The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1926, Page 4

4age Four THE DAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party LABOR PROBLEMS COURSE FORMED AT N.Y, SCHOOL S$ a result of an organization tour made by Stanley J, Clark, the district organizer in Kansas City, four new nuclei have been or ganized in Texas and Oklahoma, beginning the work of extending the party organization in the southwest states where heretofore the party has only had connections with a few members at large. COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ISSUES | OPENING OF WORKERS’ THEATER IN | NEW YORK, DEC. 3, MARKS IMPORTANT || MILESTONE, IN PROLETARIAN ART. | (Special to The Daily Worker) | NEW YORK, Dec. 1, — In Soviet |Russia there are thousands of work- fers’ theater groups. One finds them |in every factory, red army barracks, school and union hall. There are | workers’ theaters in Japan, France, |Germany, England, and even in China, |where workers’ theater groups travel | with the revolutionary armies, to give | propaganda plays when a city is taken, revolutionary spirit. Would that there were a few intellectuals like him in America. Young Workers in League. The Workers’ Drama League, which is giving the play, is made up mainly | of members of the Young Workers League, tho it invites all young work- ers into its ranks, After many dif- ficulties, a real group of serious hard-| \Copyrigat, 1928, by Uptom Sinciatra Long afterwards, as they lay in each other’s arms, Vee whis- New Class Will Open on} December 3 | NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—The living | problems being thrashed out by the} American labor movement today are | all of them scheduled for considers: | tion in a new symposium course of- | fered by the Workers’ School in which | persons prominent in the labor move- ment and expressive of every shade of | opinion will participate. Stuart Chase, Thomas J. Curtis, Wil:| The expelled group of the Commu- liam Z, Foster, W. Jett Lauck, Albert | ist Party of Argentine, having failed Weisbord, Arthur C. Calhoun, Robert | im its attempts to divide the revolu- W. Dunn, Morris Kolchin, D, J. P.|tionary vanguard of that country thru Warbasse, Ben Gold, Rogert Baldwin, | the organization of the so-called “Com- William Pickens—these few names in-|™munist Labor Party,” 1s now contin- dicate the wide range of viewpoints |Uing its anti-Communist propaganda represented in this symposium course, jarternaily, not only by means of a At Workers’ School. |paper called “La Chispa,” but also {thru circular letters addressed to rev- The course is to be ti given in the | oiutionary organizations. Workers’ School, under the direction | of Alexander Trachtenberg, and the entire top floor of the new building at Declaration of the secretariat of the Comintern to all Communist Parties and revolutionary organizations in America, In these documents slanders are dl- rected against the leads of the Com- munist Party of Argentine, with the 106 East 14th street will be used iscredtti ’ e every Friday night for the next three |*!™.0f discrediting the revolutionary months for this purpose. action of our party, and of: directing intrigues against them. The anti-Communist character of these self-styled “Communist labor- ites” has already been denounced in the open letter that we have lately sent to the Communist Party of Argen- tine, in which we approve of the ac- tivities of its central committee. The ; activity of this group has plainly jus- tified our resolution and has shown jthat the sole mission of these ele- Begins Dec. 3, The course begins on Friday night, Dec. 3, at 8 p. m, with a lecture by Stuart Chase on “Waste in American | Industry.” On the following week | Roger Baldwin will talk on a subject which should provide interesting dis- cussion, “Civil Liberties and the Class Struggle,” Topics perhaps no less controver- sial will be “The Aims of Workers’ Ed ucation,” with A. J. Muste as lecturer, ments is to fight the revolutionary or- | STATEMENT ON EXPELLED GROUP OF THE ARGENTINE COMMUNIST PARTY |Sanization of the toiling masses of | Argentine. |will towards Soviet Russ a and the {Comintern made by this group are only a@ mask that serves to hide its counter-revolutionary aims. It is im- | Possible to be a friend of the Soviet |revolution and the Comintern and at the same time fight with every weapon —including assassination—against the Communist Parties that are the solid basis not only of the first proletarian | revolution but also a point of vantage |for the development of the world rev- | olution. The Comintern already know: | this tactic, which has been employed |by all traitors to the Communist | cause: to simulate, in words, friend- | |ship for the international Communist }movement, but to strive, in fact, to discourage the Communist Parties of | their countries. As a result, we warn the revolu- tionary organizations of America |against these self-styled “Communist ganizations to denounce as the Comin- tern has already done these elements as the enemies of Communism and as |the agents of the employers. | The Secretariat of the Communist International, and “Class Collaboration,” with Wm. | Z. Foster, to be given on December |Weisbord Speaks 17 and January 3, respectively. On| < nae January 14 Benjamin Stolberg will in Many Cities take up the same problem as Foster | takes up, namely, “Class Collabora-| Youngstown, Dec. 5, Ukrainian Hall, tion,” and on January 21 Ben Gold | 55/2 W. Rayon street, 8 p. m. | East Liverpool, Ohio, Dec. 2. and Sascha Zimmerman will talk on | the vital topic of “Amalgamation in the Clothing Industry.” Other Lecturers. Akron, Ohio, Dec. 4, Cleveland, Dec. 6, Moose Auditorium, 1000 Walnut St. Toledo, Ohio—lota Hall, 716 Jefferson Subsequent lecturers include Dr. J.| *Yc,,04° Wie. @ danjentie’ Theater | P. Warbasse, “Co-operation and the | Woodard and Wills. Labor Movement;” Theresa Wolfsohn, | ineeaen ol a “The Woman Worker and the Trade| Grand Rapids, Mich., Dec. 12, Work- Unions;” H, W. Laidler, “Injunctions od gs Temple, 347 Mt. Vernon and Boycotts employment Insurance in the Garment | Morris Kolchin, “Un-| south Bend, Dec. 13 and 14, Gary, Dec. 18. i . 16, Mi t Industry,” and Thomas J. Curtis, ‘In- Phe gy Oey Pg = A + yal Hall, dustrial Accidents and Workmen's Kenosha, Dec. 15. ‘ ~)Compensations.” Milwaukee, Dec. 19, Frele Gemeinde: Hall, Eight and Walnut Sts. St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 20, Minneapolis, Dec. 21 Superior, Wis., Dec. 22. Duluth, Minn., Dec, 23, Each problem will be taken up in an introductory talk by Alexander Trachtenberg, who is directing the symposium, then a talk by the leading speaker of the evening, then questions and a general discussion, in which the | controversial viewpoints will be thrashed out. Admission to the “course of lectures is $3.50. lectures 50 cents. oh FT een VOU . anon WORKER —— A Chicago CONCERT AND DANCE to KEEP THE DAILY WORKER / Step over to enjoy the Russian Buffet with pamovar, chai and other good things. three montlis’ Individual HEAR I. Dobkin, baritone Zina Skvirskaya, pianist Ivan Polkov, baritone Manya Maller, soprano Lyda Berline, violinist Mennie Marschak, pianist SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11 WORKERS’ HOUSE, - 1902 W. Division Street Admission 50 Cents Tonight! NEW MASSES Costume Ball Friday Evening, December 3 Tonight! Tonight! WEBSTER HALL—119 East 11th Street, New York City. Dancing at 9 P. M. Tickets now $1.50 At the door $3.00 4 For sale at NEW MASS 39 West Sth Street, New York City, (Tel. Stuyvesant 4445), or Jimmie Higgins Book Store, 127 University Place; Rand School, 7 East 15th St.; Freiheit, 30 Union Square, Tonight! Tonight! Tonight! Ziegler Hall, | ORGANIZATION GLASS STARTED IN PITTSBURGH Many Workers Join in Study PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec, 1. — The | course on Party organization conduct- jed by Comrade \A. Jakira was started in this city with a well attended class Friday, Nov.:.28. Among those who at- tended the class and who expressed a desire to attend the rest of the classes on organization were several of the most prominent comrades in this district. The entire first lecture was devoted tothe structure of the Communist International and its. role as the World Communist Party. Repeat First Lectures Due to the fact that a number of |new applications came in from com- rades desiring to take part in the course on organization, the agitprop department decided to repeat the first lecture for the benefit of these new applicants so that they may be in a better position to participate in the rest of the course. The class for the new applicants will be held next Sun- lay, Dec. 5, 3 p. m. at the Party leadquarters, 805 James St., N. 8. Can Still Enroll. Comrades desiring to enroll can still do so by communicating with Comrade D. E. Earley, the agitprop lirector, at the district office. The course will extend to at least six lec- tures. No fees will be»charged, and every active comrade, especially those holding fesponsible positions on various committees and in the party units, should take advantage of the opportunity and attend the classes. Due to unforeseen reasons no class- es will be held on Dec, 3 and 10, The |} second lecture on organization will be given by Comrade Jakira Friday, Dec. 17, 8:30 p. m, at the party headquart- ers, The classes will be then held regularly on Friday evenings until the course will be completed. 'Ex-Daughter-in-Law of Ex-Kaiser Excited Us | NEW YORK—Mrs. Arnold Ruman cess of the house of Hohenzollern, |having been the wife of Kaiser Bill's {fourth son, Prince August, arrived |here the other day with her new hus- /band, She somes for a six months’ |visit and hopes to paint American landscapes in oi! and water color, This is not the hardship which ex- members of the Russian nobility have outhouses in vermillion, when busy scrubbing floors. ‘Russian Women Will Give Affair Dec. 5 A performance concert and dance will be given by the Russian Progres- sive Women’s Mutual Ald Soctety, | Sunday, Dec, 5, at Shoenhoffen Hall, | cor. Milwaukee and Ashland Aves, | The December issue of the Amer | loan Worker Correspondent will be out this week. Get a copy, sub- seribe! 7 It's about tima America started | Working young people is forming, who The specious declarations of good | Laborites” and we call upon these or: | of Berlin, who was formerly a prin-|methods of relief in supporting the suffered here; they have had to paint They forgot that behind them is the not working class solidarity and the Jsomething to place it in the ranks|feel that they can best make their | of this world movement, Workers’|Contribution to the revopitionary | |ttfaters are not luxuries; they are as|movement by this method. They are much as part of the réyolutionary not writers or speakers, but they are) | movement, as newspapers, pamphlets, actors, and they are beginning to take | | speeches. t |the workers’ theater as seriously ag it | ae is taken in Germany and Soviet Rus-| | } This Sceinay teeta Bane 4,|8la, wherever there is a real mass) New York will see its first attempt at |Ovement, and real mass needs, | a workers’ theater. A group of young} Deeter is Director. revolutionary workers have banded! Jasper Deeter has helped direct this | together to form a permanent organ-/first play. Deeter is a professional| repays and their first experiment will actor and director of great skill. He be a play called “The Biggest Boob in /was the head of a fine repertoire art| the World.” : theater in Philadelphia, and he is now Wittfogel.is Author. acting and directing at the famous This is a jolly, fantastic, melo-| Provincetown theater in New York.) dramatic drama by the brilliant young | He also directs the dramatic work at} German Communist writet, ‘Karl Witt-| Brookwood Labor College this season. fogel. Its action begins th Passaic,| Rudolph Liebich the proletarian and then goes into China and Africa.|composer of songs and music, did the | }It is a glorious satire. .on religion, | translating from the German; Michael | apitalism, and patriotism, and has|Gold helped with some of the adapta: | been played in Soviet Russia, Ger- | tion, Louis Lozowick and Hugo Gel-| many, Bohemia and Japan, It is one|lert helped with the settings; there| of the best and most modern plays have been many others who have been | n the repertoire of the new prole-' interested. | arian theater the workers are build-| Is Beginning, | ng in the shell of the old. | This is only a beginning; the group Has Written Others. will go on to better things. This op-| Karl Wittfogel has written other|ening play may have a historical sig- plays which are ‘immensely popular! nificance some day as the first pio- with the German and Russian work-|neer attempt to establish a workers’ ors. One of his plays will be produced |theater in America. Aside from that,’ | om Broadway hext season, under the it will be worth seeing for its own | \lirection of a former assistant to sake alone. | |Maierhold in Moscow. | The play will be given on the eve- Wittfogel also spent some years in|nings of Dec. 4, 8 and 10, at the China, living with the workers and the | Church of All Nations, 9 Second ave- revolutionary armies. He can speak/nue. The admission is 50 cents, and the language, and has written the first | there will positively be no United C! Marxian study of the Chinese revolu-}gar Store coupons given away, and tion. He is an amazing combination | capitalists and dogs will positively not} of wit, artistry, scholarship and real|be admitted. | Passaic, an Example; Workers Party, a Help | | By OLGA GOLD. Passaic is not only a symbol~of the awakening of the most oppressed ond exploited toiling masses of America. It is not only a sign that the limi! of the sufferings of those workers has reached such a degree that they car 10 longer endure, but call, “Strike, protest, fight, and demand your rights!’ They are also disillusioned about the government, about which they ar: yoisoned daily by the ruli ing class—that our government is elected “of t! seople, by the people and for the people.” That it is impartial to alj ay. protects everybody's rights, The Passaic strike has proved to them clear}; and plainly whose interests our government protects. It took advantage, he quiet picketing men and women.+— wer It has used all sorts .of ai munition, | Help for Oklahoma Miners. such as gas bombs, spilling ice water | on the strikers, and many other) CLEVELAND, Dec. 1. — At its lasi things about which we all know. | meeting the Cleveland Federation 0! |Labor contributed $100 for the reliei They have also had it strikingly of the miners of Oklahoma, after an shown that the ones who care most appeal by Baldo Rich, representative and fight hardest for the interests of | or the miners, who gave a graphic pic- the working class are the members tyre of their situation. Rich also ap- of the Workers (Communist) Party ‘neared at Local 1750 of the carpen- of America. Its leaders are not afraid | tor, unign, where $25 was voted for no matter what terror the bosses are /ine relief of the miners, using against them. They are always | in the forefront of the struggle. The | bosses, seeing that it is not enough to | put the leaders of the strike behind | bars because the voice of the masses! forces them to release them again, seek to find new methods for dis- crimination against these leaders of the working class. By this, the bosses show their real selves and thus give the workers still more confidence in their leaders and better fighting spirit, | Just so in Passaic, the more the bosses tried to discredit the Weisbords, the more confidence and affection the masses have for them. Fifteen Thousand Unorganized Workers on Strike- The most valuable lesson the work- \ers have learned from the Passaic \strike is that Weisbord’s, the Com- | | munists’ methods and tactics applied | in the workers’ struggle ate the cor-, rect and most effective ones in fight- ing the enemy, the boss.. Here and. there the workers are beginning to. realize this and are appl; them in itheir battles. The paper box makers’ strike is an example wherg the work- ers are applying the Communists’ methods in their struggle, They are ‘using the same mass picketing, the me mass meetings, the same) now in the ranks of organized labor. may stay | workers not listen | Read this great accom- plishment and story of the long struggle— ‘strikers in order that th jout more solidly. When th went out, the bosses woul ‘en to such simple dei is as they | made for the 44-hour week, ? ition |of the union, and better sanitary con-| ditions. They thought begause they | {were starving while striking, they | ‘would have to go back the second day. | Passaic by Albert Weisbord 15 Cents Workers Party, which helps them to | develop this solidarity and to unite (the workers in a united front against \the united front of the bosses, The | Workers Party again came to the fvont ‘and has the women's counell to help them organize and help them to con- | duct a kitchen where 2,500 workers are fed twice daily, This enables the |workers to go forth to the struggle ers, and not because she was wrapped up in Paul. pered, “Bunny, that girl is in love with you!” “Oh, absurd, Vee!’ “Why do you say so?” “She’s never given the least sign of such a thing.” “How would you know a sign?” “But dear—” “Of course she’s in love with you!” to be in love with you, Bunny?” It was not worth while to try to argue. It appeared to be a peculiarity of women, they were always sure that all other women were in love with their man. When he had told Vee about Hen- rietta Ashleigh, she had been sure that Henrietta was desperately enamored, and that only her pride of caste had kept her from trying to hold him. Likewise, when he told her about Ruth, she was sure this poor cotintry lass was pining-her heart out. That was the reason she was so indifferent to the charms of oil-work- Sisters didn’t make such fuss over brothers—no, that was rubbish! Bunny re- membered that Bertie said this same thing; and strangely enough, Eunice Hoyt had said it also—it had been one reason why she hated to have him go up to Paradise. Bunny decided that it was better not to tell women about one another; and especially not to introduce them, if it could possibly be avoided!” Morning came, and the newspapers were outside the door of their room. Sitting up in bed in silken garments they devoured —no, not the elaborate accounts of the world premiere with de- tails of the gowns worn by the women—they would come later; but first, their eyes leaped to the headline: STAR SLAPS RIVAL IN LOBBY. There it was! The reporter, having been unable to get the real story, had made the inevitable romantic assumption, An- other triangle of the screen world! He had written a highly playful article about the world-famous star, emerging in the hour of her glory upon the arm of the young oil prince—about whom so many interesting rumors were being circulated. Seeing him leave her side and join some other woman, the star had rushed over jn a fit of jealous fury and smacked the other woman in the face. There was an interview with Officer Tony Reber of the Angel City police department, who had stepped between the infuriated combatants. The star had called her rival an awful name, which the officer’s modesty would not permit him to re- peat. “But I’ll say this,” he told the world, “she certainly packs an awful punch, that lady. If I was to hit anybody as hard as How could anybody fail |chat I would sure get canned.” XVII Bunny met the other combatant on the campus that same jay, and her face was pale and her dark eyes sombre. “Mr. Ross,” she began, quickly, “I want to tell you I’m ashamed for vhat I said.” “You don’t have to be ashamed,” he replied. “It was true.” ‘““T know, but I had no right té say it to a friend of yours, nd after all you have done for me. It was just that I was so rought up over that picture.” “IT understand,” Bunny said. “Miss Tracy wishes me to tell af she is truly sorry for what she did.” “I know, you’d make her sorry. -we Jews have been struck many times, and we workers also, nd there'll be more of it before the class war is over. The real varm is one she can never atone for—that hideous picture that’s soing out to poison the people’s minds—amillions upon millions of hem. For that she can never apologize.” It was an aspect of the matter that had somehow fallen into he background of Bunny’s consciousness during all the excite- ment. “I’ve nothing good to say about tlie picture,” he replied, “but I think you must make allowances for Miss Tracy. She doesn’t know as much about Russia as you and I.” “You mean she doesn’t know there were hideous cruelties in old Russia—that the Tsardom was another word for terror?” “Yes, but then—” 3 “She doesn’t know that the men she portrays as criminals have most of them been in the dungeons of the Tsar for the sake of their faith?” “She may not know that, Miss Menzies. It’s hard to realize how ignorant people can be, when they read nothing but Ameri- can newspapers and magazines.” “Well, Mr. Ross, you know that I’m not a Bolshevik; but we have to defend the workers of Russia from world reaction. That picture is a part of the white terror, and the people that made it knew exactly what they. were doing—just as much as when they beat my brother over the head and started to deport my father.” t “Yes,” said Bunny, “but you must understand, an actress does not write the story, and she’s not always consulted about | the parts she plays.” “Ah, Mr. Ross!” Rachel’s face wore a pitying smile. “She | would tell you that, and you’re so anxious to believe the best ‘about people! Well, I'm going to tell you what I think, and maybe you won’t ever speak to me again. A woman who makes a picture like that is nothing but a_prostitute, and the fact that she’s highly paid makes her all the more loathesome.” “Oh, Miss Menzies!” ; “T know, it sounds cruel. But that’s a murder picture, and that woman knew it perfectly well. They paid her money and jewels and fur cloaks and silk lingerie, and her face on the bill- boards and in all the newspapers; and she took the price—as she’s done many times before. I don’t know one thing about her private life, Mr. Ross, but I'll wager that if you investigate, you'll find she’s sold herself, body as well as mind, all the way from the bottom up to the pedestal she’s on now!” | ‘ And Bunny decided that he had better postpone for a while the plan he had had in mind, of having Vee Tracy and Rachel Menzies meet and understand each other! * (Continued Tomorrow) Number Six Will Be Off the Press This Week! (Meite. as you Fight f AMERICAN WORKER CORRESPONDENT t h A Magazine By and For Workers in the Factories, tho. Mines, the Mille and on the land \ {with more strength for victory. 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