The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1926, Page 4

risaass: Workers (Comm unist) arty WORKERS’ SCHOOL STUDENTS PLAN ‘HOUSE WARMING’ Jolly ‘Affair to Be Held December 4 NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—The Work- ers’ Schoo] will have a house-warning, in which the studen friends of the yol will participate, on Saturday night, Dec. 4, to celebrate the opening of the new headquarters at 106 BE. Bast 14th street, and the opening of the school year. Both the new and old school halls will be used for this affair. It will be the first of a series of student dances to be held on the Saturday of each month during the school year and at which the students and teachers can get bet- ter acquain h each other than the class room atmosphere permits. body, faculty and firs Varied Program. The program of the hoase warming includ entertainment and dance. The ente nent features will be supplied by the Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra, members » Hungarian Workers’ Symphony Orchestra, which will furnish the dance music, and a talk on “Workers’ Ei Workers’ School” Wolfe, the school dir Student Council Officiates. The Saturday night affairs will be under the‘auspiées of the student coun- cil which is the representative organ- ization of the student body. The student b; Bertram D. ctor. body has grown so rapidly in numbers | that the only way that everybody can get to know everybody else is thru such affairs. Admission to the house warming will be 35 cents. All friends of the Workers’ School are invited to attend. The entrance to the twin halls at 106 and 108 East 14th street is the entrance to the old building at 108. Affair for Novy Mir Given December 25 at Workers’ House The Chicago Novy Mir worker cor respondents have arranged a vetcher- inka for Saturday, Dec, 25, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St., | for the »enefit of the Novy Mir, Rus- sian Communist weekly. All friendly organizations are re-| quested not to arrange other affairs on that date. Step Over We Need Help! The campaign for funds for The DAILY WORKER ~— shortage of help in the office—makes us cry for help. Step over and volun- teer your services if you can spare a few moments during the day. Any time from nine to five-thirty you’re welcome! Step over to 1113 West Washington Blvd. Call Monroe 4712 if you want to talk it over! When you are peeved enough to heave the stove out of the window— talist sheet just lies and lies and lies some more— Just Let It Lie! Instead SUBSCRIBE FOR THE DAILY WORKER! RATES Per In Chicago: year, months, $4.50; months, Outside of Chicago: Per year, $6.00; six months, $3.50, three months, $2.00 THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W, Washington Blvd. Chicago, III, Enclosed $......... months sub to The Daily Worker, . for Name City... state ny — ation.and the | | DISTRICT FIVE CONFERENCE TAKES | UP IMPORTANT PROBLEMS; BUILDING PITTSBURGH, Pa. Nov. 29.—A successful district conference of the | | Workers (Communist) Party, District Five, was held in Pittsburgh on Sunday, Nov, 21, The objective conditions in the district, which in many respects differ from the conditions in other districts, and the results of the reorganiza- tion were thoroly analyzed. A brief review of the work of the party in this district during the made, various shortcomings pointed out and a number of concrete organ- izational measures outlined for future work, Stress Organization. Questions of organization received most of the attention and the prob- lem of forming functioning fractions in the trade unions and fraternal so- cieties was discussed at length. All resolutions and decisions were adopt- ed unanimously, showing the progress the party made in unifying its ranks. The conference adjourned deter- mined to take full advantage of the present favorable situation in the dis- trict in order to build the party and the Young Workers’ League, Comrade Gitlow’s report on the last meeting of the plenum of the central executive committee was most inter- esting and instructive and was ap- proved unanimously by the adoption of the following resolution: Resolution on ©, E. C. Report. “The conference adopts the report of Comrade Gitlow on the delibera- tions of the last plenum of the C, E. C. of our party and expresses full con- fidence in the C, E. C. that is leading |our party to success. The conference pledges its full support to the leader- ship of our party in building up a mass Communist Party in America. “The conference calls upon membership to do all in their power to see to it that the work outlined by the plenum is put into life.* Organizational Problems. “The report of the district organizer lestablishes the following facts: “1, The objective conditions in this district are favorable for Communist work, This is seen by the general dis- ; content among the workers with exist- ing conditions, from the response to the various united front campaigns ini- tiated and directed by the Workers Party, from the intensive struggle be- tween the progressives and reaction- | aries in the miners’ union, from the influence of the party in various labor organizations, “2. Against these favorable object- | ive conditions stand the persecutions against the Communists and their sympathizers on the part ofthe gov- ernment, followed by blacklists and | discharges from jobs of the workers | suspected of being radicals and intimi- | last year was? | ganization that is leading the workers jand their organizations along militant |and progressive lines. The party in | this district has during the last year |carried on an enormous amount of | work thru a number of united front |campaigns; by participating in the elections and by carrying on various jother activities of a political nature. |The party is at present in close con- tact with larger masses of workers | than ever before, | “4. While the party is engaged in numerous activities its membership shows @ serious decline. That is due | to numerous reasons—closing of mines |where we had functioning units, ex- pulsion policy carried on by the min- jers’ and steel workers’ unions, gov- | ernment prosecutions, and partly be- cause of the reorganization. The de- | cline in membership and failure to get |in a number of new members was also | partly due to the failure of the party machinery to devote sufficient atten- tion to organization work. | »“5. The reorganization of the party, | while partly responsible for the loss of ja certain number of members, has im- | proved considerably the character of |the party work and increased the ef- ficiency and militancy of the party. | While the first steps of the reorgani- |zation were carried thru it is now |come the difficulties with which many nuclei are confronted and to build a | better and stronger party on the besis of shop and street nuclei, “In order to achieve this the confer- }ence recommends that the following steps be taken by the D. EB. C.: “1. That a well functioning organiza- tion department be established in all units of the district beginning with the D, E. C. and ending with the street and shop nuclei, “2, That sub-district conferences be jheld thru6ut the district within one month’s time where new sub-district | committees will be elected. | “3, That each sub-district organ- jizer be instructed to submit regular | monthly reports to the district organ- izer. These reports to be carefully ex- amined by the district organizations’ committees. “4, The district organizer or other representative of the D. EB. C. shall regularly attend the meetings of the the {necessary to make an effort to over- | Ji 4 FHE DAIL¥=§WORKER CITIZENS’ JOINS FIGHT ON SCHOOL ACTION OF PARTY MEMBERSHIP IS STRESSED Fiays Barring of Civil Liberties Union NEW YORK, Noy, 29,—The Citizens’ {Union has joined the fight of the American Civil Liberties Union against the action of the New York City board of education denying permission for the holding of a meeting in the Stuyvesant high school \building for the purpose of discussing ‘“Old-Fash- foned Free Speech.” The school board refused permission for the meeting on the grounds that the Civil Liberties Union was a “radical, organization.” The board claimed that it reserved the right of censorship “to insure definite support of American institutions and truthful and moral teaching.” Brands Action Bigotry. In a letter to the state commissioner of education, the Citizens’ Union de- clared that “the board’s:action smack: of personal antipathy and bigotry.” “Public property should be open to the use of all persons desiring to use it on equal terms. If speakers and organizations are permitted to speak in the schools on certain points of view, the expression of the opposite views cannot in fairness be banned,” the letter stated.. Hypersensitive Imagination, “Nothing could be more consonant | with American institutions and trath- ful and moral teaching than a discus- |sion of the subject, ‘Old-Fashioned | Free Speech,’ and it is equally obvious that it was only an inflamed and hypersensitive imagination that could |conclude that Rev. John Haynes | Holmes, Arthur Garfleld Hayes, John Nevin Sayre and James Weldon John- | son, in discussing the subject of ‘Old- Fashioned Free Speech,’ intended to be or would be guilty of violating the | criminal law. “The organization in question, the | American Civil Liberties Union, is a | reputable orgarfization whose member- ship includes many of our leading cit- izens and whose purpose and work re- ceive commendation from a large number of the highest type. Indeed, many of them are among our very | best citizens, who are active in public matters from all over the country.” WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! ‘60 TO THOSE WHO HAVE | GOT IT, AND GET IT’ TO HELP THE DALY WORKER Dear Comrade: | am sending here- with $100, the mount expected of District No. 10 by tho first. You may rest assured that the entire $1,000 expected of this district will be raised. While we were fortunate enuf to get this $100 thru the kind- ness of Comrade Hollman, we are getting our forces In action for a drive that will put us over the top. In a letter that 1 received from you some days ago you requested that I.write a brief statement as to ‘the methods used to raise this money. In justice to Comrade Oeh- ler, our district secretary, It is cor- rect to state that he has done the llon’s share of the work. Others, of course, are supporting him, but to him should go the greater credit. We organized our work along the lines submitted In a letter from Comrade Lovestone and followed that work by personal contact with all friends of the cause. There is only one way to get money, JUST GO TO THOSE WHO HAVE IT and get It. | am yours for the cause, STANLEY J, CLARKE, Kansas City, Mo. Young Workers Wili Hear Lecture on Life of Leonid Krassin “The Life and Work of Krassin” will be the subject of a lecture to be given by Max Schachtman at the head- quarters of the Young Workers (Com- manist) League, Section 4, at 1239 S. Sawyer avenue, on Friday, Dec, 3, at 8 p.m. There will be a musical pro- gram. All out in memory and honor of our comrade, Krassin. Y. W. L. in Hammond HAMMOND, Ind., Nov. 29. — The newly organized Hammond Young Workers league will stage their first affair on Saturday, December 4, at 518 Fields avenue. Tickets will sell at twenty-five cents, but workers are told that “if you are broke, see the door- keeper—he may have a soft heart.” All young workers are invited. The fun will start at 8 o’clock and will con- tinue until everyone is exhausted. PRODUC. “GREATEST MOVING PICTURE EVER ‘ED’, IS DESCRIPTION OF “BREAKING CHAINS”, BY CRITICS Plans First Affair | dation of workers by company gun- | sub-district committees and help them par and spies. Also ‘the shutting |to direct their work, |down of a number gf large mines,| “5 That in the immediate future | which compelled many workers to re- | the district organizer shall make a | main idle for months and months and | tour over the district, visiting at least |to move to other more favorable dis- | the leading party committees and the ltricts. The conditions amongst the | most important shop and street nuclei, miners have temporarily changed dur- | with a view of making a review of the “The greatest moving picture I have ever seen,” was the unanimous comment of the press répresentatives who saw “Breaking Chains,” to be shown in Chicago on Dee, 3, at a special showing arranged for them a few days ago. The acting, light effects, setting and general technique is a good if not better, than any picture that Hollywood has ever been able to turn out. Child Actress Good, The child actress in “Breaking|Technical Aid Society |ing the last several weeks. “3. The Workers (Communist) Party is at present the only labor or- The Workers Monthly Has instituted a special section of great interest for every worker: Prercccce. WITH MARX AND 5 | ENGELS eee cece. A monthly feature presenting original and unpublished ma- terial by the two great minds of the revolutionary labor move- ment In addition, a bibliography of recent literature on Marx, En- gels and Marxism will prove ar. invaluable/guide to every work- er and student, to every member, sympathizer and student of the Communist movement. Subscribe Now! |district situation and of instructing the comrades of the work of the party. ‘6. That the street and shop nuclei | membership and that all important ac- | tivities be carried on thru the nuclei and not thru individual members. “7, That the work of the party be for each and every member of the party to take active part in it, “8. That @ serious effort be made to have the shop nuclei of important |shops, mills and mines to issue shop | bulletins, the district office to assist |{n this work as much as possible. “9, That a drive for new members | be initiated in the shops and a special campaign be started to organize new | party units, especially in pl where there are a number of readers of party papers and where good connections were established thru the miners’ cam- paign. A group of leading comrades be mobilized for this work in addition to the regular field organizer. ‘10. Serious steps to be taken to re- vive the party organization in the non- union territory, such as West Virginia, coke region and western and mid-west- ern Pennsylvania, Resolution on DAILY WORKER. “Keep The DAILY WORKER and build it imto a powerful fighting weapon of the working class. ‘This is one of the most ouistanding, problems confronting our party in this district at the present time. | “Byery comrade in the party must | | take immediate steps to overcome the | present situation, “The following organizational meas- | ures must be taken: “1. Every comrade must sell The | DAILY WORKER coupon books and | turn in $6.00 for same. | “2, Every unit should visit workers jand workers’ organizations outside the jparty and by this means secure a wider }support for Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund, “3, Every unit must select a live | DAILY WORKER agent who shall be |respénsible for building up the’ ma- |chinery for the support of the daily and for-tncreasing its circulation, “4, The comrades must supply The be responsible for the work of their | so orgaMized as to make it possible | Chains” is a féature by herself» She \is called upon to do high-pitched emo- | tioffal stuff when her father, after hav- ing been kiljed on the barricades, is | brought into'the house. And this child of not more than 10 years plays her part in a manner that puts her high above a Jackie Coogan or any other juvenile actor that is known to us. | Douglas Fairbanks, who recently re- |turned from a lengthy visit to Russia \declares that the Russian pictures are the best in the world, and when you ‘see “Breaking Chains” you will agree |with him. “Breaking Chains” is a picture of a romance coupled with the revolution and reconstruction. In it one sees the soul of th® Russian worker and peas- ant; their hopes, aspirations and de- termination to rise not only in the | realm of economics but art as well. The demand for “Breaking Chains” \in other cities is great. In all proba- bility those who fail to see it in Chi- |cago on December 3 at the Douglas ‘Park Auditorium, Ogden and Kedzie Aves., will forfeit their opportunity of eeing it at al. The tickets should be ‘bought early at the places listed be- low, and to be sure of a seat come early. Tickets Procurable at the following . addresses: 1806 South Racine. | 3209 West Roosevelt Road. 2409 North Halsted street, 2783 Hirsch Blvd, 1 at 3116 South Halsted street, 19 South Lincoln. w 1902 West Division street. | 3451 Michigan avenue. 1632 West Chicago avenue, Ravinia Musicians to Get Increased Wage The Chicago Federation of Music- ions announce that an agreement has been signed with the company which |produces summer grand opera at Ra- ‘yinfa, covering the next two summers, under the terms of which the sym- phony players are given a $7.50 raise ‘over the present rate of $80 a week, | DAILY WORKER with news and then | for the firat summer, and an addition: use the news and stories as @ MeANS | a) jneroase of $7.60 for the following jot increasing the circulation of The | season, The weekly seale provides | DAILY WORKER. . that nine performances shall be play- | “The comrades must be made to/ed, Tho rate of $5 for four rehearsals realize that The DAILY WORKER {s yemains unchanged. ‘The agreemont ‘one of the Strongest weapons in the | affects about fifty members of the Chi- Jes and must do every: ‘cago Symphony Orchestra who accept © build the datly dur. ‘ope sftmmer the ten weeks’ employ ne ment at Ravinia thing pose! ing al) such ie to Sovet Russia Now in Increased Activity NEW YORK, Nov. 29. — After a comparative lapse of activity in the New York branch of Technical Aid Society for a short time, the branch has again renewed its activity, par- ticularly in helping to organize indus- trial co-operatives for Soviet Russia. In the past the Society for Techni- eal Aid to Soviet Russia concerned it- sel only with organizing agricultural ;communes, but as a result of the in- dustrial development in Soviet Rus- sia, there has arisen an urgent need in industrial co-operatives organized here and sent to the U. S. S. R. with all necessary equipment and machin- ery; this will enhance the develop- ment of industries in Soviet Russia. Workers and sympathizers of Sov- jet Russia that wish to come to the atd of Soviet Russia, have now the op: portunity to do so. They will not only help the Soviet government, but they will themselves get the full benefit from their own labor. | Join the Society for Technical Aid | to Soviet Russia. Everyone can be come a member even tho he may not belong to any of the co-operatives. Apply to the Central Bureau, 799 Broadway, New York. Weisbord Speaks in Many Cities Warren, Ohio, Nov. 30, 7:30 p. m., Hippodrome Hall, High street ite Majestic Theater, 8. 10. Dec. 11. id ids, Mich., Dec. 12, Work- “Circle Temple, 347 Mt. Vernon N. W. 4, Dee. Zand 14, Dec. 16, Mirror Hall, id sion St. » Dec. 15, A Milwaukee, Dec. 19, Freie Gemeinde. Hall, Bight and Watnut Ste, St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 20, Minneapolis, Dec, 21 Superior, Wis, Dec, 22. Duluth, Minn., Deo, 23. re lena. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Une your brains and your bial yas clever of him, as well as kind! = ; | the workers In the claes J ‘(Continued Tomorsow) tsa \Copyrigat, 1920, by Upton Sinciair> “The Devil’s Deputy” was to have its “world premiere” at |Gloobry’s Million Dollar Melanesian Theater; and these “world | premieres” are, as you may know, the:great social events of | Southern California. Searchlights search the clouds and bombs boom in the sky; red fire make an imitation Hades in the streets, and kleig lights make day in the-arcade which the million dollar Melanesians hold upright upon their naked shoulders. The crowds pack the streets, and swarms of burglars invade the city, because all the police department is required to make a pathway for the movie stars as they move in their appointed courses, from their. shining ten thousand dollar limousines, across the side- walk and through the arcade and under the million dollar por- tals. The kleigs glare upon them, and a dozen moving picture cameras grind, and flashlights boom, and the crowd surges and quivers and murmurs with ecstacy. Never in all human history has there been such glory; never have the eyes of mortals beheld such royal pageantry! Trappers and hunters have perished in the icy wastes of the arctic to bring the ermines and sables in which these queens are robed; divers have been torn by sharks to bring up their pearls from the depths of tropic seas, and miners have been crushed in the deep earth to dig their blazing diamonds; chemists have blown themselves up in search for their cosmetics and dyes, and seamstresses have grown blind, embroidering the elaborate designs which twinkle upon their /Silken ankles. All this concentrated in .one brief |glory-march—do you wonder that heads are high and glances regal? Or that the crowd surges, and rushes wildly, and women faint, and ambulances come clanging? : Inside the theater, over the head of one of the million jdol- lar Melanesians, is a huge megaphone; and as the great ones descend from their cars, a giant’s voice acquaints the audience with their progress, “Mr. Abraham Schmolsky is coming through the arcade. Mr. Schmolsky is accompanied by Mrs. Schmolsky. |Mrs. Schmolsky wears a blue satin opera cloak trimmed with |chinchilla, made by Voisin, just brought by Mrs, Schmolsky from |Paris. Mrs. Schmolsky wears her famous tiara of diamonds. Mr. |and Mrs. Schmolsky are now entering the theater. Mr. and Mrs. ee have stopped to talk with Mr. and Mrs. Pacob Gloo- y. And so on and on, thrill after thrill—until at last, exactly at the sacred hour of eight-thirty, the supreme, the superthrill of the evening: “Miss Viola Tracy is descending from her car. Miss ‘Tracy is accompanied by her friend, Mr. J. Arnold Ross, junior, dis- coverer and heir-apparent of the Ross Junior oil field, of Para- dise, California. Miss Tracy and Mr. Ross are coming through the arcade. Miss Tracy wears a cloak of gorgeous ermine furs: her slippers are of white satin, trimmed with pearls. She wears a collar of ‘pearls and a pearl head-dress, presented to her by Mr. J. Arnold Ross, senior. Miss Tracy and Mr. Ross, junior, are in the lobby, shaking hands with Mr. and Mrs Schmolsky and Mr. and Mrs. Gloobry”—and so on, until Miss Tracy and Mr. Ross, junior, are in their seats, and history is at liberty to begin. XIV 5 So Bunny saw the Russian picture. His beloved was the beautiful bride of a grand duke; and he watched all the gestures, the kisses, the raptures of love, to which had been rehearsed upon himself, were now lavished upon a magnificent, sharp-whiskered personage in a military uniform with many stars and orders. This personage was haughty but high-minded, and his grand duchess was the soul of charity; and oh, such lovely gentle peas- ants as she had to exercise her charity upon! How sweetly they courtesied, how charmingly they danced, and-gathered to cheer and throw flowers after the grand ducal carriage! It was a beautiful, almost idyllic world—one was tempted really to doubt whether any world so perfect ever had existed on earth. There was orfly one thing wrong with it, and that was a secret band of villains with twisted, degenerate faces, some of them with wild hair and big spectacles, others with ferocious black whiskers and knives in their boots. They met to concoct anarchist manifestoes, intended to seduce the sweet innocent peasants; and to make dynamite bombs to blow up noble-minded grand dukes. They drank in booze-dens and grabbed women by the arms. and man-handled them, right out before one another. There was no wickedness these creatures did not do, and their leader, with the face of a rat and the arms of a gorilla, made evident to the dullest mind why the picture was called “The Devil’s Deputy.” Then came the young secret service man, ‘clean-cut, smooth- shaven, quick on the trigger. His job was to get messages from the American embassy to the American fleet, and later on to Save the treasure of the embassy from the Bolsheviks. For of course you know what happened in Russia—how this band of villains with twisted faces rose up and overthrew the govern- ment, and killed the haughty but just grand duke with cruel tortures, It was, of course, the grand duchess that the Devil’s Deputy especially wanted; and first he chased her about the hero dashed with her from room to room. Blood ran down his face from a bullet wound, but he carried her out of a window of the castle, and away they flew on horseback, over hills and dales covered with the familiar Russian eucalyptus trees. And then presently they were trapped in St. Petersburg, and the Devil's Deputy laid his foul hands on Vee, and Pore her Itn- gerie to sfreds, as the billboards had promised you he would. But here came the hero with his automatic, and he held the mob at bay, while Vee behind her back made signals to a friend of the hero who was preparing one of the villain’s own bombs to throw at them—could you imagine more poetic justice than that? Vee and her savior fled, this time in a motor-car, over roads of the well-known Russian concrete, through the well-known moun- tains of the suburbs of St. Petersburg, and came to the River Neva with its eucalyptus groves concealing a speed-boat. There was another mad chase, which ended in the capture of the agon- oe pair, and more tearing of Vee’s lingerie by the Devil’s De- Duty. 2 - - But—don’t be worried—at the most critical instant came the American Navy, that whole glorious flotilla which we kept in the River Neva during the war. Old Glory floated in the breeze, and the band played “The Stars and Stripes Forever,” and the million dollar audience burst into enraptured cheering. A launch from a battleship came-dashing up, the Devil’s Deputy leaped into the water with one of his own bombs in his mouth, and Viola Tracy and the secret service man stood clasped in an attitude which was familiar to Bunny, and hardly less so to the million dollar audience, All the time this story was unfolding, Bunny was privileged to sit and hold the heroine’s hand. Once she leaped to him and whispered, “Is it so very bad?” His answer was, “It is up to standard. It will sell.” It was the formula she had used with” belle Ames; and Bunny felt a tight pressure of his hand, It Pied ary castle, and battered in the doors, and the young secret service - —~ |