The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 14, 1926, Page 4

rage Four ~ oth eae i ! THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, ‘ 1118 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, 11, Phone Monroe 4714) ——_____— neh Bak | SUBSCRIPTION RATES | sy By mall (In Chicago only): By mall (outside ef Chieago): | $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per yoar $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Blivd., Chicago, itl, 3, LOUIS ENGDAHL : WILLIAM F, DUNNB t svnemeatasnones EAILOPS MORITZ J. LOBB.......0 .. Business Manager ——_—$—$<$—$——$— =< Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi cago, Il, under the act of March 8, 1879, Advertising rates on application | 577) Let Her Saffer—and Let Her Remember | Tur Darxy Worker feels that the story appearing on page one | of this issue entirely vindicates the stand it has taken with regard | to Queen Marie. Certain of our readers complained that the op-| probrious terms we applied to the royal personage on several occa- sions in this column might have been chosen with better discretion. We ask you—after you have read the account of the shameful behavior of this queen and her court at Cotzofanesti—whether or not, far from being too inconsiderate in our terminology. ceeded in finding a phrase suited to the central figure in the events described. We suc- Is the story true? We vouch for it. The source from which it came leave: ‘no doubt in our minds as to its veracity. The Interna- tional Red JAid, a working class organization for the defense and protectioy¥of class-war prisoners, we consider to be a reliable source. The interity of this movement, that has sections in all lands, is} attestgf to by the splendid record of assistance and succor to per- secu.ted and terrorized workers in many lands. In every country the national sections of the movement eount upon their executives, men of unquestioned reputation. Labor leaders of long standing in the workers’ movement, prominent lawyers (the greatest lawyer of Rou-| Mania, Costa-Foru, is. associated with the I. R. A. in its defense of political victims in the queen’s own country), famous authors of the type of Henri Barbusse, publicists such as George Lansbury and e are but a few of the names that bear witness to the responsibility of this international movement. | When the Berlin bureau of this organization forwarded to us| the'story that we print today, it did not for a moment think of the! sensational and lurid nature of the story as of the greatest im-| portance. No more do we. What they considered important was to) expose the real character of a monarch who parades as a model of | virtue and patriotism, while at the samg time she stands as a sym- bol of a regime whose excesses on a national seale are quite as brutal and obscene as the individual behavior of its queen. So do we. We have repeated many times that what is important for us in our attitude towards Queen Marie is the fact that she represents an oligarchy whose unrestrained thirst for profit and privilege, en- hanced by a fatal mixture of the worst elements of feudalism and capitalism, has resulted in the murder of thousands of workers and peasants and the imprisonment of many thousands more. If we seem in this instance to make a concession to sensa- tional journalism in publishing as we do a story under other cirenmstances and with different principles we would ignore, we ‘ WHY ARE PRINCES, KINGS AND QUEENS INVITED TO GARY, IND.? Wo prince of Greece paid his visit to Gary, Ind.; the prince of Sweden was recently in Gary and went thru the mills} now the Roumanfan queen is going to come here and will be taken thru the mills, Who and why invites the royalties to Gary? The workers? No, the workers were never asked whether they would like to have the princes, kings or queens come to Gary. There fs nothing in common between workers and royalty, The kings are the rulers, the workers are slaves, royalty is rich, the workers are poor, royalty waste days in idle pleasure, the workers are compelled.to work long hours and live in misery, Who is it that is interested in inviting the princes, kings and queens, the parasites, who live and feed upon the misery of the people, to Gary? It is THE STHEL KING, GARY, - And why does he invite them? He wants to show them, that he too has a great power and a great kingdom, that he too has thousands of slayés who work for him, who fear and obey him, and who would lay down their lives for him, But this is not the only reason why princes, kings and queens are invited to Gary. The most important reason is that the steel king Gary knows that there are thousands of workers who still believe that kings and queens are put on earth by god and that the common people must obey them and give their lves for them. And Judge Gary wants that the workers keep up this faith so that they will” always obey him and keep on working for miserable wages and under the most terrible conditions, But is it true that the kings and queens rule by the divine power? No, ‘it is the force of bayonets that keep them in power just as Judge Gary keeps his power over the workers by the force of arms. Therefore intelligent workers will not be fooled into, believing that they are honored by the visit of Queen Mary of Roumania, Queen Marie will go thru the mills the same as she would go thru a 200. She will look upon the workers as she would look upon the animals, for she con- siders the workers and farmers as nothing but animals good only to work and produce wealth for crowned royalty and uncrowned kings of industry. In Queen Marie’s kingdom millions of workers and peasants are brutally oppressed and starved, thousands are kept in jail because they dared to rise against oppression, thousands of others are brutally tor- tured and murdered for the same reason. Their blood is on the queen. . To them is due our sympathy and support and honor. Their struggle for liberty against the bloody reign of lewd kings and queens is ours also, Our struggle against the, brutal oppression of King Gary is their struggle. To them we stretch our hand of brotherhood! i DOWN WITH THE BLOODY RULE OF THE ROUMANIAN OP- PRESSORS OF THE ROUMANIAN WORKERS AND PEASANTS! DOWN WITH THE BRUTAL OPPRESSION OF. THE STEEL WORKERS BY KING GARY AND HIS ILK! ie WORK FOR THE SOLIDARITY OF THE WORKERS OF ALL LANDS, RACES, NATIONALITIES! nt . x Workers (Communist) Party of Amerlea, Local Lake County, bi nd. RESOLUTION OF THE BUKOVINIAN AND | BESSARABIAN COMMITTEE OF CHICAGO HE national minorities in Roumania have been left completely with- out any rights under the present government. All of these peoples are bitterly oppressed. Some 800,000 people suffer under the heel of Roumanian tyranny. : This oppression is directed most sharply against the 800,000 Ukrai- nian workers and peasants im those districts which are occupied by the Roumanian military forces—Bessarabla and Bukovina. In the course of the last three years all Ukrainian were either closed or transformed into Roumanian schools. By a brutal policy call upon you to turn your mind’s eye to the bastilles of Bucharest | and Kisheney where 2,500 workers lay in chains, we ask you to visualize the soil of Bessarabia and Bukovina dyed with the blood of workers and peasants and then we ask you to note the assump- tion of piety and democracy which the queen has posed for her Amer- | jean audience. | The story that we publish today is a blow at the Roumanian | antocrats upon whose heads rest the guilt of mass murder and! whose queen is Marie. If, as an individual, her majesty suffers—| let her. And let her at the same time remember the untold suffer- | ~ ing she and her fellow oligarchs have caused the exploited masses of Roumania. The McKeesport Strike : The strike of 700 skilled workers in the plant of the McKees- ri port Tin Plate company, the largest plant outside of the trust, is of © much significance because of the practical absence of strikes in this industry—a subsidiary of the steel industry—for the last four years. In McKeesport there is also the tradition of struggle. The present strike, resulting from an attempt to speed up the workers, amounting in effect to a reduction in wages, may tie up the whole finishing department and involve 3,400 workers. The union in the steel industry, which, as its name implies— Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers—has jurisdiction over this branch of work, is very weak. Its total mem- bership is given as 11,400. It is likewise very conservative and Mike Tighe, its president, has waged war on the left wing ever since the union, under his direction, deserted the steel workers in the great strike of 1919-1920. . Like all such strikes the present one shows the possibility of organization in the industry. The excuses of the officialdom, to the effect that the workers are not willing to organize, are shown up in their full falsity by such occurrences. ——————— ee. SN of colonization, Ukrainian peasants have been deprived of their land which was turned over to Roumanian settlers, not peasants, but former officers, sergeants and gendarmerie. The Ukrainian peasants who pro- tested against these measures are suppressed by means of punitive mili- tary expeditions. = Every day these districts are subjected to new wayes of horrible terror, with mass arrests and mass executions. The suppression of the trade union movement damages not only the economic rights of the workingclass but also has a terrible effect upon their cultural life, for it completely prevents the cultural work which is conducted as much as possible by the trade unions. The Roumanian political prisons, which are notorious for their in- quisition-methods, their torture chambers, their cells ofshorfor, hold scores of Ukrainian peoples. For weeks prisoners are held under the “most bestial pressure and subjected to torture until th: ke “state- ments” satisfactory to the police, Many of them are tortuped to death. The Bukovinian and Bessarabian Committee of Chicago, speaking in the name of the nationals in this city, demands the cessation of the terror against the national minorities in Rumania. # We demand the right to the re-establishing of our schools, and the right to have our labor organizations, our trade unions exist and function. We demand the right to independence or affiliation with our own country, Ukrainia Republic, We present this resolution to the representative of the city of Chi- cago, Mayor Dever, . ‘ . Yours very truly, The Bukovinlan and Bessarablan Committee of Chicago. TOM TKACHUK, Chairman. NICHOLAS WELECHKO, Secretary. + Etrthquakes Recorded. ~ SANTA,ANA, Cal., Noy. 10.—Three distinct earthquake tremors, occurring within a minute, rattled lights and windows here today, No damage was reported. The firft tremor came at 9:29 a, m., followed almost immedia- tely by the second and third shocks. Certify Seeking to improv ation for both the ers and mills, a delegation re a the prem- ium cotton guild is to leave here for Oklahoma and T to make ar- rangements for gathering and certify- ling all-tipe staple for eastern mills. “cotton situ- | upon these important- strike reserves: This he can do] to dispen through, financial contributions, protest meetings, the boy- y cott, ete. If the strike is of especially great importance or . By WILLIAM 2. FOSTER is of the highly international type, such as of seamen, min- H ers, ete., he must undertake to draw similarly ‘upon the j ARTICLE XIV strength of the world labor movement. The left wing must MoninizaTioN oF THE Reserves understand always to utilize these demands on the labor ’ The strike strategist, in an important strike, must look] moyement at large for the purpose of establishing itself ‘ upon labor’s forces pretty much as a military strategist) jqeologically and organizationally among the masses, does his army; that is, as active fighting troops and various Enuistixe tne Women classes of reserves. It must be his aim at all times to main- An important class of ystrike reserves which must be. ; tain his active fighting force at ity maximum strength and| ytitized to the utmost are the womenfolk of the strikers. | to utilize his wide variety of reserves to the utmost. Ordinarily conservative leaders pay little or no attention 4 Considered from this angle, strike reserves are of sev-| to this element. But the left wing must enlist the women, eral classifications. Virst, there are those active reserves, 4 the workers who are economically most closely related to y the strikers and who can often be drawn directly into the] gtruggle { struggle. In previous pages we have said much about the ’ mobilization and activization of this class of reserves, so nothing further is necessary here. Then, there is an- other great class of reserves, less fluid and less available, the broad masses of organized and unorganized workers, economically not,closely related to the strikers, who cannot ei be got to actually take part in the struggle, but who, never- f theless, can be made to help in various ways. ‘The strike strategist must know how to draw fully ors “ Hen enlisting women. and the Es Innume: The womenfolk in a strike can be either a great help. or a great hindrance, Strikers’ wives out of sympathy with the Or, militant supporters of it, they can be its very ,soul, into housewives’ unions, Thoroly aroused women possess | an indomitable spirit. They make strikers unconquerable. testify to their splendid fighting qualities, No strike can and ignorant of its significance’ can destroy it. ce, in all strikes our strike strategy must aim at the co-operation and active participation of the They must be inducted into the strike mac general strike activities; they must be organized able strikes among the miners and textile workers| _ bourgeois thoncee conte * ; SOUTH SLAVIG WORKERS PROTEST AGAINST ROYAL SYMBOL OF TERRORISM Rua RESOLUTION ON ROUMANIA WHEREAS, there are at present more then 2,500 workers held, in Roumanila.Jalls for political offenses, and, : WHEREAS, these workers have suffered the most brutal persecution by the Roumanlan authorities, and many of their brothers have been tortured and murdered, and, WHEREAS, Queen Marle of Rou- mania now visits our country In an effort to get help for a government that cruelly oppresses the workers and peasants within its borders, and denies them of freedom of press, assemblage and organization, there- fore be it RESOLVED, that the South Slavic branch of International Labor De- fense protests against the subservi- ence of American officials to Queen Marie, the “royal” symbol of the terrorism, and the oppression’ of workers, peasants and racial minor- ities that exists In the militarist dic- tatorship of Roumania. We demand the release of the 2,500 workers In the prisons of Roumania for political “offenses” and the cessation of brutal persecution, torture and mur der of workers and SUPPRESSION OF WORKERS’ AND PEASANTS’ ORGANIZATIONS. We protest against the action of the state de- partment In keeping out of the United Sti both Countess Karo- lyl, because she Is opposed to the terror regime in Hungary, and Sak- latvala, a friend of the British work- ers and Indian peasants, while at the same time permitting the entry of Queen Marie of Roumania, and now also refusing admittance to Alexandra Kallontal, Soviet envoy to Mexico who represents the work- ers of her land. ‘Lucia de Lammermoor’ Starts Second Week of Chicago Civic Opera The schedule of splendor marking the premiere of the Chicago Civic Opera company will characterize with brilliance the second week of Chi- cago's greatest lyric season, opening next Monday evening, Nov. 16, with “Lucie de Lamermoor,” in which the distinguished Italian coloratura ‘so- prano, Toti dal Monte, will make her first appearance of the season. The first Sunday matinee offers an all-star cast in the most popular of operas, “Carmen.” Mary Garden, Hdith Mason, Fernand Ansseau, Eduard Cotreuil, and Giacomo Rimini will have the leading roles, surround- ed by Anna Hamlin, Lorna Doone Jackson, Jose Mojica, Ernesto Torti, Desire Defrere, Eugenio Correnti, and others. There will be incidental dances by Serge Oukrainsky, assisted by Mules. Shermont, Nemeroff, Sam- \uels and Chapman, and the entire lcorps de ballet Will be seen in the fourth act. Maestro Polacco will con- duct. “Lucia” starts off the second week on Monday evening, as stated, with |Toti Dal Monte, d’Hermanoy, Cortis, Mojica, Bonelli, Lazzari in the cast; St. Leger condueting. Tuesday ushers in the first repeat ‘performance of the season, “Aida,” ‘but the cast will not be the same heard jon the premiere. Instead, the stand- ard familiar “Aida” group—Raisa, Van Gordon, Marshall, Formichi, Kipnis and Lazzari, Serge Oukrainsky and Miles. Shermont and Samuels, and the corps de ballet will be seen to advantage in new costuming; Polacco will conduct. Wednesday evening brings “The Love of Three Kings” back to the reportoire after a considerable ab- sence, The great tragic work will be sung by a great cast—Garden, Ansseau, Rimini and Lazzari, Roberto Moranzont, who conducted the first performance in this country, will be at the desk. Thursday evening brings a feast of novelty, the first performance of Donizetti's “The Daughter of the Regiment,” heard in Chicago in two generations and the first performance ever given by Chicago's resident com- pany. se with this important reserve, ‘The co-operatives must also be considered and utilized as strike reserves. In European countries the co-operatives are many and large and powerful. They are often impor- tant depots of supplies for strikers. In this country, how- ever, the co-operative movement is very weak and conserva- tiye. Nevertheless it must be utilized fn support of strikes 1 * the opportunity presents. banks, although not real co-operatives, should also be called upon to assist in strikes by making loans to the embattled "Punic Oprnton-~-Irs Limrrations Finally, there is a certain element of strike reserve in the lower middle class elements; farmers, professionals, petty business men, etc., which must not be neglected. Ordinarily these elements, under present conditions in the United States, look rather askance at the organized work- ag their struggles. Often they are frank supporters the “open shop” campaigns of the employers, But in of bitter and spectacular conflicts, especially where _ striking workers are desperately poor, where the loyers ruthlessly violate the so-called ci where a gigantic and hated trust is invol moved somewhat in sympathy for the sentiments of humanitarian | ground-squirrels and butcher birds. By Upton \Copyrignt, 1926, by Upton Sincinir) California water is alway cold, but California sunshine $s always warm; so Bunny would swim for a while, and then ap-. proach a cluster of rocks, and watch the silent company hump themselves into the water. Whatever he wanted, they would yield to him, the superior being, and content themselves with the places he had left. The green-white seas splashed over him, and "underneath their surface was a garden of strange plants, with anemones and abalones clinging, too tightly to be pried off by fingers. White clouds drifted by, making swift shadows over the water, and far out at sea a streak of smoke showed where a steamer was passing. ; The world was so beautiful, and at the same time strange, and interesting to be alive in!’ What must it be like to be a seal? What did they think concerning this arrogant being who com- mandeered their resting places? Did they see the Rhine castle on the shore, or did they see only fish to eat, and how did ‘they understand so clearly that they must not eat a,man? Em- barrassing if one of them should be a “red,” and rebel against the genial customs of the phocidae! Thus Bunny—just the same at the age of twenty-one as when first we met him, driving over the Guadalupe grade and speculating about the feelings of He had completed in the meantime a full course at the Beach City High School, and half a course at Southern Pacific University, but neither institution had told him what*he wanted to know! XI The young philosopher decided that he had had enough, and started to swim in; but he noticed someone on horseback, galloping down the beach towards him. The figure was bare- headed and clad in knickerbockers, and appeared to be a man;' but you never could he sure these days, so he swam and waited, and presently made out that it was Vee Tracy. She saw him, and, waved her hand, and when she was opposite, reined up her horse. “Good morning, Mr. Ross.” “Good morning,” he called. prescription?” “Yes, and it also includes swimming.” in her face, as if she guessed his plight. me to join you?” t “Tt would embarrass the seals.” He swam in slowly, and stood with the waves tumbling about his shoulders. “Tt is the morning of the world,” said Vee. “Come out, and let us enjoy it.” “Look here, Miss Tracy,” he explained, “it so happens that I wasn’t expecting company. I am the way the Lord made me.” “O, you sons of men,” she chanted, “how long will ye turn “Is this part of the doctor's There was laughter “Why don’t you invite Likewise, the labor wie liberties, , they are my glory into shame?” And she explained, “I once acted in ‘King Solomon’—a religious pageant. We had three real camels, and I was Abishag the Shunammite, the damsel who cherished the king and ministered unto him; and he sang to me, Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away, For lo, the winter is past, and the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grave give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. Oh my dove, that art in the cleft of the rocks—” He was near enough to see the imp of mischief dancing in her black eyes. “Young woman,” he said, “I give you fair notice. I have been in this water an hour, and 1am cold. I was on my way out.” ~ She continues, “Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armory, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.” He took a few steps, until the breakers barely reached his waist. “I am on the way,” he said. “Who is this that cometh out of the water? My beloved ts white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. His head fs as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy—” “Fair warning!” he announced. “Ovte—two—three!” And when she gave no sign of yielding, he strode out from the waves. “His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold; his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.” He stood confronting her, the water playing about his feet. “Thou are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jeru- salem, terrible’as an army with banners. Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me!” “If that’s in the Bible, I suppose. it’s all right,” said Bunny. “King Solomof’ lost a fortune,” said the lady on horseback, “so it’s the only pageant I was ever in, and it’s the only poetry T can recite. But I dare say if I had been in a Greek pageant I could quote something appropriate, for I read they used to run naket, in the games, and it did not embarrass them. Is that true?” x : “So the books say,” said Bunny. “Well then, let's be Greek! You are a runner, I have heard. Are you in training?” “Partly so.” “My -beloved’s lips are blue and he’s got goose-flesh, so let’s have a race, you and my horse, and it’ll be a Greek pageant.” “Anything to oblige a lady.” : (Continued Tomorrow.) they give little or no active support. Their chief contribn- tion is to help create a “public opinion” favorable to the strike. sit \ Right wing trade union leaders enormously overesti- mate the value of such a sympathetic public opinion. In order to secure it they always cut the heart out of their strikes, catering to eyery petty bourgeois conception. The left wing will make no such mistake, While realizing that a favorable public opinion is a valuable asset and while maneuvering sKilfully to ereate it, the left wing must never forget that the strike can only be won by a success- ful fighting policy. It will not sacrifice the substance, a real fight, for the shadow, @ favorable public opinion. In their anxiety to pursue this shadow of “public opinion” right wing leaders make a fetish of legalism, and at every militant action of the workers cringe before this fetish, apologetic aud timid, often even joining the employ- ers and their eontrolled press in attacking the workers’ disregard of the property rights of the employers. The workers, however, when aroused to strufle in strikes, often take little account of capitalism-made legal “rights,” and American labor history is filled with instances of mili- tant action of strikers, More than in any other country, perhaps, has sabotage heen used by American strikers in their bitter battle 8 with employers. (EQ be continued) < tectinnene eas agen i ep pe |