The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 9, 1927, Page 4

Page Four \ ~“ THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER [fF FPHONEMAKES Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Streét, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): | $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months | $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to ‘ THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL : WILLIAM F, DUNNE ; mhagesndioegaeense'ee’e Editors BERT MILLER Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application, — Ps France—a Nation of Conscripis. The French government has placed the whole population with the exception of children on a military basis. Only the legislators who passed the bill are exempted from service in the army and navy. HUGE EARNINGS; SETS NEW RECORD McCulloh States Profit Not Compensatory | | The sum of 184 million dollars was | taken in by the New York Telephone | |Co, during 1926, of which 27 millions were nét’ profits, surpassing the pre-| vious year’s record by 7% millions. | This amounts to an income of $8.93 | per share as compared to $8.50 in 1 After deducting all expenses and increasing the capital stock of the |company, a dividend of $7.32 per share was paid to the stockholders jas compared to $4.46 in 1925. Despite this huge increase of the year’s profit the president of the| The Manager’ s Corner 208 PAGES FOR 5 CENTS Two hundred and eight pages of matter, each page fourteen inches by ten, illustrated with beautiful pictures in many colors, weighing in all a pound and half—all for five cents. This is the glittering Evening Post, the colossus of offer made by the Saturday the capitalist magazine world. It takes no little gumption and no little brains to withstand such a tempting proposition. But tet us examine the proposition more carefully. One hundred and five full pages a re devoted to advertising paid. for at the rate of thousands of dollars per page. In addition to this, fully one half of the remaining space is devoted to All of part page advertising. this advertising is, of course, paid for by the biggest capitalist firms in Americas The reading matter, which is deft ly interwoven with the highly colored lithographs, is simply a thin sugar-coating, to dis- guise the magazine's real character, as a mere catalogue for the sale of commodities and incidentally as a convenient ve- hicle for the promulgation of capitalist ideas. The Saturday Evening Post is typical of all capitalist periodicals. ests of the masses of the workers. Such publications are not printed in the inter- They are published in the “Pirates of Penzance” and “Iolanthe” to Make Spring Tour Winthrop Ames’s group of ‘play- jers, presenting Gilbert and Sullivan’s |“Iolanthe” and the “Pirates of Pen- |zance” at the Plymouth Theatre the past year, will end their engagement March 26, and embark on a short Spring tour. “The Gondoliers,” which had been planned for the Ply- mouth this Spring, will not be done juntil late in the summer. | jin Washington and will embrace New Haven, Springfield and Provi- dence, finishing with a run in Bos- Pak 2 The Actors’ Theatre production of Clemence Dane’s play, “Mariners” will follow at the Plymouth Theatre, opening on March 28. The cast will The tour will begin on March 28| Has the chief roles in “The Pirates French women have great cause for rejoicing—they have|company, J. S. McCulloh, is quoted) interests of the millionaire advertisers, and their primary Le Saget Pi oe Lord, Haides ic i Pi been placed on an absolute equality with men so far as the right) 2s saying: Such a return is insuf-| Gin is simply the selling of wares. eaneey ur Wontner and Mary|of Penzance” and “Jolanthe,” the to be slaughtered for French imperialism is concerned. The Na- tional Women’s Party, now trying to defeat the women’s 48-hour bill in Albany will doubtless rejoice at this new evidence of the progress of their cause. Only the Communists in the chamber of deputies voted against the militarization of the French nation. The socialists took the lead in advocating this legislation. Other recent legislation authorizes the fortification of the en- tire eastern frontier at a cost of 7,000,000,000 frances. The principal industry of France at present is militarism. This should be a source of great comfort for those who sobbed aloud during the “war to end war” as the four-minute speakers pictured the plight of bleeding France. ficient and non-compensatory, espe- cially when it considered that the ‘air present value of our property, upon which the return should be computed, is in excess of its book} cost. | CURRENT EVENTS | | (Continued from Page One) | barons are feeding to the tillers of the soil in the United States. peas aaa | THERE will not be a strike in the} | bituminous coal industry this year by decree of John L. Lewis. This The DAILY WORKER cannot and will not dangle before the eyes of the workers the empty baubles with which the capitalist press decoys its readers. The intelligent worker will brush aside with contempt these gewgaws of capitalist journalism. Realizing their true character and the purpose, he will read and support the only paper which is dedicated to his interests ——BERT MILLER. ORGANIZE THE TRACTION WORKERS! (Continued from Page One) of overcrowded conditions and con- learn, what so few responsible city | officials seem to be aware of, or if BROADWAY BRIEFS Following the showing here of “Romancing ’Round,” L. Lawrence | Weber is planning to produce “March On,” a new comedy by Howard Ir- ving Young. “A Woman in the House” will be known as “The French Kiss” when it opens at the Ritz Theatre next Monday night. | The Alliance Club will give a thea-| Gilbett and Sullivan operettas at the | Plymouth theatre. jushered in this evening at the ‘Street Theatre, 52nd “The Spider,” a mystery play by Fulton Oursler and Lowell ‘ Bren- tano, will be presented by Albert Lewis at Chanin’s 46th Street The- atre Monday, March 21. The cast is headed by John Halliday, Eleanor Griffith, Thomas Findlay and Pris- cilla Knowles. s Carl Reed has placed in rehearsal at the Greenwich Village Theatre, a The French workers and peasants, upon whom the chief/ means that John has handed the gequent overwork, under the relente| poker sola eater aie tne ae, party at “Pinwheel” at the|comedy titled “Savages Under the burden of this huge war scheme falls, will not lose all hope. Far | operators a blank check = BaVe Jess drive of foremen, starters, dis-| fact that leath is too paler and | Neighborhood Playhouse this eve-| Skin,” by Arthur Proctor. Louis from it. They can be certain that the conscript armies mobilized Seid fer a hebeied ia sha par superintendents, | company | unpleasant a visitor tn: your vocation |< Calhern will be featured. © th ialists aini s of ir sg wees * stool pigeons, spies, e te hi | — by the imperialists, containing hundreds of thousands of their miners’ demands in advance. The| what not; when it learned, also, to in life for the company always to| ‘The second production of the New] “Loose Ankles” is playing this class, will some day imprison their oppressors in the fortresses and dissolve the chamber of deputies at the point of the bayonet. | Conseript armies imperialism must have—it can get the nec- essary forces in no other way. But conscript armies are made up largely of the masses——with arms in their hands. French imperialism is thus creating the forces that will destroy it. A Great Movement. Asks Your Aid. The defense of class war prisoners, the front line fighters of the labor movement, is a first charge dn the services of every class cotiscious working man and working woman. No higher duty falls upon our shoulders than to aid those, {man whose fat salary was increased | to $12,00@ at the recent convention | is not ready to even make a bluff |at fighting the operators. This is \the type of labor leader who is al- ways blowing off his bazoo against {the Communists. Is it any wonder? | * ” * | REAT BRITAIN’S financial situ-| ation is now showing the effects of the coal strike. By clever finan- jcial juggling the strain was hidden during the struggle, but the truth) could not be smothered forever. So far this year the bank of England has lost approximately $6,230,000 of what extent they are underpaid, ex- ploited during unbelievable long hours, always under the fear of los- ing their jobs for the least cause or none at all—when the realization of these facts grow upon one, it be- comes a matter of increasing won- der that human beings have been able to hold out under such condi-) tions. igive undue publicity of his unwel- |eorhe visits. | Of course, your wife and children |must know, and perhaps even your \friends, if you have any, but what {need is tiare for the company to up- |set the public with these unpleasant} | details?. Yet this is but a small part |of the stcry! | (To be continued.) | (The next section will deal with a | Playwrights Theatre, “Earth,” a Ne- | gro play ‘by Em Jo Basshe, will be } | new PLAYWRIGHTS theatre 52d St. Thea., 306 W. 524. Columbus 7393 Opening Tonight at 8:30. That these conditions can be main-| further elaboration of the conditions Forth’ 3 LOUURPEREES tained year in, year out, and at the! under which the traction employes | same time the work can be done with as little injury and loss of life to the public as has occurred, is a fact which becomes utterly inunderstand- | work and will be followed by a sec- | tion on the “Company Union” of the \Inter‘orough Rapid Transit Com- ‘pany). resumes’ March 14, E week at the Shubert-Riviera Thea- tre, ‘Neighborhood Playhouse 466 Grand St. | Drydock 7516. | ¢ PLYMOUTH Went 45 St. Evan. 8:20 | Mats, Phurs.dSat,, 2:30 | Every Eve. (Exe. Thurs.) & Sat. Mats. WINTHROP AMES’ Bvery Except PINWHEEL |Mon.). Mat. Sat | ‘TT ACK’S W 42nd Street. | WALLACK’S Evenings 8:30. Mats. Tues., Wed., Thurs. and Sat. we A Pt * ae gold and is unable to check the outgo. | .),) | 3, who because of their loyalty to their class and their devotion to| Foreign loans in the London market able. ‘ee ls ia posers eR ice r PIRATES OF PEN. What Anne Brought Home the political and industrial organizations of their class risk life are- being discouraged even tho the| .ittle Pay for Knowledge. “Was Greeley Right?” Opern Co. E Ewed cece mse “Our Men Know Their Jobs!” is | Thurs. Mats. & Fives. “Tolanthe” and liberty without thot of gain or compensation. Old Lady of Threadneedle Street | 5 | s. 41 o 2 " ee - We “se in this ceumney oe ccteeieation founded for the pur-| hates to see her Wall Street competi- te Rr sar a The Interborough | ASKS Worker Who Died /EARL SE ELTI ods presents ‘ 2 nay i. fy Hage ir jected pickings.| Rapid Transit Company. Bui is; . | | ile. w. 42 St. : pose of defending all class war victims regardless of political |‘ ha cree Southport sah recon PAPA EE tr Shia ads On Diet of Garbage | CARROLL V anities 2% 1G. Set ( RI M E affiliati i i class a oR baatasion i aad 8 ak; at, 2:3 - , © affiliation, regardless of what section of the working class move-| British coal owners hope for a nage a gg oY newt By §: F. BRANCH | Barl Carroll ats ie Ay j With Jamex Rennie & Cheater Morris, ment they belong to or what shade of political conviction they lean to. It is the International Labor Defense. This organization, since it was launched has hung up a worthy record, one that even the enemies of the labor movement have not been able to successfully assail. It has coma to the assistance of members of the I. W. W. members of the American Federation of Labor, Communists, an-' archists and workers that did not belong to any organization, in- dustrial or political. It has financially assisted the workers be- hind the prison bars and their dependents at home. It has done this without ostentation or boasting. The I. L. D, has expended scores of thousands of dollars in legal A defense and in bringing the cases of victims of class injustice before‘the working class public. It needs money to continue the work. And since it has no wealthy “angels” on the string, it de- | strike in the bituminous fields in the | | United States, in the expectation that year. Should a strike take place; |despite the decrees of John L. Lewis) |we may witness the disgraceful spec- \tacle of British-mined coal being shipped to the American market to \break a strike of American miners | as American-mined coal was last |year shipped to break the British, \strike. It is a vicious circle, | * » * | writer in the New York Tribune commenting on _ international |events observes that “even some | members of the labor party now see |the reason for sending British troops This is stale news. | traction worker knows that this slo- home: consumption! If you are a guard or conductor, for instance, on the subway, and if in the last. year you have hung up a clean record in avoiding the con- stant danger of cutting off the pro- truding ears of your customers by a too hasty closing of the doors in the everlasting subway jams, you under- stand that for this commendable feat, the company slogan does not mean that you are entitled to a man’s pay. You know that you will receive approximately $25 to $35 weekly for your heroism, that is, if you have not been-rash enough at some time (Worker Correspondent). they may recoup their losses of last| gan is of the sort which is: Not for| SEATTLE, Wash., March 8.—“Go | West, Young Man,” may have been \8 sensible bit of advice in 1865. {certainly isn’t convincing now, when \the capitalist system in the United | States has grabbed most of the stuff | | that’s worthwhile in this country. | One thing is certain. Tony Stem- | berger who was found unconscious on |top of Profanity Hill the other morn- ing must have lost all faith in. Gree- |ley’s advice. Tony had been living jon the stuff he found in the city gar- | bage dumps—so- the doctors at the | hospital said. For three days he was kept alive by injection of food into his veins. Then he died. It! | Sam. THEA. West 42nd St. iw. HARRIS twice Daily, 2:30 & 8:29 WHAT PRICE GLORY | Mats. (exe. Sat.) 50c-$1. Eves. 50c.42 ‘Theatre Guild Acting Company in PYGMALION Week Mar. 14Brsthers. Karamanoy THRA., W. 52 St, Evs. GUILD Mats. Thurs. and Sat. 15 Ned McCobb’s Daughter Week March 14—The Silver Cord John Golden Th.,58, E.of B’y [Circle Mts.Thu. & Sat.| 5678. ivic Repertory $2f Wwatiahs trek | EVA LE GALLIENNE | Tonight... “CRADLE SONG" \Phis After “INH, Thursday PER RITORS” BUILDER? The LADDER Now in its 5th MONTH WALDORF, 50th St, Fast of Bway. Mats. WED. and SAT. 149th Stree’ Bronx Opera House j/9th , Street, Pop. Prices. Mat. Wed, & Sat, Rosalie Stewart presents “DAISY MAYME” Roll in the Snubs For The DAILY. WORKER. pends for financial support on the masses. Thousands of dollar/|t? Shanghai.” © P . | Some of them see a good reason why | during the past deeades to have in-| bills make up for the scarcity of thousand dollar bills. -By MeaNs troops should be sent anywhere the | dulged yourself in the rare luxury of Tony Stemberger died as a result of the lack of garbage cans in Seattle, |one of the richest cities on the Pacific Sree ® & ” sistance. of bazaars, mass meetings and affairs of a similar nature the I.| interests of the empire are jeopard-|an Interborough strike. | Coast. At one time a political party INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE WILL CELEBRATE L. -D. raises the money to fulfill its purpose. lized. Ramsey MacDonald sent war- | Life. Behind Wall Gead-tha als “ ; a wa ee és r 2 i. $ wan, “A full dinner pail, Beginning on March 10 and continuing until the 13th, the|ships to make a demonstration’ 1+ yoy are an agent, that is, a iilled up with sawdust). Well, a fall PARIS COMMUNE AT BAZAAR | against Canton when he was premier Wew York section of the I. L. D., will hold a bazaar in Star Casino, 107th Street and Park Avenue. This affair should have the sup-| port and active co-operation of every progressive worker in New| Yerk-City. Not only should workers attend the bazaar but they | should bring their fellow workers along. Last year’s bazaar held by the New York I. L, D. was the most successful of its kind ever | held in this country. It was the means of enabling the organiza-| tion to provide victims of capitalist courts with legal aid and the dependents of those who were sent to prison with financial as- We urge our readers to help make this year’s bazaar | even more successful. There is no worthier task than serving the “Red Cross’ of | the militant labor movement. That is the I. L. D. |person whose sole mission in life is forever to pass nickels through a ‘hole in a glass wall at people who are never to know you and with whom you are likewise fated never |to become acquainted, and if through- out a whole week of the most. skill- e ful manipulation, you have been un- i ARO , ce aie yi beim gorge Co the usual twenty, you do not ex- tiawton of Mae. tain Gow been | Pect to have your Saturday after- bd jnoon and Sunday off in order to caught in an affair of dishonor, he : {nurse your gathering gloom. You having swindled hundreds of specu know that ‘your work: requ ani lative Frenchmen of their good 4, be on the job 12 hours a day, 7 2 ante See err hisctarpr tuto aca idays a week, each week of 84 hours, and airplanes to rain bombs on Mesopatamia. The right wing labor leaders are imperialistic, Their in- terests are identical with the ruling classes. Why should they not sup- port the empire? * * * |garbage can” slogan has not been used yet. An appropriate slogan for | the next campaign of the Wall Street “Boys of 1928” ought to be “Bigger ané@ Fuller Garbage Cans,” ‘in order to keep some members of the. work- ing class from starving between elec- tions. Boston Capitalist Sheet For Revival of Defunct Reactionary Newspaper FRED T. DOUGLAS (Worker Correspondent) BOSTON, March 8.—Workers of Cotton Manufacturers Oppose International Two ‘Starving Men Are Taken to a Hospital tors a return of 14 per cen on a1 |investment in a hog farm, This fel-| low was a hog for money. Those s long as the others, during the i vhole year of 365 days. And for| Boston, pondering over the sudden this job you, too, will receive no more| “death of C. E. Ruthenberg, were room at No. 221 East Broadway, In Our “Great” City On the verge of death from starva- tion, two men were admitted to | Bellevue Hospital yesterday. Confab on Less Hours American cotton manufacturers are not yet willing to meet in a world conference for the 48-hour work week. x Textile trade papers in New York re-| _One of them collapsed in the Muni- port this reaction to inquiries based | cipal Lodging House. The other} ‘on’ the English cotton manufacturers’ | was found on the sidewalk at South proposal that such a conference he| Ferry. The former: gave his name) held. The Federation of Master Spin-| 2s Harry White, twenty-five. He ners meeting now in Manchester, Eng-| said that he was homeless and that land, seriously suggested a world|he had gone without food for two shorter work week canference. |days. The other described himself “T do not believe the American Cot-|as Daniel Gorringe, 52, an unem- ton Mfrs. Assn. is interested in in- ployed longshoreman, ternational labor problems,” Secre-| Scarcely able to whisper due to tary-Treasurer William McLaurine of| undernourishment, Daniel Collins, that organization stated to the trade | thirty-eight, of 124 Montgomery St., paper, Daily News Record. Federal) Tomkinsville, was found at the foot government officials in Washington | of Whitehall Street yesterday by a refused official comment but indi-| patrolman. He was taken to Belle- cated that such a conference as pro-| vue Hospital. He said he was a posed is impossible under government jongshoreman out of work and had sponsorship because labor regulation! eaten little for several weeks. involved is for state action. | Deny Air Crash, Funds Gone, Ends Life. MONTEVIDEO, March 8 — The His finances apparently reduced| American good will fliers tonight) WASHINGTON, March 8.—Presi-| heedless train, a fateful experiment ' from a purely personal and selfish | R 4 , to 11 waits, tinal Libson, forty-|denied reports circulated _ in the | dent Coolidge today formally desig-| which an’ indiscoverably large per- bid clearly, truthfully and fearless-| standpoint. beat ie also ask for more coupons Ms eight, a laborer, committed suicide | United States today that one of their| nated Rear Admiral W. H. G. Bul- centage of your fellow workers are ys ; ‘A total. of. 479: new. members ‘en. yesterday by hanging himself. in his | aeroplanes had been in a crash to- day who gave him their dough are nH] sees ey average of about grunting but it is too late. A title, i is nothing to sneeze at by a fellow) Walking Thru the Night. on the make. | If, worse luck, you are a track ——— walker, that is, you are a “Wop,” a nage Y “Pollack,” a “Hunky,” whose calling, Thousands Die in ‘as the saying goes, is to massage the n. subway walls, perhaps to grease the Japa id Quake {rails or help repair weak ones, to gather up papers and refuse, to walk ‘endlessly, wearily along the tracks in snow and during the gloomy subway nights, ‘eyes strained. for the treacherous de- fevtive rail; if that is your mission \in life, you have not the heart, (Continued from Page One) streets, half buried debris. Relief Sent. Because of the isolation imme- diate relief cannot be given, and is thought that many of the refu-) gees may die of exposure before help ‘damn foreigner” that you are, to hold up the company for more than the $18, $22, $24 which your un- can reach them, The government departments are) hastily organizing relief parties.) Army airplanes have been sent to You are only too thankful that you scout the stricken districts and two have thus far been able to spare the brigades of troops have been dis-| company the unpleasantness of hav- patched from Fukuskiyama. ing had to gather up your scattered SEARED ET UNE remains xfter your much too inti- Admiral Appointed Radio Chairman, mate meeting with a speeding and skilled efforts scarcely deserve. Hidden Fatalities. lard, U. 8. N., retired, as chairman) trying out weekly; for you know, of the federal raido commission, Uy }to0, what so few of the public ever given another shock today, when the Boston Transcript, organ of reaction, came to the front in support of the defunct newspaper “Dni? (Days) mouthpiece of the counter-revolution- ary parasites who are seeking to raise funds to carry on a futile cam- paign to recoup their ill-gotten for- mer holding in the Workers’ Soviet Republic. For sheer mandacity, the Trans- cript outdoes itself in an editorial, The pentup vermin of nine long years is loosed on the heads of Lenin, Trotsky and the Soviet Republic leaders in an efforts to place a halo over the recently arrived Kerensky whom they refer to as “a good man, an idealist, a well-wisher of the world as well as of the Russian peo- ple”. . This outburst of rabid fascism must be met by the working class of America with renewed activity in building up the circulation of the “DAILY WORKER” the only Eng- lish speaking daily carrying interna- tional news of ‘interest to the work- Read The Daily Worker Evers Day The Paris Commune celebration will be held this year on Sunday, 2 p. m. the fourth day of the Inter- national Labor Defense Bazaar in the Star Casino, 107th Street and Park Ave., March 10-13. ‘sil This monumental peotttarian event which for the first time in -history placed a workers’ government at the head of a community and has ever. since. been a source of revolutionary inspiration, will be a very appropriate achievement to celebrate at the bazaar. In spite of the combined onslaught of the French and German militayista to crush the workers, the communards carried on for two months. Finally, however, on March~18, 1871, the com- mune was overthrown in a swelter of blood. Approximately 13,000 work- ers were brutally murdered. The walls of Paris were bespattered with Railroad Telegraphers In St. Louis Demand The Six-Day Week ST. LOUIS, (FP).—Commenting on the general agitation in labor ranks for the 5-day week, members of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers are making themselves heard in pleas for abolishing the 7-day week in their oc- cupation. J. A. Bachman writes in the February issue of the Union’s Magazine: ¥ “I do not expect to see the day when Twill be working 6 days a week as 28 years of 7-day weeks and the great- er portion of the days were of 10 to 32 hours duration, too. So I cannot be acetsed of advocating this reform rolled with the union during the month of January, my time is nearly.over, having put in! parts of human bodies, while the Seine for weeks was a river of blood. Every year the workers of the wor!d honor the memory of those militant pioneers. This year, the fifty-sixth anniversary; is going té be made the biggest celebration yet held in New York. Prominent. speakers: including Juliet Stuart Poyntz, William PF. Dunne and Joseph Brodsky will be there. : This occasion will be a renewal of our memorial pledge, to defend the interest of the workers against the common enemy.” All workers are in- vited to attend. 5} Comrades and Fellow Workers: After a year’s heroic struggle of the Passaic textile workers, the mill barons were forced to submit to a union in the textile industryrof Pas- saic. They are however putting ob- stacles in the way of maintaining such an organization. Although the strike is almost over, they are taking the workers back very slowly, with the result that thousands of families \are without means of existence. ‘children are hungry. There are many families whose sole supporters were sent to jail for lo) periods because of their activities’ in ithe strike. You must come to their rescue, Relief must go on with full ‘speed! |. The General Relief Committee, who is maintaining a few food 8 in Passaic, appeals to all those who/have taken milk coupons to send in their money as soon as possible, no matter how much you have collected. Send the money immediately to the Gen- eral Relief Committee, 799 Broadway, _ The office is open from 9 a.m, to 7 p.m, daily. biel a 'GENERAL RELIEF COMMITTER