The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 29, 1927, Page 4

: ae ahha arvascpemamiensecties ney - 000,000 per year. Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSD. SEPT. 29, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address SUBSCRIPTION RAT By Mail (in New York only): By M $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per 0 three months Daiwork’ Phone, Orchard 1680 1 (outside of New York): x months ns years 00 three mont jake out checks to rst Street, New York, N. Y- ‘Adare and THE DAILY WORLER, "J, LCUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE BERT MILLER... Editors Manager N. Y., under Qutlawing the Stonecutters’ Union “hailed as a victory for the government,” the ad-, What verse decision handed down by Federal Judge Grubb in the prose- | cution brought against the Journeymen Stonecutters’ Union in New York, is a matter of concern to the whole labor movement. The government appeared in this case as the open advocate of the bosses. The decision makes it a criminal offense for the stonecutters’ union to refuse to handle or work scab material. Following the recent supreme court decision in the Bedford Cut Stone Company case, this latest decision shows that it is the intention of the bosses and their government to use this decision to the limit of its possibilities for the crippling and destruction of unions. There is another event of great importance to the labor move-! ment which occurred during the prosecution of the union offi- cials. A former attorney for the stonecutters’ union appeared as the chief witn for the government; it ¥ his testimony that was largely re ble for the government’s success. In the American labor movement, where lawyers at present play such a prominent part, where such large sums are expended by unions for legal services and a condition is created whereby the attorneys become the confidants of the union at all times, the legal fraternity is becoming a menace. Able and willing to change their opinions at will for a fee, the betrayal of the Stonecutters’ Union just cited should teach a valuable lesson, i. e., the labor movement should begin to develop its own legal staff composed of men and women who are of and loyal to the working class in addition to being legal experts. “The government,” said Judge Grubb, “has made out a clear Moreover, all that is required to be shown is intention to —the motive for the intention is not impor- ca keep out the sto tant.” Union officials who talk loudly and continuously of the beau- ties of American institutions and who are hostile to the organiza- tion of a labor party because, they say, it is founded upon the despicable theory that classes exist in America, will do well to ponder Judge Grubb’s remarks. - They might, for instance, for the purpose of determining the function and role of the courts and government, list all the huge mergers—steel, oil, coal, bread, railways, water power, banks, ex plosives, electric apparatus, autombdbiles, ete.—all of which have Bethan place recently, all of which violate the Sherman act—but Py, sof whos sponsors and beneficiaries have been prosecuted. The government, however, when it succeeds in outlawing the ordinary activity of a union of 5,000 members, “hails it as a victory.” An examination of the facts leads straight to the conclusion that mass violations of injunctions must be organized and a labor party to carry the battle of the working class into all sectors of the government be established. When Adwirals May Speak Freely. Nothing is going to be done to Admiral Magruder—not right away anyway. In his article in the Saturday Evening Post the admiral ac- cused the navy department of wasting something like $100,- This is a serious charge and under ordinary cireumstances would be followed by severe disciplinary action. Admiral Magruder, however, is instructed to submit a plan for reorganization to the navy department embodying suggestions for correcting the errors and abuses he cited. Nowhere in the official discussion, is anything like a drastic cut in the naval budget mentioned—nor will it be mentioned. * Had Admiral Magruder advocated such a thing he would have _ Fights Against Workers’ Murderers. | | Editor, The DAILY WORKER: been demoted so rapidly that it would have made his head swim. Magruder is for a better and bigger navy—and so is Wall Street and Wall Street’s government. [If to secure this it is nec- essary to-deprive certain persons of their sinecures, to put the whole department on a Taylor system basis, this will be done. American imperialism wants its navy to be put on a war basis as soon as possible and, outside the role of navy and inner departmental politics, officers who advocate the utmost efficiency * will not be punished. Those who expected an onslaught on Magruder because of his violation of navy discipline were doomed to disappointment ' Magruder article was inspired by powerful interests who desire the most efficient navy in the world—especially more efficient than the British navy. Letters From | Church’s Hocus-Pocus. | Editor, The DAILY WORKER: I received your request to help The On this Labor Day a great many Labor Officialdom Admits Crisis Is Here ‘The Coming Pittsburgh Conference—An Extraordinary Measure, the, First Since March, 1917—The Position of the Miners’ Union—What It Means to the Labor Movement—The Reward for Supporting Morgan’s War—A Minimum Program—Mass Pressure Upon : the Pittsburgh Conference. By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. | ) leading off are to meet in| irgh following the American! Federation of Labor convention, to outline plans to aid the United Mine} Workers of America. | By the time this conference meets | the coal strike will have been on more than six months but this is the first] indication the official labor leader-| ship has shown that the nationwide} attack on the most important union| in the A. F. of L. confronts the whole | labor movement with an extraordin-| ary emergency. | Unless extraordinary efforts are} put forth by the labor movement the United Mine Workers’ Union will suf- fer a defeat which it will take it yea to overcome and there is even in the situation the grave probability that the union will be destroyed. The anthracite section of the union where the bosses have not started an open offensive as yet could not pos- sibly survive intact after the bitu- minous miners had suffered a crush- ing d The. la st figures on production, compiled by the Federated Press from the most authentic sources, show, with telling force, the gravity | of the crisis. Total production of bituminous coal for August was 41,705,000 tons. For the same month last year (with no strike on) it was 46,352,000 tons. The strike therefore has decreased production for the month of August only 4,547,000 tons, or approximately | 10 per cent. | But still worse from the standpoint | of the labor movement, bituminous tonnage is increasing. August ton- nage exceeded that of July by ap- proximately 15 per cent. In the sixth month of the strike, with winter near, | this is an ominous sign. Not only in the non-union fields is| production on the increase but in the union fields.as well. Indiana, always considered part of the “central com- petitive field,” union territory, pro- duced 1,350,000 tons in August. Pro- duction in the same month last year was 1,730,000 tons. The Indiana mines therefore are within 380,000 ons of normal production. August) production was practically twice that of July when it.was 880,000 tons. If the Indiana figures are correct | it indicates that the strike has lost| its effectiveness in that state. | gust only 4,547,000 tons although the | decrease in the normal tonnage of these four states alone is 7,763,000 tons, | A glance at the production figures} for West Virginia and Kentucky, | comparing August, 1926, and August, | 1927, shows that the difference be-| tween 7,763,000 tons, the total cut in} tonnage in the four states of Illinois, | Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania, and! the total decrease nationally, due to; the strike, 4,547,000 tons, is mdre| than made up by the increase of pro- | duction in West Virginia and Ken-| tueky—3,248,000 tons, The unorganized districts are breaking the strike—just as the coal barons calculated, just as the Com- munists and the left wing in the min-| ers’ union said they would if the, | Lewis machine continued the criminal policy of fighting the militant ele- ments in the union and making noth- ing but a pretense of organizing West Virginia and Kentucky, The total production of West Vir- ginia and Kentucky for the month of August was 21,580,000 tons—more than 50 per cent of the total national production of 41,705,000 tons. If to non-union production in West ini and Kentucky—21,580,000 add Pennsylvania’s non- union production of 10,340,000 tons, we get 31,920,000 tons of the, total national production of 41,705,000 tons—representing a generous 75 per cent national production. A child can see that if this relation- ip of forces continues the strike will not only be lost but the United Mine Workers of America will suffer an overwhelming defeat. The union will either be wiped out completely in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania, its strongest cen- ters, or it will be crippled for a very | long period. In Illinois and Ohio, exactly because | ithese are the strongest union dis-| tricts, the drive of the coal barons! is becoming more intense. | Federal injunctions of a most sweeping character authorizing Uni-| ted States marshals to swear in as| many deputies as necessary to aid the | operators have been issued. | The Illinois operators, according to latest reports, are to open their |mines at a wage scale $2.50 below the Jacksonville contract rate. Desperate struggles are taking) place, in which the miners, their, HHREE kinds of action are necessary to meet the situation adequately 1. The launching of an organi- zation campaign in the non-union fields supported by the whole la- bor movement. 2. The organization of defense and relief for the miners on a nationwide scale. 8. A call for the formation of a labor party, based on the unions and embracing all working class organizations, which, in alliance with the exploited farmers and their erganizations, will place a full ticket in the field for the national election in 1928. It seems to us that this is the abso- lute minimum below which the Pitts- burgh conference dare not go without appearing before the whole labor movement as a gathering to which the growth of the power of the work- ing class means nothing~a meeting which showed more clearly than ever the weakness of the labor movement. Every possible method of bringing pressure upon the Pittsburgh confer- ence for the minimum program out- lined above must be utilized. LL workers who see the threat to the labor movement and know that |no real attempt has as yet been made by the official leadership to meet it,! will realize the necessity of drafting and having passed by local unions, central labor councils, cooperative so- ecieties and workers’ fraternal organi- zations, resolutions calling upon the union officials to adopt at the Pitts- burgh conference a fighting program along the lines laid down above. The American labor movement must make a united stand and say to the bosses that the offensive against the miners and the labor movement shall end. The flood of injunctions, the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, supreme court decisions outlawing union ac- tivities—all have gone unanswered. American capitalism has grown arrogant. It believes that there is no fight left in the labor movement. Here, behind the miners in the front line trenches of the American class struggle, a stand must be made. We must fight or surrender—there is no other choice. Organize the unorganized! Save the United Mine Workers of America! Build a Labor Party! Fight the war danger! These are the minimum tasks of the Illinois and Ohio are holding their) Wives and their children, are forced) American labor movement. Show of- own. The strike in these two states|t® meet the most modern, deadly andj fi¢ialdom that the workers whose in- has reduced production approximate- | ly 90 and 75 per cent respectively. | Tonnage for Illinois for August last year was 5,000,000 in round fig- | ures. Last month it was but 720,000.) Yet this figure represents an increase | over July when only 362,000 tons were mined. Ohio tonnage for August of last year was 2,056,000. This year Au- gust production was only 613,000.) But here too there was a gain for the operators over July tonnage of 553,- 000. | In Pennsylvania, where August} tonnage last year was 12,000,000, Au-| gust of this year shows a tonnage of, 10,340,000—a reduction of 1,600,000 tons. But August production shows | a gain of 1,760,000 tons over July| production. | The difference in the total tonnage | figures for the months of August of} this year and last is a matter of 4,- | there | machinery set up by the union offi-| barbarous methods of warfare used| by the police forces and the gunmen of the coal barons. | There are already at least a hun-| dred miners indicted and facing long! jail terms. The strike is in its sixth month yet | is no relief. and defense | cials which can appeal on a nation- wide scale in behalf of the union and | its members, | The role of local, state and national | government in this great struggle, in- | volving the life of the miners’ union, is clear—it is behind the coal barons |and against. the miners. . Not a single one of the “friends of | labor” elected to publie office has so far said:one word in favor of the miners and against the campaign to! smash their union. This being the situation the Pitts- burgh conference, called quite ob- | viously because of the critical situa- | tion confronting the whole labor patna f production in Ohio | Movement as a result of the attack SS CECT ear. On PECe Btu gn tty aie Gouin aust important union, has the} and Illinois as a result of the strike | quty of adopting a program which is 5,723,000 tons. There is a decrease| wijj rally all forces that can be mobil- of 1,660,000 tons in Pennsylvania due |to the strike and in Indiana, a de- crease of 380,000 tons. | The total reduction of tonnage in ithese four states, where the union |was strongly established, is 7,763,000) tons. | toi But the gap between total’national|in the Pittsburgh conference. mnage in August, 1926, 46,352,000|the American ized against an offensive which is in essence the first move in a drive against the American working class on all fronts., If there is any honesty and will to fight to save the unions left in offi- | cial labor circles, it will show itself For labor movement the 2 ‘ |tons, and total production for August | calling of such a conference has deep from the start. It is quite probable on the other hand that the | of this year, 41,705,000 tons, is only | Significance. 4,547,000 tons. | have succeeded in discounting by 3,- 216,000 tons the strike of the union in the best organized fields. Where does this coal come from? How is it possible for the coal bar- ons to render a strike of the United | Not since March, 1917, when labor It is clear therefore that the coal) fficialdom met to issue its declara- |barons, by one means and another, | tion of allegiance to the war program _|of American imperialism, has such a conference been called. More than ten years after labor | officialdom climbed onto the chariot of the house of Morgan and joined in the “war to make the world safe for democracy,” it is forced again to call Mine Workers, which in 1919 was} gn extraordinary conference — this abfe practically to paraylse coal pro-| time to devise ways and means of (duction, so completely ineffective? saying from destruction before the | The answer to these two questions} attack of American capitalism, the DAILY WORKER in its fight for the working class and against the mur- derers and oppressors of the work- | priests, sky-pilots, of about 57 denom- | Ot only shows in clear relief the pro- inations of the christian faith glorified |cesses by which the attack on the and sanctified Labor and all its pov- miners’ union has been developed but} | union which is the backbone of the labor movement. be Surely no more biting comment on ers. Unfortunately I live in an almost hopeless district as far as the Ameri- cans are concerned and have been un- able to collect anything as yet for The DAILY WORKER. There is a strong South Slav element hereabout but the South Slav comrades I am sure are canvassing this element. owever, | am myself sending you $25 and I promise that,I shall do everything in my power to help the victims of the masters and to bring about the speedy overthrow of the masters. | Until enough of the wage-slaves —J. H. Dickenson, Mountain View, | find out that the dispensers of chris- California. |tian dope are the enemies of the es |workers the priests will continue the The Bazaar! Are You Preparing ancient and modern hoeus-pocus, For It? |_Daniel F. O’Brien, N. Y. C. erty, trials and tribulations. The hypocrisy of the whole business shown in the fact that the priests, preachers, and rabbis are the most |practiced loafers in modern society. They toil not neither do they spin. And they are as fat and sleek as any group of business men on earth, fact they despise labor as degrading | jbut the masters’ voice compels them | to glorify labor and bless it so that) the capitalists can perpetuate their \it also shows the complete bankrupt-| the price of official treason paid by terasts they have so far failed to fight for. will take nothing less than these tasks as their immediate pro- gram in this emergency. What the Daily Worker Means to the Workers More Encouraging Contributions to Our Emergency Fund. A, Schuebelen, Sr., Phila., Pa. ..5,00 Workers Party Local, Newark, N. J Angelo Paravidino, Ferrysburg, G. Lang, Ferrysburg, N. Y. . Frank J. Swiatek, Fer: 1.00 1.00 - 1.00 Leon Small, Maywood, N. J. ....1.00 Sam H. Small, Maywood, N. J. ..1.00 A. Small, Maywood, N. J. 1.00) J. Small, Maywood, N. J. Edward Kolar, Dillonvalle, Ohio Jos. 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Court Holds Union May Picket When No Strike Is On; Injunction Lost + 2.25 + 5.00 The first application of the ruling | But Why Is No Unless this veteran dramatie critic | of half a dozen tough shows is a bum prophet, James Gleason and all those |who have a “piece” of the above ‘named comedy now holding down the |boards at the Martin Beck Theatre will add considerably to their ma- terial wealth tho I doubt if their artistic values will experience a bull market during the time this show continues to be profitably patronized |by that part of the public that laughs over trifles. It is not a dumb show tho no at- _ tempt is ‘made to appeal to the up- per extremities of the audience. It |is not dumb because it filled the house and brought the laughs which means that the stenographers who accompanied their department heads to the Martin Beck theatre ‘will pass the word along fo their associates and James Gleason, if charged with being a dumb servitor, can retort, “Ts Zat So?” step into his new Rolls Royce and be driven to a mansion |bought from the proceeds of such \plays as “The Shannons of Broad- | way. | Despite a warning that a person | was taking an evening’s entertain- ment in his hands by attempting to ‘find out what the play was all about I threw caution to the winds and came to the following conclusion: The Shannons boss a vaudeville team billed “Shannon and Shannon” and find themselves stranded in a small town whose only fairly decent hotel refuses to harbor dogs, it hav- {ing its hands full with ham actors ‘on the bum. Emma Shannon is a | one-dog woman. Micky Shannon |(James Gleason) and Emma Shan- non, wife (Lucile Webster) finally purchase the hotel, partly to get a place to sleep for the night and partly to get even with a tall blond biscuit- shooter who had the hotel terrorized until Emma Shannon landed her a smack on the jib-boom, and put the Indian sign on: her. | The villain is the town politician who is defrauding everybody out of | their money and getting away with jit until he gets on icky Gleason’s |nerves and from then on the villian’s fortunes are progressing downwards. The necessity for dragging the gig- ‘gles out of the customers compels |Mr. Gleason to drag in numerous gags by the slack of the pants and to dance recklessly on the thin red line that separates obscenity from humor, |He succeeds. The play ends with a knockout for the villian, the reforma- | tion of his son who was a victim of | the salesmanship of the village boot- legger, the discomfiture of the shy- | ster lawyer who fooled his client and last but not least the popular verdict that the lumbering railroad man must marry the big blond biscuit- | shooter he had “ruined.” | Let nobody come to the conclusion after reading this review that this is a play to avoid. and troubled in spirit and your brain jing “The Shannons of Broadway” | will break the tension and send you | home as relieved as a victim of con- jgestion of the lungs after a good |sneeze.—T. J. O'F. I Timekeeper Shoots Spectator.- | RICHMOND, kK: Sept. 28.— |Charles Minter, 15, is dead here to- ious: 1.00/day by a bullet wound in his head,; “'? Bebe .--1.00) sustained when he was accidentally CASINO |shot by a timekeeper’s gun during a | football game here last Friday. The |bullet, according to physicians, was imbedded at the base of his brain. Pats If you are weary | demands surcease from serious think- ; About Audience Laughs at ‘The Shannons of Broadway’ Mean Mystery JAMES GLE! Author of and chief player in “The Shannons of Broadway,” a new com- edy just opened at the Martin Beck Theatre. “The Belt” Rehearsal— New Machiavelli Play George Tyler has placed in re- hearsal “Hoosiers Abroad,” with El- liott Nugent in the leading role. The play has been adapted by Booth Tark- ington and Harry Leon Wilson from their play, “The Man From Home.” Alexander’ McKaig has acquired “The Racket,” a Chicago police play by Bartlett Cormack, which he will present in New York later in the sea- son. Alphonse Ethier and Edward G. Robinson have been engaged for the leading role. Brady and Wiman announce a new play by Lemist Esler titled, “Machia- velli,” which they will place in re- hearsal next month. Mary Loanc has been engaged for the feminine lead opposite James Spottswood in the new mystery play “Out of the Night,” by Harold Hutch- inson and Margery Williams. “The Belt,” the Paul Sifton play which launches the New Playwrights season, has been placed in rehearsal by Edward Massey, director. Heaton Vorse will arrange the ~usic for this production. The Place—Madison Sq. Gawden. The Event — The Red Bazaer. The Time — October 6-7-8-9. Best seats RH, 48th st. Mati- | nees Wed |National A. H. s e “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Ba r, With ANN HARDID CHERRYMAN The Desert Song Halliday & Eddie Buzzei 11th Month & Bway. Wed. 8.30 THE |LITTLE TH" West 44th St., . Eve's 8:30 iRomancing ‘Round Mats. Wed. & Sat. ,All Hands Out for the Bazaar! ' with Frask Morgan and Pessy Conway | Minter was a spectator. emer ed ee A Motion Picture by The funniest of at This SUNDAY, Admission 65c. The Temptress Revival of Charlie Chaplin’s “THE CHAMPION” WALDORF THEATRE, 50th St, East of 7th Ave. MUSIC BY MOSCOW TRIO. | i i i V. BLASCO IBANEZ his productions the October 2, 1927 Major part of Jouse bought by DAILY WORKER and FREIHEIT. OE EE AOS IER OD CREED OED. fSORR ae EON PE UEE EE SR OBL ee eS Ge papa ea re | ewe eee IE) AV ame IEEE EE | TheNewPlaywrights Theatre “The Theatre Insurgent” In| cy of the Lewis machine now in con-| the working class need be made here. |trol of the United Mine Workers. gust of last year, 4,200,000 tons. In August of this year this field pro- ‘duced 4,923,000 tons, periods produced 1,280,000 and 2,- 226,000 tons. Just as in 1917, the threat of war Eastern Kentucky produced in Au-| hovers over the American working | class. | The attack on the miners, in- tensified following the judicial murder of Saceo and Vanzetti, is like Western Kentucky for the same, that blow at the working class, part lof the preparation for imperialist | war. Even more than the A. F. of L. con- of the New York court of appeals that workers may picket even though no strike exists has been mado by) supreme court justice Alfred Frank-| enthaler in denying an injunction | ageinst the International Ladies Gar-| ment Workers Union, and New York cloak and dress joint board. The in-| Junction was sought by Oakland Gar-| THE ONLY HOME FOR L THE An industrial play wi Announces a season of productions dramatizing the class war! OPENING OCTOBER 19 with ABOR PLAYS IN AMERICA BELT ith an acetylene flame |robbery of the workers “legally,” as| sanctioned by the religious lackeys. | | Southern West Virginia figures for | | August of last year and this are 9,-| 430,000 and 10,488,000 tons, | Northern West Virginia produced vention, because it is called as an emergency measure, will the Pitts- \burgh conference have the duty of putting forward a program that w! 8,472,000 tons for August, 1926, and | rally the miners, mobilize the whole 3,943,000 tons in August, 1927, ‘labor movement for support of the The strike in Illinois, Ohio, Indiana minors and unite the workers of the and Pennsylvania hes succeeded in Tnited States for struggle against cutting national production for Au-|the imperialist offensive, ment Inc. to stop union workers from trying to organize its shop by peace- ful picketing. The firm broke away from the association of omployors with which the union had a contract, The Event — The Red Bazaa*, Tho Time — Ociobov 6-7-8-9. ‘The Pizco——Madison Sq. Garden. by PAUL SIFTON. Other plays to bo selected trom | SINGING JAILBIRDS, by. Upton Sinclair THE CHNTURIUS F Em Jo Basshe HOBOKEN B' US, By Michael Gola PICNIC, by Francis Hdwards Faragoh AIRWAYS, INC., by John Dos Passos anda play by John Howard Lawson, The DAILY WORKER has purchased “a special block of tickets. soem *