The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 20, 1926, Page 3

The Soviet Union’s Cinema Industry What Makes a Girl Beautiful? FINDS. NO RAGE DISCRIMINATION IN SOVIET UNION Negro Student Tells of Equality By THOMAS L. DABNEY, Federated Press. (Dabney Is a member of the Teach- ers’ Union, a former Brookwood Labor College student who went with the spontaneously formed American stu- dent delegation to Russia during the summer--Ed.) s * © ‘There is no discrimination against a worker in Russia because of his race or nationality. Every worker has the same economic and political rights und advantages, whether he be the member of the largest social group— » the Great Russians—or a minority race like'the Volga Germans or an undevel- oped race like the Tartars.’ I was convinéed of this durjng my travels in Russia the past summer. I talked with the heads of shop committees in Nijni +» Novgorod, Saratov and other cities where different nationalities were em- ployed. I found no evidences of dis- crimination in any factory on account of race. No Negro Discrimination. “In Moscow I met five Negro students trom the Communist University of the Minorities of the East. In my conver- sation with one of them he said: “We are treated well by the Russians. We have suffered no discrimination on ac- count of color. On the contrary, we are accorded absolute equality and freedom everywhere, Some Russians, of course, have seen no Negroes, 80 they eye us curiously and seem a little ehy at first. But they lose this after they come to know us.” Council of Nationalities, The Soviet government has made the greatest contribution to demo- | oratic government in modern times in ‘Its handling of the problems of raco , |@nd nationality. This unique achteve- | ment was accomplished by the Soviet | Bystem of representation in the legis- lative body of the republic. The Soviet ‘Jegislative organ—the central execu- | tlve committee—is composed of two | podies, the Union Council and the * Council of Nationalities, The Union Council is composed of members elected by the Union Con- | gress from among delegates of all the Yepublics, tn proportion to the popula- “tion of the respective republics, This body represents the workers. The races and nationalities are represented in the Council of Nationalities, which fs composed of five representatives from each autonomous and allied re- public and one representative from each autonomous territory, The func- tion of this body is to protect and fur- ther the interests and rights of the various races and minorities in the Boviet Union. All Are Satisfied. * The races and minorities seem to f satisfied with this system. Tho missar of education of the Volga \German Commune assured our delega- tion that the Germans were enjoying all the rights and advantages granted by the Soviet authorities to other races, Before the revolution they were denied the privilege of studying Ger- man; now both German and Russian ere taught in the schools, Im Kasan, capital of the Tartar re- public, the commissar of education re- iterated the story told us in the Ger- man Volga Commune. At the hills of the Caucasus we visited a village in- habited by @ branch of the “Turkish race where the tribes were without a written language during the days of the czar. Since the revolution the So- viet authorities have worked out a ‘written language for these people and |- it ig taught in their schools, Every race and minority group is ‘free to develop its own culture and to worship as it pleases, As a result of » this policy racial conflicts have ceased and all peoples are loyal to the Soviet government, STRIKE STRATEGY], By WILLIAM Z. ARTICLE XIX . Partran Serrue ments An important question in connection with strike set- tlements is whether or not partial settlements shall be made; that is, whether it is a good policy in strikes to make settlements with those employers who are willing to “sign up.” For: many years the left wing gave a categorical “no” answer to this question. It advocated the policy that all employers must settle at once or none can be signed up. It declared that partial settlements are organized scabbery. In arriving at these conclusions the left wing was moved principally by (1) the disastrous effects of the policy of eraft treachery of the reactionary labor leaders, (2) the fact that the left wing based its policies chiefly on the big trustified industries where partial settlements are mani- festly impossible, , But the general conclusion that there shall be no partial settlements under any circumstances is wrong. It is ultra-leftist. In certain situations the workers find it ad- vantageous to make such partial settlements. The problem 4a to find out when and under what circumstances they may + made profitably AUSTRALIAN WORKERS MUST FIGHT BUREAUCRACY OF LEADERS AS WELL AS CORRUPTION OF STATE OFFICERS SYDNEY, Australia—(By Mail)—The Australian Workers’ Union is the largest industrial organization in Australia, having about 185,000 members, However, its numprical strength is not used to the fullest advantage, The official policy is constitutional methods and arbitration. This has made the rank and file of the union very apathetic, and has as a consequence allowed a bureaucracy of unscrupulous officials to maintain control. It is absolutely unknown for a rank and file member of the union to be a delegate on their congresses; officials look after that part of the business. = On account of its army of organizers and officials, the A. W. U. was able to dominate the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party for many years. ticular about their methods of keeping control of the political machine, and ag a consequence they went too far, and Wefe caught witha number of ballot boxes with sliding panels. As a result of this exposure A.. W. U. of- ficials lost their hold on the A. L. P., and their leader, J. Bailey, was expell- ed from the political party. Try to Get Back. That was in 1923. Since that time Bailey and his followers have been trying every method of re-establish- ing their control, but without success. Just recently they made a big ef- fort by trying to oust the labor pre- mier of N. S. W. (Mr. Lang). Mr. Loughlin was the Bailey nominee. When the vote was taken in the par- Hamentary caucus the figures were 23 each. As this Was not decisive, the premier retained his position. The Communists do not like either Lough- lin or Lang, but of the two, Lang is a thousand times better than Loughlin, and the Communists expressed them- selves accordingly. Call Special Conference. “ ‘The result of the battle is that the executive of the A. L, P, have con- vened a.special conference to be held on November 12. This conference is of immense importance to us, as it looks likely to be a step forward for the Communist Party. : We hope to achieve the right to rep- resent our unions on the A. L, P. con- ference, even tho we are members of the Communist Party. Every indica. tion points to us winning this right at the special conference. The A. W. U. is engaged in a fierce campaign to defeat us. South Australia, There is a free speech fight being carried on in South Australia by the I. W. W. and other militants. ‘There is a labor government in office in South Australia, but it appears that the authorities in charge of the park have refused to let the I, W. W, hold meetings there, altho it is a recogniz- ed meeting place. It fg thought that They were not pat-+- if the government was sincere it could easily fix the matter up. All sections | of the movement aré rallying to the| campaign. It is understood that the matter will be discussed at the A. L. P. conference which is being held in that state at the present time. Queensland. The political. situation is very tor- rid in that state also. The A. W. U. officials have complete control over the Australian Labor Party of Queens- land but they have not used that con- trol in the best interests of the work- ing class. The labor party has been in office for ten years in that state, _.THE ‘DAILY WORKER | AX infant industry worth watching is the Russian motion picture in- dustry. For the present {ts capital is “a shoestring,” compared with the mountaim of gold with which Mr. Hayes’ proteges operate. Its chances of getting more money thru film ex- port seems as tho it were impossible, considering the firm hold the Ameri- can movies have on the public and pic- ture-house owners the world over. The SovKino (Soviet Kino), the unit- ed distributing trust of the seven pro- | ducing companies now making pic- tures, news, educational, spectacular and dramatic, is worth watching, Great Interest in Movies, The interest in kino in Russia to- day—like all the Russian interests—is very great. Nobody is content to take a quiet, dilletante interests. The Rus- sian studios are full of workers, who talk dreams of expansion and produc- | tion that make Hollywood seem un- ambitious. “Well, for one thing,” said a re porter On one of the many Russian kino magazines, “tho we may not be and their record is very unsatisfac- tory. , Increase Own Salary. At the beginning of the present ses- sion of parliament the politicians in- creased their own salary by $25 per week. A few weeks later the labor party nominees refused to grant a rise from £4 5s. 0d. to £4 15s. Od. in the basic wage, for Queenslahd workers. This was resented very much by the workers. The Brisbane Trades and Labor Council asked the premier to, meet a deputation. This the pre- mier refused to do. The council was very angry about the matter and de- cided to call a conference of all un- ions on November 12 to consider the advisability of forming a new indus- trial party. Thus the industrial con- ference in Queensland, and the A. L. P. conference in,N. S. W. will begin on the same day. Both of them are likely to have far-reaching results. Another thing that roused the resent- ment of the Queensland workers was the government's refusal to grant the basic wage to blind workers in insti- tutions. The customs department has stop- ped “The Communist International,” “On the Road to Insurrection,” “Ten Days that Shook the World,” and oth- er publications from entering Sydney. Many Labor Councils and Unions have protested against this unwar- rantable action’ of the authorities. With Mussolini at Helm, Italy Cannot Avoid War, Sage Says Italy cannot avoid war, Ralph Den- nis, Northwestern University profes- sor and former vice-consul in Russia, told the Chicago Association of Com- merce today in an address. “While Mussolini has brought about great economic benefits for his peo- ple,” said Dennis, “he has at the same time inflated the national spirit of Italy so that. war cannot be avoided. The spirit of Mussolini ig the spirit of war,” Pump Crushes Worker as Overcoat Catches BEDFORD, Ind., Noy. 18.-—William Béyers, 65, was instantly killed today when his long overcoat was caught in a pump line shaft at the Peerless quarry, north of here. Beyers was wound about the pump and crushed. Missouri Bank Closes Doors After Slow Run JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Nov. 18. — The Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank of Hunnewell, Shelby county, with total resourges of $101,654, closed its doors today as‘a result of a slow run, the department was notified by A, L, Vaughn, president of the bank, , aim FOSTER harder. resistance. Partial settlements Twelve Arrested in. Alleged Counterfeit Ring, Seek 20 Others DETROIT, Nov. 18.—Fhree new ar- rests were made here today in connec- tion with a $1,000,000-a-year national counterfeit ring, uncovered by United States secret service agents. fi A total of twélve persons have been arrested, eight here, three in Boston, where the counterfeiting plant was located, and one in Pittsburgh. Twenty others are under surveillance, includ- ing women, and other arrests are ex- pected. Bombing Charge Fails. After deliberating fifteen minues, a jury acquitted nine officials of the Re- tail Cleaners’ and Dyers’ Association, who were under trial as a result ot the bombing of the establishment of the M. Becker Cleaning Co., 2506 South Parkway. The state’s witnesses were unable to connect the defendants in any way with’the occurrence. The defendants called no witnesses. The jury did the rest. 150-Year-Old Russian Dies. TIFLIS, Nov. 18, — Nikolajowitch Andruszenke, who claimed to be 150 years old and who graphically de- scribed the retreat of Napoleon from Moscow, died here after walking sev eral miles to purchase some tobacco. Jupeine Partra, Serriements j When partial settlements serve the general strategical of splitting the ranks of the employers and enable the workers to play off one section of them against the others they are tactically advisable. Then it is a case of making one group of capitalists scab on the rest. y settlements weaken or divide the workers’ ranks, or compro- those who remain on strike. mise the political purposes of a great strike they must be rigidly avoided. method of the partial settlement is applicable. such industries, by signing up individual employers, inde- pendent associations, or split-offs from the main employers’ organization, the balance are so fearful of losing their pres- But even in the competitive industries, because of the dangers which must be carefully guarded against. are dangers of seab work being done in the settled shops in spite of all precautions; of lockouts of settled shops when the main association remains undefeated; of so spp- burning needs of the market that the hardest at critical moments in competitive industries also sometimes stampede the main bodies of able to sell our Russian-made pictures for a while, certainly we are the com- ing market for pictures. Before the revolution we had only five or six hun- dred cinema theaters in all Russia. But we are the nation with the audt- ence. Millions of eyes! Since the revolution we have built upwards of 4,000 small cinemas in the workmen's and peasants’ clubs, in army headquar- ters, and in schools. We will continue the practice that was part of our prop- aganda in the early days of the revo- lution, of haying motion pictures in boxcars that educate the peasants in the most remote railway points about the new way of life.” Russia’s Natural Advantages. ‘When asked if Russia had any nat- ural advantages for picture making that would’ offset the lack of capital, |he replied¥ “Certainly, for our theater {has the most magnificent tradition in the world of repertory and character ‘acting. We are not bound to the American wheel, the pretty girl. We have the material for vast spectacles, Our producing companies are not overburdened with the vested inter- ests of star-salaries. The play and the whole company can be the thing.” The only Russian films so far shown in the United States are Polikusha. portions of reels made of Lenin's funeral and of Third International con- gresses sold'to American news reels, and a few badly made propaganda reels sold to labor organizations, Pic- turés of the! Moscow-Tokio flight are shortly te Me released by Pathe.. Mr. Leon Zamkavoy, who has been in New York for some time with the Amptorg Corporation, making a report on Amer- ican films for Russian purchase, has returned to Moscow. He will be one of the chief participants in the recep- tion which the Russian cinema indus- try plans’to extend Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, who are being shown in the biggest motion picture house on the Tverskaia in “The Thief of Bagdad.”-”” Charlie Chaplin, who was adored as a friend of the Soviets during the early days of the revolution, has died down, and js not much in demand. His newer films have not been shown. The Chaplin interests demanded too large a price and the loving myth of “Charlie of the masses” has given way to an impression that the hero of other days is a merchant no more generous than the rest of the outside world. Work on Many Films. The Soviet'producing companies.are, working on many films, dramatic and scenic. Two companies are in the far north taking pictures of life along the White Sea, with tundra, reindeer, Lap- landers, etc., and one is in Siberia with a polar exploration expedition. Of the many films made in celebra- tion of the twentieth anniversary of the 1905 revolution there are several showing the historical events which took place in St, Petersburg, Moscow and other centers. It is shown to the music of new compositions, “The Red Engine Driver," “The Siren of Revolu- 2e~g Five cE ——————_—__} P vetz). In Yalta one cc | Ukrainian administr |film, “The Way of Giant : i play; “The Plot of an Empress,” which | has had a sort of Abie’s Irish Rose success all over the Soviet Union, is, still running and-is being handed over¢ to the cinema for filming. It deals with Rasputin and the late czarina. Other titles are “The Bubbling Hast,” “The Land of Blue Foxes ‘The Strug- gle for the North,” brek Zauer,” “The Ice Drivers," “The Vagabond Sportsman,” “The Wind,” “The Black Heart,” “The Day of Death.” Scena- rios have been made and are in pro- cress of production from the works of Gogol, Tolstoi, Pushkin and the Geor- | gian novelists of the nineteenth cen- tury and from Russian history. | Cinemas and Children, The various cinema journals con- stantly present articles on the subject of cinema stories for children, and ote Moscow producing company he already begun a series of old Russi folk stories for the kino, with “The Tale of the Ice-King,” which has been exported to England with some suc- cess, because of the beautiful photog- raphy and the simple and romanti¢ story. Bh Hindu Wins Court Decision SAN FRANCISCO—(FP)—Naturali- | zation officials are at sea following the decision of the U. 8S. circuit court of appeals, sitting in San Francisco. that S. G. Pandit, Hindu lawyer, can- not be deprived “of his citizenship. This will probably be a test case for other Windus cihiming to have been naturalized before Hindus were de- clared ineligible. * soon the », Millions and millions! BURLEY FLY: 2} BE HONOR GUES: AT GAY GABARET Unique Function Offered by Chicago I. L. D. Just two days before the great pre test meeting, which will be held Nom 26th, by the Sacco-Vanzetti conference jof Chicago, that is, on Thanksgiving |Eve, November 24th, the I. L. D, of Chicago will offer a unique and gay “Workers’ Cabaret” where there will be excellent entertainment, refresh- ments, dancing, etc. Flynn to Be Guest, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, national chairman of I. L, D., will be the guest of honor. She is secretary of the Sacco-Vanzetti committee of New York, and well-known for her work in é flan ue *URs"HAnGRAd, Pessatc strikes and reen world was putting one and one together in ossip. Vee Tracy had picked up a millionaire, an oil prince And it to be a Bolshevik! Iv was romantic, too, he was The glances and tones of voice that .. 2y encountered gave yet new echoes of the haunting ques- 3 Why not?” Sitting on the beach, half dug into the sand, and staring out “the blue water, Vee told him something about her life. “I’m pring chicken, Bunny, don’t imagine it. When I came into game, I had my own way to make, and I paid the price, like other girl. You’ll hear them lie about it, but don’t be cd; there are no women producers, and no saints among the Bunny thought it over. “Can’t they be satisfied with finding od actress?” “She can be a good actress in the daytime, and a good mist- at night; the man can have both, and he takes them.” “It sounds rather ghastly,” said the other. “T'll tell you ‘how it is, there’s such fierce competition in this (s if you're going to get ahead, nothing else matters , nothing is rea]. I know it was that way with me; I hung round the s of the studios—I was only fifteen—and I starved and ed, till I'd have slept with the devil to get inside.” 3 * She sat, staring before her, and Bunny, watching her out of NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—(FP)-corner of his éye, saw that her face was grim. actress who has been employed by “There’s this to remember too,” she added; “a girl meets a her arrival in New York on her wi that has a wad of money, and can take her out in a big car, producers in Hollywood: “I belieher a good meal, and a lot of pretty clothes, and set her up most beautiful in the world, It is bungalow, and he’s a mighty big man to her, it’s easy to which makes for real beauty and dk he’s something wonderful. It’s all right for moralists to ‘, that don’t know anything about it; but. the plain truth is, |tion,” “The Last Miracle” (by Rosla- Men that came with the cash and offered me my first real fin a picture—he was just about the same as a god to me, and , from the @8 only decent to give him what he wanted. I had to live him a few months, before I knew he was a fat-headed fool.” ‘There was a silence. “I suppose,” said Vee, “you're wonder- vhy I tell you this. I’m safe now, ” f , I've got some money in the and I might set up for a lady—put on swank and forget ugly past, Jf 1d told. vou. aKeann innocent virgin, how would réports that the De Rivera govern- ment has imprisoned thousands of Spaniards to suppress revolts. The communique stated that there are 3,468 fewer prisoners now than in 1919. It states that the number. of prisoners in Spain is now 12,151, Reports of military reverses in Mo- rocco were also denied. U. S. Gobs Scab on Chinese SHANGHAI—(FP)—The depths to which the imperialists stoop to | strangle the rising labor movement of China {s illustrated by the confes- sion of the editor of The Orient, that at his suggestion during the general strike last year, navy printers from the Huron, Black Hawk and Canopus (American warships in Asiatic waters) were brought to Shanghai. “Thru the efforts of this loyal band of foreigners the daily papers were published on schedule time,” he con- cludes, ™ The Chinese printers had gone out in sympathy with the general strike pro med as @ protest against the massacre of students on May 30, 1925, American sailors did the dirty work of breaking the printers’ strike, not only on, the local papers in which American capital was interested, but on those published by their British competitors as well. Use your brains and your pen to aid the workers in the class struggle. lf, ‘By God, if having money a’t have to lie any more.” saysthat. It made a great anybody like it before.” savage. I’ve got an awful anybody told you?” iat have they told you? All rd you’d been fn love with urning ever since.” er a man; Robbie was the 0 stay the last. He put up r made, and he was hand- Oo marry him, and I really fooling with two or three nim, so that was the end of jurning, I’m in rejoicing be- ; if ’'m a bit cynical about lage, you can figure it out.” sand off her bare legs and le fact,” she said, and put it was wet and firm, and , her slender white limbs ®, upside down, laugh- walked by slow handsteps 'yself over in the other half feet and dashed into the 8 fine!” sation, and learned from it d had to fight for her suc- fight fer anything. If he would arrange it for him, the same thing applied to dow could he afford to pass But when stich the latter. i There An impermissible often practiced in the coal industry, where the reaction- aries sign up some of the mines of certain companies and | let the rest remain nonunion. This puts a preminm upon ‘nonunionism and gives the employers in question a terrible weapon to use against the organization. All they have to do in the slack seasons or other periods of active offensive against the workers in order to defeat the union, ip to pressure is taken off the employers generally; of weakening the picket committees by making it difficult to tell which are really settled employers and which not; of robbing the strike of its mass character solidarity spirit; of creating an antagonism of interest between those’ workers who have gone back to work and and thus its th But even in the competitive industries, because of the generally growing strength of the employers, the value of Industries still in a highly competitive state, suchas | the partial settlement is a diminishing quantity. More and clothing, building, printing, ete., are the ones in which ythe more it is becoming necessary to defeat the employers en Often in} bloc, and to do this must ever be the left wing’s chief aim. In Trustivmp INpustries In industries which are thoroly trustified or in which a few large combinations of capital dominate, such as steel, ent trade and permanent markets that they abandon their| packing, rubber, textile, automobile, ete., the value of the partial settlement has vanished. It is virtually out of the question to play off one set of employers against dhe othi vs. They are too firmly united together, financially and employers and break their associations, And by the same} industrially, for this. The workers must win against them token, often the workers involved, seeing the employers’ ranks thus crumbling and receiving financial aid from the workers who have settled, are encouraged to fight the as a whole, either upon a local or national scale, form of partial settlement robbing destroy the politic confession of weakness, aim of the strike, which employers very maneuver. mostly save the pieces. is that them to pit the skilled resolutely oppose them. (To progress of the labor movement. transfer production from@cy, he had the memory of This they have done ma® People didn’t know what : A Conres Likewise, in great st, industries, such as the r; off; there were marriages settlements are usually tly not until they had made 1 effect of such strikes, € they did, they didn’t make ve to think about so many » clear the atmosphere. She They are a of failure to achieve the original was to defeat the government, or, the whole body of employers. Had Farrington succeeded in his previously mentioned plan of signing up a state agreement for Illinoig in the midst of the 1922 strike it would have ruined that great struggle, not merely because of the flood of Tllinois coal thrown on the market, but especially because the settlement would have signalized the failure of the union to get control of the whole central competitive district. much, favored As a rule, in strikes of a broad and marked | political character partial settlements are only justifiable in case of bad defeats, when it is a case of merely trying to The Farrington’s treacherous A form of partial settlement that the employers often favor is that along craft lines, workers against each other and The left wing must’ They are fatal to the growth and be continued) a ‘ Such settlements enable > _ against the unskilled. Right wing leaders habitually make partial settlements of this character.