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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
Hoover Is Cheerful

New Years day finds the American people liv-
ing better than at any other period in the history
of this country, declares the rotund Herbert
Hoover in booster interview to a news distribut-
ing agency. The people live longer and better and
their living standards are going up rapidly that
within a short time every mans home will be his
castle in the literal sense as the workers are no
longer satisfied with hall bedrooms in which a
person cannot even change hiss mind without
scratching the walls of his brain CELL The work
ers are now demanding flats and individual houses
and they are getting them, according to the jolly
Herbert
This will be exciting news for the thousands of
unemployed miners in Illinois, for the thousands
of unemployed textile workers and for the hun
dreds of thousands all over the country willing to
work, but who cannot work because the boss who
owns the shops will not permit them.
This country is wealthy. On that point we are
in perfect accord with Herbert Hoover. But the
wealth of this country was built by the workers
and we believe it belongs to the workers.
The New Years resolution that Hoover would
wish the toiers to make is, be thankful for being
allowed to live in a country like this. We urge
the workers to make resolution that during the
coming year they will redouble their efforts to
perfect their economic organizations to fight for
more of the products of their toll and to join the
to mobilize the workers for the political struggle
against the master class for the overthrow of CAPT
talism and the organization of the Workers Soviet
Republic of America.
That party is the Workers (Communist) Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05

mayor Of Johnstown that all Negroes
that had not lived there for three
years would be deported.
With all these things driven itno
their system, wonder just how tn,
Negroes feel when a man like Charles
Dawes-also an ex-service man-and
Cautious Calvin, tell them about "the
constitution" / notice the governo
of Missouri has offered a reward 70
the conviction of any member of the
mob that hanged the Negro an,
burned his body after dragging it
thru the Negro district. OF course it
is not probable that anyone will claim
the reward, and even if they do it will
not stop lynching.
The law OF the south does not pro
tect the Negro nor punish the whites
who practice violence on the Negro.
have noticed that all congressman,
as well as the gospel sharks are
against mob law. / used to wonder
why somebody didn't do something
to stop lynching but l don't wonder
any more. A little lynching party
keeps race hatred stirred up, making
1t much easier for the capitalists to
exploit both races. And the loss OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
The New Suicide Squad

Dispatches tell of the arrest of Comrade Ruth
Fischer, of the German Communist Party, in
Vienna. The dispatches state openly that her ar
rest was ordered by the British authorities and
that it is part of a new drive against the Com
munists thruout eastern Europe and particularly
in the Balkans.
Some days ago we stated that the tour of Austen
Chamberlain, British foreign minister, thru the
European capitals-the vatican was included for
the very good reason that it insists on being de-
clared in on any dirty work that is on foot-was
for the purpose of organizing a new offensive
against Soviet Russia and the Communist Inter
national. The dispatches from Europe confirm our
statement.
Central and eastern Europe have passed the ar
tifcial period of stability secured by liberal inec
lions of allied gold into the veins of the anemic
paper republics of these territories and the national
economics are definitely on the down grade In
Egypt India and Morocco there are great nation
alist movements. In China, Soviet Russia has
taken the initiative away from western imperial
ism. The Balkan puppet governments are shaken
by great revolts of the peasants and workers and
the federation of workers and peasants republics
of the Balkans proposed by the Communists, has
stirred the masses Of these nations.
Great Britain, althO France offers no opposition
at present, has undertaken an impossible task
that of uniting tottering European capitalism
against Soviet Russia. These alliances are doomed
before they are consummated because of the ma
tonal rvaries of the rulers and the dissatisfaction
of the working class they oppress Such coalition
must wage war on Soviet Russia and Great Britain
will find that this time she will not have her usual
success in getting some other nation to do her
fighting for her.
This is not the Europe of 1914 or even of 1888.
Today the moment that any army leaves its home
base for an offensive against Soviet Russia it has
hostile rear. In addition to that all the armies
are needed at home to crush the revOlts of the
native workers. This is their principal function.
war against Soviet Russia today is suicide for
capitalism and Great Britain knows this so well
that she sets up shock troops little nations far
removed from the center of British capitalism.
The new offensive against the Communists and
Soviet Russia is testimony, not to the strength but
to the weakness of the European exploiters and
oppressors
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
BY Alfred v. Frankenstein.

Leo Sowerby, who is probably the
most important composer in America
today, and certainly the most i'm
portant in Chicago, played piano
concerto of his own with the Chicago
Symphony orchestra last Friday and
Saturday. Like most of Sowerby's
work, the concerto is the concentrated
essence of pep and dash and vigor.
The influence of the jazz artists can
be plainly seen. 1t is fine, enjoyable
work, but compared to the ballad
King Estmere" for two pianos and
orchestra played here last season, 1t
it not so tremendously hot. Perhaps
the fact that king Estmere" is a
later composition of Mr.. Sowerby ex-
plains this.
The concerto illustrates one Of the
pet peeves of this writer. All the
interpretative directions of the work
were written in English. At first
blush this may not seem wrong.
Supposing, however. that Chaykovski
had written all his tempo directions
in Russian, Beethoven in German,
Dvorak in Bohemian, Berlloz in
French. MacCunn in Gaelic and Co
mez in Portuguese, to mention only
a few examples. A musician would
have to be linguist of no mean
dimensions.
There exists a musical esperanto,
the Italian language. Italian musical
terms are used all over the world.
They are understood in Japan and In
Wyoming, and in all places in be-
tween.
The curious inconsistency OF COM
posers, who like Wagner and Debussy
and Sowerby use their own languages
to express degrees OF tempo and
method Of Interpretation, in using the
symbols r for loud and p for soft,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
Let the Scissors Talk

a stoolpigeon carrying an Associated Press COM
mission is making the rounds of Russia in search
of local color to embellish his lying campaign
against the Soviet Republic. He has already
painted the Ukraine and Georgia. He is now doing
Kazan, in the Tartar Republic 1t is interesting
to note what makes his heart bleed, so instead of
arguing with him we use the scissors:
"The granite and bronze monuments TO Alex
ander III. and other historical figures of Russia
have been wrecked and replaced with harsh Com
munistic figures of workmen. From all fagpoles
the red flag of the revolution flies. To many it is
only that grim reminder of the spiritual death Of
the city, which has been in Russia's possession
since the days of Ivan the Terrible"
That is sad, indeed! No doubt the American
workers will weep salt tears when they learn that
the brawny figures of Russian workers sub
stituted for the mbecie face Of the car. But the
~orst rs yet to come:
"The churches present an especially melancholy
sight. They are in full process of decay. The
clergy are to poor to repaint them. Many of them
have closed their doris. Others have been converted
into Communistic clubs barracks. The cor
respondent visited the largest of the churches the
famous convent of the Virgin Mother, where mass
was in progress The priests and nuns were more
numerous than the congregation, which numbered
exactly six persons"
The scissors are eloquent. Comment would be
like painting rummys nose
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
BY NORTH J. LOEB.

XTERY fey realize the significance
v of recent organizational changes
which have been effected recently in
our party with regards the party
press. For the first time serious ef-
forts are being made to centralize the
party's English language press; to
bring into one organization the activ-
ity for the development of that trim
ity of powerful organizers, educators
and propagandists Of our party,-The
DAILY WORKER, The Workers
Monthly and the Literature Depart
ment. More exactly stated, for the
first time these serious efforts are
bringing real results. For the truth of
the matter is that the plans and the
resultant efforts were started more
than six months ago these are now
beginning to bear fruit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
The Plan and the Effort

THE first step which made central
| ization possible was decision to
buy printing plant for THE DAILY
WORKER and building to house the
plant and the national headquarters
of the party. But before even this
was done the outline Of the plans were
made for the complete Capitalization
of the party's press. 1t was decided
that the English language press must
be made a unit from the standpoint
both of administration and distribu-
ton.
1T was not an easy task even to
lmade the plans. Many obstacles stood
in the way. Special interests of the
various departments Of the party had
to be provided for. But the principle
was established as long ago as last
January and ever since then the adj
of THE DAILY WORK
Err has been at work to draft the
proper program.
1t was at first decided to bring all
of the three monthly magazines under
the management Of THE DAILY
administration. But it later
became apparent that the party was
not big enough nor strong enough to
give successful support to three
magazines. 1t was therefore
decided to amalgamate the three into
one larger magazine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
Two Ways for Progress

THE GENERALIZATION of the party
L press is going to work two ways.
First of all it is going to strengthen
the organization and efficiency of this
distribution machinery and secondly
it is going to work for the immediate
and constant Improvement of the cir
culation building activities.
AS has already been said, the cir
culation of The Workers Monthly is
already more than twice that of any
of its predecessors. This was due al
most WIDELY to the fact that there
has been concentration of sales eff
forts. All of the agents of THE DAHL
LY WORKER have been doing like
wise. The result has been that in the
two months since The Workers Month
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
4 ia jIE;l u

abbreviatons of the Italian forte and
piano, is also worthy of note.
For the past two or three years
Mr.. Sowerby has been in Rome. He
won prize that enabled him to go
there. Why the organization which
paid his expenses should stipulate
Rome is pretty largely a mystery.
Rome, unsteady, is the most unim-
portant capital in Europe. A prize
sending man to Paris or Munich
or Vienna would seem more valuable.
The main reason for the choice Of
Rome seems to be that for a century
or more the Paris conservatory has
been sending young composers to the
eternal burg.
Preceding the concerto was the sec.
ond symphony of Alexander Borodin
the Russian chemist-teacher. physici.
an-musician. Borodin In his day was
renowned as scientist, and so in.
tensely and well did he combine
music and science that he died at the
age OF 40. In this second symphony
one runs the gamut OF Russian art,
as we know It in the west. The first
movement is brutally strong, flashing
with color, vital and admirable-the
Russian pomp and ceremony eele-
brated in some Of the Moscow art
theater plays. The third movement
is the Russian of the wistful, the de.
feated and warped, Russia as Cork
and Dostoyevski and Chekov have
painted 1t. In the fourth section ex.
uberant notes burst like sky-rockets
in the afr. (Nikita Balieff sticks his
moon face grin thru the curtains and
says: "Leddies and zhentlemen,
splk no Engleesh").
A simple-minded suite by old man
J. s. Bach and simple, ingenious
but not simple-minded piece of music.
Humperdinck's prelude to Haensel
and Gretsl opened the program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
Why Capitalization?

n YEAR ago the party press situa-
N ton was a model of decentral-
ization and disorganization. We had a
weekly Worker with it's editorial and
administrative departments in one
place; the type was set in another
and the press work was done in still
another. There were three monthly
magazines published under our con-
troll, The Labor Herald, The Liber-
ator, and Soviet Russia Pictorial, all
with separate editorial and business
departments and all making separate
printing arrangements. There was the
Literature Department also apart from
the rest of the party's press. Thou
sands of dollars were being wasted
every year in the payment of wages
alone to party employees who though
they were necessary perhaps to turn
out the work were a needless drain
upon the party resources.
DUT this was not the worst Of it.
- Combined with the extravagent
and inefficient production arrangement
was the most confusing and chaotic
system of distribution imaginable. At
the top there we're the various bust
ness administrations, competing with
each other for the attention and activ-
ity of the party members. Below were
the party units and the individual par
ty members, confused, discouraged
and for the most part inactive in one
of the most important tasks of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
Concentrated Propaganda, Incorporated

have already made themselves appar-
ent. In the first place there has been
tremendous saving in overhead ex-
pences amounting to over $4,000 a
year in wages alone. For in place of
the various editors and assistants
there is now one editor and no assist
ants and in place of the various man
ayers and assistants there is the staff
of THE DAILY WORKER with the
sole addition of one girl helper in
the office.
DUT it is not in this overhead econ
- omy that the greatest benefits
are derived. Nor even from the i'm
provement of the quality in our month
ly official organ that must result from
the centeringHof effort, does the great
est advantage come. II is the CEN
traIIzing for work, work in the field
distributing The Workers Monthly
and THE DAILY WORKER which is
the strongest, longest step in advance.
NNE of the most important tasks
~ which THE DAILY WORKER
has been trying to accomplish has
been the organization of agents to
sell subscriptions and in other ways
represent THE DAILY WORKER in
the field. While we have made only
beginning in this direction, much has
already been accomplished. The or
ganization of The Daily Worker Build
ers has been further development of
the central idea that the backbone of
our press must be the organization
machinery which gives our publica-
tons distribution. The results SO far
have proven the correctness of this
standpoint.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
Plea for sacco-vanzetti.

To the DAILY WORKER:-In spite
of the new evidence that has come
to light, Judge Thayer has refused
to grant new trial for Sacco and
Vanzetti. Here is but another bit add
ed to the monstrous mass of facts to
show what sort of Justice" and
equality" militant workers can get
in American courts. Unless the work
ers compel otherwise, two more work
ing class fighters will have been judi
cially murdered. And at once the
mind is irresistibly impelled to note
the many points of similarity between
the murders of Communists and other
revolutionists by the fascist of Eu-
rope and the murders by our courts.
Workers, what difference is there
between the black shirts of the fas-
cisti and the black shirts of our judg-
es? Both are worn by our enemies
sworn to break every militant organ
ization and murder every fighter of
the working class; both are backed
up by the power of the capitalist state
and are but the tools and agents of
the bankers, bosses and landlords of
the world. Yes, what difference is
there between the black shirts, east
and west? Both are the black shirts
of reaction. One is the coarse black
shirt of the brutal hangman, plying
his bloody business with bullet and
bayonet; the other is the silk black
shirt of the Judas, with his treacher-
GUS phrases of equality before the
law" and Justice for all" and his
ferocious betrayals within the law"
Far better is the grankness of the
hangman than the lulling treachery
of the Judas. We must remember
this; that the blood and iron policy
of the "black hundred" is used only
when the workers have come to know
their deadly enemies-the owning
classes-and have massed for the at
tack against them. A Mussolini means
that the state can no longer rely on
its regular coercive machinery. A
Mussolini means that the entire struc-
ture of class rule is tottering before
the blows of the proIetariat, and is
ready to collapse.
In America we have no Mussolinis
because the Judge Thayers are stin
able to fool the workers with their
Justice" The rulers of America are
still so strong that they do not need
extra legal machinery to establish the
law and order" that will crush the
workers. The smooth death-dealing
action of the law courts is quite suf-
ficient for the purposes Of our mas
tiers.
Workers of America, we must
awakel Sacco and Vanzetti must not
diel Sprung from the loins of our
class, they but personify our dreams
and hopes for better world. We can
break our enemies, the capitalist rul.
ers OF America and their agents, the
courts and the government. Only let
us tear the black shirts OF fear and
cowardice from off our red hearts;
only let us by mass demonstrations
and strikes give proof OF our invinc-
ible solidarity, and class prisoners can
be freel Let the Sacco-Vanzetti case
be test Of strength.
Workers. present united front for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
A Negroes War Experiences.

To the DAILY WORKER: Being
an ex-service man, and knowing
something of the activities of the
Negro troops at the front, as well as
behind the lines in the world war, ]
have been somewhat interested in the
welfare of the race. When l think
over my war experiences and remem-
Der how those Negro troops would go
to work early in the morning and
work all day unloading supplies from
boats, and another shift come on at
night and work all night to supply
the troops at the front with food, /
think Of them as hard working race
looking only for the right to make a
living by their work.
expected that the government
would give them some protection. But
after | came back from overseas, the
Washington race riots occurred, fol.
lowed by the Chicago and Omaha
riots and lynchings turnout the south
One of the blackets moves against the
Negroes was the order from the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05


The repertoire for the Tenth Week
of the Chicago Civic Opera Company
will open on Sunday at p. m. with
the third performance of MADAME
Butterfly Cat popular prices), with
Mason, Perini, Hackett, and Bakla
noff in the leading roles. Mr.. Polaccc
will conduct.
Monday night brings the fifth per
Torrance of La Tosca with Muzio
Ansseau, Baklanoff and Moranzon
conducting.
Tuesday night the rst and only per
formanco of Romeo and Juliet will b.
given with Mason, Claessens, Hack
EFT, Formichi and Cotreuil. Conduc
tor Polacco.
A special matinee will be givei
Wednesday afternoon at prices rang
ing from 81 to 81, with Muzio, Lenska
Marshall, Formichi; Mile. Nemerof
and corps de ballet. Moranzoni con
Quoting.
Wednesday evening, the fourth pre-
sent2tion Of Lucia di Lammermoo.
will be sung with Dial Monte. Schipa
Rimini, Lazzari in the leading role
and Polacco conducting.
On Thursday evening the third per
Torrance OF Werther will be giver
with Garden. Freund. Ansseau ant
Kipnis, with Polacco conducting.
Friday night will be the last pei
Torrance OF Traviata, with Muzic
Schipa, Schwarz; Oukrainsly, Miles
Milar, Shermont and corps de ballet
Cimini will conduct.
The Saturday matinee will be }
Trovatore, with Muzio. Homer. II
mont, Formichi and Weber conduct
ing.
The popular price Saturday evenin
performance will be Rigoletto. wit
Macbeth, Hackett aind Formichi, wit
Weber again conducting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
Literature Department Next

THE next step in the Capitalization
| program will be the bringing Of
activities of the party literature de.
partment under the management OF
THE DAILY WORKER. For a party
the size of ours, we distribute an ex-
tremely small amount of books and
pamphlets. When it is considered
that by means of propaganda and
education contained in these publica-
tions we must hope to develop Com
munist understanding and Communist
spirit, it must be said that the party
has seriously neglected one of its
most important tasks. The one ex-
cuse for this neglect has been power
ty, but it is not valid one. The liter
allure department of the party can be
developed into a profitable one from
the financial as we'll as the educational
point Of view.
What is needed is a proper dis
tribution machinery. That is what the
Capitalization is going to provide
When the sale of boks and pamphlets
is in the same hands as the sale Of
our periodicals, then for the first time
our literature will receive the atten.
ton which it must have and which ii
deserves.
| HAVE gone to some length in deal
/ ing with this subject, yet in view
of its Importance l feel that too much
cannot be said. For it is not simply
matter of mechanical Capitalization
of the production and administration
of our party press. 1t is a real CEN
tralization for work by reason of
which for the first time the distribu.
ton Of our press and its wide and deep
penetration of the masses becomes
possible.
In subsequent articles Will deal
with the nature of the work Of party
press distributors and suggests how
this work can be most effectively or
ganized and performed-M. J. L.