The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 5, 1928, Page 4

_ —— ~ 6@< CH Ow tHe ew tae Co eon RA team Ne i. na cage = et ob we bake he se Doc Smee HAs YOM soe s HA adem Nee ee +hpuses of comrades of the New York Pagevorr ve THE DAILY WORK NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1928 Workers Party Starts National Training School, Feb. 1. TO SPEND $5,000 FOR EFFICIENCY DF COMMUNISTS Carefully Select the Stu- dents; Fine Course The Workers’ Se slice! today issued ea ‘statement on the National Party training cov to be run for a per- ths in New York un- of the school, begin- iod of three mc ning In the statement | the school es how it hopes to finance the ients and the cour: railroad fare, main- | student, the matter of purchase of ete., iture 0} , part of hool, which shall part from the and part from the individual districts, students. The statement of the school on the selection and financing of the stu- dents follows The outstanding difficulty in selection of the right kind of student will be the problem of their mainten- ance for three months, during which time they will not be able to earn an money. To meet this problem, following procedure out by the Political Committee, Every district is expected to pro- vide the railroad fare for the student selected. This must be done by ar- tanging a send-off for him in the fotm of a‘dinner or a dance or both The proceeds of the affair.is to go to the payment of the fare of the student and where possible and neces- $ary an additional sum toward his maintenance. y the Maintenance and Text-Books. The students are also expected to Taise such sums as they can by loans and the national office will make an effort to supply those students who Tequire it with the sum of $10 a week for expenses. Lodging, akfe and in some Gases supper will be arranged at the district who volunteer to supply these necessities. Comrades who are able to con- tribute money to help in the payment | a week contribution | f the ten-dollar to the expenses of the students or who can help in the purchasing of text-books should communicate at onéé with the Workers’ School tell- is dis- the | s been worked | NEW YORK LABOR BACKS MINERS Milka” strike organizers were among those who told of the present struggle at the New York mas “Flaming mine and Colorado A. S. Embree Sablich, meeting. Picture shows William F. Dunne, of The DAILY WORKER, speak- ing to a crowd which filled Central Opera House. Sitting left to right on the platform: Fred Biedenkapp, national secretary of Workers’ In- ternational Relief; Milka Sablich, C. E. Miller, Robert W. Dunn, Sol- on De Leon, A. S win Markham, 85-year-old poet. . Embree, and Ed- YOUNG WORKERS’ CLASSES PROVE GREAT SUCCESS Covering every field of Y oung Com- munist activity, the department of the Y oung Workers (Communist) League, District 2, New | ries. Organizational prob- | literature work, factory work, lems, general industrial work, sports work, anti-militarist activity, agitation and| accusation that I am supposed to propaganda, children’s work and ac- tivity among opponent organizations covered and dis. | quoted his quotations and made ref- were thoroughly cussed, many new suggestions and | methods coming up in the course of | | the discussion by the members of the class. The class in organizational prob- | lems, led by John Williamson, district organizer of the YWL, centred its at- tention on the work in which the YWL is.the driving force, and the in- ternal life of the League. Under the jlatter subject there were many sug- | gestions to brighten the internal life ing what sums they are prepared tojof the League in order to decrease contribute, Return Fare. The district is expected to raise the round trip and not merely the fare one way. The above arrangements for the | from 12 to 15 students which are ex- pected mean a bud, ers’ School of about fore contri for the Work- butions from comrades and sympathi apable of aiding with substantial ‘donations are urgently needed. For example, a donation of $300 will provide the most necessary | text-books for all students. A dona- tion of $120 will provide the $10 a} week maintenance money for a single student. The donation keep a student for one week, and a donation of $25 will provide him wit text-book Each rict should try 'to get one or more comrades in the district. to supply the funds to meet all the needs of their chosen representative at the | training school. Selection of Students. re being sent to all i gout. The D. E. © ofeach d empowered to make | the selection candidates, whose names and qualifications and records Will then be submitted to the national agitprop and organization de partment | for final selection, Comra basis of the following qual 1, Activity. place, becau: ications: it is not the aim of the! Workers’ School in general or of the Party Training School in particular to give information and education for their own sake, but for the sake of | their use and application in the class struggle, and a comrade who has been inactive, however studious and well! read he may be, unfitted ae study at the nat 2. Previous training and previous reading. While the major emphasis is laid upon activity, still all com- Yades selected will have to have aj certain minimum of previous training if they are to benefit from a course of this uature. Once they are selected, students will be immediately given a reading list for further study, so that when they come to the training school all comrades will be expected to have a certain amount of basic reading al- ready accomplished. "i Examination of Students. ‘The courses will open with a brief ! examination of the students, based upon this minimum reading, and com- rades whose preparation is obviously inadequate, so that they will not be | able to keep up with the work, will not be submitted to the school. Nevertheless, every point will: be} etched in favor of the active com- without great theoretical prer- 1 |the tremendous turnover in member- A git-Prop | .3|its members at various periods; it is | From Historian to Hysterian (Continued from Last Issuc.) I have to touch briefly a few minor | oints raised by Oneal, such as that | By A. BIMBA. jous stages of its development (I did ‘not write a complete history of the | supreme court in which there would |have to be pointed out the number of sufficient to state that we have a su- concluded on Friday night its | preme court of nine members appoint- training course for League |ed for life under the constitution | which was adopted in 1787), or his | disagreement about absentee land- | lordism, or about democracy, or his | have taken passages from his book land expropriated them for myself, or erences as if they were taken from original sources. I can only say that it seems to me that Mr. Oneal, after | appropriating for himself the title of a “pioneer” historian, worked him- self into hysterics and throws charges \right and left without taking any re- sponsibility for them. I absolutely deny that I have expropriated either |Oneal’s book or his material without giving him the credit for it. In one place he condemns me for using some of the sources which had been used in his book, and in another place he con- ee the number of members of the | United States Supreme Court at var- | i i Fa ehiea | On this question Mr. Oneal dis-| 000, and there- | of $10 will} *|ing the work were discussed by the should be selected on the | This should take first | demns me still more strongly for not using some of the sources used by jhim, such as Schlesinger. Among numerous quotations and ship. The class, led by Comrade Dubin- sky, district literature agent, then dis- cussed literature work. The “Young } : . Worker” had to be distributed to the |7¢ferences, in several places there is youth by new wa it was decided, |a" error in the assignment of author- “Factory tivity.” ship. For example, a quoting from Discussing the industrial work of Ghent is assigned to McLaughlin, and |the League, Comrades Miller and jf @ lengthy quotation from Oneal Frankfeld both stressed the necessity | the first two paragraphs are assigned of slow patient building of shop nu-|*® McMaster. For these very obvious clei. ‘Factory activity” instead of |technical errors which may happen, |the old slogan of “factory campaign” [and often do happen, in any book, is the correct line. {Oneal calls me a plain “pilferer” or | Rubinstein showed the necessity of ‘building a youth workers’ sports} movement in this country and pointed | out how, necessary it was for each se¢tion of the League to,send a few comrades into some of the neighbor- | hood sports clubs. Comrade Winter, | in the class on anti-militarist activ- | jity, stressed the necessity for inten- | sification of League work in this field at this time when the conflicts of the | various imperialisms and their atti- |tude towards the USSR make for se- rious war danger. Methods of extend- comrades. | er aration as against theoretically well- | prepared comrades who have not done | the requisite amount of activity and | | who have not the requisite experience. Districts should keep this in mind in making their choice. Further information on any of the matters involved can be gotten by! | writing to Jack Stachel, national or- | ganization secretary, or Bertram D.} Wolfe, national Agitprop director. In-| quiries concerning funds, fare, main- | tenance, and the duties of the districts | ij and the individual in this connection, | should be addressed to» Comrade | International Press Correspondence 2 A special number Stachel. Inquiries concerning prepa- | ration, courses, bibliography, ete., | New embers Read: jshould be addressed to Comrade | M y Wolfe. | Study Time. The students’ afternoons will be left | free for study in the library of the; No. 70. n°the discussion in the Russian Communist Party, featuring an ‘article by N, Bucharin on the first 11 Workers’ School and the evenings | thenes of the cpposition on the | wi y easant Question—the main with the exception of Tuesday and | point in the discussion, Thursday are free for attending meet- a a ; ion of ittees, o: its, mass e the usual ings of committees, of units, mass) N gg Arto Mania yet meetings, etc. { in uable revolutionary pub- Jertai creati iviti | lication, No. 71 includes artt- Certain recreational activities are | thon of ithe, Intent tdeweltp> also planned in connection with the | _ school, such as seeing the environs of | ‘New York, visiting factories, mu-/| seums and other places of eee and one or two affairs. Any comrade interested should ap- ply to his district organizer and} should send a duplicate of his appli- | eation with a statement as to his ac- | |tivities, previous training, and his! | reason for desiring to take the course, ; to the National Agitprop Director of | the Workers Party, 43 East 125th St., New York Citz. ments in the world of labor. Get Both Issues 10 Cents Each Subscribe to get every issue. $6.00 a Year. $3.00 Six Mos. WORKERS LIBRARY PUB- LISHERS 39 East 126 St. NEW YORK “thie: I wonder if my critic could | explain what the pleasure or purpose | would be in stealing matter from one lauthor and giving it to another. | Lincoln and the Civil War. agrees -with me very strongly, as, of coursé, Ke has a right to do so. He thinks: that I am too severe on Lin-| eoln’s policies during the war. He says I am wrong in criticizing Lin-| ecln for not issuing the Emancipa-| tion Proclamation much earlier and not appealing to the Negro masses to} rise against their masters. Such step, in his opinion, would have brought a calamity to the northern cause. Therefore, says Oneal, “As be-} tween Bimba and Lincoln one has lit-| tle difficulty in choosing.” I do not want to repeat my opinion | on the Civil War, I only wish to give Mr. Oneal another choice besjdes that “between Bimba and Linclon.” For instance, Karl Marx strongly sup- ported the northern cause and helped it to the best of ‘his ability. But that did not prevent Marx from criticizing the north for the conduct of the war. In 1868, in a letter to Engels, Marx terest—transfer your money to the CONSUMERS FINANCE CORP. and do not lose any dividends, Buiid the Cooperative Movement! READING FORMS UNIT OF PARTY READING, Pa., Jan. 4—A unit of the Workers (Communist) Party has | just been formed here by Pat Devine, national organizer now on a tour. About 15 joined as charter members. | The organization of the unit at this time is considered significant es- | pecially in view of the recent election | of socialists’ here on a platform of “honesty and’ lower taxes.” | Good Prospects. Commenting on the formation of | the Workers’ Party organization here, | Devine said: | “There are great prospects in | Reading, as well as in the rest of | Pennsylvania, for a real labor party |campaign for the 1928 elections.” | The new unit formed here consists of important trade unionists and others active in the labor movement lin Reading. At the first meeting | plans were paid for real activity. | | wrote: “The Northerners were from | the very beginning dominated by the | representatives of the border slave | states who also pushed MacClellan, | that old partisan of Breckinridge, to | the top. The South, on the contrary, acted as one from the very first. The | North itself has transformed slavery into a military force for the South, instead of turning it against it. The South leaves the productive labor to the slaves and could thus lead its entire fighting force unhindered into the field. It had a unified military leaderships. The North did not. That they had no strategic plan was clear from all the maneuvers of the Ken- tucky army after the conquest of Ten- nessee. In my opinion all this will take another turn. The North will | finally carry on the war seriously and |yesort to revolutionary means and least aside the domination of the peo- ple of the border slave states. A sin- ey gle nigger regiment will have a re- the Southern | markable effect on | nerves. “The long and the short of the | matter seems to me to be that such wars must be conducted in a revolu- tionary manner and that the Yankee have hitherto, tried to carry it on con- stitutionally.” This opinion of Marx is opposed to the opinion of Oneal. Hence I say: | As between Oneal and Marx one has little difficulty in choosing. (To Be Continued.) In January the banks are paying in- secured SECOND BLOCK Guaranteed dividends are being paid TELEPHONE A Another Gold Bond Issue $290, 000 by the sae mortgage on this 6% Subsidiary of the United Workers Cooperative .Association Office: 69 Fifth Ave., cor. 14th St., New York 00 OF DWELLINGS (Bronx Park East, at Allerton Ave. Sta., Bronx) from the first day of deposit LGONQUIN 6900 “Lovely Lady” | New Municipal Show Opens at the Sam H. Harris Theatre «qj OVELY LADY,” the new Shubert | musical comedy at the Sam H.| Harris Theatre is a pleasant surprise | in that-it is not nearly as maudlin | and sentimental as its | title suggests. | As it proceeds one | does have the feelin; that it is not the sort! of activity a civilized society should see carried on without reprimand. Yet if it| must be done, to pro- vide relaxation to the | vast intellects of the commercial world, it could scarcely | be done with more cunning and com- petence. It arouses that odd delight that is awakened by an expertly con- ducted murder. In some respects it is the usual | New York musical comedy with its| rows of educated legs, its chorus rep- | resenting three or four generations, | its songsters selected for their beauty | and terpiscorean talent, its unosten-| tatious chorus boys, its expensive and | dazzling stage settings that appear | on the verge of collapse, and its bed- | room scene where disaster is immin-} ent but never occurs. But there is something more. The line of the plot is taut and the situa- tions are crisp. The old Broadway predicaments have a touch of new life and the comedy appears quite fresh dolled up with a little imagina- tion and subtlety. Edna Leedom, the star, has a suf- ficiently alert mentality to appreci- Edna Leedom ate and create humor and she works | hard enough to be rewarded with a steady stream of tumultuous laughs. The Chester Hale chorus girls are sufficiently smart and wiggly to sat- isfy the demand. Jules Epailly, the sardonic dancer, who treats his fe- male partner with coldness, not to Say scorn, is a fun provoker, The book was written by Gladys Unger and Cyrus Wood from the French play “Dejeuner de Soleil.” The lyrics were by Cyrus Wood and the music by Dave Stamper and Har- old Levey. In “Oh Kay,” George Gershwin’s musical comedy at the Century The- atre. The statement was interesting, so we waited for the tenor to proceed. “You see,” explained Althouse, “the advantage of speech rests with the human singing voice. Does that sug- gest something to you? Yes? Well, because of that fact the singer can do more than’ give his hearers a melody; he can tell them a story, and the story is always the life of the song. “Don’t forget that” warned Alt- house, and peered carefully into the face of his interviewer to be certain that his warning was understood. “Just think of the advantage the musician has who can enunciate a beautiful poem, while at the same time a lovely melody is being sung. “Singers who strive to give the public all they can are mindful of the advantage they possess in having the capacity to link speech to their music. And the people are coming more and more to demand enunciation which can be clearly and easily caught, and a pronunciation which is correct. That is why the violin—king of musical instruments in some im- portant respects—has to play second fiddle to the singing voice.” Mr. Althouse will appear in joint re- cital with Doris Niles, Nina Tarasova and Sasha Jacobsen at The DAILY WORKER Fourth Anniversarv cele- bration on January 13 at Mecca Temple. Metropolitan Opera Tenor Says Voice Sur- passes the Violin TREks is a saying that the violin is the king of musical instruments, and in a way perhaps this is so. But Paul Althouse. gj ‘enor of Metro- volitan Opera holds a contrary view. Mr. Althouse defers to the vio- lin, and declares that from great} fiddlers he has learned much about singing. “Po hear a fine violinist is to learn How a le- " cato may be ac- quired,” declared t ® Paul Althouse one nee oe “But”, he added, “the voice as a musi- cal instrument has advantages over the violin.” The New York section of the In-* ternational Labor Defense has just issued its official organization pub- lication—“The Labor Defense Bul- letin,” a six page mimeographed bul- letin with an illustrated cover design, edited by Rose Baron, secretary of the local section. The Defense Bulletin is to be is- sued monthly, Rose Baron announced, and is being distributed free of charge. It contains all the news of the activities of the International La- bor Defense in New York City. The January issue of this bulletin carries news items and reports on the Greco-Carrillo case, the arrest of seven workers in Newark on Nov. 18 who were trying to hold a meet- ing to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, and the fight to free four New York workers who were recently arrested for dis- tributing anti-injunction leaflets. 45 4, W. of B'way Eves, 8:40 BOOTH Mainees Wed. & Sat. at 2:40 's W. 45 St. Royale — Last Week ‘T AND SULLIVAN OPERAS Winthrop Ames Mon. Matinee, Wed. & Sat. Night» John Galsworthy’s Eves, Wed. Macine® New Play with Leslie Howard “PIRATES OF PE Tues., Thurs, Eves. Matinee “TOLANTHB” The Desert Song with Leonard Ceely and Eddie Buazell | 3 Mie pee, 2nd Year IMPERIAL Sikentaw ‘SHBA.,, 40 ¢ Mats. Wed. and Sat., 2: te y Theatre, 62nd St, & CENTURY Cent. Park West Mats. Mon. & Sat. 2:30 fis. OH, KAY Winter Garden ast eke ae — WORLD'S LAUGH Sate le Artists § Models i ‘Th National THE Mey oie comEDY ACU : ua Creep.” —LBve. Post . way, 46 St. Evs. 8.30 Mats. Wed.&Sat. 2.30 41 St. W. of B’way . Mts, Wed. &Sat.2:80 “The Trial of Mary Dugan” Max Reinhardt’s Production of. “PERIPHERIE” \ itan Thea., Columbus Circle oe ms reer The ‘Theatre Guild presents | Satie Th., W. 42d. Bvs.5:40 Mats,Wed.&Sat,,2:40 Republic Bernard Shaw's Comedy DOCTOR'S DILEMMA ' Mats, Fri, and Sat. at 2:15, + ‘Lan, W. odd, bys, 8.20 Rafhralline Guild \ais-rhurs.esai, {WALL S Play. of, Anson with MUNI ‘Thea.,W.43 SUE Johin Golden gi West ote MatineesThurs,&Sat. in Geo, M. Cohan's American Far Henry Miller’s Grant. Mitchel ‘THE BABY CYCLONE | MUSIC AND “CONCERTS — SATURDAY, JANUARY 7th, at 8:30 WASHINGTON IRVING HIGH SCHOOL FLONZALEY QUARTET Tickets at olioe People’s Symphony Concerts, 32 Union Sq., and at desk evening of concert, ‘Thea. W.445) ERLANGER’S Met hue & dat “EMERY WALONES BUILD THE DAILx WuRKER! t Defense Bulletin Outy> For New York District \ } fi