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1 hemi sree i it ANB SERA NED Page Four THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1927 * x American Institutions in the Coal Fields-— 0 three months Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. j Daily, Except Sunday : Th G B 2 § ik h ki ‘| 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 2 seeds ARN is Ta ONIN RLE AF Ea eee e Government Begins Strikebreaking so re nonce SUBSCRIPTION RATES ght) : 4 ij By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): : Se Ee tre Find New Home in it $3 8 , . 50 six mo: s 86. r years $3.50 onths = . . ° . . . rs " S . 4 oy a noc t Seee ile cmt Federal Injunction in Southern Ohio Puts U. S. Machinery at Disposal of| Greenwich Village 1 a ole Hope of Union. The new Playwgights’ group, who | were responsible for “Loud Speaker” : ; S ty aino| 2nd “Earth,” two of the most in-| sial leadership of the United Mine |teresting plays of last season, have; does nothing but pay law-} sound a new home for their plans of! gigi Sad make Cubraheokal $0 Coal Barons.—Left Wing Program , 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. | Re By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. HE United Mine Worker: Address all THE DAILY WORKE! J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM DUNNE }time as pl of Amer-| actually bey! intiffs shall be ready to_ofift {mn mining operations?” ~*~ Wo seca terersis to eee Editors eae ‘i ee : iea, its officers, District 6 of the|_, Will the two great patriots men-|yers fees and rail at the “reds” who! th, coming season. They hav. | eee: poses Aree union, sub-district 5 of District 6,|tioned above explain their vociferous | are under _as_ best they ¢aN| over the little theatre git Carnes 1 at New York, N * Ohio, 60 local unions, the officials of | loyalty. to “American tastlta tones it, 8 instiations of, ™ | Street which is in Greenwich Village, | s 1879. the tisteies eens ct and the| the -ght-“of the federal injunction’ j labor unions. and which was formerly known as the} rates on application. | Jogal unions, and various members and |#&ainst their own union in Southern! wusr Onio injunction with its sweep-|Cherry Lane theatre. The Play- | hio ? sympathizers mentioned by name, by | an injunction granted the coal opera-| (NE thing-is certain. Woll at Syracuse Urges War on the Left Wing but Does Not ‘ors 2» Avast 10 are restrained from 1" The ‘continued ee ee Mention the Coal Strike, Industrial Depression ing prohibition of even routine union | wrights theatre will begin their sea-| activity fully upholds the contention | son sometime next month with “The| of the left wing of the United Mine| Belt,” by Paul Sifton a New York Workers, reiterated time and time) newspaper man. Other plays to be again in pamphlets and leaflets and | presented include “Singing Jailbirds,” speeches in conventions, to the effect | by Upton’Sinclair; “The Centuries,” | that the struggle of the United Mine| by Em Jo Basshe, and “Suburb,” by ob-| the union, the expulsion of militant |members, the destruction of inner} union democracy, truckling to the pa- 1 “From interfering wth, * structing, or preventing in any way or attempting to do so, the ca John Dos Passos. or the Murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. Matthew Woll, vice-president of the American Federation of | Labor and acting president of National Civie Federation, address- ing on of the business of the plain- tiffs or any of them it 9 “From making any threats to or triotic capitalists, slander of the So- viet Union, worker-employer coopera- tion speeches delivered in frock- coats before chambers of commerce | and sabotage of convention decisions|ers of America is part of a general|mund Romberg and Dorothy Donnelly Workers of American is a struggle to save the union; that the govern- ment is behind the coal barons; that | the drive on the United Mine Work- The Shuberts latest in the line of | joperettas, “My Maryland,” by Sig- * 5 ee ass F = ae Fa Wine. 5 in the hearing of employees of any n ne oh eee noun sonnel conven uch) we ie eb York SM of the plaintiffs or persons seeking for a labor party, failure to declare| offensive against the whole labor) is announced to open at Jolson’s the- Federation of Labor now in session in Syracuse, told the delegates| employment by any of the plaintiffs a national strike, advocacy of district| movement. jatre on Monday, September 12. that combatting the inroads of Bolshevism and Sovietism is the}. : . and against any of the eements, failure to launch a) The program placed before the} ; ne most important task before the American Jabor movement. imembers of the families of any of rgetie organization campaign in|union by the Save the Union bloc at; Demaris: Dore has replaced Lillian Woll is the premier red-herring dragger of the executive| council of the A. F. of L. +} h southern Ohio coal barons a sweeping injunction} ‘i F tions of the coal fields where the larg union in). .-of the plaint . . . ores, backed by the rest of the labor| ts 2 ~ -Y light Park. Get yours today at the =) | F : 5 1 fig! “our govern-|unionism made at Miami, the obvious 7 WT, . 64 a, are Sen 2, NOE ag oi ie z , {upon any or along any of the public! ment, ,will fight “our govern- | unionism mad . S| DAILY WORKER office. . of L, is on-strike, at the time when it is clear that the i uoads: wailpoedae aeileoatle: aachtes Celt by Violating the’ federal in-|desire on the part of the Lewis | coal barons and the government are out to smash the-United| way etc. .'. junction and defeating it and the coal} machine to avoid irritating the eel The Civic Repertory Theatre's road ine Work of sy] at a time when Secretary of C 3 ips beer rehetdy ; barons, or the labor movement will| barons in any way, are answered by « Pi Mine Worke of Ameri at a time when Secretary of Com “From. intimidating, theratening mnie c be peace injunction under cove company “Cradle Song” includes merce Hoover iss sely at the time when the federal government has 3 forerunner of similar edicts against the miners in| formation in, about or near the mines es.a report which despite its careful wording | the non-union fields, have not served | to prevent the coal capitalists and} their. government from making war on the union. Woe price patriotism now? Either the United Mine Work-| the agents or employees of any of the plaintiffs fe “From gathering or loitering in “groups, crowds, assemblages and picket file formation or any other more injunctions issue to! * or in any manner interfering the last convention offers the only|Roth in “Padlocks” at the Shubert means of combatting the drive on the! theatre. union, | Lewis, the offer of partial sur-| Jamboree, which the Joint Defense render to the coal barons in the form |G i i ipuarreas eer ommittee is giving Sunday at Star- of district agreements and efficiency SIving: 'y o which the coalbarons are opening Road Barry Davenport, Phyllis condensed 1 ‘ is appearing witn Mr. Coburn in a version of “The Better Blood Money ° : : * a ais cover every field where the coal Mary Hone, Zi ‘oh: pictures a serious decline in many departments of basic industry,|any of the agents or employe barons desire to start operations, im-|up their mines with scab labor. Fanny Davenport, ae ee “comes into the HUDSON to (iron and steel, automobiles, railroads, building, ete.) at a time |any of the plaintiffs or contractors | port scabs and smash the United Mine’ The influx of coal from the non-| oq Virginia Gregor ofthe’ tour spend } when even many of the conservative building trades unions are|°" employees . | Workers of America. junion fields wie Teneaines an n Hartford Labor Day. H under att “From blockading any of the pub- ganized while the Lewis machin Woll can find no alarming manifestations for the ment except the activities of the Communists and the K, labor mov eft wi It is nished the delegates in connection with the report of the Federa tion Bank and Trust Company a copy of the section of the recent resolution of the Communist International dealing with the ques- ion of “labor”? banks and trade union capitalism in general. This document is headed: “Read carefully for it relates to instructions given Communists for an attack on Labor Banks.” Like Wolil’s speech this document is designed to distract at ention from such debacles as that which overtook the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineérs’ banking and investment schemes and place the administration of the Federation bank in a position noteworthy in this conmectian that there has been fur-|6 | | agents \or vulgar language, toward, concern- is clear that in the dec tions of the Union barons intend to de outright unless it accepts the coal} barons’ terms—merely another way jof destroying the union. It is also clear that the injunction ive sec-| the coal) y the union} 5 * lie highways leading to said mines of the plaintiffs 2 “From the use of vile and op- probrious names or insulting words, and from the use of the word: or “rat” and from the use of profane the federal government into the union ing or in the presence of any person | fields in behalf of the coal barons. By tae ceaploymiene Ot say Sere ]X. the _ West-Virginia non-union Seo fields the United Mine Workers vA are appealing to the United States | supreme court against a blanket in- or| junction prohibiting them from or- | ganizing, but failing any other action | strike “From interfering in any way ‘or manner with the plaintiffs or any of them, or their officers ” “From damaging the plant, equip-| on the part of the union the in Southern Ohio marks the entry of | made war on Communist miners and} the left wing is depended upon—and | wil! if not stopped—to supply the} markets where union-mined coal was |sold formerly. | “Chang,” that remarkable and in- ‘i | teresting film which had such a long | JN every local union the miners must} pun on Broadway recently, and which be informed of the sinister mean-/ caused so much comment, will begin jing of the Ohio injunction. They will}, short run at the Cameo theatre ‘support the program of the Save the) starting tomorrow. Charlie Chaplin | Union bloc and only by rally the sup-|in “The Rink’ will be the comedy \port of the membership of this pro-| feature. m—organization of the non-union fields, a national strike, no district agreements, nationalization of the | mines, support for a labor party—can jthe union be saved from destruction is laid for a return to the Monte Blue’s latest starring vehicle “The Bush Leaguer” will have its) premiere at Moss’ Broadway theatre | beginning Monday. Clyde Cook and Little Theatre 44th St., W. of B’way. Evenings at 8:30. MATINEES TUES. aND THURSDAY, — mis S. NOW 2nd Sensatic _ RISA OUI IEATRES . REFRIGERATED i CAMEO sie { Week theGrast iceal het oct ect! (2) "U-BOAT35” seh Sie < " 5 n by 2 7 and the ba Leila Hyams play principal roles in OFFICAL EXPLOYTS OF THE GERMAN SUEMAR to forestall criticism of its financial adventures by yelling|°* ment or property of any of the| Will be over) and ee vad defeated former militant policy followed by|the Sete: . : 4 CHARLIE CHAPLIN “Moscow.” said mines = before the cage as /deuided. the United Mine Workers of America ' THIS PREHISTORIC PAST” | If at the convention of the New York State Federation of La- “From trespassing upon or un- | ED with a crisis in which the! before its officialdom surrendered to} The Warner’s announce four im- oo a i is Geld resccation | life of the union is at stake the} American imperialism. or, oldest and largest in the United States, held a few months before the annual convention of the American Federation of La- bor, Woll has no analysis of the present situation and no program to prepgse based on what such an ana would show i. e, de- creasing industrial activity and preparation for a new drive on S. * lawfully entering upon any of the said mines or any of the lands owned} by any of the plaintiffs, and from) entering upon or trespassing on any of the fields or lands near or in the vicinity of any of the said mines .. .” Needle Trade Defense portant releases for September. These include: “Slightly Used” starring |May McAvoy and Conrad Nagel; | |George Jessel’s first starring picture | this year, “The Broadway Kid,” “Jaws | | of Steel,” another Rin-Tin-Tin picture | jand a comedy co-stafring Louise! All seats are reduced for the summer. Best Seats $2.20. Cort Theatre, 48 St., HE. of B'way. Matinee Wednesday. The the unions, it is unlikely that at the A, F. of L. convention he will} “From doing of any act or acts| |\Fazenda_ and Clyde Cook, titled “A | playhouse to one of pictures. After have anything to propose except war on the militant elements in| the labor movement. Woll, however, spoke at Syracuse as the representative of the executive council of the A. F. of L. and this body therefore has once more disclosed its bankrupte. It is still waging war on the Communists and the left wing as a major task and is thereby Great Mass Carnival Next Sunday. | member of the Workers Self Defense.” “whatsoever in the furtherance of) "phe great mass carnival at Star-|Do your duty by joining the Workers jany combination or conspiracy here- light Amusement Park, East 177th|Self Defense army and help deliver tofore or hereafter formed for the street Subway Station will be held|the last blow to the betrayers of purpose of hindering, delaying or in-| nex¢ Sunday, beginning 10 a. m. and!labor. Mail your application to the terfering with plaintiffs or any of; lasting ‘to 2a. m. the next morning. |office of the Joint Defense and Re- them in the mining, shipping and sale | 4” \onderful day of amusements is'lief Committee, 41 Union Square, of coal y promised to be followed byxthe pres-|Room 714. | Sailor’s Sweetheart.” | i} The Mayfair Theatre on West 44th} Street, is undergoing a complete pro- | cess of renovation preparatory to its change of policy from a legitimate! housing such productions as O’Neil’s “Emperor Jones,” “Juno and the Paycock” and “The House of Usher,” the tiny playhouse will assume a policy of almost entirely presentin; foreign photoplays. A { | weakening the labor movement in a period when militant organ- poe the brief extracts quoted (the entation of the opera Carmen in the $05 F % D. : it e k c (ona Sarna eee : ization of the workers in basie industry is imperative and when). inivnction as a whole, enumerating pone Sie eee ia Th + Cappetative ae | What the Daily Worker G. W. Harris, Soldie . the United Mine Workers union is facing the most powerful at-|’" detail the oevegns and Sontara Hone) tian Canals, Giant Coaster, Gold; M. Kurchensky, Secretary of the| A are uessreres sa «8s 1.00 Apa : protected and the acts forbidden, coy-| Venetian Canals, Gian’ ISLET, 7 Mh t th W rk Rune Padeo Nucleus, Gan: Padre tack in its history. ers 6 pages of the customary legal Mine, Skooter, Honeymoon Express eans to the Workers jane Pedro : Nucleus, ” CBE, pats, J. C. Flanagan, fe ie Geo. Francovich, San Pedro, Cal. 1.00 Finnish Fraction W. P., Detroit 45.90 ?t A. L. D. L. D., Harrison, N. J. pom ; King’s Crazy Brothér- Has a Try at Suicide i |Detroit Workers Cooperative sent al size) it is obvious that if the injunc-|and numerous other concessions eck for $25 collected at a branch tion is obeyed the strike is broken. | Every concession taken over by the | meeting. But still more important is the fact; defense will bear a placard of the | a : ‘i that clause 14 of the document in-| Committee. } Unity Committee Sends $250. } structs the armed forces of the state} The Opera to be produced in the, The Unity Committee of Toron to put themselves directly at the ser- evening, in the great open air arena Sent $250 collected at a meeting wi vice of the coal barons, In other| Will have-a number of famous singers {Ben Gold present. The committee words, the injunction is a mobiliza-| in the cast, and will be accompanied | now making a house to house coll tion order to what Engels called “the| by a full symphony orchestra. Ad-| tion and will ‘send more money sook. It is also to be noted that Woll did not mention the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti nor call upon the convention to register its protest against this blow at the labor movement. With such leadership the American labor movement is pass- ing into a period when it, like the miners’ union, will have to fight for its life. Against such leadership every ounce of strength in the la- More Encouraging Contributions to Our Emergency Fund. ' J. A. Conley, Jackson, Mich. «++ -1.00] N. Y. Lettish Ed. Club, Astoria, | if hae be Rey cee Paterson Branch, Paterson, N. J. 6.00) bor movement must be concentrated. special bodies of armed men:” | mission to es onere is $1. Revered Be * . : 4 |W. Eee Kenosha, Kenosha, | i t st be ex iv y "ap |seats ‘are $2 an 1.50. o make} $40 From Grine Kretchme. Bs Oe he RNG ves) cis ony we 'y BELGRADE, Aug. 25. — Prince It must be exposed and driven from power. (CLAUSE 14 says: sure of not missing the Opera buy) The Grine Kretchme, a hotel in|Frank Jelovich, Cleveland, O. George. Kara Georgevitch, elder i | your tickets before they are all sold. | Berkeley Heights, N. J. sent a check!L. Bryan, Cleveland, O. .. | The performance will be broadcast by | for $40 collected at an affair arranged| J. K. Barella, Cleveland, 0. “The marshal is outhorized and directed to call to his assistance brother. of King Alexander of Jugo- Slavia was in a serious condition to- The Press Conference in Geneva. such persons, either as deputy | radio station WKBQ. A 50 cent tic-| for the Defense. K. Sileikis ..... Chinon day as a result of what was reported j mitic’ confer Pr ite hats f marshal or otherwise, as he may | ket is good for admission to the Park, | NT a to be an attempt at suicide. Prince | 1e conference of Press Associations beginning at Geneva} deem necessary, and is em- |reduced rates on bathing, and free | i Scheeliter, Beane NOY. George had been declared insane some under the auspices of the league of nations furnishes further| powered by law to do, for the sence, Admission to the Park is} Letters From Our Readers HulearianBrdeMont. Wi) P.De: year's ago, following a violent attack evidence of the development of ‘ascist methods in the princi purpose of securing early and 25 cents. ‘ peta es Reta eS dit, Mich. .... on a servant, whom the prince kicked : Pi pal prompt obedience to the provisi- An added feature will be the Hun- ee oeaias: 20.00 F (deanie takidiie subset wane ethack on capitalist countries. The major is » press services in r Mike Kasenic, Colfax, Cal. 3.00 W. P. Loe. Grand Rapids, Mich. 9.00 J. E, Curry, Kansas City, Mo. Sacco-Vanzetti Murder Lesson to Workers. ons hereof; and for that purpose, THE MARSHAL, WITH SUCH ASSISTANTS AS HE SHALL his brother, king Alexander. He also | had been publicly involved in numer- +100) ous love affairs. e before the conference is the role of the great | lation to the governments of their respective \ garian Symphony Orchestra and the | Hungarian Singing Society. * = * , Dear Comrade: ; * poets 3 JECESSARY AND § Another Hundred Dollars From : ee ee = countries. The question is: PEEBINA GEE, Rian se eb Lagat | The headlines of the daily. papers| Are all press services to become government organs, giving] Tim PREMISES OF THE | Helen N. Yeskevich, Secretary of| this afternoon state that the Supreme | only news officially sanctioned by the departments of foreign and | Court of the State of Massachusetts | domestic affairs, or are those still partially independent of their | i} ri ‘ . [has ruled against Sacco and Vanzetti. | Pee , eit | 2 has sent ini the third contribu | This is not any different than we} | the Lithuanian Section, W. P. District No. PLAINTIFFS FROM TIME TO TIME, AND ESPECIALLY AT H iY ‘. 9 . & ue S PL. N’ eS i f § \ % y ‘ v government to retain their independence? piece a ay prophesy on Bo Saag jexpected all along. The Imperialists| ‘ vd : a _ The “executive committees of the capitalist class,” the im-| ALLY BEGIN MINING OPERA. Workers Self Defense Station | Will use the Courts to murder radical | AT OPEC IAL PRICE? perialist governments, feel that in this critical period the or-| TIONS ... .” | in Bronx. janes they haye done so many | RAS Bronx Workers Club is or- ig a branch of the Joint De- [southern district of Ohio and the of-|fense at, the headquarters of the |fiee of the United States Marshal, high’ to BAA bce Waele ae Star. {has taken over the job of breaking! }y"* i dinary capitalist bias of the press services is not sufficient. The governments are trying to establish a strict censorship. News | is to be suppressed or colored,to meet the needs of the rulers. j As a matter of fact this procedure is already established in a Of course it is hard for working | people to bear up under such a hor- vible affair, but Sacco and Vanzetti will not have died in vain. The HE United States government, act- | The ing thru the federal court of the | $2"'7™ ~ On Two Great Struggles ; | number of instances. The Reuter service is controlled by the British government, the lavas agency by the French government and in the United States the Associated Press, as shown by the exposure of its relations with the state department in the Mex- ican issue, is more or less an official news agency of the federal government. The growing imperialist conflicts and the conspiracy against | ("y bap rbot sea (tS ne a : A | North spud da ate | sudds tiaatretad wen pueeuasepner wen the Soviet Union undoubtedly exert great pressure in determining | sh Mee Fly a : r ea Pagitere Fill Out Your Application Today. ITH INK Or T THE SUSTAINING | by the noted novelist and writer, ar the various governments to embark upon this drastic course in Geneva. War is in the air and censorship on the cards. The Geneva conference furnishes concrete evidence of the great need for a powerful working class pre: press service devoted to the cause of the class struggle. Only by unswerving support of its press can the working class prevent all its channels of information being poisoned at the source. In variety and technique the working class press can|8"d John L. Lewis, president of the never compete with that of the capitalist class. But its short- wide conspiracy to make of ALL news servi¢es official agencies of imperialism, ae ’ ‘ Naim eo a re arama | } and a worldwide | ARE READY TO ACTUALLY BEGIN | | | | shoot down workers ‘especially such | @ -— x . ‘ |1919 that “we cannot fight our gov- comings in this respect must be overlooked (altho corrected asj\ernment”, please explain why any far as possible) in the interest of the struggle against the world-| worker should, suppoy a government r Pil i > 4 light Park can register af the club. a geke) ote uanee Mine: Work- Applications for membership in the 2 “ ree Ne . _| Workers. Self Defense and dues More than this, as the injunction stamps can be had at this station. The plainly states, it has placed at the dis-| ci} will be open every evening until posal of the coal barons, for strike-' Aygust 28th. All members of the breaking purposes, all the armed , Bronx’ Workers Club are requested forces the marshal “shall deem neces- | to cooperate. Your answer to the pc.grom of the ing t i “s) atte “ . “ meaning of the phrase “shall attend Sigman clique must be: “Become a the premises of the plaintiffs from time to time and ESPECIALLY AT) "|. < SUCH TIMES AS THE PLAINTIFFS Fifth Pariy Convention to MINING OPERATIONS... .” wie President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, ORK United Mine Workers, who said in attending the mass meeting planned | Central ra House, 67th street, which functions openly as a strike- breaking agency and is prepared to} ‘will be announced shortly. At Contral Opera House, Tuesday, August 30th S of New York City and vicinity will join in welcoming the Fifth National Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party by will be under the auspices of the Party’s Central Executive Committee. | | Admission will be 50 cents. A program of nationally prominent speakers ga workers do not need any better or| more convincing crganizers than | Fuller and Thayer. ‘they will give! great impetus to the movement to-| ward industrial solidarity and a uni-| ted Labor Party—W. L. Cogley, Ge:- | eral Secretary-Treasurer, United As- sociatior. of Railroad ployes of! In these books you will and an indispensible guide of Labor. Put PASSAIC BY ALBERT W |FUND AT EVERY % 1 jight by its lea Open With Mass Meeting SETING!| | By WM. 4. FOSTER.-—He } American Labor, STRIKE STRATEGY By WM. Z, FO member of the Labor Mo’ All for i | | | for Tuesday night, August 30, at the near Third avenue. The gathering | | i ® —and Strategy picture of two great American Labor struggles— em all in your library. 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