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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10
Young Workers Ball to
Launch Campaign for
Doubling Membership

The Young Workers (Communist)
League, Dist. 2, win launch it's mem
bership drive TO double the League
membership, with a grand ball and
dance to be held Saturday, Feb. 10Th,
at the Harlem Casino.
All party and league comrades are
urged to be present at this affair and
to bring along their friends and
shopmates. A snappy band will jazz
things up and q good time will be had
by all. After working all week long
every worker will welcome this OPP
portunity TO meet his friends, and
dance and enjoy himself all Saturday
evening.
Every League member should bring
down every acquaintance of his,
and all his fellow workers and let this
campaign to double the League mem
bership receive real response and
impetus.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10

Red Friday shame, declares that if
British nationals are endangered, it is
the duty of the government to send
not handful of men but an effective
army. Thus the capitalist forces plus
their helpers in the ranks of the Brit
ish workers-the leaders of the Brit
ish Independent Labor party and Of
the Labor party are all for war on
a big scale. The British Communist
Party issues leaflets to the soldiers
about to leave for the Chinese front
for these men are in the front ranks
Of the coming war.
Soviet Russia is on the alert, for
Japan has not yet disclosed her
plans. The United States and Eng
land will go together, it is stated
That will depend greatly on the sue
cess of the Cantonese armies, aided
by the advice Of Soviet Russia. Ii
they press forward to the north,
threatening the area of Japan's influ-
ence, the latter country may go into
the fight on the side Of Chang Tso
Lin. The attitude of the three gov
ernments will depend on what the
Canton government does. England
wants her concessions safeguar
Japan is afraid of her concessions
but also her sphere Of influence. The
United States wants the "open door"
What will be the outline of the bat
tie?
No one can predict today-but all
the powers are preparing for war.
That much is sure-and all the Liber-
al papers may claim that they are
preventing the war-mongers from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10
Trade Negotiations
Between Poland and
Germany Broken Off

BERLIN, Feb. 9.-Trade negotia-
lions between Germany and Poland
have been broken off due to a re-
fusal on Poland's part to accept the
first principal common to all trade
treaties-that of allowing citizens Of
the nation with which they are CON
tracing to reside in the country for
business purposes.
Although Germany amended that
article to permit only those Germans
to reside in Poland who could prove
it was necessary for business pur-
poses, the Poles refused to accept
this agreement and began systemati-
cally driving German business men
cut Of the country, by special taxes
and other measures.
The Germany government says Po-
lands object is to nullify the point
by dragging out the negotiations until
all Germans have left the country.
For that reason Berlin has broken off
negotiations. 1t is denied that the ac-
ton is due to the new conservative
government here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10
How Near Are We to War?

resolution. What he will do may be
He will piously turn his
eyes to heaven and declare that he
does not want so much militarism,
but as the representatives of the peo-
pie insist upon more adequate "de-
Tense" he cannot but consent. In the
case of the prohibition of chemical
warfare, each nation, including the
United States, denies any ill-will, but
states that it must be prepared in
case one of the other nations uses
chemicals in a future war. What is
the result? All the nations are
feverishly preparing the most deadly
gases and chemicals and training men
to use them.
Something more cogent has hap
pened in the past few days. The
u. S. army is recruiting men from
overseas service. Men are being en-
listed in all parts of the country, In
Cleveland % men were enlisted, and
will be sent to the barracks at Column
bus and be shipped TO China within
thirty days. 1t would be an open de-
claration of war if regular troops
were sent forthwith to China. They
are being transported to the Philip
pines to "be in readiness" in case
nationals are endangered. But by en-
listing volunteers and sending them
across, it appears to be less an open
declaration than otherwise.
In England the preparations for
war are quite open. The conserva-
tiyes want big army shipped, the
are less imperialistic in tone,
Jimmy Thomas, Of Black Friday and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10
Scandinavians Rally for Workers CIass-EducatiOn!

THE need of special organization
L for workers education among the
Scandinavian immigrants has been
felt for years. For several months
preparatory work has been carried
on for the formation of such Scandi-
navian Workers Educational League
in Illinois; on Sunday, Jan. 80, 1927,
the second conference Of delegates
was called to meeting in the Briggs
House, Chicago, at which meeting the
league was definitely constituted,
constitution and bylaws adopted, and
executive and educational committees
elected. Delegates representing T.
4o0 workers were present. Among
those sending delegates were Sean
dinayian fraternal organizations, such
as the Order Of Vasa, scandinavian
Fraternity of America, Order of Vik-
ings, and the Scandinavian I. o. G. 7.
lodges of Illinois, workingmen's
clubs, Scandinavian /. l.. d. branches,
and Scandinavian !. w. w. propa-
ganda groups.
The initiative for these conferences
was taken by the weekly "Ny It'd"
and the workingmen's clubs in Chi
the convention that this was to De a
ago. Special emphasis vas made by
league for workers class education
and that all bourgeois or semi-bour-
geois tendencies should be guarded
against. The unity Of purpose and
action during the entire conference
was marked, proving that the work
for a Scandinavian Workers Educa-
tional League is a solidifying force,
uniting all the various elements
among Scandinavians, where they can
collectively assert themselves and
present united front in attempts to
materialize their demands. :
The immediate program calls for
the organization Of the league on a
national scale, so as to reach all
scandinavian workers in America
with class educational activities; the
study Of the American labor move
ment; American history, with special
stress on the American Revolution
and Civil War periods; study Of the
part taken by the scandinavian work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10
Western Union Breaks
Nervous System of Its
Slaves; Pays Nothing
By SIDNEY Upper.
(Worker Correspondent

Nervous breakdown, the most pre-
vailing sickness in telegraph work,
due to constant strain, is not entitled
to sick benefit, states the Western
Union Telegraph Company's bulletin
on Sick and Death Benefit.
The Western Union Telegraph Co.
has adopted many welfare schemes in
order to tie the worker to the job. In
return the Company asks its workers
to be efficient, produce more and be
loyal to the company's interests.
Sick and Death Benefit Plan.
One of the welfare schemes is the
sick and death benefit plan. After
one passes thru all the red-tape in
order to get job, giving a full bio
graphy OF himself, also passing ply
steal and mental examinations, he is
given a bulletin, which describes the
different benefits he may get by
working for the company.
The opening paragraph of the PAM
phlet reads: The company, recog-
nizes the desirability of fund from
which payment to its employees may
be made when they are disabled by
accident or disease"
Workers Are Impressed.
The worker becomes very much i'm
pressed by the generosity of the COM
pany He continues to read the rules
and regulations. He strikes another
paragraph which reads: IAN EN-
ployes, after term of employment of
two years, to be qualified to receive
payments under these regulations on
account of physical disability to work
by reason of sickness"
It sounds fine! but the sentence
that follows surprises him. 1t reads:
"This is subject, however, to the ex-
ceptions stated in Paragraph II of
Section g.
The worker quickly turns to the
mentioned paragraph, which reads:
Benefits to employees suffering from
so-called neurasthenia, nervous break
down, nervousness, and the like,
shall be limited to two weeks"
Majority Receive NO Benefit.
What does this exception mean? 1t
means that $50 of the workers en-
ployed by the company will not re-
eeive any benefits, as this "so-called
nervous breakdown is the most pre-
vailing disease in the telegraph indus
try. It is a known fact that there
are more former telegraph operators
in the sanitariums all over the United
States than workers from any other
industry. This sickness, direct re-
suit of the speed-up system and a
constant demand for a high record,
cripples the worker for life.
The telegraph workers, not being
organized, submit to any fake benefit
scheme that the company cares to
put over.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10

tasks and achievements of the prole-
tariat of the U. S. S. r. on the front
Of socialist construction.
Consequently, to contrast the ina
tionap' tasks of the proletariat of one
country or another to its information
al tasks, means to commit a pro-
found error in policy.
Consequently, to describe the zeal
and passion displayed by the prole-
tariat in their struggle on the front
of socialist construction as a symp-
tom of national insularity" and
marrow nationalism," as the oppo-
sition sometimes does, is nothing but
madness or decrepitude.
Consequently, the assertion that
the interests and the tasks of the
proletariat Of one country are one
and indivisible with the interests of
the tasks of the proletariat of all
countries is the surest guide to the
victory of the revolutionary move
ment of the proletariat Of all coun-
tries.
1t is precisely for this reason that
the victory of the revolution in a
single country is not an end in it
self, but means, a lever of the de-
velopment and the victory of the re-
volution in all countries.
Therefore, to construct socialism
in the Y. S. S. K. means to serve the
common cause Of the proletariat Of
all countries. 1t means to forge the
victory over capitalism, not only in
the U. S. S. r., but in all capitalist
countries as well; for the revolution
in the U. S. S. r. is part of the world
revolution, it is its beginning and the
base for its expansion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10

ers in the building up of America and
the role of these workers in the
American labor movement; the study
Of the English language, both writ
ten and spoken, as the bulk of the
Scandinavian immigrants are quickly
assilnilated in American customs and
language. The work of the league
will not only be elementary English
but advanced as well.
Tours for prominent educators ard
speakers here and abroad are also
planned. All scandinavian organiza-
tons in Illinois who are interested
in educational work should imme-
diately get in touch with the leagues
secretary (pro tem), Carl Mattson,
2003 n. California Ave-, Chicago
Protect the Foreign Born.
The Scandinavian Council for the
Protection of Foreign-Born in Him
dis, representing 10000 workers, is
actively engaged in work among it's
30 or more affiliated organizations.
The executive board has mapped out
a plan for an intensive campaign dur
ing which speakers are to visit these
affiliated organizations, talking on
the Importance and the consequences
of the proposed registration and inn
migration bills now pending in con-
gress.
4 resolution, which vigorously pro-
tests the passage Of these bills, has
been drawn up and will be presented
at these organizations and efforts
will be made to have It adopted and
sent to all the congressman from IL
linoiS, chairmen of the committee of
naturalization and immigration of the
Y. 5. Senate and House of Represen-
tatives and to the Scandinavian press.
A mass meeting with Senator
Shipstead is planned for some time
in March. A council has been or
gained in Rockford, ILL.,, representing
l,20O workers and its third confer
ence will be held within a few weeks.
Plans are also under way to combine
the various scandinavian Councils
for the Protection Of Foreign Born
in America into Natioppl Scandi-
navian Council
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10
Garment Commissions
Chief Statistician to
Address Workers School

Morris Kolchin, chief statistician
Of the Governors Commission on the
Garment Industry, will speak at the
Workers School, 1903 East 14th Street,
this Friday night at p. M. His
lecture is one Of the series in Ameri-
can labor problems and his subject
is Unemployment Insurance Besides
being chief statistician of the famous
Governors Commission, Mr.. Kolchin
has long record of special research
work on unemployment insurance and
on various phases Of the garment in
dustry lie was formerly investiga-
tor for the impartial machinery OBJ
tanning in the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers organization, handling the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10
Workers Communist Party
Will Describe Stock
Exchange Animals at
Workers School, Sun.

Arnold Roller will lecture at the
Workers School Forum this Sunday
night February 49, on "The Work
ings of the Stock Exchange" He will
make an analysis of the Stock Elk
change as a medium for the expropri-
alton of the middle class and of the
lower middle class and. will describe
the mysterious procedures whereby
the bulls" and "bears" get the
"lambs" and are at times in turn
themselves eaten by the wolves of
Wall Street"
Active Syndicalist.
Roller, who today describes him
self as a "pro-Soviet syndiealist," has
a long record of activity in the syn
dicalist movement. He is the author
of "The General Strike and the Social
Revolution" 1.-THE History sof the
Spanish Labor Movement" "Direct
Action" and various other pamphlets
written from a syndicalist point of
view. He has not only studied the
Stock Exchange theoretically, but has
u4HlSeI1 udOUleU III SGoChS III q Sulai
way and therefore has firstshand ex-
perience as a rather unusually sue
cessful "lamb."
POstpones Fischer.
The lecture by Louis Fischer,
originally announced for next Sunday
night, is postponed to March 10.
On the following Sunday, February
20, M. J. Olgin will speak on "Con-
temporary Russian Literature"
The Workers School Forum takes
place every Sunday at p. M. at the
headquarters of the school, 108 East
IA Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10
By /. AMTER.


Pacifists are loud in their attacks
on war. "War must not come, but
should it come, all good men must be
against it" They protest against
Kellogg's attacks on Mexico on the
grounds of its being bolshevistic;
they decry the schemes Of American
diplomacy" on the grounds that they
are serving only the bankers Of
Wall Street. (using almost commun-
ist terminology); they demand that
China be given full sovereignty over
the country-and yet do not see thar
we are close to another gigantic con
tlict.
France is Incorporating flame
throwing squads in every battalion Of
the army and does so on the specious
plea that all the other nations are
doing so, and that therefore she must
do so ''for purely defensive reasons"
France declares that the United
States is the instigator of the whole
nefarious plan, for the U. S. refuses
to be part of the general disarma-
lent scheme. There is no more rea-
sons to believe the French than the
American government-we cannot be-
h@e any of them, for they all are
in the midst of the most tremendous
war preparations that the world has
even seen.
Mr.. Coolidge pretends to be paei-
fist, by refusing to consent to the
building of three fast cruisers. Con-
gress votes them over his head and
wonders what he will do with the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10
CD DRAMA CD
A SUPERB PERFORMANCE
Habima Players Present
''The GOlem" at the Irv-
ing Place Theatre

A superb performance of "The
IAGolem" by l.. Levick, was given by
the Moscow Theatre Habima. 1t is one
of the few productions now available
in theatrical New York that is totally
devoid of the merest vestige Of cheap
ness, sentimentality and pathos-the
three inseparable vignettes that both
decorate and vitiate the dramatic
stream that muddies Broadway. The
Moscow Hebrews grace this mystical
drama with noble grandeur and an
intensity that is at once so passionate
and inspiring that the onlooker and
auditor is transported from the seat
of his temporal cares and worries
to the fantastic Golemic region of
terror and catastrophe.
1t is a realm where every shaft
Of ever-changing light and color has
a meaning Of its own. 1t is a simple
platform rendered significant by the
complex and intriguing arrangement
Of geometric lines. 1t is stage where
the variation of every sound, the
design of every gesture and the
sculpture of every posture is studi-
ously conceived and fundamentally
correlated. When into this heaving
sea of eXpertly orchestrated sound,
line and color is poured the elixer
of noble, dignified and passionate
inspiration-we get performance
Of the Habima.
There are supreme moments, lyric
ally. The marching forth of the
Messiah" and Elijah into the
desert, was the most glorious ex-
preston of poetic hopelessness and
despair. The trudging on of the
seemingly endless, semi-circular line
Of homeless Jews, who were exiled
by the craftily cruel Tadeush, re-
veals a pathos and wretchedness
rendered sufferable only by an Her
culean patience. The moulding of
the Golem into unsolicited life, as
well as his involuntary surcease
were accomplished by minimum of
outward action and with a maximum
Of inner experience.
Ihere are supreme hlStrlonlc In
stances. A. Meskins Golem is I'M
questionably inimitable. That mon
strous faulty, that sinister vacuity
of expression, that savage hopeless
ness where he is forsaken, that dog
like obedience to his master, that in
fantile tendency to play with fire,
that yoracious appetite, the clumsy
utilization of his body-there are ac-
complishments to be seen but once
in a decade. B. Tchemerinsky is
completely immersed in the obstin-
acy, fanaticism, contemplativeness
and diplomacy of the well-meaning
Maharl. And Ben Arts, lunatic, per-
fectly combines the madness Of
disordered brain and the amorphous
findings of keen intuition into
credibly tragic whole.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10

plunging the IT, S. into a new war,
but they are not keeping the armies
Of volunteers from being recruited,
Lor the armies being fitted out with
chemicals, gases and flame throwers.
an times Of peace prepare for
war" They are preparing all right,
for war is in the offing. Up till a
short time ago, war preparations
were denied by the several nations.
They gave figures, etc, to prove that
their armies were smaller, and their
war budgets smaller. But now on
the grounds that they are all doing
it, the imperialist powers admit that
everything is being made ready.
America will be deeply involved in
this war-so too will England. a
few days ago the papers announced
that the Kuo Min Tang was entering
into touch with the government of
Afghanistan in order to come to
terms with that country. AfghaRistan
is the route from China to India. AS
the Cantonese army proceeds victor
iously northward, the flames of re-
volt will spread through Afghanistan
to India. That will be a double
threat to England. AS America gets
more deeply involved in China, the
spirit of revolt against American inn
perialism will spread in the semi-de-
tendencies of Mexico, Haiti, Cuba,
San Domingo, ETC., and will be aided
by South America. Already a revolt
is spreading in the Philippines.
How far are we from war? Would
the question not be more fitting,
"how near are we to WARP"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10

ming FEBRUARY Il.
The workers Of New York City and
vicinity have learned much during the
past year about the nature of the gov
eminent. Courts, police, mayors, in
functions, etc, are concrete terms the
meaning of which they have learned
from hard experience. The course in
"Civics and Government" aims to
analyze government and law in New
York and the United States especially
in their relation to labor.
Analyze Law.
The origin of the constitution, the
provisions of the constitutions, pow
ers of the courts and the president,
the so-called rights of citizens, the
position and status of aliens, develop
ment of bureaucracy and govern
mental power, labor and the law, i'm
migration laws and deportation, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10
Hungarian Worker
Sport Club Holds Affair
In Cleveland, Feb. 20

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 9.-There
will be an entertainment given by the
Hungarian Workers Sport Club, Sun
day, Feb. 20, in the evening. There
will be gypsy orchestra, and Hun
garian-American dancing, also sing
ing and dramatics. This will be at
the Hungarian Workers Home, 4309
Lorain Ave. No admission is charged,
but hat checks are for sale at NOM
inal price.
The Hungarian Workers soccer
team is affiliated with the Red Sports
International.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10

question of civil liberties are but some
of the points that will be studied.
Plenty Experience.
Joseph Brodsky is we'll fitted to
give such course. Few attorneys in
this country have had the experience
he has had in the handling Of labor
cases, deportation cases and cases in
volving civil liberties.
Those wishing to become citizens,
those wishing to know the rights of
labor before the law, those interested
in such questions as immigration, de-
portation and civil liberties should
take this course. Registrations are
now being accepted for this course.
For catalog of all courses at the
Workers School, write to Bertram d.
Wolfe, director of the school, 108 East
IA ST., N. Y. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10
Insurgent Surrcnders.

MANILA, P. T., Feb. 9.--Deserted
by his followers and denounced by his
wife, Datu Tahil, leader Of the short
lived uprising in Sulu province
against the government, has surren-
dered to the constabulary it was re-
ported here today.