The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 9, 1927, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 9, 1927 other ways to reach the workers. One was through the of the sympathetic organizations, arranged for the candidates, The Sacco-Vanzetti | meeting of the ILD, the campaign rallies of the Women’s | It is a hot time, the work doesn’t!... wait, but this can’t be put off—it were sin. A great affair, a world’s affair, because it is destined for men, | answers the old man, they will | ‘go abroad... havn’t you heard? | |Haven’t they been here? Eh-eh-eh |... Haven't they told you, who sits | IN THE CITY OF MILLS By MARY B. TRASK. there ain’t any chance in hell that them what owns will really sell enough so they will lose their grip on railroad, factory,.mill and ship. scintillating, Cardinal first baseman, and Harold Stricklin of the White Sox, are only a few of the coal- diggers who threw away their shovels . - ” ¢ 3 at he P, | ike a living at the more con- council, the Young Workers League, the language|who got imprisoned not for their in prison for us, who starves to | So long as they can run the show, Oe * A branches, did not only reach different peciohe ‘of | own, bat for she world’s sake. | death? Eh-eh-ch—This cattle is from | One of the many problems we had when we opened | they just as soon sum stock should go genial occupation of playing ball. the worke ut helped to build ap the organizations as| There, where the green stripes of|our village—the sheep~and the ox, | the Playground for Strikers’ Children in Passaic last) to) workers with a purse what's thin 2 Play During Strike. well. There t a single meeting, which did not | vineyards are ending and the rose| The village gave them. I am driving | SU™mer, was how to care for the babies and smaller] ag into bankers’ box of tin. In fact, With a strike closing down . the end with an » membership, urging the workers | coloured flowers of the cotton tree them to Kokand. “You shall drive |Si8ters and brothers that occasionally appeared: there. | they really want us guys to make a| mines in the bituminous fields, over a to join the union, the ILD, the Council, the league and| the party. The campaign was not conducted just for! election .purposes, the main objective was the revitalizing and strengthening of our organizations. | Reaction Avoids Debate. | Another medium of reaching the voters was the going | to other rallies, where according to the Passaic tradi-| tion, all the other candidates, were most respectfully in- vited. We accepted their courtesies and replied with same, stating of course that we are going to debate the statements these gentlemen will make. None of them dared to come of course, On the other hand we went to them. In one case Weisbord was forced to leave the} |“samovars”—tea urns from are spreading to north, east and west, stands on the highway a caravansary for the rest of travellers—dekhans, returning from the fields and caravan | leaders, transporting goods. The gates of the caravansary are opened from dawn to dawn and the whole day, the whole night great Tula, especially made for this purpose are breathing with steam. From sunset to sunset wood piles are burning in the court: “Kavardak,” Pilaff for the {them, Akmal”—I was told—and now |I am driving them. . . . | Pa . It dawns. In a gigantic rose-coloured prairie the cotton tree plantations are spreading. In inexpressible colours are flaming the far mountain branches of Tien- Shan. Akmal and Mamadshan are follow- ing a mountain track and in the colours of dawn and in the endless It was, 'of course, little Catherine, one of the best-loved of these tiny youngsters, who fell one morning, running across the field, and broke her arin. We picked her up—poor kid, she was trying hard to be good, but a four-year-old can not battle very well against tears—picked her up and took her in the car to the hospital. “Will you get the doctor, quick? has broken her arm!” There was confusion and rushing about, One nurse was writing down the child’s name and age, another ran skilled fingers down the injured arm. Someone who seemed to be in charge reappeared. I think this child few investment buys, and read our share of stock each night, instead of this here dope I rite. Keep cool in your financial collar; the world ain’t offered for a dollar, hundred thousand miners find time hanging heavily on their hands. The younger miners are taking advantage of their leisure to go in for athletics, and in the coal district at this time of the year, this means—baseball. Union -| organizers point out that it is essen- tial to keep the young fellows busy, in order to maintain their morale, and keep them from drifting to the non- union fields or to the cities. In such a situation it would be an excellent thing to organize, not only union > THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PASSAIC) © FEUDISTS’ CRIME TALE TOLD DANGER OF WORLD WAR | } pi ° = - we, With the Young Work ELECTION CAMPAIGN Ny 'HIRTEEN years ago, in April 1914, very few people in| e€ 0 n or er | rt 2 Europe and America ‘dreamt or realized that a war = i By EMIL GARDOS, | < | was to come upon them which would result in 10,000,000 | Join th The present election campaign in Passaic is the log- | dead, 4,000,000 missing and 20,000,000 wounded. k om le Navy Laan See | feal continuation of the great school the textile workers | | Today, April 1927, very few people realize or dream | th World / went through during the more than a year long strike. | that there is a danger of another world war, only on a e { / The brutal use of the state power against the strikers, | larger scale than the last one. The source of danger | who went out to fight for purely economic lameness] for the entire world is imperialist aggression in China. | ave a good political education, laying the basis for this The great imperialist powers with their hundreds of mil-| | campaign, in which our party, for the first time in its| lions investments in China; with hundreds ¢of millions of | history is a real fac -party in the Lenin- people to exploit on a tremendous scale—wages of | ist sense of the word. skilled workers in Shanghai are but $180 a year and! The formation of a powerful labor ticket was unfor- | afford opportunities for superprofits, with a potential tunately prevented by the treacherous attitude of the | market unrivalled in the entire world, an avenue of!| | local trade-union leaders, who, following the old slogan escape for the surplus of European and American cap- of “rewarding your friends and punishing your enemies,” italism—these imperialist powers are waging informal | By S. BRODY. | hurried to the endorsement of the opposition candidates, war upon the Chinese people, are ready to start a war! : sachets vied oe opin ARAN the manufacturer Cabell and the detective-captain Tur- against Soviet Russia and will fight among themselves| . The iron fist of American Imperial. | ne ner, both republicans of cou We therefore decided for the rith prize of China. ism has been gathered in New York! Jack Dempsey has returned to the to have a Communist campaign, bringing forward our ‘ i i | Harbor. Lined up in the Hudson from noble pursuit of knocking noses. fuM program, including the fight for a Labor Party, | 5 | 57th Street to Yonkers, stand 129| His illness has vanished, his ambition under the banner of our party. | THAT this means the enslavement of the Chinese peo-| man-killing monsters: the Atlantic |has risen—to increase his bank-roll. Expose Election Fake. | ple and the forcing of foreign rule upon them; that | and Pacific fleets, ‘This extraordin-|He is soon to fight the Spanish The campaign for the election of five city comimission- | this means unemployment and lower wages for Euro-| ary display’ has apparently heen pre- | Woodchopper Paulino Uzeudun. If he ers is conducted on a non-partisan basis, one of the many | pean and American workers—due to the extremely low}arranged and organized to the mgst, manages to knock the ax-wielder fakes of the pres. ystem. The candidates wages paid by the British, Japanese and American cap-| minor details. Navy launches carry-| back to the Pyrenees he fights the are running on t of the individual fitness to ad- italists to the Chinese workers—that this means the | ing the crowds to the battleships, of-| winner of the Sharkey-Maloney minister the business of the city, hiding their party | killing of Chinese workers and peasants and American) ficers parading in full military| petting party (very likely Sharkey). affiliatio ible. The nailing down of | and European soldiers and sailors—all this means noth- | regalia, shore-policemen parading Granting a victory he will again meet, this lie » other candidates ‘with the ing to the foreign robbers who are interested only in along the piers with immense clubs | Tunney. parties » and Wall Street and the bringing plunder and booty. t |resembling baseball bats; in short,| Three victories would mean at least forward of ers (Communist) Party by endorse- But does it mean anything to you? Are you ready to/ everything that goes with war {s| ‘million dollars, All of which Stat Was Gne of our * fight for hands off China? Are you eager to demand | there, kines that i suk eee Sad halfves the withdrawal of troops and battleships from Chinese Parallel with thi 1 Pp G d rt Page ali inka : ater soil and waters? Are you ready to fight against an- raga ta Py ite seagrass cnt i, sce os apa hirsbioabe hes Te ° cially significant, when Al- pecnbagr at sirpier 2 tration of .battleships in a single| are bound to succeed. A local publi- gp ; perialist war? If you are, then your post is in 3, ry ; i bert Weis jer, was put.up to be with the Workers (Communist) Party, which is leading in port, a wide campaign of publicity has| cation “what pays good money for S. E. Bambach orker and Simon Smelkinson, the fight in thi “ertilte bis ie been launched in New York City.| making smott krecks”—payed a guy ight in this country against imperialist war and for | 2° + ‘ a@ garment worker, standard bearer of the party at ; ‘yi. A LA High schools and various boys’ clubs| for writing that Jack Dempsey is “a tis. ele " alowed Py Ee a | freedom for the Chinese people from foreign oppression. |“ t di to hk Bet td ok welanbtitieas *:. a e election. 1 eloved man of the workers ani Fill out the application blank in this issue and mail to|#%¢ Sent down e fleet in large| g prize-fighter. ou can’t im- cursed by the bo: back after an absence of more 108 East 14th Street, New York City, delegations, the Navy recruiting sta-| prove on that. It describes all box- than six mont represent the party in this second i tions are working overtime, the kept| ing. phase of the struggle. What will be the effect of his press devotes long columns daily in be bd * coming back y of us asked. The strike is over, glorification of “our gobs, our blue| This is the time of the year when the workers gained their partial victory, the union recog- CAMEWLLEMS PEARL PHELPS SNAPSHOTS OF LOS ANGELES jackets, our sailors.” Workers Sports Clubs get das And nition, through many sacrifices, the unemployment is big | e HARRY. All this is no mere accident. It|this is the place to tell the world Pa oe pope < ae jess THOMASON By JIM SEYMOUR is now obvious that an intensive} about it. Send in the results of your rf answer ig to o 10 ” *, . ities. an: i’ into the struggle? The wonderful reception given to| ‘ Fear of f iden and a desire for revenge, are believed A building being remodeled, a sign at the entrance unueee ae ee pede pata wich se the strike leader at his first meeting held April 18 gave to be the motives which led Harry Thomason, 19, serving a sentence to the temporary enclosure reading: “No help of any a3 ; ? i a clear answer. A meeting called in two days, not ad- of from 10 years to life imprisonment for robbery, to confess to the: kind wanted. KEEP OUT.” 1, To draw young workers into the eke ; vertised by leaflets with about 4000 workers packing murder last Dec. 12, of Mayor JoeAdams, of West City, Ill. In} A windblown eastern magazine, driven into a corner, | "VY for the purpose of training them Meanwhile our tennis champ, Bill two halls to the overflow, giving a tremendous demon- his confession Thomason says he and his brother Elmo, 17, now desperately flutters a full-page ad of the L. A. Cham- | for impending blood-baths. Tilden, has gone to Europe to regain stration to the man and to the party he stands for, was dead, received from Charlie Birger, feud leader, $50¢each for the ber of Commerce which invites manufacturers to come| 2 To create “atmosphere” and| lost laurels. Age has crepped up on enough to show, that the workers do not forget. Yes,! three shots fired at Adams. Thomason further confessed’ that the | to the land of the open shop and conténted workers. | get American workers to think war; a| him. His bones, muscles and eye- the workers don’t forget the struggles they ‘went murder was planned at Birger’s cabin, where Birger’s lieutenants, | A fair haired girl, still good looking in spite of| gradual nursing into a war hysteria. | sight don’t respond as beautifully as through, the leadership they had and are ready to rally| Art Newman, Connie Ritter and Harvey Dungy, also, were present. chronic malnutrition, makes the rounds in a vain search| 3, To show other Imperialist | ‘they had. But he has made a re- around the same leadership in spite of temporary set-| He nemed fo Hyland as the driver of the death car. These four for work. Billboards stating that gentlenen prefer! Powers that Wall Street is ready for markable come-back sweeping every- back, in spite of rumors, accusations, which may affect ‘a with Bisaer,: have been indicted for murder. Enis! blondes. The girl continues her quest along the Bab-| business, thing before him in the recent South- the weaker section of the working class, but not the ek ee a rger, iat Ia babl a ited d ffi q | bitts and meets no preference. Now whee tink ie asa ern Championships. If he can keep class as a whole. The workers did not forget that the| ‘Thomason was killed when Birger's cal in was dynamited ‘and officials | An ever-spreading epidemic of signs bearing what is me ev a. ices = 4 “| this up there’s trouble ahead for leadership did not come from an individual, but it came believe Lory Price, state highway patrolman, was abducted and later | obviously the official slogan of the town: “For Rent.” spied a sl b sicin rh oe ie a European champs. Tilden in good from the leader of class struggle: the Communist Party. killed because he would have connected Birger with the crime. The Vacant stores, vacant houses, A stranger asks a ques- ye ae Poin da lor fhe Pi are be form is without equal. This fact was stated very little before, but they knew it| two girls, above, Jackie Williams and Pearl Phelps, testified against | tion of a citizen, probably from Iowa. He receives a f Aad he th wailed ice a just the same. Those who were present at the meetings, | Thomason when he was on trial. After his confession, Thomason, vacant stare. « ne ot Dy 7 ge ts citar | who heard the applause whenever our party was men-| ‘was sentenced to life imprisonment. Speer Clerks in Goy stores stand around twiddling their sh “s cd Posapss tha CMTC. \ tioned, will certainly agree with what one of the mill- —— thumbs but ready to pounce like famished wolves upon he bed ‘ds adam acd th aa ¢) owners said about the strike: “It is a school for Com-| e any prospective buyer who may chance to enter. * en ek ita P wae ate ons munism.” | A World Affair A blowsy gospel-peddler harangues a bunch of dis- bred be pe bet a pred i Vas Rally to Labor Ticket. linterested stiffs and tells them that many men have | ‘ity must be unmasked for what they In spite of the lack of funds, thé refusal of hall-own- | we tried to get along without Jesus but have never suc-|T¢? another indication that soon the ers to give their places for meetings, the deadly silence) The purple sun quickly hides be- {they entered the caravansary to drink | ceeded. Newspapers nearby announce that 400 million | American youth will be talled on to of the local press, the campaign gained strength every| hind the mountain branches of tien-| a cup of tea and to eat Pilaff. After-| heathen Chinks have kicked over’ the traces. give its blood for Wall Street. day. Hundreds of workers came, many of whom we! Shan. | wards, enveloped in their coats, they! A few miles away a sae dollar janet is ated es never saw before, who had no connection with the union, Violet, orange, blue and golden} listened to the endless rumours about | erected hy slaves for Julius Rosenwald, who recently 1 to offer their services as campaign workers. They took| fumes are floating above the valley,| Bukhara, Choresma, the far Moscow | found Jesus in the Chicago Y. M. C. A, and slipped him Stock! Hell, No! “ Labor Sports Make out contribution lists, leaflets and went out to the street,|the foaming tnountain creek, the| and the mountainous lofty Afghanis-|a big forkful of kale previously harvested. ‘ Progress to their friends, to work for the Labor candidates. To} sparkling lake, surrounded by fir-| tan... . raiple phitaed sourepee sheer Lait the Lied (By BILL LLOYD, Federated Press) their work is due the succéss of our rallies which are | trees and fields covered with red and| You intend to sell him?—Ay, ay,|of Poland’ China brood-sows, waddle and grunt the! ant :, better attended than the rallies of the capitalist candi- | yellow poppies and edelweiss. ba fine ox, says somebody from be-| way into a respectable swilltrougheria that features a Bass ge dis zest crgtdaid FEI iazerghh ees bi sok dates, who are sending out letters to the voters and give| Night covets the plantations,.pas-| hind an “arba.” special 75 cent dinner at suppertime. stock’ Tee printed in: sum cblored|try has furnished eg simile, hala entertainment, sandwiches, cigars and “refreshments.” tures and mountain Villages. of the) Good day, Akmal—sounds-from an-| The fair haired girl, thru with her day’s work of ink au all lit up to make ‘you think td oy Waseball: athe, as rahe poh ; We asked for the workers’ money and they gave it will-| Fergan Valley. other corner in a well known voice, | looking for work, passes without pausing. Despite her that Soe Re Mak da''all cheatton de Probably the pe Femmug ur. A ingly. They un stood that there is Something poison-| The old Akmala and the young, What ‘has happened.... Why do/| fatigue she has the grace of a fawn. She may eat prvi} bd pihoUy ty Goh the nated hase pak cline Verindel Sree: ta cus in the ciga and refreshments Preiskel, Saxe,|Communist Mamadshan have much) you sell in such a hot time? elsewhere. gs e ea = at three-fingered Cub pitcher of ‘ Rubacky or Turr are offering to the voters. to do: the ox and seven sheep have! How much will you have for them, | Progen bei if ah gael faa’ sign. ‘Stantey’ Caveliakie, fare d To Organization. to be transported to the town, to be busily’ asks the owner of the cara- * © % * *, Besides the two weekly mass-meetings of our own, at-| delivered to the Soviet, after which | vansary, pointing to the sheep. Read The Daily Worker Every Day hope. It’s precious little you can get eo pcr so ggg aga wt sr tended by an average of a thousand people, we found | they have to return within 24 hours.| . They are not mine, I say—not mine | Sette get rere from your weekly wage, I bet, And : ‘ platform, because he “slandered” the present officials,| travellers and “Shashlyk” and small| waves of rose-coloured cotton trees | “The doctor is coming right away. Come down to ——” eat Yeas, but lengnes, txt will stimulate (he spoke of the lessons of the strike) other times the brett pasty ‘for great” guests are| they seem like shepherds in a fairy | She broke off abruptly. Stood staring at the girl who DON’T JUMP and provide inter-local competition. | floor was not given to our candidates, ghey were heckled | cooked and roasted there. tale wandering to the fires of the held Catherine in her arms. ON ’EM! Wants News. | most of the time—but they came out always stronger. Just a few instances: Weisbord spoke at the Rubacky rally for less than 10 minutes. Over two thousand peo- ple, mostly Polish workers gave him such an ovation, that he was interrupted several times by their applause. Preiskel, who is endorsed by the club, was booed by the audience. When Weisbord got through, the majority of the audience left with him. The Saxe rally, held at the aristocratic Passaic Park section, showed that even the petty-bourgeoisie is receptive to our prineipleg. Without minding the hecklers, not using the favorite method of 30 versts lay behind Akmal and madshan and it was naturally that By LILLIAN BORGESON. (All-American — Anti-Imperialist League Service) to the countries of South and Central vrising sun. AL, KOLOSSOFF. America. The “good will” flyers were but another maneuver of the financial interests in the United States, to “I know you,” she announced. aren’t you.” “Yes, what of it?” “Is that a striker’s child?’ “Yes.” ‘ “This hospital is not for strikers. You will have to take the child somewhere else for treatment.” It was not until she repeated her decision that we really understood. Somehow it had not seemed quite possible that a public hospital would refuse to care for a four-year-old child who was seriously hurt, even though “You're a_ striker, THAT'S TOO ROUGH! With the organized labor movement taking a growing interest in the de- velopment of sports activity within its ranks, as evidenced by the spread of union baseball teams, the problem of labor sports publicity comes to the front. In this connection, Labor Sports Union is putting out a press service which is issued weekly, without charge, to cover 100 labor papers.’ will be glad to receive news of any . 7 The so-called “good-will” fl: in of| tighten up their hold on the ub- ; teally simply. However, a press service must have cocipaplece ant Pesdivae i ggg ry padivenmange | the United States Army have Tait re-| lies of Pic acu: rep that child’s parents were striking for a Union. fms orker ian ini these the rs? rc 8 is of | ’ i ji P f ee art Serre . ports Press ice badly needs. the city, the unemployment, the need of a Labor gov- | turned from their 16,000 mile flight It is a maneuver that is going on side | IN YOUR LETTERS youvg workers. 4 ernment, and the crowd left deeply impressed not only by the fearles#fiess and sincerity of the candidate, but also by the solution he had to offer to the present situa- America. Behind the mask of their “good will” was the more real pur- pose of strengthening American Im- by side with the action of United States troops in. Nicaragua jnd the presence of the United Statew battle- SEND The DAILY WORKER is anxious to receive letters trade union sports events. Such news Chicago, Il. tion. We expect to poll a considerable vote from the periglism. shine alone tay Mops ae ger from its readers stating their views on the issues con-| small business-men, office-workers and other sections of . ‘ seca aed le eeploltation fronting the r movement. It is our hope to de- i 7 Bohtwethabec nal i Imperialists Sent Them. South American resources by Ameri- fe F the petty-bourgeoisie, who also learned something dur- This flight was under the joint| can Imperialism. The Saeiisiot South velop a “Le! Box” department that will be of wide JOIN OUR RANKS ing the strike. The few days left over until May 10, the election day, will be utilized for open air rallies, for the distribution of several leaflets and The DAILY WORKER by five thousands and for a very extensive campaign for cam- paign workers, for watchers at the polling places, to reduce the usual stealing of vates to as low as possible. Fight Still Goes On, What will the election bring to us? The candidates will certainly get a very high vote (some even say that would not it be for the stealing of votes, there is even a chance for election)—-but this is not the big thing. The real achievement of this campaign is and will be, that the workers of Passaic, whom the bosses have considered defeated, showed very clearly, that the strike was not fought in vain, The strike is over, the fight is still on, Fight on the political field, against the strike- breaking state-power and against the fake opposition candidates of the Cabell and Turner type, showing the (Continued on fourth column) , direction of the. War and State De- partment, which in itself is signifi- cant. The trip has.made possible a chartered route from the States to the countries visited. Air-route connections between the United States and the South Ameri- can republics are as. important to American capitalists as are any other trade routes to countries under their exploitation., Moreover, definite ef- forts were made during the flight, to consolidate the forces in South America which are closest to the United States. A Maneuver. American imperialism is entrench- ing itself more and more strongly in the countries of South and Central United, and Central America, as well as those of the United States, should have no | illusions about the “good will” ex- peditions to South America. Worker Gets $6,500. A jury sitting before Supreme |Court Justice Stephen Callaghan has awarded Jqseph Zwick of Calverton $6,500 in his suit for damages against the Long Island Railroad Company for personal injuries suffered when the Shelter Island express was de- railed August 13 at Calverton, L, I, Six persons were killed, y WORKERS! STOP THE MURDER OF AND VANZETTI interest to all members of The DAILY WORKER family. Send in your letter today to “The Letter Box,” The DAILY WORKER, 33 First street, New York City. (Continued from first column) fist of Labor to the bosses, bringing back the old time fear into them, fighting for a Labor Party, the building up of the workers’ organinations,—and all this done un- der the leadership of the Workers (Communist) Party, National Office: 1113 West Wi YOUNG WORKERS bey Cop p29 a ‘ashington New York Office: 108 East 14th Street, New York City, N. Y. should be gent in to 453 North Ave.,,”