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The Washington times., 1930-01-21
lNlERICAN SINGERS OFFER OPERA IN ENGLISH
D. APPLAUDS
FIRST OPERA
IN ENGLISH

OF all the musical events
that have taken place or are
yet to be presented in Wash
ington, the American Opera
Company, which made its third
annual appearance in this city
at Polls Theater last night,
will probably remain the most
interesting.
Interesting because this
organization, still In its infancy
is constantly and securely gain.
ing q foothold in the world of
established things. More inter.
esting perhaps is its funda-
mental principle-that Of Amer
lean artists giving to the Amer
ican public the masterpieces Of
opera in the American language.
"Yolanda Of Cyprus" that
much discussed new opera by
Gale Young Rice and Clarence
LooInis opened the series OK
four performances that take
place this week.
The plot was forceful, dra.
matte. inspirational. The music
was intriguing. One should
hear 1t more than once to as
sure full appreciation Of 1t.
The praiSeworthy collabora-
teurs have fashioned a musical
story Of Sacrificial love woven
about Yolanda, ward Of Queen
Berengere and bethrothed to
Amaury, son Of King Renier.
To save Berengere, who is guilty
Of q love with Camerin, q
Baron Of Paphos, from shame,
Yolanda pretendS the Queeas
guilt. whereby she is forced to
wed Camerin. The truth is
finally exposed, Camerin is
killed by Amaury and Yo.anda
is reunited to her fiance.
Natalie Hall as Yolanda was
exquisite. All the attributes Of
pulchritude, hiStrionic ability
and beauty of voice are COM
bined in this prima donna.
Especially does she excel in her
high notes.
Tenor Charles Kullman gave
an. excellent portrayal Of
Amaury.
Honors were shared also by
Edith Piper, as Berengere; John
Moncrieff, as the King, and
Harriet Eells, who sang the
role Of the Venetian woman in
love with Amaury.
In considering the perform
ance too much cannot be said
Of the staging and costumes.
Each scene was a veritable por-
trait. One might be loathe to
admit it was not grand opera.
Dramatically it was perfect, but
that power Of voice, that re-
sounding echo, was missing.
Director Isaac Van Grove
failed to keep the musicians
beneath the singers. AS the
action rose to great climaxeS
the voices were repeatedly sub
merged in the orchestral full
ness. Under such conditions
it was difficult for the artists
to attain their proper glory.
This defect is not likely to be
noticeable tonight in Puccini's
Madame Butterfly" The cast
is we'll acquainted with the
acouStical properties Of the
theater and will undoubtedly
show to more advantage.
Placing ones hopes high in
this company is far from folly.
They can do it. They have
done it, here and just recently
in New York. It is merely a
question Of letting them get
started, for with such equip
ment of voices and actors, no
organization should do less
than triumph.
MAnET TNIE E.NISTrsN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-11
III. The Party

the Soviet farms must reach 100000 hec-
tares.
Collective Farms: The Five-Year Plan lays
down an increase of the cultivated area up to
100000 hectares by the last year. The de-
cision of the Central Committee regards this
figure as obviously too low tit has already
been exceeded this Year, and, considers that by
the end of the Five-Years the colectivization
of the Soviet Union r1st be practically COM
pleted, and that by that time the area cultivated
by the collective farms NUT comprehend nine
tenths of the total cultivated area of the Soviet
Union, at present titled by the individual peas
ant farms. (Applause.) And so forth.
This gives an idea of the essentials of the
leadership of the Central Committee in the
realization of the general line of the Party,
of the organization of the building up of So
cialism on the system of planned economy.
1t may be objected that such fundamental
alterations in the figures of the Five-Year Plan
on the part of the &C. violate the principle
of planned economy and diminish the authority
of the organs of our planned economy. But it
is only hopeless bureaucrats who can bring for
ward this argument. To us BoIshevists the
Five-Year Plan is not something fixed and
settled forever. To US the Five-Year Plan is
the same as any other plan, accepted as being
approximate, but which must be more precisely
defined, altered, and perfected in accordance
with the experience gained on the spot in
putting the plan into practice. No Five-Year
Plan can take into account all the possibilities
lying dormant in the depths of our system, and
only brought to light in the process of work,
in the course of the realization of the plan
in the works and factories, collective and So
Wet farms, districts, ETC. Only bureaucrats
believe that the work of planning econ
omcs is finished with the drawing up of the
Plan. The drawing up of the Plan is only
the beginning of planned economy. The real
guidance of economy on planned lines does not
begin until after the plan has been drawn up,
after trials have been made on the spot, and
during the course of the realization, revision
and preciser definition of the Plan
Therefore the &C. and the C.C.C. conformity
with the planned economic organs of the Soviet
Union, consider it necessary to correct and i'm
prove the Five-Year Plan in accordance with
the experience gained, and to increase the tenn
pc of reconstruction and to shorten the term.
within which certain aims are to be reached
At the Eighth Soviet Congress- during the
discussion of the ten-year plan of the State
Electrification Commission, L,nin made the
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be an approximate program. This program
of the Party will not be SO alterable as our
real program, which can only be altered at the
Party Congress. No. This program will be
improved, worked out, perfected, and altered
every day, in every workshop, in every village
community. The experience yielded by
science, and the daily work in the workshops,
must be utilized in our unwearying efforts to
fulfill the plan before the time fixed, SO that
the masses may see that by means of exper-
fence we may shorten the long period dividing
us from the complete restoration of industry.
This depends upon US. Let us improve our
economy in every workshop, in every depot, in
every field of work! Then we shall shorten the
terms And we shall shorten them" (Vol. IT,
PIP. 423-27. Russian.)
1t will be seen that the &C, in altering and
improving the Five-Year Plan, in shortening
the terms and acceerating the tempo, has fol-
lowed the path indicated by Lenin.
What are the possibilities upon which the
&C. has relied in accelerating the speed and
shortening the terms for the execution of the
Five-Year Plan? These possibilities are the
reserves lying dormant in the depths of our
system, and only revealed in the course of the
work; the possibilities which have been given
us by the period of reconstruction. The &C.
is of the opinion that the reconstruction of
the technical basis OF industry and agriculture,
given the socialist organization of production,
opens up such possibilities of accelerated tempo
as no capitalist country may even dream Of
1t is solely this circumstance which makes it
possible to explain why our socialist industry
has more than doubled its production in the
last three years, and why, production in 1880
81 will show an increase of At per cent as
compared with the current year, the extent of
this increase alone being equal to the total pro.
duction of large scale industry before the war,
1t is solely this circumstance which makes
it possible to explain the fact that the Develop
ment of the Soviet farms has exceeded the
Plan within three years, that of the collective
farms within two
There exists theory that high speed of
development is only permissible in the restora-
ton period, whilst the transition to the recon-
structlon period must be accomplished by a
sharp reduction of speed from year to wear.
This theory is designated the theory of the
descending curve" II is a theory for the
justification OF our backwardness. 1t has moth
ing in common with Marxism or with Lenin-
ISM 1t is a bourgeois theory, calculated to
anchor our country fast in it's backwardness.
Of the people who have or have had relations
to our Party, it is only the Trotskyists. and
perhaps the Right, who represent and prom
agate this theory.
tIo be continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-11

Here again we see huge shrinkage
American. British, French and German ex-
ports have gone away down. The aerarian
crisis throughout Latin America has hit the
importation of manufactured commodities from
all countries. The victory of the conservative
party in Canada and the certainty of worse
tariff retaliation shuts off large section of
this most important foreign market for Amer
lean Imperialism. The Australian. Spanish
Italian markets, hurt in the first instance by
the worl1 crisis, put up further barriers
against American imports in the form of
higher tariffs.
And now the American imperasts become
alarmed over the Chinese markets. In this
field not only the economic crisis, civil war and
rising peasant and working-class revolution
cuts them off. but they meet another factor in
the form of increased competition from Great
Britain and Japan. The British imperialists
have sent mission to China to get greater
share of this shrinking market away from their
American competitor.
Thus. here are few of the impediments in
the way of an immediate alienation or tenn
pering of the present sharp crisis.
Looking back to the severe 1922 crisis we
find certain features which aided the bosses
in temporarily climbing out of that cyclical
crisis in little over a year. These features
are absent today.
In 192l-22 there was a dearth of various
types of building. There FOLLOWED building
BOOM" The United States was taking its first
big strides in Latin America winning markets
from Great Britain. Large shipments of wheat
were financed and sent to Europe. due to crop
failures there. The radio industry was just
sprngng up The automobile indus ~ had not
fully expanded in the home market Pioduc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-11

ton went from 100000 cars yearly in
1922 to 55CO000 in 1929.
The possible new" purchasers of cars and
radios in the United States during hat period
vas practically exhausted That is WHY the
Bankers Journal recently declared that the
"ext five or ten years would be period of
"replacement"-rep of outworn prod
nets of this type. That is why the America
bosses make such frantic drive for void
MARKETS That is why Legge chairman of the
Federal Farm Board suddenly levelo~e . coro
passion for the starving Chinese millions and
proposes shipping wheat to them-if they can
TO no the money to pay for it.
Then in 1922 the Reconstruction" of Eu-
rope was going on with American "help"
These "recons ructed" countries are now them
selves formidable competitors in the world
market. Germany has advanced even fu'the,
than the United States in the march of ration
alization in some important industries
Thus when the bosses and their agents pre-
dict end to the crisis this fall, or this winter
or next spring. they talk through their hats
They give Their wishes the toga of prophets
AS the crisis worsens and as the home mar
ket continues to shrink, there will be even .
sharper battle for the world marke's The
tariff act was of the big guns in this fight
The increased ornaments ere part of the drive
"a drive towards war. And the further cut
ting OF wages all alone the line will be stem
in this process which will hit all workers hard
The workers must grid themselves for
sharper class battles. unemployment will
grow enormously. Wage-cuts already handed
out to thousands will come down in vertable
typhoons. Only under revolutionary working
class leadership will the workers be able to Of
fer serious and necessary resistance.
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(Cont.Hued)
b. The Party cannot confine itself to work
ing out the general line. Besides this it must
test daily the carrying out of the general line
in actual practice 1t must guide the realization
of the general line by improving and perfect
ing, during the progress of the work, the plans
being executed for the advancement of econ
omic reconstruction, and by correcting and
avoiding errors.
How has the Central Committee of our Party
fulfilled this task?
The work of the Central Committee in this
direction has consisted chiefly in the correc-
ton and preciser determination of the Five
Year Plan. with the object of increasing the
pace and shortening terms, and in the checking
of the accomplishment of the tasks set the
economic organizations.
append a few of the fundamental decisions
of the Central Committee, correcting the Five
Year Plan with respect to increased tempo and
shortened terms.
Smelling industry: The Five-Year Plan lays
down an increase in the output of pig iron to
reach 10O00,000,000 tons by the last year. The
decision of the Central Committee regards this
standard as insufficient, and lays down that
by the last year of the Five Year Plan the pro-
duction of pig iron is to reach 17,000,000000
tons.
Tractor building: The Five-Year Plan lays
down tndt Jne manufacture Ol tractors nluSL
reach the number of $4,000 by the last year of
the Plan. The decision of the Central Committee
finds this inadequate, and lays down the num-
Der of tractors to be manufactured in the last
year of the Plan at 10000.
The same applies to motor-car building Here
the original plan envisaged the building of
100000 lorries and passenger cars in the last
year of the Five-Year Plan. The present deci-
sion lays down production of 100000.
We observe the same phenomenon in the
non-iron industry (colored metals), where the
figures of the Five-Year Plan have been in
creased by more than 100 per cent, and in the
manufacture of agricultural machinery, where
again an increase of more than 100 per cent is
laid down.
need not refer in detail to the combines,
which were not envisaged in the Five-Year
Plan at all, but which are now placed in the
last year of the Plan at figure of at least
10000.
Soviet Farms: The Five-Year Plan envisages
an increase of the area under cultivation up to
five million hectares in the last year. The
decision of the Central Committee regards this
as insufficient, and considers that by the end
of the Five-Year Plan the area cultivated by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-11
BY HARRY CANNES.

AUGUST brings in an abundant crop of false
n prophets There is over-production, not
alone of commodities, but of capitalist optim-
istic predictions of the end of the economic
crisis.
The lower production drops, the more serious
becomes the economic crisis, the greater the
increase in unemployment, the more loud
mouthed become the capitalist economists and
the boss press in giving the crisis its DEATH
bow--on paper.
The Daily Worker. on many occasions, has
exploited these faacies and outright lies. At
the beginning. of the year | quoted from the
leading bosses, Hoover, Mellon, Lamont Klein
a whole slew of bankers and economists declar-
ing capitalist economy is fundamentally sound,
and definitely giving the crisis from a month
to six months TO eat itself up. 1t has already
lasted year.
August and the months to follow are very
critical in the present cyccal crisis. The last
trench of capitalist economists say here is a
decisive point. In 1922 and 1924 the cyclical
crisis of those periods was lquidated, begin
ming in Angus Reasoning FROM a static and
false basis, they say their economic history
must repeat itself
Sharpening World Crisis.
The immediate facts and figures of the crisis,
as well as an analysis of the sharpening world
crisis, the aggravation of the postwar crisis
of capitalism, show beyond doubt that a wor-
sening and not an alienation is in store for
capitalist economy.
So far have the capitalist economists lost
their balance, III their vulgar attempts at
derstan ling the crisis, that their usual confu-
sion has ed in worse hodge podge
few of the more "honest" spokesman OF
the imperialists admit they are at sea, and that
they do not have such unmitigated faith in an
early termination of the crisis. BENJAMIN
Baker editor of the Annalist, sums up this
position as follows august ~
July has come to an end without giving
am iication of the 'unmistakable and def
inite urn toward prosperity which was so
LOUDLY announced fortnight ago from GER
tain quarters which ought to know better.
On the contrary. business activity in the sec.
ond half of July appeared to be distinctly or
the decline for though the rate of operation
in the steel industry has gone no lower in
the past two weeks, automobile production
has reached what is for the season phenom-
email low point in the recent history of the
industry; building contracts for practically
the whole month of July were more than 40
per cent under those of July year ago; the
commodity price level continued to sag off,
and. in general, there not only an abb
sence of definite signs of recovery. but a
geaeral accenting of the business de-
cline. -
Would Shout Other Way.
A very gloomy picture, indeed. But it is
all based on immediate and empirical data
Baker will just loudly proclaim the advent
OF prosperity if the various indexes" show
squirt upward in reality sharpening the fun
damental nature of the crisis--overproduction
Another leading prophet of the bosses, Paul
Willard Garrett. financial editor of the N. Y.
Evening Post, in vague way predicts an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-11
By PAUL NOVICK.

As Wol was droning off his statement before
the Fish Committee, one often mstook him
for Abramovtch, leading contributor of the
Forward Ghe socialist" paper in New York;
and emissary of the Second International.
Whatever Vol possessed in his odge-podge
statement, poor Abramovitch had already re-
peated a trilion times, ad nausea. There can
be absolutely no question as to where Woll got
his stuff"
TIE salacious Forward is ever ready at sup
plying ovietbaiters with information" At
the beginning of the year, when the pope and
the rabbis were crusading against the Soviets,
the so-called American Jewish Congress- an
institution which is resting in the vest pocket
of pompous Rabbi Wise, was out for "infor-
nation" The Forward proved very obliging.
At meeting of this Congress" (Which was,
incidentally by the above Mr. Fish!) state
ments on Bolshevik atrocities" against reli-
gion were read The statements were prepared
by Cahan's underling. named Shub. the For
ward anti-Sovet expert, and by certain "pro-
fessor" Knoll, contributor to the monthly "Zu-
Nuult WHICH tHe rUTWdTu 10 puUllSnlHH.
The Forward serves as a national research
department for all anti-Soviet backguards.
And it goes without saying that by printing
the materials" of the infamous Bessedovsky
the Forward has done the greatest service to
the czarists in America, to the Fish committee,
to Mr. Whalen.
1t was with great delight that the chief of
Tammany's spy system, Mr.. Lyons, presented
the translation of Bessedovsky's articles in the
Forward to the Fish committee. Since then,
these articles became the Koran of the Wash
ington savants and were made much use of
when the representatives of the Amtorg were
''heard" or to be more correct were shouted
at.
The Socialists" through their organ have
done their bit for the Fish committee. Small
wonder Fish has declared in the press that his
committee will not hurt the Socialists" 1t
very much necessary for the shrewd cor
poraton lawyer who acts as chairman for the
socialist" party to protest" But this 'pro-
test" alone speaks loudly enough for the coun-
ter-revolutionary role of the Socialist" party
"Forced Labor in u. S. s. r.,
Hlquit Testfies.
Before sailing for one of the European re-
sorts Mr.. IIillquit, while on board the luxurious
lie de France, said the following, as quoted by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-11
Silk Workers in Soviet Union Tell OF Freedom

are especially interested in the efforts of So
Wet experts t. eliminate weavers' deafness. A
young weaver from America one of the rank
and file trade union delegation to Soviet Rus
STA in 1927, found herself the subject of special
interest to these textile experts in the workers
republic on account of her deafness. They told
her of their efforts to do away with the ter
rible noise of looms, and thus protect the weav-
ers from that strain.
Silk workers in the Soviet Union have the
deep satisfaction of knowing that the industry
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-11
The Hand OF Woll-- The Voice
of Abram0vitCh

the reporter for the New York Times (Aue. ~.
The theory that the, pulpweod is a pro-
duct of convict labor, is untenable," Mr., Hill
quit declared unless it is extended to all
Soviet goods which, to degree are pro-
duced under conditions of forced labor"
1t surely is below the dignity of any worker
to enter into discussion with the head of the
Clvld Federation (WolD, OF. with the share
holder OF Burns open shop coal trust (Hill-
quit as to the conditions of workers in the
land where Socialism is being built and which
land these armed workers are ready to defend
with their lives, if necessary.
AS far as the freedom" of the American
workers, the needle trades workers, for in
stance VINO have been robbed and ruined and
pied white by Vol and Hillquit the 'brains'
Oh the combination OF bosses, underworld, Tam
many police and labor racketeers, could have
something to say about it.. The freedom" of
these workers. as of most other workers in the
United States, consists Of being "free" to slave
under the heels of the bosses and labor grafters
or to starve Cor both)
What is particularly characteristic in the
corporation lawyers protest." is that he
spreads the same malicious propaganda
("forced labor"l and asks for the same regtric
tons Cunless" the ban is extended, etc. az
Matthew Vol does.
What VOL, Fish, the czarists, the Forward
and Abramovitch are doing in the omen. the
lawyer wants to hide under the veil of a So
called protest" 1t is too Transparent a veil.
The socialists" stand exposed in their full
nakedness as the allies of VOL, Fish and the
czarists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-11

up. greet the visitors, and even leave the looms
and trainers to crowd around and ask ques-
tions They are alive, enthusiastic, interested
to talk and listen and exchange ideas.
"This factory is our factory" they explain
eve run it and improve it because it is ours.
We s""'l max it better and better and
strengthen socialism year by year. Tell the
workers in America to hurry up and overthrow
capitalism in your country"
majority of silk workers are women. What
about women workers in the Soviet Union?
Men md women have equal nay for equal work.
There is no difference in the WAGES for men
and for women. That fact in itself is as revo-
htionarv as any other one result of the Soviet
system. In TIE United States and in other
canitali~t countries women earn froro o~o-hH1f
to onn-t''ird less than men workers for the
same work.
Seven Hour Pay.
A PREGNANT wonan worker hos two months
leave of absence with nav before the baby
is born. and two months leave of absence with
nav offer the babv is born. Near the factory
is the day nursery whore mothers working r
the mill CON loavn their children Nursn"
mothers are given REGULAR rest neriods in
which TO nurse tho baby. Welfnre work is
nrovided bv tn" industry. and each rlaot con
tributes certain per centape of its wares
total to educational cultural ard welfare work
And this contribution is not taken ont of tho
r'0"So~s' wages, but is really an addition 70
the WAGES.
Perhars most SIGNIFICANT of all is the fact
that Russiep silk workers from now on are to
work orlv sev"n horrs a dav ONE hv one
the textile mills have zone on the saver hour
'~- norti~'ore ~~ocess basis. The Five Year
Plan based on the spvpn-hnrr dav collr e.
nro~~o~siva increase of rod "+ior end low
erin" of fnotorv exrensas. Pv the new rlan
everv fifth dav is rest dav
silk weavnrs in ar'tali~+ coJ'ntrioe who have
been made deaf by the thrndnr of the looms