The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 1, 1924, Page 2

Page Two GARY SCHOOL | PLAN TRAINS MENTAL ROBOTS Platoon System Good for Plute Class By KARL REEVE. (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) GARY, Ind., Sept. 30.—The Gary school plan, or the platoon school system, is the last word in the dictatorship of the capi- talist class of large employers as to what the children of the workers shall study. Elbert H. Gary, head of the steel trust, has been ‘busy for many years in all parts of the country en- deavoring to establish his plan of employers’ control of work- ers’ education. The platoon school system has three main features—the importation of industrial work into the school, the department- alization of study even in the elementary grades and the ma- chine-like standardization of each study which is controlled by 4 supervisor. The dictation by supervisors of ex- actly what each teacher should give out to the pupils makes it easy for the employers, thru control of these supervisors, to dictate the entire edu- cational training of the children wherever the platoon schools prevail. The dictatorship of the capitalist class thru these supervisors is an at- tempt to drive liberal thot out of the schools and further establish the “goose-step” described in Upton Sin- clair’s book of that name. Capitalist Dictation. “The real thing in the Detroit sys- tem was the fact that somebody or some bodies were dictating and dom- (Continued from Page 1.) proved to have gone into the com- pany’s Office the day before election, and pleaded with tears in his eyes for the election support of the same Colorado Coal & Iron Co. A Rockefeller Principality. Today, in this Rockefeller principali- ty, political confusion is widespread. The coal and metal. miners and thou- sands of Colorado's dispossessed farm- ers are breaking away from the demo- cratic and republican parties. History is repeating itself. In years gone by it was “Charlie” Moyer and his kind who sidetracked the militant miners in their opposition to capitalism. To- day it is Robert M, LaFollette who is attempting to sidetrack the discon- tent in Colorado. While the democratic convention was in session in New York, the Colo- rado State Federation of Labor met and endorsed McAdoo for president. Today the State Federation of Labor is split in two factions, both of them trying to “shake the plum tree” for LaFollette. The LaFollette emissary, recently in Colorado, did not settle the fight between the two factions, both anxious to monopolize the patron- age that may perhaps go with support- ing LaFollette. And there are three factions and sections of the Farmer- Labor Party. All of them combined are but a handful of petty, would-be business men. One of these factions claims to be the national headquarters of the Farmer-Labor Party. It is the paper organization, “reorganized” by Lefkovitz & Co. at the Cleveland La- Follette convention. This national or- ganization outfit is in bad with LaFol- Help! Help! A campaign for increasing the cir- culation of the DAILY WORKER has heaped loads of work on our force. We need Help—NOW— QUICKLY. Comrades wishing to assist report at the DAILY WORK- ER office any day this week during the day or evening. We have work TH FOSTER RETURNS TO COLORADO lette because of its careless manner of handling ‘finances. The socialist party went with the Communists and joined the Workers Party. The Ku Klux Klan has many mem- bers in Colorado. It controls various offices of law enforcement, from the mayor down in the city of Denver. A recall election was recently held which voted to recall the K. K. K. mayor. He, however, won out and now feels more defiant than ever. Party Speakers Arrested. In contrast to this confusion, the Workers Party is conducting its elec- tion campaign. Recently in Denver, Comrade Ella Reeve Bloor and several other local comrades were arrested for holding political meetings on the street. But, in face of this persecu- tion, the Workers Party is forging ahead to rally, in this political strug- gle, the most militant of Colorado’s workers. Great preparations and the widest publicity have been provided for the coming meeting of William Z. Foster at the’ City Auditorium on October 7. Foster’s name is closely linked with the last election held ‘in Colorado. A great gathering is ex- pected. Foster will deal with the real issues that confront the workers of Colorado. He will expose not alone the outright champions of capitalism, like Coolidge and Davis, but the pseudo-progres- sives, like LaFollette and his Colorado sponsor, Edward Keating. Foster will put forth the Communist program that the workers of Colorado must, sooner or later, embrace—if they are to save themselves from extermination by their capitalist masters. champion anti-unionist, presumes to assert his right to dictate the type of schools which shall prevail in Ameri- ca. He has formed a united frant of capitalism with the capitalistic politi- cians and heads of our schools to whom he dictates policies which favor the employing class. Charles W. Eliot, who was president of Harvard for 40 years before he died declared, “A scab is a good type of American hero,” and that “every E DAILY WORKER FOSTER’S NAME MAKES LIBERAL Crimes of Capitalism Will in Time Destroy It EYEBROWS DANCE)| Instead of Its Victims Villard’s Disposition Even; Always Nutty Three score liberal noses went up in sympathetic distaste last night as Oswald Garrison Vil- lard, editor of the Nation and LaFollette backer, raised aston- ished eyebrows at the mention of the candidacy of the steel- worker, William Z. Foster. And three score modulated voices murmured sympathetic and polite approval when Vil- lard expressed himself as feel- ing “absolutely no interest” in the campaign of the Workers Party. It was at an elaborate club dinner, Has Elastic Conscience. To this dinner, together with twen- ‘ty or so decaying gentlewomen and a handful of college professors, came Villard, personal friend of Ramsay MacDonald, the “labor” premier and biscuit financier; advocate of interna- tional brotherhood who would avoid “entangling alliances”; apostle of de- ceny in the newspapers who accepts a position on the executive board of the Associated Press; pacifist who regards the adoption of the Dawes plan as an absolute necessary step;” and friend of labor who operates an open shop mine at Fort Montgomery. Villard richly deserves the name of “liberal”—a man with mental indiges- tion and sufficient vocabulary to talk about it. In Same Boat With Stone. The editor of the Nation admitted to the DAILY WORKER— after he had murmered a few polite phrases about having to catch a train—that By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. 'ODAY, the United States government is showing great solicitude for herds of deer, said to be starving along the Kaibab Plateau of the Kaibab National Forest, in Northern Arizona. The big herd has multiplied so rapidly, under gov- ernment protection, that there isn’t enough vegetation to feed them all. The warmongers at Washington can’t get a war started between rival factions of the deer herds, and thus kill off a few thousands. The deer are wiser than humans, at least in this respect. They have no wars. The deer can’t be sent into modern industry, there to have their numbers decimated thru occupational diseases and industriakhaccidents. In this they are luckier than humans. Back in 1906 the species was threatened with extinction because of illegal hunting. Hunters murdered the animals for the mere sport of it; just as the western plains were swept bare of buffalo. But the deer ard now protected by law in a national forest reserve. * * * * In this, as in other ways, the government shows it is much more solicitous about the welfare of animals than it is about human beings. Diseases of hogs get much more atten- tion than the diseases of children. The tenement slums of every large industrial center are jammed with starving children, just as the Arizona Forest Re- serve is over populated with deer. But the United States ‘overnment takes no account of the children. It offers free leer to anyone who will pay crating and transportation charges. The deer will be taken care of. But the children may die where they are. i * * * * The DAILY WORKER yesterday told the story of two young cotton mill workers sentenced to death for murder. It is legal in this country, especially in the Southern States, for big manufacturers to take children out of their homes and slowly murder them in their cotton mills. The mill owners receive the blessing of the church*on Sunday. But the seven days each week is hardly long enough for them to violate all of the ten commandments. Wednesday, October 1, 1924 RANK AND TEACHERS WIN ANOTHER ROUND Victory is Temporary in War with McAndrew The rank and file teachers of Chicago yesterday scored a tem- porary victory in their war against the school officialdom when members of the committee on school administration, sym- pathetic to the teachers, pre- vented the board from passing a resolution concurring in the suggestion of Superintendent William McAndrew that princi- pals be permitted to attend the sessions of the teachers’ coun- cils. McAndrew’s move in recom- mending this action is the first of his attempts to turn to his own advantage the rule which he forced thru the board, anni- hilating the councils of rank and file teachers which have been in existence ever since 1912, and permitting the super- intendent of schools to reorgan- ize councils on whatever basis he sees fit. It has been generally understood that this would be McAndrew's first step, since he, along with the repre- sentatives of big business on the board, are attempting to curb the freedom of discussion which the teach- ers have enjoyed at council sessions in the absence of officials. McAndrew squelched an attempt on the ‘part of Mrs. David Gregg to have discussion of the matter put off until teachers could be present. “T should not want to be accused of handing down a problem of the board to the teachers for decision,” said the mon he is the owner of an open shop iron ii ituti inating to the last detail the teaching|} to spare. We want volunteers || ianorer should experience a sense of Child murder has been declared constitutional by the | superintendent. ject.” it Ickly—HELP! PI hi mine at Fort Montgomery. He denied, " ; Re: vi er ee vant ies _— quickly. HEL joy in his work.” Under the Gary|nowever, that the men are over. United States Supreme Court. It did this when the Anti A tie vote on the motion of two to ee of nine Chicago teacher 0 platoon school system the employers, | worked, Child Labor “Law was declared unconstitutional. two, resulted, after the vote of Charles vestigated the platoon schools of De-| progress in the construction of pub- headed by the steel trust, attempt o 1 ae hae troit for the Chicago Teachers’ Feder- ation, reported a few months ago. “I met the same material every- where, even the same sort of presen- tation of that material. The teachers, so far as they took any part in the presentation of that material at all, seemed to say pretty much the same thing. The children all talked alike and everything seemed to be uniform all over the city. Supervisors In Plenty. “The reason, I found, is that in De- troit they have a supervisor of social selence, a supervisor of literature, a supervisor of music, a supervisor of art, a supervisor of physical education @ supervisor of safety education and a supervisor of health education. I think this uniformity is very danger- ous. I hope I shall never live to see a world where all people act alike and talk alike and think alike, if they think at all. “Efficiency, the efficiency of the business world, is the watchword of the Detroit schools. This is indeed the goose-step in the \public schols of America. And the system of supervisors is a part of the Gary plan, and was established in 1906 when Elbert Gary and the steel trust founded -the town of Gary and made her school system a nucleus for the propagation of the Gary or platoon school system plan, which eliminates thinking, but produces industrial robots. Judge Gary Busy. The activity of Elbert Gary in at- tempting to establish this dictation thruout the country has been wide- spread and presistent. On last Janu- ary, even the conservative Hearst pup- pet, Mayor Hylan of New York City, mixed up in a political squabble, re- vealed that Gary was active in per- meating the educational system of New York City with his “industrial slave” idea. “The people of this city know what an uphill fight it has been to make E contributions made to VERY branch secretary must call a special meeting of his branch on October. 12th. EVERY party member must attend this special branch meeting. EVERY party member must contribute 50 cents for his 137-piece literature unit. EVERY branch secretary will send the total during the week of October 26th to November lic schools because of the malicious propaganda and obstruction of the Gary system,” Mayor Hylan declared on January 12, “The Gary system, the Rockefeller educational group, and their man Howard Nudd of the self- styled Public Education Association, have always had the policy of retard- ing the construction of needed public j schools, thus creating congestion, which in turn tends to-a denial to the children of a funddéméntal education and the limiting of their training to workers for the mill and factory. These men continue to squak about the public schools of our city, simply because we have refused to allow our schools to become recruiting stations for the Gary-Rockefeller interests. Factory Slaves. “These same interests are attempting to retard the policy of fitting the chil- dren for the professions and the high- er walks of life instead of condemning them to the daily life that begins and ends with the shrill whistle of the mill or factory.” In a meeting in the Methodist church at Evanston last February, students of Northwestern university further exposed Elbert Gary’s attempt- ed domination of the child minds of the couptry when they disclosed that “Not only are Elbert H. Gary, of the United States Steel corporation, and Robert W. Campbell, his son-in-law, on the board of trustees at Northwest- ern, but there are three or four other men also identified by retainer with the steel trust.” Filling Minds With Dope. The Gary school system fostered and propagated by the United States Steel corporation, sometimes called the platooon school system, or camou- flaged by the harmless sounding name “work, study, play schools,” is leading the assault for the molding of the minds of America’s children along cap- italistic lines. Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corporation and the national office on use America’s educational system to inculeate into the children’s minds the idea that to succeed they must be good slaves to their masters—the em- ployers. Wrecked Passenger Train. QUITMAN, Ga., Sept. 30.—Railroad officials of the Atlantic Coast line to- day were attempting to send rescue parties to a wrecked passenger train ten miles west of here which, accord- ing to unverified reports, turned com- pletely over as a result of washouts following two weeks of the heaviest rainfalls south Georgia has experienc- ed.‘ Meagre reports stated all pas- sengers are safe. 9 Subscribe for “Your Daily,”:! think!” “They work only eight hours a day,” |said Villard. Remember—that an eight-hour day in a mine is more exhausting than a ten-hour day in the average factory. Communists Should Be Polite. But Villard is the last person in the world to harbor animosity against anyone: Even after the drubbing he got in the DAILY WORKER, he still thinks the Communists are all right— “as long as they don’t advocate the use of force.” He would let them car- ty on the class war, but they must do it politely. In Villard’s own wortls, he would have us do even as “that small group in Europe that has built up the labor movement there—gather in groups, sit down, and think, and think, and HAMMERSMARK, MAURER, JOHNSTON, PODKULSKI NEARLY OVER; PETITIONS MUST BE TURNED IN BY NOON TODAY Today, Oct. Ist, every signature obtained to place the con- gressional candidates of the Workers Party in Chicago on the ballot, must be in. There can be no delay. Signatures sent in after that will FF _ be of no use to us. Some com- rades sent in hundreds of state petitions after they had been filed, and were of course of no use. It happened we had good measure. Comrades must not repeat such errors in the congressional districts. EVERY SIGNATURE IN AT THE LOCAL OFFICE, 166 W. WASHING- TON STREET, ROOM 303, TOMOR- ROW NOON, OCTOBER FIRST. Five Candidates to Go Over. Gordon Owens was the first of the congressional candidates to go over. To make certain, a few hundred more signatures for Owens came in. Dis- trict 7 has spurted the past few days, and altho having the largest number to obtain, 4,000, will get the required with only 60 more needed—a dead cinch that Comrade Johnstone will be very much in the campaign. Joseph Podkulski, Fourth District candidate, needs 80 more, having 1,220. George Maurer, candidate in the Eight con- gressional district, with 750 signatures in, will surely get the 50 more needed. If hundreds of signatures come in the last day for Pellegrino, he will go on. In that district, the results. for last Sunday’s efforts are not yet known. Remember, send in your signatures at once, by special delivery mall or in person, by noon tomorrow, October first, 166 West Washington Street, 1—Gordon Owens 7.—8. T. Hammersmark 3,850 HEAVY LOSSES — MARK FIGHTING NEAR SHANGHAI (Special to the Daily Worker.) SHANGHAI, Sept. 30.—Four thou- sand combatants have been killed and wounded—the heaviest battle casualty list in the history of Chinese’ civil strife—but the battle lines outside Shanghai remained essentially un- changed today. Machine guns played the heaviest The next big engagement is expect- ed at Sung Kiang. Several bridges have been dynamit- ed on the Hang Chow railroad by Gen. Lu Yung-Hsiang’s troops to prevent the Kiang Su forces from moving up the big guns to strengthen their at-}. tempt to take Shanghai. . . . MUKDEN, Sept. 30. 4 series of reconnaissances, Chang Tso Lin's Fengtien troops today opened an attack in force on Shanhai-Kuan, marking the opening of an engage- ment with Wu Pei Fu's Chihli diers along the Peking-Mukden rail- ported bombing the town, apparently Following a Mortimer N. King and Frank Harrell, the two young mill workers now facing the gallows, didn’t die in their childhood under the mill owners’ lash. They insisted on living, in spite of the tremendous handicaps put upon them in the struggle for existence. One of them even had the courage to marry, and there is a child. More human fodder for the cotton mills. There came a time recently when the mills shut down, in South Carolina as.in many other states. The two young workers, King and Harrell, lost their jobs. There was no other work in their home town—Chesterfield. They had to take to’the road to find a job, just like millions of their fellows. * * * * Hunger came. People don't like to take gare of hungry workers on the road. They usually send dogs after them. They call them tramps. King and Harrell, out on the road, so the charge goes, get a lift from a Major Samuel H. McLeary, in his automobile. he major was a hired killer, but he did it according to capitalist laws. It is against capitalist law to kill if you are hungry, in order that you may get money to buy food. The Christian commandment, “Thou shalt not kill,” applies only - to workers hungry for food; not to capitalists hungry for profits, so hungry, in fact, that sometimes they throw the whole, nation into war, resulting in the killing of millions, in order that they may capture the markets of the capitalists of foreign countries. ci * * * * But King and Harrell knew only the law of hunger— which is the law of self-preservation. They stuck a gun in the major’s face, so it is charged, and began searching his clothes for money. The major thought he saw an opportunity to save his belongings. He made a lunge at the boys. The gun was too quick for him. It exploded. The major was killed. The boys were arrested, forced to accept the counsel the court provided them, the jury brought in a guilty verdict, and now they will be hanged on Nov. 21st., all according to law. In the meantime the streams of millions of more children will keep on pouring into the mines, mills and factories of the, nation, to be slowly tortured to death before their time. No employer of child labor will be sent to the gallows for this crime. That is capitalism. * = * * Under the drive of hunger the masses underneath learn to have little respect for capitalist law. In Central Europe, in the days of misery after the war, that continue under the Dawes plan, the hungry millions have usually just gone out and taken food wherever they could find it. In Russia it was with the cry for “Bread!” upon their lips The two boys, King and Harrell, reacted naturally in their struggle for bread, in their fight against starvation. Only the dog, in human rags, will crawl into a corner and die, without resistance. But the individual is helpless, Only the masses, organ- ized and disciplined, can fight successfully against the capital- ist order, that breeds want, hunger and eye The Workers Party is building that beh, vm on. It is building the power _that makes war upon cap! talism;. that will finally destroy it. The rule of the cotton mill owners may hang King and Harrell on Nov. 21st. But they will be hanging these two boys for a crime that capitalism—the mill owners’ social order—is guilty of. It is not difficult to visualize capitalism M. Moderwell, president of the board, in favor of the superintendent's recom- mendation, had been thrown out. Decision to enforce the rule that the chairman of the board shall not vote will probably result in further victories for the teachers, since Mo- derwell has proved himself consistent- ly hostile to attempts of the teachers to get a voice in school affairs. The superintendent was upheld thru- out the meeting by Edgar Greene- ‘baum, of Greenebaum Sons Bank and | Trust company. By preventing the passage of this resolution, the committee has kept out of the rules a measure bitterly fought by Ella Flagg Young, one-time superintendent of Chicago's schools and universally acknowledged as one of the finest educators the country has known. Mrs. Young contended that it is unfair to ask teachers to speak freely when authorities are present. Open Air Meetings Not All Peaceful Because of Police Another free speech fight on the corner of Wilton street and Belmont avenue is expected Friday night when the Workers Party speakers again hold open air meetings on this cor- ner, following police interference with the meeting held there last Friday night. 4 The police attempted unsuccessfully last Friday to interfere with the meet- ing addressed by D. E. Early and Karl Reeve, altho they arrested five mem- bers of the Proletarian Party the night before. ‘ Street meetings tonight are as fol- lows: 32nd and Halsted streets—Auspices Lithuanian branch. Speakers, Will- iam F. Kruse and others, 63rd and Marshfield—Auspices local committee. Speakers, George Maur- er and others, Bandits Raise the bart in the night and day hammering) that the workers in the cities seized the factories and power. ons ( " yma ils hae efi bdifee pide rape pi ccs te meee The accumulated rage of centuries burst upon the regime of ae aig ale morrow. J. W. Johnstone, Ninth dis-|ing scores of wounded streaming back| the czar, the bankers and the landlords, and destroyed it. A u chm te Jan urg , trict candidate, has 1,140 signatures|to the field hospitals. new social order was born. . DOWELL, I, Sept. 30!—Four band- its swept down on the bank of Dow- ell this noon, struck cashier W. A. LaFont over the head with a gun, shot a bank guard in the eye and the vil- lage marshal thru the neck and es- caped in an automobile with $1,500 cash, The bandits are believed to have fled toward Benton where the Frank- lin county fair is. being held. Today was pay day at the Dowell mine, owned by the Union Colliery company of St. Louis. ry Shylock Has Patience, position was called forth by renewed October 13th. The national office will rush the || room 303. road. coche taking its place upon the gallows with its victims. The crimes |nay necn ne crangs Pepe ; literature ordered to the branches. The figures to date are as follows:”| he “Great Wall” which separates of capitalism will in time destroy it instead of its victims. toch vapor pando yc the | a Tay ° Signa: '|Manchuria from Central China ends a a je debts ow "foretah gov. tribution of the three million piecos of iterate [ws cana. “ax ‘e" [tina tua, putes, ct (GOLDFIELD, NEVADA, RICH MINING —__|‘xzty Praia Saal fou No. date tained town, Chang's aviators have been re- CAMP, NEARLY WIPED OUT BY FIRE The statement of the government's 4.—Jos, Podkulski . 220 in preparation for the attack launched bereymemas rr Vg! discussion in European capitals con- . 2nd. 5-H. Epstein ... 501 today. { dOpesial te ike any vrernye cerning possible cancellation of the EVERY means—each one, without excep- 6.—Frank Pellegrino ......2,300 GOLDFIELD, Nev., Sept. 30—Gold @ mass of smouldering | debts. Cie Subscribe for “Your: Daily,” ruins, Only two bulldings of any size are standing following the second the DAILY WORKER. © disastrous fire in 25 months which wiped out what once was one of the doin the Workers Party! biggest mining camps of the state, The loss is placed at more than $260,000, tion! 8.—George Maurer . 750 . Johnstone «....... 1,140 bscribe for “Y . the DAILY WORKER, OMY? f Me “ ehy,