The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 29, 1926, Page 3

RED-BAITER OUT FOR BETTER JOB; ASKS LABOR AlD Lefkowitz Amuses New York Union Council By Sylvan A. Pollack. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 27.— The Central Trades and Labor Council was. enlivened by an amusing per- formance by Abraham Lefkowitz of ‘the Teachers’ Union, who in a piti- ful manner denied the charge levelled against him of being a Communist. Lefkowitz, locally known as a red baiter, has had the tables turned on him at last, and treated “as he has treated others. Red-Baiter Seeks Soft Job. Lefkowitz, ambitious to rise not on- ly in local labor and political circles, but also to obtain a well-paid pogition in the high school took an examina- tion for assistant teacher in history, and because he was not immediately assigned, he came before the Central Trades and Labor Council meeting complaining that he was not being treated fairly, stating Aaron I. Doty, of the teachers’ council, had called him a Communist. Lefkowitz, who paid little attention to the question of obtaining a raise for the lowest paid teachers in the schools, is now taking up the time. of the Central Trades and Labor Council with his own personal affairs, He declared: “They with being a Communist. How amus- ing! I who have always fought them! “Just because I spoke from the same platform as William Z, Foster during the steel strike they now use that against me, without mentioning that at that time Foster was the or- sanizer of the steel strike and I was the representative of thé former Cen- tral Federated Union. All the charg- es against me are lies except that it is true I was a member of the Farm- er-Labor Party, which died an in- glorious death.” The Central Trades and Labor Council elected a committee’ of three to visit Mayor Walker and see that “justice” is obtained for Lefkowitz. James J. McAndrews, secretary of District No. 9, whose headquarters are located at Shamokin, 'Pa:, of the United Mine Workers of America, ap- peared before the council and asked for financial support for’ the striking coal miners of Pennsylvania. After a three-quarters of an hoar’ speech, the body donated $15.00 to“help the anthracite miners and thei? ‘families. “A Friend of Labor.” An address by Assemblyman Fred- erick Hackenberg, who was introduc- ed as “a genuine friend of labor” end- ed the meeting. He spoke on. injunc- tions in labor disputes, declaring that he is going to introduce a bill to pre- vent injunctions being issued, “ex- cept after all the facts have been pre- sented at a hearing before a judge.” Judge Thomas W. Churchill, of New York, who is a member of tha same party as Assemblyman Hackenberg, the democratic party, granted the In- ternational Tailoring company an in- junction against the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union after going thru the procedure that the assembly- man now advocates as the “remedy” to prevent issuance of injunctions charge me against striking workers, Need Labor Party. A labor party for the New York workers, and a militant Ceritral Trades and Labor Council are the urg- ent needs of New York workers at the present time. Enforce Laws Against Toilers; Crooks Go Free; Says Southern Lawyer NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 27—Stephen H, Allison in an address before the New Orleans Young Men’s Hebrew club said that laws like criminal syn- dicalism statutes are rigidly enforced against workers while laws against gangsters, financial crooks and the men higher up are allowed to lie dor- mant. Allison urged his audience to “The power of the working class is organization. Without organization of the masses, the proletariat—is noth- ing. Qrganized—it is all. Organiza tion is unanimity of action, unanimity of practical activities.”. |Churches Oppose Spread of Birth Control Knowledge NEW YORK, Jan. 27—Action against the proposed amendment to the fed- eral penal code so that the dissemina- tion of birth control literature will not be illegal in the United States is to be taken by the catholic and epis- copal churches, The Birth Control League is trying to have a bill intro- duced which would permit physicians to use the mails in giving scientific birth control information by letter, pamphlet or book. National Catholic Welfare Council Secretary John Burke is attempting to get other churches on record as opposed to the proposed legislation, charging that the proposal “is a chal- lenge to the patriotism of every true American.” The Birth Control League holds that it is acting in the best interests of the people of the country, particularly for the good of workers. The social and economic burden of too many chil- dren for the ability of parents to care for them would be relieved by allow- ing physicians to mail scientific in- LABOR OFFICIALS TRY TO BLOCK PROGRESSIVES Get Injunction and Ar- rest Member 1. L. D. Press Service. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 27 — The officials of International Hod Carriers’ Building and Common Laborers’ Union of America Local No, 310 have made application to the local courts for an injunction restraining the progressives within the union from making pro- tests against the rottenness of their actions, A meeting of the progressive ele- ments of Local No, 310 was called for last Sunday afternoon :2.30 p. m. by means of a handbill issued by the pro- gressive committee. The handbill reads as follows: Fight Dictatorship. “The time has arrived to call a halt to the dictatorial methods employed formation. Countless, worthless and often dangerous patent medicinés and fake medical devices are allowed to be advertised thru the mails but not scientific birth control, HOOVER URGES TRADE WAR ON FOREIGN POWERS Imperialist Spokesman Calls for Boycott Herbert Hdover, American secre- tary of commerce, the ablest and most outspoken imperialist in the Coolidge cabinet, in the December issue’ of “Current History,” threatens Great Britain and others who have beén treading on American capital's toes that “America solemnly warns for- eign monopolists of raw materials” not to hold them up for “unreason- able” profits on raw rubber and other technical products. The article points out that the United States spends an- nually $800,000,000 for such technical products as it cannot raise itself, which, Hoover thinks, is “unreason- able” to the extent of $300,000,000. He complains particularly of the British rubber monopoly, stating that it was organized nominally only to hold pric- es to 30 to 35 cents per pound— which would have given a return of 25 per cent on capital invested—and now prices are above $1 per pound with production still curtailed. The United States uses three-fourths of all the crude rubber produced in the world. A long list of possible reprisals are suggested as open to the United States, “the strongest nation on earth.” All of them reflect the full consciousness of dollar-power with which the dominant American impe- rialist now speaks to his weaker col- leagues. The United States of Ameri- ca might prohibit the extension of credit to countries where such con- trols are maintained, suggests Hoo- ver, and it would organize the con- suming (vassal) countries to co-oper- ate in these campaigns. The United States could retaliate in kind with its supremacy in production of oil, cop- per and cotton, the latter clearly di- rected at Great Britain, as also the suggestion that Canada might do the same with its nickel and asbestos. Other provisions include reduction of consumption, which was done with coffee by 20 per cent last year, by in- ducing Americans to export capital for rival production, and by organiz- ing all buyens under a single purchas- ing agency. Pernov Trade Union Leaders Receive Long Terms at Hard Labor REVAL, Esthonia, (I. R. A.), Jan. 26—The trial of the Pernov trade union leaders, who were arrested in 1924, has ended with Jan Pikkur be- ing sentenced to eight years, Laas to six years, and the others to four years at hard labor. Among other counts, the prisoners were ‘accused of “anti- state” propaganda in the trade unions, and of participation in the December insurrection, HUMOR, SWEEPING DRAMA MIXED WITH SATIRE AIMED AT SOVIET BUREAUCRATS IN RUSSIAN FILM By WM. F. KRUSE. (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW—(By Mail.)—Any criticism that might once have been directed at the Soviet film heads for neglecting the unparalleled propaganda oppor tuniites of the celluloid strip must now be lifted, for the dozens of fine movie houses and the hundreds of projector equipped clubs and schools are day and night showing new Russ: in pictures in addition to the best American ahd European products, The same tremendous improvement that characterizes Russian industry in gen- eral is also evident in the film field, the new pictures as a rule are better cast and set, better directed, and show improved attention to story content, detail and continuity. 4 New Russian Films. Among the newest and most note- worthy films are Pi historical super- bli BOY bie features and an excellent comedy of Jewish lite, or “Jewish Luck,” as it is called. This latter shows the min- ute painstaking attention to detail and the employment of many little indirections that almost recall combination of farce and pathos with Chaplin's direction. It is a touching | in the management of our. organiza- tion. “We are protesting against non- union men and women and members of other organizations being given au- thority over us, inasmuch as they have levied assessments, raised our dues, discontinued our meetings, ar- ranged for us foul-smelling, disease- germ-breeding quarters, and for a fit- ting climax, men who dp not even carry a card belonging to organized labor, propose to deal with the employer and agree as to what wages and working conditions we shall receive for the coming year, and all this without con- sulting the membership. We are the ones who pay the freight, and we are the ones who are going to elect men from our own ranks to represent us. “We demand new headquarters, regular meetings, an election of offi- cers under strict control and super- vision of our own membership. “Mr. Laborer, come and register your protest. You did it before, and if we don’t get a fair deal, we will do it again, “Progressive Committee.” On January 23 the day preceding the meeting a copy of the petition for injunction was served on Thomas Mc- Namara, a progressive member of the union. McNamara stated immediately that this would not prevent him from attending Sunday’s meeting as he proposed to go there in violation of the wishes of the officials of his union. About six o’clock that same evening McNamara was arrested on a charge of “falsely misrepresenting a labor union.” He was taken to jail under $300.00 bond. The local secretary, of the International Labor Defense, Carl Hacker, when this matter was brought to his attention immediately got on the job and Sunday at noon McNa- mara was again out of jail with the proper bond furnished to effect his release, The case has been given to Attorney Hermon E. Eisler, loca! lawyer, and a real fight on both the arrest and the injunction is predicted. The International Labor Defense stands ready to fight the case to the finish. German Class Justice Imposes Heavy Jail Sentences on Workers BERLIN, Jan. 27 — In the short period from November 1 to December 5 of the past year German class jus- tice sentenced 53 workers to a total of 47 years hard labor and 28 years of prison, Apart from that 7,000 marks in fines were handed out. New proceed- ings were started against 87 revolu- tionary workers, most of whom are in’ prison. Accusations are raised for the pos- session of prohibited literature, high treason, distribution of seditious liter- ature, taking away of a fascist flag, resistance against the state power, re- bellion, collection of money for the Red Front Fighters’ Union, blasphemy (that in the 20th century!) and in- fringement of the notorious law for the protection of the republic. The worker Fokken of Neukolln near Ber- lin is accused of unlawfully pretend- ing to occupy an official position, be- cause he acted in the role of a police officer in a proletarian theatrical per- formance, A sub a day will help to drive capital away. constant little turns and quirks of sur- prise. It is absolutely free from propa- ganda and deals with the life of the Jews in pre-revolutionary Russia. Menachin Mende! {s a poor Jew who just has no luck, and he has a young partner who also has no luck, except in the love of the pretty, human, slen- der daughter of the richest Jew in the ramshackle village, Their fortunes grow worse and worse until a happy thot impels Mendel to try his luck as a self-styled shadhin and he arranges with a fellow member of his profes-| fea’ sion to marry off the sweetheart of his love-lorn partner, He dreams of his success ag the biggest marriage-broker in the world, exporting brides by the shipload to meet a reported shortage of Jewish brides in America—until a sudden jolt of the third-class wagon on which he is riding, throws him on his nose 1 THE DAILY WORKER ee en : Page Three The End of a “Liberal” Protest \ STILL LIEVE IN ive the halter on him!” : TELLS AS CITY OF eT RUSS! 2,000 Fill Forum; Hear of Warkers’ Progress KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan, 27.—Anna Louise Strong, who returned recently from Soviet Russia, spoke at the Lin- wood Christian forum to an audience of over 2,009 on the subject “My Four Years in Russia.” Strong's vivid pic- ture of Rugsian life and conditions ‘was so impressive that one felt as tho you had been traveling with Strong thru’ Russia. Vast changes have taken place in Russia, she declared, and the peasant servitude and ignorance of centuries was being changed by the energetic program of construction of the Rus- sian Communist Party. The old ideas were giving way to new ideas. Taxes are going down and wages of the worker are rising with the in- BE~ YOUR father. Instead he is accepted as a full-fledged republican calf by grace of the LaFollette, with their eyes opened, in the agricultural states say: “The republicans first fed him oats, | Big Business Methods in Educating Youth, Is Open Shoppers’ Aim WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—President Coolidge’s heavy hand is to be laid upon the schooling of American boys and girls, under the guise of a study of possibilities of saving some of its cost in dollars. This is the meaning of.an announcement by Secretary of the Interior Work that he has selected a commission headed by John J. Tigert, commissioner of education, to find out whether present-day methods of school administration and teaching are as efficient, dollar for dollar, as are the practices in vogue in “large industrial and commercial establish- ments.” Secretary of Commerce Hoover and Frank Ballou, a reactionary, president of the department of superintendance in the National Educational Associa- tion, joined with Work in launching this scheme. Ballou is nominally chairman of the commission, but it will be located in Tigert’s office build- ing. The sponsors of this inquiry start dustrial development of the Soviet Union, went on Anna Louise Strong. The place of work is the center of life. The shop and factory has its library, culture clubs, centers for the youth and its. The ed nal system is making great progress, The different factories and mines gelect an individual who is schooled and when he returns to the factory he transplants the knowl- edge he hag gained in its life. All down Re tive in the construc- tion of ecohomic and social life in Russia the blem is to choose be- tween two of people to do the work, One, expert of czarist days who often sabotages develonment and the very willing unskilled worker who wants to see his country improv- ing. The chéice always falls to the one that has the desire. to help the country and’iat first, tho they are hampered and things move slow, this is also quickly overcome. good time was had by all—except the shadhin and the bride’s father. The Feature Film, The other ‘features are historical drama of very big scale, “The Dekab- rists” pictures the December uptising ot 1825, which was most brutally drowned out in blood, and which to this day lives in the tradition of the Siberian peasantry, among whom the exiled survivors had to spend their days, This picture is the biggest and best ture thus far produced in Russia Prepare the sce- 3 & series of speciat cen- usical compositions to the of Pushkin and other contem- Porary writery as well as to those of Lunin, a poet among their ranks, who wrote his best works in the penal settlement of’ Akatuy, Special cen: tennary volumes are to be printed also out with the claim that the taxpayers Must be shown that there is actual need for further expenditures on pub- lic education; that economics may be made which will give the schools more funds for expansion; that the cost of schools has become “very great.” The commission personnel includes Elliot Goodwin, resident vice-president of the United States chamber of com- merce; Ernest Greenwood, an insur- ance man who has been a storm cen- ter in the District of Columbia; Thos. E. Finegan, former Pennsylvania state superintendent of education; Prof. Geo. D. Strayer of Columbia, and Supt. J. H. Beveridge of the Omaha pablic schools. When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor- row—show them what the DAILY WORKER says about it. “Gapon” is a feature produced in Leningrad by the Sevsap Kino and shows the events leading up to “Bloody Sunday.” The pesudo-revolu- tionary priest is shown as the tool of the corrupt czarist state machine, and the great sufferings of the people that led to their ill-fated religious demon- stration on “Bloody Sunday” is shown to pave the way for the grim test of strength that came shortly after, This, the 20th anniversary of 1905, is being observed thruout Russia with appropriate meetings, school exercis- ©8, poster campaigns, excursions to re- volutionary museums, etc, The scenes of the revolutionary battles in Lenin- grad, Moscow and other centers are being reproduced for the screen and it is really an awesome and inspiring sight to watch Red Army units don the costumes of the hated past and go thru sham battles with the barri- caded workers while the Red police |effective propaganda keep the inquisitive crowd out from |short comedies. under the horses feet, and the Dvor- YES, BUT THEY’ VE GOT THEIR DRAND ON YOU,SON/ GPL LZ lion Zia i, @ dea J METAL WORKERS OF JAPAN MEET MOSCOW LABOR Great Reception to Far Eastern Labor By CLEMENT LAMAR, Special Moscow Correspondent to The Daily Worker, MOSCOW,—(By Mail)—Among the fraternal delegations which came to attend the all-Russian congress of the metal workers was a Japanese dele- gation consisting of two officials of the Japanese Metal Workers’ Union. It was not only the first delegation representing the unions of the far east that came to Soviet Russia, but the two men had a very difficult jour- ney because the Japanese government, of course, would not permit them to depart on such a mgssion. For both these reasons and also because of the great movement now going on in the far east for national liberation, the re- ception given these delegates was the most cordial and enthusiastic that I have seen, Great Reception, The delegation had been expected for several days, but it was only Sun- day that a telegram came announcing their arrival the same day on a cer- tain train. The entire presidium of the congress, accompanied by about 500 Moscow metal workers and a band went to the station to meet them, A loud hurrah greeted them when they stepped down from the train, which was followed by a speech of welcome delivered by Lepse, the presi- dent of the All-Russian Metal Work- ers’ Union, and a fraternal reply by the secretary of the Japanese Metal Workers’ Union. Then they were taken to the House of the Unions where a concert was being given for the benefit of the delegates, Red Policeman Makes Speech, It is interesting to relate that as the procession from the station pass- ed the first intersection point, the MILLION voters in 1924 who looked to the LaFollette movement to challenge the republican and democratic les expected the son of the old man to carry on the fight. WILBUR WANTS ~ FUNDS FOR NEW RIGID AIRSHIP Committee Urges Scrap- ping Lakehurst (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—Construc- tion of a giant rigid airship to replace the Shenandoah was recommended to the house naval affairs committee to- day by Secretary of Navy Wilbur. He asked, however, that the appro- priation for the ship, of 5,000,000 cubic feet capacity, should not be deducted from the navy's fund for building sea- going vessels. , Be . WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.— Virtual elimination of the navy’s rigid airship activities was recommended to the house today in the report of the ap- propriations committee on the naval supply bill. The committee proposed that the Lakehurst, New Jersey, naval air sta- tion, where is housed the dirigible, Los Angeles, be closed down at a say- ing of $715,000 a year, and that the 470 officers and men stationed there be transferred into other branches of the service. Swedish Branch I. L. D. Mass Meeting Friday The Swedish branch of the Interna- tional Labor Defense will hold a mass meeting Friday, Jan. 29, 8 p, m, at Cafe Idrott Hall, Wilton and Melmont Ave, near Clark St. Speakers in Swedish will be: Editor Ellis Peterson and Editor Gustav Berg- man, Speaker in BHnglish will be: Secretary of Chicago Branch, Interna- tional Labor Defense, George Maurer, centers. The educational features continue to have a much greater hold on the masses than anywhere else in the world, The best drawing card in Mos- cow is the film record of the flight of the Russian aviators to Japan. Es- pecially in China and Mongolia the Soviet aviators were received with much greater friendliness than white men usually meet with, and they were permitted to take many pictures that are taboo for the imperialist enemies, Another educational film that meets with ready response is a three-reel record of the “Recruiting of the Third Georgian Army,” showing all details of the Red recruit’s life, Satire on Soviet Bureaucrats, The Russian film men have learned from their American fellow-craftsmen how to put their lectures into sugar coating, so that some of thelr most films are the Thus one entitled “He Was in His Own Way” skillfully nike replace the police at the traffic |agitates for credit co-operation dy the a $s Coolidge gang. As the| |traffic officers there stopped traffic \for two minutes and delivered a brief |speech of welcome. | The reception assumed huge propor- | tions when the delegates arrived at the House of Unions. Their Russian comrades lifted them up high and yelled “hurrah” and “banzai.” The following day the delegates delivered officially their greetings to the con- gress. “The Japanese workers,” said the secretary of the Japanese Metal Work- ers’ Union, “heartily congratulate the Russian workers on their great vic- tory over their own and imternational capital. The Japanese workers be- lieve also that their Russian brothers will solve their problem of socialist reconstruction successfully. The Jap- anese workers, with the exception of the reformist leaders who put their faith in the international labor office of the league of nations, look to Rus- sia and the methods of the workers of Russia to guide them in their strug- gle against Japanese capitalism.” Japanese Will Give First Invitation. Thunderous applause followed the Sreeting, after which the two Japan- ese delegates were unanimously elec ted to the presidium of the congress, In a conversation which I had with the Japanese delegates following the Session I explained the situation in the metal industry in the United States, and the struggle carried on by the Communists and the left wing ir the Machinists’ Union. In reply to my question whether they would ac- cept an invitation from the American metal workers after their victory over the reactionaries one of the delegates said that he thought the Japanese metal workers would invite the Amer ican workers first. | American Society < to Construct Homes for Russian Orphans MOSCOW, U.S. 5S. R, . 3I— “The American Relief Russian Children” has offered equip, maintain and manage a home and are school for homeless ¢hil- dren province. The Soviet government has accepted the offer on the condi- tion that the cirriculum of with that of the other Ri schools, HELP SAVE THE DAILY WOR villages, while another “Hig 1 Assignment” is a cutting satire Soviet bureaucracy, Bd It will thus be seen that film propaganda is not all selfadmiration society, as is American. Some of the twists in stories are such as would never be erated in capitalist productions, th in one “Aelita” a Soviet 1 turns renegade for the sake of a mer sweetheart, and the wife of | hero patronizes a forbidd dance hall during the famine th Here is Real Life’s Drama, In a very recent film the wife of Red commander is a coun tionary spy and he must finally or her shot, in still another recent 7 ture an old revolutionist returns from Siberia only to find his whole socially worthless, Such things hal pen, say the Russians, why should © | we not show them? The self-criti cism practiced by the proletarian van- guard, the Communist Party, is copled even in the film production organs, fais t Archangelskoye, in the Terak