The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 18, 1924, Page 3

ee menor Tusaday, November 18, Ui sce Soule EVERY WEEK IS REAL “WEEK OF | EDUCATION” IN UNDER THE WORKERS’ REPUBLIC By KARL REEVE. (Seventh. Article.) Every week is “Education Week” in Russia. But the Com- SOVIET RUSSIA munist Party of Russia has overthrown the control of the educa- tional system by the capitalists and has put the schools into the hands of the educators and pupils, where they belong. In Russia, the counter-revolutionary trash used as textbooks rior to the Bolshevik revolution has been burned, and education SS as been made a stronghold for teaching the right of the|/Fducational Week working class to rule. The Soviet commissar of education has rebuilt the entire outlook of the proletarian students on the basis of the new society. All scientific works used during czarist times, whcih were similar to books now used in the American schools, were filled with propaganda against the working class. Historids, sociological works, books on economics and anthropology were found to be counter revolutionary propaganda against the working class and were destroyed. Czarist Education a Fraud. What Edward A. Ross, professor of sociology at the University of Wis- consin, says of the czarist education, applies word for word to the present educational system of the United States as controlled by the capitalists. “Under the czar,” says Professor Jones, “‘a gigantic fraud had been per- petrated on the children and the com- mon people by feeding them husks when they were famishing for bread. The trick was to obscure while seem- ing to enlighten, to conserve darkness while going thru the motions of ex- tending education.” Professor Ross has here unwittingly given the true slogan of “American education week.” “It was not enuf that the czar’s (in America the employers’ and Cool- idge’s) servants picked and drilled the teachers. A horde of inspectors (in America school superintendents and officers of the national education as- sociation) went about tasting the mi- croscopic doses of truth administered to the children and testing the teach- ers’ loyalty.” Taught to Be Self Reliant. In America hard work is glorified. And in Russia hard work is also glori- fied. But in Russia, the school chil- dren are taught to work and learn for the good of the working class as a whole, which produces all wealth and controls it for the use of the workers. In America children are taught to be subservient and obedient to their masters. They are taught to be good wage slaves who must tolerate the in- dustrial masters. In Russia, the chil- dren, under the gufdance of the Soviet government, are taught to bé self re- liant. The educators and the pupils run the schools of Russia for the good of their class. Study in Russia is basea on the child’s play and his retatron to pro- duetive work. The Russian children make trips to the factories and learn the truth about collective industry, and how the workers control the state. Textbooks on sociology and political economy which tell the children they must be good servants to their em- ployers in order to succeed are no longer in use as they are in America, The profit system is shown up as a system of oppression of the workers by the capitalists. Self-Government in Schools, One of the main functions of the school is to teach the child collective action, we learn in Anna Louise Strong’s history of Bolshevik Russia. “The schools are trying to fit the child to build a socialist state,” she says. “The schools are the next battle front for Communism. The school is a self governed §chool community, in which children, teachers, janitors at! nave equal voice. It decides everything. What shall be done with the school funds, what shall be planted in the school garden, what shall be taught. If the children decide against some necessary subject, it is the teachers’ job to show them, thru their play and life together, that the subject is needed.” Self government, self help, self man- agement in common vity are part of the basic policy of the Soviet schools. The fair friendly division of labor is considered the corner stone of education as citizens of a future socialist commonwealth. psi Bolsheviks—the D. RUBBER STAMPS AND SEALS IN ENGLISH AND IN- FOREIGN LANGUAGES INK, PADS, DATERS, TYPE.Etc. nt NOBLER STAMP & SEAL CO. bed Sgeuatrern” Mass Meeting in Cleveland Thursday (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Nov. 17.—The Young Workers League will co-operate with the Workers Party in a joint celebra tion of “Forward to the Soviet’s Week,” at the Labor Temple, 253¢ Euclid Ave., Thursday, Nov. 20, at which George Papcun, city organizer of the Young Workers League will b: the speaker for the league. Each league branch will take up at its meet- ing during the week, the slogans adopted by the party and league for the day of the meeting, and will hold an open meeting for league and party members and sympathizers. The East Side English Branch which meets at the party headquart- ers, 5927 Euclid Ave., every Friday will be addressed at the meeting Nov. 21, by Herbert Benjamin on the sub ject, “American History from the Communist Viewpoint.” Sunday, Nov. 23, the local will hold a social and entertainment at the party headquarters, at 8:00 p. m. Games, songs, and a talk by J. A. Hamilton, city secretary of the Work- ers Party, on “Religion and the Work- ing Class,” will be included in the program. N.Y. Party Activities N. Y. BRANCHES—ATTENTION. The Workers’ School is offering a party training course for party mem- bers chosen by branches, All branches must immediately send in the names and addresses of com- rades designated to take this course, to the office of the school at 208 E. 12th street. Classes will be given in the Ele- ments of Communism, Marxism, Am- erican Economic and Social Develop- ment, and the International Commun- ist Movement. Instructors are Alex- ander Trachtenberg, W. W. Wein- stone and Dr. J. Mindel. The school season opens Dec. 1. Names must be sent in at once. Re- member, the time is short, and the number of students in each class will be limited. WRIGLEY, COOLIDGE BACKER, SHOWN UP AS ENSLAVER OF CHILDREN DENVER, Colo., Nov. 17.—William Wrigley, one of the chief contribu- tors to Coolldge’s campaign fund, has bought up large beet plantations in Colorado for the production of beet sugar. Wrigley has re-incor- porated the old Gunnison Valley su- gar corporation whose refinery Is lo- cated in Centerfleld, Utah, into the Gunnison sugar company, which Wrigley owns. Child labor is rampant in these Wrigley beet sugar plantation hold- ings, thousands of children under ten years of age being exploited for a few cents an hour. ANTI-RED WEEK SEES EXPOSES OF “PARTIES” IN GO0SE-STE EP SCHOOLS Reports of wild. parties in the most exclusive “goose-step” univer- sities of capitalism continue to pour in as “education week” proclaimed by Coolidge begins. Reporte of unre- strained drinking, and all night cam- pus carousings in the exclusive “rich boys’ club,” Lake Forest Uni- versity, give the latest evidence that education under capitalism Is degen- erating. The nation will disregard the welfare of the youth of the country, as long as the control of the wealth and the country’s produce by capitalists is upheld by the schools. Superintendent of schools in Chi- cago, William McAndrew, who at the bidding of the chambers of com- merce is stamping out the teachers’ councils, declared in Kansas City Saturday, that “purpose of education in the United States should be poli- tical, civic and social, rather than scholastic, cultural or vocational.” An article by Karl Reeve in‘a forth- coming edition of the DAILY WORKER, will expose the social forces, including child labor, that are preventing the children of Amer- SWAN DBL. WORKER COOLIDGE’S | ANTI-RED WEEK | Patriotism Day Tuesday, Nov. 18.—“The Unit- ed States Flag is the Living Symbol of the ideals and Insti- tutions of Our Republic.” 4. The red flag means death, destruction, poverty, starvation, disease, anarchy and dictator- ship. 2. Help the immigrants and ‘aliens to become American citi- | zens. } 3. Take an active interest in governmental affairs. 4. Stamp out revolutionary radicalism. ica from securing an education. While two million children slave in the industrial system McAndrew Prates about turning the schools in- to propaganda factories. EMIGRANTS ARE FLEECED BY THE SHIP COMPANIES Soviet Consuls Defend Victims of Ship Agents NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—Emigrants waiting at Libau, Latvia, and other ports are being harassed and ex- Ploited by agents of steamship com- panies while waiting visaes permitting them to come to the United States, ac- cording to information received by the Central Bureau for Technical Aid of Soviet Russia, office in New York. Police are called in by the steam- ship agents to “suppress uprisings” among the emigrants, most of them women, and children demanding fresh fish and the washing of the floors in the dormitories housing them. Steam- ship agents charge these women and children with “conducting Communist propaganda” in order to get the police to raid and search their living quar- ters. Soviet Agents Defend Victims. The representative of Russia ir Libau, from whom the central bureau secured much information, writes that the suppression of alleged “uprisings of emigrants” is not so serious a men- ace as the repeated toll of money taken by unscrupulous steamship company agents for so-called advice and for rent for housing in the crowded dormitories. The agents tell the emigrants who protest: “If you're not satisfied, go to your consul and he'll defend you but get out of here. Such Communists are not needed in America.” -The agents continue to accept money sent from the United States to emigrants who have left the ports after failing to sail to America be- cause of immigration limitations, the central bureau says, advising all rela- tives of prospective immigrants once more to be sure their friends or fami- lies are really in ports to which money is sent. Hungry Teachers Strike. VIENNA, Nov. 17.—Underpaid and hungry teachers in Austria demon- strated in the streets of Vienna against the conditions in the schools. A one day strike of sympathy was or- ganized all over Austria in the schools. eas COLUM An Appeal to Grown Up Work-| fighting for the workers in the ers and to Working Class Children By Tillie Lurye, Aged 10. City Junior Literature Agent. | wealthy There are so many people who ee eee rer toa state of society but| ers about to enter t whole world. You see if all would join the ranks of the militant workers in four more years we'd all be partners in this world’s great working hive. Talso talk to you pes work- e dusty fac- there are others who linger be-| tories. hind and refuse to do anything. Fellow workers: Aren’t you as mistreated as well as the rest oe war Why do you leave it to}your heart your y others to I, we bir on look| should fight for jeoner for all workers. on and a wie twice as hard Pa jr don’t you join in and pe along? You are young. There is hap- and sorrow before you. ithout fear, without terror in blood Join the Young Workers workers where thousands of are fighting for their Shake eee tae er of your | rights. gig: Ubeenge ew JOIN NOW! DO NOT DB- Ti lg ie vag a ou as|LAY! JOIN THE JUNIOR ves. e are'GROUP OF CHICAGO! 5. To vote is the primary duty of the patriot. SLOGANS. America first. | The red flag—danger. | Visit the schools today. CLASSES START IN BROOKLYN WORKERS’ SCHOOL Alextaiiec Trachtenberg Lectured Sunday BROOKLYN, N. Y., Nov. 17. — A Browsyille Section of the Workers’ School has been opened at the Club- rooms of the Workers Party, 1844 Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn. Classes and lectures in Communism will be con- ducted in both English and Yiddish during the entire Winter season. Open Forum The season's activities were begun on Sunday, Nov. 9, with a lecture in the open forum by Comrade Shachne Epstein on “The Lessons of the Hlec- tion Campaign.” This was an un- qualified success. The attendance far exceeded the expectations of the com- mittee, which shows that we are gain- ing in influence, and that larger group are becoming interested in our movement. After the lecture, 8 new applications for membership were re- ceived. Comrade Trachtenberg, lectured on Truths for 6 Educational Week” ACH DAY this week hs DAILY DAILY WORKER, in will publish the slogans issued by Coolidge's Anti Red Week Drive and also those of the Workers (Communist parison of the Communist and capitalist positions is as follows: Party. Page Thred parallel columns, Today's com- FORWARD TO THE SOVIETS Patriotis Tuesday, Nov. 18—“The Red Flag is the ing Class Liberty from the Oppression of the m Day Symbol of Work- Capitalists.” 1. Patriotism under capitalist rule means war, death, destruction, poverty, starvation and wealth, luxury and power for the capitalists. 2. The U.S. flag represents the U. S. government, which is a government of, for, and by t 3. The native and the foreign born workers must join hands for a common struggle against the capitalists. 4. Every worker must take an active part in the struggle of his class, must belong to a union. 5. Every worker must belo} ist) Party; every youn Workers League. Build the rev SLOGANS. The working class first, last and all the time. The Red Flag—the symbol Down with capitalist wars! worker must also belong to the Young and disease for the workers; he capitalists. ng to the Workers (Commun- olutionary movement. of our freedom. THIS IS “PATRIOTISM DAY” IN COOLIDGE’S “ANTI-RED WEEK” Today is the day the American Legion speakers in Chicago and thruout the country are trying to make working class haters out of the school children. This is “Patriotism Day” of “Education Week” and under the leadership of Coolidge, the American Legion and italism are attacking the Communists. The junior group leaders of the Yo school children today that Commun- ism is the only salvation of the work- ing class. They are pointing out to the school children that capitalism means pov- erty, disease and death, whereas Com- munism means the rule of the work- ing class and the abolition of the profits system. The program of the junior groups for today follows: Patriotism Day. Tuesday, Noy. 18.—The Red Flag is the Symbol of Working Class Libera- tion from the Oppression of the Capi- talists. 1. The Red Flag means freedom for the workers, construction, comfort and well-being for those who labor, freedom from disease, and a workers’ and farmers’ government. a. Freedom for the workers means—no child labor, shorter hours of work, better working and living conditions. All of these mean “The International position of Soviet Russia,” Sunday, Nov. 16 at 1844 Pit- kin avenue. The recent recognition of Russia by France, the bitterest enemy of the Soviets, the defeat of the “labor” government of England on the question of the Anglo-Russian treaty, the re-election of Coolidge (and his anti-Soviet assistant Hughes) by a huge majority, the “uprising” in Georgia, all give an added interest to this very important and complicated subject, which Comrade Trachtenberg is well able to analyze. Lectures for the open forum have been arranged for every Sunday even- ing, one week in English, and the next week in Yiddish. Conirade Poyntz, Cannon and Weinstone are the next lecturers in English, and Comrade Holtman, Burgin and Katz in Yiddish. Classes The following courses have been arranged: In English: “A. B. C. of Communism,” G. Sisking, teacher, every Monday evening from 8 to 10; “The Three Internationals,” M. Rosen berg, teacher, every Tuesday evening from 8 to 10; Elementary English, Ray Bennet, teacher, every Friday evening from 8 to 9:10; Intermediate English, Ray Bennet, teacher, every Friday evening from 9:20 to 10:30. In Yiddish: “A. B. C. of Communism,” Com. 8. Don, teacher, every Sunday afternoon from 2 to 3:30; “Theory and Practice of Trade Unionism,” Comrade Melech Epstein, teacher, “American Labor Movem Com. Noah London, teacher; “Jewish La- bor Movement,” Com. P. Yudich, teacher, every Wednesday evening from 8:30 to 10; “Beonomics and Im- perialism,” Com. J. Mindel, teacher, ery Thursday evening from § to 9:10; “The Three Internationals, and Communist Tactics,” “The State,” Com. J. Mindel, teacher, every Thurs- day evening from 9:20 to 10:30, Thirty students have already regis- tered for many of the courses. The classes begin the week of November 17. All comrades and sympathizers are urged to register now at 1844 Pitkin Avenue, MANILA, Noy, a navy record was broken and probably a world’s record established today when the torpedo crew of the U, 8S. 8. Borie sp pos direct xt four tor- joes Mabini a dis of 12,000 yards. sad a full and beautiful and secure life for those who work so hard and now have so little. b. The Red Flag stands, NOT for destruction, but for construction— a great building up of the work for the workers, NOT a tearing down or the terrible wars which the capi- talists are always forcing. c. The Red Flag means comfort and well-being for the workers in a world where there will be no pov- erty, no horrible slums where hun- dreds of families are crowded into dirty tenements. d. Poverty breeds disease. The horrible conditions under which the workers live today are the things that are directly responsible for disease epidemics. e. The Red Flag means—not an- archy—but a government controlled entirely by workers, not by a few rich bosses as it is today. 2. The native and the foreign born workers must join hands for a com- non struggle against the bosses. 3. Every worker must take an ac- -ive part in the struggle of the work- ing class against the bosses’ rule. a, Workers must belong to a union, b. Workers should belong to the political party of the workers—the Workers Party. ¢. Young workers should belong the to the organization of revolu- tionary workers—the Young Work- ers League. d. The working class children should belong to the children’s sec- tion of the Young Workers League ~—the Junior Groups. 4. Revolutionary radicalism never be stamped out. a. Conditions under capitalism make rebels. * 1. Over 3,000 people were ar- rested and locked up in jails in 1920 for having these ideas, This did not stop the idea, 5. Patriotism under capitalist rule means death, war, destruction, pov- erty, stravation and disease for the workers, and wealth, luxury and power for the capitalists. Slogans. International of the workers, first and always! The Red Flag—the workers’ freedom! Join the junior groups today! can symbol of Sam Gompers, the followers of cap- ung Workers League are showing the BRONX COMMUNISTS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST CAL'S ANTI-RED WEEK (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—The Bronx section committee of the Work: ee Party decided to answer Coolidg: anti-red week with the. slogan, “Forward to the Soviets!” by hold- ing two open air meetings and one indoor mass meeting. The open air meetings will be as follows: Tuesday, Nov. 18, Intervale and Wilkins Aves.; Thursday, Nov. 20, Prospect Ave and 163rd St. The speakers will be: Carl Brodsky, Sylvan A. Pollack, Max Maillard, 1 Miller and Louis Glouberman. The campaign will be closed with a mass meeting at Workers Hall, 1347 Boston Road, Friday, Nov. 21. The speakers will be: Ludwig Lore, William W. Weinstone, A. Markoff and others. Ten thousand copies of the special Soviet leaflet will be distributed. * €¢ & XMAS EVE DANCE. NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—Bronx English Branch No. 1, of the Work- ers Party, has arranged an enter- tainment and dance to be held Christmas Eve, Wednesday, Dec. 24, at Workers Hall, 1347 Boston Road. A fine program of vocal and musical numbers is being prepared in addition to a good dance orch tra. Friendly organizations are urged to keep that date open. Communist Juniors In Flying Start on “Education Week” The Juniors got off to a flying start in their fight on “Education Week” whe veral hundred of them attend- ed a mass meeting at Imperial Hall, Sunday. William F. Kruse entertained the Juniors with a moving picture, de- picting the struggle of the workers for the emancipation of their class in many countries. The picture showed how the priests and teachers under the rule of the czar put on airs and lived the high life. Then the decrepit homes of the workers under the rule of the czar were shown. * Scenes were shown of the struggles of the workers in Germany against the capitalist class, and pictures of the children’s schools of Bolshevik Russia and their life under the rule of the workers’ and peasants’ Soviet government followed. The Juniors cheered pictures of the workings of the Soviet educational system, where the children are taught that they must always fight for the interests of the working class. The children had their own pro- stam, enacting a play showing how|' the Juniors fight “education week” propaganda in the schools when asked to recite patriotic poems and talk against the working class. The hall rang with the Juniors’ group yeils, Minnie Lourie and Lilian Borgeson spoke on the purpose of the Junior groups. Sou ton CHICAGO LABOR RED WEEK STAND HIT AT GOMPERS Fitzpatrick Did His Best for A. F. of L. Head The action of the Chicago Federation of Labor Sunday in instructing the schools commit- tee to draft a Jetter of protest against Education Week, charg- ing it is an attempt at cheap propaganda, is a blow at the policy of the Gomper's’ machine. Gompers strongly urges the Federation of Labor convention now meeting in El Paso to en- dorse “Education Week,” and the Chicago Federation of Labor delegates unmistakably regis- tered their protest against turn- ing the schools over to the American Legion. Happy Over “The Day” “It is propitious that the opening of ‘Education Week’ is on the same day that fhe convention of the American Federation of Labor convenes in El Paso, Texas,” writes Gompers in the November American Federationist, “and will thereby givé impetus to this much néeded sefvice.” It was thru no fault of President John Fitzpatrick that the Chicago ederation opposed “Education Week.” Fitzpattick had declared that the letter from Mathew Woll, asking the Chicago Federation of Labor to co-operate with the Legion in “educa- tion week” was up before the schoola committee. Fitzpatrick knew that the letter could not possibly be acted on in time to do any good as “educa- tion week” started yesterday. M. Ha- jushka, of the Men Teachers’ Federa- tion, however, brought the matter im- mediately before the meeting by moving that the schools committee draw up a protest against “educa- tion week.” Halushka declared that “education week is obviously an at- tempt of the American Legion to push some cheap propaganda into the pub- lic schools.” In spite of Fitzpatrick’s unwilling- — neses to see the Federation take any action, the motion of Halushka was unanimously passed. Fitzpatrick told the DAILY WORKER that he would refuse to make amy statement against education week. “If you fellows are against it,” said Fitzpatrick, meaning the Communist, “Then I guess I'm for it.” Fitzpatrick Confers With Gompers Fitzpatrick had a long conference with Gompers when the latter passed thru Chicago last week. It is not known whether egucation week was — discussed. Gompers, in the Federa- ~ tionist, urges “all labor organizations everywhere to co-operate with all bodies interested in the promotion © of education week.” Gompers thus ad- vises the Federations to ally them- selves with the strikebreakers and _ anti-laborites of the American Legion, (Sees Post Cards in Colors Something New and Different, Use them for your regular cor~ respondence. Have a set for your album. . 1—Lenin, directing the revolution . 2—Lenin, when 16 years old » 3—The Red Flag of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics Ree No. 4—The Russian state seal and emblem No. 5—Trotsky, commander of the Soviet Red Army ONE CARD 6 CENTS a ee ee eee i i In lots of 10 or more, 2c per card. | 1% In lots of 100 o more. end money order, check or post+ age to Literature Department WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA 1113 W. Washington Bly Chicago iil e Siro Secretary Wanted Women stenographer, competent to prepare manuscript for publica- tion. Must have extensive knowl- | edge of labor movement. 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