The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 4, 1927, Page 4

§ Page Four Th aah meaner iit k THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1927 Colorado Coal Miners Strike Again EARL men, sheriffs, deputies, ete., who open- BROWDER. ly assault union or and work- with impunit, one of complete suppress By More than 6,000 miners are out in the Southern Colorado coal fields; the The Rockefeller Company Union. Northern fields are quitting work; one‘of the instruments 24 mines are entirely idle, while on has been the company ost of the others are crippled; the! union of the C. F. & I. Co. It is strike movement ly engages the called the “Joint Representation of ers of the state and fanagement”; its while this is written (Oct. 26), alth . may sufficiently shown a month ago but a few hundreds wer organized. The principal demands of the strikers are for of checkweighmen, recognition of tk miners’ own or ization, and a wag This strike has an yeyond that of an or. 6,000 men, because it a few quotations from its rules: The nomination and election (of workers’ representatives) shall be Ned by direction of the President of establi ment (of the company) lot boxes and blank concentr in itself y the uted questions may be appeal- | most ba ms of > American o the President of the Company, labor m¢ day. Following are i 1? | some of the n characteristics of eetings of worke which must the struggle: not interfere with operations,” are 1, It is a strik ric confined to the consideration | finar 1 inte : rs referred to them by | rado Fuel producer, is Oil and Steel 2. It is’ a unionism ( ‘to consider and endations ” or ‘or y matte living and working condi- rising out of existing rela- company - compe 915, short] > when incipal purposes of the “Joint from the | Conferences” are “to enforce di: ave friction, promote in- sed e nd production, and friendly and cordial re- »etween management and em- t one). o strengthen against the state, mental machinery 3 owned from top to | Government—Executive Committee of -shop” employers, Employers. Local and State government in Col- ado is so completely subordinated lustrial rulers, that it is dif- now where the corporation & I. | of the unorgan- themselves, of the y ized w in a ba: ent strik 2 ni n be- | ¢ mmm begins. It} ; they are the workers brought in js quite us and depu- | g of the previous to be paid by & I. or private thugs d gunmen are given authorizations o act in the name of the state; while every employee of the state i back and @all of the cot; tion with W. A. in and enti n its ranks, w The State Indus rial has (in violation of the Commission law) refused nego with the notification of impending take the place of the J y the miners on Septem- | trument of “disciplining’ ed by the anti-labor | nounced the strike a grounds that no noti n reco. ica- | “labor” mem- is the most The the legal on tion Corporations Which Own Colorado. and iron constitute considerable industry in Color Fe ee eee is highly trustified, being largel his actions against the; the hands of the Colorado Fuel & Iron | by the more careful xepre- Co., and the Victor-American Fuel Co,, subsidiaries of the Rockefeller and Steel Trust interests. These in- terests are, nationally, the leaders of Governor O. K.’s Assaults. or Adams made a trip to the the “open shop,” anti-union employ- @ the coal operators and} ers of America. And in Colorado 's of the U. M. W who | have been the most brutal in their'had denounced the strike (Pagliani | enforcement of thi olicy. They e and Nigro), but refused to speak a ploy a motley mine of thugs, word with str He de- { | jail, are held incommunicado, bail is SEND DELEGATES Third Annual Conference November 12th and 13th International LABOR DEFENSE Irving Plaza Hall (15th Street and Irving Place) Fortieth Anniversary Haymarket Martyrs For information write to National Conference Headquarters, I. L. D. ROOM 402 80 EAST 11th STREET NEW YORK CITY «Sma, OT At Ho \ concerning | pertaining to their em- | \Orders Machine Guns To Break Strike |the oppressed miners. ———________ Governor H. B. Adams of Colorado, owned by Rockefeller’s Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. He threatens the coal strikers with violence unless they stop picketing. a fun an?;!| poni} by private guards and depu-| nounced the strike a |he approved of the assaults made uy Amer rike 1 » Who blockaded publie highways and beat up miners who pass; he en- + |dorsed the arrests of 250 men amd ;women, many of whom had not even | been picketing. | The State law against picketing | makes it illegal to “influence or in- duce” any worker to leave his work | for any employer. The 250 miners and their wives under arrest are all charged in the following language, the | only changes in the va s indict- | ments being the name of the Corpora- tion: The arrested person “did then and there unlawfully loiter about and pa- trol the public highway in the said County and State, for the of unlawfully influencing and divers persons not to work fo | the st Company Unions, Serfdom jout by the blacklist. Their places | were taken by a new immigration; the employers prefer foreign-born work- lers, recent arrivals whenever possible, because such wokers are the |helpless. Therefore Mexicans were |favored by the corporations, and con- | stitute the largest group in the mines. But now that the Mexicans are or- |ganizing themselves, the blackest | |kind of provocation is being used lagainst them, the employers try to |kindle race-hatred against them, the |strike is denounced as “un-American” because the strikers are not citizens. | But it was the employers who brought these “un-Amertcan” workers into the | industry, and it was the- lily-white, 100 per cent American “labor lead- ers” who refused to organize them into the respectable unions. Fighting for a Real Union. being led by the I. W. W. ee: the I. This is W. W. were the only people who offered their assistance to It would be | absurd to say that the miners are con- {scious followers of the I. W. W. in its | | special and peculiar role; no, they fol- |low it because there was no other or- | ganization in Colorado willing to lead a fight for better immediate condi- | When the strike began there | a handful of “wobblies” in 18 0 State. It must be declared by anyone who has witnessed the work going on here! in Colorado, as I have, that these ‘wobblies” have given the miners the |most devoted, untiring service. They have earned the respect which the miners: give them. Even the local unions of the U. M. W. A. have, as at Aguilar, voted to ate in the strike under their le dership. What- Hillam A. White Wants Peases But Capitalism More WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 William Allen White, | jester, is for peace conferences that! exclude radicals, and for peace only (FP). Kansas editor- jif it protects capitalism. He says so discussed only after the strike is over, not in the middle of the battle. T! most alternative leadership, that of the dis- | tr W. A. organization, is hopelessly cor- | rupt and in league with the employ- ers. of America to come to the assistance of the Colorado miners, who are bat- tling for decent conditions and for a real union, against the most formid- able array of enemies to be found in help the Colorado miners, but have objections to dealing with the I. W. W. {coal s |given by the organization, by the Col- At the present time the miners are | or: jrado Miners Defense And Relief Com- mittee. The address of this Commit- |tee is Box 87, Wai It has the task of providing for the jlegal defense of the hundreds of ar- arations for relief |ter months if the strike, as seems sure |to be the tase, lasts for some time should help form a local committee to ra and send these funds either directly ative of “capital.” I ds to “investigate”; he met in! j | will ii | in a letter to the “Advocate of Peace,” erican Fuel Co., a Colorado cor- Z ” jorgan of Theodore Burton, David) |Jayne Hill, Elihu Root and other re-| |actionary peace adjusters who are or- ganized as the American peace so- ciety. to-Am ‘w provides that such arrest- jed persons are entitled to a trial by meanwhile being entitled to re- le; upon deposit or bond of one or two hundred dollars. But even the anti-labor laws may be violated at rhen it suits the corporations. {go to invite radicals to our confer- | ore, several miners’ leaders, larly Svanum in the Trinidad ;refused even in amounts of $15,000, | although Svanum had not even passed | by the mines, but was arrested in the | ity where he was serving in the strike office. | The Government of Colorado, today jas in the past, is an agency for admin- istering the decisions of the employ- | ers. | The Strike a Mass Movement of Workers. Colorado miners have been unor- | ganized since 1914. The United Mine | Workers has abandoned for years all \efforts to organize them; when the {miners would organize themselves, and send for a charter, the U. M. W. A. ; would send in a hard-boiled “organ- izer” who took charge, appointed the officers, and refused to allow the min- jers to have any say. Most of the miners are Mexican, Poles, Jugo- | Slavs, or Russians—the largest group are the Mexicans, But if a Mexican should dare to try to speak in a meet- ing, the “organizer” would yell at j him; “Shut up and sit down = dirty Greaser.” The secretary of the Colorado Federation of Labor, Gross, jis currently reported among the min- ers to have threatened a foreign-born miner with deportation, because he presumed to argue with that high- and-mighty gentleman. Such an at- titude among the trade union oficials had very effectively destroyed all or-: ganization among the miners. When the strike of 1913-14 was smashed by the military, most of th ence,” he writes, dealing with a] |forthcoming centennial meeting. | | Wants Wall Street. | | “Perhaps we ought not even to| | start. ... A lot of radicals are using} | peace propaganda for a more or less} economic purpose. I think these peo- | |ple should not be allowed in our con- | ference, What we need are men of | Senator Burton’s type, congressmen | like Green of Iowa, men like Hughes, and Lamont and Morrow. “I am accounted a radical myself, though why I do not know, for I loathe the economic internationalist {who is trying to produce peace in the interest of revolution. I believe firm- ly in the capitalistic system of eco- nomic organization which prevails | throughout Christendom. And _ be-}| cause I believe in that system I re- alize that the world needs peace in or- der to maintain it. “And I distrust those radicals who | say that communism will bring peace. If I thought that peace would bring communism, I should be for war, for, after all liberty and justice are vast- ly more important than peace. And only in so far as liberty and justice prevail can peace abide with us.” This is the same William Allen White who some years ago wrote a novel. glorifying industrial unionism and showing how a labor leader in a typical American community who tries to live a Christ-life brings him- elf-to death at the hands of a cap- miners then in Colorado were driven talist mob. & Lenin Said:- forward its political leaders and the movement and leading it.” And he proceeded to organi We must organize a strong The Workers (Communist) in the fight for: Making existing unions organ The protection of the foreign Name .......... Address ...... Oceupation (Enclosed find “Not a single class in history achieved power without putting without which the Russian Revolution would have been impossible. able to organize and lead the masses. A Labor Party and a United Labor Ticket in the 1928 elections. The defense of the Soviet Union and against capitalist wars, The organization of the unorganized. Application for Membership in Workers (Communist) Party (Fill out this blank and mail to Workers Party, 43 E. 125th St., N. Y. City) -one. dollar for initiation spokesmen capable of organizing | ze the Bolshevik Party of Russia party in this country that will be Party asks you to join and help ize a militant struggle. born, City fee and one mca’s duces.) ever mistakes they have made are mostly of the kind that should be The | t officials of the skeleton U. M. Duty to Help. It is the duty of the working-class For all those who want to America. for reasons outside of the Colorado ike, the possibility to do so is ‘ado miners themselves of the Colo- nburg, Colorado. rested miners, and of beginning prep- n the coming win- longer, probably for several months at least. Every progressive worker e funds for the Colorado miners, or through their own national organi- ons, to the Committee above- named. The Colorado strik ke marks an important and welcome development. It is a part of the mass unrest and demand for organization now sweep- ing the masses of workers in Amer- ica. It faust be supported with enthu- m. Federal Control of Ariericaii Railroads WASHINGTON, D. C., No. 3—The Middle Western group of “insurgent” or “progressive” tors have an- nounced thru Brookhart of Iowa that they will introduce into the next con- ress a bill providing for the revalua- tion and consolidation of railroad and bonds, with greater gov- ental control. Brookhart in mak- ¢ the announcement condemned the teful practises of American rail- ads. He said about the notoriously westeful MacAdoo railroad adminis- Graft of Private Operation. “Even the government operation of | ilroads during the war was a suc- | cess. in comparison with private operation. During the first year after the roads were turned back to private operation, the operating expenses were increased by $1,465,000,000— nearly $1,500,000,000. The railroads claimed only $600,000,000 to be wage increases; the balance is the graft inefficiency of private opera- anc tion.” He submitted details of excessive costs of private operation in finan- cing, in inside profits on supply con- tracts, in return on the bonded por- tion of the capital, in duplication and competitive waste, and in inflated valuation due to unearned increment in’ property values. Pauline Lord will ope in “Spell- bound” at the Earl Carroll Theatre Monday evening, November 14. Frank Vosper’s play is based on the cele- brated Bywater-Thompson case tried in London in 1920, 0. P. Heggie, Campbell Gullan~and Cecile Dixon play leading roles in the company. “The Squall” is now in its final two weeks at the 48th Street theatre. On November 11 the play will round | out a year’s run and will close the following day. “People Don’t Do Such Things,” a comedy by Edgar M. Schoenberg and Lyon Mearson, is the next production scheduled for the 48th Street playhouse. Jay Gorney, who contributed mel- odies to “Americana” and ‘Merry-Go- Round,” has supplied the incidental music for “John,” the Philip Barry play which the Agtors’ Theatre will present at the Klaw tonight. Jacob Ben-Ami and Constance Collier play the chief roles. Eugene O’Neil’s ‘Lazarus Laughed,’ is announced for an early produc- tion by the Provincetown Playhouse, at some uptown theatre, Another opening scheduled for this evening is Mae West’s newest “The Wicked Age” and will be housed at Daly’s 62rd Street Theatre. “Her Mother's Wedding Gown,” will have its premiere at Gabel’s Peo- ple’s Theatre on the Bowery this even- ing. Jennie Goldstein and Max Gabel are in the cast, “Jealousy,” a new play by Patrick Kearney, with Violet Heming and Kenneth MacKenna, was presented by A. H. Woods at the Great Neck Play- house last night. The production will have its New York premiere in a fort- night. WANTED — MORE READERS! ARE YOU GETTING THEM? | TO. ev spice a his wife could darn socks much more | “Wisé Wife” at Cameo Has Its Gay Moments; | Dempsey-Tunney, Too and entertaining, “The Wise Wife” now showing at the Cameo is far fromthe high stan- dards of that playhouse. At the same time it has elements which lift it out of the tedious class of domestic com- ss edies with their baker’s dozen formulae for every trite situation. “The Wise Wife” is the kind | of a comedy that gives the impres- sion that it might, if it dared, step into the realm of satire. NOn one or two occasions it dees so, but limits itself to situations which are extremely innocuous. The story is quite simple: The wife (Phyl- lis Haver, who appeared with Emil { Jannings in “The Way_of All Flesh”) is host to a school chum (Jacqueline Logan). Following a (Tom Moore) create a situation where | “What will the neighbors say?” be- comes of vital significance. The rest | of the picture deals with the clever | efforts of the wife to disillusion both | her spouse and her girl-friend about the fleeting nature of such infatua- tions. Eventually the husband sees the | error of his ways, especially-after his wife adopts the flapper dress and mood. Another thing that aided the conversion process was the discovery on the part of the truant husband that artistically than his temporary play- mate. There are several rather amusing scenes, especially the one in which the wife rings the burglar alarm for the purpose of getting the husband and his love to see each other at their worst: the former, gawky and unin- spiring in his pajamas, and resemb- ling a Chinese tragedian; the latter buried in a mud-pack and her hair tied up in a confusion of paper curls. The legitimate suitor of the inter- loper arrives just as the husband. is ready to repent, and of course things turn out alright in the end, News films of the Dempsey-Tunney fight are shown in an unexpurgated form (the battle in the courts has been won, presumably) and the rapid-fire | ~ flirtation the guest and the husband |, In “The Mulberry Bush,” Edward Knoblock’s new comedy at the Re- | publie. memorable seventh round where Gene oked so pitiful reclining on the mat in slow motion. Other tidbits are Charlie Chaplin in “The Fireman,” and ‘he picturized version of Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata.”—S. G. “L’Aiglon” and D’Annunzio Play Set For Production. Sometime next month John Wil- liams will present here Edmond Ros- tand’s drama, “L’Aiglon,” in English, translated by Louis Parker, for the first time hereabouts in twenty years. The play is in rehearsal With Madel- ine Delmar, Angela Keir, Michael Strange, Sarah Haden, George Mari- on, Benedict MacQuarrie and Eva Benton, members of the company. “L’Aiglon” will be followed by the production of Gabriel D’Annunzio’s tragedy, “The Daughter of Jorio,” which will be the first D’Annunzio play ever performed, in English inj this city. The principal parts will! be acted by the leading players of the “L’Aiglon” company. Arrange- ments for the production of ‘ L’Aig-| lon” were made with Mme. Edmond) Rostand. Contracts for “The Daughter of Jorio” were executed di- rectly with Gabriel D’Annunzio, The music will be arranged by Mrs, Jes- sie Baskerville. Henry Stillman will stage both plays. Co Lord }‘ 9 9at the Little Thea. Dunsany’s West 44th Street, Comedy ves. 8:30. Mats: Thurs. & Sat. | :30 The Desert Song with Robt. Halliday & Eddi 11th Month oo 62nd St. and Cent Century Wes. ‘Hvenings at Ba Mats. Wed. and Sat., 2:30. W. 45th st. Eves, 8:3 BOOTH Mats. Wed. & Sat. ee 2330 WINTHROP AMES presents JOKN GALSWORTHY's Last Play ESCAPE LESLIE HOWARD “Andience Quaked Delightedly.” —Woollcott, World. DRAcuw i Bway, 46 Bt. Eva £30 Mata Wed, & Sat. 2,50 West 44 St. Evenings 8:30 | HUDSON Mats. Wed. & Sat., 2:30 | WILLARD MACK'S COMEDY DRAMA | Weather Clear Track Fast | | with Joe Laurie Jr. & Wm. Courtleigh | Wm. Fox presents the Motion Picture! iISUN RISE Directed by | F. W. MURNAU | By HERMANN SUDERMANN |Symphonic Movietone Accompaniment ‘ Thea., 42a St., W. of B'way Times Sq. pwiin batLy, 250-ss0 CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 14 St. & 6 Ave. Prices 50c/to $1.50 “3 EVA LE GALLIENNE ~ Tonight—"LA LOCANDIERA” BUILD THE DAILY WORKER! ‘ee OPENING TONIGHT AT 8:30 An Actors’ Theatre Production ae c@) H IN?” Philip Barry with Jacob Ben-Ami & Constance Collies 45th St. W. of B’way. Klaw Thea. pys.:30.Mats. Thurs. &Sate WEST | E i 8:30 REPUBLIC [yin | Mats: Wea.aat, The Mulberry Bush with James Rennie & Claudette Colbert The Theatre Guild Presents PORGY ild Th. W, 524. Bvs. 8:40 Guild Mats Thurs& Sat, 2:40 i Theatre, 41 St. W. of B'way National (yeatys, mis Wed.asateao “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, with ANN HARDING—REX CHERRYMAN WALTER HAMPDEN in Ibsen’s comedy ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE” ieee % Thea., B'way at 62d St. Hampden’s *"yyenings’ at 8.00. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2:30 Th 5 W. 25th. GARRICK (iis? Thurs ok BASIL SYDNEY and MARY in THE MODERN TAMING OF THE SHE with the, GARRICK PLAY WALLS:-: | with MUNI WISENF! John Golden "Way ast 2:30 The LADDER 4 LYRIC THEATRE, 42 St, W. of B'y Byes. 8:30, Mats. Wed. Sat, 2:3 & THE ONLY HOME FOR LA Presents Paul Ma WHAT LABOR CRITICS for some time pounded the stage. Leader, attempted gn this country. tant cla| It show onscious workers.”—Lud "UTLD His DAILY WORKER! 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