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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-19
Art for the Workers

Grand Opera, the Little (dramatic)
Theatre, and others, have the we'll
earned reputation Of being the best in
the world. The November Revolution
has given chance to number OF
new revolutionary theatres: the
Meyerhold theatre, the theatre Of the
Moscow Gubernia Trade Union Coun-'
Gil, the theatres of Revolu-
ton, Of Satire, of the "Blue Overalls"
and many provincial theatres. Many
theatres including the Academic
(State) theatres produce their best
plays frequently for working class
audiences only whose visits to the
theatre are properly organized 1all the
workers of factory or members of
trade union come to the theatre).
A veering to the Left is noticeable
in the repertories Of all theatres in
Guiding those of the old culture; the
requirements of the toiling masses
are taken into consideration. AS an
example of this We would like to
quote such plays as "Liubox Yaro-
vaya" in the Little Theatre and the
ballet Red Poppy" in the Grand
Theatre, etc. Prior to its first Of
fetal performance, "Red Poppy" was
put on the stage for the workers
correspondents and the Peoples Ar
tiste" Geltzer, who plays the heroine
in this ballet introduced changes into
her role in accordance with the hints
of the workers correspondents.
Where apart from Russia is such
collaboration between prominent ac-
tors and working people possible?
Art has ceased to cater for the
gourmand tastes of the select few.
It caters now for the workers. First
of all theatres now are less expensive.
Up to 40 per cent Of the total number
of theatre tickets are distributed at
reduced prices through factory and
employee committees. Secondly,
scenic art has assumed mass char
acter, it has established itself in
clubs (there is hardly any club with
out q stage, without g dramatic
circle) and on ordinary platforms. The
best platform theatre created by the
working youth is the Moscow blue
Overall" which has many in1itators
in the provinces.
Art in all its forms is becoming
more accessible to workers. This ap-
plies particularly to the cinema
"The most important Of all arts" to
quote Lenin.
Film production in the U.S.S.R.
which has given to the world such
chefs d'oevre as ''The Armoured
Cruiser Potemkin,' Mother" and
others, is growing from year to year.
For instance in 1925 80 artistic films
were produced in the U. S. S. R.,
whereas in 1926-27 the number of
such films was 1875, i.e., four times
as many.
The cinema which is throughout
the world a powerful instrument for
! the dissemination of bourgeois and
petty bourgeois morality and an in
strument of the class policy of the
propertied classes, produces in the U.
S. S. R. vivid pictures of the civil war
and Soviet construction highly arts
tic in form and neutrality-suspicious.
dist in substance.
Art is "permeating" gradually the
life and habits Of the workers, it is
becoming one Of the essentials Of the
new social order, the new life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-19
Eighty YearOld Woman Peddler Tells Court
Story of SO Years of Struggle in America

An S0-year old woman, who has
managed to make a living by hard
abor for II children and sick hus-
oand, for SO years, was summoned
to the Tombs Court charged with a
minor violation of the Health De-
partment ordinance by policeman
in her district.
Mrs. Bessie Less has been selling
pretzels and candy in Battery Place
but to Patrolman David ]. Donnelly
it appeared that she was not keeping
her wares properly covered. She was
forced to lose days profits going to
court.
Mrs. Less told the magistrate the
story Of her long exploitation as an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-19
BOOKS RECEIVED: REVIEWED LATER

Benito Mussolini. By Jean Bordeux Geo. H.
Doran Co.
village Life Under the Soviets By Karl Borders.
Vanguard Press.
The Right To Be Happy. BY Mrs Bertrand Rms
sell. Harper & Bros
Co. -
Cities and Men. By Ludwig Lewisohn Harper a
Bros.
Escape by John Galsworthy. Chas. Scribners
Sons.
The Problem of Lay-Analysis. BY Sigmund Freud
Brentano.
The Outline of Mans knowledge Bv CIare,t
Wood. Lewis Copeland Co.
fostponlng Strikes: study of the Canadian In
1ustrlal disputes Act. By Ben M. Seekman.
Russell Sage Foundation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-19

immigrant worker, forced by circum-
stances to earn living for her hus-
band and large family.
For six years she washed window,
but broke down under the work anc
she became peddler. Several hun.
dred dollars saved toward her old age
were lost in bank failure. Her hus.
band and ten of her children are now
dead. The one remaining child is
patient in the State Hospital or
Wards Island.
Magistrate Simpson discharged he,
and q charitable donation of SIS was
given her. She was then turned on,
Of the court room to resume her un.
certain trade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-19

Z LITERATURE, the theatre, the cln-
Il ema, painting,-all the arts which
in capitalist society bear the Gains
mark of bourgeois theology are being
emancipated by the November Revo-
luton and transformed from instru-
ments for lulling to sleep the work
ers by '1ovely dreams" into power
full weapon of class struggle and art
education of the workers. Such a
transformation does not of course
happen in a day or even year, it
happens gradually as the proletariat
itself begins to produce its own
writers, artists, actors, etc.
In the first years after the revolu
ton workers who began to build up
their life anew could not create an
art as beautiful in form as the old
which they inherited from the past.
Proletarian literature is bound to be
in the beginning literature Of
manifestoes, programmes and ap-
peals," says critic of modern litera-
ture. But these juvenile efforts of
proletarian poetry were followed by
other efforts which were a testimony
Of it's growing maturity. Maybe that
even now the verse and prose of pro-
letarian writer's lacks the purely out
ward qualities which distinguish the
representatives of the preceding
literature, but to make up for this
they have an unlimited influence on
the working class because of the
sincerity of their feelings, their.
thorough knowledge of workers
psychology and the Communist down
Brightness in everything they have to
say.
Side by side with proletarian
writer's we have writer's known by the
name of Companions VINO have ac-
cepted the revolution and are placing
their talent at its disposal, although
not without vacillations and errors.
Companions" are generally called
writers who have not joined any of
the proletarian literary organizations,
but who are in some way or other
November Revolution and are its
chroniclers.
Peasant writer's coordinated in a
special organization (Union of Pea
SAINT Writers) and several other Left
groupings are allies of the prole-
tartan writer's.
In its general character contem-
porary Russian literature reflects the
ordinary everyday constructive work,
the constructive pathos of our days
and also all that we lived through in
the years Of civil war.
A very original mass proletarian
literary organization is the l-Union
Association of Proletarian Writers
(VAPP) which has in it's ranks over
5000 working class writer's through
out the U.S.S.R. The VAPP and the
Writers Union Gan organization of
companions) have established the
Federation Of Soviet Writers which
eoordinates almost all the writers of
the U.S.SR.
Tho literature of the Soviet Union
shows what talent is to be found
&mong the masses and how the Revo-
tuition has released this talent from
its bonds.
The state theatres of the U.S.S.R.,
such as the Moscow Art theatre, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-19

GENERAL volumes in the Vanguard Studies of Soviet
Russia have already appeared The Economic Or
ganzatiOn of the Soviet Union, by Scott Nearing
Jack Hardy is careful study of the economic back
ground inherited from the cars regime the economic
functions and relationships in the Soviet Union and the
central economic plan for agriculture industry internal
and foreign trade finance, labor and the cooperative
movement
In the series is also book by Robert W. Dunn entitled
Soviet Trade Unions This will be description of the
trade union mechanism in the U. S. S. R. what it has
the government
Art and Culture in Soviet Russia is being edited by
Joseph Freeman in cooperation with Ernestne Evans
Louis Lozowick, Babette Deutsch and Lee Smonson
ms volume will be compilation of studies of various
aspects of art and culture in the Soviet Union literature
poetry, painting, the theatre, the movies
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-19

Ludow's Easter Sunday yells aloud
Christ that day sticking in field
We'll show that lousy goddam Poack crowd"
funny hear how the and children squeaed
Christ the prince of scarecrow sticking in a field
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-19

-
''''''z ~
S i r / K T. !!
By A. B. MAGn4
(To the Heroic Colorado Coal Mners.)
The skeletons of Ludloac are marching again,
Their bright keen bones glitter in the
Through Colorado the bong tread
LOT every staring skeleton
Joins Oth the voice of LtdopUs passionate dead,
Calling to Ludlo,0's hvimg men
To stand up in darkness and remember their bitter romg
And learn bitterly to be strong
Gunner, scabs and state police
(The law, the law doth shelter the weak
We are brothers, Christ is the prince of peace
Miners turn the other cheek
To the bullets kiss or the
Of the fist of gunner friendlness
We are brothers
Ludlow's Easter Sunday yells aloud
Christ that day sticking in field.
Wen show that lousy goddam Polack crowd!
1t funny hear how the and children squeaed
Christ the prince of sticking in field
Go back life
Crawl and lie down like used up thing.
hole waits to bury your whmper
moose to hang your rebellion
And for your hunger
There is your dirty clothed blood.
Do you want music?
Listen to the pounding in your brain.
\ Do you want love?
The rats faithful.
Go back 60 back life
The almighty Rockefellers own you here.
Imagine miners face:
4. Eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hair.
Imagine it laughing, eating, drinking, sleeping,
Showing joy, anger, pain, tenderness
Imagine it kissing other faces being kissed
| (Your face, my face)
Imagine it, damn you!
NIilka sablich of nneteen-y ear-od girl
Mlka Sabch talking to at meetings rousing, imporir
whipping to action.
Mlka Sabch leading picket lines shouting bright defy out
young bright defiant throat.
Mka Sabich beaten tramped bleeding lying in hospit
one side paralyzed
Mlka Sabch talking meetings rousing, imporir
whipping to action, leading picket ines-again again.
What do know of miner girls?
Movies of mining camp queens, dancehal dolles.
Stories. Dirty jokes. Bunk.
What do know of miners daughters miners sweethearts?
NIilka Sablich of nineteen yearod girl
VI
Stick this in your hats for lamp.
Ludows Easter Sunday yels aloud
The crying of and children hoves in tents MAXI
you strong
And the skeletons of Ludlow marching again,
The skeletons of Ludlow singing song
"Arse, we prisoners of starvation"
Louis Tikas. Mika Sablich
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-19

Imagine a miners face:
Eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hair.
Imagine it laughing, eating drinking, sleeping,
Showing joy, anger, pain, tenderness.
Imagine it kissing other faces, being kissed
(Your face, my face)
Imagine it, damn you!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-19

Go back, life.
Crawl and lie down like used up thing.
A hole waits to bury your whimper,
A moose to hang your rebellion,
And for your hunger
There is your own dirty clotted blood.
Do you want music?
Listen to the pounding in your brain.
Do you want love?
The rats are faithful.
Go back, go back, life:
The almighty Rockefellers own you here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-19
By A. B. MAGIL.

Gunner, scabs and state police.
(The law the law doth shelter the weak
We are brothers, Christ is the prince of peace.
Miners, turn the other cheek
To the bullets kiss or the caress
Of the fist of gunner friendiness.
We are brothers -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-19
Comment

SENDER GARLIN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-14

DIR. Cloyd Heck Marvin has been
elected by the trustees Of George
Washington University as the head
Of that institution to succeed DIR. VIII.
liam Mather Lewis, whose resignation
to become president Of Lafayette Col
lege becomes effective August 81. The
selection OF DR.. Marvin is the result
of a careful search of the field of
American educators available for duty
in Washington. He has gained prom
inence In his work as president of the
University of Arizona after a brilliant
career and scholarship in educational
service. He appears to possess high
qualification for this post. which he
will assume in September. and with
the unanimous action Of the trustees
of the university 1t Is assured that he
will have the full cooperation Of the
governing body of that institution.
George Washington University,
with it's large student body and its
exceptional educational facilities, is
in a position to advance to a high
rank among American institutions OF
learning. Its lack of an adequate
financial endowment proportionate to
it's scope Of work has heretofore handi-
capped it. 1t is now however, devel-
oping a physical plant that when LON
pleted will enable it to fulfill its func-
tiOns. 1t meets higher percentage
OF its expenses of maintenance out of
tuition fees than any other American
educational institution. Its scholastic
rating is high. Its graduates are rec
ognized as highly qualified in their
specialties and their general compe-
tence for the work for which they
are trained.
DIR. Marvin has at George Washing
ton University an opportunity for a
great constructive work. building upon
the foundations of those who have pre-
ceded him in that office. The presi-
dency of DR.. Lewis was an era Of
advancement, and there is keen re-
greet that he found 1t necessary to
transfer his services to another field.
He will turn over George Washing
ton University to his successor in
splendid shape for a further develop.
ment in education.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-14

cisco to Toledo to Winnipeg, an enor-
nous triangle. Usually these fiends
confine themselves to a single local
ity. This man is thus far more dan
gerous because Of the difficulty of cor
nerinE him. Descriptions of him have
been secured from those who have
seen him leaving the houses in which
he has taken life. Descriptions of such
a nature are but slight clues on which
to work. He has the advantage of
the situation at present. But even
tually, If the law of chances works
out normally, he will be caught, and
when he is taken no consideration of
insanity should operate as bar to
his condemnation to death. Such
man should be slain as would be a
wild beast at large and preying upon
humanity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-14
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ton Yoors A~o ToJu..

President Wilson, in Flag day ad-
dress, declares Germany is seeking
deceitful peace, and wishes to close
its bargain before 1t Is too late. and
1t has little left to Offer" y" Liberty
loan oversubscribed by at least $780,
100000 with subscriptions from about
100000 persons. New York takes a
billion dollars. 80" Senator Reed of
Missouri makes violent three.hour at
tacl; upon Lever food bill, which he
says would give 'some Hoover" power
to dictate the menu of the whole Ma
ton. s"* Paris continues its great
welcome to Gen.. Pershing. No man
In present war has had such whole
hearted reception. $50 Generals staff
already at work. 80" Complete list
of Army environment locations an.
nounced. 80" Washington informed
that allies are to demand that Russia
state her intentions and future atti'
tude. 80" knights of Columbus ap.
propriate $1,000.000 for Army camp
recreation centers. go Present indi-
cations are that nearly three times the
expected number of @U.boat chasers
will be ready by August l.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-14
Mrs. McCormick's Campaign
ArOuses National Interest

! record are opposed to the kind of
manipulation in politics which pro-
duced Small. 1t means some one who
Is for Illinois and not merely for a
different set of politicians. Mrs. Mc.
Cormick may be that person, but il
is not necessarily included in being
the daughter of Mark Hanna. the
widow of a Senator or even the init.
mate of Alice Longworth."
THE kind of a campaign which
Mrs. Mccormick would carry on
would no doubt differ in many respects
from the ordinary nock-down-and-
drag-out affair where two old-time
male politicians are concerned" AYERS
the Bloomington Paragraph Qnde.
pendent), but the New York Evening
Post independently believes that ''if
Mrs. Mccormick decides to run against
Small, it will not be any sentimental
candidacy: 1t will be fight for good
government that will be we'll worth
watching" The Watertown Daily
Times independently adds that most
people In Illinois know that Gov.
Small ought to be beaten. No man
has been found who has been able to
do it and it might be worth while
trying a woman
Enumerating the features of her
personal career, the Waterloo Trib-
urie independently states that she lis
credited with having made Medill
Mccormick; that she may be given
| credit for being something of a poll
| tician"; that 'she has at least had
the experience" and that IF Mrs.
Mccormick has ambition to hold office,
| no better chance will come to her.;
but the Tribune adds: 'Ts Mrs. Nc.
| Cormick the person to beat Small
| Anybody ought to. But Small has a
following, such as it is. Is she rough.
and.ready enough? Does she come
| from the right strata of society?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-14
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

Q. Who designed the American
flag?-G. T. F.
A. A committee. composed of
George Washington, Robert Norris
and Col. George Ross, was instructed
by the Continental Congress to devise
and produce a flag. and the commit
tee, with the aid Mrs. Elizabeth
Ross, evolved the basic ideas of the
present flag of the United States. The
resolution of the Congress, approving
the flag, was adopted Saturday. June
IA, 1777.
Q. What kind of a flag was used
by the Revolutionary Army before the
Betsy Ross flag was adopted!-E'
A. f.
A. The Grand Union. or Cambridge.
flag was used from January 2, ITO.
until the first Stars and Stripes fioated
over Fort Schuyler at Rome, ". Y, on
August .. 1877. The grand Union
flag consisted of 10 stripes, alternate
red and white, with union containing
the crosses OF ST. George and st. An
drew on a blue field. Numerous colo
NAL flags were also used by the forces
under Washington prior to the appear
ance of what has ever since been the
flag of the United States.
@. Is it correct to speak of our flag
as the American fiag?-J. K.
A. In all its legislation dealing with
the subject Congress has referred 10
the national emblem as the flag OF the
United States. Speaking in a strict
legal sense, therefore. there Is no such
thing as the American nag.
O. When did England first salute
the American hag?-P. d. I.
A. The English first saluted the
Stars and Stripes on May 2, 179l.
when Capt. Isaac Coffin of the British
man war Alligator gave it Is guns
O. What American city was the
last to raise the American flag during
the Revolution?-G E. G.
A. New York was the last city to
salute the national cOlors. as the
British were in control Of that city
until November %, 1888. but at !
o'clock of that day the Americans took
possession and the Stars and Stripes
were hoisted over the city and duly
recognized and honored.
@. When were American flags first
made of American materiaIs?--T. A. NJ
A. 1t is said that the first American
| flag manufactured from American ma
terial was hoisted over the Capitol al
Washington on July "a, 1855. PreVi
ously the flags had been made OF Eng
| lish bunting or other foreign material
| @. How long have we been flying
the flag from the schoolhouses of ou1
country?-4L. L. A.
| A. The earliest recorded instance
of the natriotic custom of placing &
| flagpole on a schoolhouse and floating
/ the national colors during schoo
| hours is of flag-raising ceremony a
school in Colrain, Mass, in May
1912.
| @. Is there a law STIMULATING how
| the stars in the union of our fial
shall be arranged Wv. w.
/ A, The arrangement of the star!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-14
Bus Fares.

The Washington Rapid Transit Co.
has applied to the Public Utilities COM
mission for an increase in fare, citing
a loss OF $51 ,O61 in 1925 for motor bus
operation. The company asks fiat
ten-cent fare instead Of the rate OF
three tokens for a quarter. Traffic sig
nails and bad weather are said by the
company's officials to be responsible
for the loss during the past year.
While it is coming to be very gem
orally believed that eventually the
motor bus win replace the street car
almost entirely, it must be borne in
mind that the change Of mode of
transportation cannot be paid for ex-
clusively by the public. In other
words, the public will not pay higher
rate Of fare solely to ride on BUSES
unless these vehicles furnish a much
more comfortable and efficient service.
The fat ten.cent fare on busses here
in Washington will be fifty per cent
more than Is charged for similar trans.
portation on street cars, and before
the public can be convinced that sucl,
an overcharge is necessary service on
the buses must be brought to the
high state of perfection that clearly
demonstrates superiority over street
car transportation.
In 30 far as the electric traffic sig
nails cause delay and consequent loss
to the company, and the prevalence
of inclement weather, there appears
little chance that the signals will bt
changed on this account, or thai
weather control has reached the point
where 1t can be exercised to meet the