The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1927 ~ Woman and Child Labor | in the Anthracite —— Sees Michael Gold’s “Fiesta” Phone, Orchard 1680 By H. M. WICKS. \ has never been higher than that of the { the labor market in order to supple- URING the past few years the | average American worker, there was | ment the family income. If the man anthracite field in Pennsylvania} a time that families of miners were | works for less than the value of his |has been invaded by light industry, | able to live on the wages obtained by| labor power—the equivalent of the §8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months | $2.50 three months $2.00 three months ke out checks to Street, New York, N. Y. Address all mail and THE DAILY WORKER, 33 Firs particularly textiles, Which employs |the adult males. But that is no longer mostly women and children. The in-| the case. The series of wage cuts, and vasion of that territory teaches pro-| the failure of the United Mine Werk- found economic lessons for the work- jers’ of America, under the, national ing class. |leadership of John L. Lewis, who be- food, clothing and shelter necessary to maintain himself and family—the wife and children work for much less. The total income of the entire average family is barely sufficient nowadays |Postponed Till October Michael Gold’s “Fiesta” ‘will not be produced until next fall. Following a dress rehearsal last week, the direc- tors of the New Playwrights Theatre There are thousands of places that | trayed the miners during the last to cover the value of the labor power decided to withdraw the play for re- i J. LOUIS ENGDAHL | WILLIAM F, DUNNE i BERT MILLER of the man alone. Lines of Slaves. In other days, when the union had | geographically, and economically, as| great strike in the hard coal region, |far as transportation and other fa-!and under the local leadership of the | cilities are concerned, offer better ad-| renegade and traitor, Rinaldo Cap-| casting and rewriting. The am- bitious group of youth dramatists who were responsible for “Loud “active elements of th 0 = atti .Y. y|Vantages than Scranton, Wilkes Entered as second-class mnie pe kaye ey New York, N. Y., unde | Barre, Pittstown, Old Forge and the , . |other anthracite towns. But these Advertising rates on application, | places have one advantage for the in- —=== | vestment of textile capital that is not to be easily duplicated in points other- wise strategically situated for their purposes, That jis an abundance of cheap labor. EP — —— Bonapartism in China. Those spokesmen for imperialism who fondly imagine that| The Inducement to Textiles. history repeats:itself are hailing the despicable treachery of) ll the towns in the anthracite have Chiang Kai-shek as the beginning of another period of military | chambers of commerce (sometimes dictatorship in China. There is apparent historical vindication | ¢#!!¢4 industrial boards) whose task “yee 6 * it is to endeavor to induce industries for this interpretation. After the victory of Sun Yat Sen over | to establish themselves in their midst. the Manchu dynasty in 1911, the nationalist leaders, desiring na-| These organizations are busy circular-| tional unity above everything else, permitted the former military | izing matufacturers of textiles, cloth- leader of the dynastic armies, Yuan Shi Kai, to become president |'"& candy, ete. telling them of the of the republic. Before many weeks Sun Yat Sen and his sup- ; UP-' of cheap: tabor. porters were confronted with the open betrayal of the revolution The industrial board of Old Forge, by Yuan, who established a bonapartist regime in the interest of | maining town in the very heart of | states that the Anglo-Japanese interests. But history will not repeat itself pe SE tells prospective manu- . oy Since 1911 a new epoch has dawned and the old one “We will furnish as. many. wo- as died. men workers as you require at a Fifteen years ago the nationalist movemént was directed; wage of from eight to fifteen dol- against the dynastic regime of the Manchus; the menace of ae me Per nie e sas 5 i si ny, RST e board ‘urther perialism was not evident to the broad masses. Today, with ie Re Aer ean ilk he ahha to cake lessons of the Russian revolution before them and with a thor-! a saving of from fifteen to thirty-five ough understanding at least by the working class leaders, of the! per cent.on manufacturing costs by nature of imperialism, the military adventurer and miserable | ™oving eo vane cities besides being hireling, Chiang Kai Shek, will not be able to follow the footsteps ee °f union labor. j os aoe Fruits of Treachery. of his ignoble predecessor. Superficial observers may think That military dictatorship of a minority, which was known |this agitation for new industries | as bonapartism during the struggles of the bourgeoisie against merely an awakening of the so-called | civic spirit of the business men, who} the remnants of feudalism, becomes fascism in this period of |‘ ; social solution Bonavartis oy fittary ‘a tig rained want to make the anthracite region social revol ¥ napartism is military despotism exercised something more than a one-industry in the interest of a military clique against all the rest of society ; | territory, but the cause is to be found fascism is the military suppression of the proletariat and those in the profound social and economic | splendid pportunities offered because | |pelini, have so reduced the miners’ | wage that no longer can families be | supported from the mines alone. | The shameful united front of the |mine owners, the police, the courts and \the labor officials against the miners |has crippled the miners’ arganization jso that it functions more as a com | pany union than a trade union. Thi: | united front was plainly in evidence | during the last hard coal strike when every militant leader in the tegion| jwas jailed at the behest of Capellini land his henchmen. The fruits -of the | treacherous policy of the leaders at the head of the miners’ union are seen today in the proud boast that the region if free of union labor. The chamber of commerce gang knows that they have nothing to fear from the officials of the miners who con- | trol the various central labor councils and who would, if they were not agents of the employers, organize workers in any industry that could be established in their vicinity. Changing Economics. The economics of the new situation in the anthracite are known to all Marxians. Capitalism, in order that it may constantly replace lag; power in the market, must pay the heads of families sufficient to enable them to live and raise a family in order that there may be a new generation of |slaves to become beasts of burden when the present generation goes to the scrap heap of industry. a fighting policy in the anthracite, one passing through the region could see long lines of men coming from various towns and villages, finally, merging |into streams converging at the mouths jof a few mines. | Today the men are not so numerous upon the barren highways of the re- ‘ion, because of unemployment. But the thinning lines of men have been augmented by thousands of women and children, some of whom walk |from two to four miles to work (be- cause their miserable wage forces them to try to save even the few | cents required for carfare) in the silk | mills and other textile establishments {of Scranton and other cities and | towns. When miners resent seeing their vives and children herded like cattle | into the slave pen of the new indus- tries that have come into the region because of the exceptional advantages ‘of cheap labor, they can thank the |reactionary Jeaders of their union, | whose policy not only aids the anthra- | cite trust but aids the capitalist class as a whole by tuning the region into \a pest hole of scabbery. However, the “open shop paradise,” | as the Scranton chamber of commerce | describes the hard coal region, will |not endure very long, for the simple | reason that the horrible conditions of i living, of themselves, will drive the | workers to organize. The time is not *But the wages and conditions of | far distant when even the anthracite, | labor in the anthracite have fallen to | which Lewis considers his stronghold, | | such an extent that it is impossible for | will rise against him and the labor | the “head” ) of the family to earn | movement will then become dominated | | wages enough to maintain the rest of | hy men who will start organization Speaker” and “Earth,” the two plays put on at the 52nd Street Playhouse, | have decided to call it a season, and postponed any further. production un- til next October, when. “Fiesta” will open the 1927-28 season. John Howard Lawson, managing | director of the New Playwrights, and | author of “Loud Speaker” said that | Gold’s play contained “great artistic | values and vital pontentialities, which | the production had not realized.” “A theatre of our type,” he added, “re- quires a tryout audience so that our plays can be brought to their highest artistic level before a formal presen- |a valuable lesson from their experi- | ence.” ; { Broadway Briefs | “The Seventh Heart,” a comedy by Sarah Ellis Hyman, is announced by | the Lionel Productions to open at the |Mayfair Theatre May 2. Arthur Brander, Sylvia Beecher, Robert Far- |rell and Mildren Kent will be in the | cast. | The Shakespeare Fellowship will present a revival of “As You Like It” under the auspices of the American | Theatre Association’ Tuesday after- |noon, May 7. The performance will |be for the benefit of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on- Avon. “Blood Money,’ a melodrama by George Middleton, adopted from a |tation. The New Playwrights learned | ee | In “New York Exchange”, playing |a week’s engagement at the Bronx | Opera House beginning tonight. | announces that his next Dickens pro- |duction will be “The Mystery of | Edwin Drood.” | “Creoles,” a play by Samuel Ship- man and Kenneth Perkins, and- which Hatcher Hughes is revising, will be placed in rehearsal next month ‘by Albert Lewis, The Civic Repertory Players begin | their final two weeks in New York | this evening. On May 2 the company | will begin.a Spring tour opening that night in Washington for a week’s stay. The program this week in- \eludes “The Cradle Song” tonight, | Wednesday, Friday and Saturday | nights; ‘John Gabriel Borkman,” on ; Tuesday night; “Inheritors,” Wednes- |day matinee; “Master’ Builder”, | Thursday night and “Three Sisters” elements in society. that stand closest to the working class, in the interest of the big bourgeoisie. In China, Chiang Kai Shek) is trying to assume the role of fascist tyrant in the interest of | the family. Instead of receiving the value of his labor-power that he sells in the market, he receives less than its value. The result is that other changes that have taken place quite recently and is due to the crisis in the coal industry itself. While the standard of living. of the | | drives in every industry—including | those who heed the boast of the In- dustrial Board of Old Forge and es- tablish themselves there to be “free of imperialism against the workers, the peasants and the small |inhabitants of the anthracite region members of the family have to enter | union labor.” bourgeoisie. | The working class is the natural leader of all suppressed elements in China and is bearing the brunt of the attempted coup 4 ° detat. It is mobilizing its forces for the extension of the strike |(C f and is raising the revolutionary demand for arms to enable the! ontinuation O sliberation movement to continue the struggle. | Under the influence of the Communists in the important in- The campaign that is now taking dustrial centers the labor movement has. adopted the correct at- place in Passaic, N. J,, where Albert titude’ toward the peasantry and will have the support of the| Weisbord, Simon Bambach and Simon t class. |Smelkinson are running as labor can- By SYLVAN A. POLLACK. Passaic Election Struggle _| |Let’s Fight On! Join : ; The Workers Party! Strike Struggle In the léss of Comrade Ruthen- ‘ | berg the Workers (Communist) Par- {live in the city of Passaic will, with| ty has lost its foremost leader and | practically no exceptions, vote for|the American working class Weisbord and his colleagues. i by |might say that it will be a personal | be overcome by many militant work. |vote, that the individual Weisbord | ¢s joining the Party that he built. | lwill get the Votes, not thé program| Fill out the application below and its | Some staunchest fighter. This loss can only | | Saturday matinee. « short story of H. H. Van Loan’s, ‘vill | |be presented by Mrs. Henry B. Har-| Three premieres are scheduled for ris in New Haven on May 16, prior | this evening. Milne’s “The Pin Passes to its New York premiere. The cast| By” at the Garrick; “Love Is Like includes Thomas Mitchell, Shirley | That” at the Cort and “Lady Do” at Warde, Reginal Barlow and Malcolm | the Liberty. Duncan. lof “Pickwick” has been playing on} Thurston, the magician begins an en- tour and is now playing in Boston, | gagement. dE aia. cunieed oo hs rats ; ‘i ‘ ‘di i d t of th ire BSN ms Chiang Kai Shek’s betrayal of the revolution will not gh amen ade cde! inc die site will advance, That might be true) ™ail it. Become a member of the |, MADISON SQUARE GARDEN | Civic Repertory $or (Ax. © 14,3t unpunished. The movement in China has gone too far to subside | vindication of the policy of partici-|in some cases but thousands of Pas-| Workers (Communist) Party and| TWICE DAILY, 2 P.M & 8 P.M. | EVA LE GALLIENNE at the-behest of this renegade and traitor and the money he has|pating in the every-day struggles of obtained from the agents of the great powers in China will be|the workers that is practiced by the of no avail against the mass movement that is growing’ ever |CO™munist movement the world over. mightier and must drive onward until imperialism’s bloody fangs can no Jonger reach out to crush the Chinese people. Until Strike Started. | When on January 25, 1926 the | workers of the Botany mills went out on strike, to be followed by the work- | ‘ers in the other mills, they were un-/| lsaie workers have began to under-|*'ty forward the work of Comrade |stand their class interest and wil | Sathenkerg: |vote for all candidates that stand for| 1 ‘want to become a member of the |the interests of the working class ex-| Workers (Communist) Party. _clusively, as opposed to the liberals! Name ‘or the more reactionary. | Liberals Not Friends. | Address... ..+04. They are beginning to understand | Occupation RINGLING BROS. BARNUM & BAILEY lay incl. among 10,000 Marvels PAWAH |f| Thestre Guild Acting Company tm SACRED WHITE ELEPHANT PYGMALION Z Next Week—The Second Man | TICKETS at GARDEN BOX OFFICES y THEA. W. 52 St. Evs. 8th Ave. and 49th St., and Gimbel Bro: GUILD. Mats, Thurs. and Sat. 2:15 “CRADLE SONG” “John Gabriel Borkman” | Tonight. r Another opening tonight will take ~ Frank C. Reilly, whose production ; place ‘at the Central Theatre where ” Defend the Imprisoned Furriers and Cloakmakers! derpaid, overworked and browbeaten! that a liberal as Judge Cabell, who, Uni Affiliati TIMES SQ. | MR. PIM PASSES BY re }without any centralization, they had/altho he supported the strike, is no| ~™MON ¢MiMAHON....++.++..0++ ee ane CRI M E GARRICK tat The defense of the furriers and cloakmakers, whom Green, | toiled day after day until the historic | more their friend in the long run than, Mail this application to the Work- | Tyee. Bae. eo { : eae Woll, Sigman, the bosses and the socialist party officialdom are trying to railread to jail is a first call onthe workers of all shades | of political opinion. | day that Albert Weisbord with the assistance of a small group of work- Commissioner of Public Safety Pres- | |kiel, who had them’ beaten on the! ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New York City; or if in other city to ers started the struggle that gained world wide prominence. | picket line. Cabell was seeking office |and supported the strikers. Preskiel Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington | Blvd., Chicago, Tl. With James Rennie & Chester M The LADDER NED McCOBB’S DAUGHTER Next Week—The Silver Cord John Golden ,Th-.58. Hof B’y (Circle 1 © ae . Mts. Thu. & Sat.| 5878, | : e : le pr . ; Distribute the Ruthenberg pam- Now in its 6th MONTH |B : The most active, able and: militant union members, beginning | The strike is over. True, they have| was in office and suppressed the) 11 umhe Workers (Communist) PALDOEE pee Be: Tage ot ART, “4° with Ben Gold of the Furriers’ Joint Board, have been arrested on |"0t, "on, cll, of their demands, but in workers. Today, both Cabell and| Party What it Stands For and Why ae ee ee CARROLL aniti spite of that they have two important! Preskiel are candidates for commis. | Workers Should Join.” This Ruthen- WALLACK’S West 42nd Stree. 0. (es framed up charges and all forces of the bosses from courts to their agents in official labor circles are united in an effort to im-| prison them for long terms so the destruction of the unions can be facilitated. The defense of these workers is defense of the trade union . f "o T H EB ATR E, Movement. A powerful movement in behalf of these workers is|strike has been a great educator as|They will dramatize the happenings| °°), *0 Sel) or distribute. District HAMPDEN’S ‘tina gt. at Broadway | ‘SPREAD EAGLE’ the best possible answer to the enemies of labor within and with-| Well as an organizer. of that famous page in labor's his-| Jin get their namphlets ithe |r WADE TA ME DEN 7 | 3 will get their pamphlets from the waLtteR HA N Se eT ee ae } out the trade unions. All workers behind the Joint Defense Committee! Sign the Roll Call! | Strengthen the movement for Sacco and Vanzetti, give more power to the demand for Hands Off China by freeing the needle trades militants, repelling the attack of reaction of the labor move- ment and leaving it free to devote all of its energy to the tremen- dous tasks which face it in this period when the imperialists are plotting another blood bath for the world’s working class. Defend the militants of the furriers' and the cloakmakers’ unions. 1 The City Elections in Passaic. When, during the great strike in Passaic, the workers were being clubbed, gassed, run down by motorcycle police and jailed by the score The DAILY WORKER told them there would come anéther day—a day of reckoning with the vicious city adminis- tration thet was responsible for these outrages against workers striking for the elementary sort of living wage. The opportunity to hit back and hit hard against the city administration is now here. The opening of the campaign in Passaic on Tuesday night, when the labor candidates for com- missioners made their first appearance before the masses was a magnificent testimonial to the fact that the spirit of militancy is still alive. Unquestionably the demonstrations at two halls threw fear into the hearts of the hirelings of the mill owners who now control the city administration. Passaic has the commission form of government, which means that no party lines are supposed to be drawn. Candi- dates run as individuals. But the working class candidates can be distinguished from all others as effectively as if they ran on a straight labor ticket and the workers of Passaic will recognize and support them. F , The campaign is also significant from another point of view, in as much as it brings back to Passaic Albert Weisbord, leader of thé strike, who yielded to the demands of the A. F. of L. of- ficials of the United Textile Workers and stepped out for the duration of the strike in prdev thal the strikers of Passaic could points as their heritage. - One, a union. Two, an understanding of the class struggle and their class inter- | ests. that is now going on they will have | strike, an {sioners and both of them ignore the strike. ? While Cabell and Preskiel and the to Weibord, opportunity to prove that the|Smelkinson it is a most vital issue. Many of the former strikers are|tory and glesn it to the workers foreign born, They have no vote.|who are now listening to the many But those who are citizens and still candidates for political office. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS | Editor, The DAILY WORKER: , their land then the other nations The following is a tid-bit from a) will.” speech by Rev. John N. Lyle, speak-| This is given space in a so-called ing at the Workers Educational | sbor paper. The man of god has League, gnd reported in the Seattle | overlooked a few items, as follows: Union Reeord, for March 5: |England produces 90 per cent of the “Don't be tog hard on old Britain. | world’s ‘opium, thanks to the Lord. We owe a lot to the British. If it! England has a revenue of nearly 100 hadn’t been for them we would be| million pounds, sufficient to run its speaking Spanish here now, Are we |own government. going to scuttle out of China? The| England has had two opium wars Indian did not make the best use of in China, and is now going through the land in America and the white | the, last one. (Thanks to the Chi- man took it away from him. If the |nese Awakening). England lends Chinese do not make the best use of money to opium growers in India join the ‘kin stream of the American trade union movement. Now that the strike is over he can again take his place as leader of the Passaic masses and his candidacy for commissioner gives him an opportunity to discuss before the workers the policies to be followed in resisting the conspiracies of the bosses to take from them gains made during the strike. The United Textile Union officials have been yielding too much to the bosses, have been retreating and forcing the workers to accept impositions. This retreat must stop and the struggle must be intensified all along the line. , * The workers of Passaic have shown their fighting spirit as strikers. If those who have the right to vote will “vote as they strike” and strive to ‘get other workers in Passaic to support them they can make another valuable contribution to the labor movement through laying the foundation for a powerful local Nabor ‘party that will give impetus to a state labor party and tremendously aid in stimulating sentiment for a labor party on a national scale. Just as the working class of the nation watched Passaic during the great struggle of last year so they will eagerly watch this new phase of the fight. 4 During the political campaign | other capitalist candidates ignore the} Bambach and | | berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- phlet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. Every Party Nucleus must collect | 50 cents from every member and will | receive 20 pamphlets for every mem- District Office—108 East 14th St, Nuclei outside of the New York District write to Daily Worker Pub- lishing Co., 33 East First Street, New York City, or to the National Office, Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington | Blvd., Chicago, Til. Evenings 8:30. Mats. Tues. Wed., Thurs, and Sat. What Anne Brought Home A New Comedy Drama in CAPONSACCHI BROADWAY PRICES EVES. '$1.10. TO $3.85. Ear) Carroll Thea., 7th Ave. & 50th St, Mats. Thurs. & Sat, 2:36 Sanne 280 allah ss ketal saat ahaa ‘THEATRE, 4 Le MARTIN BECK 8 Ave. Evs. 8:30. Mats. Wed. and Sat. JED HY IS Presents a Drama x o— Bronx Opera House j:\"{! 3,3°%°8 Pop. Prices. Mat. Wed. & Sat. “NEW YORK EXCHANGE” The Sensational Comedy Saceo and Vanzetti Must Not Die! without interest. It has nearly 5,- 000,000 dope customers in America, many of them only school children. The British Empire has far greater number of customers in U. S. A. at the present time than the total popu- lation in thy «ar 1776. Yours truly, 8. F. B) NCH, Seattle, Wash. Likes Insurance Articles. I was over delighted to read your just indictment of the “Big Four” in- surance gang. I hope that this: ef- fort of yours will bring about an honest investigation. At any rate it will disturb some of the minds of the victims of the “Big Four” and as every progressive move results in a certain amount of distrubance—let's go! Best wishes for your insurance ex- pose, Joseph P. Roth. The I. R. T, Situation. Editor, DAILY WORKER: I take this opportunity to address and inform you I have’ become a reader of your wonderful paper and I assure you I°am delighted at its aspirations in favor of the working men. ; é TI, as an employee of the I. R. T. New York, want to bring under your notice the 5% increase in pay start- ing April 1 donated by Mr. Hedley, This is what he confiscated from us two. years ago by a fake vote con- trolled by Paddy Connolly from the windy city. é Now then, every man on the job, Jewployed by the I. R. T. knows that the granting of this 5% at this time was a stall. You will see by the | papers that Mr. Hdley called down all: delegates and had them sign up for two years when granting this 5% m- crease without any authority of the | men. | T understand that the motormen of. ‘the I, R. T. are going to get 91 cents per hour as they are linked with the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers, Now that is Hedley’s idea to stall off. He also wants to stall! off the injunction brought against the A. F. of L. in the recent strike, but I assure you the employees of sub- way and elevated are with you in this coming battle, which we anticipate soon after winning that injunction suit. Mr, Mitchell ought to give a good write up on this 5% increase. | You are going to hear from me} often hereafter. F | I, R. T. Worker. | On Sacco-Vanzetti Editor, DAILY WORKER: The trial and sentence to death of Sacco and Vanzetti, two stalwart la- bor defenders, by Judge Webster Thayer, the lackey of Massachusetts capitalist autocrats is a deliberate and unashamed frame-up and no or-| dinary case, C | This is one of class-hatred against two radicals and active fighters for) the labor movement. For seven years they have been incarcerated in jail. Think of the agony they have en- dured. They have no right to suffer. 4 a They have been in jail too long for “so-called murderers,” to prove that they have done any crime. This alone is enough to prove that they are In- nocent. This has not been a open and honest trial. All the facts and evt dence for the defense has been tg- nored. Even prominent liberals have been horrified at this miscarriage of “Justice.” Where are the leaders of the A. F. of L?_ Why are they silent? They are too busy expelling left wing workers from the trade-unions. Also secretly conspiring with the bosses, courts, police and gangsters of | the underworld, to destroy the untons _// and imprison their militant and hone est leaders. The entire labor move+ ment must act quickly and effectively, This can only be done by sendin petitions to the governor of Massa- chussets and general stopp: 4 of work for a short time. Also the workers must come out on the street and demonstrate their determination for their liberation. The cry of the workers must be: Sacco and Vanzetti must not die; they must be set freel —Magk Stone, New York - BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS © Bazaar Roll Call. ‘Names on the special Bazaar Roll Call at 50 cents are commencing to pour in on the Bazaar Roll Call lists. All names will be published in English in the Bazaar number of “Unity.” ‘