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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-15

l see as how the actor folks is cast
ing off the money Jokes, and threat
ening to go on strike il they can't get
the terms they like, and workers of
the tragic muse is breaking into labor
news.
Until the new societee makes art as
free as 1t can be, guess it amt no
scenic lies that actor folks is working
guys, for in this money-grabbing age
we have coupon-clipping stage,
where managers who love the mart
control box offices and art.
It don't take makeup by the pound
to give the footlight favorite ground
for throwing in his mimic lot with
those what union cards has got. He
needn't step much out OF part, for its
real work to turn out art.
The girl who stuffs her legs in
tights, the man who works the bright
spotlights, the kid what plays the ju-
veniles, the usher girls who walk sum
miles. J. Caesar dying with groan,
the sport who plays the slide from.
bone, the stage mechanic with his
crew, the young (perh- ps not) in
genue, the guy what dies as Romeo,
the chap that makes the curtain go,
the folks what set up scenes so nice,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-15
Strauss of Alfalfa
BY JOEL SHOEMAKER

We oIde Hay Editor.
BUT, NOBODY KNOWS
HOW WET WE ARE.
l WAS invited
TO SIT IN meeting
WHERE BIG MEN talked
WET AND DRY matters over
SOME WANTED to slap
OLD MAN volstead
IN THE FACE, easy like.
AND MAKE him say
LIGHT BEER and wines
| STOOD UP on my feet
AND FOUGHT like Turk,
TO SWAT Volstead a blow
BETWEEN THE EYES or somewhere
AND FORCE him to stop
THE BIG FARCE and say
WET OR DRY once for all.
If WE ARE to be dry
LET US FORGET light wines
AND PUT some backbone
IN THOSE wiggling and webbing
SKIMMILK POLITICIANS Of the day
AFRAID OF their salaries
AND THE VOTERS with ballots.
1T WAS SAID by some one,
THAT BY JANUARY next,
THE BIG HEADS now in power
IN THE CAPITOL city,
WASHINGTON, d. c.
WOULD FRAME some policy
ON NATIONAL PROHIBITION.
BUT WHY have light drinks?
If WE PLAN a change
TO MODIFY the volstead law
WHY NOT have dark and heavy
WET GOODS true TO name?
FIRST OF ALL let us
VOTE OUT the weaklings
IN PUBLIC OFFICES and places
AND SEND then back home
TO FEED ON brain foods,
WHILE MEN with mature minds,
ELECTED BY the people
EITHER REPEAL or enforce
THE LAWS Of the country
AND QUIT passing the buck
ON THE PROHIBITION QUESTION.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-15

in chimes" She refuses to arrest the
hero because, as she says, 1--WE do not
deal with minors in this precinct"
Disguised with it all, Balzac drinks
another draught of his potion.
The third scene is in the lobby of
the Hotel Parthenon during election
night. Balzac is running for mayor of
Athens against Paris. Paris has given
away free garters to obtain support,
but Balzac has the backing of Plato,
manager of the hotel and stands the
better chance The hero falls in love
again, this time with Helen of Troy,
who throws him over for Paris when
the election returns, received over the
radio, shows that Balzac has won
Balzac drinks the last of his magic
elixir, and reappears on the university
campus.
Turnout the Greek scene are so
many exceedingly funny episodes, that
space will not permit description of
them. Diogenes with his lantern, the
little girl reporter from the Athenian
Examiner, the chorus of weeping and
laughing philosophers, dressed as the
"joys" and "glooms" Of the Hearst car
toons, and the Swedish cook of the
hotel deserve more extended mention
than can be given here. But the profu-
sion of musical numbers thruout the
scene is it's one bad point
OF course the play has it's happy
ending, and its finale of all the music
of the show.
The acting was excellent. William
Kerr as Balzac, Jack Stambaugh, the
heroine, Robert Lanyon as Herr Tonic,
and Owen Nugent as Queen Elizabeth
were especially good.
On the whole the music was not so
good Most of it was of the kind that
any hack can reel off, three yards of
score for a nickel The song "My
Vagabond" and the chorus "In the
Temple of Nah Jong" were the best
bits in the show
But the entry of Queen Bess and the
prohibition squad was worth sitting
thru all the rest to see.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-15
The Lone Opposition

The one notable fact about the LudendorfFas
cisti demonstration at Halle, Germany, Sunday,
was that the Communists furnished the lone OPP
position. While the members of other parties may
have proclaimed at times their hostility to the
return of monarchism, it remained for the Com
munists alone to carry that hostility into action.
1t was the Communists who had destroyed the
Moltke monument, at Halle, symbol of German
militarism 1t the German government with
the Socialist Ebert at its head, that gave the
generals, princes, including the ex-kaisers fifth
son, and other riffraff of the deposed kaiserdOm,
the right TO hold their Halle demonstration, under
government protection, and replace the destroyed
memorial to a human butcher. A reputable cor
respondent cables that socialists joined the nation
alists and fascist in the demonstration with its
$4,000 participants mostly youths, after the fash
ion of the italian fascist.
The Halle demonstration will again prove to
the German workers that the struggle for their
emancipation goes forward the shoulders of
the Communists. More than four millions, at the
recent elections by their votes, showed that they
realized that fact New millions will be continu-
ally TO this view until complete victory over
monarchism and capitalism, in all its forms, is
achieved.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-15
The Future in Pullman

The striking carbuilders have gone back to their
jobs in Pullman. They fought game fight They
got about all they could against the big obstacles
that confronted them. They are determined to
do better next time.
While the Pullman carbulders toll at their daily
tasks under the lash of the speed-up system, let
them remember that their greatest strength is in
organization, political and Industrial. You came
out on strike this time without an organization.
While on strike you organized some of your mum
bers into the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen.
Let no day pass, Carbuilders of Pullman, without
securing new adhesions to your union. When your
industrial organization is strong and powerful,
Mr.. e. f. Carry, president of the Pullman Co.,
knight of st. Gregory of the Roman Catholic
Church, will not be able to reject you. He will be
compelled to listen to your demands, and grant
them.
But industrial organization is not sufficient.
You must also have your political party. In this
strike many of you have had your first contact
with the Workers Communist Party. You have
heard its speakers You have read it's literature.
Daily you have followed the developments of
your struggle thru the columns of the DAILY
WORKER, the daily spokesman in the English
language of the American Communist movement.
You will be doing yourself service by joining
the Englishlanguage branch, or one of the several
foreign-language branches of the Workers Party
in Pullman and by subscribing for the DAILY
WORKER, or one of the many foreignlanguage
Communist publications.
The big lesson of this strike is that the workers
must be prepared for the next struggle. Now is
the time to prepare
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-15
Liars, Mud.sIInalna Contest.

NEW YORK, May 14.-Lawyers and
capitalist newspapers got the worst of
it in mutual mud-slinging contest be-
fore New York Bar Association
meeting. President Henry w. Taft
charged newspapers with blocking
justice, conniving with unethical law
yers, running the regulations of in
nocent people by false and sensational
stories, and sabotaging legal reform.
Don c. Seitz, business manager, New
York World, denied that lawyers were
interested in law reform, saying that
the laws were generally drawn up in
law offices for secret or private ends.
Lawyers are more eager to smash
laws than to defend them, said Seitz.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-15

The United Council of Working Glass Women
in New York City has called for demonstration
this Saturday against the city hall under the slo-
gans of "Down with the Landlords Down with
the High Rents and Firetraps7 The day will
come when hundreds of thousands will march on
New York's City Hall under those same slogans.
1t is absolutely necessary that the demonstra-
ton this Saturday be made as effective as posi-
bic. This is case where numbers will count
Every mother that feels the death grip of dark.
filthy and unsanitary tenements upon the thin life
thread OF her Children should be in line Every
worker who resents the clutch of the profiteering
landlord should add himself to the procession.
The time to protest against the next fretrap hor-
ror is now; not after it has taken its huge toll of
workers lives. Join the demonstration Saturday.
Help sound the call to action, that will rouse not
only labor in New York City, but the whole work
ing class thruout the entire land against the muir
derous housing conditions now prevailing under
the probationary capitalist social system
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-15
Soviet Russia's UItimGtum

Soviet Russia has discontinued trade relations
with Germany as result of the failure of the re
dictionary German government to make amends for
the recent raid on the offices of the Soviet trade
delegation in Berlin.
The capitalist press tries to minimise the impor-
lance of this action but quite outside of the
nomic dislocation that it will bring about in Ger
many it has deep political significance that will
not be lost upon the intelligent supporters of
capitalism and which should not escape the work
ers interested in the rise to power of the first
workers and peasants government.
Soviet Russia because of the backwardness of
the revolutionary movement in other capitalist
nations has been forced to make certain COM
promises with the capitalist system but the ulti-
matum to Germany signifies that this period is
nearing its end Soviet Russia, in severing trade
relations with Germany, serves notice upon the
capitalist world that compromise and concessions
are things of the past when the issue is one of
protection of representatives of the revolutionary
Russian working class.
In Europe the revolutionary wave is rising
again tho it may sink once under the attacks
of fascsm that seems to replace the spineless gov
ernments which keep weak hold on capitalist
state power in the interim between Poincare and
collapse. Soviet Russia has successfully withstood
the period of rampant reaction in Poland, Ger
many, Italy and France and if and when all ves-
tage of capitalist democracy is again wiped out
in western Europe, the working class of Russia will
be in position to do more for the European work
ers than extend its sympathy.
This is what the severing of trade relations with
Germany means and in the stern attitude of the
Soviet government based as it is on a knowledge
Of IL, own strength and the strength of the Euro
peah revolutionary movement there is little con-
ISOLATION for capitalist governments Of Europe, tho
their apologists may whistle to keep up their
courage
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-15
MUSIC.
BY ALFRED V. FRANKENsTElr
$50 Long Susan


$50 Long Susan" musical comedy
in four parts, was given for the last
time by the Blackfriars, a University
of Chicago organization, at Mandel
Hall on the university campus last
Saturday. The Blackfriars is an order
of university men, whose sole purpose
is to give a musical comedy written
and performed by themselves every
spring.
$50 Long Susan" was written by
Jack Oppenheim and Robert Pollack.
Balzac Bones, a student on the Mid
way, is in love with a coed named
Susan Smith, who has Tilted him for
football star. Sitting in despair in
front of one of the women's dormi-
tories, Balzac meets Herr Tonic, in
structor in physics, who gives him a
potion that will take him back cen
turtles.
The second part, which is by far
the best in the show, takes place in
the Mermaid Tavern in London, in
Queen Elizabeth's time. Marlowe,
Fletcher and Ben Johnson are waiting
for Shakespeare to appear when Bal
FAC shows up. Balzac at once falls in
love with the barmaid. according to
Blackfriars custom, the women's
parts are taken by men. Jack Siam
baugh, who played the heroine in
every scene made an attractive girl,
but heroine who sings in light
baritone is a trifie disconcerting.)
After time Shakespeare arrives, and
the house provides the playwrights
with forbidden liquor.
With the arrival of Sir Walter Ra-
leigh occurs the most beautiful scene
in the show. Sir Walter has returned
from Cathay, and shows the company
what he has found there. In comes a
mob of beautifully costumed manda-
rims each bearing a huge, three-foot
nah jong tile. The dance of the
cinnamon and their song, "In the
Temple of Nah Jong," is one of the
finest things one can find in any
musical show.
But soon the famous Rugby player,
Sir Henry O'Hare enters, and the bar
maid jilts Balzac for him. There is
duel between the L. of c. man and
his rival, during which Queen Eliza
beth herself appears with her prohibit
ton squad. She exclaims in regal
tones "the 'ouse is pinched." and has
all but Balzac and Sir Walter thrown
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-15
He Didn't Get Enough

Victor Berger hasn't had enough of Woodrow
Wilson. The Milwaukee socialist congressman
wants to rattle the bones of the dead war presi-
dent, persuade the IA points" to do a post
norton tango and, presto, save the Germans from
the terrible French, British Italian and Amer
leans.
Berger wants to revise the Versailles Treaty in
the now faded light of the Wilsonian program. He
has introduced, seemingly in all seriousness, re-
solution to that effect in congress. He wants
surgery work ON the treaty done by conference
to include representatives of all nations that are
sgnatories to the Versailles treaty. This gather
ing like the fake disarmament conference is to be
held in Washington, d. c.. before the first Mon
day in December this year, which is the day of the
assembling OF the next regular congressional ses-
sion, and, so spread the smell OIL "Cautious Cal"
Coolidge is supposed to call it.
Berger has been out of congress for six years
His joke resolution can only be looked on as an
effort to make up for lost time In discussing his
resolution he Immediately raises the question of
"war guilt" a matter that is considered taboo
even in the Second (Socialist) International
having been dropped years ago. When Berger
tried to raise this question at the last Hamburg
Conference of the Second and Two and One Half
Internationals he was promptly sat upon. But
Berger is persistent, even if tainted with some
AOAAAAS
'If any nation can be held more responsible
than others (for the war; Russia and France
and to certain extent Great Britain-are to be
regarded as by far the guiltier."
For the purpose of the resolution Berger seems
to have discarded the theory that it was a capital
list war. But that does not now fit in with Ber-
gers sympathies for Germany,-not the Germany
of the workers and farmers, but the Germany of
Scheidemann, Ebert Noske and other hangman of
Communists.
The Treaty of Versailles is a scrap of paper torn
into so many shreds that not even Victor Berger
can piece it together again. As a result of the
Versailles pact Europe is drifting rapidly into an
other war that will be more widespread and more
devastating than the last. This is so because the
Bergers in Germany sabotaged the social revolu-
ton in that country, in 1918, making the writing
OF the Treaty of Versailles at Paris possible But
the ending of the next war will find the Bergers
going into the discard with the capitalists they
serve, and the treaty, that will need no revision
Will be written by the spokesman of workers and
farmers in all countries, freed from the capitalist
yoke everywhere.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-15
Cachin and Longuet

One of the big lessons of the French elections
is seen in the reelection of Marcel Cachin, Com
munist, and the crushing defeat of Jean Longuet,
socialist the discredited grandson of iustrious
ancestor, Karl Marx.
IT was Cachin that faced charge of treason
when he urged the Ruhr coal miners to resist the
aggressions of French Imperialism. 1t was Cachin
that was to be placed trial before the French
senate. 1t was Poincare himself who threatened
TO resign when the senate refused to go thru with
the trial
All this time Longuet was ever active preaching
hatred against the Communist international. He
went to England and then toured the United
States with his doctrine of antCommunist hate.
To be sure, the British and American workers re-
fused to listen Now the French workers have
completely repudated Longuet, and with him all
that he stands for. No doubt, Premier Macdonald,
of Great Britain, will be able to read the hand
writing on the wall, and draw the lesson. But he
will plunge on to his own fate-defeat at the hands
Of Communist workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-15
Rail LAWYERS EIaht Bill.

WASHINGTON, May 14.-Railroad
lawyers who have been pouring into
washington are hopeful Of delaying
action on the Barley railroad labor
bill until the end Of the session, IL
adjournment is not beaten.
On the other hand, they are alarmed
because Rep. Shallenberger of Nebras-
ka has started petition to discharge
from the interstate commerce COM
mittee-the course that was taken
with the Barley bill--the measure
for repeal of the guaranty clause
Sec. 16a-in the Esch Cummins law.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-15

Eliza crossing on the ice, the gink
who guards the ticket box, old Rip
Van Wrinkle with false locks, the
wardrobe mistress with her thread,
fair Desdemona choked in bed-all
these who make up mimic life are
victims Of the bosses knife.
Ill say they better unionize before
the god Appolo dies.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-23
Governor Of Florida
Names Business Men
For Pan-American Meet

TALLAHASSEE. Fla, Sept. 20
Governor Hardee today made public
the names of siXty-three business
and professional men Of the state
appointed to represent Florida at the
Pan American commercial congress
to be held in Atlanta October IA.
The congress which, it has been
announced, will be attended by diplo-
matte and consular representatives
and by special delegations from sis
ter republics of the western hemis-
phere, will consider the program of
economic, commercial and financia!
relations between the Americas. 1T
will also endeavor to evolve a, plan
of action for the promotion and eX-
pansion of the commercial relations
between the United States and the
countries of Latin-America.
a review will be made at the meet
ing of the commercial and industrial
and financial achievements of the
southern states, and the congress, it
is stated, will outline practical and
statesman like activities for the eX
tension of southern trade.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-23
Cottonseed Crushed During August
63,541 Tons Us. 55W6 Last Year

WAsHNGTON Sept 2OCotton seed crushed during August
totaled
and on hand at mills August 81 1858 tons compared with
81
Cotton seed products manufactured August and hand
Crude oil Produced pounds
year. with 1888
1114421 pounds compared with 12O66
690,554
with 26003
hand 1929 TONS compared with 26S81 year
compared with 1OO29 last
compared with 22,463
Exports of cote products during August
with 4O2363 last
fined with 3O6965 pounds cake
iners 6O64 bales,
nared witt
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-23
Skipper Of Vessel
Smuggling Aliens,
Escapes After Fire

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Sept. 20.
Statements that the skipper of the
slOop which burned near here yeste'
day made his escape early this morn
ing on craft, which apparently
came to his rescue, were made by
three aliens found on Mitchell Island
today.
The three foreigners told officers
that they had hidden with the cap
tain, woman, and a small boy, on
the island since the burning of the
ship in which they had travelled
from Cuba.
Late last night, they said a ship
appeared off the island and began
signaling. The skipper replied with
a t1ashli2ht, and boat was sent
ashore in which he, the woman and
the boy were taken to the boat.
The trio taken into custody this
morning brought the total of aliens
arrested by local officers to twenty
one. The first group of seventeen
was taken at Tampa last night BY
immigration officers, and the other
three will follow today.
Six other aliens believed to have
been in the party on board the sloop
were arrested late yesterday by
county officers at Indian Rocks They
said they had walked from the lower
end of Long Key.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-23

dowment fund 10 receive assign
ments OF insurance benefits any
veterans wish to make was ordered
by the legion convention. The legis
lative committee was instructed to
work for the necessary changes in
the adjusted compensation law to
make these assignments possible.
Claude A. Brown. editor of the
Arkansas Lemionnaire, Little Rock,
was elected national president OF
the American Legion Press asso-
citation at the organization of Amer
lean Legion publication representa-
tives today.
Admission Of Germany to member
ship in the inter-allied veterans as
ISOLATION ito promote world peace
will likely be granted soon, accord
ing to a statement made to the
American Legion convention today
by Colonel Ernest o. Thompson, of
Amarillo, Tex, one of the American
"fidac' representatives.
Florida Wins Again
Florida annexed its third trophy of
the convention when it was a WGrded
TIE Frederic w. Galbraith,. Jr..
trophy for the greatest imam miles"
any delegation covered in coming to
the convention.
The Milton J. Foreman trophy was
awarded to the Minnesota team,
which won first place in he annual
rifle shooting competition. The
third United States infantry Of Fort
Smelling was second; ana the Ncenat,
Wis, post was third.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-23
Quarries Rock for Founda-
tion-Repairs OWN Auto
mobile and Works ON Cars
for NeighborS

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Sept. pa
own.
SO C. J. Balfour set about to build
his house with his own hands.
He began to eXcaVate for the base
ment. And that was a tedious task.
Unable to see where he was go
ing when pushing wheelbarroW, he
was compelled to remove the dirt
in a child's wagon. That way he
could hold out one hand in front
and feel his way around.
Came then another obstacle. In
his digging he struck 22-inch for
nation of flint and limestone.
He obtained a plug and feather
drill and plunged ahead TO guide
the drill, he invented tube inclos-
ure.
Month after month he toiled, hew-
ing the rock away. Yet his adver-
sity became a blessing, for the rock
could be used in the foundations.
Basement Completed
Finally he completed the base
ment. And in it he installed his own
plumbing, fruit cabinets, coal bin
and d garage. In another end, he
built and he equipped a work bench
upon which he cut out and finished
parts of the house of his dreams
He sought a loan, telling of the
work he had finished. He was re-
fused.
But he wasn't discouraged. Slow
ly he went ahead There were