Meetirigs, Concerts and Celebrations Planned May Day is coming up with all good workers making ready for the United Front celebration which will be held on that great Labor holiday. A huge meeting has been planned for the evening in North Side Turn- er Hall, 820 N, Clark street, in which speakers will address the crowd in various languages, Alexander Bit- tleman, member, of the Central Ex- ecutive Committee of the Workers Party and_former secretary of the Jewish Federation; William F. Dunne, an editor of The DAILY WORKER; J. Kowalsky, secretary of the Polish Federation; and Antonio E editor of the Italian weekly, ; iba Nuova,” are the principal { eaker's, A splendid concert is being ar- ranged to complete the program. Freiheit Singing Society will con- tribute their chorus, and two Rus- sian grand opera singers will give selections, Nita Obrastzova, colora- tura soprano, and Gabriduis Hrzan- owski, baritone, are the vocalists se. cured, Local unions and other workers’ organizations have been invited to co-operate in this United Front cele- bration, Admission will be 25 cents. Remember the May Day United Front celebration, Thursday, May 1, 8 p. m., at North Side Turner Hall, 820 N. Clark street, Labor School in Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, O., April 8.—Work- ers education class rranged by the Cincinnati Central Labor council and the municipal university are meeting at the Woodward high school. A total of 61 students, mos§y women, enrolled, Free classes wil WASHINGTON, April 8.—Led by “Lone Wolf” Astor, master of dis- guises, the federal dry squad started another liquor cleanup in the capitol. Youth Views By HARRY GANNES A. F. of L. and American Legion Back Military Training. The flag waving still goes on. Of- ficials of the American Federation of Lobor, who put themselves forward as representatives of the American workers join in the cry for more murder machinery. Most prominent among these are Samuel Gompers, and George L. Berry, president of the international printing pressmen’s union.’ Despite the . possibility of the Citizen’s Military Training Camps be- ing used as preparatory fields for seab and anti-labor forces, these A. F. of L. heads are particularly energetic in calling upon the Ameri- can working youth to take part in this form of militarist preparation. Each day the campaign for the enlistment of the youth in the Citi. zen’s military training camps becomes broader and wider in its scope. Every nook and corner of the country is being reached with the boasting and gloating advertisements. Just what response will be had is doubtful at this time. From the reports we are able to get, very little enthusiasm shown by the American youth for military training, especially in camps that have a distasteful reputation for stinking food and poor housing conditions. It is certain that the set quota of young felows who are willing to be drilled as cannon-fodder without pay will not be filled and that simultan- eously the campaign against the Com- munists and pacifists will develop enormous proportions when this fact dawns upon the thick skulls of the leaders of the militarist movement in this country, The American Legion seems to be losing all its functions save that of scabbing and of prepating the Ameri- can youth for new wars. The ion acts as the unofficial publicity agent /for the Citizen’s Milita ining Camps and is doing it’s job well. With aid from the mis-leaders of labor, the Citizen’s Military Training Camps might be able to recruit some misguided young workers, but when these young fellows come up against the realities of the brutal training and miserable surroundings of the training camps, they will feel any- thing .but kindly toward the labor lieutenants, For information eens og J the Yi Workers League of ° les, nivale "ko Wale 1000 'N. State St., Chicago, Ill. | yt \' UNCLE WIGGLY’S TRICKS This is “The Story of John Brown,” by Michael Gold. Pub- lished by the DAILY WORKER hru arrangement with Haldeman- ulius Company, of Girard, Kans. Copyrighted, 1924, by Haldeman- Julius Company, Z . of the rich, the powerful, the in- telligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends, or any of their class, every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than of punishment. But: this Court acknowledges the validity of the law of God. I see a book kissed here which is the Bible, and which teaches me that all things that I would have men do unto me, so must I do unto them. I endeavored to act up to that instruction. I fought for the poor; and I say it was right, for they are as good as any of you; God is no respecter of persons. Bravely Faces Death, “TY believe that to have inter- fered as I have done, as I have al- ways freely admitted I have done, in behalf of His despised poor, I a formality. The jury, of course, | did no wrong, but right. Now, if returned the verdict of guilty, and | it is deemed necessary that I John Brown, lying on his cot in should forfeit my life for the fur- the court-room, said not a word, | therance of the ends of justice, but turned quietly over on his side, | and mingle my blood further with when he heard it. the blood of my children, and with A few days later, Judge Parker } the blood of millions in this slave pronounced the sentence of death, | country whose rights are disre- and this time John Brown rose | garded by wicked, cruel and unjust from his cot, and drawing himself | enactments, I say, let it be done.” up to his full stature, with flashing Judge Parker fixed the date for eagle eyes, and calm, clear and dis- | hanging on December 2nd, 1859, a tinct tones, he addressed the citi- | month away. It was a fatal mis- zens of America. He said many | take for the South, and John Brown’s finest gift at the hands of the God he believed in. (To Be Continued Thursday). (The Agitator In Jail) up in Brown’s defense; legislatures passed resolutions asking for his pardon, Congressmen began speak- ing out, newspapers suddenly found themselves in danger of losing their subscribers if they spoke against John Brown; everywhere in the North men found themselves waking from a dream, and coming into the clear, white vision of John Brown. They saw slavery as if for the first time in all its horrors; they could not help taking sides, And the South became more and more inflamed with rage as the trial progressed, and those rever- berations reached it from the North, Established Order Defied. John: Brown ‘was tried on three charges, murder, treason, and in- citing the slaves to rebellion. The trial was quickly over; it was but * The “Nigger-Thief.” Arte they failed to understand that it was not he who was on trial at the Charlestown court- house a month later, but the whole ‘slavery system. Every moment of that trial was reported in the newspapers of the nation. Every reader in America knew of the wonderful strength and majesty of John Brown in the court-room. The North began think- ing about slavery as it had never thought before. John Brown was so manifestly pure in his inten- tions; manifestly a crusader, and people were forced to try to under- stand why an old, gray-haired farmer should have taken up, arms at the age of sixty, after a life spent in useful occupations, Brown Becomes National Figure. His dignity, his piety, his reputa-. .tion as a terrible fighter, and the Biblical sublimity of the picture of this white-bearded patriarch sur- rounded -by his seven sons, all of them armed with rifles, all of them ready to die for the cause of aboli- tion—these had their powerful ef- fect on the imagination of the North. Hosts of new friends rose things that they were soon to yn- derstand clearly on the battlefields of the Civil War. {Had I taken up arms in behalf ment in disgust. Correct once more, dear reader. We congratulate you on your intelligence. | What’s that you say? He joined the Junior Sec- tion of the Young Workers League? Well, that’s what we should like to write. But unfortunately, Billy had never heard of the Junior Section, altho there is a group in his town. So get busy, comrades, with your propaganda. ‘There’s many a Billy Jarvis in every corner of the land willing and eager to come into our movement if only he can be told that it exists. Poet Throws Barbed Wire Ditty Into Harry M. Daugherty BILLY JARVIS DISCOVERS LOYALTY. that he clutched so proudly as he hurried home. He Scabs No More. When he entered the mean little cottage in a dismal back street that served him as a town house, he saw that there was something wrong. His father more bitter and resentful than ever and his mother’s eyes looked as if she had been crying. Now his mother was kissing him impulsively, while his father was ex- By B. W. The heart that beat beneath the khaki jacket of little Billy Jarvis was the proudest and happiest in the whole of Murkville. As he went bravely among the homeward hurry- ing workers in the clear summer evening, he paid little heed to his i ky hii i mPdye h (By The Federated Press) -oc eye La gett ag plaining in his slow, halting, earnest! SAN FRANCISCO, Calif, April 8. joints. He clutched his precious|”®Y that impressed Billy far more|_The bouncing of Daugherty by than the flowery words of Mr. Hearst. The workers at the Pioneer Press had been unorganized until one of the workers had got them into the union, so that they could be loyal to their class. The bosses had fired this man and the workers had gone out on strike against his dismissal. The firm! was trying to carry on with the scabs —dirty traitors.to their class! , So other workers had come loyally to the help of the strikers.. Along with all the other truck drivers, Mr. Jarvis had refused to deliver papers to the Press from the paper warehouse where he was employed. So he lost his job. “Now I’m afraid there will be no pocket money for you, Billy, and no camp this year unless this affair is settled soon,” ended Jarvis gloomily. As soon as his father had finished, Billy related all that had passed dur- ing the day and asked his father to clear up his bewilderment. He had tried to be loyal, and so had his father, yet they found themselves fighting against one another. Then Mr. Jarvis answered, slowly, painfully seeking after words, but with an earnestnes and bitterness born of hard experience. Billy had seen how, in the Pioneer Press, there were directors who did no work—ex- cept when forced to during strikes!— President Coolidge has not gone un- hymned. In a letter to the ex-at- torney general, Maynard Shipley who has been editor, organizer and speak- er in the radical and labor move- ments says: “Allow me, as a citizen interested in your welfare and that of the na- tion, to repeat to you, at this crisis, the words you yourself spoke at your interview with that great and good man, Eugene V. Debs. You there said: ‘I hope you won’t commer- cialize your notoriety.’ i “This recalls some verses of mine which were published at the time of this interview, and which dt seems pertinent to repeat here:” DAUGHERTY AND DEBS Said the ant to the oak tree, That far above it towered, “I’ve ordered you to visit me, Because I’m so empowered.” paper tightly, and told himself that he had spent a glorious day. Then, for the hundredth time, his active mind reviewed the wonderful events since school had closed the day before for the summer holidays. There had been a special parade of the whole boy scout troop that night. How eargerly he had listened to the speech of the strange gentleman whom the scoutmaster had introduced as ‘Mr. Hearst, editor of the ‘“Murk- ville Pioneer!” And what a great speech it was! The Scouts Scab. Mr. Hearst’s speech was loyalty, which was the. thing that kept the American Democracy together. He quoted the scout law: “A scout is loyal to his country, his officers, his parents, his employers, and those un- der him.” He was there to offer the boys a chance to put that excellent law into practice. There were, Mr, Hearst was sorry to say, creatures on the face of the earth, who were loyal neither %o country, nor employer. One of these creatures had obtained employment at the Pioneer Press in that very town. He had been discovered creat- ing discontent among the workers, and, of course he was sent about his business, But his wicked designs had succeeded only too well, and the workers at the Press had gone on strike to get the vicious agitator back into his job. But a true American like Mr. Hearst was not so easily beaten, The Pioneer Press was determined to catry on without these misguided men, And would all those boy scouts who were ‘willing to turn out for work the next day please step to the front. What a rush there was! And one of the most eager was patrol- leader Billy Jarvis, And the next morning without say- ing anything about it at home, Billy presented himself for duty. He soon found that work is not a pleasant thing. He ran errands, he carried great piles of paper and boxes of type. He counted and wrapped uj boxed and handbills as they came o: Said the aunt to the oak tree, That still and lofty stood, “T trust your future conduct Will prove your gratitude.” Said the aunt to the oak tree, That grew in majesty, - “IT hope you won’t commercialize Your notoriety,” Said the oak tree to the ant— Not a word; the royal oak, : Lost in silent dreams and memories, Did not know the insect spoke! but who rode around in automobiles, while the people who did work—“and you know how hard work is, Billy”— lived in miserable houses and were always hard up. So it was, all over the country. There was a class who worked for low wages, and a class who get rich by robbing and oppress- ing the workers, Let’s Get Busy! Then he showed Billy the con- tradiction in the Scout Law. Ifa working class lad was loyal to his employers, he was disloyal to his parents, who were ground down by, the masters. If he wanted to be loyal to his parents, he could not be loyal to th th and the country, which was based on the robbery of the weak and helpless. Everyone had to choose one loyalty and stick to it and he asked Billy to choose the loyalty of the working class. So they talked for hours, and, at the end, they burned the Pioneer solemn- ly together. | % Of course, reader, you know how the story ends. Billy persuaded his friends to being scabs, Right so far. He the Boy Scout move- JOIN THE JUNIOR SECTION For Information 1009 N. State St., Rm. 214 Chicago, Ill. Daugherty has not vouchsafed any reply to Shipley’s friendly letter. Another Labor Bank, BOSTON, April 8—A charter has been granted to the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineers for bank and trust company in Boston. The capital is to be $500,000 and the surplus $100,000. The official title will be the B. of L, E. Bank and Trust Co, As in the case of the other B, of L. E. banks, stock will be sold only to members of the organization, with a controlling in- terest in the hands of the brother- hood aga Many Reed Lem ngre engineers have appl for stock in the new Boston Brotherhood bank. Mail Robbers Busy, SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 8.— Two bandits held up a United States mail truck here and escaped with eight sacks of registered mail, said to contain $20,000 in cash and negotiable papers. press. The managing director took him to collect paper and deliver work in his own private automobile. All the scouts were taken out to dinner in a gorgeous restaurant. They showed Billy how to set up type, and he did a whole paragraph for the “Pioneer,” noty reduced to one small sheet describing the help given by the Boy Scouts, and* especially the youngest patrol-leader, Billy Jarvis, a loyal American citizen of thirteen. The first copy off the press was signed by the directors and the editor, and presented to Billy. It was How many of shop-mates read ‘THE DAILY WORKER, Get one of them to subscribe today. A IMPEACH COOLIDGE! A_ LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN WAT ~ q this paper i Trish Har p Get on Frankenstein’s Nerves By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN Henri Verbrugghen, conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra, brought his band to Chicago for a concert at Orchestra Hall on April 2. The concert opened with the London symphony of Vaughan Williams. The work is unique, picturing as it does the spirit of a great metropolis, with its gloom and suffering, with its roar- ing confusion of life, and its mel- ancholy dusks and quiet. In the per- formance of it was a musical crime. One can forget a certain harshness of tone in the clarinets, oboes and Eng- lish horn in praising the quality of the strings and brass, but one can not forgive the way in which an im- portant phase of the original instru- mentation was monkeyed with. In the prologue to the symphony occur, for instance, the chimes of Big Ben, which in the original are scored for great tubular bells. The Minne- apolis orchestra played them on a harp and lost some of the finest music in the work thereby. It is just as sensible to play a piccolo cadenza on a trombone. Not Enough Noise. Another point in orchestration that was most annoying was the way in which the cymbals were played. After the barbarous custom of military bands, one cymbal was affixed to the bass drum, and all its tone was lost. Thus, what should have been a tre- mendous crash to round off a big climax in the first movement of the symphony sounded like a sauce-pan being dropped. Two preludes, to the first and third acts of Lohengrin, followed. The first is a long ecstasy of religious feeling, ‘the second is festive and brilliant, like the famous wedding scene it immedi- ately precedes. A work never heard in Chicago be- fore was Roussel’s “Feast of the Spider.” It is music accompanying a ballet, and like so much ballet music, calls for the stage action to make it ‘most effective. It does suggest vague- ly the story, which tells how a butter- fly is enticed into the spider’s web, and killed. A Dignified Conductor. The concert closed with Liszt’s symphonic poem “The Preludes.” This is wondrously beautiful musical phil- osophy, based on a poem by Larmar- tine, the idea of which is that each great experience of life is only a pre- lude to the supreme experience of death. Verbrugghen is a splendid conduc- tor. It is interesting to compare him to the more familiar Stock. Where Stock is supremely reserved and calm, Verbrugghen is athletic and full of motion, but not, as so many flourish- ing directors, suggestive of an India rubber jumping-jack. His interpreta- tion is in many respects different from that of the conductor of the Chicago orchestra, and, in some places. desirably so. The Apollo Musical club, Harrison Wild, director, will present. Rossini’s “Stabat Mater” and “Rusurgam” by Henry K. Hadley, at Orchestra Hall on April 7 at 8:15. Pauper Wages In Massachusetts. Women’s wages in Massachusetts manufacturing establishments during February averaged $17.23 a week, according to statistics compiled by the state department of labor. Hardly ‘an amount to tempt a mother to leave home. But it does all right—tempts thousands who find employment in the cotton mills, the boot and shoe factories, the silk mills, and garment trades. And the reason is not hard to find for the report shows that thousands of fathers do not earn more than $25 a week, some of them as low as $21.56. Join the “I w to make THE DAILY WORKER grow” club. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Our Daily Pattern A VERY ATTRACTIVE FROCK FOR THE GROWING GIRL, gin; model. am, could used for this The closing is under the plaits in front. The trimming folds may be omitted on sleeves and waist, Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. A 10 year size ot da 2% yards and 40 inch ma- Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 10c in silver? or stamps, The DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. Send 12¢ in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE SPRING AND R 1924 BOOK OF FASH- 4685. Wool eave, pongee, linen or e Reduction of Wages, Solution of High Rent Problem, Says Plute A study of Building Costs and Rental Returns, by William J. Moore, presi- dent of the American Bond and Mortgage Company. A Review. Every organization which, in a one-sided way, has interested itself in Chicago’s housing problem, has its own particular, and generally narrow remedy for the housing shortage and the high rents. Thus, Carl D, Thompson, head of the Public Ownership League, says that “Large municipal apartment houses are the only solution’, Mr. Vance of the Tenants League, which turns out to be a partne hip between himself and another lawyer, charging two RIN A eG cea) dollars a year for the tenants mem- | Immense Profits, bership, and protecting the tenant What c is there for these for that year in court, says, “The! changes to ffected, Not much, only way to reduce Chicago’s rents | according to Mr. Moore. “The op- is to get legislation passed curbing erators doubtless could starve the the landlords and then go to law to miners into submission if the coun- see that the legislation is enforced.” Housing Shortage. friend brilliantl A. somewhat rare solution is the trouble is coal housing problem, which is not only tal try could exist v the public cannot unusually frank and honest, but put await of an endurance forth by a man of authority, is test of nd. The railroad contained in a recently issued Unions are rout question the “Study of Building Costs and Ren- strongest labor organization in the tal Returns,” by William J. Moore, country, especially in the four ma- jor railroad unions. Thus the pros- president of the Americaa Bond and pect for forcing & reduction in rail- Mortgage Company of New York and Chicago. We have already |T0ad wages is not promising. briefly quoted this treatise to dem-|. “If there is no large reduction onstrate that there is a housing in building costs there can be no substantial permanent. reduction in rents, Therefore there is no dan- ger of impairment of the earning |power or security cf real estate | bonds offered by the well estab- lished houses whose national opera- tions permit a close and first hand study of ull factors involved. Rents will stay up for a number of years.” There are, in this remarkable an- ‘alysis, several frank aud very en- lightening admissions. The most important is that the rents paid by the workers, pay the total opera- tion of building costs, pay the in- come taxes of the real estate men, and pay for the interest on the real estate bonds, as well as the profits reaped by the landlord. What About Cutting Profits? Another is, that as long as labor can be “starved into submission” the real estate owners have not the fyintest idea of reducing rents by Faying their own income taxes, or shortage in 4 nerica. After show- ing that decause of high rents, reat | éstate bonds ‘are a yate and most profitable form of investment, and will continue to be for several years, Mr. Moore tells why he thinks rent will remain high, and what he thinks is the only road which will lead to a reduction of rerts. “The National Association of Real Fistate Boards recently made a na- tionwide investigation as to over- production or under-production of housing facilities,” the banker points cut, “This investigation, which was most thoro, demonstrated that the housing shortage is far from being made up, and that the prospect for 2 considerable reduction in rents by reason of over-production is at least several years off. Of 184 cities which reported, 131 declared a hous- ing shortage existed. No overbuild- ing is reported in 164 out of 178 cities; 120 out of 155 cities indicated rentals firmer and higher. Another | by cutting their own high profits. statistician of recognized ability | Mr. Moore's naive solution to the made another investigation of 50| high cost of rents is te lower the principal cities.. He arrived at the |W@8es paid to organized labor. He definite conclusion that practically | is not concerned with the obvious all of them are from one to three | fact that if the wages of the work- years behind in their puilding re-|¢T8 are lowered, even with a reduc- quirements.” tion of ten the rents will still be 4 proportionately as high, and the i: No Reduction In Rents. real estate dealers will reap as high a definite and considerable housing pt dealers tee wae han shortage in all our principal cities, h Q u profits. and their income taxes. snd it further concludes that the re- The in i bi sulting high rents will continue to SNIGAe babact aie eee h x | the prominent bankers are that the make the high interest now obtain- | chief foe of the men of finance are able on real estate bonds, and in-| the organized labor union members, eda a very profitable secur-|and the chief foes of these wage ity. earners, are the big bankers who But Mr. Moore, altho not shed-|unscrupulously, by hook or crook, ding many tears over the high|keep the rents up and make the profits he is reaping on real estate, “4s not unsympathetic to any move designed to lower the general level of living costs.” He therefore pro- ceeds to tell us just how this lower- ing of rents can be accomplished. There is only one way, he tells us. Organization, propaganda, legisla- tion, and political parties, he does not even mention, Mr. Moore is a powerful man, He knows just what he can count on for the courts and workers pay the entire freight, in- cluding the income taxes, HERE IT IS! That second hand upright piano in good condition and within reach of your purse. Write to Box A. C., Daily Worker, for particulars. yor DRUG YOUR AT LOW PRICES legislatures to do for him. Mr. This week’s specials— Moore evidently has no fear that} $1.50 3 TUBES PEPSODENT legislative bodies which are con- TOOTH PASTE .. trolled by interests which he rep- resents will bite the hand that is feeding them. But he does have a remedy for the high cost of living. Here it is: _ “The only way permanent reduc- tion in rentals can come about is thru a material reduction in build- ing costs,” he declares, “This re- duction is possible only when three things are brought about—until there has been brought about a substantial reduction in the wages of all mechanics employed in pro- ducing building materiel and in erecting the buildings. This is true because 75 per cent of the cost of items entering into construction is for labor, the raw material costing not over 25 per cent. 2—the price $ .75 3 CAKES CUTICURA SOAP.. ° FOR CONSTIPATION 25 CENTS Austin-Madison Pharmacy 1 MADISON STREET at Austin Blvd. WE DELIVER FREE. Phones: Oak Park 392, 571, 572; Austin 4117 We speak and read: German, Jewish, Lettish, Polish, Lithuanian, ete. of coal must, be reduced, $—freight PITTSBURGH, PA. rates must luced. = 4-—¥; taxes must be qihaed, for prone DR. 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