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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-16

This Is the greatest Essex value
In history. 1t is the finest Essex
ever built. The price is the low
est at which Essex ever sold. The
largest production Of 6>cylinder
cars in the world, giving econ
omies in purchase of materials,
manufacture and distribution
exclusive to that position, make
this value possible alone to
Hudson-Essex.
The new low price places it with.
in the reach Of all, and it has the
brilliant performance, reliability,
riding ease and fine appearance
for which Essex is famous. No
wonder everyone is saying these
things about Essex.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-16
TWO AMERICAN WIVES
OBTAIN PARIS DIVORCES

PARIS, Sept. 16.-The divorce tri-
bunal today granted divorce to
Mrs. Theodore Darlington Jessup Of
Ridgefield Conn. formerly Miss
Frederika Peterson. The JessupS
were married in New York, April 3,
1918.
Gwendolin Degaiienne, who was
married in New York December !.
1920.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-16
Reception for Students

The president and faculty of the
Columbia University School will
hold a reception for students,
alumni and friends tonight at 9
o'clock at the new academic build.
ing. 1924 Eighth street northwest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-16

Mr.. Hurley il one Of the oldest
members of the local automobile
fraternity and has been assOci-
ated with Nash for years. lie is
now in charge Of the Fourteenth
and Park Road branch Of r..
McReynolds s Son, Nash dealers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-16
Few Autoists Get Most
Out of NetU Car
By J. LEO sUGRUE
Times Automobile Editor

Getting more out the features the new modei
cars has become an opportunity for progressive moors
This briefly the belief of comparatively small group
velopents have experiences to attest that the
average owner getting much less than he should out OF
The new
The Washington times., 1925-04-08
KING GIRL INDICTED IN
DEATH OF TWO BABIES

Two indictments, each charging
first degree murder, were returned
against Elizabeth M. King, nine
teen years old, OF Woodmont, Nd,
by the Montgomery county grand
jury yesterday. The first indict-
ment charges the girl with smoth-
ering her infant daughter on Janu-
ary 20, 1924, and the second charges
her with smothering her baby boy
on March 4. Of this year.
Thomas L. Dawson, Stedman
Prescott, and Kenneth Lyddane, her
attorneys, say she will plead not
guilty and Will base their defense
on the inability of the State to
prove the murders without the
gtEe,s confession, which they will
see& 90 have rulad out an evidence
She win go on trial April 20.
The Washington times., 1925-04-08
Children's Play
Suits, 88c

Made of khaki, kemin
and peggy cloth, trimmed
in red. Two models.
Sizes 2 to z years.
The Washington times., 1925-04-08

Lustrous Rayon Socks; English
rib, with roll cuff top. In pink, blue
or peach. Sizes AZ to 71s.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-23

tween the work that was done for the
capitalist press and that which was
done for the revolutionary workers
press. The gulf widened in proper
ton as the class struggle developed.
Nothing is clearer today than the
fact that Communist society is the
legitimate heir to the cultural accu-
mutation of the ages which finds
Judgement in the artist, just as the
MARKHAM science is the unbroken con-
tinuation of the trunk of scientific
development of all the past. The eff
fort to preserve capitalism in perman-
ence, constitutes a preversion and
construction of science, on the field of
political economy. Also art In all of
its phases is perverted and construct
ed within the frame OF capitalist So
ciety. "The bourgeoisie has stripped
of its halo every occupation hitherto
honored and looked up to with rever-
emit. awe. II has converted the physi-
clan, the lawyer, the priest, the poet,
the man OF science, into its paid wage
laborers." And 1t has left remaining
no other nexus between man and man
than naked self-interest. than callous
cash payment" 1t has resolved ar
tistic talent no less than personal
worth into exchange value" Quo
tations from the Communist Mani.
festo).
In capitalist society the cultural ac-
emulation of the ages is subjected to
the test Of It's value as means Of
enrichment, preservation and defense
of capitalist society and Of individual
capitalists. The capacities OF the art
list are sifted out and only that por-
ton of those capacities which are
adaptable to the interests Of capital
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-23
U. P3SPEEDING
UP CUTS WAGES
OF R. R. CLERKS
Company Union Aids
Bosses Trick
10y Worker Correspondent

COUNCIL BLUFFS, "a, Sept. 21-
Tho August report Of the yardmaster
at the Union Pacific terminal at cOun-
ell Bluffs showed that 100000 tons
more was hauled in August, 1925,
than In the same month a year ago.
This additional tonnage 10 going thru
the terminal with about 20 clerks and
two engine crews less than last year.
Last year, engine crews hauled
from 70 to 90 cars. This has been
increased to from 100 to 1o5 cars dur
Ing 1925.
This company is hiring many ap-
prentices in the shops, calling them
helpers. These boys are doing the
work formerly done by the skilled
mechanics. There Is a company un-
ion In the U. P. shops and ratings
are made according to the efficiency
ideas Of the forsmen and superintend-
ents.
Clerks to Give Up S245.14 a Year
The railroad clerks have been work
ing on an hourly and daily rate basis.
The U. P. proposes to change this to
a monthly rate after Jan. 1. The
clerks work only six days a week
now, but after the new rule goes into
effect it will be seven days when
wanted, and perhaps two days a week
when you are not needed. OF course,
you are not paid for the time you are
laid off.
The plan is this: The company
union clerk is told that the company
intends to multiply his daily rate by
305 and divide by IL to- get the
monthly rating. This looks fair until
you find out that it means seven days
a week and working seven holidays
free of charge to the company. The
clerks work 305 days now but under
the new plan they will work 365 for
the same pay yearly, when paid on a
monthly rating basis. This will save
the company $245.14 year on the
average clerks wages.
Reactionary Union Officials to Blame.
An intense struggle has been car
ried on by the Railway Clerks Union
against the company union on the
U. P. At one time the clerks union,
including freight handlers and ex-
pressmen, numbered upwards OF
2,4OO in Omaha. Today, owing to "the
funeral procession" of the railroad
labor board, and the class collabora-
ton, banking and bunco schemes of
Fitzgerald and his retainers, the work
ers have lost all faith in the Brother
hood. The union is now a mere
shadow of It's former self.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-23

pressed every possible device for the
maximum Of effect,
On the other hand lies this other
journal with the strange Russian
characters spelling out the word "Bez.
bozhnik." The very title of it is
startling; it means 1.-THE Atheist {"
The pictures and words turnout the
pages are startling, and marvelously
beautiful as well as ingenious. Equal
~ here, every device of human ingen-
uity is used for technical perfection.
the technical craft of Moscow in this
respect seems to be even better than
that of the American city. And also
here all of the cultural accumulation
of past ages-and of modern times
that could be adapted to the purpose,
Is poured out in blazing brilliance of
the artists. Only, it seems that to
the purposes of this magazine vastly
more OF the cultural accumulation of
mankind has been adaptable. In
theme and execution the work of the
artists has thunderous boldness, de-
structive as, fire and sword to the
current standards of thought and the
concept of life that we find in The
Saturday Evening Post.
Two sets Of artists are at work.
An enormous gulf is between them.
TN the days before the revolution
= that made the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics, and made such as
Bezbozhnik in its present magnificent
form possible, there existed revou-
tionary papers, as there are revolu-
tionary papers now in capitalist coun-
tries. And artists wrote and drew for
revolutionary papers and for capital
list papers. From the beginning of
modern times there was gulf be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-23

supremely high value-outweighing
all else for the most sensitive artists
the freedom from prostitution, and
the positive value Of "Weltanschau-
ung"--a unifying concept of the uni
verse, thing which is destroyed in
the choking process to which cap
italist service subjects all artists.
Capitalist society cannot give any but
a lame and patched-up 'Weltanschau.
ung"-a pitiful beggar OF god who
must hide his sores behind tinseI
rags.
The artists who serve the capitalist
press are propagandists. Any express
sion Of a concept of the universe
when there are two concepts in rival
ry, becomes propaganda. The propa-
ganda Of the capitalist press Tin fic-
ton, poetry, pictures, ALI is a propa-
ganda against all that Is compatible
with a thriving art. But because they
go with the stream" the artists who
do the capitalist propaganda every
day imagine that they are mot propa-
gandists."
The artists who serve the workers
revolutionary press are also propa-
gandists, Of course. All unperverted
art, in the face of perverted art, is
propaganda for unified concept Of
the universe. In the Communist
press, OF course, the needs of battle
compel the artist to bring his work
down to less glorified proportions. But
the satisfaction Is great enough to
attract a considerable and increasing
number of artists TO whom prostitu
ton is impossible.
Art is an indispensable weapon In
the class struggle--on both sides
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-23

are developed into the artists profess
sions.
The more sensitive-the more able
artists tend to chafe under this re-
striction, this prostitution.
The workers revolutionary move
ment has not the same interests to
preserve-but the reverse. For this
reason the workers revolutionary
movement has always exercised a
magnetic influence upon artists. The
definitive character OF the artist is in
that he to high degree responds to
and expresses in harmonious, unity
ing form the stimuli OF life's expert
ence. The impulse Of the artist is
the hunger to bring incoherent things
into focus with a unifying concept.
Capitalism, in it's necessity to shut
of, smother and obscure the meaning
Of life, becomes nightmare to the
artist. Communism, which has no
such necessity, becomes a beautiful
prospect to the artist who dares to
look upon II.
In order to obtain the cash pay
ment that enables him to live land
which may even exalt him into luxur-
ious wealth., the artist in capitalist
society must subject himself to a
process OF elimination Of artistic
qualities. comparable to the process
thru which a street.walker is subject
ed by long practice of her profession
of mock-love. The prostituted artist
becomes sleek and witty, but never
theless remains a fatulent mock-art-
list. fic
Look at these two magazines on the
table again, and you will see the la
borious, unjoyfuli tensely skilful work
of the mock artists In the Saturday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-23

THERE are two magazines lying on
the table. One is the Saturday
Evening Post, published in Philadel-
phia, Pa, u. S. A. The other is Bez-
bozhnik, published in Moscow, Union
OF Socialist Soviet Republics.
Each of these papers is the finest
technical product Of its kind that
modern mechanical invention can pro-
duce. Hundreds Of men and women
are giving their entire working lives
TO produce these two publications
expert printers and engravers, highly
developed intellectual specialists,
corps Of business employees and man
ayers, and
Artists.
Centuries of slowly developed cul-
ture lie behind each Of these men and
women of the pen and brush. Into
each of them has been poured some
thing OF the cultural accumulation
from the forgotten ages of the men
who carved images of the buffalo on
the walls of their cave-dwellings, Of
the golden ages Of Egypt, Assyria,
China, Greece, Carthage and Rome,
Of the Middle Ages and Of
Modern times.
In the great and powerful United
States, all of this cultural accumula-
ton that can be adapted to the pur-
pose is drawn out of these culture
bearers and fitted into the pages Of
the great and typical journal Of this
civilization--the paper which lies on
my table. In the very printing of its
title, Saturday Evening Post"--is ex-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-23

and exploit the workers, charging
high fees, as high as 5, and 10 dol
lars for each job they give, and then
the slaves aren't able to keep the jobs
more than three days.
The workers thus continue to float
back and forth between the employ
ment agencies and these poor jobs,
two or three times a week. They pay
the bloody dollars to these sharks.
l hope to see somebody come across
and organize these slaves on solid
rock foundation this time and free us
of all these miseries. Most of these
agents often refuse to refund the mon
ey, and one Of them received a punch
In the eye and on the jaw last win
ter for his thievery.
would like to know what is going
to happen to us this coming winter If
somebody isn't going to hurry and do
something for the Greek workers in
the Greek restaurants. The time is
ripe to organize mighty strong
union and fight the exploiters and par
asites Of the Chicago Greek restau-
rant keepers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-23

Evening Post; and you will see on the
other hand the comparatively re.
leased and happy vigor of the true
artist in the Bezbozhnik (This is
comparative The Communist artists
have not yet been free long enough to
attain full power have chosen
these two magazines only as ex-
amples; you will find the same to be
true in more or less tangible degree
of all the capitalist and the Russian
Communist press.)
DUT the great proportion of the
ID world is not liberated Russia.
We must have the workers Com
munist press in the capitalist coun-
tries. In these it is necessary to
struggle against the conditions of all
sorts which hamper the development
of the workers press.
II is clear that there comes com
petition between the powerful capital
list press and the impoverished, pre-
cariously-living revolutionary press.
This is in a certain degree (tho this
must not be misunderstood as the
liberals misunderstood III a compete
ton in effective expression. Its
horde Of prostituted artists is a pow.
erful army of capitalist society. II be.
comes absolutely necessary to obtain
the greatest possible degree of artistic
expression in the workers revolu
tionary press.
The Communist press In capital
list country cannot offer the artist the
easy prosperity, nor the finest techni
cal service Of reproduction, which the
capitalist press can offer. But the
Communist press, with all these dis
advantages in tbssUonSpetition for the
artists loyalty, has something OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-23

The Communist press must develop
clearer appreciation Of this Ez-
perience shows that the workers give
value to art which is far greater
than the cultured" classes give en-
cept in some special fields. The hun
ger-the absolute necessity OF the
working class for art, is something
which, under the influence OF Amer
lean phillistinism, Communists are
likely to forget. The immense power
OF the prostituted art propaganda for
the capitalist "Weltanschauung"
shown by picture shows, magazines,
etc.-is evidence OF a compelling sort
But We, like the prostituted artists,
are likely to forget that it rs propa-
ganda. We slip into the habit Of
movies, etc, as a neutral agent, az to
the class struggle, TO which the Com
munist press need but add spe-
cialized corrective influence. II so,
we are already poisoned.
The Communist press must become
deeply, powerfully, artistic enough to
make us understand this.
To make an effective Communist
press-and to give sounder Welt
anschauung" TO the membership of
the revolutionary party OF the work
ers-are these not important parts Of
the process OF Bolshevizing our par
ty? The essential characteristic OF
true art is exactly this: That it brings
an incoherent mass Of fact into q
unified concept Even the smallest
good cartoon or verse does this.
Let us speak a word for a higher
development of art in the service OF
the Communist pressl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-23
MINERS STRIKE
UNORGANIzED
COKE REGION
Betrayed Workers We'll
come ProgreSSiUes
BY WORKER CORRESPONDENT

BY WORKER CORRESPONDENT
PITTSBURGH, Pa Sept. 21.-5e-
tween 500 and 500 coal miners en-
ployed by tho Washington Coal and
Coke Co. at the Star Junction, Pa,
mine have come out and joined their
fellow workers from the two mines
owned by the Jamison Coal and Coke
Co. at PerryopoIls In a strike against
the attempts to reduce wages.
Wages Below 1917 Scale.
What is being offered to these
miners is even below the 1917 scale.
Machine coal would be paid at s1.20
per car and pick coal s1.65 per car and
it takes los bushels to a car altho
the operators and their mine bosses
claim the cars contain, when loaded,
only SIS bushels of coal. On this wage
the miners cannot live and they de-
mand $1.75 per car for machine coal
and 1925 for pick coal.
These mines are unorganized. left
to their own fate after the strike in
1922 by the union oficialdom, the
same as the rest Of the coke region.
Welcome Progressive Leadership.
When the first miners came out a
few days ago Board Member Haynes
Of District Five and Organizer Robert
son appeared to speak to the strikers,
but were told that they had better
leave as the men, who had been
taught bitter lesson by their former
experiences, would not trust them.
They left, and the striking miners
organized their own strike committee
receiving assistance and guidance
from the Progressive Miners Com
mittee OF District Five. aisesavr1n ee
Strike meetings are being held reg
ularly and despite the great hostility
toward the official Representatives of
the United Mine Workers, dating
back to the 1922 betrayals, the need
of organization is being discussed
The progressives under direction of
Tom Ray are showing the way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-23

shop crafts In 1922 by their struggles
had withstood the rush to smash ne
unions at the time, even tho the lat
ter had suffered heavily,
He mentioned that other trades
which had not as yet felt the ettacks
Of the employers In enforcing tina
1917 scale Of wages and thus drive the
first dangerous wedge into the min
ers' union. He stated that now The
real test had come when fhe working
class as whole must rally to flsgfr
support.
Straight TaIIG
I'm giving full support to the struD
CLING coal minerE," continued Com
rade Otis, I'VE mnst demand that IT,
many coal mines now closed down be-
cause, according TO the operators,
they do not render sufficient profits,
be opened up and operated urlSer
union conditions and at the union
scale Of wages and that where miners
cannot be put to work, measures be
JdheU 10 dnOIQ uuCAllAO1 uAGAb LCAAcA
sustained by the industry,
III the coal operators are unable or
incompetent TO reopen the mines, It Is
time to demand that the coal mines be
nationshzed, however, not to be con-
troTled by the funlnsys Of capitalist
government but TO be put under work
ers control and management"
Comrade Otis stated further with
particular emphasis that unless a
campaign be undertaken in earnest
and led by the union officials to make
every coal mine in the country a IN
ion mine, any such demands, no mat
ter how necessary, would remain only
pious wishes. He said now that the
attack has come out in the open It Is
high time TO begin fin earnest to
strengthen the position Of labor and
bring the aims of the plutes to naught
A motion finally prevailed to give
moral and financial assistance to the
coal miners and allow the executive
board to put It into effect
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-23
Official Opening
of Russian Theater
Season Is Success

The official opening of the Russian
theater season Saturday night at the
Workers House was a big success.
The hot weather did not stop the
crowd from packing the hall at 1902
w. Division St. The actors were all
in high spirits and played we'll. Many
of them surprised the audience by
their art. AS a result the Workers
House made some money which
comes in so handy after the dull sum-
mer season.
A string orchestra of balalaikas,
guitars, etc, is being organized at the
Workers House. All who want to join
may send in their names to the Work
ers' House, 1902 w. Division st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-23


Differences of opinion with regard
to the DAILY WORKER are striking
in some cases. Truthful account Of
facts without unnecessary fanciful
trimming by reporters" says Morris
Kahn, of New York City, SIS what is
needed" ls
Likes Our Accuracy.
A. B. David, Of Toronto, on the
other hand, says, 81 read the DAILY
WORKER because of the accuracy
and the revealing character of it's
news. l will be only too glad to re-
new my subscription when It expires. /"
Dr. David also says that not enuf
labor news OF Toronto is printed in
the DAILY WORKER.
Special Feature Sections.
Comrade Sonya walday, of the
West Side English branch of New
York, believes that the paper should
be more departmentalized. Il would
like to see the paper less scattered
in news items and better classified"
says Comrade Sonya. "One-half Of
the third page should be a daily feat
ure page, on Monday women's page;
Tuesday, youth page; Wednes, edu-
cational articles; Thursday, a lite
rary page and Friday, letters from
readers. We should also have News
In Brief index on the first page"
Comrade Walday thinks.
Comrade Morris Kahn sends a sec
ond letter declaring that the DAILY
WORKER ignores the important prob
lem Of co-operatiYes.
Working Glass Sports.
A comrade from Los Angeles writes
that we should pay much more atten-
ton to working class sports, in order
to gain the attention OF the masses.
More s. A. News.
H. M. LAlmeida, of New York
City, believes we should pay more at
tention to Central and South Ameri-
can problems and to Mexico. L'Al-
media donates one dollar to the
DAILY WORKER fund.
Il read the DAILY WORKER to
know the class struggle, and also
cooperate with the class conscious
workers toward the overthrow Of
capitalism" says "A Militant Com
munist" from Los Angeles.
]. D. Reedy OF Bickmore, w. Va,
says Being Communist, read the
DAILY WORKER for correct inform
alton"
A reader from Madrid, Iowa, Albert
Gerling. writes, Il read the DAILY
WORKER because l am intensely
interested in human progress, and
the development that is going on in
all parts Of the world toward high
er civilization that signifies the OBJ
liberation of capitalism. l have no
criticism to offer and no shortcomings
in mind" gc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-23
Letters from Our Readers

their union executive board with their
grievance. This is the kind Of an
answer we got: sH.
at would be unjust for the miners
to leave their working place before
quitting time, no matter if the COM
pany had taken the motor away. For
there is no telling what might hap
pen in the territories where the COM
pany had transferred the motor"
The miners not bit satisfied with
such an answer, went to the mine
manager and explained the case to
him and the mine manager agreed to
let the miners go home before quit
ting time.-A Coal Miner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-23
MIsIeaders Of Workers.

To The DAILY WORKER: Some
time ago the Union Colliery Coal COM
pany put in ruling that the men
were to remain in their working
places until quitting time. But as
some of the territories were ahead Of
turn, the company would take the mo-
tor away at dinner time to be placed
in some other territories. This would
leave the miners hanging around in
side the damp mine inhaling foul air
for no reason at all.
The men decided that they would
not tolerate such a condition and went
to Joe Hurley, a representative of