The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 10, 1924, Page 3

] iY Monday, November 10, 1924 CHICHERIN SHOWS UP HYPOCRISY OF HUGHES’ ARGUMENTS IN HIS RECENT INTERVIEW IN MOSCOW’ (Special to The MOSCOW, Nov. 9.—Referr' Dally Worker) ing to Secretary Hughes’ dec- laration on the foreign policy of the government of the United States since 1921, particularly Chicherin, People's Commissar fi an with regard to Soviet Russia, ‘or Foreign Affairs, remarked in interview with Moscow journalists that altho Hughes’ argument underwent certain changes, his relentless enmity towards the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics remains 4 + immutable. And yet, observed Chicherin, the or- iginal line of argument as to the im- Possibility of economic relations with the Soviet Republics, in view of the latter allegedly presenting but an eco- nomic “vacuum,” has been entirely broken by the development of Soviet exports—grain, in particular, as well as cotton imports from America. As for the state secretary’s assertion re- garding a would-be lack*of personal safety in Soviet teritories, this has been refuted by the Americans them- selves, as, for instance, by “Ara” rep- resentatives and a number of United States senators. Arguments a Glaring Makeshift. Any reference to the activities of the Comintern (Third (Communist) In- ternational), the responsibility for ‘which is being laid by Hughes on the Soviet government is, but a glar- ing makeshift. Indeed,.doés the state secretary or, for that matter, anyone else hold MacDonald responsible for any, actions of the Second Internation- al? And yet, previous to the war when the latter organization was en- gaged in revolutionary and particular. ly in anti-militaristic work, while its leaders were often members of gov- ernments in various states—no one ever dreamt of proffering such charg: es against those governments. As a matter of fact, the Communists in the Union of Soviet Socialist Re- publics who are on the staffs of gov- ernment organs are husy with state affairs, while party organizations car. “ry on party affairs, very much in the game way as the republican party of the United States is engaged in party * work outside of their government busi- ness. None but political ignoramuses ean find anything to say against this manner of mutual relations between the party and the state, long since es- tablished in all civilized ‘countries The more valid is this differentiation between the Communist Party and the government in regard to the Comin- “tern, whichis at international body, of which the Russian Communist Par- ty is but one of the many constituent parts. Under such conditions any at tempt at ascribing to the Soviet gov- ernment or its representatives abroad the role of organs of the Comintern is but a flagrant and wanton misin- formation of public opinion. Hughes Is Servant of Capitalists. The difference between the Soviet government, which serves the inter- ests of the toilers, and Hughes’ admin istration, which is the servant of the magnates of capital, does not mean that some compromise between them is not feasible. Just the reverse is true, declares the people’s commissar of foreign af- fairs. The Anglo-Soviet treaty indeec evidences that mutually profitable deals are possible in the question of debts, the cancellation of which Hughes professes to consider as an ‘unsurmountable obstacle to the re- “sumption of relations with the Union. - The real obstacle, however, lies in the state secretary’s unwillingness tc admit that equality of rights is pos- sible between two opposite economic ‘regimes and in his desire to destroy the Soviet regime. . Personifies World Réaction. Then, proceeding to communicate numerous and detailed data, with ref: erence to authentic sources,on Hughes’ many years’ activity as a lawyer in . the intorests of Morgan, the Standard Oil Co., and other trusts, to the detri- ment of public interests —Chicherin «Points out to the fact that it is trom Hughes’ past that his present govern- mental activities have been inherited, ‘under which members of the American governmentare involved in the oil scan- dal, while Morgan's interests are plac ed higher than anything else. Indeed further states Chicherin, Hughes is a personification of world reaction and ‘, aggressive American imperialism hich is now rapidly returning into the sphere of world politics, The temporary solution by the Lon. don conference of the main differenc- es of Huropean politics has enabled the imperialistic powers to act jointly against the peoples, which are emancipating themselves, and also directly or indirectly against the Un- lon of Soviet Socialist Republics. Syplains Anglo-American Bloc. Mr. Chicherin points out to the open ed intervention and the secret sup- FACES OF GAPITALIST CANDIDATES MAY BE BROADCASTED IN 1928 | WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.— Radio, which played such a termendous part in the presidential campaign just ended, will be so developed dur- ing the next four years that voters in 1928 will not only be able to hear the candidates, but to see them as well, by broadcast movie: This prediction was made today by acting Secretary of Commerce Stephen B. Davis. Altho Davis believes that there will be few persons within the Unit- ed States in 1928 who will not hear the broadcast speeches of presiden- tial aspirants, he declared that the old time political meeting, with its red fire and enthusiasm will never go into the discard in American pol- ities. “There has got to be something to put pep and hurrah in the cam- paign,” he said. THE DAILY WORKER HE RAISED RED FLAG ON FRENCH WARSHIP IN ATTACK ON SOVIETS ANDRE MARTI. GENERAL DAWES’ MAJOR MELODY SOBBED BY SOUSA Frankenstein Hops on to . the Bum Stuff By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEDN. John Philip Sousa, the musical favorite son of American capitalism, gave two concerts at the Auditorium theater last Sunday afternoon and evening. He opened up with some awful trash called “Robespierre, or The Last Days of the Reign of Ter- ror.” One of his encores to this was port of civil war in China; the sup-jthe Melody in A Major by a gent port given by the British to the revolt /}mamed Dawes, known hereabouts for against the Emir of Afghanistan, and|V2rious pleasantries such as schemes analogous facts in Western China,|for the enslavement of the German Central Asia, Persia, Kurdiatan, and| working class, conducting a banking Arabia; movements on the river Dniester, dir-| ilar niceties. the aggravation of bandit| business in a criminal way, and sim- But, and we say this ected as they are against the Ukrain. |knowing full well the danger we run ian Soviet Republic; then the “putsch,”|0f being thrown off the staff of this or attempt at revolt in Georgia, avow-|Paper, being ousted from the party edly staged by the western govern-|4nd barred from taking part in radical ments. The people’s commissar lays activities forever more, Hell and special stress on the leading role of the / Maria has written a very good sentim- Anglo-American bloc in this world. ental tune, wide onslaught of imperialism, and the contradiction existing between the pacifist declarations of Hughes in/pjayed a few solos. Feeding The Morons John Dolan, first cornet of the band, Dolan hag a Paris and those of MacDonald and/phenomenal technic, and he played Herriot at Geneva, and the facts 0i}worse trash than the first number of the powers’ aggressive policy. Reverting to the Georgian affair, the the program. But this is partly ex- ycusable because on a band program foreign commissar declares that the’one must throw a sop to the morons. Soviet government need not fear such stagelike revolts, for it has on its side the strong support of an over whelming majority of the Georgian people. Indeed, whereas in the mind: of the authors, the “putsch” in Georg: ia should have brought discredit to the Soviet power, as a matter of fact it only showed the latter’s strehgth ance the failure of the so-called League of Nations. The irreconcilably hostile actions and utterances of Secretary Hughts against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics are a sign of possible new attempts of imperialists at interven: tion and economic blockade of the Union in one form or anther within the nearest future. However, con cluded Chicherin, the, Soviet gov- ernment it taking stock of this event uality. Ford Willing to Take Muscle Shoals from Cal’s Administration /, DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 9.— That Henry Ford's mind is still open today to reasonable proposals for the de- velopment of Muscle Shoals seems in- dicated by an exchange of letters be- tween Ford's secretary and Allen J. Roulhas, Mayor of Sheffield, Alabama, in the heart of the Shoals district. The letters were made public by B. G. Liebold, Ford’s secretary. Despite his criticism of congress and his withdrawal of his offer for Muscle Shgals, Liebold in a letter re- plying to a note of regret from Roul- has, declared that “If congress has an offer to submit to us, it will be given prompt attention.” THE WORLD WAR DEBT FUNDING. COMMISSION WANTS TO LENGTHEN JOB WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—The world war debt funding commission sees no possibility of. funding the European debts to the United States before February 1, it was announc- fd at the treasury today. Congress, the will be asked to extend the life of the commission, which expires February 1. P ‘A warrant for the arrest of Louis parents, was issued today tempt of court for failure to pay his The young couple was married last husba: EALTHY CAPITALIST BREAKS UP \ SON'S HOME; WIFE WAS POOR Ambler, Jr., son of wealthy Oak Park In the ciroult court here, ited ge with con: wife, Melba Ambl $20 a week. May in Aurora and separated the next ce is now seeking an annulment a en ordered to pay his bride Three other soloists graced the pro- gram. A soprano named Nora Fauch- ald sang “The Maids of Cadiz” by Delibes and made a deserved hit with it. The first saxophone of the band played whirlwind waltz, but the en- cores it produced, two saxophone oc |tets, eclipsed the effect of the solo. Wanted: Nervy Conductor. George Carey, the xylophone player, Played a work of his own best des- cribed by its title, “The Pinwheel.” The xylophone is almost an unrecogn- ized instrument in symphonic and solo music. If somebody would write a concerto for it, and if some conduc- tor would have the nerve to produce Debussy’s rhapsody for saxophone and orchestra, the highbrows might wake up to the possibilities of these two shstruments. Sousa played an arrangement of Strauss’ tone poem “Don Juan,” which [ANDRE MARTI, FRENCH REBEL, IN RED RUSSIA Tells Horrible Story of French Prisons By ANISE. (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, . Oct. 20. — (By fiail.)—Andre Marti. is in Mos- sow. Marti the Jailbird; Marti, who was condemned to death ior high treason! He is address- ing city councils amid applause. He is being entertained by the Leningrad fleet and shown the honors of Kronstadt. The vari- ous. factories which have been named in his honor rush into print, telling how they have im- proved production in the last few years—all in honor of Marti. For Marti was a jailbird in France. And Marti is a hero in Russia. And the erence be- tween these two extremics show that in spite of the apparent peace on the surface of the world, in spite of trade treaties and recognitions, there is a great gap between what Russia thinks and what some other nations think. Marti was one of those French sailors in the Black Sea fleet who re- fused to fight the Russian revolution and led what is called by governments at war, a “mutiny” against his com- manders, and was brought home on the promise of pardon, and then promptly condemned to death. There was quite a scandal about it at the time, and so Marti’s sentence was commuted to imprisonment, And at the last elections he was sent. as deputy to the French parliament ‘by the Communists, so the government rather had to let him out. Cannot Visit Prisons In fact an amusing change took place in the relation between Marti and prison. After spending several years in closest inside contact with prison life, Marti cannot now, as mem- ber of parliament, get permission from the department of justice even to visit the prisons any more. They are afraid he will talk too much about them, And he does) He'is still a smiling sailor boy of France, with quick French movements of greetings as he turns to meet'me in the Communist International building. But there is iron behind that smile, and purpose Just now he has incidentally been ex- posing French prisons in an article published in the Russian papers. “When Herriot came to power, we thought he would free the political prisoners” he remarks, “but he didn’t In fact he’ is arresting more. thousands of soldiers, arrested for war-time offenses, are still in the worst of jails. One soldier of my ac quaintance, who refused once to go immediately for dinner through a deadly hail of bullets, was given ten years at hard labor. Herriot Against Rebels “Herriot is especially against the revolutionary mutineers of the Black Sea Fleet. A soldier who in Odessa refused to fight the Russian. revolu- was a flat failure. “Don Juan” is no more suited to band arrangement than one of Sousa's marches is suited for @ symphony orchestra. - There was a lot of delightful jazz, and plenty of Sousa marches. Music: ally there is nothing wrong with these well known compositions of the fam ous bandmaster. But when one con- riders the uses to which they are put, there is quite a different story tc tell. Young Workers League Has Concert and Ball At Workers’ Lyceum To raise the funds for the efty or- ganization to carry on its factory cam- paigns, the Young Workers League is arranging a concert and dance to be held Nov. 22, at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2783 Hirsch Blvd. After the concert which will be very brief and variable, including tableaus. recitations and singing, no sentimen- tal songs, by the way, will be sung at the concert for which we pay our hard-earned dollars. Then there will be dancing—~The Englewood Orchestra will play Rus- sian waltzes and American jazz with ballet dancing in between. “The Man on the Kerb Stone,” a short sketch of a modern proletarian seeking bread for his family. All the proceeds of the affair are go ing to finance the factory campaigns of the city or tion, Tickets are cents. Good time guaranteed, Get Schede! Out on Bail, . The Labor Defense Council has suc- ceeded in getting John Schedel out on bail. Tt sere $1,000 in addi- tion is still in jail) He was con ‘demned to death but his sent: ice was later commuted to twenty years. An other sailor in the terrible African prison got a double sentence for an swering back to an official who struck him. “There are also foreigners in the French jails, for offenses committed in a foreign land. Hungarians who took part in the Hungarian soviet govern ment still languish in French prisons, The jails of the capitalists are inter national, you see. Two Syrians are in jail for refusing to obey a French commander in Syria. A Soudanese who was twice wounded in the Dar- danelles was given hard labor for life because he read the Koran to a fellow soldier and advised him not to fight any more for the French. Justice Is Cockeyed “There is a class line in the trib- unals. Four months ago an ex-soldier a@ working man of forty three years with four children, was condemned to death by a military tribunal because he had deserted during the war. One And} STUPENDOUS SUMS SQUANDE IN PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN TO done 80. measure. They realize that back of the op- position is the massed corporate wealth of the country, which is afraid that if this amendment is put thru the working class will likewise be written into the constitution. Sweep Country for Child Labor. Large sums of money are being ex- pended by the textile and other child- employing interests in the business world, in combatting the child labor measure. Pamphlets and speeches are being printed and circulated, speak- ers are traveling over the west, ad- month ago, an officer who murdered the janitor of his dwelling was set free by the military tribunal. When Rs tried to have this investigated in the house, there was such a noise and clamor of cat-calls from those socialist benches who do not believe in the class war. “The French jails,” continued Mar- ti, “are of sevéral kinds.” In Paris is La Sante, where, where conditions are good; here are sent short-term political offenders, mostly journalists, who are not badly treated. Then there is also Klervo prison for longer terms, also with a good regime; here are sent |politicals whom the government thinks it can talk over to its own side. Food Is Rotten “But other French jails are worst in Europe. The food is impos: sibly bad and scanty; you can’t live on it. The government exploits the hunger of the prisoners by selling extra rations at fantastic prices. The punishments are terrible, not only de: prival of food, and dark cells with and without chains, but, rooms which re volve so that rest is impossible, Be- sides this the jailer often beats prison. ers, so that there are many cases of death from this, these deaths, of cause, being otherwise reported. The jail at Caennes are especially bad; sentence to work here is practically a death-sentence, as the death rate is 75 per cent. “The worst of all are the military prisons, especially those in Africa There are no more hideous creatures in the world than the jaiters here. Many prisoners wound themselves, eutting off a finger or a , in order to be sent to hospital. Here especially are sent those soldiers who spread reyolutionary propaganda in the army and fleet. “Besides the jails I know about there are more which are unknown, for I was not allowed, though a mem- ber of parliament, to investigate them.” Figures Show Few Negro Children Get Into High Schools (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 9— There were 2,229,442 pupils enrolled in the high schools thruout the United States in 1922, according to statistics gath- ered by Dr. Frank M. Phillips of the federal bureau of education and now published by the bureau. This was an incréase of 372,287 over the total for 1920, the gain being about 20 per cent. Colored pupils numbered 35,731, or a gain of 8,100 over the year 1920. Teachers totalled 113,680, an increase of 16,030 in two years. This is ap- proximately one teacher in the high schools for every 1,000 of population; one colored pupil in high school for every 350 of colored populaton, and one white pupil in high school for every 45 of white population, if the total population be taken at 100,000,- 000 white and 13,000,000 colored. Phil- lips’ report gives 109,248,000 as the total population in 1920. Steadily since 1909 the proportion of first-year pupils to the total of pupils tm the high schools has gone down— not much, but from 43.3 per cent to 39 per cent. The senior class enrollment was 12 per cent of all in 1909, and was 14.6 per cent in 1922, To that extent the American people are keeping their boys and girls longer in high school before setting them to breadwinning. NEW ENGLAND TEXTILE WORKERS KEEPING KOOL WITH KOOLIDGE Manufacturing Co. company union is MANCHESTER, N. H., Nov. 9.—Additional FALL RIVER, Mass., Nov. 9.—Weaving departments of the Shove Mills are tied up by a strike against a 12/2 per cent cut. ° ° ° proof that the Amoskeag run by the company, not the workers, was given when the “Workers Congress,” the official name for the organiza- tlon, voted to hold no more regular meetings unless called together by the management. No further action was taken on wages. Recently the com- pany union voted to accept a ten per cent wage cut. The reduction io still pending. The wage cut is being opposed by the textile council affiliated with the United Textile Workers’ Un ° . LAWRENCE, Mass., Nov. 9.—Evei ‘the big cotton mill ue \ 4 be in force when rett Mills have closed egain until Nov. js reopen, the} KILL CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Fear that the child labor amendment to the federal constitution will be defeated is expressed. To became a part of the constitution, this measure. must be ratified by the legislatures of 36 states. That is to say, it will be killed if 12 states permanently reject it. Most southern states are considered certain to reject. Corporations Fight Amendment, As the women’s. organizations, backing ratification, see, the situation only a crusade will tow save thet Four have |dressing groups of farmers and small merchants, and country newspapers ‘are being supplied with canned propa- ganda against ratification, most of |this work is being done without the some other amendments in defense of | sounding of any alarm by the big city | press. Coolidge Is Non-Committal. The women are much disturbed over Pres. Coolidge’s failure to take an active part in the Massachusetts campaign on behalf of the children’s charter. They now fear that he will refuse to say another word for the measure when it comes up for action n the state legislature DRAMA IN THREE ACTS 10 BE SEEN AT GREEK BALL Proceeds Go to Greek Communist Weekly (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Noy. 6.—"“The White and the Black” a three act darma by the foremost Greek contemporaty writer Spyros Melas, will be the main feat ure at the grand entertainment and ball given under the auspices of the Greek Branch of the Workers Party for the benefit of EMPROS, the Greek Communist weekly, the official orgar of the Greek Federation. Due to the popularity of the drama which is a literary work of first magn- itude, the entertainment and ball is that the Greek branch has ever held. Lexington and 3rd avenues on Mon day evening, Nov. 10. Altho the drama will be staged in Greek, the Greek comrades have seen to it that the drama will not be all \“Greek” to those who do not under stand the language of the Olympian |gods. A brief synopsis of the drama in English is given below. The Drama In tne first act, a young man, Alkis of a petty bourgeois family, come: back from Paris, where he was sen to study and become a physician |egainst his will, as he had ambitions to become a sculptor. Altho an M |D. he refuses to put his science intc | practice, deserts his “career” anc opens a dancing hall. This arouses the wrath of the whole family tree the profession being considered of the most humiliating to the traditionally high standing of the family. The second act deals in the begin ning with Margarita, the elder daught- er, who has grown into spinsterhoood Due to the petty bourgeois conven | tionalities, she cannot marry Andreas | poor artillery officer, with whom she has been in love for fifteen years. The only thing left for the old lovers ir the nauseating indulgence in the mem- ories of their love when they werc er, who’ herself is molted with the same false ties of bourgeois psychol ogy, falls a victim of Nickolas, a rich young seducer to whom her mother has surrender her, thinking tnat he is an honest prospective son-in-law. Thit young man, as Alkis discovered from his friends, is an expert seducer o!{ young girls. Alkis, in bitter language hits the tions, whips ruthlessly the present day family morals. He tells them of hit aspirations of seeing a new form of family, a family in which all mem- bers will be bound by mutual senti ments and not by the false ones of to day. In thé third act, Andreas, the of ficer-lover of Margarita returns from a mission to the young seducer Nich olas, bringing the news that he failec to convince the later to marry Anthe Costas, the elder son, who after a long struggle has succeeded in acquir- ing a .somehow good position in a bank, and who is engaged to a rick society girl, fears the annulment o his engagement. The first “disgrace’ caused to the family by his younger brother Alkis when he opened a dancing hall, “a dungeon of shame and prostitution” as Costas calls it, was followed by the disgrace caused by his younger sister's deliverance 0° her honor to Nicholas. Costas, in his effort to save his position and prevent the breaking of his engagement by his fianco’s relatives, resolves that it is necessary that his family honor must he “whitewashed” in his sister's blood, He persuades Anthe must com- mit suicide, and dictates a letter tc her mother, which he asks her to sign, and in which she “explains”. A %piece orchestra will furnish the music for the dance after the presentation of the drama. Ticketr aro sold at the Greek Branch, 345 W 17. The 1,400 workers employed normally by the company have not had| agin streot and special reduced rates more than three days work in the last five weeks, A three-day week will/are mado to English speaking com rades, the most promising of the gatherings | It will be held in the beautiful Ter } race Garden at 57th street between young. Anthe, the 22-year-old daught- | old traditions and bourgeois conven- | Page Three TWO EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONS IN ANTERED CLASH |Sharp Contlict Between ithe N. E.C. and A. E. A, By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Wov. 9—~ Between the action of the Na- tionat Education Association in | endorsing the Education Week |program announced ‘by J. J. |Tigert, U. S. commissioner of | leducation, after Tigert had |taken the Americanization com- |mittee of the American Legion into partnership, and the ac- tion of the American Education |Association: it summoning a world conference on education - in order to promote world | pease, there is sharp conflict. The world conference wag held in San Francisco in June and July, 1923. Has the associa- tion gone over to nationalist fears and class bias and general jdenial of its earlier attitude jsince 1923? The program for Edneation Week announces that we Niust “Stamp out revolutionary radicalfem,” and that “The red flag means Aeath, destruc tion, poverty, starvation, disease, am archy and dictatorship.” fits Stand in 1923, What did the association say in 1923? It published the proceeding of |the world conference at San Francis- |co, boasting the service it had render- jed the cause of peace on the one hand and individual culture on the other, by bringing together the educators of countries around the earth, in a com- mon purpose to bring about a com- |mon understanding’ and tolerance. It established a world federation of ed- ucation associations. Resointions adopted by this world conference, dealing with international ideals, declared thet “A universal aim in teaching the history of a country should be to teach the social, econom- lic and political development of the na- tion and to show the relationship of these lines of activity to similar lines of development in other countries.” Also that “History should be taught from the world point of view.” Al#o that “The economic, social and intel lectual welfare of humanity demands uninterrupted co-operation among the nations of the earth, and the reign of reason and justice founded upon in ternational good-will; that such teach |ing will show the significance of thove things which enter into a true concep» tion of civilization.” # Urge Good-Will Day. With the statement of principles, the conference resolved that May 18 be henceforth celebrated as interna \tional good-will day, that date being the anniversary of the opening of the first Hague conference. It was re solved that “an international flag, as the emblem of international good-will, might well be used in this celebra tion.” Dr. Augustus O. Thomas, state com< |missioner of education of Maine, was \in charge of the arrangements for this |world conference, and was chosen ag | president of the world federation. He remains chairman of the foreign re ljations committee of the N. BE. Ay |which now has permitted its name to be linked with the Tigert-Legion cel- ebration of an international hate week under the name of better edu- | " ‘cation. | Laugh at the Rich a | NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—Audiences that fill the Lyceum Theatre every night are having many a laugh at the “Best People,” a satire on the idle rich. These “dressed up idlers,” ag |the millionaire’s daughter calls her mother and uncle when she rebels against their ideals and falls in love |with a chauffeur from Missouri. take themselves so very seriously. The success of the “Best People,” and “What Price Glory?” shows that the great American public kes to “ha at the master class when it gets the chance. LAFOLLETTE SWALLOWS ADAM'S APPLE AND ISSUES STATEMENT MADISON, Wis., Nov. 9——The “in- dependent” LaFollette, having swal- ly, spoke up y first formal statement, saying: “By the election of President Coolidge, the American people have chosen to retain in power the re- actionary republican administra- — tion with its record of corruption and subservience to the dictates of organized monopoly.” LaFollette, unmindful of the drube bing, or pretending not to mind, called on progressives “to close and gird themselves for the ni battle. We have just begun fight.” aay