The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 24, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, Inventions ot Shob Workers | HE steady increase in the number of inventions by workers in the Soviet Union is a smashing blow at all the parasites and lackeys who argue that Socialism all | initiative. Many work lieve that the boss class is neces- sary because they supply the brains and keep the wheels of industry going. But the building of social- ism in the Soviet Union:by the ef- forts of the workers themselves knocks the bottom out of this propa- ganda of the bosses. In this country, it is useless for the worker to invent anything, be- cause he is either tricked out of it by the big corporations, or he hasn’t the money to develop the invention that he has made. And when it is developed, it only serves to increase the exploitation of the working class and the profits of the bosses. | In addition, there are not enough | markets to absorb all that the capi- talist-owned machinery can produce today—that is, with a profit to the capitalists, so that instead of allow- ing the forces of production to de- velop to their fullest extent, capi- talism now strongly tends to limit and hinder theit deve!opment. In the Soviet Union, on the other hand, re the workers run the in- dustries for their own benefi not for the benefit of a parasites, the revolution leased a vast creati in the widest sections of the work- ing class. Inventions and the de- velopment of the productive forces are encouraged and stimulated. As a matter of fact. ions by workers on the job in Soviet fac- tories have become numerous that in some factories almist every worker is by g out some new process o The Briansk Locomotive fa’ “Krasnye Prof- intern” offers or he mest st ing mple, During 1928, workers of this factory over a thousand inventions, those that wer plant 060 rubl in operating economie, “Not a single process of producti the wo escaped the eag tion of the wi cording t des’ el ‘has re- 2 energy with- 20 the submitted and accepted saved the Nn, not a single detail of atten- of the Union “During last Octoher alone four hundred proposals were submitted to the administration by the work. ers. So great the flood of ventions by the wor! in this fas tory that the department to which the inventions referred could not hanile all of them, and three hed to he or- the different nd also a spe- special cor : ganized to consider types of invention cial bureau to examine new pro- pos: Of the 13,000 workers in this factory, 600 have become in- ventors.... A em of prem- iums for inventions has been estab- lished and during the past year| 30,000 rubles have been paid out to! workers in the form of premiums.” | ‘The “Press” factory in Moscow | which makes different kinds of tin- | ware, is another example. Here, tens of thousands of have been saved by the worke: inven- tions and the whole process of pro- | duction has been entirely reorgan- | ized. As a result, many processes | formerly done by hand are now) done automatically by machinery. | One worker’s invention of a method of automatic lubrication increased the output of one press from 12,000 | to 20,000 articles_a day. Auto- matic methods of cutting and stamp- | ing invented by a worker increased | the output of another machine from 25,000 to 30,000. These two factories, we are told in the report, are no exception, “The | Five-Year Plan and the competition | between the different factories and | different sections within a factory, | has given a tremendous impetus to creative activity among the work- ers, which is being supported in every way by the factory adminis- | trations and the government.” ' LABOR | ‘Soviet Spurs Another Case Where Liars Do Figure: 1930 Year Book: 'Rand School Avoids Mention of Most Workers’, Struggles; Boosts I. By VERN SMITH. THE AMERICAN LABOR YEAR BOOK, 1930, Published by Rand School of Social Science, New York. 448 Pages. Price $3.15. se 8 HE RAND SCHOOL’S “Ameri- can Labor Year Book” has, since 1916, the year of its origin, provided in handy and condensed form much valuable material: facts, dates, tab- les, names of organizations and per- with the class struggle. Through much of this period it provided facts (n the less obviously political field) with a-fair degree of accuracy, and with a certain objectiveness, due ap- parently to weak central control by the socialist party over those who actually did the work on the year book. The issue of 1930 (covering the period of year 1929) is still valu- able, in the sense that government reports, even of a capitalistic, even of a fascist government, are valu- able to workers. You know they lie, that they lie especially by the subtle means of emphasis, conceal- ment of certain things, and report- ing of others of less genera! import- ance, but you take it fairly safely for granted that whatever they ad- mit to their own discredit, is at least that bad, and no one knows how much worse. Thus when this year’s American Labor Year Book says in its Tnter- national Labor Diary: “July 1— Elections in Finland: Socialists ob- tained 59 seats (60 formerly); Com- munists secured 23 formerly 20)” you can take that as an admission of fact. But due to growing fascisation of the socialist party, and more aware- X of the leaders of their special mission of saving, capitalism in America, due probably to less hamp- ering from real workers who drop out of the party in larger and larger numbers, and give way to labor bureaucrats and petty bourgeois, the Year Book of 1930 is shot thru L. G. W. and Muste And then finally, after something | more than nine pages devoted to the | |Muste “Conference for Progressive {Labor Action” (all nine pages pure | Musteite propaganda) there are six pages devoted to the Trade Union | Unity League, mostly on the con- | vention and draft program, and ad-| |ded to this, two pages on the Na-| | tional Industrial Unions and TUUL \industrial leagues, and hidden among | this, appears in a ten line history of |all the tremendous activity of the | | sons and history of events connected | yy, U, in 1929, this sentence: “A | | subsequent tri-district convention at | Zeigler, on December 1, called the miners’ strike of December 9.” Just that, and nothing more, about a | strike, for which the bosses flooded Illinois with militia, made hundreds | of arrests, which saw miners march- |ing in armies from mine to mine, in ‘which the I. W. W. (as admitted by ja passing reference in the article on the I. W. W., page 104) made their latest step in degeneration by scab- bing in the southern fields, and for which, after fierce battles, hundreds were arrested. The case of the rene- gade John Watt (included in these 10 lines) is given much morg space | than the Illinois strike. Nothing stated about the N. M. U. is false, but you see what we mean by propaganda when you find | that the fake strike of the'I. L. G.) \W., treated as a real strike and high- ly praised by the American Labor Year Book, gets honorable mention in the “International Labor Diary”, | for more than half a page is boosted | s an “organization drive” later in) the book, and in both cases largely | in anticipation, for the I. L. G. W. dressmaker’s fake strike nad not started in the period the book cov- | ers. Likewise a half page is given| the Cloth, Hat, Cap and Millinery | Workers, and both these organiza- tions are described as “jubilant and in a mood of victory” because “they have eliminated the Communists.” And, since, for the sake of an ex- ample, we have entered the needle | trades, it might be all right to men- ition that the Needle Trades Work- Where the Indian Masses Struggle Miles. oo O 100 200: Delhi is the general capital of British imperialism in India, except tin the heat of summer when thé viceroy sometimes moves to Simla, in the northern hills. Peshwar, at the top of the map, is where the first mutiny of Indian troops took place, and the British got their biygest scare. Lahore has been the scene of fighting, it is the big city of the Punjab, in which most of the Sikhs live. Sikhs have been dispersed marching to aid the rebels in Peshwar. Amritsar, scene several ycars ago of the massacre of hundreds of Indians when the British General Dwyer turned the machine guns on them, is a few niles east of Lahore, but is not shown on the map. There has been street fighting in Karachi and Bombay, chief cities on the west coast. Poona, shown near Bombay is a military center for the British. Near Poona Gandhi sits in nominal confinement, and plots with the British to stop the growing revolt. Sholapur, seized and held several days by Indian textile workers, is no shown, but is a couple of hundred miles south of Bombay, near thv coast. The extreme South of India is a sea of reaction, home of th most defeatist, non-resistant native religions encouraged by the British government, but even so, sharp street demonstrations, with resistance seaport and permeated with socialist party | to police attacks have taken place in Madras. Calcutta, the big ity, and here have cente ikers of carters, many of which led Natna, Allahabad, Cawnpore, of road strikes, textile strikes, and s te the east coast is an industrialized battles with the police and military. ed vail- propaganda and _ anti-Communist propaganda, rather more than. you will find in any capitalist govern- ment publication. Evidently a new personnel is in charge of the book. For example, the U. S. depart- ment of labor will admit there was a great miners’ strike led by the Na-| tional Miners Union in Illinois last December; but the American Labor Year Book does not list this small matter in its “International Labor Diary Moreover, under the article, “Miners” over on page 77, you find a page and a half of apologyy for the Fishwick machine, and six lines. on page 79 about the National Min- ers Union. Briand While all the powerful imperial- ist countries have a common de- sire to attack the Soviet Union, French imperialism, as the cock- of-the-walk on the continent of Europe, has its own idea as to who should be the boss of the anti-So- viet war. SPORTS } Baseball. TE Washington Senators are con- tinuing to hold their lead in the American League, with the Philly Athletics right on their trail. As h leagues are getting further in- to the season the race for the pen- nant is constantly narrowing down. Both of the New York teams are in the fourth place, which is unusual for them. The baseball world would receive a shock of their lives if one of the New York teams did not fin- ish first. However, such is a pos- sibility. * * . An innovation is being tried out tn professional baseball through which the owners hope to increase their shekels through the turnstiles, ‘As it is at present it is difficult for them to reach those workers that have jobs, since baseball is being played in the afternoon. The minor leagues are being used to experiment with night baseball, using flood | lights. If this proves successful the major league owners will introduce the system in the league. This night baseball will enable them to draw | more workers to see the games, L. S. U. News. Preparations are going ahead fast for the holding of a five-week full- time Labor Sports Union Physical Training School in Detroit. Over 50 worker students are expected from | the many L. S. U, clubs to take part in the school. All labor or- ganizations, trade union and frater- |nal, are urged to send in students. | Besides training to become profi- cient physical instructors on the clubs, the five weeks’ course will cover the fundamentals in the or- ganization and strategy of workers’ defense. L. S. U. Athletic Meet June 7-8 June 7 will mark the first anni- versary of the Gastonia shootings. On this date and the day follow!ng ‘the Eastern District of the L. S. U. will hold a huge athletic meet in Ulmer Park in Brooklyn. L. S. U. Soccer Games. Dyckman Oval, Dyckman St. and Broadway, New York Italian F. C. vs. Bari F. C., 12 noon, Hungarian Workers vs. Harlem Progs., 1:30 p. m. Bronx Kickers vs. 69th St. F. Cc, 3 p.m Bari F. C. “B” vs. Argentine F, CG, 5 p.m. This Sunday marks the begin-° ning of eliminations in the Na- tional Cup competition, the finals of which will be played in Detroit on July 5 and 6, The finals will be played by a team representing the East and a team either from Detroit or Chicago, the West. {ers Ihdustrial Union gets exactly | |two and one third lines, over on | page 102, as follows: “The Needle | | Trades Workers Industrial Union conducted strikes of furriers, cloak- |makers and dressmakers in New York City, and elsewhere.” Not one of these N. T. W. I. U, strikes are| mentioned in the “International La- bor Diary” though that portion of ; the book does declare: “July 11— Cloakmakers’ Strike of New York ended; control over shops secured by International Ladies Garment Workers Union, with large gain in membership.” Also the fake strike! gets a page and a quarter, over in) the book under “Strikes and Lock- outs”. The Gastonia strike and trial | here gets 2 pages, with some inac- | curacies; the Illinois miners are not | ‘mentioned. | Another example of the same sort | is in that “International Labor | Diary.” Under a heading April 2, ; the whole Gastonia strike, Aderholt | | raid, trial and conviction and sent- | |encing of seven leaders; is summed ‘up in five and one half lines. But, | five lines are needed for the harm- | ‘less kidnapping of McGrady andj | kidnapping of McGrady and Hoff- | man of the A. F. L. at Elizabethton! So, that is enough of that. In |the field where the working class | could expect, from the title and) claims of the Year Book, some de- gree of objectiveness and accuracy, the examples given above are typical of the treatment throughout, for all unions and labor struggles. When you come to the more di- rectly political aspects of the class struggle, where Communists and | socialists appear as political bodies, it is of course too much to expect any pretense of fairness from a pub- lication run by the socialist party. Here we have polemical articles open and unadorned. But even here, one remarks with amazement such a handling of the situation as the following: “The organized Commu- nist movement of the United States is divided into four groups,” and then appear, listed on terms of ab- solute equality of importance. Com- munist Party, Lovestone’s organiza- tion, Cannon’s organization, and the Proletarian Party. The article on the Soviet Union is forced to admit progress, but re- peats the slanders of Abramovich, and represents Tomsky as perse- cuted because of “his opposition to the turning of the labor organiza- tions, with their more than 11,000,- 000 members into part of the gov- ernment apparatus.” This in the workers’ own country, where the) government is directly set up end controlled by the workers and work- | ers’ organizations run everything! The American Labor Year Book contains valuable lists and addresses of American and foreign labor or- ganizations. It has much useful in- formation on the dates and places of so-called “labor organizations.” It is indexed. The Communist movement has; been too busy making history to record much of it. Perhaps it will be some time before we can publish our own year book of equal scope. to this. But something must be done to give workers a better and truer perspective of the events in recent! years than the American Labor Year Book. Your reviewer suggests, as a first step, a printed index, classified by subjects, of the Daily Worker, Labor Unity, Labor De- fender, and as many other of real) workers’ publications as can be in- dew =; ~ jters received from the Pioneers of | tertny Lucknow, Agra, are in the heavily agricultural and industrialized north-. ern regions where there are most railways. They are no centers of growing revolt, as they were in the days of the “Indian Mutiny,” in the middle of last century. U SER Piowters Protest “Moscow Nik The following is a group of let- |the Soviet Union, protesting against name is Zlatapolsky.” the arrest of Harry Hisman, mili tant fighter who is now serving a five-year jail term for participating in the March 6 unemployment dem-| Boyce ria : | “We send you our fiery greetings. | We school children living in the Dear Comrades:— |Soviet Union havesread in the press “Having rad in the Pioneer about your brave Picneer Eisman! Pravda your call to the children of We have learned that Harry was the whole world, we, the children of |again placed in jail behind iron bars the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub-' for five years. We are ag lics are greatly indignant at the ac-| brazen act of the bourgeo' e tion of the American bourgeoisie in| know that Harry Eisman gellantly sending to jail the active Pioneer, fights for the workers’ cause our dear comrade and fighter, for | Prison bars will not scare the mil the cause of the workers, Harry/lion army of young fighters. We Eisman! With a united protest, we |demand the freedom of Hargy from shall free Harry and prove the soli-|prison, We, all of the school chil- darity of the Pioneers the world/dren and Pioneers, hi joined the over. International Labor Defense and “We demand the immediate re- | promise to raise international funds. lease of Harry! We must secure|We see that thé bourgeoisie want his freedom! Harry shall be free! to stifle the Pioneer movement in “For the struggle of the workers’ |the capitalist countries, but they cause stand ready!” shall not succeed. May you also be (Sgd.) SIMFEROPOL (Crimea-) _|such brave and valiant Pioneers like The Fourth Group “B” of the Third | Harry Eisman! Nine-Year School. “Long live the Pioneer movement ae e in the capitalist countries! “Dear Comrades:— “Long live the brave Harry Lis- “We, the Pioneers of the 97th| mani Division of the Krasno Presnuy| “Long District, are greatly indignant at/ neers! the arrest of Harry Eisman. This; “Stand ready! news greatly affected our Pioneers.| “And so we end our short letter. A flood of protests were sent to! Write us how you live; es os Ameri- “Greetings! Dear Comrade can Pioneers! st this ie. We live the American Pio- the Pioneer Pravda. Fellows, cheer |correspond with you. up Eisman! Tell him that he should | ready! not ‘lose courage! Let him not think! “(Signed) The school children that he will not be replaced. Hejand Pioneers of the Soviet Union. |The City of Rostov, T School. Fourth Group “A” October St. N. 7.” shall not be forgotten by us! “Write to us, we are interested in your work. Our address is: 9? “Meditation on a Park Benc. By IRVING S. KREITZBERG. My dogs ache. Christ they ache! V’'ve walked to hell and back looking for a job, Into factories, down to the foundry, into warehousees, packing houses, stores— And always the same answer, “We're not hirin’ anyone today.” Always the same factory-gate NO HELP WANTED signs starin’ into your face, Jees You see it so often you dream it, you eat it, drink it, You see it on people's faces, the streets shout it, NO HELP WANTED! NO HELP WANTED! The symbol of potbellied prosperity It’s the gospel of America, ’ It’s the “‘My country ’tis of thee,” It's the constitution of the United States, It’s hell—godamit, hell I say! And I'm sick of it— Sick of beggin’ for a job I don’t get, Sick of standin’ in breadlines and shoutin’ hallelujah for coffee and sinkers, Sick of sleepin’ in stinkin’ flopjoints, I'm sick and tired of the whole damn business And fightin’? mad— They say there’s eight milliont more like me, Eight million jobless—hungry and tired, in the riches: in the world, Eight million— What’n hell they all waitin’ for? ‘Till their belly-buttons ‘hang on their spines, Or buntons grow on their buttocks, Or Jesus Christ comes down from heayen wi of jobs? Eight million— Now it we'd — — all together—and — — Eight million — — Jees — — Eisenstein Explains Some Things That “Soviet Film Art Begin Leaves Off”; Hopes to Film “Capital” By HARRY A, POTAMKIN | Sergei-Michaelovitech Eisenstein, Soviet film director, has arrived in the U. S. , with his cameraman, Comrade Edouard Tisse. At the end of the month his co-director, G. W. Alexandroff, will follow. “They are under contract to the Paramount- Publix producers. isenstein’s as- sistant will be Ivor Montagu, one of the founders of the Workers’ Film Society of London, composed large- ly of Communists. enstein was asked make a mass film here? “Will you ; | He replied: “I hope to.” | “You do not believe in the love- triangle?” | “What do you mean, believe? It} exists. But I am not interested in it. It isn’t my artistic concern.” “Wouldn’t you like to make a comedy ?? “I would. My work in workers’ theatre of the Proletkult in Moscow buffoonery, circus farce. But you must understand that the Soviet director is interested in comedy as ocial satire. It must serve a social function.” “Are American films barred from Soviet Russia because of their cap- t viewpoint?” “American films are not barred More are not exhibited because of the fantastic prices American pro- ducers demand. Of course certain American films have no place in y. You cannot expect us to be interested in King of Kings— it is too far away from our life. But we have liked Nanook and Mo- ana, the films of Chaplin. Chap- lin’s long films we have not seen because of their formidable prices. I think his Woman of Paris a mile- stone in the development of the ci- nema, although I have condemned Soviet directors for following it too ‘literally. Its attitude, content and form should not have influenced a kino such as ours, with mass prob- lems and social perspective.” “Will the U. S. S. R. make talk- ies? And if so will the international ‘appeal of her films be destroyed?” “Of course we will make talkies. But they will not be dialogue films. Speech will be but a small and dis- tributed part of the sound. The sound and speech will be synchro- nized after the visual portion is filmed. We will not time the speech to the lip-movements. Nor will we have only people speaking. The rivers and fields will talk too. Not duplicate naturalism but dispropor- tion., Other languages can be in- serted for the Russian. The inter- nationalism is preserved. Our sound technique is already present in our silent technique, in montage. Mon- tage is the mounting of the film, | the combining of the single images | or frames of the negative into a| progressive composition. Our film- | jmaking begins where the American | ends. We wanted something mor than just a physiognomy, something more than just grimaces or actions, | we wantetd to convey a sense that |would remain after the physical | image had passed, an ‘overtone’, as | it is called in mus “Would you not say that th is achieved not by plan but inner feeling? |. “No, I would not. It is true that individual sensibility is important, | but a method of overtone can be jformulated like mathematics for others to follow. At the State Tech- |nical Institute of the Cinema in |Moscow, where I taught the theory d practice of motion picture di: rection, we instruet the students ac- cording to such a method. They are jtaught in laboratory-fashion, by How to select and relate physiogno- mies for their resonance.” | China Express is a result of this educatio! | “I select types from| |non-professionals. In, the combina- tion, not in the histrionics, is the ‘film realized. Martha Lapkina, the peasant-woman in Old and New,} was, of course, an exceptional in- | stance. She experienced all that |we desired.” | Effect on audiences? Eisenstein now speaks as head of the Cinema | ‘Division of the Psycho-Physical Laboratories for the study of audi- | jence relations: | “Effect is relative. In a battle-| |scene, instead of showing men slain, | {I wished to convey the physical hor- ror by the butchery of cows. Re- fined cosmopolitans shuddered, but \peasants, accustomed to the slaughter of cattle, were not touched. This admittedly makes | |the problem difficult in the Soviet Union, due to the diversity of audi- ence, but we are meeting the diffi- culty by making special films with specific appeals, instead of manu- Yacturing least common denomina- tor pictures for everybody.” “Will you make a film of Marx's Capital as you intended? Old and |New leads directly to it.” | “T hope to.” | Bi ein has, in this brief in- tervie expressed, not only him- self, but the Soviet cinema gener- ally. And the Soviet cinema ex- presses, of course, the Soviet social tind. The October Revolution gave birth to the Soviet film. Motion pictures had been made prior to the foundation of the U. S. S. R., but |they are beyond recollection. The jvestiges of these pre-revolutionary | ifilm-days clutter the movie machin- | Jery of Europe. A & P Stores Make Sovkino Makean Artof | Slave Driving s Where the American By M. S. (Chicago). In working for the Atlantic and The work of these | Pacific Tea Company for over a emigre directors is over-adorned | year I have come in touch with dif- hokum mainly. These spurious art- {ferent workers but with same opin- are fragments of an empire.|ions. They all know how low their The veritable Russian artist of the|wages are and how long the hours cinema is the utterance of the revo- jar They are always ready to dis lution. Had there been no revolu-|cuss their conditions which are tion, and had Eisenstein turned to|very bad. The wages for women the film—which is itself improbable |is $15.00 a week. The hours are ists — he might have made another |10%2 during the week, and 12 hours version of Oscar Wilde’s The Pic-|on Saturday. Twice a week we are ture of Dorian Grey, that expres-|forced to work overtime for 1 or 2 sion of an introverted aristocracy |hours without extra pay. When the which was made into a movie in|grocery order comes in we are forced pre-Soviet days by Meierhold, the|to put it up for the next day. The stage director of Moscow, whose|maangers of these stores are the assistant Eisenstein was prior to|real slave drivers for the company. entering the films. They are paid a wage with a certain apechintony: commission on the sales for the Phe ee ety week. When a new worker is hired monday cunlecucely jthe manager gives the lowest wage of Eisenstein | From an eng- jineering institute to da Vinci and which he can get away with. The Freud. The engineering corps of manager makes them work overtime the Red Army, and the Red Army’s|for Eee ten keeps this extra money for himself. entries) compamics designer | vice a year they have contests and director. The academy of the |in the stores, to see which store wiil general staff in the Japanese sec-!make the biggest profit for the bos- tion. The influence of the Japanese ses. Then each manager goes to his clerks and tells them how won- as theatre and language. Dramatiza- of Jack Lon- don’s The Mexican for the Prolet- kult, first workers’ theatre. Meier- hold. Counter-Meierhold. The films. Pavlov’s psychology. Marx’s mater- ialism. The last gave him the syn- thetic instrument. He extracted from his intellectual experienc their materialist content. Some day he hopes to write his findings on aest- hetics from the materialistic view- point. His films have increasingly been dialectic structures. He has said that the future cinema will con- cern itself with “conflict-conjune- tions” (the antithesis-synthesis of dialectics) of an intellectual appeal. But the basis is already present in the primitive film. He sees the Sov- iet cinema has “having composed a completely new form of cinemato- graphy—the insertion of revolution tion and production derful it will be if their store wins the prize. During the summer season busi- ness drops considerably, which re- sults in the lay-off of men workers and the lowering of wages for those who remain. Those wo do not want to accept a lower wage are forced jto quit working. The company never suffers a loss but as usual, {the unorganized workers are forced \to bear the result of the slack sea- |son by a cut in their wages. The workers who buy in these stores are cheated in the worst fashion. The manager has to make lup for the food that spoils, so he makes his clerks cheat on scales and prices so as to make up for any loss. The clerks have to stand for all kinds of insults from the customers. \The company has the slogan “The into the general history of culture; |customers are always right” and we having composed a synthesis of sci-|are forced to abide by this and not ence, art and militant class feeling.” argue with them if they blame us Stimson Stimson is Secretary of State and the guy who said to the N. Y. Graphic correspondent that he knew the Whalen documents were forged and that anti-Soviet forg- ers are running around loose. But he doesn’t do anything about it. | “Carthage Must Be Destroyed” Long time ago, about twenty cen we want to Selection and relation, where to place | furics, a Roman noble in a fancy Always the door, left or right, and why.| nightshirt kept hollering that “Car- thage must be destroyed!” And damned if it wasn’t. We read about it Wednesday, when the papers toid us that thousands of Catholics de- scended upon it—you see it is in Tunis, North Africa—for the Thir- tieth International Eucharistic Con- gress. French imperialism has the natives hog-tied now, and there are no Gods of Baal more savage and bloody than modern imperialists. So French troops and fleet turned out to give the key of Tunis—the mod- erv city near the ruins of ancient Carthage—to the Papal Legate. Forty thousand Catholic notables— including 500 from Hooverland— flooded the place. We mean flooded, since—say the papers—"The govern= ment aided the wine merchants by handing out booklets describing the charms of Tunisian wines.” Alas, the “blood of the redeemer” they hand out in New York ain't to be compared to the vintage squeezed out of the Tunis grapes by the in- fidel hands of Arabs. A good tim: was had by all and the Arabs “did « profitable business.” We'll bet the Arabs thaught: “Well, it may be ali right to destroy Carthage, but why abuse the remains?” I Think It’s Because They Are Built That Way! About that headline on a local paper which says that “fresh pol- ice” are being used in the Austral- ian strike. ‘They're like that! Look at Whalen! Just look at him! He, too, was fresh, until he collided with the Daily Worker forgery exposures. Since then he has been using all his massive brain to prevent the hen from crossing the road against the red, white and blue lights, RED SPARKS By JORGE for anything, we must try in every ~ lway to please them so as not to lose business. Besides waiting on customers we are forced to keep the |store clean. We never have a min- Jute’s rest. The company superin- |tendent comes around every once in | while. When the manager knows |that he is coming he makes us work | much harder so as to have the store |nice and clean when he comes. The only way for the men and | women workers in these chain stores is to organize. They must speak |with one another and not let the | boss separate them. | As class-conscious workers we must popularize our demands be- | fore all workers in all trades, Only as an organized group will we be able to get our demands which are: seven hour day, five day week, social (insurance vor the unemployed, equal | pay for equal work, etc. | We must join the industrial unions |of the Trade Union Unity League, |the militant trade union center of the U. S. A. Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- | mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. [eee Flames of Discontent Among the things classified as adding insult to injury, we reckon the burning of six policement at Sholapur, India,—it must be said, died miserably for the sake of British imperialism, being soaked in kerosene and set fire to by Hindus who—strangely enough— were irritated at being fired on with rifles. The insult was inci- dental, originating from the ru- mor we don’t certify, that the kerosene was the product of the Standard Oil Company and not of the Royal Dutch Shell, and more over had been purchased from the Soviet Oil Trust by Standard Oil to supply fuel to its competition against the Shell interests in In- dia. * * « He Thought It Was | Worth It Chicago:—Attorney Albert Gold- man, defending Communists arrested in recent demonstrations, paid 3i07 fine for contempt of court rather than apologize for his remarks, As for us, we haven't a hundred bones, but we've been saving up about $1,000 worth of choice con- temptuous remarks for the first capitalist court that we bump up against. . . . We Gather the Idea That They Won’t Like Him! “His real trouble has been that he is almost all superstructure, and therefore top-heavy and a poor ship to weather a storm.”— The N. Y. World anent Mr. Whalen. Of course we mustn’t mistake this self-criticism of the capitalists for any objection to Whalen’s attacks on the workers. The World mere- ly wants it done more artistically. Ii admits that there is “a storm” and call for a pilot with ears a foot shorter than Whalen’s, that’s all.