The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 5, 1925, Page 6

he m Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Mlk (Phone: Munroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $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 $2.5 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Blvd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL { WILLIAM F. DUNNE Editors MORITZ J. LOEB veisesseenseenescies BUSINESS Manager Chicago, Hlineis ————————— Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. Sp 250 Advertising rates op application ee Amsterdamers Nervous It is amusing to observe the antics of the Amster- damers when any of their number appears to be, by reason of wide rank and file pressure, driven over to the left enough to make some speeches with a class struggle, not to say a Communist, tone. The executive of the Amsterdam International met at that city on December 1, while the cables were burning with the news from Moscow that the British labor delegation, visiting the Sixth All- Russian Congress of Labor Uniorts at Moscow, had imbibed of the Bolshevik atmosphere and were in both speech and writing hailing the Soviet gov- ernment as the hope of the world and the citadel of working class emancipation. The British delegation, it must be remembered, was headed by Purcell, who is also the president of the Amsterdam International, and who was leading the hurrah in Moscow for everything he saw in the land of proletarian dictatorship. The remaining members of the Amsterdam or- ganization, huddled under the wing (the right wing) of Jouhaux and Oudegeest in the little sea- port of Holland, looked at one another in amaze- ment and consternation. “What bug had bitten Purcell? The British will bring ruin upon us all!” Thus we conceive the thoughts of the nervous reformists at the seduction of their president by ‘the wily Bolsheviks. But, as Losovsky of the Profintern says, “When- ever there is a particularly dirty piece of business to do, the Amsterdamers assign Oudegeest to the job.” Oudegeest is the most able reactionary of the three secretaries of the Amsterdam Interna- tional. So, in his secretarial capacity, Oudegeest made up the press report which goes to all the world, telling of what the Amsterdam executive thinks of such goings on. And this is what we find on page one of Press Report 49: “With regard to the attitude of Purcell in Rus- sia, it was pointed out in the discussions of the executive, that Purcell did not go to Russia as representative of the I. F, T. U. (Amsterdam In- ternational), and that therefore he is only person- ally responsible for his utterances in or about Russia.” Again, on page two we find the following dis- claimer of any “unofficial” conversations between Purcell and the Russian unions regarding the burn- ing question of world unity of all labor unions: “The president of the I. F. T. U., A. A. Purcell, who is at present in Russia as leader of the delega- tion of British trade unions to that country, has on several occasions spoken of the relations be- tween Amsterdam and Moscow, and in the press these speeches have been connected with the nego- tiations between the I. F. T. U. and the Russian trade unions. It is obvious that the negotiations with Moscow are conducted by the Amsterdam executive exclusively on the basis of the Vienna resolutions, and that no definite resolution can be taken before the meeting of the I. F. T. U. general council, which has been fixed for the beginning of February.” Thus does Oudegeest rescue the fair name of Amsterdam and wash his hands of responsibility for the Amsterdam president who appears afflicted with the “virus of Moscow.” But the masses continue to go left. Let the Scissors Talk A stoolpigeon carrying an Associated Press com- mission is making the rounds of Russia in search of local color to embellish his lying campaign against the Soviet Republic. He has already painted the Ukraine and Georgia. He is now doing Kazan, in the Tartar Republic. It is interesting to note what makes his heart bleed, so instead of arguing with him we use the scissors: “The granite and bronze monuments to Alex- ander II. and other historical figures of Russia have been wrecked and replaced with harsh Com- munistie figures of workmen. From all flagpoles the red flag of the revolution flies. To many it is only that grim reminder of the spiritual death ef the city, which has been in Russia’s possession since the days of Ivan the Terrible.” That is sad, indeed! No doubt the American workers will weep salt tears when they learn that the brawny figures of Rugsian workers are sub- stituted for the imbecile face of the czar. But the erst 18 yet to come: “The churches present an especially melancholy sight. They are in full process of decay. The clergy are to poor to repaint them. Many of them have closed their dors. Others have been converted into Communistie clubs or barracks. The cor- respondent visited the largest of the churches, the famous convent of the Virgin Mother, where mass was in progress. The priests and nuns were more numerous than the congregation, which numbered exactly six persons.” The scissors are eloquent. Comment would be like painting a rummy’s nose ‘ Hoover Is Cheerial New Year’s day finds the American people liv- ing better than at any other period in the history of this country, declares the rotund Herbert Hoover, in a booster interview to a news distribut- ing agency. The people'live longer and better and their living standards are going up so rapidly that within a short time every man’s home will be his castle in the literal sense as the workers are no longer satisfied with hall bedrooms in which a person cannot even change his*mind without scratching the walls of his brain cell. The work- ers are now demanding flats and individual houses and they are getting them, according to the jolly Herbert. This will be exciting news for the thousands of unemployed miners in Ililnois, for the thousands of unemployed textile workers and for the hun- dreds of thousands all over the country willing to work, but who cannot work because the boss who owns the shops will not permit them. This country is wealthy. On that point we are in perfect accord with Herbert Hoover. But the wealth of this country was built by the workers and we believe it belongs to the workers. The New Year’s resolution that Hoover would wish the toilers to make is, be thankful for being allowed to live in a country like this. We urge the workers to make a resolution that during the coming year they will redouble their efforts to perfect their economic organizations to fight for more of the products of their toil and to join the only political party of labor in America that aims to mobilize the workers for the political struggle against the master class for the overthrow of capi- talism and the organization of the Workers’ Soviet Republic of America. That party is the Workers (Communist) -Party. The New Suicide Squad Dispatches tell of the arrest of Comrade Ruth Fischer, of the German Communist Party, in Vienna. The dispatches state openly that her ar- rest was ordered by the British authorities and that it is part of a new drive against the Com- munists thruout eastern Europe and particularly in the Balkans. Some days ago we stated that the tour of Austen Chamberlain, British foreign minister, thru the European capitals—the vatican was included for the very good reason that it insists on being de- clared in on any dirty work that is on foot—was for the purpose of organizing a new offensive against Soviet Russia and the Communist Inter- national. The dispatches from Europe confirm our statement. Central and eastern Europe have passed the ar- tificial period of stability secured by liberal injec- tions of alNed gold into the yeins of the anemic paper republics of these territories and the national economics are definitely on the down grade. In Egypt, India and Morocco there are great nation- alist movements. In China, Soviet Russia has taken the initiative away from western imperial- ism. The Balkan puppet governments are shaken by great revolts of the peasants and workers and the federation of workers’ and peasants’ republics of the Balkans, proposed by the Communists, has stirred the masses of these nations. Great Britain, altho France offers no opposition at present, has undertaken an impossible task— that of uniting tottering European capitalism against Soviet Russia. These alliances are doomed before they are consummated because of the na- tional rivalries of the rulers and the dissatisfaction of the working class they oppress. Such a coalition must wage war on Soviet Russia and Great Britain will find that this time she will not have her usual success in getting some other nation to do her fighting for her. This is not the Europe of 1914 or even of 1918-19. Today the moment that any army leaves its home base for an offensive against Soviet Russia it has a hostile rear. In addition to that all the armies are needed at home to crush the revolts of the native workers. This is their principal function. A war against Soviet Russia today is suicide for capitalism and Great Britain knows this so well that she sets up as shock troops little nations far removed from the center of British capitalism. The new offensive against the’ Communists and Soviet Russia is testimony, not to the strength but to the weakness of the European exploiters and oppressors. Calvin Coolidge is a republican. M. Vandervelde of Belgium is a socialist. Coolidge favors peace, then signs a bill appropriating $110,000,000 for increasing the efficiency of the navy. Vandervelde makes the following statement: “We do not ignore the necessities of national defense. We are certain- ly internationalist and anti-militarist and hate war, but we recognize that the nation must have a military defense force.” . Ramsay MacDonald recently delivered a speech on golf. He regretted that the game was not so cheap today 2s it was in the past. He urged a movement to bring golf within reach of. the masses, Why not automobiles and shares in biscuit fac- tories, Mac? Tie new republic of Mongolia is showing a tendency to follow in the footsteps of Soviet Rus- sia. This is putting it mildly, judging from the fact that no employers of labor can yote in that coun- try, and that the flag of the republic is red. The American eapitalist press, formerly enthu- siastic cdi of Mussolini (with few excep- tions), has receAved his latest decision to suppress the oppositioy newspapers without any show of enthusiasm. ven Arthur Brisbane failed to rise to the occasion, '| “justice,” Monday, January 5, 1925 Concentrated Propaganda, Incorporated By MORITZ J. LOEB. ERY fey realise the significance of recent organizational changes which have been effected recently in our party with regards the party press. For the first time serious ef- forts are being made to centralize the party’s English language press; to bring into one organization the activ- ity for the development of that trin- ity of powerful organizers, educators and propagandists of our party,—The DAILY WORKER, The Workers Monthly and the Literature Depart- ment, More exactly stated, for the first time these serious efforts are bringing real results. For the truth of the matter is that the plans and the resultant efforts were started more than six months ago these are now beginning to bear fruit, Why Centralization? | YEAR ago the party press situa- tion was a model of decentral- ization and disorganization. We had a weekly Worker with its editorial and administrative departments in one place; the type was set in another and the press work was done in still another. There were three monthly magazines published under our con- trol, The Labor Herald, The Liber- ator, and Soviet Russia Pictorial, all with separate editorial and business departments and all making separate printing arrangements, There was the Literature Department also apart from the rest of the party’s press. Thou- sands of dollars were being wasted every year in the payment of wages alone to party employes who though they were necessary perhaps fo turn out the work were a needless drain upon the party resources. UT this was not the worst of it. Combined with the extravagent and inefficient production arrangement was the most confusing and chaotic system of distribution imaginable. At the top there were the various busi- ness administrations, competing with each other for the attention and activ- ity of the party members. Below were the party units and the individual par- ty members, confused, discouraged Communist movement, the distribution of the party press, The result was what might have been expected. In not one of the printed propaganda institutions of the party was any pro- gress being made. Instead there was stagnation and decay; decreasing cir- culation all down the line, _ The Plan and the Effort | 'HE first step which made central- ization possible was decision to buy a printing plant for THE DAILY WORKER and a building to house the plant and the national headquarters of the party. But before even this was done the outline of the plans were made for the complete centralization of the party’s press. It was decided that the English language press must be made a unit from the standpoint both of administration and* distribu- tion. T was not an easy task even to made the plans. Many obstacles stood in the way. Special interests of the various departments of the party had to be provided for. ‘But the principle was established as long ago as last January and ever since then the ad- ministration of THE DAILY WORK- ER has been at work to draft the proper program, It was at first decided to bring all of the three monthly magazines under- the management of THE DAILY WORKER administration. But it later became apparent that the party was not big enough nor strong enough to give successful support to three monthly magazines. It was therefore decided to amalgamate the three into one larger magazine. | First Fruits | 'HE WORKERS MONTHLY is in its third issue. Already it has more than twice the paid circulation than any of its predecessors! This is not to be taken as a reflection on the Labor Herald, The Liberator or Soviet Russia Pictorial. Centralization is the reason! ENTRALIZING The Workers Monthly with the administration of THE DAILY WORKER has been and for the most part inactive in one of the most important tasks of the the first big step in the general cen- have already made themselves appar- ent. In the first place there has been a tremendous saving in overhead ex- pences amounting to over $12,000 a year in wages alone. For in place of the various editors there is now one editor and no assist- ants and in place of the various man- agers and assistants there is the staff of THE DAILY WORKER with the sole addition of one girl helper in the office. UT it is not in this overhead econ- omy that the greatest benefits are derived. Nor even from the im- provement of the quality in our month- ly official organ that must result from the centering*of effort, does the great- est advantage come. It is the cen- tralizing- for work, work in the field distributing The. Workers Monthly and THE DAILY WORKER which is the strongest, longest step in advance. NE of the most important tasks which THE DAILY WORKER has been trying to accomplish has been the organization of agents to sell subscriptions and in other ways represent THE DAILY WORKER in the field. While we have made only a beginning in this direction, much has already been-accomplished. The or- ganization of The Daily Worker Build- ers has been a further development of the central idea that the backbone of our press must be the organization machinery which gives our publica- tions distribution, The results so far have proven the correctness of this standpoint. ‘HE centralization of the party press is going to work two ways. First of all it is going to strengthen the organization and effe ciency of this distribution machinery” and secondly it is going to work for the immediate and constant improvement of the cir- culation building activities. As has already been said, the cir- culation of The Workers Monthly is already more than twice that of any of its predecessors. This was due al. most wholely to the fact that there has been a concentration of sales ef- forts. All of the agents of THE DAIL- and assistants! LY WORKER have been doing like- wise. The result has been that in the tralization program. The advantages two months since The Workers Month- ly was started more subscriptions have been sold than for any of the other - three magazines during the past year, ‘HE centralization is already brings } results! What its effects on the circulation\of THE DAILY WORKER itself will be cannot yet be deter- mined but it is certain that the cir- culation work of THE DAILY WORK- ER will he assisted a great deal, ‘HE next step in the centralization program will be the bringing of activities of the party literature de partment under the management. of THE DAILY WORKER. For a party the size of ours, we distribute an -ex- tremely small amount of books and pamphlets. When it is considered that by means of propaganda and | education contained in these publica- tions we must hope to develop Com- munist understanding and Communist spirit, it must be said that the party has seriously neglected one of its most important tasks. The one ex- cuse for this neglect has been pover- | ty, but it is not a valid one. The liter | ature department of the party can be developed into a profitable one from the financial as well as the educational point of view. What is needed is a proper dis- tribution machinery. That is what the centralization is going to provide, When the sale of boks and pamphlets is in the same hands as the sale of our periodicals, then for the first time our literature will receive the atten- tion which it must have and which it deserves, HAVE gone to some length in deal. ing with this subject, yet in view of its importance I feel that too much cannot be said. For it is not simply a matter of mechanical centralization of the production and administration of our party press. It is a real cen- tralization for work by reason of which for the first time the distribu. tion of our press and its wide and deep peneration of the masses becomes possible, ; se dn subsequent articles | will dea with the nature of the work of party press distributors and suggests how this work can be most effectively or ganized and ‘performed—M. J. L. Views of Our Readers on Many Subjects Plea for Sacco-Vanzetti. To the DAILY WORKER:—In spite of the new evidence that has come to grant a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti. Here is but another bit add- ed to the monstrous mass of facts to show what sort of “justice” and “equality” militant workers can get in American courts. Unless the work ers compel otherwise, two more work- ing class fighters will have been judi- cially murdered. And at once the mind is irresistibly impelled to note the many points of similarity between the murders of Communists and other revolutionists by the fascisti of Eu- rope and the murders by our courts. Workers, what difference is there between the black shirts of the fas- cisti and the black shirts of our judg- es? Both are worn by our enemies sworn to break every militant organ- ization and murder every fighter of the working class;.both are backed up by the power of the capitalist state and are but the tools and agents of the bankers, bosses and landlords of the world, Yes, what difference is there between the black shirts, east and west? Both are the black shirts of reaction. One is the coarse black shirt of the brutal hangman, plying his bloody business with bullet and bayonet; the other is the silk black shirt of the Judas, with his treacher- ous phrases of “equality before the law” and “justice for all” and his ferocious betrayals “within the law.” Far better is the grankness of the hangman than the lulling treachery of the Judas. We must remember this; that the blood and iron policy of the “black hundred” is used only when the workers have come to know their deadly enemies—the owning classes—and have massed for the at- tack against them. A Mussolini means that the state can no longer rely on its regular coercive machinery. A Mussolini means that the entire strue- ture of class rule is tottering before the blows of the proletariat, and is ready to collapse. In America we have no Mussolinis because the Judge Thayers are stiu able to fool the workers with their ‘The rulers of America are still so strong that they do not need extra legal machinery to establish the “law and order” that will crush the workers. The smooth death-dealing action of the law courts is quite suf- ficient for the purposes of our mas- ters, Workers of America, we must awake! Sacco and Vanzetti must not die! Sprung from the loing of our class, they but personify our dreams and hopes for a better world. We can break our enemies, the capitalist rul- ers of America and their agents, the courts and the government. Only let us tear the black shirts of fear and cowardice from off our red hearts; only let us by mass demonstrations and strikes give proof of our invine- ible solidarity, and class prisoners can be free! Let the Sacco-Vanzetti case be a test of strength. Workers, present a united front for the Sacco-Vanzetti defense—Albert Weisbord, Boston, Mass. A Negro’s War Experiences. To the DAILY WORKER: — Being an ex-service man, and knowing something of the activities of the Negro troops at the front, as well as behind the lines in the world war, I have been somewhat interested in the welfare of the race. When I think over my war experiences and remem- ber how those Negro troops would go to work early in the morning and work all day unloading supplies from boats, and another shift come on at night and work all night to supply the troops at the front with food, I think of them as a hard working race looking only for the right to make a living by their work. I expected that the government would give them some protection. But after I came back from overseas, the Washington race riots occurred, fol- lowed by the Chicago and Omaha riots and lynchings thruout the south One of the blackets moves against the Negroes was the order from the ‘By Alfred V. Frankenstein. Leo Sowerby, who is probably the most important composer in America today, and certainly the most im- portant in Chicago, played a piano concerto of his own with the Chicago Symphony orchestra last Friday and Saturday. Like most of Sowerby's work, the concerto is the concentrated essence” of pep and dash and vigor. The influence of the jazz artists can be plainly seen. It is a fine, enjoyable work, but compared to the ballad “King Estmere” for two pianos and orchestra played here last season, it it not so tremendously hot. Perhaps the fact that “King Estmere” is a later composition of Mr. Sowerby ex- plains this. The concerto illustrates one of the pet peeves of this writer. All the interpretative directions of the work were written in English.~ At first blush this may not seem wrong. Supposing, however, that Chaykovski had written all his tempo directons in Russian, Beethoven in German, Dvorak in Bohemian, Berlioz in French. MacCunn in Gaelic and Go- mez in Portuguese, to mention only a few examples. A musician would have to be a linguist. of no mean dimensions, There exists a musical esperanto, mayor of Johnstown that all Negroes that had not lived there fgr three years would be deported. With all these things driven itno their system, I wonder just how th Negroes feel when a man like Charles Dawes—also an ex-service man—and Cautious Calvin, tell them about “the constitution.” I notice the governo of Missouri has offered a reward fo the conviction of any member of the mob that hanged the Negro an burned his body after dragging it thru the Negro district. Of course it is not probable that anyone will claim the reward, and even if they do it will not stop lynching. The law Of the south does not pro. tect the Negro nor punish the whites who practice violence on the Negro. I have noticed that all congressmen, as well as the gospel sharks are against mob law. I used to wonder why somebody didn't do something to stop lynching but I don’t wonder any more. A little lynching party keeps race hatred stirred up, making it much easier for the capitalists to exploit both races. And the loss of abbreviatons of the Italian forte and piano, is also worthy of note, For the past two or three years Mr. Sowerby has beer in Kome. He won a prize that enabled him to go there. Why the organization which paid his expenses should stipulate Rome is pretty largely a mystery. Rome, musically, is the most unim- portant capital in Europe. A prize sending a man to Paris or Munich or Vienna would seem more valuable, The main reason for the choice of Rome seems to be that for a century or more the Paris conservatory has been sending young composers. sto the eternal burg. Preceding the concerto was the sec. ond symphony of Alexander Borodin, the Russian chemist-teacher.physici- an-musician. Borodin in his day was renowned as a scientist, and so in- tensely and well did he combine music and science that he died at the age of 40. In this second symphony one runs the gamut of Russian art, as we know it in the west. The first movement is brutally strong, flashing with color, vital and admirable—the Russian pomp and ceremony cele- brated in some of the Moscow art theater plays. The third movement is the Russian of the wistful, the de. feated and warped, Russia as Gorki and Dostoyevski and Chekov have the Italian language. Italian musical painted it. In the fourth section ex- terms are used all over the world. ‘They are understood in Japan and in Wyoming, and in all a in be tween. The curious senile of com- posers, who like Wagner and Debussy and Sowerby use their own languages to express degrees of tempo and method of interpretation, in using the uberant notes burst like sky-rockets in the air, (Nikita Balieff sticks his moon face grin thru the curtains ané says: “Leddies and} zhentlemen, I spik no Engleesh”). one or two Negroes isn’t so bad, as the capitalist slaves breed young as_ a rule. Both white and black workers cern take what the capitalists wi <— them. Which is the best- ploited class to slaughter alot. Dloited class or for both exploited classes to unite?—Karl Kirk, South Bend, Ind. RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN CONCERT AND DANCE SUNDAY, JANUARY 11. The concert and dance which was | announced by the Russian and Uk- d rainian branches of the Workers Party for Dec. 28, was postponed on account of the party membership meeting, to SUNDAY, JAN. 11, at the same hall, Schoenhoffen Hall, take cars to Milwaukee and Ashland Aves. Tickets sold for Dec. 28 will be accepted on Jan. 11. Ce Tho repertoire for the Tenth Week of the Chicago Civic Opera Company will opem on Sunday at 3 p. m. with the third performance of Madame Butterfly (at popular prices), \with Mason, Perini, Hackett, and Bakla noff in the leading roles. Mr. Polacee will conduct. Monday night brings the fifth per formance of La Tosca with Muzid Ansseau, Baklanoff and Moran conducting. Tuesday night the rst and only vie formanco of Romeo and Juliet will given with Mason, Claessens, ett, Formichi and Cotreuil. tor Polacco, A special matinee will be Wednesday afternoon at prices ing from $f to $4, with Muzio, Marshall, Formichi; Mile. Nemerg and corps de ballet, loranzoni | ducting. Wednesday evening, the fourth pre sentation of Lucia di Lammermoo: will be sung with Dal Monte, Schipa Rimini, Lazzari in the leading and Polacco conducting. On Thursday evening the third pe formance of Werther will be with Garden, Freund, Ansseau Kipnis, with Polacco conducting. | Friday night will be the last Mi formance of Traviata, with Schipa, Schwarz; Oukrainsky, Milar, Shermont and corps de be ; Cimini will conduct. - PR The Saturday matinee will te Trovatore, with Muzlo, Homer, | mont, Formichi and Weber conduc A simple-minded suite by old man (ing, J. 8. Bach and a simple, ingenious, but not simple-minded piece of music, Hi aymapols E tor load and ® for sotty and Gretel opened the pecgrem, ‘The popular price Saturday performance will be 's prelude to Haensel|Macbeth, Hackett aind |