The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1927, Page 6

Klan and Church in Mineola Moscow in October Both Anti-Labor ns IN The soldier comrades of the cyclist saan: vaahimigericth exnionine a 2 | battalion which was on Lubanskaya In the great, palatial county court house in Mineola, | Square came up and assembled in the Ben Gold and ten of his comrades, fighters in the van-| streets of China Town in the night, They were denied | and at day-break the Junkers opened machine gun and rifle fire from the | roofs, The soldiers kept close to the | walls, and retreated leaving the dead and dragging along the wounded. They brought many wounded to the Moscow | Soviet. “Comrades!” Those “cyclists” who were still living, said to\us, “Give us | commanders, we are losing through the lack of them.” But who could be sent to command? Some non-commissioned officer get- ting canned-meat out of a tin with a | pen-knife, heard (so a “cyclist” told |me) about the defeat in China Town. | Wiping the knife on his overcoat, the guard of labor, are standing trial. a change of venue to another community. Supreme Conrt Justice Callaghan thinks that they will get “jus- tice” in Nassau County. Mineola and Rockville Center, where the original as- sault was supposed.to have occurred some months ago, are curiously dead, deserted villages. They are the backwash of the office buildings of New York. Clerks who have married and petty managers, bookkeepers stenographers, three thousand dollar a year men who hang onto the fringes of Big Business, and little busi- ness men, form the bulk of the population of Nassau County. They Commute. They have moved to Long Island; bought one of the e k h r e standardized houses put up cheaply by real estate de- | non-commissioned otticer et bs Pao velopment corporations, and settled down in the good], “Give me the order and I will go air to bring up their families. Small storekeepers, take command. “ » ta garage men, beauty parlor operators, and ministers of There is a battalion there,” I re- the gospel have followed them to care for their bodies | Plied. ; and taal ; | “I can ever command a battalion,” is littl ; | replied the non-commissioned officer, Alper ‘n i i ee continuing to chew a piece of cold- Pp all glad the A nae ~ | meat. tories, or risk their live the building trades, or their Tis oes wan immeliaraly: typed | lungs in the fur sho; They are getting up in the oh mate sinchind by Derails Sam-| world, and they are very much in favor of the status aaa Wd: the nonicomminsiona atl quo, They are contented with their homes, their jobs, ficer was sent off to the seat of com- | their commuting schedule, their babies, and their auto- bat an commandar ofthe battalion.’ | mobiles purchased on time. The provincial air of these 7 ; EG \ | villages, set down between garbage heaps only forty . ie minutes’ ride from New York, is incredible. In the evening of the same day, | In Mineola the people have “real American ideas.” 1 life in the county. The peo- do not have to work in fac- together with Comrade Muralov, we went over the entire buildings of the They are vaguely alarmed at the talk that there are Moscow Soviet: ydrd, various out- | “a bunch of Communists” on trial in their handsome houses, etc. and everywhere there | courthouse. The real estate and in. nee man who |... soldiers. Séldiers in compact | helped me find the courthouse shook his head sadly crowds and parties. I came out on the | over the situation. guess there’s a lot of this radical Skobelev. (now Soviet) Square. Some | stuff around in the country now,” he grieved. “I tell detachment of soldiers or other with- | you what, the America people has to protect their- out a commander, was calling the roll | selves from that bolshevism. We aren’t going to have | and lining up. “One, two, one two.” Afterwards, the soldier who stood in | front cried out: “Left turn! quick march!” And the detachment marched off anything like that. going on here in Mineola. I guess | | old Lou Smith will see to it these fellows get what’s coming to them.” Catholic Community! The fat, toot ess catholic priest and his smart young | sown Bryussovsky.Pereulok. assistant were of much the same opinion. “I guess if | T went up to thé-one who wes ’cont | they ean prove they're Socialists, it’l go hard with) | 3 pa wit Wan aencitae se them, hm’?” he queried. The assistant explained that | ™®"@ns> 2 the front ranks. He was a pock- marked almost hairless little man with a musical voice. “Where are you going to?” I asked him. “Down Brussovsky, can’t you hear, the community was strongly catholic, and the relative size and importance of the catholie real state holdings seemed to bear him out, although this is not always an indication, since the priests are better business men for the Lord than the protestant ministers ever dare | oF ae ‘ the Cadets* are making it hot for our In Rockville Center, as well as in Mineola, there is | ¢e}lows down there. much vague talk about the Ku Klux Klan. Although} «jjow do you know, who ordered the general opinion among priests, protestant ministers, you to go there?” lawyers, radio experts, and doctors seems to be that the “If we did not know, we would not | power of the Klan has declined in Nassau County as go: our own fellows have told us, | well as in the nation at large, there is no doubt that | and who can give orders anyway? The, it holds some of its old prestige in some villages, officers of our regiment are over there | * Burn Fiery Gross. on the side of the Cadets, can’t you are periodical meetings in fields, a fiery erdgs | hear?” is burned now and then, a Jewish garage owner had| _! wrote down the name of the sol-| veceived a threatening letter some months ago, Mineola | dier and he afterwards took command witnessed a Klan*Konklave and parade. The Klan seems | °f the entire Brussovsky sector. dormant now, but mostly, I believe, because in that | | eee Reali | T THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MO I1.—SELF-MADE COMMANDERS | | from the Sukharevka to Lubyankgy AY, APRIL 18, 1927 1: Composer of the/ Machine Age By. A. B. MAGIL The body of Antheil is short. His straight, hay- colored hair curves obediently over his head. His nose is full and gently upturned at the end. His solemn, firm lips are slightly snarling. The color of his eyes I could not see. The torso of Antheil bows. The audience applauds, shouts, gesticulates, waves hankerchiefs, * * Anthei soldier who was standing there; “this comrade will act as liaison with H. | Q.,” said the non-commissioned offf- cer, “I will send him to tell you how things are going on.” “And your name comrade, I asked the non-commissioned officer?” “Ensign Reutov,” he replied. Comrade Samsonov again tapped i) off an order on the typewriter and| At Carnegie Hall, New York, on ‘Sunday evening, Ensign Reutov, after receiving it, | April 10, George Antheil, the twenty-six year-old Tren- came boldly forward, shook my hand | ton boy composer who had conquered eclectic Parts, and marched out with a gait of a| hurled {iis new and defiant music at the standpatters, young fine soldier. | the pedants, the concert lobbyists, the serious stu- He had hardly gone out when again | dents, the worshippers of his native land. the same “cyclist” ran in and threw, The standpatters shuddered. Ugh, how barbarous! himself on me almost shouting. Many of them left before the concert was over. Others, “Comrade! Our commander is gone.” | from their exalted towers in the press, sprinkled the “How, where?” music of Antheil with good-humored condescension. “The devil knows. I only know that * * * the’ Junkers are making it hot for us| The music of Antheil is rigidly contemporaneous. It on Lubyanka and we can hardly hol®' j; rooted firmly in the machine, in jazz, in the mechant- out. Send someone.” cal rhythms of our hypermechanistic age. It is*a “Oh hell, this Reutov has only iggf | sophisticated music, but sophistication is its dress, gone out.” | neither flesh nor bone. And its core there springs a I went to the field telephone. Ij niassive energy, an overwhelming sense of life. phoned up the detachment of Red) And the music of Antheil has learned how to laugh, Guards and soldiers which was operat- | to stick out its tongue and thumb its nose. How much ing in the town district, coming down of laughter is there in the music of the past? The 4 austere Beethoven sometimes in the scherzos of his with the object of getting onto the:»ymphonies permitted himself a little laughter, play- Red Square through China Town. fully without impudence. Can anyone imagine Brahms I spoke with Bobinsky and the non-| jaughing? commissioned Ershov, who were at} Jy his Sonata for Violin, Piano and Drum Antheil the head of this detachment. | laughs a suave, satirical laughter, poking’ fun at senti- “Where are you,” I asked. | mental banalities, the sob melodies’ of a bygone day. “Near the Lubyanka. Moving for- | * * * ward successfully. . .” | “Link up with the ‘cyclists’ and take them under your commander.” I went off to the “cyclists” miyself. They had certainly been having it a from the cross-fire with the Junkers.) And then the Ballet Mecanique, Antheil’s most daring There was no general command. Who-| work, No wonder the audience shouted, laughed, ever liked was commanding several | jeered, hissed while the great tread of the music groups. Running from group to group | plunged on relentlessly, The Ballet Mecanique is a I told the “cyclists” they should £0 | gigantic mechanical chorus, a pounding of mighty through from Lubyanka and join up! hammers of sound. This huge, infinite whirling of with the detachment of Boninsky and | wheels, the roar of machinery, the scream of an aero- Ershov. |plane, bells ringing madly, a monster of sound leaping ‘ | upon the brain—it is too much for human nerves. Un- In the evening of the second day, 1/der this insistent tonal attrition, the sublimated -mad- was again going round to the Moscow | ness and ferocity of the machine age, human nerves Soviet with Comrade Gurelov, in orde! e way—they require some psychological exhaust to talk with the soldiers. Suddenly in | yajye, one of the corridors, I noticed the| No wonder the audience shouted, laughed, jeered, familiar face of the non-commissioned | hissed. While the bodies of the players at. the pianos officer. He was sitting on the floor | swayed in a cataleptie rhythm’ and Antheil pumpea changing his foot-wear. away darkly at his mechanical piano. “Comrade,” I said to him, “why| . bik dnote os dog ass The music of Antheil is a mass music. This is In 4 contradistinction to the music that has been dominant Ped veers. pede: lear ra | since Beethoven—the music of personality. The music had not seen me as I had walked up| of Stravainsky is also a mass music, but Stravinsky goes to him from behind) as a stone drop-| back largely to the past for his inspiration—to primi- ping from heaven. tive sex worship in “Le Sacre de Printemps,” to a folk The non-commissioned _ officer | tale in “L’Oiseau de Feu.” Antheil’s music, however, jumped up on one leg with one gaiter|#8 @ expression, a magnified sublimation of the unwound and muttered: | mechanistic city life of our day. “They are shooting there. . -/ Both Stravinsky and Antheil have an extraordinary I did not succeed in urvlenstanditig | $e28e of rhythm. But Antheil has gone even further him as the soldiers who were jostling | than Stravinsky, his rhythms are more subtly mantpu- around replied by concerted guffaws | lated, He can be gentle or crushing, he can be Keen of laughter. |and precise as a whip, he can be treacherously In- And without malice, but with | 8tatiating. The Jazz Symphony. Negro leaping naked and sar- donic, syncopated perpendicularly, without curves. It is jaaz ferocious and strong, animal-like, nothing soft, jecthing langorous, ¥ * * * * * ” fe. With the Young Worker exemplary, one hundred per cent community, there is/| On the next day early in the morn- | arre Compared to the Jazz S: he eorge Ge i not sufficient evil doing to sustain the interest of the | ing, before my table there stood com- j Smaused Sontempt,, they, aod the ‘4 rs ces et de " 7 i 0 | | issi | Concerto in F is sentimental and textural by. members. It is not inconceivable ‘that the trial of | plete with gold epaulettes, a smartly Pee gat cond bien te'tae Maen | Compared tb’ the: Ballet Meckniaie, psec dong “that bunch of Communists” might kindle the spark for | dressed young non-commissioned of- | “Dresden.”*** pressions of a locomotive, Pacific 231, is a mere a vigorous demonstration. |ficer with a little black moustache | git 3 m4 * mechanical toy. All Hate The Union. | who said: 3 A ‘ |__Antheil sitting at the piano is rapt and inexorable. Even if the actual membership of the Klan has de-| “Please give me a Job ah the front.” aden Sie horton eee His hands rise and fall on the keys like cool pistons— clined, it has left behind it a residue of prejudice) “Ate you a Bolsheviki? |I found a soldier there who was to| Plunge and hiss, plunge and hiss. And they beat ‘out hatred, and anti-Semitic and anti-radical sentiment that| “Yes. ? oa | have been the liaison between us at |% !ean, uncompromising music that is swift and terribly cannot fail to operate against the furriers. It is sig-| “What regiment do you belong to? H. Q. and Ensign Reutov, This sol- | #live. nificant, that not one of the fifteen or twenty solid T came here together with the} 3.“ i citizens whom I interviewed, was ready to state that | Whole of our regiment from Padolsk. Klan influence might not affect the fate of the men/ I ami the only officer who remained dier was smothered in mud and tak- | : ; I |ing off his grey fur hat, wiped the’ Cow Annexes a Few Records YOUNG MINERS! FIGHT INKE HELL FOR VICTORY! Bituminous miners! You are on strike—150,000 strong—to preserve ur wage scale and your living standards which you won after many long in the past. The aim of the operators is to wreck the miners’ id to reduce the miners to a condition of practical slavery. In this strike the entire life of the union is at stake. AT THIS MOMENT THE OPERATORS THINK THEY SEE AN OP- PORTUNITY TO DESTROY THE UNION COMPLETELY AND MAKE THE COAL’ INDUSTRY OPEN SHOP. Despite the fact that the average miner works only part time thrusktl the year and must support a family and maintain a home, the operators wish | to cut your wages. In their offensive to eliminate the union their first | attack is at the present wage scale of $7.50 which they wish to reduce by” $2,00 per day. ' As a giant stride towards wrecking the union, the cry of district agree-| ments has been raised. Unfortunately for the miners this is the desire not, only of the operators but has also been expressed by President Lewis. | District. agreements are only the first step towards complete destruction of the effectiveness of the union as an instrument ‘of struggle on behalf of the coal miners and must be resisted just as vigorously as wage cuts. | Youth In The Mining Industry. The young miner is an important factor in the mining industry. At an) early age you experience the hazards of the industry generally but in addi- | tion you occupy the most dangerous jobs in the mine, such as trappers, con- | plers, spraggers, greasers, trip riders, ete. Accidents are common in these | Jobs and at the same time we find that the jobs you work at receive less! wages than your adult brother in the mine. Three Dangers. NUMBER ONE. The operators are enemies of the miners. They are | out to destroy the union and to reduce the wages and worsen your condi- tions. The miners’ strike must be turned into a militant offensive against the operators—weak policies must be replaced. by fighting policies, NUMBER TWO. In past strikes every force at the command of the operators has been mobilized against the miners, including the government, all the way from the federal government at Washington, D, C., to the local | militia. The police, the state constabulary, the militia and even the national troops were mobilized against the miners. Now too, the courts will turn out injunctions and imprison miners for fighting the dirty scabs and for Bickane the mines. The miners must appeal to their brothers in the militia: “Don’t Break Our Strike!” “Don’t Shoot Your Brothers!” NUMBER THREE. Any attempts on the part of the union officials or anybody else to disrupt the fighting morale of the strikers by raising the ery of “District agreements,” “Work while negotiations are proceeding,” etc., must be fought vigorously. The rank and file of the miners them- selves must organize RANK AND FILE COMMITTEES to cope with the situation and mobilize the forces for a 100 per cent strike and conduct a victorious struggle, un How To Win The Strike! The miners must show thru their actions and activity that they are pre- pared to resist any attempts coming either from the operators or from Lewis to force a reduction in wages or district agreements which mean a step in the direction of destruction of the union. Organize The Unorganized. , The fact that so many thousands of miners are unorganized is a stand- ing menace to the wages, hours and conditions of the unionized miners. The only effective way to insure victory is a united front of all miners against the bosses. Not only must the miners demand that their officers institute a campaign for the organization of these non-union miners, but the rank and file themselves, and especially the young miner, must undertake this task. No District Agreements. For years the miners have fought district agreements, District agree- ments" mean surrender to the operators. Anyone advocating district agree- ments must be branded as a traitor to the interests of the miners. National Unity. The anthracite miners, altho not immediately affected by this strike must realize that once wages of the bituminous strikers are reduced and the union eliminated, their turn will be next. The anthracite miners must stand solid and give their utmost support to a victorious strike, Pull Out The Maintenance Men. The maintenance men are key men in the industry. The union must call out the maintenance men and in this way make the strike 100 per cent effective against the bosses. International Solidarity. . While the officials of the U. M. W. of A. expressed little solidarity in their strike, the American miners today must appeal to the miners of all countries to join with them in their struggle and raise the slogan, “MINE NO COAL FOR AMERICA WHILE THE STRIKE IS ON!” The interests of all the miners demand an equalization of wages thru the raising of the lower paid jobs to the same level as the higher paid jobs. As an immediate step towards this equalization of wages, the young miners must demand that the union consider raising all jobs at present pay- ing $4,00 and $4.59 per day, to $5.00 and $5.59 per day respectively. Onward To Victory! _ j The Young Workers (Communist) League calls upon the young miners to stand ‘solid in the struggle—to be in the forefront and lead onward to victory. The Y, W. L. calls upon all workers—young and old—to stand by the miners in their moment of struggle and to be ready to support them in their struggle to preserve their wages and living conditions as well as their on trial. The priests declared staunchly that the Klan | With the soldiers. | And nor ear was “nearly dead,” but I think that they were whistling | all at your disposition.” in the dark. } ‘And what a pity you did not come | before. Things are not going well | with the cyclist battalion in China Town. We had to send an unknown non-commissioned officer there.” “That does not matter, I can also go there.” ‘ “Tt is not convenient to change now. If you like, you can go to the Nikit- skie Vorota. Our position there in in two houses**. The Junkers have all the time kept up a steady fire there and this evening they tried to come up and attack.” “Alright then, I'll go there. I bay take one or two fellows from our regi- ment. Here. . .this comrade,” the non-commissioned officer opened the door of the headquarters and called a HIRELINGS AT WORK jy EUGENE’ KREININ. The innocent condemned Hur! the lie of justice Into the face Of the guilty... . For class rule And its consequent justice Has at no time In any land under the yoke Of capitalist oppression, Shown its ugly criminal-sly face, As today, in the fortress of Wall Street. Ndiers called all their enemies “oe no matter whether they were Junkers, officers, volunteers, students or any other defenders of the old order. ** It was these that were afterwards burnt by the Junkers. But one of them, we Phink, has already been restored ana the Timiryazev Statute erected in the place of the other, And exposed they stand Before the thinking proletariat, As the hired henchmen Of the ruling class. ... By CHARLES YALE HARRISON A hard-boiled mounted cop view- ing. the enthusiastic demonstration with utter contempt. o * The ery of protest Spreads over fields and workshops: Even beyond the heads Of the official labor bureaucracy, ingaged at all times In the service of the enemy... . Workers’ Party worker arguing with a couple of snap necktie kibbos about the innocence of Saeco and Vanzetti and convincing them to the extent of their ‘purchasing: 2 copies of The DAILY WORKER, copy of Frankfurters book, signatures on the petition. sheepish looks. * * So vicious the motive, So criminal the attempt, That even legality Cannot cloak its lawlessness. .. . tore | Seott Nearing making an appeal | for readers for The DAILY WORKER ‘and being uproariously cheered by . And the hirelings, the crowd. * * Robed for the role assigned The spirited ovation which greeted nd conscious of their mission, Gitlow as he made his appearance o aad nervously at the glare of light aig tarpon ih . Thrown upon them By the accusation Of their victims. - ( The contrasted appearance between | the vendors of the New Leader, (sleek, well dressed, obviously law students i breaking into a profitable field—from SACCO-VANZETTI MEETING SNAPSHOTS sweat that was running in stream from his forehead. “Non-commissioned officer Reutov is killed,” the messenger said to me. “Comrade Reutovy commanded, went from one house to the other where our soldiers were stationed. We made a sally out of one house against the Cadets on two occasions. And nothing happened. And just a little while ago | ' he came into the house where our detachment was stationed—on the third floor. A stray bullet got him in the nut. He fell down straight on the spot without a word. The soldiers were on the verge of tears especially our regiment.” And all the time, something was trickling down the face of the narra- tor towards his chin, dirt, sweat, and perhaps tears. The soldiers carried Comrade Reu- tov’s corpse gently away from the fighting zone. . THE END. - Now a trade union houses (on the Soviet Square) and at that time nearly always occupied by prisoners. the ground up), and Rufus, the un- official Worker sales representative looking more proletarian than proletariat. . * . Scores of pretty little siwmos and shipping clerks out for thaafernoon Lots of them paused to lobk and re- mained to cheer, {ie . . . The look of amazement ort the face of a tabloid reporter when a pert little W. P. comrade buttonholed him ahd compelled him to sign the Sacco and Vanzetti petition, a . . A young Irish blue-eyed cop who kept asking “When will this party break, I want to get home—I gotta date with my girl tonight.” . * The impromptu demonstration held afterwards outside the offices of the Freiheit. The crowds singing Inter- nationale. The Freiheit staff waving red streamers and loosing a shower of red confetti, 4 Miss Pauline Ayres with Fair Oakes de Vrie Nelly, southern California's bovine aristocrat that has set a record of 1,000 pounds of butter and 23,000 pounds of milk in 365 days. The cow, owned by Frank Pelisseur of Whittier, Calif,, is grand champion of the state and the only one to defeat the all-American champ last year. SEND IN YOUR LETTERS The DAILY WORKER is anxious to receive letters from its readers stating their on the issues con- fronting the labor movement. It is our hope to de- ‘velop a “Letter Box” department that will be of wide interest to all members of The DAILY WORKER famil: Serd in your letter today to “The Letter Box,” DAILY WORKER, 38 Fi treet, New York . a . | that fighting organization. A 100% Strike! Organize the Unorganized! Neo District Agreements! Withdraw the Maintenance, Men! No Wage Cuts! No Arbitration! Support from the Anthracite Miners! Onward to Victory! National Executive Committee, Young Workers (Communist) League of America. — 4 Line 0’ Type or Two. I know a guy named Steve McCrutch That always helps to put us in Dutch He works all day and works all night on nr the courage to put up a ight, Headline in N. Y. Times—Moscow supports organizations of liberal clubs in colleges by subsidies of: hundreds of thousands of dollars—“Blah.” The Poor Fish says: There is nothing that my boss loves more in a young man than loyalty to his employer. Sign In The Subway: Join the C. M. T. C. and get a month’s vaca- tion. : Young Straphanger: I hear that before?” “Where did AEE Sai cea Militarism In Our Local High School. The R. O. T. C. (Reserve Officers Training Corp) in the New Utrecht High School was organized about a year ago under the auspices of two military officers, sent to give the course, Since that time there has been an ever increasing amount of propaganda done for this organi- zation. On more than one occasion military officers have visited the school and have spoken to the stu- dent body at assemblies urging them to join the organization. At one as- sembly when two officers came, one gave a speech and presented a flag to the R, 0. T. C. of N. U. H. S. eight pound gun similar to those ysed in the World War). He also has em- phasized the physical benefits to be derived from such training. He has even gone so far as to allow credit |towards graduation to any student |who should join and attend the twice weekly meetings of the R. 0. T. C. By doing this he has made military training as important as drawing or niusic, Two hours of drawing a week taken for two years gives a student | 1 point towards graduation, a similar point towards graduation as well as, any favor that the principal can grant him, so says the principal. So you see military training has been made a subject for study in N. U. H. 8. and any student who falls for the propaganda, which is continuall going on, can have his school | gram so arranged that it shall’ possible for him to take a course jn military training. s There are about one hundred stu- dents who have already ( this organization out of almost ). Even, such a small percentage is too much for there are always chances for its growth, Yet Coolidge speaks of disarma- ment when such organizations C, M. T. C. and R, 0. T. C, (its juntor branch) are provided for by the Na- tional Defense Aét of 1916. As H. W. Fleet Lieutenant Colonel, Infantry says in a letter to Dr. Potter of N. U, H. S. the camps ©. M. T. C, are a part of the National Defense Act, and their primary mission is to build up the manhood of the Nation, on which, — in a national emergency the preser- vation of our institution will rest. Remember in case of a “National Emergency.” ; i BEN LITWAK. | amount of time given to military ; | training shall also give a student one »