The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 21, 1927, Page 4

Page Four ——! Pittsburgh Mass Meet For Miners’ Relief to Be Held December 22 PITTSBURG H, mass meeting h by the Pennsy! -» Dec. eae ar 20. | _ ber of the General Committee of of | Ruliet Committee } By T MITCHELL. said Brotherhood. | Pa., for the benefit of ch the Interborough “On August 9, 16 at or about | miners. Two mine attorney, James L. Quackenbush,| 2:30 P. M., deponent was proceed- | coming all th so skilfully built up for the com-| ing to the East 180th St. barn; about the union appears imposing indeed . on the platform deponent met | and ‘the rutal ma motorman Frank An- company | brave brethe And other motorman in of }hey and Tony tell said Nagle said to Nagle,» ‘Go bout the ma iction and the ked ugliness. ahead, sign him up, he’s all right’ janction proh g the miners. dy been own that} (referring to the fact that Rothman jand their unions from bringing rank members of the! was thought to be all right). Na- |food and giving relief t> their! |company union have no powers ex-| gle replied: ‘Yes, Spitzer (has al- | ing children. cept to obey and submit. The! ready) signed up.” . . . With that | he meeting will be held at the} herhood “constitution” itself a| Nagle reached into his pocket and | i i Lyceum, f that in the hands of the gen-} pulled out a handful of applica- S sed of some| tion cards for membership in the laced al! power| Amalgamated. Deponent (that is, Rothman the delegate) said, ‘Well, all right, let’s go’. . . . Deponént then proceeded to the barn.” Then he turned in the names of | both men to the company! Another delegate to the General Committee who apparently was and a | Tt will be ‘the more intimate picture of these dele- | gates in their actual work of “rep- their task here to give a Chicage Pioneers in Convention Dec. 24 resenting” members. Tools of the Company. The figure of a certain Phil Welch, | Injunction, “Yellow Dog” Contract, Company Union, The Unholy | Trinity in Traction with the Interborough legal staff in | going to the houses of strikers and | intimidating their wives. One dele- gate who was suspected of being | sympathetic to the strikers was locked up and for several days was kept a virtual prisoner by the other | delegates. “Strong Arm Squad Rules. Within the General Committee it- self, there has been built up a strong arm machine composed of “Paddy” | Connolly, the president, Mangan, | the secretary and prize -fighter, ta Salla, Grosso and several other plug | uglies. This gang rules the General | Committee as the General Commit- | tee rules the Brotherhood. The gang. in turn, is controlled by none other | the than “Rough Stuff” Quackenbush, | A” |himself. At present there are no}; meetings, or at least no regular | meetings of the rank and file. At| a recent meeting of the General Com- | mittee, the regular supply of liquor | provided by the company (and paid | for by the city, since the costs of | running even the company union are | charged up to the city)—the supply | of liquor was an oversupply and the | (CHICAGO, Dec. 20. — The Pioneers | company tool replacing the popu- | trusted by the men is Louis J. Lins- Pe ectrict Hight wil hold th iar Ed. Lavin, leader of the 1926 | !Y- testimony in part is as fol-| een trict cc strike, has already been drawn. The | !ow | ae ; [others do notshow up to any greater arry Hunt Also Turned In. nue a 2 anc % 1 oeees en’ | advantage. Here is a picture of| “That on the 5th day of August, The convention will he followed by | (pe yond eee uaa the neo - the ce o = \ a Pioneer Grad on A s Has ae Pies nm} tion,...that unt spoke to de- | day night, December mmediately turns them in to the| ponent ae and that Harry Hunt | Roosevelt Road—8 o’elc ; slipped something into deponent’s | is uty of eve > hetes comrade muel Rothman, being duly | pocket as he passed him on the to support thi ere ‘ sworn, deposes and says: : that deponent found the | A novel program has been arranged,| __/ at he is employed by the In- ped into his pocket to be | erboroug! Rapi ransi Jom- an 2 nati or sities 5 including tableaux, musical numbers, oe ive eas A igs a ves naane meta es ship in | recitations. he price is " | Pea heise sie, ue e Am amated %. .”. ee, eee sony of the Company since 1905. | For act of trash Hunt ‘waa a si 4 “That deponent i ember of | turned in to the Interborough. An | BUILD THE DAILY WORKER!| the Brctherhood ... and mem- |other company henchman is T. D.| = = ——__—____——' White. The aforementioned, Linsky, | ESCM AETEMES :ycludes White in his testimony | t on the 12th day of August see ry Hunt again approac deponent and T. D. White who were together on the platform, T. D. White being a member of the General Committee “That Harry Hunt at this time 2d deponent an appli- . and at the same time the said Hunt passed White a sim- | ilar application . . | White and Linsks Both Traitor No doubt, both White and Linsky | shared the glory of turning Hunt in en this occasion. Manuel Gomez, of whom j will be said later, is one of the j worst of the company henchmen. Gomez, a member of the General Committee, was trusted sufficiently to be taken into the confidence of the | Amalgamated officials and was even offered a job by Wm. B. Fitzgerald, | first vice-president of that union, These circumstances which make | very interesting reading, will be re- | lated at another time. There are veral affidavits by Gomez. The OOD print- Telephone of all description ay ORCHARD ing at a fair price. Let us estimate on your work. eACTIVE PRESS BOO RF Ok a eR op t 33 FIRST STREET NEW YORK of how Gomez tricked a certain mo- torman by the name of Mead into re- Gomez turned him in to the com- pany. The List of “Yes Men” Increases. Hugh Mulligan, first secretary of the company union at its organiza- tion testifies to having been trusted |likewise revealed his activities to him. Mulligan reported him to the company. A number of other Gen- eral Committee delegates contribute borough compilation of shame. These already quoted will serve very well to show the purpose of the company unicn delegates. | During the last strike the General | Committee suspended all scheduled | meetings in fear of what might hap- |pen should the workers assemble. | Can't Bully Workers i in Soivet Union; Harriman | Tries---and Finds Out TIFLIS, Caucasus, (FP) Dec. i| 20.—-Corperations that break agreements with the trade unions | get away with it. The Harriman Manganese Concession, an Ameri- can outfit, tried to back down on} its signed promise to build model worker homes in its area of op: tions near Tiflis. The building job was part of the understanding un- der which the westcrn financiers | were permitted by the Soviet etal Wrecking the Labor Banks The Collapse of the Labor Banks and Investment Companies of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers By WM. Z. FOSTER is used i in making steel The workers, all of t! ized, gave the corporation a period to begin building. Nothing doing. There was a 100 per cenit strike. In 2 days ground was broken for the first lot of work- er homes. Here is a record of trade union treachery without equal in American Labor history. It is a story of crooked leaders i trous policies; looting of the treasury ; rifling the union insurance funds and_ pension A most astounding account of events that money. nearly wrecked one of the great American trade unions and resulted in the loss of over twenty million dollars from the funds of the railroad workers. to. his surprise that there were no no constabulary to shoot the trade unionists, no scabs to put in their places. Ht looked like a dirty deal to him. But to the rkers it was the ordinary functioning of their Soviet world. Injunction judges are unknown in the Soviet Union and if discovered would have a can | tied to their wigs and chased all the way across Siberia and across the Pacific to America, “back where they came from.” 25 CENTS Send one dollar for five copies RAILROAD By Wm, THE By WATSON-PARKE Wm. Z, Foster THE WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS New York, N. Y. 39 East 125th Street ‘ \ ‘ jas more | | one now referred to contains evidence | vealing his union activities and then | | by another subway motorman whoj their sworn testimony to the Inter-| | Most cf the henchmen co- -operated | in the Soviet Union simply don’t | | | Union of Socialis The American capitalist found) | meeting broke up in a fight! This is the company union which | the suave Quackenbush has pictured | “efficient,” “independent,” and | jsatisfied. This is the sort of “union- management-cooperation” which the | | Interborough is attemptin: to per- | petuate. on its slavery system by means of the injunction. | To-be continued.) | THE GALLEY SLAVES. ES. FRED J. FLATMAN. \ Once upon a time, when slavery was the basis upon which human so- | ciety was constructed, a galley ship was on its way from Egypt bound for | Bristol, England. In its hulk lay hundreds of whip-gashed slaves. They were destined for Bristol’s world known slave market. | When the ship was in the Bay of | Biscay, a great storm came on. It bid fair to destroy the vessel. Sickness had carried off many of the crew, and the captain, finding himself short- handed went down into the hold, | struck the chains from the limbs of | slaves and bid them to the deck to | SAVE THF SHIP. These slaves, vitalised with the air ,of freedom, rushed up the rigging and | | worked like Trojans. For many how |they struggled with the elements. Finally they saved the ship. | Then, when all fear of danger had | passed, when the ship was riding eas- | y, as it were on the crest of the waves, the slaves were led back to the | {holds. This time, however, their | chains were more securely fastened. | For the idea had occurred to the cap- tain that having saved the ship for their owners, they might feel like sav- ing it for themselves. | The Geneva Conference. | Just recently a conference was held | in Geneva, Switzerland. This confer- | ence was called by the most powerful leapitalist countries, for the purpose | (we are told) of outlawing and abol- ishing wars, To this conference was jinvited the Soviet Union, the only | |workers’ government in existence. | | Now, the Communists thruout the | world, and of course including the Soviet Union, have always maintained that wars under this present system jof capitalism were inevitable and jcould not be abolished while exploita- tion and labor for wages continue to jexist. However, | ipated in | ons. The first one was to | prove its peaceful intentions to the rest of the world, and the second one was to prove the insincerity of thé capitalist countries. This was accom- \plished “by instructing Litvinoff, the | Soviet Union’s delegate, to introduce to the conference a plan for complete |disarmament. ‘This showed that the | | Soviet Union was willing to disarm if | the Soviet Union| this conference for! the capitalist countries were willing | to do likewise. By the manner in” | which they changed the discussion | | from disarmament to security, the | |capitalist delegates showed to the op- | {pressed peoples thruout the world, | | that capitalism will never disarm, but | only seeks to luli the workers, poor } |farmers, and oppressed colonials into | | believing that they are attempting to | disarm. Real disarmament can only.) become a reality when thruout the | world there will exist one, great, big, Soviet Republics. Note: In this article, we state that |Wars under capitalism are inevitable. ix you tell us why? Puzzle Contest. ' The answer to last week’s puzzle | is “ALWAYS READY.” The follow- ing have answered correctly. More Answers To Pusale No. 2 Ethel Menuch, Detroit, Mich.; Ho. mer B. Chase, Washington, N. H.; |Mildred Strapec, Remsen, N. Y,; | Elianora Ivanoff, Postfalls, Idaho. More Answers To Puzzle No. 1. Liberto Vilarino, Inglewood, Cal.; ; |What Happened to YOUNG COMRADE SECTION: }each number | “20 2 28 6 | requested to join the Young Workers |you are sympathetic to the workers, ,every second and fourth Tuesday of THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 21, 1927 $2,000,000 May Be Subject of Probe WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (FP). —Senator Nye ‘of North Dakota, new chairman of the senate ccm- mittee on public lands,+ expects soon to be authorized to investi-| gate what became of the $2,600,000 or mor that remained in the se- cret fund accumulated by Sinclair and the other oil men Aenean the Continental Trading Co. from | | whose treasury Albert Fall re- | | éeived $230,000 in Liberty Bonds. Senator Norris, progressive lead- er, has crated a resolution calling | | Anti- ehiion Law, Hits Second Teacher | 20.—The | KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Dec. | fund mentalist teacher, J. H. Tate i ee econd victim ef the Tenne volution | Tate has a wi ay children and eight dogs to sup- port, and he hopes that the resign tion demanded of him by school offi cials will be rejected by the board. NO MORE RADIO GRATING. PARIS, Dec. hailed by French critics as destined | to revolutionize the enti of music, is the work of Professor There- | min? | This Russian inventor has done | away with the grating sounds that} result when the dial is moved, and | determine positions in space, so that | | it will be possible, by moving in an electro-magnetic circuit, evoke the de- | sired pitch and intensity thus releas g depths as yet untouched by c cal music. The invention will soon be hibited in New York by Theremin. THe S 5 Week's Puzzle No. 4d. This week’s puzzle is a word puzzle only a little harder this time. From | in the puzzle subtract one; then place the corresponding 1 ter of the alphabet in your answer. For example, No. 2 in the puzzle | | stands for in the answer, No. 3} for “B,” No, 4 for “C,’ etc. 81964416 421919 10 13 13 16” Send all answers to the DAILY WORKER Young Comrade Corner, 33 First St., N. Y. C., stating name, age, and number of puzzle. Our Letter ‘Box. Teacher Doesn't Like It. Dear Comrades: We were studying | geography in school and we happened |to be speaking of Russia. When our | | teacher began to speak about the great leader of the Communist Party, Lenin, she said she didn’t like to hear nasty. | But my opinion is that she says that because he helped the workers and | not the bosses who wanted to keep the | workers their slaves, H Your comrade, JULIA LAURIE. | For Our Letter Box. Another Rebel. Dear Comrades: One day at school | the teacher said that America was the best country in the world. I told her that she was lying. She said if I didn’t keep still she would lick me, I said go ahead and do it. Then I went home. My mother had to laugh at | | Your comrade, ELEANORA IVANOFF. A Call To Serantonians! All young workers, students aaa children of Scranton and vicinity are League and the Young Pioneers. If and want to have lots of fun and many good times, join immediately without any delay. Meetings are held each month at seven o’clock in the evening at 1251 Short Ave., Scranton, Pa. Please come, ANNA STELLMAN, organizer. Rich Man—Poor Man, HELEN BARANYOS. The rich man sits all day While his servants work away. The poor man works all day, i With hardly any pay. But if the poor man gets up, i |And starts to think about it, | The rich man will be frightened, | And scared into a fit, | But soon it will be like this, As all children say. The poor man shall get more pay, While the rich man fades away. ARTISTS’ BALL PLANNED FOR | NEW YEAR’S EVE. The annual costume ball that is| heid by the artists in Greenwich Vil- | lage every New Year's Eve will be | held again this year at Webster Hall | on the last/night of the year, under | the auspices of Playboys This event will be attended by followers of the} seven arts. The decoratio and | scenic effects are in ch of Y mittee of futuristic artists, who have designed a crossword puzzle of light | and color including the Pageant of | the Stars, designed by William Zor- | ach, and thrown on*a: great blu Luz Vilarino, Inglewood, Cal. ‘canopy representing t “savens. \ 1 i | alright in their place, but their place lis graceful and pleasing to the eye, | but unless that action becomes the | | expression of some thought 0.—A radio invention, | m od, saisfactjon. | way jot music expression. Perhaps it was | my early training in music (I play | the piano and violin and sing) that | accounts for my desire to e moods and. the fantas re! hall,” claims Doris Niles. spiring music. |wanted to fling yourself in the ai ancing a Medium of{ ‘lusic Expression, Says) Doris Niles. batics and feats of skill are | in the circus and not the poncart | To this noted | dancer, the day has passed when | an audience is content to spend | an evening} watching such) stunts, as spell-/ binding as they may be for a few| minutes. “Danc- a ing, as a fine art,| In “My Maryland,” Dorothy Don- must be some-/elly’s musical play at Jolson’s The- thing more than &tre. this,” says Miss and action that Niles. “It must consist of action, dnyluis Harding, ‘Harding, edienn 1 }appearance in “Mongolia” which , idea or | opens Monday evening, December 26 the spectator little! 5+ the Greenwich Village Theatre, To me dancing has al-! been one of the great medium: an ngiish com- will make her first American it gives Gilbert engaged Lyn Harding f t role of Tsar Paul the st in Alfred Neumann’s {drama of Rus n intrigue a century xpress the | ago, “The Patriot,” which opens here TBPRIC ESOS? y. Harding was seen last in Janua ery music! in Don Marquis’s “Out of the Sea.’ sts in bodily motions. | lover, whether consciously or sub- miele: soneeionays es quite the! Adrian Rosley and Jules Epailly are Seen Goere stening to in-) new additions to the new musical How often have you | comedy, “Lovey Dovey,” at the Sam Har which opens s Theatre, Thursday, t some stirring climax? The dancer pan 29, who wishes to impress an audience | must be a student of music, search| Sobel Elsom and Leonard Doyle sey, and when she is able to ex | fulfilling her group of dance’ for her appearance | Ir Kiss in the Taxi,” jit under {Frank Mcintyre, | will be in comedy, to open t Klaw Theatre. featured. he cast of John Willard’s ers,” which i s Saturday evening at the Roberta Arnold is p for its inner meanings and ress in bodily motion that which her nee feels in each measure she is artistic mission.” Miss Niles is planning a_ specia L. Barton ha Mare. taken over the by James Ellis, in “My jat The DAILY WORKER Fourth) og 9» aii | Anniversary celebration at Mecca! >,° ill in ee ae ae | Temple, Friday evening, January 13. | ma Reape a a Sue eS Hassard Short has acquired the The cast of Robin,” a ights to the musical version of “A and will produce “Sweet Daddy.” Lynne Overman, mystery play by Philip Barry and mer Rice which Guthrie MeClintie will present at the Hollis St. Theater in Boston next Monday evening, prior the title Jeanette MacDonald, Billy B. Van and to its New York opening will include jean and the music by Jean Schwar Chanin's Majestic T- ‘44th, W. of By labout him because she thought he was |Thrining Music Play of the Golden West | BOOTH 45 Sc, W. of Bway John Galsworthy’s National Theatre, 41 St. W. “The Trial of Mary Dugan” | at the teacher said. | a ‘The Desert Song ° . pes Leonard Ceely and Eddie Buzzell Artists’ including most in DOLLAR. |phony Concerts, Carl Randall will play important | Richard Stevenson, Muriel Kirkland, roles. The book and lyrics are by | Edward Ellis, Beatrice Herford, Bou- | Clifford Grey and William Cary Dun-|lah Bondi, Desmond Kelley and Mof- fat Johnson. Max Reinhardt’s Production of NTURY Pa TOD” enings 8:30 Mats. Wed. and Sat. LOVE CALL WALLS =. John Golden HUDSON eu, Mats, “LOS ANGELES” A New Comedy by . Max Marcin & Donald Ogden Stewart ‘The PORGY Theatre Guild presents ——, Maunees Wed. & Sat. at 2:40 Winthrop Ames ESCAPE) Presents New Play with Leslie Howard | Bernard Shaw's Comedy : DOCTOR'S epee Bys.8:30, Mts. Wed.&S: ‘Sik, By Bayard Veiller with Ma ary ‘YN HARDING—REX CHERRYMAN “Guild Chania’s W. 45 St. Royale. Mts. Wed,,& All Performances Exeept Mon, & Thu: este “Mikado” hurs. 2nd Year a IMPERIAL “#24., 43 3t.W.ot Bway | nurs. diveaiags §:30 Mats. Wed. and Sat. 0 “Henry Miller’ : ~| Grant Mitchell "\ctican “Parcs ‘THE BABY CYCLONE DR: ‘hea. W.44 St.Ev8.8.20 ERLANGER'S hes, W44,8¢ Bz"h8 THE MERRY MALONES ” _ MUSIC AND CONCERTS SCHOOL " JOSEPH SZIGETI VIOLINIST In second concert of Peoples’ Symphony Six concerts noted ‘artists ‘on the ORM Recitals series. oncert stage, by subscriptio ee 5 il orders Pe 32 Union ight of concert at door Patronize Our Advertisers | 10% REDUCTION ON ALL TICKETS BOUGHT THRU DAILY WORKER OFFICE, 108 E. 14th STREET. “THE CENTURIES’ By Em Jo Basshe The Fall and Rise of the East Side Masses A Beautiful and Thrilling Play at The New Playwrights Theatre 40 Commerce Street Performances Every Night Except Sunday — A New Playwrights Productio: