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BY ALFRED v. FRANKENSTEIN.
The twelfth program of the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra, given at Or
chestra Hall, was the annual Theodore
Thomas memorial. Theodore Thomas,
the first conductor of the ochestra,
died on Jan. 5. 1905. Every year since
his death, on the Friday and Saturday
nearest the fifth of January, memo
rial program has been played for him.
These memorial programs are al
ways made up of works of the four
German composers, Thomas excelled
in Interpreting Bach, Beethoven,
Wagner and Richard Strauss.
The program on this occasion open
ed with a chorale of Bach arranged
by ]. j. Albert and tackled on to a
fugue of Abert's own composition. In
this work the mathematical style of
Bach is greatly enhanced by modern
orchestration.
Beethoven Style Seen Turnout.
Following this came the most talked
of and most written about symphony
in the world. the Beethoven fifth. This
symphony is the first of the nine in
which the typical Beethoven style is
used turnout. 1t is the first important
use of the formula known as the
motto theme" A theme is stated at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-08
CapitaIism's Mercy to the Houston
"RiOterS"

The ''mercy" of capitalist "justice" is nearly as
bad as it's vengeance. The National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People announces
that getting parole for 20 of the large group of
socalled Houston rioters" from Leavenworth
prison is victory of the organization during the
past year.
The writer, who happens to have shared prison
fare with these black soldiers, knows how many
of them will receive this ENERGY" with secret
cynicism. They will, Of course, be happy as any
animal is happy to escape bondage in the narrow
confines of steel cage. But in the deeps of their
hearts they will not grovel at the feet of capitalist
government that extends them the "mercy" of
bondage or wage slavery in the larger prison of
the capitalist system. The writer knows them well
enough to understand that they have learned a
profound enmity to the powers that be-
The 'mercy" of parole again, is an ironic
charity, that keeps worker at the mercy of his
boss the whims of police surveillance and treated
always as a suspect to be arrested and questioned
and possibly convicted any time culprit is needed
that cannot be caught Always, the mans record"
is held against him as proof positive of present
deriiction if he cannot prove an iron-bound case
If innocence
This goes back to the facts of the Houston case,
too long to recite here, except to say that regi
were attacked by bloodthirsty mob of lynch
minded Texans led by policemen. They had arms
and used them in defense and counter-attack
Naturally, somebody got killed.
The vengeance of capitalist government which
recruited these black workers to shoot down
colonial subjects, oppressed like themselves
in the islands-east and west, Mexico, and to pro-
tect capitalist rule with bayonet and bullet from
overthrowal by the exploited workers of any and
all colors-the vengeance of the courts martial
was swift and terrible. A whole group was taken
out, about twenty or thirty, recall, and hung
almost without pretense at trial. The others
were sentenced to living death-to life at Leaven-
worth.
Now some of them are paroled from the prison
Of Leavenworth to the prison of the capitalist
TEN, closely watched and required to account for
their every hour. This is the mercy of capital
ism for a worker who mutinies. And it is
strange to see that the fact of the remainder of
these victims being eligible to receive this mercy
of parole in 192S-three years more in the prison
hell-is hailed a sort of glad tidings. AS we
said at the beginning, the mercy of capitalism is
nearly as bad as its vengeance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-08
Labor Is Aroused

The new attacks thru the Michigan courts,
against the Communists will stir the American la
Dor movement to definite protest This can clearly
be seen thru the resentment resulting from the
brutal sentence imposed on G. E. Ruthenberg ma
tiOnal secretary of the Workers (Communist) Par
ty, and the eagerness with which the capitalist
boOdhounds have rushed him off to the state prison
at Jackson.
When the attack was first launched against the
Communists thru the raids on the Bridgeman con-
ventiOn, the organized labor movement of the ma
ton protested vehemently, recognizing this as an
attack on the whole working class. The workers
everywhere understood that this was not an of
fensive against the Communists alone, but against
all workers and workers organizations that dared
fight the bosses. The thinking elements Of organ
lied labor, that are not now under the complete
domination of the bureaucracy will realize more
than ever that this continued attack on the Com
munists, is also fight against all labor.
The quick response from the organized workers,
as is seen for instance in the resolutions adopted
by the Stone Cutters Local, of Omaha, Neb, shows
that the rank and file is jealous of its rights, and
that it does not intend to quit in the fight against
its class enemy even if the capitalists are rein
forced by their 'labor lieutenants"
The struggle in Michigan is on again. Thinking
workers will rally en- in this struggle on the
side of the Communists facing prison.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-08

THE doors of the Michigan. peniten-
tiary have opened to receive our
Comrade c. e. Ruthenberg into the
prison chain-gang
A live sense of the reality of the
class struggle should be awakened by
this event. Ruthenberg. indefatigable
fighter and clear-headed, resourceful
MARKHAM leader, has long been a thorn
in the flesh of the capitalist ruling
class. In the shock of war, and in the
reaction and terror that came with it,
Ruthenberg doomed high as a leader
of mass demonstrations in the city of
Cleveland, which led to his first i'm.
prisonment. Ruthenberg fought
where other socialist" leaders fell
away from the fight, the fight from
which the war had stripped away the
easy parliamentary veneer. It was
but logical that this man should be.
come, as he did, towering leader in
the left wing of the socialist party
and logical again that he became one
Of the founders of the Communist
Party.
The year 1920 found Ruthenberg in
Sing Sing penitentiary, under a six
year sentence as one responsible for
the left wing manifesto" When
released from that term he immedi.
ately stepped again into the front
trenches, being made executive sec
rotary OF the Workers Party. Now
again he takes up a new task in the
service of the working class, to serve
a term as its representative in the
Michigan penitentiary. Within the
prison walls he is holding a post for
his party-the party which is the
only hope of our class.
The present conviction occurred a
year and a half ago. The case being
appealed, the cowardly supreme court
OF Michigan very obviously awaited a
favorable opportunity, in political
Iense. to register their Affirmation OF
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class has its own form of justice, the
purpose Of which is to crush it's class
enemies. The working class will
have its own justice, and with it the
working class will yet put on trial the
horde Of petty, prostituted tools OF
capitalist justice.
Meantime the leaders of the Work
ers (Communist) Party will take
their turns with the capitalist courts
of Michigan, and will be proud thus
to serve the only cause that is
worthy Of a mans or woman's 10y
atty. Undoubtedly there will be many
more trials in Michigan. Robert
Minor will be called to trial on Feb.
2, and unfiinchingly he will defend
his party there. Others win follow;
the intention is evidently to imprison
every possible leader Of Communism
In America.
Every Communist, and every sym.
pathizer, and every worker who can
be made to learn from this travesty
the true meaning OF the class strug.
gle, must vigorously take up the de-
tense. 1t is their cause-it is not the
cause of the individuals who are di.
rectly put on trial. The capitalist
court must be made into a political
sounding-board from which to speak
to the masses Of toilers--every act OF
the court must be made priceless
part OF agitation. Not to excuse them
selves before capitalist justice, not TO
obscure their enmity and hatred of
the capitalist system, but to inculcate
into the exploited masses knowl-
edge Of what capitalism means, and
what working class revolution and
emancipation means, will be the pur-
pose Of each of our comrades who
faces the court at st. Joseph. Michi-
gan.
Down with capitalist class Justice;
long live the justice OF the working
class!
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the outset, and thru the four move
ments it reappears in various guises to
tie The whole together.
1t is this motto theme Of four notes,
two measures long, that has caused all
the discussion. Some say it is in
tended to represent the notes of bird
and others that it's meaning is the
knock Of fate. George Grove, who is
an authority, says the theme repres-
ents Beethoven himself, in contrast
to the second theme of the first move
ment, signifying a certain princess to
whom the composer was engaged to
be married at the time.
The chances are that none of them
is correct. At any rate this symphony,
second only to the Schubert eighth in
popularity, shows all the sides of
Beethoven's nature. Angry and
troubled in the first movement, the
second is idylic and almost pathetic.
Hector Berlioz described the third
section as producing that inexplic-
able emotion which you feel when
the magnetic gaze of certain persons
is fixed upon you" The last movement
is an overwhelming march in spirit
tho not in form.
"A HERDS Life" Hokun1.
Strauss was represented by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-08
STUDENTS STUDY
LABOR PROBLEM
IN FACTORIES
Banker Denies Existence
of u. S. Imperialism


NEW YORK, Jan. Five young
college graduates are finding out by
vivid personal experience what a fac
tory wage workers life is and are
trying to find out what they, the col
lege workers, can do to help workers
reach a larger life.
Justine Wise is one of the young
women in the mixed group. She told
her impressions and conclusions to
the annual student conference of the
league for industrial democracy. The
college group lives in a workers
house in a textile town near New
York. The students are employed in
the mills and in addition each stud
les a special phase of community life
in reference to the dominant indus
tries. One studies politics, another
religious life, another social activi
ties, as affected by industrial condi-
lions. One of the group has run into
the industrial spy system, Miss Wise
tells, so closely are unusual nantes
tations watched for.
Treated Like Robots.
Employers treat workers as part of
the machinery and do not even try tc
get maximum efficiency when piece
work is the rule, Miss Wise told the
conference. Workers wait hours fol
materials. She has earned from $14
to $3.50 per week at piecework bob
bin winding. She suggested that go
ing into industry is the best way fol-
college students interested in the la.
Dor or radical movement to be
trained.
Otto Kahn, banker, denied the ex
istence of Imperialism at the leagues
banquet. He said it was a myth that
Standard Oil or any other business
interest controlled the U. s. state de-
partment. Scott Nearing took the op-
posite view and said the Monroe doc
trine was the cloak Lzder which i'm
perialism is spread by the United
States.
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Comrade Ruthenberg Takes His Post

the verdict. The manner of these
impartial jurists as well as the
whole capitalist governmental ma
chine, in acting always on a favor.
able political wind, is notable. The
arrest Of the Communist Party con-
vention in August, 1922, had a direct
relationship to the immense mass
strikes of a million coal miners and
railroad men. The Daugherty injunc-
ton was only one of the principal
measures of the capitalist government
against the strikes; the arrest of the
Communist convention was another of
the principal measures. But the
country was in state of ferment of
the working class. This precipitated
the raid, but 1t also delayed a decis.
i've conclusion Of the cases. The Eos
ter trial, in which jury consisting
mostly Of farmers failed to respond
to the capitalist states demand for
conviction, was warning The state
frightened its lines and struck again,
this time getting Ruthenberg.
But having gotten a conviction OF
Ruthenberg in the lower court, and
having learned severe lesson in the
propaganda effects OF a Communist
defense, the state became wary. The
ferment among the workers and
farmers was still in existence; II
would have been politically unwise
from the capitalist viewpoint, to ad.
vertise during the prediction period
the conclusion OF a case which ex-
poses the non.existence of "constitu.
tional' rights for working class
movements. To do so would have in
jured the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" illus
ion which IL was especially necessary
at that time to keep alive.
The election OF Coolidge was the
outward sign and signal in America
for the end OF the democratic paci.
fist" period. as the casting aside of
the mask OF Mathematician was its
outward sign in England. After the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-08

grandest piece of hokum in musical
literature, the symphonic poem "a
Hero's Life" In the six movements
of this creation Strauss pictures first
the hero, his adversaries, his COM
panion, his battlefield, his mission of
peace, and his escape from the world.
The hero is regular one hundred per
cent, AL, red blooded, two-fsted he
man. The hero is incidentally Richard
Strauss himself, for in the fifth move
ment, where the hero surveys his life,
a hash of themes from the composers
previous work is brought in These
grand self-revelations of Strauss were
written for exactly the same reasons,
as those actuating the memoirs of
royal ex-concubines in the yellow
presto make money and attract at
tention.
The Wagner excerpt was the finale
from "Das Rheingold," quite recently
discussed here in detail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-08

terms with Britain, France, Italy and
the other powers. Without that equal
ity of treatment, he believes, the con-
ference will be doomed to futility.
Borah has raised this issue since
President Coolidge, at the instance of
large numbers of peace advocates, has
limited that he favors a new conference
for reduction of armament. Coolidge
does not promise to call such meet
ing of spokesman of the powers in the
near future, nor does he say that
should consider anything but the tech
nical problem of getting all the worlds
military forces reduced in concert. But
Borah, remembering how his own re-
solution calling for a world conference
on naval reduction was followed by
Harding's action in summoning the
Washington arms conference of 1921
%, believes that the hour has struck
FOR another move. If he can get his
measure through the foreign relations
committee of the senate, Coolidge and
Hughes will have to act.
And even though Harding and
Hughes excluded him from the Amer
lean delegation, three years ago, they
cannot shut out the chairman of the
senate committee. Once a member of
the American delegation, he can insist
upon discussion of economic bases for
militarism. He can bring up the Yer
sailles treaty, the war debt manipula-
ton, and the postponement of peace
with Russia
For his resolution the senate is not
now ready to give its support. If he
secures the approval of the foreign
relations committee, however, he will
have built such a fire under Coolidge
and Hughes as to force them-regard-
less of the adjournment of congress in
March-to offer to the country some
plan for reducing the danger of out
break of another world war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-08
Unity, the Need of Textile Workers

The reactionary offensive against the workers.
expected by Communists and threatened by the
open shop bosses who hold Dawes as their model
is beginning.
The whole textile industry, cotton, wool, silk
and even the thread trust is trying to force thru
a cut in wages This is the widely heralded "pros
perity" the capitalist press promised and the basis
for the unprecedented boom in stocks and bonds
in the New York exchange. Prosperity for the
multmillionaire owners of the textile mills
starvation and misery for the textile workers!
In Paterson the late autumn witnessed the resist
ance of the broad silk workers, led triumphantly
by the Communists and the Trade Union Educa-
tional League. In Paterson the reactionary bosses
were defeated, the fangs of savage exploitation
we're broken and union built up and fortified. Tex
tile workers, look at Paterson and take heart for
united struggle!
Now turnout New England, the bosses are "an-
nouncing" cut in wages. Shall they get away
with it? All depends upon the mood of the work
Are you willing to struggle, textile workers?
Are you willing to strike? Not in little groups,
but in a giant wave that will sweep the whole in
dustry!
The Trade Union Educational League yesterday
issued a call to you textile workers, organized
and unorganized, urging resistance, united resist
ance-for the keystone of the arch of triumph is
named UNITY"
The craft unions, few and weak as they are,
are no weapons with which to face the combined
power of the National Association of Textile
Manufacturers. Battles are not won with pop
guns but heavy artillery You textile workers need
industrial union, and you must force your craft
union officials to unite, Immediately, in action
against the wage cuts, as quickly as possible, in
one organic body, one great industrial union to
take in everybody in the mills
Textile workers, you must fight your own
battles you must prepare yourselves for inevitable
struggle. If you accept one wage cut another will
be forced upon you. You will not protect your
wage scale from attack by being humble any more
than the sheep protects itself from wolves by
bleating. The bleating only attracts the wolves
and sharpens their appetite Moreover, you are
men and women, not sheep, and should fight like
men and women.
The Trade Union Educational League has
pointed the way for your victory, textile workers
An industrial union! united front of all textile
unions and textile workers against the bosses !!
Abolition of child labor Instead of wage cuts
more wages! Instead of longer hours-shorter
hours Instead of many little unions-one giant
unionl Organization Unity! And again unity!
Unity and struggled Only in this way can you save
yourselves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-08

Stefan Raditch, the leader of the Creation
peasants party, has been arrested and will be
tried for treason, according to dispatches. This is
another step in the drive against peasants and
workers in the Balkans and is undoubtedly en-
couraged by the allies.
The Croatian peasants party is not revolution
airy organization, but reformistnatonalist group
that has not betrayed the agrarians and therefore
has earned the enmity of the reactionaries The
Raditch party has been working in a united front
with the Communists with the. result that both
city and peasant districts have been solidifed
against the white guard government.
The arrest of Raditch spells trouble in the Bal
kans-trouble for the imperialists and their pup
pet governments
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-08
STONE CUTTERS
LOCAL PROTESTS
MICHIGAN LAW
Urges Support for Labor
Defense
Especial to The Daily worker)


OMAHA, Nebr., Jan. THE follow.
ing resolution was adopted by the
Stone Cutters Local of Omaha at
their regular meeting last Friday night
and ordered sent to the press:
Resolution Against "crimnal syndi.
calism" Laws.
WHEREAS, the many state "crim.
inal syndicalism" laws and "sedition
acts" are contrary to the bill of rights
of the United States constitution, and
such laws are used by the employers
as class to tyrannize over the work.
ers and their organizations; and
WHEREAS, the latest act of perse-
cution is shown by the state supreme
court Of Michigan in upholding con.
viction for assembling with the
Communists, in an opinion that pun
ishes ideas and denies free speech
and assemblage, and which evades and
ignores the fact that the defense
showed there was no violation of the
! state law, since no overt act or advo
cacy was done by the defendant in
Michigan; and
WHEREAS, Assistant Prosecuting
Attorney Bookwalter and others of his
class insists on a maximum sentence
of ten years Imprisonment and
$4,000 fine, for this crime of hold.
| ing an opinion opposed to that of the
prosecutor and his class, thus recon.
mending government action based on
prejudice rather than the law and con.
stitution; and
WHEREAS, the sustaining Of
Ruthenberg's conviction by the Unit
ed States supreme court will mean
the railroading of VIM. 2. Foster and
twenty-nine other we'll known fight
ers in labor's ranks to long terms in
prison also, and gives further encour
agement to high-handed suppression
by the capitalist-controlled govern
ment of all workers organizations
who dare oppose their open shop rule;
andand
WHEREAS, the solidarity Of the
entire working class must be assert
ed in defense of freedom of opinion
and in support of those at the front
in our struggles; therefore be it
RESOLVED, that we protest
against and condemn the action of
the Michigan supreme court, and that
we support the Labor Defense Coun-
Gil in this case and call upon all la
Dor bodies and working class organ.
izations to take the same stand.
That we petition the governor of
Michigan to pardon the defendant in
the event that the United States SUI
preme court sustains the conviction,
it being our view that such action by
the federal supreme court would multi
fly the constitution in the interest of
capitalist suppression Of the work
ers; and be it further
RESOLVED, that copies of this res
olution be sent to the Labor Defense
Council and to the press.
Adopted at a regular meeting OF
Omaha Local, Journeymen Stone Cut.
ters' of North America, at Labor
Temple Friday, Jan. 2, 1925.
Signed: r. ]. Fidler, President.
David Coutts, Secretary.
The address Of the Labor Defense
Council is, 166 West Washington St.,
Chicago, Ill.
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UNION men DEMAND
RETRIAL Be GIVEN FOR
SACCO- VANzETTI CASE

lSpecIaI TO The Daily Worker)
NEW YORK, Jan. SAT- the reg
ular meeting Of the. Union of Tech
nlcal Men, Local No. 81, a resolu-
ton was passed, protesting against
the denial for a new trial Of sacco
and Vanzettl, and demanding a re-
trial for these martyrs of labor. Z
A contribution was made to the
Sacco-Vanzetti defense.
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State legislatures are meeting quietly and con-
tentedly over the country. They contain no Com
munist members ready to make a fight against
capitalism. That explains it. Get into the Work
ers (Communist) Party and help remedy this
situation for the future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-08

Some Of the opposition deputies in the Italian
chamber want to impeach Mussolini. The italian
Communists viii laugh at this proposal. They are
out to rid the nation of capitalism in all its FORMS
including the timd bourgeois Opposition" and the
democratic pacifsts, parading as socialists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-08

This week sees the opening of state legislatures
over the country. That calls for more intensive
class struggle against the upholders of child labor
who are seeking to defeat the child labor amend
ment to the constitution. Get busy
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BORAH RESURRECTS HIS PLAN
FOR AN ECONOMIC WORLD MEET
WITH RUSSIA TO BE INCLUDED
BY LAURENCE TODD
Federated Press Staff Correspondent,


WASHINGTON 7Chairman
his
world conference economic reimbursement preliminary
all
relations he will call his resolution world
affairs