The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 15, 1927, Page 4

COOLIDGE’S FEDERAL RESERVE BANK BILL MAY ( Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1927 PASS CONGRESS SOON AND TIGHTEN GRIP OF BANKERS ON LIVES OF AMERICAN WORKERS By LAURE TODD (Federated Press). WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Re-chartering for an indefinite period of the Federal Reserve banks is about to be “put over” on the people of the United States v. ¢ diseussion of the broad powers thus confirmed to the h to Pres- gnificant as of Wall Street. ire a bill w Lig bank ident Cooli Congress is prepared to r ch forestalls a battle as the one in Andrew ime fought over the charter of the National Bank. And Coolic e2 awaiting the chance to sign this measure, is not’ whispering a word concerning its importance, for fear something in the | arrahgements may slip, and the public take « m, v In the Me. leomed Silently. adden bill, which legal- Ford at $5,000,000,000 izes the creation of branch banks . rs ] A within any city by a ‘national bank Dinner With Coolidge | jocatea ‘there, provided state banks in hat state are authorized to estab- lish branches, this re-charter scheme is found. It was put into the bill in the nate by Carter Glass of Vir- ginia, former democratic secretary of the treasury and one of the authors ;of the Federal Reserve Act. The | Mellon-Coolidge administration wel- | comed it silently, hoping that no pro- | gressive would raise the issue be- | tween this relief bill for the Wall | Street bankers and the relief bill for | western farmers. In conference of the two houses the | the house adopted the conference re- |port. Recently the administration lined up more than two-thirds of the senators to sign cloture petitions for both. the McNary-Haugen farm relief | bill and this bank re-chartering | scheme. The cloture will not be | needed for the farm bill, as a date |for final vote on that measure has been agreed upon. But the bank bill awaits further action. 4 No Filibuster. As the progressives view the crisis, nothing can be hope dfor in the way| of filibuster. As soon as they shall | nothing can be hoped for in the way | ure for a day of two, the banking bloe will file the petition for cloture, jand the debate will be cut off when each senator shall have had a chance to speak one hour. Since the active’ opposition may number less than ten senators, # final roll-call can soon be forced, and the bill will go to the | White House for signing. he coun- vill have been placed for an in- inite period of years under the fi- al charge of the Federal Re- {serve Board and the banks which it supposed to dominate. The power! which has ruled the policy of the beard is the big banking combine in New York. This group will be able} in future, as it was in 1920, to sud-| Henry’, Ford, billionaire De-? ‘troit auto manufacturer, coming to Washington to attend a dinner given in honor of President and Mrs. Coolidge.by the Secretary of the Interior, Hubert Work, is snapped as he calls at the White House. Workers Party Ready |farm relief bill, because that action For. Women Ss Day With ; Would make the senate turn against) him on his bank re-chartering bill. Corps of Speakers | He will not get a chance to slip the mnaete, bank bill through the new congress; Throughout the world, March the! the complexion of the senate after) eighth has been set aside as a day| March 4 will be more progressive,| for interisive propaganda among wo-| and its membership will be disposed man workers—the most exploited sec- | to examine very deliberately the lim- tion of the exploited classes. In every itations which should be put on the country great meetings are held to banking system, to prevent manipv-; put forward the demands of women lation of credit and the making of as workers and as workers’ wives—/ panics. He must get the re-charter, minimum wage law, shorter hours; / bill through congress now. He may] equal pay for equal work, leave of| have to pay the price, which would absence at child-birth, better housing | be his signature on the farm relief at lower rents, abolition of child Ja-| bill, which he has often declared to bor, mere and better schools, etc., be unsound and impossible. Mean- and to rally women workers to the| while the farm bill moves toward his class struggle. desk, and the farm senators are un- Extensive preparations are being willing to act on the bank privilege! made for a mass meeting in celebra- measure until they know he has) tion of International Woman’s Day, | Signed the relief bill. None of them| to be held under the auspices of the | has discovered that the banks, re- Workers Party, District No. 2, at the | chartered, can again take away by de- Central Opera House, March 8. The flation all of the possible good ef- speakers will be M. J. Olgin, M.| fects of the relief scheme. Wéeinstone, L. J. Engdah!, Rose Wor- tis.of the Dressmakers’ Union, Fanny Warshefsky of the Furriers’ Union, Kate Gitlow of the United Council of Housewives, a Y. W. L. and Pioneer speaker, and the secretary of the women’s department of the Workers Party, District No. 2. There will also be a musical program. Tickets are on sale at 108 E. 14th . and at the office of The DAILY RKER. | industry or commerce. Must Be Passed Now. | 1 \ Says We Have Improved. DAILY WORKER, Dear Sir: Your paper has much improved of | late in two respects: it is not so much | a mere ‘dry catalogue of events in various labor organizations, and it is | extending its circle of interest to an extent that is making it a cultural! agént of the working ‘have art to live. JAN PASSAIC STRIKE STILL ON! WE'VE WON IN FOUR WILLS! HELP US B GIVE MONEY PLEASE! Give all you can! Make all contributions by check or money order to GENERAL RELIEF COMMITTEE 799 BROADWAY Get 10¢ Coupons and sell them TO Strikers’ Children. iam yn nets, Glass amendment was retained, and in the debt settlement, and has bor- | denly deflate any section of business,}| . ee prediction has been made that} i | Coolidge would not dare to veto the}, For Coal for the Strikers’ Homes! For Bread for their families! They have made a hard fight! Now they are winning! Now you must help more than ever! MAKE VICTORY COMPLETE! Room 225 Represents U.S. in -| Belgium : Belgium is one of the countries most “favored” by the United States | rowed most heavily from Morgan con- trolled banks following the writing off of considerable parts of the U. S. government war loans. She is one of. the most promising of Wall Street’s new financial fiefs. No wonder then) that Uncle Shylock chooses his min-| isters to Belgium with care. Above} is Hugh S. Gibson, just transferred | to Belgium from Switzerland, and conferring in Washington now as to his new duties. Bethlehem Tax Gang Preys on Foreign Born With “Collection Cost” | BETHLEHEM, Pa., Feb. 14— Quite recently foreign-born workers, living in colonies of their nationality here, unused to the ways of thé coun- try, have been preyed upon by tax) collectors, who charge them for “the | cost of collection,” whether they have | to pay their tax or not, were visited | by house-to-house. collectors who as-| serted that they were rounding up| tax dodgers. | These. marauders visited a house that had been occupied for only a month and demanded that they pay| the city and school taxes for the year In order to avoid going to! jail, these people were forced to bor- row from friends a sum totaling $377 (including the “cost of collection” or, ain language, graft). is is only one instance of legal) robbery of workers in this city Many other cases of the sort have been re- ported. Meanwhile, Bethlehem work- ers of all nationalities have begun to} agitate for the formation of an or- ganization to protect the foreign- born workers from marauders such as these. | iI. L. D. Bazaar Program /Will Be Good Souvenir “We expect to make this year’s | bazaar program a work covering the | field of defense of class-war prison- ers.” This is the ambition of the In- ternational Labor Defense. Stories and letters from political | tion, are cordially invited to attend) prisoners; special articles dealing | with branches of the work, such as | deportation cases, raising bail, ne-| gotiations with lawyers, relief to} needy dependents of prisoners, con- | ditions in various jails, stories of prison life, ete., are to be dealt with. A statement dealing with the general problem of defense, the purpose of the I. L. D., and the job it hopes to} do, will be published in the souvenir | program. | pbekchc! be sean Songer raed Buy Your | DAILY WORKER at the Newsstand | EAT THE REST! NEW YORK CITY HELP US FEED the The Manager's Corner DAILY WORKER IMPROVEMENTS. We are going into the business of blowing our own horns for a change, first because we eel a bit proud, second because it’s good bysiness and third because we want: to, give our readers a chance to do some hornblowing on their own ac- count, in behalf of their own paper. We wish to take the opportunity at this time to call the attention of our readers to the recent improvements made in The DAILY WORKER. Have you noticed Eugene Lyon's new column, “Footnotes to the News,” with its keen thrusts at the present order, a wonderful combination of side-splitters and eye-openers? A prize of five inches of space in this colimn is offered to the comrade’ who can show us a livelier column anywhere. Harbor Allen, our new dramatic critic, whose reviews have already caused considerable comment in artistic cireles, is one of a group of writers who have rallied around The DAILY WORKER, as the only newspaper, which offers a channel for the expression of the great dissatisfaction, which at present prevails among the honest and socially-minded elements in the newspaper field. This group includes a num- ber of writers, associated with capitalist journals, who are going to give their ardent support and assistance to The DAILY WORKER. More will be heard from this group later on. Plans are under way for the establishment of a radio column, a practical arts section, a women’s page, and musical department. The “News in Brief” column has been favorably received by many comrades as giving them a broad view of the news from many different sources, a sort of kaleidoscope 6f the day’s events. In general, the comments we get point to the fact that we are now publishing more and better news, both general and labor, and that the paper is becoming in every sense of the word, one-of the nation’s livest newspapers, a paper that delivers the Communist message with a punch and yet puts that message atross in its most attractive form. BERT MILLER. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR OLD AGE SECURITY = CAMPAIGNS FOR PENSIONS, NOT POOR HOUSES: National pensions for the aged are the object of thé American Associa- tion for Old Age Security, a national organization formed at the initiative | of certain trade union leaders and public spirited citizens at a New York meeting. ~James H. Maurer, president, Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, @ staunch supporter of pension legislation, is one of the chief sponsors of the | association and Abraham Epstein, director of the Pennsylvania Old Age | Straight from the Street @ DRAMA @ “Sex” Is Racy Native Play Till “Moral Youth” Enters REVIEWED BY A. B. MAGIE I HAVE been wondering why “Sex” was raided.-It appears to me to be an utteMy harmless play, possessing certain salient merits, that becomes depressingly moral in the last two acts. But somebody whispered a tale to me. And the tale is this: After | running for almost a year, the box of- fice receipts of “Sex” had begun to droop and languish. But along came the 20th century crusaders, with that virtuous Black Knight of journalism, the New York World, whooping it*up lustily in the rear, and all fiercely determined to rid our fair city of the infidels. I don’t know what effect this has had on the box office of “Sex.” But I shouldn’t be surprised if packed houses of irate citizens are being daily scandalized by the goings- on of the unregenerate Miss West and her troupe. For about one act and a half “Sex” is a vivid and sinewy contribution to the American drama. Of course, the critics of the bourgeois press took one look at the title, the portly lead- ing actress and the low-brow audi- ence and fled to stage public indigna- tion meetings in their columns the next day. Yet to me the’ dialogue of that first act and a half is as real and fresh and grimly cynical as any- thing I haye seen on the stage. The language of so many desperately “na- tive” Broadway plays sounds as if it had been synthetically concocted by an ex-professor of philology. But the |slang of “Sex” is a jargon sprung wild as weeds out of the American streets, blatant and tender and humor- cus and pathetic. The slang of “Sex” is a hard cool fist, and I sat in the bleachers cheering each blow. Mae West plays the part of a tough and billowy lady who has lived guad- ily and managed to keep her virtue agreeably flexible. There is loudness in her playing and mannerism and} fon the job! Pension Commission, is temporary executive secretary. Albert Weisbord to Speak in Pittsburgh Labor Lyceum, Soon PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb, 14.—Al- bert Weisbord, well known leader of the Passaic strike, is coming to this city Sunday, Feb. 20th, where he will address several mass meet- ings. At 8 o'clock in the evening, Feb. 20th, he will speak at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St., Pittsburgh, and at 2 o'clock in the afternoon he will speak at the Hungarian Hall on Beech St., East Pittsburgh. Admission is free. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER, English Class in Paterson. All the workers of Paterson, re gardless of political faith or affilia- the class in English which will be conducted once a week by the Pater- son branch of the Workers School of New York. The class will begin at 8 o'clock sharp, at 3 Governor St.,-Wednesday, Feb. 16. No books are required, A Roll in the Subs For The DAILY} WORKER. YOUNG WORKERS ATTENTION. All articles and notices for the Youth column should be addressed as follows: “J. Perillo, Editor Youth Column, 108 East Mth street, Room 32. New York City. The quality of the column will in a large degree depend on the matter of contributions received. Young Worker correspondents, get Violin and Viola Lessons Given by expert teacher. . For reasonable rates, write to JOHN WEINROTH | 6156 LARCHWOOD AVENUE, PHILADELPHIA, PA, Read the BOLSHEVIK’ A DRAMA IN PLAY FORM written on the American style By LEON HAUSMAN Author and Playwright Per Copy at $1.10 sent to Leon Hausman "Bolshe’ Post Office Mox 187, Bia N. J Secures a copy of shevik” in English for the pi Translations may be had at a iter date, On and after March 15th, 1927, “BOLSHEVIK” wilh be $2.00 a copy. As Mr. Leon Haus i tends to play the title role, his wide acquaintance to fi the book, The author in fh it difficult to get “BOLSHEVIK” nerons in newspapers, but “BOL= SHEVIK” will go over just the same AND MOW!T! nominal tuition fee will be charged. | 874 India.” tary i | coarseness, but it has a speed and Trade unionists believe government! exuberance that is alien to the tenu- pension legislation will knock an im-| ous jntellectualizations of the pre- rortant welfare weapon out of the) cjeuse actor. hands of anti-union employers. Cor-) poration pensions today are a club over the heads of the workers. Ep- types, the shyster detective, the suavi stein in his study of the subject for ener jand artful crook and the elegant, See eatin pent ane eet t2| wilted, pitifully starved lady from the « : . | hinterlands who comes to the big city So Ms Gaaicagig dive manage-'+, have her last gaudy fling before Poor Houses Cost More. pee ‘ : No need to worry about the costs| Children. But. mote of this remains of government pensions, the Ameri-| 5° ™UCh Unmined ore. hg can Association indicates, announcing} For in the second: act “Sex” sucr its plans for a legislative drive in|cumbs to the flesh-pots of Sir Ar- the various states and at Washing-|thur Wing Pinero and grows inereas- | ton.. Pensions cost less than poor| ingly sappy. There is the model young houses, |man. But first the play is halted to “It is conservatively estimated,”| @llow a stage orchestra, nobbily out- the announcement states, “that at) fitted in white sailor pants and middy least. 1,800,000 aged persons in the| blouses, to crash out some glittering United States are dependent . upon| jazz? while Mae West does a goregous | relatives or upon public or private) muscle dance to vast applause. charitable relief for their support. ..| But then that model” young man. Over three years’ experience with the| And it is for his sake that she decides Montana old age pension system|)to become a “good” woman. Of shows that the total per capita ex-| course, it’s the thing she’s been yearn- penditure on pensions represents but| ing for all her life, a home, a man twenty-seven cents per year. The! she truly loves, little curly heads, etc. support of an alms house inmate in} And with the first swallows he brings that state costs from three to five! her home to meet the folks, and—but times that of a pensioner.” |I didn’t wait to learn the horrible “Recent studies show that the pop-| truth. Morality had conquered. ulous countries still without any form of constructive care for the pyres ‘ ” a aged are the United States, China A Wot in the House,’ » someay by Samuel Shipman and Neil Twomey, iSpamndra Ginn bl ido - of hd in two Pksoe 3 aes 3 ‘ ..| Franklyn Farnum, Marion Stokes, the spines af tes asiictoataone eee ee, ees ee na ciation include the following: Elmer| the cash ” ee Spahr, president, Pennsylvania State! Conference of Bricklayers, Masons) and Plasterers International Union,! York, Pa.; Frank J. Fiteh, Order of| onee Dane, author of “A Bill of Di- eal an Philadelphia| voreement” and “Will Shakespeare.” tional Labor Office; Evelyn Preston, New York; Florence Kelley, secre-| tary, National Consumers’ League;) Father John F,. O’Grady, secretary of the National Conference of Cath- olic Charities, Washington, D. C.; Rey. John A. Ryan, Washington, D. C.; Commissioner Ethelbert Stewart, U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington; Bishop Ethelbert Tal- bot, of the Episcopal Diocese, Bethle- hem; Jane Addams, Chicago; Herbert: S. Bigelow, Cincinnati; Glenn Frank,) president, University of Wisconsin;} Senator Charles Hall, Oregon; Wil- The next production of the Actors’ Theatre will be “Mariners,” by Clem- Neighborhood Playhouse 466 Grand St. Drydock 7516 Every Eve. (Except Mon.) Mat. Sat “PINWHEEL’ By Francis Edwards Faragoh THE DYBBUK"—Feb. 17 thro’ Feb. @ liam P, Hapgood, Indianapolis; Wil-| An @ MERICAN 7 liam Hard, Washington; John Haynes TRAGEDY — Holmes, New York; William Kent, Mts. Wed California; Congressman Fiorello La- Longacre yy3¢ uid ast Guardia, New York; Bishop Francis J. McConnell, Pittsburgh; John G,) —~~~ ie eM Rscormich, Grand Raps, Michigan) KLAW SH: Sih 2" Royal Robbing, Massachusetts} Dr. 1. M. Rubinow, Philadelphia; Congre: man George J. Schneider, Wisconsin; Professor Henry R. Seager, Columbia University; Judge Bernard L. Shien- tag, New York; Mrs. Mary K. Sim- “SINNER” With Allan Dinchart & Claiborne Foster Sam. FT ARRIS THEA. West Fd 4 kovitch, New York; Oswald Garrison Oy 53: ciathetg andi ee gchrad Villard, New York; Carl Vrooman, WH AT PRICE GLORY Illinois; Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, New i e . 600- York, and Mary EF. Woolley, Bouths| MA "eee ERE? eye bath Hadley, Massachusett: Pop, Prices, Mats. Wed. & Sa |THE LITTLE SPITFIRE” Myron C, Fagan's Great Comedy, — TW 44S WA a Xtra Mats. Feb. 22, 24, 24 and 26 B. Sarer's DINEWELL VEGETARIAN and DAIRY RESTAURANT 78 2nd Avenue, Near 4th Street. The Real Way to Hat ~The Natural Way. ‘ | The play contains the silhouettes of | certain rich, flamboyant America| retiring to her knitting and her grand- | E Bronx Opera House 3? sra‘Ave:| F JULIE RING « sey Plays an important role in “The Strawberry Blonde,” Martin Brown’s > amusing comedy at the Bijou ‘Theatre. “Puppets of Passion” to Open New Masque Theatre Feb. 24 | The Chanins have set Thursday night, February 24, as the opening date of*their new Masque theatre in West Forty-fifth Street. The open- ing attraction is “Puppets of Pas- sion,” from the Italian of Rosso di San Secondo, with the English adap- tation by Ernest Boyd and Eduardo Ciannelli. The play, which is now in rehearsal under the direction of David Burton, will give three per- formances in Stamford on Monday | and Tuesday, February 21, 22. The Masque will be the fifth thea- tre which the Chanins have built in | the Times Square district. The others include the Chanin, the Royale; while | the Majestic will reach campletion in | March. BROADWAY BRIEFS Two openings are scheduled for this afternoon; “Spellbound,” by Wal- |} ter Elwood, which will begin a se- ‘ies of special matinees at the Klaw. | Theatre, and “Possibilities,” by J. S. and Ernest W. Martin, at the Prin- cess—also playing at special mat~ | inees, The Charlot Revue, now being fea- tured in the Earl Carroll “Vanities,” | will end ‘their engagement at the Earl Carroll Saturday evening, when they will leave for an extended en- | gagement in Canada. Johnny Dooley and Dorothy Knapp will join the cast of Vanities beginning Monday eve- | ning, February 21. ( Due to the success of “Cradle Song,” the Civic Repertory Players will give a special matinee perform- ance Friday afternoon, “The Devil in the Cheese,” by ‘Tom Cushing, at the Charles Hopkings The- atre, will give three matinees this week; Wednesday, Friday and Sat- urday. Lina Basquette will be seen in “Le Maire’s Affairs,” scheduled to open Chanin’s new Majestic Theatre early ~ in March. “Menace,” a play by Arthur. M. Brilliant, was placed in rehearsal on Monday with Jack Roseleigh in: its leading role. James E. Kenny is the ! producer. . W. of B'y. Byi Matinees WED, and SAT, # BONNIC Musical Bon Bon with ~ Dorothy Burgess, Louis Simon, Wm. Frawley, George Sweet. PLYMOUTH Thea, West Mon., Tu Sat. Evenin: and Thu, ate. aa hice. ted beet . suiivan ™ PIRATES PEN Opera Co, EB ZANCE Thursday Evenings Only, “lolanthe” The LADDER | Everybody's Play WALDORF, 50th St, Hast of Bway. Mats. WED, and SAT. LE SONG" ASTHR BUILDER” Tomorrow Night, “THREE SISTHRS” ) THEATRE EARL CARROLL Jee sten's EARL CARROLL VANITIES lack Tonight . Tomorro Fen; Charlot’s Revue juiustwnnce "BROTHERS KARAMAZOV Week Feb, 14—PYGMALION LD Thea.W.52 St. Evs, Mats, Thu. & Sat, THE SILVER CORD. “Week Fob. 14--Ned MeCobb's Daughter