The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 15, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1927 —_——— Coolidge’s Message for the American Farmers | —— \cisely since 1921 that the crisis in ag-;ther reduction of the surplus acre-|does he mention the fact that count-| Only through unity of action on the | By H. M. WICKS. riculture has wrought its greatest de-|age. The further reduction of farm }less numbers of workers in cities and | part of the two great exploited groups | thous- }aereages is to be achieved v ut the country are un-|cf the nation, the useful members of “ on | tically the same methods used since | able, because of the low wages they | society, the workers and farmers, can c O. “Diggers” the war to drive hundreds of thou- receive, to purchase the farm products | their economic problems. be solyed. sands from the land. The Coolidge they need for proper nourish- |The te drive on the part of the solution was plainly stated in his| ment. He carefully avoids the con-| Wall Street government against la-| Sholom Aleichem’s Satirical Play Presented by % vastation—exiling countl ands of families from the which they and their an lived and herding them prac- | towns throu 'ARMERS Are entitled to any faction they can derive m the opening»statement of Calvin Coolidge Gn that section ef hi gress dealing w in he states th séen’ a marked’ ir essage to con- culture, where- past year “has srovement in the é the the ranks of the unemployed dustrial slave ssage to congr It should be clusion that the surplus is due to the | hor, and the prolongation and _. inte! 7 3 Yiddish Art Players ng power of| sification of the agricultural er asis for an aggressive Ss z ges that fact that the pure n$ Of capitalism does not | furnishes the | med alongside the mort plast 1 upon the farms by the | other victi army ultural crisis that deep general condition of agriculture.” In- kers who now hold | banks and should be carefully studied | permit them to buy what they ought |class party. of labor, enpetins for eee gold diggers of Sholom Al- ANOR BROOKS. stead of ‘admitting that production of tive land by virtue/when again some political agent of to have. Under’ production for use| the cooperation of the farmers, that |” eichem’s play at the Yiddish Art The- oa corn, dats and cotton’ is smaller this f mortgages | capitalism, whether alled Cool- | and not for profit there would be no | will challenge both the old parties s and |atre are not of the species so familiar year than \ h was it Lay of the |idge, or Smith, or Lowden, or Dawes ‘oblem. raise the issue of |a workers’: and|to the American male. They are just | below that five-y average, | Jand « work or Hoovi appeals for their support Then again, government subs’ ners’ government. | ordinary men and women in an or- | Coolid: sophistry of orators who t ploded fal customary republican platform to perpetuate the ex- dinary town in Czarist Russia, who | are led by the nose by an old waves’ tale and behave like damn fools. A |boy whose mentality seems a trifle} wit re “land |on election dey. After repeating the! for the ir npoveri them have | cbservation that it is nee For this |duce the crop acreage, Cc agriculture, hed farmers, if ad-| \This is the only adequate reply to _ would enable them | the arrogance of Coolidge and all the ves from the clutches old party politicians who try rs and it is absurd to|to capitalize the ‘misery of tHe ex- poor, sary to re- | ministe dge tell which | congress how it should, be done in the gone into b Coolidge prosper- steady decline in f th of the banl ity? . by production | Cooiidge calls: progress, the sid tines eat : : Due Tinted «States, | Subnormal finds an old coin that a} atyy” by oolidge calls’ progress, the presiden- | following words expect a government that exists for|ploited masses of thd United State | is better bal Without acute tial benediction is bestowed upon the ; I | widow ngourning her husband has lost ng them ever lower in the y, suffering and de-| e of defending the inter-| while dri le of mi | gradation. : “While this cannot be done by the individual farmer. individual farmer, i Such sentiments must have adorned through the organ the purpost > |ests of the bankers to interfere with eir business. jin a graveyard. This revives an old| legend about treasure supposedly | | buried there, precipitating a grand | shortage or vy surplus He is ¢areful not to refer to the fact that the shortage of the total agricultural can be di tions alreac is the speech Coolidge “tried to deliver | in existence, throug » informa- —_—-—— 5 ee haerary aw % Bproiiction is to be explained by the| 5+ <n¢ Minnesota state fair at St. Paul| tion furnished by tie desarenonnnt for a moment does Cool jrush Ei a fact that there is an absolute decline |i tino when, as viee president Hae agHeultine Radian ones prea acne one, °C ABSIBUATLL Manager, ;WieermeeMnt Miert ule alae jnatreage ur cultivation, due to ay F » 2 especially through orget the interests o: ne inguished rabbis are given quite a Harding administration, he was hoot-| banks and others who supply cred while professing to grope} Ukrainian News, and | dusting. But evidently God, as well the fact that hundreds of thousands 5 ei ed from the platform by the irate! refusing to finance acr: olution of the farm problem. as stewards and gendarmes, can be| have bee: riven from the ls ile i y sing a acrea, solution of ‘a »ble "4 a g " et pre ee ny from, Wie pera! Poker hetat astemiled. manifestly too large. He proposes government istance Wife Dead from Ga pried to overlook this desecration. ' FA vigsioimts: , * Let the farmers ponder these words i ociatio But — | 4 by the banks : : armers ponder these words. = wae anie] | Lhe late Sholom Aleichem (Sholom } py ees : : OOLIDGE refutes his own optim-| What is to become of him when the are to be estab-| Two young comrades, Daniel | iwi In “Artists and } : ant manager of the With the most sardonic cynicism | istic observations when he outlines | acreage is further reduced is not re- y empowering a fed- | Yurkevitch, assi humorists and, in my opinion, one of | this puppet of Wall Street asserts that | what purports to be an agricultural | vealed by Coolidge. But one other “of able | Ukrainian Daily y the giant figures in the literature of} spontaneous and the life depicted, “the individual farmer is entitled to’ program and admits that “agriculture | fact that constitutes a damning in-| and experienced men in marketing,” | of six month, Phylis, are dead from the world, wrote his comedy, “Gold! though it belongs to a time that has © great credit for progress made| has not fully recovered from post-war | dictment of the Coolidge agricultural and providing a revolving fund at a|earbon monoxide asphyxiation. They |p; vers,” about 20 years ago. It has! been swept away, is full of roots that since 1921.” This can be viewed by | depression” policy is clearly revealed. In plain| moderate rate of interest “for the| ; ; died in their small apartment at me been adapted for the present produc- | dig deep. the farmer who is at all familiar! According to Coolidge the main | words, out of Coolidge’s own mouth, y financing.” Sumpter St., Brooklyn, Sunday night. bio by his son-in-law, I. D. Berko-| Sicts Alcienis ta ae with the economic condition of agri-| problem which is presented for so-|is the bald statement in the abaye f i purpose of lending money | Yurkevitch was in his thirtieth and | tz, who has taken such liberties implicity and genuineness, would § culture as a studied affront, a flip-| lution is one of dealing with a sur- | quotation that the department of to experimental market- | Phylis in her twenty-second year. with the text that the play has really! pave taken little joy in Sam Ostrow- 4 ), greatest of Yiddish! bert revue at the Winter Garden. News, and hig bride pant reference to the unbearable bur-| plus of production. That is to say, | riculture, in theory supposed to aid ing ¢ ions which will no doubt) Both came to New York City from | become a collaboration. No, Yiddish | sky's settings for the play. They are den borne by the vast majority of|the farmers are producing more than | the farmers, will be used as an in-} Ultimately be financed by the regu- | Rochester, N. Y. Previously Yurke- | writer so beloved and so widely | pretti ed and self-consciously arty impoverished farmers. For it is pre-|they should and so the remedy is fur- | formation department for the bank- larly established banks.” vitch, a native of western Ukraine, | read Sholom Aleichem because | Maurice Schwartz’s direction was 's so that they will not lend money| Thus we come to another joker, | lived in Canada. none has come so close to the every-} ;thoroughly incompetent. The acting | to farmers who many not be able to | which again proves that Coolidge h Phylis Yurkevitch was * a shop | day lives and emotions of the great | was pitched in an assiduous scream, | dispose of their crops. This plan pro-|no intention of aiding the farmers.| worker. Both were active members |J¢wish masses. His was a great|with intermittent shouts and gesti- tects the banks in the agricultural|The Coolidge “cooperatives” are in| ¢ local Ukrainian workers’ organ- |Child-spirit that merged itself ‘com-| cylations that were supposedly en- belts, the same as the great statistical reality to be marketing organizations | jzations, and Yurkevitch since com- jidlseathy with his characters. He Schwartz’s own acting, which bureaus of Wall Street protect the under the domination of the banks,|ing to Canada and thence to this|‘esn’t talk about them or even|is us so resourceful, wa’ banks that make industrial loans byw! ! give the bankers control | eountry was always active in the la- |through them; he always talks with! decidedly below par. Excellent in- |furnishing them advance information |of the disposal of farm products so|}or movement. He was widely ienown | them. They are his comrades; they| dividual bits were contributed by a on the state of the world market for that. the individual farmer will be can | Soa Ukrainian working people. In | ave suffered with him, hoped and| number of members of the cast, par- industrial products so that they may tablesto dispose privately of his crop|¢anaia he was a member of the|Stfuegled with him, but most of alli ticularly by Jechiel Goldsmith, who thhold loans from industrialists who and thereby hold out interest on the |\Communist Party of Canada and for laughed with ‘him his large earthy| gave an ymusually subtle portrayal y not be able to dispose of their. -banker. ner’s job isto pro-|'come time secretary of the Ukrainian | @ughter. | of Iddel Torba, the money changer. ducts. It is an excellent device for duce. The bankers will take care of | {bareee of the Par In this country | Sholom Aleichem was, however, not | Among the women Bina Abramowitz protecting the banks so that they will i he was a, militant member of the | significant as a dramatist. His end-| and Bertha Gersten did the best work. Just Issued in the New Workers Library NO. 2 NO. 3 QUES COOLIDGE PRO- ONS AND AN- M—Capitalist Dem- TO AMERICAN penne Erespenity / 2 ae UNIONISTS At martes beni untes rom unwise ll the Coolidge. proposals | Workers (Communist) Party. jlesy tertile Bpalug constantly over-| Miss ie acting heer ae act posed Stalin's Inte oans to impoverished farmers ” : sete oy fs * “i owe i ; ama-| Verve. She is, moreover, decidedly RARER the American Trade Un- o impoverished farmer: olvi the farm crisis is one| pyneral services Will-be held Sat- the rigid bounds of drama-| y turgic form and the naive plots that} y to look at, which is more than he used merely served as pegs for|can be said about lots and lots of ion Del sia One of the most in- tion to Rus- | There is another aspect of the Cool- : 3 he dir t, most contemptible and |y;day afternoon at the Ukrainian idge policy and that is the dictat ; viciously despotic documents ever con-|T,abor Home (Manhattan Lyceum), perfect all the pre-el answer stion bunk daa of prosperity. teresting, and valuable |ship of the bankers over the farmers.tcocted by the mind of man. Under | ¢g.6g E, 4th St. jhim to hang his humor on. Yiddish actresses.—A. B. Magil. gover 5c NTS | books to be issued in re- | Upon the basis of inform sup: the pretext of aiding the farmer a The story of “Gold Diggers” might that has 4 cents in lots of ten or 2 plied by the department easily have been treated as satire. more 100 or te the x of agricul-;program is enunciated for xeducin; *y: cents in lots of Hee ee Obra te COU ey oa . Families of 37 Dead But. direct satire requires a certain | Ss ‘ ove 5 copies for one dollar ture a ‘tem will be evolved where-}him to a condition of absolute ser : |intellectual condescension, and Sholom | by the bankers dictate to the farm im, : 1 of those sites wh Be Ai OF THE LABOR BANKS—The®Collapse of the | ° oa dom, a Or thode -pereswes, WHO m i | : . fect and Investment Companies of tierBroreechood of | precisely what crops they shall have brought him--to- his-present Sea en to e ded | Aleichem was incapable of. this, Charles Hopkins has acquired the Loc Wm. Z. Foster. he most se hall not plant. Under an ordered !p A * though he often achieves indirect and ae a “ nea | the ev aboration ‘that has yet been publis BreGL GE Graduetion TARR cH : eee |__A fund of $40,000 to aid the fam-|implied satiric effects. In “Gold | uamatic tights to “Adam and Eve,” copies for 0 “ss de le “use ¢ 1 the implications of the|jlies of 87 fishermen, crews of the Dipgeres. war dno call of. Sholo ge n Erskine’s new novel. F| the population instead of for the pro- agricultural section of the message | Columbia and Avalon, who lost their eb j . ve é > 6 ON , 1 y {fit of the loan mongers, the grain iv nacie Api ese: See Aleichem’s) work, we have } Workers Lisrary Pusisuers, 39 E. 125 St., New York, N. Y. |i. and thoeeliroades cary hela toe perceived by the farmers it will |lives when these vessels foundered | pathetic-comic desolation, the Ries | Save Greco and Carrillo! abn Galeotantehenion. fan the flames of the farm revolt.|jast August, is being raised by fish. Lin rags of the Jewish small town in | — but already the Lowdens, the Daweses der the leadership of th | SenTEe ‘ 5 sae 2: A jermen under e. P e | czarist Russia. The h y y ES SAE Re __ |however, administered by banks, but} and the so-called farm blog-in: con- | Middle Atlantic Fisheries Association, | humor is rich and Work Daily for the Daily Worker! nny awa !tion will be junder the Coolidge system the result p05; are busy trying to play the|111 Cliff St. The lives of the drowned | | will be the reduction of the farm popu- jpart of lightning rods to avoid’ the| seamen were not insured, and their | lation to the level of serfs who toillhattering of the old parties when | families ere in bad ‘straits. Ly [only under orders for the benefit of the storm breaks. In place of the| Columbia, a Gloveester schooner, | New Gold Bond Issue | their explciiere a : | Coolidge vicio} this. imcoherent | met her-doom in. a hurricane: that opposition, both republican’ and demo- | |swept the North Atlantic coast just jz 45 Gt, W.of By EPLYING to the demand of a t, would substitute a vacuum and | ag she was about to reach a Canadian | |BOOTH Maiinees Wed. Ree) a al number of farm organi: r A ations for |try to fill it with their vapid ravings | port. The Avalon went down when | Winthrop Ames Y | government subsidies to financially |and in the end the farmers would | she was rammed off Cape Cod by an} ne pe Z ESCAPE, j jaid the farmers, Coolidge states that | meet the same fate that is indicated | Italian schooner. She as headed | PENew EIny. with: LeslleGiewaral rea such a proposition ‘is unsound and in the Coolidge message, which, after | Boston, her home port. sR acess is es Republic qin weaken! ff e ‘ would also result in a production of | all, is but a brazen expousal of what pean a ; | 4 € 5 ‘Theatre Guild presents —, | . a surplus that cannot be dis holds in store for the farm- | National be ey A EL Beranidias a Nowhere in his message to con | Save Greco oe Carrillo!) Eva.8:30. Mts. Wed.@Sat,2:30 d Shaw's Comedy Geant th ais Late ae “The Trial of Mary Dugan” |" DOCTOR’ DILEMMA GOLD BONDS THE COSTUME JUDGES AT THE DAILY WORKER BALL Paiva adnan Guild Be Rall Bet ae ‘The Desert | Song Max Reinhardt’s “Jedermann” (Everyman) with Leonard Ceely and Eddie Buzzell Secured by a Second Mortgage of the 5 s 2nd Year | CENTURY = a Central Park West § Second Block Co-operative Dwellings IMPERIAL THiA, 45 St wot Bway Mats. Fri iid Sat ate \ i] Mats. Wed. and Sat., 2:30 be . Royale. 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