The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1925, Page 6

o Page Six shovelled out.of the way and replaced by a fight ing leadership that will. make the capitalist clas: sit up and take notice. Until the American work ers do this, a fate similar to that met by the child labor amendment will be the rule and not, the ex- ception, in all their struggles. “B. & 0.” Plan Repndiated William H. Johnston, former drummer in the salvation army and now president of the Inter- national Association of Machinists, earned ‘a re- putation as a)sensible labor leader, among the ‘THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blivd., Chicago, ML (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50.,..8 months $2.50...8 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year eS Se se eta Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. ~ J, LOUIS ENGDAHL Chicago, Ilineis SNNE promos vee. HAItOPS bosses, when he initiated the class collaboration Sowiee 3s. Lowe, ae Manager ist policy known as the B: & O. Plan in the Glen- pas Lacie iadalitililagy wood shops of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. This plan was broached to the president of the B. & O. by Johnston, a few weeks before the shop- mens’ strike of 1922. It has proven a good system for the bosses and is gaining in popularity among railroad officials." But it is a vicious system for the workers. Johnston has heralded the B. & O. plan far and wide as an example of what can be accomplished by the “new” methods of solving the difficulties acted, and honestly enforced, throw some protec-| that arise ‘between employers and employes. He tion around the youth of this country who are ex-| boasted that it was a success and that the workers ploited in the slave pens of the nation before they|in the Glenwood shops where it was initiated were have grown to manhood and womanhood. heartily in favor of it. But it appears that the Not that the law was adequate or anything like] reverse is the truth. it. Not that we expect a capitalist government! lsut at a special ‘nceting called by Lodge 491 of to enforce a law that would injure the system of | the I. A. M., the originators of the B. & O. plan were which it is the executive committee. But the vigor-|repndiated as well as the plan itself, even tho ous and united opposition that the capitalists or-|Johnston’s henchman Vice-President Conlon warn- ganized against it showed very clearly that they|ed the members of the lodge, that if:they did not recognized its implications and its damaging effect }endorse the Johnston slate, such action would be on their profit making industrial machine. taken all over the conutry as a repudiation of the The Chicago Tribune was one of the very few|. & O. Plan. : capitalist papers to support the proposed amend-| The repudiation of the B. & O, Plan by the mem- ment. But on January 28, the Tribune changed|bers on whom it was first tried kicks the props its position and attacked the amendment, tho de-|from underneath the Johnston scheme, This was claring that the principle back of it was right.|the first time the employes of the Baltimore. and “There has been vacillation and uncertainty in this|Ohio railroad had an opportunity to declare them- office,” declared the editorial. What actually hap-|selves on the question and their verdict is decisive. pened in the Tribune office, we do not know, but} The fight against the B. & O. Plan in the I. A. it is quite likely that the chief editorial writer got|of M. has been inaugurated and led by the left away with his own ideas on the question until the|wing under the leadership of the Trade Union organized opposition to the amendment brought the| Educational League. That fight is now’ beginning necessary pressure to bear on the owner, who may|to show tangible results. It will not end with be enjoying himself in Florida, in Paris or at the/killing the B. & O. Plan but will retire from office gambling tables of Monte Carlo with the result|the labor fakers who are responsible for it. that the editorial-writer-in-chief was instructed ; A Liar Tells the Truth—Once to switch his lights. The Tribune now howls with the pack.. This is as it should be. Those who talk about a free press! [Jt jg not very often that a capitalist. editor under class rule are talking thru their hats. The|telis the truth. But something must have exploded DAILY WORKER does not wave, the white ban-|in the editorial sanctum of the Chicago Tribune ner of impartiality as does the hypocritical capi-| op January 27; because we find two strange edit- talist press. We are partial towards the working-|orjals in the Tribune of January 28. One was class. We admit that our paper is concerned only| slam at the Civie Opera company, which is sub- with the welfare of the workers and with the|siqized by Samuel Insull, and another ‘was a re- interests of the workers’ revolution. We support] versal of position on the child labor amendment. Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. > 200 Advertising rates on application Back to Form Friends of the child labor amendment must have rubbed their. eyes in wonder to see the Chicago Tribune stand for a proposed law that would if en* the child labor amendment or any other proposi- Formerly the Tribune ‘was for the amendment| tion that we believe will aid the workers. Welput it changed its mind. Perhaps the editorial avail ourselves of every opportunity to advance] writer was sore because he was forced’ to’ write and strengthen the’ revolutionary movement. We}in support of the exploitation of children tho his are one sided. conscience urged him to follow the opposite course. So is the Tribune.. When a capitalist paper} What he has to say about the opera is’ interest- happens to support the workers it is only by mis-|ing not because of his ‘attitude towards that much take The press is one of the most valuable weap-| yuffed art, but for the light it sheds on capitalism. ons in the arsenals of the ruling class. It serves Evidently the Tribune opera critic believed that a double function, to make profit for its individual | the performances at the Auditorium were bunk owners and to defend the system on which it lives.|put the Tribune dared not offend Insull, tho the On trivial questions, the capitalist papers may|moyie and dramatic critics could say what they differ but on some issue that strikes at a fundamen- pleased about the. productions. they covered. ‘ tal“capitalist principle, they bark in unison. The following is an excerpt from an editorial Against the class press of the capitalists we pit| entitled: “Now it'can be told”: “It wasn’t civic the class press of the workers—the Communist opera and it wasn’t grand. If our Mr. Moore in press. his accounts of what was given at the auditorium had felt at liberty to speak his piece as Mr. : Donaghey does of the stage and as Mae Tines does The F ight M ust Go On of the movies he would See said that most of it The temporary defeat administered to the pro-|Was mediocre and some of it worse than that. You posed child labor amendment to the federal con-|can’t speak your mind, about opera. This is the stitution is about as damaging an indictment as| first time it has been done and it may be the last. could possibly be made against the fatuous non-|You can’t even whisper around about it. If it’s partisan political policy of the American Feder-|a@wful, the critic must find an aria to praise. If ation of Labor. Despite the support of the A. F.|it is mediocre he must say it was good and if it of L. twelve states have taken unfavorable action |happens to be good it must be superlative .. . on the amendment and another state has voted | We'll see what we get/from this bit of plain speak- to postpone action, which in this case means the|ing Which we have not dared to attempt before.” equivalent of defeat, ratification by three-fourths} This is plain, speaking with a vengeance. A of the 48 states being necessary. ‘yelone must haye hit the Tribune editorial room. This does not mean that the proposed amendment) ’erhaps the principal owner of the paper blew in is dead, tho there is little liklihood of its passing|®#"d asked why in the blankety ‘blank the. child over the opposition of the’ organized power of the|!abor amendment was being supported editorially ‘capitalists in the near future unless the supporters|#nd perhaps the poor editorial writer, after being of the proposed law follow the lead given by thgPbliged to crawfish on that issue took it out on the Workers (Communist) Party and rally the masseg|ivic opera. Anyhow we are grateful to the hack for the fight to put it over. Nothing can be a¢-|W#0 proved our contention that capitalist editors complished by the pussy-footing policy followed|20d journalistic hacks are paid liars. by the A. F. of 1. and the other liberal associations ~ Steel Trust “Earnings” ‘who arg interested in the amendment for human- itarian reasons. But where are the “friends of labor” that we) ‘The United States Steel company “earned” over heard so much about from the reactionary brag- $150,000,000 during 1924, Wall Street congratu- According] lated’ this wolfish industry on its continued milk- to the labor fakers the state legislatures were full|ing of the workers, tho it earned less during the of them, -And yet this law on which Sam Gompers| last quarter of 1924 than in 1923, when the “earn- was supposed to have set his heart has heen ignom-| ings” were $40,000,000, this quarter’s amounting to inously defeated in the state legislatures’ before} $30,762,231. The actual total of “earnings” for’ it got really started. PI a 1924 were $152,937,130, ‘The Workers (Communist) Party has issued a] When the capitalist wolves declare a dividend call for a united front against child labor. All]on one of their exploitation schemes, they call that is militant in the working-class movement will dividing up the spoils “cutting a mellon,” and thi answer that call. The A. F. of L. bureaucracy] time U. 8. Steel gave up an extra dividend besid has again proven its incompetency. It is lacking} the regular ones, doling out 50 cents a share mo} in energy, generalship and even ordinary sincerity.| for those who feed on the workers, The divide The petrified and putrified bureaucracy must be| amounted to $1.75 a share. “LIISTORY in General, the History of Revolutions in Particular, Has Always B ‘ More Varied and Variform, More Vital and ‘Cunning’ Than Is Conceived (4f ag : Best Parties, by the Most Conscious Vanguards of the Most Advanced Classes.”— 1N, ‘Memorial Meeting, Madison Square Garden, New York, Sunday Afternoon, February 1. | Erie, Pa, Russian Hall, 156 B, Srd INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ RELIEF HEADS ARRESTED German Government Be- gins Persecution (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Jan. .29.—“Monstrous ac- tion against the Workers’ Interna- tional Relief.” Under this title the Berlin Commun- ist paper Rote Fahne is publishing the following report: “The Berlin police presidency, the leading officials of which were in- volved in vast affairs of . corruption and have been in the center of public discussion and press polemics during the last weeks, will avenge the insults caused by the Bartels scandal, For this reason all members of the central committee of the Workers’ Interna- tional Relief were summoned to the bureau of the political police in order to be submitted to a rigorous trial. “During the last few days’ Comrades Ledebour, Bachmann, Alexander and Arendsee were summoned to the po- lice. The trial is based on an appeal which the central committee of the Workers’ International Relief launched this summer in favor of the German proletariat, surrendered by the Lon- don convention to the international big capital appealing to the proletarian solidarity in order to save the German workers from ruin. Use War Law. “The political department of the German police will utilize in this ac- tion the well-known war decree against collections and charity fetes of swindle enterprises, organized during the war to exploit war relief. It is quite evi- dent that there is no legal reason for the persecution of the W. I. R.° The jury verdicts in Hamburg and in other cities prove that the old decrees is- sued in pursuance of other purposes cannot be utilized against proletarian aid—actions and collections in favor of strikers and for support of economic fights and political prisoners, etc, The monstrous action will involve nearly 20. members of the Workers’ Interna- tional Relief headquarters. “The intention of the reaction is clear: They will deprive the poorest of the poor from all hopes in order to subdue him to the exploitation of the London treaty without any resist- ance. It is the duty of the whole Ger- man working class to fight against these police persecutions in order to prevent a restriction of the W. I. R, activity by police maneuvers.” Proletarian Music for Workers’ Film Here Next Thursday In addition to the splendid picture program to be shown. at Ashland Au- ditorium, next Thursday, Feb. 5, there will be a musical program to which each of the proletarian orchestras will contribute. At least four such musical ensembles will be heard, the first to make a definite pledge. being the well-known and extremely popular orchestra of the Young Workers’ League. ° The Freiheit Mandolin’ Or- chestra, the South Slav Orchestra, the Lettish Mandolin Orchestra ‘and Band. and the Slovak Balalaika Band are ex- pected to co-operate.’ The pictures include “The Beauty and the Bolshevik,” five reel’ feature from Soviet Russia; and a three-reel educational film, “Russia in Overalls,” showing the R. A. I. C. clothing facto:- ies of the “Amalgamated,” the Kuzbas Colony, the F. S. R. tractor farnis, as well as the purely Russian industria rebirth as reflected in the Baku’ oil- fields, Rostov locomotive factories Zadkes magnesite quarries; Zlatoust iron smelters, Volga fisheries, and oth- bid is continuous from 7 to 11 p but those who want to be sure tc in and get the best seats should come just as early as possible. Tick ets are 50c, and can be, bought fron all Workers Party, Labor Defense anv nternational Workers’ Aid. members offices as well as from a list ot fitty ticket stations already published | Lenin Meetings | + January 30. Neffs, Ohio. Speaker: Robert Minor. Tp. m January 31. p.m. Speaker: John Mihelic, i Sunday, Feb. 1. New York, N. Y., at 2 p. m., Madi son Square Garden, Speakers: Foster and Ruthenberg. _ New Haven, Conn. Hermanson’s Hall, 158 Crown St. at 8 p. m. Speaker, Rose Pastor Stokes. Buffalo, N. Y., at 8 p. m., Labor Ly- ceum, 376 William St. Speaker, Ben- u Gitlow. ‘ ‘Portland, Ore., 227 Yamhill St., at 8 |. m. Speaker: Stanley Clark. Elizabeth, N. J., Sunday, Feb. 8, 7:30 _m., Turn Hall, 725 High street. ° Speaker: Benjamin Gitlow. 2:30 m, ‘ “ Waukegan, I1!., Slavonic National ‘House, Cor, 10th St, and McAllister Ave. Speaker, Peter Herd. — iz Sunday, Feb. 10, _ Baltimore, Md. Hall to be announc- Saat Christopher, fil., French Club, at’ 7) HE DAILY WORKER nr re er eee MOTHER OF SLAIN COMMUNIST MINER CONTRIBUTES TO DAILY WORKER FUND IN SON’S NAME (Special to The Daily Worker) MADISON, IIL, Jan, 29,—Netta Popovsky, mother of Boris Popovsky, member of the Young Workers League who was brutally murdered by a police- man at West Frankfort, Illinois, last July, has taken out a ten dollar insur- ance policy to build the DAILY WORKER for 1925. The policeman who murdered Popovsky under the eyes of the judge in an open courtroom, is still on the West Frankfort police force. man had arrested Popovsky, a well known Communist in Southern Illi- nois, charging him with speeding in a laundry truck. When Popovsky was brought into the courtroom the police- man clubbed him to death with the butt of his revolver, without provoca- tion. In sending her contribution, the slain Young Communist’s mother writes: “Dear Comrades: “Enclosed herewith you will find a check for $10.00 in payment of an in- surance policy which I wish to be is- sued in memory of my deceased son Boris Popovsky, who was killed most brutally, as you know, last July at West Frankfort, Ill., by an uncautious tool of the capitalist class, namely an officer of the law. “While my son is dead, it is a great satisfaction to my heart to see the great ideal for which he has spent his short and youthful life spread throughout the world, He has strug- gled for the achievement of Commun- ism and died with his last words for that ideal. It is not only on finished undertakings that we honor useful la- bor. Although he no longer is with us, his death, however, did not take away the spirit for which he fought, for he left behind him an army of comrades constituting a mightier pow- er which eventually will bring for the goal for which he strived. “It is with these thoughts in mind that Iam sending you this small finan cial support in my son’s memory, 8 that the efficiency of the offensive weapon may be made stronger against our enemy in 1925. “Yours fraternally, “Netta Popovsky.” Was Mussolini Pinched? ROME, Jan. 29.—Senator Albertini today replied to Premier Mussolini's charge in Popolo D'Italia that the sen- ator was spreading the report tha‘ Mussolini had ben sentenced in Switzerland for a misdemeanor twenty years ago. Albertini demanded tha’ Mussolini prove when the senator had asserted that he had the document in which Mussolini was sentenced. Injured in Hotel Fire. BALTIMORE, Md., Jan. 29.—Hight persons were injured, two seriously, in a. fire that wrecked the Baltimore Hotel during the zero weather here today. AN ECLIPSE , WHICH AFTER 17 ST FOREVER The police- NEGRO FREEZES TO DEATH IN COLD AT NATION'S CAPITAL WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. — The third anniversary of the collapse of the Knickerbocker Theatre, which killed nearly a hundred ‘persons, brought another heavy snow fall and bitterly cold weather to the capital. Two deaths because of the drop in temperature were reported. Dr. G. P. Lumsden, 70, a former commandant of the naval medical corps, died from a heart attack after being marooned in the snow. A Ne- gro was frozen to death. The tem- perature was 2.9 degrees above zero. SALZMAN TOUR IN DIST. 5 Bentleyville, Pa., Jan. 30. Marriana, Pa., Jan. 31-Feb, 1. McKeesport, Pa. Feb. 3-4, E. Pittsburgh, Pa. Feb. 5, Rural Ridge, Pa., Feb. 7-8. Dates for Houston, Cannonsburg, Meadowlands and other places will be published in a few days. ont; s FIGHT ON CHILD SLAVERY TO £0 ON IN ILLINOIS Gov. Small Now Has Amendment SPRINGFIELD, Ill.,: Jan. 29. — The twentieth amendment to the federal constitution, giving congress power to regulate and prohibit child! labor, ‘ia in the hands of Governor Len Small here. Small said he may. intréduce the amendment into the legislature next week. i Altho twelve state legislatures haye defeated the ratification of the pro- posed amendment, and one state has postponed action, the fight will con- tinue for ratification in Illinois, it was declared by child labor advocates. tot day. It was pointed out that there is no time limit for securing ratifica- tion, and that the amendment may be Te-introduced into the . legislatures where it met defeat at a later date, . The five state legislatures defeating the amendment yesterday were: Ohto, Kansas, North Dakota, Washington and Oklahoma. The amendment so far has been adopted by two state legis- latures—those of Arkansas and Cali- fornia, Tribune Wants Child Labor. The Chicago Tribune, in an editorial this morning, apologized for having ever favored the -anti-child labor amendment, and declared that from now on it will oppose the amendment. The Tribune, as always, has lined up with the Illinois chamber. of cominerce and the Illinois manufacturers’ asso- ciation, against the workers of Illinois. Sn be ebbere Lunn € Sf) A Junior Tells of Communist Hungary. When I lived in Hungary in 1919, we had a Communist govern- ment led ‘by Comrade Bela Kun. All the poor working people were in favor of this government be- cause it stood for them. In,the school where I went they used to’ teach us to fight for the working class along with Bela Kun and the rest of the Communists. when the saplealiat class ruled,| All she was afraid to tell us the truth. But when the Communists took over the government she was very ATTAINS ITS TOTALITY Wit, referred to in our story on the eclipse in yesterday's Junior Column.—kEd. Note. By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN, EEORGES ENESCO, Roumanian composer, conductor and violin- ist, was soloist and guest director with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra last Friday and Saturday. He played the Bruch second concerto, The concerto itself is an old fashioned, rather long- ish work, but on the whole quite worth hearing. Enesco made it seem four times longer that it is. The reason for that is that Enesco is a sentimen- talist in his playing, and too often in his composition. He loves to linger ‘over one tone, drawing all the sensu- ‘ousness out of it. Smetimes he car- ries ths trait of his to such an extent t he seems dead and listless.” He directed two of his own compo- sitions as well, a suite for orchestra and the first Roumanian rhapsody. Of the four movements of the suite two are good. The prelude in unison, or- chestrated only for violins, violas, ‘cellos and kettledrums, has a pecul- iarily nude, vigorous effect arising from the simplicity of the theme and of its treatment. There is a clever fast movement closing the suite. The two inside sections, a slow minuet and a slow intermezzo, suffer from the same excessive weight of sentimental ity that so affects Hnesco's style as a violinist, Siena alee RE melodies akin to Roumanian folk tunes. It is both Roumanian and rhapsodic. (That is a bromide one must use every now and then). Some day I should like to make up an or- chestral program of rhapsodies. I should not put on it the second Hun- garlan of Liszt, but htis first’ Rouman- ian of Enesco would take its place. Another modernist of Southern Europe, the Hungarian Bela Bartok, was represented on this program by} a suite for orchestra, which, tho writ- ten twenty years ago, when Bartok was only twenty-four, was given its, first Chicago presentation. The suite is a bad imitation of Liszt. Bartok glad and she always’ used to ex- plain to us why we should support them. Each classroom’ was organized into a Soviet, with officers and everything. I was elected dele- gate to the school Soviet. When the school Soviet met, the teach- ers could not tell. us what to do or order us around, because out- side of the school there were two of our dear Red Soldiers on guard. of us used to love these two Red Soldiers because they used play with us and tell us. ste about Comrade Lenin and how the workers were trying to get rid of the cruel capitalists all over the’ world and how the Russian a Hungarian workers have pee done so. ‘ But aftcr-a while the Rouma ian soldiers’ came and killed the workers and Communists. All the children in our school missed the two Red Soldiers: very. very much and we never saw them again, I hope the cruel Roumanian soli did not Inirt them. ‘ All ‘the people were sorry be- cause'the Communist government was overthrown. And we were. not. allowed to have our school councils any more and our good teachers were sent away. ie I hope the Communists in Hun- gary will soon come back and take over the government again make the working people and chil- The cartoon in this column today, by Comrade Fishman, is the one |dren happy. Comrade M. HERMAN, age 18, Member Wicker Park Juniors. the Civic program, is said by some to” represent a procession of mourners the catacombs of Rome. Perhaps ‘ interpretation is a bit extreme, but the’ theme is a queer and exotic one... This was followed by the o1 scherzo “The Sorcerer's Applic a by,the Belgian, Paul Dukas. The liter ary basis of the scherzo is-a ballad by, Goethe, telling how a sorcerer had.a