The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 3, 1925, Page 6

i y F t i i | ) opeet Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER: PUBLISHING 60, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IL (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50... % months $2.00....8 months By mail (in Pyne only): $4.50....6 months $2.50....8 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year AQdress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. 4, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. Chicago, tlinels Editors semen Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post. | Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <p 290 Firetraps and Profits An old apartment house on the south side of this city took fire and after the smoke cleared away, it was learned that six persons, men, women and children had lost their lives in the flames. An investigation has been instituted to establish responsibility for the disaster. This is the usual thing to do, but as usual nothing will happen, except the making of a few threats by the poli- ticians and much publicity for the same fraternity. Nothing will be done about it, because the politicians are defenders of the capitalist system which is responsible for last Saturday morning’s tragedy. Landlords are powerful factors in society under capitalism and their interests must be safe- guarded. Let the public howl for a few days! They will forget all about it shortly and landlords must be saved from the necessity of laying out their good money in order to make their firetraps safe for human habitation. ‘We had hundreds and thousands of such “ac- cidents” in the past. And each “accident” was fol- lowed by an investigation. And each investigation was followed by silence until the next “accident.” Mayor Dever, State’s Attorney Crowe and all the other public officials elected to office by the workers of this city are hand in glove with the landlords and the capitalists. They will do noth- ing. They will not even enforce the laws already in existence. That would in some measure protect human life in tenements and apartment houses. No sincere voice will be raised in the city council to advocate steps that will compel landlords to make their death traps safe for workers and their families. There is not a single representative of the workers in the city council. The organized workers of Chicago should make an investigation of their own into the housing situation in this city and they should also take steps in the aldermanic elections which will be held here on February 24, to send representatives to the city council who will defend their interests and expose the profit mongering capitalists who do not even stop short at murder thru criminal! neg- ligence to make profits. Professional Charity Twenty-six million dollars is raised annually in Chicago for charity, reports the Chicago Council of Social Agencies. That is half a million a week. The council thinks that isn’t enough and is initiat- ing a movement to start a “community chest” for Chicago. The council doesa’t report how many fat jobs are being held down in the hundreds of “welfare” organizations in the city. Certainly a comfortable portion of the half million a week never reaches the “needy.” Nor does the council take the trouble to explain that demands for more charity contribu- tions are nothing less than a damning finger point- ing to the rottenness of Chicago conditions. e#y¢ The lccal labor movement is up in arms at the suggestion of a community chest. These centralized campaigns have been conducted in many other cities of the country and in not a single instance has the labor movement been given a place. They always turn out as a monopoly for professional philanthropic agencies. And anyhow, what busi- ness has labor in philanthropic work? Scott Nearing’s generalization that philanthropy inyolves control of social policy in education and elsewhere becomes important in the spending of $26,000,000.00 a year in a single industrial center. Freezing the King The three thousand engineers and _ stokers whose busines it is, when they are working at it, to keep London’s palaces and government build- ings warm, folded their arms and parked their shovels, when a non-union man was added to the working force. Even Buckingham Palace, where the king hangs out, is shivering. Perhaps the king is shivering with fear as well as with cold. Not that he has anything to worry about just now, but if Brit- ish workers have so far forgotten themselves as to let their king freeze, they might also uecide to let him starve and save a lot of good food. Ministers of the tory government are huddled around a grate fire in Downing Street, wearing their overcoats. The strikers threaten to picket the houses of parliament if scabs are employed. In England these vermin are referred to as “volunteer workers.” Had three thousand subjects of the British king pulled off such a stunt a few hundred years ago, three thousands heads would be decorating as many pikes just as fast as the king’s mercenaries could get at them. But today it’s the king’s head that sits uneasy on his shoulders, Advertising rates op application | Called Off! According to a communication. issued by Bert M. Jewell, head of the railway department of the American Federation of Labor; the railroad shop- men’s strike which began in the summer of 1922 is now called off by order of the executive council of the A. F, of L. This decision of the executive council is the most outstanding action taken by that body with regard to the shopmen’s strike since that protracted struggle began. There never was a labor struggle in this country that had such an excellent prospect of victory as had the shopmen’s strike, yet never was. there such a pitiable fiasco, and entirely because of the treachery of the A. F. of L. leadership particularly jot William H. Johnston, Jewell and the Gompers gang. One-half of the membership of the railroad shop crafts remained at work while the other half struck. The maintenance-of-way men, despite an over- whelming vote to strike, were not permitted to down tools by their officers. Two weeks before the strike started, William H. Johnston had a confer- ence with Daniel Willard of. the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. At that conference the initial steps were taken to sell out the members of the Ma- chinists’ Union to the B. and O. The infamous B. and O. plan of class collaboration was a result. Faced by such treachery, what could the men ex- pect but defeat? They were licked from the start. |” Treachery and defeats will be the lot of the railroad workers until the lessons they might have learned from their defeats are burned into their hearts. The old craft system of organization must give way to industrial unionism. The old corrupt and capitalistically minded leaders must go. And the workers must see beyond the immediate goal of a higher wage and better working conditions to the goal of a workers’ government and freedom from capitalist rule, poverty, unemployment, strikes, lockouts and all the. other evils that flow from that system. The child labor amendment is beaten, but the faith of the liberals and reformers in ultimate vic- tory via the amendment to the constitution route is unshaken. They will ultimately “amend” capital- ism out of existence, when the tiger becomes a vegetarian or a vegetarian becomes a tiger. Laundry Workers Strike Every driver, to a man, in the Brownsyille, New York City, branch of the Clovelen Wet Wash Laundry has gone out on strike. There are thirty men driving in this laundry and the men, all mem- bers of the Teamsters’ and Drivers’ Local No. 810, American Federation of Labor, quit unanimously. They are dissatisfied to such an extent with their conditions there that they struck and will form- ulate their demands which will be published in the DAILY WORKER as soon as presented to the laundry by the drivers. But the Clovelen laundry didn’t like the strike and felt it would hurt their business so much to have it become known their drivers were dissatis- fied that they immediately changed the name of the company to Premier Laundry,.so.as to befuddle the women in the neighborhood, who would know of the strike. The strike will ask women sending out their wash to watch for the union button on the drivers who call for articles they want cleaned. The drivers feel confident and will have the sym- pathy of the whole neighborhood. The number of registered unemployed in England on last January 5 was 1,307,800. It is estimated that at least half a million more idle workers did not list themselves on the exchange. The unem- ployment evil is the most damning indictment that can be drawn against the capitalist system and it cannot be solved under capitalism. Judges Are Sacred Harry A. Ely, world war veteran, called a New York judge a “numskull,” and got six months Ai three years for it. Judges are sacred beings in United States, and the ¢apitalist courts are sacred institutions. Judge Mancuso, who tried the case, declared that “Justice Caffrey’s reputation and in- tegrity as a judicial officer stands unimpeached.. A writer has the right to publish truth with im- munity, with good. motives and justifiable ends, whether it respects the executive, legislative or judicial branch of our government. But if one goes out of his way to asperse the personal character of a public man, and to ascribe to him corrupt motives, he does so at his own peril. The law re- quires that he must prove the truth of what he says.” Do you have to prove to one judge that another judge is a “numskull”? The workers know it very well, but judges are really such numskulls that they don’t even recognize it. Nevertheless, don’t call the next. judge a numskull. That -will. be at your own peril. You will have to prove it, even if the judge is one. Two Chicago millionaires made substantial con- tributions to the fund for rebuilding a local episco- pal church. The families of both millionaires, when questioned as to their church membership, said they did not belong to any church, but attended the particular chureh to which the donatiuns were made “whenever they went to church.” The work- ing class alone take church seriously, tho it is one of their worst enemies. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. THE DAILY WORKER Gouged Tenants Can’t Criticize Judge (Continued from page 1) futility of getting justice under capital ism, several prominent New Yorkers are plunging into the fray and will afford good copy for the radical press, and much distress for the mossbacks. Calls Judge Numbscull. Captain Ely is said to have claimed that a certain judge was a “numb- scull” which is a word not found in the Student’s Standard Dictionary, but which, nevertheless, must have gotten under the skih of the judge in question, Making it appear that things may be found in judges that cannot be found in ordinary dictionartes. Capt. Ely’s attorney, Rovert Fer- rari, No, 165 Broadway, will this morning ask Supreme Court Justice O'Malley for a certificate of reasonable doubt, in order to obtain his client's release on bail pending appeal. The grounds improper and projudical re- marks by Judge Mancuso in the trial and alleged vituperative language and “indecent references” to Capt. Ely by Assistant District Attorney Panger. In the Tombs yesterday Capt. Ely declared the article upon which he was convieted, appearing in an issue of the Tenant last May, was predi- cated in part on the report of Gov. Smith’s court commission. “There was nothing in my article,” he said, “as strong in its characteri- zation of some of the practices and conduct of the municipal courts as that contained in the report of this commission. “It may be said I was convicted, not on a charge of attacking the courts, but of libelling a Judge. That is true—but the assistant district attorney impressed the jury by every means in his power that my article tended to bring the courts into dis- repute, and the judge in sentencing accused me of attempting to destroy public confidence in the courts.” Caffrey, and other municipal court judges, the New York Tenknt charged, had been interpreting these laws in the interest of the landlords, not in behalf of the tenants for whom they were drawn. Caffrey and other judges,—but Caffrey the worst—had the habit of taking cases out of the hands of juries, at the last moment, and giving decision themselves, in the interest of the landlord. The part- icular case that Ely cited in the paper, was a typical one, he said. A Wash- ington Heights tenant refused to pay rent, on the ground that the landlord had refused to repair the roof. and rain had flooded his apartment, caus- ing considerable damage. A jury heard the argument, and then at the last DEBS APPEALS FOR SUPPORT OF LABOR DEFENSE ° “A Tocsin of Alarm,” eae Says Socialist TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 1.—“The case of Ruthenberg and his associates appeals like a tocsin of alarm to every organized worker in America,” cries Eugene V. Debs in an appeal to labor to assist the defense of C. E, Ruthen berg and others arrested in the Michigan red raids of 1922. “It is enough for us to know that Ruthenberg, Foster, Minor and their associates committed no overt ac of any kind, harmed no one whatever, and yet are in the penitentiary or on the way there. It is enough for us to know that these men, wholly void of offense, are treated as criminals only becat of their connection with the labor movement. “The Labor Defense Council in charge of the defense is making appeal for the funds needed in this critical: situation, and I but do my duty in “seconding this appeal and calling upon all friends and support- ers of organized labor, and of the cause or free speech, free assemblage, and a free people, promptly to make their contribution according to their means and forward the same to George Maurer, secretary Labor De- fense Council, 166 W. Washington st. Chicago, Il.” From a Has-Been Farmer. To the DAILY WORKER.—You aro asking for contributions to the DAILY WORKER. You may get many from the cities but the farmers are still asleep. How did Cal Coolidge get elected? Here is the story of a farm- er who had to quit farming and ac cepted the job of attending a canal lock. He is an old socialist, used to belong to Wayland’s Colony. I met him after election. “Well comrade, for whom did you vote?” “For Cool- dge!” “What?” says I, “you an old socialist?” It shocked me. I mot him again later, we talked on differ ent subjects and I found out he was also employed by the state govern- ment to take measure of rainfall, heat degrees, etc., and so I knew the poor devil, old and homeless, had to vot to keep his job for most likely he re ceived a notice, “Keep Cool with Cool- fdge.” Now if the unemployed would create councils to demand either employ- ment or payment of wages, whether in cities or on the farm a fellow ou‘ of work could be more independent and say instead of, “Keep Cool with Coolidge,” “Make it hot for the capi- talists.” Yours truly, The Has-Been Farmer. See “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” at Ashland Auditorium Feb. 5. oath Desa A 8 nS chairs. Half an hour later there were no more vacant seats, and many hac to stand up. Extensive Program. At 8:15 o'clock Comrade Krasick who acted as chairman, opened the meeting with a few introductory re marks on Lenin, and announced quit« an extensive program of speaking music, singing and Russian dancing The program was as follows: 1, Revolutionary Funeral March by Balalaiko Trio. 2. Singing of the International. 3. Violin solo, by Miss Mary Kess ler, accompanied on the piano by Mise Lilly Kaminsky. 4. Workers’ Memorial, a recitation by Miss Jacobs. 5. Piano solo, Gains. 6. Talk on Lenin, by Comrade J Wilson. 7. Violin solo, by Comrade Emil Berkoirtz, accompanied on the Boe by Miss Stein. 8. Another number by the Balalai ka Trio. 9. Plano solo, by Master John Pt- lon, 10. Talk on the DAILY WORKEF by Comrade Will Dietrich. ‘ 11. Russian national dance by Mise Berenbaum, of the Young Workers League. In addition to the above program refreshments were served. Audience Enthusiastic. In justice to the above mentioned entertainers, I must state that the comrades who just recently came tc Denver were suprised at the variety and skill of the comrades for there seemed to be no end to the applaue after every number, and all had tc give encores. Life of Lenin. Comrade Wilson ably presented the life and work of Lenin from his child- hood to death and dwelt at length on by Miss Mildred leadership since 1917. Accomplishments of Daily Worker. But we did not forget the DAILY WORKER either, on the contrary, we rembered the suggestion that no meet- ing be complete without a talk on the DAILY WORKER. So Comrade Dietrich told us why the DAILY WORKER is a necessity why it is the greatest labor paper ir America, and also told us of its ac complishments in the past year. In concluding he stated that the only road to power is the straight road o Leninism, and that the best way to ge acquainted with Leninism is to reac the DAILY WORKER, Large numbers of Lenin pamphlets and bronze buttons were sold. Th: meeting was then closed with the singing of the Red Flag. Fa Rn SE I RE. Th pee ce REO A A ASS RR ol lt EO cnt ced na orto Bcd A Reto | How Workers May Achieve Success Harry Thayer, chairman of the board of directors of the American Tele- phone and Telegraph Co., speaking at @ meeting of members of the Harvard business school club in New York City, said that the workers “must give the business they choose a chance, Don’ thing about it. Having laid out your course what is there to interfere with going straight to port? ” Now, We Know! The reason there are so many poor workers is that they do not give the business a chance. The workers, either out of envy or misunderstand. we of the interests of the bosses, work against the business, and there- g still need a lesson as to the deep interest that their bosses take in their, the workers’, welfare. They work more intensely—they should think of nothing else but the business. Then having “laid out your course, what is there to interfere with uh 't give up until you really know some- going straight to port?” Yes, what? Capitalism ‘itself, which is based upon the power of the few to exploit the millions. Their control of industry makes the millions work for thom as slaves. Their control of government puts them in a position to dictate to these slaves. Oh yes, go “straight to port’—to the port of . economic slavery—unless the workers think more about giving themselves a chance and then go straight to| suffering from’a neck, port—to bat with the system and| places put an end to it. Mr. Thayer understands his end | following an of the question. It is about time that] .o determine the workers begin to learn somethin, about thetrs. moment Caffrey took the case from the twelve and decided in behalf of the landlord. In: the course of his article, headed “Scofflaw Judges,”.the aged veteran waxed very indignant, terming Judge Caffrey a nincompoop, a. Tom Noody, etc, and advising the exploited tenants to remove him from’ his job and set him to work cleaning streets or doing other useful work. . He. also called Caftrey “Greenwich Village Bill.” As the criminal libel | trial was closing. in general sessions assistant district. atterney, Panger.make some cracks that rivaled A. Mitenel Palmer at his worst, as when he said: “It is not Judge Caffrey against this de- fendant. It is organized society; as it is today, against those who are worse than the criminals. It is he who nibbles at the. structure of our so- ciety.” Judge Mancuse .was nearly as bad, voicing his ‘fears of revolution. Fears the Revolution. “How does: calling a man a nin- compoop speil revolution?” © Defense Attorney Robert. Ferrari said, discuss- ing the case with the Federated Press. Ferrari's appeal brief will emphasize the point that his client was nomi- nally. tried for criminal libel but actually conyicted for seditious libel. a statute dead since its repeal a cen- tury and a quarter ago. LENINISM FINDS MANY EAGER SUPPORTERS IN DENVER, coLo. ° (Special to The Dally Worker) DENVER, COL., Feb. 1—No, he wasn’t here personally, of course, but we all felt as if he was, for Leninism certainly was and.still is. The occasion was our Lenin memorial meeting, held Sunday night at 8 o'clock. All the seats were filled, and it was nepenenry, to put out extra Anna Pavlowa and Her Company at the Auditorium Theatre By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN Nine ballets, among which were two revivals, were presented by Anna Pav- lowa and her company at the Auditori- um theater. last ‘Thursday night. The most: important of the revivals was the first act on the program, the bal- let “Coppelia” by. Leo Delibes. “Coppelia” is the first big ballet of Delibes, who later came to be. known as the pastmaster and authority on that form of. work. The story of “Coppelia” concerns a toy maker in a Galician village who has created.a doll so life-like that one of the boys in the town attempts a flirtation with Se ee et ion house. This precipiates a quarrel between him and his girl, which quarrel is patched up by reveal- ing what manner of creature the doll, is. As with most! of the classic ballet, there is ‘no attempt at a realistic pres- enation of this story. Galician peas- ant girls do not wear:the sort of bal- let costume that looks like.a great powder puff. ‘Any score by~Delibes is.a continu- ous wonder of ‘time making.: The man had a fund.of melody.that never ran out, like the. salt mill of the Sinbad story. And.so popular has. the music of the ballets “Sylvia” and “Naila” and the opera “Eakme” become that no movie cue sheet is complete ..with- out an extract from one of them. “Coppelia” wag followed by a ballet setting of nine Chopin works, orches- trated by Glazunov. Here was real classical dancing at its best. It was | | done by a large company dressed in white, in a setting of severe cypress” trees, in a’blue light. And to add to: Lenin's accomplishments and able, ‘e beauty of the effect was the work | of Anna Paviowa hereself. - Among the short works at the end of the program was the revival of “Coquetterie de Columbine” py Rich- ard Drigo. These short ballets, or divertissements. as they are called tn ballet lingo, ranged from the’ pastoral “Primavera” of Erik Meyer-Helmund at the béginning, thru the exploding colors of a clown affair set to tne Russian dance in Chaykovski’s “Nut- cracker” suite, down to a wonderful bit of Poe-like: horror,” called” “Les Ondines”, set to music by. vk Wa Cata- | tant. Pavlowa’s orchestra is pt from ood. One-can forgive, trom consid- erations of economic necessity, its in- adequate size, but.one cannot forgive the exceedingly bad tone of some of the players, notably the first flute and |. clarine! +9 i i i ken in two kno a area Swans Ww “revealed cust two wi i Captain Ely is a retired engineer one of his jobs was the West Poin tunnel, He is a veteran of the Spanist American War, the Filipine insurrec tion, the Boxer Rebellion and th great war—in the last named hy served in a technical capacity. Ht record is that of a conventiona patriot, save for his unpaid activitie in the tenants’. organization, whic) the courts consider subversive, Judge Mancuse in sentencing Eh said “Your war record .. . only aggre vates, rather than extenuates, th offense, because one trained in mi litary life, who has fought for th defense of his country, should not i time of peace either by word, conduct of’ action attempt to undermine ‘0 destroy those institutions created b our forefathers for the protection ’o life, Mberty and property of ‘ou citizens by unjustifiably and mal eiously and untruthfully exposing ou tribunals of justice to ridicule an contempt.” The jury was out 22 nours. May imum sentence is a year but the Judg sent him to the penitentiary withou specifiying a term, which means h spends his year there unless the p role biards acts. He is in the Tomb while Ferrari is trying to get hi released on bail. -ABOR REACTION IN MINNESOTA FIGHTS Y. WL Rushes to. Protect: Cap italist Education ‘Special to The Daily Worker) sT PAUL; Minn, Feb. 1—The can paign by reactionary elements in tt labor unions of Minnesota, to expela Communists and progressives, has n only become the talk of the who! state, but is reflected in other rea tionary movements. Among these the anti-labor biennial report of thes called “state board of visitors” + filed with Governor Theo. Christia gon. Wants Discontent Suppressed. This report excels in hide-bound r action, and is apparently written | those who know nothing, have learn nothing and are incapable of learni: anything about the education of t) young, except that “hundred per-cer ism " and the sacred interests of cc porations and the whole capitali class demands that the Young Wor ers’ League be suppressete-> <<" That the Young Workers’ League a sort of a collective and modern Sc Tates “corrupting the youth” is ti gist of the matter, and the “board visitors” wants the hemlock cup: br om at once in the form of legislatic Probably a’ more savage law than t) “criminal syndicalist” law, to “pr hibit the activities of all organizatio aiming to incite the overthrow of ¢ isting American governments,” Desires Docile Wage Slaves. The report evinces much conce for the “future usefulness” of t young—to American capitalist explo ers, and says that “The Young Wor ers’ League has branches in fortyd ferent towns and cities in Minneso! Five branches are in Minneapolis a three in St. Paul. “The campaign of instruction,” sa the report, “includes the Communisi | doctrine for overthrow of Americ: government and organized opposit! ;to capitalism in any or all of : forms.” This opposition to capitalls naturally includes opposition to t capitalist control of education, the: fore the “state board of visitor have a reason for worry. + Murmur of the Jobless. And still thru the long day, With drudgery drear; The slave drags his weary way, Haunted with fear. Wealth in abundance Surrounds the poor knave; But poverty stricken ¢ He goes to his grave, Though wealth may surround him, He toils on and on; While starvation haunts him, ‘Til death comes along, Though slaves can move mountains And make machines roar, They own not an ell Of the land they adore, What strange sort of creatures | Aro those who deny, Themselves and their loved ones, The gifts that are nigh. . ‘Toiling and moiling, As though without end; _ | Piling up billions How strange that a master, % Thru preacher and press, =~ Can shackle the millions AS pawns in his chess. Work, work is their cry, “Bee, we starve, may good muster We will fight, e’er we ‘all, m, Your wealth is disaster.” ~DAVID COUTTS Omaha, Nebr,, Jan, 19, 1925, Cable, Author, Dies, ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Feb. 1 Beorge W. Cable, author of a score more of well beh died at winter home here, ah ve of age, — ¥ “ge ‘a