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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-18
Lessons OF the Lawrence Strike

the strike the chief weakness was the insuffi-
Gent attention paid to organizing the ranks of
the strikers and building the NTWU on mass
scale Only 700 new members we're enrolled in
the union in the course of the strike. Over 500
were enrolled in the union before the strike. The
Strike Committee was too narrow. 1t only had
SO to go members when it should have had at
least $50 members.
larger strike committee would have given
the union better gauge of the sentiments of
the strikers and could not have been SO easily
dispersed by the police terror Women strikers
should have been added to the committee While
the Strike Committee members were correctly
drawn in as the policy makers of the strike
they were not made local organizers of the strike
and the union
There was not a persistent enough attack dur
ing the strike against the U. T. w. and the
Musteites che group which met in the police
station etc.. Now that the capitalist forces are
trying to run the N. T. w. IT, out of Lawrence
the danger of the company calling in the UTW
and the Musteites becomes acute.
On the basis of the first week OF the strike
the TUUL should have organized mass solidar-
ity meetings in Boston and other centers 1t
was costly mistake not TO bring in Labor Unity
on mass scale as the strikers official organ
and to bring in the Daily Worker as the cham
Don OF the workers interests These mistakes
could have been called to the attention of the
union II the Party District Committee had been
called to meet during the strike. Organizational
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-18
BY NAT KAPLAN.
ARTICLE III

THE basic policy in the strike Of 10000 Amer
lean WOODEN Company workers in Lawrence
was essentially correct. The fact that the Rank
and File Strike Committee and the N T. w. u.
knew how to spread the strike. knew how to
extend the concrete immediate demands of the
workers on the basis of the spreading strike sue
ceeded in keeping the ranks of the strikers solid
in face of the great barrage of capitalist propa-
ganda and threats and prevented large scale
scabbing. The NTWU also demonstrated that
it not only knew how to call strikes, but also
how to call them off on the basis of partial
victory when no more gains could be achieved
for the workers.
At the same time, both the Party and the
union, showed great shortcomings lin Lawrence
both before and during the strike. We openly
draw the lessons from these shortcomings so
that they can be prevented in other struggles.
Although we made Lawrence point of con-
centration before the strike we did not extend
the Party base there the N. T. w. U. ha dthe bulk
of its members in the Pacific print and insult
ficient attention was paid to the American Wool
en- Mills, local collective leadership was not
built we did not raise the theological level of
the workers through steady campaign expos
ing the American Legion and Musteites and
through a mass distribution of the Labor Unity
and Daily Worker.
The shortcomings before the strike reflected
themselves in the course Of the struggles. During
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-18

against this when, in his April IL letter, he
wrote of "the destruction of the bureaucratic
political machine" as prerequisite for prole-
tartan revolution. In his classic study of the
Commune The Civil War In France, an address
read TO the General Council of the First Inter-
national two days after the fall of the Com
mune he devoted good deal of attention to|
the subject, and formulated this theoretical corr
clusion: "The working class cannot simply layi
hold of the read-made State machinery and
WELD it for its own purpose"
The Communicable First Proletarian RevoIutior
Many are the lessons which the CommtinS
has bequeathed TO the international working
class. Marx, Ensels and Lenin have studied the
Commune closely and the Russian workers
showed that they mastered the lessons Of the
first proletarian revolution.
The Commune is the great tradition OF the
French working class. The mute walls Of Pere
la Ulaise remind the French workers of the
heroism of their proletarian fathers who fought
for freedom from wage slavery The Commune
is also the heritage of the entire proletariat 1t
was the first revolution with the workers not
only fighting in it but also controlling and d.
recting it towards proetarian aims
The Commune was the first attempt at prole-
tartan dictatorship. 1t was not victorious, but
1t was the prototype Of the successful dictator
ship inaugurated by the Russian workers forty
six years afterwards
The Paris Commune is an epoch-making
achievement of the revolutionary working class.
Marks tribute at the close of his historic "Ad-
dress testifies to the fealty Of the worlds
proletariat to the memory Of the valiant Com
munards and to the cause in behalf Of which
they fought: "Workingmen's Paris, with its
Commune will be forever celebrated as the glo-
rious harbinger Of the new society. Its martyrs
are enshrined in the great heart of the working
class It's exterminators history has already
nailed to that pillory from which all the pray
crs Of their priests will not avail TO redeem
them"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-18

EDITORS NOTE: The article of Comrade
Alexander Trachtenberg is part of an introduce
ton written by him for the pamphlet: The Paris
Commune-A Story in Pictures, by William
Seigel just issued as No. - of the International
Pamphlet Series
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-18
Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

Communist Party o S A
p O. Box 81 Station D.
New York City.
Please send me more information on the Com
munist Party.
Name ......-..........'....'.
Address .......................
City ...ssss................. State ...........
Occupation Observation-Disclosures. Age $500.
Mail this to the Central once Communist
Party. P. o. Box 81 Station D New York City
looseness by the Party was indicated in the fail
ure to recruit individual strikers into the Party
The Lawrence strike was the beginning of a
wave of strike struggles in New England against
capitalist naturalization The NTWU is now
preparing and organizing for general struggle
in the American Wooden Company mills that
have already been affected by direct wage cuts
In these preparations and In the battles to come
we must profit from the lessons of the Law
renee Strike.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11

total number of messages and
replies relayed entirely across the
continent, according to F. E.
Handy, communications manager
Of the American Radio Relay
League, the national organization
OF transmitting radio amateurs,
at its headquarters IN this city.
Accuracy and speed in delivering
these messages also viii be taken
into consideration.
The contest, which is unique In
the annals of amateur radio, was
originated as the result of q chal-
lenge issued by the operators Of
amateur phone stations, declar-
ing to be unfounded the attitude
Of the code men In stating that
radiotelephone communica ton
was of less utility and accuracy In
relaying messages. The telegraph
operators accepted the challenge,
and the decision is to be reached
by this final struggle for SUI
premacy.
Just after sunrise on each Sun
day 10 stations on both coasts of
the United States will go on the
air, half using phone and half
using code, with the official test
message originated by the
A. r. r. L. Every amateur in the
tranScontinental test will make
an effort to receive this message
from some one of the stations and
pass it on in turn until it reaches
the opposite coast. Replies win
then be started back. The closing
time for the relay will be 1880
pm, local standard time. %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11
Behind the MicrOphone
BY THE RADIO EDITOR.

choose from many guides the COL
lection of sound values that seems
in keeping with good taste in
English. The stage of London
serves frequently as the model of
correct pronunciation, and often
the speech of the theater Is con-
SciouSly duplicated in the home.
This model takes on involved diff
ficulties, however, when Australian
actors alternate with native Eng
liSh, or give way to American
limitations of English accents, now
very common because of the pop
ularity of American players in
England.
Good English speech is a mat
ter of accent or ice-modulation
and quantity, and educated per-
sons seldom differ in regard to
these, so that they may be taken
as determining the standard of
speech-soundS accepted by per-
sons of refinement and culture
not because they are in &C
cordance with pathological laws,
but because they accord with
good usage.
Nothing is more distracting to
the ear trained to standard
sounds than to hear those sounds
continually debased. The same
words are pronounced differently
even by persons of education.
Few Of us when speaking among
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gram2-Mary Hammers, Washington,
d. c.
A. THE Lady Next Door" is really
Madge Tucker, while Jimmie is
Jimmie Medallion The ages Of the
children run from about four to ID or
Is. There have even been some younger
than four.
@. Which dance orchestra is con-
sidered best in America?-Irving Fine,
Baltimore, Md.
A. This is so much matter of
personal taste that 1t would be i'm
possible to rate even the first ten. The
best" Is the one which plays the music
you prefer when dancing Orchestras
as widely different in style as Rolfes
and Len joys have their ardent parti-
sans, and there are a dozen or 20 on
the air alone which are first rate.
@. Is the announcer's right name
Charles B. Craymont or Charles B.
Cramer?-Dorothy Anderson, Rich
mond, Va.
A. Neither 1t is Charles B. Tramont.
@. Has Frank Knight quit announc-
ing?-Charles S. Amati, Memphis,
Tenn.
A. No. Try for him on other stations.
The stations through which you have
been hearing him may have dropped
some of the programs he has been
announcing regularly.
@. Is Mabel Wayne, the song writer,
really a many. L., Pittsburgh, Pa.
A. No. She Is really a very attrac-
tive young woman. She used to be a
school teacher in Brooklyn, and her
songs, In a Little Spanish Town."
1T Happened in Monterey" and "Ra-
mona" even though they were written
by an American, have had q remark
able vogue in Spain and Cuba.
@. Is Carolyn Gray the pianist, re-
lated to Caroline Gray, also a pianist
and formerly of Pittsburgh?-D. S.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
A. If the Caroline Gray you knew
was born in Greensburg, Pa, it's the
same girl. Caroline thought Carolyn
would look better in print and changed
the spelling.
Q. Can you tell me If Marcella
Shields Is still on the air?-Mrs, B. w.
Morris Ashland, Va:
A. Yes and still in "The Two
Troupefs." This program, however,
Is moved about a great deal, so you'll
have to wacth the program listings
to find out when she Is on.
Q. Has an Unknown singer any
chance Of singing over the networks?-
Frank L. Harris, Chicago III.
A. Yes. But the competition is ex-
tremely keen. Unless the singer stands
away above the average in voice quality
and training the chances are pretty slim.
There Is an unlimited number of singers
who are good enough, but there aren't
many fine ones.
Copyright, 1917
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ourselves take pains to pronounce
with the degree of purity that
may justly be expected"
Y
ROBBY JONES is to have Just
1894 minutes on the air in his
first broadcast. A preview of the
continuity for the opening night
of the 26-week series to start
Wednesday shows that except for
exactly 1873 words most Of the IS
minute period is to be all Bobby's.
Those 1873 words are to come
from the mouth Of Bill Munday,
who Is to be the announcer for
the Jones broadcasts. It will be
Munday'S first experience on the
N. B. G. network in a role other
than that Of a sports expert.
Bobby's initial broadcast is ex-
pected to be a sort of chronology
cal recital of his life in golf.
\
"EIYAR Radio Roma" in a
woman's voice, introducing
Premier Benito Mussolini, whose
speech from Rome on New Year
day was followed by Splendidly
reproduced vocal and orchestral
renditions, gave the American
radio audience some idea of the
progress that has been achieved
in international rebroadcaSting
since the first great exchanges Of
programs with England, Holland
and Germany on Christmas day,
1929, and the successful rebroad-
casts from the London Naval Con-
ference early in 1880.
The engineers now say that they
can foretell within 80 per cent Of
accuracy precisely when atmos-
pheric conditions will enable them
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to schedule programs broadcast
abroad via the short waves to be
picked up and rebroadcast over
the American networks. The
MuSSolini broadcast represented
another great engineering triumph
for G. w. Horn, general engineer
Of the National BroadcaSting Co.,
and his stan, who have engi-
neered the momentouS pioneer
exchanges Of programs with for
eign countries.
Premier Mussolini's broadcast
message to the people of the
world revealed to the American
listeners that they are now within
earshot of practically every leader
of consequence in the world.
Within the next few months the
American audience will probably
listen to the voice of the Pope
speaking from his new Short-wave
station in the Vatican City.
II the State Department does
not disapprove, it Is not unlikely
that American listeners will also
soon hear the voice of Joseph
Stain, Soviet RuSSia'S dictator.
Moscow has direct radiotelegraph
contact with the United States,
and in radiotelephony (another
name for broadcaSting) it is max
ing more rapid strides than many
other European countries.
The Papal broadcast depends on
the Pope's will, for it could be
done today via either the Pope's
own station or the transatlantic
radio telephone. A rebroadcast
from Russia would have political
implications that might give the
American authorities some pause,
although it too could be done to-
day. Indeed, the Department Of
Commences recently completed
world monitoring station at Grand
Island, Nebr., very frequently
hears Moscow on its super
sensitive receiving apparatus.
Mustapha Renal Pasha, who is
leading Turkey in its revolution
toward modernity, is another
leader whose voice may soon be
heard from abroad. Their own
short-wave systems and the in
ternational radiotelephone have
d1ICdQy Skl6UlCO OIlC I1SIWOTkS
to offer periodical addresses de-
livered by the King, the Prince Of
Wales, the premier and others
from England, and by potentates,
statesmen, scientists, explorers
and entertainers from Europe,
South America, the Philippines,
Japan and Australia.
~
THE old struggle between tele-
phone and telegraph for COM
munication supremacy in the
transmission of messages accu-
rately over long distances will be
revived by another engagement
between the opposing forces dur
ing this month, as far as amateur
radio stations are concerned, when
radiote1ephone versus radio
telegraph relay in which messages
will be started by the American
Radio Relay League from 10
amateur stations on each coast is
scheduled for three consecutive
Sundays beginning today. Efforts
will be made by contestants on
each side to forward these mes
sages to the opposite coast and
return the reply in the shortest
possible time.
The outcome of the contest
will be decided by comparing the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11
McNanee
Speaking"

with the mike if he had stayed on the
train.
~
Ernestine Schumann-H eink may be a
veteran of opera and concert, but if you
won't stop to count her years you can't
call her old. She's proved that con-
vincingly since she became a regular
broadcaster.
Several times week she sweeps into
the studios with all of the gusto of a
woman of 80, and when 1t comes to
rehearsals and actual programs she
just has a high old time. She always
rearranges the orchestra which also
takes part IN the program, and calls
most OF the musicians by their first
names.
have never seen such hend for
work as Schumann-He Besides
broadcaStS and concert appearances
she is giving lessons in singing to a
large group Of young women. I'd hest
tate to guess how many of them are
getting the lessons free-and an occa-
sional gift Of money, too, when things
are going badly.
Giving talented young girls start
is one Of her hobbies. Another one, so
] have discovered, is to go all the way
to Atlantic City to have her hair
washed; there's a hair dresser there
she thinks can't be beat. She is so
friendly by nature that she is always
startling stenographers and page boys
by the warmth Of her greeting the Sec
ond time she sees them.
And don't let on you think she's
doing too much work for her years;
she insists that it's mere child's play.
Probably most people who listen to
Paul Tremaine's orchestra broadcast
ing these days don't know that the
career as q musician at its very begin
ming.
It was out in Colorado, and it was
one Of the very first professional en-
gagementS the young drummer ever
played. The dance was to be held in
the local school house, and it was to
be attended by mine bosses and their
families and friends.
That would have been all right If
there hadn't been strike on. Paul
discovered later that a good many Of
the miners had felt the dance was a
kind of gesture of derision, and they
were pretty hot about it. But there
had been some sort of truce, and 1t
had been agreed there would be no
trouble If the dance ended by / o'clock.
The musicians arrived without know
ing just how strained the situation was,
but they began to have q fair idea Of
it when they had to pass pickets armed
with machine guns to get into the place
where they were to play.
Everything went we'll until about
midnight, when the miners decided to
end the party and trained a machine
gun on the school house. For 20
minutes they shot the place up, and
at the end of that time Paul and the
band were discovered, safe enough, be-
hind a piano.
A bass drum was the only casualty,
and perhaps that Is the reason Paul
wasn't scared clean out of music at
almost his first venture into 1t.
He comes by his music honestly. His
father was a popular bandmaster and
gave him his earliest teaching. 1t was
his father, too who taught him to ride
bronchos and gave him the training
that made him at one time a rodeo
performer. He started riding when he
was about four and still does when
ever he gets a chance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11
McNAMEE'S QUESTION
BOX

@. Are the Hank Simmons Showboat
plays broadcast from the studios or
from a real showboat? Is there an
audience present2-F. w. NJ, Lincoln,
Nebr.
A. They are broadcast from the
studio, and a small audience Is present
for the sake of atmosphere.
@. Could you tell me how much
Heifetz got for his half-hour concert
on the air December 21?-George H.
williams, Hamilton, Ontario.
A. The price was never announced
oficially, but It was generally under
stood in New York that 1t was $4,000.
@. What Is the real name Of 1.-THE
Lady Next Door," and Of Jimmie in
the same program? How old are the
youngest and Oldest players in the pro-
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/ 8 the uniformity in English
pronunciation likely to be eff
Aln.......la 1. Iii

pronunciation likely to be eff
fected through the Standard
zation of styles over the
radio?
Confronted with such a question
last week, DR.. Frank H. Vizetelly,
editor of dictionaries, master Of
a vocabulary Of ass, 900 words, and
himself speaker on the air over
the Columbia network, replied
that he could see no basis for
such a belief. Neither could he
see in what way the STANDARDIZED
ton might be achieved even
among those whose voices travel
through the ether to the millions
of radio listeners, for, as he points
out, there are many divergenceS
among persons generally accepted
as users of good English"
usage varies here as it does
in England" said DR.. ViZetelly;
"it varies whimsically, leaving the
student of correct sounds to
founder between ice-o-late' and
'isS- olate' while himself isolated
often in SO far as practical help
in orthoepy is concerned.
81 myself, for instance, am puz-
zled about extraordinary and
extraordinary My judgment
tells me that the accent should
be on the extra as connecting
magnitude, but I have taught my
self to abide by the established
practice in favor of the second
combination of sounds. Trouble
some also are other English &C
cent differentiationS - 'waistcoat'
and 'wes-cut'; the sloughing of
of syllables in dictionary and
necessary and the condensation
of proper names such as Green
wich.
The public must therefore
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11
Edgar Guest on WAIAL.
Season Taken Out of Radio.

NEW YORK P).-Radio authorities
say that broadcasting is no longer a
seasonal entertainment It has reached
The stage, they added, where 1t is as
good in Summer as In Winter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11
VITO PROGRAM COPIED
ON RECORD IN ENGLAND
Hartford Station to Play Phono-
graph Account of Own Broad
cast for British Listeners.

HARTFORD, Conn. (PD.-The 50-ki-
lowatt transnitter of VITO gets into
England so well that one of its pro-
grams has been copied on recording.
AS a result 1t is planned to bring the
recording to America, play it before the
anc attempt to send it back
overseas by radio. The record was
made the night Of November az by Les
lie w. Orion Of Uxbridge, England, who
Is president Of the Anglo-American
Radio Society.
VITO has been heard In France as
well as Pimba, South Australia.
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s,241, 725 Licensed in Germany.

On october there were s,241, 725
licensed radio listeners in Germany, to
compare with 2,843,560 on the same
date Of 1929. The postman collects a
monthly license fee Of marks (about
so cents) from each home equipped
with a radio receiver.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11
Interference Prohibited

MERGED, Calf, has adopted an ordi-
nance against radio interference. with
penalties Of fine of 500 or three
months in Jail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11
Much Steel Used.

NEW YORK E9.-An estimate saws
Inat $50 tons OF steel are used each
working day by the radio industry.