The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 28, 1927, Page 4

Sores i Page Four ‘Prineipessa Mafalda” wh Thin Faked Facts Offered in Wares WASHINGTON, D. C., The resolution ing it to be t opinion of the ate of the United that no man should hold the ial office more than eight ] meet an amusingly changed ituation when introduced in the fortheoming session. CHICAGO, Oct evidence Coolidge’s _ I- t-choose-to-r un he reso- lution » for robbing the best vote- . The president is out of the race. Dawes and Hoover are leading the G. O, P. field, with Hughes a poor third. Neither Dawed nor Hughes could, if elected for one term, expect rence to tes- rs wished to submit financial troubles Allow Evidene timony the car regarding their Voted to Betas + pe to survive more than four years in Richberg declared that the financal the job. Certainly they would not difficulties of the road were not! hone for more than eight years in the Yelevant. The employes have no ¥ White House, since both are well past 60. Any blocking of a declaration against a third term would now serve to guage the ambitions of but one candidate—-Herbert Hoover. ace to the books of the railroad, he said, and the employes have little chance in debating a question that the interstate commerce commission after years of research cannot decide. But the arbitration board neverthe- less voted to admit the evidence. Costs as Much to Live. Richberg objected tion of all this ground that prc profits are not n mination of wh es and that pro: tained without Seared Progressives. Accordingly the “progressive” group will invite the standpatters to give unanimous endorsement to the declar: at two terms is enough for any / an president. This ar- gument will appeal to many of the to a considera- poverty data on the or comparative terial to the deter- are reasonable wag- cannot be asc blishing a basis pute such profits. case labor counsel made it hot ing witnesse by slicing, examinati more than j f will embarrass some of the middle sstern senators who think chat Hoov: will foree the convention to nom- It will have the support ally every democrat in the up- branch of congress. As matters $170.000.000 rom the stand, it should pass. of the Northern ifie. If this should happen, then the pos- Locom f sibility of “drafting” Coolidge to run Al Smith in 1928 would be n yr of the workers have told of Practical politicians# would the ships behind the big boilers Andrew Mellon, secretary of on the road. A fireman on the the treasury and big scab coal mine Wabash testified that on a passenger tun of 3 hours and 45 minutes he; shovels 5 tons of coal. After 17 years’ ¢ of service, anotl fireman is on the list for promotion to engineer. Instead of being preparatory work to! not care for Hoover, whom he looks becoming an engineer, firing has been/ upon as a rival prophet in the temple shown at the hearing to be a life job.| of Big Business. ce Some of Hoover’s advisers urge BUY THE DAILY WORKER | that Hoover should favor the resolu- AT THE NEWSSTANDS tion—on the ground that if Hoover > learn whether thar close- of high finance had ¢ Hughes the nominee s colors on Dawes. They ywner, suthed oracle cided to n or to pin I REMEMBER basis for | ° hard-boiled opponents of Hoover. It} are all quite sure that Mellon does} ibe all right for t Ai llike that sort of man. The difficulty ch biew up and sank off the coast of Brazil with an overload of poor Italian Whats Whati®Washinéfon| Houston Merchants appears t 2 sweeping the country in the prima next summey, Mellon may draft Coolidge to shut Hoove ‘out. But Hoover, who is now receiv ing a continuous stream of political visitors, from his government-provid- ed headquarters in the department of commeree, sits tight. He is quite will- ing to dream of three terms for him- if he pleases the eastern bank- ing crowd in a first administration. Lowden Looms. Senator Nye of North Dakota seems ried over the ghost of the Lowden grasshopper cloud upon the fields of his state some months ago. It appears that the farmers and county chair- men in North Dakota never heard— or promptly forgot—about the national convention in 1920 by agents of the wealthy Gov. Lowden. At that jtime the scandal was so rank that \the convention turned from it in alarm jand chose the spotless Warren Gam- jaliel Harding of Ohio to deliver. the | oil reserves. Lowden turned farmer, {and spent a lot of money on adver- tising himself in the farming states. Many farmers in the northwest began to take him at his own pretensions. | Reed Interested In Exposure. | Nye, Frazier, Borah, LaFollette, art and probably Howell, Mc- r, Blaine and Hiram Johnson be for N for the republican | nomination. s stands for farm marketing legislation and Low- |den says that he does, also. But Low- jden stands for nothing else that the es want. Hence the Lowden managers’ are divecting a fire at the North Dakota senators, blaming them for failure to support Lowden. The innocent farmers who have written these letters did not stop to think of the embarrassment which Jim Reed |of Misscuri is about to bring upon the Lowden candidacy. Reed is run- ning the senate inv on of cor- rupt use of money s. Reed i ‘0 a presidential candidate. Eight rs ago he exposed Lowden’s agents heir purchase of delegates. He will it up agaia this winter. Aside from his record as 2 slush- fund operator, and as head of the Iman Palace Car concern, and as anti-labor governor of Illinois, and as a politician without social vision or a fine sense of justice, Lowden may e farmers who the with a Lowden rovement in the pro- Fi] gressive states is that it is a mockery CLASS-WAR mcf principle and cf ordinary human | intell’gence, PRISONERS their wives and children who have been victimized because of their activities in the labor movement THIS CHRISTMAS International Labor Defense unites ali forces in the labor movement willing to co-operate in a fight against the frame-up system, defends militant workers against im- prisonment and deportation and gives financial assistance to the class-war prisoners and their dependents. Each month it sends $5 to the men in prison and $20 each to their dependents. This Christmas International Labor Defense will send $25 each to the men, $50 each to their wives and $5 each to their children as a special expression of solidarity with Will You Help Send a Message of Class Solidarity? Show them that those on the outside have not forgotten them by disposing of a beok of 30 Christmas coupons at 10¢ each. FILL IN TODAY AND MAIL tM I tNATIONAL {80 t 11th St New York City Enclosed find $3 LABOR Room 402 DEF NSE for whict se send me a book of 30 Christ- mas coupons at lve exch to distribute among my friends, shop- |mates and 1 to help continue your monthly tance to | |the class-war nd their dependents and to g |help to them for Chr 8. special | NAME | ADDRESS a | a | 4| fight injunction cases, Bij He furthermore adv Bf | with appeals to higher courts. yjcan agree BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS boom which settled like aj, pur: | chase of delegates to the G. O. P.| emigrants. waited until they heard how many were rescued before announcing how many were on board when the journey began. | Cheat Taxi Drivers To Welcome Bankers: | (By Worker Correspondent) | HOUSTON, Texas. Oct. 27—| “Houston Welcomes Bankers”—read ; | the sign in every window of the Hous- | ton business houses; “Houston Wel- | comes Bankers”—read the big cap-j tions on the front pages of all Hous- | newspapers. The chamber of | ce tried to create the im-| on that everyone in Houston was glad to see the bankers. Shop} clerks are forced to wear “Welcome | Bank ribbons however much in| he way. Fake Sentiment. | | For weeks the newspapers had been | | trumpeting the forthcoming conven- | | tion of the American Bankers Asso- | | ciation, and appealing to the “People” |to play welcome host to the “banker- | guests;” appealing for free auto) it nsportation for the bankers (de- | priving the taxi-drivers of the chance | |to earn a few extra cents), to show | |the true spirit of “Southern Hospi- |tality.” But the chamber of com-; | merce welcomed the guests, not only | | because of hospitality, but for a more | materialistic reason. H Industrializing Houston. | Since the completion of the ship} ton real channel connecting Houston with the | floating all about us. Gulf of Mexico, Houston is taking} | first place in exporting raw material! | (cotton, lumber, oil ete.) direct to all | South American ports, as well as to} | European ports, and has been grad- |ually establishing an industrial cen- |ter. Being so situated as to enable jit to manufacture in Houston at a} ;much lower cost than in the east (due |to cheap labor, and vast deposits of | |natural resources), the chamber of |commerce is trying for investments. {And the bankers of course under- | stand it very well, they have-an eye for business. The Houston Press }publishes a statement of Charles Cason of the Chemical National ; Bank of N. Y., referring to his previ- ous visit to Houston: “just a friendly jvisit at first, but I saw here the | making of a great city and since have | made numerous investments in real | estate here, your city is certain to be- |come within the next few years the great metropolis of the Gulf Coast.” |. In a front page article calling for |hospitality for the “distinguished guests” the Houston Press (a Scripps | Howard paper) gives the reason for | ; this hospitality, and remarks that: “nowadays, bankers sit side by side with a president of a nation, and have much to do with the country’s govern- ment.” ! By V. Q. OST trade union journals discuss the injunction as something which |some individual wicked judge hands down against labor and confine their efforts to passing anti-labor njunction limitation _ bills. Railway Main- tenance of Way Employees Journal lin its August 1927 issue is a rare ex- {ception, which printed an article on, j“Stone .Cutters and the Supreme Court” by William H. Holly, Na- tional Women’s Trade Union League’s Attorney. Holly’s opinion is that it is a waste jof time to employ attorneys and falways or nearly always lose. Their 4 | victories in this field have been few i }and insignificant.” He advocates dis- s when issued. s that labor “should dispense with lawyers and That, too, is a waste of money.” “It is no disgrace to go to jail,” he adds, “the finest characters this world has ever known have been jailed by ignorant lobedience of injunctic 4 | judges.” Nis Criticism Correct. With Holly’ iticism of the junction ag anti-labor we can agree, and that resort to higher courts sel- dom if at any time bring reversal of \anti-labor senten We can further- more ¢ conclusion that the courts ar inst the workers. We with Holly’s proposal of disobedic of injunctions when issued. That been the policy of the left wing workers in the needle trades of New York in their strikes. But Holly overveaches himself when he advocates no fight in the courts against the issuance of the injune- tion, and also, no appeal to a higher court. No appeals mean immediate in- | jailing of numbers of workers needed tes jon the picket line. Picket duty wins | Russo & Levy, Brooklyn, N. Y....2.00/J. Mills strikes, effective picket duty which ties up the shops. Furthermore, the fight in court and the appeal become means of educating more and move An Attorney on Injunctions | workers as to the class nature of the courts. Mass Picketing. Mass picketing is the answer, and this Holly omits. For without ef- fective picketing, without tying up the shops, no injunctions are needed by the employers. Holly is right when he calls for disobedience of the }injunction. If the Chicago District 8 jof the International Association of Machinists had followed a policy of -disobedience. of the injunction handed |down-by Denny Sullivan in 1926, the | ; American Oven Strike in Chicago! | would not have ended in disaster. But | ying: “They | the Machinists. obeyed the injunction, | aboard, the owne and hired bewhiskered Ham Lewis, | former U. S. Senator to appeal to the | jcourts to sustain the legality of the Anti-Labor _ Injunction Limitation Ril. Politicians and lawyers were to win our battles for us. The result— nothing accomplished till this day, except a lost strke, | Holly's advise is not altogether | sound, but it is refreshing to note his | Views expressed in one of the labor journals, instead of the usual drivel about the injunction in the trade union press generally and in the American Federationist in particular. NEW READER! ” | i | GET A the U. 8. S. R. trade representation. I. M. Crouch, H -1.00; D. Argeroff, Three Forks, Mont. .1.00 | sighton, Turlock, Cal. . : Arness, Pequot, Minn.. |. Lehti, Port Meyers, Fla S. Slavie Frac., Sheboygan, Wis A. M. Gareia, Rochester, N. ¥..10.06 | W. C. Bloyed, Canon City, Colo. 1,00; |M. Gorsman, Phil., Pa. -8.00 | G, Pine, San Jose, Cal. St. Nucleus 1, Ss | Col. at meeting, S: 1G, -1,00 | 5.00 | 9.00 | » 25,00 | n Jose, Cal. New York City.. Lith. Work. Wom. Alliance, 2 erOOKIeTy ON Mi ie ene ivi 10.00 D. Agalos, Three Forks, Mont 00 | F, Keroff, Three Forks, Mont. 00 | Estimates of loss of life vary |F. Pistek, Binghamton, N. Y. Mafalda Survivors Say 400 Are Drowned (Continued from Page One) of the first survivors of the Princi- pessa Mafalda to be landed here. Saw Shark Eat Victims. i Ferreira declares that he personally saw a shark attack one man, and that | the waters about the sinking Italian liner were reddened apparently by the blood of others who had been attacked by sharks. Ferreira’s story was a graphic one of the panic which followed the ex- plosions on board the ship, and the consequent rush to the boats on a vessel that was sinking and with all of its lights extinguished. “Soon after the wreck, said Fer- reira, a light was seen on the horizon. It was the Formosa. Later the Brit- ish vessel Rosetti arrived and by agreement, one vessel picked up all those in life boats and the crews of the other ships took care of those floating about on rafts or with the | aid of preservers. | “For five hours the Mafalda re- mained afloat, and then, after another explosion she sank. A mighty wave was thrown up as she disappeared be- low the surface.” Rescuers See Deaths. The captain of the steamer Mosella, which brought survivors into this port today, also told a graphic tale of commingled courage and stark terror. “Tt was a horrible spectacle when we arrived on the scene,” the captain of the Mosella said. ‘There were frantic men, women and children Many women and children seemed to have gone | stark mad as they drifted about in the dark night, with fairly high waves | tossing them about. “We had received our first S. O. S. on the night of the twenty-fifth and speeded to the location given and found the vessel already sinking. “While we stood by and helped in the rescue work, the radio officer of the Principessa remained at his post continually sending out S. O. S. mes- sages. The captain of the ship was on the bridge. They stayed on their job until the vessel sank. The crew of the Mafalda behaved with the greatest of heroism. Fascisti Contradicted. Two women, one man and one child were found to be dead when taken aboard the Mosella. The captain of the Mosella esti- mates the missing at 400. Told of the claims of officials in Rio Janeiro that the lost did not ex- ceed 68 the captain of the Mosella in- sisted upon his estimate that there were 400 missing. “We heard the crying and plaintive wails of these folks who were strug- gling about in the water and many of them must have been drowned,” said members of the Mosella’s crew. The police of Bahia were today or- dered to conduct an inquiry into the sinking of the Mafalda on grounds that the wreck occurred within Braz- | ilian waters. Old Worn-out Ship. i The Principessa Mafalda was an old { discarded troop ship, used in the world | war ten years ago, and now owned by | the Navigazione Generale Italiana, of | Genoa, which is permitted by the Fas- cist admiralty to use vessels of this type for the transportation of immi- grants to South American ports. The | wreck was caused by a boiler explo- sion. While the Italian embassy still es- | timates but 68 persons miss ng a re- capitulation of radio advices from res- eue ships of survivors is as follows: | Alhena, 451; Formosa, 353; Rossert 27; Mosella 24; Total 855. i Mafalda a total of 1,258 say. | aimounees that | class passengers | there were 118 Syrians, 36 Jugo-Slav- | ians, two Austrians, one Hungarian, | one Swiss, one Argentinian, one Uru. | guayan and fifty Spaniards. The Italian em among the third Soviet-Swedish Trade Pact MOSCOW, Oct. 13. (By Mail).—| Mr. Litvinoff, Acting People’s Com- | missary of Foreign Affairs and Mr. | Heidenstam Swedish minister, signed | an agreement on the juridical status of the U. S. S. R. trade representa- tion in Sweden. This agreement pro- ides for the scope of functions of anoff, Three Forks, Mont...1.00 | noff, Three Forks, Mort. .2.00 | istoft, Three Forks, Mont. .1.00 | . k, Three Forks, Mont..... 1.00 | C. Burns. Brooklyn, N. Y........ 2.09 Mrs. K. J. Bickett, Keego Harbor Mich. ia Work. Sick Benefit Br. No. 37, Detroit, Mich, E. Cranson, Detroit, Mich i P, n, Granite City, Ill.. Taft, Calif. 5.00 5,00 2.00 125 5.00 2,00 M. Butoill, Cicero, Ill.......... 1.00 Collection at Camp Nitgedaiget, Beacon, N. Y sree e 26115 ny opened this week at the Garrick ! |Theater is simply William Shake- | ss speare’s famous IF a ae Shakespeare Made Easy “Taming of the Shrew” Taken From Its Feudal Background; Knickers and Wisecracks Help _ JANET GAYNOR “The Taming of the Shrew” which \ i comedy with charac- ters decked ont in Hart, Schaffner and Marx clothes. The modern dress, how-° x ever, is not limited i to the swanky ap- ij ‘ parel; here in the ce sixteenth - century fe play by the land- owner of Stratford- on-Avon are found radio sets, auto claxons, Havana ci- gars, and a high-pressure vacuum cleaner. | Many idolatrous readers, I know, will think it superfluous to mention anything but the fact that the com- manding Basil Sidney and the insidi- ously lovely Mary Ellis are among the cast. A large section of the audience which saw the play last night at the former modest home of the Theatre z *% Guild experienced a comfortable feel-. J, “Sunrise,” the Herman Suder= ing of familiarity; for hadn’t they | mann film now showing at the Times read or at least heard of this famous Square Theatre. “thing” by Shakespeare in their high | 2 school or college days? Jazzed up by ‘accent, however, he was as incongru- spicy new “asides” and appropriate ‘ous as the Jewish generals of Maurice wisecracks, the ancient play succeeded Swartz’s Art Theater who performed in flattering the intellectual sense at'in Romain Rolland’s “The Wolves” Mary Ellis | the same time providing a noisy, lusty |some time ago. show. Tho the observations at the close of Mary Ellis, who illumined “The the play on the rights of women are Dybuk” and “Rose-Marie” as Kather-'a far cry from the modern slogans ina Minola, was the shrew which Basil put forth by Havelock Ellis and Sidney (as Petruchio) set out to tame. Ellen Key, the production is, neverthe- He succeeded by the now-famous tech- less, quite sprightly; Basil Sidney, de- nique of browbeating, accompanied by spite his gratuitous poutings and pos- sound and fury. Petruchio was but turings, is handsome and engaging. one of the suitors who determined to It is too bad that Shakespeare lived “woo in haste and wed at leisure” /the | too early to collaborate with Arthur beautiful but scorpion-tongued lady |Sullivan. It would have permitted from Padua. The other candidate,|Mary Ellis to use her voice to chant Reginald Bach (as Triano) provided |her reactionary views on the Woman much of the wit. With his cockney | Question. BOOTH W. Mats. WINTHROP AM JOHN GALSWORTHY ESCAPE in | Evenings Mats, Wed. REPUBLIC W! Sat. 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PRACUL FULTON gx. , National ‘fheatre nee “Audience Quaked Delightedly.” | | | | ‘HUDSON W WILLARD MACK'S EDY DRAMA Weather Clear Track Fast with Joe Laurie Jr, & Wm, Courtleigh Wed. com be featured in new Owen Da- Sternberg will . Mts, Wed, 0 Z | Esther Ralston will The Trial of Mary Dugan” |“? Cow cin.” tno By Bayard Veiller, with an sen es Meera see ANN HARDING—REX CHERRYMAN | Wield the megaphone, | The NewPlaywrights Theatre | ! | | | | 40 Commerce Street, near Sheridan Square Greenwich Village TELEPHONE WALKER 5786. | THE ONLY HOME FOR LABOR PLAYS IN AMERICA Presents Paul Sifton’s play THE BELT | The first modern labor play to debunk company unionism and the so-called pros: ty in the Ford factories. What T. J. O'Flaherty says of The Belt in the Daily Work “A labor play that shows the havoe created by the industrial speed-up system oMabovation, and the folly, of devoting one’s life benevolent’ master, this group of artists that have undertaken tho tusk of producing labor plays should be supported and encouraged by the workers.” Help support this theatre and The DAILY WORKER by buying tickets at The DAILY WORKER office, 108 East 14th Street. eo Leeeneeneeeeeenaeeremeneeeeememmmnemeeetee + oe Arab dia Be 25) oe aie oni Bat See oni SAIRPLANE SWING) ROUND: S. T. Hammersmark, Chicago REDONDO, Cal., Oct. 27.—What ee ee ene F.1.00 was declared to be a portion of the a Ana “ohieaes: ak : a airplane Spirit of Dallas” which was iT, (Suegeay Havttord;sCone: lost while flying to Honolulu floated R. Skroza, Hartford, Conn ashore here today. The “Spirit of kK. Mikatov, Hartford, Con Dallas” took part in a race arranged M, Antatyv, Hartford, Conn by Hawaiian fruit kings to advertise A. 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