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remote that the issue of a preliminary
permit for the project as presented
could lead to no useful result.
THE Commissioners, therefore. are
OF the opinion that it would be in.
advisable to grant to the Potomac
River Corporation preliminary per.
NIT for the development of the Poto.
mac River for water power, in ac-
cordance with their application now
before you for consideration and re-.
port"
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pEK|NG IS PLACED
UNDER ARMY RULE
Shansi Planes Reported to
Have Bombed Rail Bridges
Near Capital.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC, October IS (Sundayl.-Mar.
tial law has been proclaimed in Pc
king, says the Rengo News Agency.
Airplanes of the Shansi forces are re-
ported to have destroyed railway
bridges IS miles south of the Chinese
capital
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Sanders Leaves on Vacation.

Everett Sanders, secretary to Presi.
dent Coolidge. left Washington yester-
day for nearbytresort for his regular
vacation Of two weeks.
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NAVY HOLDS ROCKNE'S
TEAM FOR 2 QUARTERS,
BUT LOSES, 19 TO 6

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HEALTH WILL NOT
BAR Mr.. COOLIDGE
IF HE is DRAFTED

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WALTER JOHNSON
QUITS NATS-HOLDS
EFFICIENCY AT END

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Probable Disadvantages Cited.
For these reasons, the Commission
ers Of the District of Columbia are of
the opinion that the proposed hydro
electric development by the Potomac
River Corporation would not be of ma
ferial benefit TO the District Of Co
Iumbia and that there are good
grounds for believing that its dis
advantages would outweigh any ad-
vantages that might be realized 1t
:s recognized that only a preliminary
permit, and not a license, is now in
question, and that the suiiiciency Of
The provisions 10 be made for safe
guarding the interests Of the Dis
trict and for adjusting the develop
Inent TO conform TO the essentials Of
he plans Of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission and
The preponderance of benefits or in.
Juries cannot be determined with Ger.
tainty at this stage Of the proceedings.
still. II is apparent, even now, that
the essential features of the hydro
electric development proposed must
conflict with the full development of
the park plan; and the Commission
ers feel that The probability of the ap-
piicant's being able to present a final
Plan that would be acceptable is 50
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
1O-Hour Day, No Mini
mum Wage Law in N. j.;
Babies Born in Mills

NEWARK, N. j., (FP) Nov. 3d.
New jerseys place in the scale of
labor legislation and her rank indus
trially are contrasted with the other
United States by the Consumers
League, which says that the state is
third in manufacturing on basis of
ratio of industrial production to
area"
But Jersey has no minimum wage
law, no legal provision for meals or
for rest period, and does not enforce
her no-night-work-fo r-women law.
The working day is 10 hours and the
work week sd hours. Jersey has no
regulations regarding the employ
ment of women before and after child
birth. Qn the Passaic wool textile
mills women workers have actually
given birth to their babies while on
the job, the 1926 strike disclosed.)
Flushing Jerseys labor legislation
up to the standard of more progress
sive states is the program of the Con
sumers' League. Fighting the Ma
tional Manufacturers Assn. pro-
posals on child labor is part of the
schedule and further efforts to secure
the enforcement of the night work
! law
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Total

Does this table confirm the con-
tentions of the Opposition concern
ing the distribution of the national
income in favor of the propertied
classes? On the contrary. The table
shows the direct opposite. We can
note without any difficulty that the
income of only two groups increased
in the general income of the country:
1.-Socialized economy, and g.
people working for wages. On the
other hand the share of the bour-
geoisie, the peasantry and craftsmen
decreases.
The table clearly indicates that the
relative strength of the proletariat in
the economics of the country is in
creasing along two directions: on the
one hand the proletariat builds and
strengthens the socialized economic
elements and thus guarantees the
further raising of it's relative
strength and on the other hand it
increases its standard of living and
improves it's material welfare.
1t is clear from this, by the way,
that another contention of the Oppo-
sition, namely, that the accumulation
of the elements of socialist economy
proceeds exclusively at the expense
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lowing the fire in the garment fac
tory is a fine piece of mass acting.
The wrath of the rabbi against the
strikers and the defiance of the work.
ers is calculated to make a working
class audience hiss and applaud,
Nevertheless one cannot help feeling
little sympathy for rabbi who sees
his old fashioned Jehovah biting the
dust before the more efficient god
of Tammany Hall and the modern
machine, who sees his lazy "Shameth"
secure control of his synagogue and
finally kick him out for non-payment
of rent, compelling him to make for
the Bronx, perhaps to beg for shelter
in the cooperative apartmeNts owned
and controlled by atheist headers of
the Freiheit. 1t is a sad fate.
John Dos Passos shares honors with
the author in the marvellous ingen-
iousness he displayed in designing the
setting. He manages to cram into
three levels of this wee stage, the
following sets: the back room of a
saloon, a candy store, pawn shop, a
brothel, synagogue, factory, ten
ement house apartment and a garment
factory office.
The labor angle in the play suffer-
ed somewhat because of the authors
failure to put hat on his labor lead
er and his tendency to make his work
ing girls fall into poetry. Particu-
larly deserving of the hammer is this
love-lorn fellows observation to Gitel
that her hands were like drumsticks
beating on the heart of the world.
Fiddlesticks! A labor organizer with
out a hat could not organize a shoe
black west of Seventh Avenue and
one whose poetic soul Graves for any,
thing less understandable than "The
Shooting of Dan McGrew" might as
well keep away from the waterfront.
We advise Mr.. Basshe to put a hat on
his little hero.
The play covers multitude of sins
and should be seen, as we'll as read
about.
Deserving of commentator for act
ing and eye-appeal are Cecile Litter
as the mother of an immigrant FAM
lily and Sylvia Feningston as her
daughter Gitel; Lawrence Bolton as
the rabbi; the two pleasant rogues-
the best of the lot; Herbert 7. Berg
man as Yoshke the gangster, and
Herman Bandes as the "Shameth."
II. J. OFF.
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countries, the old story books were
mostly built on folklore and doings
of fairies, princes and knights. A
great deal of it is laughably false
and silly. The new literature is
grounded in reality and will stand the
test of science as well as art.
Regular elementary education is
called social education and is carried
n in the labor school, First course,
from to IL. Higher course, from
2 to Is or II. The method is with
,ut books. The children are expected
0 study their homes, the street they
We on, the village, the government
md its sanitation. They must OBJ
arve and compare.
Got the Village Excited.
In one village the older children
aade sanitary inspection of the
village. 1t caused much comment and
some discomfort, because some Of the
villagers were emptying refuse into a
stream where others had to wash
their clothes.
In some schools the children begin
by collecting leaves, seeds and other
products, and name them at school.
Or they list everything they see on
their street and make a class poster
of the street.
The older children work in class
rooms on the laboratory plan. The
students sit around tables, or 6 at
table. The teacher does not occu-
Ply commanding position, but works
with the children at one of the tables.
Those in one classroom work on one
problem at time.
To Improve NeighbOrhoOds.
The first topic taken up relates to
the homes and families of the chill
dren and ts relation between their
family and other families in the
neighborhood Suggestions are made
for recognizing the life of the neigh
borhood on more workable basis.
Second year students take up "Life
in the City,"
Third year, the country or district
Fourth year, the province.
Fifth year, the Soviet Union.
Then follows a study of the COM
mercial and economic relations of the
chief countries of the world.
The administration and discipline
in all schools is thru committees OF
students. The highest committee con
sists of the. principal, assistant, &
representative from the janitors anc
the president of the student commit
tees. himself student.
The Professional Schools.
Next above the labor schools is The
professional schools.
l. City schools to study commerce
and government.
2. Factory schools to train appren
tees.
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The Distribution of the National
Income and the Trotskyist
Opposition

general income of the country has
declined, whereas that of the other
classes has increased. This is. the
most important fact to be considered
in judging the present situation"
That is how the Trotskyists esti-
mate the results of our work towards
the socialist transformation of our
society.
Income of Workers Increases.
l have before me copy of the
Control Figures" of the State Plan
ming Commission of the U S S R
for 1928. This voluminous and
composite book can be properly ap-
preciated only after considerable
preparatory work. 1t is not my OBJ
ject to deal with that now. What
l want to call the readers attention
to in my article is that section of
the book which deals with the dis
tribution of the national income. The
main figures of that section may be
reduced to the following table which
we present owing to the lack of
space in the form of relative figures:
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3. Peasant schools to study agri-
culture.
All are given much practical work.
Faculty and students work together,
with the laboratory method.
Learn Art of Revolution.
In the higher technical schools, lee
turing has been abandoned. Students
are not examined, but are judged on
what they accomplish from day to
day.
The universities are specialized
technical schools, for studying GER
tain problems. They do not maintain
large equipment of their own. Stu
dents of electricity use some we'll
equipped electrical plants Students
of hydraulics use some hydraulic
plant, mining engineers study in the
mines, etc.
In Moscow is located the University
of Eastern Culture, under the Com
munist Executive Committee. Stu
dents here become skilled Leninists.
The very highest places of learning
are the Institutes for technical train
ing of Soviet leaders.
For example:
l. The Chemico-Pharmaceutical In
stitute.
2. Institute of Sanitation and Hy-
giene.
5. Central Aero Hydrodynamic In
stitute.
There are many others.
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100. 100. 100.

OF the proletariat, is unfounded. If
this was so the share of the pro-
letariat in the national income would
be declining and at a more rapid
rate than that of the other groups
of the population. The growing
share of the proletariat in the gen
eral income of the country refuses
this absolutely unfounded contention.
The Opposition Uses its Imagination.
On what basis does the Opposition
conclude that the share of the pro-
letariat in the national income of
the country is declining. Then
platform" presents certain figures.
1t says: The increased earnings per
capita in 1926 as compared with 1925
We're, according to some figures, 10
per cent for the peasants, &c per cent
for the workers and 46 per cent for
tradesmen and manufacturers"
We do not know by whom, when
and how these figures were concocted
The figures of the State Planning
Commission give us an entirely diff
ferent picture. If we express the in
come of the different groups of the
population in percentages, as COM
pared with the preceding year, you
awill have the following picture:
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Boston Young Workers
Start Training Course
Dec. 4; Study of Task

BOSTON, Mass, Nov. 3n-Tbo
Young Workers League training
course on the theory and practice If
the Communist movement opens IN
Sunday, Dec. 4, 10 a. M, at 62 Cham
bers st, Boston.
The course will be given by Com
rade Nat Kay and is divided into
three main parts: ''0
!. Conditions of the working class
under capitalism.
2. Conditions of the working youth
under capitalism.
3. Tasks of the Young Workers
League.
All new members must attend this
course. All others are invited to at
tend.
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Income of the Population and of Soaized the in
Percentage Compared with the Preceding Year
Total

SOIl pdISO Will JJZO-ZOJ lI6 year
1862 shows an increase of 70 per
cent for the peasantry, 18.1 per cent
for the workers, and a decrease of
OIL per cent for the bourgeoisie.
= Where do the figures on the increase
of 10 per cent, 26 per cent. and Is
per cent come from? This remains
a secret of the authors of the Oppo-
sition platform.
This group Of workers embraces
all those who work for wages includ-
ing. office workers of government and
commercial enterprises, domestic
servants, etc, not including agricul-
tural laborers. The corresponding
figures for industrial workers includ-
ing transportation We're: 1917, 1877.
1873. This includes only wages, leav-
ing out Of calculation extra earnings
and social insurance.
THE corresponding figures for in
dustrial workers, builders. and trans
port workers are as follows: 1851
and 1852 wages only.
(Note: The second and CONCLUDING
article on this subject will be nub.
Hshed IN tomorrow's paper).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
BY A. KON.

The Income of the Population Economy
Percentage of the National Income.
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that ever appeared outside of an o.
Henry yarn, peddled his wares in a
neighborhood whose inhabitants SEEM
ed to be engaged in the business of
selling things to each other much like
the Greek restaurant keepers on Blue
Island Avenue, Chicago. The thing
looked real.
"The Centuries" pleased me might
lily and no matter what capitalist
critics may say about it, a cynical
first-night audience that included
Otto Kahn, the white-moustached an
gel of many flop, laughed occasion
ally and applauded vigorously at the
end. Indeed unless l miss my guess
this play should survive many snow
storms and should hang up the scalps
of thousands of laughs and sobs in its
wigwam before it's corpse is carried
to the cemetery.
From somewhere in Russia when
pogroms were in flower, Jewish fam
lily arrives in the new land of prom
Use only to find nothing much of
what they expected, but plenty of
promise. There was little of the an
gelic about this family, with the ex-
ception of the daughter Gitel, pretty
girl played without effort and with
success by Sylvia Feningston. This
family runs into human environ
ment, as devoid of prosaic virtue as
a Dostoievsky novel.
Naturally there was a rabbi in the
immigrant group. Indeed no we'll
regulated orthodox Jewish circle
seems to be complete without one.
And what happens to this group in
the not tender environs of Hester
Street, from the rabbi to the youngest
member of it gives picture of the
| life of an emigrant family that keeps
an audience in the most uncomfort-
able collection of chairs ever placed on
mountain slope, until the final cur
tain goes down.
There is humor, pathos, tragedy and
comedy in the play. The business of
H!dhlHS d living SlIlheS OIle DIS dppotli-
ing. as appalling it is, even under the
NEST favorable circumstances present
ed by this robber system of ours Dog
eats dog and both get eaten by other
dogs. There are the gangsters who
prey on the unarmed only later on to
get preyed on by bigger and better
gangsters. They work with the police
and the politicians. They participate
on both sides of labor dispute and
gyp both sides. When their useful
ness is at an end they get bumped
off. This is the soEdid truth.
Nothing but promise in this land
of promise for the many, but "the
Shameth" of a synagogue, and the
LATEST member of the immigrant
group, gets prosperous and becomes
boss of his own pawnshop, tho he
has spent his life eating of every one
else's plate and Stunned honest labor
as would the curse of an orthodox
rabbi, in his lean and hungry days.
There are some intense dramatic
moments in the play. The scene fol-
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THE BANSHEE" OPENS AT
DALY'S TONIGHT.
''THE

Days Theatre will reopen this
evening with new play, ''The Ban
shee" which deals with the age Old
folklore of the Irish. Among the
cast of players are: Marion Kerby,
Barry Maccollum, Joseph Brennan,
Herbert Ransom, Richard Whorf,
Kitty Collins and Edward Favor. w.
I. Hetenstall and Ralph Goldman are
the authors.
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directors m a n =
aged to crowd the
entire population
of Hester and
Rivington Streets
on to the tiny
stage, and shiver
my in,bers, if I
did not grope in
my pockets for a
coin to purchase
a b a d | y-needed
necktie when one
of the most de-
lightful no q u e S
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
Education in the Soviet Union
By Chicago School Teacher.


NO other aspect of the Russian revo-
~ luton is of more interest to Amer
lean school teachers than the educa-
tional work that is conducted in the
Soviet Union. The children of today
will be the citizens and leaders Of
the workers republic tomorrow. And
the extensive educational expert
ments that are going on in the U. S,
S. r. under the guidance of the work
ers and peasants is one of the surest
signs that the revolution has been
true to itself, to the hopes of the
workers of all lands and to the thou
sands who gave their lives for it.
For the Rich Only.
There are centers for educational
experiments in other countries, US
ually in private schools where only
the children of the rich can go. There
is such school in Chicago, the Fran
els Parker, near Lincoln Park. The
one best known nationally is con-
Quoted in Alabama by Marietta John
son, on spacious grounds-with all
facilities for nature and outdoor
work She travels occasionally and
gives lectures on her methods.
The Revolution of 1917 in Russia
tore the old social system up by the
roots and the educators had fret
field in which to solve the education
al problem. The new system is basec
thruout on the principle of self-in.
tiative and activity.
The educational field in the Sovic
Union is very broad. 1t includes:
l. The regular Department of Edo
cation.
g. Village reading rooms ar.
libraries.
8. Trade union clubs, classes ara
libraries.
a. Glasses for adults to liquidate
illiteracy and give political education
5. The army is a center for edu-
cation.
6. The Soviet press, books and
magazines.
7. Departments of Health, Agri-
culture, etc.
Legacy of Illiteracy.
The car bequeathed to Russia a
terrible inheritance of illiteracy. OF
| Russian recruits for the army, 81 per
cent were illiterate, in other coun-
tries only to per cent.
With the revolution educational
enthusiasm swept across Russia
Great plans were made but could not
be carried out until 1921 when the
corner was turned economically.
Day Nurseries In Factories.
Many of the factories in Russia are
now operating day nurseries and kin
dergartens. The object is to supply
normal play-space, a good diet, rest
association with other children anG
freedom for the mothers. One of the
teachers in Chicago is devoting hen
time to workers nurseries and is try
ing to get the support of trade unions
Those who attended The DAILY
WORKER bazaar in Chicago saw
her play-room for children in opera
ton there. The "11ids" were certainly
enjoying themselves.
There is at present one day nur.
sery in the public schools of Chicago
located in the Lincoln School on the
North Side
Ditch the Fairies.
A new literature is being writer
for children in Russia. AS IN othel
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LONDON FLOOD

LONDON, Nov. 30. London's
Northern suburbs were experiencing
flood conditions today when rivers
overflowed their banks after "a hours
continued rain.
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" DRAMA -
New PlayWrights Score a Hit
En- 10 Basshes "The Centuries" Brings Laughs
and SObS
and Sobs

THERE were. times on Tuesday
night at the little theatre in
Cherry Lane, vulgarized into Com
merce Street, when it seemed as if the
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editors Note: The Opposition
In the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union has been fabricating
irresponsible rumOrs and charges
about the alleged degeneration
of the Party and the Soviet Gov
eminent. In this article, A KOn,
who works in the Communist
Academy, refutes one of their
charges by analyzing the actual
statistics.)
BY A. KON.
DEAL wages in 1927 are at best
Al on the same level as they were
in the fall of 1925. At the same
time, the country has undoubtedly
become richer, the general national
income has increased, the upper lay
ers in the villages have enlarged
their reserves very rapidly, the &C
emulation of private capital, and
the trade and Spectator has ire
mendously increased. 1t is clear that
the share of the working class in the
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