The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 11, 1926, Page 5

PENNA, MINERS REPUDIATE THE LEWIS POLICY Strike in Defiance of Slavery Pact By A Worker Correspondent WILKES BARRE, Pa., Noy, 9.—The miners here are beginning to take their affairs into their own hands. The five-year contract signed by the Lewis machine, deprives/the miners of the right to strike for the period of | Prizes to Be Offered This Week. . Three very splendid prizes will be given for stories sent In by worker eorrespondents between now and next Thursday that are considered the best examples of worker correspondence of the week. Here are the prizes: stories, workers First, “Left Wing Unionism” by Send In those D. J. Saposs, A new book that Will- lam Z. Foster advises every trage union rebel to read for its valuable information, Second, “Flying .Osip,” short storles by nine of Russia’s leading new writers. Third, The Workers Monthly, a workers’ magazine. five years. The bosses took advan- tage of this contract and did every-| ' thing possible to exploit the miners and discharge those that did not obey their orders. But soon the ‘bosses found out that altho Lewis might sign a contract not to strike for five years, the, miners are going to strike. | Miners Discharged, | The miners of the Peach Orchard | Colliery of Glen Alden Coal Co. of} Parsons, Pa., went on strike when| four miners were unjustly discharged. Capellini did everything to force the miners to go back to work. The min- érs went, undér protest, and served notice that if the discharged men would not get their jobs, the miners would go on strike again. This did the trick. The discharged miners were taken back to work, with pay for the days they lost because of being dis- charged. The bosses learned that it | does not pay to discharge men. The miners learned that solidarity is the secret of their success and found out | that the strike is a mighty power, which the officials of the union have sold out to the operators for five years. | The miners tm Peach Orchard are not the only ones that are fighting. At present the miners of Randolf Col- | liery of South Penn Colliery Coal Co., in Port Carbon, near Pottsville, Pa., are also on strike. One of the men was discharged because he refused to work after qutting time. The next day the miners did not work but gath- ered in the hall and decided not to go | to work until the discharged brother go this job back, Bosses’ Man Was Fined. At this meeting, one of the men, | who was under the influence of the bosses, made a motion to go back to work and lay the matter of the dis- charged man aside, to go to the griev. ance committee which would settle with the bosses. No one seconded the motion. However, the motion was made to fine the man who made the previous motion $100. He was fined $25 only on account of his family. The miners of the Randolph Col- liery are under the leadership of Thomas Powell, the well-known mili- tant leader, and the bosses, thru saloon keepers and other agencies, are spreading news to discredit him. The basses call Howell a Bolshevik, a Com- munist,a Red: But the miners do not listen to them because they know that Howell is one of them and. fighting with them, and if he is a “RED” so much the better. Concert for New York Cloakmakers Arranged By Los Angeles Labor By GRAY STONE (Worker Correspond LOS ANGELES, Nov. 9..— Grand concert with the best available talent in the city is being arranged by the conferenee of all local unions to aid the striking cloakmakers in New York City, Nov. 17, at 8:16 p. m., at the Gamut Club Theater, 1044 South Hope Street. Max Amsterdam, the first violinist of the Philharmonic Symphony Or- chestra and Abraham Branson, one of the best known cellists on the western coast, have offered their services. Tickets are for sale at 224 South Spring St. Phone for reservation, Métropolitan 3000, All organizations and, individuals wishing to help the struggling New York cloakmakers are asked to forward funds to local secretary of the conference, J. Sacks, 224 South Spring St. What is this famous “COTZO- FANESTI"? Read Nov. 13 is- sue of The) DAILY WORKER! GINSBERGS: Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL. Meat Market 4301 8th Avenue BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTION! ' CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY / six-months” subscription to the best WORKERS WHO WANT TO LEARN HOW TO WRITE NEWS STORIES SHOULD ATTEND CLASS ON FRIDAY NIGH Every worker in Chicago who wants to get a grasp of the fundamentals of news writing in order that he can contribute to the workers’ press should} Both white and black musicians be- attend the class in worker correspondence to be held Friday in the editorial |long to the union but the growing offices of The DAILY WORKER, 1113 Friday’s meeting of the class is West Washington Blvd. the actual beginning of the seagon’s course in training workers in the rudiments of writing stories, gathering news, and preparing news for publica-+ tion. The class is in charge of J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORK- ER, who will be assisted by Harry Kletzky, supervisor of the worker cor- respondence of The DAILY WORKER. Will Develop Writers, Work in the class will be directed along one ‘line: to develop news writers out of the workers, in order that they can more effectively “write as they fight.” Practical work will be | given the class, and the question and answer method of discussion will be followed in order that as much as possible can be gotten out of the work. It is not necessary for menibers of the class to have had much experience in writing or to be masters of a “literary style.” The class is not for the purpose of developing great authors, but to ald workers to express their ideas on paper in Plain, ordinary working class English, according to newspaper style. A full and interesting program is being outlined for the course, so that each class night will be crammed full of information and interest. The class will meet each Friday night at 8 o’clock. Members are urged to come on time so that no time will be wasted, CLEANERS-DYERS OF LONG BEACH OUT ON STRIKE Cops Break Up Parade of Workers By L. P. RINDAL. (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Nov. 9.—Dyers and cleaners of Long Beach are on strike. On election day, Nov, 2, the owners declared for the open shop and re- fused to meet the wage incfease de- manded by the workers. A shorter week {is also one of the strike de- mands, t Riot calls and some violence are re- ported. A truck belonging to the Campbell cleaners, 1325 West First street, was overturned. Windows were reported broken in the Globe Dye House, 1154 West Broadway. Gar- ments are said to have been trampled on at the latter establishment. Women strikers are reported to be the most active, Fourteen cleaning houses are af- fected. The police did not, break up a pa- rade of protest in which 200 strike sympathisera participated. No ar- rests were made, The cleaners and dyers of Los An- geles won their strike a few months ago, a victory labeled the “greatest” in, many years in this community. Help is expected from Los Angeles. ¢ Restaurant IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONSUMER, Bakery deliveries made to your home. FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Ino. (Workers organized as consumers) : _ Brooklyn, N. Y. WORKERS EAGER TO OBTAIN AUTO SHOP BULLETINS Ford and Dodge Worker Sold Rapidly (By Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Nov. 9—The Ford shop nucleus of the Workers (Communist) Party has just issued No. 8 of the |Ford Worker, which deals with the problems of the workers: employed by the Ford ‘plant in Detroit. The or- ganizer in Detroit reports that an edi- tion of 12,000 copies of the Ford Worker was printed and that 6,000 of these were sold at 1 cent each during the first three days after the paper was issued, Deals with 40-Hour Week. The leading article in the Ford Worker deals with the new 40-hour wéek and Ford’s declaration that the wages of the workers would only be raised on merit; that is, only those who would show greater productivity would receive the same pay for the 40- hour week as heretofore. In addition to many items dealing with the Ford plant, the Ford Worker contains an announcement of the cele- bration of the ninth anniversary of the Russian revolution and a call to the foreign’workers to support the Work- ers (Communist) Party ticket in the election campaign. Dodge Worker Out. At the same time the Dodge Work- ers (Communist) Party shop nucleus issued No, 4 of thé Dodge Worker, of which 3,000 were printed and 1,000 sold at 1 cent each during the first two days of distribution, The bulletins of the Workers (Com- mutist) Party nuclei in the Dodge and Ford plants are winning a broad influence among the workers in these plants by dealing with the concrete problems of the industry. At the same time they translate these prob- lems into propaganda in relation to the broader struggles of the workers, by relating them to the political and industrial campaigns, Denver Workers Plan Anniversary Affair on Sunday, Nov. 14 By OTIS MURPHY. (Worker Correspondent) DENVER, Col., Nov, 9,— Denver comrades and sympathizers will cele- brate the Russian revolution on Sun- day, November 14. The lagging be- hind of one week, was caused on ac- count of the Debs memorial meeting, which was held Sunday, Nov. 7, called by the International Labor Defense. The program will be chuck full of good speakers, including the “would: governor, William Dietich, in the last election, and he'll explain why he lost the election by one yote—almost. The young workers will be repre- sented, as Well as the Pioneers. Music we'll have galore, and Russian music at that, The celebration will be held at the New Labor Lycetm, Julian and Cone- jog streets, at 8 p.m. At least come and gee the beautiful, new building that the Denver workers built for worker celebrations, and a good time is assured for all, not to mention the “Russia teal,” which will be served, and the admission will be a proletariat admission—only 10 cents, “The pen ie mightier than the sword,” provided you know how to use It, Come down and learn how In the worker correspondent’s classes, Get a copy of the American Worker Co It’s only & cents, ¥ THE BAILY WORKER I? is stupid as well as Wisgracetul conduct on the part of organized labor to show discrimination to fellow unionists of the Negro race, If’ the following editorial taken from the Pittsburgh ‘Courier is based on au- thentic information it is the duty of the American Federation of Musicians to look into the matter: Music. Hath Charms USIC hath charms to sooth the Savage breast, it is said, but evi- dently this does notpapply to the mem- bers of the American Federation of Musicians. Thesefunion workers ‘con- stitute one of ‘th strongest and rich- est groups withim the American Fed- eration of Labor. They live by making music ‘but are reluctant to see Negro musicians haves the same privilege. The music dispensed by the Negro union members? hath no charms for DISCRIMINATION AGAINST NEGRO WORKERS MUST BE STOPPED ganization belonging to the American Federation of Labor discriminating against its own members! Of course Musicians’ Federation, but they can phobia, which is even worse than the case of the Brotherhood of Locomotive its coal mines, The American Federa- tion of Labor, with its steadily declin- ing membership, cannot afford to allow such discrimination within its ranks, It offers their enemies an ex- cellent bit of propaganda to use against them at a time when their position in American life is none too secure, HE . Pittsburgh Courier believes firmly in the organization of all the other unions in the A. F. of L. | cannot be blatfed for the action of the | be blafned if they keep silent in the | face of this rank exhibition of color- | Engineers hiring non-union miners in | the white members when dollars ate | Working people, especially Negro involved. The ‘breast of the white | Workers, in strong labor unions, In a savage refuses t6 be koothed by the | 80ciety so organized as the present seductive moatis’ of jazz orchestras |°Ne, it is criminal negligence of one’s when Negroes ‘are producing the | interests NOT to be organized with music, At least that is what we gather from recent’ news reports. It seems that white union musicians playing in theaters on the Columbia Burlesque circuit have refused to play with colored musicians who are mem- hers of colored: shows on the circuit. number of Negro musicians with Negro shows has alarmed the white musicians. Already there are sixty Negro musicians on the circuit. Con- sequently, the Federation of Musicians recently passed a ruling that a local union must give its consent before a band with a show can play both in the pit and on the'stage, And since the | white members do not care to play |with the black members, this means |that the black unionists will ultimat ly be eliminated if the ruling con- tinues in force and race prejudice does | mot abate. NLY a’few weeks ago high officials of the American Federation of | Labor were denouncing the prejudiced - [attitude Of the Detroit Chamber of |Commerce, the Detroit Y. M. C. A. jand some of-the’ Detroit churches to- ward them, Yet, here is @ great or- those of similar interests, In no other | way can the worker hope to get pro- |per pay and humane working condi- | Hons. Thousands of Negro workers |have recognized this truth and hold |membership cards in various ‘trade and industrial unions affiliated with the the American Federation of La- bor, Curiously enough, however, it is in the unions presumably composed of workers possessing higher intelli- gence that the Negro unionist en- counters discrimination and prejudice. ‘ warn organized American labor that this discrimination because of color must cease within its ranks. Otherwise it will become a means for destroying .the organizations they have so laboriously built up. Some of the most loyal and militant workers in organized ‘labor are Negroes. They have struck, walked the picket lines and starved in order that tlie right to bargain collectively with the employ- ers might be established and main- tained. The Negro worker demands the right to join every union, and having joined, he demands equal treat- ment with all other union workers regardless of race, creed, color or nationality, Otherwise organized la- bor labor cannot hope to retain his allegiance, CHICAGO STAGES SACGO: PROTEST NOVEMBER 26TH Fitzpatrick; Johannsen, Flynn to Speak Chicago labor will-expréss its pro- test against the decision of Judge Webster Thayer in refusing to grani Saceo and Vangetti a new trial, at a mass meeting which will be held at Ashland Auditorium, Ashland and Van- Buren, on Friday, Noy 26th, at 8 p. m. Fitzpatrick to Speak. Chicago Federation of Labor, a staunch’ supporter of the cause of the two Italian workers; Anton Johaan- son, prominent in Chicago labor cir- ‘cles, ElizabethGurley Elynn, national chairman of International Labor De- fense, and other noted labor speakers will address the meeting. Special et known Italian labor leader to speak at the meeting also. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the Chicago Sacco-Van zetti conference, which is composea of some 80 labor unions and other workers” organizations. Prominent among the leaders of the conference are J. J. Uhlmann, of the district coun- cil of the International Association ot Machinists, who ig chairman of the conference; Anton Johannsen of the Carpenters’ union, Albert Wechsler, o1 Local 144 of the Amalgamated Clotn- ing Workers of jChieago, who is the conference s tary, George Maurer, local secretary of International Labor Defense, Hyman Schneid, of Local 39, A. C. W. of Chicago; John Wuerffet, of the South Chieago Trades and La. bor Assembly, the Reverend Rhys Williams, Duane Swift of the Chicago Liberal Club and numerous others. Thayer Decision a Menace. The Chicago Sacco-Vanzettt con ference, which ,expects an overflow demonstration at Ashland Auditorium, points out that the decision of Judge Thayer presents a great menace to the two Italian labor fighters who have been in the shadow of the elec- trocution chair for the last six years. The demand of workers everywhere |’ {s for a new and fair trial and for freedom for Sacco and Vanzetti. The conference has appealed to all labor organizations to send a demand to Governor Alvan , Fuller, state Jhouse, Boston, Mass, urging a new trial“and the appointment of a state investigation commission, and demand- ing justice and fr for Sacco and Vangettt. The Chicago conferenée will hold a delegate meeting on Monday, Novem- ber 15th, at Redifer's Haf, 30 N, We street, Room 301, at 8 p. m,, where new affiliations are expected and plans for the November 26th meeting will be completed.,, Admission to the meeting at Ashland Auditorium will be trae, John. Fitzpatriek, president of th»! forts are being made to secure a well- | GOVERNOR MOORE VISITS PASSAIC TEXTILE OWNERS PASSAIC, .N, J., Nov. 9.—Governor A. Harry Moore of New Jersey made |a visit, which he attempted to keep | secret, to Passaic wool textile mill | owners to learn more about their posi- | tion in the nine months’ strike of 16,000 | textile workers. Moore avoided head- | quarters of Local 1603, United Textile Workers’ Union, into which the strik- [ers are now organized. | He consulted with Robert M. Rein- | hold of Forstmann and Huffmann Co., | Col. Charles F. H. Johnson and Henry | V. R. Scheel of Botany Worsted Mills jand Garfield Woolen Mills; Theqdore asia and Joseph A. Brohel of | United Piece Dye Works, Lodi; Henry |Halterman of Gera Mills and New | Jersey Worsted Mills, atid William |Gaunt of Passaic Worsted Spinning | Stand as Before. | It is understood that the mill man- |agers reiterated to Governor Moore | their previously asserted stand that they would deal “only with their own | employgs” and with no union, whether |affillated with the American Federa- | tion of Labor or not, When Col. John- son of Botany Mills was, earlier in the strike, quoted ag saying that the mill owners would not deal with Al- bert Weisbord,*then leader of the strike, but would with the United. Tex- tile Workers, the beginning of the U. T. W. local was made. Johnson has since attempted to retract his state- ment, Citizens Busy. The committee of five appointed by the citizens’ meeting called by Mayor John McGuire is at work trying to bring the mill managements into con- ference with the local union officials toward settlement of the long strike. ove Buffalo Sees Picture on Passaic, Nov. 29-30 BUFFALO, Nov. 9.—The organized \ahor movement of this city has com- pleted plans for two showing of the seven-reel labor thriller, “The Passaic 3trike,” on November 29 and 30, at Wagles’ Hall, Tupper and Pear! streets. A third showing is contemplated for December 1 in another location of the elty in order to meet the tremen- dous demand of Buffalo’s toilers to see the splendid struggle of the he- roic Pi ic textile strikers as it is depicted on the screen, Tickets for the two November show- ings are already moving rapidly and success of these showings can confi- dently be predicted, HY onpay NORKER WILL APPEAR IN DECEMBER. SEND IN A SUB TODAY. _ rf _ Pere Mer Nari Page Five | (Copyright, 1996, by Uptom Sinciair) They discussed the latest developments in the tragedy which had befallen Koski, one of the emperors of their screen-world who had had a priceless stock in the cellar of his country place, and had taken the précaution to have it walled in with two feet of brick, and guarded by doors such as you would find on a bank vault; but thieves had come during the owner’s absence, and bound and gagged the caretaker and cut through the floor of the drawing room, above the cellar,.and hauled out everything with rope and tackle, and carted it away in trucks. Since | Koski had been raising a row with the authorities; he ch that, they-were standing in with the thieves, and he had brought in an outside dete¢tive agency, and threatened a scandal that would shake’ the pants off the police department. By this means he had got back the greater part of his casks and bottles; but alas, the-real stuff was gone, they had all been emptied and re- filled with synthetic. And so, after that, there was a convincing story of your bootlegger to tell you; this was some of the origi nal Koski'stuff! Millions of gallons of original Koski stuff were being drunk in California, and even in adjoining states. Suddenly Vee Tracy clapped her hands. “Oh, listen! I have one on Koski! Him and some others! Has anybody heard The Movie’s Prayer?” There was a silence. No one had. “This is something for all of us to teach our ‘chlidren to recite every night and morfing. It is serious, and you mustn’t joke.” “Let us pray,” said the voice of Bessie Barrie. “Fold your, hands, like good little children,” ordered Vee. “and bow your heads.” And thet with slow and solemn into- nation she began: 5 “Our Movie, which art Heaven, Hollywood be Thy Name. Let Koski come. His Will be done, in studio as in bed.” There was a gasp, and then a roar of laughter swept the table; no explanations were needed, they all knew their em- peror, master of the destiny of hundreds of screen actresses. “Go on!” shouted voices; and the girl continued to intone: an invocation, which echoed in outline and rythm the Lord's prayer, and brought in the names of other rulers of their shadow world, always with an abscene implication. It was a kind of Black Mass, and performed the magic feat of lifting the conversation out of the ditch of Prohibition. They talked for a while about the sexual habits of their rulers; who was living with whom, and what scandals were threatened, and what shootings and attempted poisonings had resulted. There were thrilling crime mysteries, which would provide a topic of conversation for hours in any Hollywood gatherifig; you might hear half a dozen different solutions, each one positive and no two alike. VI They adjourned to the larger cathedral, where the lights were dim, and there appeared, very appropriately in place of the altar, a large white screen. At the far end of the room was a pro- jecting machine, and the guests diistributed themselves in loung- ing chairs, prepared to pay for their entertainment by watching the first two reels of Annabelle’s new picture, and giving their professonal judgements on the “cutting.” “Pangs of Passion” you may recall as a soul-shaking Story about a society bud whose handsome young husband is led astray by a divorcee, and who, .in order to make him pealous, begins a flirtation with a boot- legger, and is carried off in a rum-running vessel, and made the victim of the customary pulling and hauling and tearing of femi- nine costumes. “My God,” said Vee Tracy, in an aside to Bunny, “Annabelle has been playing these society flappers since before they were born, and in all that time she’s never had a story above the intelligence of 4 twelve year old child! You'll think it’s a joke, but I know it for a fact that Perry Duchane gets a bunch of school children together and tells them the scenario, and if there’s anything they don’t like, he cuts it out.” And then to Annabelle she said, “It’s up to standard, my {dear; it will sell alright.” And to Bunny, “That’s one good thing about Annabelle, you can say that and she’s satisfied— she doesn’t ask you if it’s a work of art. But others do, and I’ve made mortal enemies because I won’t lie to them. I say, ‘Leave art out of it, dearie; we all know our stuff is trash.’ ” There was technical discussion, and Bunny had an oppor- tunity to learn about the tricks of “cutting.” Also he learned what had been the gross business on a number of Annabelle Ames’ pictures, and the inside figures on other succesges. Tommy Paley had recently indulged‘in the luxury of making an artistic and beautiful picture, whch the papers had called a “class he and a group of friends had come out something over a hun- dred. thousand in the hole, and he had charged it up to educa- tion, and said, “Let the Germans do the art stuff after this!” All this time there had been a sifent spectral figure flitting about the cathedral, clad in white duck coat and trousers and padded: purple slippers; the Chinese boy, bearing a tray with little glasses full of pink and yellow and purple and green liquid He would move from guest to guest, offering his tray, and they would put down empty glasses and take up full ones, and during the entire course of the evéning the spectre never made no sound, nor did anyone make a sound to it. 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