The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 3, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. CO. Daily, Except Sunday 8S Firat Street, New York, N. Y. , SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New ‘York only); By muil (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per your $8.60 six months $2.60 three months $2.00 three months "Address ali mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 Bi eradhananates castes LOWS ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F, DUNNE REBT MILLER............. . Editors isles business Manager sieaeden ASS a Os 7 Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under by hanging a night or two ago. looped his improvised noose over the electric condult that runs thru cells and would have made a fairly workmanlike job of it had not other Topics of the Tombs | |time the old woman has had me pinched,” he said. I suggested that what seemed to in- dicate a permanent clash of tempera- ments should make divorce feasible. | “{ think you're right, my boy. The} church ia agin divorce, but the pope | that made the law never had an old| By B. D. A prisoner tried to commit suicide | He! the the police raid a Turkish bath, as they did the other night, and bring a couple | wagonloas If one fails to identify them by the | familiar signs, there is no mistaking them as they gather around the en- | trance to the shower room at bath-| | ing hour. | melodrama that had considerable “Mr, WwW w”: with Lon | Chaney. & Renee Adoree| HIS belated echo of Baa | CHARLES FARRELL | , prisoners, alarmed by the strangling annem meeeens =e anes | noises, called the jailer, who cut him down, The would-be suicide had iust been released from Sing Sing four days before, after serving a four-year term, women that had him thrown in the| They stand or stroll near and quite | Success several years ago gives a ty- | hoosegow for wanting to go to sleep \ frankly discuss the bathers. Such aj at a decent hour.” {one has a nice skin, that one is a He took off his hard straw hat and | strong fellow, the other has a splen- | replaced it on his massive head with ; did figure. {a sound like the dropping of a hatch | physiological details are commented | cover. ‘Do you know an Irish lawyer | on with the same frankness, | pical Westérner’s picture of China; a land where Mandarins rule amidst marvellous palaces and gardens ac- | Other and more intimate | cording to the iron-bound law of their | honorable ancestors, and where their | pretty daughters have sad affairs | Detectives re-arrested him and, ac« the act of March 8, 1879. ‘Advertising rates on application. armen False Hopes Through Court Decisions Permitting “Peaceful” Picketing Many trade unionists hailed as a great victory for labor the decision of the New York State Court of Appeals in the in- junction case of the scab Exchange Bakery & Restaurant Com- pany against officers and members of Waiters’ and Waitresses’ Union No. 1, in which it was decreed that workers had a right peacefully to picket whether there is a so-called bona-fide strike in progress or not. The decision declares that: “Picketing without a strike is no more unlawful than a strike without picketing. Both are based upon a lawful purpose.” This is of only limited advantage in New York in as much as it will prevent ¢he Tammany police captains of various pre- cincts driving pickets from the line because the bosses refuse to admit that there is a strike in progress. But as far as guaranteeing workers the right to picket it is; of no advantage. Under capitalism courts serve the interests of the bosses against the workers and the New York courts are no exception. Legally picketing has been permissible for years, but injunctions are issued just the same by flunkeys of capi-! talism who sit upon the benches. All that is required is a creature | ; sufficiently low to commit perjury and swear that some picket assaulted him and an injunction is issued, without the defendant even having a chance to defend himself or to face his accuser in open court. In spite of this decision injunctions are still one of the great- | est weapons against strikers and must be fought until workers have the right to picket without interference from judges or} police. Sacco and Vanzetti Agitation Must Go On! Since the announcement from the state house at Boston that Governor Alvan T. Fuller was conducting his own investigation | of the Sacco and Vanzetti case the agitation for the release of | these two victims of capitalist vengeance has died down. No more} do we hear the indignant bleatings of the liberals who weep not for the victims but for outraged justice. They never were overly enthusiastic about these two radical foreign worke their con-} cern was only for the fictitious tradition of American fair-play. | Their astounding inability to perceive the class nature of the case has caused them to cease all activity in behalf of the vic- tims and wait for the final decision of the governor of Massa-/| chusetts. But while they wait the insidious forces of capitalism with perjury on their foul lips and murder in their leprous hearts are concocting new “evidence” calculated to influence the rich Mr. Fuller, whose whole training impel him toward sympathy with the enemies of labor. | We warn the Sacco-Vanzetti Committee of Boston that has been conducting the defense not to rely too much upon Fuller. They should unhesitatingly let the whole world know the progress of ‘the investigation. They should expose the miserable jurors that first returned the verdict against these.two Italian workers | on framed-up evidence and. who now appear before Fuller with | declarations that in. their opinion the trial was fair. These jurors are tarred with the same stick as the other conspirators and there is more than a suspicion that they obtained their dirty pieces of silver for their verdict and are probably now on pensions which they will receive until the textile barons, the department of jus-| tice agents and the rest of the criminal gang that framed these men have carried out their murderus plot. The working‘class that has thus far saved from the embrace of the electric chair these militant workers is not going to aban- don its activity in behalf of these victims and is sworn relentlessly to continue the fight in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti until they are definitely removed from the shadow of the electric chair and restored to their places in the labor movement. Woll in Role of Strikebreaker. Matthew Woll, who divides his time between the job of acting president of the labor-hating Civie Federation and aiding the flunkeys of the bosses at the head of the International Fur Work- ers’ Union and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union can now be listed as the first’scabby strikebreaker of the furriers’ strike. He wants to prove to the bosses that he can be relied upon| to do the work that ordinary scabs would shrink from doing so he comes forth with a threat, in the form of a circular signed by| himself, that in case any of the furriers strike in response to the} call of the Joint Board they will never be permitted to again work | in any union shop in New York or any other city in the United States. It is not the bosses who make this threat, but their good | man Friday, sometimes vice-president of the American Federa- tion of Labor. The threatening circular is also signed by Woll’s} | cording to his story, told him he would be sent up for life under the Baumes Law. “1 do life in the Tombs,” reply and his attempt at suicide was an effort to make good. his promise. . * * A young fellow who talks with an English accent, wears Engiigsh cut clothes and an $18 Stetson hat, is in the Tom waiting trial on 2 charge of beating a hotel bill. This sounds commonplace out\eight proprietors of the eight best hotels in New York—the Ritz is included the complainants. It seems that the enterprising would register as the Rig able So and So, overwhelm the flun- keys from the clerk down with hi Oxford accent and cold hauteur, give one or two dinner parties,- purchase theatre tickets, ride in ta: and drink of the best, nave all bills charged to his aecount--end then de- part to another ex ive hostel He got his luggage out by a device so ingenious yet so simple that T will | not describe it here lest Men’s Association charge The DAILY WORKER with starting an offensive! against their members. It is enough so say that so effect- ive was the method employed that after eight days at the Ritz, he con- fided to me, he spent exactly two dollars in cash for the extensive and expensive entertainment had by him- | self and the lady friend who accom- panied him on this- expedition. The possession of a cane with a jleather hardle—one of his most} cherished possessions, I gathered— |} brought about his downfall. One sleuth more astute than the rest tracked him down at the Shelton by inquiring for a guest with a stick of} this type. But some of the hotel proprietors | still believe that he is an erring son of one of England’s first families. The proprietor of the Plaza gave him} his card after the gulled innl:eepers had assembled in the courtroom and} told their woes to the judge. “Take this, and when you change} your mind about my bill, cali me up,” said this hopeful boniface. Yesterday the professional guest | left us. Debonair, his English clothes | falling in faultless lines from his slim shoulders, expensive hat placed at a| | jaunty angle, clasping his gloves, he | departed to learn his fate in the final | hearing. I hope it is not a harsh one. Such talent is rare and its possessor should not be made to languish in such places as prisons where it may pine} jand die. Think of the possibilities for this young man, under proper direction, as | business manager of a struggling! workingelass newspaper like DAILY WORKER! * * * He is 74 years old—grayhaired, stooped and trembling. Both eyes are blackened and surrounded by wide jetty circles which those who know no better think exist only in the Sun- | day comic supplements. He has to soak his bread in the jail soup be- cause he has but two teeth and they | co not hit. He had just got out of a hospital | and on his way home stopped and had a drink or two. He is not very clear | as to what happened after that, The cop who “brought him in”) charged him with being drunk and disorderly, resisting arrest and as- saulting an officer. There is much curiosity among the present patrons of the Tombs con-/ cerning the identity of the heroic| guardian of the Jaw who succeeded in subduing this ancient one who should | be sipping gruel in a wheeled chair, Even a young pimp who brags of how he “tore the can” off an insur- | gent “mamma” was heard to oxpress a wistful desire to know the shield number of this particular officer. *. * * An Irish longshoreman, five feet ‘wo inches tall and three feet across the shoulders, is here, he says, be- cause of his wife’s disdainful disre- gard for the need of a hard working- man for restful slumber. The party had lasted from Satur- ‘ day night until the evening of iMon- \day—Decoration Day—he explained las we strolled along the corridor af- was his, are | the Hotel | vic: that will take a divorce case? Divorce is bad enough without a Jew lawyer.” I gave him the name of Dudley Id Malone. | the never Germans call “urnings’ to run low here. If it does, The Since of those unfortunates | seems| finement and their flirtations are | However the tortures turn out to be | Their voices, as they make their | comments, are soft and feminine and | | one has’ but to close the eyes or turn| one’s back to believe that a crowd | ‘of women are present, They do not seem to mind the con- quite open and obvious. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS Freedom For Sacco and Vanzetti. Editor, The DAILY WORKER: The silence and secrecy which is displayed at the present time by Governor Fuller of Massachusetts in “|the investigation of the frame-up of Sacco and Vanzetti, gives the work- e ome cause for alarm and protest. Especially when we see the New England fascists, and professional patriots working persistently day and night to “get” these “Reds.” This black expression of sympathy with a view of ev entually stifling all aid for these so, do we see them in their num- erous clubs, actively “engaged in scheming ys and means to stop Governor Fulle: hand and allow these workers to be sent to the death- chair. ‘In view of these indicative con- ditions the working class throughout the length and breath of the country, must intensify their efforts, to de- | mand of Governor Tuller an open and public investigation of this case. And that all the files of the Department of Justice and the present mountain of evidence for placed upon the table, before an im- partial tribunal. The workers already know cent of their alleged crime. But to | vindicate this and to show that they were framed up, they ask for an open and unbiased review. The workers must not wait for July 10th, the day of execution, that will be too late. They must not slacken their protest. Fraternally Yours—Mark Stone. What Are the Teachers Waiting For?* For two years the school teachers | of New York City and State have been waiting for a salary increase. | Sporadic efforts have been made to reactionary’ alliance are plot-| ting and poisoning every avenue of the defendants be; that} | these two labor supporters are inno-' |To the Editor of The DAILY| WORKER:—Some time ago, Station} WGL presented to the world unim- peachable evidence of radio censor- ship, when Mrs. Mary H. Ford’s| speech expressing approval of Den-| mark’s neutrality during the war, and} ‘its leaning toward the abrogation of | armed force, was deliberately cpt off.) I was therefore considerably amazed} when, by mere chance, I came across | a talk over this same station of such| ™ liberal nature that, I am sure, every | reader of The DAILY WORKER will | be interested in listening to it. The} talk, or rather series of talks, is de-| livered by A. Kanovich, is philosophi-| cal.in import, and entitled, “The Will} to Beauty,” Among other things, he said, “No| scheme leading to the elimination of} poverty can ever ‘be successful with-| out the introduction of Socialism.” He also gave the findings of some} charitable organization, which in-| vestigated the conditions of school! children on the lower west side. It! was found that 40 per cent of the children went to school without break- | fast, 25 per cent had a piece of bread and some black coffee, the rest an egg in addition to the afore-men- tioned nourishments (?). This in our |great and prosperous country. In| view of these facts, the business man is asked to contribute to charity; he does, that is, he presents gratis out} of his kind and christian heart a} very small portion of the enormous} wealth he has spoliated the poor | hard working people of. These broadcasts take place Sun- day at one o’clock. WGL further; stated, in a complete reversal of their! | policy as exemplified by their earlier actions, that they are in favor of free| speech, and invited the questions of | their hearers.—S. W. Kass, New! | York City. Plan Merger At White House WASHINGTON, May 30.—L. F.| Loree, railroad magnate, declared to- day after a conference at the White with young Americans and have to} The | |convince City Fathers and the State | House that he would submit to the Legislature of the necessity for an| Interstate Commerce Commission | increase; but these astute politicians | within ten days a new plan for the | who hold their power by the grace of Merger of the Kansas City Southern, political machine, think only in| Missouri-Kansas-Texas, and the St. | terms of political and economic power, Louis Southwestern. The commission They know that school teachers are| Tejected the first consolidation plan. practically unorganized; that such or- | ganization as there is, is weak andj scattered; that school teachers do not, |“play polities.” Will it be necessary for a ac migration from the profession to take} be ae in order to toe a raise, as was| The regular monthly meeting of the| \the case on the last occasion? Bronx English Branch, International | Increased duty schedules, increased | | Labor Defense, will be held Monday, | ¢ | pupil loads, higher standards; in 'June 6 at 8:30 p. m, at 1472 Boston | Jother words, greater speed-up, and Road. Important business will come | | the unvarnished autocracy of the|UP- A lecture by Jack Goldman on machine,—these are making the jfurriers’ and cloakmakers’ defense | teachers doubt if theirs is, after all, |features this open meeting. |the best possible profession. It re-| | mains to be seen whether this will! Let’s Fight On! Join The Workers Party! result in driving them elsewhere, or if they will realize that they have most to gain by organized effort. Are the teachers so busy teaching| In the joss of Comrade Ruthen- that they have no time to learn? berg the Workers (Communist) Par- {ty has lost its fcremost 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. ae Fill out the application below and DETROIT, Mich., “June 2.-—Over | mail it. Become a member of the | three hundred dollars was sent from) Workers (Communist) Party and | here to the DAILY WORKER since | carry forward the work of Comrade | Comrade Dunne and Miller have been | Ruthenberg. jailed. Elaborate arrangements to! 1 want te become a member of the | | collect additional defense funds have | Workers (Communist) Party. been made by the Conference of Party|Name .. Functionaries and the District Execu- tive Committee, Address: :.. The first public appeal for assist- | Occupation Siibe ds cenwes adic ance is being made in the form of a} Daily Worker, I] Lavorator Pienic ar- | Uatee ArauaHore + ranged for Sunday, June 12, at the DeQuindre Park located on Nine Mile, road and DeQendre road. Bronx Branch I. L. D. Will Discuss Defense “ ‘Detroit Picnics for! ‘Worker and Lavoratore Mail this application to the Work- | ere Party, 108 East 1th Street, New |York City; or if in other city to BOOK BARGAINS ‘srg partners in perjury who tried to frame-up the Furriers’ Joint | ter we had struck up an acquaintance Board officials with the story of police bribery, Hugh Frayne and! on the basis of the fact that hoth of Edward F. McGrady, a pair of forlorn pie-card artists who also! A had been in Seattle “in the old draw wages from the labor movement while doing the dirty work | 4#¥5"” ; ¢ “ t t k Chewsdah,” of the bosses that the bosses themselves would shrink from doing. Sessa yh Pheri teak) A he said, “and I told her so.” Woll and his cohorts know very well that the overwhelming! “But you know how women are. majority of the rank and file of the furriers are infuriated at the | They get one idea in their heads and strikebreaking and police spying activities of his gang and that! ee vasa ee aoe ae anid they have determined to strife in spite of the efforts of the labor | tors we had asked in and they agreed fakers to Popes them to yield to the demands of the employers. | with her, I asked them to go quietly Besides a first class dancing orches-! tra and numerous attractions, the Italian Workers rangements to serve original Italian | spaghetti for dinner and supper at the pienic. Tickets are now on sale, at the Workers Book Shop, Grand River Ave. Daily Worker readers and defenders are invited to! attend this picnic as one’ means of assisting the defense of the DAILY WORKER. Club is making ar-! 1967 | Workers Party, 1118 W. Washington | Blv., Chicago, Dh Distribute the Ruthenberg pam- | 'phlet, “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 w: ill | receive 20 pamphlets for every mem- | ber to sell or distribute, Nuclei in the New York District | oe Infuriated at the militancy of the far workers, Woll now trles oe they leaped on me. I defended my- terrorism. But the fur workers have had to fight the hired thugs} and gangsters of the bosses, so they de not fear Woll and his ravings, ~ And when the fight is finally over amd the shops are again foreed into the union ranks the strikers will have the jobs and will enjoy decent conditions in spite of the treachery of the Wolls, | | ~—— self as best I could and would have persuaded them to go home but the old woman called#the police.” “When the wagon came they took two neighbors to the hospital—one with a broken arm, the other with broken ribs, and me here.” He meditated. “This is the third will get their pamphlets from the Dis- The U alted Couneil of Workingelass | trict office—108 East™i4th St. i Housewives’ of Williamsburgh mourns) Nuclei outside of the New York the joss of Comrade 1, Gitlow, and District write to The DAILY WORK wishes Comrade K, Gitlow to find| BR publishing Co, 33 East First doing for the emancipation of the} National Office, Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Tl, consolation in the great work she is} Street, New York City, or to 13] working class. pay with their lives. Added to this is the promise of some | of the specially fiendish tortures for | | which the Chinese have always been! given credit in the American mind.| | nothing worse than allowing the guilty | | young American’s prosperous, double- |chinned mama to decide whether she | will let him be killed or his sister, | | violated as a penalty for his “defile- | | ment of the Mandarin’s daughter. In | the nick of time Mama finds a handy stiletto and saves the situation. As a thriller the picture hardly | | gets by. No attempt has been made to give the story any background | wider than the Mandarin’s ‘house. |Many of the scenes are beautiful in| the usual movie style. The only) features of any distinction are the | charming acting of Renee Adoree and | the quiet forcefulness of Lon Cha- ey. — N.S. The Stupid Police (Reviewed By Salva A. Pollack.) For those who enjoy. mystery dramas, “Triple Crossed”, playing at | Wallacks Theatre, will be two hours of solid enjoyment, It is a member} |of the “Last Warning” school where | jactors are well distributed throughout | |the audience. In fact, only five of the more than 20 in the cast have |their names on the program. Among the most interesting parts, of the play are those when the stu-| pidity of the metropolitan police is} shown up in the light of day. In one) scene we see how the police in their determination to find ‘someone who they can fasten the guilt for the usual |murder of the mystery play, arrest a) well known anarchist who was un-| lucky enough to be present at the play the night of the murder. The audience suspicious about their neighbors, for | members of the cast are planted| |throughout the house and many un-| expected tense moments are portrayed joff the stage. | The end of the play is weak, as} usual in mystery plays. But if one! | feels like being amused, one could! |do worse Crossed”. than | visiting “Triple A feature of the forthcoming open- | air performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to be given at the! Forest Hills Stadium June 19th for the benefit of The Actors’ Fund, will | be a special ballot presented under, the direction of Alexis Kosloff of | the Metropolitan Opera House. Crosby Gaige, in association with Earle Boothe, will present “The Shannons of Broadway,” a new com- edy written by James Gleason, co- author of “Is Zat So?” and “The ‘Vote Weekly Donation For Daily Worker at “Worker” Chapel Meet At a meeting of the Daily Worker chapel held last Friday a motion was | passed that every member donate twenty five cents to the Daily Worker sustaining fund. ‘Two of the mailers have also promised to give twenty five cents a week, George J. Mason, chairman of the chapel turned the first $3.50 over to the Daily Worker business office last night. 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