The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 5, 1925, Page 5

yee STARVATION CURE EMPLOYERS IN DRIV. E, BACKED BY BEING GIVEN TO 10,000 MINERS Pittsburgh O) Operators Try to Force Cut By Stephen, Worker Correspondent. PITTSBURGH, Pa,, May 3.—One mine after another is ‘being closed down by the Pittsburgh Coal Co. in an effort to bring down the wages of the miners. A total of 22 out of 54 mines owned and operated by this company in the Pittsburgh district have closed and the men thrown into the unem- ployed army within a period of one month. A few weeks ago the company an- nounced the dismantling of 16 mines and removal of equipment. Many . of these mines are to remain closed for a@ year. On April 23 six additional mines were closed. At first the com- pany would try to have the men ac- cept a reduction in wages with the promise of steady work. The Ancient Lie of More Work, It circularized numerous letters among the men telling them what a great benefactor it was, but also how poor it was, and that in their own interests the men should accept a wage cut. The trick did not work; the miners refused to fall for this line of bunk. Knowing that the company was lying when it promised steady employment, they refused to go to work in the mines at a reduced wage. The closing of these mines has thrown 10,000 men out of work forcing them to seek employment either in other fields or other industries. Many miners just drift from state to state without any sign of getting a job and finally return to find that their credit in the stores meanwhile has been cut off. Others go to the steel mills look- ing for jobs. There they hire skilled workers for 50 cents an hour and com- mon labor for 40 cents, and even at this cheap wage not very many suc- ceed in getting work. In fact the steel mills are now blowing out their furnaces, Wide Unemployment. The balance of the 64 mines are now only working part time, one, two, at the most three days a week. Miners coming to the Pittsburgh district look- ing for work are either turned away or given work for a few days and later fired. The mines owned by other com- panies in this district do not work very much better. Many of them are closed altogether or working part time. Union Officials Indifferent This entire problem does not seem to concern the miners’ union officials, who are too busy at the present time expelling reds and progressives from the organization. To the rank and file miners, however, and the work- ing class as a whole it is becoming a real problem demanding a solution. Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! George E. Pashas COZY LUNCH 2426 Lincoln Avenue One-half was? ~ Imperial all CHICAGO Madison Pharmacy INC. BETTER DRUGS Light Luncheon Served 1154 Madison Street, Corner Ann OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Four Phones Chicago CLEVELAND, OHIO. Co-operate THE O0-OPERATORS COMPANY Dealers in t Groceries, Fruits and Vegetables 7195 E. 71st Randolph 7059 Owned and controlled by your fellow workingmen A. Moskalik DENTIST 8. W. Corner 7th and Mifflin Sts, PHILADELPHIA, PA, Philadelphia, Notice! Weber Printing Co. 360 N. FIFTH STRENT, Philadelphia, Pa KLAN TO REPLACE SCIENCE WITH BIBLE DOPE IN NATION’S SCHOOLS (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, May 3,—A survey of the restrictions on teaching in schools and colleges just completed by the American Civil Liberties Union shows that more restrictive laws have been passed during the last six months than at any time in American history. These laws prohibit the teaching of evolution, require compulsory reading of the bible and forbid the employment ,Jaccqunt of expressionism in the last *| tod ‘much pessimism at the effects of “| everyone who wants to get a look into of radical or pacifist teachers. The survey shows that congress passed one such law as a rider to the 1925 appropriation bill for the District of Columbia, providing “that no part of this sum shall be available for the payment of the salary” of any educa- tional director teaching of partisan politics, disre- spect of the holy bible, or that ours is an inferior form of government.” This law is now in force in the Dis- trict of Columbia. Expel Students. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware, West Virginia and Kentucky have laws re- quiring the daily reading of the bible in public schools “without comment,” and providing for the discharge and Tevocation of the certificate of a teacher who does not conform to the acts Similar bills have been intro- duced in the legislatures of Virginia, Texas, New'Jersey and Washington. ‘A test of this type:of statute was made «in South Dakota: in March, where Judge McNenny:ruled that a school. board has the authority to ex- pel: high scliool students who leave the, class room during bible reading. Thirteen students were expelled in this controversy. The decision will be appealed to a higher court. Afraid of Truth. The first state law prohibiting the teaching of the doctrine of evolution in public schools and colleges was passed in Tennessee in March. Reso- lutions of state boards forbidding the teaching of evolution wer@ previously adopted in North Carolina and Flor- ida. Missouri state colleges and schools are forbidden by a rider to the ap- propriation bill recently passed to em- ploy any person “who teaches, or ad- THE ART. oF THE NEW WORLD— By JOHN LASSEN. Modern Russian Art, by Louis Lo- zowick,. Mi im of Modern Art, So- New York, $1.00. ae. ¢ @ pee American book market has been enriched by a book which has filled up a yoid,, The task accomplish- ed by Louis Lozowick is that he has given a picture of Russian art today. He does not assume the pompous air .of-an, official. arbiter but in the most objective way possible he un- dertakes to make us comprehend the tendeticiés’ whith have stirred up the calm -waterd of -pre-revolutionary art into a veritable storm. Lozowick, who himself is one of the best American artists looks at the art movement as a painter, With the eyes of a paint- er he~anatyzes what the new art has achieved. Of first importance for him are thé paihting problems. We must state ,that jhe has illuminated the problem) in such a way that every layman|can understand. ‘In. vetyifimple and clear language he pr before us the problems of ‘the * us schools of painting. Up- on-territor¥ absolutely strange to the American public ne leads us with sure hand. From Bubnovy Valet, across the Russian cubists, constructivists, su- premists to the expressionists Lozo- wick shows us the different schools of painting. With a cold objectivity he tries to show us the various charac- teristics of all these schools. He shows the merit of the Soviets which encouraged the untrammeled development of all these tendencies, to the most audacious. He does not criticise, He only determines. He does this in such a way that every- one can judge for himself. In this objectivity he goes too far, in our opinion, and does not point out the mistakes of the various schools, such as suprematism for instance, In our opinion it was not wise to give an paragraph because expressionism is evidently a farther: “development of Bubnovy Valet. The determining fac- tor.in all these schools is the steady trend toward constructivism, The writer of the book looks with Nep upon art. The Nep liberated the structure of the whole economic life. And together with that it assures the final victory of the proletarian revo- lution. A strong proletarian state will be a greater help than before towards the further development of art. We ‘are very sure that in Paris, Berlin or London artists cannot find a Maece- nas for their paintings of black on black or white on white. For Lozowick himself who is a wonderful, most intelligent and most capable painter who does not resem- ble these various schools, we have nothing but praise on account of his remarkable objectivity. The book as it is, is a splendid guide for all who are interested, in the labyrinth of the new Russian art, The rich illustrations make the book complete. What was impossible for Lozowick to tell in words the pi tures show in a most interesting man- ner. We recommend the book to the melting pot in which pats be! the new art of a new world, “he “who permits the¢————__.__ vocates in public or private that the citizens of this state should not pro- tect the ‘government of the United States from aggression by other na- tions.” In the recent Ohio legislature a res- olution was introduced authorizing an investigation of members of the fac- ulties of three state universities, with the object of ousting “radicals and atheists.” This resolution was killed by the senate committee to which it was referred. Klan Backs Gag Laws. “Efforts to get court action on all these restrictive laws will be made thru our attorneys,” the Civil Liber- ties Union announces. “The constitu- jtional guarantee of separation of church and state, it is believed, offers @ ground for contesting the laws re- quiring bible reading. The U. S. su- preme court already has befora it one restrictive school law passed in Ore gon and aimed at abolishing the parochial schools. The chief sources of inspiration for this new and unpre- cedented crop of gag laws on teach- ing are’ the ku klux klan, the funda- mentalists, and the professional pa- triotic societies. The klan is back of the compulsory bible reading and anti- parochial school laws, the fundamen- talists back of the antt-evolution bills and the professional patriots back vf the anti-radical and anff-pacifist measures.” LRA, re AECL ges awe ciao eh THE DJ British Wamen Trade Unioni | Mag Russia An independ@it delegation of wo- men copes organizers of Brit- ish trade unt deals visiting Russia with the purpoge —f making a special investigation into questions affecting women and children, The delegation intends to make a stay of about two months and to publish an independent report upon its return. The delegation consists of Miss Mary Quaile, organizer of Transport and General Workers’ Union, and member of the General Council of the Trades Unioh Congress; Miss An- nie Loughlin, organiser, Tailors’ and Garment ‘Workers’ Union; Mrs. A. Bridges, National’ Union of Printing Bookbinding, and Paper Workers; Mrs. L, A. Aspinall, Weavers’, Wind- ers’, and Reelérs’ Association; Mrs. K. Coates, interpreter; and Miss May Purcell, stenographer. The delegatién’°’will be away for about six to eight weeks, and will make a special investigation into questions affetting women and chil- dren. It will make an independent report on its return. Erection of ‘Power Plant Lags. WASHINGTON—(FP)—Annual pro- duction of electricity by public utility power plants in the United States has increased about 40 per cent in five years, atcording to a report made by the U. S. geological survey. Total production in 1919 was 38,921,000,000 kilowatt hours, while in 1924 it had reached 69,014,000,000 kilowatt hours. Water power plants produced 37.5 per cent of the total in 1919, and 33.8 per cent of the total in 1924—showing that construction of hydro-electric plants had not ‘kept pace with the growth in demand fct electricity. Coal used as fuel for the production of electricity amounted to 35,100,000 short tons in 1919, and to 37,556,000 short tons in 1924, while fuel oil was used to the extent of 11,050,000 bar- rels in 1919 and 16,630,000 barrels in 1924, ac “The Green Hat,” a dramatization by Michael Arlen of the author’s novel of the same name. Playing at the Selwyn Theater. The Green Hat is the story of a misunderstood woman, Iris Fenwick, nee March, who battles for ten years against English prudery to attain the man she loves, Napier Harpenden,— and happiness. Iris and Napier were palymates to- gether, and in spite of the fact that Napier’s father, Sir Maurice Harpen- den, forbids their marriage, the. first. love of the childhood sweethearts does not grow cold. Iris marries, her husband jumps out of the window on her wedding night when he finds her somewhat disgusted upon learning that a prostitute has given hubby a venereal disease. Napier fares somewhat better, ten years later marrying Venus Pollen, a pure sweet angel, who, however, ad- mits that it is somewhat boring to be a virgin. Iris has not revealed the true reason for her husband’s suicide, and in order to shield her brother, Gerard March, who worshipped her husband as an idealist, takes the blame for her hus- band’s fatal leap and allows English society to cast her out as a harlot. Iris does not care much for English society anyhow. “There is no one so lonesome as an English woman in England,” she says. Iris is True to First Love And so for ten years, “wearing a green hat, Iris haunts the capitals of Europe. But she cannot forget Napier, and returns a few days before his marriage to ask him to aid her dying brother. Napier sends someone else to console Gerald and spends the nite with Iris. Their son dies at birth. Later, when Napier’s wife is told all, she agrees togive up Napier to Iris. But Napier shatters Iris’ ideal, by tell- ing his father that her dishonor was self imposed. Iris does not like this. “You've destroyed the only gracious thing I ever did,” she says, and sends Napier back to his wife, gracefully } o, eliminating herself by driving her auto into a tree. Exposes Hypocrisy of Rich, The Green Hat makes you hate up- per class hypocrisy, the false morals and untrue standards of the self styled aristocracy. It makes you hate the smugness of the well bred English “gentleman.” A horde of “beastly” plutocrats march across the stage. Napier is a victim of the class from which he springs. His love for Iris is to him a weakness which he would like to overcome. Napier deserts Iris after her husband's suicide, and again, allows her to slip thru his fingers in order to marry the well brought up Venice Pollen. Napier is bound by his position “in the foreign office,” by his rigid ideas of what is right and grong in matters of sex. “I long for decency,” Iris tells Napier and his crowd, “Not the de- cency men show when someone is looking at them, but real decency, when they are not being watched,” But so smug in Napier that the shaft not even sting him—he does not know it is meant for him. Perhaps the play ends logically ugh. Iris has put up a splendid ht against the indecent, bourgeois dards. In the end, her ideal is tered, her long search for her ver beaten, and she has nothing ore to live for, Ailen, had an .eye on the box office in constructing his ending. At least, two interpretations. may be put upon it. We would, prefer to think that Napier. was a. damn tool; that he lost a real woman, and was shunted back to his empty headed, though sweet, angel, to stewfor the rest of his life in his own upper-class pride. We pre- fer to think ‘that’ the eniling demon- strated the misery, the sad frony, the hateful ‘rottendss°'that accompanies the bourgeois” sfiifidards. Part of out’present day standards are to let a best seller exhibit what the bourgeois considér the rankest filth, the most érverted fulminations, as long as conventionality is served in the end and thé evil’one who has been amusing us for*200 pages is killed and the sweet heroiie marries the stal- But there ig the suspicion that the of The, Green Hat, Michael wart hero. r A deviation from the bourgeois stan- dards in the movies, for example, is. permitted only on condition that the black sheep iis killed in a rail- road wreck and hubby and wifey make up. And: and true to li the people pay et it is these human “deviations” which sir money to see. The Green , Of course, does not do this. Iris is the heroine to the end, and she triumphs over the con- ventions even in death, But the play sets one to wondering if Arlen did not make a concession to the conven- tions in keping the home of the weak husband and the sweet wife intact at the end. Play Worth Seeing. The ending leaves a way out for the conventional playgoer. He can say, “Well, the sacred marriage institution is the strongest, after all. That just goes to show, if the woman WOULD go dashing about in a green hat, she was bound to smash up against a tree sooner or later.” At any rate-the ironies are there for the keen eyed to see, the bourgeoisie are dragged thru the mire of their contempt for the “Improper” and unconventional, and they suffer the consequences of the system which has built up an aristocraty of the rich. The acting, with Katherine Cornell, Leslie Howard, Ann Harding, Eugene Powers, Paul Guilfoyle and Gordon Ash supplying an all star cast, is un- usually good. Thé’play is well worth seeing. KARL REEVE. Scab Railroad Has Big Per Cent of Engines Ticketed as Unsafe seanncncrreteoms D.C, May 3.—In the first nine months of the fiscal year ending July, 1924, 21.5 per cent of the Pennsylvania railroad locomotives were rodered out of service by fed- eral inspectors, while the percentage on the Baltimore and Ohio was 5.8, that on the New York Central was 9.3, and the average for all railroads was .5 per cent. In view of this devay of the proper- ty, one finds nothihg surprising in the report that the stockholders failed to adopt any appréélative resolutions when President Rea recently retired from the presidengy, of the company, even tho the ling poasts of its com- pany ynion an in its shops. aet A sub AMD Give “Give Onet -Y WORKER BUILDERS AT WORK THE EXPERIENCE OF REVERE, MASS. “Fine Idea! It Works!” Says a Communist Builder if Blaha various plans proposed thru this column to better bulld the DAILY WORKER are accepted, acted upon and even enthused about. The plan of circularizing workers In your community (er union) with sample coples of the DAILY WORKER for one week and then fol- lowing up the names with a personal visit is a good one. When necessary, the system of partial payment is applied, as ts done In many parts of the country now, and this method Is becoming a success in our land of “$1.00 down and a dollar when you catch him.” Read this letter from an enthusiastic Communist Bullder In Revere, Mass.: Comrades:—Yes, it works! Fine idea! You are a member of a lodge, union or club; you know a number of semi ex or self-styled radicals. Send them the DAILY WORKER for a week or so, then visit them, show how easy it is to get the DAILY WORKER for one year by paying out 50 cents or a dollar at a time. Result: Out of five individuals approached in this manner, two subscribed for a year. Would suggest that all branch agents use this me- thod and they will be greatly encouraged by results. With best greetings to the Builders, Charles Schwartz, Revere Agent. 6 8's The partial payment plan Is a good one in other ways. You not only get a longer term sub from a worker unable to pay the full amount at one time, but if followed up regularly for payment, you talk to him, get his views, give him yours and—nine chances out of ten you have made another Communist. (Perhaps a new member for your branch.) As Comrade Schwartz of Revere, says: “Fine idea! it works!” ee a IN THE SECOND ANNUAL SUB CAMPAIGN. These determined Communist Builders have sent in new subs on Thursday, April 30: REVERE, MASS.—Chas. Schwartz, (3). NEW YORK, N. Y.—Geo. Koukly, Jimmie Higgin’s Book Shop. BOSTON, MASS.—Elsie Pultur, Albert Welsbord. BUFFALO, N. Y.—S. Katz, (2). CHICAGO, ILL.—M. Novak. 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