The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1924, Page 6

tary own strength and the strehgth of the Euro- “i pean revolutionary movement, there is little con- e Page Six Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00....3 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.60....6 months $2.50....3 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, lilinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F. DUNNE) MORITZ J. LOEB..:... .. editors ..Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. << 290 Advertising rates on application. Soviet Russia’s Ultimatum Soviet Russia has discontinued trade relations with Germany as a result of the failure of the re- actionary German government to make amends for the recent raid on the offices of the Soviet trade delegation in Berlin. The capitalist press tries to minimise the impor- tance of this action but quite outside of the eco- nomic dislocation that it will bring about in Ger- many it has a deep political significance that will not be lost upon the more intelligent supporters of capitalism and which should not escape the work- ers interested in the rise to power of the first’ workers’ and peasants’ government. Soviet Russia, because of the backwardness of the revolutionary movement in other capitalist nations, has been forced to make certain com- promises with the capitalist system but the ulti- matum to Germany signifies that this period is nearing its end. Soviet Russia, in severing trade relations with Germany, serves notice upon the capitalist world that compromise and concessions are things of the past when the issue is one of protection of representatives of the revolutionary Russian working class. In Europe the revolutionary wave is rising again tho it may sink once more under the attacks of fascism that seems to replace the spineless gov- ernments which keep a weak hold on capitalist state power in the interim between Poincare and collapse. Soviet Russia has successfully withstood the period of rampant reaction in Poland, Ger- many, Italy and France and if and when all ves- tage of capitalist democracy is again wiped out in western Europe, the working class of Russia will be in a position to do more for the European work- ers than extend its sympathy. This is what the severing of trade relations with Germany means and in the stern attitude of the Soviet government, based as it is of a knowledge solation for capitalist governments of Europe, tho their apologists may whistle to keep up their courage. | The Lone Opposition The one notable fact aljout the Ludendorff-Fas- cisti demonstration at Halle, Germany, Sunday, was that the Communists furnished the lone op- position. While the members of other parties may have proclaimed at times their hostility to the return of monarchism, it remained for the Com- munists alone, to carry that hostility into action. It was the Communists who had destroyed the Moltke monument, at Halle, symbol of German militarism. It was the German government, with the Socialist Ebert, at its head, that gave the generals, princes, including the ex-kaiser’s fifth son, and other riff-raff of the deposed kaiserdom, the right to hold their Halle demonstration, under government protection, and replace the destroyed memorial to a human butcher. A reputable cor- respondent cables that socialists joined the nation- alists and fascisti in the demonstration, with its 50,000 participants, mostly youths, after the fash- ion of the Italian fascisti. The Halle demonstration will again prove to the German workers that the struggle for their emancipation goes forward on the shoulders of the Communists. More than four millions, at the recent elections, by their votes, showed that they realized that fact. New millions will be continu- ally won to this yiew until complete victory over monarchism and capitalism, in all its forms, is achieved. Cachin and Longuet One of the big lessons of the French elections is seen in the re-election of Marcel Cachin, Com- munist, and the crushing defeat of Jean Longuet, socialist, the discredited grandson of an illustrious ancestor, Karl Marx. It was Cachin that faced a charge of treason when he urged the Ruhr coal miners to resist the aggressions of French imperialism. It was Cachin that was to be placed on trial before the French senate. It was Poincare himself who threatened to resign when the senate refused to go thru with the trial. All this time Longuet was ever active preaching hatred against the Communist International. He went to England and then toured the United States with his doctrine of anti-Communist hate. To be sure, the British and American workers re- fused to listen. Now the French workers have completely repudiated Longuet, and with him all that he stands for. No doubt, Premier MacDonald, of Great Britain, will be able to read the hand-|only labor in New York City, but the whole work-|>0ne, the stage mechanic with his writing on the wall, and draw the lesson. But he will plunge on to his own fate—defeat at the hands of Communist workers, On ae & The Future in Pullinan The striking carbuilders have gone back to their jobs in Pullman, They fought a game fight. They got about all they could, against the big obstacles that confronted them. They are determined to do better next time. While the Pullman carbuilders toil at their daily tasks under the lash of the speed-up system, let them remember that their greatest strength is in organization, political and industrial. You came out on strike this time without an organization. While on strike you organized some of your num- bers into the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen. Let no day pass, Carbuilders of Pullman, without securing new adhesions to your union. When your industrial organization is strong and powerful, Mr. E. F. Carry, president of the Pullman Co., Knight of St. Gregory, of the Roman Catholic Church, will not be able to reject you. He will be compelled to listen to your demands, and grant them, But industrial organization is not sufficient. You must also have your political party. In this strike many of you have had your first contact with the Workers (Communist) Party. You have heard its speakers. You have read its literature. Daily you have followed the developments of your struggle thru the columns of the DAILY WORKER, the daily spokesman in the English language of the American Communist movement. You will be doing yourself a service by joining the English-language branch, or one of the several foreign-language branches of the Workers Party in Pullman and by subscribing for the DAILY WORKER, or one of the many foreign-language Communist publications. - The big lesson of this strike is that the workers must be prepared for the next struggle. Now is the time to prepare. He Didn’t Get Enough Victor Berger hasn’t had enough of Woodrow Wilson. The Milwaukee socialist congressman wants to rattle the bones of the dead war presi- dent, persuade the “14 points” to do a post- mortem tango and, presto, save the Germans from the terrible French, British, Italian and Amer- icans. Berger wants to revise the Versailles Treaty in the now faded light of the Wilsonian program. He has introduced, seemingly in all seriousness, a re- solution to that effect in congress. He wants surgery work on the treaty done by a conference to include representatives of all nations that are signatories to the Versailles treaty. This gather- ing like the fake disarmament conference is to be held in Washington, D. C., before the first Mon- day in December, this year, which is the day of the assembling of the next regular congressional ses- sion, and, so spread the smell oil, “Cautious Cal” Coolidge is supposed to call it. Berger has been out of congress for six years. His joke resolution can only be looked on as an effort to make up for lost time. In discussing his resolution he immediately raises the question of “war guilt,” a matter that is considered taboo even in the Second (Socialist) International, having been dropped years ago. When Berger tried to raise this question at the last Hamburg Conference of the Second and Two and One-Half Internationals he was promptly sat upon. But Berger is persistent, even if tainted with some forms of insanity, and seriously proclaims: “If any nation can be held more responsible than others (for the war) Russia and France— and to a certain extent Great Britain—are to be regarded as by far the guiltier.” For the purpose of the resolution Berger seems to have discarded the theory that it was a capital- ist war. But that does not now fit in with Ber- ger’s sympathies for Germany,—not the Germany of the workers and farmers, but the Germany of Scheidemann, Ebert, Noske and other hangman of Communists. The Treaty of Versailles is a scrap of paper torn into so many shreds that not even Victor Berger can piece it together again. As a result of the Versailles pact Europe is drifting rapidly into an- other war that will be more widespread and more devastating than the last. This is so because the Bergers in Germany sabotaged the social revolu- tion in that country, in 1918, making the writing of the Treaty of Versailles at Paris possible. But the ending of the next war will find the Bergers going into the discard with the capitalists they serve, and the treaty, that will need no revision, will be written by the spokesmen of workers and farmers in all countries, freed from the capitalist yoke everywhere, Demonstrate! The United Council of Working Class Women in New York City has called for a demonstration this Saturday against the city hall under the slo- gans of “Down with the Landlords! Down with the High Rents and Firetraps.” The day will come when hundreds of thousands will march on New York’s City Hall under those same slogans. It is absolutely necessary that the demonstra- tion this Saturday be made as effective as possi- ble. This is a case where numbers will coun » Every mother that feels the death grip of en: filthy and unsanitary tenements upon the thin life thread of her children, should be in line. Every worker who resents the clutch of the profiteering landlord should add himself to the procession. The time to protest against the next firetrap hor- ror is now; not after it has taken its huge toll of workers’ lives. Join the demonstration, Saturday. Help sound the call to action, that will rouse, not ing class thruout the entire land against the mur- derous housing conditions now prevailing under the profit-hungry capitalist social system. THE DAILY WORKER OUR BOOK REVIEW SECTION By GEORGE McLAUGHLIN. Vocations, by Gerald O'Donovan, Boni and Liveright, New York City. I started this book with acute mis- givings, as I learned from the “blurb” that it is not flattering to the Holy Roman Tools. I expected an ignorant tirade. To my delight I found it a stark picture of the unnatural life ‘of priests and nuns—well-written and sympathetic. Two sisters enter a convent. One endures the petty convent politics, the idle chatter and tWe uselessness of her life for three years and then calmly leaves—to the chattering rage of all the “holy” men and women. The other upheld by a fat vanity and a series of liaisons with priests enjoys the life. The characters are vivid—the vil- lage publican and his wife; the dreamy old Mother Superior; the business manager--an abrupt Robot; the priests—one a sensualist, one full of dry wisdom; one a brainless loon and wonderful -evangelist by virtue of “soulful” eyes, a “sweet” voice—and a habit of stealing his.sermons. An excellent book to read and a better one to give a girl, who has discovered a “vocation” in the convent. ‘ee Land and See Tales for Boys and Girls, by Rudyard Kipling, Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. Kipling has written rattling good stories and much stirring verse for which he may be forgiven his “hate” stuff—‘Mary Postgate,” “Cleared” and “Ulster” (for which last “A. E.” took him sternly to task), His last book is a bitter disappointment, dull and insipid. The theme is fit for Boy Scouts—“Be loyal to God, King and Boss”—and the yarns are mediocre; the following being typical: a hashed account of medal winning exploits, a blurb of his boyhood school and nine- teen pages to prove that a man ig- norant of rifle work, can’t use a rifle. se @ “Americanization of Edward Bok,” an autobiography by Chas. Scribners Sons, (New edition). . This is an excellent book to read with Woodward’s “Bunk.” I am un- able to believe that my country Amer- icanized Bok.—He is a hundred per center, who happened to be born in Holland. He combines business shrewdness, nauseating sentimentali- ty and genuine American snobbish- ness, in a perfect blend. When only thirteen years old, he practiced the fundamental, capitalist theory that to make money, one hires a man to work for him ane pays him less than he produces. He describes minutely his obser- vation of our aristocratic small fry— Grant, Hayes, Beecher, Lyman Abbott, Cleveland, Roosevelt, and. other non- entities. His American sentimentalism and “idealism” crop up, when he tells of his crusades. He improved American architecture and house furnishings— while Jacob Rus was fighting unsuc- cessfully and unaided to clean up the awful New York tenements. He cam- paigned against fake culture jin wom- en’s clubs and against Paris styles in women’s clothes—while Ogden Armour was using the Saturday Evening Post, (companion magazine to Bok’s “Ladies Home Journal”) to smoke screen Up- ton Sinclair’s exposure of the filthy packing houses and their brutal labor conditions. His mushiness gets full play on the World War. He tells with snug com- placency of his share in propagandiz- ing the war and raising money for it. Never once did he ask “For what pur- pose?” He sloshes maudlin sentiment over the troops, uses superlatives on the two wounded he met—but is will- ing to send 4,000,000 more into the same inferno. In conclusion he hopes Russ Envoy Quits Berlin As Rebuke For Embassy Raid Nicolai Krestinski MUSIC. By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. “ 9 So Long Susan “So Long Susan,” a musical comedy in four parts, was given for the last time by the Blackfriars, a University of Chicago organization, at Mandel Hall on the university campus last Saturday. The Blackfriars is an order of university men, whose sole purpose is to give a musical comedy written and performed by themselves every spring. “So Long Susan” was written by Jack Oppenheim and Robert Pollack. Balzac Bones, a student on the Mid- way, is in love with a coed named Susan Smith, who has jilted him for a football star. Sitting in despair in front of one of the women’s dormi- tories, Balzac meets Herr Tonic, in- structor in physics, who gives him a potion that will take him back cen- turies. The second part, whichis by far the best in the show, takes place in the Mermaid Tavern in London, in Queen Elizabeth’s time. Marlowe, Fletcher and Ben Johnson are waiting for Shakespeare to appear when Bal- zac shows up. Balzac at once falls in love with the barmaid. (According to Blackfriars custom, the women’s parts are taken by men. Jack Stam- baugh, who played the heroine in every scene made an attractive girl, but a heroine who sings in a light baritone is a trifie disconcerting.) After a time Shakespeare arrives, and the house provides the playwrights with forbidden liquor. With the arrival of Sir Walter Ra- leigh occurs the most beautiful scene in the show. Sir Walter has returned from Cathay, and shows the company what he has found there. In comes a mob of beautifully costumed manda- rins each bearing a huge, three-foot mah jong tile. The dance of the chinamen and their song, “In the Temple of Mah Jong,” is one of the finest things one can find in any musical show. But soon the famous Rugby player, Sir Henry O'Hare enters, and the bar- maid jilts Balzac for him. There is a duel between the L. of C. man and his rival, during which Queen Eliza- beth herself appears with her prohibi- tion squad. She exclaims in regal that “Russia will prove a second U. Ss. A” i God—and the Communists—forbid! ¥ I see as how the actor folks is cast- ing off the money yokes, and threat- ening to go on strike if they can’t get the terms they like, and workers of the tragic muse is breaking into labor news. Until the new societee makes art as free as it can be, I guess it ain’t no scenic lies that actor folks is working guys, for in this money-grabbing age we have a coupon-clip) tage, where managers who love the mart control box offices and art. It don’t take makeup by the pound -|to give the footlight favorite ground for throwing in his mimic lot with those what union cards has got. He needn't step much out of part, for its real work to turn out art. The girl who stuffs her legs in tights, the man who works the bright spotlights, the kid what plays the ju- veniles, the usher girls who walk sum miles, J. Caesar dying with a groan, the sport who plays the slide trom- crew, the young (perh~ps not) in- genue, the guy what dies as Romeo, the chap that makes the curtain go, the folks what set up scenes so nice, tones “the ‘ouse is pinched,” and has all but Balzac and Sir Walter “thrown ail Epics Eliza crossing on the ice, the gink who guards the ticket box, old Rip Van Winkle with false locks, the wardrobe mistress with her thread, fair Desdemona choked in bed—all these who make up mimic life are victims of the bosses’ knife, I'll say they better unionize before the god Appolo dies. THE POOR FISH says that Secre- tary of Labor Davis ought to back where he came from in chines.” She refuses to arrest the hero because, as she says, “we do not deal with minors in this precinct.” Disgusted with it all, Balzac drinks another draught of his potion. The. third scene is in the lobby of the Hotel Parthenon during election night. Balzac is running for mayor of Athens against Paris. Paris has given away free garters to obtain support, but Balzac has the backing of Plato, manager of the hotel and stands the better chance, The hero falls in love again, this time with Helen of Troy, who throws him over for Paris when the election returns, received over the radio, shows that. Balzac has won. Balzac drinks the last of his magic elixir, and reappegrs on the university campus. Thruout the Greek scene are so many exceedingly funny episodes, that space will not permit description of them. Diogenes with his lantern, the little girl reporter from the Athenian Examiner, the chorus of weeping and laughing philosophers, dressed as the “joys” and “glooms” of the Hearst car- toons, and the Swedish cook of the hotel deserve more extended mention than can be given here. But the profu- sion of musical numbers thruout the scene is its one bad point. Of course the play has its happy ending, and its finale of all the music of the show. The acting was excellent. William Kerr as Balzac, Jack Stambaugh, the heroine, Robert Lanyon as Herr Tonic, and Owen Nugent as Queen Elizabeth were especially good. On the whole the music was not so good. Most of it was of the kind that any hack can reel off, three yards of score for a nickel. The song “My Vagabond” and the chorus “In the Temple of Mah Jong” were the best bits in the show. But the entry of Queen Bess and the prohibition squad was worth sitting thru all the rest to see. New York Women To March On City Hall To Hit High Rents NEW YORK, May 14.—A demon- stration staged by the United Council of Workingclass Women will march on city hall next Saturday afternoon to demand of the mayor that the city build houses and rent them to the workers at cost. The marchers will gather at Rut- gers Square at 1:30 p.m. In case of rain the demonstration will be held on the following Saturday. In a statement issued by the office of the organization arranging the de- monstration, the government is as- sailed for spending billions on war and nothing on the protection of the workers. An appeal is made to working class women to join the Council, which has an Office at 125 4th Avenue, New York City. an Liars’ Mud-slinging Contest. NEW YORK, May 14.—Lawyers and capitalist newspapers got the worst of it in a mutual mud-slinging contest be- fore a New York Bar Association meeting. President Henry W. Taft charged newspapers with blocking justice, conniving with unethical law- yers, ruining the reputations of in- nocent people by false and sensational stories, and sabotaging legal reform. Don C. Seitz, business manager, New York World, denied that lawyers were interested in law reform, saying that the laws were generally drawn up in law offices for secret or private ends. Lawyers are more eager to smash laws than to defend them, said Seitz. Straws of Alfalfa By JOEL SHOMAKER Ye Olde Hay Editor. BUT, NOBODY KNOWS HOW WET WE ARE. I WAS invited T2 SIT IN a meeting WHERE BIG MEN talked WET AND DRY matters over SOME WANTED to slap OLD MAN Volstead IN .THE FACE, easy like, AND MAKE him say LIGHT BEER and wines 1 STOOD UP on my feet AND FOUGHT like a Turk, TO SWAT Volstead a blow BETWEEN THE EYES or somewhere AND FORCE him to stop ‘THE BIG FARCE and say WET OR DRY once for all. IF WE ARE to be dry LET US FORGET light wines AND PUT some backbone IN THOSE wiggling and wobbling SKIMMILK POLITICIANS of the day AFRAID OF their salaries AND THE VOTERS with ballots. IT WAS SAID by some on THAT BY JANUARY next, THE BIG HEADS now in power IN THE CAPITOL city, WASHINGTON, D. C, WOULD FRAME some policy ON NATIONAL PROHIBITION. BUT WHY have light drinks? IF WE PLAN a change TO MODIFY the Volstead law WHY NOT have dark and heavy WET GOODS true to name? FIRST OF ALL let us VOTE OUT the weaklings IN PUBLIC OFFICES and places AND SEND then back home TO FEED ON brain foods, WHILE MEN with mature minds, ELECTED BY the people EITHER REPEAL or enforce THE LAWS of the country AND QUIT passing the buck ON THD PROHIBITION QUESTION, “> \ i ° Thursday, May 15, 1924 AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY For the first time in history Wil- liam (Billy) Sunday fell down on a schedule to deliver two sermons. The evangelist was ill with an attack of food poisoning following a banquet which was given in his honor by lo- cal bankers, It was rumored that the liquor was not What it ought to be, but this report may be concocted by the Communists, who were responsi- ble for the investigations now going on in Washington resulting inthe re- moval of Denby, Daugherty, Burns— three patriots. Sunday was delirious, and when approached by friends made a collection speech. “He is getting to be himself again,” said the doc- tors, and all fears over his condition were allayed. ee 8 “Spike” O'Donnell, a Chicago busi- ness man who does not conduct his affairs according to the rules and reg- ulations of the Chamber of Com- merce, was standing on a street cor ner with young “Spike” on his shoul der, just to give his heir an oppor- tunity to see Cardinal Mundelein, who had arrived with a red hat from the pope. “Spike” had something like $9,000 in his pocket, perhaps the price of a few barrels of moonshine, How- ever, when Mr. O'Donnell put his hand in his pocket, preparatory to in- viting his son into a drug store for an ice cream soda, he found the pocket still there, but it was as empty of cash as a capitalist politician’s head is of ideas. “Damn the crooks!” growled “Spike.” “An honest man cannot take a walk these days with- out a bodyguard. Even the holy car- dinal’s blessing does not seem to have had a beneficial effect on the hard- ened sinners.” But “Spike” is so crooked that there is a suspicion he picked his own pocket unconsciously while waiting to see his shepherd, Cardinal Mundelein, in his scarlet robes. et © “The New Leader,” one of the few survivors from the flock of socialist weeklies that flourished in this coun- try a few years ago, has entered the lists ageinst the Weekly People for the funny-sheet championship of America. It has an editorial staff large enough to man a big metropol- itan daily and its foreign dispatches conceived and written in the editorial room of the weekly are very amusing if not instructive or accurate. In its issue of May 10, it presents an array of figures that would baffle Leland Olds of the Federated Press, to prove that the Socialist Party of Germany gained a great victory by losing 5,000,- 000,000 votes since the 1919. elections. This means a emailer party but a hap: pier little socialist family as the Weekly People apologized when it ex- pelled another live member—in the days when it had somebody to expel. vee In the same paper we find a report of Morris Hillquit’s debate with Bert- rand Russell. Hillquit holds that the British Labor Party is revolutionary while Russell is of the opposite opin- ion. Russell's intellectual foot slipped when he admitted that the Mac-Don- ald government was composed of hon- est men. Quick as a flash Hilquit pounc- ed on him with, “In these days that is revolutionary.” The debate sudden- ly took on a Teapot Dome flavor. Hill- quit also explains that the term “re- volutionary” has no connection with barricades or bloodshed. Let the capi- talists glut their thirst for the blood of the workers, if they will. Socialists must remain calm and decent except when it is necessary to spill some Communist blood ala Noske, Scheide- mann and Company. ie James O'Neal uses up one column of space repeating that the labor fakers, the Jewish unions and the East Side pawnbrokers will have nothing to do with Communists, therefore the St. Paul convention must be a failure. John Fitzpatrick at the July 3 con- ference declared that the Communists could not make themselves felt in the American labor movement in the nert _ twenty years. Today John’s politica} influence does not extend far beyond’ the Loop. The Catholic Church once} said it would never recognize the het ocentric theory and burned Bruno at the stake because he held that the sun was the centre of our planetary system. But the church lived to change its view tho Bruno died. The labor leaders told General Hell-and- Maria Dawes one month ago that the German workers had no use for Com. munism. We do not know how much the good news cost Dawes but the elections tell us that the German faker was a darned liar. Prediction is a dangerous form of diversion, as Fitz- patrick, the Catholic Church and the German labor fakers know by now. James O'Neal and his mythical 1,000,- 000 votes will be wiser tho sadder after June 17. Rail Lawyers Fight Bill. WASHINGTON, May 14.—Railroad lawyers who have been pouring into Washington are hopeful of delaying action on the Barkley railroad labor bill until the end of the session, if adjournment is not beaten. On the other hand, they are alarmed because Rep. Shallenberger of Nebras- ka has started a petition to discharge from the interstate commerce com- mittee—the course that was taken with the Barkley bill—the measure for repeal of the gueranty clause —Sec, 16a—in the Esch-Cummins law, te 2 .