The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 16, 1927, Page 4

Yage Four THE DAILY WORKE R, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 19: Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Daily, Except Sunday 88 Firet Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Addrezs: 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 96.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Phone, Orchard 1680 “Datwork” | By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. LESS oN of the traction *U workers’ of New York City is a question that will not down. At pres- ent it centers directly around the or- | ganization of the workers employed | by the Interborough Rapid Transit WILLIAM F. DUNNE fcrttcttscescssteeees Editors t Goaanes BEPT MILLER............ Saves oe business Manager Support by the whole labor move- |ment of the efforts of the Amalga- mated Association of Street and Elec- tric Railway Employes to organize these workers has been pledged by President Green of the American Fed- eration of Labor. Formal support will be given without doubt but more, much more, than this is needed. | NYONE who believes tbat these} workers will be allowed to organize | without a bitter struggle by the I. R.| T,, whose preparations to prevent es-| tablishment of an effective union in the industry are perhaps the most elaborate on record, will easily believe that the moon is made of green cheese. The I. R. T. workers will be unable| to organize without a srtike. In the! whole struggle of which the strike will be the center the union will be built: This has been the history of the Amal-| gamated. Association which includes} approximately 100,000 traction work- | ers. —————— Entered as second-class mai! at the post-office at New York, N. Y¥., undes the act of March 8, 1879. Advertising rates on applicadom =>, The Shadow of the Electric Chair Grows Deeper. Meagre reports that leak through the portals behind which Governor Fuller’s “advisory committee” holds its secret ‘sess are far from reassuring to the workers who for seven yea: fought to obtain freedom for Sacco and Vanzetti, innocent victims of one of the foulest frame-ups in the annals of industrial and political despotism in this country. Défense witnesses, although sworn not to reveal anything that transpires within the room in which hearings are conducted, have expressed deep resentment at the hestile manner in which they were treated. Observers note that the defense witnesses emerging from the room invariably seem depressed while witnesses for the would-be executioners of Sacco and Vanzetti appear jubilant. The fact alone is striking confirmation of the just suspicions of labor regarding the char- acter of the investigation. T° proceed on any other theory than One of the men on the commission, former judge Robert|# that a strike alone can free these | Grant, is known to be an enemy of the accused workers and has | tra ‘tion workers from the “yellow never made the slightest effort to conceal the fact. Samuel Strat- {ioe Nene aie ee Re aan ton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was a recognized | tion thes dhanithe E.R. "1s ean enemy of the victims and of foreign-born workers generally be- |ally conducted “brotherhood,” is to fore his appointment and nothing he has since done has indicated jassure the I. R, T. that the Amalga-| The “official” investigation conducted separately by Fuller's [bined Nuit a \atdol- pipecwisaratain| political associates is, like the hearings of the “advisory commis- | which stirs up and maintains a con-| sion,” also conducted secretly. This very secrecy, the conspiracy |tinual atmosphere of suspicion among |are unnecessary. But such a state- Organized | be the organization of traction work-| In this instance, when the most im- ers, | portant union in the labor movement Second, this conference would elect |the United Mine Workers—is the| a representative committee which|target of attack, there is need for a/ would have as its first task the mobil- | decisive effort on the part of the trade| ization of the New York labor move-| union movement which will give the ment for sypport of the Amalgamated | whole capitalist class something else Association campaign. jto think about. | This committee as part of its work; It cannot be said. that the rank and would organize huge mass meetings file of the organized workers is de- in the various sections of the city for, moralised. They are ready to fight the purpose of stimulating support! and to support a fight if given the| for the traction workers and familiar- | right kind of a lead. | e | pideryr eri age visas ae Not only would mass support of an | organization campaign culminating HERES there should be started at/in a strike and the formation of a| once a drive for financial support | powerful union in the New York trac- | ~—for the strike itself and for defense | tion industry dramatize the whole of the many workers that inevitably] struggle of labor before the masses | will be arrested. | but it would give new impetus to the Fourth, a _ publicity committee | whole labor movement. should be organized whose main job| Both from the standpoint of the would be to acquaint the whole labor | local and national movement it ‘is nec- movement with the importance of the| essary that such a united effort be struggle and enlist nationwide sup-|made. Let the whole world know that port. | the traction workers who are entrust- Fifth, there should be formed |ed with the lives of millions every day among the sympathisers of the labor| are forced to work under feudal con- | movement—liberal professional ele- | ditions and that they are fighting for | ments, ete.—an auxiliary committve | freedom. 1 to reach those sections of the popula- tion unions cannot reach directly. Wee traction workers can be orgar-| |= ized and the traction barons d+ y ee adherents to old methods which, | feated if the pledge of support givea{ based in turn on outworn policies,| by President Green is expressed in have served to greatly weaken the|terms of union mobilization, organ- | labor movement even during the last | izers and dollars. 4 four years of great employment, will) Get behind the traction workers| say that such elaborate preparations | With deeds. ‘ The traction workers themselves in their last strike proved that they are willing to fight against tremendous odds. They fought then without the united support of the labor movement, ment serves only to show that the power of the traction barons, based on the dominant position of their class, is either underestimated or that f THE DAILY WORKER The Traction Workers Can Be jing. }on the tenth anniversary of the | October, 1917, will be historically ac- | detail. | semble Lenin, Kerenski, and the other New Soviet Fil Nearing Completion The newest Sovie film “Ten Days That Moved the World’’ The history of the 1917 Revolution and which is now nearing completion in Leningrad, is causing much comment among those who have been privileged to witness the filming. M. Eisen- stein, the director who was respon- sible for the “Potemkin” film, and who is directing this one has ex- pressed the opinion that “Ten Days” is a work of infinitely higher stand- This film, which will be released storming of the Winter Palace in curate down to the most insignificant Men have been found, in a search throughout Russia, who re- figures of the October revolution, so exactly as to be their living images when dressed for the part. In street scenes the various party committees have been called upon to provide exact details of where the various divisions of soldiers, sailors, and working men were stationed. The identical cruiser Aurora, that fired| upon the city, was towed up the| iT2va, and bombarded Leningrad in| th same way as Petrograd was bom- bevded, the only difference being that th time blank cartridges were used. E’senstein’s methods are so realis- tic that the days were spent in the various Soviet bureaus of Leningrad collecting scraps of paper and pieces of chalk of the kind which witnesses declare to have strewn the floors of the Smolna Institute when the new Government moved into it. ay ae Yi Nd ALEXIS KOSLOFF The noted dancer will appear with his own ballet in Borodine’s “Prince Igor” at the Cloakmakers and Fur- riers benefit concert to be held at the Coney Island Stadium this evening. Paul Gerard Smith which goes into rehearsal next week, Milton Sills is to star in Jack Lon- don’s Alaskan story, “Burning Day- light.” His rple will be as a Thor. of the North Country, champion dog racer, champion poker player and athlete. Lillian Gish will play the Fay Bainter role in the film version of “The Enemy,” Channing Pollock’s stage play which Metro will screen shortly. Miss Gish is now working there is no serious intention in official labor circles to organize the traction workers. to conceal from the public evidence that every worker knows will | the workers themselves. vindicate Sacco and _Vanzetti and place in the pillory the hirelings |; ation work must be dlsected totohel of capitalism who framed them, is most ominous. As the days |end—that of preparing and calling a| rapidly pass and the hour draws nearer the expiration of the strike which will bring every subway | respite, the shadow of the electric chair grows deeper and more |**#in to a standstill, | é | Any other plan of action is simply grimand ghastly. , fag % self-deception and still worse, decep- The militant sections of labor that have steadfastly fought/tion of the traction workers. This for Sacco and Vanzetti long before the moderate elements were! docs not mean that all other means | forced by the mass pressure to speak in defense of the victims of | °F ee eA aan of se ie the Massachusetts frame-up must not place confidence ‘in these | {0 P@rons should not be used. They From the very beginning, all organ- | commissions or in Governor Fuller, the millionaire exploiter of Heed, and Joust be atilized out the scab labor and guiding spirit of the Packard Motor Car Company. We must be alert to the danger of a quick move to murder these two victims of class vengeance who already have suffered seven vears of living death for their loyalty to the working class. Great demonstrations must be held everywhere and the |to be strengthened by the pressure of | masses aroused to fury against the cynical conduct of the Boston investigations, who are either paving the way for their execution or commutation of sentence to life imprisonment. Sacco and Van- zetti must be unconditionally freed. Law and Order in the United States The progress of American democracy—the triumph of the tradition of the Anglo-Saxon devotion to peacable settlement of political questions—proof positive that our enlightened count men, unlike the “backward” Latin Americans, Negros, Filipinos and Chinese, are able to set up and maintain those republican in- stitutions and methods which make any other weapon than the strike weapon is the one which will! be decisive, fee political and moral pressure which the New York labor move-| ment will be able to exert will have | the labor movement nationally. To} jlook upon the struggle against the |New York traction barons as a local matter is a grave mistake. The strug-| gle is something far more than this. |The sweeping character of the injunc- ion against the Amalgamated Asso- | ciation and the I. R. T. workers is a | challenge to the whole American work- ing class. Second, the extremely rigid and dangerous form in which company | |unionism, the spy system and the sys- |tem of individual contracts, which the |I. R. T. forces the workers to sign, appears in the traction industry, make it absolutely necessary that the strug- ballot unnecessary. gle should be against all these instru- ments of oppression, make it neces- sary that they be destroyed and scat- tered to the four winds before, en- couraged by their success in New | York, the bosses institute this same | damnable system thruout the United | States. | * * * (Republished from the New York Times, without alteration at the hands of a Communist editor, its pristine beauty untarnished by those who seek to undermine the American Constitution.) = ‘% * WESTMONT, N. J., July 15.—One citizen is in the hospital today, five or six others are wearing court-plaster, the furniture of the Coun- cil Chamber is battered and bloodstained and the chief of police facing t charges. T° defeat the traction barons is no The cause of these effects was an argument before the Council last child’s play. They haye already night as to whether invisible government and inside politics had en- shown in the strike of last year that abled a lacal political leader to connect his premises with the sewer they can command the police and main by means of an illegal pipe. courts. They have shown a merciless Matthew Morris, a heating contractor, started the trouble. He al- attitude toward workers who dare to leged that Thomas R. Edwards, who runs the filling station, could get strike and they defy the labor moye- anything he wanted from the Councilmen. In a voice shaking with ment openly. passion, Morris alluded to the pipe. It follows then that the unions must “Tt’s an unlawful pipe,” he said. support the Amalgamated Association “How did it get there? I say, ‘Favoritism.’ ” and the traction workers to the limit Edwards sprang to his feet and rushed for Morris, demanding an of their ability—financially, politically apology. The two men clinched. Councilmen and citizens tried to part and organizationally. The labor move- them. Chief of Police Whitehead drew a blackjack and hit Edwards {ment must be prepared to put its on the head. whole strength into the fight right There were cries of “Stop them,” “Let ’em fight it out,” “Kill {from the start and particularly must! him!” and “Save him!” The fight became general. Men and women it act sharply’ and decisively at the were knocked down. first appearance of police and gang- At the end Edwards was unconscious on the floor. Chief White- ster terrorism against the traction | head was badly battered. Charles W. Kaeser, the plumbing inspector, workers, | was Under arrest for knocking the police chief down and jumping on his back. Edwards was taken to the West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital with a possible fracture of the skull. Eighteen stitches were taken in his scalp. There is violent feeling between the two Political factions and preparations are being made to bring charges against Chief Whitehead on the ground that he used his blackjack unnecessarily and that he struck Edwards several times after he had ceased to resist. REAL STARS AT DAILY WORKER CARNIVAL; DORSHA TO DANCE Wh permanent injunction must be disregarded en masse and the au- thorities made to understand that they face the problem not of jailing a few| unsupported traction workers but the united resistanca of the whole union | membership in New York City, pre- | pared to fill the jails to overflowing | to smash the slave writ obtained from | the bosses’ courts. The I, R. T. injunction is a part of | the drive against the American labor | movement. The I. R. T.’s individual | jcontract system is likewise part of the | | bosses’ offensive. It is futile to argue | ‘as to whether these contracts, which | ; unaccustomed to walking along the | ingclass movement. Tho born of aris- | which played a leading role in the T is first class tactics to answer and attack with a counter offensive pro- viding one has the resources and one’s | forces are not demoralised. } With the concrete proofs of this sup- | port shown by the application of the program outlined the traction work- ers will put up a struggle which will | make labor history in the United} States, defeat the traction barons and greatly strengthen the labor move- ment. Pickets At Welfare Island By PHYLLIS FENINGSTON. “Every worker ought to have a term in the Workhouse,” said Sam Broad, one of the five furriers re- leased yesterday on $1,000 bail each when they won their appeal for a ve-trial in the supreme court—“for it will make them more revolutionary when they get out.” He then pro- ‘ceeded to tell of the cruelty, corrup- tion and viciousness which prevail at the workhouse, under which innocent victims of a labor-hating judge are forced to work out their excessive sen- tences. The prisoners, Max Shusterman and Ethel Shusterman, Ida Ishman, Sam Broad and Frank Jeane are the famous five who were given 6 months for having disturbed the august court when, outraged at the vicious sen- tences given their fellow picketers, they expressed indignation and hor- ror. One of the prisoners, a boy of 19 was brought up on three charges, one for smiling, one for making a face at the judge and the third for having booed! 5 4) 528 * Put to work in the dump yards on Welfare Island, the prisoners were beaten and persecuted on the slightest provocation. Sam Broad tells how, { | gime. one shave or hair-cut a week, and were forced to appear in court, in spite of their pleas to be cleaned up, with unshaven faces, unkempt hair and soiled clothes. One prisoner, for passing a pack- age of cigarettes to a friend in the mess hall, was denied the remission of five days from his sentence, and was placed, standing, in the “cooler” for 24 hours, * * * All the guards and wardens, as long as they are bribed, are a little more human, but most of these pris- oners, having no money, had to suf- fer unheard-of hardships from the malice of the scum of the earth that form the personnel of the prison re- The food is insufficient, tasteless | and vile. Even water was denied one | prisoner for a whole day, tho he had committed no breach of discipline. | It is a splendid proof of the conten- | tions of revolutionaries that our so- called “law and order” is a fraud. In- stead of intimidating these workers who know they are innocent of any wrong-doing or crime, yet are herded into the unspeakable dens of malefac- tors and treated like criminals—noth- ing could better serve to develop in them a contempt for the whole pro- uneven ground of the dump yard, where the buried refuse makes mounds and cavities in the earth, he fell. Whereupon his guard threaten- ed to break his neck if he did it again. Tho there are plenty of barbers on the island, the boys were given but cess of capitalist “justice,” and dis- gust for the hypocritical preachments of the upholders of this system of non-existent democracy. That is why these prisoners urge on their fellow-workers the experi- ence of a term in the workhouse, CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) choose between a proletarian govern- ment and a fascist dictatorship. The active sympathy of the workers of the world must be with their Austrian comrades at this time. T= Trish masses have suffered a real loss in the death of countess Marckieviez, militant Republican and sincere sympathizer with the work- tocratic parents, the countess,, whose maiden name was Constance Georgine Gore-Booth, early showed her sym- pathy for the workers and during the Boer War she urged her father’s re- tainers to strike for better conditions. She came into international promin- ence during the great Dublin strike of 1913 when she aided James Con- nolly and James Larkin in the con- duct of that struggle. Afterwards she assisted James Connolly in or- ganizing the Irish Citizens Army, Easter Week rebellion, This dpien- | did woman will be honored and her | \ll eyes are centered on the galaxy of talent appearing at The DAILY WORKER Carnival at Pleasant Bay Park on July 28rd and 24th. It is with the greatest pleasure that the committee announces the definite se- curing of the inimitable DORSHA who is going to give a new and unique solo dance. All lovers of interpretive dancing are eagerly looking forward to this wonderful treat. Dorsha dancing in a hall is glorious. Dorsha dancing in the open air and natural environment of Pleasant Bay Park will be superb. Tickets for sale: Jimmie Higgins Book Shop, 106 University Place, DAILY WORKER, Local Office, 108 E. 14th St., Freiheit, 830 Union Square. | Rational Vegetarian Restaurant, 1590 | Madison Ave., City. Carpenters’ Union, realizes the value of The DAILY| WORKER. At a recent meeting it) was decided to donate $50.00 to the | Grand Daily Worker Carnival and | Fair to be held’at Pleasant Bay Park | on July 23rd and 24th. It was fur-| ther more resolved that as many car- | Do not miss this opportunity. Don’t be selfish; come yourself and bring your best friends, Ppenters as are required to fix booths and platforms will be supplied volun- tarily, ' Ipeal 2090 /T rs memory revered by the Iri: workers must sign or lose their jobs, | at Paes asta nenple are “legal.” They will become value- | THE white house meniigerie is to less to the company only when al have an increase. This was) union strong enough to break them| learned last Thursday when a three and protect the workers is organized.| months’ old coyote was presented to Mrs. Coolidge. It appears that the leading lady of the land at first en- tertained a suspicion that the animal was misnamed since she suggested it HE ordinary organization methods are not sufficient for the big job of organizing the traction workers. Resolutions and ordinary trade union | be given an ammonia bath, but on routine will not defeat the traction| closer examination she learned that barons. There are pee preparations | it did not have to be approached with that are indispensable and they can be} a nose protector, With an electric begun at once. horse, an artificial worm, a coyote First, there can be organized a dele-{ and an automatic Wall Street exec- gate conference at which all local] utive in the white house, the megan- Let’s Fight On! Join The Workers Party! In 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 joiniig the Party that he built. Fill out the application below and mail j* Become a member of the Worke=s (Communist) Party and carry forward the work of Comrade Ruthenberg. I want to become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party. Name Address GerBDR HON 155 sts sind cacceeee cee Union Affiliation.........6..s00005 Mail this application to the Work- ers Party, 108 Hast 14th Street, New York City; or if in other city to Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Blv., Chicago, Ill, 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- palet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. Every Party Nucleus must collect 60 cents from every member and will receive 20 pamphlets for every mem- ber to sell or distribute. Nuclei in the New York District will get their pamphlets from the Dis- trict office—1U8 Mast 14th St, Nuclei outside of the New York District write to The DAILY WORK- ER publishing Co, 33 East First Street, New York City, or to the unions would be represented and] erie needs only a synthetic cider still where the sole order of business would | to make a full house, . ‘ National Office, Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Ill, | 1 {in New London and Stamford, before Ve “The Wind,” a screen adaptation = J | of Dorothy Scarborough’s novel: “The Lady Lies,” by John Meehan, former stage director of George M. Cohan, will be presented here next season by A. E. and R. Riskin. Another stage production to be translated to the screen will be George Ade’s “The Fair Co-ed,” which is a starring vehicle for Marion Davies. “The Kite Man,” a comedy by Bar- bara Ring and Sheldon Mackaye, will be given a try-out by Ben A. Boyer Raple Ince is to direct “Coney Island,” Joseph Jefferson O’Neil’s coming to New York. James Spot-| story of the island playground. Im- tiswood, Grace Valentine, Arthur | mediately upon completion of “South Aylesworth, Clara Blandick, Nelan | Sea Love,” Ince will come east to film Jaap and A, J, Edwards are in the | the ‘exterior scenes of the picture at cast, | Robert Newman is sponsoring a Coney Island. Gertrude Ederle, the young miss new musical show titled ‘Morning|who swam the English Channel, has Glory,” the work of Ralp Murphy and Harold Lewis, James La Penna producer of “Sweetheart Time” and “Ritzie,” a been engaged to play a role in Bebe Daniel’s next picture, “Swim, Girl, Swim.” is a swimming race across the Cata- line Channel. Others in the cast will A feature of this production new one, a comedy with music by'be James Hall and William Austin. The New Plays MONDAY “THE MATING SEASON,” a farce by Wm. A, Grew, will be presented by Lew Cantor, in association with David Chasin, at the Selwyn Theatre, Monday evening. The cast includes Lillian Walker, Gladys Feldman, Gwendolyn Pates, Ethel Martin, Kenneth Manion, Walter Poulter, Jack Coyle, William T. Colebrook and Wm. A. Grew. “THE MANHATTERS,” an intimate revue, with music by Alfred Nathan Jw., lyrics by George Oppenheimer and by Aline Erlan- ger and Mr. Oppenheimer, will open at the Grove Street Theatre Monday night, produced by Joseph Lawren and Lawrance More. The principals include: Burke Boyce, Edward Hale, Billy Jonhs- tone, Raymond Knight, Burton McEvilly, James Norris, Gisela Amati, Sally Bates and Stella Bloch. “KISS ME,” a musical adaptation of a French farce with book and lyries by Derick Wulf and Max Simon and score by Winthrop Cortelyou will open Monday night at the Lyric Theatre. Desirée Ellinger will head the cast, which also will include Joseph Macau- ley, Marjorie Peterson and William Sellery. J. J. 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