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Page Four Marines Keturning “AOW KNOW THEY FOUGHT FOR THE STANDARD OIL £0. Service Men Awaken to Truth (By « Worker Correspondent) On my back from Califor. nia, by boat, 400 marines landed at San Diego on their way back from China to the Eastern coast. and foremost I could easily find out that the vast majority from £0 to 20 per cent, abso- lutely and entirely dissatisfied with their “ser life. They are just } g with hope for the day their term is over, when th be able te put on civilian cloth in. when one gets to know what service life in general means and under what conditions the marines have to live. Most of them are young worker: who were in one way or another di: satisfied with their life and thou; they’d rather join the mar lead a life without any DAILY WORK VEY A T U V YORK, T RY 8, 1929 from China Dissatisfied with Treatment as Dogs, Says Worker View of Storm Which Drowned Three Seamen A scene at Battery sea wall. The storm which swept the city Sunday capsized a trawler off Long | Beach. Three segmen were drowned. Interview with Irma Duncan; CLAIM ISLANDS The Dance of the Revolutian WANTED BY U.S. By KARL REE’ |tary course in the principles of COSSACKS OF TAMMANY RIDE DOWN WORKERS Extras of Post Office Waited for Pay (By a Worker Correspondent) Last week a notice was posted in the Brooklyn post offices telling the Christmas rush extras to come to the main post office on Washing- ton Street at two o’clock on Friday, December 28, for their pay. | At two o'clock on the which we were told to come there were about 1,500 of us waiting out on Washington Street for our mon-} ey. Remember, we weren’t there to |dmonstrate, but were just doing Theatre what we had been instructed to do. Suddenly, five of Whalen’s cos- sacks came riding fast down Wash- ington Street, With utter contempt they rode into us. Their horses | day on} _ Mouthpieces of Railroad Capitalists | é i} These men are attorneys for the railroads in the O'Fallon rate case, now in the supreme court. This case seems to represent an at- ented by the U. S. Commerce Commission. Left to right: Craven, Chicago; Fred Wood, New York; Robert A. Kelley, LONDON LABOR ACTORS ‘Gives Many Fine Productions a ae LONDON (By Mail).—The Work- by its recent productions that it is | (Special to the Daily Worker) FISHERMEN OF NOVA SCOTIA MUST ORGANIZE Helpless Now Before Theiving Bosses (Special to the Daily Worker) HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (By Mail).—The number of men in the shore fisheries is going down \steadily, it is so hard to earn a |decent living wage. There are |thousands of us out of work, due |to overproduction, following the juse of steam vessels operating jbeam and other trawls, a dragnet |towed over the bottom. When there are large catches of fish, the com- panies operating steam trawlers do Inot buy from the shore fishermen, jor they give us whatever low price \they please, far below a reasonable |return. The fish dealers make big profits: by making the surplus unsold fish} into fillets, smoked or frozen, which} |are kept in storage for disposal) | pawed us. Men were knocked down, worthy of the workers’ support. “see the world” meanwhi | ‘ eer : = ‘ |when the supply begins to decline, x : fps sage (Editor Labor Defender.) Marxian economics. e some were bruised, some were badly | i hee jand then they demand high prices,} ever, they change their minds eee | ate eae. ike being home in the , 1 had attended the regular per-| Hondur as Says Keys to Hark ‘Thascancackaleursad Re, ie ie eeriormenses at the ae | | These companies control the output, qu s a matter of fact most} ~ formance of the Duncan dancers| Bars USE en earn Sop ane a atbe} Lele We get as low as 60 cents per earlier in the week, before a smaller | Nicaragua Canal Hers audience, and told Miss Duncan that) TEGUCIAGALPA, Honduras, Jan. I believed she had danced much bet-| 7.—A protest against the boundary ter on Saturday night before the| treaty, concluded between Colombia Daily Worker audience, ; ve ie to Lease bat werent eyes of even those who are a The OF Seal AG |fast enough. We ran into alleys) skeptical about the Workers’ The-/25 Sailors rd; | 7 jand on steps. We pushed one an-|atre Movement. Propaganda drama-| Oe d; 45 jother trying to get out of each |tized—and done exceedingly well at | Degree List | other’s way. We were dumbfounded, | that—is the best comment one can of them change their minds as soon | Soviet Union,” Irma Duncan, head as they take the oath, They can|0f the Isadora Duncan school of even then see the change of treat-| dancing in Moscow, said of the won- ment given them by the reciuiting|derful reception accorded by the sergeant before and after the oath | throngs of workers who visited the \hundred pounds of cod. The fish- erman is often cheated on the weight by the fish companies. The} work of the fisherman is very dan-j |gerous, for he is ble to be run} ‘ Pie : t ; | und Nicaragua last March, in which | not knowing what we had done to| Hinges 4 Wes } : o>, been taken. | Performance of Irma and her troupe} «Of course,” she replied, “our|the United States is assured control | warrant auch treatmeat ee ao fmt: |_DELAWARE CITY, Del., Jan. 7. jdown by big ocean boats. ‘The fish-} They can see that they are hence-|°" *US eae vencary celeber, dancing is not commercialized. We of islands situated at the mouth of | By three o'clock the cossacks fe The scene adapted from Upton|~-Captain Noah Ireland today re-/erman of Nova Scotia toil over 12 Baie be- | Worker fifth anniversary celebra- | 'y three o’clock the cossacks had | Sinclair’s “Hell,” contains good rev-| quested aid for the Erickson Line | hours a day, from sunset to afte: forth looked upon not a ings with their “inalienable rights’ but are simply looked upon as dog: as a herd of cattle, who have to do ‘ a things as they are told. | fore the American masses. These marines have been in China|, Miss Duncan talked for nearly an for 18 long months, sent there sup-|°Ur in her room in the Hotel Ala- nosedly to defend the interests of | ™&¢ in an interview arranged espe- the United States. Now, however, | ‘lly for the Daily Worker. they have learned the great lesson| On Saturday night at the per- —that they went there not to de-|formance for the Daily Worker, dance to make our audiences under-| the projected Nicaraguan canal, was | finished their job. We were in a stand and respond to the emotions! made public today by the Honduran |line that stretched for three blocks agandi.> an acted shy tha Worker! | terday near the Reedy PointiBridee |houre abd 46 a: day’ “After pullin we depict. ‘We felt the enthusiasm | forei inister. | i Pir’ | af that beeniandcee “audiences OS| cee ete from the post office, and Firman Theatre, Another of its productions |0n the Chesapeake and Delaware|on the heavy fishlines all day, hist | i fee The protest of the Honduran gov- | was satisfied. That lickspittle bur- |<. “yy, sebinsk.”? ic-| Canal. Captain Ireland id the |hands ar The fish- course we danced better. It felt like| fiktaa Marwarded vente tea dieehe ia oGhetan tl 2 is the “Women of Birbinsk,” a pic- | . ptain Ireland said ie |hands are a sore mess. e fis! being at home. These.people were| cis. od ¢, tre United ai eaucrat, who is constantly advertis- ture of a village committed at work|Ship had a 45-degree list and that |ermen lack organization here, that more alive, more responsive, more Counties and to the United States | ing his efficiency, had thought our in the days of the 1917 revolution, | water, was rapidly filling the hold. |is why the fish bosses have us at Pauiritedcaniwe fad to thi ust November and claimed a disorderly” presence might harm which has really thrilling dramatic! A tug was sent to her assistance. |their mercy, and pay us as low a Hon 1k like ed to this re- islands which were disposed of for | his hollow pretentions to efficiency. mack The Erick f the oldest |Prices as they want. The fisher- belore a Reccian ataenng ott homethe benefit of the United States | Hence he had issued the order to| 4M | and most decrepit vessele, on the (men of Newfoundland and the | are # age E government by Colombia and Ni-| put us in an “orderly” line. On.” = Re 2 alae e Fig! ie ; oes: Saral eerie eee, Philadelphia to |Gaspe Coast of Quebec are organ- | Inspiration of Workers’ Republic, | caragua. Incidentally our job had been to/0®, 3s based on the miners lockout, i 3 »|tion in the Manhattan Opera House |Saturday night, “This is the first |time we have really appeared be- olutionary and anti-militarist prop-| vessel, Erickson, blown ashore yes- | sundown, sometimes as much as 14 fend the United States, as “we” had!Irma and her Russian pupils had nothing there and therefore nothing to defend; but they were sent there to and did defend the interests of the Standard Oil Company in China. To prove this, to prove that most of the marines do understand now} “why’ they went to China and had} a most miserable life there, why they had to travel 47 days on the Cruiser “Anderson” from China to San Diego, which trip, they say, they'll never forget, where they were fed with food not fit even for ani- mats. To prove that they undersand all these facts, I’ll quote you a satir- ieal rhyme which is very popular and often sung among thc marines— The Marines saved the Standard Oil, | ber particularly our performances | meaning for the working class. Parley-Voo, é ‘The Marines saved the Standard Oil, Parley-Vov, The marines saved the gasoline, Se ‘Smithy Butler can ride in a lim- Ti ousine, © Hinky, Dinky, Parley-Voo. Here is another episode: One night, while dancing on the boat, a marine had the courage to invite a colored girl for a dance. But no sooner did they start to dance when the officer Gumped up with rage, separated them land arrested the marine. This, of ‘course, ated wide discussion among civilians and marines. During the discussion we could see that at Teast 50 per cent of the marines were vigorously opposed to the ac- tion of the officer. You can just ask a marine what he thinks, let’s say, about the cli- mate, or any other thing, and the) answer, full of bitter sarcasm, will ‘e something like this: Don’t you «know that the marine must not think, but has to do as he is told without question?” When one hears a statement like this and also sees the seriousness, the bitterness on the marine’s face, he can not help but come to the conclusion that the U. S. marine is awakening slowly but surely, and that when the next world war comes, instead of shooting his fellow work- ers of America and other countries, he will rather turn the point of the gun against his own oppressor— the capitalist. A CIVILIAN WORKER Loyal Plotter, Tool of Capitalists, Dies; Couldn’t Hurt USSR _ PARIS Jan. 7.—Ex-Grand Duke Micholas Romanoff, pretender to the throne of Russia if his capitalist allies had ever succeeded in crush- the workers and peasants gov- ent there. died today in his villa Choigny, near here, ‘He lived with a small army of -oyalist plotters around him, hoping *o take part in an English, eee American, German, Polish, Rou- mn attack on the U. S. S. R. thine guns were mounted on ‘corners of his backyard, and he ‘tained an imperialist court . Where his followers ad- ssed him as “Majesty.” tt Nicholas is dead, and the So- overnment is stronger than at before. His plots never C it, except as they /got port from the imperialistic capi- countries, RS IN JAIL, RELEASED DISON, WIS. (By Mail).— Ratcek, jailed in state prison ‘8 on a charge of murdering hhas been released after 45 jail. He was convicted on antial evidence. 5 x |danced before their first working class audience in this country, the first audience which really appre- ciated and responded with unbound-| ed enthusiasm to the revolutionary | |dances depicting the course of the/ | October Revolution, and she said after the performance, “This is the most important night of our lives.” | Teaching 8 Years in USSR. | “For the past eight years,” said} liss Duncan yesterday, “I have! been teaching 200 pupils at the! school founded b} Isadora in the} Soviet Union. I have toured, the country, including the Caucasus Siberia, the Crimea, etc. I remem-| | in Kusbas, in the Kustnetzky Basin, | | Siberia, where there has been an} |American colony. Some misguided | advisers had warned us that the| Siberian workers and peasants might | |not understand our dances, might| |grow restless, and not appreciate} our work. We knew, however, that | }our dancing is for all. | “Our perfo: was observed with intense interest and enthusias- tically received, and afterwards some old peasants came up to us.| We asked them what they thought| of our dancing and they answered, ‘We would be perfectly happy if) only our children could dance like} that.’ | “But all children can and should be able to dance just as my pupils! dance,” Miss Duncan continued. | “And that is why Isadora estab-| lished her school in the Soviet Union. | She felt that nowhere else in the} world was there such an opportunity to teach large numbers of children} | ) The young visitors from the! The protest as disctosed, reads, Soviet Union, Irma Duncan’s pupils,|in part: “I must express the sur- will, I believe go farther than Irma! prise of my government to see in- has gone in the art of dancing. This | cluded in a treaty between two for- is imevitable. Isadora Duncan | eign countries the keys of Rancador stripped the artificialities from|and Quita Suenos, whose possession dancing, made it a natural expres-|and dominion are claimed and sus- sion of the emotions, let nothing|tained by Honduras with titles of stand in the way of the training and| undeniable ownership.” the use of the body as an instru-| The United States government ment of expression of life. But) has lighthouses on the two islands these Soviet children, born in the/named, which are about 200 miles country of the first workers’ dicta-|off the Nicaraguan coast and are torship, raised in intimate relation| said to have been leased from the | to the Soviet institutions, must nec-| Colombian government. | essarily add to the art of Isadora! | Duncan. Their art is more inspiring because it is filled with content and German haps Labor i nereasin: The scenes of the Russian revo- Acciden : I ene & lution which they depict have been | BERLIN, (By Mail)—A survey mrrneehenagt de eee a per f accidents to agricultural workers , . eir art 18 Con-|in Germany showed that they were cae! for the masses, is pregnant) increasing three times as rapidly as we Deedee eee Of accidents to industrial workers, nt ‘volution. eir in- 3 i jaltho they were fewer in number. terpretations of the Russian revolu-)The International Land Workers tion, born of the dictatorship of the ZA | Federation, which made the survey. proletariat, go beyond the interpre-|js trying to have the International tations of classical musical pieces,| Labor Conference of the League of which, because they were born of| Nations take up the question. Those the old era, cannot contain the in-| acquainted with the record of the spiration which the Russian revolu- League in the past realize that it tion has given to these Soviet| will be about as effective in this Pioneers. lmatter as it has been wiping out | white slavery, the opium trade, or in bettering conditions of the work- ing masses. | Urge Latin-American Financial Penetration | ‘ - ‘Coast Guard Admiral | Hoover’s tour of inspection for mage | business and military purposes has| Must Defend Shootin® | OTTAWA, Jan. 7—Admiral F. C. centered the attention of big busi-| sult, bankers are srtessing the great | Billard of the U. S. coast guard ar- ness upon Latin-America. As a re-| /Al, Unemployed, Will \manager in the elections, will be in- | italism. carry messages of “peace on earth, | 2nd is by far the Star production | good will among men”—the damned | 0! the Theatre. It is a remarkably) hypocrites! fine piece of work. The effects of | a huge demonstration are realistic-| jally created by voices “behind the scenes” and lighting. | Discuss Job at Beach | ae eee ek, Ne ees | TradeUnionCapitalism | ‘artly to recover from strenuous | by Reich Labor Fakers| work in the cause of administration | | of the city’s graft, and partly to/| a | BERLIN, Jan. 7.—The German discuss plans whereby he will be-/| : ri come chairman of the board of a/ Metal Workers Union has induced new bank in which William F,/|2 number of other unions to go into Kenny and John J, Raskob, his|4 new scheme of trade union cap- They have organized the terested, former Governor Alfred E. | Berlin Electrie Works, to compete Smith has decided on a stay at Palm|With the manufacturers and sup- Beach for three weeks beginning | Pliers of electrical household equip- Feb. 16. |ment. It is expected in left wing Kenny, Raskob, and the former circles here that they will be about governor will discuss preliminary as- as successful as the railroad engi- pects of the new scheme when Ras- | neers in this cou ntry, and that the kob returns to the city at the end of rank and/file will benefit about as | the week. | much, | By Public Request and to Accommodate Thousands Who Were Turned Away . . Manhattan Opera House ISADORA DUNCAN Baltimore, went ashore in a heavy storm and fog. Three passengers | were taken ashore yesterday and} continued to Baltimore by train. Officials of the Erickson Com-| pany, maintaining the same silence vhat characterized the Lamport and Tolt Co. in the Vestris disaster, 1 fused to allow the erew of 25 work- ers to leave the ship. They merely said that it would take several days to “pump out and reploat the ship.” “The Party is strengthened by purifying itself of opportunistic elements.”—Lenin. Lenin memorial meeting, January 19, in Madison Square Garden. ized, and their condition is much better than ours. The fishermen of Nova Scotia ought to organize into a strong union to fight the thieving bosses. Explosion Prevented by Worker in Berlin BERLIN (By Mail).—Violent gas explosions in Berlin caused a break- age in the roadway outside a rail- way district station, the flames ex- tending for hundreds of yards. A worker’s prompt shutting off of the main avoided a catastrophe. Ra CF »® oe Keith- Best Film Show In Town CAmeEC The Scarlet Veil of Mystery That Shrouded Russia Torn Away at Last. “The End of St. Petersburg” SENSATIONAL! Albee Now ‘Thentre Guild Productions = SIL-VARA’S COMEDY CAPRICE GUILD Thea.. w. send st . 8:40 Thurs. and Sat, 2:40. to express themselves in the dance. |oil fields to be found in Colombia | rived here today with other U. S. All children should learn to express and Venezuela, etc. The Anglo-| commissioners, to confer with Cana- themselves in dancing, to be grace-| South American Trust Co, is one of |dian authorities over shelling of ful, Their bodies should be trained those advising big corporations to| Canadian boats by coast guard cut- By Robert Nichols and as instruments of expression just} as they are taught to speak correct- ly. But this must be done when the children are at an early age. I began to study under Isadora when I was six years old.” Acclaimed in Soviet Union. ficulties encountered in the school the successes achieved in the Soviet Union. Her dancers have been ac- claimed thruout the Soviet Union, at all of the hundreds of perform- ances given before workers’ clubs, theatres, and workers’ and peas- ants’ organizations. The Soviet press has without ex- ception highly praised the work of the Duncan dancers. Miss Duncan told of the enthusiasm of Lunachar- sky, People’s Commissar of Educa- tion, for the work of her school, and then outlined her plans for the fu- ture. “We intend to return to the Soviet Union as soon as our tour is com- pleted,” she stated. “The ballet dancing, which still hangs on in the Soviet Union in a modified form, can never be the expression of the! masses. It is artificial and is not a natural expression of, the emotions or of life. The time will come in the Soviet Union when the dancing art taught by Isadora Duncan will be taught in every school in the Soviet Union as a necessary part of the course, when the biggest theatres will be devoted to her art.”| International Art. The art of Isadora Duncan was} international, said Irma Duncan, and_ can be understood by the masses | thruout the world. She explained that in her school the pupils did not receive a one-sided education, but} studied, in addition to dancing, the regular course taught in all the! Soviet schools, including the elemen- Miss Duncan then told of the dif- | during the past eight years, and of| invest “in the peculiarly favorable|ters, and to devise some way to position for development,” and em-| quiet the scandals on both sides of phasize the compliancy of the pup-!the border over graft in the prohibi- pet governments there. tio e. | Every Worker— Every Party Member and Sympathizer SHOULD WEAR A Lenin Memorial Button Sold through all Workers (Communist Party District Organizations ~~ These buttons carry a good picture of Lenin and the slogans: “FIGHT IMPERIALIST WAR” “DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION” All Party Units! . Order Your Buttons NOW! WORKERS (Communist) PARTY National Office: 43 East 125th Street, New York City DANCERS Company of 20, with IRMA DUNCAN Direct From Moscow 3 ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCES Saturday Afternoon, January 12th Special Children’s Performance—Prices 75c—$1.50 Sunday Afternoon, January 13th Sunday Evening, January 13th Tickets Now at Box Office and at DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, Room 201 POPULAR PRICES Maurice Browne MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th St., West of 8th Ave. Evenings 8:30. — Matinees Thursday & Saturday, 2:30 BERNARD SHAW’S Major Barbara REPUBLIC 3st; 8 Matinees, Wed. & Sat. 2:30, EUGENE O'NEILL'S Strange Interlude EVENINGS ONLY AT 5:30 LONDON, Jan. 7.—Militant teach- ers belonging to the Teachers’ La- hor League held a conference Sun- day, Jan. 5, and decided to fight to the end plans to cut wages. SPECTACULAR! LITTLE 146 W. 57th St. ARNEGIE Noon to Midnight PLAYHOUSE | Popular Prices 3RD SENSATIONAL WEEK “Lucrecia Borgia” with Conrad Veidt and cast of 50,000. en, 44 St.W.ofB' way, 30 Mats, Wed. | SHUBERT mn Saturday WALTER WOOLF inthe Thrilling The Red Robe Musical Hit with HELEN GILLILAND. Ethel Barrymore in “THE KINGDOM OF GOD” | By G. Martinez Sierra | Ethel Barrymore Thea. ey Evs. 8:30; Mats. Wed. and Sat. Chick, 9944. ERLANGER’S {Th.W.4ast-Ev §.30 Mats.,Wed.andSat. GEO. M. COHAN PRESENTS A New Avs VERMONT ¥ By A E. THOMAS civic REPERTORY ? fe Ng B0c; $1.00; $1.50. Mats, Wed.&Sat.,2.30 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Tonight, “Peter Pan.” Wed. Mat., “Peter Pan.” ph ARTHUR HOPKINS pew, Wed. Kve., herry Orchard.” NOW AT OUR NEW A Grové Street Theatre Singing By UPTON ND LARGE THEATRE (Sheridan Square Subway Station) Spring 2772—5 Min. from B’way Jailbirds 4 SINCLAIR. nc) A New Playwrights Theatre Production directed by EM JO BASSHE. NO WORKER SHOULD MIS: S IT! — POPULAR PRICES. 00D OPPORTUNITY for workers organizations, unions and clubs to raise money on sell-ow a blocks aw: ‘Comra 138 Went 14th Street, Watkins ta, Dates open in January. from Union Square. manager of New Playwrights Theatre, We are only For details see or call