The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 15, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER 1 | THE DAILY WORKER. (ar orb ae’ bi a0 dea ee ise mie ea Sa aa, Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00...8. months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2. $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER #113. W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... 8 months Chicago, Illinois weseersemniieenneccessseees DGItOTS om Business Manager t —— Mutered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post: | Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. | <> 20 In the Anthracite Region Not the least encouraging feature of the battle now being waged by the coal diggers in the | Scranton district, against the coal companies and | the bureaucratic officialdom of the United Mine Workers of America, is the stendency displayed by the miners to rely on- their-own efforts and on their collective power rather than on the promises of class collaborating officials and capitalist medi- ators. To date the main efforts of the agents of John L. Lewis seems to be in the direction of driving the miners back into the mines at all costs and regard- less of conditions.. The renegade Cappellini, who was elected to his:present position under the illu- sion that he was a radical, is now between two fires. The Lewis gang whom he displaced has no love for him and the miners he betrayed have still less. That the miners have lost confidence in him is shown by the fact that despite the assistance of a government “mediator” the miners have refused to accept Cappellini’s proposals and are acting on their own initiative. The miners will win their immediate demands if they persist in their present policy of refusing to allow the bosses thru Lewis and his agents to pull the wool over their eyes. But unless the rebellion of which the Scranton affair is symtomatie is or- ganized and linked up with the progressive move- ment in the U. M. W. A. ona national scale the present splendid fight will be futile to a great ex- tent. The Progressive Miners’ International Commit- tee is blamed by the Lewis stoolpigeons for the strike in order to Scare the miners. But that fright will not last long. The coal diggers will soon realize that they have nothing to fear from the radicals but that on the contrary their leadership is vitally needed if they are to get outof the bondage of the coal barons and their labor lackeys who dominate the miners’ union. There is a splendid opportunity and a vital need for the work of the Trade Union Educational League in the miners’ union. That this work is bearing fruit is proved by the attacks of the Lewis henchmen. Advertising rates on application | | William Randolph Hearst, in boosting for a large navy declares that he is a pacifist, but thinks that in order to have peace we must first have several wars. When the United States capitalists have the rest of the world*tnder their heel, then we may be able to enjoy peace. But long before then the working ‘class of the world will enforce peace by eliminating the ‘capitalist system. The workers are not pacifists either, Mr. Hearst. In the notoriety given by the capitalist press to the passing away of Samuel Gompers, the death of August Belmont, traction multi-millionaire, was slightly eclipsed. Since Sammy and August were bosom companions, however, in the pet organiza- tion of the class collaborationists, the national civie federation, they can even things up in the next world, in which they both so devoutly be- lieved. Count Leo Tolstoi’s niece is not as good a drawing card as the Duchess Cyril. Joseph Pu- Liberating Education The intense energy displayed by big business in combatting every attack on child labor, finds, its conterpart in the renewed efforts on the part of the big. capitalists to control education, If the brain-numbed children of the working class escape the factory prisons, and win an entrance into. the much boasted American educational sys- tem, they. find that “the dope” is there. awaiting them, in proper quantities and qualities. to. hold them in its power, The “higher institutions” of learning set, the pace for the public school system. It isin the colleges and the universities that big . business sinks its gold as a contaminating influence over all education. There is now a Tobacco University, added to the long list of subsidized seats of learning. J. B. Duke, the tobacco king, employer, of child. and woman labor, out of his swollen profits has set aside $40,000,000 for Trinity College, at Durham, N. C., that will hereafter be known as Duke Uni- versity. Thus another polluting stream of knowl- edge will be added to the many now gushing in- tellectual poisoh, To labor long hours under. in- human conditions in the tobacco fields and fac- tories of “the south” will be heralded as god’s decree, against which no one should rebel. A. group of trustees will see to it that the $40,- 000,000 are properly spent. This group includes such notorious specimens of the enemy capitalist class as the president of the Garland Steamship Corp., the president of the Copper Plate and Tube Co., directors of the Southern Power Co., and the vice-president and secretary of the United Retail Stores Corp., the giant distributing organization of the tobacco trust. The Tobacco University is the latest addition toa long list of similarly endowed outfits, Among the first on the list was the Chicago university of oil, backed by the Rockefeller millions. Then came the} Pittsburgh university of steel,endowed by the multi-| millions of the United States Steel corporation; Harvard’s university of power, supported by the New England public utility lords; Montana’s uni- versity of copper, dominated by the Anaconda cop- per trust, the Kodak university at Rochester, N. Y., of the Eastman Kodak trust, and Columbia’s university of Wall Street, under the influence of Morgan. Some of the gifts that have brought educators, religious leaders and charity workers, completely under the thumb of the almighty dollar in ‘recent years, are given as follows: ° John D. Rockefeller..........$575,000,000 Andrew Carnegie .. 350,004,000 Henry C. Frick... 85,000,000 Milton S. Hershey 60,000,000 George Eastman 58,000,000 James B. Duke... 41,500,000 Mrs, Russell Sage. 40,000,000 Henry Phipps ... 31,650,000 Benjamin Altman 30,100,000 John Stewart Kennedy. 30,000,000 John W. Sterling 20,000,000 George F. Baker .. 11,900,000 All of this wealth has been stolen “from Jabor. This surplus has been stolen from the workers to be used against them. Yet this well-nigh im- pregnable position of the capitalist-class .would| crumble if labor would but unite its numbers in the revolutionary struggle for its emancipation. Education can only be liberated from the con- taminating influence of capitalism, thru the de- struction of capitalism itself. That work of libera- tion is the task of the working class itself. Peruvian Workers Revolt A revolt is on in Peru against the dictatorship of American capital and President Liguia, its lackey. It will surprise most American workers to know that in this little state in the northwest portion of South America there is a. semi-labor, semi-peasant organization of Indian workers. num- bering close to 2,000,000 and that it had a delegate at the Third Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions and is now a part of that reyolution- ary union body. The agrarian problem is the major question in | Tone for the senate. litzer, owner of the New York World, gave a din-| Per. The bulk of the workers labor for the owners ner in honor of the latter. Joseph is a democrat.| of large estates, but some thousands are employed The Countess Tolstoi declares that Cyril’s stocks|in the silver and copper mines. Peru is rich in ANOTHER LABOR LEADER SELLS OUT TO BOSSES “Labor” Senator Gets on Bosses Payroll (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 14.— Another “friend of labor” elected on the democratic ticket to the Con-| necticut legislature by the aid of the) workers’ votes has at last succumbed to the fleshpots of Egypt. He is Sen- ator Joseph Tone, former organizer of the International Association of Machinists and prominent leader in} the shopmen’s strike against the New| York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road, from which he now accepts a lucrative position. Senator Tone was elected senator because of the popularity he enjoyed among the workers thru his activity in the strike that started in 1922, He traveled all over the New Haven sys- tem exhorting the strikers to hold out to the bitter end. He was one of the most aggressive in attacking the New Haven for its refusal to treat with) the men, The strikers who now look | upon him as a traitor are not so cer- tain but he was then as now on the railroad payroll. Workers Nominate Tone. The strike was four months old when the workers of the tenth district in New Haven decided to nominate After his elec- tion Tone displayed a strange apathy in carrying out his promises. The New Haven lobbyists had several bills saddling the cost of bridges on | cities and towns ,but instead of Tone being on his uppers attacking the New Haven bills he was off on a junketing | trip over that company’s lines on “business of state” as he explained. Fought With His Mouth. The workers, confiding and gullible, accepted Tone’s excuses. At this time | he persisted in attacking the railroad | but the fighting was all done with his | mouth. He even put forward the de- ception that he was “boring from) within” the magnate’s ranks and get- ting “valuable information.” When the LaFollette movement swept the farmer-labor party before it and rallied millions of workers be- hind the Wisconsin senator, Tone, see- ing a big thing as he thought, hopped on the bandwagon. But when he failed to secure the LaFollette * en- dorsement, his enthusiasm for that gentleman’s movement waried rapidly. Strikers Were Deluded. In the last election Tone was the only democrat elected from New Haven, largely because of his populari- ty during the strike. The deluded strikers expected great: things from him in the legislature, but this’ week he was appointed freight agent of the New York, Ontario and Western rail- road which is one of the chief sub- sidiaries of the New Haven: Hundreds of those who quit their jobs on the New Hayen in 1922 are still on strike and facing a bitter winter. The Judas who drew his salary from the Machinists’ Union during the strike is now in the open employ of the enemy. Views of Our Reader A Bulgarian Comrade Explains. To the DAILY WORKER: The special correspondent of the Duluth Herald and the Chicago Daily News Foreign Service, A. R. Decker, spills alligator tears over the Bulgarian farmers who, he claims, just cannot help going over to Communism unless the capitalists of the United States hurry up and send them ‘a Dawes plan. That the bloody reign of the Bul- garian bourgeoisie is crumbling and that the farmers are rapidly going over to the Communist Party is true but that Dawes plans or any capital- ist schemes whereby it can save na- in Paris are far below those of Grand Duke! natural resources and long ago attracted the Nicholai Nickolaivitch. But. the czar’s are away|@varicious gaze of English and American capi below both. talists. The present revolt appears to be a joint effort tions from the rightful leadership of workers will take with the Bulgarian workers is a false notion and the elo- quent correspondent for the kept press may just as well save his There is an explosion in a loop garment factory | On the part of the working class proper, and the | >reath. and immediately the capitalist press circulates the| intellectuals who want national independence. In Bulgaria Knows Better, It is too late. Tho the reactionaries report that it is the work of “labor agitators.” The | this it is the forerunner of other revolts all over|who killed Stamboulitsky and brot Police are responsible for the yarn. The capitalist| Latin-America that are bound to arise as the] on a reign of terror against all Com- press is one of the most effective weapons in the | masses of the people come to understand that|™unists, hands of the employers. Another good reason why | American capitalism in South America is synon- the workers should support their own organ, The | ymous with slavery. DAILY WORKER. ‘The Grand Duchess Cyril of Russia (that’s what | Mexican labor movement taking a leading part in the lady calls herself) is mixing business with|launching a continent-wide movement against politics. She may not be able to convince many people that she has mucli of a chance to line up| America against aggression from the north, any support for her husbaid’s ambitions, now| This explains the Gompers-Morones attack on killing and imprisoning them, and starving their families, still reign over Bulgaria spilling the blood of the workers, the united front ‘The task of Gompers at the Pan-American Feder-|among the Bulgarian workers and ation of Labor convention was to prevent the|f@rmers and the Macedonian revolu- tionists is deeprooted, and the days of the bourgeois kingdom are counted. Any day may see the final crash— American imperialism, to halt the unity of Latin-|George Zaickot. . Klan. Weekly Runs Out of Kash. To the DAILY WORKER: The ‘that Gompers is dead, but she has half a million] the Communist Party which initiates a drive for | minois Kourier, a Ku Klux Klan Nig- ‘dollars’ worth of gems that she wants to turn into| linking up the scattered protests and revolts cash. prevent the crushing of mass movements like that The Italian government asked Harry F. Sin-| mow under way in Peru. clair for information about the teapot dome scan- dal and Harry got sore and renounced his oil con-| ‘Two more universities sink deeper in oil. Rocke- cessions in Italy. The man who could purchase | feller has just handed the University of Minnesota the government of a mighty nation was not going | $1,250,000 and. given $100,000. more to Skidmore | constantly to be insulted by a bandit chief like Mussolini. cises at these two goosestep institutions will here- Get a member for the Workers Party and a new| after be opened daily with the singing of “Praise subscription for the DAILY WORKER Oil from Which All Blessings Plow.” } into | er-baiting weekly, which has con- a gigantic organization that can and“will act to | 8t#2tly played on the delicate strings of sex, in order to stir up anti-Negro prejudices, failed to appear on the news stands the last two weeks, and must have given up the ghost. Nig- ger baiting did not prove so success: ful to this Ku Klux weekly, While alive, the Illinois Kourier, attacked the DAILY College, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y, Chapel exer-| WORKER, calling same an un-Amer- {ean newspaper. The DAILY WORK- ER is still thriving and flourishing, while the Klux rag 1s no more—Gor-| The “Christmas season”. don W. Owens, By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN, Timas Wifred, the inventor of the clavilux, an instrument for projecting light in abstract forms, gave a recital at the Blackstone theater last Sunday afternoon. The use of the principles of color, and design in abstract forms is, of course, nothing new. Painted on @ canvass the result'is a pattern, pretty to look at but simply a pattern. With the introduction of rhythmic motion, a new art is produced. This is what Wiilfred has done. His instrument looks like a group of four long, narrow and deep steel boxes set some twenty feet from an ordinary motion picture screen. From this instrument designs are thrown onto the screen. It is difficult and all but impossible to describe them in words. One of his studies consisted of a large triangle outlined in red at the start, widening out in white, changing to a green one, back to the red triangle, always in motion, always surrounded by the most gorgeous halo of orange and purple. “The use of vertical design,” said Wilfred, “tends to call up ideas of in- flinity, while horizontal motion sug- gests concrete ideas.” As an example of the latter he played a work that looked like a formless mass of bars moving backward and forward before a sun whose rays were red and orange and green. The whole resembled some of the cubist impressions of machinery that used to be run occas: jonally in “The Liberator.” He played a short composition call- ed “Grotesque.” Shapeless forms of black and white flashed jerkily on the screen. They seemed to wiggle in a sort of jazz rhythm. It was distinctly funny, and yet there was no attempt at a picture. One laughed at an ab |stract pattern in black and white. Wilfred also built up a picture of a seacoast. There was a motion of long waves in green up to a gray horizon. There were sunsets over the sea such as never occurred on this earth. The sun rose in five seconds to the zenith and its rays were blue, orange and | violet. But no amount of words can convey an impression of this wonderful new art. Its possibilities are limitless, and its value is beyond calculation. WHAT CAUSES OUR POORNESS? Part 3. To get a clearer understanding of how the workers are being robbed in a capitalist government we will take a look into the sums of money made by the United States Steel corpora- tion of which Elbert H. Gary is the owner. Capitalist Gary during the months of July, August, and Septem. you see how much this is? Now find out how much Capitalist Gary makes in one week, in one day. Ask your father how much he can all learn by these examples. And bear this ever in mind. Capi- not work as hard as our fathers do up. The capitalists can pile up their to push the gunmen and t ber of this year made $30,718,415. Do makes in one day and send a letter to the Children’s Column so that we talist Gary or any other capitalist does He only looks on while his riches pile HEY, BROTHER G tve ME A CHANCE , NoW!! HANCE , NOW Ae csi SEX AND RACE Book Review. By MIRIAM ALLEN DeFORD. —~ | The, Dominant Sex The thesis of the author of “The Dominant Sex” may, be briefly stated thus; We are living in an era of masculine’ dominance. The’ qualities which we are pleased to call mascul- ine and .to-.consider as secondary or tertiary sexual characters’ are for the most part not masculine,\but sim- ply the normal qualities ‘of the dom- inant sex, be that sex male or female Conversely, ‘most of the qualities we call feminine are not feminine, but those of the subordinate sex. To.illustrate and verify this prin- ciple, the .Vaertings have devoted nearly 300 pages to examples from contemporary peoples ‘now or recent- ly under-female dominance, and from the history of ancient peoples in the same phase of social development, most of all from Egypt, a civilized state for thousands of years under the regimen of women. , Women As Rulers Where women rule, the authors shows, women are the wooers. The man is given in marriage, and is ex- pected to be chaste before and after, displaying the modesty and “in- nocence” that today are taken as feminine traits. The women on the other hand are sexually as well as politically and economically free. It is the custom in women’s states for men to marry wives older than themselves. Youthful marriage is in- cumbent on the men, who are dis- graced if they do not obey it; it is of no moment as regards women. Birth control is legal as a matter of course, and female prostitution is un- known. There is even a tendency toward male prostitution. Among the Kamchadales, of Kam- chatka, the men are absolutely de- pendent on the women, the men at- tending the household affairs and the children, while the women do all out- side work. Inferior Physically Weak But what about the inferior physical strength of women? The authors show that this too.is.a subordinate sex characteristic. It is the sex whic} sits at home over the loom or th; cook-stove which is physically weak- er; it is the sex which goes about the world earning in living which is not only stronger, ‘but larger. Under ‘sex equality, the two sexes, are about even in strength and size, just as many animals are. Moreover, it is the subordinate sex which is plump and prettily curved, while the domin- ant sex is lean and hard muscled. This holds good whichever sex is dom- ‘inant. In every state the dominant sex is considered to excel in intel- ligence the subordinate+ in beauty. Among the women soldiers of Dahom- ey in Africa the reproach for coward- ice is “You are a man. Historically the present male phase will end in an era of female domin- ance. The Vaertings hope that we have advanced sufficiently to arrest the movement at the equal rights stage, in every way the best for both sexes and for humanity in general. The Dominant Sex, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting (translated by Eden and Cedar Paul); George H. Doran, Co., New York, $3. Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum, A Dollar a Month. That charity worker, Bothers me to death, Telling me how to save A dollar a month. T hire that flat So the sun can shine On my little girl that’s sick. Ain’t that worth A dollar a month? I love my child, When I am out washing, I know that the sun is shining On my little girl that’s sick. Ain’t that worth A dollar a month? I'd just like to tell That charity worker, Lots of things, As well as how to save A dollar a month. —Margaret Loring Thomas. money from fathers’ earnings be- cause the capitalist system we live under helps them, 4 Those workers who do not under- stand thé “eatise of. this ‘poorness and do not seé any way out of it wani to die. But those workers who under- stand have joined the Communist Party to work. to destroy this system. “When this system will be destroyed and Communism take its place, the workers and not the capitalists wil’ rule. The workers will get the ful benefits of their labor. There will be no rich living on the labor of the poor. Gary will have to go to worl. like the rest of us. In Russia there was a revolution of the workers against the capitalists Thru the great leadership of Com. rade Lenin and the ardent persever. ence of our wonderful, self-sacrificing Russian comrades, the masses won! And in Russia there is a WORKERS’ “ONE BANDIT TO ANOTHER!” GOVERNMENT! But the workers of America are alsc beginning to understand and we little juniors as we learn more and more about the cause of our poorness will go out and tell other workers until We all together will destroy this capi- talist government and pat up in its place a workers’ Soviet government. The End. Review of “Orphans of the Storm” By A Junior Age 13 The capitalists cover up the naked truth with veils of lies in which they state they present her to the children in school, When the children grow into manhood and womanhood the capitalists fear the evils of lies will not be sufficient so they reinforce them in many ways. They tell you to look at truth how beautiful she is and when you want to remove the veils to see her you are prohibited thru different plots. One of the new veils to cover up truth is the motion picture “Orphans of the Storm” written by that superb liar D. W. Griffith. The whole story is written to say “Bolshevism is ter- rible.” The program gives an introduction to the play. Any person who thinks for himself immediately see the wil- ful misrepresentation of facts. For instance, the inference Is made that Bolshevism and anarchism is one and the same thing when everyone knows they are entirely opposed to each other. In the play Griffith makes one char- acter interpret what he wants us. to believe is a noble capitalist soul. Van- drey, (I believe I got his name right) an aristocrat, after being served by his servants and after eating his fill, walks out of the house where he sees some starved workers crying for a crumb of bread, which he gives them. But we juniors ask Mr. Griffith why should workers who make everything have to beg for bread? And we want to teil him that we, the workers don’t want charity. We are the creators of all things and we want all in return, Juniors, children of the working class, we will not listen trustingly to their lies. We will measure. every- thing with a class conscious point of view, use our common sense and sho; such liars as Griffith and the rest, them that their days for foo workers are over. ee Juniors, Send Pictures, ia Look around on this page