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s.ooo German Glass eIowers strIke.

GERMANY, March 9-Nearly the
entire glass industry OF Germany is at
a standstill as result of a strike OF
5000 workers because of disagree
ment between the bosses and workers
over the 1925 prices for Christmas
tree ornaments.
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NEW YORK JUNIORS MOBILIZE
TO FIGHT PEDDLING OF MUSHY
RELIGIOUS DOPE In SCHOOLS
BY ANNA THOMPSON

NEW YORK March sThe bosses
the lookout Of
the working they rob
Cured that the misunderstanding apparatusthe
public and
fece work So discussion and
held the question Of bringing religion
they such gross viola
ton the constitution and the
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"About three
months ago, talking
to comrade Ella r.
BIoor, | emphasized
the Importance at
this time Of central
izlng and standard
izing our party pub
locations. A m o ng
other things | called
her attention to the
success Of the Lit
tie Blue Books
S a y in g: w by
couldn't we have
Little Red Books to
carry our message
to the workers.
"You can imagine
my delight W h e N
recently announce
ment appeared in
the DAILY WORK.
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the DAILY WORKER? Ask him
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COLUMBIA HALL

Stone & Blake Aves., Brooklyn, N. Y
TabIeaux, Plays, Dancing, Singing
ISRAEL AMTER will speak on
1.-THE Young Leninlsts Of Russia"
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THE LITTLE RED LIBRARY is READY!
No. 1 and No. 2 Just Off the Press.

\EIE relief asts here" After
WV difficulties sending thru the mail today
Library Within the
will be thruout the
country effective
in small pocket size.
The first this series Of publications the
dar brought
letter from Benjamin
EIsberg is typical Of
many the office writes:
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RED REvEL


FOSTER JUNIoR1GRoUP
Of Brooklyn, N. Y.-March 20, 8 p. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-31
~B. & o." Plan Repudiated

William H. Johnston, former drummer in the
salvation army and now president OF the Inter
national Association of Machinists, earned re-
putation as sensible labor leader, among the
BOSSES when he initiated the class collaboration
list policy known as the B. & O. Plan in the Glen
wood shops of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
This plan was preached to the president Of the
B. & o. by Johnston a few weeks before the shop
mems strike of 1922. 1t has proven good system
for the bosses and is gaining in popularity among
railroad officials. But it is vicious system for
the workers.
Johnston has heralded the B. & 0. plan far and
wide as an example of what can be accomplished
by the new" methods of solving the difficulties
that arise between employers and employees. He
boasted that it was success and that the workers
in the Glenwood shops where it was initiated were
heartily in favor of it. But it appears that the
reverse is the truth.
But at a special meeting called by Lodge 401 of
the l. A. NJ, the orignators of the B. o. plan were
repudiated as well as the plan itself, even tho
J ohnstons henchman president Conlon warn
ed the members of the lodge that if they did not
endorse the Johnston slate, such action would be
taken all over the country as Reputation Of the
p. & o. Plan.
The population of the B. & O. Plan by the mem
bers on whom it was first tried kicks the props
from underneath the Johnston scheme This was
the first time the employees of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad had an opportunity to declare them
selves the question and their verdict is decisive.
The fight against the B. & o. Plan in the l. A.
of NJ has been inaugurated and led by the left
wing under the leadership of the Trade Union
Educational League. That fight is now beginning
to show tangible results. 1t will not end with
killing the B. & o. Plan but will retire from Office
the labor takers who are responsible for it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-31
A Liar Tells the Truth Once

1t is not very often that q capitalist editor
tells the truth. But something must have exploded
in the editorial sanctum of the Chicago Tribune
on January ~, because we find two strange edit
orials in the Tribune of January g. One was
slam at the Civic Opera company, which is sub
sidized by Samuel insult, and another was a re-
versal of position on the child labor amendment.
Formerly the Tribune was for the amendment
but it changed its mind. Perhaps the editorial
writer was sore because he was forced to write
in support of the exploitation of children tho his
conscience urged him to follow the opposite course
What he has to say about the opera is interest
ing not because of his attitude towards that much
pulled art but for the light it sheds capitalism
Evidently the Tribune opera critic believed that
the performances at the Auditorium were bunk
but the Tribune dared not offend insult, tho the
movie and dramatic critics could say what they
pleased about the productions they covered
The following is excerpt from an editorial
entitled "Now it can be toldr: cit wasn't civic
opera and it wasn't grand. If our Mr.. Moore in
his accounts of what was given at the auditorium
had felt at liberty to speak his piece as Mr..
Donaghey does of the stage and as Mae Tines does
of the movies he would have said that most Of it
was mediocre and some of it worse than that You
can't speak your mind about opera. This is the
first time it has been done and it may be the last
You can't even whisper around about it. If it's
awful, the critic must find an aria to praise. If
it is mediocre he must say it was good and if it
happens to be good it must be superlative
Well see what we get from this bit of plain speak
ing which we have not dared to attempt before"
This is plain speaking with a vengeance A
cyclone must have hit the Tribune editorial room.
Perhaps the principal owner of the paper blew in
and asked why in the blankety blank the child
labor amendment was being supported editoriaIly
and perhaps the poor editorial writer after being
obiged to crawfsh that issue took it out on the
civic opera. Anyhow we are grateful to the hack
who proved our contention that capitalist editors
and journalistic hacks are paid liars
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-31
Back to Form

Friends of the child labor amendment must have
rubbed their eyes in wonder to see the Chicago
Tribune stand for proposed law that would if EN-
acted, and honestly enforced, throw some protec-
ton around the youth of this country who are ex-
plotted in the slave pens of the nation before they
have grown to manhood and womanhoOd
Not that the law was adequate or anything like
it. Not that we expect a capitalist government
to enforce a law that would injure the system of
which it is the executive committee But the vigor-
GUS and united opposition that the capitalists or
ganized against it showed very clearly that they
recognized its implications and its damaging effect
on their profit making industrial machine.
The Chicago Tribune was one of the very few
capitalist papers to support the proposed amend
ment- But January %, the Tribune changed
its position and attacked the amendment tho de-
claring that the principle back of it was right.
'There has been vacillaton and uncertainty in this
Office declared the editorial. What actually hap
pened in the Tribune office, we do not know, but
it is quite likely that the chief editorial writer got
away with his own ideas the question until the
organized opposition to the amendment brought the
necessary pressure to bear on the owner, who may
be enjoying himself in Florida, in Paris or at the
gambling tables of Monte Carlo with the result
that the editoriaLwriter-in-chief was instructed
to switch his lights.
The Tribune now bowls with the pack. This is
as it should be. Those who talk about free press
under class rule are talking thru their hats. The
DAILY WORKER does not wave the white ban
ner of impartiality as does the hypocritcal CAPT
talist press. We are partial towards the working
class. We admit that paper is concerned only
with the welfare of the workers and with the
interests of the workers revolution. We support
the child labor amendment or any other PROPOSE
ton that we believe will aid the workers. We
avail ourselves of every opportunity to advance
and strengthen the revolutionary movement We
are one sided.
So is the Tribune When a capitalist paper
happens to support the workers it is only by mis-
take The press is one of the most valuable weap-
in the arsenals of the ruling class. 1t serves
double function, to make profit for its individual
owners and to defend the system which it lives.
On trivial questions the capitalist papers may
differ but issue that strikes at fundamen-
tai capitalist principle, they bark in unison.
Against the class press of the capitalists we pit
the class press of the workers-the Communist
press
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man udu dAiCStSu 1OpONShys q MGll
known Communist in Southern Illi-
nois. charging him with speeding in
laundry truck. When Popovsky was
brought into the courtroom the police
man dubbed him to death with the
butt Of his revolver, without provoca-
ton.
In sending her contribution, the
slain Young Communists mother
writes:
Dear Comrades:
Enclosed herewith you will find a
check for $1,000 in payment of an in
surance policy which | wish to be is
sued in memory of my deceased son
Boris Popovsky, who was killed most
brutally, as you know, last July at
West Frankfort, ILL.,, by an uncautious
tool Of the capitalist class, namely an
officer of the law.
While my son Is dead, it is a great
satisfaction to my heart to see the
great ideal for which he has spent
his short and youthful life spread
throughout the world. He has strug-
gled for the achievement of Commun-
ism and died with his last words for
that ideal. II is not only on finished
undertakings that we honor useful la
Dor Although he no longer is with
US. his death, however. did not take
away the spirit for which he fought,
for he left behind him an army Of
comrades constituting mightier pow
er which eventually will bring for
the goal for which he strived.
ut is with these thoughts in mind
that am sending you this small finan
cial support in my sons memory. 81
that the efficiency of the offensive
weapon may be made stronger against
our enemy in 1925.
yours fraternallv,
"Netta Popovsky."
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glad and she always used to ex-
plain to us why we should support
them.
Each classroom was organized
into Soviet, with officers and
everything. / was elected dele
gate to the school Soviet. When
the school Soviet met, the teach
ers could not tell us what to do
or order us around, because out
side of the school there were two
of our dear Red Soldiers on guard.
All of us used to love these two
Red Soldiers because they used to
play with us and tell us stories
about Comrade Lenin and how the
workers were trying to get rid Of
the cruel capitalists all over the
world and how the Russian and
Hungarian workers have already
done so.
But after a while the Rouman-
ian soldiers came and killed the
workers and Communists. All the
children in our school missed the
two Red Soldiers very very much
and we never saw them again. /
hope the cruel Roumanian soldiers
did not hurt them.
All the people were sorry be
cause the Communist government
was overthrown. And we were
not allowed to have our school
councils any more and our good
teachers We're sent away.
/ hope the Communists in Hum
gary will soon come back and take
over the government again and
make the working people and chill
dren happy.
Comrade NJ. HERMAN, age 13,
Member Wicker Park Juniors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-31
FIGHT ON CHILD
SLAVERY TO co
ON IN ILLINOIS
Gov. Small Now Has
Amendment

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Jan. 20. - The
twentieth amendment to the federal
constitution, giving congress power 10
regulate and prohibit child labor, il
in the hands of Governor Len Small
here. Small said he may introduce
the amendment into the legislature
next week.
Attic twelve state legislatures have
defeated the ratification of the pro
posed amendment, and one state has
postponed action, the fight will con-
tinue for ratification in Illinois, it was
declared by child labor advocates to.
day. 1t was pointed out that there
is no time limit for securing ratifca-
ton, and that the amendment may be
re-introduced into the legislatures
where it met defeat at a later date.
The five state legislatures defeating
the amendment yesterday were: Ohio.
Kansas, North Dakota, Washington
and Oklahoma. The amendment so far
has been adopted by two state legis-
latures-those of Arkansas and Cali
fornia.
Tribune Wants Child Labor.
The Chicago Tribune, in an editorial
this morning, apologized for having
ever favored the -anti-child labor
amendment, and declared that from
now on it will oppose the amendment.
The Tribune, as always, has lined up
with the Illinois chamber of commerce
and the Illinois manufacturers ASSOC
citation, against the workers OF Illinois.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-31
INTERNATIONAL
WORKERS RELIEF
HEADS ARRESTED
German Government Be
gins Persecution
Especial to The Daily Worker

BERLIN, Jan. 49, "Monstrous &C
ton against the Workers Interna-
tional Relief"
Under this title the Berlin Commun-
list paper Rote Fahne is publishing the
following report:
"The Berlin police presidency, the
leading officials OF which were in
volved in vast affairs of corruption
and have been in the center Of public
discussion and press polemics during
the last weeks, will avenge the insults
caused by the Bartels scandal. For
this reason all members Of the central
committee Of the Workers Interna-
tional Relief were summoned to the
bureau of the political police in order
to be submitted to a rigorous trial.
During the last few days Comrades
Ledebour Bachmann, Alexander and
Arendsee were summoned to the po-
lice. The trial is based on an appeal
which the central committee of the
Workers International Relief launched
this summer in favor of the German
proletariat, surrendered by the Lon
don convention to the. international big
capital appealing to the proletarian
solidarity in order to save the German
workers from ruin.
Use War Law
"The political department Of the
German police will utilize in this ac-
ton the well-known war decree against
collections and charity fetes Of swindle
enterprises, organized during the war
to exploit war relief. 1t is quite evil
dent that there is no legal reason for
the persecution of the w. l. r. The
jury verdicts in Hamburg and in other
cities prove that the old DEGREES is
sued in pursuance Of other purposes
cannot be utilized against proletarian
aid-actions and collections in favor
of strikers and for support of economic
fights and political prisoners, etc. The
monstrous action will involve nearly
20 members of the Workers Internal
tional Relief headquarters.
"The intention Of the. reaction is
clear: They will deprive the poorest
Of the poor from all hopes in order
to subdue him to the exploitation of
the London treaty without any resist
ance. 1t is the duty of the whole Ger
man working class to fight against
these police prosecutions in order to
prevent restriction of the w. l. r.
activity by police maneuvers."
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The Fight Must Go On

The temporary defeat administered to the pro-
posed child labor amendment to the federal con-
stitution is about as damaging an indictment as
could possibly be made against the fatuous non
partisan political policy of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor Despite the support of the A. f.
of L. twelve states have taken unfavorable action
on the amendment and another state has voted
to postpone action, which in this case means the
equivalent of defeat, ratification by threefourths
of the as states being necessary.
This does not mean that the proposed amendment
is dead tho there is little likelihood of its passing
over the opposition of the organized power of the
capitalists in the future unless the supporters
of the proposed law follow the lead given by the
Workers (Communist) Party and rally the masses
for the fight to put it over. Nothing can be ac-
complished by the pussy-footing policy followed
by the A. f. of L. and the other liberal associations
who are interested in the amendment for human
itaran reasons.
But where are the friends of labor" that we
heard so much about from the reactionary brag-
CARTS at the last A. f. of L. convention? According
to the labor takers the state legislatures were full
Of them. And yet this law on which Sam Gompers
supposed to have set his heart has been ignom-
inously defeated in the state legislatures before
it got really started
The Workers Communist Party has issued a
call for united front against child labor. All
that is militant in the workingclass movement will
answer that call. The A. L. of L. bureaucracy
has again proven its incompetency. 1t is lacking
in energy, generalshp and even ordinary sincerity.
The petrifed and purified bureaucracy must be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-31
Dk J[l(g5 ! IlIl[[ "a II

the Civic program, is said by some to
represent procession of mourners In
the catacombs Of Rome. Perhaps this
Interpretation is bit extreme, but the
theme is queer and exotic one.
This was followed by the orchestral
scherzo 1.-THE Sorcerer's Apprentice"
by the Belgian, Paul Dukas. The liter
airy basis of the scherzo is a ballad by
Goethe, telling how sorcerer had
magic formula that would turn stick
OF wood into an animate servant His
apprentice picked up this formula, and
one day, when the magician was gone,
commanded a site to bring him water
for bath. The stick brings water
until the tub is full, but the appren-
tice does not know no to break the
charm. TIE stick continues bringing
water. The apprentice finally picks
up a Ratchet and breaks the stick.
Now both sections bring twice the
amount Of water, and the sorcerer's
house is flooded. Finally the magician
himself arrives and the sticks cease.
Florence School, young pianiste,
played the fifth Saint-Saens concerto.
Miss Scholl has has fine, firm tech
nical equipment, and understanding
and appreciation Of what Dunsany
calls 1.-THE meaning OF music" The
concerto she played is one OF the best
Of the not always divinely inspired
Camille.
Mr.. Stock closed with the Spanish
rhapsody of Emanuel Chabrier. Any
thing by Chabrier can be predicted as
being cracking fireworks in tone. and
"Espana" IL one Of the oraoklinssst.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-31
A Junior Tells of Communist
Hungary.

When / lived in Hungary in
1919, we had Communist govern
ment led by Comrade Bella Kun.
All the poor working people were
in favor of this government be.
cause it stood for them.
In the school where / went they
used to teach us to fight for the
working class along with Bella Kun
and the rest of the Communists
when the capitalist class ruled
she was afraid to tell us the truth
But when the Communists took
over the government she was very
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-31
BY ALFRED v. FRANkENsTEIN.

GEORGES ENESCO, Roumanian
~ composer, conductor and violin
list, was soloist and guest director with
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra last
Friday and Saturday. He played the
Bruch second concerto. The concerto
itself is an old fashioned, rather long
ish work, but on the whole quite worth
hearing. Enesco made it seem four
times longer that It is. The reason
for that is that Enesco Is a sentiment
talist in his playing, and too often in
his composition. He loves to linger
over one tone, drawing all the sensu-
BUSINESS out Of IL. Smetimes he car
ries this trait OF his to such an extent
that he seems dead and listless.
He directed two of his own compo-
sitions as well, suite for orchestra
and the first Roumanian rhapsody. OF
the four movements OF the suite two
are good. The prelude in unison, Or
chestrated only for violins, violas,
'cellos and kettledrums, has a pecul-
iarily nude, vigorous effect arising
from the simplicity of the theme and
OF its treatment. There is a clever
fast movement closing the suite. The
two inside sections, slow minuet and
a slow intermezzo, suffer from the
same excessive weight Of sentimental
ity that so affects Enescos style as a
viollnist.
The raphsody. II not setting OF ac-
'tual Reumanian folk tunez, IL made Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-31

The United States Steel company earned" over
$l50,0OO,0O0 during 1924 Wall Street congratu-
lated this wolfsh industry on its continued milk
ing Of the workers. tho it earned less during the
last quarter Of 1924 than in 1923, when the "earn-
ngs" were $fO,OO0,0O0, this quarters amounting to
$3O 762231 The actual total Of earnings" for
1924 were 152,o37, 1870.
When the capitalist wolves declare dividend
on one OF their exploitation schemes, they call
dividing up the spoils "cutting mellon" and this
time Y. y Steel gave up an extra dividend besides
the regular ones, doing out 80 cents share more
for those who feed on the workers. The dividends
amounted to $1.75 a share.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-31
Proletarian Music
for Workers Film
Here Next Thursday

In addition to the splendid picture
program to be shown at Ashland Au-
ditorium, next Thursday, Feb 5, there
will be a musical program to which
each of the proletarian orchestras
will contribute. At least four such
musical ensembles will be heard, the
first to make a definite pledge being
the well-known and extremely popular
orchestra Of the Young Workers
League. The Freiheit Mandolin Or
chestra, the South Slav Orchestra, the
Lettish Mandolin Orchestra and Band
and the Slovak Balalaika Band are ca
pected to cooperate.
The pictures include 1.-THE Beauty
and the Bolshevik," five reel feature
from Soviet Russia; and three-reel
educational film, Russia in Overalls, .
showing the r. A. /. c. clothing factor
les of the "Amalgamated, the Kuzbas
Colony, the f. S. r. tractor farms, as
well as the purely Russian industrial
rebirth as reflected in the Baku oil
fields, Rostov locomotive factories
Zadkes magnesite Quarries; Zlatoust
iron shelters, Volga fisheries, and 9th
ers.
Show Is continuous from to II
M, but those who want to be sure tc
get in and get the best seats should
come just as early as possible. Tick
cts are SOC, and can be bought from
all Workers Party. Labor Defense anc
international Workers Aid members
and offices as well as from list OF
fifty ticket stations already published