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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16

This is the militant rank and files
answer to the Gompers, Lewis, John
ston. Berry class collaboration policy.
The launching of the Progressive
Shoe and Leather Worker is a real
achievement, when one considers the
terrific chaotic condition Of the
Leather industry, and the inroads
that the secessionist movement had
made there. That it's first issue
should deal almost exclusively with
amalgamation is natural and can
very well be understood. For years
the burning question was dualism
versus amalgamation, and now we
see the end of the dualistic program
and the gradual merging of the un-
ions into one organization covering
the entire industry, nothing is more
natural than to see the Progressive
Shoe and Leather Worker lay en-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
Czerwonsky's Violin
Renders Beautiful
Carnival OF Life"
By ALFRED v. FRANKENsTEIN.

BY ALFRED v. FRANKENsTEIN.
Richard Czerwonky, well-known as
violinist and teacher of the violin,
revealed himself as a composer and
conductor. at the third concert of the
Bush Conservatory orchestra at Or
chestra Hall last Tuesday night. He
produced for the first time two mod
ern sketches and the symphonic
poem "A Carnival of Life" The
sketches are light ana beautiful
works, full of daring and unusual har-
monies, while the poem is more
serious composition, with many new.
and original orchestral effects. I.
There were three soloists, all stu
dents of Bush Conservatory. Madge
Geiss played the first List piano con-
certo, which formed an interesting
comparison with the same compos-
er's symphonic poem Lies Preludes",
which ended the program. The early
List of the concerto is brilliant. at
times all but bombastic. The later
List of the symphonic poem is phi.
losophic, the deep and speculative
thinker.
Agnes Knofiickova, one Of Ger
wonky's pupils, played the first move
ment of a concerto for violin by vieu-
temps, a brilliant work, but Bit
boresome in its heavenly length.
Josephine Decker, contralto, sang
the aria 20 Don Fatalep from Verdi's
opera don Carlos. s
Czerwonky as conductor lives up
to his reputation as one of the finest
Of violinists. His orchestra is made
up partly Of students, partly of pro-
fessional musicians, and the effects
they produce under Czerwonky's lead
ership rank high in symphonic per-
formances.
The next concert Of the Bush Con-
servatory orchestra will be given in
Orchestra Hall, on May 20.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16

May Sis. -----. international Association
Of OIL Field, Gas Well. and Refinery Workers
Of America
May 1924, Cleveland, Ohio, Hotel Hollen-
den. The Order Of Railroad Telegraphsrs.
May 12-i7, Colorado Springs, Colo, Antlers
Hotel. American Federation Of Musicians.
May 1851, -, International Alliance
Theatrical Stage Employees Of the United
States and Canada.
May 3l-June 4. New York City, Hotel Inn
psrial, United Wall Paper Crafts Of North
America.
june I, New York City. Hotel Astor. Actors
Equity Association (Annu~ meetinE).
July -, Chicago. ILL.,, international Broom
and Whisk Makers Union.
July -. --. American Federation Of
Teachers
July ITO, Atlantic City, N. j.. Continental
Hotel, National Brotherhood Of Operative
Potters.
July s-is. Atlantic City. N. j., Glass Bottle
Blowers Association.
July Il-2i, New York City. Piano. Organ
and Musical Instrument Workers Interna-
tionai Union Of America.
July 1870. --, Retail Clerks Interna-
tionaI Protective Association.
July 2f-z7. Boston. Mass, international Plate
Printers and Die stampsrs' Union Of North
America.
July 2i-zs, Atlanta, Ca. international STE
reoiypcrs' and Electrotypsrs' Union.
August sit Chicago. Ill.,. international
brotherhood II Foundry Employees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
The other Side.

The following night, | met Mrs.
B., a close friend of the Xes, at
a club where liberal people gather.
Mrs. B. is liberal" Of sort. Her
friends. the Xes. are very con-
sentative people with an extreme in
come.
Mrs. b., whom I had not seen in
years, sat down to chat and, a little,
she chatted about the Xes.
Poor Mrs. X! She had to board
up her mansion, put her servants into
the country house and take Mr. X.
to the Blank Sanatorium where he
may have to stay for an indefinite
period. Yes, he always drank heavily,
you know The doctors warned them.
But alcoholism brought him finally to
this. She's taken cottage in order
to be near him, to see him just as
often as the regulations will permit.
/. 1t almost broke her heart !.
she has just had her entire house re-
decorated and was planning social
season in town. -. You should have
seen her! She looked almost as much
a wreck as he, himself. i. It's tragiN
what alcoholism will do to ped
plel ~"
Now / wished that my bourgeoise
of the morning before were with me!
~. Yes, there are two sides to every
story.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16

phasis on the question Of amalgama-
ton.
Michael T. Berry in his article Civ
ing short and concise history of the
shoe and leather workers efforts to
organize and how they had tried the
craft form of unionism from 1857 I'M
til the present, showing how miser-
ably it had failed to cement labors'
forces, the dire necessity for ANAL
gamation and drawing the further
lesson. 1.-THE way out of the trouble
lies in united front on both the
political and industrial fields, the bat
tie must be fought out on lines forci-
bly, determined by all the factors of
the class struggle and not on lines
of class collaboration"
Amalgamation is only the means
and not the end in itself. With the
of the ranks of the work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16

u
In view Of recent revolutionary de-
velopments in Germany, Spain and
Mexico, developments, directly or in
directly Influenced by the Fascist
movement of Italy, Rome or Death by
Carleton Beals is of very special in
terest to us.
Beals lived in Italy during the rise
and development of the Fascist
movement and its conquest of politi-
cal power. He is an extremely care
full student and his book is richly
documented in the conditions and
causes for the events that made posi-
BILE Fascist victory. The author has
the magic gift of making history read
like romance. In a stimulating, rapid
ly moving, brilliant style he dis
cuses the parts played by National
ism plus syndicalism; international
revolutionary socialism; and clerical
ism during the post war period. With
a few graphic strokes of his pen he
gives us the reasons for the iInpossi-
bility of a thoroly industrialized
Italy. He says, Italy is an exagger-
ated pushcart. She has no important
natural resources, no iron, no coal,
no petroleum, no cotton-her one in
dustrial asset-water power in LON
hardy and Central Italy" With the
same vividness he compares the
power Of the Italian petty bourgeosie
before and after the great war.
Necessary to Read.
He paints us a tensely stirring pic
ture Of the atavistic violence of the fas-
c.sti movement which wcrshipped the
II o.to: "Hit frs and fine out after
ward" and under this motto de-
stroyed labor headquarters and labor
papers, pillaged and burned Socialist
co-operatives, murdered league Off
Gals and labor organizers. There
fore when the author declares, at
(The Fascist movement) has never
been, except in certain limited dis
tricts and for short periods a White
Guard in the service OF the reaction
aries and profiteers," he is making a
generalization completely contradict
ed by all the facts he himself adj
vances and by all the testimonies OF
leading Fascist that he quotes. From
the character Of their numerous punt
tive expeditions and of their pro-
grams formulated from time to time,
the reader is left assured that the
Fascist movement, IL not completely
dominated, at least was financed by
Italian Reaction and permitted itself
to be guided by 1t in the destruction
Of the Socialist and Labor movement
Of Italy.
Excepting the above statement the
whole book is q veritable mine OF
authentic information such as every
worker who wishes to take part &C
lively and intelligently in the Ameri
can Labor Movement, can i'll afford
TO miss. For altho the events are
laid in Italy. they contain the same
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
There Are Two Sides To Every Story

things Of wood The soggy wool and
cotton would take on deeper misery
perhaps be rendered entirely use
less. Rust, disintegration- this noun
tain of tragic poverty was not a
stranger to these, yesterday, and
would be less a stranger to these, to-
morrow.
"An eviction" remarked my com
panion, somewhat sadly. Come, let's
CO."
We started; but, again stopped.
mo" l said, lets find out what's
happened It's incredible that any
human being should be put out on a
day like this, in such storm"
"Oh, come on" she urged, they
probably deserve it. You can't tell.
There are two sides to every story.
You Communists are so one-sided,
you never see anything but the work
ers' side"
babe my companion good-morn-
ing and returned alone.
The little stationery shop, upon
which the pile cast giant shadow
this should be a good place to get
my questions answered. walked in.
A squat woman behind counter,
busy turning penny perhaps buster
dreaming of a day when she would
own big store with half dozen he
hind her counters shaving for her
was annoyed at an Improbable in
terruption.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
Labor Conventions--l924

August I1-16, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
international typographical Union.
August 1928. Los Angeles, Calf, Inter-
national Photo-Engravers' Union.
August $780, Pressmens' Home. Tenn, In
ternationaI Printing Pressmen and Assistants
Union.
September liza, Saratoga Springs, N. r..
Brieklayers, Masons and riasterers' Interna-
tional Union.
September 8. Kansas City, Mo-, Intsrns-
tlonsl Brotherhood Of Boilsrmakers, Iron Ship
Builders and Helpers Of America.
September Sis, New York City, United
Textile Workers OF America.
September s-is. indianapolis. Ind, United
Brotherhood Of Carpenters and Jciners Of
America.
September 8-fs, Detroit. Mich. Internaticn-
al Union Of Steam and Operating Engineers.
September Sis, 81. Louis, Mo-, Brother
hood Of Railroad Sixnslmcn Of America.
September S-lS, Montreal, Canada, Amaiga-
mated Association OF Street and Electric Rail-
way Employees Of America.
September 6-i8. Kansas City, Mo-, Inter-
national brotherhood Of Biacksmiths, Drop
ForRers and Helpers.
September 9-f9. indianapolis, Ind. Journey
mon Barbers' international Union Of North
America.
September 1915, Kansas City. Mo. fntar-
national Association Of Fire Fighters.
September 1922, ----, United Brick ana
Clay Workers Of America.
October Tile, ----, international Brother
hood Of Pulp, sulphitc and Paper Mill Wefk'
erH
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
Ready for Scrap Heap

The fact that capitalism has outlived its useful
ness as a system of production and exchange and
has become fetter upon social progress is EVIL
denced by the persistently recurring contradic-
tions which are inherent in the present productive
order and which bring in their wake untold misery
and suffering for the great mass of the population
When industry reaches the stage of overproduc-
ton, there inevitably follows unemployment and
under consumption In other words, when the
working class produces plenty of goods OF con
sumption, increasing numbers of worldngmen are
thrown out of work and the working class as
whole because it does not receive the full value
of its produce, is unable to buy back what 1t has
produced itself, and its living standards are low
cred. Under capitalism overproduction and UNI
derconsumpton are Synonymous.
The great mass of the farming population is
subject to the same misfortune and difficulties.
The more the farmers produce the greater the llk-
lihood of their having their economic condition
degraded today. For instance, the fortune OF the
farmers today depends on their producing a
smaller crop of wheat, corn, or barley. The de-
partment of agriculture, in its attempt to show
that the outlook for the farming class is hopeful,
has been deliberately spreading false propaganda
to the effect that these crops will be smaller
during the coming year. Wallace sees his hopes
for the farmers in wretched crops and not in
bountiful ones.
1t certainly is an unassailable Indictment OF
system of production and exchange to have its
great industrial and rural producing masses be
driven into starvation and suffering because of
its efficiency of workmanship or account of the
bountifulness of the crops produced. The menace
to the farmers welfare today lies in the fact that
the Pacific Northwestern wheat producing states
show signs Of considerable improvement in this
years crop. And Kansas and Oklahoma are like
wise showing signs of an abandoned winter acre
age far smaller than estimated by the department
of agriculture. Only ordinarily good weather will
bring in these states crop far in excess of the
estimates of the department of agriculture.
Worse than that Today capitalism stiles the
development Of agricultural efficiency. The farm
ers fear to produce more because they know that
an overflow market means ruin to them 1t is said
that if the farmers of the State of Iowa would use
select seed they could raise the same acreage
as last year, with no extra overhead charges,
s4SOOO,OOO bushels of corn. Some time ago Wis
consin farmers developed a strain of barley which
in less than year produced an increased crop OF
25 per cent per acre over the seed of ordinary
variety.
When an industrial system reaches stage I'M
der which a bountiful crop and efficient produc-
ton become curse, it is high time that that in
dustriaI system be discarded to the scrap heap of
history
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
Our Left Wing Press yvaEs. : E,...
By William, z. Foster

ers in the shoe and leather industry
on the industrial field, must come
the united front of the exploited
workers and farmers on the politi-
cal field, the understanding Of the
revolutionary significance of the pres
ent agitation for the united front of
labor, and the relationship of imme-
date demands to the revolutionary
struggle.
We greet the Progressive Shoe and
Leather Worker as another link in
the left wing chain that is binding
the militants together in the strug
gle against Imperialism on the one
hand, and reaction within the ranks
of labor on the other. We greet you
as the class conscious expression of
the shoe and leather workers. You
are the seventh nail in the coffin Of
reaction. On with the work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
Lodge Fell For Fall

Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts,,
comes from Boston.
"The home of the bean and the cod;
Where the Dodges speak only to the Cabots
And the Cabots speak only to God"
He represents the bluest Of American blue blood
and has been commended warmly by literary jour
lals for holding high the lamp of culture in the
senate. OF course, he has never trafcked with the
1 alcar politicians who are looked upon with hor-
ror in the Back Bay district, but he was so in
trgued by the rugged honesty Of Albert Fall,
sometime secretary of the interior, that he wrote
The following letter to Herbert Wells of the In
dian Rights Association in reply to one limiting
that the honest Albert was plundering the wards
of Uncle Sam:
In my opinion he (Fall) Is exceptionally fitted to
understood that he will be appointed TO that post
Senator Fall Is a thoroy upright and high
minded man, and 10 utterly incapable Of using his
office for his financial interest, which l regret
say Is implied by Of the expressions Of your
letter.
1t is said that now, when the name Of Fall is
mentioned in the exclusive Back Bay district, a
,old and clammy silence ensues that lasts for days
and days.
The moral Of this is that the capitalist system
l. united front Of all parasitic elements against
the working class in which a cultured Lodge and
IN ignorant Fall are welcome just as long as they
serve the real masters-the industrial and lnan-
,ial lords
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
one Size al Storv.

These busy-bodies who come to
ask questions about matters that are
no concern of theirs! Well, if 1
wanted to know, 1t was the janitor
and his wife. Rent? No, it wasn't
a question of rent. What then Why
they were pair of DRINKS drank
all the time, that's what it was
never saw them sober i. they lived
in that nice room in the basement
free; only had to do janitor's work
for the building, that's all. Can't
keep drunken ianitors in respecta-
BILE house. Where are they? God
knows! Drinking somewhere, she
guessed. Maybe, arrested and sent
to Jail serves them right, if they
were They belong in the work
house, anyway. Their stuff? It'll
rot and mould? Well, people in the
work-house don't need furniture!
daughter at her neat little joke!)
II they don't turn up the dump will
take it all. -.
felt relieved that the bourgeoisie
did not come with me. l could not
have borne her Il told-you-so!" look.
To all my arguments that society
should take care of its sick, that
habitual drunkard is a sick man and
should receive treatment, she would
have replied: ut serves people right
Those who have no ambition deserve
no better at anybody's hands"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
Another S. P. Confession

Not even the proponents of the Dawes plan
deny that its purpose is to prevent the complete
breakdown of capitalism in Europe. 1t is there
fore Of sweet significance to find that Algernon
Lee, wellknown socialist and director of the Rand
school-a socialist party institution-also recog-
nizes this and approves of it. Mr. Lee, with one
gloved hand resting lightly on his cane, said to
the correspondent of the Federated Press:
fear the evil has gone too far TO be cured with
out more sweeping measures. The plan seems to
constitute slight step beyond the impossible Yer
sailies treaty II such action had been taken year
two earlier II would give more hope that Europe
may be saved from general breakdown.
So after all the fierce denas of the socialists we
find that the Communists were right when they
said that the socialists interested primarily
in saving capitalism. Oh, we'll
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16

The Greek populace chased their king and voted
for republic by an enormous majority on April
Ia. Dispatches today announce that martial law
has been proclaimed. Score one more for de-
mocracy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16

Brigadier-Gen Dawes House Of Morgan
reparatons expert, visited Mussolini in Rome and
doubtless will return to inform his minute men
Of the very latest mode in blackshirts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16

A New York lawyer talked a couple Of burglars
out Of $4,000 while they were robbing his house
the other day. Once more the value Of technical
training has been demonstrated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
Our Book Review Section
POST WAR ITALY
Reviewed by ELLA G. WOLFE


Rome Death by Carleton Beas New York. The Century
Co., $3.50 discussion Of the RISE development political
victory of Fascism in Italy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16

elements that are fuond in the strug-
gle between revolution and reactiono
the world over.
co-operatives In Italy.
The second part of the book deals
with the agrarian struggle. 'Landl
That has been the key to Italian
prosperity and politics since long be-
fore the time of the Gracchi." "Italy's
future lies in her soil" In this con-
nection we find telling statistics on
the super-concentration of land, es-
pecially in Sicily, on the evils Of alb
sentee landlordism; also an interest
ing picture of the universally hated
Gabelloti (the agrarian middle-man
and the slave-driver of the peasants).
As q background for the develop
ment rof Agrarian Fascism we are
treated to careful and excellent
study of the rise of the Cooperative
Movement in Italy. Says the author:
THE Italian co-operatives have been
among the most happy expressions of
voluntary associations in the world.
They are much more extensive and
thoroly organized than the old TAR
tells" of the Russian self-governing
co-operatives; they are more demo-
cratic than the grain banks of Por-
tugal and Spain; and they are of
more social significance than the
Rochdale stores in England. Co
operatives are an integral part OF
every labor and peasant organization.
The first thing a new sindacato
thinks of doing is to establish CO.
operative purchasing and selling So
ciety."
Rise Of Labor Fascism.
The third part Of Rome or Death"
deals with the rise of labor Fascism
and the author indicates that the i'm
mediate effect Of the success of labor
Fascism was the disruption of the
Italian labor movement.
Then follow the causes for the de-
cline OF the Socialist party; the clari-
fication Of the Fascist program, in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16

The Poor Fish says he feels sorry
for the peasants Of Bessarabia but IL
they start to fight for their freedom
they will only disturb the peaceful
rule OF the Roumanian mobiles.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-10-22

Article four of the constitution, gov
erning search and seizure and the pro-
lection of persons and property. Ere
quently the federal courts are required
to pass upon litigation arising from
misuse of official power. Public
sentiment influencing Congress under
the La Toilette plan, might nullify
the force of this amendment by the
re-enactment of legislation.
Let us assume that this plan of
La Toilette, proposed in his own plat
form and adopted by his own conven-
ton, is made part of the federal
constitution and the right to nullify
supreme court decisions by Congress,
is given. 1t will follow that the same
forces, acting locally, will demand
amendments to the state constitutions
and the power given to legislatures to
set aside decisions of the state SUI
preme courts. The La Toilette plan
affects every personal and property
rights. 1t has in this campaign been
adopted as the proposal of a political
army organized and agressively de.
handing this change In the constitu-
ton.