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ay "he ‘ A PEEK EACH WEEK AT MOTION PICTURES “BREAKING CHAINS.” You are going to be shown a better Picture than the best picture you ever saw. “Breaking Chains” is about to start on a tour of the country. Here is a Russian-made movie acted en- tirely by workerg who never faced the camera before and the result is the equal of any acting we have ever seen in the most praised picture, You can't realize how really good it is until you see it for yourself—and you sim- ply MUST see it. The photography is fine. The story is a thrilling one. It moves fast and comes to a thrilling climax that will send you away with a happy smile on your face, a little tear in your eye and determination in your heart. It begins on the barricades of Petrograd in 1917. The following events take Place in the village. ‘The story then takes you to the factories, meeting halls, educational clubs, the homes—- and Lenin, It’s a thrilling love story of two young workers of the new revolutionary Russia. In the telling of the story you are given an intimate picture of the life in Russia—so inti- mate and personal you will feel and see it as no written word could ever inspire you. A girl whose name is not given acts the leading role of a peasant girl. It is a splendid characterization. The girl herself is a chubby, healthy, round-faced typically Russian little comrade who will win you as no movie queen ever could. Children act’ so re- markably they would surely prove a sensation in any American movie. One little fellow with a thousand or more freckles you will néver forget. ' The men in the picture are fine, ener- getic types of workerg and unusually good actors, There is an inspirmg atmosphere . about the whole production that will astonish you, .Teehnically, it is the equal of the very.. best. American-made movie. In acting tt is far superior. It is a picture that will hold you from the very first moment. There are moments.of excellent comedy. There are’ dramatic spots that will bring a tear to your eye—as they did even to the unsentimental eyes of editors and others who were given the privilege of seeing it, The International Workers’ Aid has arranged the showing of the picture in this country. The first showing will be held in Chicago on Friday, RUUUUAUtvtn cect neonate ctetnccessceac enacts eect THE THEATER - _. Fa “IN THIS ROOM.” The first word in review condemns this play to the category of those you should not take the time or trouble to see, Little can be said for the good that is “In This Room”) (showing at the Princess Theater), while much can be said for what is bad. In a few words we can say that very good act- ing is being wasted on a terrible plot. Louis Wolheim does very well as Gustav Bruno, called such because “his mother did not know his father’s name,” but, try as he did, he could not “put over” the show. Wolheim plays a double role, as do Olive Tell and Donald Gallaher. This, however, ig not a great feat, as the incidental introduction to the main part of the play at the beginning of each act and epilogue are inconsequential, _ The plot itself is not worthy of a long review. It is of hackneyed type, being the story of a playwright who writes a play which is enacted as he His wife is the heroine, he is g Drawing from poster advertising ‘“Break- ing Chains’ by the noted proletarian artist, Fred Bilis. December 3, at the Douglas Park Au- ditorium Go to see it, comrade and fellow-worker! We promise you thai you will thank us for the advice. You comrades in other cities thruout the country need not be without it. Begin today to make arrangements to have it shown in your city. Ten thousand books and ten barrels of leaflets will never do you one-half as much good as one showing of “Breaking Chains.” DOZEN IN BRIEF The Black Pirate—‘Yo-Ho Ho on a dead man’s chest” with Douglas Fairbanks (Roosevelt). Eagle of the Sea—Ricardo Cortez also takes to piracy. Don Juan — The famous lover be- comes cooler in our climate if we can believe John more’s | interpretation wane me at the MeVickers The Strong panne 8 The Better 'Ole—Very Funny (They tell me). ‘ Variety—We repeat—splendid! London—Only Gish’s gushes. Subway Sadie—Clever and g¢rell done (Up town). Men. of Stecl—It takes men of steel to stand this. Mare Nostrum — That's Latin for “Save your money.” Siums of Berlin—With so many bad pictures here there was no reason for importing this. Passaic Strike—Real stuff. Go—and take the family. “SEED OF THE.BRUTE.” A drama of America, which Eugene O'Neil could be proud of, had he writ- ten it, but which undoubtedly in cer- tain ways is bigger and more far- reaching than anything he has ever given us, is now playing at the Little Theater, New York City. If is called, “Seed of the Brute,” and the play- wright is Knowles Entrikin. It is stark realism, yet interest- ing.from the prologue to the end of the third act. There is no attempt made to play to the gallery or to in- sert comedy relief. In this reviewer’; opinion, it is the most significant play by an American since “What Price Glory?” several years ago. But its field ig different. It shows passion in all of its nakedness, letting us see the petty-bourgeoisie of America as they actually are. Rough and coarse language is uttered, not to make the play more attractive, but because it fits into the situations wherever used. A spade is called a spade on every : The Workers in Iron and Steel. By W. J. WHITE. TH the single exception of those in the textile industry, I know of né union so weak in membership as the union of iron and steel workers. The steel union, like the textile, is faced by a giant combination of in- dustrial and imperialistic capital which will stop at nothing in its en- deavor to keep its slaves from organ- izing. As an outstanding and glaring example of the lengths the steel trust will go, we have the testimony of Gary that the steel trust spent fifty millions in the 1909 strike of the tin plate workers to break up their branch of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. ‘ The result of this merciless smash- ing and thé unlimited millions which is appropriated to keep the workers from organizing is summed up in the testimony of Gary before the “Indus- trial Relations Committee,” when ques- tioned, in his answer. “Yes, we spent a lot of money, but we made a lot of tin workers.” So merciless is this combination in its hatred of the union that they will not even tolerate that panacea of the business world for its numerous flls, the company. union. No Company Union Needed. reese: in this they are wise, for in the present weak Amalgamated Association, whose membership is largely composed of the highly skilled and fairly paid upper strata of work- ers who remain silent and refrain from resistance to the encroachments of the trust, they have a splendid sub- stitute for the company union. They thus get rid of the trouble which they must incur in controlling a union run on the B. & O. plan, while in officers such as M. F. Tighe and D. J. Davis they have the ideal officials of a union which is -the best possible substitute for the company class-collaboration union. The policy of this officialdom |sé6ms tobe to Keep the orzanization at a membership that will pay their salaries, sign a few scales, which the companies are willing to sign, and thus keep the rank and file hypnotized into the belief that they are members of a bona fide union. The strength of the union at the present time, as re- ported to the last convention, was a fraction over eleven thousand out of a possible six hundred thousand. D. J. Davis, the secretary-treasurer, report- ed at the convention held in Pitts- burgh last April that they had lost 331 members during the year. Spent $60,000 for New Members. F, TIGHE reported they had * spent $60,000 and had had 20 organizers in the field and had only brought into the association 100 mem- bers, at a cost of over $600 dollars per member, Needless to say, this is a pleasing condition of things in the steel industry to Gary and the officers of the trust. This does not include the wages and expenses of the special organizers of the association, whose wages and expenses will run close to $10,000 for the year. That there is a growing unrest within the membership of the Asso- ciation and also among the great masg of unorganized goes without saying. Many of the workers are ready to re- bel, and all that is needed is the oc casion, the right men at the head and a militant left wing is an assured fact. This leadership cannot and will not gome from the present officials, nor will it come out of the so-called pro- gressives, which include such work- ers as A. M, Jennings of Granite City, John Stose of Cannonsburg, who are honest.and fearless, but whose hands are tied by the weak and vacillating membership who continue to confine their work within their own organized membership, and who refuse or who cannot or will not see the splendid op- portunity for a militant organization of workers amongst the hundreds of thousands of unorganized who com- pose the great mass of workers in this most basic industry, and who are robbed and fleeced by the most ruth- less band of industrial and imperial- istic capitalists the world has ever seen, + Foster Did It once. ILL” FOSTER started such a movement in 1919, but he was ham-strung by Gompers. and Tighe, who could see the rising tide of re- volt of the steel slaves overwhelming them. This they did not wish, hence they did everything to kill the move- ment, with the result that it fell a victim to the machinations of Tighe and Davis, who, if they are not being paid by the capitalists at the head of the trust, are doing the kind of work the trust officials want done. A militant left wing ‘will come out; of the steel industry when the time 1s ‘ ripe, but when it comes it must be led by men who have been trajned in leadership and in the class struggle. Personally; I see no future for organi- zation outside of the workers who have had such training, and there is no greater work the Communist Party can do than prepare men to lead these workers when the hour strikes, as strike it will in the not far distant future. THE TINY WORKER A Weekly. Vol. 1. A WISE BIRD By Freddie Norris, Columbus, O. A WISE OLD KID } IS OUR JOHNNY RED HE READS A LOT 4 BEFORE HE GOES TO) BED. NOW YOU TELL ONE Johnny By Henry Sampolinsky “Aha,” Grand Rapids, Mich. ' again! — a. A Pioneer once asked Fe aeons Saturday, November 20, 1926 Johnny Ked could hardly believe his eyes. He was watching a fiisherman's oy—! Gooa/tug coming up the river. vn » dite jthe fish began. jumping out of the water and right into the boat! And then—PLOP! ed fell out of bed. i# mother said; Your tummy must be out of That's what you get for. eat- so many good things at that af- Editor, Freddie Norris, Columbus, O. No. 26 HEY, KIDS! How aid you “Vike the last issue written by the Mttle Reds of Grand Rapids? Kinda snappy Suddenly wasn't it? Those Noe ae Pioneers are fine, We still have some good stuff left for other issues, “dreaming HEY SOME MORE ong man with a fat belly take the Young gen 9 gave. rd - aise pope mane for|take some ie a the man Bigg Bier ep od Johnny said. from t and! oa Env an st ns gaa so ve Isn't: that a tall story?) Send us some more Henry! | PERCY CHPSTER- ane ae Mc- PLUM BALA ot he - t “No tn co? = A “This money I give’ a @ some too! Comrade eu when she looked around Johnny gone! Castor Oil.” ~~ “Aw, ghee, ma-—it tastes like heck!" / bogey Teme - go- ling to next re MP gare? Come on, send in Sh°\vour stuff for @ especial issue of ioe TINY WORK- [ie his NEXT WEEK! } Oh, Boy—we have ja dandy stery by \Margaret Johnson jot Ashland, Wis, for next week. It's called ‘The Tale of Oat.”