The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 13, 1926, Page 6

| | . greater returns thru holding the bonds in such public utilities. Ve — Page Six THE DAILY WORKER sean cme 14 RE SBR iin THE DAILY WORKER Student Life in Moscow “Published by the DAILY WCRKER PUBLISHING CO. | 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il, Phone Monroe 4713 | NI dreriniwet ontario ee SUBSCRIPTION RATES | By mali (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): | $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.60 three months | $2.00 three months | Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IlInols J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE (™ MORITZ J. LOEB. | | | Editors ..Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879, <r 290 Advertising rates on application, SD | McLean Advises Chicagoans on Murder | Edward B. McLean and his man, George Harvey, respectively | publisher and editor of the Washington Post, who recently advocated | that in case of revolution in England the workers of this country | be forced by the United States to go over and shoot the workers of | Britain in order to preserve the throne, has magnanimously granted | Chicago the benefit of their profound advice. In an editorial lamenting the fact that young McSwiggen, pal) of beer runners, shotgun brawlers and hoodlums, met a violent/| death, McLean’s paper discusses at length the problem of crime in| Chicago and comes to the conclusion that the solution is the organ-| isation of “vigilance committees.” The Post, as an agency of sweet-| ness and light, further observes that “simmary trials and hangings | will oceur,” and that “the public will organize a terror of its own,”| etc., ete. | The solution for crime in Chicago is for all to become outlaws, | according to Messrs. McLean and Harvey. | We Communists, who are described as unspeakably bloodthirsty by the gentle Harvey, have a much less sanguinary proposal for handling the so-called crime wave in Chicago. We propose the crea- tion of a labor party that will smash the Crowe-Barrett, Small-} Lundin, Brennan and other corrupt machines that maintain power | thru employing brigades of thugs and gunmen to steal elections and | in general terrorize the population. | That would eliminate the professional gunmen that thrive thru| “protection” of the politicians. | As to crime in general, as a social phenomenon inseparable from | capitalism, that can only be eliminated when labor rises in its| might and exterminates the capitalist system and not before. | | Berger’s Puerile Comment on Britain | Victor L. Berger is the “socialist” representative in congress | and claims to speak in the interest of the working class. In com- menting on the great general strike in Britain he indulged in the insipid observation that nationalization of railways and telegraphs! would avert such a demonstration in this country. In the lexicon| of Berger nationalization means government ownership. Government! ownership under capitalism means only that the government itself,| instead of various boards of directors, acts as executive committee for the bondholders. Such an eventuality could not possibly prevent strikes, for capitalism would remain intact and the bondholders would endea¥or to beat down wages in order that they might realize A real representative of labor in congress would raise the ques- tion of coal shipments to Britain. Such a representative would use congress as a forum from which to explain to the workers of the nation the revolutionary implications of the upheaval in Britain. Instead of indulging in lamentations about the matchless dis- play of working class solidarity in Britain and giving the capitalists puerile advice in an effort to avert such a thing occurring here he would endeavor to incite the slaves of Amreica to emulate their British fellow workers. He would denounce the contemptible pro- paganda of capitalism to the effect that in case of a revolt against the throne of Britain the United States should send armed forces to defend the king. In hundreds of ways a genuine representative of the working elass could utilize the British strike to rally the workers to support of the British strikers, but Berger only indulges in futile talk about averting such a struggle. His yellow soul perceives the beginning of revolutionary struggles as the sum total of abominations, because, Jike all heroes of the Second International, he is at heart a counter- revolutionist. : On the Defensive Bhe administrators of the Pulitzer prize are on the defensive because of the jolt they received when Sinclair Lewis refused the prize for this year and turned back to the fund the thousand dollars awarded him for his novel “Arrowsmith.” They now claim that the Novelist did this because he craved publicity. The claim is absurd on the face of it, because the author doesn’t need publicity. In Chicago, the emineng Tribune (modestly calling itself th world’s greatest newspaper) repeats the charge of the administra tors of the Pulitzer prize, utterly ignoring Mr. Lewis’ charge ‘that such prizes tend to corrupt authors and will eventually create 4 servile crew that strives only to cater to the prejudices of the ad ministrators. Jt elaborates upon its theory and states that Lewis Sacrificed the one thousand dollars, but that he received some $50,000 worth of free advertising. This is a charge worth analysis, but it hits the Tribune and the reptile press in general, not the author it assails. The space devoted ‘to relating the refusal of the Pulitzer prize was news space; the Tribune estimates its value at the rate of advertising space: Is this not a confession that all news can be estimated by readers in the same fashion? A plain admission that there is a price even on the news columns of the capitalist press, for sale to anyone who will pay for it? Communists have always held this is the case, but never before have we seen such a brazen confession of the shame of the journal- istic brothels. - Get a member of the Workers Party and a new subscription for The DAILY WORKER. ey By WILLIAM F. KRUSE, Special Moscow Correspondent to The Daily Worker, (Gigi with us some early morning down to the Strassnaya Boulevard, back of where Pushkin stands looking down rather benignly at the teeming Moscow life eddying here almost all hours of the day and night—lovers’ rendezvous, young mothers and nurse girls with bevies of plump and rosy youngsters, flower peddlers and cigar- ette girls under the uniform cap of “Mosleprom.” Stop a bit and %soon we see an interesting group of youths and girls—“steping out” as it were in “physculture”’—groups of ten or twen- ty, running, skipping, jumping, exer- cising as they go along in a happy-go- lucky game of “follow my leader.” Look a bit closer and you will see all manner of races here—yellow, black, white, brown, with every intermediate shading—for these are students from the nearby Stalin University of the Peoples of the Toiling East. In Moscow there are dozens of ex- cellent scientific schools attended by nany thousands of students from all over the Soviet Union and the world at large. There are schools for revolu- tionary peoples and national minori- ties from all over the world, political schools, technical schools, cultural schoois of all kinds—altho those who attend any one of the categories inevi- tably include in their studies a liberal amount of the domain of the others. American educators of various politi- cal shadings with whom I have talked here assured me that never in their lives had they seen such a student body. Earnest, burning with life and energy, inspired by a world-wide pro- letarian revolutionary philosophy, eager to develop themselves to the ut- most only as instruments in the great cause of labor that embodies all of them—this is the Soviet student body, living already today the nearest com- plete Communism possible anywhere in the world. Hom these students get here? Not as do the pampered darlings of Europe, nor even as the father-made or so-called self-made boys of bour- geois America. Not one comes by his own absolute clfvice—every student in these Moscow schools is sent by an organization of fellow-workers in the labor or nationalliberation move- ments. Many are political emigres, fugitives from White Terror, many hear the marks of jail and battle, others as yet untried by fire were chosen by their fellows for demonstrated loyalty and capability. But all are here, not for themselves, not with the ambition to “be somebody,” but with the burn- ing desire to-do something worth while in the world-wide struggle of the toiling masses against their oppres- sors. efi Take the Eastern School, for ex- ample. There are many others that would serve just as well for illustra- tion, certain similarities attach to all. Here we find more than 2,000 students of over 85 nationalities, Areal melt- ing pot. Coming from widely divergent social strata, with religious, taste and language barriers apparently unsur- mountable—as only those who have lived in the caste-ridden Hast can fully appreciate. Instruction is at first in their own language and their customs. are respected. Yet in a very short time all these artificial distinctions in- bred by centuries of class and race prejudices and traditions are melted in the greatest of crucibles, tae revolu- tionary movement. And as for the language barrier—that is the easiest to overcome, for heré we have our practical proof of the axiom that Rus- sian is today the international lan- guage of revolution.’ Mongol, Egyp- tian, Tartar, Brahmin aid Sudra, Fili- pino and Chintese—all soon learn to converse freely in the language—and spirit—of Lenin, i hore many of the students, if not for most, the living and social condi- tions of the school represent a big ad- vance from their old life. For others they represent just as great a reduc- tion, Yet this plays as, little role in the one case as in the other, for here they really live a classless Communist society. Every basic need is met, in some schools in one. way, in some in another; this is merely a matter of apparatus. Here in the Eastern school the students get free,,room, board, meals, clothing, medical attention, bath tickets, tramway tickets, motion pictures and theatres, plus a small al- lowance for pocket money, part of which they pool for co-operative pleas- ures in a splendidly maintained club. In another school, such as the new, splendidly equipped Lenin School, for instance, the students receive more money, with which they buy most of the things furnished gratis in the for- mer instance. Py As everywhere in Moscow, the hous- ing situation is the severest problem. In general there are nosy four workers to every room, as compared with six before thé war, whens the bourgeois enjoyed a ratio of ong tocone. So the students sleep in dormitory rooms con- taining from two t@,-sixteen beds. Wherever possible angements are made for married students to share a private room. It is in the social @ife that we find the most splendid detefopment. Every school has its club, self-administered by the student body...Javery club has sections for the practife and study of photography, radio, ‘qess, sculpture, nusic, dramaties, e' In every school How the Welsh Miners Live and Strike By LUCY BRANHAM, Fed. Press. OU would think from the cables the bourgeois press brings from London that the miners of England had disturbed a peaceful social or- der. Do not believe it. Five years ago this May, after the breakdown of the triple alliance when the miners had to carry on alone I travelled over the grassy coal dust hills of southern Wales with A. J. Cook. Perth, Maerdy, Merthyr Tydvil, one town was like an- other. The colliery smokestacks of Aberdare are as grimy as those of Pontypridd, the crowded cottages of Gowerton as forlorn as those of Yst- rad-Rhondda, Spiritless little schools there were, that gave a dole of the three Rs, There were churches but no movies. In little settlement after lit- Ue settlement I saw one sign of hope | and one only, the trade union halls of the South Wales Miners’ Federation, where the working class schools were held to study the history of the world and to inquire if forever and forever hunger and insecurity were to be the share of the workers’ children, Churches as Strikebreakers, WENT with the miners and their wives to mass meetings held on the hill slopes. Among the proclamations on the church walls were posted the king's, addressed to the miners’ wives, quoting bible and commanding them to break their husbands’ strike. Bat it was their strike, too. They were back of their men, They worked early and late in the soup kitchens that served little enough of soup. Bread’ without butter and tea. That was the fare they struck on in the colliery towns. The children stood in queues, “Merry England.” Others may think of England as a land of smooth green lawns, comfort- able firesides and vessels on every sea. I kn@w where the coal comes from, and how cruelly the coal own- ers, the government and the ship owners, betrayed the miners five years ago this spring. What is hap- pening today is only the fruit of that betrayal, South Wales is a coal coun- try, nothing but coal, little agricul- ture and no industry. The absentee coal owners stood out against any- thing that would bring order and peace into the depressed industry. Their cure for everything was less wages for the ‘workers. 1 tell you the miners of England live on the lowest possible wages, I stayed in Maerdy with the family of the secretary of the miners’ local, who was wlso a teacher in the miners'| school. He and his family "had bare- ly enough to eat and their lot was if anything better than the rest, Need National Agreement. H® was one of thousands of miners who saw no futune:for himself or his children. The coa}oowners refus- ed to unite and grant mational wage in the collieries, They had an ad- vantage of the workers if they paid one rate here, another,there and play- ed the miners off, one,against another and threatened lockouts in a region where if the mines were closed there was absolutely no place else to go, no factories, no farms. © The Cause of Conflict. Ane the war, the miners’ union ‘saw that the coal owners would have to agree to some reorganization of the mines if the workers were not to be sacrificed. The, coal owners would yield nothing. @ miners pre- pared to-strike. The Lloyd George government asked them to postpone any action until Sankey Coal Commis- sion could study the; situation and make recommendations upon which the government would, itself act. When I visited Wales, the Sankey Commission had repogted. The coal owners refused to acgept the recom- mendations, and the,government de- serted the miners, e its pledges, behaved as if the Sankey Commission did not exist. On the hill sides "i ers talked. They laughed at Lloyd George Who had once been their idol, a Welshman they had'fhot like them- selves, a ‘Wales the min- The officials ‘of the railway unions and the fs’ union had gone over to Lloyd e. Five years ago the miners lost.’’But they knew then that the coal fifqustry of Eng- land must be reorganized before it will pay its way. ‘Te coal owners want to reorganize tics wages that are already at’#tarvation level. The miners will not"permit their liv. ing standards to be further reduced. Vanderbilt “Herald” in ’Frisco Shuts Down SAN FRANCISCO, May 11 —(FP)— When the San Francisco Herald, Vanderbilt tabloid paper, discontinued publication May 4, it owed ifs em- ployes of the mechanfeal departments, including members of the typographi- cal union, ten day's wages. Editorial workers had not been paid since April 15. No provision hag been made by the young New York millionaire to take care of these claims, The Herald was never officially anspended, but the paper supply gave out and the men refused to work longer without wages. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! =m a also there is a nucleus of the Com- munist Party and of the Young Com- munist League, every school is like- wise connected thru chef-ship with a factory, a village, a Young Pioneer group, and a Red Army unit. The con- tinual reciprocal visits with these va- rious features of Soviet life keep up an intense and vital interest: between the foreign students and the Russian peo- ple. Nor does the splendid traditional hospitality of the Russian people re- strict itself to these official festive occasions; every student has, in addi- tion, a wide circle of personal ac- quaintances in whose home he is al- ways welcome, and every one of thé very many affairs in the students’ club is attended by many of these friends. These club evenings are really a treat —sometimes they are a melange of na- tions and races, sometimes confied to one—always pulsating with life and interest and adding ever another link to the many fraternal chains that bridge the chasms which once sepa- rated one worker ftom another. Excellent teachers, some from the best of the old schools, some from among the newly developed “Red pro- fessors,” guide the so-mixed studentry in their acquaintance with the revolu- tionary literature and practice of the world. No dry as dust lecture system aiming at the giving of stupid answers to a stupider exam is in use here. A problem is stated, a discussion is held, references are distributed, then indi- vidual study, and finally another meet- ing with its hammering out of the cor- rect line on the anvil of mutual con- ference, The intense socio-political ac- tivity of the studentry also contributes heavily to their training. This is the educational method used by the Mos- cow schools in training the new citi- zens and fighters for the Soviet world that is to be. ‘ NE of the Russian professors grew reminiscent—she told of one of the first party schools of the Bolsheviki, not in Russia, to ‘be sure, but, ironi- cally enough, in emigration in Italy, on the Isle of Capri. There the stu- dents shifted as best they could on 7 lire a month. Today, as guests of the first proletarian workers and peas- ants’ republic, the students from all parts of the world gratefully look back to their prototypes \in the Bolshevik school, whose struggle made possible these relatively palatial conditions, and pledge themselves that Moscow shall be their Capri, and that the capi- tals of their home lands may in the not too distant future, serve as the Capris of other Moscows to follow even more quickly on their heels. DANISH SAVANT. DOUBTS LT. BYRD FLEW OVER POLE Insist Explorer Prove His Statements (Special to The Daily Worker) COPENHAGEN, May 11—The an- nouncement that Lieutenant Com- mander Richard E. Byrd had flown by airplane over the North Pole was met with veiled skepticism in scientific circles here. ‘The scientists declare that the feat is not impossible, but that they doubt that Byrd can prove his claims of having flown over the North Pole and insisted on greater verification, “We must gemain skeptical until more exact information is at hand,” said Lauge Koch,» noted Danish ex- plorer. “The utmost that Commander Byrd will be able to prove is that the distance he has flown agrees with the’ distance between Kings Bay and the North Pole and return. At the best he possibly will only be able to prove that he has been within a hundred kilometers of the Pole.” “Personally I am doubtful of the Dossibility of Commander Byrd prov- ing his claim, considering the means at his disposal,” said Colonel Koth, chief of the Danish military aviation service and a noted explorer. “Commander Byrd can not know definitely whether he has been at the Polar point, If he bases his assertion solely on general estimates, than his assertion is not worth much,” Export $295,000,000 in Films from America in the Past Five Years |¢ (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. ©. May 10, — American movie mangnates have re- ceived $295,000,000 from foreign lands for showings of their film in the past years states the United States depart- ment of commerce in a report, Last year foreign showings of Amer- jean movie magnate controlled films brot in a return of about $75,000,000. | M In 1924 the figure was $70,000,000 and in 1923 it was $60,000,000, Foreign movie corporations that sent films to this country received but about $1,000,000 in royalties during the past year, In 1925 Canada paid $3,500,000 in royalties to American concerns, Eu- rope paid $52,000,000, » ica $7,600,000 and the other countries com- bined $12,000,000. DETROIT DISTRICT STILL LEADS! } IN THE NATIONAL BUILDERS’ SUB CAMPAIGN, Percent Quota Reached District 7 ..... 18 99 on900 70,000 8.08 Michigan (except upper Peninsula) and Indiana (except Lake County). District 13 ..... California District 14 New Mexico, Arizona and Texas District 15... rea : Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, North Sarolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky and ‘Tennessee, District 5... estes Pennsylvania (except that Included in Districts 3 and 4) and West Virginia. District 4 ..... . . “New York State (except that included in District 2) and Erie County, Pa. District 11 Montan District 6 . ‘Ohio District 2 » Greater New York City (including suburbs in New York State and New Jersey) and Connecticut. District 1... +» 85,000 New England States (except Connecticut) ‘ District 8 .. on etneee «150,000 Hitnois, Lower Wisconsin, and Lake County, Ind. Wistrict 10 .... North Dakota, South Dakota, and lowa. District 3 . New Jersey (except that included in District 2), Pennsylvania, east of the Appalachians, Delaware, Maryland, and Washington, D. C. “District 12 Oregon and Washington, District 9 ... Upper Wisconsin, nesota. ON THE ROAD TO MOSCOW 6.13 Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming 5.31 4.93 448 4.25 Missouri 15,000 Kansas, Nebraska 50,000 Michigan (uprer peninsula) Min- » Results of the Third Week. Subs of April 15 to May 5 in the Third Annual National Builders’ Campaign. QUOTAS AND PERCENTAGE DISTRICT 1 DISTRICT 9 Quota Points | Duluth, Minn, 10,000 100 % 1,585 3.91| Minneapolis, 25,000 165 .06 "388 16.75| Orr, Minn 2,000 10 8 “4 Rochester, Minn. .... 2,000 45 225 238 11:75| St- Paul, ‘Minh. » 15,000 200 1,83 4 Superior, Wi: ~ 10,000 (45 45 oe Miscellaneous 155 is District total é 720 ® 1,199 DISTRICT 10 re Sioux City, low: 2,000 10 # 85,000 3,815 Miscellangous 470 basis District total ... - 15,000 480. 3.2 izabeth, N. J. . Harttora, eaeihs 100 3.) DISTRICT 11 Hoboken, N. J. 100 5. | Denver, Colo. ... 255 7.28 Newark, N. J. 140 3.5 | Salt Lake City, Utah 75 7.6 New York City 0,000 8.025 5. | Miscellaneous 475 Stamiord, ‘Conn Fenjees 4008 20 1588] District total . 18,000 "805 Yonkers ne ve” 3000 300 8 DISTRICT 12 Miscellaneous 670 Portland, Oregon amu 9000 129 7 Seattle, Wash. District total 200,000 9,860 4.93] Miscellaneous 7000 380 big sachs District total 00 Baltimore, Md. 5,000 120 2. Ne J. 1,000 30 8, Shilndelph 38,000 940 2: 400 Bichmen 500 145 9. ry Washington, D. 3,000 80 1. 1,860 Wilmington, De! 20 100 Miscellaneous 230 San Pedro, Calif, Miscellaneous District total ... |ga8 s| B33 Fd eteprs 3| Pyge-? el," FY Clifton, Ariz. 100 El Paso, Te: 20 Ft 45 Houstor 30 Miami, Ari 100 Phoenix, 65 Miscellaneous 285 om District total J 645 Ambridge, Pi T Daisytown, DISTRICT 15 sport, Georgia 1,000 100 in, Pi Ky. 100 220 730 eu District total, oss 55,000 3,375 District total wu... 10,000 640 DISTRICT 6 Akron, Ohio . Barberton, Ohio Canton, Ohio een Ooh le WIN THIS BOOK — Warren, Ohio Youngstotwn, Of} Miscellaneous District total oununin 78,000 3,985. 5.81 1eT 7 “snsuneseniree 88,000 4,018 7.48 eee Sera t Newberry’ Mich; "src: 1000 68. 88 Iscella: 410 seseneppnnannensne i deen 5,660 8.08 Diatratetad cen, Ae 8 Chicago, iil, Christophe: With Each 100 Points . als