The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1927, Page 4

Students to Tell Teachers What They Think of Them ‘A get-together meeting of the teachers and students’ representatives will take place in Room 41 of the Workers School at 7 P. M. on Friday, January 28, to diseuss teaching methods, cl room organization and other problems of the School, This will give the teachers an opportunity to get direct critici suggestions from the student body and at the same time to give the body a notion of what the teachers are trying to accomplish and w of cooperation they uire. We expect this to be a frank and free discussion, the key-note of which shall be constructive criticism, leading toward the use of the highest type of teaching methods in the Workers School and to- ward a closer cooperation between teachers and students. No teacher should fail to be present to get the benefit of the critical dis- eussion of his work. No student councillor should fail to be present and all other active students, who are interested in attending this discussion, are welcome as well. BERTRAM D. SMITH AND VARE TO BE DENIED DATHS—NORRIS Predicts Barring of Slush Senators WASHINGTON, A Jan. per- manent barrier, which will — block | Col. Frank L. Smith, of Illinois 2 William S. Vare, of Pen from ever enter the Unite ed by the vote de- th, it was pre- ator Norris, Re- a, leader of the Senate, was ere nying Smith h dicted today publican of Nebr insurgent bl lock. Even as attorneys for Smith began | drafting an appeal to the Senate elec- tions committee to recommend the admission of Smith on his credentials as the appointee of Governor Len Small, the insurgent leader declared the effort was doomed to failure and that both Smith and Vare would be barred from the Seventieth Congress without being permitted to take their oaths. Make Final Drive For Tax Reduction A final] WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 and apparently hopeless drive for tax reduction legislation has been inaug- urated by Democrats in the House. Representative Garrett of Tennes- see, Democratic leader, offered a mo- tion instructing the ways and means committee to report for passage the | Garner $335,000,000 tax slash bill. Under House rules, Garrett ex-/ plained, the motion must be supported | by signatures of 218 members. Forty- | six Republicans must join a solid De-} mocratic majority to make the effort successful, he said. < Pioneer Camp Ball, to be held next S: Casino, 116th street and Lenox avenue. h MEET THE STAFF OF THE DAILY WORKER! HE workers of New York will give the glad hand to the editorial and office staff of The DAILY WORKER, at the Daily Worker-Young WOLFE, Director Workers School. Philadelphia Workers Theatre Giving Gold Play on January 28 PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 25.—The Workers’ Theatre Alliance of Phila- delphia is the result of effort initi- ated several ye: Alfred Sobel. After much hard work ion that has grown stronger and stronger since then, having given many presentations of proletarian productions. In September 1925 the fir: rmance of three one act pla ven, “Slave With Two Faces” and the Pione In December was g' on. The Alliance has also played for |the benefit of the shirtmakers during their strike here, and later went to ic for the. benefit of the textile . All these performances have been ‘Very successful. The Alliance is now rehearsing Michael Gold’s “Strike” to be given at the Lenin memorial meeting, Fri- day, Jan. 28th, at the Labor Institute, Fighth and Locust streets, Philadel- phia. It is the desire of Comrade Sobel d those associated with him to strengthen and broaden their scope until the alliance becomes the center of proletarian culture in this city. There is much undeveloped talent and ability among the workers, and the alliance is the vehicle for its ex- | pression. Why, instead of attending movies and theatres, where bourgeois themes are shown, should not the orkers attend their own theatre and see their hopes and struggles pre- | sented by their own class artists? Every interested person is urged |to communicate with Comrade Sobel, | at this address: 2612 S. Philip street, Philadelphia, Pa. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY | WORKER. aturday (Jan. 29th), at the Harlem Everybody is assured a good time, as there will be an excellent jazz orchestra, and the committee in charge has a number of delightful kept a dark secret for the present, ture. The DAILY WORKER offi b Watch for further announcement. surprises in store for all, which are ut may be revealed in the near fu- Meanwhile getcher tickets at rs ago by Comradc| succeeded in effecting\an organi- | | ah . | neighborhood. BOMB HOME OF DENVER NEGRO; Reeeived Many Letters Warning Him to Move 2) DENVER, Jan. —Police here placed the home of EB. C, Carrington, a colored man, under special guard, following the third attack within two months made on it by race-prejudiced neighbors. The latest attack was made on Jan- Carrington’s front porch at 6 o’cloc in the evening, just as the family was sitting down to its evening meal. | Carrington rushed out of the door, d the bomb and tossed it to the street. | The bomb exploded as it neared |the pavement,.the concussion shatter- }ed the windows in the nearby houses. A bomb that was placed under the (ot THE DAILY WORKE THIRD ATTACK YEW YORK, WED WE ALL SUPPLY SOCIAL CAPITAL BUT BANKERS COMPLETELY CONTROL ITS DISPOSAL DECLARES ANNALIST DESCRIBING INSURANCE COMPANIES By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. An answer to one of the most persistent arguments against socialism appears ready made in an article by Arthur R. Marsh in the annual economic survey of The Annalist. Writing on the role played by insurance in the year’s business, this capitalist expert shows how society could provide its own capital funds without the intervention of a privileged owning class. Marsh naturally points to the pro- By ARR tection of 58,000,000 policy holders! nually from the American people in- and their dependents against the /surance premiums totaling about $4, DAY, JANUARY 26, 1927 Page Four The Youth Column YOUNG WORKERS GET LITTLE EDUCATION AND IT IS NO GOOD—NEED OWN LEAGUE | ers in the factories is constantly in- creasing. The youth are tothe bosses tha reserve army to keep the wages down and to break the union where one exists, They are the first ones to By OLGA GOLD (Young Worker Correspondent) ITH growing capitalism and implification of machinery, more uary 15, when a bomb was hurled at} | poreh at 2 A. M. on December 10, the date of the first attack, blew} hole in the porch, arousing the The second attack oc- curred on January 2, were fired from ambush into, the kitchen, three shots narrowly missing Mrs. Carrington’s back. continued thru the night. Carrington, has received re-| | pe threatening letters warning {him to move from the neighborhood, which is chiefly occupied by white people, The Denver office of the Na- tional Association for the Advance- rkent of Colored People has taken up the case. President George W. Gross! {has appealed to the authorities for! protection, and an investigation is’ now under way to ascertain the | sources of the bomb terrorism. ad ed) ‘Let the Pioneers Show; when six shots) 3.6 The shoot-| You How to Entertain Get in line for the big affair which} the young pioneers of Detroit, Mich.,| are holding. Be prepared for one of the biggest surprises you have ever) witnessed in your life. When the} |pioneers decide something then it is| | sure to be worth while. | The young pioneers of Detroit are| holding an entertainment and dance| on Saturday, Feb. 5th, at 7:30 p. m., |Yemans Ave., Hamtramcok, Mich.| This is going to be one of the most; | enjoyable evenings spent by anyone. | Come and see the Pioneers in the play “School Days” and in panto- }mimes, dances, singing and instru- {mental music. See the red army mar¢h given by the Pioneers and also enjoy yourself dancing. | Proceeds of this affair will go to the| |Lenin Camp association. Remember | ‘by coming to this affair you will) help the Pioneers have a camp this | jsummer, Admission 35 cents. | |Roll in. the Subs For The DAILY | WORKER. financial loss due to the destruction | of earning power by death, as the primary service rendered by life in- | surance. But he continues: Capital Accumulation. “Of scarcely less importance to the conomic fabric of the country, how- as a gatherer and distributer of liquid social ecapital—the funds re- ceived by the insurance institutions and held as reserves to provide for the maturing policies. “The assets held by the legal-re- serve life insurance companies of the United States at the end of 1926 ag- gregated in value $12,850,000,000 or about 3.6 per cent of the total na- tional wealth, now estimated at $360,- 000,000,000. The gain in ing the single. y 1926 was $1,313,- 000,000, or certainly much more than per cent of the year’s increase in national wealth.” Liquid Capital. This means that insurance assets’ rm a larger and larger proportion of the countr;’s liquid capital. Ac- cording to Marsh they represented 1.1 per cent of the national wealth in| 1880; 1.2 per cent in"1890; 2 per cent in 190 per cent in 1904; 2.4 per cent in 1912; 2.7 per cent in 1922 and 3.6 per cent in 1926. “These insurance assets, over,” he continues, “now constitute the greatest single source of invest- ment capital in the land and the mere figures of their distribution among the principal categories of in- vestments afford an impressive dem- onstration of the extent to which they assist the productive and con- structive work of the country.” How Insurance Grew. Marsh outlines the investments of 52 life insutance companies holding about 92.4 per cent of the total as- sets of all legal-reserve companies in the United States as follows: - (1) Farm mortgages, $1,960,000,- (2) Other mortgages, $3,123,000,-| @) U. S., Canadian and foreign at International Workers’ home, 3014; 0vernment bonds, and state and mu- | nicipal bonds, $1,116,000,000. (4) Railroad bonds and stocks, $2- 435,000,000. ; (5) Public utility bonds and stocks, $819,000,000. (6) Other bonds and stocks, $166- 000,000. (7) Policy loans, $1,437,000,000. (8) Real estate, $214,000,000. (9) Collateral loans, $15,000,000. (10) Cash, $100,000,000. (11) Other assets, $491,000,000. Taking into account the fire, mar- ine, and the casualty and liability in-| companies of the country} surance | Marsh concludes “that the various in-| surance institutions now have aggre- gate resources of almost $17,000,000,- 000, or 4.7 per cent of the entire na- tional wealth; that they collect an- ver, is the function of life insurance | ts dur- | more- 000,000,000, or almost 6 per cent of the entire earned national income; and that their total income from all rees last year was more than $4,- | 750,000,000, or almost 7 per cent of |the earned national income.” | Bankers Control. Here is real social saving in which ocial capital is being provided by 8,000,000 individuals, or more than |the total gainfully employed. All | that is lacking is social control of this | huge investment fund, But the peo- {ple are leaving the control iw the |hands of the bankers to further their desire for domination. It is none the 3 proving that capital can be pro- vided socially as it would be in a worker republic. Various Australian labor governments have demonstrated that insurance can be successfully managed by the state at far lower |cost than in private hands. American Negro Writer _ Finds Russians Eager | To Translate His Work \ Letters have been received by the national association for the advance- ment of colored people, 69 Fifth ave- |nue, from William Pickens, field sec- retary of the N. A. A. C. P., who has visited Russia on his European ) lecture tour. | Mr, Pickens states that he addres- sed an audience in Moscow including | 22 Chinese generals, a number of | Russian leaders and representatives of ten to twelve nations and races. | The entire group, writes Mr. Pickens, } was photographed at least 50 times, motion pictures being made of the speakers in action. Among the Russian lesders Mr. Pickens has conferred with are Ka- linin, sisters of Trotzky and Lenin, and prominent editors. He reports that “The Fire in the Flint” by Wal- ter White, and “Bursting Bonds” and “The Vengeance of the Gods” by Mr. | Pickens himself are to be translated | into Russian, and perhaps put on the stage as well as made into motion pictures. Mr. Pickens has written a compre- hensive article on lynching during the past forty years, detailing the campaign conducted for seventeen years against this evil in America by the N. A, A. C. P. This article is to be published in newspapers in Moscow, Berlin and Paris, writes Mr. Pickens, who has also written for Russian magazines on American race problems, 8 Ten Killed in Train Crash. BUDAPEST, Jan. 25.—Ten per- sons were killed and ten seriously in- jured when an express train from Galatz crashed into a freight train near Alsolenka. ‘ and more youth are involved in fac- tery life. For the last eight or nine years the number of young workers employed in industry has doubled, At present there are eleven million young workers employed in various industries in the U. 8. Who are they? They are the sons and daughters: of the many adult workers whose wages are so low as to force their children into industry, Very Young Must Work. Hundreds of thousands of young {boys and girls under the age of 14 have to spend their young lives in factory prisons, where they are stunted, crippled before maturity. | In the United States there are in- stitutions for the development of the youth. | denied to the majority of children of the working class. Perhaps, among the higher institutions of education, in the high schools, colleges, ete., you will find a very small percentage of working class sudents. Can these students enjoy the leisure contrasted with those of the rich in order to help them study with a clear mind? No, not at all! Little Education. Official invesigation in New York City have revealed large numbers of school children in working class dis- tricts to be deficient in school work, due to malnutrition and starvation. Also they have to be the victims of many other sufferings,i.e.,the par- ents out of work, or slack seasons, strikes and struggles with exploit- ers. These conditions undermine their spirits and prevent them from obtaining a better education. Even where the working class youth succeeds in getting some meas- ure of education, the greatest amount’ ot school time is spent in teaching the students an anti-working class ideol- egy. Few in Higher Schools, Many, of them are compelled to drop their education. Consequently the percentage of working class chil- dren in educational institutions de- creases each year, while on the other, However, they are closed and} { | be called upon to protect the interests of the imperialists in war. The industries in which the great majority of the youth are employed are the most oppressive and unor- ganized. The .bosses are taking ad- vantage of the unorganized state in which the youth find themselves, They seek to exploit and oppress them more, They make repeated at- tempts to cut wages and increase the hours, as, for example, in the textile and many other industries where a great majority of he youth are em- ployed. Bosses’ Organizations. We also find that the Young Work- ers are controlled by the employers in other fields. In order to distract the attention of the young workers he bosses create organizations thru which they spread their poisonous propaganda, Such are the Y. M. C. A., the Boy Scouts, the Y. M. H. A,, ete. These organizations are the tools of the bosses and are not for the benefit of the workers. Such organizations will not not help the workers to im- prove their conditions. Young Workers’ League Here in the U. S. we have such an organization, namely, the Young Workers’ League. The Young Work- ers’ League is a militant organiza- tion which fights to organize the young workers and improve ‘their conditions, at the same time fighting” against the needless destruction of young lives in capitalist wars. It gives the woiking youth a militant leadership in the daily working class struggle. Every young worker who is anx- ious for the improvement of his or her condition should join-the Young Workers’ League and fight together with the rest of the workers to bet- ter their conditions. Labor Sports Meet Success. DETROIT, Mich.—Over 60 athletes participated in the three day meet held at the Finnish Labor Temple here January 13th, 14th and 15th. The Finnish club, “Voima,” took club hand the percentage of young work- honors. p=. A Thrilling Film 2P.M.; 4.15 P. M. Tickets in Advance 75c “BREAKING CHAINS” Russia from 1917 to 1923 LOVE — HATE — REVOLUTION 4 Showings SUN. FEB. 6, 1927 WALDORF THEATRE, 50th St., East of Broadway Advance Sale of Tickets at the Box Office Waldorf Theatre, Jimmie Higgins Book Store, Daily Worker Office—Ausp.: Int. W'kers Aid TPM Oe. oe At the Door 99c THE WORKERS SCHOOL - Training for the Class Struggle announces its Spring Term, Beginning February 1, 1927, with the following courses 6:45 P. M. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Saturday ——-—_— | 2 P. 4 P. Advanced English B — Eli B. Jacobson ‘Intermediate English A — Sophie Mesnil Elementary English A — Mary Adams | Intermediate English B — Masha Gold | Fundamenatls of Communism — Ella G. Wolfe Intermediate English A — Sophie Mesnil Intermediate English B — Masha Gold Elementary English A — Mary Adams Advanced English A — To be Announced | Labor Journalism — Harvey O’Connor | Intermediate English B — Hannah Scherer ‘Intermediate English A — Sonia Baum ' Advanced English A — To be Announced | Problems of Working Class Children — Symposium Advanced Marxian Economics — H. M. Wicks History of the United States — Jim Cork | Intermediate English B — Hannah Scherer Intermediate English A — Sonia Baum Intermediate English A — Barbara G Intermediate English A — Barbara Gail 8:00 P. M. Problems of the Needle Trades — Benjamin Gitlow Advanced Labor Journalism — Harvey O’Connor Elementary English B — Aili Karlson Intermediate English A — Mary Hartlieb American Foreign Problems of Marxism in America — Bertram D. Wolfe Elementary English B — Aili Karlson Intermediate English A — Ma Problems of the Communist Movement — Wm. W. Weinstone Fundamentals of Communism — D. Benjamin Fundamentals of Communism — Sam Don Fundamentals of Communism — A. Markoff Elementary English B — Dorothy Ziebel 9:15 P. M. Investments _— Public Speaking — Carl Brodsky |Elements of Marxian Economics — Ray Ragozin Fundamentals of Communism — Ella G. Wolfe Intermediate English B — Pauline Rogers Elementary English B — Dorothy Ziebel ' M. — Decline of the British Empire — Scott Nearing M. — Post War Europe — Scott Nearing | M. — Research San Solon De Leon Modern Literature —_ American Labor Problems — Alexander Trachtenberg — Symposii For Information and free catalog apply to Bertram D. Wolfe, Director of the Worker s School, 1 ry Hartlieb jum Eli B. Jacobson Robert W. Dunn — Civics and Government — Joseph Brodsky _ Problems of Working Class Women — Arthur W. Calhoun; Theresa Wolfson; Leona Smith;-Margaret Undjus American Economic and Political History — D. Benjamin : Theory and Practice of Trade Unionism — John Ballam Principles of Marxism — A. Markoff Marxism-Leninism — Bertram D. Wolfe Fundamentals of Communism — George Siskind Historical Materialism — J. Mindel Advanced English B — Eli B. Jacobson’ Sunday : 08 East 14th Street, New York City P, M. — Forum 11-A. M. — Communist Party Organization — Jack Stachel 11:30 A. M. — History in the Making (Pioneers) Eve Dorf