The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 30, 1924, Page 6

SAT. Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Tl. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $6.00 per year $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50...8 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. g. LOUIS {DAHL WILLIAM F. DI MORITZ J. LOEB. Chicago, IMlinals covesssomnseransorsanverneen FOG ILORS Business. Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. Efipe 290 Krassin Makes Them Mad Advertising rates on application Leonid Krassin, Soviet ambassador to France, has a habit of getting under the skins of bourgeois editors and one of the most susceptible to his tricks is our blatant and vulgar contemporary, the Chi- eago Tribune. The Communist diplomat declared in an inter- view to French journalists that the Soviet govern- ment would not undertake to pay to the big cay talists of France the money loaned by them to the ezar and which was used to crush the Rus: workers and peasants and keep them in slaver In fact a goodly portion of the money was ex- pended specifically in drowning in a sea of blood the revolution of 1905. Krassi id, however, that the Soviet govern- ment ling to consider payment of loans made to Russia by small investors. To the Chicago Tribune this is a most outrageous breach of the ethics of diplomacy. Here is a Rus- sian ambassador actually trying to widen the gulf between the French people who invested small sums in Russian loans during the czarist regime and the big plutes who invested millions! In addi- tion, is it not a repudiation of national debts? asks the indignant Trib. When a capitalist paper grows frantic ever Rus- sia’s refusal to pay blood money to the bloated robbers who participated in the murder of the Russian workers by proxy, it is treading on thin ice. France, the country where Krassin is playing his anti-capitalist pranks, has practically refused to pay the United States several billions of dollars, yet there is no question raised as to the right of France to be considered a member of the family of nations. What angers the Tribune is not Soviet Russia’s refusal to recognize the ezar’s debts, but the per- sistence with which the workers’ government holds true to the principles on which it is based, its championing of the oppressed of all lands and its utter hostility to the capitalist bloodsuckers. Soviet Russia stands like a beacon light to the subject classes of the world, guiding them on the road to their emancipation. Between Soviet Rus- sia, the symbol of proletarian rule, and the robber capitalist nations there can at best be only a truce between battles. That is why Krassin makes the Trib editorial writer’s bile travel in the direction of his brain. Dawes Plan Hitting Snags Germany is going to have another capitalist dictatorship, if Marx, Stresemann and company carry out their plans. It appears that the Dawes plan is not going over very smoothly. The radical workers under the influence of the Communists are carrying on a bitter campaign against it. The capitalist nations are fighting over the spoils that this infamous slave plan wrings from the bleeding bodies of the German workers. How the victorious allies can squeeze repara- tions loot out of Germany without killing their own markets and shutting up their own factories is the big question that is keeping the allied states- men awake nights. They have not yet solved that problem despite the galaxy of experts that have been thrown into the fray on the side of the dollar army. It will not be solved because it is beyond solution. The contradictions of capitalist society cannot be reconciled. There will be another capitalist dictatorship in Germany—very likely. But it will not last long. Capitalism in the period of its decline is resorting to all kinds of expedients to save itself. Like the proverbial drowning man it grasps at straws, only to meet the drowning man’s fate. The German workers will have their fill of capi- talist dictatorships, and all capitalist governments are dictatorships, open or veiled as suits the pur- pose. But conditions will compel them to choose between the capitalist dictatorship which now erushes them and the dictatorship of the workers and they will choose the latter. Until then there will be recurring crises in Germany and misery and want for the toilers. An amusing thing is a liberal. The editors of the New Republic, for example, run a vicious de- nunciation of Communists in general and Russian Communists in particular, asking “What have the Russian Communists done, anyhow?” We might vefer the editors of the New Republic to some of their good friends, but “What has the New Re- public ever done, anyhow?” King George and Mussolini are: both stamp col- lectors, At the risk of offending Adolph Ochs, owner of the New York Times, and Elbert H. Gary, head of the steel trust, patrons of these two rulers, we express the holiday wish that the two stamp collectors may soon have a chance to ahare their hobby in common—in exile, cians P THE DAILY WORKER.| ian] Oh, Well! The other day a “socialist” periodical arrived in the office of the DAILY WORKER, This is not a newspaper, on the front page of which were ar- ticles by that “great revolutionist,” the Reverend Norman Thomas and the cautious “rebel” Kirk- patrick, arrived in an envelope from the “publicity department” of the General Electric company, Schenectady, New York. The practice of great corporations, such as the General Electric company, of getting “labor” or “socialist” papers to print some “constructive” ar- ticles concerning the company, then “buyiog” for an exhorbitant sum a large number of copies which are sent out to all newspapers that might reprint or review the “puff” for the corporation—the prac- | tice of doing this kind of thing is getting to be old stuff in newspaperdom. Today we are under the obligation of comment- ing on another spectacle, shall we call it sad or repulsive? Anyhow, we picked up a copy of the Minneapolis Labor Review, which used to be a labor paper under the editor who used to be a labor editor—but which isn’t any more. In this paper we find the leading editorial is an attack on the Workers Party. The Workers Party, ys Cramer, “is not menacing—it is disgusting.” On the opposite side of the page there are two lvertisements which stand out as a subsidization f the Minneapolis Labor Review, begging pardon for the adjective “labor.” The Bell Telephone com- pany is one, and the other is none other than the Sinclair Refining company, the same one that smirched up Daugherty and Secretary Fall until we were unable to recognize them for petroleum and oil splattering down from Teapot Dome. Now, it is hardly a paying investment as far as immediate returns go for either the Bell Telephone trust or the Sinclair Refining company to spend chunks of money for ads in labor papers which are supposedly read by the workers only. If a worker can afford a telephone in his house he usual- ly get it regardless of ads, and again if he is so fortunate as to have a touring car or even a flivver, he will get his oil at the filling station whether it bears the Sinclair brand or any other subsidiary of the great oil trust. Advertisements of such things are merely bribes paid to the papers that get them. They are supposed to sit up and bark. Then the advertisements flow in regularly. The editor of the Minneapolis Review sits up and barks. He says the Workers Party is not menacing but disgusting. The Minneapolis Labor Review is both. Send in that new “sub” today! The T. U. E. L. Ball Besides being an entertaining event, the annual ball of the Trade Union Educational League, which takes place on New Year’s eve, is of great im- portance to the organized educational work that is carried on in the trade unions by the militants under the leadership of the industrial department of the Workers (Communist) Party. The T. U. E. L. needs funds to carry on this work and it is that consideration more than a de- sire to give radicals an opportunity to test their terpsichorian ability that the local committee planned the affair which which will take place at the West End Women’s Club, 37 South Ashland Blvd., next Wednesday evening. The recent re- vival of militancy in the trade union movement is manifested in the elections of the carpenters’ and miners’ unions. In several unions here in Chicago the radicals, under the leadership of the T. U. E. L., are putting up a splendid fight against the re- actionaries. The educational work carried on by the league requires funds. It is the duty of every Communist and every sympathizer to attend the ball on New Year’s eve and help supply the neces- sary sinews of war. Aside from that consideration we can promise you an interesting evening. We Simply Can’t Please Them According to news dispatches published in the capitalist press, the Russian people celebrated Christmas this year with as much gusto and swap- ping of gifts as they used to in the days of the ezar. It is even hinted that they partook of the cup that cheers in the form of vodka, which is, according to second-hand information, about as polite in the stomach as a mouthful of dynamite. The “e-r-0-0-!” Checka was not near so officious as the American army of prohibition agents. The Soviet government did not prohibit religious worship. The people could burst their breastbones in a paroxysm of pious crawthumping if they saw fit. In faet, they were allowed to enjoy themselves in their own way. The correspondents who raved last year over the public attacks on religion and superstition were equally scandalized this year because there were no anti-religious demonstrations. It is mighty hard to please those fellows. One can never tell what they want or how they want it. The Soviet gov- ernment being a busy institution, we might suggest to the capitalist scribes in Moscow that they might do well to advise the red government in advance what kind of copy their editors want, so that the necessary arrangements might be made to provide them withthe right material, Funny how many nasty things the capitalist press can say about the British labor union del- egates to the congress of the Russian unions be- cause they give an honest, favorable report on con- ditions of labor in Russia. As supporters of Ram- say they used tu be the acme of wisdom and honor, remarkable fact in itself, but the way in which it came was worth a bit of comment. This “socialist” TEXTILE SLAVES! This is TO SWALLOW DOSE OF HELL 'N MARIA Butler to Dig Claws Into Germany The New York Times of Dec. 24 carried the report that the Botany Consolidated Mills, Inc, one of the largest textile companies in the United States, had acquired an interest in two prominent German textile manufac- turing groups, the Kammgarnspin- nerei-Stohr & Co, and A. G. Elber- felder Textilwerke, A. G. The textile workers will watch these developments with more than passing interest It will be remembered that some months ago a number of the northern mills bought up a number of large textile plants in the south, which operated under unusually low wage scales. Almost immediately thereafter the northern mills announced a series of slashing wage cuts and the excuse given for this raid on the workers’ pay envelope was the pressure of “competition” of the southern mills, which were owned and operated by the northern textile interests. tI takes but little imagination, there- fore, to see that similar tactics will be used against the American textile workers in the very near future, in order to protect the “poverty-stricken” American textile barons from their ferocious German “competitors,” and then will be imported into the textile districts of this country, the terrible state of misery and want which has been the lot of the unfortunate Ger- man workers for the last few years. At the time of the taking over of the southern plants by their northern textile interests, the wide-awake and militant elements among the textile workers pointed out the necessity of organizing the southern workers for joint action against their employers. And so it should be the task of the American textile workers today to immediately establish an active con- tact with the textile workers of Ger- many so that they may combat effec- tively their mutual enemy, the Amer- ican capitalist. The way to form this fighting al liance is thru the International Propa- ganda Committee of the Textile Work- ers of the Red International of Labor Unions, Moscow. Coal Drivers to Strike Unless They Get Wage Increase Two thousand members of the Chi: cago Coal Teamsters’ Union will meet representatives of the coal merchants’ association this week to thrash out their demands for a 20 cents an hour raise in wages. The coal dealers de- clare they will stand pat on the pres- ent wages and are preparing for a strike. Drastic action is expected by the union unless the demands of the teamsters are met by Jan. 1. The teamsters now receive 70 cents an hour. They Work ten hours a day. REREEAEI Filipinos Denounce Syndicate. WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Syndi- cated stories appearing in various parts of the country picturing the Filipinos as a semi-barbarous people are denounced as untrue and intended to delay the promise the United States has made to give the Filipinos their independence, in a statement by the Philippine press bureau. In additional statements to be made public the next few days, it is announced. the interests that are exploiting the Filipinos and obstruct- ing independence will be revealed, it is declared. 5 Unions Fear Quack Doctors. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, 29.—Follow- ing a new medical fee schedule by the California industrial accident commission, the building trades unions have called a protest meeting. It is charged that minimum fees have in some cases been cut to as low as 50c a visit, at which rate no compe- tent surgeon would undertake a com- pensation case, and injured ‘workmen would be left to the merey of quacks. The unions also claim the commission is endeavoring to monopolize the compensation business for the benefit of a small group of organized insur- ance doctors. More Textile Wage Cuts. LOWELL, Mass, Dec, 29.—The Massachusetts, Appleton, Tremont and Suffolk cotton companies will reduce wages the first of the year say statements issued by the manage- ments. The mills are on part time but hours are to be increased, follow- ing the cut. Nearly half of Lowell's textile workers will be affected by the reduction, More Wage Cuts. NASHDA, N. H., Dec. 29.—A state- ment by Agents Walter Whipple of the Nashua Mills and W. H. Caldwell of the Jackson Mills that wages of 3,500 cotton mill workers will be re- duced the next few weeks has brought threats of strike from the workers. The company officials -_ ‘ a ‘ ay Policy sales what you must know in order to know What you must do We'll tell this story in BIG TYPE. We want it to stay with you so that you may tell it to others, And So They Said— “Here’s $75,000!” This happened just a year ago. The party membership and sympathizers piled up the sum of $75,000 with which to start the FIRST COMMUNIST DAILY in the English language in the world. January 13, 1924, The Historic Date! It was upon this date that the PIRST ISSUE of the DAILY WORKER appeared. We printed it and many issues thereafter in a print shop that WAS NOT OUR OWN, located in a building that WAS NOT OUR OWN. We Did Not Want to Be Considered Off-Color! We had a big responsibility upon our hands. We had to measure up to the trust nn in us. We had to act with GOOD RED COM- MON SENSE. We soon saw that printing the DAILY WORKER in somebody else's print shop would mean that some a“, this somebody else might say “OUT WITH YOU” —and then where would we go? Not many capitalist print shops care to print Commun- ist papers. So We Took Part of The $75,000 and Bought A First Class Plant. We bought FOUR PRESSES, SIX LINO-_ TYPES, STEREOTYPING OUTFIT, BIND- ERY MACHINERY, type, stones, stock, ink. It’s a BIG lay-out and there's no kind of printing we can't do. Then We Saw Another Danger Ahead. If a printer could refuse to print our DAILY WORKER, a landlord could easily refuse to house our printing plant. That is, if we put the big printing plant we Lg 9 into a rented building;'the owner of the building could also some day say to us “GET OUT”—and so we did what? fe took another part of the $75,000 and pro a building, the building that our national headquarters is located in. After All of Which _ : There Wasn’t Much Money Left. The sum of $75,000 is just that much. After buying a big printing plant and a big build- ing, there were not many dollars left with which to finance the DAILY WORKER. But we went right ahead and for nearly a year we published the daily without making a single call for help. But Now We Need Money And Need It at Once! We must look ahead. We'll only ahead by looking ahead. We must make the DAILY WORKER safe for 1925. Therefore, this campaign to INSURE THE DAILY WORKER FOR 1925. We want to make the DAILY WORKER so impregnable, so powerful, that it will weather all storms in the year to come. One Year Old on January 13, 1925. The DAILY WORKER will soon be one year old. Upon its first anniversary a BIG SPE- CIAL BIRTHDAY EDITION will be published. This BIG SPECIAL should be distributed nation-wide. Order your bundle now—100 copies for $2.00. Militant Branches Honored in the Big Special. The MILITANT BRANCHES of the Fork: Po have a place of honor in this ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL of the DAILY WORKER. Upon a page to be called the MILITANT PAGE, the names of all branches will ar that have remitted for INSURANCE POLICY sales be- fore January 8. These will be known as the MILITANT BRANCHES. It will be these branches that will greet the beginning of the a year of revolutionary service of our Ys ! Is your branch a militant branch? o Then remit for : | OD. UY bom bebsuaaahs - ¥\ ’ Tuesday, December 30, 1924 ‘ener SOVIET SCHOOL” HAS SUCCESSFUL DRAMATIC SHO Despite Competition of White Guards The performance of “Coal’ Miner Kort” given last Saturday at the So- viet School went off with the usual success. The hall was overcrowded in spite of the fact that the counter revolutionists were running their mov- ies on that night. shh The actors, almost all members ef the Technical Aid, succeeded in the interpretation of the bitter strugglé waged by the coal miners of Ural against the bosses and the’ white guards. An unusual incident happen- ed when in the last act the miners wining their battles began to sing the International. The audience stood up and joined in the signing. This, -bet- ter than anything else, shows the spirit of the Russian workers. The next affair of the Technical Ald Society will be the showing of “Pol- ikushka,” Thursday night, Jan.,16,:at Gartner’s Independent Theater, 3725 Roosevelt Road. : Southside Actors oe | i Present Drama of i Workingclass Life i om On Tuesday night “Salesmen ap Suckers,” a play by Comrade Shelley of the South Side English Branch was presented and acted by several mem? bers of the branch and their ds, “The South Side Players.” A good — audience tramped thoroug the, snow to see the play, and it is expected that as the news goes round many, more will come to the second performance § to be given later in some other south side neighborhood. x Lewis Gordon and Esther: Berman were very good as “Mr. and Mrs. Slick,” & young couple of “go-getters” who classify the whole world as “sales- men or suckers” They gave much sat- irical amusement to relieve the trag- edy of this litle play. Hubert. as “Jim” the sick war-veteran hug- band of “Olympia,” was very fine, He. spoke as simply as though he al “Olympia” were really discussing their difficulties alone; and there is: no surer way of making an audience. forget itself. Millie Babbin as the exploited: and victimized white girl, “M: r ; Bryant,” was so good that she had no. cause to feel the nervousness that affected her at first. Her voice was beautifully rich and she gave the part: a short of “oh, what’s the use?” swag- ger that was striking. I cannot praise too highly Elizabeth Griffin, who: played “Olympia,” the young wife: whose whole life was a battle : 8 poverty and disease. great poignancy and a real | under- standing of the role, and like Hubert Hunt, had the ability to make us for- get for minutes at a time that t ‘was not a real glipmse of a real ily. Hands are usually a great dif- ficulty for amateurs, but Elizabeth Griffin's beautiful and expressive hands were acting for her all the time! Her voice was flexible and ing. ‘ The play shows “Olympia” for the sordid young business and giving up the job because husband is very ill and she herself is exhausted. In one speech she lines up “Mrs, Slick” with the exploiters and herself with the working class— “Yes, it’s clase that counts— you said it! and I belong to the class!” Her man dies, and “O) ‘ and the children are in despair. Slick” turns up like a bad penny offers her a sordid “way out . she indignantly refuses, and after. ing to give “Margarete,” who has go on the streets, her job at the we leave her looking with glazed a desolate eyes at the shining which is the “only way out” that she can see. The play is based | 1m i] little news item, the suicide, | young widow who really lived on south side, and whose story, left of capitalist newspaper as ant,” was tqld Comrade Shelley In one scene. there was a, z discussion between “Jack Sharp” play ed by Norvel Allen very ably, aj “Rev, Gumble” played by res Lewis, that brought out the ft ut “pie in the sky when ; the necessity of solidarity all races in the class st Robinson as “Mrs, Jones” this scene,