The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1925, Page 4

‘es Page Four. b ———-___{ POLISH DAILY OF ‘SOCIALIST’ REACTION DIES ‘Dziennik Ludowy’ Dies Without Mourners Dziennik Ludowy, a Polish socialist daily paper published in Chicago for more than 19 years is out of business. The last isue was out on April 20, car- rying an announcement that it was the last issue and that the whole con- cern was in the hands of a receiver. This “socialist” paper was one of the bitterest enemies of Soviet Russia Day after day it carried nothing but a mass of lies about Soviet Russia. The workers evidently got tired of this capitalist bunk and stopped read- ing the paper. - Supported Every Reactionary. It supported not only the Cahan- Hillman-Levin machine, but also Gompers and Lewis in their fights against the revolutionary and left wing progressive workers. During the war the Dziennik Lu- dowy supported the central powers, and when the United States joined the war it flopped over and supported the United States and the allies, car- rying advertisements of government war bonds. When Abramovich, the counter-revolutionist came to Ameri- ca, it supported him The circulation ‘dropped to a minim- um. In the last issue they appeal for funds to reestablish the paper, but they do not appeal to workers, only to the bourgeoisie, to the followers of Pilsudski. They are also appealing to the Garland fund for a $20,000 loan. Polish Workers Turn to Workers Party. The yellow socialist Polish paper is dead. The other Polish paper, Glos Robotniczy, pubished in Detroit by the proletarian party is also counting its days. This clearly shows the trend of sentiment among the Polish work- ers. , The Trybuna Robotnicza, official or- gan of the Polish section of the Work- ers Party is gaining a new field every day. Polish workers, especially since the demonstration before the Polish consulate, to save the life of Comrade Lanzutsky, see that the Workers Party is a party of action, a party of Lenin, a party that leads the workers to victory. Fire Fighters Win Twice. WASHINGTON, April 22.—Presi- dent Baer of the International As- sociation of Fire Fighters announces that special] referendum elections in St. Louis and in Green Bay, Wis., have secured wage increases to the firemen in those cities of approximate- ly $25 a month. Eleven hundred men in St» Louis and 120 in Green Bay are benefited. In both cities petitions were initiated by the fire fighters’ union locals, and the voters upheld thém by 4 to 1. Organize Nucleus in Steel Car Works at Hammond, Ind. Another nucleus has just been or- Ganized in Lake County. It contains at present ten members, formerly members of Russian and South Slav branches. This nucleus is organized in the Steel Car Works at Hammond, one of the biggest plants there, and the comrades have made out a long list of activity which is bound to re- sult in the growth and effectiveness of this nucleus. _ DANCE FOR BENEFIT OF GREEK WEEKLY NQUIRIES and information coming Nation-Wide May Day Demonstrations into the national office of the Work- ers Party regarding this year’s May Day celebration indicate a nation- wide demonstration that will surpass any previous May Day in the party's history. Every town in which there is a party branch should arrange such a meeting and notify the national office. The smaller towns should obtain May Day speakers thru their dis- trict offices. As$oan as a meeting is arranged, each party organization is requested to “send In full information regarding name of speaker, address of hall and time of meeting. licity thru the DAILY WORKER. We will give these meetings pub- Don’t fail to notify the national office. Meetings arranged up to the present time with time, speakers are: | Friday, May First. | | CALIFORNIA Los Angeles—Co-operative Center, Brooklyn and Mott, Tom Lewis. ILLINOIS Chicago—Temple Hall, Van Buren & Marshfield, at 8 p. m. James P. Can- non, C. E. Ruthenberg, Martin. Abern and Max Shachtman. Decatur—M. Chilofsky. Pullman—Barney Mass. Madison—Croatian and Bulgarian speakers. Christopher—Corbishley and others. Zeigler—Liberty Hall, at7 p.m. H. Corbishley. Dancing to follow. INDIANA E, Chicago—Columbia Hall, Me- Cook and Verner Aves., at 8 p.m. H. V. Phillips, John Edwards. Gary—Croatian Hall, 23rd and Washington Sts., at 7:30 p. m., Har- rison George also speakers in the So. Slavic, Russian and Greek languages. NEW HAMPSHIRE West Concord—Hall to be announc- ed later. Lewis Marks. MINNESOTA Hibbing—Robert Minor. MASSACHUSETTS Boston—Convention Hall, Garrison St. (Near Mechanic’s Bldg.) 7:30 p. m. Wm. F, Dunne and Oliver Carl- son, Chelsea—Labor Lyceum, 453 Broad- way. J. P. Reld. Lawrence—Central Hall, 23 Mon- mouth St. John J. Ballam. Haverhill—Liberty Hall, Winter St. Harry J. Canter: Norwoed—Finnish Hall, 37 Chapel Court. A. F. Konikov. Worcester—Hall to be announced later. Albert Weisbord. Peabody—Hall , to be later. William Murdock. Maynard—38 Waltham St. Arthur announced Staveley. Gardner—Finnish Hall, J. Seger- meister. Brockton—Hall to be announced later. Al Binch/ Lowell—Hall to'be announced later. Max Lerner. MISSOURI * Kansas City“M. Gomez. St. Louls—Druids Hall, 9th and Market Sts., Saturday, May 2, at 8 p. m. M. Gomez. NEW JERSEY»: West Hoboken—New Hall, 227 Berg- enline Ave., at 8 p.m. Carl Brodsky and others. Passaic—Kanters Auditorium, 259 Monroe street, at 8 p.m. A, Markoff. Paterson—3 Governor St., at 8 p. m. B. Lifshitz and others. Newark— Labor Lyceum, 704 S. 14th St. at 8 p.m. J. Codkind and others. Elizabeth—At 8 p. m., hall to be an- nounced later. J. Marshall and oth- ers. Perth Amboy—Washington Hall, at 8 p. m. S. Darcy and others. Jersey City—Ukrainian Hall, 387 Grand St., at 8 p, m. S, Felshin and others. NEW YORK New York—Central Opera House, 67th St. and 3rd avenue, 8 p.m. Wil- TONIGHT, AT 8 P.M. An international dance and enter- tainment will be given by the Greek branch of the Workers Party, Thursday, April 23, 8 p. m. at the Bowen Hall, (Hull House), cor. Polk and Halsted Sts., for the benefit of the Greek Weekly, Empros. The speaker of the evening in English will be Comrade J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER. Admission 50c. All are welcome. | Weinstone, L. Lore, J. | Krumbein, chairman. liam Z. Foster, Moissaye Olgin, W. Stachel, C. Buffalo—Earl R. Browder. Brooklyn—Grand Millers Hall, Grand and Havenmeyer Sts., at 8 p. m. Wm. Z. Foster, S. Epstein, |. Am- ter, J. S. Poyntz, H. Zam (Y. W. L.), L. Pruseika (Lithuanian), S. Nessin, chairman, New York—Ukrainian celebration. Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., at place and 8 p.m. G. Siskind, and others. New York—Czecho-Slovaklian cele- bration, 527 E. 72nd St., at 6 p. m. J. Manley, and others, New York—Finnish Finnish Workers’ Hall, 5 W. St. R. Grecht, and others. So. Brooklyn—Finnish celebration, Finnish Workers’ Hall, 764 40th St., Brooklyn. Speakers, P. P. Cosgrove and others. New York—German celebration, La- bor Temple, 243 E. 84th St., at 11 a m. L. Lore and others. OHIO Cleveland—Slovenian National Home, 6409 St. Clair Ave., 7 p.m. J. Louis Engdahl. Dillionville—Comrade Weisberg. Yorkville—Comrade Weisberg. Youngstown—May 7, at 8 Pp, Mm, Ukrainian Hall, West Rayen Ave. William J. White. Philadelphia—Lulu Temple, Broad and Spring Garden streets, 8 p. m. Ben Gitlow, Arne Swabeck and Pat celebration, 126th Toohey. PENNSYLVANIA Reading, Pa.—R, V. V. F. Hall, 612 Franklin St., at 8 p.m. H. M. Wicks. RHODE ISLAND Providence—ACA Hall, 1735 West- minster St. Sidney Bloomfield. WISCONSIN Milwaukee—Freie Gemeinde Hall, 8th and Walnut Sts., at 7:30 p. m. Max Bedach, Tom Bell and others. Saturday, May Second. | NEW JERSEY Linden—At 8 p. m., Sadi Amter and others. Hall to be announced later. Saturday. NEW YORK Rochester—Earl R. Browder. OHIO Warren—J. Louis Engdahl. PENNSYLVANIA Bethlehem—Ukraninian Hall, 1641 E. Third St., at 8 p. m. H. M. Wicks and speakers in Hungarian and Ukra- inian. Sunday, May Third. — ILLINOIS Waukegan —Workers Hall, 517 Helmholz avenue, 2 p. m. Thurber Lewis. MICHIGAN Grand Rapids—2:30 p.m. Sons and Daughters Hall, 1057 Hamilton Ave., N. W. T. J, O'Flaherty. Muskegon—8 p. m. Speaker, T. J. O'Flaherty. MINNESOTA ‘Minneapolis—Robert Minor. OHIO Akron—2 p,m. J. Louis Engdahl. Canton—8 p. m. J. Louis Engdahi. PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh—2:30 p. m., Labor Ly- ceum, 35 Miller St. A. Wagenknecht. Erie—Earl R. Browder, NEW YORK Yonkers—Labor Lyceum, 23 Pall- Sade Ave., at 8 p.m. R. Grecht and others, ERE SAE SEEN SE CUE TTR [ Monday, May Fourth. | OHIO Toledo—8 p.m, Speaker, J.~touis Engdahi. Meljon Aid Visits London WASHINGTON, D. C., April 22.— One purpose of the visit of Under- secretary of the Treasury Winston to England is to negotiate for the settle- ment of foreign war debts to the United States, it was reported here. Tone Poem by Strauss Symphony Offering By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. US Spake Zarathustra,” a tone poem by Richard Strauss based on Nietzsche’s book, was the big of- fering of the Chicago Symphony Or- ehestra on its semi-final program at Orchestra Hail. This is the work, which, if I am not mistaken, Deems “uebermenschen- the superman, which wach a bad description for the poem. whole it has the fault of that try to express phi- tone—it is incoherent, overdrawn, because it tries in tone an abstract thot. metaphysics mix very i E ii ie H gk z. fi : eT dering Englishman tries to express the beauty of an Italian landscape. He succeeds in expressing something between a stdmach ache and the itch. Then came two excerpts from Moskovski's first suits for orchestra the intermezzo and the Perpetual Mo- tion, which last is probably the best of the banalities sold under this title. The program said Moskoviski dled some five weeks ago, but added a footnote to the effect that a German paper has published a rumor to the effect that he didn’t die at all. If so the memorial programs played for him all over the world will have to be played all over again some day. Then came the rhapsody Midsum- mer Wake, by Hugo Alfven, as bril- Mant an dcharming a piece as this Swedish master of light and joy has ever written, eT “From Dixie to Broadway.” ‘The products of the Russian become one of the stopping off plac- es in the trip of the Negro musical comedy, “From Dixie to Broadway,” when excellent imitations of “Katin- ka” and “The Wood Soldier,” feature attractions of Balieff's “Chauve Sou- ries” are given. Florence Mills, who won national fame in “Shuffle Along,” another Ne- gro musical show that went across big, starting in Harlem, New York, heads the “Plantation Steppers,” and they show themselves much more lively, especially with ‘their feet, than Balieff’s outfit. But it is this imitation of other productions that does much to dis- place any interpretation of Negro life from this piece, something that “Shutf- ‘tle Along” accomplished much more effectively. While here the show ap- jared at the Auditiorium, the biggest heater in town, It is on tour, play- ing the bigger cities of the north as ll as the south. ‘He DAILYY WORKER Tar? |i SPRINGHELD TO SIGGEST “MAY 1ST MEET Organizations Join W.P. for Demonstration ne (Special to The Daily Worker.) SPRINGFIELD, Mass., April 22— The Workers Party of Springfield, the Young Workers’ pene, Branch No. 716. Workmen’s Circle, the Women’s Educational Club, the Russian Prog- ressive Club, the Italian Freeman Club and the Lithuanian Women’s Club will participate in. the tremendous May Day mass meeting and concert to be held in Springfield on Sunday, May 3 at 8 p. m,.at Liberty Hall, cor- ner North and Ferry. Comrade Oliver, Carlson, director of the Workers School of New York, will be the principal speaker. Comrade Carlson has been in. Europe and spent considerable time, in England, Russia, and Germany studying the economic conditions there... Comrade A. Crisafi of New Haven, Conn., will speak in Italian. ¥ The concert arranged by the Y. W. L. will liven up the meeting with music and singing. The hall is a good sized one and we expect to fill it to capacity. Seattle Debate Stirs Audience; Series. of Street Meetings Held SEATTLE, Wash., April 16.—(By Mail).—A debate on the subject, “Re- solved that the prograr. and tactics of the Communist, Party proved the best means for social progress in America,” was held.in the Labor Temple under the auspices of the La- bor College. - Norman H. Tallentire, district or- ganizer of the Workers Party taking the affirmative and W.D. Lane former city councilman and a progressive, the negative. An upusually large audience was present, thus demons- trating that Communism is becoming the issue of the hour, Tallentire gave an able and fine presentation of the affirmative side ‘and Lane a characteristic présenta- tion of the social. democratic view. Neither of the debaters, however, in- dulged in person: les as is custom- ary with some debaters. Stanley J. Clark been conduct- ing a series of pub treet meetings since the first of this month meeting with great success. ‘He also spoke at several hall meetings here as well as in Tacoma and Mouft Vernon. He is booked for several’ ‘out of the city meetings during the last week in April. e Norman Tallentire will address a meeting on Friday wider the auspices of the Workers Party*in the Painters’ Hall on the subject’ of “The world wide assault on Communism.” Youth Spring Dance to Wind Up Indoor Sports in Chicago The last dante tobe held indoors will be the Youth Spring Dance given by the Young Workers’ League on May 9 at the Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. the place of many en- thusiastic league gatherings and af- fairs. : The famous I. Letchinger’s Mid- West Syncopators have been secured by the social committee to play for the affair. On their retinue of mu- sic, they will have a variety of dances, from the Russian Trepak to the Tur- key in the Straw, in which the league members and all young workers there will participate with the same en- thusiasm and energy as they do in the sale of the Young Workers and distribution of leafi at factory doors during the week and in carry- ing on their daily agitation in the shops. ba Besides the dancing there will be a very short program with a few selec- tions from the League Orchestra and a few individual ballet dances as well as a short talk on the league by one of our speakers. The social coi ittee is meeting regularly and promipes a lively time for everyone. “ Workers Unite in Utica for Biggest May Day Meeting UTICA, N. Y.—A pumber of work- ers’ organizations in Utica have con- stituted a committee for the celebra- tion of labor’s international holiday the first of May this year to rival any- thing that has ever been done before for the occasion, A meeting will be held Wednesday, April 22, at 7:30 p. m., at the Hiberni- an Hall, 896 Bleecker street, of repre- sentatives of all co-operating organ- izations to definitely wind up the or- ganizational plans /fdt the celebration. The preliminary” plans of the com- mittee are for an international mass Meeting, speeches several lang- uages, with singing and music, to take place at the Labor , 714 Char- lotte atrest, May 1/W87:80 p. m. 4 ry teen errr RL TS STEEL TRUST TO «i ENLIST IN WAR: ON COMPETITORS Huge Profits Are Held in Reserve The $715,000,000 undivided surplus profits of the United States Steel cor- poration will not be drawn on as div- dends to stockholders, Elbert H. Gary told thé annual meeting of the cor- poration here yesterday. “We increased the dividend by the payment of extras, so that if con- tinued without interruption it would amount to a rate of 7 per cent a year,” Gary told the stockholders. “Since the war, competition in the United States has been increasing, and while I will not say it has been desperate, it has been decidedly strenuous. “With new firms well equipped fi- nancially entering the business, the United States Steel corporation is holding large depreciation reserves to meet this competition, as it has al- ways been ready to meet rivalry in this or any other country.” rs The large reserve is to be used to freeze out competition by means of temporary price cutting, monopoly of raw material, and other means which are at the disposal of the steel trust. The independent steel firms are usually quickly annexed to the trust. Proletcult to Be Topic for Forum An interesting topic will be discus- sed this coming Sunday evening, April 26, at the Harlem Open Forum at the Harlem headquarters, W. P., Local New York, 64 East 104th street. Com- rade Eli Jacobson who is known as a Communist educator, and who has lec- tured extensively on literary subjects from a proletarian standpoint will open the discussion on the subject, “Proletrian Culture.” This subject has not been treated before in New York at any forum and for this reason it is expected that a crowd will be there to. listen to the talk and to take part in the discussion. This will pe the last discussion evening of the highly successful Harlem Open Forum. Those who have not attended so far should come Sunday evening so as to be pres- ent at least once at one of the best open forums conducted in New York. There will also be recitations of poems of Simon Felshin, John Lassen, ete. Classes in Harlem. The Harlem section of the W. P., Local New York, conducts a number of fine classes at the headquarters, 64 East 104th street. Registration is open now. The classes are: Funda- mentals of Communism, teacher Ray Ragozin, Friday evenings. Principles and Tactics of the Com- munist International, teacher, Rebec: ca Grecht, Tuesday evenings. Elementary and Advanced English, teachers, Sonia Ginsberg and Sophie Mensil, Monday evenings. Registrations should be sent to Sonia Ginsberg, 935 East 179th street, Bronx, New York. Lettish Comrades Plan May 1st House to House Canvass (Special to The Daily Worker.) PORTLAND, Oregon, April 22—The Lettish Branch of Portland has order- ed 300 copies of the special May Day edition of the DAILY WORKER and 1,000 leaflets. All the comrades in the branch were mobilized for a house to house distribution of literature on May Day. In addition to a collection of $56 taken up at the meeting every comrade of the branch donated a day’s pay for a fund which will go for lo- cal propaganda, Michigan Defense, the DAILY WORKER and the political prisoners in Latvia. Appeals have been sent to all the Lettish popula tion for this fund. Our branch has also formed a Rus- sian-Lettish Dramatic Club and an entertainment committee and we are planning a number of entertaining and lively affairs for the near future. FIFTY THOUSAND HEAR SUN YAT SEN’S VOICE ON PHONOGRAPH RECORD CANTON, China, April 22.—Fifty thousand students and workers at- tended memorial services for Dr. Sun Yat Sen, held here at Kwang- tung university. Those in the gathering represented all parts of the province In which the first pres- ident of China was a dominant pow- er for so many years. Dr. Sun’s testamentary address to his followers, reproduced in the Cantonese dialect by a phonograph, was a part of the memorial program. Hu Shung Ching, educational com- miésioner, delivered the principle address. Barney Mass Speaks at Area Branch No. 1, Meeting Friday At the next meeting of Working Area Branch No. 1, Friday, April 24, Comrade Barney Mass, acting national secretary of the Young Workers League,. will speak on “The Purpose of the.Citizen’s Military Camps.” There should be much discussion on this subject. With the sentencing of our Hawaiian comrades to long term sentences for their belief in Communism, the sending of warships to Hawaii, the white terror in Europe, particularly Bulgaria, Poland, etc., and the co-operation which such en- terprises receive from our_ bosses, makes this subject of the utmost im- portance to the league members so that we can make it one of our best agitational points in our shops and inions. An activity on which we can rally thousands of adult and young workers. ~It is hoped that all party, league and sympathetic workers will attend this meeting and take part in the discus- sion. E 166 W. Washington St., Room 506, Attention Chicago Y. W. L, A very important meeting of the Jewish speaking members of the Y. W. L: local Chicago (no matter whe- ther you are a member of the auxil- iary branches or not) will be held on Saturday, April 25, 4 p. m. at the Freiheit Hall, 3118 W. Roosevelt Rd., 2nd floor. The meeting is very important and ‘very comrade who can understand ewish, must by all means attend. Jewish Local “Propcom” Y. W. L. J. Weiss, Sec’y. ‘RUSSIAN GHEKA’ T0 BE PRESENTED AT WORKERS’ HOME, SAT. A Russian performance and dance will be given by the Workers’Home, (formerly Soviet School) this Satur- day, April 25, at 1902 W. Division St. Two revolutionary plays will be presented, The Struggle for Exist- ence, and The Cheka. Beginning at 8 p.m. Dancing after the perform- Come! ance. SUN YAT SEN IN: LAST MESSAGE GREETED SOVIET “Lenin Showed the Way to Freedom” (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKIN, April 22.—Feeling the ap proach of his death, Dr. Sun Yat Sen called the members of the central committee of the Kuomintang and had the following message drafted to the central executive of the U. S. S. Ry signing it in his own hand: + “To the Central Executive Commit tee of the Union of Soviet Socialis¢ Republics: “My Dear Comrades: “As I lie here, with a malady that ie beyond men’s skill my thoughts turn to you and to the future of my party and my country. Lenin Points to Freedom, “You are the head of a union of free republics which is the real heris tage that the immortal Lenin has left to the world of the oppressed peoples, Thru this heritage, the victims of im- perialism are destined to secure their freedom and deliverance from an ins ternational system whose foundations lies in ancient slaveries and wars. and injustices. “I am deaving behind me a party, which I hoped would be associated ‘with you in the historic work of com- pletely liberating China and other ex- ploited countries from this imperiak ist system. Fate decrees that I must leave the task unfinished and pass it on to those who, by remaining true to the principles and teachings of the party, will constitute my real follow. ers. For Russo-Chinese Alliance. “I have, therefore, enjoined the Kuo- mintang to carry on the work of the national revolutionary movement in order that China may be freed from the semi-colonial. status which imper- ialism has imposed upon her. To this end I have charged the party to keep in constant touch with you, and I look with confidence to the continu- ance of the support that your govern- ment has heretofore extended to my country. , “In bidding farewell to you, dear comrades, I wish to express the fer- vent hope that the day may soon dawn when the Union of Soviet Social- ist Republics will greet, as a friend and ally, a strong and independent China and the two allies may together _ advance to victory in the great strug- gle for the liberation of the oppressed peoples of the world. . “With fraternal greetings. “(Signed) Sun Yat Sen.” Diséover “Plot” in Spain. PARIS, April 22.—Spanish police believe they have discovered a) plot against General Primo Rivera, presi- dent of the Spanish directory, accord- ing to Madrid dispatches to the Petit Parisien. The plot was developed in Malaga. Phila. Juniors Will Entertain Comrades with Concert and Play (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 22.— The Junior Young Workers’ League concert and play will be held Friday, April 24, at 8:00 p. m. at Progressive Library, 4035 Girard Ave. The” play to be given is unusually good. It por- trays the youth of the Communist movement engaged in the daily strug- gles against the capitalist system. The musical program as well as the play will be conducted entirely by the Juniors themselves. Much interest is shown by the party members and sympathizers in the coming entertain- ment especially by those who attend- ed the first affair held by the Juniors. and a big crowd will surely attend. THE ROMANCE OF NEW RUSSIA A book aglow with the color, light and life of Russia. A pictuye of the many people the writer has met—working men and women, offi- cials—people of all classes. We have received but a limited new stock from the publishers. Now It’s “The Lenin Group.” WEST ALLIS, Wis., April 22.—The West Allis Junior Group has changed its name to “Lenin’s Group.” The comrades from different groups of Milwaukee and West Allis came to speak of what they thought the group has accomplished and what it should do in the future. The comrades of the group gave recitations and a play, “An American Boy in Russia.” The group received a collection of $13.61, ‘We thank the comrades from different parties who spoke and also the other comrades for helping us celebrate the changing of the name.—West Allis Junior Group. ‘ *_,. * REMEMBER MAY 23! The John Reed Junior group is ar ranging a surprise party and dance Saturday, May 23, at 1902 W. Division St. All friendly organizations are re- quested not to arrange other affairs ‘on that date. Magdeleine Marx Author of “Women” In the Preface the author says: You arrive in Ri Though you know that what has been writ- . ten about'it is pure invention, that the truth falsified, besmirched, and bespat- tered with gore, still you get a sort of shock of surprise, You find a totally ne ship between man and things, with the majority of people benefiting by the new order, not only the signs of resurrection, but resurrection itself, Yet the rest of the world still believes the absurd legends of oppr int»or by mail direct from ¥ Worker deliberately been relation- Everywhere rder that are told about Rus-