The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1925, Page 6

Page Six ene cee enero THE DAILY WORKER, | /he Wobblies and Their Song Book Ro cten Lenst cee laa atleaiieeiRac mae es Publishod by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 00. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, DL (Phone: Munroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.60....6 months ; vite months By mail (in Chicago only): if $4.50...6 months $2.50....8 months $6.00 per year 438.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Chicago, Hlineis evo DGItOPS The present controversy among the I. W. W. has used their extreme right wing to be forced out of headquarters. As a result we notice that the twenty-lirst edition of the. “Little Red Song Book,” which has just been published, contains “Casey Jones” (a little censored), “Should I Ever Be a Soldier "Neath the Red Flag I Will Fight,” “Might Is Right,” and some other of the battling songs which made the old wobblies famous, but which have been taboo since John Grady’s counter-reyo- lutionary faction seized power in 1922. , Merely changing a few songs in the official THE DAILY WORKE FARMERS PLEAD VAINLY FOR AID FROM COOLIDGE No Relief Is Expected From Congress R |" LENIN MEMORIAL MEETINGS | The spirit in which the first anni- versary of Lenin’s death is to be com- memorated is not one of mourning, but a living proof of the fact that while Lenin is dead, Leninism lives and grows toward the realization of our common goal, the Communist state. In the United States we must make these meetings a real demonstration of party strength, of Leninist. follow- ing and devotion to our greatest lead- er and teacher. Saturday, Jan. 24.—Seattle, Wash. Hall to be announced. Speaker, Nor- man H. Tallentire. Sunday, Jan. 25. St. Paul, Minn. . Commonwealth Hall, 436 Rice St., at 8p. m. Speaker: Earl Browder, 5 Minneapolis, Minn. Humboldt (Fin- nish). Hall, 1317 Western Ave., No., at 2 p..m,- Speaker: Earl Browder. Grand Rapids, Mich. at 2:30 p, m. Workmen's Circle Temple, 347 Mt. SCAN Thursday, January 15, Tyzo FOSTER'S VOTE IN WEST SHOUS PARTY GROWS Communist Strength in. Agrarian Districts WILLIAM F, DUNNE hymn book doesn’t accomplish much in itself, but It is important that every city in| Vernon Ave.‘ Speaker to be an- MORITZ J. LOEB......errmennene Business Manager it may indicate a change a put SPY . Ada Bee Bi ‘orl “— 4 which there is a party organization | nounced. « Posse to ek hin a * ig NC ‘ Ww. . Cn 4n.| hold a Lenin Memorial meeting. Many Sore 5 ebr., . — f Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post-| The Red International Affiliation Committee , ¢ Hartford, Conn. Hall to be an: . Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <> 20 Advertising rates op application Alloting the Loot The loot that is expected to flow into the coffers of the allied nations as a result of the work of the Dawes plan, has been allotted and the capitalist press heaves a very audible sigh of relief. Every- thing is lovely and the goose hangs high. The limitation of $350,000,000 as the share of the American robber clique was eliminated and the House of Morgan will proceed now to take all the and the Workers Party have been urging for a long time that the I. W. W. abandon their pacifist position. The new edition is supposed to be dedicated to the Cehtralia defendants of the capitalist class dictatorship, but there is little to indicate it ex- cept three words on the cover and Ralph Chaplin’s poem to Wesley Everest on the fifth page. The spirit of militancy which resides in the rank and file of proletarians unpolluted by frenzied dog- matism, and which crops out occasionally in the left wing leadership between its moods of “tired radical” cynicism that devastates all inward 14.—The plan of President Coolidge to quietly sidetrack all legislation for relief of the farm- ers received a setback in the senate when democrats. and in- dependent republicans, many of whom must cater to their rural constituency, raised a plea for farm relief legislation. Senator Borah of Idaho, who recent: ly aided Coolidge in defeating the pay raise for postal employes, called for legislation to provide for immediate relief for the farmers. Borah’s action will not cause any definite break with such meetings have already been ar- ranged and speakers assigned. Every party unit which has not already done so should immediately arrange to hold a Lenin Memorial meeting and send into the national office the date of the meeting, name and location of the hall, time, name of the person in charge, and state whether local speakers are available or whether assignment should be thru the national office. Following is a list of meetings which have been arranged: Wednesday, Jan. 21. Chicago, Ill., at 8 p. m., at Ashland nounced. Speaker, Joseph Manley, Detroit, Mich. at 2 p. m., House of the Masses, ‘2101 Gratiot Ave,. Speak- er, Robert Minor. » Boston, Mai at 3 p. m., Scenic Auditorium, 12 Berkeley St. Speaker, John J. Ballam. Z Cleveland, Ohio. Hall to be announc- ed later. Speaker, Benjamin Gitlow. Los Angeles, Cal., at 2 p. m., Blanch- ard Hall, 283°S. Broadway. Speaker to be announced. Easton, Pa. at 2 p. m., Lithuanian (Bakers) Hall, N. 7th St., near North- ampton St. Speaker to be announced. Dowell, Hl., at 2 p. m., Rex Theater, Union Ave. Speaker to be announced. The vote for the Workers Party candidates, as recorded by counties, shows a_ surprising Communist strength in the in- dustrial centers of the ‘state, Dubuque, where we have not a single party member, heads the list with 668 votes. Next comes Polk County (Des Moines) with 513 and Webster County (Fort Dodge) with 430, Votes in other industrial centers’ is given as follows: a Marshalltown traffic will bear. The rest of the allied bankers|PTompting to action and turns the temperamental | the Coolidge administration, it is thot Aotitarit eqn thesdtca Barer Bridgeport, Conn., at 8 p. m., Work- ae cit sr it will hem little good. They} "ebel from the political (class) struggle to porno-}here, as Coolidge understands that|Sts. Speakers: Browder, Dunne, Eng-| men’s Circle Hall, 210 State St. Speak- as ong a ry aie hs er f M moor lot ‘ graphy and playing the races—this reservoir of|Borah must make a grandstand play | dahl, and Swabeck. \ er to be announced. The mining camps showed a good ome the. enterprising ttm of Morgen & lot: on} 6) = ; % for the benefit of his farmer support | Kansas City; Mo. hall to be an-| Akron, Ohio, at 2 p. m., Zeigler Hall, | Vote, Centerville (Apparoose county) money that they cannot pay and for that reason militancy in the ranks of the I. W. W. has yet to will be treated like insolvent debtors usually are. The important thing about the conference was that it indicated a temporary sinking of the na- Le tional antagonisms under the leadership of the bankers of Great Britain and the United States. Some sort of harmony is greatly desired by the finance-capitalists who rule these nations in view of the serious crisis in Germany, Italy and the Bal- kans. be organized and put into action, if the I. W. W. is to show any true respect for the fighters of ‘entralia. If this fertile field of revolutionary action is not to go to seed, and if the remnant of revolutionary leadership is going to justify its existence and do anything more constructive than wander around in theoretical circles and curse Jim Rowan, it will have firstly to solidify itself by uniting de- ers in Idaho, even if his talk brings no beneficial results to the farmers Administration leaders are trying tc prevent the calling of an extra session of congress to deal with farm relief Coolidge made ‘embarrassing promises to the farmers in his recent election campaign, and in order to save his face, the bankers and industrial capi- talists who are in control of the na. tional council of the farmers’ co-oper- nounced. Speaker, J. E. Snyder. Friday, Jan. 23. Niagara Falls, N. Y., at 7:30 p. m., Hippodrome Hall, corner Pine and 19th Sts. Speaker to be announced. Rever, Mass., Eagle’s Hall, Shirley and Walnut Aves., at 8 p. m. Speaker, I, Amter. Saturday, Jan. 24. Philadelphia, Pa., at 8 p. m., at the Lulu Temple, corner Broad and.Spring corner Voris and Miami Sts. Superior, Wis,, Workers’ Hall, cor- ner Tower. and 6th. Speaker to be announced. Tacoma, Wash., Hall to be announc- ed. Speaker, Norman H. Tallentire. Sunday, Feb. 1. New York, N. Y., at 2 p. m., Madi- son Square Garden. Speakers: Foster and Ruthenberg. New Haven, Conn. Hall to be an- recording 56 votes, and Albia (Mon- roe county) 41 votes. Surprising strength is also shown in certain agrarian districts, partieu- larly Story county with 184 votes and Crawford county with 165 votes. Industrial Vote Predominates, In Iowa there are 99 counties, of which 92 counties record a vote for the Workers Party ticket totaling 4,037. Of this over half, or 2,431, is ; ative marketing association have been nounced. Speaker, Joseph Manley. | recorded in eight industrial centers. It is fairly'certain that the continued and rapid|mitely around the program of the Red Interna-| spreading propaganda that the farm. |S2Pden Sts. Speaker to be announced. |"“Bigmig Ney. at § p. m., Labor Ly-| Two small mining camp districts re- improvement of the economic, political and inter-| tional Affiliation Committee, and secondly move|ers do not want government relief.| South Bend, Ind. at 8 p. m, at|coum, 276 William St. Speaker to be| cord a total vote of 97 votes. This national status of Soviet Russia had much to do with the handshaking that took place in Paris Tuesday betwen the allied delegates. Signing the agreement were delegates represent- ing Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, the United States, with the little jackel nations of Portugal, Greece, Roumania, Jugo-Slavia, Czecho- Slovakia and Brazil. We predict that this harmony will last until the first payment under the Dawes plan is due. Then there will be more dissension among this carrion crew. Our T.U. E. L. Page The party has decided to devote one whole page weekly to the work of the Trade Union Educational League and the activities of the militants in the trade union movement of the United States. This is a very important innovation in developing the industrial work of our party, and the Communists active in the economic organizations of the work- ers should assist in making the proposed page the livest department of the DAILY WORKER and a powerful stimulant to our industrial activities. What we want for this page is news of ‘the class forward in an organized, militant struggle against the bourgeois ideas and their spokesmen. It is sufficiently shameful a comment upon the revolutionary element of the I. W. W. that at this moment, when Ford and Suhr are half forgotten in Folsom, one hundred members behind the bars of San Quentin and, not to mention more, the eight Centralia victims are doing what amounts to a life sentence, all victims of the capitalist dictator- ship, that the membership should permit its ser- vant, its general secretary-treasurer, so to insult the memory and the work ef those who died in open struggle as to deliver a speech defending capitalist “democracy” under the guise of an attack on the theory of proletarian dictatorship. How long will the’membership of the I. W. W. bear the infliction of a dictatorship of ‘noisy mediocrities who, incapable of taking the offensive against the capitalist, and cynically indifferent of the profound need of unity among all working class organizations in defense against the capitalist dictatorship, hope to acquire a little passing notice, to be crowned with a little flickering halo, by taking the offensive against. the Communists— and in so doing to place themselves in a position of making a united front with the class enemy of the Former Governor Lowden of Illinois, Barnard Baruch and other Wall Street men are officers in this association which in no way represents the voice of the farmers. “The voters were assured last No- vember that’@ie fundamentals of agri- culture would be settled immediately to their full satisfaction,” Senator Swanson, democrat from Virginia said in bringing the subject to the attention of the senate. “There ought to be an extra session of congress to provide relief for the farmers.” Borah added that further disaster threatens the farmers unless congress provides some basic remedies for poor market ing facilities. — These senators, however, admit pri- Workers’ Home, 1216 W. Colfax Ave. Speaker, Manuel Gomez, Milwaukee, Wis., at 8 p. m., at the Auditorium. Speakers: Foster and Bedacht. HOLIDAY GREETINGS FROM LOWER DEPTHS OF 'FR.SCO, CALIF. SAN FRANCISCO.—The .merry holiday season in San Francisco is over. A girl drowned herself be- cause she faced Chrstmas without funds or home; a man shot himself because he could not get a job. A vately, when not talking to build their Political fences, that congress can d nothing, even if Coolidge wanted to to save the thousands of bankrupt farmers in this country. The only thing that will finally savc the farmers who are now destitute will be when they are given the own ership of their land and allowed to participate in a workers’ and farmers’ Soviet government. convict serving a jail sentence for a petty offense was refused permis- sion to attend his baby’s funeral; a well-known gambler serving time for bootlegging was given leave of ab- sence from the same jail to enjoy a Christmas dinner with his family. The usual New Year entertainment at San Quentin penitentiary was held without the 150 Negro pri: ers, who were kept in their cells all announced. , Portland, Ore. Hall to be announc- ed. Speaker, Stanley Clark. Patronize our Advertisers. ‘Muscles Shoals (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14— The senate today passed the bill of Senator Norris, providing for the gov- ernment ownership of Muscles Shoals, after having earlier in the day pass- ed the Jones bill, amending the Un- derwood bill by postponing action on Muscle Shoals until next December. The Norris bill which was passed by a vote of 40 to 39, provides for the operation of the $150,000,000 power and nitrate project under direction of a federal corporation for the manu- facture of nitrates and fertilizer. Norris proposes’ to establish a fed- eral chemical corporation to develop power at Muscle Shoals and to carry on the manufacture. of nitrates for indicates a vote of 2,528, or two-thirds of the total for the state, from ten In- dustrial districts. ‘ It must be noted that Iowa has only 32 party members, most of whom are in Sioux City, and that this re- markable vote was polled m the face “ of the terrific LaFollette sweep which netted 350,000 votes in the state for the LaFollette ticket. The extent of the campaign in the state was a tour by Comrade Sny- der, and a speech by Comrade Foster in Des Moines. Comrade Snyder work- ed under extreme difficulties to get the party on the ballot, having to go into the various towns and personal- ly hunt up sympathizers to assist him in securing the necessary petitions. As a matter of fact, he had to put the party or the ballot by practically his own efforts, with the exception of such help as the Sioux City and Omaha (Nebr.) comrades could give. Fighting LaFollette Sweep. Dubuque county (Dubuque) gave LaFollette a majority of 10,000, yet Foster and Gitlow were given 668 votes. There are no party members at Dubuque, nor at Boone, Marshall- town, Muscatine, nor Davenport, so mee o . day because two of them had a quar- t i far as we know. Des Moines and Ft. struggle, strikes, lockouts, stories of left wing|WFrkers to prevent and disrupt the unity of their Davis Keeps His Job, rei in the dining hall and the new wiles Ger a oalcueace oF wars Dodge also have no party members. battles with the reactionaries, elections in unions,| frees? : Leaving John L. Lewis baja k ought an example must BC | i vestigate ways of disposing of | These were all LaFollette strongholds, everything that deals with the struggle of the workers in the industries. As our industrial director, Comrade Foster points out, the success of this innovation will be a tribute to the efficiency of our young organization on the industrial field. The appeal to participate in making this page a success is directed to every reader of this paper and particularly to active leaders of the Trade Union Educational League. All material intended for our special page should be sent directly to the national office of the T. U. E. L., 1113 West Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. The Movies—An Industry When the motion picture industry is mentioned one is inclined to think only of Hollywood and its contributions to the first pages of the yellow press. Nevertheless, the production cost of the industry, amounts paid out for labor and materials in mak ing pictures, reached a total of $86,418,470 last year—an increase of 11.7 per cent over 1921. It is evident from the above that there are great numbers of workers exploited in this industry altho the figures on profits are not given. Most of them are unorganized and are fed on romance rather than wages. Strikes are not of frequent oc- currence in the movie industry, but as standardiza- tion and specialization make progress in line with all industrial development in the United States the romance will depart and the same sordidness of all of capitalism’s undertakings will show thru the silver screen that now hides from the movie fans the exploitation of thousands of wérkers that makes possible their pleasure. We will soon begin to hear of union and non- union films and read appeals from the workérs who, in the popular conception of the movie in- dustry, are supposed to feed on nectar and am- The answer to this is the answer to the question : Is it a sufficient proof of a revolutionary policy in present-day affairs to put Wesley Everest’s, Joe Hill’s and Frank Little’s pictures, and Ralph Chap- lin’s poems in a song book, while the organization is taught to forget and instructed never to apply the policies of Everest, Hill and Little, and a squawking flock of inferiorities are permitted to force Chaplin’s abilities into the service of the master class instead of making them an aid to the organization ? Not until the revolutionary elements accept the idea, the aid and program of the left wing bloe or- ganized around the T. U. E. L. will the wobblies stop from going from bad to worse. ) Cracking the Landis Award — The Landis award, touted by the open shoppers is the harbinger of peace in the Chicago building industry, has tied up the work on nine school buildings. The school board has let contracts for glass work to a firm employing scabs and the in- evitable result has been a strike by the Glaziers’ Union, The contracting firm in question, William Hallis and company, has broken its agreement with the Glaziers’ Union to employ no Landis award scabs and there will be no glass work done until the agreement is lived up to. The strike comes shortly after the glowing re- view of the work. of the scab Landis award board for the past year, prepared by its secretary, and shows that contrary to the boast made that the building trades unions had been whipped into line, there is still considerable fight left in them and that only the traitorous conduct of some union of- ficials has made it possible for the Landis award Holding the Big Bag WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—James J. Davis, secretary of labor, has with- drawn his tentative resignation, sub- mitted some time ago, and will re- main in the cabinet, it was announc- ed at the White House today. Simultaneously with this announce- ment it was stated that President Coolidge “expected no other cabinet changes.” Skeptical observers, however, re- called that the same announcement was made only a few days before Sec- retary Hughes resigned and Attorney General Stone was named for the su- preme court. “In Memoriam—tLenin” to be shown eek was marked by the coldest spefl of the season, and the jobless men on the skid-road—How- ard St., the employment office dis- trict—enjoyed a chilly, dinnerless Christmas and New Years. A dry -agent was killed while on a booze party. Several denominations an- nounce the beginning of a special week of prayer. The new year has begun. Railroads Put It-Over on Law. , WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. — The great railroad mergers being carried out by the Van Sweringen brothers are “illegal” under a strict interpreta- tion of the Esch-Cummins Transporta- tiom act, Ben B. Cain, counsel fer the American Short Line Railroad asso- ciation charged today before the sen- TONIGHT at Gartner's Theater, DeWolf Hopper Company at Great i Northern Theater, By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. That most astounding of comedians DeWolf Hopper, and his company have hopped into the Great Northern theater to give a series of revivals of more or less old time musical com edies. They opened last Sunday with “The Mikado,” by William S. Gilbert anc Arthur 8, Sullivan. The story of thir operetta will not be sketched here, In the first¢place it is too well known and in the second I don’t know what it is myself. After two careful read- ing of the libretto and a painstaking attention to what was going on on ate interstate commerce commission. burlesque on politics as they are play | what DeWolf Hopper does. ed in London or Washington or Ber lin, of which Gilbert was a master. Senate Again Changes Mind on Muscle Shoals and reporting back to the senate in December. The Undefwood bill provided for the sale of Muscle Shoals to private interests. , War Vet Pleads Insanity. George Shaw, war veteran who kill- er his father, Bruce Shaw, with a sa- ber, in a quarrel at their Oak Park home on the night of December 14, was arraigned in criminal court today and pleaded “not guilty.” His attor- new, Robert E. Cantwell, is expected to present a petition for an insanity hearing. Bronx, New York, Attention. Class in A. B. C. of Communism every Tuesday night at 1347 Boston Road, Dr. I. Stamler, instructor. As for the rest of the cast, they were all very good except for Miss Sullivan's score is, ofcourse, bright | Ethel Walker, who played Yum-Yum and catchy and very English. jlight opera. Outside of |Christian Soldiers” and “The Lost music of diversified types by t Sullivan, man Chord,” for which he is to be for |a pleasantly bloodthirsty monarch siven, these operas to Gilbert's texts|Poo-Bah, Lord High Everything El are the only compositions of his that | who was born sneering at persons o! are played any more. Why this should | l\dwer rank than hims he it is dificult to explain. If one will| Herbert Waterous, turn to the musical journals of thirty|who played Pitti-Sir and forty years ago, one will find fa-| companion, was a delight to the vorabl reviews of a great deal of|and the ear, % Here| Her acting is unconvincing, and her |Was a man with a happy genius for|voice harsh and unpleasant and not “Onward | always in tune. George Shields as the Mikado war was taken by Ethel Clark Yum-Y One fault the entire compary has ye only Hopper excepted. They can not The work of the cast centered en-| sing English understandably, ‘That is yet recorded Workers Party votes ranging from 119 to 668. This indicates a clear-headed vote for the Workers Party and Commun- ism as against LaFollette. The S. L. P. was also on the ballot, but polled only 400, or ten per cent of the Work- ers Party vote, while elsewhere their vote ran about the same as the Work- ers Party (counted) vote. A Communist Opportunity. These eight industrial centers of- fer an opportunity to the Workers Party to build and strengthen the Communist movement in this country. Comrade Snyder has been placed in the middle-western territory by the national office, but he has to attend to Kansas and Missouri, as well as the Iowa territory. He can be depend- ed upon to get good results for the party in Iowa, and in this work he must be given every possible assist- ance by the comrades in the national office territory. The central executive committee has recognized the need of organization work in this territory by placing Comrade Snyder in the field. It should be remembered, however, that he has to work in a territory without party members, and but scat- tered connections in the way of sym- pathizers and readers of party publi- cations. This presents entirely dif ferent problems from organization work in territories where there are party members to co-operate in the various localities. Comrade David Coutts, of Omaha, will assist Comrade Snyder in the Towa work to the extent of the time he can spare, particularly in exten ing the ‘Tri Union Educational . League. This branch of the party ac- tivity will, of course, be of great im- portance in connection with the work of organizing party branches in the ™ to be a factor of any strength whatever in Chicago. | Towa industrial centers. | the stage I still can't figure out how|tirely around Hopper himself, who|q great pity, because some of thc the thing is untangled. played Ko-Ko, Exactly how old Hop |cleverest verses in the language arc Old Man Ko-Ko, lord high execution | per is the press agent doesn’t make |in Gilbert’s libretto for “The Mikado,’ er in Titipu is engaged to marry his| known, but he looks seventy or over - ward Yum-Yum. She is in love with|He seems to have lost none of his Nanki-Poo, a strolling trombonist, who} vigor and youth. He has the same proves to be the mikado’s son. Nanki-| terrible bass voice, the same squak Poo is supposedly executed by Ko-Ko | ing falsetto, the same drunkenness of (Special to The Daily Worker) An element of danger to Nanki-Poo {i | style. /Imagine a man seventy years 4 brot in the shape of an elderly lady | of age lying on his side on the pros to Dh arsenap hen ay jail ecole Gmumabianceden peed pl oti bap ot ag isto ata Sotiten te Veta gae hog pact Satie of being scabs. The court of appeals upheld Brown against the decision plots this is the most elaborate, mos!|song “The Flowers That Bloom in| the lower court, which had been based on the violation of an injunet involved, and, while not the funniest |the Spring” in that position, and, at| Nine other members of Local 63, the oldest union in the city, were filled with that particularly sarcastic|the end rolling off the stage! That's! nently restrained, however, from picketing or conducting strike “Polikushka” is coming to Gertner’s — Independent Theater, TONIGHT, — a | NO JAIL FOR CALLING SCAB The exportation of monkeys from India for the gland trade in Europe coincides with the frantic’ efforts of European capitalism to restore its virility by the injection of such a desperate remedy as the Dawes plan into its rapidly hardening arteries. Herbert Hoover, our well-known secretary of commerce, has had another brainstorm. He claims to have found a method of lowering the high cost of living without reducing either wages or profits. We venture the prediction that he will revise his to allow for the reduction of wages, but that profits will be let severely alone to soar to new heights in company with the aforesaid h. ¢. 1. ~ A banker in Bloomington, Illinois, was fooled by two ‘robbers into believing they were bank examiners, He should be expelled from the bankers’ union at once under the by-law which provides that bankers are to do all the fooling, 0 AERA RMA areTS. — nt Send in that new “sub” today! et eas