The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1927, Page 4

“BOND HOUSE TELLS HOW EMPLOYE Page Four (HE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1927 STOCK OWNERSHIP FOOLS WORKERS: “Profit Sharing” Not Pushed Among Clerks Because They Have Little Organization to Fear | (By ROBE Federated Press) Stock ownership by \ means of inducing company loyalty and éontentment is still gro ¢ the United States. Anywhere from 250: to: 400 companies have stock ownership schemes in operation. Possibly million workers at one time or another have taken a ing them. Installment plan | e the rule. three-quarters Share or more of Interests Darrow | the & Co., brokers, reviewing benefits. to capital from this wth in employe stock ownership, “Tt is impossible to regard this} ement except with satisfaction.” bond house believes that the movement “harmon' capital and labor,” encourages thrift and saving, | and makes the worker more efficient. | Gi me Away. | Why corporations have introduced | these schemes is clearly implied in the bankers’ review. It says: “Indirectly the philanthropic im- petus must be traced to the influence of organization in labor.” In other words, labor organizations has forced the employers into the welfare offensive. Further: “The labor unions for many years | have been fighting for better condi- | tions, and the long drawn-out con- | test between capital and labor has un- |doubtedly cost industry billions of | dollars, The Weaken Unions. “Profit-sharing, and finally stock acquisition, were adopted as amelio- | rating influences (meaning to weaken |the trade unions. Ed.) As far as | they have been conducted, they have) | been especially successful. | “The fact that banking institutions | have only in few instances adopted the system, gives cause for some re- | flection, It is true that mainly the! number of employes in a single bank-! ing institution is limited, but it also | may be true that the absence of or- Although the casts and managements of three sex plays in New York have beer arrested, their plays have been continuing for a few days by means of injunction proceedings. This photo shows the entire cast of “Sex” appearing at midnight in the West Side court. Miss Mae West, star (center), is seen with bowed head while lawyers arrange for bond. Aliquippa Police Not/| To Pay for IMegally Raiding and Arresting By A. JAKIRA. BEAVER, Pa—“Ham” Brown, chief of Aliquippa police, will have to pay no damages to Pete Muselin for the false arrest he made on July 27, 1926, In Aliquippa, Pa. This was the verdict of the jury after it was out for just a short time. Civil Liberties Involved. Mr. Wilson, one of the attorneys for Pete Muselin, in a _ two-hour speech before the jury pointed out | ganization among clérks and failure that the question involved is whether to exert the labor-union pressure may the American government is a dic- have something to do with it.” tatorship or a democracy. He quoted Members of the Bookkeepers’, the constitution of the United States Stenographers’ and Accountants’ un- and of the state of Pennsylvania to ion will be particularly interested in’ show that no search should be made the last sentence. without a warrant, that the Com- Strengthens Capitalism. munists have as much right to hold A no less explicit statement of the purposes and implications of worker meetings and to advocate their the- ories and id-as as any one else, even The Manager's Corner PERFECT THE MACHINE. The DAILY WORKER has come to New York and has thus taken the first long step toward establishing itself as a mass paper of the workers. The DAILY WORKER is now being distributed to thousands of newsstands in that great city. The inspiration, life and the movement of the great metropolis is being carried throughout the country. It now behooves us to perfect The DAILY WORKER machinery and make it an effective instrument for the building up of our circulation. : In every section of the city there must be established an effective machinery for the inspection of newsstands. Every comrade should inspect at least three stands or more on his way to or from work. Comrades should gain the good will of the newsdealers. See if he handles The DAILY WORKER. See if he receives too many or too few copies. See if he dis- plays the copies properly. Urge workers to buy the paper at the nearest newsstand to his shop or home. Send in to our § Clarence Darrow, noted crim- fnal lawyer, of Chicago, has be- come interested in the case of George Miers, 13, above, held at Mobile, Ala., for deportation to Italy following a trip to the United States from Naples as a stowaway on an oil tanker. As the boy says that he has a brother somewhere in the United States Darrow believes that he may have been born in this country end that he may have been kid- naped and taken to Italy. Czecho-Slovak Defense: Branch Challenges All Others to Bazaar Test Frank Chaloupka, the representa- tive of the Czecho-slovakian Interna- tional Labor Defense branch called a I. L. D. office and intimated that ac- tivity is greater than ever before. He said that last year one tenth of all advertisements in the Bazaar Pro- gfam were secured by the Czecho-slo- yakian workers. They will do even allow results to prove they are the most active branch engaged in ba- zaar work. On behalf of his branch he chall- enges all other groups to surpass their efforts this year. Trade unions, cooperatives, clubs, women’s councils and I. L. D. branches are all included and are urged to seriously take up this challenge. , No medals will be given the win- y 4. The pri prisoners will become reinvigo- c . 5 ; «kers on the outside are leaving no fone unturned in their fight to burst prison bars and bring the militant spirits into the every day fight. All together! We want to see the , competition become keen. The Fourth * Annual I. L. D, Bazaar will be the best yet held of all endedvors to surpass ytlie Czecho-slo » FERRE SEEN el er. Prohibition Probe Wilk, Follow Cooper Impeachment Charge WASHINGTON, Feb. 13—A con sressional investigation into the en- forcement of prohi ion was near to- day as the House Judiciary Commit- tee prepared to ask congress for au- thority to formally consider impeach- ment charges preferred against Fed- eral Judge Frank Cooper of Albany, N, Y., for his alleged cooperation with “ander cover” agents in nabbing dry law violators. After bickering with Rep. La Guardia (R) of New York, Judge Cooper's chief accuser, and wrangling over legal phases of the matter for iwo days, the committee decided to make a complete inquiry as a matter of fair dealing to both sides. Y. W. L. Gives Dance, A ball and dance will be held by the Young Workers’ (Communist) League, District 2, Saturday, Feb. 19, at Harlem Casino, better this year and are prepared to| will be that all class | with the knowledge that the! though one may disagree with these ideas. He brought out numerous facts from American histoty showing that y leaders who were responsible or the liberation of America from the English oppression were subject to prosecutions just the same as the Communists. are- subjected in this | stock ownership schemes is presented in a recent issue of the Y. World: |“Employers stock-ownership is whol- | ly capitalistic in its inspiration, and | it is designed to strengthen the pillars | of capitalism . The employers who have adopted it have been actuated by motives of enlightened | self-interest,” country at the present time. | Less Democracy. Yet, they, these leaders, are ad- | Some telling answers to the Har-| mired by everyone now, he pointed |vard and Princeton professors and! out. He called attention to the fact | Pollyana economists who see the com-| that the witnesses for the chief of ing new revolution rising out of the police contradicted themselves, and |employe stock ownership wave, have that Brown was merely a tool in the {been made by Lewis Corey, who after) hands of some “outside” forces, His a thorough study concludes that cor-| speech had a big effect upon the jury porate ownership is not being demo jand upon the numerous spectators eratized, even though stockholders’ who were present in court. may be increasing in number. In Judge Attacks Muselin. 1924, 4.6% of the stockholders owned Judge Wm. A. McConfell, instead 76.9% of the stock of American cor-' o¢ acting as the “impartial” judge as |porations. The tendency is for the pig duty demands in his instruction to large investors to increase their share the jury indulged in a bitter attack in corporate ownership. The work- soainst the plaintiff and the wit- \ing class has but slightly increased’ pesses who testified against Brown, its stockholdings in recent years and after which the verdict for Brown was this gain is absolute and not relative. brought in. There are no indications that the! Court Takes Revenge. class concentration of corporate) 4, soon as the verdict was an- |ownership is being broken. Profes- nounced the court decided to raise the sor Ripley, in his studies in corporate ai) of Muselin, Resetar and Zima to control, has also shown up the fallacy five thousand dollars each in place of of “revolution” through stock owner-'the one thousand dollars under which ship. they were held on a charge of viola- Ripley Fables are Bunk. tion of the infamous Flynn Anti Se- In fact Ripley and Corey reduce the dition Act of Pennsylvania on Armis- hopes and prophesies of the other tice Day when three houses were | professors to so much bunk, and make) raided in Woodlawn and eight men ar- ‘their long tables of corporation em-.rested. Resetar gave himself up to ploye stockholders impressive only to the police authorities in Beaver while a thoughtless public. The latest re- the International Labor Defense was lease from the Industrial Relations! busy getting the additional bail. | Section of Princeton University re-| The International Labor Defense views the worker stockholders de-| will help Muselin to carry the fight velopments of 20 selected corpor-|to a higher court, declared Caroline ations and concludes that the number! Scollen, the secretary of the Inter- of the present and prospective work-| national Labor Defense. er stockholders is only 20% of the DREAD number of present stockholders, on the books of the companies, while the Young Workers League arket val f the average worker * .. haiinr hs qubeakiotion in these spec Will Have Spring Dance In Bronx, on March 26 ial companies is only $1,200. Study Big Employers. The 20 companies studied, and th | Saturday evening, March 26, the number of employe owners and: sub | Bronx section of the Young Workers seribers in each, are: | League will give a spring dance and Amer, Sugar Refining Co., 1,000; entertainment at 1347 Boston Road, Amer. Tel and Tel. 57,000; Bethle-) Bronx, Keep this date open. We ask hem Steel Co., 85,000; Henry L.' all sympathetic organizations not to Doherty & Co. 9,000; Eastman Kodak arrange any affirs on this date— Co., 15,000; Illinois Central System,’ Bronx Section Y. W. L. Arrangements -Intl. Harvester Co., 12,000;) Committee, Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co., 276; Young Workers Will Lehigh Valley R. R. Co., 2,127; Natl.| Biscuit Co, 3,084; N. a rrr Lines, 20,4 Penn. R. R., 19,500;) .. Phila. Electric Co., 1,035; Procter &) Dance on Valentine Gamble, 4,326; Pure Oil Co. 1,081;| Night in Cleveland Radio Corp., 443; Standard Oil (Cal.) , 11,854; Standard Oil (Ind.) 17,416;, CLEVELAND, — Cleveland young Standard Oil (N. J.) 19,186; Swift & workers will come together in a gala Co. 138,000. | Valentine dance on Feb. 20, at the Some of the biggest open shop and/I, O, O. F. Hall, Superior Avenue and company union concerns are in the! East 123d Street, at 7 p.m. The hall list. {has an excellent floor, and one of |the finest union jazz orchestras in | the city will assure all who come one B. Saser'n of the best times in their lives, Ad- DINEWELL mission 50 cents. Refreshments will VEGETARIAN and DAIRY |! be served. Under auspices of the RESTAURANT Young Workers’ (Communist) League. 78 2nd Avenue, Near 4th Street. | - The Real Way to Eat —The Natural Way. }| —— | WORKER. f |Roll in the Subs For The DAILY Local Office at 108 East 14th Street all complaints or reports on how the paper is being handled. In every trade union, fraternal organization, or working class group, there should be built up a twofold machinery, one a publicity department in charge of an able comrade to supply The DAILY WORKER constantly with the latest news and two a comrade in charge paper. of promoting the sale of the Simultaneously the subscription drive must be pushed with energy in all places out of reach of the newsstands. The paper in its new form has received the highest praise from all over the country. Its new and more attention. features are attracting more The workers are deeply interested in the valuable prizes we are offering. The new “Red Cartoons of 1927,” which is being offered as a prize for every annual subscription is in itself worth the price of a subscription alone. On with the drive for 25,000 readers. Build up The DAILY WORKER machine.—BERT MILLER. COOPERATIVE HOUSING BRINGS OUT ALL FAULTS OF CAPITALIST BUILDING PROFITEERS By A. LOSSEFF. The United Workers Co-operative Association is celebrating the comple tion of the first square block of the five-story brick houses for workers and their families. hese. houses are} at Allerton Ave., Bronx Park E. Rooms and apartments are divided as follows: 1,000 rooms, 339 apartments: consisting of 3, 4 and 2 rooms with kitchenette and 70 single rooms, each large enough for two persons to live in. Practically all rooms are a great deal larger than those of private houses. Looks Well. No work was spared to make the place look nice and interesting. Two main entrances are made in a form ot a cross. But this is almost as wide as a traffie square. Basements Used. No janitors will live in the base- ments, occupying their time with drinking beer and running a hooch barrel as a side line, always looking for tips from the tenants. In the co-operative houses the janitor can afford to live upstairs, pay for his rooms and get paid for his work, for his regular hours. Furthermore, the basements will be occupied with other things more important than running a hooch business, Social Halls. All social and.economie affairs will take place in the basement. There wil be a big auditorium, a library, a restaurant, a day nursery for chil- dren when mothers are at work, a medical. preventorium department, which is not only for curing sickness but to teach people how to keep them- selves in good health. A current: weekly newspaper, a separate place for schooi and lectures, for old and young. The superintendent's office ond telephone switch-board, a radio set, hot and cold showers, athletic room, rooms for washing private laundry and drying (no drying lines in yard and furthermore they signed a contract with a union steam laun-) dry). a The steam boilers are dug deeper in the basement. There is also a machine shop for keeping things in good order, Fine Speakers Ready For Harlem Meeting; Problems. of Negroes Negro workers who come to the American Negro Labor Congress meeting Tuesday night will hear some good speakers. Lovett Fort- Whiteman, field organizer of the congress will speak, and so will John Ballam, chairman of the pro- gressive textile conference. Glenn Carrington, one of the student dele- gation to Russia will tell of life there in various phases, and there will be a literary program, in which Mike Gold, editor of the New Masses, will read some of his lat- est works, The meeting is held at 8 p. m, at A. M. F. M. Z. church com- munity house, 151 West 136th St, Hodges and Bondfield Agree to Reduce Dole Of British Unemployed LONDON, Feb. 13.—A severe re- duction of the unemployment “dole” will be made as the result of the recommendations of Lord Blanes- burgh’s Unemployment Insurance Committee, it was learned yesterday. The committee, whose report was unanimous, contains two labor mem- bers, Frank Hodges and Miss Mar- garet Bondfield. The benefits for young men and women between the ages of 18 and 21 will be substantially reduced— from 18 to 10 shillings a week in the case of young men and from 15 to 8 shillings a week in the case of young women, The adult male’s benefit will be reduced from 18 to 17 shilling a week |@ DRAMA © “Carmen” to be Presented in Talking Pictures “Carmen,” with a Metropolitan Opera cast, headed by Martinelli, will |be presented in talking picture form | this season, according to Harry M. ers. This is the first presentation of the kind, and will run thirty minutes. |The Shuberts are planning to coop- |erate with the Warners in producing |a fifty minute version of “The Student |Prince,” on the Vitaphone. If it proves | | successful, other light operas would | be treated in the same way and shown in motion picture houses. Revivals of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Tolanth” and “The Pirates of Penzance” may fol- low later. VAUDEVILLE THEATRES MOSS’ BROADWAY. The Broadway vaudeville program this week will include: Charles With- ers and company in “Withers Op’ry”; | William and Elsa Newell;. Frank | Stafford and Company; The Dancing Cyclones; and the Vagges. | PALACE. Vera Gordon and Co. in “Her Txiumph,” a one-act comedy by Edgar | Allan Woolf and William Siegel; Will Oakland; Hal Skelly, with Peggy Hope and Eunice Sauvain; Jimmy Savo, with Joan Franza; Gordon Bos- tock’s “Haunted,” with . Florence Crowley and William Wilson; Pat Henning and Co.; Whitey, with Ed Ford; Joe Fanton and Co. HIPPODROME. Hardeen, assisted by James Collins and James’ Vickery; Modena’s “Flashes of Art,” with Julia Steger and Rosita; The Three Sailors; Kharum; Joe Young and Co.; Four Radings. “The Showman,” a new musical comedy written by Paul Gerard Smith, Dave Stamper and Joe Laurie, Jr., will be put into rehearsal next week. JULIUS TANNEN Warner, president of Warner Broth- | DULCIE COOPER Chief “funmaker of “Vanities,” | Earl Carroll’s revue at the Earl Car- roll Theatre. | BROADWAY GOSSIP The Civie Repertory Players will | give five plays at their theatre on | 14th Street this week. Tonight and ‘Wednesday matinee, they will present “The Master Builder’; Tuesday, | Thursday and Saturday _ nights, |“Cradle Song”; Wednesday night, | “Three Sisters”; Friday night, “John | Gabriel Borkman”; Saturday matinee |*Twelfth Night.” Neighborhood Playhouse Grand St. Drydock 7516 ry Eve, (Except Mon.) Mat. Sat. ‘PINWHEEL’ By Francis Edwards Faragoh “THE DY¥BBUK"—Feb, 17 thro’ Feb, 23 An @ MERICAN TH TRAGEDY MONTH Mts. Wed Longacre yest QF and Sar. KLAW ftriNens THURS. SAT. 66 SINNER” With Allan Dinehart & Claiborne Foster Sam HARRIS Boies pang anes 88 WHAT PRICE GLORY Mats. (exc, Sat.) 50c-§1, Eves, 50c-$2 Bronx Opera House °C? 9a Ke": it. Pop. Prices, Mats. Wed. & Sat “THE LITTLE SPITFIRE” Myron €, Fagan's Grent Comedy. BROADWAY Xtra Meee Med, 22, 23, 24 and 26 * ’ In “The Little Spitfire,” at the Bronx Opera House this week. The published version of “Broad- way,” which Jed Harris is presenting at the Broadhurst, will be published by George H. Doran and Company. “Below the Line,” by Chester DeVonde and Kilbourn Gordon, has been put into rehearsal by Mr. Gor- don.- The play opens out of town in two weeks, “Spread Eagle,” a new play, by George Brooks and. Walter Lister, Jed Harris’s newest production, is being staged by George Abbott. “In Abraham’s Bosom,” will move after all, Paul Green’s dramatic play will be transferred from the Prov- incetown Playhouse to the Garrick Theatre tonight. . The British Committee, co-operat- ing in the Actors’ Fund of America $1,500,000. endowment campaign, will give an all-British benefit perform- ance Sunday, February 27, at the Im- perial Theatre. On the Screen “Taxi, Taxi,” a comedy with Ev- erett Horton and Marion Nixon, is the photoplay at the Hippodrome this week. The cast also includes Burr McIntosh, Edward Martindel, William V. Mong, Lucien Littlefield and Free- man Wood. It is based on George Weston’s story of the same name, “Thirty Years in Motion Pictures,” the compilation of various films which was exhibited last month at the Third Annual Better Films Conference, is to be exhibited at Carnegie Hall on Monday evening, February 28. The Film Arts Guild, has leased the Times Square Theater for Sunday showing of films in repertoire, and also premiere presentations of im- ported pictures beginning Sunday, February 20. D. W. Griffith’s production of “Sorrows of Satan” is being shown this week at Moss’ Broadway Thea- tre. Adolphe Menjou appears’ as Satan in the picturization of Marie Corelli’s novel. Victor Herbert’s well known’ miusi- cal comedy. “The Red Mill,” is the current screen feature at the Capi- tol Theatre, Marion Davies plays the role of the Dutch heroine. Jules Verne’s “Michael Strogoff”, is being held over at the Cameo Theatre for another week. ne Thea., 48 W. of B’y. Byes. 8:30 Matinees WED, and SAT., 2:30 # BOnNnIC Musical Bon Bon with Dorothy Burgess, Louis Simon, Wm, Frawley, George Sweet. Pacem A RUAN EISEN PSA SN SEN nk WLS as Then, West 45th St, PLYMOUTH Mon., Tues., Wed. Fri, Sat. Evenings and Tha. and Sat. Mata, WINTHROP AMES’ bert & 'T OF PEN- FA iva 4 PIRATES zance Thursday Evenings Only, “Iolanthe” The LADDER Everybody's Play WALDORF, 60th St, Bast of Bway. Mats. WED, and SAT. Civi Cor. 6 Av, & 14 St. Civic Repertory Te: Watkins 1767. m4 SONG", EARL CARROLL Js eA bats EARL CARROLL VANITIES Fem: Charlot’s Revue junamnncs uring ‘BROT ERS KARAMAZOV Week Feb, 14—PYGMALION hea W.52 St, GUILD Sint Thu. & Beet 5 THE SILVER CORD Week Feb. 14--Ned MeCobb's iter ‘Th468, B.of B'y [Cirel Jomn Golden yititthiureeset| Bik,