The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1924, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER . _ BIGGEST PROFITEERS DICTATE THE POLICIES OF THE N. E. A., IN WAR ON PROGRESSIVE LABOR KARL REEVE. ed Article.) The National Education Association, which was called in by the United States bureau of education to aid the American Legion in putting over anti-labor “education week” on the public schools Nov. 17-22, is an organization controlled by the-Manufacturers’ Association. The National Education Association is run by financiers and big business men to reduce teachers’ salaries, keep militant work- ing class sentiment out of the schools and pervert the teach- ing of truth into mere feeding of capitalist propaganda to the school teachors and the children: Feted by A. of C. The chambers of commerce always act as hosts to the national conven- tions of the National Education Asso- ciation. Red-haters, labor union smashers, and capitalist morons who preach doo trines of “docility mecessary to suc- cess” are given the patforms at these conventions. In the 1922 convention of the N. E. A,, Pershing, Coolidge and Hughes formed the battery of cap- italist henchmen who praised the profit system. The Boston Chamber of Commerce paid the expenses of this convention and had charge of the en- tertainment of delegates.. Strike- breaker Coolidge was the honored guest of the N. HE. A. convention held in Washington last year. Every act of the National Educa- tion Association, aims to distort the truth and to control the minds of the school children. N. E. A. Is Political Machine. “The National Education Associa- tion is a political machine,” says Up- ton Sinclair, “maintained by big busi- ness to do a certain job in the in- terests of big business.” And this job is the safeguarding of the profits of these business men, and the assur ance to them that the schools will continue to turn out a plentiful supply of cheap labor which will not have been stimulated to learn the truth about. the profit system. John J. Tigert, commissioner of education, appointed by Harding, who is directing “education week,” said in an address in San Diego that “the increasing tendency to delve into eco- nomics and sociology in the public schools comes perilously close to rad- icalism.” ‘Tigert deplores allowing the teaching of truth because it is not Dapitalist propaganda. It Is 100 Per Cent, “Only subjects that function in the industry or in good citizenship are taught,” we learn in a report to the superintendents of the N. E. A. made last February, in describing a “model” school in Massachusetts. “There is relatively small initial expense in Starting such a school. The Beverley industrial school is a part time, regu- lar trade extension school for machin- ists made possible thru. the co-opera- tion of the United Shoe Machinery corporation. The boy is paid in pro- Portion to his production—a whole Some encouragement to effort. The company accepts all perfect work pro- duced. The graduates have to make no adjustments from school to indus try. “The school is distinctly a public School, controlled by a board of trus- tees. The presence of a representa tive of the co-operating company on the governing board has proven a very valuable asset. The public schools would do well to follow the lead of this school.” This is the “pioneer” work the Na- tional Education Association is doing, and this is the sort of propaganda that is to be spread broadcast on “education week.” The schools, if the N. BE. A. has its way, are to be di- verted from the teaching of the truths of life. Children Taught Contentment. The children are to be taught how to be contented laborers for the manufac- turers. The children are to be made docile slaves knowing only the me- chanical movements nuecessary to the unskilled trades, and are at all times to uphold the capitalistis profit sys tem, according to the ‘education week” propaganda. BORAH SLATED FOR FOREIGN RELATIONS POST Expected to Fight for Russian Recognition (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov.: 11.—Senator Borah will become chairman of the senate foreign relations committee by right of seniority upon the passing of Chairman Lodge. Borah is the foremeost critic of Secretary Hughes’ foreign policy as to Russia, Haiti, Nicaragua and China in the ranks of the republican party, His coming to power as head of the committee is a direct threat to Hughes’ influence in the new administration. Borah has kept quiet on the Rus- sian issue during the ticklish period of his own campaign for re-election at the hands of the stampat republic- ans of Idaho. Now that he has been returned for another term by a big majority, he anticipates early re- sumption of his public agitation of the issue of recognition of Russia. His resolution of last winter, calling for recognition of the Soviet state, will be brought up in the foreign re- lations committee in December. It will have the backing of Hiram John- son and of Henrick Shipstead. It is evident that Borah will not be able to control his committee. At best he will be able to speak only as a minority leader of the majority party. But he will use the fact of his chairmanship to advantage in at- tempting to build up public opinion im favor of a sane foreign © policy which will reduce the danger of an- other world war. BRITISH LIBERAL LEADERS HOLD ON T0 CORPSE They Are Dead But Don’t Know It LONDON, Nov. 11.—Two former lib- eral premiers, David Lloyd George and H. H. Asquith—in speeches to their liberal supporters today declared the party “cannot be allowed to die even tho its representation in parliament is small.” They urged the liberals to forget past factional feuds and to present a united front to the enemy in the next election. Permier Stanley Baldwin, head of the new tory government, returned from Chequers Court to begina week of active ministerial work. A number of minor posts are to be filled and im- portant questions of Policy to be set- tled. The cabinet is scheduled to hold its first formal meeting tomorrow, but it may be put off until Wednesday. .Rus- sian policy will be the first big issue to be settled. Sell Railroad for Scrap SPRINGFIELD, ILLS., Nov. 11,— The Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railroad, largest railroad wholy within the Btate of Mlinois, will be auctioned off for scrap here Nov. 20, The sale is being forced by the New York holders of $2,000,000 first mort- gages. GOVERNMENT SAYS CORN CROP R THIS YEAR IS SMALLEST SINCE 1913 WASHINGTON, Nov. 11-—The American corn crop this year is 668,- 749,000 bushels short of the 1923 crop, and is the smallest the country has experienced since 1913, the department of agriculture announced today. rvanslated into dollars and cents at the market price’ on October 15, the date on which the report was based, this represents a loss to the “Only 63.2 per cent of the crop is American farmers this year of $728,-|of merchantable quality. This is the 000,000. The short crop prevails this year notwithstanding a slight increase in Not only is the volume eut down, but there has also been a big drop in the quality of the crop, the depart- ment announced. Last year the quall- ty was estimated at 79.4; but for 1924 the estimate is only 63.2. “The corn crop,” said the depart- mont, “is by a smali margin the smallest crop since 1924 and sub- stantially lower than the crops of the ‘Inet four years, which have averaged |" bushels, a an eset over three billion on Scie Ls ie id Maas 8 WEE shel lowest per cent of merchantability in the crop of 19sat"adisdtemfwyycmft thirty years, with one exception.” Bank at Rum Running. LONDON, Nov. 11—The Guaranty Trust company of New York today ap- pealed to the Courts for an injunction to prevent Sir Broderick Hartwell from issuing any circulars regarding his rum running enterprise which might make it appear that, the bank approved his venture. Open Forum, Sunday Night, Ledge Room, Ashland Auditorium, ens iM, HUNGER AND NEED IN GERMANY 1S DRIVING THOUSANDS 10 SUICIDE By A. L. CONRAD. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN.—In 1923 there were In Prussia 17,000 suicides; of which 1,243 were in Berlin. In the first 87 weeks of 1924 In Berlin 990 In- dividuals killed themselves, The of- ficial statistics give reasons, mel: ancholy, incurable disease, insanity, remorse, shame, vexation, alcohol, passion, unhappy love affairs. Suicides occur in every country. But the enormous number of sul- cides in Germany the last few years has been largely due to the fact that hunger and need have stared des- perate persons in the face. Perhaps the greatest number were members of the middle class de- prived of their Incomes during the inflation period, and unable to work, never having been trained or finding it Impossible to obtain employment. The papers which comment on the statistics admit these figures do not cover all the suicides in Berlin. Persons have been washed out to sea; others have “disapeared” and in many cases friends or relatives have given officials other causes than sulcide. Even in war men may feel that they have a chance. But in modern industrial and social and capitalist civilization chances are few and hu- mans are desperate, SUN-YAT-SENIS DANGEROUS T0 BRITISH RULERS Therefore Vicious Cam- paign of Lies Begins (Rosta News Service.) (Special to the Daily Worker) CANTON, Nov. 11.—Since Dr. Sun Yat-sen raised a vigorous protest against the threats of armed interven- tion by British naval forces in the internal affairs of China, the papers of Hongkong have been carrying on a vicious campaign against the Canton government and, particularly, against the Kuomingtang leader. China Colony of England. The Canton Gazette, in an editorial, puts the question squarely before the reader: “Why does imperialist Eng- land pursue President Sun and treat him in effect as if he were a Gandhi struggling for a liberated India or a Zaghlul Pasha fighting for an indepen- dent Egypt?” And the Gazette an- swers: “President Sun holds that China is no more than a semi-colony, if, not worse, of England and her im- perialist fellow-countries. That is the reality which emerges out of the corpus of England’s “opium” treaties and the protocols which imperialism has imposed on China. And so be- cause China is a semi-colony of the predatory powers, an “pgiator” like Sun Yat-sen must be suppressed, not, however, by imprisonment in an In- dian goal or by banishment to a dead- ly climate, but by a campaign of lies in the English-written reptile press in Hongkong, Shanghai, Tientsin, and by threats of British naval bombardment on suitable occasions.” — Sun Yat-sen Strikes Fear Into England The Gazette points out that by over- throwing the Manchus in China, Sun Yat-sen struck fear into the hearts of imperialist Britain regarding her most important possession, India, which might emulate the work of Chinese revolution. The Gazette em- phatically concludes that a successful republic in China must react disas- trously on British autocracy in India. Therefore, Sun Yat-sen, whose aim is to realize such @ republic, is a danger to imperialist England. “ Youngdahl’s Victory in Minnesota Cheers Washington Comrades WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 11— Two days after election day the Eng- Mish branch of Washington” Local of the Workers Party met and arranged to continue the fight for the establish ment of a Soviet government in the United States. The announcement o{ Comrade Youngahl’s victory in Minne- sota was accepted as an entering wedge in the fight and hope was ex- pressed that this victorious comrade will come to Washington as a Com- munist congressman two years hence, The feature of the meeting was an address by Comrade Joseph Lapidus, who outlined his revolutionary activi- ties in Russia and in this country. Comrade Lapidus explained that he had become the victim of anarchist Propaganda ten years ago and told of his intellectual evolution and final acceptance of Communist doctrine. He pledged himself to devote his un- tiring efforts to the success of Work- ers Party aims in the future. ‘Plan Organization Drive NEW YORK, Nov, 11,—Practical cooperation for the organization of the growing knitgoods industry has been arranged between the United Textile Workers’ Union and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. Have you heaved your brick? LEGION MAKING ASS OF ITSELF SAYS MEMBER But It Is Dangerous Ass to Workers (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—The American Legion is “making a perfect jackass of itself,” de- clared a legionaire, A. A. Berle, dr. member of the Willard Straight Post, of the legion's dictation of the militaristic, red- baiting program for American Education Week, Berle spoke from the rostrum of the Community Church at a meeting called by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Teachers’ Union to protest against the program which U, 8S. Commissioner’ of Hducation Tigert and the legion have joint- ly worked out together. The subjects selected for the guid- ance of American Education Week speakers thruout the country the week of Nov. 17-23 stress attacks on the red flag and Communism and minimize the educational subjects for which the week was supposedly arranged, Keep Hands Off. “No propaganda’ organization,” Berle emphasized, “has the right to monkey with education at any time or any place.” Dr. Edward T. Devine, formerly member of the federal coal commis- sion; Professor Robert Morss Lovett of the University of Chicago and Dr. Gilbert J. Raynor, principal of the Brooklyn commercial high school, were among the speakers who at- tacked the legion’s. preposterous con- ception of education. “It will bea sorry day for us when our teachers are told what to say by the G. A. R. or the American Legion,” cried Devine. “If the legion wants to set about correcting a crime, let them turn their attention to Centralia, Wash., where seven members of the I. W. W. were convicted under duress for an alleged attack on terse aka said Robert Mores wih Pass Two Resolutions. The audience unanimously passed two resolutions, one calling upon Commissioner Tigert to redraft his program, leaving out references to the red flag and the slogan “stamp out revolutionary radicalism,” said to have been written by the legion. Principal Raynor of the school where Glassberg taught told the audience that the charges against Glassberg were “absolute lies.” The original evidence against him in- cluded reports of remarks said to have been made in the classroom, but which were grossly perverted, he]. said. The Liberties Union has pre- Pared a record of the Glassberg case quoting, among other things, the re- marks of Arthur S. Somers, chairman of the board which tried him, admitting that “our action was prompted more by passion and a desire to rid the school system of anybody who was not one hundred per cent American, according to existing standards.” Stole Communist Votes in Mining Centers of Illinois (Special to The Daily Worker) CHRISTOPHER, Ill—A few towns in southern Illinois show how the election judges massacred the votes oa ee 43 Foster, Unofficial re- urns show e fol mining camps’ vote: Valier, oh Choi 40; Christopher, 17; Zeigler, 81; DuQuoin, 39; and Dowell, 10, Klan Judges Big Mitt It will readily be seen that the smaller the mining camp the larger the Communist vote. would be a Strange phenomenon that Com- munists ‘understand that the K. K. K. election judges looked after the larger towns with special care, In_ Christopher, for example, one family alone with several boys and bm pos finn et as ‘votes as were lows reported the election judges—17. But ‘unquestion- ably hundreds of yoters who voted at Zeigler for Foster. Communist Ballots Spoiled At Dowell, the ballots seemed strangely marked. Although the circle at the top of the Workers Party ticket was marked with a in some steal i” acquired . mar! most ‘a contra- dictory string of crosses ih front of the whole list of electors for Coolidge! It seems that the Communist voters did not follow the instruction of the DAILY WORKER in marking the cross in front of every name top to bottom, but “voted it i” by marking the circle at the and lett- ing the rest go. Some le, LaFol- lette for example, think the work- ers can emancipate ives by this voting game. ‘ RP oc” | 162 Votes in Pa. County POTTSVILLE, from all Schuylkill county show that Foster got 162 votes for president, seating ee ve emcemn tangs et pe a : Tuesday, November 11, 1924 The New York Impressed by the “Flood of Books” About Lenin By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL. Toay: the New York Times, Sunday, Nov, 9, arrives and it is interesting to note that the first page of its “Book Review Section” is given over to an estimate of the ‘flood of books” now being published in Soviet Russia about Niko- lai Lenin. | Here is America’s greatest capitalist daily newspaper, pro- bably the most relentless of all the dollar's kept organs, in the war on the workers, admitting that the most important literature of the week, is the work of the biographers of the social revolution’s mightiest leader, the stories of the life, the deeds and the achievements of the man who led the struggle that knocked away one of the big pillars support- ing the social structure of capitalism. Nothing worth while in the whole avalanche of literature that annually enguifs the United States during the fall months. No inspiring figures, anywhere over the entire earth, except in Soviet Russia, to urge pens to produce literature, written in one language, but reaching for life in every tongue. * So even the New York Times, traducer of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution, must confess the worth of the great- est event in history, that it so bitterly attacks, and do tribute to the memory of the man who has helped so much to pave the way for the abolition of the social system that it smugly idolizes and tenaciously defends, i 5 ° ° . e Of course the Times must have its fling. It declares that an effort is being made to canonize Lenin in print. But the memory of Lenin needs no sanctifying touch. It will endure forever in the hearts and in the minds of the world’s work- ers. The Times makes much of the claim that $1,000,000 has been set aside by the Soviet Government to help spread the writings about Lenin, If this is true, it may be added that no government printery ever turned out literature so anxiously received and eagerly absorbed by the masses of the people. a Parallel the situation in the United States. Tens of mil- lions of dollars are spent annually, to be sure, upon the Government Printing Office in. Washington,. But there are 100,000,000 workers and farmers in the United States who have never heard of a printed sheet worth while emanating therefrom. * * * . The Times’ review of the Lenin biographies is written by Elias Tobenkin, who laid some claims to revolutionary ideals in his youth, but threw them all aside in his pursuit of a literary career under capitalism. Tobenkin knows how to taint his writings sufficienly to make them acceptable to capitalist publishers. But in learning that trick. he put all of his revolutionary ideals on the shelf, where they have been allowed to rot and die. Yet Tobenkin's present effort is like revivifying a cherished but neglected memory—it reverberates a little with the spirit of his own youth. For it takes a little of natural intuition to delve thru six biographies, as Tobenkin claims to have done, and to draw out the kernels of living truth that he has found therein. For instance, he gives us this extract from one of the two volumes written by Em Yaroslavsky: “What makes Lenin so universally revered in Russia Is the fact that he had been able to combine within his person the qualities of a great leader with the simplicity of a common man. Lenin was kin in spirit and in soul to the most backward workingman, to the ‘darkest’ peasant. * * * Unusually simple he was in his manners, in his ways. When Lenin spoke about the needs of the people the illiterate peasant felt ‘as if the speaker were taking the thought out of his, the p int’s, own mind, was taking the words from the tip of his own tongu ° ° * 7 Then there is the revealing extract from the biography by I. Stalin, entitled “Lenin and Leninism,” which will soon appear serially in the DAILY WORKER, in addition to the biography by A. Losovsky, secretary of the Red Trade Union International, now appearing in these columns, Stalin tells this story: “I met Lenin for the first time In December, 1905, and he disappointed me In two ways. Several revolutionists in their writings had spoken of Lenin as a ‘mountain eagle’ and | expected to come face to face with a man of gigantic dimensions. Instead | beheld a very ordinary-looking man, below medium height, His conduct was even more ordinary than his physical appearance. “Lenin was to make an address that evening and many of us younger revolutionists had come with beating hearts to see the great leader. In the hall we were constantly gazing toward the door, waiting for the speaker to sweep in majestically. When the time came to open the meeting, the chairman of the evening, who knew Lenin’s habits well, began looking about In the corners of the hall. In one such corner he found Lenin absorbed in a discussion with several workmen. The ‘hero’ of the evening had come to the meeting ahead of his audience. He had come not only to impart Information but also to imbibe it in conversa tion with the plain men about him.” F No effort to put Lenin on a pedestal there. Just the plain story of oppressed labor's greatest spokesman, of whom even the New York Times admits, thru its writer Tobenkin, “The last thing he wished was to leave the ranks and step to the front.” PN ae The biographies reviewed are the “Life and Work of Lenin” and “A Leader of Peasants and Workers,” both by Em Yaroslavsky; “About Lenin and Leninism” by 1. Stalin; “On the Death of Lenin” by Pe Zinoviev, president of the Communist International; “ 4 I. Lenin Collection” edited by L. B, Kamenev, and “About Vladimir Ilyitch” by his widow, N. Krupskaya. All of these books are being rinted and circulated by the Russian Soviet Government. he ‘Lenin Collection by Kamenev will run into many vol- umes. It is stated that Leon Trotsky, Soviet Commi: of War, is writing what will probably be the most comprehen- sive Lenin biography. One more extract. This from an < 4 $5 or $6 a week. Obviously her Ja estimate of Lenin by his widow who tells us: suit was financed by. the “Vladimir Ilyitch loved people, He loved them passionately. In Lon- organizations. don, Paris, in Munich, in short, where ever we happened to Ilving he A brief in of the law would follow the announcements in the newspapers of meetings, gather- || fled by the California Federa’ ot Ings, picnics of working pe: and would spend much time in going to |Women’s Clubs, the League Such places to see how the people In each country lived and what they ot Women Voters, the W. C. T. U. of thought. He had no patience with the comrades who sat in the cafes northern and California, Un- over a glass of tea and talked the same thing over without end.” ited Garment Workers’ local 125 of Piss ath a Los ae and Waitresses’ union This is Lenin, the outcast under the ozardom, whose bart the ane te aside ot ha memory is revered and the details of whose life is becom- [rederal supreme court: nullifying the ing known even to the most isolated worker or peasant of minimum wage law of the District of the bh trea | Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The in- lumbia, the employers expect to kil} “spiration of his life will in in the oppressed time rouse to’ of all the nations, to the uttermost corners of kt, Times is (SOUTH ILLINOIS. HAILS RUSSIAN §) REVOLUTION | Miners Interested in Workers Party The seventh victorious year of the Russian revolution was celebrated at rousing meetings in the southern Illinois coal belt | and despite the tension of the klan menace and the depression brought on by the terribly se- vere unemployment good meet- ings were addressed by William F. Kruse at Christopher, Dowell and Zeigler, III. At Christopher the meeting was held in the French Workers’ Hall on Nov. 7. The revolution- ary movement\is badly divided here, many workers who before 1917 considered even the social- ist party too radical for them have since developed an anti- political complex of the deepest maroon dye, and call themselves anarchists or syndicalists. A goodly element however is organ ized. in the English and Slavic ‘Branches of the Workers Party and un. der the new shop nuclei system of or ganization they look forward to much more intense and better co-ordinated work, under the leadership of Arley Staples and Pete Allard, At Dowell the meeting was held on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 9, in the Rex theater, and the size of the crowd was kept down somewhat by an interseo tional football game between Marion and Dowell, in a field close by, “Hoof exercise is a whole lot easier for our fellow workers than head ex. ercise,” observed the local secretary, Gilbert Rogers, Meeting Well Attended, The meeting at Zeigler was post poned from 2 p. m. to 6:30, and a fine crowd assembled in Liberty Hall. In order to make the three meetings auto trips of over a hundred miles were necessary. The chairman, Henry Corbishley, who is president of the local Miners’ Union and secretary of the Workers Party, told of the battles in the union and elsewhere with the Klan. It had been arranged that in case no speaker could be sent from | the national office local talent would do what they could to fittingly cele. brate the great revolutionary holiday. | Despite the urging of the speaker, however, they gave up the whole eve- ning to the main speech and a long list of very interesting questions on Russia, the revolution, and the tactics and principles of the Workers Party. . In all three towns a growth of party i membership and activity is confidently expected to result from these meet / ings. - Good Collections. Good collections were taken for the benefit of the DAILY WORKER, Lenin buttons were sold, and DAILY WORK- ER and Workers Monthly also got a boost in local circulation. Party meetings were announced and those who had glumped in their activity 1 Promised to attend and resume their =| duties. | All three towns were enthused at the proposition of running the new | Russian film, “The Beauty and the } Bolshevik” and along with West Frank } fort and other downstate Illinois | camps the film will be run during the last week in November. Any other lo- cals in that district desiring the pic ture at this time should communicate at once with the International Work- ers’ Aid; 19 8. Lincoln St., Chicago, Tl. ‘ presi rolls aah aR : Next Sunday Night and Every Sun day Night, the Open Forum, WASHINGTON, D. ©, Nov. 11.— Calling attention to the recent argum: ent before the California supreme court over the constitutionality of the California minimum wage for women and minors, the women’s bureau of the department of labor predicts a de cision within 90 days. J Mrs. Edson, executive commisgioner of the industrial welfare commission of the state reports that the Helen Gainor, suing to overthrow this minimum statute, was identified in the state's information as a typist in the employ of a detective agency at the time the suit was brought, was trying to secure employment