The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1927, Page 3

ee? aes * ing an abundance of light and air as INFORM MAYOR OF REAL SIZE OF BOX STRIKE Growing, ‘Not Finished As Employers Say At a meeting of the box strikers at the “Church of All Nations” Satur- day, it was decided to earry on the struggle with ever increasing vigor, until the New York Paper)Box Manu- facturers Association will agree to collective bargaining. The members of the’ union are encouraged by the return to their ranks of individuals who were led away by employers’ talk during the strike. Answer Lies In-a brief drawn up by the union and to be presented to Acting Mayor McKee at the conference in City Hall, Tuesday, Feb. ist, at noon, the fig- ures given by the Greater New York Paper Box Manufacturers Assn. in their letter refusing to send delegates, | were shown to be wrong in every particular, and other figures on the sanitary and working conditions were given which the employers are not | anxious to have known. ‘The brief! says, “In at least 90 per cent of the shops the cutters, corner cutters,| stitchers and creasers work in dark,} damp and unventilated cellars. | “Ninety per cent of the shops af- fected by the strike do not employ) porters to keep the shops and wash rooms clean so that ‘they are con-| stantly dirty and impregnated with | foul odors. In almost all the shops there is but one dressing room for both male and female workers where | they must both change into their work clothes. At aa 90 per cent! Sigman Desertion Made ‘ Frame Up Easier (Continued from page 1) to surrender them says the little bill collector from New England. , In. the meantime American war- ships are being stationed in strategic positions in the Pacific and Edward L. Doheny’s Teapot Dome oil tanks in Pearl Harbgr, Hawaii, are coming in handy. : The danger of a new world war is considered’ more iminent than most people imagine. The crisis in China may set fire to the military powder barrel as the assassination of -an Austrian grand duke did in 1914. Read English Statement. State department officials read with the keenest interest the new British policy announced by Sir Aus- ten Chamberlain. It was said to of- fer little that, is concrete. It was pointed out that the British agree to have their citizens amenable to Chin- ese laws when these laws become ac- ceptable to the British and to turn over to the Chinese a measure of con- trol of the British concessions. REACTIONARIES OF FUR WORKERS SUE IN NEWARK RANK AND FILE OF AMALGAMATED HITS DISRUPTERS Left Wing Massmeeting Scores Beckerman With Manager Abraham Becker- man’s agents outside of the entrance of the hall, but afraid to do anything to stop the meeting, about 800 mem, hers of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America met at the ca)! of the Trade Union Educational League at Stuyvesant Casino on Sat- urday afternoon, and adopted a reso lution condemning the reactionary leadershin which does not organize the clothine workers but fiehts the militants among them instead. The crowd anplauded left wing speakers; Ben Gitlew. C. S. Zimmer- man, Ren Gold. S. Liptzin. L. Nelson and Philin Aronberg. It listened to a detailed discussion’ of the present difficulties in the union, and partci- pated in the plans to inangurate an energetic drive to organize the indus- try. Score Destructive Leadership. Beckerman’s destructive leadership was scored. His expulsion campaign bis unfevorable agreement and the svstematic attempt to eliminate from the shops all progressives, in order to replace them with his personal fol- lowing, have done great injury to the Left Wing Winning, So funien. said the sneakers. Rights Rush to Court (Special to The Daily Worker) NEWARK, N. J., Jan, 30. — The) latest move on the part of, the right| | wing group in the Furriers’ union to} of these shops’ lever ‘yet direct aaa take over control of Local 25, is an 7 : ” light Ee Gaaiee | appeal to the local courts to oust the The ery of competition was btaided | regularly elected left wing officials as a subterfuge in so far as these | #2 install themselves in their place. manufacturers have a different class, In petitioning the Chancery Court of work than the open shops. Also) i” this city the Schachtman-Sorkin the union affirms that it has spent clique state that the left wingers de- “thousands. of dollars during the! sire to overthrow the American gov- period of its agreement with the man- | ernment, the dreaded Communists be-|. . ing in control of the local. Langer Singled Out. ufacturers in an endeavor to organ- | ize the workers in the open shops,' but the employers in these shops in-| variably answered the organization} campaigns by granting their workers reductions in the hours of labor and inereases in pay. However, the great-| est competing advantage which the) open shops have over the union shops} is that as a rule, they conduct their) operations in modern, sanitary and up to date factory buildings contain- well as sanitary wash rooms and rest rooms.” ! Mass Picketing. A demonstration of mass picketing is planned for sometime before the meeting in City Hall to give the lie to the statement that there are only! “a few hundred workers out, mostly | young boys and girls.” Among the eight hundred workers who came to the dance the union held were over a hundred of the workers who had made | some break back into the shops.) Drivers especially were back in the. union after cases had come up where the emyloyers cut men who were get-' ting $40 to $28 a week, Girls who; had been scabbing for two weeks came to the union hall today, and told a story of having been taken in by a policeman when they were look- ing for a job in the neighborhood. cit SNR Roll in the Subs For The DAILY, WORKER. Hillquit Admits Sigman Can’t Expel Board ‘ (Continued from page 1). the orders of the general executive, board.” says Hyman. “We challenge Mr. Hillquit to take this questien be- fore any court of competent jurispru- dence. And J need not tell you that if Mr. Hillquit believed his on state- ment as to what a court would do in the premises, this matter would long ago have been in the courts and if these orders are valid, the Joint Board of which I am general manager would have been out of business long ago” Powers of International. The argument makes an able com- parison of the construction and pow- ers of the union to the construction of the United States, likening the In- ternational to the federal government, which latter, however, has more pow- er since it can tax directly and judge citizens in its own courts,—powers which have not been given the Inter- national. The limits imposed upon the pow- ers of the General Executive Board are also discussed in the argument, making it plain that Sigman’s action in “taking over the affair” of the Joint Board, as he now terms it, was W short of usurpation. Hillquit Backs Down. The charges which the G. E. B. ade against the Joint Board officers LEWIS EXPULSION THRU AGAINST ALL OPPOSITION f (Continued: from page 1). workers remember that when Judge Rosalsky, leader of the Zionist move- ment in New York, friend of the eapi- talist, bitter enemy of labor unions, Twenty officials of the local are named defendants in the complaint, which cites the progressive manager) of the local, Morris Langer, as a “ter- rible example.” An affidavit signed by Samuel Adelman, a flunkey of Shachtman, at- tached to the complaint, states that Langer offered him $2,000 “to help spread Communistic ideas among workers.” The affidavit is ridiculous on the face of it but is being used. Vice Chancellor Church directed the officials of the local to show cause tomorrow why they should not be re- moved as officers of the union. “Three Times And Out?” This is the third attempt within one week by the right wing to oust! the regularly elected officers of the local. Last Thursday a committee: headed ,by Sorkin, and including loca! police tried to remove the progres- sives by a display of force. Unsuc- cessful, on Friday they adopted a new! method of attack. They demanded) that the association refuse to reecg- nize Langer as business agent, and transact business with their puppet. At first the bosses were in favor of ists supported the left wing, they changed their mind. | were read into the record before the Impartial Chairman. but withdrawn Gitlow described Beckerman’s w'll- ingness to aid the reactionaries in other unions, his offer of help to President Sigman to break up the Madison Square Garden mass meet- ing, and his boast that as tong as he was manager of the Joint Board, no proeressive meetings would be held. The resolution read and unanimous- ly adopted at the meeting states that “The rule of Beckerman. . .is respon- sible for the bad conditions in the industry! Wages have heen reduced, hours of employment increased, the speed-up system has been developed .Readjustments are ranidly grant- ed_with the result that hundreds of workers are thrown out of their jobs. Work cut by union cutters is allowed to be sewed up in non-union shops: Noe standards as to wages, hours or conditions are being maintained in the shops. Business agents are al- lowed to make individual agreements.” The resolution declares that these conditions are responsible for the dis- satisfaction of the rank and file, but that Beckerman’s solution of this is not to remedy the conditions, but te institute a reign of terror against the dissatisfied workers. He also con- ducts fraudulent elections in. the Anialgamated, and lends terrorists to ether reactionaries, attempting to break up in this way the Furriers and the I. L. G. W. unions. Jn view of these facts, the resolu- tion concludes. te Cite Beckerman As Menace. “That Beckerman is a menace to the Amalgamated oragnization’ of New York and demands Beckerman, who has not the support of the mem- bership, be immediately ousted as inanager of the New York organiza- tion. “That ail the suspended and ex- pelled members of the organization who were expelled and suspended for | | doing so, but, when they saw that the political reasons be reinstated with | | overwhelming majority of the union-, full rights. “« . . } allah By a ae eng lbta been | arvousness prevailed among their) deprived of their pobs for political reasons immediately be placed back to work on their old jobs. “That no readiustments be permit- as evidence by Mr. Hillquit when Hy-|ted and equal division of work en- }man began to answer them. “T re- | forced, and that all work cut by uniop eyet that Mr. Hillquit beat such ajcutters be sent to union contracting | hasty retreat. for I would welcome! shops. such a discussion, as I would have‘ That the Amalgamated give full no difficulty in proving that these;support to cloak, dressmakers and charges ave not only baseless but: furriers in their brave fight to main- made in utter bad faith. The very, men who have made them do not he-) lieve any part of them. And they tain the unity of their organizations. “Furthermore, this meeting calls | upon the Amalgamated membership have never dared to bring them for-;to enroll in the fight not only to oust ward whenever the other side has had a ckance to answer. These charges are always trotted out when- ever there is nobody around to re- fute them and immediately withdrawn when a hearing before an impartial tribunal is imminent.” The decision of the Impartial Chair- man will be made early in the week, it is expected. PARIS, Jan. 30—Aristide Briand French foreign minister declared to- day that the French and American at | titudes towards China were similar,| speaking on the Kellogg declaration of American policy in the present Chinese crisis, ‘ But by the time Briand got thru talking it is clear that France is| not willing to surrender extra-terri- torial rights in the near future.) Briand also insisted that France had concessions in China while the United States had not. POLICY RUSHED | Queer “Explanations.” Sigman’s explanation of these ter- ‘ible sentences, according to capitalist papers, is that the “Comniunists i duced Judge Rosalsky to intpose such! prison terms so tha pay could make ona,” martyrs of the eloa Beckerman, not only to maintain the unity of the needle trades unions, but to establish the Amalagmated as & rank and file organization that will improve conditions, establish the 40- hour five-day week and pave the way for one union of all the needle trade workers in Americu:” Premier Pilsudski Has Them Guessing WARSAW, Poland.—The jingoists of world imperialism expected to find in Marshal Pilsudski, premier dicta- tor of Poland, a second Mussolini, but they are puzzled by his ever changing policies. b Both Mussolini and Pilsudski, as- sumed power under identical circum- stances, by a coup of force. Both ‘out to suppress Communism. Brt where Mussolini does this by the sheer enforcement of: his absolute will, Pilsudski finds that the socialist and liberal element is too strong an cpposition to vermit him to assert his desire for dictatorial power. Hence his failure to abolish parliament. The canitalistic press is prone to interpret this weakness of the marshal as lenient and demoeratic ig¢ezlism, and to prove that a dictatorship. as exerciséd hy Pilsudski is really bene- ficial to the restoration of Poland's prosperity. i It is therefore not surprising that Pilevndek’ ie fighting very hard “itation of the democra THE DAILY WORKE YEAR OF THE LEFT FIFTH AVENUE ve te { , By JOSEPH ZACK. | (Concluded from last Friday). The employers were in an uproar! at the nerve of a small, tame local daring to antagonize these million- aire firms,’ among the biggest in the needle industry, by an organization drive.’ They got ‘together and got busy, as a result of which arrests be- ‘an among our leaflet distributors ‘or littering the sidewalks. Our wom- an organizer was arrested every few days for obstructing the traffic with her open-air meetings. Police and detectives began to appear every- where. Meanwhile the conference commit- tee of the union was_ negotiating. First the bosses ignored all the de- mands of the union except the in- crease of wages for tailors only. Un- der no condition would they recognize the union so far as the dressmakers were concerned. The negotiations were expolited in our propaganda in the organization drive. An injuncticn move was made through the lawyer of the bosses’ association and cffec- tively countered. Employers Weaken. Meanwhile, under presstire of the organization drive, approaches were made by the employers and some in- fermal conferences took place, ac- eording to which they were ready to grant the tailors the 40-hour week and 10 per cent increase in wages. They were even willing to give the time agreement through a supplemen- tary agreement according to the abil- .ity of each firm, but nothing for the} dressmakers. It was a tempting bait for us to make a highly profitable sell-out for the benefit of the tailors) MONDAY, JA JARY 31, 1927 WING AMONG NEEDLE WORKERS The strike call went ‘out and the response of the dressmokers, as we: expected, was very poor. The Fifth Avenue Association got busy’ and the district was flooded with police out- side and inside the building, indus- trial squad, private police and detec- tives. The very first days we had dozens of arrests in » str of only 1,500 workers. The special picket committee of about .30 was under great handicap as its visiting com- mittees appearing in the strike di trict found themselves shadowed. Nevertheless they visited about 60 shops hin ten days and were ef- fective in about 28. Picketing with signs was an inno- vation and the employers tried hard to prevent it. The picket line was quite aggressive in the first dash and] , the whole glamor of publicity, strike atmosphere, pickets, ete., was very effective in keeping the rich, chari- table ladies away from their shopping pleasures as they do not like to be annoyed by the open physical display of the class struggle. WHEELER POINTS OUT HYPOCRISY OF IMPERIALISM New Yorkers Pass Four Resolutions President Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg were severely criti- cised here yesterday in a speech de- livered by Burton K. Wheeler, demo- cratic senator from Montana, and other well. known speakers, at, the Lyric Theatre, Broadway and 42, St. Wheeler stated, that unless we com- pel the responsible statesmen of this country to cease their intimidating tactics and their gunboat policy in Nicaragua and Mexico, that within a ry short period we will again be involved in a needless and brutal war. Americans Hypocrites. “What hypocrites we are,” the Sen- ator said, “We denounce England for her imperialism, herald the right of | self determination for small countries, jand then invade the boundaries of Meanwhile the right wing in the} sovereign republics, and reduce them union that had been swept off its feet by these rapid developments, be- gan to raise its head again. The right wing would surely play a-dan- gerous game. The treasury of the union was low, so the conference committee made a settlement, and a good one. hour week (a la furriers) as again: 44 hours before, § increase in wages for everybody that went on strike—and we placed in union shops most of the shops we had lost. As a result of the drive we won 300 new members, mostiy dr akers, or a 80% in- A 40-) dressmakers in whose} at the expense of the dressmakers,) to vassals of Wall Street.” He also predicted that if this present en- croachment campaign is carried through, that the same will then take place in all the other foreign coun- tries where America has its money | invested. Overproduction. Wheeler analysed the process of |eapitalistic production and oyer-pro- duction, and how imperialism becomes the result of the latter. | The meeting was held under aus- |pices of “The Non-intervention Citi- | zens Committee” and was presided lover by Rev. John Howard Mellish. The opening speaker, Hubert C. and if’ we would refuse them the right-wingers, who were already working “indirectly with the bosses, would keep the tailors from suppcrt- ing the strike. They were already spreading rumors that the tailors’ in- terests were being sacrificed for the| nefit of the dressmakers, uttering threats of ousting the left wing leadership, ete. Exposes Bosses’ Trickeyy. The organization drive was mean- while going at fever heat. The strike machinery was ready. It was Friday and the strike call was to be issued! next Tuesday. Many of the old timers) were shivering in their boots at the| dash with which the union was chal-| crease in membership. Herring, who had resided in Mexico We won this in honest struggle}extensively, explained the economic without selling out the exploited cos-) background to the present controver- tume dressmakers, and we won more} sy, and showed that betwéen 1890 and than the right wingers could when} 1910, during the Porfirio Diaz regime previously, with their “sell-out’ pol-| three million Mexican peasants were iey, under more favorable circum-| expropriated, their land being fraud- stances, they got only an increase in| ulently “bought up” by American wages. The strike committee, includ-| capital. ing the right wingers, unanimously| Herring was followed up by Nor- accepted the settlement. | man Thomas, who explained that The whole strike and organization| America was demanding where she campaign cost about $9,000. Still, the right wingers now clamor that we spent too much money, that the strike was a failure because we did not get forty weeks’ time guarantee, that we hired Communist gangsters, ete. By the latter they mean eight has nothing to demand, and that there | are not reasons why Mexico should {consent to an arbitration on a mat- |ter where she. is the sole judge He | ridiculed Coolidge and Kellogg for \their narfow-mindedness and arro- jgance, and stated that there is no villain involved, except a fanatical lenging these big“ aristocratic firms.! special pickets, militants who Wwere| passion and worshi In whispers it was said, “Let us hope| taken from their shops downtown at| rivet sea for the god of that the union will at least be saved —no more of these inexperienced left) could not recruit such elements from} wing youngsters.” The union’s con-| ference committee arranged a formal conference with the employers in or-| der to find out whether the informal] proposals were not merely a maneu-| ver to line up the tailors thru getting} us to reject these proposals, and so) the wages they earn because we among the elderly tailors. These very right wingers who in our last stop- page had _ professional ange Three DRAMA Lynn Fontanne In “The Brother’s Kasamazov,” based on Dostoievsky’s novel, at the Guild theatre this week. Broadway Gossip Of the ten p scheduled to open this weck, no | than five will have their premiere toda “Trelawney of the Wells,” the Pieso comedy, at the New “Amsterdam; “The Road to Rome,” at the Playhouse; “For Bet- ter or Wors at the Mansfield; “Trial Marriage” at Wallack’s—all of these open tonight. “The Bottom of the Cup” will be presented at spe- ciai matinees, beginning this after- noon, at the Mayfair theatre. The younger element of the Civic Reportory Company will give a cial performance of Maxim Gor “The Lower Depths” this morning at 10 o’clock. The presentation will be attended by Eva Le Gallienne and the permanent players of the com- pany. Henry Stillman’s comedy, “Lally,” is announced for Tuesday night, Feb. 8, at the Greenwich theatre. Anne Morrison, Claude Raines,” Patricia Barclay and Benedict MacQuarr‘e head the cast. Paul Green’s play, “In Abraham's Bosom,” in which Julius Bledsoc | Speaker From Canton. The next speaker, James Henry, former instructor at the Canton Uni- versity, said that the late President gangsters|/of South China, Dr. Sun, could be whom they paid the usual high prices) compared to the American personage and who took money from both sides, now pretend to be indignant at our) getting honest, able-bodied radical it was. In formal conference the em-{ workers on the picket line. But this ployers were not réady to grant what their unofficial representative said| they were, They even made some) ecunter-demands. Tailors Line Up. This helped .us to line up. the tailors. We did not break off nego- tiations,. However, we needed more! time for the organization drive.| Meanwhile the employers got very) little bt, a in the shops. The} strike calf was delayed one week. The) ‘employers were up in the air. Tense female workers. The employers had cleared the decks for a strike Tues-| day. There was no work cut up for) another week. They did not know) how many of the dressmakers would respond. This was a week of “strike on the job” with pay, and it cost the, companies tens of thousands of dol- lars! In ‘this week the union did its best shop propaganda. is only a camouflage. The fact is that the bosges have somewhat recuperated from the shock of our drive; they are terrorizing the tailors thru the right wing, saying that if they do not oust the left wing leadership and get an administration that will behave and abstaip from or-/ ganizing the dressmakers,' they will get rid of the tailors altogether. 3chind these silly accusations are real selfish, stupid craft interests and the’ “old timers” listen. © Theirs is not the path of struggle, better less at some one else’s expense By the old fake methods than honest struggle for the workers’ interests irrespec- tive of craft. of Lincoln, whose political program was that of government of; for and by the people of the country. He said that the demand for freedom in China was the result of her industrial | development, and not because of bol- | shevistic intrigues. Dr. Chun, presi- dent of the Chinese student body in | this country, spoke a few words, and asserted that the people in China completely mistrust America, that | they have heard enough nice words | spoken, but that they are waiting for jactions. The failure of the United States to ratify the Lausanne treaty is considered to have had a very bad effect in other countries, as it’ indi- |eates the insincerity of the promise for equal rights to smaller nations. Resolve Against Imperialism. Four resolutions were read: (1) | to urge President Coolidge to accept The method jg to sac-/the principle of arbitration, ‘is a rifice the semi-skilled and unskilled) means to avoid war, and stop the for temporary, even illusory privi-| Shipment of ammunition into Niear- leges to the skilled. agua; (2) to urge the Senate to pass We are onthe eve of new elec- the Senate Resolution No. 309, to re- tions in Local’ 38. The selfish craft| C3! the marines from Nicaragua; (3) interests of our “old timers” are ‘© ®8K for the passage of Resolution Try Bribery. worked up to a pitch. The general Finally the employers, driven pan-| situation im the. ILGWU is favorable icky by these unusual methods which for our “old timers.” The bosses’ in- they had never experienced before! terests and those of the right wing- in the trade, began to heavily “sacri-| ers in’ the local and in the interna- fice” in: order to kill the effect of| tional coincide. The left wing has a our organization drive. They ibd pancbcdal ‘ puget “ic i i in wage increases to thousands of the|creased the, membership, got im- Lass dressmakers and also re-| proved conditions, and strengthened duced their hours to 44 and in a few|the union. Can the old timers fool cases to 40. We knew this would! the members and overcome the effect have quite an effect on these organ-) of our successful policy and put the ized, raw female workers that had no) union back to sleep for years? We union experience, don’t think so. 35 FRESSERS WILL MEET TONIGHT 70 ACT ON SIGHAN'S SURRENDER OF THAR RIGHTS ‘The executive board of Local 35, Cloak, Shirt and Dress Pressers’ union, has issued a call for 2 meeting to be held tonight. The call is issued to all dress pressers of Local 35, 1. L. G. W. U. and says: “Dear Brother: . “The leaders of the International, headed by Sigman, have lost their heads in their ferocious onslaught upon the members of our union for their refusal to bow to Sigmar#s dictatorship. Wild with fury because the work- ers have turned their backs on him with loathing, Sigman made allies of the bosses, and surrendered to them all the union conditions for which we have battled fer so many years, in order that he might procure from them an agreement. “He has susvendered the ‘schedule’ which means that the wages of presser will be at the meréy of the bosses. He has surrendered the ‘mini- mum seale ofgwages,’ which means that we shall no longer be permitted to lodge complaints that we are earning starvation wages. He has fur- thermoré surrendered a roint pertaining to reorganization, according to which our jobs will always be in”jeopardy, and other points. “Brother P: { Will you stand for it? Will you allow Sigman to despoil the union Il the gains that you haye achieved with your blood on the picket lines? Will you allow your rights to be bartered and your union structure to be demolished ? “Your answer must be given at the mass meeting of the dress-pressers - Monday, January 31, right after work, at Manhattan y "Waecutive Bu rit 4 iw Fosepln’ Goxetaky, man- 319, which bill demands a federal in- vestigation of foreign investments, jand (4) to reques of the Senate the acceptance of the Porter Bill, re- |nouncing extra-territoriality, and to jmake new treaties with China, on an |equal basis with other powers. | British Seem To Yield In Chinese Affair (Continued from page 1). operation” given by the United States to England was. the kind a loan shark would give a hard-pressed borrower. Uncle Sam got the best of the deal. England Losing Trade. The die-hard section of the British cabinet led by Churchill and Birken- head insisted on a policy of stegi in China but the Baldwin-Chamberlain; group pointed out that England had already lost millions of dollars worth of trade because of this policy of force and unless steps were taken im- mediately to get oyt from under Chinese hatred an English bagman would not be able to sell a shoestring in a Chinese port inside of six months. The hostile attitude of Japan tc- wards the British policy in China :s believed to be one of the decisive causes of the change of front, The! Japanose press has strongly con! demned Britain’s war demgnstratio: ‘ against China and the Mikado’s gov-' arnment in offering to ditch the old unequal treaties met with almost unanimous approval. , Roll in the Subs For The DAILY] ORM ER plays the leading part at the Prov- incetown theatre, has been taken ove: by the Totten-Herts organization and will be moved to an uptown thestre next Monday. “Her Crime,” a play of the Russian revolution, by Dr. M. J. Olgin, will be Maurice Schwartz’s next produ tion at the Yiddish Art Theatre. “I Told You So,” the musica) comedy at the Royale theatre, wil move to Chanin’s 46th Street nex’ Monday. S. Hurok, in association with Wil- ner and Edwin Relkin, will present the Habima Players in “The Golem” at the Irving Place theatre, starting Wednesday night. The play is baseti on the legend of the human being who has the power to create a living thing from a clay figure, and follows the theme as the picture of the same name that was presented on Broad- way some seasons ago. The new experimental theatre, the Fifty-second Street, will present for its first number a play by John How- ard Lawson. It is reported to be even more radical than the same author’s “Processional.” Rehearsal will begin next week. Jed Harris will start casting his next play, “Spread Eagle.” George S. Brooks, Walter E. Lister and George Abbott, collaborated in the writing. George Abbott will direct the show. Originally it was ealled “Patriots, Inc,” and the story is based on war and politics in Mexico, Today’s matinee marks the 70th performance of “the Desert Song” the at “asino Thearre. An » MERICAN TH TRAGEDY MONTH. .Longacre Ws! yey eo WALI U'way, M Thea. 48th St RITZ 8.30, Mats. WE . Lawrence Weber's Musical Bon Bon Bye Bye Bonnie Sat. Evenings and ‘Pha. and Sat. 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