The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 1, 1928, Page 4

Page Four WORKERS BHNES OF U.S.S. RI *| Red planet, hanging low over metal-tinted walls: LE I RU WORKERS’ CONTROL IN THE RUSSIAN MINING INDUS- TRY. By John Strachey foreword by The New Leader, L i ‘ SSTER | the functioning of the union with|I have watched these fattened ants for a thousand years, red planet, ee Ne ROCHESTER | +65 tocal conflict ‘comimitteas’ its | Andi my father before me smal atahed thant ¢ renuRTa Gers: JOHN STRACHEY went to the| mines production conferences, and |The ants have been building these walls since you first were seen in the| ancient world, Soviet Union last winter at the s technical specialists who along skies, invitation of the Russian Miners’) with rank and file representatives | Using the ashes of blood to block the sight of you. Union and spent two months in the Don coalfields. He had been editor of The Miner, the paper of the Min- ers’ Federation of Great Britain, and he was well aware of the chaos, unemployment, brutality and be- trayal of which British, American and German miners have been the victims. Strachey’s report takes up the| One important fact Strachey fails | That the ants will shriek with confusion, and hide themselves in their points most immediately affecting |to emphasize. No union, however eles, the everyday life of the miner. But thoroughly organized, militant in| ang the masses will rise from their earth-fetters, rise from a thousand| by way of introduction he gives cer-|Struggle and honestly led; could hells, tain “key” figures for the Russian) Secure for the rank and file| as the walls of the burnt blood ars shattered coal industry as a whole. The total annual output for the fiscal year 1926-27 assed the output in 1913 by 0,000 tons, and Gosplan estimates that in the current year it will rise another 4,- 500,000 tons. Strachey pictures the demoralization of the coal industry during the civil war, and the ma- licious destruction of the Don mines during the German occupation of | protection Strach y outlines clearly, leads up e mine local to the Central Committee in Moscow. writes enthusiastically of ive ey on the central boards in Mos- cow. Not himself a Communist, Strachey sees in the various phases of trade union life in the Soviet Union opportunity for every worker | to find development, self-expression, sponsibility. workers in a capitalist state such and such responsibility as belong to the workers in the Sov- iet Union. The importance of the workers’ state as the decisive factor in the picture of workers’ control is much too light sketched. Even the strongest kind of miners’ union would find itself powerless to uchieve under the United States of Morgan, ellon, DuPont, Rockefeller, Insull, t al., workers’ control of the work- shop, as Strachey describes it. But it the Ukraine, In 1920 the Soviets |i5 also true—and this is far more secured control of the Don coal-|important—that for miners and field—the principal coalfield in \ iiers in other basic industries European Russia—and that year (October 1920 to October 1921) the total tonnage produced by the coal industry of the Soviet Union was less than 8,000,000 tons. This year ‘t will exceed 35,000,000 tons. The ouput per man shift has been rising—in spite of the sabotage of technicians which revealed after Strachey had left Russia and to which he does not refer. Thanks to mechanization and reorganiza- tion of the industry—and again in spite of criminal sabotage—the cast of producing coal has been steadily falling while wages have been ris- ing. How the coal industry is coor- dinated with other fuel industries and with the national economy as a whole is briefly described. The Coal Trusts carry on the actual admin- istration of the mines and are re- sponsible for measuring up to pro- duction standards and labor stand- ards set by the central government. in Moscow, with participation of the Miners’ was strong class-conscious unions are a necessary first step toward such workers’ control. Without their ag- gressive support of the revolutionary state power of the working class, the status actually achieved in the Sov- iet Union will remain for us merely an idle dream. The Legion in Harlem 1 Parade BY CYRIL BRIGGS. To the sound of three brass bands and the flaunting of red, green and black flags, the African Legion last Sunday noon clanked through the streets of Colored Harlem. Legion- naires in red striped black uniforms were supported by detachments of Black Cross nurses, Boy Scouts, U. N. I. A. Choirs, bands playing, flags flying, gold braided officers shout- ing orders from flying automobiles. men representing ‘ a s Union. No reader of The Daily| The Legion had mobilized and it Worker needs to be reminded that looked bad for someone. And what these trusts bear no resemblance to Was that they carried? A picture the Coal Syndicate of the German Ruhr or to the various trusts which are increasing their holdings in the coal industry of the United States. They have no private shareholders, and no power to appoint officials unsatisfactory to the Miners’ Union. * * Wages for mine workers Strachey compares with British wage levels and finds the relatively small cash wage per day or per ton, in the Soviet Union, made up for by the free housing which is fairly gen- eral in the coal fields, and by other points which he enumerates as fol- lows: 1. The miners get about 1% tons of free coal a month. 2. Every miner receives two weeks’ holiday * substitute for an effigy? A picture of Al Smith, favorite son of the democratic party. The democratic party, traditional and relentless foe of the Negro workers of America. There it was, mounted on an auto- mobile. A huge painting of Smith. What will the African Legion- naires do with it? This picture of a tool of imperialism, this picture of the nominee of the deadly enemy of the Negro workers. What do the Legionnaires intend doing with it? What treatment does an enemy of the Negro masses deserve? But what is this? What mockery, what} bitter jest, what base betrayal is this? What means the sign “Vote for Smith”? Is this the way the African Le- /Red_Planet By EDWIN ROLFE Move a bit in the sky so the color-starved masses may see you, The trade union structure, which | Leap, suddenly, from a bleak year into the next; Red planet, over the gray walls built of the burnt ashes of blood. There are a thousand such walls, red planet, on the earth, Built by fat ants who fear the dazzling message of your color. Each time you rise, red planet, you are a little higher, And a little nearer to us, the masses imprisoned in walls. Your red is a little brighter, its colo: r-shafts pierce our walls. (That is why the fattened ants continually build them higher, Building wall upon wall with the burnt ashes of our blood.) and a satisfying share of social re-| Thinking they can stop your progress by their puny efforts, But someday, red planet, you will have attained A spot so high in the heavens, so gle: By the impact of your light. aming bright in the heavens, POETS OF AMERICA and SACCO, VANZETTI AMERICA ARRAIGNED! Edited by Lucia Trent and Ralph Chey- ney. Dean & Co., New York. Reviewed by HENRY REICH, Jr. THE cry of protest that swept the | world against the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van- zetti and the wave of class bitter- ness that filled the hearts of work-| St. Vincent Millay and Joseph T.| ers everywhere upon the consumma- tion of that murder, are perpetuated —so far as the poets are concerned —in “America Arraigned!” The Civil War and the French Revolu- tion gave rise to songs of patriotism and partisanship. But perhaps, never before in history has a single world event inspired so much poetry, as the case of these two martyrs to the cause of labor. This anthology embraces most of the important poems written on the subject. Some sixty poets are represented in the volume, which is divided into three parts: “Before Governor Ful- ler and His Advisory Commission Refused to Interfere,” “After Inter- cession was Refused but Before the Crucifixion,” and “After the Cruci- fixion.” Certain of the poems are| pointed out as contributing some- thing of literary value as well as of propaganda value to the book. Per-; haps the finest poem from these two/| points of view is that of A. B. Ma-| gil. His “Murder at Midnight,” which originally appeared in the] Daily Worker, is a vital and highly! effective piece of work. It contains such a cry as this: Go back, slaves, go back. Go back to the factories, the danc- | ing machines. | Go back dancing slaves. | Noon. (The sun is a big round brass spitoon.) Life seethes, blown up. Collapses like a pricked balloon. Night. “Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.” Another poem that stands out is “They are Dead Now” by John Dos apes? smelled you, the sky “Breeds vultures, though you sow a hundred Christs on every hill “Death is your harvest, it will not be long. i Among others contributing excel- lent material are Lola Ridge, Edna Shipley. Considering the high stand- ing in the literary world of some of the other contributors, their poems are rather disappointing. This ap- plies to Alfred Kreymborg, Witter Bynner, Arthur Davison Ficke, Kathleen Millay, Countee Cullen, John Gould Fletcher, and the com- pilers of the anthology, Ralph Chey- ney and Lucia Trent. One of the finest contributions to the book is not a poem at all. It is a statement by William Ellery Leon- ard in which he yoices his regret that he is unable, on account of ill health, to participate in the anthol- ogy with a poem in “tribute to those two brave and noble spirits, Sacco and Vanzetti.” He says: “I would not seem by my silence to give con- sent to this terrible deed—terrible for its social implications of con- temporary upper class stupidity and smugness, even more for its fierce moment of injustice and cruelty.”, To the compilers of the anthology must be given credit for preserving a unique and invaluable poetic rec- ord of the Sacco and Vanzetti case. Some of these poems will live along with the martyrs in the memory of the working class which so recently demonstrated that Sacco and Van- zetti are still alive and an active force in the struggles of labor. CLEVELAN D—To close the Young Workers Training School | which has been in session for five weeks, a large affair is being ar- ranged for Saturday night, Septem- ber 1st, 8 p.m. at the Finnish Hall, 1900 W. 25th Street. Admission 25 cents. The students are arranging a good program and many prominent speakers will be present. Good gion wages war for a free Africa, Pasos, beginning “This isn’t a poem” | music. The tiger Tomorrow has | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1928 “SUCCESS” AULI American born and bred in the poorest, dingiest sec- tion of New York’s east side. Her home had that mouldy smell which indicates dire poverty, her parents, religious fanatics belonging to an In such surround- ings Pauli grew up, far from any- thing expressive of beauty, of sun- shine, of anything pertaining to modern ideas or to progress, and certainly far from entertaining any free, independent thoughts. Although very young, she is searching for work. Thru the many streets of New York, day after day she drags herself in search of a much coveted job. Days of eager, frantic search and monotonous eve- nings of brooding and disappoint- ;ment in her crowded, poverty- stricken east side hqme. Pauli had jan inexhaustible patience. Today jwas unsuccessful, tomorrow, may- be? in was store? The same dark, bitter search and suspense, and disap- pointment. But Pauli must not protest against the sweet uses of adversity. Her mother and her teacher taught her to accent everything without a |murmur. She is obedient, there is no rebellion in her passive nature. | Her mother and teacher could not be wrong, their teachings are un- assailable. Her mother is so much older and wiser than she, and her teacher—a teacher knows every- thing. Pauli idolizes her mother and | her teacher and does not question | | their counsel. She is a true product | of non-resistance. * LONG time passed, and Pauli finally obtained employment. | Now she is surely satisfied. Has she no cause to be? She is earning her own living and can hold her head up. The world has been good |to her. At no time does she talk of |the hardships she encounters in the shop nor of her needs-at home. She appears always satisfied, and when | asked, replies, “Why should I kick?! I am satisfied.” Once Pauli came into the shop without her usual cheerfulness, and suddenly she commenced unloading her mind, Her work-mates were | not far removed from her general way of looking at things and were in accord with her unconcern, Pauli related the hard struggle they had at home to make gnds meet and | ended by relating in a sad tone, “Last night none of us slept a wink. Father coughed and coughed, but But, what did tomorrow have | PAULI IS A ‘Machinal’ Due at Plymouth Se Worker Stuitents Of | Ohio to Visit All Theatre Next Thursday Night ‘dustry Districts ABave HOPKINS will bring his first production of the season, “Machinal,” into the Plymouth The- atre next Thursday evening. This is a play by Sophie Treadwell in two parts and ten scenes, modernistic in treatment. In this production an effort is made to liberate the stage from routine settings, with the at- mosphere suggested largely by lighting. The method of staging was designed by Robert Edmond Jones. There will be a company of twen- ty in “Machinal,” with the principal part being played by Zita Johann, and other important parts by Jean Adair, Clark Gable, George Stillwell and Charles Kennedy. “The Trial of Mary Dugan” will | close its run at the Sam H. Harris Theatre tonight and move to the Century on Monday for a four weeks’ engagement. The Bayard Veiller melodrama began its career! | here on Sept. 19 at the National. Horace Liveright’s first musical | production, “The Dagger and the) | Rose,” a comic opera based on “The | Firebrand” by Edwin Justus Mayer, | will be given its first performance Monday evening at the Apollo The- atre in Atlantic City, After one | week’s engagement it will move to |the Erlanger Theatre, Philadelphia, for two weeks, and will open here at) the Erlanger Theatre Monday eve- ning, Sept. 24. “Luckee Girl” is the new title of |“A Good Fellow,” the musical farce | based on the French, “Un Bon Gar- con,” now in rehearsal under the di- rection of the Messrs. Shubert. The} cast includes Irene Dunne, Billy! House, Harry Puck, Josephine| Drake. Doris Vinton and Frank Law- ler. The production will have its first showing in Atlantic City Mon-| day. ed i “Dawn,” with Sybil Thorndike | playing the role of Edith Cavell, now at the Cameo Theatre, will be held over a second week, | Columbia’s special production, | “Submarine,” featuring Jack Holt, | Dorothy Revier and Ralph Graves, opened at te Embassy Theatre last | night. this morning he went to work. He earns so little now, and if his cough gets any worse he may lose his job yet.” I ask her, “What do you say now, | Pauli?” and await an answer. | “Oh, I can’t kick!” she replied. | Early childhood training tri- umphed. | | | | | | RNG, ate TR {New Workers Records Made in Europe and in the United States. | Released for the first 7007 International Marseillaise time in this country © CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 31.— As a climax to the five-week inten- sive training course at the Ohio Young Workers Training School, the League will tour ten of the stu- dents through the eastern part of Ohio to make a study of the im- rortant industries in this section of the country. Ohio, rich in heavy industries, such as steel, machine manufacture, auto, rubber, glass, pottery, mining, will offer a good field for study. @ : Akron, the center of the rubber industry, Youngstown, the heart of the steel industry; East, Liverpool, the cemter of the pottery industry, |mining centers and other industrial |centers will be visited. To Build New Auto | Factory In U.S. S. R. KENNETH MacKENNA | Featured Pond,” the new Middleton-Thomas; MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The spec- player in “The Big comedy at the Bijou Theatre. | ial commission of the Moscow Soviet | headed by Rogov, acting chairman |of the Soviet, left abroad to carry The 55th St. Playhouse will show| out negotiations with foreign firms Emil Jannings in “Peter the Great” in connection with a construction for three days beginning today. On of a new motor-car factory in Mos- Tuesday and Wednesday the feature | cow. is “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”| ‘The: Commission will visit Berlin HUDSON Wert 44 st. ves. at 8:30 Mats. 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