The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1928, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1928 Transparent Trick by Secretary Wilbur to Increase Naval Appropriations UNDERESTIMATION CARRIES PLANES TO DEAL DEATH WHERE BANKERS INVEST syspect TRICK COMBINED WITH A 2 _ -WAR SCARE TALK : WORKERS’ RANKS | Rep | 800 Vote Strike Aid as | Plunkett Reproved for | A if Ci ") man said all she had in the house There is grave danger of a fright Letting Out Secret WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. £ Secretary of the Navy seyenty-one ship prog’ to come before the House commitie: on Naval Affairs today, involves : trick by much more estimated $750,000,000 will be spent on the naval race with Br eanie known when experts pointed ov that the actual building propositions, which Wilbur sets “roughly at three quarters of a billion” will actually amount to at least a billion dollars,| and the program, once embarked upon, can not be easily abandoned. The strategy of the navy depart- ment seems to be to deliberately un- derestimate the cost, get Congress to authorize the “economy program” of which Coolidge has signified his ac-| eeptance, then cultivate a war e at the right moment to get the extra appropriation. | Tt is rather expected the schemes | will succeed. ‘ Cal is Vexed. President Coolidge speaking in his | usual equivocal terminology, today | “reproved” Real Admiral Plunkett, U.)| S. N., for starting the war scare too} soon. Statements of the character of Ad- miral Plunkett’s, naming directly cer- tain countries as those with which the U.S. will have war in the near future, the President is represented as say- ing in substance, “are ineffective i influencing Congressional action,” and interfere with the state depart- ment’s diplomacy abroad. Plunkett Repeals. | Plunkett yesterday spoke before} the Sons of the Revolution at the Waldorf in New York, and defended his “right” to talk about the next war in the following language: “We don’t spend $724,000,000 with- out a reason. We have got to ex- plain to the people of this country why we spend this money.” War Over Trade. The transcript of the first Plunkett speech, in which the direct reference was made to war with Britain has| been released, and shows the admiral, discussing the possibility of an Amer- jean merchant marine competing for the .carrying trade of the world, as Sayin: “Just so long as you make that your policy and you follow it through, you are going to have war. I don’t care whether it is with Great Britain or some other nation, you are going to have war just as surely @s you are sitting in this room with me, if you dare to contest the con- trol of the sea with your goods, not with your guns.” The address was delivered on Sat- urday at the National Republican Club. Wilb m which was | than the } % A The latest addition to the Navy, the Lexington, a gigantic plane carrier, is part of a ten billion-dollar program for warships, to be used for the killing of the | natives of countries like Nicaragua and China for the protection of American millionaires. Three views of the Lexington are shown above. } cabs on the “Royalty” | SRR na RESO Lord” Beaverbrook, whose activ- ities during the past few years have been limited to capturing the affec- tions of wealthy ladies of the leisure class and separating them from their stocks and bonds. His con- quests are variously estimated to be from twenty to fifty women, some of whom he actually married. The journalistic police is indignant over the fact that Beaverbrook is a phony “lord,” and is scabbing on those of the “real royalty.” Rush Air Imperialism WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. — The navy today awarded a contract ‘o the Wright aeronautical corporation of Paterson, N. J., for 100 4-cylinder air- cooled aircraft engines, at a total cost of $1,141,020, A contract to the Hall Aluminum Ai ft Corp., of Buffalo, for one all-me.al experimental amphibian fighting plane, was also awarded. The Goodyear Co., was awarded a contract to supply eight gas cells for use on the dirigible Los Angeles. Famine Stalks Thru Hocking Valley, Says Relief Secretary PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. —The } seourge of famine has made its ap- pearance in the Hocking Valley, Ohio, mine region where the miners have been on strike for almost ten mont according to a report made by Vin- went Kamenovitch, secretary of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Gommittee, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh Pa. He has gated the situ in that loc y with a view to making arrangeme to send relief to the striking coal diggers and their de- pendents. At Hollister, Athens county, he found the children scantily clad and uridernourished with about twenty p cent of them unable to attend scheol, "hecause of lack of clothing and food.} They had nothing for lunch. No Food, Clothing. At Jacksonville, the teachers were Sending the children home daily be- cause they were without shoes or ‘stockings and without lunch. At Floodwood, miners and their “families had nothing to eat. One wo- was blackberries and a few beans. ‘There was no sugar, coffee or meat Live on Cabbage. Kamenovitch reported that the ‘teachers at Danville went out and begged for clothing for the children Wm their classes. He stated that in “one locality a group of children re- ed their only sustenance for thre ks consisted of cabbage. Another lived exclusively on tomatoe 4 two weeks. Some of the smallest | f _ ¢hildren were without milk for month while their clothing did not™ protec! ‘them from the chill wintry winds. ful epidemic among the workin: population of Hocking Valley whicl ‘will take a terrible toll of lives be- the undernourished bodies. 0° children cannot resist the rav of disease,” Kamonovitch said condition of thoso little children aloud to every working man and nan and to every sympathizer in United States for a quick and generous response to the appeal for money, food and clothine the tarving children of the striking min- s sent out by the Pennsylvania-Onio Miners’ Relief Committee. Situation Desperate. The desperate situation of the min- ers and their families in Glouster. is revealed by the following to the Pennsylvania-Ohio Relief Committee from D. W secretary of the Sunday Creek Valley Relief Committee: “Dear Friends: I note in The DAILY WORKER of Dec. 4, you appeal for help for the miners. As u may notice from the letterhead. his committee was formed to solicit help to save the children of this com- munity by keeping them fed, shod and clothed for school. We are plead- ing with your committee to helm + 11,000 miners with approximately 45,000 women and children wi in abject destitution at the present time by donating part of what you may collect to help us in our strug- gle for justice, liberty and the right to collective bargaining.” The need for relief is urgent. Send all contributions to the Pennsylvania- Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. al i By MOISSAYE J. OLGIN The Lenin memorial meeting held at Madison Square Garden on Satur- day, Jan. -2T; Was"more"twan a poli- tical demonsiration. It was-an extra- jordinary mass expression of collecti- | vist spirit. It was a vista opened by jclass conscious proletarians into the future. There will come a time when the jclass struggle with its waste of its precious human energy will be no more. The exploiters having been | wiped off the face of the earth, class- {less mankind will, -in Communism, jattain tremendous heights of mass culture and mass spirituality, with creative energy let loose. There will be no more sordid elemental struggle for a bite of bread. There will be no brutality and no fear. Mankind then, will know the joy of collective work which will be like play, and of collective play which will be the out- jgrowth and the background of crea- ive work. Mankind will have holi- days chosen to mark significant turns in the colorful flow of its existence, and the sign of its mass celebrations will be the white fire of the mass spirit. Glimpse of Future. This future of which only a bare idea can be formed at present, of which even the outlines can only be |conjectured, touched the “Garden” |gathering last Saturday night, and transformed it imto proletarian beau- ty. A realizatioh, at once hoped for and thrilling, of) what life might be |under a new sygtem, suddenly came |to these twenty-odd thousands to |make them vastly more than just | listeners to political speéches or spec- |tators at a mass performance. It | was as if all of them were sifddenly | transplanted *into a new land, with |new skies overhead. A Leninist Spirit. Yet there was nothing dreamy or | Sentimental about the affair. The |speeches were sober, pointed ad- ~| dresses devoted not so much to Lenin as to Leninism; not so much to the history of the Russian Revolution as to the inevitability of the American , revolution; not so much to the Amer- jican revolution in the future as to |the class struggles of the present |time that lead to the overthrow of | the strongest capitalism in the world. | Realistic, scientifically grounded ex- | Positions they were, of the forces working throughout the imperialistic world and hasiening its doom. Those multitudes that filled the vast build- ing from the first tier to the top gal- lery, were given to understand that upon their own will, organization, de- termination, clear-sightedness and correctness of action depend the has- tening of the historic process. Historie Forces. Yet, beyond and above the speeches there was something even bigger than the tasks outlined. There was the keen feeling of historic landslides. There was the almost palpable throb- bing of momentous historie forces, The march of hundreds of millions re- verberated in the hearts of the mass. Obstacles were being swept away. Walls crumbled. Fortresses fell. Rocks were levelled to the ground. Uncounted millions marched to their freedom, Above the irresistible on- rush loomed the figure of the leader who showed the way to power. Vla- dimir Ilyitch Lenin. : Proletarian V‘sions. It was not surprising, therefore, that the speakers’ platform should suddenly become populated with shapes and ghosts. The platform M. OLGIN DESCRIBES LENIN PAGEANT ‘Expression of Collectivist Spirit’, Says Writer in Appreciation was only impersonating the visions@are living these great events. Living that lived, unformed, in the mind of the mass. Art, here as everywhere, was whipping human potentialities, class potentialities, into living form. The actors, if actors they may be called, were an integral part of the! gathering itself. The presentation on-| ly continued, in a different medium, | the speakers’ discourses. The idea remained unchanged. The mood was unbroken. It was only heightened. The mass lived in the scenes. How much more elating and signi- ficant was the playing compared with anything a “legitimate” theatrical undertaking can offer! How different the whole! Here they were, one thous- and entirely untrained women and men, among them hardly a handful of workers who had at‘least an idea of stage. They had had very few rehearsals. They were acting under the most trying conditions. The music was played by strangers. The lights did not work. Proletarian Achievement. The beautiful chorus-singing was drowned. in the vast spaces of the hall. Still, behold! Here is the mass of the Russian people, poorly dressed, bent-backed men and women of the Czar’s empire. The crowd moves un- easily, the crowd is in deep despair. The cossacks come. Lashes swish in the air. Thongs cut the people’s backs. The crowd disperses, vanishes. Block forces rei; Tall posters, akin to Russian church banners, advance as if moving of their own will. Gro- tesque figures, they are, of the rich man, the prince, the priest, the gen- eral, the Czar. Ludicrous cartoons. We all know it’s “made for fun.” Yet somehow terrific anger serges. Hatred grips everybody’s heart. Fists clench. The huge gathering is one crouching monster, ready to leap. There is a stifled cry in the hall. When the young figures draped in red finally appear, driving away the ap- paritions, one greets them like a true liberating force. They are the purifying storm. There is abandon in their sweep. There is release in their abandon. We all know: this is Edith Segal, our own comrade, these are other friends whom we meet every day. But now they are transformed. We are with them, in their vigorous gestures, in their flashlike rush, in the turmoil at once harmonious and chaotic like the revo- lution itself. lution? Who knows. Is it happen- ing on the stage? Not at all. It is an event of major importance in our own lives, Somehow, we, ourselves, Is it the Russian revo-'to ourselves the presence of some- them intensely, deeply. And that scene that embodies the first session of the Second Soviet Congress! Did we care much wheth- er the actors: really resembled Lenin and Trotzky? Was it of great im- portance whether the uniforms or even the gestures were “true to life”? There was something truer and more real than mere appearances in that scene, There was the truth and the reality of. our own feelings, our own determination. We all merged in a flood of revolution. We knew it was coming, it was there. * When the comrade bearing the Red Flag appeared on the edge of the plat- form fo appeal for aid to the U. S. S. R., we did not think of anybody acting. A comrade was, in truth, ap- pealing to us. Everybody swore to do his utmost to drive away the black shapes that crawled from everywhere. Were we children once more? No, we were fully aware of reality. We were a collective body with a collec- tive mind. We left our inherent unity with our brothers over there. We ex- perienced class unity, through the power of impersonation. This is, per- haps, the greatest task a proletarian performance can strive for. “The Internationale.” When, at the end of the perform- ance, the crowd joined with the plat- form in singing the ‘Internationale,” when shouts of joy went up both from the stage and the mass, the climax was reached. The performance is significant not only as an experience but also as pointing the way for a real proletar- ian mass-theatre. Where the actors are workers animated by the class struggle and participating in the bat- tles of the working class, where the \plays are giving form to the unclear \but powerful strivings of the prole- tarian masses, where spectators and ‘actors are united by a common bond jof class emotions, where the things | \performed on the stage are of vital |importance to all concerned, there the | technique will not fail to assume an ‘original form, | The Red Pageant marks, in this as jin many other ways, a turning point in the history of our Communist ‘movement. It was an expression of \vitality. It summed up in a graphic fashion years of work. It revealed thing new that is more than sections and sub-sections, committees and units. It gave us all new courage for further work and further efforts. Chinese Celebration Quiet For Revolutionary Dead Socrates Sanuino, brother of Gen. Nicaraguan army of independence, will be present at the Chinese Peasant Carnival tomorrow night at Manhattan Lyceum, > announced yesterday. “We are celebrating more quietly than usual this year,” said one of the Chinese musicians who will play at the carnival, referring to the Chinese |°TS for tomorrow night’s carnival, New York celebrations now taking 7 | Hands-Off-China Committee ter- place. “So many of our brothers and | ‘1 AS peli sisters are fighting and dying in \day. “Thousands of U. S. marines are China.” 1 He is employed at the Chinese | Theatre here, In Common Cause. “Gen. Sandino’s army of workers and peasants and the workers’ and ” Millionaire Makes Merry in Floating Palace While Workers Starve Richard Cadwallader, Jr., above docked in the East River, beings. ope a Philadelphia banker, spent $2,000,000 to build the palatial yacht shown Meanwhile tens of thousands of miners in this ‘banker’s home state starve while struggling for a wage which would permit them to live under conditions befitting human Augusto Sandino, commander of the 66 E. Fourth street, it was Peasants’ armies in my country, China, are fighting the same battle,” declared P, T. Lau, one of the speak- when interviewed at the office of the being rushed to Nicaragua to crush the struggle of these people against American imperialism and to keep a puppet president in office, while tens of thousands of U. S. marines and soldiers are backing up reactionary war lords and puppet officials in China,” added Lau. “I shall be glad to meet Sandino at the carnival tomorrow evening and thru him send my greetings and the greetings of the workers and peasants of China—if I may be permitted to speak in their name—to Gen. Sandino and his brave army, China and Nica- vagua must join hands.” Among musicians who have offered their sefvices for the carnival are members of the orchestra of the Chinese Theatre, in New York’s Chinatown. Besides instrumental num- bers their program Friday evening will include Chinese peasant songs ;and songs sung by workers while lifting heavy loads or while pulling cargo boats along the canals. (ad Women Work, Tend Baby Above is Virginia C. Gildersleeve, dean of Barnard College, who states that 2,000,000 working women in the United States must combine outside work and family responsi- bilities. Unable to live on meager wages of husbands, wives must se- cure job and care for children at the same time, Hickman Defense Asks Judge Disqualified LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25.—The trial of William Edward Hickman for the kidnaping and murder of Marion Parker today was adjourned until 2 o'clock this afternoon when defense counsel moved to disqualify Superior Judge Carlos S. Hardy from presiding over the hearing. Great Assortment of All Makes of Typewriters. Portables, New and Re- built. All Guaranteed. Moderate Prices. For Sale, Rental and Repairs. Open: 10 A.M. to 9 P.M. International Typewriter Co. 1643 2nd Avenue. Bet. 85-86th. NEW YORK CITY. Wear a Lenin Button Every militant worker, every Com- munist, should get his fellow-worker to wear this button! The price is; up to 25—10c per button. Over 25—Tc per button. Party organizations should . order thru their district organizerst Other working class organizations order from the National Office, Workers Party, 43 East 125th St., New Yor City. : The button represents a beautiful picture of Lenin surrounded by a lively group of children. Around. the whole recne are the words: “Orgaa- ize the ‘hildren.” Every \srkers’ child should wear this button and every working class parent should gev 2tis button for his children. ordered from the Young Pioneers of America, 43 East 125th St., New York City. The prices are: Up to ten, 10c per button; orders of from 10 to 100, Music will be furnished also by John C. Smith’s Negro orchestra. Te per button; orders of over 100, 5c per button, i These children’s buttons may m¢ 9,000 Stand Firm BOSTON, Jan. 25.—What is be- } lieved to be an attempt to break the strike of the 9,000 shoe workers in Haverhill, is to be made by the State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration. The Board announced yesterday that it will investigate the causes of the s rike. Leaders express the opinion that the Board may be preparing to issue a partial or small concession in an effort to detach part of the shoe workers and split the strikers’ ranks. The Board declares, however, that |the main purpose of the investigation lis to determine why certain shoe {manufacturers want to move out of |the state. | Their intention is to call repre- sentatives of the manufacturers and the unions to testify under oath be- fore the Board. The books of the firms and the unions will be examined also. The recent threat made by three firms, tied up by the strike, that they will move from the state is belinved to have started state action against | the strikers. | Fight Wage Cut | _ The decision of an arbitration board that the shoe workers’ wages be cut from 10 to 35 per cent precipitated |the walkout of the workers. They jhad ¢alled together the members of jthe local organizations of the Shoe | Workers Protective Union and im- mediately voted for a strike call. The response resulted in a tieup of 38 plants of the employers’ association. In spite of the threat of the bosses that they will apply to the courts for attachments on the workers’ savings in addition to injunctions, the workers’ ranks were increased by. strikes in a few more shops. The union’s officers in Haverhill announced that many independent plants had renewed the 1927 agreement since the strike started almost a week ago. The strike was almost unanimously voted despite the opposition of the national officials of the union. * 6 © 800 Stitchers Vote Strike Aid. HAVERHILL, Mass., Jan. 25.— Eight hundred members of the stitchers local of the Shoe Workers Protective Union, many members of which are out on striké against a cut in the wage scale of 1927, today voted to pay assessments off 10 per cent of their wages as a strike benefit to the stitchers who are on strike. There are 1200 stitchers out on strike. On Strikes In Colorado— HE miners are. at grips with the bosses, This is only another of many great fights of American Labor. There is \l| inspiring reading in all these books that will show you the glorious fighting tradition of American workers: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MOTHER JONES—(Who has witnessed the great struggles of the past 60 years and has been in the past i fights of the Colorado miners.) Cloth A THE GREAT STEEL STRIKE By Wm, Z. Foster Cloth $.60 PASSAIC By Albert Weisborad THE PASSAIC TEXTILE STRIKE . By Mary Heaton Vorse 1S 35 GOVERNMENT, STRIKE- BREAKER—By Jay Lovestone Paper 380 Cloth .60 In England THE BRITISH STRIKE By Wm. F. 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