The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1924, Page 6

Page Six ‘THE DAILY WORKER. i ee ie SS et Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING OO 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Til (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: 6 months At pstpeaneg months hicago only)? yee $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. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL \ WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... Chicago, Mlinels cornsssemnesnereerenmmneenees CItORD vee Business Manager —_—————— Post tered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the ome at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1878, <i 290 Advertising rates on application (aie sk The Long, Long Trail The DAILY WORKER has just finished publica- tion of a series of articles, exposing the career of & party of the decrepit southern slave-breeding aris- tocracy, can gather sufficient courage even to mount a rostrum in a Negro district, is beyond our comprehension. It has been the party of Mr. Davis in West Virginia and thruout the -entire south that has been the most outspoken and frank- est opponent of all attempts to grat the Negro the faintest rights and opportunities even on paper. . We recall a speech delivered by Senator Owen of Oklahoma at the democratic convention. Speaking in behalf of the Ku Klux Klan, the mawsh, (might as well stay home) senator assured his. audience that he was a friend of the Negroes, and in proof of his friendship he said: “Why, I’ve had Negroes serving me for forty years, Certainly, that shows I have nothing against the Negroes.” This is the exact meaning of all of Mr. Davis’ ranting about equality of opportunity for the Negroes. Mr. Davis joined hands with Mr. Coolidge in. forging chains. of oppression and, exploitation for the Negroes and the white, workers as well. | Mr. Davis, in complete agreement with Messrs, Cool- idge and LaFollette, is running on a. platform Frank Farrington, president of the Illinois Miners’ Union, since his starting in as an official of a local union in Streator, Ill., until today. é Many labor leaders, who later on in their lives, tarn traitor to the working class, at last start out with good intentions and without the object of en- riching themselves at the expense of their class. | Negroes have only But it appears that Farrington made up his mind from the moment he landed the job of secretary in a local union, that he would make a bid for fame and fortune at the expénse of the coal miners. He carried out his intentions faithfully. Farrington stands today, perhaps, the leading labor lieutenant of capitalism in the*state of Illi- nois. Industrially lined up with the coal operators and politically with the unspeakable Ku Klux Klan governor, Len Small, he presents a menace to the workers of this state and praticularly to the coal diggers, the proportions of which words are inadequate to describe. The DAILY WORKER will not leave Farring- ton, with the publication.of the last article in the series “On the trail.of a labor faker.” It will con- tinue to expose his treachery and that of the large army of his kind, that is bleeding the labor move- ment to death. The elections for officers of District 12, for the next two years will take place the first week in next December.. It is a very important contest and the progressives in the district are girding their joins for the struggle with Farrington and his gang. The DAILY WORKER will follow the activities among the Illinois Miners closely and the coal diggers should.ayail themselves of the support of the only daily paper in the English language that is fighting their battles, by ordering bundies for distribution among the members of the organi- zation. . Something Under the Hat Supreme Court Justice Ford of New York, re- cently delivered himself of a statement that will cause a flurry among the judicial servants of capi- talism while presiding over a case in which two sets of Russian clergymen are quarreling over church property. A certain John 8. Kedrovsky claimed that he holds an appointment from the Holy Synod of the Russian. Orthodox church to oust Metropolitan Pleaton from St. Nicholas cath- edral, New York. Kedrovsky testified that he rep- resented the Living Church of Russia which showed the Metropolitan the gate. During the hearing, Justice Ford, evidently irri- tated at the efforts of the Metropolitan’s counsel to associate the word Soviet with horror, delivered himself as follows: “My hat does not blow off whenever the word Soviet is used. The present government of Russia is one of the most interesting experiments ever attempted and instead of this senseless abuse by wholesale, we ought to study it carefully and sci- entifically and see whether there are not some les- sons in it for us. “The prestnt Russian government is the out- growth of a system long extant. The Soviets are founcils. While Russia was in the war they sup- plied the bone and sinew with which to carry on the war.” Such expressions of opinion from ‘the bench are extremely rare. The word Soviet once caused considerable doffing of hats and doffing of heads, but the great powers of Europe, while not taking the same interest in the Russian experiment that Justice Ford suggests Americans. should take, recognize accomplished facts, and after warring against the young Workers’ Republic for several years, finally decided to take off their hats to the Soviet. Send in that new “sub” today! Davis and the Negroes lu his address delivered to the Negroes of New York, Mr. John W. Davis pledged himself to “equal opportunity” for the colored people. This is a threadbare promise. It is typical of the golden pledges and leaden performances of our employing class politicians. The democratic ctandard bearer assured his Negro audience that he is for the fifteenth amendment. Of course, Mr. Davis spared no adjectives to convince his listen- ers that he is an ardent believer in the doctrine of political equality. With New York state being practically the pivotal point in Mr, Davis’ presi- dential fortunes, we would not be surprised to find the democratic candidate being even more lavish in his promises. We admire the brazen effrontery of Mr. Davis. How a candidate of the demcoratic party, the which aims to perpetuate an industrial order based on economic class divisions, which serve .as.a foun- dation for race prejudice, lynching bees, segrega- tion and Jim Crowism. For more than half a century the spokesmen of the various capitalist parties have promised the Negroes..equality. During all this period the been tied more firmly to the chariot of their white and black capitaliet exploit- ers. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party.’ Politics and Money For the employing class, it is axiomatic to con- clude that in politics, more than in any other en- terprise, money is the most eloquent spokesman. This point of view is to be found amongst the newspaper men and political experts defending all the layers of the owning class—the Coolidge, Davis and LaFollette supporters. Using this capitalist method as a political yard- stick, Mr. Lawrence Todd, the Washington’ corre- spondent of the Federated Press, who has for some time been an over-enthusiastic supporter of the La- Follette movement, jumped to the conclusion that it would enhance his forlorn cause to spread the yarn that the Workers Party was raising a cam- paign fund of one million dollars. When Mr. Todd circulated this ridiculous report, he must. have known, as well as one could possibly know, that his so-called reliable information was utterly un- founded. Now, Mr. Todd is attempting to crawl out of the miserable position in which he got himself by an effort to prejudice some workers against the Communist ticket. Mr. Todd, breathing the un- holy Washington atmosphere, felt that perhaps some of the irritation aroused by huge campaign funds might be effectively turned against the Com- munists. This alone could serve as a plausible in- terpretatiof& for Mr. Todd’s ventures. Realizing his mistake, Mr. Todd is now attempting to follow up with another ridiculous report. He is insinu- ating that™the Workers Party campaign efforts have failed because its recognized spokesmen admit that they would be glad to have raised one-tenth the million he alloted to them. The Communists have raised their money to fi- nance the campaign without the support of such LaFollette “angels” as the Vanderlips; Spreckels, open-shop mine-owning Mr. Stone, anti-union man- ufacturer Mr. Rawleigh. The Communists have not vowed, as the LaFollette organization did, to raise a half-mililon dollars in Wisconsin or in any other state. We do not expect disemployed work- ers and exploited farmers to invest so heavily even in so sound a proposition as a Communist political campaign. Mr. Todd is as wrong in his second conclusion as in his first. The success of*the Com- munist campaign is not to be measured simply by the amount of money we may have ‘succeeded in raising amongst poor workers. What is an axiom for the capitalist spokesmen—Coolidge, Davis and LaFollette—holds no water for the working class. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. LaFollette has forgotten all about government ownership of railways. He has soft pedalled on the supreme court. He has toned down his attacks on the ise of injunctions in labor disputes. But,-the American capitalists will appreciate his \ services just about as much as the British rulers did Ram- say MacDonald’s various acts of submission, to show what a loyal servant he was, ' The American capitalist correspondents learn that the Chinese general who captured Peking from Wu Pei Fu, received $3,000,000 from the. Soviet government. This may be a good excuse to deelare war on him. De The liberal party of England might,.as. well hustle around and find an undertaker, Its leader, H. H. Asquith, went down to defeat-at the.hands of a labor candidate. The democratic party of America is almost as groggy. ; Despite the efforts of Ramsay MacDonald and the right wing of the labor party to keep, the Com- munists from associating with them,. Comrade Saklatyala has sueceeded in bursting into the house of commons, . . : READ THE DAILY WORKER _ THE DAILY WORKER «] they asked him why he specified the (Continued trom Page 1.) " charming man,” declared the Mormon senator, “but he let Lenin and Trotsky: get the upper hand on him.” No doubt the czar could also have stop- ped the Russian revolution if he got ahead of it, but he didn’t. The revo- lution got ahead of the czar. It was the same with Kerensky. The latter wanted to separate. Lenin and Trot- sky from their heads, but he was un- successful, and is now washing dishes, so it is: reported. The Russian work- ers and peasants are willing to pro- vide him with enough dishrags to keep him busy for the rest of his life. eee ‘HE Citizens’ Union of New York, has endorsed the candidacy of Joseph D. on for sheriff. Can- non is @ socialist. The bourgeois or- ganization also places the seal of its approval on other socialists, thus de- monstrating that the bourgeois liber- als see no distinction’ between our modern socialists and the capitalist deserves wide publicity. eee 'HE British terror in India goes on unabated. Harl Reading, the vice- roy, exercised his emergency powers by promulgation of an ordinance sup- plementing the ordinary criminal law in Bengal with a view to suppressing the revolutionary movement for the freedom of India from the British yoke. Of course, Reading brands the revolutionists “anarchists” in regular American imperialist fashion. Twen- ty-seven men have already been ar- rested and the police are searching houses for other suspécts. It looks as it the worst--for the British gov- ernment—was yet to come. Ramsay MacDonald's pacifism confines itself to an attempt at stabilizing capitalism, not lifting the iron heel off the faces of subject peoples, particularly sub- jects of His Majesty, King George. It is different in the case of Georgia! sae ENERAL Plutarco Elias Calles, newly elected president of Mexico, found himself in bad company on his arrival in New York from Europe a few days ago. The very men who car- ried on a war against Mexico for years and howled for intervention, gave Cal- les a dinner. Judge Gary was toast- master. In an interview to the news- papers, Calles said: “I wish to ex- press my goodwill to the American people, particularly to the laboring classes and above all, to President Coolidge.” Why spoil a good thing by getting strikebreaker Cal into it? The newshounds expressed surprise at a president showing so much concern over the welfare of tle workers, so THE THEATER “CONSCIENCE.”"—A Review By SYLVAN A. POLLACK There is now playing at the Bel- mont Theater, New York, a play cal- led “Conscience,” by Don Mullaly, which is a wobbly love story. The first and last~acts are pure theatrical hokum, but ‘the other two acts have some very interesting mo- ments. The story is about a member of the I. W. W. in the state of Washington who falls in love with and marrie @ young waitress who has no con ception of unionism and who disap proves most strongly of her hus band’s strike activities. : We find him leading an unsuccess- ful strike, in which all the workers, except one other and himself are taken back. The bosses’ agents try to make him leave the I. W. W. by talking to his wife, but he sees thru this trick of the corporation. As his money gets low, he leaves on a wobbly-run freight train for Butte, Mont., promising to write his wife reg- ularly and send for her as soon as he obtaing a job, Fora while his letters are on time but latter they suddenly stop. rank | We find the wife and her girl friend in the company of various “gentle men’ at'the rate of a new one every week or so. bs After not writing for three months the wobbly sends his wife a letter that he has a job and that he wants her to come to him, to which she an- swers that she is through with him for good. pila He hurridly returns to Washington and finds his wife entertaining one of her “gentlemen” friends in his home and making preparations to Teave it for ever with him. After hustling the “gentleman” out, -he tells his wife he will forgive her. He explaing that the reason he did not write, was because he was picked up on a freight train and was sentenced to ninety days in jail on a charge of vagrancy, and that he wrote her regularly and gave the letters to the keeper to’ mail, which he apparently did not do. She refuses to come back to him and in a fit of anger he chokes her and quickly runs away. > + There are many. interesting parts the play which is very capably acted. References to economics and religion In spite of its minor defects, it is well worth seeing, ~~ >. - More Fighting In Tangiers. TANGIERS, October 30.—Spanish troops and tribesmen figh ‘on the Tangiers-Laraohe road outsid the international zone, “ited traffic on the highway. — iy 4 laboring classes. * eae ALLES replied: “I desire to send my felicitations to them because I was elected on a labor ticket in Mex- ico, My principle task after I become president will be.to raise the social conditions of the laboring classes of Mexico to a higher plane.” This kind of language will not help Judge Gary at least erch his eyebrows even if he cannot think. Mey ‘ ‘HE. DAILY. WORKHR published a letter from Zinoviev, president of the Communist International, a few days ago, endorsing the Workers Par- ty election campaign. . The Riga cor- respondent of the New York Times) sent ‘a cable from*that city, purport- ing to be a.copy of the statement, but candidates. This is enlightening and |. digest his supper. It will not help Calles get in good with the American bankers. It will cause Silent Cal to it is very wide of the mark. It con- tains language similar to that used in the famous concoction of the British ery week—this column uncovers to your view the behind the DAILY WORKER, Here for the Interest lon of every reader—and especially the DAILY jents and committees—are tried and proven augges- tions and accomplishments to drive the DAILY WORKER to further conquests. Here is POWER—the power of brain, and effort of men and women of the working class who not only belleve—but ACT! By Trade and Inclination—A Bricklayer! To are really two kinds of bricklayers, Besides dead ones and live ones—there are also bricklayers by trade. and-bricklayers by incli- nation. And then there are those who are hoth. D. D. Harper of Huntington, W. Va. is.one of those dual personalities who by dint of real effort and the use of some imagination accomplish great things for the labor movement. But then, no posies thrown at this bricklayer par excellence could speak better for him than his own letter of deeds well done. Here it Is: PSS ch cP SEUSS EPS thse AR restr eRe ere ee Ota er i Ga enone earn Weta es CER SE Dear Comrades: got enough to “heave that brick back.” Then | went in to the Cen- tral body and got $3,00 more for a six-month “brick.” coming out | got another $2.00 for four eleven bucks. 4 Send me ANOTHER brick or two and It may wake me up. Good Stuff! And as | was months making a total of Yours to the Finish, D. D. HARPER. It is “good stuff.” And its “good stuff” that this loyal bricklayer is made of. Here's power to his arms to gather more POWER for the DAILY WORKER—and may he never get’ a ’sdre arm from heaving bricks back to “The National Labor Daily.” * * * * And here are the briclayers who have done good work in the first three days of this week having sent in NEW subs on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday— é The D. W. B. U. Locals and their active members for this week: Grand Total October 4-29 LOCAL NEW YORK—Bus.,Agt. L, E. Katterfeld (40)... Anton Viasak (Astoria L. I.); B. Cohen; L. Dakin ((Bronx); Anna Gitnick (Y. W. L. No. 28); Kling (2) (English Bronx No. 1); Glauberman (English Bronx No. 1); H. Taubenshlag. LOCAL CHICAGO—Bust. Agt. John Heinrichson ........... John Maes (2); J. C. Dass;\ Frank Martin; Mrs, Menne; John Miller; Heinz Schroeter; Tho, Slater. LOCAL WORCESTER, MASS.—Bus. Agt. Micheal Zieper........... Eteenpain Co-op. Society (3) r LOCAL DETROIT—Bus. Agt. Edgar Owen Simon. Fedun, Kochanowsky (2) LOCAL, HANNA, WYO.—Bus. Agt. Fred William: LOCAL CLEVELAND—Bus. Agt. J. Hamilton .. G. Ecke (2) LOCAL MINNEAPOLIS—Bus. Agt. Walter Frank LOCAL SUPERIOR—Bus. Agt. Helen Heinonen LOCAL PHILADELPHIA—Bus. Agt. John Lym: Bertha Shatz. LOCAL BALTIMORE—Bus, Agt. S. Cohn K. E. Tissari (Who just insists on sending subs often!) LOCAL FINDLAY, MASS.—Bus. Agt. Elsie Pultur (2) LOCAL TOLEDO—Bus. Agt. A. W. Harvitt (1)........... LOCAL SPRINGFIELD, ILL.—Bus. Agt. V. Vidor (2) LOCAL GARY—Bus. Agt. John Rusak .. LOCAL MILWAUKEE—Bus, Agt J. C. LOCAL LOS ANGELES—Bus. Agt Anna Cornblath (1) M. Raport (2). . LOCAL SAN FRANCISCO—Bus. Agt. P. B. Cowdery. LOCAL SAN PEDRO—Bus. Agt. Jean Stevenson (1 S. J. Jackson (2) LOCAL WEST CONCORD, N. H.—M. J. Bjorbacka LOCAL ST. LOUIS—Bus, Agt. H. Stoltz ..,. OUR MEMBERS AT LARGE” Sending in NEW subs in the first three days of the week. DORCHESTER, MASS.—Frank Carlson ere en CARMEL, CAL.—Robt. G. Leidig (2) LA MESA, CAL.—Thos. McCarthy PASADENA, CAL.—Vera yon Blumenthal (2) RICHMOND, CAL.—Mike Ujdur o's PORT ARTHUR, ONT., CANADA—John Pearson (2) CARLINVILLE, ILL.—Joe Korsic MULKEYTOWN, ILL.—Steve Lochner. . SOUTH BEND, ILL.—Jos. Biro DES MOINES, |OWA—Theo. Lucas (3), Here's action!... .- YPSILANTI, MICH.—Jas. Sutton ' FARIBAULT, MINN.—E. B. Ford ST. PAUL, MINN.—B. L. Johnson OMAHA, NEB.—J. E. Snyder (2) OMAHA, NEB.—David Coutts PSEA ELIZABETH, N. J.—Leo Hausman ve Diy fegeae NEWARK, N. J.—Sigmund Bock BUFFALO, N. Y.—Chas. Dirba “ * ENDICOTT, N. Y.—A. Korbel My FREWSBURG, N. Y.—W. A, Little Ts ROCHESTER, N. Y.—Leonard Smith DAYTON, O.—John Reaver (2) i AARAane be ao stanperanntanntionnanteestieee i WARREN, O.—J. H. Anderson (2) age ‘ ASTORIA, ORE.—Pacific Development Society ; CHESTER, PA.—Thos. Foley (3). He gets them! ERIE, PA—C. H, Mohan : ERIE, PA.—Ed. Sanders . , WOODLAWN, PA.—M. Resetar (2). © © ~~ HUNTINGTON, W. VA—D. D. Harper (3), “A brickl: RED GRANITE, WIS—Wm, Korpela, * Corey . . ‘ A Special Notice for “Bricks” to “Build the DAILY WORK “heaved back” at us to really “Build On It” labor movement serving in the campaign without special mention in. our pages. They are the ones responsible for sending their own subscrip- tlons and renewals—all of which ie additional: POWER to boost the circulation of the DAILY WORKER and promote the .best interests of the labor movement. They also serve who are doing it silently. To them goes this special acknowledgement of their good work. ers ho 9 oe > @ | The first issue of the WORKERS MO not decided to take a bundie—if you are you are missing the first issue of the best yot appeared. Seeing is believing. ' he a are not the only. Many loyal members of the LY Is ready. If you have on the subsctiption list— monthly labor journal that has 7 Huntington, W. Va. Received your “bricks.” Went in to the Brick- layers’ Hall and just put it up to them, Then took a collection and Thursday, October 30, 1924 ’ ¥ By T. J. O'Flaherty foreign office. Riga is the home of the ezarist lie factory, and news from that part of the world is false at least nin times out of ten. + see ‘HE Minnesota Union Advocate, edited by William Mahoney, god- father of the June 17 convention, at St. Paul, and now among those who are supporting LaFollette, ‘states inja headline on the front page of the Oc- tober 23 issue of his paper, that the Communists are helping the G. O.P. against LaFollette. The changes have been rung 'on this silly charge since the election campaign opened, but no intelligent ‘person believes it. The asininity of Mahoney, however,’ is above the ordinary. ee + @ N the same page in which he se cuses the Workers Party ofhelping Coolidge, he prints a caftoon taken from The DAILY WORKER, ‘without giving-us credit for it, which pictures the New England phiz of Silent Cal on a public park billboard, with the inscription Keep Cool with Coolidge: Right across from the pictures are three workers huddled on a bench and shivering with the cold. ‘The- car toon is by K. A. Suvanto. Had Ma honey been honest enough to give The DAILY WORKER credit for the pic- torial attack on the strikebreaker president, his readers would get wise tohim. Tho he did not show any par- ticular mental agility in meeting: the reactionaries of Minnesota, he knows enough to at least save his face from his readers. But the more he crawls to the reactionaries, the harder they will hop on him, see REPORT got into the papers re- cently that the National Catho- lic Welfare Council intended to have the union label on all its printed mat- ter in the future. This caused a pro- test from some quarters with the re sult that the church was kept busy for a few days denouncing the story. Why not the union label? The great majority of these who support the powerful Catholic church machine in this country are workers. Is the church so openly in favor ef non-un- ion labor? Symphony Gives Big Program in © Third Concert By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. “Memories ‘of Childhood,” “by Charles Martin Loeffler of Boston, the composition that won the prize at the North Shore music festival last May, was played by the Chicago Symphony orchestra on the third of the year. When the work was at Evanston in the spring the program of it appeared in these columns, but it is not amiss to quote it again: 9 * The composer's memory of life in® a Russian village—old Russia, with’ its folk songs and dances, the chants. of the orthodox church, the fairy tales, the pageantry of death; above all, the composer’s memory of a great friend, an elderly peasant, a Poet.” Loeffler makes good tne program in a brilliant fashion, There is one pas- sage where the four solemn horn Players of the orchestra “play four frisky mouth organs. fi Brahms’ Symphony Beautiful. The second symphony of Brahms preceded the Loeffler work, When Brahms wrote a symphony he squeez- ed all the juice available out of his themes. The themes themselves are invariably beautiful, of that deep, mys tical and..profound sort characteristio of the.composer. But the extensive, scholarly, obviously labored develop- ment of them, gives the impression of being the production of a man of in- finite skill, not, as in the case of the Beethoven and Chaykovski sympho- nies, the production of a man of finite inspiration. eS Following were the two nocturnes for orchestra by Debussy. Debussy had an extraordinary gift for the writ- ing of apt titles and descriptive pata graphs. This is what he says of these nocturnes: _.“Clouds—The unchanging aspect of the sky,-and the slow, solemn movement of the clouds, dissolving in gray tints, lightly touched with white. pia “Festivals—The restless, dancing rhythm of the atmosphere, inter- spersed wi There is also an incidental proces- ‘sion (a dazzling imaginary vision) passing thru and thru and mingling / ‘with the aerial reverie; but i background of uninterrupted ferti-. val is persistent with its blending of ‘music and luminous dust partiei- pating in the universal rhythm of all’ times.” th fee second nocturne is an aw tounding cymbal part. A t variety of effects is produced peer them, and the brass plates are raised to a solo position. bi “Ravel's “Waltz’" Disappointing, Another modern French work, “'T) Waltz,” by Maurice Ravel, w described as a “choreographic closed the pi “The Wa much ado about nothing, Th; lot of noise. Several times d at piece the composer seems about to give us a waltz, at the seems working up to a bit of kee jazz, but neither results. A most ct ous, and disappointing work, . The concert opened with ‘the ‘ure to *Egmont” by Beethoven, is one of the shorter. x one of the test pepmeertys 4) hs ith.sudden flashes of light, [ j j | Wi see