The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1927, Page 3

bo - i + nuyeey Passaic Sheriff {dim i Tak o» tor| Coal Mine Wage Russian Literature; | | Rebuffed in | Workers’ Schoo Sunday | | Negotiations é ’ Bomb Case | Street, this Sunday night, (Feb. Interrupted Labor Hater Fails to Run Tim ers sunty seks Next Meeting Monday, Lewis t Foru ofm the Workers School, Whole Show ae at : Still Boosts Efficiency Olgin will take up the literature of Russian writers produced since | PASSAIC, N. J., Feb. 18.—Sheriff | the Bolshevik Revolution, analyze | Nimmo of Passaic “riot law” fame | the new tendencies in it and show | appeared as a chief actoz again y <-| how the Russian Revolution and terday at the trial of the second of | the new world it has created is re- the five Bergen county textile strike | flecting itself in new literary stand- prisoners on flimsy bomb charges.) ards. “Little Nimmo” tried three times to} On the following Sunday, &°- have Hollace Ransdell, secretary of | ruary 27, Julian Gumperz, an¥eye the Joint Committee for Passaic De-| witness of the German Revolution fense, ordered out of the courtroom.) and till recently a leading member Nimmo is the man who read the| of the German Communist Party, riot act in front of Forstmann-Huff-| will speak on “The Problems of the | mann mills early in the Passaic tex-| German Revolution.” On Sunday, | tile workers’ strike. He has done the| March 6, V. F. Calverton lectures same stunt every time the workers! on “The New Negro.” lfor the operators and that of Presi- struck at these mills. \dent Lewis on behalf of the union, Under his “riot law” in this strike Young Workers Ball ; | | Mossaye J. Olgin, editor of the “Hammer.” will speak at the New | York Workers School, 108 East 14th | | sub-committee to which were referred the two plans for settlement of the wage controversy between the coal operators and the United Mine Work- ers of America has adjourned until Monday. No agreement has been reached. Most of the miners’ and operators’ | Tepresentatives have gone to Havana for the week-end Discussion in the sub-committee is said to have centered around the pro- posals made by William (. Haskins [wo Proposals. The Lewis proposal provides for a continuation of the Jackso Casino to Be Good | or (nominally) $7.50 per a Norman Thomas, Robert Dunn, David! : Weinstein and the Federated | Press | Ton ight at Harlem reporter were arrested, though their | cases ‘were. dismissed months after. | Forstmann-Huffmann have been pret- | : a8, : ty clearly identified as the behind-| Celebrating the membership dri scenes instigators, through agent | Which is to be launched on the ev provocateurs, of the bomb plots which of February 19th, at Harlem Ca: brought 11 strike victims into the | 146th Street and Lexington eC courts. | with the express, purpose of douk * re. +, | its membership, - the Young Workers Defense Wins Point. | League will hold a grand ball and} Little Nimmo did not score with | dance at the spacious ball room of | Indge William Seufert, however, and | the New Harlem Casino. Miss Ransdell was permitted to re- main and aid defense attorneys, Alex-} ander MacLeod and Arthur Garfield | Hays. Prosecutor Archie Hart had | unexpectedly brought Paul Kovac up instead of Tom Regan, so that Rans- | dell’s work in rounding up defense! witnesses quickly was essential. erganization of a commission com-| posed of technical experts, lawyers, }ete., to work out plans for adding to |the efficiency of the industry. The Haskin plan asks a reduction in wages in the central competitive fields. —INinois, Indiana, Ohio and to the level of the prevailing rate in the non-union districts and provides machinery for There will be an excellent dance} nt adjustments of wages and program, accompanied by a real snap- ing conditions. Four miners, four py jazz band, leaving little doubt as | »perators, and three “impartial” medi- to unjoyability on this score. ators would constitute the Haskin BUY THE DAILY WORKER and opérators are unable to agree on AT THE NEWSTANDS the three mediators they are to be = __ |appointed by the chief justice of ‘the United States Supreme Court. WORKMEN’S SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT FUND United Bronx Branches SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1927 Grand Annual Ball at the F SWISS HALL, 382 East 136th Street, near Willis | Avenue. {| from their markets to the non-union 4 basis. Report .Agreement Rumors, |to the probability of separate agree- iments with the union in the four 'titive field. | | erators claim that the short distance j fields of West Virginia places them | ander a handicap from whieh the S, 1 | Illinois overators do- not suffer. Commenc Music bx Prof. P. Grupe. = 9 at the Gaté, T5e. mat weed TICKETS, In Advance, 25e; Mlinois will sign a separate agreement --the opposite appears to be more | probable—that the operators of the | other competitive fields will insist on separate agreements whether Illinois | does or not. Announcement to Comrades! Charles Selikson Radios and Victrolas 1225 First Ave. CORN. 66TH STREET | Farrington did not mean the liquida- CASH OR EASY PAYMENTS— Stromberg-Curlson Radios | fon of his policy. Fada-Neutrodyne Atwater Kent . 7 Radiola Super-Heterodyne eneeenes Contes 40 Freed-Eisemann ‘Hold Important Session ihe exposure of Frank Farrington, | former president of District 12, Illi- | nois, as an employe of the Peabody | coal interests, he advocated a separate | agreement for the Illinois sections of the union. The statements that separate agree- ments will be signed in the centra! | competitive field are probably based on the belief that the liquidation of Freshman Masterpiece, Ete. | An important meeting of the Work- | ers’ Educational Center, on Henry No Interest Charged Installed Free EVERYTHING GUARANTEED — OPEN EVENINGS at 8 o'clock. gram has been arranged by George Lederman, chairman of the arrange- ments committee. PASSAIC STRIKE STILL ON! WE'VE WON IN FOUR MILLS! HELP US BEAT THE REST! GIVE MONEY PLEASE! 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! Give all you can! MAKE VICTORY COMPLETE! Make all contributions by check or money order to GENERAL RELIEF COMMITTEE NEW, YORK CITY \ Get 10¢ Coupons and sell them TO HELP US FEED the Strikers’ Children, s 799 BROADWAY Room 225 MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 18.—The joint | of the time: commission. In the event the miners | KotH plans have a more efficient | organization of the industry as their | states comprising the central] compe- | 7 { | There is much gossip here relative | ( i Ohio and Western Pennsylvania ‘op- | While there are statements that | | It will be remembered that before | | Street, will be held Sunday evening | An interesting pro-| week of the dressmakers, All active members of the fatienaisocnl Ladies’ Union are urged to report to the office of Local 2 a, m. Monday, Feb, 21, after picketing. ae DAILY, NOREER,. NEW YORK, peATUAPAY, PEDRUARY 19, 1927 CALL GARMENT WORKERS TO REPORT MONDAY AFTER PICKETING AT OFFICE OF LOCAL 22 Garment Workers’ 16 W. 21st 5 It is expected that many dress shops will be stopped this coming a protest against the agreement that Sigman signed in the name at 7 The Manager’ s Corner T Unless we today thinl plant the seeds physically, pc Ww rel be no fore DAY | ae THE FUTURE OF | | from 5 to 10 percent more. steps, and strony measured ones, are LATEST AMERICAN OPERA NOT AMERICAN AT ALL; LEISURE CLASS STUFF FROM MEDIEVAL TIMES y TREBLE. For reasons best known to ‘himself, The DAILY WORKER’S critic decided not to pay eight or ten dollars to witne opera, “The King’s Herichman”; libretto by Edna by Deéms Taylor, s for this event found their way en Thursday, or before that, this reviewer has had to sat sterday’s newspaper reviews of ‘a produced by the _Metropolitgn, and the first one definitely commissioned | of the latest America St. Vincent Millay, mus Since no press tick by reading by that organization. Accounts differ as to the amount of praise the performance deserves, hut since Miss Millay is a poet of unquestioned talent, shown himself to be a capable musician, one can believe that the opera was as good and maybe better than many a work produced by the Metropolitan. | But why write any more operas at all? American opera in 1927, why have it the story of a tenth century English the tenth American op musical the world premiere down to the office Mr. ber, no paper, and u McBair n and eight hundred thou: 1925 is a lot of paper, but each Where will it all end unles HE NE SPAPERS tions to come and itically and practically there out paper, no udustry (New and tons in as a nation ure using year we some taken soon not only to perpetuate our pulp timber supply, but to stop this enormous Curiously enough the waste of our national natural resoure very newspapers, about which ex- perts like Mr. McBain are concerned, are doing everything in their power to perpetuate the system of which waste of nat- ural resources is an integral part. Anarchy in production in the paper inda reserves are pi and parcel « duction as a whole. stroying this y, as well as the exhaust of the sy ion of our lumber em of capitalist pro- McBain’s proposed adjustments of the problem are tempoyary in their nature and fundamentally unsound. We would recommend to him and to the workers generally, the support of a newspaper which is dedicated té the task de- stem and supplanting it with an order of so- and Mr. Taylor has| ciety, which will insure the conservation of our lumber and And if you must write an king—even if you make it sound rather modern by varying the conventional | —-———— ,{type of operatic story? Old Wine In Old Bottles. Paterson Bazaar for Wher there were courts and courtiers, in silks and satins, all bored to| Strikers’ Relief Opens death with hunting and love making, Now t why try to continue this form? and that’s always a bit difficult. The Metropolitan is an interesting indic much it costs. Thi: “The King’s Henchman” was sung. must have new ideas. Carnegie, and Mecca Temple? could a twentieth century artist have? A new time like form. The trouble is, though, that a new form demands some vigorous, thrilling, colorful—and American. new operas were part of the life of those for whom music was composed. It fitted right in with the artificiality nd was part and parcel of the scene. we have disearded those clothes, after we have developed opera to the point of musie dramas like Wagner's, ours demands a new imagination | * those modes of life, and commissioning of two Americans to write an opera n of a new phase of Am that we have become the richest nation in the world, going to have us the most artistic nation in the world, 's development. y ‘ our millionaires are | Committee in ¢ no matter how | 0n, puesident of the is not to condemn the habit of handing out subsidies 2nd Labor Council, and John Richard- to artists in any field, provided the artists are allowed to create what they S°”, president of the Paterson Trades | want to create. The trouble is that not many members of the American and Labor Cou bourgeoisie will hand out money for anything that |tastes; and if the matter is left to them, we will keep on having operas,|@ Spectacular program for each day and art in many another outworn mould. Kc Why Not Operas of 1927? | Why shouldn’t modern America have some new combination of music ‘and the spoken word? It would be impossible to have any phase of present- day life portrayed in the old opera form, if they sang it in English as We can’t stand hearing even Jeritza) warble a request to “Pass the soup”; or Gigli demand, in the most approved | © tenor tones, ‘What has become of my rubbers.” For modern America we must have a new form; Why not music with a story about some of the people, living in America, who fill the galleries at the Metropolitan, and| nated by does not suit their| @nd manager of the bazaar pro and that means we Workers’ lives may not be romantic, but they certainly are dramatic,| should attend thi What better subject material | pose is not only to help Now| Many thri Today, for Full Week A big seven ganized labor i for the relief of the 1 oper in Piiersen at Van Houten William John- Pas neil, who are president during the week. The b: r will be open on the af- ternoons of Washington’s birthday and Saturday Feb. 26th. as well a night except night. salable icles a to w pieced or’ sympath All Workers wh nt: goods do- merchants, have the time aar as its Pas ise a real good ur- strikers, but also bi If the Metropolitan or others of the millionaire class will subsidize an time will be had ali around. artist to produce such a novel and untested work, all well and good. _ If not, it will have to be produced anyway, in spite of America’s official Russia’s Oil Output Ss s H culture seekers and without their encouragement, official or otherwise. Emergency Still Here! sOn New York Housing | (Continued from Page One) wife and two children. His wife sup- plements the family income as a | janitress for the “apartment house’ | in which she lives. How cloakmakers, whose wives are less ambitious, and who have more children than Goldstein, live many j readers of The DAILY WORKER | know better than I, Worker-Reporter Tells Of New York Lodgings By FRED HARRIS For a worker, single or married, coming to live in New York, the joy- full anticipation of a metropolitan life ceases as soon as he leaves his train or ship and embarks upon that | painful task of finding lodging. I have went thru the mill ana speak from my own personal experiences. Arriving here by boat I engaged a room near the waterfront in the Christopher Hotel on Christopher St.! |The charge is $2, but as soon as I| | see the room I am sorry. It is filthy, | dirty and repulsive. The wall paper, old and faded, | hangs in strips and is falling down. | The remnant of what has once been | a rug is vermin infested, The bed and a chair are on verge | | of breaking down. There is a cou | | water faucet but the wash basin is | | so dirty that I prefer not to use it. | The place is lighted so dimly that | | I can hardly discern anything in the | | hallway. “1 look for a toilet but upon | finding it I turn away; the place is unfit tor human us With a sense of disgust I leave the | place the ne&t rhorning to jouw tor a | more suitable room, 4 searca along | 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th streets, | both east and west and gain a know- | |ledge of what i8 iscaue vy “ine | slums”. | $7, $8, $9, and $10 a week for fur- {nished rooms which under no| | condition "would pass an housing in- spection, Dirty little holes, wi... u0 sunlight ever entering it, dim fix- | jtures giving inadequate light; beds | which take up the main space of the room and whose bedding and blankets | should be burned and destroyed. T turn away and go to other sea which bear the sign of “furnished |} rooms” hoping that there must be a_ | place in this big city suitable and | | teasonable enough to fit the purse | | of a working man, | The Furriers “Freiheit” Present Conditions Needle Industry.” requested to come on time—-Fur- rier’s Shop Chairmen’s Council. Shop Chairmen’s Council will give a series of lectures in order to help educate the fur that the output in 1926 e The first will take place |of 1925 by 25 million barrels. The February 27, 1927, at 1 p. m. sharp, at Astoria Hall, 62 East 4th Street. é. ein, the editor |The pred will leeture on All workers are Shows Marked. Gain Figures for oil production show ded that leading places were taker by the United States, Mexico and Russia tion made in industr circles is that if the rate of prod the (tior of oi] in the Soviet Union con- tinues in 1927 lik year that Russia w wace now held by M in the preceding lke the second 0. newsprint paper supply, and al entire system of production and distribution for the good of humanity asaw hole. BE RT MILLER. ay bazaar which or-| holding in this city | are promised by the, Trades | | speak at the ope ] the reorganization of the “Breaking Chains” number of workers’ organiza- unions in New York City homage to their great Lenin, tomorrow (Sun.), cond and final showing of at the new Wal- re, on West 50th street. been the demand for t the International Work- decided right after the t showing a few weeks ago to make a repeat engagement. It should, be born in mind t&at there is po: nee for a third showing, the Im has been booked for many key ‘cities out of town. tic will co As_ previo will be four conse ounced there tive perform- ances, Tickets can be purchased at The DAILY WORKER office, Jim- mic Hi egins book shop on Univer. i 1 and at the box office of aldorf Theatre today or te- morrow, The current bill at the Grove Street Theatre, where the Grand Guignol are presenting four one-act headed Osear Wilde’s “A ness must t Village pl wééd at the Greetiwich vhouse. Bronx, Young Workers Will Hear Good Talk At Open Forum, Sunday This Sunday ni Roston Road, © forum on “Youth and Amer e .” There will be qq " ONLY. HAPPENS ONCE Second Annual Banquet Monday, Feb. 21, DINNER AT 7 P. M. OR BY and Dance of the DAILY WORKER BUILDERS (Washington's Birthday Eve.) at the YORKVILLE CASINO 86th St. & 3rd Ave. Combination Ticket, $1.50 Ticket for Dance only, 50c ERVATIONS NOW BY TH NG AT THE DAILY WORKER OFFIC DANCING AT 9 A YEAR Dance and B ‘HARLEM CASINO, 116TH STREET AND LENOX AVENUE Tickets in advance 50 cents, at the door 75 cents. Arranged by the YOUNG WORKERS’ LEAGUE, 108 East 14th Street. Tonl ne aia 38 Se é 3