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The daily worker., 1929-07-26
International Red Day
and the Working Women

Dept. in the 1928 report. the
vicious theory of the A. F. of L., in
its collaboration with the bosses, is
that women in industry are not cr-
ganizable, that they are not a stable
element in industry, that large per-
centage of the women expect to be
married and thus supplied with all
the necessities of life.
According to government stats
tics, over two million wage earners!
are married and even the working
mems wives and mothers are feel
ing the brutal system of oppression.
They must struggle and attempt to
make the ever-shrinking pay en-
velope cover the high rents, the ris-
ing cost of food and they, too, feel
the burden of long periods of un-
employment, lockouts, etc.
Workers Are Taking the Offensive
The workers everywhere are be-
ginning to awaken to the growing
offensive of the bosses and steadily
the power and the willingness and
determination of resistance, of
counter offensive grows. The work
ers of the U. S. have just gone
through and are conducting at the
present time, intense fierce battles
Ito build new, militant, fighting
unions, to better their conditions. In
the South, an inspiring revolt has
broken out among one Of the most
exploited sections of the entire
American working class, the native
born white and black workers of
North and South Carolina, upon the
backs of whom the .reins and harness
of Northern industrialism were too
hastily, with too assured a crassness,
placed by the textile barons Of the
North. In all the struggles con-
Quoted unde rthe left-wing and CONF
munist leadership the women play
an outstanding role; the women
have shown how they can fight
shoulder to shoulder with the men
workers, and once awakened, are
most determined, inspiring fighters.
Soviet Union Threatened
The intensification of exploitation,
the introduction of all kinds of ra-
tionalization plans, speed-up, wage
cuts, smashing the union, all these
are part and parcel of hastened i'm
peralist war preparations. The
threatening war danger is becoming
more and more acute. The impera-
list powers, lille preparing to fight
each other, are preparing military
crusade against the Soviet Union,
the only country in the world where
the workers and peasants rule, the
only country in the world in which
women can stand upright, free from
the chains or exploitation, as work
ers and women, freed from sex
slavery.
ITO Be ConfiuuedI H
The daily worker., 1929-07-26

ultaneously with the organization of
Soviets. The old, revolutionary,
democratic forms of army organiza-
tion must be substituted by class
forms, dictated by the proletarian
revolution.
In the fight against imperialism,
for the carrying out of national
revolutionary military policy, it is
absolutely necessary to conduct sys-
tematic agitational and propagan-
dist work among the colonial armies.
Communists and national revolution
aries must therefore carefully study
the various types of colonial armies
and to devise effective methods for
working among the various types.
AS the case of China shows. work
in badly-disciplined and badly-paid
native mercenary troops frequently
has many chances of success.
In such cases, the partial demands
may be somewhat similar to those
enumerated above for imperialist
states; but here, too. careful study
must be made of the concrete cir
cumstances (class composition of the
army, morale of the troops, econo-
mic conditions, etc.. Special atten-
ton must be paid to the formuls-
tion of the demands of the native
troops, and to combating ill-treat,
ment of the native troops by the
white officers.
The daily worker., 1929-07-26
By OLGA GOLD.

On August 1st, under the banner
of the Communist International and
it's various sections, the class con-
scious workers, the world over will
not only voice their protest to the
imperialist war preparations but
will demonstrate their growing
power and determination to fight to
a victorious end.
On the occasion of this gigantic
review of the fighting forces OF the
proletariat for the defeat of the
oppressors, the women of the pro-
letariat, the women workers, must
take an active and energetic part.
Today with the growth of CAPT
talist naturalization and the install
| lation of more and more modern
machinery, the simplification of
technique of production replaces mil
lions of human beings, cuts them off
fresh from their means of livelihood
and swells the great army of the
unemployed. With the simplifica-
tion of the process of production, the
bosses are constantly seeking new
and rawer recruits. The women,
more than ever, are the chief VIC
tins of the ever-increasing exploit
tation.
Young Women in Industry
The percentage of women in the
many basic and war industries has
increased in the last few years, es-
pecially the young women.
The role of the young women
workers in the process of capitalist
naturalization and preparation for
imperialist war must not be under
estimated, for it is to force young,
inexperienced, unorganized women
to submit tamely to exploitation.
Women Bear Double Burden
Women have always been the
most brutally oppressed of all the
workers under capitalism. They bear
the double burden of oppression.
After nine to twelve hours of gruei-
ling toll in the factories, often
under intolerable conditions of
speed-up, they are forced to tend to
their wretched homes and large
families. The burden of motherhood
and of enforced motherhood, of the
enforced bearing of children to be
fed into the factories in times Of
peace and to serve as cannon fodder
on the fields of slaughter in times
of war; this burden must be borne
together with the perpetual whip
of increased speed-up, lowering of
wages, as well as the lengthening
of hours.
The intense exploitation of wo-
men workers. the long hours, the
nerve-racking speeding up, the
lengthening of hours, SO robs wo-
men OF their strength that they are
unable to live through the hard
strain Of childbirth. More women
die of childbirth in the U. S. than
in any other country.
A. +. of l.. Misleads the Women.
Today only one-quorter of a mil
lion or two per cent of eleven mil
lion working women, are organized,
THIS information was given by the
! Women's Bureau of Y. S. Labor
The daily worker., 1929-07-26
Consider Political Role

In order to determine the attitude
to be taken toward the military sys-
tenn in colonial and semi-colonial
countries, consideration must be
given to the political role being
played by the given country at the
given moment, in the decisive stages
of the international revolution, i. e.,
whether it is an ally or foe of the
Soviet Union, of the Chinese Revolu-
ton, etc. On the whole, the prole-
tariat, and the revolutionary masses
among the oppressed nations. must
demand the democratic system of
armaments in which all the toilers
are able to learn the use of arms,
which will improve the defense of
the country against imperialism, Sc
cure the influence of the workers
and peasants in the army, and facili-
tate the struggle for the hegemonv
Of the proletariat in the democratic
revolution.
Unlike the position in regard to
the imperialist states, the slogans
universal military service. the mill
tary training of the youth, demo-
cratic militia, national army, ETC..
must be included in the revolution
ary military program in colonial and
semi-colonial countries. In the pres
cnt historical epoch, however, the
tactics of the national revolutionary
movement must be. subordinated to
the interests of the. world proleta-
rian revolution. Revolutionaries
cannot advance such program in
oppressed countries which are them
selves oppre3sors end act as the vas
sails of the imperialists in a war
against proletarian, or national rev.
olutions. In such countries Com
lnunists must unfailingly combine
their propaganda in favor Of revolu-
tionary war for the defense Of other
revolutionary countries, and their
propaganda in favor Of revolu-
tionary military policy. with a de-
fcatist position in relation TO the
The daily worker., 1929-07-26
(To Be Continued)

The Gastonia Textile Workers
trial starts July &c! Twenty-three
workers face electrocution or
prison terms! Rally all forces to
save them. Defense and Relief
Week July 27-August 8! Sign
the Protest Roll! Ru funds to
International Labor Defense. so
East 1lth Street, New York.
The daily worker., 1929-07-26

One of the most serious mistakes
the Communist Parties have COM
mitted hitherto, is that they regard
ed the war question from the alb
stract, purely propagandist and agi-
rational point of view, and that they
did not devote sufficient attention to
the army, which is the decisive fac
tor of all wars. Unless the signifi-
canoe of the revolutionary policy in
the war question is explained to the
broad masses, and unless work is
carried on in the army, the strug-
Cle against imperialist war and at
tempts to prepare for revolutionary
wars will never reach beyond the
stage of theory.
For the most part, this mistake
is due to the bad legacy inherited
from the II International, which,
while never ceasing to declaim
against imperiaist wars, never car
ried on any work in the armies. In
deed, it described Karl Liebknecht
as an anarchist" because he de-
manded that such work be carried
on. Instead of carrying out a revo-
lutionary policy, and instead of
working in the armies, the II Inter
national advocated the abolition
of standing armies" and their sub
stitution by national militia" ." The
slogan: national militia" which
was suitable for the period in which
national States were struggling in
to existence in Europe, had some
revolutionary significance in con-
nection with the demand for the abo-
lition of standing armies, so long as
Tsarism and Absolutism represented
a menace to revolution Cup to the
end of the 18th century. But with
the growth of imperialism, this slo-
gan became inadequate and finally
became a chauvinistic slogan (Hynd-
man in 1922. The resuscitated II
international abandoned the demand
for a national militia" only in or
der to subordinate itself entirely to
the political interests of the bour-
geoisie in the various States. In
France, under the guise of support
ing the old slogan of national
militia" the II International is ad-
vocating an imperialst national
army; in Germany and in Great
Britain, on the preteXt of advocating
disarmament, it is supporting mer-
cenary volunteer armies. The prin-
ciple proclaimed by the II Interna-
tional of freedom for each nation
to select the form of military or
ganization it desires" is tantamount
to freedom to repeat the events of
August 4. Meanwhile, the Social
Democratic flunkeys of the bour-
geoisie are conducting a campaign
of slander against the Red Army
and the dictatorship of the proletar-
lat in the U. S. R. R. and are spread
ing legends about RED militarism."
The daily worker., 1929-07-26
Revolutionary Policy

As against this counter revolution
ary military policy which serves the
interests of the bourgeoisie, the
Communists advance revolutionary
military policy, which serves the in
terests of international proletarian
revolution. Of course, no hard and
fast rules can be laid down as to
the position to be adopted in regard
to armies in general. The proletariat
must determine its attitude towards
the army in accordance with the
class and the policy the particular
army serves. 1t is not the military
system, or the form of organization
of the army in any given State that
matters so much as the political role
that army plays, i. e., imperialistic,
nationalist or proletarian. The Com
munist Parties must follow the pre-
cepts of Marx and Engels who, in
the epoch of great national wars,
opposed the petty bourgeoisie demo-
cratic utopia of militia and advocat-
ed universal military service, the
characterization of existing armies,
and their conversion into revolution
ary armies. After the Paris Com
mune, Marx and Engels advocated
the destruction of the bourgeois
State that matters so much as, the
political role that army plays, of
standing bourgeois armies and their
substitution by the armed nation
these they regarded as the most i'm
portant lessons to be learned from
the Paris Commune from the stand
point of the proletarian revolution.
The II International distorted these
precepts, but Lenin restored and
developed them and drafted mill
tary program of the proletarian
revolution.
The Proletariat's Attitude Towards
Armies in Imperialist States.
In imperialist States the attitude
of the proletariat towards armies
is determined by the following:
No matter what their form of or
ganization may be, armies are a
constituent part of the bourgeois
State apparatus, which the proletar-
lat, in the course of the revolution,
must not democratize, but break
up.
In the light of this task, the or
ganizational difference between the
standing armies and militia, between
conscript armies and volunteer ar
mics, etc., disappears. The slogan:
mot a man, not penny for the
army" j. e., relentless struggle
agai ms t bourgeois militarism,
against its armies of whatever form,
voting against war budgets, ETC.,
holds good.
This attitude must be maintained
equally towards standing armies and
democratic militia, for both these
forms of military organization rep
resent the armed forces of the bour-
geoisie held against the proletariat
- Democratic partial demands,
which the proletariat must under no
circumstances abandon, assume an
altogether different character from
those advanced during democratic
revolutions; their purpose mu& be
The daily worker., 1929-07-26

belonging to the exploiting class
must not be permitted to serve in
the ranks.
c. The Proletariat's Attitude To-
ward Armies in Colonial and
Semi Colonial Countries.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-02

TIDAL WAVE LEAVES DISASTER IN ITS WAKE-The earthquake tidal wave winch swept over parts of New foundland last week took toll Of more than score of lives ard thousands of dollars in property tUpper right) This house IS the sole survivor amidst scenes of desolation ln Burln Harbor (Lower Ief) Fishermen S cottages were torn from thelr foundations and crashed 10 splinters tUppet rlghD Masts of schooners almost completely submerged and other wreckage give evidence of the interslty of the tidal wave
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ture maintain tempo and color which
show to disadvantage the later, fire.
quently slow-moving, unfolding Of the
tale. Given over mainly to lugubrious
picture of Magnolia and RavenaPs mis-
fortunes, eliminating in the gamblers
leaving his wife, the picture at this
point becomes almost supersaturated
with tears, having all too many audi
BILE sequences of various crying women,
plus the exaggerated pantomime and
speech of Ravenal, very drunk In the
accepted stage manner.
Pictorially, in its lavish and adroitly
planned background, "Show Boat. has
full road-show magnitude, indicating
where Mr.. Laemmle put so much of the
money spent on the film. The costumes,
the settings, faithful to the atmos-
phere of their various periods, were
splendidly contrived and furnished a
magnificent field for the action.
Laura La Plante, in the role of Mag
nolia, proved happily cast. Both her
voice and that of Joseph Schildkraut,
who played Ravenal, registered extreme
ly well, and their acting of the compile
mentary roles had good share of
dramatic strength. Economically they
were wholly satisfying. Contributions
in lesser parts from Emily Fitzroy as
the acid mother, Otis Harlan as Capt.
Hawks, Alma Rubens as Julie and Jane
La Verne as the child Magnolia and
Kim, were thoroughly adequate.
The audible prologue presented, in
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EVENING STAR wAsHNaToN G. TUESDAY ApRE o. 1920

Show Boat Mr.. Laemrnle was forced,
by the advent of the talkies, to bring
his picture technically up-to-date,
which he did by securing the Jerome
Kern melodies from Mr.. Ziegfeld and
adapting them to the cinema style of
the story. The film. thus, while pos
sessing ample integrity as photoplay,
with all the advantages which the me-
dunn allows, reveals clearly influences
from the stage version.
The story. briefly, is that of Magnolia,
daughter of a show boat captain, who
loved and married the river gambler,
Rayenal, suffered subsequent distfesses
with him when he lost their fortune,
and eventually won success on the stage
in her own right 1t is a story long
in the telling in Mr.. Laemmle's version,
and heavily freighted with tears and
heartbreak. The musical score of Mr..
Kern, used in the Ziegfeld show, is en-
ployed lavishly in the film, often Incl
dentally, and sometimes in the action
itself, as where Magnolia climbs the
long, hard road to theatrical fame using
the old river songs she had learned on
her fathers show boat.
The immensely effective "Ole Man
River and Cant Help Lovin' Dat Man
o. Mine" used as recurrent themes
suited to the symbolism of the swirling,
muddy river, and to Magnolia's desire
for Ravenals return, left their tunes in
the minds Of all spectators last night.
The early river sequences in the pic
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OPENING ATTRACTIONS IN WASHINGTON
THEATERS
THEATRES

waste an adjective than hurt some
ones feelings, but prettineSs of the sort
commonly supposed to wreck homes and
fill the front rows with middle aged
gentlemen in need Of relaxation after
a hard day at the Office.
The dancing is good at all times,
some of the numbers being decidedly
clever. The musical numbers are of
the free and easy type, songs which
implant their easy melody in the hearts
of those who hear them. They were
tax the abilities of the pleasantly sur
prised gentleman who sold souvenir
copies in the lobby after the show.
Fred Allen. an ingenious young man.
furnishes most of the conversational
comedy. He is good at his job.
No reference to this show would be
complete without particular reference
to the piano playing abilities of Ralph
Ranger and Adam Carroll, whose two
speciality numbers were certainly among
the distinct hits of the evening.
Clifton Webb, seasoned entertainer,
who can be comedian without saying
a word, carries a heavy part of the
show. In one scene he takes the part
of Carthagenian soldier. He did not
look like the type OF gladiator capable
OF TOuCulS dIHlicS Wy HC.CY SAo"A!S
himself. Perhaps his military useful
ness was in his ability to entertain the
troops after hard days fighting.
Lib Holman, already known to Wash
ingtonians through her work in NOV
ing picture theaters, captured large
share Of the applause. She plays the
part of the lady who takes life as it
comes without asking too many ques-
tionS, and plays it very well. Bettina
Hall, q stately blonde, proves that she
has, with other things. a decidedly
pleasing voice. Helen Lynd and Joan
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Carter-Waddell do excellent work, the
former in comedy roles and the latter as
dancer, whose grace and beauty have
seldom been surpassed in this vicinity
The show opens with the brutal MUIR
der of Mr. Prologue. The diabolical Mr.
Webb is suspected from the first, but
his guilt is never proved. Presumably
the crack detective and the chief of po-
lice are too busy warding off Mr.. Webbs
feminine friends to bother much about
the murder of man who was doomed
to be unpopular from the very outset.
The lyrics are mostly by Howard
the dances by Danny Dare, the cos
tunes by Ruth Bremen and the pro-
duction under the immediate super
vision of Dwight Deere Wiman Gus
Salzer directed the orchestra, feature
which added considerably.
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addition to the Laemmle and Ziegfeld
speeches, Aunt Jemima and her chorus
in Hey, Feller," Helen Morgan, bal
anced, according to her custom,
on top of a piano, singing BILL" and
Jules Bledsoe, with colored chorus, in
stirring rendition of "Ole Man River"
The resonant, fine tones of Bledsoe's
voice were literally heard in much of
the incidental singing through the
course of the film.
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RIALTO-"Show Boat"

Carl Laemmle's motion picture version
of Edna Ferber's "Show Boat" opened
last night at the Rialto Theater.
Bought from the author two years
ago, before it was produced by Florenz
1iegfeld as a musical comedy, the pic
turization of the story as it now appears
shows the influence of both the novel
and the musical comedy, the music of
the latter form having been used
throughout.
Having made silent version of
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BEDTIME STORIES By ,. T 1EEc4s2.

hens. Bowser trotted at his heels and
Flip danced and pranced and jumped
about him barking, for he was very
much excited. So it was that they
| reached the barn. Farmer Browns Boy
looked around for box into which TO
put Unc' Billy. A box was on top of
barrel. Farmer Browns Boy laid Unc'
Billy Postum on the head of another
barrel standing alongside. Unc' Billy
lay there perfectly limp. He certainly
did look dead. Farmer Browns Boy
lifted the box down. AS he did so, Unc'
Billy seemed to just slip over back of
the two barrels. Farmer Browns Boy
was so intent on his box that he didn't
notice what Unc' Billy had done. When
he turned to look for Unc' Billy he
wasn't there.
Farmer Browns Boy hastily looked
around. Unc' Billy wasn't to be seen.
Meanwhile Flip was barking excitedly
and trying to force his way behind the
two barrels. That told Farmer Browns
Boy what he wanted to know.
so that's where you've gone" he ex-
claimed. We'll, we'll soon get you out
of there"
He took hold of one of the barrels
and rolled it to one side. There was no
Unc' Billy to be seen. But there was
hole in the floor. Farmer Browns Boy
the two barrels had been there for some
time He had intended to fix it long
ago. Unc Billy Postum had just slipped
through that hole and down under the
barn. Farmer Browns Boy ran out the
back way and called Flip. There was
an opening under the barn there. He
sent Flip in to drive Unc' Billy Postum
out. He could hear Flip barking ex-
citedly underneath, but Unc' Billy
didn't come out.
1t was getting late and Farmer
Browns Boy had to go to feed the hens.
Then he had to go in to breakfast.
Flip was still under the barn, so Farmer
Browns Boy knew that Unc' Billy Pos
sum was also still under the barn,
When he came out after breakfast he
could hear the muff1ed barking of Flip.
If he could have seen underneath there,
he would have discovered that Unc'
Billy had climbed UP on beam beyond
the reach of Flip and there was making
himself very comfortable while he
grinned down at Flip.
He had been very cunning. Yes, sir.
he had been very cunning, had Unc'
Billy Postum. He had watched for his
chance and he had taken it. He wasn't
out of his troubles yet, but he wasn't a
prisoner and that was something.
(Copyright, 1929
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Spinach Salad Balls.

Mix two cupfuls of cooked spinach
with enough cleaned and chopped wa
tercress to make one cupful. Mix thor
oughly one small cream cheese and two
hard-boiled egg yolks; then stir in with
the spinach and watercress, using cream
If more moisture Is needed. Season
highly. Press into small molds and set
away in the refrigerator for couple
of hours to chill. Serve on lettuce with
mayonnaise or French dressing.
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Cunning of Unc' Billy.
II may be but the mereSt glance
That flnds for you the needed chance.
-Unc' Billy Postum

Farmer Browns Boy had caught Unc'
Billy Postum. Now that he had him,
he was undecided what to do with him.
OF course, you know just as we'll as I
do that Farmer Browns Boy had no
intention of hurting Unc' Billy. He
thinks too much of his little friends in
feathers and fur to want to hurt them
in the least. He is their friend, just
as hope that you will always be their
friend.
"Well, Unc' Billy" said Farmer
Browns Boy you are pretty good
Yes. sir, you are pretty good. If I
didn't know you of old, I would think