The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1925, Page 4

Page four \ FEDERAL OFFICER PROP AGANDIZES AGAINST NEGROES Government Backing Rouses Protest (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, April 1—Use of the department of labor’s privilege of free mailing (franking) for the purpose of anti-Negro propa- ganda has aroused protest and a demand for the dismissal of the department agent involved. W. A. Plecker, the culprit, is a Vir- ginian, and has been using his gov- ernment franking privileges to dis- tribute free of charge a pamphlet en- spreading vicious vigorous | titled “Eugenics in Relation to the New Family and the Law on Racial Integrity” of which he is a co-author and which describes our black fel-} low workers as members of a lower race who must be treated as inferior. “Dr. Plecker is an avowed antl- Negro propagandist,” says the pro- test to U. S. Secretary of Labor Dav- is. “What he has to say < - Msulting to all colored American citi- zens, but when as an official of the United States department of labor he sends this matter out under govern- ment frank and at the expense of the common tax payers, his actions be- come a public outrage.” Classical Dancing, Workers’ Athletics at Cleveland Dance CLEVELAND, O., April 1.—April 5, Gridina’s Hall will be the scene of Cleveland’s liveHest, most. hilarious, most riotous Communist entertain- ment ever staged in the history of the local. Fifty Finnish comrades of. the Finnish Athletic club will demonstrate with parallel bars and bar-bells the meaning of workers’ sport activity. Double cut-offs, single backward cut- offs, hand-stands and shoulder rolls will be part of the program of athletic feats which will entertain the audi- ence of workers who will also parti- cipate in the international costume ball, one of the evening’s festivities. The leading feature of the evening will be the number by Lillian Krestan, popular youthful ballet dancer of Cleyeland radical circles. The cli- max of her performance will be the revolutionary dance for which Isadora Duncan was barred from Boston audi- torlums. Supper will be served at 6:00 p, m. Admission’ in advance is thirty-five | cents; at the door, forty-five cents. The doors open at 2:00 p. m. . Anti-Nationalistic Concerf and Spring Fever Dance in Bronx BRONX, N. Y., April 1—aAll the young folks and all the folks who feel young are invited to attend the Spring Feyer Costume Dance of the Young Workers League, Bronx English branch on Saturday, April 4 at 1347 Boston road, Bronx. This appropriate affair promises many novel features and a good time for all. The spring fever inoculation costs only 50 cents and includes admission to all the fun. On April 11th the Bronx English Branch No, 1 W. P. has arranged an original international anti-national- istic concert and ball. This will also be held at 1347 Boston road, and ickets cost 50c. DANGE FOR BENEFIT OF WHITE RUSSIAN PRISONERS IN POLAND ‘The Workers’ Home, together with the White Russian Peoples’ Society will give a concert and dance this Sunday, April 5, at Scho- enhofen Hall, corner Milwaukee and AShiand avenues, for the benefit of the political prisoners in Poland. Many of the White Russians who ate fighting for the liberation of the territory forcibly annexed by Po- land and which is in fact part of the Soviet Republic of White Russia, are suffering in the jails of Poland. Only a few days ago, the capitalist press reported how two of such tisoners who were on their way to fe exchanged for Polish prisoners im Soviet Russia, were shot dowg, by the Polish chief of police. All who are in sympathy with the liberation movement in Poland are invited to attend this affair and thereby help the victims of the Polish bourgeoisie. The concert will start at 4 p. m. \ WUILTHE Y CONDUCTED = BY TH DUNNE ADDRESSES YOUNG WORKERS WORKED UNG WORKERS LEAGUE ON ROLE OF NEGRO IN CLASS WAR With an attendance of more than 30 young workers, nearly half of whom were Negroes, Branch No. 3 of the Chicago Young Workers League, held its first meeting last Friday, in its new hall at 3201 5, Wabash Ave. Comrade Bill Dunne spoke on the role of the Negro workers in the class struggle in America, with particular emphasis on.the importance of winning the Negro youth. Comrade Dunne’s speech was listened to attentively and was followed by questions and discussion which served to bring out additional points of interest. In the future it is planned to adhere to the educational program of the city central committee, but to have as many special lectures as possible. Los Angeles Juniors Promise Big Program for Annual Festival LOS ANGELES, Cal. April 1.— The Junior section of the Young Workers League of Los Angeles have been very busy for the past. two months preparing themselves for their second anniversary. The date of the celebration is April 12, the place, Co- operative Centre, 2706 Brooklyn Ave. The rumors are that this year’s con- cert will be even better than last years, and that is saying a lot—for those who were to the first anniversa- ry concert of the Juniors last April still remember the wonderful program offered by the Juniors, and will turn out 100 per cent strong this year. It would take too much space to oumerate all things on the program, but a few of the numbers are: “Hap- py Prince”, play in three scenes; “La- bor Defense,” operetta in four scenes; “Spirit of Communism,” ballet. Close to 75 children will partake in the pro- gram. This is the event of the year. We advise you not to miss it. Get your ticket beforehand to assure your se- curing a seat. TicketS can be gotten at the Co-operative Centre, any even- ing from 7p.m. HS The junior section ‘ofthe Young Yorkers League of L. jAs ‘meets every Tuesday and Wednesday night from 7 p. m. to 8:30, at the Co-operative Centre. We urge all parents to send their children to this Gngatization, as it is the only children’s sorganization of its kind. We invite albchildren to visit our group meetings. Dance for Relief of, Irish Famine Victims , Planned for Cleveland CLEVELAND, March 31. — The Cleveland branch of the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Relief committee has arranged a benefit dance to raise funds for the relief of the Irish fam- ine sufferers, to be held Saturday, April 4, at Gordon Square Market hall, West 65th and»Detroit Ave. The Uncle ‘Sam and Terence Mc- Swiney clubs of the Irish Republican organization have donated: the hall for the evening. There will be Irish and American dancing at this popular west side hall. Admission is 50 cents. Circulating Donation Lists. The committee is arranging for a public mass meeting in April to be ad- dressed by a prominent Irish speaker and contribution lists are being circu- lated among the workers of Cleveland. All those who are able to assist in this work by selling tickets for the dance or circulating contribution lists, should get in touch at once with the secretary of the committee, John Fromholz, Room 13, 5927 Euclid Ave., phone Randolph 4065. ” Deamdbanetins Reds Have Benefit Party Next Saturday Eve. Workers on the northwest side of the city will have an opportunity to spend an enjoyable evening as paying guests of the Karl Marx branch of the Workers Party, at a benefit dance and surprise party which will be held in the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Boulevard, next Saturday evening, April 4. One of the best orchestras in. town is engaged for the occasion. There is no objection to visitors from any other part of the city. Stamford Y, W. L. Reorganizes STAMFORD, Conn., Apr. 1.—-Branch 164 of the Stamford, Conn. Young Workers League has been reorgan- ized with.all the old members attend- ing and new ones added, Every mem- ber has pledged himself to greater activity to make the branch forge ahead in real Communist activities. The co-operation of other branches will be appreciated. RATES “ “SBoo a year §3.50~6 months S200 F. -f{Roo ayear F450 6 months f 25: THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER NAME The Negro question in particular will be closely studied, as the branch is located in the heart of the Chicago so-called “black belt,” and prospects of organizing large numbers of young Negro workers seem very favorable. In view of the splendid success of the mass social and get-to-gether held recently in conjunction with the South Side Branch of the Workers Party it has been decided to give another one on the last Saturday in April. However greater emphasis will be laid on the propaganda and or- ganizational features of this affair. Organizing Shop Nuclei. On the industrial field the branch is engaged in building nuclei at the Pullman car shops and the Chicago Mail Order house. Efforts are be- ing made to connect members of this branch with members of the Pullman | branch who are also employed in the car shop. When this is accomplished a real live nucleus will start function- ing in this important plant employing thousands of young industrial work- ers. The campaign at the Chicago Mail Order house is being carried on thru the medium of a semi-weekly mimeo- graphed organ, The C. M. O. C. Work- ers Bulletin. This bulletin is received with great favor by the young workers and several of them have come down to branch meetings and expressed a desire to participate in the work which the league is carrying on. The next issue of the bulletin which will be out Friday will be a special or- ganizational_ one and will carry appeal to the young workers to at- tend the next meeting of the branch to deal with conditions at the Chicago Mail Order house. A special program of entertainment and “speaking has been prepared for the evening in ex- pectation of a good turnout from the young mail order house workers. , Get a sub—make another Com- munist! essential. leather binder. convenience. This an! ce] \ Religion Next Sunday Nite (Speolal to ye Dhily Worker) NEW YORK, April t.—Harlem Open Forum will tackle the subject of re- ligion this coming Sunday evening, April 5, at the Harlem section héad- quarters, Workerg Party, Local New York, 64 East 104th street. The dis- cussion will be led by H. Bourgin, former editor of the Novy Mir, well- known as a writer and lecturer on Communism, Comrade Bourgin, who has written on the subject of religion, will speak on the topic: “Religion as an Instrument of..Capitalism.” Es- pecially at this time when a campaign is being conducted, to introduce relig- ious instruction in the schools, the dis- cussion at the forum will be highly interesting and valuable. There will be three more sessions of the Harlem Open Forum: Sunday, April 12 — The Family — Jeannette Pearl leading the discuasion; Sunday, April 19—The Capitalist, Labor and Communist Press — Ludwig Lore; Sunday, April 26 — Proletcult — Bli Jacobson, o 1058 Ragozin to Teach Class in Harlem. NEW YORK, April 1,—Ray Ragozin, one of the founders of the Communist Party, and an expert teacher has been secured as teacher of a class in Funda- mentals of Communism, for the Har- lem section of the Workers Party, Lo- cal New York. She will conduct the class every Friday evening at the Har- lem headquarters, 64 East 104th St. MOISSAYE OLGIN TO SPEAK IN RUSSIAN IN CHICAGO, APRIL 17 What promises to be one of the most interesting lectures given in Chicago in the Russian language is the lecture to be given by Comrade Moissaye Olgin, co-editor of the Mussian Communist dally, Novy Mir. He will speak at the Workers’ Home (formerly the Soviet School), 1902 W. Division St. on Friday, April 17, at 8 p. m., on “What did the Russian Revolution Give to the Workers and Peasants?” Comrade Olgin was in Russia a few times during the revolution delegate to the Comintern. He the author of “The Soul of the Rus: jan Revolution,” and other works about the revolution. He ie an ex- cellent speaker and it is expected that he will draw a big crowd of those who understand the Russian language. Admission is only 26 cents. P43 Get a sub—make another Com- munist! Tools Are | Important | Like an expert craftsman, a thoro Communist is very critical, very careful in the choice of the tools he must work with. He views closely every method that will better build the revolu- tionary movement. And for him, in addition to correct principles and practice, the means of their most efficient promotion is Carefully, closely, the Communist calculates every little item that aids to build for working class power. The DAILY WORKER contributes to the Communist revolution- ary craftsman a small tool that well serves his purpose:—a small, we Snuggly fitting your pocket, you may find in this binder the book for your shop-mate (perhaps the. clinching argument to “make another Communist”); a descriptive catalogue of every Com- munist book and pamphlet; all Communist publications (in all languages)—more useful information and note paper for your n important tool for a Communist. The DAILY WORKER gladly gives one to every worker who secures a NEW yearly sub —or $6.00 worth of subs ($8.00 worth in Chicago). The DAILY WORKER gladly makes this offer to stimulate inter- est in the Second Annual Sub Campaign and for more efficient promotion of Communist activity. af tJ THE DALieWe WORKER WORK MAKE IT A COMMUNIST SUMMER! By TOM MATTHEWS, HE first warm days of summer will soon be here. The Young Workers Leaguers, like the live-wires that they are, will.set out across the country on their annual hikes, many of’ them from coast-to-coast. The bullding tradesmen in the Workers Party and Trade Union Educational League will move about from town to town as their work may dictate. The agricultural workers will be out in the flelds. Party members en- gaged in winter-season occupations will take their flivvers out on vaca- tion trips. e ’ : * 0@@ All of these will have. the opportunity of their life to do ploneer work In buliding and extending the lines of the Communist movement in this country. Along with every tool box and every knapsack must go the DAILY WORKER—the tools ef Communist BUILDERS. Every small town factory or railroad shop, every farmer’s door or mail box must be visited with the DAILY WORKER Every group of. agricultural werkers.in the fields or orchards must, be made acquainted with the DAILY WORKER. ° e > e If you are so fortunate as to pos: an automobile, then LOAD IT UP WITH THE DAILY WORKER. You needn't wait for that crose- country trip, but go out to those near-by towns or factories on your Saturday afternoons or Sundays with your bundle of the DAILY WORKER. Whether you sell them or give them away, see to it that they are placed into the hands of new readers whom you will find glad to make the acquaintance of a fighting labor daily. oe @ @ Young Communists and Juniors should make their hikes, whether week-end or cross-country, Into DAILY WORKER HIKES. If a week- ender, make your destination some nearby town or factory. Take along enough DAILIES to supply the autolsts and farmers along the way. THIS SUMMER SHOULD WITNESS NOT A SLUMP BUT A GREAT IMPETUS TO THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT IN THIS COUNTRY. MAKE IT A DAILY WORKER SUMMER! . Comrade Matthews -suggests splendid action in the article above and his slogan is an action builder . we suggest it becomes a slogan of yours. But if you have any other suggestions on how to “Build the DAILY WORKER”—and ecially if you are putting them into practice now—write them up and send your article to this column. * *# © @ ON MARCH 31 these Communist BUILDERS sent/in NEW subs in the Second Annual Sub Campa Take notice that local Detroit sends in 15 NEW SUBS. DETROIT, MICH.—N. Stoyanoff, 9; A. E. Goetz, 6 NEW YORK CITY—Peter Karklin; Philip Rifkin, CHICAGO, ILL.—Helen Judd; C. Schwartz. MONESSEN, PA.—Leo Kaupilla. KANBAS CITY, MO.—J. E.\Snyder. 8ST. LOUIS, MO.—F. Weber. JOHNSTOWN, PA.—L. R, Suto. eevee NOTE. » ‘These subs sent in by comrades whose names we publish are NEW sube—or renewals obtained by visiting expiring subscriptions. Hund- reds of special short term subs and subs sent in renewal by comrades for themselves are NOT included. Recommend Taking 900,000 from School Funds for Building “ A building budget carrying an ap- Dropriation of $15,500,000 was approv- ed by 'the finance committee of the boatd-of education and will be submit- ted for final approval to the board at its next regular meeting. This move will necessitate adding $900,000 or the price of two additional elementary buildings to the construction program. , | The amount will be deducted from the maintenance budget. Thercommittee took this action upcn a. recommendation from the firm of Griffenhagen & Associates who un- dertook to prove that the increase rep- resented an actual saving and that it had the added feature of adding seat- ing facilities for the school children. Ten Million Chinese Starve. More than ten million Chinese are in want of food from the effects of floods and famine in north and west China, a missionary reported to his Chicago office. American famine re- lief cares for only six and one-half Der cent of the sufferers it was re- ported, [DONATION FOR WORKERS” ND FOR THE GLASS WAR PRISONERS WAS $276.50 The collection at the Interna- tional Unity demonstration in Ash- Auditorium was $276.50, it was an- nounced by William F. Kruse, local secretary of the International Work- ers’ Aid who atted,as chairman of the meeting. The money will be used to aid the Irish famine Victims, and for the class war prisoners in Europe. WORKER! aise id she Subscribe for the DAIL y| Kinesley @ year $ 250-0 months F200 9 montts [oO @ Sd &o 6 montis f. RZ Send this PROPAGANDA SUB to a worker to “Make Another Communist” Bho ee AE he PR cin B hl STREGT MUNICIPAL CAMPAIGN © ENDS IN ST. LOUIS . AT SUNDAY MEETING (Special to The Daily Worker.) — ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 1—Com- muniste here will wind up their municipal campaign with a masse meeting this Sunday night, April 5, at 8 o’clock, at Unity Hall, Grand Ave. and Page Blvd. This meeting had previously been announced thru an error, for Thursday night. Among the speakers will be J, sLouis Engthal, editor of the DAILY WORKER; John Braun, Commun- ist candidate for mayor of St. Louis, and John Mihello, sub-district or ganizer, Workers Party, District No. 8. Large amounts of literature are being distributed, and other mi taken of carrying on an effective campaign. GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! Monopolies Make Identical Bids for School Contracts School supply companies, coal companies, and other Chicago indus- tries are, by means of monopolies, keeping a fixed high price on their products in Chicago, J. Lewis Coath, trustee of the board of education, charged. The coal companies and school sup ply companies meet and fix identical bids for city school contracts, Coath charged. Frederick Alt, sent to Chicago by Attorney General Sargent to investi- gate monopolies in Chicago, may con- sume at least a year on probing this state of affairs. School officials are inclined to look on Alt’s visit as a means of keeping one of the department of justice em- ployes busy. No. results are expect- ed and prices will be kept as high as ever by the monopolies. Only Super-Persons Entitled to Families, Conference Decides NEW YORK, April 1— The Inst meeting of the sixth international neo+ malthusian and birth control confer- ence was given to the discussion of eugenics with the final adoption of a resolution encouraging large families ~ ameng “super persons.” However, the question raised by Dr. Aleta Jacobs of the Hague, founder of the first birth control clinic in the world, who wanted to know who and what was to determine the superior qualities of accepted parents was left” unanswered. . An international birth control com- mittee was appointed, with England, Scandinavia, Austria, Hungary, Hol- land, Germany, Japan, China, Mexico, Switzerland and America represented. |The conference voted to raise a fund to pay the fine of 37,000 francs to save Eugene Humbert and his wife from further imprisonment in France for distributing birth control pam- phlets. The next international conference will be held in Geneva next August. GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! Sorbonne Student Gets 15 Days for PARIS, France, March 31.—One of the students who participated in the denionstration against Dr. George Scelle, who made a futile attempt to lecture at the Sorbonne law school, has been sentenced to a fine of 50 francs, and fifteen days in jail for “violence and rébellion.” The demonstration was begun by royalists who objected to the appoint- ment of the Herriot supporter to a professiorship in international law. Communists, however, took an active part in a counter demonstration, dur- ing which they made Communist speeches and sang the International. se # Sorbonne Closed. paris, France April 1—Minister of Education Albert has suspended Dr. Barthelmey, dean of the Sorbonne law faculty, and closed the law school as a result of the demonstration by students against as.professor ap pointed by Herriot. Spanish Ambassador Resigns. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1.—The resignation of ambassador to Spain, — Alexander P. Moore, which has laid before President Coolidge, will be accepted, it was announced today. A. Macomber, Connecticut horse breeder, is the most probable successor, it was said. “*\, Anti-Herriot Scene’