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The daily worker., 1924-11-07
Now 1t Can Begin

With the decisive election of Coolidge, the big
gest employers are preparing to lose no time in
launching their national open shop offensive
against the working
The near future will very likely witness repe-
tition of the "grand offensive" of 1922. All evi-
dence tends to indicate that the textile workers
viii again be marked first for slaughter by the
capitalists New England, the home of the re-
elected president, has been chosen as the first
ground of battle by the BOSSES The textile workers
of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Is
land have been ordered by the mill barons to accept
wage cuts from 10 to 20 per cent.
This drive against the textile workers bears all
the ear-marks of being only prelude to a general
onslaught on the workers of all industry. For
some time the well-kept press has been ranting
about the need for the defation, the readjustment
always downward, of course-of wages. In
launching the wage-slashing campaign against the
textile workers. the bosses made it their business
to be better prepared than they were two years
ago.
For months the textile workers have been unem-
poyed or allowed to work only part time. Their
resources have been deliberately depleted by the
cxploiters Nearly twothrds Of the members of
the United Textile Workers have been excused
from dues payment in the last few months because
Of widespread unemployment At the some time
the textile barons have been consolidating their
forces thru gigantic mergers. The textile operat-
ors have been solidifying their ranks for fight to
the finish.
The textile workers can be counted upon to re-
sist heroicay these dastardly efforts of their ex-
ploiters. This however, is not enough Behind
the textile barons stands the united power of the
strongest employing interests Of the country. Be-
hind the textile workers must stand the united
sarces Of the working class from coast to coast.
The struggle of the textile workers is a struggle
Of the entire working class. The employers feel
that now they can begin their much-heralded and
somewhat delayed open shop drive. They are be-
ginning to garner the fruits Of their election vic
tory. The time to halt these antilabor maneuvers
is at hand.
The daily worker., 1924-11-07
Macdonald Steps Out

Ramsay Macdonald moved his furniture from
10 Downing street. Stanley Baldwin moved his
in. The business of the empire goes on as usual.
The exploitation of the workers continues. Moth
ing has really changed except that millions Of Brit
ish workers are no longer under the illusion that
they running the empire
The Macdonald government was never labor
government except in name. Even its name was
badly diluted. Several Lords and Sirs occupied
important position. With few exceptions even the
untitled members made no secret of their devotion
to the capitalist system.
Stanley Baldwin succeeded Lloyd George Mac
Donald succeeded Baldwin. 1t is Baldwin's turn
again. This is democracy according to the gospel
of the Second International Under it capitalism
can change its servants when it pleases.
The Macdonald government was not labor
government but it was forced to do few things
that the ruling class did not like therefore it gave
it the boot The Soviet loan guarantee and the
Campbell left bad taste in the mouths of the
British bourgeoisie. The idea that extra-parlia-
mentary action should cause a British government
to act was repugnant, unless of course it was
extralegal action the part of the ruling class.
Baldwin will take his orders all the time from the
British Federation of Industries.
The daily worker., 1924-11-07
Under Soviet Rule

Since the workers and peasants of Russia under
the leadership of the Communist Party, overthrow
the feudal-capitalst dictatorship of the czarist
regime and established that Of the proletariat the
American press has been filled with furious de
nunciations of the alleged prosecutions and. ter
rorism carried out against their opponents by the
workers government In this orgy of abuse the So
cialists took leading part
Soviet Russia was not democracy, they walled,
the Communists outdid the capitalists in cruelty
to their political opponents Even Eugene v. Debs
beat the air with protests against the Incarceration
Of counterrevolutionary brigands who sought to
overthrow the government which Debs so often ex-
pressed his willingness to die for.
But the Soviet government has given many
proofs that it is not carrying on war of revenge,
against even its most bitter opponents. 1t has on
many occasions pardoned active counterrevolu-
tionists sentenced to death. Recently it commuted
the death sentence on Boris Savinkov, agent of
Kornilov, Poincare, Lloyd George and Winston
Churchill in causing death and destruction to the
workers and peasants of his own country.
And again on the seventh anniversary of the
establishment of the Soviet government, the Com
munist leaders of the Russian masses make another
splendid gesture of peace and forgiveness in grant
ing amnesty to thousands who had fought against
the workers of their own country and in behalf of
the capitalists of the world.
Needless to state, the capitalist press will not
play up this act any than it does the fact
that in every capitalist country in the world
thousands of workers rotting away in vile
capitalist dungeons and that under the So
called labor party government in Britain the
atupendous number of 253,OOO Hindoos, i'm
prisoned in India because of their struggle for in
dependence from Great Britain.
The lying capitalist and socialist press has done
its worst to put Soviet Russia in a bad light But
the very fact that the Russia of today can afford
to be magnanimous to its enemies is the best pos
ible evidence of its growing strength and stability
The daily worker., 1924-11-07
By ALFRED v. FRANkENsTEIN.

BY ALFRED v. FRANkENSTEIN.
Jacques Grdon, concertmaster of the
Chicago Symphony orchestra, was solo
ist with the organization at the reg
ular concert given in Orchestra Hall
last Friday and Saturday. Gordon
played, for the first time in America,
the Gregorian concerto for violin and
orchestra, by Ottorino Respighi. Res
pighi has busted himself greatly in the
last few years studying medieval Ital-
ian music and this concerto is one Of
the fruits of his labor.
Thruout the three movements there
is sombre, mysterious atmosphere,
reminiscent of the old Illuminated
manuscript music that is still sung in
Italian cathedrals. The work must be
ferociously difficult to play, and Cor
don did IL perfectly. To us there
seems a great improvement in the
toncertmaster's work. The tension in
his style, so annoying heretofore, was
entirely gone.
Liquid What7
Contrasting with modern compost
tion, Gordon played the eight concerto
by Spohr. This concerto is a work OF
simple, almost ingenious liquid mel
ody thruout, tho there are pas
sages OF virtuosity which is not music
that is the fault of the concerto form.
Following this was an English norm
solo with orchestra. The symphonic
poem "The Swan OF Tuonela" by Jean
Sibelius. Tuonela is the Hades OF Fin
nish mythology, and In this weird and
gripping movement the composer de-
The daily worker., 1924-11-07

work by Smetana's greatest music
al compatriot, the twenty seven var
iations for orchestra by Dvorak. II
some twenty of these were excised
from the score, one might listen to
the composition in better frame Of
mind.
The rhapsody 'Finlandia," also by
Sibelius. closed the program. This is
the composers best known effort. tt
starts out with a cold, gloomy section,
and winds up fast and furiously with
an infectious dance rhythm.
The daily worker., 1924-11-07
NE1LL5 \ LIllll q 4 n

scribes the swan that swims on the
river surrounding Tuonela. The use
of the English horn produces just the
effect the subject needs. And If there
is anything connected with the play
ing Of the instrument that Mr.. Nap.
olilli does not know, 1t is not worth
knowing.
The Less the Better.
To open the concert Mr.. Stock
chose that bit of musical laughter the
overture to THE Bartered Bride" by
Smetana. He followed this up with
The daily worker., 1924-11-07

Senator Henry Cabot Lodge suffered a severe
shock on November A. That was the day the Cool
idge landslide took place. When Silent Cal was
handed the nomination for the presidency, Henry
thought he was handed lemon But it was Henry
who got squeezed. Now watch Cal talk to the
workers
The daily worker., 1924-11-07

1t is reported that James j. Davis is taking a
trip to South America and that John L. Lewis is
to get the job of secretary of labor. 1t is also
whispered that Lewis is out to trim old Gompers.
Even foxy Sam fell for the LaFollette Illusion but
1t would not surprise us to hear that he is now
suffering from headache.
The daily worker., 1924-11-07

Norman Hapgood says that bunk killed the La
Toilette candidacy. We can claim that the Work
ers Party helped to debunk him.
The daily worker., 1924-11-07

Every day get "sub" for the DAILY WORKER
and member for the Workers Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-07

any other nation; our natural resourc-
Ies are unequaIled; our possibilities
are unlimited. We should, because Of
these things stand head and should
ers above any other country in the
matter Of education. And yet we
stand ninth in education of all the
countries Of the world. Think Of it.
This great republic has rapidly
dropped from first to ninth place.
The census of 1910 revealed the
startling fact that our illiterate mum
Der ~ per cent which is much high
er than that of any civilized nation.
But that was not nearly as high as the
army test revealed. We have in Amer
lea about five million adults who can
neither read or write.
What is the cause of the decline in
educational matters? The answer is
clear, plain, and simple, altho it has
two phases. In the first place too few
pupils are taking advantage of our
schools-554 children of every one
thousand leaving school before the
sl4tn grade. This is due to our econ
omic system which keeps our workers
at such a point of starvation that they
are forced to take their children from
the schools and place them in the
industries. Such a condition is the
greatest Of rebukes. There is some
thing wrong with any system which
forces into the industries 554 children
out of every thousand before they
reach the sixth grade because their
parents are not able financially to
keep them in school. That is one
thing that keeps us low in the edu-
cational scale and the other great
reason, or phase of the same reason,
for both relate to economics. is the
kind Of education we are giving in our
schools.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-07

IN order that this fuller and richer life
shall come not only to his children,
but to all the children Of men. These
questions are "a Are the schools
important? (2) Are they function
ing for all the people, and (3) What
is the remedy?
Are The Schools Important?
We are aware that the destiny of
a nation or civilization itself depends
upon the degree to which the people
are educated. Therefore education
is Of vast Importance both in the life
of a nation and in the life of an in
dividual. There are three avenues of
information open to-day. One is the
press, one the pulpit, and one the
schools. Chief of these is the schools
because they take the children in
their most plastic state and keep them
for the greater part of their waking
hours. Consequently the influence of
the school is more far-reaching than
either that of the press or the pulpit,
powerful as they are.
There is an incalculable distance be-
tween the educated and the uneducat-
ed. The educated person leads full
er and richer life because he is able
to understand and appreciate the
words of a Browning, the colors of a
Raphael, the tones of Mozart. There
is an indescribable something which
puts him in tune with the highest, the
best, in art, literature, music and
nature. More than this it makes life
bigger and broader because he is able
to put himself in the other fellows
place.
That all people recognize the
supreme Importance Of an education
is evidenced by the fact that they
want more than all things else that
their children should have an educa-
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ton. They viii work and sacrifice
that this may come to pass and in
most cases it is 4 source Of regret
when the children are forced to leave
school before completion. So we can
say Americans and especially the
workers who feel themselves handi-
capped because Of lack of it, are fully
aware Of the Importance Of an educa-
ton from an aesthetic standpoint.
That is the important phase too but
there is another that cannot be dis
regarded under our present system,
and that is its commercial value. We
are on the whole very poorly educated.
1t is said that the average education
in this country corresponds to about
fourth grade in our schools. Only the
more fortunate are able to 60 to col
lege. Less than two percent of our
people are college graduates yet they
hold sixty per cent of the best posi-
tons. That surely proves that edu-
cation pays from dollar viewpoint.
Statistics have been compiled max
ing a comparison Of the wages paid to
workers who left school when they
finished the eighth grade and those
who completed high school course
These figures show that high school
graduates get SO much higher wages
as to make every day they spent in
high school worth 1912.
So an education has both aesthetic
and commercial value and this con-
clusion is held by the great majority
of people in this country.
What Is The Matter With Our
Schools7
That this great. grand and glorious
country Of ours has more gold than
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-07

In other words-in plain and simple
language that all can understand
our schools are under the dietation
and control Of capital.
Every person who has studied the
subject knows that it is true but it
remained for representative of cap
ital to declare for it. Roger Babson
is statistician for the Wall Street
crowd. He said THE money trust in
America is now one hundred per cent
efficient. We own the press. We own
the pulpit, and we own the schools"
The great rank and file of workers
are apt to hold lightly the statement
that our schools are alphabetically
controlled. They are utterly unmind-
full of what is being taught; have
never visited the schools; nor have
they ever met the person to whom
they entrust their dearest treasures
They are Indifferent to all problems
except their own bread and butter
one. That was forced to their attention
by a lowering of wages. But they
must be brought to a realization of
the fact that our schools embody our
greatest economic problem for not
content with enslaving the parents,
the exploiters want to make sure that
the same condition will continue and
there is no better guarantee that they
will do this than to dictate the
material which is to influence the
mind of the young.
School Boards
II is interesting to consider the per-
sonnet Of the average school board.
1t usually consists of the leading bank
er In the town, a doctor. a lawyer, and
o merchant. Never by any chance is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-07
WORKERS SPRING.

Plough, brothers, plough,
Awake the sleeping earth;
Bury the pIouehshares deep
Too long have the fields lain faIIow!
Sow, brothers, SOW
Heart and hand in the sowing:
Golden harvests promise,
Goden grain awaits.
Sing, brothers, singI
There IS dew on the skyIark's wing.
The clouds have passed with the night,
The east is asIow with the dawning.
Plough and sow and sing. brothers,
Foil and fight and dream, brothers;
Seeds are ripened grain, brothers
The harvest will gladden. the earthI
Joseph koven.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-23
Great Events That Are Chang
ing the Worlds Destiny Told
in Paragraphs.
ITEMS TO INTEREST ALL
Short Chronicle OF Past occurrences
Throughout the Union and Our
Colonies-News From Europe
That viii interest
WASHINGTON

Senator Borah is ready to begin
hearings by a special committee in re-
gard to Russian recognition.
Coalition of Democrats and G. o. P.
rebels force House to lose control Of
Mellon bill and payes way for substi-
tuting Garner plan.
Lease of Muscle Shoals to the Super
Power System" of the South would be
national suicide. Senator Mcclellan, Of
Tennessee. declared.
Major Lent relieved of Veterans Blu
reau post of New York pending In
quiry.
Fight to liberalize House rules, pre-
venting pocket Veto of bills, Is sue
cessful.
Disavowing use of his name as
prospective Presidential candidate,
Homer S. Cummings, former chairman
of the Democratic National Commit
tee, declares himself for McAdoo.
The House Ways and Means Com
mittee reported a resolution to pro-
hibit issuance of tax exempt securt-
ties.
A favorable report on the Dyer
anti-lynching bill was ordered by the
House Judiciary Committee.
The Supreme Court received a brief
In opposition to the petition for review
of the case of former Governor Walton
of Oklahoma.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-23

Massachusetts bars sin In the NOV
les on Sundays only.
Decline in the franc starts New
York stock market downward.
Senator Norris asks United States
backing for huge transportation enter
prise.
Crime report shows most serious Of
tenders In Indiana are youths and not
war veterans.
Governor Smith, of New York. urges
immediate legislation to minimize
automobile fatalities.
United States inspectors halt Penn
sylvania Railroads fast trains and
pull off alleged defective locomotives.
The New York police department IL
expecting further shakeups as a result
of Commissioner Enright's charges
against thirteen inspectors.
After a survey by the New York
city health department, the fair price
coal commission recommended lower
prices for domestic sizes Of coal, rang
ing from s14.25 to SIS.
Coue returns for American lecture
tour
Senate farm bloc insists on freight
rate deduction.
Early returns on Box plan show
strong approval.
Bituminous miners to ask 20 per
cent increase April 1.
Senator Owen of Oklahoma, halls
Box plan as forward step.
Charged by w. H. Anderson with
gross discrimination" Judge Nc
Intyre. New York, says he may bring
dry chief to an accounting.
Bryson Burroughs. curator of paint
ing in Metropolitan Museum, New
York, denies Rembrandt under DR.. ].
c.. Van Dykes fire was clumsily re-
painted.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-23
FOREIGN

New Diesel engine hookup deyel-
oped by Germans expected to reyoln-
tionize ocean passenger traffic.
British Parliament, facing rail strike
and overturn Of Baldwin government,
hears Kings speech.
French Cabinet called to avert fnan-
cial panic.
General Dawes startles reparation
experts by demand for action in clear
Ing up European turmoil.
Painted apes decorate walls about
Pharaoh's sareophagus.
Settlement of threatened rail strike
expected before end of week to aid
Labor Government.
All sides optimistic IN Paris as Al.
lied experts begin work.
Former Crown Prince plans trip to
South America while mona. chists or.
ganize in his behalf.
A serious revolutionary plot against
the Government was discovered In
Ecuador. Scores of persons, includ-
ing many high in the present Govern.
ment, were arrested.
Sweden is surrounded by al I'M
penetrable ice barrier. Eleven steam
ships are drifting in the foes off
G%othenberg, where the ice is especial.
Iy menacing to navigation. The Bal
tic sea is quite frozen.
Norway plans to repeal all ery
measures, il was reported.
Greek cabinet organized by Georges
Roussos Was oYerthroWn before being
sworn in.
Raphael Herman, Detroit manufac
turer, gives $1,000, 700 to the Interna
tlonal University, which has its head
quarters IN Brussels.
Excellent progress is being made
toward completing work on American
cemeteries III Europe.
The British Atlantic fleet sailed Oh
a three months cruise through tn
spanish water and n Mediterra
mean.
British submarine and crew of fort
lost IN collision.
Destructive tidal wave sweep
coasts OF Europe.
Brush Cabinet approves King
speech from throne.
UDregon troops massed for majo
offensive against rebels at Vera Cru
AID Guadalajara.
France Il Britain on verge of a.
other serious difference over assass
nation in the Palatlnate.
Ten German SepGratist leader
have been summary assassinate
thus far by populace. Berlin is d
Yised.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-23
GENERAL

Ambassador Kellogg formally re-
ceived by King George.
The Sioux Falls Is. D. Trust and
Savings Bank was temporarily taken
over by the State.
Emperor W. Simmons of the Ku
Klux Khan says he will ignore the
order IN his ousting.
Police shake-up in New York results
In more than 300 arrests in series OF
raids.
Debate postponed by New York
Presbytery after hearing report abb
sowing DR.. Harry Emerson Fosdick,
Baptist preacher in First Church, Of
heretieal sermons.
Employers ask Governor Smith,
New York, to investigate Labor De-
partment.
Warren J. Lincoln, reputed rela-
tive Of assassinated President, ad-
mits killing own wife after she had
slain her brother \ burning both
bodies.
Several negroes held up a teller Of
the Main Street bank, Kansas City.
at the door OF the bank shortly be-
fore noon and escaped with S44, 500.
F. ]. Lodde, the teller, with Charels
Haake. cashier, were returning from
the First National bank VITA the
money.
Governor Brown Of New Hampshire
announced he would be a candidate
for Vice President at the Democratic
National Convention.
Federal Reserve Bank sent out
warning OF a new counterfeit five
dollar note on the Federal Reserve
Bank of Chicago.
President Coolidge accepted an In
vitatlon extended by Chief Justict
Tan to attend a meeting OF the Ohit
State Society in Washington.
Sixteen parents were sentenced b,
Magistrate Simpson in the New Yorl
Municipal Term Court for not sending
their children to school.
Jersey City theatres for the frs
time in many years had performance
OIL Sunday.
Anti-Ku Klux Khan organizations Z
louisiana and Arkansas were merge
into II organization 10 be known a
the Constitutional League OF Americ
al d meeting OF representatives G
antl-f.Ian forces.
Charges OF manslaughter and GRIN
ina negligence were mad against Al
tnuny L. MeCabe, whose gasolin
loren is alleged 10 have started
Brooklyn apartment house hre /
when three children and Two wome
lost their lives.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-23

British yachts next summer.
The resignation of William w.
(Bill) RopelT5as head coach of the
Princeton football team was officially
announced.
Charles Moran, coach Of Cen.er's
football team, Danville, KY, Is under
contract to continue as mentor OF the
Praying Colonies for four more years.
Young Stribling of Macon, Ga,
knocked out Mike Nestor of New York
In the fifth round Of a scheduled r.
round match at Miami, Fla.
The national balloon race, at which
the three American entrants for the
international balloon race to be held
later in the year at Brussels, Belgium,
will be chosen, will be held at San An
tonic, Tex, the week of April u in
connection with the annual Fiesta dc
San Jacinto.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-23
ALL OVER THE WORLD

The rats of England are costing the
nation about $300,00GO00 annually.
Experiments are being made with
Mexican hemp as to its a%daptability
for paper pulp.
There are ID per cent fewer hogs
in the world now than there were be-
fore the war.
Mpre than 100 herds of reindeer are
scattered over Alaska and include
about 100000 animals.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-23

There are n muscles in the human
Mad.
More than half the men in New
f%oundland are engaged in the fishing
Industry.
Moth Carolina ranks fourth among
the states in the value of her farm
products.
In Baltimore the traction company
has set aside several cars for children
to play T..
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-23
IattooInQ.

1t is impossible to say definitely
where and when the custom of tat
tooing originated. Records of 1t are
found in the tombs near Thebes, where
there are painted representations of a
race of white men whose bodies are
tattooed. In Caesars "Commentaries'
we are told that the Britons we're tat
tooed.