The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1927, Page 6

tener ee THE DAILY WORKER, NEW THE MOVIES—THEY DONT SATISFY The State Department Under Kellogs PART 2.—THREE OUT OF THOUSANDS. The readers having already seen the “Thief of Bag- dad,” I am not going to dwell much upon that picture. | I will only say that very little has remained in the film from the wonderful story of Shahrazad and its chimer- jeal fantasy. In vain do we look for the mysterious character of the oriental tale and for the work of the| producer, Good Properties Again. “The Lost World” is a kind of scientifie utopia on the basis of a story by Conan Doyle. Professor Challenger aintains that prehistorical beings have still been pre- served in the jungles of South America. Notwithstand- ing the skepticism of his fellow scientists, he succeeds in equipping a small expedition which reaches the heart of Brazil and finds there cavemen and pre-histor sters, such as the brontosaurus, the pterodactyl and 80 On. He brings one of these animals as an evidence to Lon- don, but the animal flees from its cage, walks upon the streets of the city destroying everything in its path, and finally, reaches the sea by way of the Thames. : Everything was given in this picture except the utopia. The jungles, the savages, the monsters, all this was so yeal that one could not help admiring the masterly art | of the property man, But there is no trace of the work of the producer as an artist. manded by the letter of the scenario, And the result, was an interesting “genre” play with unrequited love and kisses. Charlie Acts Well. The Gold Rush” Produced by Charlie Chap- lin who p it the chief part. The idea of the film is more or | silly, A good-for-nothing gold-seeker goes to Alaska where, after many comic and tragic ad- Finally ventures, he becomes a multimillionaire and wins his beloved gir! | The cor an, Charlie Chaplin, in his unusually gifted | acting oc onal ows so much sincere and tragic pathos that it out trembling r are also executing their parts splendidly. The film was photographed not in decorative pavilions but in Alaska itself. Everything is real and appears lifelike on the screen, But it is exactly this that spoils the picture. There is no indication of the creative imagination of the pro- ducer, nothing is left to the imagination and to the emotions of the spectator. For even when one of the heroes, crazed by hunger suffers hallucinations and in place of his partner sees a turkey whom he wants to kill and to eat, the screen »ws a man dressed like a real turkey so that it is po: le to count all the feathers of his tail, Well—and the effect was of quite an ordinary live turkey, but by no means suggestive of the hallucina- tion of a half-crazed human being. Too Exact for Art. Thus the American film is only performing the task of a living photography, or rather of a moving photog- raphy. There is no screen craftmanship in America, there are no artistic achievements which would compel the imagination of the spectator to ponder over Sand. siwass exigapar qi -puting doh screen performance. There are capable screen actors, there are skillful prop- erty men, there are magnificent technical facilities, but there are no master producers, there is no screen art. Beginnings of Art. I meant to say: there is practically none. already seen on the American screen the first inceptions of artistic productions, of real artistic productions. rue, there were only two of them, or at any rate I w of only two of such films. The first art film, The Unknown Purple,” passed almost unnoticed, and did not write much about it. I don’t know of the producer. Here is the plot: A young olar gets into prison due to the crime of his wife who had stolen church money that was in his trust. From a fellow prisoner he learns who was the cause of | his plight, not having known before that his own wife had committed the theft together with her lover. He swears to avenge himself. Some time passes, His wife had married the other man. In the meantime a great scholar wins world fame abroad through a number of inventions. He goes to America. robberies committed by an elusive and invisible criminal who signs himself “The Unknown Purple.” It goes without saying, that the “Unknown Purple,” the famous scholar and the recently imprisoned chemist are the same person. He had discovered rays that make a man invisible—- only a spot of purple light can be seen instead. To take revenge he kills,—with the help of his former prison- | mate,—the new husband of his former wife, persecutes her with terrible phantoms, and finally, having taken away his children, goes abroad forever. Restraint. In this film one is impressed first of all by the dec- orative effects. In addition to real houses, gardens, etc., there is a wealth of hints and allusions which leave the rest to the imagination of the spectator. When the prison is to be presented, only a dark and heavy out- line of the building is shown, as well as two shining grated spots—the doors of the cells—behind which the figures of the two prisoners are dimly visible. ‘When phantoms are to appear, the spectator does not see real human beings in the air, but hazy outlines of shadows in which sometimes a few details are discerni- ble, such: as for instance the eyes and some features of the face, compelling the wife (and the spectator) to ask anxiously: is it of is it not he? However, the value of that film should not be exag- gerated. After all, ‘it is only a mystery story better executed than other pictures of its kind, The Artist Revolts. Better than most of these films, but still bourgeois in point of view, is the Beggar on Horseback produced by the gifted James Kruse. the best films of the new Soviet theatres. True, the same tone was not maintained throughout the picture, maybe because the scenario was written by two authors, and the producer had to reckon with their contradictory wishes. The film presents both reality and dream. The former is presented in realist colors with octasional exaggera- tions. The dream was obviously the work of another artist; it is a real dream, a nightmsre, and the skill of the producer had ample opportunify to unfold itself. The whole is a satire on capitalist Jmerica. (To Be Continued) : an we ND IT I If you have a bit of news SEND IT IN! Or a joke that will amus: SEND IT IN! A story that is true, An incident that is new, We want to hear from you, SEND IT IN! Makes no difference what you send, Or how poorly it is penned . If it’s about you and your shopmates, » SEND IT IN? ¢ mon- | Slavishly, to the smallest | details he was carrying out everything that was de-| For I have | After his arrival there starts a series of | This production calls to mind | (By Our Staff Correspondent). Washington, D. C. [ is related of Senator Borah that at one of the White House break- fasts to which he was invited last} winter he urged President Coolidge to take an independent and hands-off stand in his Chinese policy. said he bluntly warned the president that if he followed the British he was piling up trouble for himself and the United States, To these observations Coolidge is declared to have nasaled: “Well, the British usually know what they are doing in foreign af- |fairs. They use their heads.” | “Yes, they may use their heads,” Borah is quoted as replying, “But the trouble with the British right | now is that those who are running their affairs either have no heads or are letting their Tory prejudices un- do their reasoning.” Using “British” Methods. The story is interesting for the light it throws upon the Coolidge- Kellogg foreign policy, not only in China, but elsewhere. For not only }is the United States playing the British. game in China, but we are using British methods and adminis- \tering British policies in Central America. One pi cular British praetice the Coolidge-Kellogg admin- istration has taken over. | That is, conducting what literally amounts. to war in various places, particularly against helpless peoples, without the authorization of the nat- ional legislature to do so. hemispheres ‘United States troops |and battleships are today engaged in warfare. Of course it is not called that. Just as the warfare these troops and armament are conducting is modern in the nth degree so too are the subterfuges and Mes mouthed, by Coolidge and his palsied Secretary | of State, Kellogg. | “To protect American lives and |property,” is the favorite outcry. | Second to it, but only by the narrow- |est of margins is the one about, “Bol- |shevistic revolt, red danger, world revolution.” In years past it was the complaint |of American military and naval offi- cers that the United States of all great powers, alone offered no regu- lar foreign service to its soldiery. Unlike France, Germany, Italy, Eng- | revolt or conquering a new colony, the United States offered no such op- |portunity for adventure. It is true that there were Negroes to massacre Nicaragua, but these were hardly man-sized jobs. Troops Are Massing. But today the services are bright- ened up. There is talk of “going in” in China. Of “taking over” Mexico and “Cubanizing” Nicaragua. Today American newspapers resound with stories and pictures of troop move- }ments. Marines, sailors, doughboys, artillery to China, to Nicaragua, to |the Mexican border. Troop trains are massing, the man in uniform is seen on the streets, in the movies. Talk is of war. The business of fighting is picking up. ° And all the time, Mr. Coolidge through the sham of his alleged | “spokesman” is pontifically proclaim- |ing his good intentions and every! time “Nervous Nellie” Kellogg gets/ton they ‘refer to the department as | ready to order out another batch of soldiers and ships, he orates specious- ly of peace and settlement. Certainly the history of the Ameri- jean State Department is not one of | many outstanding.examples of decen- | ey and intelligence, but seldom in the | 150 years of its existence has it sunk to the depths it has attained under | Kellogg. It is as palsied an agency [as is its so-called Secretary. No lie jis to petty or too bald for Kellogg end his underlings to put forth and solemnly reiterate; no meanness too small for them to engage in. While Congress was in session, Kellogg curbed to heel if the protest- ing became too insistent. When he would hear that Borah was getting restless, he would dash out to see him, and craftily tie him up with con- fidences. But with congress gone, and Borah only languidly interested jin calling the Senate Foreign Rela- tions committee into session during | the recess in order to consider for- jeign affairs, Kellogg has in his ner- | vous excitement taken a bolder stand. | Denying Important Facts. | Last week during one of his press conferences he was queried concern- ing his conference with the returned Mexican Ambassador, Tellez. It had developed he had held a conference with Tellez, though he had denied do- ing so when asked about the matter the day previous. Kellogg bridled under the questioning after insist- ing that he had not denied he had seen Tellez, and finally broke off the controversy with the remark: “Do you think I would lie to you about a small matter like that. Now, | if it were an important proposition I might, but about this little thing— * | why’ bother.” | Perhaps he was right in his con- tention about seeing Tellez, but right or wrong, his views about lying were | most illuminating. The internal affairs in the State Department are in as low estate as is its reputation, about which Wash- ington relished an amusing story some weeks ago, During a debate in the Foreign Relations committee on the Norris resolution to investigate the source of the Associated Press | story, broadcast by it early in the | year about an alleged Mexican Bol- \chevistic plot to capture control of It is| In two, in Haiti and natives to shoot-up in| {all of Central-American, ponderous |Senator Willis from Ohio, arch |wind-bag and reactionary, offered this objection to favorable action on the »measure. “Everyone knows that the State Department gave the A. P. that story,” he was quoted as saying, “but what’s the use of putting the State Department and Kellogg more in bad than it is now. It’s discredited enough and I for one am opposed to | smearing it with more mud.” Apparently this was the way the rest of the Republican majority of the committee felt, because the res- olution was reported unfavotably to | Morale Is Shattered. The morale of the Department is | badly shattered, The intelligent and | hard-working younger men are rapid- {ly leaving. For the most part those |running affairs are social climbers, | spat wearers and cane carriers. The | department is a bureaucracy encom- |passing other bureaucracies, sight of what was going on was given recently by the outbreak of Lawrence | Dennis, American Charge de’Affaires |at Managua, Nicaragua. He flared jup when refused promotion and is- ued a statement charging “a Har- | vard clique” with control of the de- | partment and that promotion and el- |evation was obtainable only through social prestige and wealth. Instead of discharging him, he was urged to return to Washington, take an ex- tended leave of absence and assured him that his “suggestions” would re- jceive earnest attention. Dennis is- sued further fulminations in which he accused the department of “high hatting” newspapermen—the expres- sion is the one used by him. How- ever when he returned to Washington, after leaving the ship secretly at New Orleans upon orders from Kellogg, |he declined to go further into his al- legations, particularly those concern- ing alleged secret instructions to American consuls throughout Cen- tral-America to support the marine- maintained Diaz regime in Nicara- gua. Kellogg a Weakling. The matter was dropped for the time being. That it developed is of the greatest significance, however. It corroborated what has long been Kellogg, a weakling, indolent, irras- cible, without the capacity for com- prehension to make up for the abys-| mal lack of information and exper- | ience that characterizes him, has’ by ‘his countless stupidities disturbed the ‘usual equanimity of the departmert | and denioralized its elan, Kellogg’s policies are those of out- siders. A lawyer representing oil operators in Mexico boasted of his in- fluence with Kellogg. He would hold long conferences with Kellogg, write vicious editorials and news stories for the reactionary Washington Post, to have what he thus published even- | _tuate as the department’s policy within a few days. In China, Kellogg disregarding completely the great op- portunity for taking a courageous, humane position, played second fiddle to Great Britain. The “Mistake Department.” Everything he has put his palsied hand to, has suffered. In Washing- \“Our mistake department” or “Kel- \logg’s fake department.” ‘There is |talk that he is soon to get out. It has even reached the point of discuss- ‘ing his successor. Ambassador Houghton, to England, and Charles | Beecher Warren, former Ambassador «to Mexico are most prominently men- tioned. # |. Yet, while this talk is going on, it is known that Kellogg assured Borah very recently, that he had no inten- tion of getting out. Unless he is forced out, it is hardly likely that he will leave voluntarily. If he retires he is nothing. In his home state, Minnesota, he is a discredited poli- tician. Elsewhere he is a laughing stock. His regime as Secretary of State has been distinguished .solely by its stupidities, its lack'of under- standing of the great human streams of progress that are underway, his frightful and pitiful blunders. Despised In Washington. During a period in the world’s his- tory when he, and Coolidge too, with ringing words of decency and a cour- ageous insistence for fair-playing might have rehabilitated the nation in the eyes of mankind, he has blun- ‘dered and faltered, It is really an astonishing fact, that even here in Washington, he is des- pised and condemned. Even the Washington Post, turned on him, and during the Dennis episode carried amazing articles charging the de- partment with incompetence and Kel- logg with lying. No better comment, on the state of affairs within the State Department as at present managed, is needed than the strange story that became known during the past week concerning the passing off as seeret official depart- ment documents forgeries that nearly caused a rupture between the United States and Mexico. Certainly in a State Department where such frauds are possible, matters must be very bad. ie Coop in Livingston Makes Profit. LIVINGSTON, Ill. (FP), — The Livingston Co-operative society made $9,394.67 profit in 1926, its annual report shows. Total assets are $61,- 006.70 and total liabilities $8,400.96, not counting undivided profits. the senate and was never acted upon. | An in-| bruited about, that the department | was at logger-heads within itself. | , YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1927. Ford and Sapiro--Brothers | Under the Skin PART I. By STIRLING BOWEN, Facts brought out in the $1,000,000 suit of Aaron Sapiro against Henry Ford are of great interest to workers and farmers. The Dearborn Independent, a weekly magazine in which is printed “Ford's Own Page,” operates with a deficit. Henry Ford makes up the deficit out of his |profits as chief stockholder in the Ford Motor Co. |All Ford Motor Co. dealers are required at one time or another to participate in the distribution of the Dearborn Independent, which has a circulation of 600,- 000. By these means Henry Ford, author of the phrase, “history: is mostly bunk,” is able to, influence public | opinion. E. G. Liebold is sceretary to Henry Ford. He is also vice president of the Dearborn Publishing Co., publisher of the Dearborn Independent. Henry Ford is president of the Dearborn Publishing Co, | Sen. James A. Reed insists that in spite of these | facts Henry Ford is in no way responsible for material | published in the Dearborn Independent. * Jews form from a half to two-thirds of the spectators at the trial. Most of them are middle class Jews. A few belong to the intelligentsia. And there are a few proletarians every day, men who can’t get work at the Ford Motor Co., or any other company. Apparently they sympathize with Sapiro. Sapiro is as great an enemy of the Jewish worker as Henry Ford. He is a lawyer, an organizer of farmer | co-operative associations, a fee grabber, a coupon clip- ‘per, a millionaire, a capitalist, !" For the purpose of his suit for $1,000,000, Sapiro lin this trial is posing as a misjudged under-dog who lis in reality a benefactor to society, a benefactor par- |ticularly to the farmer. To this end in his testimony he dwells eloquently on his humble origin, his early years in an orphanage, his struggle to overcome the |dual handicap of race and poverty. Actually he is a shrewd trader in the toil of the farmer, a suave pro- fiteer on the labors of the hewers of wood and the drawers of water. The charges in the Dearborn In- dependent that Sapiro ard a ring of Jewish bankers | were exploiting the farmer were hurting Sapiro’s busi- ness more than his pride. This suit is a business pro- position and no wage earner, whether he be Jewish, American, Polish or Jamaican, has any. business taking sides, unless he believes that Ford is more immediately powerfu], more dangerous to the working class, and therefore should be beaten, for the sake of whatever such a beating may be worth. If Sapiro wins this suit, it will not be a verdict for the Jewish workers. “Ford’s Own Page” is NOT Ford’s Own Page. It is | written by William J. Cameron, editor of the Dear- born Independent. Ford merely owns Cameron’s job. * * ® + In the 11 years that have elapsed since he began rganizing farmer co-operatives, Sapiro’s peak year was , when his income was $61,531.31, according to his wn testimony. It was about that time that articles attacking him as a parasite on agriculture began ap- pearing regularly in the Dearborn Independent, the articles being written by Harry H, Dunn, of California, on assignment from the editorial office. According to | Sapiro’s testimony, his income decreased after 1922 | until it was approximately $19,000 less in 1926. Sapiro attributes this to the Dearborn Independent stories and seeks to hold Ford and the Dearborn Publishing Co. liable. While on the stand before Judge Fred M. Ray- {mond in the United States district court Sapiro listed |his income by years as follows: 1916, $10,000; 1917, | $16,000; 1918, $15,839.53; 1919, $17,278.14; 1920, $30,- 237.28; 1921, $46,301.27; 1922, $61,531.31; 1923, $58,- | 369.51; 1924, $58,068.45; 1925, $42,357.52; 1926, $42,- | 939.55. This is an average income of approximately | $36,000 a year and a total income for the 11 years of approximately $400,000. Sen. Reed in his opening statement to the jury | charged Sapiro’s profits from his. co-operative market- ing activities were about $1,000,000 in that period. | “Co-operative marketing associations are organizing ‘in which the farmers combine to sell their products through a central office, “Sapiro testified in describing organizations of the south, southwest, west and north- west in which he participated, either as organizer, con- | sulting expert or attorney. “I had been making a study for years before being admitted to the bar. And I con- tinued it, with reference to growing and marketing oranges, lemons, grapefruit, raisins, almonds, walnuts, lima beans, potatoes, asparagus, deciduous fruits, olives, wheat, barley, tobacco, hay, eggs and other commodi- ties. I didn’t evolve any new ideas but simply pointed out certain things that seemed to be characteristic of previous co-operative enterprises that were successful ‘and certain things that appeared to be characteristic of those that failed. The chief thing was that all the organizations that had failed seemed to be organized on a locality basis, whereas those that had succeeded had been organized on a commodity basis in which the growers of a single commodity had organized geo- graphically as widely as possible. “The efforts at co-operative marketing heretofore had been virtually all local efforts and virtually all had failed,” Sapiro continued. “Also I introduced a plan whereby the producers sold their eggs or tobacco or cotton to the association with- out any price named. Under the sale and re-sale plan the association was bound to pay them whatever seemed to be a reasonable and safe advance. The association then pre-rated the net proceeds according to the amount the growers delivered to the pool and according to grade,” * * * In a typical instance under a plan in use before Sapiro’s time, in which the producers sold to the as- sociation at a fixed price, the witness said, a commodity calling for a 30 cent rate to the grower had once gone down to two cehts a pound at Fresno, He implied the association in this case failed, Sapiro said he was also the author of a “standard co-operative marketing Dill” which was eventually adopted in entirety or with some modification in 40 states. “There is no allegation in the petition that the wit- ness has been injured in character as a lobbyist,” Sen. Reed drawled after Sapiro had testified that he had behalf of such a law. * * “In the case of tobacco,” Sapiro went on, “I sug- gested, first, that the tobacco should not be sold by the individual farmer; second, that it should not be sold without the farmer knowing the grade; third, that all the tobaceo should not be dumped on the market within a few days after it was cut; fourth, that sales should be made through a central organization dealing with the big buyers in a merchandizing way—on graded to- baceo, I then recommended one organization without capital stock, which would be composed of growers, The growers would be bound by long-term contract to deliver their tobacco and have it graded and sold. I vecommended also that separate warehouse corporations be formed in the various districts to receive the to bacco.” appeared before legislative bodies in i es states in, By a Student. That big business has a big finger in the pie that passes as college edu, cation is a matter of little doubt. If any proof were needed, the recent ap- pointment of Dr. Frederick B, Robin- son as the President of the College of the City of New York would be tes- timony sufficient. City College—as this so-called in- stitution of higher learning is known ~—is supported by the proud city of New York, And since big business’ pays most of the taxes of our fair! municipality, big business has a right to know how that money is) spent—for so is the law and these, are the ethics in capitalistic society (the piper calls the tune, you know). And business men want efficiency in their colleges, even if they have to | give professors a living wage. Mod- | | | ern business men demand college graduates with a big business out- | look and a practical knowledge of what’s what in the gentle art of sep- | arating mankind from the products} of their toil. | 50, it is quite obvious, the man who delivers the goods for the lords of Wall Street will get quite a few sizable crumbs. The aforementioned Freddy Robinson has delivered the | goods (learning, truth, science, etc.) | up to the counting table of Mammon | and now is the white-haired boy and | not far from the political arena. | | * * * _ His rise from the position of a fel- lowship in the college to the comfort- able seat of the presidency reads like a Horatio Alger novel. | He was a graduate of City College, later a fellow there, then a tutor, | next an associate professor, full pro- fessor, head of a department, dean | |of the business school, and then presi- | ;dent. Of course a matter of know-. ing the right people at the right/ time is a factor that we will not in- troduce, being a matter of small con- | Sequence. And neither is the proper |marriage of so very much import- |ance. Nor does it matter which tem- | ple a man goes to, as long as it’s a fashionable one. Which all goes to} show you how far you can get with! an honest face and a willingness to} serve, The Youth Column _ Big Business in the Colleges _ | gotta get our appropriation from | Dr. Robinson's attitude toward edu- | cation is brazenly indicative of what modern society wants from a college man, Modern society, that is to say, big business, wants practical men, bankers, bookkeepers, accountants, managers, efficiency experts. And Dr. Robinson is going to give big business what it wants. The old type of young man who used to go thru college to learn something will | be eliminated. This is the machine | age, and men must be Fordized. *Sure, let them think, but not out loud. I’m a liberal.” That is the attitude .of the snappy young presi- dent. Let nobody make any fuss and let’s all be good llows. We've Tammany and if we got a bunch of Bolsheviks up here we'll never get a | cent. And if we never get a cent then Freddy Robinson won’t make a rep for himself. If Freddy don’t make a rep for himself then Freddy will never be a candidate for the gov- ernor of New York. So boys, not a murmer, not a syllable. * * * This is a partial description of the president of a college, the students of which are, for the great majority, from working class families. This is the head of an institute in which about ninety per cent of the students work after school in order that they may continue with their education. Such are the conditions with which the youth must contend, A Pointed Question THIS IS A WEIGATY MATTER Do you know what the | Workers and students are doing in factory and schools? If not, jump on the bandwagon by subscribing to the Young Young Worker. Subscription rates | $1 a year and 50 cents for six months. | Send the subscription to the Young Worker Editorial Committee 33 First St. | New York, N. Y, U. 8. WAR DEPT RAISES RACE ISSUE By P. FIELD. When I was in the CMTC at Platts- burg, N. Y., in Aug. 1925, I did not see one Negro youth amongst the 2,- 500 young workers and students there. When I approached a sergeant and asked him why there were no Negro youth present in the camp, he an- swered: “What in the hell do we want niggers here anyways?” In today’s New York Times (Wednesday, April |6) we find an official explanation of \the attitude of the U. S. War Dept. towards the Negro youth of, America. | A young Negro student, by the name of Burnell, made application to | attend the CMTC in the se¢ond corps area. His application was returned with the following letter: “March 11, 1927. “Marsden V. Burnell, 187 Edgecombe Ave., N. Y. C. “Dear Sir: Your application is be- ing returned. We are not permitted to accept colored young men in the CMT camps in this area. The same army regulations as apply to enlist- ment in the army govern acceptance at a CMT camp; that is, colored mex must enlist in colored regiments. There will be camps for colored men in southern states, and, of course, you are eligible to attend altho it will nov be possible to pay your way the en- tire distance from New York to the camps. “I suggest that you send your ap- plication to the CMT officer, Fourth Corps Area, Red Rock Building, At- lanta, Georgia. “With kind regards, I am, very truly yours, “H. W. FLEET. “Lieut. Col., Inf., CMT Officer.” A Mr. Harris, ‘editor of the New York News sent a letter to President Coolidge protesting against the action of the Second Corps Area of the CM TC in excluding Burnell, In his let- ter to Coolidge there appears some very strong arguments that may change the policy of the war depart- ment regarding the Negro youth and militarism. He states: “The white world is on the verge of war with the colored world. America has not a friend amongst any of the colored races in Africa, Asia, or America, due to this very color line, proscrip- tion, and persecution. “ t Surely the U. S. will not expect her own colored citizens to fight against those colored races in the advent of war with China, or Japan, or Mexico, or Nicaragua, or Hayti to set up the same color line in those foreign coun- tries that it now officially set ups not only in her army and navy, but as} well in its Citizen Military Training The fanguage of Col. Fleet is blunt. “We are not permitted to accept col- ored young men.” The Negro youth is not good enough to attend the same camps as the white youth. This is the basis of Negro segregation, This is the basis of Jim Crowism in the south. The youth of America is being mili- tarized. In the ROTC, in the coiieges where military training is compulsory, the Negro students are just as much drawn into the tentacles of militar- ism, as are the white students. In case of war, the Negro workers will be drafted and shipped to some for- eign battlefield just as their white fellow-workers. It does not matter to the imperialists and militarists of America what the color of the cannon- fodder is, just as long as there is enough of it. % The war department has raised the race issue. It is possible that more far-sighted politicians, and defenders of Wall Street investments will re- verse this policy and include Negro young workers and students in the CMTC. The Negro youth, together with their white fellow-young workers and students must not be fooled by the propaganda of the war depart- ment. All young workers, regardless _ of color must boyeott the CMTC’s. | SUNSHINE MINUS SUN | By A Young Worker. R Wherever you go on the elevated, subway or street car, you will see this fine proclamation and well-paid advertisement that the “Sunshine Biscuit Factory makes its biscuits in a thousand-windowed factory.” The outside world would think that we workers employed there are bathing all day in sunshine. The truth the matter is that all the windows are covered with various pipes and machines. We have to work all day by elec- trie lights, every day in the year, We can’t do a thing in the factory with natural daylight, whether it’s a sunny or a rainy day. While the spend tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars for advertise. | ments about what “Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Smith says about the biseuits | made there, we, the workers, get 4 starvation wage. Our homes are rot- ‘ ten and we can baifily Mve on the money we make. At the present time they rush us so much and we have to work so hard, that when we come home from work we are so tired that we can hardly eat our suppers, or read a book. We must go immediate- ly to sleep. We are also sup) ‘af work, officially, 48 hours a but never has’ it happened. It’s Se never work lav than 80, on) Whe: ‘we never worl , and when — it is busy we work 54 hours a week. s a7 AT THE NEWSSTANDS *