The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 23, 1927, Page 4

Page Four Politics and Prayers in Church Fight in England By WM. PICKENS. thing just like that, is inevitable in| "A vote of the House of Commons | a state church. was taken to decide the validity or| A religion “by vote of the major- not possibly suit ever People differ about their relig' invalidity of some written prayer Tf the: devil had full charge of re- ligion, he never could have brought|tions more than about their head- | it to a worse mockery than that. dress. What pr book could suit prayer book voted on by politicians, ; both slave « er? Both black Mississippi? Such a in 1 book would have to be so gen- 1 and emasculated as to lose and white pra: er all definiteness peal. Who could book that both mans could have us most of whom never pray. If it “passed,” it would then have been and all specific ap- ave made a prayer hmen and Ger- d when fighting nature. Ju where dc into the matter < is to be all ri vote in the House of majo’ mons; all wrong if it does not. That is exactly | each other in the World War? Even | what comes of uniting ¢ thé bourgeois God would ha found lit hard to interpret the meanings of prayer boc sta te-of ¢ polities w When politic mixed, the mixture is one hundred per cent polit Ruin This pra which cost the church le: of work, was “voted dow house, in favor of of the 17th ¢ such are | any . Devine Finds Good Labor Party Trend 21 Years’ r book, that the ——— bury, “P SHENONDOAH, Pa., Dec. eo | Mail)—When definite work for ion of a Labor Party is in- augu be v ted in th Devine, now touring the “The ly basis for securing ment here” he stated. newspaper will be pub- ences | he C Catholicism in t by ine lnding ples s th more Protesta or Cromwellian soon by the pitmen of} wing, and sow d be pleas- mines. Meanwhile al ing to the morc > or Papal for The DAILY WORKER sub- wing. Of cour 3 not. to be} tions was started by Devine. asked anything about it: the prayers | Preparations for classes in the funda- must be made te pl men, And|mentals of Communism and in Eng- when men d r ely, this dif-|tish were also made under the direc- ference must reflect itself in a com- | tion of the ting field organizer. promising prayer Sn a ie QUEEN UNVEILED Se BOE Probably for the first time the| To speak one can see at} queen and ehiers of King Amanul-| a glance that th a fight between | lah of A an appeared unveiled sand the and mixed freely with their fellow) ide of the | passengers a + or some-|putana en goute to Europe. =} Getting FI N CO Co-operative BAKERY PRODUCTS (Union Made) let us know and we'll instruct our driver to cal] at your home. CO. Finnish Co-operative Trading Association, Inc. Tel. Windsor 9052. » 4301 Eighth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. If not, GOLD BONDS Secured by a Second Mortgage of the Second Block Co-operative Dwellings in the Co-operative Workers’ Colony Opposite Bronx Park and Barker Ave. (4 “Allerton Ave. St.) Britton St. and Arnow Ave., Bronx Gold Bonds in Denominations of $100 $300 $500 $1000 CONSUMERS FINANCE CORP. Subsidiary of the United Workers’ Co-operative Ass’n. Can Be Bought Also on Installments “. Office: 69 Fifth Ave., cor. 14th St., New York "TELEPHONE ALGONQUIN 6900 aranteed dividends are ing paid from the first day of deposit. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1927 American Unionist Discovers Soviet Russia Teaches Skill MAYER WILL BE FUN PROVOKER AT DEFENSE BAZAAR Good Program Ready for Detroit Affair | DETROIT, Dec. 22.—Local Detroit jof the International Labor Defense is |arranging a Christmas Prisoners’ | Masked Ball and Bazaar Monday, December 26 at the New Workers Home, 1343 E. Ferry Ave. The Women’s Branch of the LL.D., dressed as European peasants, will e the thirsty “tea drinkers” with Chai in their Tea Garden. The Lithuanian Branch will ren a mar- riage booth, where everyone will be able to marry and re-marry the “ap- | Moscow, Nov. 24, 1927 (By Mail.) In my visit to the Labor Institute this afternoon, I received very inter- esting and valuable information. The Labor Institute is connected with the Labor Exchange, which is part of the social insurance department of the ‘| Soviet Union. The Labor Exchange is a place where the unemployed register for jobs. If there are no jobs, the worker gets unemployment benefits. cf these workers are selected to at- tend the Labor Institute, where they are taught a trade useful to the work- fer and to the heavy industries. Skili Acquired. At the Labor Institute, it is claim- ed that a man or woman can be train- ed to become a good toolmaker or mechanic, or a good worker in what- ever trade he prefers, in a period from Some | amination in “both the physical and psychical laboratory are sent to the bio-chemical department, where after analysis and coordination, a definite conclusion is arrived at regarding this particular worker’s ability to learn to perform the work required by the trade he desires to learn. Laboratory. The bio-chemical laboratory also earries on investigations and- experi- mentations with occupational diseases, such as lead poisoning among paint- ers. Animals are used for some ex- periments. I asked if! some of the workers resented being put through such experiments and examinations. I was informed that they did not, since they knew the purpose of the examination was for their own being, and not for the purpose of making profits. “Playing the Game” ~ pppre BUZZELL. Bruce Reynold’s New! Comedy at the Ritz of) Conventional Pattern “Playing the Game,” Bruce H Reynolds new comedy-drama at the Ritz Theatre has a strong second act surrounded by a first and third act that are much weaker. The plot concerns a wealthy idler who becomes so drunk on his wedding night that he marries the wrong girl. The rest of the play shows what hap- pens as a result of this action. | The first act is devoted to the} wedding; the second act the best of | the three, shows husband and wife| ea, progress will | Labor | nboard the steamship Raj- | ” four to six months. I questioned this time claim. | methods employed to train the work ers. Now I am convinced that they }ean do here what they claim in train- ing mechanics in a limited period of time. But I am also convinced that it could only be done in Socialist Rus- sia. They have appliances to held the | worker’s arm, leaving only the wrist Comsomols, fiery Bolsheviks | fee to practise the wrist motion long hair and mustaches and | With the hammer. Then the worker nives in their mouths, gypsies, | Puts his arm into another appliance | dancers, and everyone will be there jin costume. | The proceeds of this affair will go toward the Christmas present of $25 | to each class war prisoner, $50 to each family, and $5 to each child. ples of their eyes” as many times as they wish. The future will be di- vulged by Hindu fortune-tellers. The Tom Mooney Branch has ted a jail where reds and labor tors will be confined and sen- tenced by Judge Thayer. Also, ar- ticles sent by the prisoners them- selves will be sold and raffled off. | Governor Fuller, alias Peter Bond, | Thayer, all the Facisti, Rus- | | Judge jan with Thus, under instruction, he practis the arm motions of a hammer. Teach Filing. Filing straight is taught in some- | what the same manner. At first, the | worker practises with a long, file- | shaped tool, also mechanically guided. = . \Seeret Session on the | then he files a small, flat piece of r + | steel, which is connected with an in- Hearst For gerles dicator to register any deviation from ie | a straight line., I have seen the work- ers at work, and the work turned out by- them, and to me they seemed as competent as the average mechanic in’ thé United States. Another interesting feature of the Labor Institute is the physical and physic examination and the bio-cher ical analysis of all candidates for jobs. Any man or woman between the ages of ‘seventeen and forty-five applying et the Labor Exchange for a job, is sent to the Labor Institute for an examination. The results of the ex- (Centinued from Page One) which are to appear in “Excelsior” |and written by Julio Trens, owner of the government news agency and a former employee of Hearst who ac- companied him on a “pleasure” trip , through Mexico in 1921. Attacking the anti-Mexican cam- paign of the American publisher as an “odious intrigue” Trens charges that Hearst’s action in publishing the documents was motivated by the de- ;sire to wreak vengeance upon the | Mexican government for refusing to Then I was shown the j which holds his arm above the elbow. | The laboratory is also carrying on experiments with the functional per- formance of the worker under differ- ent conditions. One gréup of workers, learning locksmithing, must do a fil- ing operation. They start at a given time, file continuously for a certain | period, then rest in a required posi- | tion for a few moments. This process | is repeated under different conditions, | different speeds and lengths of time. Then the workers are given exam- inations, including blood-tests, which are examined in the bio-chemical lab- oratory. The purpose of these tests jis not to find out how much a worker can stand before becoming an eco- nomic liability, but to find the best |methods and conditions under which the worker can accomplish the desired results, and yet leave the worker fit to enjoy the results of his efforts. There are many chemical labora- tories among the large industries of America. The sole object of the chem- }ieal departments of American indus- | jtries is to discover new methods of | | ty or to make some im- provement in products, for profit-in- | creasing production, for increasing the | interest of the capitalist owners of the indust: Not one of the chem- ical laberator of American plants, interested in improving the condi- tion of the worker for the worker’s sake. In American industries, science is interested in improving products for profit. In the Workers’ Republic, science is interested in improving the | {conditions of the. workers. ;grant Hearst a title to “extensive jland holdings in the state of Chi- huahua which are affected by a de- |eree nullifying the concession granted | to Jesus Velenzuela & Co.” That “Pleasure” Trip. Trens relates that Hearst visited | Mexico in 1921 and that he (‘Trens) | " vas commissioned by the Mexican| By BERTRAM D. WOLFE. government as Hearst’s guide and in- iQv2® eighty Pie Hayes B the a a ers erpreter. “Hearst,” says ‘Trens,,_ 8veatest of de- | | “was surrounded by pleasant company clared: jand princely comfort, and gav | “Theory too becomes a material the impression of a man mo: force as soon as it grasps weapons.” |sensual and given up completely to | The theories which he was then | only beginning to elaborate have since pee pleasures. | cage E “Very little spiritually and no in- taken hold of millions of working | tellectual finesse was I able to ob-|men and women thruout the world, serve in Hearst during his tour.|and have become a material force by | Neither champaigns nor excellent |gvasping weapons in 1848, 1870, 1905 nds, nor excellent companions were |2nd 1917. In 1917 Marxian theory wanting for a single moment.’ ’ | became a victorious force in the revo- | Saw Danger to Property. |lution deseribed and commemorated According to Trens, Hearst learned | [a Ue Pee {on this trip of the menace of losing | ITHOUT the sufficient spread of |his properties, although he did every- working class theory there canbe | thing to ingratiate himself with the |no powerful working class move- | Mexican government. “With the hope|ment. The numerical and ideological |that his land holdings in Chihauhua, weakness of the American | which included the Bavicora develop-|movement is an eloquent proof of jment, would not be affected by the|this. Our capitalist class, the most provisions of the national agrarian | powerful in ‘the world, carries on a legislation.” . |most intensive propaganda Despite this, says Trens, the Mexi-| penetrates into the ranks of the }ean Department of Agriculture in working class, confusing, demoraliz- |1928 declared as voided the concession |ing, destroying. Emdless tons of pa- | Which had been granted to Jesus /yey and printers’ ink pour forth from | | Valenzuela in the days of President | \giant presses to sow confusion in the | Gonzales, in accord with the coloniza-| minds of the workers. |tion laws then in force. In this alen- C My the “Amer lab. )zuela concession .are included the | spate eee & santa a ne llarger part of the lands which make |™0vement has an incredibly short | memory. It forgets today what it hee LS SUITE, GA EC cn learned yesterday thru costly exper- jhauhau, according to the signed ar- licences’ and bitter struggles. It for- ‘ticle by Trens. ce : |gets what the masters of press and | Says Clark Bought Documents. | school would have it forget and re- | Trens declared that Edward S.|members largely only what the mas- | Clark, who he described as Hearst’s |tey class would have it remember. business partner exclusive of news- |"phe giant presses pour out tons of paper investments, is the connecting | falsified theory and misinformation. jlink in the present documents. He | Mmtellectual shoddy and adulterated also declares that Clark, as Hearst’s | mental food are sold to the workers | land holding manager in Mexico, now|jyst as shoddy cloth and adulterated suddenly appears as the directing |}oqy food are sold to them. genius in the Hearst newspaper or ganization’s “buying documents to be YJITHOUT the sufficient spread of working class theory there can be published in the newspapers of the |no powerful working class movement. syndicate.” “It is self evident that this intro-|This cannot be repeated too often. | mission of Mr. Clark into newspaper | Only by the building of working class affairs, which is not his business, is odls, the development of a work- jonly a part of his regular occupa- ing aa press and the printing and tion, which is the management of the | wide ditiribution ‘of working class | Hearst properties in Mexico,” de- literature can working class theory | clared Trens. become the property of.the mass of | Amer Only if the les- | Western Trade Head sons of experienc re supplemented by the spread of working class theory Hits Coolidge Slam can the American labor movement ccaiteacs learn all there is to learn from its WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Malcolm daily struggles. Only thus can it Stewart, replying as chairman of the | wrest from its defeats the theoretical Midtle West Foreign Trade Commit- |lessons that lay the basis for vic- tee, attacked President Coolidge’s re-| tories. Only thus ean it learn from cent criticisms of the Shipping Board | victories in minor skirmishes the les- in which the latter suggested that the |sons that lead to victories in® deci- Board too often yields to pressure to |sive engagements. protect private interests. Only thru the development of its Stewart’s interests being naturally |own press and literature and theory those that Coolidge referred to as|can the American working class “private’—he is chairman of the Cin- lengthen its painfully short memory cinnati Chamber of Commerce—he | that within a generation forgets such yuestions the right of the president |heroes as William Sylvis and within ‘o direct the policies of the Shipping |@ decade such heroic struggles as the soard which, he asserted, is independ- | Seattle General Strike or the mutiny at of the executive. of the American troops sent te Areh- Introducing the Workers’ Library labor | which | |Symphony Artists’ angel to to throttle the Russian Work- ; t ers’ Republic. j HE Workers Library is dedicated to | the publication of working class | literature, to the conserving of the | traditions and experiences of the.| |American -labor movement, to the | spread of working class theory. | Its aim is to help in the building | jof a more powerful labor movement, one capable of coping with the most | powerful capitalist class in the entire world. HE Workers Library inaugurates | s series of publications with this resent pamphlet dealing with the ous Russian revolution. About 0 event in human history has the capitalist press and_ literature of America and the official press of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy spread more poisonous and lying propaganda than | about the Russian revolution of 1917. | The reasons why American capi-! talism is trying to keep us from know- | ing the truth about the Soviet Union where the workers rule, are obvious, | | And it is’ precisely for these reasons | | truth about that world shaking event. Hence the Workers Library abe | jlishers feel that it is peculiarly ap- | propriate to inaugurate its series of | publications with a pamphlet contrib- | uting to the spread of the truth about | the Russian Revolution and the Soviet | Union—a pamphlet written by a well | nessed with his own eyes the achieve- | ments of the Russian workers and | peasants and who is even now in the Soviet Union conveying the greetings of the American workers to their Russian brothers. “The Tenth Y for whieh this article is the introduction, The series of publications of which the | present pamphlet is the rst have been made possible thru a fund con- tributed by number of comrades Le sympath Acknowledgment | is due des B. and S. Rubin ributions initiating the publi dge P1 and “Quescions American Trade by y Ls And Answ Interview With jean rade Union | : Library and 1 Teague. Rogers Back to Stage. Will Rogers will return to his old trade of monologist and rope-spin- ner, according to a statement made here yesterday by his manager, after | his unofficial “kidding ambassador- |ship” to Mexico. He will appear at the Majestic Theatre, New York, February, 12, for a “charity.” BOOKKEEPER ARRAIGNED. William Prepiak, bookkeeper of the Rigney & Co., candy manufacturers, of 248 Park Aye., Brooklyn, was ar-| raigned before the Gates Avenu Court, charged with embezzling $40¢. & living together and the third act, in the manner of the old fashioned melo- drama finds the villians in jail and everything going While the play is oe usual conyen- | tional pattern, being dotted with an} occasional shocking remarks, the act- | ing is more than adequate and places the play in a higher category than it would find itself otherwise. Trene Homer as Rose Donahue, “the lady of the evening,” who ropes the millionaire into matrimony when hé is drunk, gives a capital performance. | Joan Blair as Madge, one of Rose’s! cronies does her utmost to bolster up the plot. The rich man’s son is weil played by Martin Burton. In short, a capable group of actors | and actresses obtain the utmost out} ofa play which is slender, and in the main highly improbable. It is the sort of thing the readers of the tabloid press might like. That is its only hope of becoming a success. —S. A. Pi | JOSEPH SZIGETI PLAYS AT WASHINGTON IRVING HIGH SCHQOL TONIGHT} The second concert of the Peoples’ course for stu- dents and workers, will be given to- night at Washington Irving High School: Joseph Szigeti, violinist, will give the following program: Concerto No. 5 in A major, Mozart; Sonata in G minor (Devil’s Trill), Corelli; Loure id Gavotte in E, Bach; Caprice in E. Paganini, Suite after Themes by Pergolesi (Pulcinella Suite), Stravin- sky; Chant de Roxane, Szymanowski- Kochanski; Spanish Dance, De Falla- Kreisler. =e our Advertizers Who furnishes most of the laughs in “The Desert Song.” The Sigmund Rombe: musical play which just |celebrated its 450th performance at {the Imperial Theatre. || Broadway Briefs | | |» Two premieres scheduled for jthis evening. Cosmo Hamilton’s “Caste” at the Mansfield Theatre; and Olga Petrova in her new play “What Do We know” at Wallack’s. Jed Harris will present “The Royal Family,” the comedy by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber at the |Selwyn Theatre next Wednesday |night.. Roger Pryor, who was playing in “Saturday’s Children,” has been added to the cast. “Nightstick,” will close at the elwyn this Saturday and next week wall play an engagement at the Er- langer Theatre in Buffalo. The play will continue its New York run, at the George M. Cohan Theaire following the Buffalo engagement. Molly Picon will appear as the star of “Some Girl,” a Yiddish musical comedy, opening tonight at Kessler’s ond Avenue Theatre. H. Kalmano- vitz has written the book and lyries and Joseph Rumshinsky has supplied he score. . Well Sot Chanin's bey aiid Th. 44th, V Evenings We ana Sat. Play of the Golden West “LOVE CALL WALLS :-: with MUNI WISENFR) John Golden 75.2 Gt, W. of B’w Wed 45 y Eves. 8: BOOTH Mainees Wed. & Sat. at 2:49 Winthrop Ames Presents John Galaworthy's New Play with Leslie Howard Theatre, 41 St. W. of B'way National Bve.$:3C. Mts. Wed.&Sat.2:40 “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veilier with HARDING—REX OMERRYMAN ‘The Desert Song ANN |that we have to struggle to get the | with Leonard Gecty_and Eddie Buzzell | 2nd Year VLHEA.,, 49 3t.W.of B way IMPERIAL aiveaiags $30 Mats. 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