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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
A Few Necessary Statements

tional. when this article was written,
was union of parties in all countries
which had come together for revolu-
tionary action. And the above quota.
ton refers to some of these parties at
certain stages of their development,
not to the Executive Committee of the
G. !. or to the congresses. The Com
munist International itself, as repre-
scented by the congresses and the ok
ecutive Committee, never made these
mistakes, but corrected them when
they were made by some of the afili-
ated parties.
In this period of storm and stress
in the Communist movement there
were at times differences between the
theoretical position taken by the con-
crosses and ileir Executive Commit
tee on these questions, and the prac-
tice Of some Of the national organiza-
tions. The endeavors to tear down
the old conceptions Of the Second In.
ternational to build up a new psy.
chology in the masses had led some
OF the more important parties to adopt
tactical measures which had not re-
ceived the sanction of the Interna-
tional So dangerous had this ten
dency to become that Nicolai Lenin
felt the necessity of combating it in
his "Leftism-an infantile disease of
Communism" which appeared two
years after the formation Of the Com
munist International That it was
possible for these parties, in the few
short years of their existence, to put
sound theory into practice, was-and
this is what our article wished to con-
vey-the greatest achievement of the
first five years of our International.
In his first annual report to the Sec
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
Literature Music Drama

then changes to tremendously big,
many-voiced fugue, which might grow
tiresome if it were not for the skillful
modern orchestration of Albert. The
Beethoven Eroica symphony is as its
title proclaims it, heroic, noble. And
the music ended with that glorious
and colorful medieval procession, the
prelude to Richard Wagner's Master
singers Of Nuremburg".
The memorial to Thomas is a
bronze statue of grand lady in an
cient Greek costume stunning on a
harp. In back of her are engraved
figures Of men playing orchestral in
struments. She was made by Albin
Polasek, and to us, who know nothing
of sculpture, she is not adequate. The
figures in back of her look like Egyp-
tian glyphs, and the central figure it.
self, looks stiff and unnatural. A sim
pie, dignified statue of Thomas him
self would have been-but then we
know nothing Of sculpture.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
MENTIONING THE MOVIES
BY LELAND oLDs.

(staff Correspondent Of the Fed. Press)
If you are moving picture fan
you are being forced to pay your
share of huge annual tribute to the
Eastman Kodak company and asso-
ciatcd interests whose monopoly con-
troll of the manufacture and sale of
raw films has just been exposed by
the federal trade commission. The
commission orders the Eastman con-
pany and concerns under its domina-
ton to stop the conspiracy in re-
straint Of trade by which they are
seeking to extend their film monopoly.
Profits Of Eastman Kodak for the
year 1928 totaled $1S,S77,229 after a
depreciation and federal taxes. This
meant a return OF $913 on every $40
share OF common stock or a profit of
more than 81 per cent. The concern
paid cash dividends tot fling rs per
cent and raised its undivided surplus
profits to $65, 1858, $40, a figure which is
more than three times the entire in
vestment of the common stockhold-
ers.
These 1923 profits are by no means
exceptional. Total profits Of the last
five years amounted to S6.34s.275. In
other words common stock holders
have in five years received no profits
more than four times their entire in.
vestment. Dividends during this per-
iod totaled $51,S91,S 39 or more than
2ls times the investment. In the last
decade, dividends totaling 1862 per
cent have been paid.
During 1922, in order to conceal the
enormity OF these profits, the stock
holders voted to change the stock
from 100000 shares Of 800 par to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
We Say. "Let's Coz

Sam GOmpers is ever busy making propaganda
against the Russian Workers. and Farmer Repub-
lie. The kept press of the bosses always have an
APPETITE for his stuff. And, if the truth must be
known, there are even some socalled labor papers
that print it.
While Mr.. Gompers was silent for many long
weeks before we would acknowledge having had
anything to do with the resolution calling for the
exposure Of the Teapot Dome Steal, not SO with
the Borah resolution calling for the recognition of
Soviet Russia. Gompers is at all times ready to
attack Russian Recognition.
The latest is from the typewriter of Mr. Com
pers own kept press agent, Mr.. Chester, Mr..
Wright renegade Socialist of the vintage of
William English Walling, John Spargo, Dr. Frank
Bohn, A. NJ. Simons and other ''for hire" scribb-
lers.
The Gompers Wright publicity wants to create
the impression that not only Senator Borth but
American Communist as we'll, are anxious to hush
up the hearings on the Borah resolution, in order
to prevent Mr.. GOmpers and his anti-sOvietists
from producing ''barel full of evidence"
We confess that we have no entrance to the in
ner workings of the mental processes of Senator
Borah But we are sure that American Com
munists have nothing to fear from any barrel of
evidence, or barrel of anything else that Gompers
might have on his hip. Every word of testimony
that Mr.. Gompers could produce against Soviet
Russia the American Communist movement has
already been worn so threadbare, that even the
most deyout czarist would have hard job finding
any value in it. Mr.. Gompers should profit by
the said experiences of his pals, Daugherty and
Burns.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29

Newton Jenkins one of the election hopes OF
the Conference for Progressive Political Action
pranced along to defeat in the April republican
primaries in illinois,
At the mass meeting for jenkins, held by the
Conference for Progressive Political Action in
Chicago, before the elections no attack was made
on the republican party. But jenkins was de
feated just the same.
Mr.. Jenkins, still on the outside looking in, has
now polished up few radical phrases. He is out
announcing that there viii be 'independent' OF
third party candidates in the field for the No
vember elections. He declares:
"There three political machines left in the re-
publican party in Illinois and in the democratic
party These devices stand between the people and
their government. They constitute corrupting in
ruences in our government which are ntolerable."
Yet, before April Sth last, this jenkins was will
ing to have machine inside the republican party
elect him United States senator. How gloriously
satisfactory everything would have been inside the
republican party had he been nominated in April
and elected in November REPUBLICAN.
1t is logical to conclude that all that Jenkins
wants inside third party is to turn it into
replica of the Wall Street republican party, al
the very first opportunity.
This is the brand of political turncoat that is
trying to direct the eyes of the workers and farm
ers away from the class National FarmerLabor
Convention at ST. Paul, Mimi, June 18th, by beat
ing the tom toms for the Conference for Progress
sive Political Action Third Party gathering al
Cleveland, Ohio, July 4th.
Let the workers and farmers become fully ac
quainted with these facts and then they will give
their unanimous and whole-hearted support to
"June 17th' at st. Paul
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29

ond Congress, zinoviev, president of
the Third international, declared that
the Executive Committee has had,
from the very beginning, to wage de-
termined struggle against the ten
dency Of small groups of left Com
munists, who were propagating the
boycott of the trade union movement.
The Executive Committee insisted and
insists that the Communists must not
leave the trade unions, but that to the
contrary they must double their eff
forts inside of the unions; that they
must organize Communist groups
therein in order to conquer the trade
unions for the Communist Interna-
tional in a persistent and systematic
struggle"
Altho the first Congress emphasized
that the parliaments must be used for
revolutionary propaganda, it became
necessary for the Second Congress
and the c. /. to force a number of
parties to take part in election cam
paigns. Similarly the widespread CON
ception that a small minority Of the
proletariat Of country could bring
about successful proletarian revolu-
ton was fought by the leaders of the
International. Here again it was
Lenin who battled against this mis-
conception in his "Leftism."
1t has not always been easy for the
Executive Committee of the Third to
adjust the practical application of its
theoretical position to the needs of
the various countries. Particularly be-
cause it is difficult to Judge true con-
ditions thousands of miles away. In
our "Wochen-Rundscha of March 9,
we quoted from cabled excerpt of a
"Pravda" article by Zinoviev and re-
marked that Comrade Zinoviev, who
does not know American conditions at
first hand, was evidently not always
receiving reliable reports. The Ameri-
can Labor Monthly, in referring to
this remark, intimates that these re-
ports emanate from responsible
American party circles, or from the
representatives of the w. P. to the
c. j.
We repudiate this Interpretation"
of our remark, for we know that the
comrades in charge of this task re-
port with great care. What we want
ed to express was that the exaggera-
lions that appear in the capitalist
press of this country which is at
tentively read in the c. I.--concerning
the growth and influence of the revo-
lutionary American movement, for the
purpose of terrorizing its bourgeois
readers, to pave the way for reaction
airy measures of suppression, are at
times given too serious consideration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
Can Editorial in the volkszeItung, by
Ludwig Lore.)

Gan Editorial in the Volkszeitung, by
Ludwig Lore.)
IN ACCORDANCE with the decision
! of the Central Executive Committee
of the Workers Party, to correct the
misunderstanding created by our ar
ticle on the Fifth Anniversary of the
Third International. which was writ
ten as an honest and enthusiastic trib-
ute to Communism and its interna-
tional organization, the Communist In
ternational the following statement is
made. The article in question con-
tanned the following passage, which
has regrettably led to misunderstand-
ings:
I'm the five years of it's existence
the Third has gone thru many an in
fantile disease. 1t swung from the
strict denial of parliamentarism on
the one hand to its use, always with
the same reaffirmation of its impor-
lance. 1t condemned the erection of
dual labor organizations, in spite of
the fact that it had, at first, supported
the splitting of the existing labor
union movement. It shook off the
utopian conception that small, de-
termined minority can bring about a
revolution in every country, and
taught that majority of the prole-
tariat must feel at least sympathetic
alliance with the idea of the necessity
of such an upheaval. It led Commun-
ism thru the secret society tactic of
underground conspiracy, and pro-
claimed the right of revolution and
revolutionary propaganda. And after
each sickness it grew stronger and
more virile."
Our conception of the Third Interna-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29

the next war, this $1OO,OOO,OOO that the House Of
Morgan is planning to drop into the capitalist
chaos Of Western Europe
We believe that the verdict will be that Morgan
must fight his own battles while the workers and
farmers rally for the final conflict under the stand
ards of the Communist international, against the
whole Morgan social system
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
Watch Your eoose.step.

LOS ANGELES. Calf, April 2S.-
Cleon Knoles, president, College of
the Pacific, had better look out for
his job-he must have been reading
The Goose-Step. He told the Mutual
Business club here that America is
ruled by sixth-grade intellects." and
the six-grade intellects who listened
to him we're not very much pleased
by his speech.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
"Saue Your Money And Buy A Judgew
BY |. D. McFadden.


The Wage Slave huy begged the
worker had killed The
Proud Soldier Of The u s. A Patriot
Three dollars for his daily would
The Boss had learned mot
- - :
ney put the Drift
ne owners da not care pn for workers lives but sought to
mi in min
su one who walked would take much time would
Against this your money buy
The Car they Much) The
-
Such the risk the gave way His Journey
800
Judge decided points
His Honors withdraw Blame
From old Parties your money and buy
- o' - - :
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
Theodore Thomas
BY ALFRED v. FRANkENsTEIN

Exercises in memory of Theodore
Thomas, founder of the Chicago Sym
phony orchestra, on the occasion of
the unwilling of a monument to him,
were held in Orchestra Hall last
Thursday afternoon.
Charles S. Hammill, president of
the Orchestral association, the finan-
cial hackers of the Symphony orches-
ira, in long address painted a pic
ture of the life of the first conductor
Of the orchestra. Strength and fight,
artistic taste and ability coupled with
determined confidence in the face Of
failure characterizes the life Of Theo-
dore Thomas. He came to America
at the age of ten, and at first was a
concert violinist in the East. He di-
rected an opera company, which fail
ed. He directed a numper OF SYM
phonic orchestras, travelling about
the country. When Thomas came to
Chicago he played to empty seats.
Year after year he went on, his back
ers paying his deficits, until, in 1914,
q big subscription fund was raised to
build a concert hall, according to
Thomas requirements. Orchestra
Hall resulted, but Theodore Thomas
lived only to conduct one short sea-
son of concerts in the new hall.
Musical Pioneering.
The musical pioneering of this man
is of inestimaDie worth. When he first
came here, Chicago newspaper said
1t was bad enough to sit thru one
movement of symphony. but to be
compelled to listen to three drove
the writer speeches.. He concluded
by remarking that the orchestra
should be driven out OF town. Musi.
cal taste mas gone a long way sine,
then, with full symphonies perform
ed at popular concerts, and with pop
ular concerts, children's concerts, uni
versity concerts, and concerts in Au-
rora and Milwaukee regularly, beside
those of the regular season.
Not only in Chicago has musical
taste been developed thru the work of
Thomas. Los Angeles, Detroit, Cleve-
land, Minneapolis, to mention few
cities, could never have symphony or
chestras as they have had not this
man succeeded in Chicago. In fact,
one might not be exaggerating when
one says that musical taste and cul.
ture turnout the middle west had its
origin in the musical missionary work
Of Theodore Thomas.
Bach, Beethoven, Wagner.
AT the exercises the orchestra play
ed three OF their first directors ia
vorite compositions, quite interesting
in that they show his musical outlook.
The chorale and fugue by J. S. Bach
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29

The house Of representatives by vote of 297 to
SO adopted the proposed child labor amendment to
the constitution Judge "Bill the Fat Taft ought
to get out an injunction stopping any further
tempt for the U. S. Supreme Court that members
of the senate might display by voting for this
amendment. For, it will be remembered the U.
s. S. @. held this amendment unconstitutional
Bill Taft might call upon Chicago's antilabor in
junction judges, "Charley Foell and 'Dennie'
Sullivan to help him out In the language of
Daugherty,I it must be that Moscow is trying to
destroy respect for the decisions of our most
honored judges.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
Democrats Are Hopeful.

WASHINGTON, April 2s.-Senate
democrats claimed enough progress
i've votes to assure adoption of their
tax reduction schedule.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29

Fascist rule in Spain has announced that all
May Day demonstrations have been forbidden in
the land Of Alfonso. That will not increase the
liking of the workers for their Music Hall King
nor make the war against Morocco any more popu
lar. Fear of the workers goes before the fall OF
the Spanish dictatorship Watch it tumble.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29

This may seem farfetched, and
proof Of the DAILY WORKERS. the
DRY that Daugherty is engaged in a
lunacy contest with the rabbit-biting
Harry X. Thaw, but after reading the
evidence produced by the ex-attorney
general, the possibility Of such de-
velopment does not look so hazy.
What have the Communists done so
far? They have induced Doheny to
bride Fall with 100000, in return
for which Fall handed Doheny part
OF the Nays oil lands. Then they
got next to Harry Sinclair, who gave
Fall $4,000, hundreds Of cattle, some
race horses and car load OF liquor.
Sinclair got most Of the State OF wyo.
ming. Next the Communists turned
on Daugherty himself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29

How many Of your shop-mates read
THE DAILY WORKER. Get one OF
them to subscribe today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29

In the fall of 1922, several Com
munists sojourned for several weeks
in Berrien County jail, Michigan. On
Sunday evening local preacher ac-
companied by half dozen women Of
Indifferent pulchritude, and in various
degrees Of conversion, visited the Jail
to offer us spiritual consolation, and
tell us that perhaps there were many
people walking the streets who were
just as wicked as we were or per-
haps, more SO. After infiicting an un-
grammatical and idiotic sermon on us,
we were given the opportunity Of Sc
lecting our favorite hymn from a
hymn book, copy of which was Civ
en- to each prisoner. Being Commun-
lists, we were militant and being mill
tant, we were war-like, so we picked
on when Jesus Christ Goes Forth to
War.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29

The Poor Fish says: Workingmen's
wages are plenty high enough but the
trouble is that they want lot OF
things that only the rich can afford to
buy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29

Our "Poor Fish" ought to have something
snappy to say about Herb Hoovers connection
with the S60000000 salmon steal in Alaska
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29

This seemed to please the preacher
very much. The hymn was repeated
several times and the spiritual sales
man seemed on the point of taking up
a collection, when local pugilist, who
was held in the Jail for attempting IL
berries with his landlady, shouted,
well, by Jesus, this old Christ was a
fighting son - - -" And it is not
surprising that the laity should mis-
understand Christ's ideas on violence
when even the clergy are at sea about
them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29

No less a man than Harry M.
Daugherty, ousted cabinet crook, is
engaged in an insidious attempt TO
turn the heads of American Commun-
lists by flattery and perhaps, inveigle
them into initiating their pre-conceiv-
ed, Moscow-hatched, plan to capture
the Capitol and fly the red flag over
the White House. If we are to give
credence to Mr.. Daugherty's version
of their accomplishments, it is not
impossible that such clever fellows
could perform this big task. At a mo-
ments notice they may unmask their
man Gompers, (who is really an agent
of Trotzky) call out the secret mill.
tary battalions Of the Conference for
Progressive Political Action, exhume
the Socialist Party, which is destined
to be the Cheka under the dictator
ship, and install Benjamin Stohlberg.
sandy-mustached, red mouse hunter,
for Hearst's International as Dictator
of the United Soviet States of Amer
lea.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
Bach, Beethoven. Wagner.

AT the exercises the orchestra play
ed three OF their first directors ia
vorite compositions, quite interesting
in that they show his musical outlook.
The chorale and fugue by ]. S. Bach
arranged for modern orchestra, by
Albert, opens slowly, religiously, and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29

Fall had his OIL Hoover his salmon; Wood his
Filipinos; Weeks his Canal Zone; and they were
all trying to make the most Of it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
AS WE SEE 1T
BY 7. J. o'FLAHERTY.

The American soldiers who won the
war for the American capitalists. maj
bless their stars-and their stripes, Off
course. At last grateful capitalist
nation has decided to compensate
them for their services in killing OBJ
stinate German workers on a wage
scale of $4,000 per month The SEN
ate has voted for bonus. After TWEEN
ty more years-they have already
waited five-the heroes may be the
happy possessors of a fuli-paid en-
dowment insurance policy. That is,
unless our masters declare war on
Japan or England in the meantime,
and send the insured on another pill
grimage to save civilization, in
which case man might be lost, but
policy would be saved. Anything
may happen in twenty years.
1t is not quite so sure, however, that
the heroes will get even an endow-
ment policy. Our scrupulously righte-
Gus president, does not like the idea
of bonus at all. 1t is putting price
on patriotism in his opinion, which is
extremely demoralizing. The working
class must not get the idea that war
is big business enterprise-capital
list competition carried to the point
of the bayonet-and that they are en-
ployed by their governments acting
for the rival business concerns to dis
pose of competitor, in a way that is
a little out of the ordinary The work
ers must feel that they are crusaders.
going forth to battle for a righteous
nation that has reached the limit of
its patience. An insurance policy is
a nicely engraved piece of paper. It's
cash value just now is nil. Calvin
may sign the bill for the sake of po-
litical expediency, unless Wall Street.
feels too keenly about it.
There is big fight raging IN the
Protestant churches between those
who claim that war and Christianity
are synonymous terms and their op-
ponents who believe that Jesus was
a man of peace and that his followers
should oppose all wars. The battle
RACES. The war-like faction have the
big capitalist papers on their side
and the power and prestige of the
War Department. Generals appear at
church meetings and denounce the
Christly peace propaganda as Com
munism". Parades are led by accom-
modating prelates who would repre-
sent Christ as bootlegger if there
was any money in it. Speeches are
made in which the meek and lowly
Nazarene appears as blood-thirsty
war maniac. All this is quite enter
tanning.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-28
BRIT AIN REpUD|ATES
TREATY WITH SOVIET

London-The new government has
shown its hand as regards it's policy
toward Russia, by publishing commun.
ications addressed to NJ Rakovsl.y,
soviet Russian representative in Lon.
don, in continuance of the correspond.
ence on the famous Zinovieff letter,
so suddenly interrupted by the down,
fall Of the Macdonald administration.
Most important is the somewhat
curt notification that the British gov.
ernment does not intend to ratify the
treaties concluded with the soviet gov.
eminent by the Macdonald ministry
4 suggestion was made in Russian
quarters for the renewal or reopening
of the negotiations, but apparently
from the tone of the correspondence
this is closed chapter so far as the
Baldwin government is concerned ard
any further initiative in this direc,
ton must come from the soviet gov.
eminent.