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Mr.. Gompers' Revolution sye: :: ss1s.5.5s

T labor banks and invest in the stock
Of corporations. PROFESSIONALLY, they4
are doing it. 1t is not a new phen
omenon in capitalist country that ats
highly developed stage of imperial
ism the labor aristocracy becomes the
partner of the capitalist class and is
granted some crumbs which the capi-
talist class gains thru the explcita-
ton of the masses of poorly paid
workers.
Mr.. Gompers' revolution is putting
on Easy Street" the two million
American workers who are highly
paid and who belong to the aristo-
cracy of labor. But his revolution is
not helping the 20 million referred to
above who receive in wages less than
$1,000 per year.
The Real Revolution.
Mr.. Gompers, in some respects, ~
like H. G. Wells The latter has found
about score of different ways, in his
imagination, in which the revolution
can come about. He has book about
every mode Of social revolution ex-
cept that which the realities OF life
show to be the way the social revolu-
ton will come about.
That way is not any Of the ways
which Mr.. Wells has described so
brilliantly in his many books. 1t is
not the way which Mr.. Gompers pre-
sents in his editorial.
The one way of social revolution
which life has shown to be the real
way, is thru the workers organizing
their political power and taking con-
troll of the government out Of the
hands of the capitalist class and using
that governmental power to transfer
industry from the grip of the capital
list into the hands of the workers and
farmers. The workers and farmers
haven't the means of buying industry
even if they wanted to. The only
way they can bring about the social
ownership Of industry, is to take into
their own hands the power thru which
the present system of private owner
ship is maintained, that is, the gov
ernmental power, and then to use
that power to wipe out the capitalist
ownership and establish social owner
ship.
That is the one way Of revolution.
The workers and farmers of this coun-
try are gaining an inkling of this In
spite of Mr.. Gompers, as shown by
the developing mass movement for 4
Farmer-Labor Party and fight by
workers and farmers for control Of
the governmental power in this coun-
try.
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"a CITY AND A pATE.v

"St. Paul and June 17th"-these
represent "the central point around
which all forces Of the awakening in
dustrial workers and poor farmers are
organizing" says James P. Cannon,
who explains the significance of these
everincreasing forces in an able ar
ticle published In the LABOR HER
AID for May.
Comrade Cannon points out the
clear line OF class difference marking
off the political revolt OF industrial
workers and poor working farmers
from the petty bourgeois vacillations
Of the group calling itself the Confer
ence for Progressive Political Action
and its only supporters in the labor
movement--the section of trade union
offlcialdom whose itch for personal ad.
vance causes them to flirt with the
Labor Party idea when the capitalist
parties fail to give them political re
Enumeration for delivering the labor
vote" sometimes to the republicans
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Bad News For Injunction Judges.

When Judge "Charley'' Foell faces the strike
pickets of the international Ladies' Garment
Workers Union, on Wednesday, he ought to re-
member that Ohio courts have put the ban on in
functions against picketing. This is, no doubt bad
news for "Charley." If the strikers know that
Ohio courts have put the ban on injunctions in
labor disputes, they will wonder by what right
the Illinois courts are trying to send workers to
Jail for picketing.
We refer "Charley' and his injunction pal,
Judge Dennis Sullivan to the lost case in Ohio,
of the La France Electrical Construction and sup
ply Co. vs. the International Brotherhood of Elec-
trical Workers, Local No. g.
The Ohio company was in the position Of many
of the struck garment bosses in Chicago. 1t had
terminated its union agreement and sought to i'm
pose 'yellow dog" contract upon its workers. A
strike ensued. An injunction followed. Picketing
was to be prevented. The strikers were to be re-
fused the right to solicit the strike breakers from
taking their jobs.
But the injunction granted by the lower courts
was vacated by the Court Of Appeals which de-
clared that, illegal means employed by strikers
must not be curtailed. Among these are the right
Of peaceful picketing, the peaceful persuasion of
employees to terminate contracts at will, and the
peaceful persuasion of expectant employees not to
accept work with the employer in question"
1t has not been our good or bad fortune to attend
a law school, but we offer the above legal informa
ton to "Charley'' and "Dennie' with our compli
ments. II they don't make good use Of it, and il
the strikers come to the conclusion, as result
that the courts in the grip of the garment and
other bosses, then we can't help it,
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almost break-neck speed, but without
any Of the usual manifestations os
revolution and without the usuai de.
struction that accompanies rsvolu-
ton.
Some of the labor papers which
quote Mr.. Gompers' editorial conclude
from it that the American Federation
of Labor is to adopt new policy;
that it is going to seek to achieve a
revolution by buying itself into Ameri-
can industry, and thus, as Mr.. Com
pers says, ito assume complete di-
rection of policies"
A Visionary Revolution.
Evidently neither Professor Carver
nor Mr.. Gompers stop to look up the
facts in regard to American industry
in making the proposal for this ''revo-
luton" Examination Of ogly few
figures connected with American in
dustry and the income Of the work
ers in the United States completely
explodes this method Of revolution"
According to Moody's manual, there
is invested in stocks and bonds in the
United States, $94,74O,52S,156 That
is quite sum. In order to achieve
position which would enable them
to assume complete direction of pol
icies" in American industry, the work
ers of the United States would have to
acquire the ownership of at least a
majority of these stocks and bonds. In
considering what that means, one has
also to have in mind the fact that in
the last six years the increase in the
money invested in stocks and bonds in
the United States amounted to $42,-
600, 100000. In other words, the work
ers, in order to secure a position of
domination thru investment in Ameri-
can industry, would not only have to
invest enough to secure control of the
majority of the stock now outstand-
ing, but each year would have to in
vest more in industry than the CAPT.
talists Of the United States.
Merely to state the problem is
enough to show how ridiculous is a
suggestion that a revolution can come
about thru the method suggested by
Professor Carver and endorsed by Mr..
Gompers. But there are other facts
which demonstrate the impossibility
of this revolution" even more clearly.
The National Bureau of Economic
Research, in its study of Income in
the United States" comes to the con-
clusion that in 1918 there were to-
tai of 4O,O69,6OO persons who shared
in the income produced in the United
States during that year. OF this to-
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Literature = Music Drama

Three well-known compositions of
Richard Wagner closed the program
and the season, the wild and aban-
doned ride of the Valkyries," the
concert piece, Dreams" as orches-
trated by Theodore Thomas, and the
overture to "Tannhaueser," with its
sharp contrast of the weird and BIZ
zarre Venus music, with the austere
and religious chorus of pilgrims.
AS one thinks back over a SYM
phony season, the music divides itself
into three categories-new works
heard for the first time in Chicago or
in America, perhaps for the first time
anywhere; old compositions heard aft.
er a quiescence of years, and the
standard often repeated backbone OF
symphonic repertory.
OF the new works of the season
none has been of the size and impor.
lance of former seasons. Three
stand out quite distinctly, the Hebraic
Rhapsody, Solomon" for violoncello
and orchestra, by Ernest Bloch,
played by Alfred Wallenstein, the
second orchestra suite of Darius Mil.
baud, and the viola concerto of York
Bowen, played by Lionel Tertis. II
is not of Solomon alone that the rhap.
sody speaks. 1t is a severe picture
Of the suffering and unyielding faith
of the Jewish race. Milhaud uses a
daring and unconventional idiom, and
his music produces thrill and excit/
ment hard to find in any other com
poser. Hearing Bowen's concerto is
like taking trip thru some new and
dark land, land of vast mountainous
wonders.
The old works heard after lapse OF
time included two calling for special
mention, the ninth symphony of An
ton Bruckner and the "Scheherezade'
suite by Rimsky-Korsakoff The lat
ter was so recently reviewed in these
columns that further comment is UNI
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tai 34,77S,471 receive less than $4,000
per year. There is Mr. Gompers' prob
lem. How much can these "a or 35
million workers whose income is less
than $4,000 per year, invest in stocks
and bonds each year? According to
all the estimates of the cost of living,
$4,000 per year is just about enough
to live upon at the present cost of
living in the United States. There is
not much likelihood nor any great pos
sibility that these "a or 80 million
workers will acquire any considerable
share Of the stocks and bonds of this
country and thus bring about Mr..
Gompers' revolution.
We can carry the analysis a little
farther and show still more clearly
how futile is the belief that revolu-
tion could come about in the manner
suggested by Mr.. Gompers. Accord
ing to the same authority quoted
above, out of the total Of 4O,O69 600
who shared in the income Of the Unit
ed States in 1918, 29,OSS,S9O received
less than $1,000 per year. In other
words, the income Of three-fourths Of
the workers in the United States, in
GLIDING farmers, is less than $1,000
per year. Can this three-fourths of
the productive workers ever acquire
stake in Mr.. Gompers' revolution?
1t is quite certain that every one of
these 20 million workers are fighting
hard to keep body and soul together
and need every dollar that they re-
ceive under the capitalist system in
order to buy food and clothing and
shelter for themselves and their fam
lilies and that there is no possibility
of their helping Mr.. Gompers' revolu
ton along.
The ArIstocraey Of Labor.
In one respect, there is something
in what Mr.. Gompers writes. The
development which Professor Carver
points out as going on in American
industry is that the aristocracy of la
Dor in the United States is becoming
the partner Of the capitalist class.
The workers who are able to invest
money in labor banks and to buy
stock from corporations are the more
highly paid, skilled workers. It is
therefore, not at all surprising that
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers was first in the field of labor
banking and has extended its opera
ton farther than any other group. I'm
questionably, highly paid workers can
do what the engineers have done. I'm
questionably, Mr.. Gompers and the
labor leaders who received $4,000 a
year income or more, can invest in
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CAMUEL Gompers has discovered
- a new way of achieving an eco
nomic revolution in the United States.
In the April issue OF the American
Federationist he presents an editori-
al on "A Worthwhile Revolution" in
which he quotes approvingly Profess
sor T. N. Carver of Harvard Univer-
sity who declares that the only revolu-
ton anywhere in the world that
amounts to a hill of beans, is taking
place in this country"
What is this revolution which Pro-
lessor Carver describes and which
evidently Mr.. Gompers approves? Mr..
Gompers, in his editorial, states it as
follows:
Professor Carver calls attention to
the rapid expansion of labor banks as
one indication of the revolution that
is taking place. He cites the rapid
increase in the number Of wage earn
ers who own stock in the enterprises
in which they are employed"
Farther along in his editorial, Mr..
Gompers says, in regard to the pur-
chase of stock by employees of cor
porations:
Stock ownership by wage earners
is a device the intent of which was
fully recognized by labor and the pur-
pose of which was obvious. It was
inevitable, however, that employees
particularly unorganized employees,
should yield and become stock own
ers. The evils which were foreseen
have generally resulted, but as is oft
en- the case, there are indications that
the scheme is running away with it.
self and may yet produce results that
were not contemplated by the original
promoters.
Stock sales to employees have be-
come stock sales to consumers and
there is no reason in the world why
sufficient number of employee and
consumer stock holders should not,
thru organization, leave upon the in
dustry the impress of their desires.
or for that matter, even go so far as
to assume complete direction of pol
icies."
In his concluding paragraph, Mr..
Gompers makes his approval of Pro
lessor Carver's revolution" even
more definite. He says:
Professor Carver is eminently cor
rect. The United States is the one
country in the world in which indus
trial revolution is rushing forward at
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necessary. The Bruckner symphony
is huge cathedral Of beautiful
sounds.
The regular repertory was most re-
markable for its lack of Chaykovski
It is becoming traditional to regard the
Russian composer as a back number
and bromide, and quite unjustly so.
Until such day as doubt and despair
and human suffering shall disappear
the music Of Peter Ilyitch Chaykovski
viii express the strivings and defeats
of the race of men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-30
CHICAGO SYMPHONY
y ALFRED V. 1FRANkENsTEIN.

BY ALFRED v. RANkENSTElN.
Frederick Stock closed the season
of concerts of the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra at Orchestra Hall last Fri
day and Saturday with conventional
program of familiar compositions.
The concert opened with Beethoven's
third "Leonore" overture, a won
drously brilliant work, full of classic
melody, closing with a rhythmic fast
section that seems to contain in it the
pulse of the classic spirit. Stock in
troduced an effective innovation in it's
performance. In, the course of the
overture occurs a trumpet call, for
merly played backstage. At this con-
cert the trumpet was played from
the back Of the balcony and came
ringing down thru the house.
The Brahms fourth symphony fol-
lowed. This is the dullest symphony
the German master wrote, and it is
lucky that it was his last, for if
Brahms had gone on composing in
the vein Of the fourth symphony he
themes themselves, as stated at the
opening of each of the movements,
are some of the most beautiful in
symphonic literature, brilliant and en-
ergetic, as are those of the first move
ment, pathetic, tender in the second,
Joyous and colorful in the third, and
lpompous in the last. But in each and
every movement the thematic mate
rial is subjected to so much override
velopment, changed by so many tricks
of counterpart and variation that one
gets sick of them. And at least half
of these tricks are not even effective.
Next came the Spanish suite of
Claude Debussy. Disregarding the adj
vantages of orchestration which De-
busy, the modern, had over the class
icists, it is interesting to compare the
three masters, Beethoven, Brahms and
Debussy. Beethoven seemd to write
music expressing some deep seated
inward urge, some compelling neces-
sity of the spirit disconnected from
the life about him. Brahms derived
fragments OF melody from some UNI
real dream world, and applied to them
the force OF big intellect and much
erudition of musical science. Debus-
sy composed from delicate sense i'm
pressions. His music springs directly
from his nervous system. The differ
ence in the environment of the three
is the difference between the Vienna
OF 1906 and 1885. and the Paris OF
1910.
The Spanish suite is in three move
ments, entitled "In the streets and by
the wayside," 1.-THE odors OF the night
and "The morning of festival day
II is a delicate, sensuous fabric OF
Spanish dancers, with their brilliant
costumes, brilliant tunes, and the rat
tie and click OF castanets, mingled
with the profound depth OF southern
night. II is unfortunate that its per
Torrance aired some OF the vilest clar
met tone ever heard in Orchestra
Hall.
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AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY

The Easter Week rebellion in Ire
land in the year 1916, led by James
Connolly, was celebrated turnout the
United States by the nationalist Irish
workers but with the exception of a
meeting held here in Chicago, under
the auspices of the James Connolly
Club, Connolly's name was barely
mentioned. Connolly was the intel.
lectual leader of the Irish labor and
revolutionary movement and its brain
lest man of action. His writings can
be read to advantage not alone by
Irish workers, but by Communists of
all countries. The nationalist Irish
politicians do not wish to give his
name publicity fearing that the work
ers would begin to read his book. On
ly small group here in America,
who are not carried away by Barnum
and Bailey antics, are keeping Con-
nolly's memory and Connolly's mess.
age before the Irish workers and thru
their monthly magazine the Irish
People" they are bringing Irish work
ers into the ranks of the Workers Par
ty as Connolly would have done were
he alive today. That is the kind of
work that counts; not merely blow
ing wind into debated political blad-
der.
Having seduced President Harding's
cabinet, and got the goods on ex-presi-
dent Wilson's cabinet. one of them
being caught red-handed in a major
piece of robbery, the Communists
sprung their trap, and started pub
lie investigation. Now, the masses
see. instead of government in Wash
ington, a gang of crooks getting kick
ed around Lac mongrels, and each
crook squealing on the other, trying
to save his own neck. II is beastly
Communist plot as is proven quite
conclusively by strike-breaker Daugh-
erty. Harry says he did not taste a
drop of liquor since the Volstead law
was passed This leaves him with
out pardonable excuse for a speech
that Woutu manu- marry n. lHdW MAD
for being kept in an insane asylum
for seven years, while Harry M.
Daugherty was running the United
States.
Because she could not procure food
for her three small children, a poor
women in Denver. Colorado, turned
on the gas and took the lives OF her
self and her children. Her husband
was employed by local transfer
company. OF him she wrote "He
has always done the best he could,
but he was up against 1t like me. Put
in the world to work--no education,
no training. Nothing to do but work
like dogs | don't think will have
any worse hell in the place | am
going" This is the beneficient sys-
tenn that we are urged to protect with
our lives against communism. A sys-
tenn that spends millions to protect
insane and murderous millionaires
and allows women and children to
starve and die.
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Too Many Mothers.

MINNEAPOLIS, April 20. - The
authorities of the General hospital are
confronted with the problem of more
maternity cases than can be accom-.
modated. A motion by DR.. Mable vi.
rich, woman member of the public
welfare board, that women be allowed
to act as internes was defeated by a
tie vote.
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WW Open Season
FridaH Afternoon

Ia hohcmc Music club viii begin
the years work on Friday afternoon.
at the home % Mrs. y. {. walnnE.
3Sls Meridian ave, opening with the
following Greig progmms
Piano Peer Qyut suite" iarranEsa
Tor four handsp rtr.,ss. &C., QrisE
Airs. Lglu shepard johnson ana Mru
padsrlek nunhaF.
sapfano-'rh Hrsg rrimtoss" The
Princess Tbs uid Neither tlrisa
Mrs. James Gordon nosusi.
Violin solitary Wsndtrsr TO the
sFTibg +ErUtik" ............tl rlss
Nfs , \, Harrison
Paper cries, the Man aua nll
Muail
Mfs y C. Messstt
eouiraito- salycigs Hanga" stroll
irE Miusirel'a song "ona sum.
msr NiEht" .....r....-.......lir tsx
Mrs, Edward q. Graft.
riano-" Norwegian nrldai procsa-
iign." Aus zen Bugen". ..s.,.G risg
Mrs.. Nndsrlck Dunbar.
saprAun="A asan" Hidden Love"
4 Love rhss a Dream GrisE
Mira james uurdpu Boswell
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Personal

Lieut. Commander l.. W Henson,
o.. 81 81 and Mr Hanson, ~
shanghai China. arc tho guests n
Mr and Mu n. T.. oHlmnarr
Alr and Mr James Hamilton De-
Neuyr removed last week 20 their
new home at i6lt Federal agc M=
Dc Ncuyo. will her daughter Miss
Mary DC NruYo. uill leave Tburs-
day by motor Tor California, where
Mic Mary viii O. enter the CHS.
uilrja school
Mr. and Mrs j. a Holmes who
have recently come here from New
York 20 reside have taken "a house
az 10Th and Prospect ~
Prot Emest W Schroeder ~
Cornell university. has been visiting
relatives in town for the past few
weeks
Mr and Mrs Charles y Warren
have removed 90 their new home az
sSth and 4. Union.
Mr. and Mrs. =. HOGS. Jr. spent
tho weekend ln Portland
Mrs. Daphne Edward Bel. Of Chi,
eago. Is Tho guest Of SIR and Mra
O., L. 81 Pratt
Mrs Frank 81 Frctwrll viii re.
turn this week from fortg.ghts
yiist In Victoria, - e.
Mr an. Mrs John Loor Locke.
Jr. have returned from a week end
visit IN Victoria, y G..
Mr. and Mrs Evans Hodge. who
have been travelling iu Europe and
South America Tor three years. ro.
turned lasl week and arc guests az
the Hotel Washington Tor a short
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GRADUATE NURSE SAYS
TANLAC HAS NO EQUAL

Ing properly. and FOR t0u.ug Up Tire
system IN general. D. haT no equal
About a yer ago I had q lady
patient who could not keep a thing
on her stomach fifteen minutes. not
even water. I prevailed on her 70
Try TanI1r. and after the sixth bot.
DE she could cat absolutely any.
thing che wanted without the slight
ct bad uftrrcffer,r
Il had another patient who sim.
ply could not eat. got him start
cd on Taulac, and BY The time be
finished three bottles be- was eat
ing uVcHoWiy and able % work.
There two instances are typical
u the wonderful merits Of the med.
cine. My confidence In Taniac -
unlimited"
Tanlac Is Tor fale By an good
druggists. Accept no substitute.
over 30 million bottles sold.
Take Tunlac Vegetable pills for
constipation Advertisement.
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CARD PARTY AND DANCE :. ;,
Tho Young Ladies' Institute will
Give a card party and dance at
their new clubhouse. corner 10Th
and T. Union a.. on Wednesday
evening. September ~. al s o'clock
Tho committee IN charge. with
Mlas Bsrnlce Magtc. a. chairman.
announces lhR; a fye-pleco orchcs-
ira viii play for dancing