The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 15, 1924, Page 3

Saturday, November 15, 1924 PROFIT TEST APPLIED T0 THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS BY BIG BIZ, DAILY WORKER EXPOSE SHOWS By KARL REEVE. (Fifth Article.) The sole test of the educational system, according to the “education week” propaganda issued by the American Legion, is “What financial returns do the public schools system bring to the business man?” The schools, under the control of the bureau of education, the American Legion and the National Education Association, are no longer institutions to teach the children the truth. They are adjuncts of the capi- talist state, which is the servant of the employing class. The schools, controlled by these agencies of the large corporations, are business institutions, used for grinding out wage slaves and making the profits of the business men larger. Consider the leading article in the American Legion Weekly for Novem- ber 14, 1924, “If you're in a commu, nity of real Americans, you'll find that your schools are delivering larger re- turns on the money invested than any financial, mercantile or industrial cor- poration in the nation, bigger than the Standard Oil or Ford Motor. The pub- lic school education is the basis of in- dustrial and commercial prosperity.” We are asked by this “education week” propaganda to wipe out illiter- acy not for the good of the children inyolved, but to increase the circula- tion of the capitalist dope sheets, “How many. newspapers and maga- zines would be sold in a nation of illi- terate people?” asks the official organ of the American Legion. ‘The public schools create desires which keep our industries running, our stores crowded with customers and our banks with de- positors. Instruction in art, music and home economics are creating de- mands which insure the prosperity of thousands of merchants.” Protests Pour In. Protests against the deliverance of the public schools system of the coun- try into the hands of the rabid mili- tarism of the American Legion by J. J. Tigert, commissioner of education in the Coolidge cabinet, have been pouring in to the bureau of education. Tigert has given the American Legion power to feed the school children militaristic propaganda during “educa- tion week” and semi-radical organiza- tions are objecting. Dr. Frederick Lynch, .editor of Christian Work declares, “People be- come Communists not because they THE MARK OF SHOW CHILDREN IN SOVIET SCHOOLS ARE SELF-GOVERNING |. The school children of Soviet Rus- sia are self-governing and self re- liant. They are taught that their greatest duty Is to preserve and aid thelr workers’ and farmers’ govern- ment, After the Bolshevik revolu- tion all textbooks permeated with Imeprialist and capitalist propa- ganda, such as the American schools teach, were thrown on the scrap heap. The next article by Karl Reeve exposing “education week,” which is anti-red week aimed by the Coolidge administration against the Com- munists, will contrast American schools with the educational system of Soviet Russia. Reeve’s articles exposing the capitalist and militarist control of “education week” will be printed dailyin next week’s issues of the DAILY WORKER. hate this country but because to their mind this is the best way to help it. Thirty million people and more died of militarism during the last ten years. Extreme pacifism, which the bureau of education denounces along with the Communists in its education week pro- gram, could scarcely prove more fatal to human life. And we doubt if Com- munists would destroy more than two hundred billion dollars worth of prop- erty in a decade. “The bureau of education starts Tuesday’s program with a discussion of the red flag, which they seem to think means just about what our na- tional battle flags have meant—death, destruction, poverty, starvation, dis- ease, anarchy and dictatorship.” Legionnaires Are Thugs. “In planning American Education A LENINIST lion buttons—by all means 1113 W. Washington Blvd. This bronze, art medallion button of Nicolai Lenin—one inch in size—and of beautiful design—you will want for yourself and as a gift for your friends. If you don’t already own one of these Werlesting mat BUY IT FROM THE DAILY WORKER AGENT . IN YOUR CITY! _. 50 Cents Each Add 5 cents for postage if you wish to have it by mail pipe i a Ao, COL STS Elan oe Meaty -THE DAILY WORKER fOr .....0 Lenin Buttons. Chicago, Illinois neneenrnenennapereeneenensssnseenesesenaneeers Aeeneenneresenens a AMINES: cihccpscunciniey | MASQUERADE BALL «- DANCE Given by American Lithuanian Workers’ Literary Society, 1st District Sunday Evening, November 16, Starts 6:30 p. m. Tickets in advance 50 cents; at the door 65 cents. At the _ LITHUANIAN LIBERTY HALL 14th St. and 49th Ct., Cicero, Ill. GOOD UNION MUSIC THE DAILY WORKER Week, the bureau writes, ‘local and national officers of the American Le- gion should be consulted freely.’ Dr. Lynch continues, “Who made the American Legion the source par excel- lence of patriotism? The men who rioted in Centralia and murdered ung offending citizens there—even tho the victims bore the name Industrial Workers of the World—the men who by their legion in place after place have tried to break down the guar- antees of freedom for which our fath- ‘ers shed their blood. Have these men such a pre-eminent claim to ‘educa- tion’ that a government bureau should recommend them as virtually the sole source of public instruction? Let the bureau of education at least quit pa- trioteering and playing politics.” Support. Withdrawn. Even the Young Women’s Christian Association, which sold out to the em- Ployers who thrust America into the world war, have shied at the obvious attempt of the bureau of education to militarize the public schools. The Y. W. C. A. took a prominent part in the two previous government “educa- tion” campaigns, but even their hard- ened stomachs sickened at the nau- seating “red scare” propaganda, and they have withdrawn the support of their 600,000 members. Mabel Cratty, general secretary of the Y. W. C, A. xplained that, “the national boatd nas felt that it necessary to decline he invitation to participate this year because of certain elements in the an- nounced program which seemed to be inconsistent with the position of the board in regard to world peace and in- ternational co-operation.” Disagrees with Gompers. James H. Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania state federation of la- bor, in spite of the fact that the Gom- pers’ machine is supporting educa- tion week, has denounced the educa- tion, week program. “The legion propaganda program will not only tend to stultify the brain but act as a smoke screen to becloud just grievances and the shortcomings of misfit public officials,” Maurer has declared. The Teachers’ Union of New York has also enlisted in the fight on “edu- cation week” propaganda, ANDREW SPISAK IS DEPORTED BY U.S, AUTHORITIES Held on Ellis Island for Seventeen Months By ROSE BARON. NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—Andrew Spi- ‘|sak, subject of Austria, was deported to Jugo-Slavia, October 24, 1924. He was kept a prisoner on Ellis Island for 17 months. Did not know that he is being deported until the last minute. Was not given a chance to communi- eate with the Labor Defense Council or his lawyer. He was sent away pen- niless and without any warm clothes. Comrade Spisak is an Austrian citi- zen born in Rosonovec, Austria-Hun- gary, August 20, 1886. He arrived in the United States Aug. 24, 1904, and has been a resident of the U. S. since that time. The 24th of April, 1921, he was arrested at North Braddock, Pa., for distributing litera- ture alleged to have been of a sedi- tious nature, The 16th of September, 1921, a hearing was held before an im- migration inspector, and the secretary of labor issued a warrant that Spi- sak be deported. On December 19, 1921, Comrade Spisak was brought to Ellis Island to be deported, where he was kept a prisoner, deprived of life, liberty and property, without due pro- cess of law, In the latter part of October, 1922, a writ of habeas corpus was issued and the department of labor consented to release Spisak on his own recog- nizance and he was so released on November, 1922. Since that time he was. employed in Pittsburgh, Pa., and has not done anything to justify his rearrest, nor was he informed of any warrant of arrest issued against him, nor did he have any hearing be- fore any inspector or otherwise, but on June 21, 1923, taken out of his place of employment and brought again to Ellis Island for deportation. Other cases are constantly coming up. The work of defense is vital and urgent, Comrades, we must have plenty of funds to defend our prison- ers and Aleportees. Send in contribu- tions to the Labor Defense Council, which is defending class war prison- ers in America. The headquarters of the New York division is at 208 Hast 12th Street, New Work, | misieaders. BARUCH, BANKER, FEEDS, CHEERS LABOR OFFICIALS And That is How They rae Remembered Armistice NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—Out- side of the Building Trades Council of New York City and vicinity, labor did not officially participate in armistice day pro- grams. The building tradesmen held a special meeting at 10 o'clock in St. Mark's Place. Most of the other workers of the city had no holiday from the routine daily tasks, except in a few offices. The Association of the War Industries Board, however, held its biennial meeting at the Wal- dorf-Astoria Hotel to discuss economic and commercial prob- lems that the so-called peace after the war brought. Hugh Frayne, general organizer of the American Federation of Labor, is listed as a director of the association, which is headed by financier Bernard M. Baruch, former chief of war indus- tries board. Representatives of prac- tically all of the biggest corporations in the country are members or direc- tors of the association. The session of the association was private, tho the general subject of discussion was known to be concern- ed with the’ further co-ordination and organization of industries for nation- al service during war, following the theme of mobilization day. In the evening, Bernard Baruch entertained the association members at the Zieg- fleld Follies, The gayer note of the Follies and the Victory balls, led by the American Legion’s great dance at the Waldorf- Astoria, predominated in armistice day celebrations generally in the city. There was less of remembering the fallen soldiers, except by the Women’s Peace Society, which distributed dodg- ers giving statistics of the cost of war in lives and money. “Was it a war to end war? Did we make the world safe for democracy? Have you more freedom than you had before the war?” and similar questions were answered on the leaflets by an em- phatic “NO!” The antidote tg war offered by the Women’s Peace lety on the dodg- er is writing to the president and sen- ators ‘saying that you want war made illegal,” no money for preparedness and free trade as preventitive of was All Records Broken in Anniversary Meet at Milwaukee, Wis. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nov. 14.—The disgust with which the Berger-LaFol- lette fusion has filled even the work- ers of Milwaukee is strikingly shown in the record-breaking attendance of the-Workers’ Party celebration of the anniversary of the Russian revolution. So noteworthy was the success of the meeting that the capitalist dailies gave front page space to it next day. It was a celebration worthy of the day it commemorated. Four speakers, among the best in their respective flelds, roused the audience to the heights of enthusiasm, J. Louis Eng- dahl,’ Editor of The DAILY WORKER, was the principal English speaker, while Max Bedacht spoke in German. Youth was properly represented in Max Shachtman of the Young Work- ers’ League, and little Thelma Kahn for the junior section of the Y. W. L. The concert program was one of the richest ever heard anywhere. Five singing societies and a group of young Russian dancers entertained the audi- ence, There were the German So- cialist Liedertafel, German Socialist Maennerchor, Freiheit Jewish Singing Society, Russian Dramatic Club Choir, and International Children’s Choir. The height of the appropriate pro- gram furnished by a one-reel motion picture film showing the “Life of Nicolai Lenin.” Pictures showing his agitation before the establishment of the Soviet government, of his appear- ance at congresses, his illness, and finally his burial and the continuation of his work by the enthusiastic “Young Pioneers,” who now call them- selves “Lenintsi,” the counterpart of our own Y. W. L. Juniors, The meeting was well advertised. A special leaflet was addressed to those attending the big Teachers’ con- vention, inviting themto learn about the Russian educational system at this meeting. Many attended. New spirit and enthusiasm fills the ]|members in this one-time stronghold of social-patriotic reaction. It has proven that the mass of the workers are not irretrievably sunken in the op- jj | Portunist swamp to which they have been brot by their hitherto respected Onward to victory, Plan New World Flights. . AMSTERDAM—Three new Fokker airplanes have been. shipped to Port- ugal for an attempted round the world flight. Senor Cabral ‘will command the fligh* 4 Page Three LARGEST NUMBER OF BRITISH WORKERS TOIL THE 48-HOUR WEEK (By Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—Hours of labor in Great Britain during 1923 have been reported by the Brit- ish Trades Union Congress to the International Labor Office, whose Washington bureau announces them | as follows: Hours per week No. of workers 24,500 800,600 305,687 8,500 11,590 . 964,224 1,409,613 These figures apply to the normal working week recognized in indus- tries in which members of the trade unions were employed. Tenants Get Sore When Rent is Raised After Coolidge’s Victory WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. — Five hundred tenants of the Clifton Ter- ace apartment building, Fourteenth street, N. W., formed a Soviet, held @ meeting in the hall of the elegant apartment building over the protest of the landlord, and appointed a com- mittee of twelve to do business with Joseph Lowe, the manager of the building. Officers of the Tenants’ League ap- peared by invitation and addressed the hallway meeting. 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