The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 22, 1924, Page 2

; | { , Page Two ACTORS BATTLE WITH MANAGERS EXPECTED JUNE 1 100 Percent Union Shop Is Equity’s Demand By LUDWELL DENNY (Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press) NEWYORK, April 21—"It looks like a lockout June 1,” officials of the Actors’ Equity Asociation, American Federation of Labor, told the Federat- ed Press following breakdown of prolonged negotiations with the anti- union group of the Producing Manag- ers Assn. Last November a joint committee of the union and the managers drew up satisfactory agreement to become operative in June. The Equity mem- bership ratified the agreement, but & group of managers refused, where upon the actors voted 1600 to 2 to stand by the Equity demands in the events of a lokout. A union victory is expected if there is a fight because the powerful Shubert-Selwyn group in the P, M. A. as well as the inde pendent producers support the union. Another rank and file union meeting will be called before May 1. Union Shop, ts Issue The issue is Hquity shop and does not touch wages or hours. The Equity shop rule provides for 100 per cent Equity organization in every company in which a union member is employed, but permits managers to have non-Equity companies, and «x- empts certain actors belonging to 8 small rival association, Following the 1919 strike, when the Producing Managers’ Association was formed to defeat the union, a five year contract was signed comprising the Equity shop principle. A company union, the Actors’ Fidelity league. had been formed, with managers as Officers and about 50 members. Tho union contract recognized the league and permitted a non-Equity shop. Equity is now demanding for the new contract a complete union shop where members are employed, excepting only the few actors who were Fidelity members up to Sep. 1, 1923. This is to prevent managers from increasing Fidelity membershinp ($5 . annual dues) with potential Equity members ($18 annual dues.) Managers “who control two-thirds of the theatres on Broadway have definitely committed themselves to the actors side,” says Equity, official organ of the union. “A check on cur- rent productions revealed that there were many casts 100 per cent Equity already and that the general average was more than 90 per cent Equity.” Equity wants another 6-year con- treet; but has agreed with Lee Shubert to sign an Hquity shop con- tract for ten years if necessary. Bquity has a 10,000 membership. The annual meeting is June 2, Out- going officers, including John Emer- son, Ethel Barrymore and Frank Gill- more, will probably be reelected. LUMBERJACKS SPEED SELVES OUT OF JOBS Canadian Loggers Rush Production Madly. By SYDNEY WARREN (Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press) VANCOUVER, B. C., pril 2 British Columbia logging camps are today producing one-third more logs than the mills of this province can cut. Complete confession that the lum- ber barons were speeding up their workers was given by G. G. Johnson, president of the B .C. Loggers’ Assn, which he stated that “We are prodne- ing more logs than our mills at pres- ent are consuming. In eight months ‘we can produce what our mills are now cutting in 12 months. Such be- ing the case, the obvious and in fact the only course we can take if we are to prevent disaster is to curtail our production during the coming year.” Speed Hogs Lose Jobs B. C. loggers know that this means they will be speeded up thruout the spring and summer months and when winter comes they will be dumped on the labor market again to swarm the streets of Vancouver until their meag- er winter stake dwindles away, then to take what the boss offers when “things open up” in the spring. A break has occurred in the lumber market here and for the time being the lumber bosses are in consterna- tion over their profits. In their greed- iness to clean up on the Japanese earthquake companies all along the Pacific coast dumped vastly more lumber onto the Japanese market than what was needed. The result has been a fall in the price of lumber to the orient. Bosses Use Government ‘To help maintain their profits the British Columbia Loggers’ association has asked the Canadian government to remove the duties on logging plants, equipment, utensils, supplies and machinery used in logging and the manufacture of lumber in Canada. ‘Witt ing these requests the boss log@trs are fighting the eight-hour fact now before the provincial house, despite the fact the act is regarded by the workers here as only # piece of political chicanery. ITS STAFF AT MILWAUKEE SHOPS (Special to The Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 21.—The Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad has just posted a notice here of reduction of staff in its local shops. The de- partment was reduced as follows, effective last Saturday, April 19: sixty- three carmen, three steel carmen, 24 helper carmen, three blacksmiths, one welder, three helper blacksmiths. EIGHT FIREMEN GIVE UP LIVES FOR PRIVATE PROPERTY Score More Injured On Blue Island Ave. Funerals aré being held today and tomorrow for the eight firemen, heroes today to be forgotten tomor- row, who gave up their lives to the great god private property Friday night in the fire which destroyed Curran Hall, Blue Island avenue. Quickly after the fatal crash of the wall which injured a score and killed nine, the DAILY WORKER reporter was on the scene. He saw over 50 policemen and as many fire- men, thru force of habit, carrying on the tradition that their life was noth- ing as compared to the property of the master class which they protect. This Cop Sees Thru It. A police officer, standing with a stretcher waiting for the next body to be unearthed from the débris, told the DAILY WORKER reporter, “I have been on the police force for over thirty-two years. It is always the same in any emergéncy. The civilian says, ‘Stand back, the fire- men and the policemen are the ones who are paid to be burned t® death and shot at. Let them do the dirty work’.” And they were doing the dirty work Friday night. Most of the firemen had just been out to the half million dollar stock yard fire, risking their lives so that Armour might still be called the champion pigsticker of America. Exhausted and red-eyed, these men had rushed without rest or food, to the ancient building on Blue Island avenue, eight of them to answer their last alarm. The DAILY WORKER reporter watched the firemen work—bound by the tradition instilled into these servants of private property—risking their lives while three mangled corpses of their comrades still lay buried within the debris. Firemen clambered to the front of the building where the ruins of the crumbled wall still swayed menac- ingly just above their heads. Bodies were brought out headless, crushed and broken, and sent off to the morgues in patrol wagons. Moving picture cameras clicked in the glare of light rockets, while laborers dug the pile of marble, bricks and mortar for more bodies. “There’s another one. Get that stretcher,” was the call, and a docile policeman, called out of bed to the scene, rushed up with a stretcher. “The building’s gone all right. Over forty thousand dollars’ worth of damage,” was heard as deputy sheriffs and firemen and policemen patrolled back and forth on the side- walk. “There was another fire here last Christmas. That paper box fac- tory was heavily insured. He had a large stock on hand ready for ship- ment, I understand.” The usual investigations are un- der way. The fire fighters’ union Chicago, Local No. 2, has donated one thousand dollars to the widows and orphans of the victims. The space given to the disaster in the press is already diminishing. In a few weeks the affair will be all but forgotten. Eight firemen have lost their lives and are gone, but the system which carries on the tradition that a fire- man’s life must be sacrificed in the interests of private property, remains to destroy life again in the future. Funerals for three of the eight fire- men burned to death here in the Cur- ran building fire Friday night were held yesterday. Four of the others will be buried today, and the eighth will be buried Wednesday. William J, Panzer, chief of the St. Louis fire department, accompanied by Charles Rigley, his secretary, and Michael Fahey, came here to pay their respects to the memory of the dead. TI visited the homes of the vic- tims and will remain for the funerals. Blame for the fire has not been placed as yet. Arson is suspected, and three men are held for investi- gation. He Was Absent-Minded. CARSON, Wis., April 21—Placing four sticks of dynamite under an old stump on his farm near here, and then lighting the fuse, J. N. Winacke, in a moment of absent-mindedness, sat down on the stump. After the explosion, Wthecke was picked up thirty feet away, seriously injured. He will probably lose his eyesight, at- tending physicians at a hospital at Stevens Point, where he is being treated, said today, Fixing Up The neviathan, SOUTHAMPTON, England, April 21—Repairs to the giant U, 8. ship ping board liner, Leviathan, damaged by fire late Saturday, are being com- pletéd rapidly and the ship will be able to sail for New York Tuesday, on schedule, it was announced today, ALASKA'S WORKERS PROVIDE SCHOOLING FOR THEIR CHILOREN (Special to The Daily Worker) KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 21.— Miners, fishermen, and lumbermen of this district are not stingy In providing their children with ade- quate school bulldings. The town counts only 2,500 residents, but they have just voted to issue $50,- 000 additional bonds for the erec- tion of a modern school building. Previously, they had voted $100,- 000 in bonds which proved an in- sufficient sum. Pennsy Farmers Read Daily Worker; Talk Communism (Special to The Daily Worker) WHEATLAND, Pa,, April 21.—Mills are being closed rapidly here, indicat- ing that the bosses are moving cau- tiously—for their profits sales. Work- ers do not know where to turn for employment. Many of them are read- ing the DAILY WORKER and are be- coming more than ever convinced of the fact of the class war. Farmers around Wheatland read the DAILY WORKER and some of them openly express themselves in favor of Communism. Their plight is desperate and no aid is in sight. The government has made no serious move to help them and they find no solace in prayer, which some of the local pulpiteers have suggested. One of them writes: “A shower of man- na would be in order,” but the heav- en remains as unconcerned with man as it ever has. Workers and farmers are learning under the whip of depression that their hope is not in the democratic pills fed them by capitalist agencies and are turning to more intelligent guidance. More would get the DAILY WORKER if their pocket books were not so fiat. Garment Strike (Continued from Page One) garment shops will not be able to make up their styles or make any of the necessary preparations for the approaching season. For that reason, Meyer Perlstein in charge of the strike told the strik- ers at yesterday's strike meeting, the bosses, realizing that they are losing money, are increasing their effort to get the girls back to work. Bosses Try Race Prejudice Strikers report that J. Reinhardt and many of the other bosses have been visiting their employes usking them to return to work with a large advance in pay. Perlstein declared. “The fact that the bosses are going to Polish workers and trying to arouse prejudice against the Jewish and Negro strikers, and playing the same trick on the Negroes and Jews shows that the bosses are weaking. The strikers are growing stronger every day. There are few scabs and we have been promised amplo fnan- cial aid.” “The Committee of 15 announces that two automobiles have been do- nated to take the strikers aroun! to the various unions and tell the story of the strike. To the Editors of the DAILY WORK- HR: The report in Morday’s Work- er of my speech before the Chicago South Slavic Branch of the party, con- tained a number of inaccurate quota- tions, which should he corrected. The report makes it appear that our sup- port of the revolt against and split away from the Republican and Demo- cratic parties would take the form of our “entering” the petty bourgeois “Third” party in the event such a party is formed. This is not the po- sition of the party. And since my speech was nothing more nor less than an elaboration and explanation of that section of the thesis of the Sentral Executive Cummittee, which deals with the Third party aspect of our labor party policy, the misquota- tion becomes quite obvious. ‘The main line of our policy, as laid down in the thesis of the Central Bx- ecutive Committee, is to support the general revolt against the parties of big capital, in which several econom- ic classes are taking part—workers, farm mall business and profes- sional elements and a part of the mid- die manufacturing class—and to strive to deepen and acceleraté, by such means as we can, the split be- tween this general mags and the Wall Street parties. At the same time our fundamental task’ is to promote the organization of an independent class party of the industrial workers and poor farmers, separate and distinct from the petty bourgeois Third Party as well as from the Republican and Democratic Parties, Under certain definite conditions explained in the thesis aud in my Pinchot for Coolidge at Wet and Dry Poll in Pennsylvania Today HARRISBURG, Pa., April 21.—To- morrow Pennsylvanians will pass once more on the wet or dry issue in the state, An off-year primary election—usu- ally an ordinary affair in the Key- stone state—has taken national im- portance, Governor Gifford Pinchot, champion of law enforcement, tast night said he expected to win and asked all citi- zens to support his candidacy for re- publican delegate at large. At the same time he repeated his acknowl- edgement that President Coolidge would be nominated at Cleveland in June, saying that he would support him. The governor made liquor or law enforcement, the issue, NO UNION LABEL INBOOKS PRAISING COOLIDGE CABINET Crooked Hubert Work Gets Special Boost (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Apri! 21— Wash- ington’s biggest department store is selling a series of booklets, entitled History Makers of Today, eulogizing Daugherty, Mellon, Work and other members of the Harding-Coolidge cab- inet. The Truth About Hubert Work is a gem in this collection. Like the others, it bears no union label and no confession as to whether the Re- publican National committee paid the bill. Work is the secretary of the interior who. fell heir to Fall's job and who lawlessly began to scrap the Reclamation Service when the Serv- ice proposed to build Boulder Can- yon power plant and reduce the pro- fits of the hydro-electric monopoly in the Southwest. Describing how he dismissed a lot of aged government employes from the Pension Office, the book says: “When everything humanly possible had been done in the personal in- terest of the clerks, he reluctantly gave his approval for the reduction and then, instead of dispatching curt, formal dismissal orders to each of the aged employes slated for removal, he invited them to come and see him in his great private office and, talk matters over with him. “This men Work actually shook hands with these homered govern- ment servants, exchanged reminis- cences with them, talked as long as they wished to talk .. .. .. and strange as it may seem, not a single veteran or veteran’s widow or sister or broth- er complained, but left with the knowledge that they had found a true friend ......” “Logic and a great Christian character had triumphed in the interest of good government.” It was this great Christian charac- ter whom the American Society of Ci- vil Engineers condemned, after a careful investigation, for his viola- tion of federal law and treachery to principles of ordinary honesty and sound public policy, wnen he dismiss- ed Arthur P. Davis, at the head of the Reclamation Serv:ce, and tnstall- ed in his place, under pretext of “re- organization” an enemy of the essen- tial principles of the bureau, The booklet devotes,a dozen pages to a whitewash of this incident, and to de- nuneiation of the “vicious attack” by the engineers of the Work. speech, our party will favor an elec- tion alliance of the Farmer-Labor Party with the Third Party, but will (Continued from Page One) my fourth article when I was arrested and escorted to the French frontier. “Now, here I am, almost un- certain of what is going to hap- pen to me. One thing is quite certain, and that is the impos- sibility of my going to Italy as long as Mussolini keeps power there.” Giglio sent a report of his arrest and expulsion from Italy, from Paris that is of exceeding interest. It reads in part as follows: se PARIS, April 2—I have been too weak from my journey and experi- ence to give the full facts of my ex- pulsion until now. I was arrested by the Italian police at half-past eight on Monday morn- ing. I was in bed, and was told by my wife that there were two police- men outside who wanted to speak to me. As I was afraid that they were real- ly Fascisti, I told her not to open the door until I was fully dressed, when I discovered that they were really police officers. They asked for my passport, which I produced. Then they required me to follow them to the Prefecture of Police. My wife was alarmed and asked me to return soon, and stated that she would call for me at the Prefecture if I did not return within half an hour. Mussolini's Own Order. I was kept there, however, for two hours before the Commissary of Po- lice saw me. When he did, he read to me a Government decree ordering me to leave Italy within 24 hours. This decree was passed at a Cabl- net meeting, upon the motion of Sig- nor Mussolini, The reason given was public security, I asked the Commissary if I could be granted 24 hours more to make the necessary arrangements, but he re- plied that I was to leave by the first train, (Continued from Page One) ist International raised the question, in its letter to the convention, of an alliance with the farmers and whether the Labor Party should not be changed to the Farmer-Labor Party. After a thoro discussion of the question in which some delegates ex- pressed the viewpoint that to change the character of the party from a la- bor party to a farmer-labor party at this tim’ would be premature, the convention voted to raise the issue in the Labor Party of the alliance with the farmers in the formation of the proposal, to change the name to the Farmer-Labor Party and to invite farmer organizations to send dele- gates to the labor party units. Nova Scotia Strike. The second issue whieh caused a great deal of discussion was the ques- tion of the conduct of the Nova Sco- tia strike. There was some criticism of the method of developing the sym- pathetic strike of the miners in sup- port of the British Empire Steel Com- pany employes. The Communist In- ternatjonal raised the question as to the tactics of the party in rélation to the strike, criticising the party for not making sufficient political use of the Nova Scotia strike. The Communist International was of the opinion that the Workers Party should have issued a manifesto calling upon the workers thruout Canada to rally to the sup- port of the miners and thus develop the strike as a political issue against Canadian government. country upon Hie ih ail tn Ota 7 discussion of this question Letters To Daily Worker. brought out the fact that the strike in Nova Scotia had developed spon- taneously and that the leaders had done all in their power to safeguard the interest of the workers. It was admitted that the party might have acted more energetically in making MUSSOLINI EXPELS CORRESPONDENT I was forbidden to go home, and I was forced to wait at the police sta- tion until I could be escorted to the train, 1 was not allowed to get in touch with the British Embassy. | was only allowed to see my wife and 10-year. old son in the presence of the Com- missary. I was asked to which frontier I would be deported and I chose to go to London via Modane on the French frontier, At three in the afternoon, after having been kept under arrest all day, 1 was allowed to see my wife, and, after a sad separation, was taken to the train by two carabinieri in mufti. Threat of Handcuffs. Before I left, the Commissary, in my presence tojd the carabinieri that I was to be handcuffed if I tried at any point in the jourfey to speak English or communicate to anybody. T had no reason, however, to provoke the carabinieri, who treated me kind- ly. At the frontier station, however, I was received with the greatest inso- lence by the Fascisti in authority there, who told me “never to enter Italian territory again.” “The atmosphere of Italy is not good for people like you,” the bully went on. “The Fascisti stick rules here with absolute power.” I con- gratulated him, and told him that I expected to be back soon, as I hoped Italy would soon be a free nation again, When I reached Modane, a Fascist militiaman tried to cause me more trouble by pointing me out to the French police. However, the French policemen, after examining my pass¢ port and hearing the reason for my expulsion, returned the passport, and told me I was free to go where I chose. That I have been expelled on the very eve of the elections convinces me that Signor Mussolini is about to extend his system of violence to se- cure a Fascist victory. CANUCK PARTY NOW COMMUNIST * Tuesday, April 22, 1924 SCHOOLS IDEALIZE CAPITALIST, NOT CHRIST, HESAYS McCluskey Assails U. S. Educational System Special to The Daily Worker) LOUISVILLE, “Ky, April 31--Our educational system is “a huge hopper for feeding idealistic youth to the business interests,” was the charge of Howard McCluskey, graduate stu- dent of the University of Chicago, in an attack on vocational guidance, be- fore the conference of six hundred Methodist students here. The stu- dents, representing 112 colleges and universities thruout the country, heard several church officials de- nounce the capitalist system as un- Christian, “Our law schools and schools of commerce are shot thru with trickery and get-rich-quick ideals, The captain of industry, not Christ, is the ideal held before the students,” McCluskey asserted. ‘ “Nasty, Dirty, Stinking” War, Bishop Francis J. McConnell of Pittsburgh declared it was not dis- loyal to face the delicate issues of in- dustrial strife and war. “I don’t mind a man’s going to war,” exclaimed Bishop McConnell, “but I do object to trying to give that nasty, dirty, stink- ing business a halo of sanctity.” The present distribution of wealth, whereby excessive riches and dire poverty exist side by side, was de- nounced by the Rev. Allan A Heist. Christianity can make little progress in steel towns, where poverty prevails and among farmers robbed of their lands and made landless peasants by deflation and bread bandits,” the Rev. Heist said. “The profit motive should be eliminated from industry. The church must teach the abolition of poverty and give whole-hearted sup- port to every agency, political, eco- nomic and social which seeks to heal the age old sore of poverty.” Youth is hearing a new melody out of the discord which followed the dis- illusionment of the war, Howard Beck- er, the Northwestern University paci- in Canada was giving sufficient atten-| fst, told his audience. “In the past tion to the political developments in that country. It urged that the party must keep in close contact with every development in the political life of the country and express its views and raise issues in connection with these developments, cs The report to the convention made by Comrade Specter on the political situation gave a very fine analysis of the Canadian situation and unques- tionably the party will, from this time on, play a larger part in the political life of the country. i Party Influence. While the Workers Party, now the Communist Party of Canada, was un- able to increase its membership dur- ing the past year, it has been success- ful in extending its influence. It is an accepted section of the Canadian La- bor Party and wields considerable in- fluence in that organization. It has also been able to establish itself in the trade union movement of Canada. M ichlan and Ruthenberg Speak. ‘The convention adjourned in order to permit the delegates to attend a mass meeting at which J. B. Mac- Lachlan, president of District 26 of the United Mine Workers, deposed by John L, Lewis and recently released from prison, and ©. E. Ruthenberg, who was the fraternal delegate of the Workers Party of America, were to speak, This meeting showed the influ- ence of the party among the workers of, Canada; as the audience, which packed assembly hall of the Labor Temple, greeted the two speakers. The convention reassembled after the mass meting to take up organiza- tional problems and take steps to or- ganize the party so as to permit the national organization to send organ- izers in the field for the upbuilding of the party. The delegates at the convention, not favor the idea of this alliance |use of the political issue raised by the|Snerally, expressed an optimism as taking the form of organizational unity under any circumstances. So far from “entering” the Third Party, we are striving with all our power to bring about a complete organiza- tional and ideological separation of the workers and poor farmers from it and its leaders. This policy is dem- onstrated in action oy the fight of our party for the June 17th conven- tion at St. Paul as against the July 4th Convention of the ©, P. P. A. at Cleveland, The error of the reporter of the DAILY WORKER consisted in rep- resenting my argument for “support- ing” the third party in the coming elections to mean that the workers and farmers should “enter” it. There ig a vast difference yerween the two and I tried to explain that difference in my speech. For purposes of illustration, I re ferred to the action of the Russian Bolsheviki in “supporting” the Ki ensky revolution against Czarism and working at the same time for the overthrow of the Kerensky regime. Here again the report in the DAILY WORKER contained a misquotation. It quotes me as saying: “The Bolshe-) viki fought with guns in their hands in Kerensky’s afmy against world imperialism.” What I , was that they fought with Kerensky against Czarism. Everybody ought to know that Kerensky did not fight against world imperialism, but for it-——James P, Cannon, ri strike, Recommends Political Action. (Continued from Page 1) from the safe of the Bureau of Investi- gation. Liquor belonging to Alonze Bunch, of Washington, Boucher said, was “sorted” in the Bureau of Investiga- tion,“the best” being put in the office safe and the rest stored in the base- nt. Booze for Counsel, Cross-examined by ex-senator Cham- ‘berlain, counsel for Daugherty Bouch- hay he believed the liquor was for Daugherty and Jess Smith, “because house.” Alonzo Bunch said that 108 cases of ing to him was seized in October, 1918. “The liquor was relpased by the courts but I never got & bottle,” said Bunch. ‘Bunch said he went to Wm J. Burns, director of the Bureau of In- to the future of the party, and it is certain that the coming year will show the Communist Party of Canada The Communist International also|a stronger organization and a still raised the question whether the Cen-|greater influence among the working tral Executive Committee of the party! masses of that country, Gillette Has Poor Alibi vestigation, and protested against the continued holding of his liquor, Burns “passed the buck.” “Where did the liquor go?” asked Brookhart, McLean Too. “IT was told on good authority that most of it was hauled to Ned Me- Lean’s house,” said Bunch. “I under- stand that Gillett got some of it too.” “Who told you that McLean got most of the liquor?” asked Brookhart. “My lawyer, Judge Daniel T. Wright, has the name of the man who they were living at the H street}toiq me that the liquor was handled from the warehouse to McLean's house,” said Bunch, quor and a quantity of beer belong-| ponch said that he wrote several letters to the late President Harding in an effort to get his whisky back. “Did you get any reply?” “Yos, he referred mo to Burns.” “Have you written to President .° “Twice, with no reply.” doe we have worshipped national gods. The great universal God has been di- vided by boundary lines.” ** * WASHINGTON, April 21.—A con- stitutional amendment abolishing child labor was urged here by the Rev. Dr. Worth Tippy on behalf of the com- mission on social service of the Fed- eral Council of Churches. Slavery of 1,000,000 Kids. “Child labor is shameful,” the Rev. Tippy declared in a statement issued to the press. “During certain seasons in the beet fields and canneries and factories over 1,000,000 children under 10 years of age work from 44 to 60 hours a week.” SOVIET PICTURE WINS ITS RIGHTS IN RHODE ISLAND “Fifth Year”, Forbidden Before, To Appear ‘Special to The Daily W “ fe Fifth Year” “ttm picture of Russian life under the Soviet govefn- ment wins its rights to appear in Providence, R. 1, on Wednesday, April 23, after six months of efforts on the part of the Civil Liberties Un- fon and others to get permission from the police commissioners of that city, “Soviet Propaganda” Cry. A local committee had been formed for the purpose of running the enter- tainment. This committee was called for the R. I. Russian Relief Commit- tee, and was composed of men of Russian birth and parentage, but all citizens of this country. But reac- tionary elements raised a hue and cry against Soviet propaganda and al- leged that the showing of the picture was part of a nation-wide plot to con- vert this country to the ideas of the Bolsheviks and as a result of this opposition the permit was denied. Police Commissioners Yield. The Civil Liberties Union tried to get the “police commissioners to re- consider their action, but without avail. Finally the R. I. Workers Edu- cational Society decided to show the films as part of their educational pro- gram and when Dr. J. U. Reid made application for a permit, which is re- quired under the local law, it was granted by the police commissioners. So the “Fifth Year” will be shown wo a Providence audience as an edu- cational film in Eagles Hall, on Wednesday, April 23, at 8 p, m,, under the auspices of the R. I. Workers Bd- ucational Society. All tickets that were purchased for the showing on Sept. 26 will be good for jhowing. It is expected that 4 large attendance at this meeting will be the answer to the reactionary elements of Provi- dence, All friends of freedom in Providence are requested to spread the news and to be present in Eagles Hall on the night of April 23 and see the pictures Of Russian life under the fifth year of the Soviet regime. Marie Corelli Dies, STRATFORD ON AVON, England, April 21.—Marle Corelli, famous nov- elist, died at her home here today, 2