The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1926, Page 5

ed THE DAILY WORKER 1000 WORKER. CORRES: PONDENTS BY JANUARY 13° 1927 This Week’s Prizes! First Prize—An original DAILY WORKER cartoon by one of the noted American Communist artists, Robert Minor, Fred Ellis or Lydia Gibson. Second Prize—“Social Forces In American History” by A. M. Simons, New edition just issued by International Publishers, This book gives the best economic interpretation of the origin and growth of the American nation. Third Prize—“Lincoin, Labor and Slavery,” by Herman Schlueter, the only book on Lincoln from a revolutionary standpoint, THE PARIS COMMUNE OF 1871 AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION By M. PERLIN, Worker Correspondent. Fifty-five years ago, on. March 18, 1871, the working men and women of Paris arose in rebellion and established the great Commune of Paris, They tried to abolish the French aristocracy who lived in luxury from the sweat and blood of the vast working population, They established 2 Commune where the workers’ representatives tried to ease the life of the workers but like wild beasts the aristocracy of France combined with aristocrats of the rest¢— of the world and killed tens of thou- sands of the working men and women and children. Workers’ blood was spilled like water and with this mas- Sacre the dream of the French prole- tarviat was over. Instead of a system where the work- ers would get the full benefit of their labor, thousands of the murdered workers were dumped into mass graves, And from 1871 until 1917 the aristocrats of the world reveled in the glory of the downfall of the Paris Commune. But the fire that was started and was smothered in 1871 left many embers and in 1917 they blazed up in the domain of the czar of Russia and czarism of Russia was completely abolished. All power was taken over by the workers. Once more the plutocrats of the PARIS COMMUNE CELEBRATIONS Cleveland to Hold Bazaar, CLEVELAND March 17—The Cleve- land International Labor Defense will hold its annual bazaar and dance on Sunday, March 21, at Moose Hall, 1000 ‘Walnut St., in celebration of the an- niversary of the Paris Commune. This will be a unique occasion and it is beli¢ved that a thousand people anticipating the splendid program that has been arranged, will pack the hall, ‘There will be several fine musical numbers by well-known singing so- cieties and a speech by Walter Trum- bull. The Cleveland Workers’ Drama League will present by special request the one-att pantomime entitled “The International,” under the direction of Sadie Amter, well known in New York and Cleveland for her talents in the theatrical field. The settings for this piece were made by Tillen and Feldman, league stage carpenters and represent stark factories against a glowing red sky. Supper will be served in the com- fortable hall downstairs and the eve- ning will be devoted to dancing, No one who enjoys a good time, fine music, supper and dancing can afford to miss an hour of this big entertain- ment. ee Chicago Workers Demonstrate, Chicago will hold a Paris Commune celebration at the Ashland Auditorium Ashland Ave, and Van Buren on Fri- day evening, March 19 at 8 o’clock with Bishop William Montgomery Brown, Robert Minor, editor of the New DAILY WORKER Magazine, J. W. Johnstone and others speaking. There will also be special moving pic- tures of the class-war prisoners’ aid in Europe and America. oe 8 Kansas City Celebrates. KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 17. — Kansas City local of the International Labor Defense is holding a meeting to celebrate the Paris Commune on Sunday evening, March 21, at 7:30 o'clock at the Musicians’ Hall, 1017 Washington street. One speaker will lecture on the Paris Commune and another will talk on “Labor's Fight For Justice.” Mites tills Los Angeles Demonstrates. LOS ANGELBDS, March 17.-—Los Angeles local of the International La- bor Defense will hold its Paris Com- mune celebration at the Music-Arts Hall, 238 South Broadway, Sunday afternoon, March 28, There will be speakers, an excellent musical pro- gram and a spectacular drama of the lust days of the Paris Commune, A diamond ring will be given away at the meeting to the one holding a lucky number, I. LD. HELPERS ORKERS with hand and head and workers with automobiles—all are needed today and tomorrow at the local office of the International Labor Defense, 23 S. Lincoln St, Pluggers are to be street corners between 4 and 6.0’clock, broadcasting the news of the Paris Commune memorial meeting. And at 7 o'clock on both nights, Thursday and Friday, autos are to form a procession to advertise the meeting with torches it Ashland world united and tried to crush the workers as they had done in the Paris Commune, But this time they did not succeed in spite of their blockade, and their armies under the capitalist gen- erals, Wrangel, Udenitch, Petlura, Simonoff, Koltchak and others. The Workers Soviet Republic had come to stay and no capitalist power in the world could ‘crush it, The Soviet Republic is a star that lights the way for every worker in the world and it will always light the way to their emancipation, the cause for which our forefathers of the Paris Commune gave their lives. Why a worker correspondent?) Why not? Is there nothing of interest hap- pening around you? Write it up and send it in! Six Commune Meetings in Minnesota District (Special to The Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, March 17.+-The international labor defense meetings to celebrate the Paris Commune in District No. 9 will be held on the following dates in these cities: Sunday, March 21, 1 p, m., Chisholm, Minn. Sunday, March 21, 3 p, m., Hibbing, Minn. Monday, March 22, 8 p, m., Duluth, Minn. Tuesday, March 23, 8 p. m., Superior, Wise. The speaker at all of these meetings will be T. R. Sullivan of Minneapolis. Similar meetings will be held at St. Paul, Minn., on the 21st at 8 p. m. at Commonwealth Hall, 435 Rice street. } The meeting for Minneapolis will be held on Thursday, March 25, at 8 p. m. at the Labor Lyceum, 1425 Sixth avenie North, At all of these meetings there will be a musical number and other inter- esting features suitable to the observ- ance of the anniversary of the Paris Commune. To Celebrate Paris Commune in New York NEW YORK, March 17—The les- sons of the Paris Commune and their meaning to the American working class will be taken up at Central Op- era House on Friday night, March 19, by Comrades Olgin, Gitlow and Zack with William W. Weinstone as chairman. Harry Fox will tell the meaning of the lessons of the Paris} Commune to the young workers. An exceptional musical program in- cludes songs by Anna Royek, dram- atic soprano; selections on a French horn by A, Jagutkin, soloist of the New York Symphony Orchestra; Rus- sian folk songs by Blanche Blum and Minnie Bleckschmidt with Lydia Mason as accompanist. An unusual feature of the program will be a chil- dren’s symphony orchestra of 50 with H. Kassel as director, The meeting is held under the aus- pices of the International Labor De- fense, which, in the spirit of the Com- mune, protects the workers, regard- less of race, creed or affiliation, that are victims of the class state and by protecting the workers’ vanguard pro- tects theiir -revolutionary efforts as well. Admission is 50 cents at the door, Make your slogan—“A auh peek. This is a good issue to give to your fellow worker, NEEDED TODAY! istributed at the down-town Auditorium on March 19 is worthy of (nn sa Rl ae ne ne SA RN TOS SP AERIS Ie ce AS Sen FT in A a i EE ca SSR St NT SOR I a aR hk the part Kansas City Gets New Master for Its Utilities (By a Young Worker Correspondent.) KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 17—In the present stage of finance capitalism the ownership and destiny of local in- dustries and firms are not controlled as in former times by local conditions. This can be aptly illustrated by pointing out the results of the recent collapse of a Wall Street pool that has given Kansas City a new master of its electric power and light utility. The often unsuspected connections between local concerns and the im- perialists of Wall Street, is clearly shown in the shift of financial power in the Kansas City Light and Power company, The syndicate headed by the bank- | ing house of Otis and company have taken the entire floating supply of the United Light and Power company stock out of the market and the Cooper interest of Pittsburgh is now a factor in this utility concern. This does not sound like it has any con- nection with the Kansas City Light and Power company, but let us look further, The Kansas City Light and Power company is controlled by the Kansas City Power Security company which is in turn controlled by the Continen- tal Gas and Electric company whose voting stock is controlled by the United Light and Railway company which is owned by the United Light and Power company. The bankers dictate to the United Light and Power company. This company dictates to the United Light and Railway company, which sets down the law for the Continental Gas and Electric company, which in turn dictated the policy of the Kansas City Power Security company and this, in turn dictates to the Kansas City Light and Power company. Judge Sets Date for Determining How Much Len Small Owes State (Special to The Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Ill, March 16— What amount Governor Len Small owes the state of Illinois will be de- cided at a hearing to be started on May 12 before Master in Chancery Charles Briggle. The cases against the governor, in- volving interest on state funds han- dled while Small was state treasurer in 1916 and 1917 were reinstated in Sangamon county circuit court today by Judge Frank Burton and were sent to the master in chancery for a hear- ing. Attorneys for both sides ap- peared, in court this morning and Assistant Attorney General Charles Hadley, Wheaton, asked for the rein- statement presenting an order to that effect, which Judge Burton signed. No argument ensued over the im- mediate redocketing of the case. Set Date for Hearing. With signing of the order, and fil- ing of the 10-day notice of application for that action furnished by the attor- ney general to the defense and a cer- tifled copy of the supreme court’s af- firmation of the case, Governor Len Small, who was present with his son- in-law Col. A. E. Inglish, went into conference with his attorneys. May 12 was agreed upon as the time for the opening of hearings before Brig- gle. Farmer-Laborite of Minnesota Loses in Senatorial Contest (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 17—An un- animous. report, recommending dis- missal of the contest brot against Senator Thomas D. Schall, republican, of Minnesota, by former Senator Mag- nus Johnson, farmer-laborite, will be adopted by the senate elections sub- committee which investigated the charges, Senator Deneen, republican, of Illinois, chairman, announced this afternoon. The sub-committee met this after- noon to agree upon the final draft of the report. ‘It will be ready for pre- sentation to the full committee by Thursday. “The sub-committee is agreed that the charges against Senator Schall should be dismissed,” sald Deneen. Lecture at I. L. D. Meet, “The U.S. Army from George Wash- ington to Crouch and Trumbull” is the interesting subject that will be covered by Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League at the next meeting of the Irving Park branch I, L, D, The meet- ing takes place Thursday, March 18, at 4021 Drake avenue at 8 p, m. All members of the branch should attend this meeting. All sympathiz- ers are welcome, Bundesen Turns Down Dairymen. Health Commissioner Bundesen re- fused to postpone enforcement of the pure-milk ordinance on April 1 after the board of supervisors of Lake county officially petitioned him to give the dairymen of their section more time in igugonimgeae yal der eased cattle, “Trade unlons are ithe reservoir 0) majo: ‘thei/socially decisive of the 1, Thesis FINE ‘MOVIES’ OBTAINED FOR COMMUNE NIGHT Drama, Pictures, Songs of Labor Struggle Pictures seldom seen in a capitalist “movie” show, scenes from the picket line, clashes between soldiers and the workers, events of European workers’ persecution, stories from recent Am- erican, labor history, such pictures will be shown for the first time in Chicago Friday night, March 19, at Ashland Blyd! Auditorium as part of the splendid program prepared for the Paris Commung memorial meeting. A special feature will be photoplays which reproduce stirring events of French revolutionary times, “The Last Day of the Commune,” a one-act drama, translated from the Russian, will be realistically staged, with a barricaded Paris street as the setting. No effort has been spared by the actors and their director, Ivan Sokoloff, to make this act represent- ative of the period of the Commune in the days of 1871, Other episodes of workers’ life as set to music will be the prison songs, to be given by a group of Russian singers, The Lettish orchestra will play several humbers, Speakers of the evening are to be Bishop Wm.:Montgomery Brown, Ralph Chaplin, Robert Minor, J. W. Johnstone, M. J: Loeb, Ida Rothstein and Corienne Robinson. Tickets are now on sale at the I. L, D. office, local Chicago, for 25 cents; also at The DAILY WORKER, the Radical Book Store, Walden’s etc. Admission at the door will be 50 cents, Ask Investigation by U. S. Into Death of Ex-Exalted Elk steminme (Special to. The Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, March 17.—Wash- ington officials will be asked to in- vestigate the death of Carl Reynolds of Huntington Park, a Los Angeles suburb, Chief of Police Williams of Huntington Park, declared today. Reynolds was :ai former exalted ruler of the Elks lodge of Syracuse, N. Y. Williams declares that Reynolds came to his death Monday as a result of mistreatment: following his arrest by Mexican police officials at Tia Juana, Mexico. According tojthe police chief, Rey- nolds was arrested while returning to the Mexican border with his wife and a party of frien@s from the Tia Juana racetrack after the Reynolds car had collided with another machine. Wi- liams disbelievés the statements of the Mexican police officials that Rey- nolds died of alcoholism. Hold Chauffeur. The Mexican authorities, the chief said, stated that Reynolds died in a Tia Juana hotel. No mention was made of the fact that he had been ar- rested with a man named Joe Brown, acting as his chauffeur. Brown, it was said, was Still held in the Tia Juana jail. 6 Al Smith Works Up All-American Canal As Campaign Slogan (Special to The Daily Worker) ALBANY, N. Y., March 17 — Gov- ernor Al Smith’s veiled attack on President Coolidge over the all-Amer- ican ship canal from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic is regarded by repub- licans at the state capitol as a major move in the gathe being played by the governor to win the democratic presi- dential nomination in 1928. The President has been represented as having an “open mind” on the all- American canal, “An Open Mind.’ In a letter which the governor sent today to New York state's represent- atives in congréss, he declared that “In my consideration of this subject, that phrase so convenient to the vacil- lating, ‘an open’ mind,’ has no place.” Soviet Union Plans to Raise Sunken Ships (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U, 8. 8. R. (Tass), March 17.—During «the great war and the civil war in Russia numerous war and merchant vessels were sunk off the coast of the Black Sea, The sub merged vessels and their cargoes, if they have remained undamaged, rep- resent quite a respectable amount of wealth, certainly large enough to make it worth while to endeavor to raise Lypese At the end of 1923 the Soviet Gov- ernment provided the means for the equipment of what is known as “the special submarine works expedition” for the purpose of undertaking the raising of the sunken vessels, Since it commenced operations two years ago the expedition has raised the submarine “Pelican, the 10,000- ton steamer “Hlborus,” the torpedo boat “California and a number of smaller vessels. The expedition is also engaged in locating and salving the vessels that’ were sunk during the Crimean War of 1856, some of which are said to have carried money for ‘he payment of the troops. Among he ships located. and upon which op- rations have commenced is the fa- mous “Black Prince” Literature and Revolution By F loyd Dell ITERATURE is created by its read- ers as well as by its writers. The readers decide by their acclaim what writings shall be considered of im- portance. They acclaim those writ- ings in which they find expressed their own deepest feelings about the world they live in. An examination of the literature of a century will reveal to us the hopes and fears, the faith or the despair, with which men faced life in that century. And these emotions relate ultimately to the po- litical and. economic situations by which men’s lives are affected. The European literature of the nine- teenth century takes its special char- acter from the fact that it lies be- tween two revolutions—both revolu- tions lying outside the boundaries of the century: the French revolution at the end of the eighteenth century, and a revolution evidently coming in the twentieth century, of which the Russian revolution may be considered the prelude. The eighteenth century intelligent- sia had looked forward with joy to a revolution which should destroy the last remaining vestiges of the feudat restrictions upon the growth and ac- tivities of the trading class. This rev- olution was expected to be peaceful, and to make everybody happy. When the French revolution came the intelligentsia of the western world was shocked. It was not peaceful, but violent. As soon as possible it compromised with what was left of the old order in Europe, so that it might enjoy the fruits of its triumphs (the phenomenon of Napoleon). It put the trading class in the saddle and it now appeared that the world was not thereby made happy. The truth of the middle-class revolutionary slogan, “Men are born free and equal,” began to appear in its cynical revised form, “Every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost!” (Laissez Foire.) The reaction of literature to this was a turning away from the horrors of early nineteenth century capitalism to that medieval period, from whose last remaining vestiges (the caste system, etc.) men had been so eager to escape in the eighteenth century. The so-called “Romanic revival” in literature all over Europe. This lasts hg the middle of the nineteenth cen- tury. In the middle of the century the publication of Darwin's “Origin of Species” precipitated a crisis in human thought, But all the fuss was not actually about biology. It was really about capitalism. Darwin’s theory that biological progress was due to the extermination of the unfit in a struggle for existence thru long ages, was taken as a justification of merciless competition in the economic world, The laws of capitalist (Man- chesterian) economics had apparently been discovered to be the laws of the universe. But men did not want to believe this. But, tho they did not dare believe in revolution, they took some comfort in believing in a god whose laws Were higher than those of capitalist economics, and who could change things if he wanted to! The inability to accept this social analogue of Darwinism, on the one hand, or to disprove its validity on the other, made the literature of the next four decades an endless and exhausting debate. Men were afraid to believe in the only solution of that debate— revolution. The result was a kind of universal spiritual exhaustion. The literary men began to turn away from the actual world. The period of the Ivory Tower—of art for art’s sake had begun. At the same time the preliminary tremors of impending revolution awoke a part of the intelligentsia, and revolutionary writers began to ap- pear in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. At this point occurs the world war and the Russian revolution. The world war produces in the intelli- gentsia a) state of profound discour- agement and cynicism. The Ivory Tower is rebuilt again for weary souls, Literature has as its argument that the world is chaos, and that there is nothing to be done about it. This, the period we are now in, may be characterized as suffering from intel- lectual shell shock. Under these cir- cumstances the Russian revolution means very little to them. They are afraid totbelieve in it—afraid of being disillusioned and hurt once more. A period of proletarian and revolu- tionary criticism is needed to destroy the prestige of the characteristic lit- erature of this period, BRITISH COAL COMMISSION OFFERS MINERS CLASS COLLABORATION PLAN By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. The British industrial crisis still centers around the miners altho half a million metal trades workers are threatened with a lockout which is just an- are in progress to determine whether the report of the coal commission af- fords a basis for reorganizing the industry without industrial conflict, Probably the biggest snag is the proposal that the miners give up the wage increases agreed to in 1924; Thruout the crisis the miners have fought against reduction of wages or exten-¢————_______ sion of hours, The entire union move- ment has backed them. Class Collaboration Scheme. The commission recommends that the subsidy which maintained the status quo since Aggust 1925 be dis- ontinued. It favors nationalization of coal deposits but opposes national- ization of operation. It approves the demand for reorganization of the in- dustry to secure greater efficiency, in- cluding application of science to the mining of coal, amalgamation in both the producing and distributing branches, closer combination of min- ing with allied industries, and fuller partnership between employers and employes. First impressions suggest that the commission is attempting a way out thru something like the Amer- ican B and O co-operation plan. see Threaten National Lockout. The British metal trades crisis’ is almost as serious. Altho precipitated by a dispute involving 900 workers in the Hoe and company printing press plant it really comes as the result of the breakdown of national negotia- tions extending over 2 years. The metal trades employer federation. an- nounces that any action looking to- ward higher wages, whether national, local or sectional, will be met by a national lockout, The long negotiations broke down Jan, 28 over demands for a genera! increase of $4.86 a week, The negotice ions have been marked by delay, dead- locks, government intervention, and counter demands by the employers for longer hours, ‘The Hoe and company dispute which may prove the spark resulted from an attempt to secure locally the advance which the employer association refus- ed nationally. A similar attempt is be- ing made in Lancashire, While the negotiations were in progress the com- pany employed seven nonunion work- Chicago Teachers Oppose Jingo Moves Education for peace rather than for war is the unqualified demand for the teacher unions of Chicago in reply to the jingo resolutions of the board of education. The two unions affiliated with the American Federation of La- bor thru the American Federation of Teachers ‘want their kind of training carried on “by m of education and sports rather than military training and by teaching the truth about th causes of war and its consequences,’ They also want the “prevention o legislative “measures that tend tc truthful ‘teaching in the socia wf Neral wcencs” Fy 3 phase of the employer offensive against union standards. Conferences a ers. The employes struck on the job it) force the employment of trade unior members instead. The company an- swered with a lockout, in effect since Jan, 13. The metal trades employer federation serves notice on the unions that unless they get the Hoe employes back to work immediately there will be a national lockout. Skilled metal trades mechanics earn between $12 and $15 a week. than 100,000 are unemployed. ene Move Toward Collaboration. British railroad employes arid ship- yard workers have temporarily avoid- ed similar crises, Altho the railroad workers by a small majority voted against accepting the award of the national wages board the delegate con- ference of the National Union of Rail- waymen voted 41 to 36. against a strike. The award continues existing wage rates for all now on the payrolls but permits a lower rate to those sub- sequently hired, The shipyard workers by a four to one vote agree to new machinery for evoiding disputes. The scheme, which covers all questions except wages, sets up joint conferences which in case of failure to agree may culminate in either arbitration or conciliation. More “Say it with your pen in the worker correspondent page of The DAILY NORKER.” Page Five INTRODUCE BILL TO LIMIT SCOPE OF INJUNCTION To Allow. Weeeis to Picket Shops ’ NEWARK, . March 17.—A bill has been introduced in the New Jersey senate which would make it impos- sible for any judge to issue an in- junction against strilers picketing a shop, The following bill also pro- vides that any acts that are on the statute books that are inconsistent with the provisions of the proposed bill are to be considered repealed: “No restraining order or writ of in- junction shall be granted or issued out of any court of this state in any case involving or growing out of a dispute concerning terms or condi- tions of employment, enjoining any person or persons, either singly or in concert, from terminating any relation of employment, or from ceasing to perform any work or labor, or from peaceably, and withoutthreats or in- timidation recommending, advising or persuading others to do so; or from peaceably and without threats or in- timidation being upon any public street or highway or thorofare for the purpose of obtaining or communicat- ing information, or to peaceably and without threats or intimidation per- suade any person or persons to work or abstain from working, or to employ or cease to employ any party to a la- bor dispute, or to peaceably and with- out threats or intimidation recom- mend, advise or persuade others so to do. “All acts and parts of acts incon- sistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed,” Stewart-Warner Firm Fires Two Workers for Resisting Wage Cuts Two workers were fired at the Stewart-Warner Speedometer Corpora- tion Fullerton Ave. plant when they went to the office at the head of a delegation of workers to protest against the wage cuts that had been posted on the shop bulletin board to take effect in the grinding room. This company is a notorious open- shop combine and is now attempting a@ wage-slashing campaign. When the company posted a notice of a reduction in the grinding room, the workers tho unorganized, sent several of their number to the office to demand the former scale of prices and that the company stop its wage slash- ing. The company officials then fired two workers who were considered the leaders. The DAILY WORKER called up the Fullerton Ave. plant and asked why the two had been fired. The boss that answered the telephone declared that the two had been fired because they had “started a fight in the shop.” “In the revolution he who has the unions has victory.”—Losovsky. Missionaries Insist on Right of Teaching Religion in Schools (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, March 17—The China Christian Educational Association is trying to register the Christian schools in the country with the gov- ernment bureau of education, as pro- vided in the Chinese national regula- tions, As this law requires that re- ligious instruction shall be non-com pulsory a serious conflict has arisen, The missionaries state their will- ingness to register their schools but inisist on their right to enforce obliga- tory attendance at the classes on Christian religion, pointing out that their financial support from the Unite ed States is based upon precisely such teaching. The government, on the other hand, states that by decree it will make graduates of schools en- foreing religious instruction ineligible for government positions. - CLEVELAND WORKERS COMMEMORATE THE PARIS COMMUNE by coming to “MOOSE HALL, 1000 WALNUT AVE. March 21, Beginning at 2 P. M. Program as follows: GRAND BAZAAR opens 2 p. m. continuing to 11:30 p, m. SUPPER will be served from 6 to 6 p. m, Refreshments at all times, PARIS COMMUNE PROGRAM consisting of speeches by WALTER TRUMBULL and others from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Also including musical numbers and pantomime under direction of Comrade Sadie Amter, Dancing from 7:30 to 11:30—Rosenthal’s Union Orchestra. THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE OF PHILADELPHIA Invites you to commemorate THE PARIS COMMUNE on Saturday, March 20th, 1926, 8 P. M. at SLOVAC HALL, 512 FAIRMOUNT AVE. Speakers: Bertram D. Wolfe and Rebecca Grecht from New York, ker and Others, The Workers’ Theater Alliance will present a Tableau of the Paris Commune and many other attractions, ADMISSION 25 CENTS,