The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-08
CELEBRATE THE
FIFTH YEAR OF
TECHNICAL AID
Group of the ~Red Ray
Commune Leaves

ne right OF the local Russian
counter revolutionary clique
against the influence of the
Society for Technical Aid to
Soviet Russia" and its "Soviet
School" took the form, last
Saturday night, of a Russian
motion picture program in OPP
position to the fifth anniversary
celebration and farewell party
in honor of a group leaving for
the RED Ray Commune" near
Odessa.
The picture program was
heavily advertised and praised
in the local reactionary sheet
"Russky Viestnik," and the adj
vertisements were so worded as
to draw both the reactionaries
and the radicals.
For instance, altho the main five
reel film was called 1.-The Calvary of
Russian Womanhood," other titles
read, Russian Movies, 191S-1919,"
'Red Leaders in Kiev," 1.-THE Cheka in
Kiev," etc. What Russian is not in
terested in motion pictures. of 1918?
So this program was staged at 1889
w. Division street. The Soviet School
is at 1902 W. Division street. And to
make doubly sure the counter-revolu-
tionists secured so-called friend of
labor" NJ l. vorobiev and his rus
sisn-American Choir" as entertainers.
"Hero Kissed.
But only handful showed up, and
even this small crowd was unsympa-
thetic toward the white guardists.
Whenever the hero" Denikin ap-
peared as the Saviour" of Kiev, he
was greeted by more Kisses than
cheers, while the VILLAIN" Trotsky re-
ceived tremendous applause. This
greatly disheartened the Denekinites.
The greater part of the crowd left
Immediately after the show for the
already crowded farewell party at the
Soviet School and the fiasco of their
white" enemy added to the good
spirit there. The program was fur
nished by the Y. w. L. orchestra and
members of the John Reed Junior
Group. A welL-known Russian probe
tartan actress, Namgova, sand the
hymn of the Russian youth, "The
Young Guard"
The chairman, in his review Of the
five years Of activity of the local IS
T. A. S. r." stated that many mem
bers of the society were now busy in
the mills. mines, factories and fields
of Soviet Russia. The largest group
Of the society, the commune Red
Ray has over fifty members, with
modern American implements, tilling
the soil in the Odessa district. At the
conclusion of the program lantern pic
lures of the activity of the society
were shown. The greatest applause
was brought forward by the pictures
of the actual work in the RED Ray
commune in Russia, and by the perse-
cution visited upon the society in the
1919 raids.
Get Big Sendoff.
The group, which left on the mid
night train, was given rousing send
of. AS they marched to the door the
entire audience stood up singing THE
international" Dancing concluded the
program.
On Saturday, Dec. 81, p. M, the
society will give a Russian play en-
titled miner Kort." This is a revo-
lutionary episode in the struggles Of
the miners of the Donetz Basin dur
ing the perilous days Of 1913. The
play is being directed by the cele-
brated Russian actor. A. Pokotilov.
It will be held at the Soviet School,
1902 w. Division St., Chicago, and
many comrades who do not under
stand Russian know from attendance
at previous plays that the acting is so
excellent that failure to understanf
the words does not take away the en-
joyment of the play.