The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 13, 1928, Page 6

oa THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YOR ad iii FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1928 DA Sublished by NATIONAI * whole democratic party. ‘ ‘ | fe : a ILY 1 Inc., Daily) Except Sunday * gp6-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 By $8 per year Address and (outside of New York): ) six months $2 three months , DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Editor. . Assistan --ROBERT MINOR ..WM. F. DUNNE Z For the Worke: “More. Business in Gov When John J. Raskob declare nor Smith is rong advocate ment in business and more busi ment,” he speaks with the ung thority of the man who has ink tle of Elbert H. Gary and who one of the leading spokesmen o If anything further were needec kob as an authority on the Ta there is the added fact that Smith is the full-blown flower of ing and nurture. Smith boasts the records confirm him. The declaration of Raskob is The Morgan industrialist and _ time for trifling. Les: governr cratic national committee, has s only the full program of Al Sr And, the republican party as well. Less government in business. deluded, hene exploited, v erty-stricken farmers, thi tended, will still mean less phr less red tape. For the most read and nod a sort of passive assent. small minority comprising the the country, the phrase is intended to carry the full measure of assurance already indicated by Raskob that Smith will do the right thing; that the tariff will not be molested, that noth- ing will be done to interfere with the super-! trustification process now going on; that the} “government,” in a word, will More business in government. ‘This is even more important. For the pow doubt even for a moment that business would not be free to enter government at will would be disastrous to the prospects date. But how, more business in government. More than Andrew Mellon in | More than Dwight W. Morrow in than Wall Street already become the capital of the United States? The explanaticn of Raskob’s paradoxical re-| mark is not as difficult as may appear on first As was recently pointed out, the con-| sight. trol over government by big busine: the democratic party and particularly through | Al Smith, has been indirect rather than imme- diate as with the republican party. ness has worked in Al Smith’s mie Walker’s city through the commissions, through other appointees of the “dem lican regime. Al Smith has at various time about carrying out orders, not. tric Company desired to put power steal. At the time they age slaves and pov- nterference with “prosperity,” less tampering with “efficiency,” legislative bodies, thru than directly as in the case of Mellon, Morrow, Daugherty, Fall, and the others of the repub- ago when the Morgan-controlled General Elec- NOY. under the act pf March’ 3, 1879. E COMMUNIST! _- | FOSTER For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW ‘or the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! | will be direct, immediate and in the open. Less | government in business; more business in gov- | x “Gover-| ernment in business, a fitting slogan for the of | govern-| greatest political hypocrite on the modern} ness in govern-| stage. | uestionable au- | erited the man- scognized < f big busin i to prove latte kob’s plant- > fact and ernment” s that John Porter has sent an urgent call for im- mediate aid. The military authorities at Fort Adams are using the most extreme means to crush this militant’s fighting spirit. This appeal from Porter is no sign of weak- nes In a recent letter, after having been | thrown into solitary confinement, he wrote: not an idle one.| “I am ready to give my life, if necessary, for | banker has no! the working class.” Now, he realizes that ent in business, | there are only two roads to freedom. First, , | Surrender to the enemies of his class and com- | plete repudiation of his principles. Second, the ummarized not | ion-wide protests of the workers. nith but of the| e army czars do not wish to permit John Porter to defend his cause and thereby to ex- pose the role of the army in a court-martial ene open to the public. The military author- ities have kept him in prison for almost a as it is in-| month under inhuman conditions without trial | or even any charge against him. During this | time, they have resorted to increasingly brutal {methods to crush his militant spirit. Even | death would be preferable to a continuation of Porter’s present existence. Porter refuses to desert the cause of the working class. His hope is that the working | class will come to his aid. Everything possible on the legal side is be- ing done by the International Labor Defense. The attorneys retained by the International La- bor Defense are now seeking to force the au- thorities to bring him to trial at once. But there should be no illusions about the sort of “justice” to be expected from a mili- tary court-martial, and unless action by the workers begins at once Porter will be faced with a living death in a military prison com- pared with which the frightful lot of other prisoners may be considered tame. The Porter case is another indication of the rise of class consciousness in the army, which was shown for the first time in Hawaii in 1925 by the organization of a Young Workers (Com- munist) League at Schofield Barracks. For their efforts in this work, Grouch and Trum- bull received sentences of 40 and 26 years, lat- |er reduced to 8 and 1 years through mass pro- tests of the working class under the leadership inte end Sone. of the Communists. public service| .The imprisonment of Porter is of special sig- | nificance because of his activities in the New Bedford strke. The case is again significant in its clear portrayal of the role of the military forces in industrial conflicts. | Even though American capitalism as yet faces no real danger from the rising class con- sciousness of its sdldiers, the military author- jities are sufficiently alert to make an example of Porter. The army intends to use this as a test case. the R of of course, of To millions of | e, part they will To the ruling class in take orders. | ers that be to of any candi- the treasury? Mexico? More through Rig busi- ocracy” rather es hedged a bit ably two years over its state had to be con-| tent with a postponement and a temporary|The workers must take up the challenge and corhpromise worked out betwee’ Smith by that great “Inquisito: termeyer. At another time i . With Jerry Dahl of the B-M.T., pily now atoned for again thro So what Raskob means is, ‘on business will not have to the side door to control the de and the “untainted” Al Smith. BIG PROFITS (Federated Press.) The $185,000,000 additional stock offered to shareholders in American Telephone & Telegraph Co. calls atteution to the extraor- dinary growth of this corporation’s annual contribution to the investing class. Within the last decade the} annual cash dividends disbursed by the A. T. & T. have just about Biime: reflecting profits multiplied imes over since 1918. The cash dividends to the owners ‘ this great communications trust _ wmounted in 1927 to $97, 4 year they will run to more than 00,000,000 while within a year will exceed $116,000,000. Ten ago the annual dividends amounted to $35,229,699. Fat Profits. The telephone trust’s regular nethod of expanding its ‘capital is to offer stockholders the right to subscribe to a certain number of res at par. As the shares al- ways oy a market value consid- “double-crossed” the great ones, a fact hap- mentality of the omnipresent Untermeyer. the! n them and Al| by mass demonstrations notify the war depart- r,” Samuel Un-| ment that the issue of John Porter will resound n his relations | about the earth. Smith has even Thousands of workers participated in a mass protest meeting in New Bedford a few days ugh the instru-|ago, demanding Porter’s release. There will be }2 huge protest meeting in Boston Sunday, and that from now | others have been called. enter through| The voice of the workers throughout the smocratic party | country must be raised! Their relations! Save Porter for the working class! FOR TELEPHONE BARONS erably over par such an offering really includes what amounts to a stock dividend. This year’s offering gave the right to subscribe to 1 new share for each 6 shares held. The pres-|par means an investment of $2,600 ent market value of a share of|in a single block of stock, which American T. & T. stock is about |puts it considerably above the aver- $178 which makes the right to sub-|age wage earner or salaried work- scribe worth something more than|er, And there is some heavy con- $12 a share. These rights have|centration of ownership in the been selling on the stock exchange | stockholder list. at $10 to $16. Altogether the trans- | Morgan Busy. action may be reckoned as a gift) The Sun Life Assurance Co. has |of more than $125,000,000 to the\a block of 76,711 shares. It is on- | stockhoiders, \ly 1 of 20 holding from 9,000 shares Much publicity is being given the up. The most interesting figure in | elaborate machinery to make sure|the stockholder list is George F. that every one of the 430,000 stock-|Baker, chairman of J. P. Morgan’s |holders hears of the opportunity to|First National Bank of N. Y. Bak- subscribe to new shares of stock. To|er holds personally 53,322 shares of handle the correspondence the fi-|A. T. & T. stock. Holdings of 31,- nancial department is expanded |391 shares by D. T. Waters and 21,- from 250 to about 1,000 chiefly by |000 shares by F. H. Pierson, both of hiring college boys out to make;Baker’s bank, are generally as- money during vacation. The object |sumed part of his interest in the public that the ownership of the telephone trust is widely distributed among small investors. The stockholders average about 26 shares apiece. This average at Porter Must Be Saved. | By A. B. MAGIL ROF. LEON THEREMIN led the way into the modestly furnished bedroom of his suite at the Plaza Hotel. With me was © William Abrams of the Freiheit, and it was lucky, for Prof. Theremin speaks | no English, I speak no Russian and | Abrams — a versatile fellow — speaks both. It sounds a little incongruous to call him professor — he looks so boyish. Tall and slender, with close- cropped brownish-blond hair and a small mustache, he looks several years younger than his almost thir- ty-two. His face is sensitive — the face of an artist rather than a scientist — and he looks at you out of two soft blue-gray eyes behind which there lies something cool and strong. Theremin sat between us and we talked. Oxgrather, Abrams and he talked while I listened, trying to catch a word here and there and asking my questions through Abrams. Theremin is both friendly and reserved, modest yet assured, a person who is evidently intent on his work in a clear, resolute fash- ion. Kiwis Eight years ago this man, hardly more than a boy then, first startled the scientific world by demonstrat- ing the production of musical tones without the aid of a musical instru- ment. The tones were “drawn” out of the air by converting electro. magnetic energy into acoustic ener- gy. No one before him had ever demonstrated that the air is a po- tential musical instrument of in- finite possibilities, containing tones that could not be produced on any musical instrument known to man. This great discovery immediately brought the young physicist to the attention of the scientists of the world, though he remained unknown to the general public for a nurr‘-r of years. .In 1925 Prof. Theremin made another important discovery, this time in the field of television. But his primary imterest has been in his original invention. ee He told us of his work, work that over ends. I noticed that every »om in his suite is a laboratory. ven in the bedroom where ‘we were sitting odd-looking instruments were installed. And as we talked strange, ethereal sounds came out of the room next door, a familiar melody in unfamiliar tones: a pupil of his was practicing on the new ether- music instrument. Prof. Theremin told us of his pupils and his plans. “I have about thirty pupils now,” he said, “whom I am instructing in the art of producing this new mu- sic. Eventually, when they are fully trained, they will constitute an orchestra that will be able to give concerts such as have never been heard before. No music is too difficult to be played. On the con- trary, variations of tone are possi- ble which cannot be produced on any ordinary musical instrument.” « Ow RYT Prof. Theremin’s work is by no means completed. He has greatly improved his invention since he first began his experiments, but there is still much to be done. The beauty of tone, which has been re-| marked by all who have heard Ther. emin play, is still far from that beauty which it will some day be GET OFF THE MAIN THOROFARE! ity to observe this great product of the first workers’ and peasants’ re- public as he sat there with his es!» blue eyes and his long slim hands resting easily on his knees. He is the. new scientist, vse couse wid has come out of the pain and tur- moil of the greatest of revolutions and who has pursued his work’ un- der the stimulus of the proletarian dietatorship. And though his work leaves him little time for social and economic questions, it is evident that An Exclusive Interview With Professor Leon Theremin the Soviet Union is close to Prof. Theremin’s heart. * * * “rof. Theremin has visited many iropean countries, where he has een warmlyjreceived. In Germany and’ England ‘he created a sensation: His first public appearance in this country was in New York last Jan- uary when scientists and musicians were astounded at his remarkable discovery and its even more re- markable possibilities. Theremin terday. Dish pans, pots and tin pails were shouting at the same time in® half a dozen languages, to make sure they’d be understood. “When you see what conditions and pay they’ll give your man, you'll want to come back. You'll be sorry you didn’t stick with the strikers.” Company agents are combing the mining towns, spreading defeatism and looking for men to return to the open shop mines. Exhéybitant wag- es are promised to strikers who will betray their brothers. Moonshine is dispensed liberally until the victim becomes maudlin, and then the plight of his “hungry babies” is dinned into his ears; as a “good American citizen and a decent fa- ther,” it is his duty to scab against his fellow-workers, he is told. As soon as a “yes” is drilled out of him, a company truck calls at the barracks, escorted by coal and iron police, to carry his furniture to a company house near the mine, and his family to the scab patch. Whole Family in Fight. Not many Avella boys are con- vineed so easily. Avella is known thruout district five as one of the most militant strike communities. The women are banded together in- to a women’s auxiliary to help their men win the strike. The children, several hundred strong, are organ- ized into strike clubs, The whole family is in the fight in Avella. When a company truck came to the barracks the other day, Avélla strikers went wild with indignation. “You can’t bring that truck into our grounds,” they cried. Two state troopers came down to watch the job. The company agent wanted his commission, and wasn’t taking any chances about the miner changing his mind. “We've got an injunction against the company, too!” two women declared scoffingly. The troopers were nonplussed—miners getting injunctions against the coal barons? Surely, this was something new. The truck was not brought on the barrack property, and the strik- ers’ families were jubilant at hav- ing hoodwinked the cops. Turn Live Stock Loose. As the furniture was carried from the barracks to the road, the chil- dren pranced and shouted, the women played their tin cans deri- sively, and an old accordion was dragged from the storehouse by a striker to add to the uproar. The children turned loose the ground possible to produce, As Abrams and he did most of of all this noise is to convince the ‘telephone trust. the galking. I had ample opvortun- ‘ hogs and rabbits which were per- petually running between the legs of cried out scornfully, “You're scabbing on our dads!” MINE TOWN IN UPROAR AS WORKERS JEER SCABS By BARBARA RAND. PITTSBURGH, July 12.—The Avella barracks were in uproar yes- were banged with spoons. Children All the women the moving men. pas The wife of the miner who was returning to the scab pits attempted to justify her husband’s desertion. Her children had no shoes, no cloth- ing; there was no food in her cup- board. , “Our stomachs are just as emp- ty!” the militant women shot back at her. See, our toes are coming out of our shoes. Look at our children! Are they any better off than yours? But we’re sticking! We've got to fight now, on it'll always be like this. “The National Committee will send out relief soon,” they said: “They're helping us all they can. Even if thes didn’t —this is our fight, and if we don’t stick together. what'll happen to us? We left the mines together, and we must go back together!” The National Miners’ Relief Com- mittee is swamped with heartrend- ing appeals for bread, Thousands of families are being fed once or twice a day, sometimes. once or twice a week. Thousands of other families are urging that their locals be added to the relief lists. ~ “We don’t want to scab,” is reiterated in almost every letter received at the relief headquarters, 611 Penn Ave, Every dollar sent to the relief com: ‘mittee is a blow against open-shop- dom, against scabdom. Pacific Coast School for Workers Opened WOODLAND, Wash., July 12— A network of cities stretching from as far south as Los Angeles to as far north as Vancouver B. C. are represented by students at the Pa- Miners’ Relief cific Coast Workers’ Summer School}, at Woodland, Washington. On June 24, official date of the opening of the school, fifty-two students gath- ered in the Finnish Hall, which thanks to the cooperation of farm- ers of the district, is being utilized for classes during the six weeks which school is to be in session. The students enrolled range in age from seventeen to thirty-four. representing thirteen nationalities The curiculum, numbering among courses economics, social and labor history of the United States, theory practice and organizational forms of the world’s labor movement, cur- rent events, ete., is composed of those subjects Which are of vital im- portance to a correct understanding i the problems of the working class. ‘ a Drawing Music from the Air showed us copies of some of the comments concérning his new in- vention. “Professor Theremin’s invention has made the deepest impression on me,” wrote Bruno Walter, famous German conductor. “Here indeed seems to be new country. I cannot say which affected me most, the method of tone production which suggests the miraculous or the com- pletely novel character of the tone itself. In any case it was a moving experience.” Ottorino Respighi, the great Ita- lian composer, declared: “Without claiming to be a prophet I can read- ily assure you that.the Theremin apparatus will have the greatest importance for the orchestra. What interests me above all else is that the apparatus pivduces a tone-color approximating the human voice.” After hearing Prof. Theremin for the first time Leo Slezik, famous singer, said: “One is confronted as with a miracle on seeing a man picking about in the air and con- juring from the void notes of un- precedented beauty and _ splendor such as no existing instrument is capable of producing.” “A real miracle has been pro- duced,” said Morris Gest. “There is no absolutely perfect fusion of note on any other instrument,” de- clared Joseph Szigeti, distinguished violinist.” This is the comment of Ossip’ Ga- brilowitsch, famous pianist and con- ductor: “Leon Theremin’s musical invention is indeed epoch-making. I am convinced that it opens a vista of unlimited possibilities in the fu- ture development of musical art. The many different ways in which the discovery can be applied can hardly be foretold now, but undoub. tedly its influence on the music of the future will be revolutionizing.” * * * T THE concerts that Prof. Ther- emin has thus far given in this country he has appeared before au- diences composed largely of scien- tifie and musical experts and ‘the wealthy bourgeoisie. The workers, the. great toiling masses. who, have heard so much of the achievements of this great discoverer, have'béen unable to hear him because’ of the forbidding prices. But the tables will be turned at the great concert tomorrow evening at Coney Island Stadium, where Prof. Theremin. will perform, There are not likely to be many members of the, wealthy bour- geoisie there. Instead there will be some 25,000 workers listening under the open sky to a new music drawn out of the air by the representative of a new culture at a proletarian music fest arranged jointly by The DAILY WORKER and the Frei- sked Theremin whether he had ever appeared before so large an audience before. He told us that he had played before large crowds in the Soyiet Union and in London, but that never had he performed before an audience of 25,000. He also expressed gratification that he was able to bring his new music to the. American masses in this fash. ion. His concerts are few as his work occupies most of his. time, and Theremin’s appearance tomorrow will be one of his last in this coun- try. ‘ “In the next room the girl was still playing, her hands trembling ever the, mysterious instrument. Theremin shooks hands with us warmly as we left and his soft blue eyes escorted us to the door. Told You So JOnN D. ROCKEFELLER has en- tered on his ninetieth year and, as is quite proper, the capitalist press has taken due notice of such an important event... A special ar-' ticle. written by a sob-sister in a Seripps-Howard sheet dwells on the good. relationship that exists be. tween John and his domestic em- ployes. Oh, no, John does not call out. the army and mavy to mow down his domestic flunkeys! It’s hardly worth. while and the spirit of .revolt, is. seldom, found among footmen;.doormen and. valets. John condescends to nod to his servants and he. even distributes dimes among them once in a while. * * * Roscoe Anguvine, gatekeeper at the Rockefeller estate at Pocantico Hills, is cheered by a daily nod from his master. He tells of the annoyances to which a wealthy man is sometimes subjected. For instance, a woman walked in on the grounds one. day and insisted on seeing John D. She wanted $2,000,000. The servants had her consigned to a crazy house. “Anyone is crazy who thinks they can walk in and get two million,” commented Roscoe. “I have been here ten years and all I've gotten is some shiny new dimes and the usual $50 present at Christ- mas time. And I haven’t had any new dimes in more than a year.” The reward of faithful service! Per- haps Roscoe will he buried decently with John saying a prayer for the | repose of his’ carcass. * There will be no third party this year writes Ludwell Denny, staff correspondent for the Scripps- Howard néwspaper syndicate, but he believes there will be one im 1932. The third partyites lack a popular leader, he thinks, and furthermore Al Smoth and Herbert Hoover are going to gobble up all the liberal votes. But the liberals are going to be disappointed with Al or Her- bert and four years from now they will be on the war path. The liber- als are always getting disappointed. No doubt they will have «another good reason for postponing the threatened revolt in 1932. * In the meantime the workers and exploited farmers have an oppor- tunity to express their opposition to the capitalist system in the elec. tions this year through the Workers (Communist) Party. The Commun- ists are not waiting for-a Messiah house of bondage. They believe in organizing the workers for their own emancipation. Unlike the lib- erals who would merely clip the claws ‘of the’ capitalist: tiger, the Communists intend to tear up the robber system by the roots and sub- stitute for it a social order based on the interests of the producing classes. ie * * The New York Welfare Council reports that a single person-cannot live independently and decently on less than $25 a week. Hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions are doing it: nevertheless. That is, they are living om’ less; but whether in- dependently or decently is another éuestion. During the industrial quiz conducted by Frank P. Walsh, in the good ‘old muckraking days several years ago, J. P. Morgan was asked if he thought ten dollars a week was a sufficient wage for a longshoreman. “Yes,” he_ replied, “if he is satisfied with it.” Likewise we suppose’ a million a year would not be enough if the recipient did not think it adequate. * * * While walking along the water- front one hot day last week I not- iced a small army of men lined up four deep outside the entrance to the Cunard Line docks. They were longshoremen with hooks slung over their shoulders’ and dressed in overalls that bore marks of hard- ship. They were as silent as so many mummies. Two ~stevedores walked up and down the line pick- ing the huskiest. Rarely was a word spoken. One of the stevedores would crook his finger and the worker beckoned to would walk out of the crowd and receive a badge. When a sufficient number of men were hired to upload the two Cun- ard’ vessels “the stevedores walked away and 80 did thé men>who failed to get work, It looked like a slave market alright. ie * * Mayor Jimmy Walker is visiting William Randolph Hearst at the publisher’s California ranch. While the song and dance mayor is osten- sibly out for a good time and re- laxation, the real object of the visit is to attempt a Papecpenement be. tween Hearst and Al Smith. Hearst has already declared for Hoover but it would not. be surprising to see the yellow journalist switch from the elephant to the jackass in the middle of the election stream, » . * There is a regular epidemic of “jumps” among capitalists these days. A Belgian multimillionaire jumped from an airplane flying at an altitude of 4,000 feet. Another plute jumped from a liner in mid- ocean. The president of a New York bank jumped from a fourth story hospital window and was saved by a plucky nurse who got a grip on his shins and held on until policemen.and taxi drivers came to his. rescue. Pky we ar ae '