The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1927, Page 4

a % | 4) aa Page Four THE DAILY WORKER ‘WwW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY- 10, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by te 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): 68.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 By B. GOLDBERG. Dear President Hutcheson:—As a |member of the Carpenters’ Union, I take the liberty to address a letter to you. Tn our monthly Journal, The Car- penter, for the month of April, an article appeared by you in which you ———- | ask local unions and all members to Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL . | help destroy the Communists in the WILLIAM F, DUNNE } Pe ae SE ee Peers | Needle Trades unions. You say in Pe MLB ok cis ciny os aiean business Manager the article that they are a danger to ne | the: Unions, rail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under | tutcheson, the act of March 3, 1879. | you? = Are they Communists who refused to obey your decision of 1916, when you betrayed the strike in New York | after 80 per cent of the bosses had settled on the new conditions? After Two Louisiana Disasters—the Flood and Hoover. \ Lew ec a two days strike you settled on the Certainly the pathetic plight of the stricken victims of the} old conditions and ‘compelled the Mississippi river flood in the South arouses the sympathy of workers to return to work. When the everyone. Countless thousands of square miles are inundated, and wen aan peend Pehla the inhabitants compelled to flee the raging waters because the) other cities ‘and becke the steike: government that is supposed to protect them is too niggardly to) you betray the strike then to spite strengthen the dikes to meet such emergencies. The miserable | the Communists? At that time there log-rolling, pork-barrel congressmen, working hand in hand with | vere no Comat yet. the grafting contractors have grown rich securing appropriations Let me ask you Mr, ‘Entered as second-class who are Communists to E>. Advertising rates on application. Did | to build safeguards along the river. It is of no concern to the cap-! italist class and its government that thousands of poor inhabitants of the bottom lands aleng the Mississippi are driven from their homes or even perish. The flood came first, leaving wreck and ruin in its trail. Then came the second calamity, a supplementary disaster, that will affect the population for years to come. The second catas- trophe to befall them was Mr. Hoover. This man Hoover, an aspirant for the presidency, and secre- tary of commerce in Coolidge’s cabinet, is the very personifica- tion of all that is worst in Imperialistic America. There is no infamous act this man has not been guilty of against defenseless peoples of the whole world. He preys upon misery in order to advance the interests of his masters, the Wall Street bandits. As an agent of Wall Street in Europe he turned the agony of the pop- ulations of the devastated countries into profits.. He distributed “food to populations only on condition that they become subservient to American imperialism. He used his office as agent of the Wil- | You, Mr. Hutcheson, ask the car- penters to support Mr. Greer, Mat- thew Woll, McGrady and company in the struggle to break the needle trade | unions. And you are becoming the guardian of other unions! You have become a friend of the workers! You want to save the workers from the menace of Communism! The work- ers know you too well, Mr. Hutche- son! I would like to ask you one pertin- ent qtestion, You interfere in other unions. You want to clean out, as you say, the grafters. That’s very complimentary to you. But dear president, what about our own Car- penters’ Union of which president. Is everything union nice and orderly? Yes. Let us talk a little bit about our own union. If you remember Mr. Hutcheson, you received many in our An Open Letter to President Hutcheson — (_ It was workers who were complain- jing to you because they could not} | stand the graft corruption and mis- | management any longer. But when | the membership removed the grafters | and elected honest workers to repre- sent them, then you, Mr. Hutcheson | did become interested in the local and declared that the officials were not | fit. They were too honest and had the | audacity to run a candidate against | you, Brother Rosen. He surely would | have represented the workers which | you do not. Then you declared that | you don’t like the local and you dis- banded it. Did the members endorse your action? * Did the membership agree to your expelling the most active union men, and disbanding entire locals? Did | the members accept your breaking up | the Detroit District Council and or- | ganizing of scab locals? You break up and destroy the union {and make agreements ‘that are. al- ways favorable to the bosses and not to the workers. Do you tl.ink that the workers are satisfied and agree with your union-breaking activities? I tell yot that they don’t, | * * * And you Mr. Hutcheson want to save the situation in the needle unions. Perhaps you want to estab- lish there a union like ours? I ad- | vise you as a good member of the | carpenters’ union not to, mix in the needle unions because you will fare | very badly. Another question Mr. Hutcheson. Were you interested to know how the | New York district council is conduct- ing its business? Do you know that the New Yorkggarpenters voted last year | with a huge majority for a 40-hour oe | you are the| Work week. Did they get it in their) Now, Mr. Hutcheson, you come out | Teaders at 108 East 14th street. The agreement? _ No! The bosses re- fused, and the district council is very careful not to make the bosses angry. * * . Do you know about the fake re- son administration to place the yoke of slavery upon whole coun- | communications from Local 376 with | ferendum that the district council sent tries in return for a crust of bread. He active monster, Horthy of Hungary, conduct a policy against the working class. His hands dripping with the blood of | European workers, he entered the Harding-Denby-Fall Teapot Dome cabinet of Harding and participated in the “revelry” of that gang. For his services to imperialism he is the darling of the} reptile press of the nation. i Like a foul buzzard he prays upon disaster. The flood in Louisiana gave him another opportunity to | The Coolidge administration would have us believe that Hoover's mission is one of mercy. He is not there to relieve suffering, but to take advantage of the devastation to bind the whole population to the banking capitalists, the loan mongers. He is now confer- ring with New Orleans bankers, local agents of Wall Street, for the purpose of placing at the disposal of the afflicted farmers, | ‘dividing up and the local was bank-| local appealed to you, and informed | sted! you that Louis Goldberg was not a) PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS long term loans. Land will be drained, next year’s crop will be planted, but the inhabitants will slave only to pay the interest on |_ the loans to the bankers. Already living close to the line of merest subsistence, the victims of the flood today are to be per- petually victimized by the bankers through the execrable trick- ery of Secretary Hoover. Instead of the government coming to the rescue of the flood | vietims and placing funds at their disposal gratis, to somewhat | utone for its neglect to safeguard them, it takes advantage of their | present misery to drive them ever lower. Reprehensible as is the conduct of Hoover, it must be recog- | nized as part and parcel of the capitalist system, which places profits above human lives. The government does not exist to aid| the workers and farmers, but to enable the ruling class to en-| slave them. The most effective weapon now available against such shame- ful swindling on the part of the political agents of Wall Street is | a Labor Party that will be able to rally to its support the ex-| ploited farmers of both the corn and wheat belts of the middle | and far West and the cotton belt of the South. Woll Pleads Case of Bankers Matthew Woll, water-boy for the steam roller of the Ameri-| can Federation of Labor bureaucracy, ornament of the National| Civic Federation and pleader extraordinary for American im-| perialism, now comes forth in the current issue of his magazine, The American Photo Engraver, with a plea for a reduction or caneellation of war debts, ; In his argument Woll tries to distort the facts to make it uppear that such cancellation will benefit the industrialists of | this country by stopping the influx of European manufactured | goods. Like all fakers:who indulge in loose talk about the war debts, he tries to create the impression that cancellation of debts | will automatically stop the inroads being made upon American | industry by cheap goods from Europe. If he is competent to} discuss the matter at all he ought to know that the chief demand | for cancellation comes precisely from the Wall Street bankers who want to lift the burden of debts owing the United States government off the tyrannical governments of Europe in order on of Lensky and Gimpelewitch. We asked you to investigate the books. We called to your attention that the officials of the local are not con- ducting the union affairs properly and are violating the rights of the members. When a member requests a report on union business he gets a hall. You refused to pay any attention o the appeals as if it was none of your business. You received com- plaints that the members were ing money which the officials were rupt. You were not at all intere: y aided the bloody many signatures of members when | out to the locals to raise the dues? of extermination ©” local was under the administra-| And that many locals who voted | against it had their votes cancelled! | Their votes were cancelled only be- | eause Jack Halkett wanted to do it. | Mr. Hutcheson, I think that you hace also acquainted with the case of | Local 2717 when the chief officials of the local, San Goldberg and Louis | Goldberg, took graft from the local ve his masters. | split head and is thrown out of the | and shared it with Halkett, and that they looted the locals out of thou- | sands of dollars ? } When the members threw out the grafters and elected new officials, pay-|the district council and Halkett re-| not company unions for the bosses fused to recognize them. When the LETTERS FROM Don’t Pan the President. Dear Comrade Editor: Be sure to read very carefully the nice story told by Wm. Green of A. F. L. on the Italian “Charter of La- bor” and then go over the A. F. of L. methods of expulsion of the furriers and the Joint Board and you will see how Mussolini got his idea to strangle labor. The McGrady, Woll, Frayne game in New York City is just the same. I am somewhat surprised that old Fox Green got excited and spilled the beans. Also notice that on April 28rd N. Y. World articles. He is one “bird” who is never fair, always on the “boss” side and never giving progres- sive labor an even break, Why don’t you give a story on this ird.” Every one despises him. I read your paper every day, and consider it the only paper where one can get the right slant of labor news. I don’t like the abuse of Presi- “py; | dent Coolidge, or men high in power as it doesn’t do any good, and makes you many enemies. Give the records of the fakers who go after you. As you will find “birds” like Martin Littleton all have a story that. some one knows. When you rip it into them on their past, it brings you many admirers. As a democrat, I resent it when you roast the president. While IT may agree with you it’s truth, but he is president of the U. S. A. and should not be attacked, as vile as you do about “strike breaker.” Use that type OUR READERS Bertillion Stee! Workers. Dear Comrade Editor: | I want to acquaint you with the system of “convict labor’ used by the Inland Steel Plant at Indiana Har- bor, Indiana. A week ago our office represented a Mexican before the In- |dustrial Board of Indiana, for in- | juries sustained while in the plant of jthe Inland. The facts showed that |our client Zapeda had obtained the | check and number of a brother Mex- | ican who was leaving for Mexico, and had worked for several weeks under (the check of Martinez. The Inland | Steel brought in the head timekeeper |to prove that as the man had never | O’Leary didn’t have his ‘name on any | been “formally” employed by the In- |land he was not entitled to compen- | sation. | The timekeeper’s testimony was as follow: “First of all, he laid on the | table before him a blackboard, well | inked and a roller, explained this by saying that ALL employees of the piant are finger-printed when enter- ing their plant to work. There is no exception—chemist college graduates as well as ‘laborers. | Then he proceeded to read the! card | which held the man’s full record, | name, age, ete., whether he is a citizen jor not, whether he is or has been | connected- with any labor organiza- | tions, whether or not he has been ac- | tive in strikes, whether or not he has | ever gone out on a strike and numer- ;ous others of the same tender. | This “Bertillion” system is highly recommended by the Inland, as the timekeeper made the statement that it keeps a lot of hot headed “guys” {out of the plant. Probably meaning | men who have gone out on strike. | citizen and that you violated the rules | of our constitution by allowing a non-| citizen to act as a treasurer, you re-| jected the appeal of the local. You} insisted that the old grafters should !remain in office. You did not consid- | {er the will of the membership. You | threw out the regularly elected of- | ficials who were elected by the work- | ers unanimously, and wanted to force the grafters upon them. | | or eL7® | The case had to go before a capi- talist court, The facts that were| brought out in court made every} honest person shudder at the way the | officials of the district councils and | the leaders of the New York carpen- | ters were steeped in graft, how Hal- kett and Goldberg divided up over two hundred thousand dollars. Your) name, Mr. President, was involved in! that case. I believe that you were} | well aware of the entire situation, | and that your friends of the A. F. L.,; the Greens, Wolls and McGradys, also knew all about it. | Now, I wish to ask where were} you, big leaders of the American Fed- | eration of Labor? Did you take the | }produced at the Garrick Theatre’ last | Theatre Guild. Praise For Play, “Mr.| Pim Passes By” It might be well to record here some of the comments of the critics when they first witnessed the Thea- tre Guild’s production of A. A.! Milne’s “Mr. Pim Passes By.” This, { mind you, was seven years ago, in the days when the Theatre Guild was still struggling for recognition and when it was housed at the Garrick) Theatre. Heywood Broun in the Tribune: “Mr. Pim Passes By,” the new comedy from A, A. Milne, which was night, deserves to be ranked among | tha conspicuous successes of the When a comedienne of the first rank meets a deft light | comedy sparks are bound to fly, even | as they flew last night while Laura! Hope Crews revelled in the role of) Olivia Marden. This is surely one of | the most delightful performances of | the season.” | . a Charles Darnton in: the Evening | Round revue, opening at the Belmont World: | sometime this month. In the -revival of “Kempy,” which opened at the Selwyn theatre. | least trouble to expel these grafters “Mr. Pim Passes By,” is one of those | | who are a disgrace to the labor move- leisurely English comedies that make| “Morning Glory,” with a book by }ment? No, by no means. President! playgoing a delightful relaxation, and| Ralph. Murphy, who wrote “Sure | Green, Mathew Woll and McGrady | it was so capitally acted at the Gar-| Fire,” will be produced early this sum- | did not pay the least attention. They) rick last night that the Theatre Guild|mer by Robert Newman, who pro- |did not say a single word against again distinguished itself for its good | duced Arthur "Caesar’s “Off-Key” this. {these corrupt grafters. They are/| taste, uncommon variety and general | season. | thei own’ boys, | cleverness.” | And you, President Hutcheson,| Burns Mantle in the Mail: “Up From the Sea,” a new play by on Marquis, is announced for pro- duction by George Tyler next season, | wasted thousands of dollars of the|--“An altogether perfect production | p, | workers’ money for lawyers to de-|of a charming light comedy is this| | fend the grafters. | Mewest venture of the resident com- But it did not help you. The court, pany at the Garrick.” wi isgkd a, Geotalonapaineeyou: | The DAILY WORKER has secured) Wolfe vs. Hays in | * * , j ers'thg play for th | * The. grafters are atill the lepders the play for the week of May 18 tol’ Debate on American with an article in the April number |PPUlarity of this show makes it im-| | ie : interesting debates of the year wil | organized workers to help destroy vell in advance. nf tte i i and Park Ave., when Bertram D. present? You have no right to ap- Herbert Hall Winslow’s new com-| Well-known attornéy for the Civil Lib- you very well. They know, that the | Ross heads the ¢ast, ferable to the Russian System?” The carpenters will foliow their | choice for production by the Players’) Tickets are*50c and 75c and can be | of the district council. 21. Tickets are now on sale at spe- . And Soviet System . |perative that tickets be purchased i | e take place Friday, May 13, 8.15 p. m,, | the Communists. Wolfe, directors of the Workers’ peal to workers. You don’t repre- | edy “He Loved the Ladies,” will open |erties Union, on the question: “Is the | struggle in the needle trades is a re- corrupt leaders who want to turn the | |John Haynes Holmes will be the chair- fellow workers of the needle unions,|Club. The play will open in June, Secured at the Workers’ School, 108 ie cial prices for DAILY WORKER What should prov. if t of The Carpenter appealing to the) Pr te ae on ne aes ‘ if . at the Community Church, 34th St., | © are you? om do you re- ! Broadway Briefs |_Broadwa y ' School debates Arthur Garfield Hayes, | sent the workers. The workers know | tonight at the Frolic theatre. Lillian American System of Government Pre- volt of the rank and file against the unions into company unionsy “Julius Caesar,” will be this year’s |™@n. and will. conduct the struggle with | | | An all-star is being assembled by | =ast 14th Street; Jimmie Higgins | united forces until they get rid of the | John Craig—who is directing. |Bookshop, 106 University Place; the corrupt leaders, the Hutchesons, eesti, Freiheit, 30 Union Square; Commun- Greens, Wolls and McGradys, and Sophocles’ “Electra,” which was |it¥ Church, 34th Street and’Park Ave~ |their small grafters, and establish presented at two performances last | ¥¢: 4nd Bronx Free Fellowship, 1302 honest unions for the workers and | week will be put on for regular show- Boston Road. jings at Jolson’s theatre beginning | and their agents. \Let’s Fight On! Join | The Workers Party! Jn the loss of Comrade Ruthen- berg the Workers (Communist) Par-} ty has lost its foremost leader and| the American working class its/ staunchest fighter. This loss can only be overcome by many militant work. ers joining the Party that he built. Fill out the application below andj mail it. Become a member of the| Workers (Communist) Party ~and/ earry forward the work of Comrade | Ruthenberg. I want to become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party. 'Name Address | Occupation | | Union Affiliation oosesvece| | Mail this application to the Work- | \ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New! York City; or if in other city to! Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington | Blvd., Chicago, Ill. | Distribute the Ruthenberg pam-/ phiet, “The Workers (Communist) Party, What it Stands For and Why Workers Should Join.” This Ruthen- 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- | ber to sell or distribute. | Nuclei in the New York Distriet | will get their pamphlets from the District Offiee—108 East 14th St. Nuelei 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, 1112 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. } next Monday. Margaret Anglin will again head the company, “Countess | Maritza” now at the Fifty-ninth to the Shubert Theatre. Richard Herndon has engaged Philip Loeb, Georgia Ingram, Maryon | Dale, Isabel Mason and Vida Manuel) WORKERS! for his forth-coming “Merry-Go- Talk On China. Ray Racozine will lecture on China at the Hungarian Workers Home, 350 | Street Playhouse will be transferred | East 81st Street, thiseevening. | The meeting will be held under the | auspices of the English branch of the | LL.D. STOP THE MURDER | OF SACCO AND VANZETTI THEATRE GUILD ACTING Co,—— RIGHT YOU ARE IF YOU THINK YOU ARE GARRICK 65 W. 3$th. Evs. 3:4 Thur, 4 Next Week The SECOND MAN Next Week: Pyamalion’ The SILVER CORD Jehn Th.58,E.ofBwy.|Circle Golden eee otne sl 5678 Next W'k: Ned MeCobb's Daughter carrot. Vanities Evgs. 8:30, Matinee Thurs, & Sat., Earl Carroll Zhes.,7th Ave, & soth st, 2:30. | Thurs. & Sut. 2:30 Latest facts about and paper on the Greens, Wolls and 1f this is of interest to your read- that the bankers may be able to collect interest on their private McGradys and all the “fat boys” who| ers you may print it, investments in those countries. Since most of the debts were | yat Tabor in every strike. Rank and| floated by loans obtained from the sale of liberty bonds, the | file is a simple minded “cuss? and| United States government will go on paying for them out of the | can understand what A. F, of L. of-| Sincerely, PAUL P, GLASER. | Farmers Ask Troops Get Out of China’ KETTLE RIVER, Minn., May 9-—, cussed by the whole world of labor. 10 Cents. THE MOVEMENT FOR WORLD TRADE UNION UNITY. By Tom Bell In this booklet, every phase of the problem . these days, use pacifist slogans to cloak their imperialist policies. we money collected from the taxpayers. The bankers hold most officials do, and brings home to them | ' these liberty bonds, so they will not lose anything thereby. The debts cancellation proposition simply means the burden is taken off such despotic regimes as the Mussolini tyranny and placed upon the shoulders of American taxpayers. Woll, in advocating | reduction or cancellation of these debts, is playing the game of | Wall Street in order to aid’ his Civie Federation pals, many of whom have private investments in Europe. : If cancellation of loans would benefit the workers of Europe it: would be a different matter, but the workers will be exploited to the limit anyway and most of the surplus will flow into the hands of American industrialists and bankers. . But the European nations cannot pay the interest on government loans from the United States and at the same time pay the heavy interest de- manded by the private loan mongers, hence Woll and other agents of imperialism advocate cancellation and, as is customary a what they know. Ask anyone in the printing trades about Jim Lynch, or/ Woll, Berry, Frayne, ete., and you will 99 times out of a 100 hear “the dirty s—— of b———-s,” ete. With best wishes and success, be- lieve me, as many more, sincere ad- mirers who cannot come out as would like to do. Keep after the Greens, Fraynes, Wolls, etc., and you will make many news friends. Ask why no organiz- ing has been done since the Detroit Convention. How many millions un- organized are there in the U. S. A. and they will be more worried than when you pan the president of the U.S. A, GOOD LEWIS. I | » Commends Publicity. April 30, 1927, Dear Comrade Editor: , | The publicity your paper has given us in the past has done a lot for us. |In a short time we gained on the | membership, but it is not enough yet: From the thousand workers working |in this industry a couple of hundred | organized is almost nothing. | We hope that this time and also in the future your paper will give us publicity. We want to abolish, 10, 11 and 12 hours a day of toil, We de- mand 8 hours work, Yours with comradely greetings, JOHN NAZAREK, Sec’y. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS At a mass meeting held here a reso-| lution was adopted calling upon the! president to withdraw immediately all American military forces from Chi- | nese soil and Chinese waters and the | total abolition of extra-territoriality | for foreign nationals in Chinese cities, Negro Labor Congress Delegates Speak Here Richard B. Moore, Amevican Negro Labor Congress, and recently returned from the Brussels Conference against imperialism will lecture next Friday evening on “The Dangers of War’! at 100 West 28th Street, top floor. All workers are urged to attend, | especially those working between aath | and 42nd Stieets, is presented and facts lication. THE WORLD TRADE By A. Losoysky ‘ trade union movement splendid booklet is wri of the R. I. L. U. ALL FOR NOTE Books offered ready taken. A timely and important pub- A record of the development of the world the Red International of Labor Unions. 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