The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 28, 1927, Page 6

Page six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. : Cable Address SUBSCRIPTION RATES (in New York only By Mail ( < 6.00 per Phone, Orchard 1680 9Yrk): onths By Ma $8.00 per x out to aa ha First Street, New York, N. Y- ROBERT MINOR ,.WM, F. DUNNE N. ¥., under at New York, The War Danger and the Geneva Conference “he int é in the press for the last week. on like Jouvenal of France and generals lik taker e Robert St son of England have stated openly that the great powers are Wa parin, * war and Jouvenal even sets the date—19 a date nion is much too far in the future. which in our o} up of the British-Japanese-American na conference there has+been a notable increase in the tension of in- ternational relationships and the imperialist rivalries which dis- rence and speeded up the race in naval arma Since the bre n and the world struggle for oil resources. isarmament” conference of the league of nations which on this week in Geneva meets in a war atmosphere. ident of The New York Times is forced to re- developments make it look as if the Gene vould have rather futile results. The political may »s one an impression that the ‘Continent is rapidly condition where anybody’s war is likely to become Soviet Un ‘The “ everyboc » league of nations’ cannot rise above the impe- ich created it. It is true that the danger spots in ‘us attention now are largely within the con- ull nations. F , one of the bickerings and all the threats cf v ish-Lithuanian conflict, the Jugoslav-Alba aria and Hungary involved, the Rumanian > traceable to the maneuvering of the big t Britain, France, Italy and the United any taking advantage of divisions wherever rain her lost status as an imperialist power. ihe nian gover imper State: Gr the Balka re have a y alliance and both have an alliance with France, (tho Pilsudski bases himself more on Britain) while the recent huge American loan to Poland and the appointment of an Amer- ican adviser places American imperialist interests in the center of the European controversy. The aggressive role played by British imperialism in the of- fensive against the Soviet Union has been hampered somewhat of fate by the rising tide of protest from Lord Cecil, Lloyd George, and. others, against the open break with America at Geneva and the tremendous burden of taxation for increased armaments which this implies. Large sections of the British middle class, it is evident from these protests, are in disagreement with the gov- ernment’s policy. The official leadership of the Labor Party, however, is doing little or nothing to rally the masses against the war danger. As a matter of fact, the support of the MacDonald wing of the labor party for the government’s Indian commission, on which the Indians are given no representation, constitutes open aid to the whole imperialist program. But the presence of an official delegation from the Soviet Union at Geneva is nevertheless a defeat for British imperialist diplomacy. lt means that the other nations in the league have at last been forced to recognize openly the fundamental fact that discussion of such questions as disarmament and non-aggression agreements, with representatives of the Soviet Union barred, is a meaningless procedure. The recent dispatches from Bucharest, purporting to give accounts of widespread uprisings in Soviet Ukraine, and obviously concocted in one of the many anti-Soviet Union lie factories, are quite clearly intended to weaken the position of the Soviet Union delegation at Geneva and at the same time divert attention from the deep cri n Rumania following the death of Bratianu. The Rumanian terror government has reason to fear that the Soviet Union delegation will make certain demands relative to. stolen Bessarabia and its starving and persecuted peasantry. Such de- mands will, in the present situation, receive a respectful hearing in many quarters. The Geneva conference, which begins Wednesday, will be of historic importance. The alignments for the next war are in process of formation. The imperialist powers. are jockeying for position. The struggle for world markets, for'‘new areas and peoples to exploit, for new sources of raw materials, is absorbing the en- ergies of the rulingclass of all imperialist nations. But no terri- tories remain that can be grabbed Without exciting the cupidity of other imperialist nations and precipitating war. in supports Mussolini's openly warlike policy in rance supports Jugoslavia. The world outside the Soviet Union is divided up between the imperialist nations. Unable to conquer the Soviet Union and put the burden of the reconstruction of European capitalism upon the Russian workers and peasants, the European rulingclass has shifted the burden to the shoulders of the workers and peasants at home. The class conflict has been sharpened. War against the Soviet Union once more tempts ithe imperi alist nations and their satellites and the Polish offensive against | Lithuania is first of all an offensive against the Soviet Union. Meanwhile the imperialist conflicts increase and the war menace grows greater. War on the Soviet Union, war among themselves, the down- zall of capitalist government under the drive of the masses and the rise of workers and peasants governments—-these are the al- ternative that face the European rulingclass. From the first two lines of action will come the third. The struggle which must be waged by the working class in defense of the Soviet Union and against imperialist war will strengthen’the masses for the struggle for power in this period when the impe- rialist war clouds hang low over all the world. The Soviet Union delegation at Geneva will speak first of all to the world’s working class and as the conference develops it will have statements to make which will expose the imperialist con- gpiracies to the millions of toilers upon whom imperialism depends for eannon-fodder, ry nal imperialist conflicts and the menace of war have | Rumania and Poland | ROCKEFELLER’S SKYSCRAPER’S COLUMBINE | MINE MiuITIAMEN MINE GUARDS (ge THEY DIED 2", OR LABO THE RIGAY TO: ORGANIZE (in Two Installments) ann Straus pointed his thumb George Bjornson ard ” Larson said loudly letting h “we thought he’d t dsomest chairman we uld get. He’s all decked out in a ew set of teeth.” | Mi Atwood laughed pleasantly: '“Oh, ho-ho-ho; let’s see your new teeth, fellow worker. My! They look fine!” Bjornson at his battered cluttered desk was drawing back his lips dis- playing teeth too even, too smooth, toc white. Miss Atwood walked across lto where he sat writing reports as Detroit secretary of the Metal and | Machinery Workers’ Industrial Union Jot the Industrial Workers of the | World. Letting no one else hear she |asked how they felt, adding: “Can {you eat with them all right?” “Yes—fine. It seems good to have Vane after everything I went through | |with my own. Only I’m pretty con- | scious of them when I talk. But I jnight.” | “I hope not. tice anything.” Looking at her Bjornson said: “It’s | going to be the first time I was ever chairman for Bill Haywood.” “You’re not worried are you?” When Bjornson smiled she continued: “T’m sure you'll make a good job of it. And really your teeth, your mouth looks perfectly natural. You'd never know. The boys certainly | wouldn’t have made you chairman if |they hadn’t known you could do it. |T think it’s fine.” mae Six miles westward at the city’s es McFee, one of the older men, was coming alone into the city over the Wabash Railroad, Dusk was gathering. Poking his head out of {the box car door he began looking |forward along the train toward train banks hanging darkly above the De- » Miss Atwood: “He'll beg don’t think they’ll bother me any to-} Look at me while} you're talking. Let’s see if I can no- | A Story of t thing for some of the other boys. My! I saw one boy last night up here in |the hall with his teeth all black with! |decay and stain. They looked as bad as yours did.” “Who was it?” “T_don’t know his name. I’d never seen him but once before, And I | didn’t know how he’d take my asking | him about his teeth. I haven’t any | Spare money just now but in a week or so I’ll have some more coming in. I could do something for somebody in Of course I’m not rich—” | Bjornson told her she was already going bail for political prisoners, alienating herself from her family, nevertheless .using the respectable prestige of her family’s name for I. lw. W. defense work. | “You’re doing a lot as it is,” he re- peated. 5 Hott SOA Feet were sounding on the stairs evenly, somewhat lightly. McFee en- | tered, looking at the group around the |room, saying in a matter-of-fact low voice: “Hello, fellow workers.” “There’s McFee,” Bjotnson said to | Miss Atwood. “I think he just got in jfrom Chicago.” McFee stood looking over the group, waving to Bjornson, who said: \“Hello, fellow: worker.” |. Then to Miss Atwood Bjornson |said: “I didn’t think he’d remember me. The only time McFee and I ever | met | two years ago. | gate, | time.” | “It’s remarkable to be able to re- |member faces that way,” Miss At- | wood said, u , “Yes; some of these characters are I wasn’t even a dele- I was last year but not that | /Breat at it—regular camera eyes. I} |yards, outlying factories, gray smoke |&Uess it comes from spotting stool | pigeons.” that way, a little something anyhow. | doing much, distributing literature, | outside the door, approaching the top! was.in Chicago at the convention | ‘troit chimney line. When his train) McFee was standing rolling a ci- {slowed to 10 miles an hour McFee | aret, talking with the group, saying swung down to the gravel path be-|aywood would be in town about 7 side the track, running a few steps | o-cloek. The meeting. in Toledo two with the train, then slowing to a |ights before had been encouraging, iwalk. Leaving the tracks he started | although the permit to use the hall diagonal path toward a street car ‘line’s terminus. Softened by recent | showers, light clay on the path was freezing slowly, crusting with eve- ning cold. McK ece’s train was clatter- ing over intersecting tracks between lighted semaphores behind him, Downtown in the I. W. W. hall Bjornson still sat looking at Miss At- c There was something he had ss an untencéd field, following a they wanted there was cancelled at the last minute. “The Toledo police were at the door when Haywood arrived,” McFee said, “But Haywood was master of the sit- uation, master of them all.” Bjornson called across to ask what happened, |_ “Oh, he was master of them all,” |McFee repeated. “ ‘Fellow workers,’ Haywood said to the crowd outside The False Teeth he I. W. W. “‘These police officers here, they’ve all akove to keep us Haywood told the moved on. ‘You all know what Above is, don’t you?’ he asked all the stiffs. ‘Well,’ he said, ‘the head policeman you see out of this hall,’ here is taking it on himself to keep | % | are bad. Let me get them fixed for! us off the streets besides. But the I. W. W. is going to have a meeting. | That’s what the hand bills say, isn’t it? To-Coogan’s Grove, fellow work- ‘s! The streets in this town are too |marrow anyway.’ “That’s the way he put it out to them,” McFee said. Torrey, Larson, Taliferro, Tyler, Straus were sitting laughing with boisterous approval. Miss Atwood and Bjornson at the desk were smiling ap- provingly also. “My! It certainly is great when things come off like that,” she said. “I wonder what will happen tonight here.” McFee was coming their way. “Bjornson is my name,” Bjornson id. “You’re McFee, I gather. This Miss Atwood, Fellow Worker At- |wood. Have a chair. How are things in Chicago?” Bjornson pulled up a chair for Me- Fee. “So-so,” McFee said casually. “My teeth have gone bad on me. My jaw has been aching for three days now.” Bjornson said: .““Is that right? I certainly know what that is all right.” “Yes,” MecFee said, “my jaw kept me awake most of last night.” “Zt’s tough on a fellow all right,” Bjornson said. ¥ McFee looked brightly at Bjornson saying: “Yours look all right.” “Yes, I had mine yanked out the other day—couldn’t stand it any lon- ger. These here are phoney.” Bjornson tapped a front tooth with his finger nail. “Oh, I see. I wondered. I didn’t 'think they looked as if they were | bothering you much.” McFee laughed in a curious way at Bjornson, then at Miss Atwood. a Sane Across the room Edmund was call- ing Bjornson: “Come here. We’ve got to settle sémething.” Pushing his chair back, avoiding Miss Atwood’s feet, Bjornson went walking leisurely toward the group, saying: “I guess we’d better have the other light on here. You fellows can’t see to talk.” Going to the wall, switching on an- other light, Bjornson sat down, Ed- mund was discussing arrangements been wanting to tell her. Finally he | fhe hall, ‘we've been fin-flamined, lutions, collection, leaflets, literature ‘said: “It certainly was good of you| ut we haven’t been beaten. We'll | table. ' to get my teeth all fixed up this way, Miss Atwood—tellow worker.” She told him to stop thinking about it. “How much did it set you back?” She told him to forget that, add- |ing: “I had the money. "Twas money I didn’t learn myself you know. Why worry about it? Why think about it? Why shouldn’t that money be used toward making you strong and well for the work you're doing?” “There aren’t many like you that feel that way.” “But just think! ‘get your teeth fixed I had something special to do with getting this meet- ,ing arranged for tonight, making it! a success. ’Twas something I could do easily but that maybe nobody else ou know could have done-—just at this By helping you hold our meeting in the street. The |Streets, they told me when I was a| Windows McFee and Miss Atwood | ‘kid in school, are public,’ | “And when the superintendent of | police, who was there in person, told | Haywood he'd be arrested if he spoke |then Haywood announced he had a | better idea than that, by God. | ground once again,’ ‘—Coogan’s Grove, many a time. It’s just over the city \line—just the spot.’” McFee said they could have heard | Haywood’s voice two blocks the way ‘he boomed it out. Richard Edmond asked if they went |to the grove. | “Did we go?” MeFee asked. “You | bet vf went. At Bjornson’s desk near the front |were left sitting looking into the | street. Noisy automobile horns, street car bells, newsboy voices were dis- _tinguishable in muffled clamor. Men jin the street,” McFee continued, “why Were sitting shoulder’ to shoulder on|/’™ nothing. | stools along the white enameled coun: ter in the brightly lighted Union Cof- “We'll take over the old picnic fee House across the street, A few !nan being, I Haywood said, | doors away adjoining a lodging house | I've been there the Corktown Lunch also was filling | ners. Rising she went walking rapid- with men. ; It was late autumn. vests were in. Whea' ; Moving eastward from | the Dakotas tow Western har- oats, corn were Kansas, Iowa, d Minneapolis mills, | Duluth elevators, Lumber camps were iclosing. Work in those occupa- tions were gathering in cities fot win- C Haywood sang out ‘ets freighting, hitch-hiking out of e anyhow. With all you with: ‘We've all been to Coogan’s|timber lands, prairie country toward boys giving all your time to defense | GTCV@ @t least once and it’s time we | industrial centers, | work you haven’t any time to take a| emt again.’ The committee got regular job and earn money for den- torches. And inside of a half hour tist bills. I wish I could do we were all there. Miss Atwood asked: “How lo had orders from} crowd ‘before we Edmond said by God that was good. | for the meeting—chairs, police, reso-| By Fred Ellis By STIRLING BOWEN “About a year and a half—” “Do you know what the trouble \is?” 5 “They’re just rotting in my head, that’s all. There isn’t much to find out about teeth and you find that out | when they begin to aché.” “My! How long since you've been |to a dentist?” “I can’t remember. I don’t know | whether my mother ever took me or not.” “Bad teeth are awful things. You can’t do your best when your teeth | you. - Come on; let me do that.” | “What?”—McFee looking at her, |mouth smiling, eyes hardening slight- ly, “Tll tell you a secret. You musn’t tell. It’s a secret, remember. I had Fellow Worker Bjornson’s teeth fixed for him, I don’t think anything about \it. I can do little things like that once in a while for the boys. You see, I had some real estate and some of those terrible, terrible dividends left to me by my family. And I choose to use what I can spare this way. ‘Tisn’t much. But I can do a few little things like that. I did it for Bjornson, Why not let me do it for you? It’s really nothing, for me, you know. And Bjornson is a dif- ferent person since he had his teeth fixed, since he got those terrible teeth out. Come on, fellow worker.” “T think I’ll have to ask Bjornson about this,” McFee said, his eyes squinting humorously, cunningly. “Oh, no! You musn’t do that!” “Who says I musn’t?” “Please; you musn’t. Bjornson would be embarrassed. There’s no uge in everybody’s knowing when I dé a little thing like that. I wouldn’t have told you—. ’Twould be a be- trayal, really, to mention it to him. The poor fellow has suffered so.” “Oh, I’ll just ask him where he got his new teeth, that’s all. Don’t wor- ry about his being embarrassed.” Miss Atwood leaning forward said: “Will you please not say anything to him? I'll not say anything more to 3ou about your own teeth if this is the way you feel about it. But spare Bjornson: that, please. You know how he’d feel.: I think your attitude is un- kind, unfeeling. It’s not what I’d expect to find up here in this hall certainly, in an I. W. W. hall. My! Yo think! ". << } Looking at’ her intently McFee up here: either.” Again it was dif- fieult to tell whether he was smiling. Miss Atwood gasped. Recovering she ‘said sharply; “Oh, I’ know you. I know, your ‘kind. ‘But your attitude will never get.the I. W. W. anywhere, Your kind is one of the troubles with the I. W. W. Yes, you’re one of the | Sreat ones who say: ‘I am holier than thou.’ You zo around looking every- | body up. I’m an anarchist. I’m just an unknown obscure anarchist. But I’m as good as you are for all your I. W. W.-ness, for all your I. W. w. Soe ger all, you’re ‘not the I, Sneering but with lips trembling she added: “But I suppose you think I suppose you think women have no place in an I. W. W. hall. I’m just a mere woman, a mere suppose; yes.” Tears were showing in her eye cor- ily toward the door, | The men in the other part of the lycom looked. up. | “Are you going, Miss Atwood? | Good bye then fellow worker,” Bjorn- |son called, Miss Atwood not answer- jing. i | “=-see you at the meeting,” Larson called after her. She disappeared out the door blurt- ing back good bye, McFee alone real- have your teeth been bothering you, | izing the word broke on her tongue: fellow worker?” (To Be Continued.) yj said: “I wouldn’t expect to find you, 'Workers’ Schools Grow Fast Over __ United States | Suna) by the success of the Workers School of New York, | which has now become the largest in- | stitution for working-class education in the entire country, there is a veri- table epidemic of Workers’ Schools |springing up in industrial centers all over the United States. | For instance, there is the Workers | School of Boston, with Harry J. Can- |ter as director and Eva Stone as ‘secretary. It is planning to offer | thirteen courses beginning January |1, including a course in tne Funda- ;mentals ot Communism, with Harry ;Canter as instructor; a course in | Problems of Organization, with Alex | Bail as instructor; a course in Trade | Union History and Tactics, taught by |S. Weisman; Science for Workers, | Professor Whiting; Modern Litera- | ture, Professor Dana; Marxian Econ- |omics, Max Lerner; American His- |tory, Lewis Marks; Labor Journal- {ism, Harry Canter; Problems of the | Woman Worker, Dr. A. Konikow; a course in Russian with Dr. Cheskiss jas instructor, and two courses in | elementary and advanced English, | With Allen Binch and Mrs. Clifford |and one or more courses dealing with | Youth Problems. | Philadelphia. a Philadelphia, the Workers School, under the direction of Thomas | Foley, with M. Epstein acting as |secretary, is offering courses in Fundamentals of Communism, Trade Union Problems, History of the In- ternational Labor Movement; and Marxism and Leninism, as well as courses in English and Workers Correspondence. Some of the in- structors announced are Ray Ragozin and Will Herberg, whose services are being supplied by the New York Workers School, and Herbert Ben- | jamin, \ Detroit. HE Detroit, the Workers School has issued a catalogue announcing a course in the A B C of the Class Struggle, instructor A. Gerlach; Ele- ments of Political Education, John Schmeis; Trade Union Problems, Wm. Reynolds; Party Organization, Albert Weisbord; Elementary and | Advanced English, instructors to be announced; American Labor History, Mm. Mollenhauer; Workers Corre- spondence and Shop Newspzpers, Vera Buch. The director of the School is A. Gerlach. A branch of the De- troit Workers School is being opened in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where a course in Fundamentals of the Class Struggle and courses in English will be offered. Chicago, ie Chicago, the Workers School is offering a course in Fundamentals of Leninism, Elementary’ Economies, History of the Américan Labor Move- ment, Party Organization and Tac- tics, History of the International La- bor Movement, Public Speaking, His- torical Materialism, Fundamentals of Communism, and three classes in English. They are also planning a branch school on the South Side to give educational facilities for the col- ored population in that section of Chi- cago. The Chicago school is planning to move into new headquarters, where it can develop more favorably. Cleveland. eS the City of Cleveland, a similar school has been established, offer- ling courses in Fundamentals of the Class Struggle, instructor Tom John- son; Trade Union Movement, J, Brah- tin, and English courses. Teachers are also to be sent from Cleveland to nearby towns and additional courses are promised, Minneapolis. IN Minneapolis, there is a small school offering a course in Funda- mentals of the Class Struggle. In | Kansas City a school with classes in _Elementary and Advanced Economics and in English. In New Haven, Conn., a school. with courses in | Fundamentals. of Communism, Public Speaking and English, and a branch jin Stamford offering a course in Fundamentals of Communism. The West Coast. > oN the Pacific Coast, in the city Br Seattle, several courses are beinig offered similar to those in other spnall schools. In San Franeiseo, Dick Ettlinger is the director of a small sehool. which offers two or three courses every year. Various other cities are developing similar actiy- ities. Directed From Big Central School. taped of these schools are guided from the parent school, the. Workers School of New York. All of them are parts of a chain of working-class schools. The Workers School of New York supplies teachers and forum lecturers to nearby branches, in New Jersey and Connecticut towns and in Philadelphia. It also sends forum lecturers as far south as Baltimore and as far north as Boston. | To the schools the director of the |New York Workers School sends out- ,lines for courses and advice based upon the experiences of the New York Workers School. Workers in any part of the country trying to establish study courses along the lines of any of the 50-odd courses offered by the Workers School of New York can get (information on course outlines, ete., by writing to Bertram W. Wolfe, 108 E, 14th Street, New York City. In- quiries of this nature come from such distant points as Seattle, San Fran- cisco and Los Angeles on the West Coast and Jacksonville, Florida and Breckenridge, Texas in the South, from New England cities and from _|Mexico and the Philippine Islands, - , oe