The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, ‘DAY, JUNE 6, 1729 THE DAILY WORKER Published by tae DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Daily, Except Sunday 85 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 $8.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 383 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE BERT MILLER.. . Business Manager sat tr a aN Entered as second-class mai! at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. . Editors SP Extreme Solicitude for Rich Crooks. Thomas L. Chadbourne, millionaire traction magnate, has left for Europe aboard the Aquitania. His departure conveniently re- moved from the scene one of the principal actors in the startling tale,-unfolded in the hearings of the Transit Commission, of ruth- less gouging of the people of the city of New York and vicious exploitation of the traction slaves. The hearings thus far have brought out a number of astound- ing developments in which Mr. Chadbourne, Mr. Dahl and Mr. Wiggin of the National City Bank collaborated: 1—The Interborough Rapid Transit company actually is ob- taining above 16 per cent on its capital stock and above 22 per cent on money paid in by its stockholder: 2—In spite of the fact that the B. M. T. is paying its regular dividend of SS a share on its preferred stock and close to $7 on its common stock, Mr. Chadbourne s definitely: planning to bring this to $8 by using his powerful influence to secure an increased fare from the vast army of toilers who use his lines daily. 8—Stockholders of the Interborough put in $21,620,000 and drew out the enormous sum of $65,625,000- between 1905 and 1919. 4—The city was $67,000,000 behind on the 8.76 per cent it was supposed to get on its own $100,000,000 contribution. 5—At the identical time the traction octopus was cutting the wages of its already underpaid workers 10 per cent on the lying pretext that it was to “save the road,” the officers raised their own salaries and paid thousands of dollars to the notorious dis- penser of apologies for thieving corporations in the guise of “pub- licity.” x Mr. Chadbourne shows his utter contempt for the investiga- tion by leaving the country. He and his crew have everything fixed with the Tammany Hall corruptionists whom they support by lavish campaign funds. His support of the presidential aspira- tions of Governor Al Smith assures him immunity from the Tam- many courts. After flatly refusing to answer certain uncomfor- table questions put to him, he departed for Europe in the midst} of the investigation, promising that he would return if notified to do so. Not since the notorious Teapot Dome scandal has there been so glaring an example of the extreme solicitude the capitalist state shows for its wealthy supporters. While Chadbourne, head of an organized band of highway, robbers, goes to Europe in the midst of an investigation of his criminal practices, the wheels of capitalist class justice roll on against the less fortunate members of society. The same day he eft w poor foreigner was sent to the workhouse charged with having dropped a plugged nickel in one of his subway slots. The next day a United Cigar store clerk was jailed for having failed to ring up 45 cents in the cash register, while in Massachusetts Sacco and Vanzetti still face the electric chair for having dared to speak openly against the system which so brazenly protects the wealthy crook. All this helps to dispel the fiction that the rich and the poor alike are equal before the majesty of capitalist law. Protecting Boston’s Back Bay Youth. Upton Sinclair's new novel, “Oil,” first published serially in The DAILY WORKER, has offended the fastidious sensibilities of Boston, the stronghold of the nation’s “culture.” John Gritz, a young book clerk on Beacon Hill, has been arrested and brought to court on a test case for selling a copy of the banned book. “We'd rather arrest Sinclair than anyone else,” Supt. Michael H. Crowley, of the Boston police, said to newspapermen. “Unfor- tunately we cannot take action against him for having written the novel, but if he wants to:sell a copy of it in Boston, we will imme- diately ask a warrant for him.” Sinclair had telegraphed to the “Boston city prosecutors,” stating it was manifestly unfair to hold a book-seller’s clerk for his novel, and offering to come to Boston immediately if he should be permitted to assume the responsibility in the case in question. | There is little doubt that the Boston police would be “de- lighted” to arrest Sinclair for daring to write a novel which at- tacks the sacred system of privatg profit in industry and govern- ment, and rakes up the smelly oil scandal of the Harding admin- istration which has long since been white-washed and carefully hushed to sleep in “respectable” circles. Of late Boston is attracting some of the odium attached to ‘Tennessee and other backward communities because of its ridic- ulous suppression of books that are freely circulated in other cities. The pretext is that the banned books are a “menace” to the morals of the youth.” Probably the guardians of purity and sweetness and light object to Sinclair’s book because it depicts the younger set of the bourgeoisie precisely as they are. But they need not fear corrupting this spawn of the Back Bay aristoc- racy in Boston. There is nothing they can learn about “petting parties” and “cocktail sprees.” As for the other sections of Sinclair's novel, there is no fear this element will use their brains sufficient to understand it sayeey. % Another Section Inundated by Flood While Government Evades Issue. The McCrea levees have broken and a hundred thousand more inhabitants of the South are homeless, Hoover has been in that region for more than a month and was fully aware of this new threat of floods. Said this miserable vulture, who preys upon war, famine, flood and pestilence, a week ago: “IF the McCrea levees stand, the end may be in sight.” But the levees are now gone and the end of the flood is not in sight. Every gesture of Hoover as the representative of Wash- ington has emphasized the complete bankruptcy and criminal neg- lect of the administration. Coolidge, although urged by every section of political life, outside the ranks of his own clique, to call a special session to deal with the situation, ignores the pleas and 0 ear a a — The British Trade Union Bill and Its Place in the Framework of World Imperialism With this law the bourgeoisie intends to smash the trade unions as organizations for the protection of the class interests of the workers, and to turn them into innocuous and unpolitical organizations for mutual support under control of the government, that is to say, to turn them into enemies of the working class. The chief mistake of the leaders of the trade unious is, in my opinion, their refusal to mobilize al forces of the working class in a struggle against the conservative government for the protection of the ele- the || | | | Nc ee Miura To Present Japanese Play At Selwyn. Tamaki Miura, soprano, formerly | |with the Chicago Opera and the San| mentary rights of the workers and their unions. At this moment the bi favor of fascism are in favor of tho bill. of forces must now proceed along these lines. What do we see in reality? itself. ity movement for their expulsion from the trade unions. posals, they humiliate themselves and carry on the struggle gainst the centrated against the right, against the offensive of capitalism. the Soviet Union, May 8.) By WILLIAM F. DUNNE | port or oppose the candidates of other people—friendly or hostile to ARTICLE II. | the service. The penalty provided by the trade} 7. To put every Civil Servant union bill that is now before parlia-| and the Civil Service Association ment for a civil servant who dares| at the merey of the “regulations” to ‘join any union other than one| to be issued by the Treasury (and composed entirely of similar civil) not to be submitted to the House servants is instant discharge. of Commons). WRITING in “The Labor Month] In short the bill says to Civil W. J. Brown, general Secretary of; Servants: the Civil Service Association, has the} You -have already no right to following to say about this section of, Strike, the bill: : Hereafter you shall not influence “If the bill goes: thru, Service | the House of Commons, which is Associations will either have to be- | Your employer. B i come outlaw organizations or alter | You shall not associate with out- their constitutions to conform to | Side workers, even tho their con- the bill, If they choose the latter ditions are cited against you when- course (as the only alternative to ever you try to improve your own. sheer impotence) the results would | , You must place yourself com- be: | pletely in the hands of the govern- 1. To destroy the postal ment, which will do with you Civil Service Internationals. precisely as it pleases. 2. To destroy the affiliation be- and HE Civil Service, if it can be con- tween Civil Service Organizations trolled properly, is a valuable, in fact and the Federation of Professional |an almost indispensable part, of the workers, jcapitalist machine. Like the army 8. To destroy the affiliation of | and navy, the civil servants constitute 30,000 Civil Servants with the La- |a permanent section of the capitalist bor Party and the Trade Union | state and it is a striking commentary Congress. on the instability of British capital- 4. To destroy the political funds |ism that the ruling class finds it of the Association. necessary to attempt to enact such 5. To make it impossible for ,stringent measures for separating Civil Service Associations to pro- |these workers from the rest of the mote their own parliamentary can- | working class and the labor move- didates. ment. That it does not hestitate to 6. To make it impossible for | make this attempt, at the price of a 1 Service Associations to sup- |rousing widespread opposition, is These Comrades Responded | to the Call for Ruthenberg Sustaining and Defense Fund J. Brooker $1.00; Kolu V. Pasinleff, Lorain, Ohio, .1.00 I. Ortenboy -1,00 | Juan Ponce, New York City..... 3.00 | tionalist and worker and peasant) and Company with Charles Embler | -———— aps ye arey mea A. Shalk 09 | Louis Lagomanini, Sante Rose, |movements in the colonial and semi-| and Boyd Davis, Steve Freda and) Little Theatre GRAND ieee catty California i icasty a 5.00} colonial countries, the penetration of , Johnny Palace; Russ Brown and Jean | #{th St., W. of B'way. TRE — Peres heed) Schlossberg, Collected from | Ameyican capital into British dom-| Whittaker; Allan K. Foster vanity | As" a Wen: 8 ET |H. Farr .. 4.25} Lithuaatan Seaction-Clave: inions like Canada and Australia-—|(“ris: #ive Maxellos and Belleclaire AND SATURDAY, 2:30. FOLLIES : puesuena AOD Aas CONG. de Ne a 17.00] ténd to make it impossible for the Brothers. Per aE \-— — achat 1). M. Poberesky, Collected; St. Paul, | British rulingclass to maintain its| At the Albee theatre in Brooklyn. ae reg zu Mit coo) Gece oe 4.75 | former level of income without lower-| the program is headed by Winnie| COMRADE CHESICK DEAD plein oveiaal -1.00' Brockton Branch Workers Party ing the living standard of the masses, | Lightner; Jeanie; Lahr & Mercedes; A. Brekany . | Rufus Heath +H. Wood .... J. Eidelman . \Casten ... Jewish Phila. Club Jewish Phila. Club . W. P. Wash., D. | Rose Grossman |A. Madiano . oo Brockton, Mass, ........ 11.00 1.001 = J. Olehowsky, Chicago, Il... ..1.00 “o-) | N. Pvauovich, Pittsburgh, Pa...10.00 12.50 | Alex Cumming, Fort Myers, Fla. 1.00 34.70) Ludwig Altschaffls, 333 Locust St., at Reading, Pa. 27.50 arige Henry Renne, Philadelphia, Pa. 1.00 3.00 |C. F. Wu, Madison, Wise... .<...5.00 5 np | Steve Sovich, Kansas City, Kans. 7.00 E. Waters, Minidoka, Ida.. + 5.00 J. Jensin, Bridgeport, Conn. 2.00 | Helen Judd, St. Nuc. 31, Chicago, Tl. 16.00 H. Levin St. Nuc. 30 -+1.50 Fd Royce . | Joseph Henslien, Allentown, | Penn. J. Franico | Meeting in McKeeport . 00.00 E. Miller, Toledo, Ohio. 09 | A. Rudman St. Nue |G. Mulfinger, New York City ....1.00|___Hlinois_ . |N. Kuzymkiw, Detroit, Mich. .00 | Louis Hockheim, Chicago, Hl... . .5. | Street Nucleus No. 1, Detroit |J. Prokopee St. Nuc, 14, Chicago, MicWigan. cases +s ceavess 5.25 Illinois + 4.25 Allis Chalmer Shop Nuc., Mi J. Cohne St., Nuc. 32, Chicago Maked, Wike. cs eccg scien 5.00 MMinois sss... esse sees renee 5.00 West Allis St. Nuc. Milwaukee, Adelson St. N Chicago, Ill. 3.00 Wisconstty S605. Ses ceeees 5.00 | N. Kjar, St. Nuc. 32, Chicago, Ill. 2.00 Progressive Workers Club, Balti- E. Cohen, St. Nuc. 32, Chicago, Ml. 1.00 reeeees MO ce yite sarees 2.25 | St. Nucleum, St. Nuc. 31, Chieago, Progressive Workers Club, Balti- Minoi8..:; v0.65 00's voces cepted 5.00 more, Md. .. 5.00 |"H. Levin, See. St. Nuc. 30, C Central Branch Workers Party, cago, Ill.'....... 7.25 Baltimore, Md. ............: 3.00| L. Estess, Chieago, Il ++ +5.00 St. Nuc. No. 1 of San-Jose, Cal. 700) J. Perlman, St. Nuc. 18, Chicago, Collection on Hike, Silver Lake, POGUE eis. ie acgolshaewre a sid 1.00 } AD ener errr 12.00} John Reaver and John Stratis Col- A. A. Sockel, Stamford, Conn. 7.10 lection, Dayton, Ohio ..... 56.50 V. Kinoff, Lorain, Ohio .. ‘ Lithuanian Workers Party Distr. | R. Inraz, Lorain, Ohio . No. 2, Ci 26.07 |prepares to spend the summer months in the Black Hills, where jhe hopes to repair his, political fences battered to pieces by the farmers’ revolt against the G. O. P. ’ | Harris Dickson, writing for a prominent newspaper syndicate, declares the magnitude of destruction along the: lower Mississippi jis so appalling it dulls the senses. This cjndition could have been overcome if the government had seen fit !!o call a special session and appropriate funds for diverting the raging waters. Engineer- ing experts claim that such diversion could have been achieved within thirty days with an expenditure of ten million dollars and the use of 75,000 men. The money and men seems enormous, but comparatively they mean very little, considering the fact that more than 600,000 people were rendered homeless aside from the | hundred thousand-now fleeing before the newest break. A government that can spend billions and mobilize hundreds of thousands of men in a war to defend Morgan’s European in- vestments could easily conquer the‘floods. The reason it doesn’t do so is because the Wall Street gang cannot see any profits in rescuing from disaster the unfortunate inhabitants of the Mis- sissippi valley. As for Coolidge, he doesn’t dare call congress into session on this problem because the whole world would then discover that the United States government, representing the mightiest and most opulent imperialism on earth, deliberately murders (for its crim- inal neglect is plain murder) its own people because it doesn’t pay Wall Street to save them, : ‘_ All who are opposed to fascism are against the bill. The General Council has not rallied the forces of the working class around Just as before, a campaign is being conducted against the Communists and the revolutionary minor- The trade union leaders refuse to discuss their pro- |} (M. Tomsky, head of the Trade Unions of 0) Prank Lehti, Fort Myers, Fla... -2.00 | Carlo troupe, begins a summer sea- oe at the Selwyn Theatre this eve- ning in “Namiko San,” Leo Duran’s| |translation of an ancient Japan-) ese play with book and music adapted and composed by Aldo Franchetti. In} its inal form as a one act opera, |“Namiko San” won the David | Bispham gold medal and was given |its world premiere in 1925 by the Chi- | testimony to the desperate situation |C®€° Opera Company. Mme. Miura in which it finds itself and to its fear|4"d Sig. Franchetti will present it in jof the power of the masses mani-|the form of a musical drama at the fested in the general strike of last|/S¢lwyn. The Japanese note has been May. oe under the supervision of | Ses: vi i ‘O further weaken both the unions |bedying, the crit Sy aaa and the authority of public officials| music arranged by Mme. Miura will | which they elect, the bill has a special| be presented by Mme. Julia Hudak section making it illegal for munici-' and Serge Sergieff. pal authorities to stipulate member-) Julian Oliver, Graham Maar, Joseph | ship in a union as a qualification for|Caydsore, Jolanda Rinaldi, Fausto employment on public works. | Goz: and Felice D’Gregorio, will | Workers on public enterprises are| sing and play in the production. Sig. | forbidden to quit their employment! Franchetti will conduct. All those in The grouping Il is a class criterion. left while all forces~should be con- without the legal notification, either jas individuals or as members of a Paes |union under penalty of a $50 fine or | *Dvoadway Briefs {three months imprisonment. | | | In the United States we would call} “Wolf, Wolf,” a comedy by Ger- | this legalization of the “open shop”|trude Purcell, will be presented here | and the abolition of the right tolnext season by Crosby Caige and |strike on dny city county, state or/ Karle Booth. Miss Purcell’s play was | government enterprise. | presented last Friday afternon at the: HE final section of the bill holds| Triangle Theatre for one perform- out great inducements to stool- | nce. pigeons and all agents of the capital-| , |ists and the government who for one} Bide Dudley and Louis Simon, au- |reason or another have joined a(thors of “Bye, Bye, Bonnie”, the L. junion. Any member of a union is | Lawrence Weber music comedy, seen, | allowed to apply for an injunction to| here this season and which will re-| prevent the spending of union funds | °P¢" 17 Boston August 8, are at work | in any manner to which he takes ob-|"|8 new play with music. i jection: Perke Hamberg. whose’ production The attorney-general is also au- of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Patience” is thorized to proceed against any union|?°W Playing at the Theatre Masque, on this ground at any time even tho|'* planning a repertory company of | no member has made a tomplaint. {comic opera players for next season. | : ose _. |Among the musical offerings which! LL in all the British Trade Union | he will offer will be, “Robin Hood,”! bill is a masterpiece of class legis-| “La Fille de Madame Angot,” “Die| lation designed to make of the trade| Fledermans,” The Waltz Dream” and} junions the “bread and butter” or-| “The Chocolate Soldier.” | | ganizations they were in the period tah! \] |of British capitalist stability, to de-| “Thg Green Rabbit”, a mystery |prive them of all militancy and to| melodrama, by Howard Daring, goes | make any effective political activity; into rehearsal next week and will | impossible. open at the Greenwich Village The-| One reason for this vicious attack} atre on June 20. 1 jon the labor movement is quite ob-| |vious—the loss by Britain of her; Elsie Janis remains at the Palace | | monopolist position in the world mar-|for another week. The.other acts in-| |kets, the centrifugal tendencies visi- | clude Jay Brennan and Stanley | | ble in the empire, the rise of the na-| Rogers; Harry Rove and Billee Maye 'T seeks therefore to recoup its | Valerie Bergers & Company.; | Bob |" losses at the expense of the work. | Hall; Pisanso;” Castleton & Mack lers, while at the same time attempt- and the Seebacks, ing to weaken their powers of re-| a sistance. Its attack on the political |); Claude and Marion are the head- | activities of the unions is to be ex-} ore at the Broadway theatre t plained by the fact that, due to isla Acts include, Guy and Pearl; |falling income, in turn due to the ype hele Stramming Seren-| | increasingly precarious nature of its | 80675; Stutz and Bingham; Betty and | colonial holdings, the rulingclass can | 7ane Brown and Boyd and Wallin. |no longer, at least to the extent that! ; prevailed in the- past, placate’ the; th | British workers at the expense of 4, | eoldnial davon: | New Amsterdam theatre, the Players’ . A Club will present “Julius Caesar” and | Struggles for increased wages—} | oven’. atrigglée’ or |at the George M. Cohan, Leo Carrillo | maintenance of! -. srs p> *, | existing | will revive his old suecess “Lombardi | | conditions, etc. tend more and more| standards—better working | Ltd.” | to develop into sharp political strug-| es Wittens LNaycid Dies. eink. (ihe afoxt of the miners to! William. Mann Fineke, devoted free jee soneeet Se | Civil Liberties Union, is dead. Fincke| i irearstes facts alone, however, do not) was arrested in a free speech test at! erplain the sharpness of the pres-|Dusquesne, in the 1919 steel -strike.| ent attack—an attack which cannot Later he was one of the founders of be separated from the offensive | Brookwood Labor College and the against the Soviet Union, an offensive |Manumit School in Pawling, N. Y. which the rulingclass planried to de- | He began life as a mining engineer. | velop into political justification for} Two openings are scheduled for! jis evening, both} revivals at the the Trade Union bill. | Further reason for the present at- tack can be sought for and found in| | the miserable cowardice and. treachery of the official leadership | lof the Labor Party and the Trade) | Union Council. ‘ | WHEN the leadership of the Labor Party and the Trade Union Con- | gress (with minor exceptions) called | off the general strike, surrendered to | the government, announced their op- position to any but “constitutional” |methods and deserted the miners, the Trade Union bill was conceived. It has not been born at this wri-| ting, but all during the period of its pregnancy it has been nourished on the acts and utterances of the re- formist leadership of the British ia- bor movement. (To be continued) RUSSIA Hungarian Meeting to. British Trade Unions. Discuss Needle Trades. 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A member from the beginning of the Party, a found- er of the Freiheit Gesangs Verein in this city, Secretary of Icor, long ac- tive in the Workmen’s Circle and a forefront fighter in his union, the Boilermakers’ Union, Comrade Ches- ick proved to the world that he be- longed to that small group of pioneers who deserve to be honored by the entire proletariat. “Phe Workers (Communist) Party calls on those sympathizers who knew and respected Comrade Chesick to make good his loss by joining the Party and making the Communist movement stronger and better than before.” (Signed) District Executive Com- mittee, Workers (Communist) Party, District 3. Albert Weisbord, Acting District Organizer. Read The Daily Worker Every Day -_-- ee AT PECIAL PRICE? — TODAY Maps of Russia are CENTS in this column on hand orders cash