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The daily worker., 1925-01-31

the greatest monument that was built
up by Lenin was the existence Of a
powerful Soviet republic, and the
building up Of the Third (CommuQist)
International with parties thruout the
world. He also outlined the work Of
Lenin as theoretician and strategist
of the revolutionary movement. He
laid particular stress on Lenin's strug-
gle against reformists and his work
in building up. powerful and CEN
tralized Communist movement. The
great part played by Comrade Lenin
in the Russian revolution Of 1905 and
1917 in leading the armed insurrection
Of Russian workers was emphasized
by Comrade Kruse. He also pointed
out to the marvellous strategy dis
played by Comrade Lenin in signing
the Brest-Litovsk treaty and the in
PRODUCTION Of the new economic policy.
Build the Party.
Comrade Kruse concluded his
speech by calling upon the audience
to build up real monument to Com
rade Lenin by building up the party
of Lenin in this country-the Work
ers (Communist) Party of America.
The daily worker., 1925-01-31
SCHOOL BOARD TO
CHARGE RENT FOR
PUBLIC MEETINGS

Cal Coolidge's economy has moth
ing on the Chicago board Of education.
At its last meeting it leaked out that
for the use Of schools for public meet
ings the business manager of the
board has ordered charge for rent.
A committee headed by A. B. Halet
and George MCGOWAN. from the public
affairs association, which is conduct
ing a series Of meetings on the drain
age flow problem, serious matter
of water sanitation for Chicago, came
before the board of education meeting
to complain against a fee Of $25 charg-
ed by Business Manager Byrne Of the
school board for the use of the schools
for meetings. The matter was referred
to the committee of building and
grounds of which Trustee Fellows is
chairman.
The committee said it had arranged
for a series of meetings in schools in
every ward for next Monday night to
explain the seriousness of the water
drainage question to the people of
Chicago. This action by the board
retards our work" said George Nc
Gowan.
The daily worker., 1925-01-31
SOCIALIST" JUDASES OF LABOR

Tor more than ten years the social
l democrats. the mensheviks, hav.
been active as the rear guard of re-
treating capitalism. Fighting desper
ately for the bankrupt cause of their
capitalist masters these social-demC
Gratis have elevated treason to the
working class to the fundamental prin-
ciple of the Second International.
At present Raphael Abramovich, a
member of the executive committee
of the Second International and a
member of the central committee Of
the Russian mensheviks is touring
the United States as part OF the
counter-revolutionar activities OF the
socialists" The Workers Party, the
representative and leader Of the revo-
lutionary workers Of America throws
all the treacherous acts Of the Second
International into the face OF its Am.
erican representatives, the Abramo-
viches, the Hillquits, the Bergers, the
Cahans and Pankens, and calls upon
all red blooded workers OF this coun-
J try to show to this coterie OF traitors
their contempt.
Comrade Max Bedacht has written
little pamphlet for the Workers
Party about the Social Judases Of
Labor" The pamphlet is one great
indictment OF the role that interna-
tional menshevism played in the con.
tinuous struggles OF the exploited for
their emancipation. The pamphlet
will be sold for cents a copy In re-
tail. Hundreds of thousands OF cop.
les Of this pamphlet ought TO be cir.
culated and sold by our party thruout
The daily worker., 1925-01-31

to join either the Workers Party or
the Young Workers League and help
carry on the message Of Leninsm in
America.
Cards bearing the words Of the 'In-
ternationale" and Workers Memorial
Song" proved SO popular that only one
or two could be found after the meet
ing. These songs were rendered by
the "Red Quartet" Their work pro-
duced round after round Of applause
AS one comrade remarked: "This
meeting proved the value Of organic
ing party activity systematically"
A Big Program.
The program arranged for this
meeting was as follows:
International-Red Quartet; Coutts
Jonisch, Matthews, Forman. Accom-.
panist, Anne Jonisch.
Opening Chairman A. P
Kramer.
Address-in Russian, "Lenin and
Russia" B. M. Mishkis.
Address-'Lenin, the Strategist, :
David Coutts.
Address-in Jewish, "Lenin and the
Subject Peoples" David Reznick.
Workers Memorial Song-Red Quar-
tet.
Address-'Liebknecht and Lenin
ism," Tom Matthews.
Address-"A feminist Party in Am
erica" J. E. Snyder.
The meeting opened promptly al
800 and adjourned promptly at 500
with perfect organization thruout.
Several young workers signed up
expressing their desire to become b
part of the Communist youth in Am.
erica. A meeting to organize a Y
w. L. branch will be held shortly.
The daily worker., 1925-01-31
.LENIN MEETING
lin MIL W WAUKEE
DRAWS overflow
Kruse and Bedacht Were
the Speakers

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Jan. 29.-The
Lenin memorial meeting held in Mil
waukee Auditorium was we'll attended.
The hall holding approximately 1000
people was filed to capacity and over
200 people were turned away for lack
Of space
The program of the evening opened
with the Junior group Of forty children
standing before the large star thru
which in glaring red letters was seen
sign, "Lenin is Dead, But Leninism
Lives" The pageant was accompanied
by Russian choir singing the funeral
march and the Freiheit Singing So
ciety singing the International.
In addition to this the Socialist
Maennerchor and the German Socialist
Liedertafel choir sang revolutionary
songs in the German language. The
South Slavic choir "Buduchnost" also
contributed two very fine numbers.
5edacht Spoke.
The first speaker of the evening
was Comrade Max Bedacht, who spoke
in the German language and made a
masterful speech. His speech on the
achievement of Lenin and his life and
work was well received by the au-
dience.
Life Work Of Lenin.
VIM. F. Kruse was the principal
speaker in the English language. He
spoke on the work of Nicolai Lenin
and his achievements. He stated that
The daily worker., 1925-01-31
C. O.P. OF HOUSE
ExCOMMUNICATES
LA TOILETTE men

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-LaFollette
insurgents were officially read out Of
the republican party today by leaders
of the house.
Representative Will r. Wood, repub.
lican Of Indiana, chairman of the re-
publican congressional committee,
notified all republicans Of the confer
ence to be held here on Feb. 81 TO
choose new speaker and floor leader
but pointedly omitted the entire Wis.
consin delegation. Keller of Mime.
sofa, Sinclair of North Dakota, and
La Guardia of New York.
This action by the house leaders,
followed similar disciplinary method
recently taken by senate leaders
against LaFollette's supporters in the
senate.
Socialist In Chop suey.
Wisconsin has delegation of eleven
members in congress, all of WHOM
are part Of the LaFollette organiza-
tion. Ten OF them, Representatives
Cooper, Voigt, Nelson, Schafer, Lamp
ert, Beck, Broene. Schneider. Freari
and Peavy are republicans, and ons
Berger, is listed as socialist though
indistinguishable from any other La
Toilette supporter.
All the congressman thus dropped
from the republican party rolls sup
ported the LaFollette-Wheeler ticket
In the recent campaign.
Hold Committee Positions.
Most OF the Wisconsin delegation
hold responsible positions in the pres
ent house republican organization
John M. Nelson, who was LaFollette'i
presidential campaign manager. II
chairman OF an elections COMMITTEES
and a member OF the rules committee
How their exclusion from the repub
lican organization will affect their
committee status in the next congress
could not be determined.
The daily worker., 1925-01-31

CIhtlC party Oh RUSSIA and six months
later he joined the social revolutions
ary party. He remained active in the
left wing of this party up to 1908.
when he left Russia for the United
States.
During the period of his activity il
Russia he was arrested ten times
once for working in an underground
print shop, and in 1907 he was exileo
to the province of Viatka.
When he came to the United States
he made New York his home. There
he joined the Workmen's Circle, then
the socialist labor party, and in 1918
the socialist party. In 1919 ne Joined
the Communist Party and has been a
member of the Communist movement
ever since. He has been very active
in the Communist movement. having
held various responsible party posi-
tions, including that of sub-district or
ganizer.
He Joined Local SO, New York. of
the Typographical Union in 1912 and
has always been an active and loyal
union man. He assisted in establish
ing the six-hour day for Jewish print.
ers in Chicago, was secretary of the
United Hebrew ChapeIs, and shop
chairman in the print shop of the
Jewish Daily Courier in 1920.
The life story of Harry Brooker is
tale of answering devotion and
sacrifice to the working class move.
ment-a tale of hard work, unfinch-
ing bravery in the face Of czarist op-
preston, and patient striving to serve
his fellow workers. His record is
one that wins the respect and conf.
dence of every working man and wom-
an. one that assures them that he will
faithfully fight for their interests a,
all times and in all places.
The daily worker., 1925-01-31
Don't Miss Y. w. L.
Entertainment to Be
Held in Springfield

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. Jan. 2s-The
Springfield branch OF the Young
Workers League will entertain at a
"sociable evening" given Feb. Is, at
the White Dental Parlor, Hall, at
22S 1-3, South Fifth Street, Springfield.
Comrade Margaret Sungail will
appear in selection entitled "Im-
presentations Of Busy Body" and the
German Singing Society will render
songs and lecitals. The Young Work
ers League Orchestra, an organization
that the Youns Workers are justly
proud OF will be iresent and furnish
select numbers Of "'azz" music for the
hop" that will tak5 place Immediately
after the other entertainments are
over.
The daily worker., 1925-01-31

the country.
The pamphlet supplies ammunition
against the socialists" and can be
used by our comrades in their activi-
ties and propaganda among their fel-
low workers. But the little booklet
is also of great propaganda value in
itself. Distributed among the work.
ers in general, and especially among
workers still influenced by the social
traitors, the pamphlet can speak for
the Communists and strengthen our
ranks in the struggle against the
shock troops Of capitalist reaction:
the Socialist Judases OF Labor"
The daily worker., 1925-01-31

tionary enthusiasm, right at the heart
of the dictatorship of Morgan, Gary
ct al, this fact to them is of tremend.
GUS Importance. While they feel the
iron heel of this dictatorship in Italy
under Mussolini, in Germany under
the Dawes plan, they are reconciled
by the fact that ardent and energetic
workers are striving industriously to
undermine and overthrow that dicta-
torship, and that they liberation will
come soon.
Tickets for this international dem
onstration, are now on sale at 2os
East 18th street and at all Workers
Party newspapers and branch party
offices. For further details see the
columns of this paper.
The daily worker., 1925-01-31
NEWARK PAINTERS
UNION REPUDIATES
THE SPY ABRAMOVICH

NEWARK, N. j., Jan. 2s.--Paint-
ers Local No. 777, Of Newark repudI-
ated Raphael Abramovich, spy Of
world Imperialism and the Second
International, at its last meeting
here.
BY a vote of SO to AS the paint
ers voted down the socialist party's
request that the Newark painters
send delegates to welcome Abramo.
vich when he speaks here. Several
speakers exposed Abramoviehs' rec
ord in the interests of the world
capitalists.
The daily worker., 1925-01-31

police and a number OF them were
arrested.
In Trieste the red flag was raised
upon the telegraph poles of the city.
Strenuous efforts were made by the
fascist to suppress any form of dem.
onstration in honor of the first ami
versary of the death of Lenin.
New York Will Be Heard Too.
Just as the workers of New York
are inspired by the brave example Of
their brothers and comrades in Italy,
so too will the Italian workers take
heart when they hear of the formio-
able demonstration which the work
ers Of New York will make next Sun
day, Feb. 1 at p. m. at Madison
Square Garden. To the workers
the world, the fact that the American
workers show real spirit of revolu-
The daily worker., 1925-01-31
War of Words Halts
While Coolidge Men
Fix Up Committee
Especial to Tho Daily worker)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-An armis-
tice in the fake war of words was de.
clared in the senate today in the fight
against promotion of Attorney General
Harlan F. Stone, to the United States
supreme court.
Altho democratic leaders declared
the fight mot ended" administration
spokesmen were confident Of obtain
ing confirmation for Stones appoint
ment as soon as the judiciary commit
tee again submits his name to the full
senate. The committee will meet next
Monday for final action on the appoint
ment.
The daily worker., 1925-01-31
TOXIC FACES WATER
FAMINE UNLESS RAIN
WILL ARRIVE SOON

TOXIC, Jan. 29.-Tokio today faced
a great water famine A lightess city
was forecast within the near future
unless heavy rains were received.
Authorities declared a water famine
was inevitable unless rains were
received within fortnight. Right
water economies have been ordered.
The last rain of any consequence
fell here October 81, and the weather
bureau has predicted no further rain
until after Feb. 10.
The daily worker., 1925-01-31
NATIONAL OFFICE TERRITORY
IS N. 0. I. ONLY IN initial,
ITS MIDDLE NAME IS RED"

THERE'S small comrades In Wyoming that
sprinked
the desert bloom like garden with red policies for the DAILY
WORKER.
Finnish
office territory with total remittance $72oo This
given almost sixth the entire raised the national office district
just little dollar forthcoming
far from the With
membership $780, $6oO
pledges, $4,000 jacksonville,
doubt be filled shortly.
Twenty branches have been militant while IS have
Inactive But the national office territory NJ o. initial
reputation being
o. fire" with its st flying with DAILY
There lsn't much time left which question:
right
The daily worker., 1925-01-31

czEcHo-sLovAK BRANCH, Glen Allen,
ENGLISH BRANCHES, Birmingham DenIng
N. NJ; Roanoke,
GERMAN BRANCH Denver Colo.
HUNGARIAN BRANCH, Galloway, w.
JEWISH Denver Norfork Antonio
Texas Chattanooga, Tenn; Atlanta Ga. jacksonville
The daily worker., 1925-01-31
North Side EnaIIsh Notice.

Comrade John w. tombstone, who
attended the Pan-American and A. F. Of
L. conventions, win have an interesting
account to give us of this gathering
at the next meeting of our branch on
Monday, at 8 p. M, at the Imperial
Hall, 24O6 N. Halsted st. Comrades
come early so that We can finish our
business quickly and give the speaker
plenty of time.
The daily worker., 1925-01-31
Jobs Scarce in CLEVELAND.

CLEvELAND.--Of the $4,000 non-
union laborers who applied at the Am
erican Plan Associations Cleveland OF.
fees last year for employment, but
1000 we're placed. The city-state OF.
fee placed $4,000 out OF 100000.
The daily worker., 1925-01-31
When you buy, get an "Ad''
for the DAILY WORKER.
Building Trades Workers, Attention!

very Important workers will be held
Sunday, February at 10 m. Island Ave-
Many important meeting the
expulsion the building abore trouble in
getting into paper The
Building Worker.
The daily worker., 1925-01-31
YOUNG WORKERS JOIN WORKERS
PARTY AT OMAHA LENIN MEETING
CspeeIaI % rhs paIIy wOrkerl

OMAHA Neb. JAN 29Omaha held
afternoon with capacity
singing
able
Snyder Makes
Snyder
young
The daily worker., 1925-01-31
Our Candidate in the 34th Ward.

AIRY BRooKER candidate
Party for alderman the 3h
ana revolutionary
Hrooker is printer, working
graphical Union, Chicago
Comde Brooker his living
at the eighteen
The daily worker., 1925-01-31
COMMUNISTS DEFY FASCIST AT
LENIN MEMORIAL CELEBRATION
Especial to The Daily Worker,

NEW YORK CITY, Jan 29With
Russia viva the social
dictatorship
Italy
tons in Milan GrecoDiilanese, Trieste,
GrecoMane
The daily worker., 1925-01-31
Ns> 9a4A, h,0ekav
L4e%-S ct Wf
1T hM NJ
N~A 91.GA!
WHAT is YOUR SHARE IN IT?

NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-According to
census bureau estimate, the wealth of
the United States in 1922 was $780,
OO0,0O0,O0O, having increased ten times
in fifty years. What is your share in
these 800 billions?
How Taxes Are Dodqed
Sixty-seven persons in 1922 paid IN.
come taxes amounting to $4,000, 900.
These individuals had an income of
more than s1,OO0,OOO a year. Their
tax exceeded that Of 100000 tax
payers with incomes of less than
$4,000. There is a reason-for the
Real property and improvements take
Manufacturing machinery, tools and
implements
Manufactured products ........................
NSStoch
Farm implements and machinery. .........
Agricultural products ........
A Lesson In Mathematics
Every wrker should note the in.
crease in the value of property, ma.
chinery and manufactured products
And then he should ask himself what
share he has received. Every farmer
should compare the decrease in the
value Of livestock, the small increase
In the value of agricultural products
and the somewhat larger one in farm
implements, and then should ask how
II happens that the capitalists in
crease their capital and wealth so
much more rapidly.
Plenty of wealth and capital-but
what is your share in it?
The daily worker., 1925-01-31

100000 have not enough to be taxed,
while the wealthy with 'tax-exempt''
securities manage to escape taxation
on large part of their wealth and cap
ital. Thus John d. Rockefeller is rep.
uted to be worth at least s1,4OO, ,OO0..
600, but pays taxes on income from
wealth estimated at $500 900, 900 anu
then he pretends that his income
amounts to only s5,OOO,OOO.
There were a number Of other in.
teresting items in the census bureau
report. The following table reveals
noteworthy increases in values:
1922 1912
..............S15 So. .90S 600 OOO sos ooo mn ooo
The daily worker., 1925-01-31

.~ 15.7SS,OOO,OOO s.Os1, 900, 900
- 2S,422,OoO,OOO 1858, 900, 900
- 5,sO7OOO,OOO 6,2sS,OOO, 900
.- 2,sO4.OOO,OOO 1.s6S,OOO,O 900
- 5,465,OOO,OOO 5,24O,OOO, 900
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-22
big PARADE TO
MAKE A STAR
OF GILBERT

John Gi1bert's first starring pic
ture win be The Big Parade"
a King vidor production for
Metro-G oIdwyn Mayer, according
to an announcement by Louis B.
Mayer. ',.1s
Gilbert was elevated to star
dom on the recent return from
New York OF Mr.. Mayer, but 1t
was not thought that he would
receive this honor until his next
picture. However, when Mr..
Mayer looked at the completed
portions OF THE Big Parade he
found, Gilbert's work OF such
calibre that he decided to star
him. beginning with this produc-
ton.
Stardom has come to Gilbert
after q short years work in
Metro Goldwyn Mayer pictures.
Though he has acquired a large
following through his work prior
to this, it was after His Hour"
Wife Of the Centaur," and THE
Snob," that he became one OF
the greatest drawing cards In
pictures today. Gilbert's name in
the cast Of a picture practically
assures it's success, and it is said
by those who have seen him.
opposite Mae Murray in ''The
Merry Widow" and as the Amer
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-22
D. C. FILM ASPIRANTS
CAN'T MAKE GRADE

finest type Of youth with screen
ambitions in America.
It Is the aim Of Paramount Of.
ficials interested In the school to
train these young men and
women for screen acting. April
cants from the East and West
gathered at New York and Holly
wood, where the Famous Players.
Corporation maintains its studios
and there were voted upon by q
q committee to determine their
suitability for the school. Those
selected were given screen tests
which tell better than the photo
graphs and questionnAires pre-.
viously furnished whether or not
the aspirant has motion picture
possibilities.
Testing units were sent also to
Atlanta, Kansas CITY, Philadel-
pl1ia, Wilkesbarre, and Boston.
One young man, the lone candi-
date from Cleveland, came to the
Paramount Long Island studio
for his film baptism. Tom Ter
ris, director and producer, who il
to be the dean OF the school,
toured the New England States
with a unit which photographed
the. candidates sponsored by q
Boston newspaper which has Of
fered scholarships for local
aspirants.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-22

OF the thousands upon thou
sands Of young men and women
In this broad land who aspire to
fame as cinema celebrities, los
applicants, representing the best
material available, from the stand
point OF personality, beauty, pho
tographic qutlities, and desirable
background, have been recon-
mended by various district repre-
sentatives Of the Famous Players
Lasky Corporation, for considera.
ton as potential students at the
Paramount Pictures School.
Several washington applicants
presented themselves for prelimi-
nary screen tests to Edward J.
Wahl, local representative for
Fan1ous-Players. One, q young
society debutante, was selected
from this grist, but in the second
preliminary test she was rejected
so that Washington mas no repre-
sentation among the los appli-
cants chosen to date.
OF that number fifty.nine are
girls and forty-six boys from whose
ranks ten OF each sex will be
chosen by a committee Of judges
to enroll in the school for which
classes will start in July. Thus
the twenty young men and
women chosen will represent the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-22
The ROIl-Cau

The sunburn season has ar
rived for the members Of the
Crandall organization. Tan Is
sprouting on the brows Of prac-
tically all of the executives who
devote their talents-if any--to
the conduct Of the fifteen Gran
dali Theaters in Washingtons
and vicinity. Harry Crandali,
owner of the theaters bearing
his name, and Nat Brown, his
confidential clerk, are acquiring
theirs on the tennis courts of
the Crandall estate at Sixteenth
and Buchanan streets northwest:
Joe Morgan, general manager.
and Johnny Payette, assistant gen.
eral manager, are getting theirs
out at the Silver Springs Golf
Club; Fritz Hoffman,, comptrol-
Ter, does his baking at the wheel
of a Nash; George A. Crouch
CCottonD, treasurer, gets his
counting receipts by gaslight ard
Nelson Bell, in charge of adver-
Using and publicity for the Gran,
dali enterprises, is getting his
broadcasting the "Crandall Sat
urday Nighters" through station
WRC of the Radio Corporation
of America from 1890 p. m. to
midnight every Saturday night.
The sun certainly is hot then!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-22
TIVOLI-
81 Want NV Man.

A camera drama Of the after,
math of the great war, adapted
from Struthers Burt's novel Of
1.-THE Interpreter House." is on
the screen at Crandall's Tivoh
Theater the last times today uTl.
der the title of II Want My
Man" with Milton Stills and
Doris Kenyon in the co-stellar
roles. The tale hinges upon the
determination OF q beautiful
young woman who married a
blind veteran to win her hus.
bands love ali over again after
his sight was restored. You see,
she had pretended that a bond
of sympathy existed between
them because she was, too, hor.
ribly disfigured from her service
at the front as nurse. She
was no such thing, and fearful
that his resentment would be
aroused by discovery of the sub
terfuge, came to America and
took as a means Of subsistence
the post of companion to her
husbands invalid mother. And
from that situation is built the
engrossing climax of an unusual
and distinctly diverting photo.
drama.
The companion attraction Is
Larry Semon's amusing assump
ton Of the role of a young
beauty doctor in a two-reel riot
bearing the title of 1.-The Dome
Doctor" An added attraction
OF more than usual excellence Is
anew issue of the Pathe Review.