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

,- Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 28, 1927 Labor Must Hit Attack of Bosses’ State a 1928 Vote They will again remain at the tail end of both of these capitalist The organized workers can- not and must not expect anything bet- conservative leader- They will again be asked to support their enemies during the elec- By ANTHONY BIMBA. fever before, since the great reac- tion of 1920-1: Such a systematic and well-planned offensive of the capitalist cl: is today. entire labor movement are pushed against the wall and they must either fight or surrender completely. The situation of the miners is a desperate one. In the bituminous fields the United Mine Workers of America are made almost entirel helpless against the blows of the em- ployers. The prolonged strike has been effectively crippled by dozens of | It is the most sweeping injunctions. hard to find a coal town or affeeted by the strike in which the is no injunction. In the Pittsburgh district, thou- Sands of miners’ families are on the verge of starvation. ven the leaders of the American Federation of Labor, after months of silence to the suf- fering of the miner und it ne sary to make an appeal for the re- Nief of the starving women @nd chil- dren. Even they could no longer dis- regard one of the greatest in the history of the Ame movement. ruggles can labor The Colorado Massacre. HEN the Colorado strik Over five weeks ago the miners went on strike. They were condemned by the leaders of the U. M. W. of A., but | they: had to mak stand ag ine owners. like , engulfing one onslaught of the The strike swept throughout the mine after another until the entire | coal industry w: ut down, Men, Women and children went on the picket line and with songs on their lips and fire of hatred in their hearts, they braved the brutality of the mas+ ter class. On November 21st, the state troops Were sent to smash the picket line and But an end to the resistance of the workers. Without any provocation, fire was opened upon the workers, and five of them were murdered in cold blood, while a sixth miner died and Many others were wounded. The Lud- low massacre of 1914 was repeated. The blood of the workers was once more shed by the Rockefeller interests. . Capital = The blood-thirsty master-class re- Joiced with the success of this blood- Tetting. The New York Evening Post hastened to defend the “Public opinion,” said that organ of the ruling class on the morning after the massacre, “will stand solidly be- hirelings of the ts Rejoic was the working | class of this country confronted with | as it| Our trade unions and the | st the i wild-fire | murderers. | Face { Slaps Labor’s How better could the need for work- er political action be the action of the “dollar diplomac president who was deaf to the plea of the struggling coal miners. Some time ago a number of labor leaders, cap in hand and on bended knee, ap- pealed to him to intervene in the fight of the mine work a feeble Coolidge made esture in the form of buck- Davis, secretary of labor, friendship for the coal opera- eat as his chief’s. to Mr. 2 Mahon, as well n and working cl as Mr. Gr other leaders of |the trade unions, are not even at- | tempting to show us the ay. It e nor the will to do so. The Pinchet Farce. HEY had a conference in Pitts- burgh only a few days ago. It w reported that about 400 trade union | ee gathered to discuss this of- S: against the trade unions, They and listened, higher ges at this time would put | i out of busin he be- s read in the newspapers on |the morning after the mission of our leaders to the White House. words, Mr. | in Coolidge slammed the door the face of Mr. Green and Mr, | Lewis and told them that nothing will | be done to help the miners and that iene latter must accept a slash in |wages. Then he laid plans for anti- | strike legislation. | What could anybody |from Mr. Coolidge or our | trolled government? else expect boss-con- Bosses’ Politics. complete unity exists today be- tween big business and the govern- |ment of this country. In this new of- they have neither the de- | e for a few days and talked | In other | ment forces are completely at the dis- ; |posal of the employers. al action of the employers. | chose Mr. Pinchot as their | n, who has nothing to do| labor movement—or, at least, } to do with the la-| j bor movement t any other agent } jof the employ This Mr. Pinchot, in this most trying hour of the Amer- jican working class, suddenly b ja new Messiah to the leaders of our | jlabor movement. And so they fol-j} ae | lowed him! | | Green Sings “Star Spangled.” } | Mr. Green, the president of the} |American Federation of Labor, and | Mr. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, thousands | !of members of which organization are | starving in the Pittsburgh district, | went to the White House singing the | ar Spangled Banner.” They knelt down before the strikebreaker Cool- idge and pleaded with him to beg the | coal operators to meet with them in a conference, What a disgrace! | with the has nothing mo’ Keeping Cool With Coolidge. HE result: “Coolidge refers to La-| bor Department the request of the miners for a conference with the oper- ators; he sees difficulty in the plan; Workers’ Politics. | AE the present time, the working ss is at the tail end of the bour- geois political parties. There is no mass organization of | the workers on the political field. | So why should Mr. Coolidge pay jany attention to the trade union lead- jers who eringe before him when he | knows perfectly well that they are safe boys, that they supported h party yesterday and will support it| tomorrow and that they are the strongest opponents of a political par- ty of the workers? Election Should Be Used. | Next year we shall again have elec- | tions, labor movement, in view of the open strike-breaking act s of the gov- ernment, the time is ripe to make such preparations for the election cam- paign of 1928, This election campaign can be util- ized by the workers against the poli- tical power of the ruling class and for \the strengthening of the political forces of labor. Let, for instance, a united labor ticket. or a labor party formed by or- }ganized workers poll a million votes in the 1928 elections. It would be the greatest blow to the arrogant rul- © much for | me | |Green Will Do Nothing But Crawl. In view of this new bloody of- | |fensive of the employers against the | Hopeless wane Hope Gifford Pinchot, recently designat- ed as the new political “white hope” of reactionary labor. A conference just held in Pittsburgh, at which mis- leaders of the American workers were present, hailed Pinchot as “their man.” Incidental to the chant for Pinchot was some mild discussion | about the present struggle of the coal miners for existence, But will our Greens and Lewises, | even after seeing the fiasco of their mission to President Coolidge, even after receiving the rebuke from the | ikebreaking government—will they ht the democratic and republican parties? Will they work for the | building of | a labor par' y? Of course fig! ja serious fight. not! | parties. ter from their ship. tions. all attempts of the workers to set up their own political party. In the trade unions, they are fighting bitterly against those who stand for indepen- dent political action of the workers. As far as the labor movement is elementary rights of the workers, the main issue of the 1928 elections will be a campaign for independent poli- tical action of the workers—for a la- bor party. No matter how hard the trade. union movement is being pressed by the employéfs and their government, no matter how openly the republican and democratic parties are fighting the workers, our con- servative leadership \ campaign for a labor party. This campaign will have to develop from the rank and file. arouse the labor movement to the in the 1928 elections. 3,000 Unemployed Eat Set Your Big Ben! | at Mr. Zero’s Party “For God’s Sake Give Us a Job! “Less Gods and more Goods,” were | igns hung from the _ tinselless| stmas tree at a dinner party for] more than 3,000 unemployed at the Bowery Tub of Urban Ledoux, self- styled “Mr. Zero.” The salvation army fed about 3,000 more hungry and ragged unemployed men. A headwaiter in formal attire was the army’s idea of a special treat. It was the “swell’s” job to see that the men kept on eating and moved on as soon as they were through. The {unemployment in this city is greater now than it has been in the last few years, according to statisticians. ing class, to the strikebreaking gov- ernment and to the system of injunc- tions. It would be the beginning of the Colorado coal fields. It will al- Ways stand behind its authorized of. ficials when the issue is thus clearly drawn between the I. W W. and the American governmen: * To murder the pe Gold blood is to res der!” In New York, IN New York we have a most deter- Mined stand of the tr on inter- ests against any tempt to organize the traction wor The LR. T asking for an injunction against the hind Governor Adams in his deter- |fensive against the workers we see mination to restore law and order in| the government with its courts, po- lice and army and machine guns in the forefront. In Colorado, in Penn- |sylvania, in New York, the govern- e i i entire American Federation of Labor. | Thanks to the crir inal policy of the ¥ight wing, the trade union conditions | in the needle trades industry of New York have been destroyed in the shops and the unions are prostrated. We hear that in Maine the wages ef the textile workers have been ‘slashed by 10 per cent. There can be Ho doubt that this wage cutting busi- Ness will be extended to the other tex- tile centers of New England. Anti-Alien Bills. Me: DAVIS, secretary of the Depart- | ment of Labor, announces that he will insist on the adoption by Co gress of the anti-alien bills. Thi: another attack upon the workers—an attack of the most brutal and danger- ous character. The Frame-Up System. oy a few weeks ago Sacco and | ‘anzetti were murdered, . About the same time, nine needle | trades workers in Mineola were sen- tenced to prison for long terms. “In New York, two innocent Italian workers, Greco and Carrillo, have heen released only after a fascist frame-up was exposed. “In Cheswick, Pa., twenty miners are facing prison terms. The miners of Zeigler, Ill., lost their appeal and must go to prison. _ And so on and so forth on all sides and in all directions we see a general offensive against the work Even Bureaucrats Aghast. Even William D. Mahon, president of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway ployes, one of the most conserv abor officials, while di: . T. injunetion, on Nov “This injunction is aimed not only at the Amalgamated but at the whole | bor movement throughout the | United States. There is a very defi- | nite connection between our stragete-| ers in Pennsylvania with the coal! » operators, railroads and other indus- ries which, it is charged, are conspir- ing to disrupt organized labor.” Perfectly correct. person could « Aba with the aim of disrupting Smashing it. ut where is the way out of this situation? Whither do we have to go to repulse this onslaught “Von the , ae vt” with, the I. R. T. and that of the min- | Even a blind, t there is con- | certed action on tne part of the capi- | Jalist class against the entire labor | oer ; $! n eee cee cee ce eee dec ee eee dee eee — 8.15 Doris Niles INT’L DANCER In a group of RUSSIAN, GYPSY And FOLK DANCES World Famous VIOLINIST | i} | | ti SaaS Sascha Jacobsen from the capitalist class. lay a firm b | powerful ma: this country. for building up a the separation of the working class | It would | political labor party in | Mother, 5 Children, Die PATERSON, N. J., Dec. 27.—Mrs. | Jennie Scarpelli and five of her chil- | dren died in their beds last night be- | cause the lights were blown out, and fumes of gas asphyxiated those \asleep. So you won't be late for the Nine- Day Fair of the Joint Defense now being held at the Grand Central Palace, Lexington Ave. and 46th St. Begin preparing your outfit for the New Year’s Eve Costume Ball to be held on Saturday night. Waltzes, fox-trots, one-steps, two- steps, and Charlestons will be played by the best orchestra in town. Those who shun the latest steps will be permitted to dance the “kasatskie.” BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS “DAILY WORKER” Fri. kve., J an. 13 ees Mecca Temple 55th ST. a PAUL ALTHOUSE, Tenor, Metropolitan Opera Star TICKETS $2.20—$1.65—$1.10—75c. Jimmie Higgin’s Book Store, 106 University Place; DAILY WORKER, 108 East 14th Street; Freiheit, 30 Union Sq. KNABE, THE PIANOFORTE. Saas SS —______—} nd SEVENTH AVE. Nina Tarasova Costume Recital of Russian Folk Song Interpretations concerned and the defense of the most Our Greens would rather crawl on their. stomachs before the Coolidges than to organize political power of the working class and lead them into They will do every- | thing in their power to fight together with the employers against any and | 1 not join aj from the depths of the trade unions— The Workers (Communist) Party is doing everything in its power to necessity of independent political ac- tion of the working class of America 1 4 ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION | 27 ee EL a “Los Angeles” Interesting |Geo. M. Cohan’s New Production at Hudson Deals With Hollywood . RUTH THOMAS. “| OS ANGELES” by Max Marcin and Donald Ogden Stewart, pro- duced by George M. Cohan at the Hudson Theatre is a play that while it will not set the} town on fire, is} unusually inter- | esting. As one can| guess by its name, the play is | concerned — with Hollywood. Altho it does not go} deeply into the} conditions to be found in that} town, the center | of the © world’s | motion picture us a slice of the that are worth Frances Dale industry, it gives happenings there while viewing. The story tells of Ethel Grierson, played by Frances Dale, who leaves | New York for Hollywood to make | some easy money. She takes along as her bogus aunt, the matron of a} New York night club. The matron| is Alison Skipworth who plays a ts part in her usual superior fashion. One of the prinvipal players in “The Mikado,” Gilbert and Sullivan’s {tuneful operetta at the Royale Theatre. | Brocaway Briefs Two openings listed for this even- ing include “The Prisoner” at the Provincetown Playhouse and “The Reaching the mecca of the movies, Royal Family” at the Selwyn Theatre. Ethel, who pretends that she is a con- vent graduate, is employed by an un- scrupulous millionaire who directs her Tony Sarg is back on Broadway. He to blackmail a noted motion picture comedian Eddie Trafford, portrayed by Alan Brooks. Eddie treats Ethel square, and of course she falls in love with him. In the end everybody is happy when the comedian holds in his arms the girl who was supposed to ruin his career. While the play is machine-made to a large degree, using the sure-fire formula, it is sprinkled with bright lines. In addition to those named, the rest of the cast is adequate, adding all that is possible to the play. The production is staged by that veteran Sam Forrest, who by his showmanship deserves a major share of the credit for any success the play will secure.—S. A. P. Keating, the magician ,is presenting his entertainment for two weeks at the Booth Theatre in a series of holi- day matinees. has set up his minature stage at the Edyth Totten Theatre in the Arabian Nights tale “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.” The Marionettes will gtve daily matinees at 3 o’clock until Jan. 2. Fridays and Saturdays there will also be shows at 11 a. m. TELLER ACCUSED OF THEFT. Rowland Dwyer, a teller in the West New York Trust Company, is being held without bail in a county jail of New Jersey, accused of em- bezzling- $5,700. Dwyer stated that he took the money to help his aged mother. Four children are dependent upon him for support. 2 RESCUED FROM BURNING SHIP Wilfred Wade, captain of the schooner Orleans anchored off the %ed Hook flats, and Charles Bauman, the engineer, were rescued from the burning ship by fireboats that were attracted’ to it by a red glare in the skies. | Max Marcin & Donald Ogden Stewart (= SeLOVE CALL : ERLANGER’S “thea. W.44 St. the 30 fe + THE MERRY MALONES. a os On Artists } Models: Wen Chanin’s W. 45 St. Royale. Mts.Wed.,Sat Tues., Wed. i. & Sat. Eves. & Sat,Mat. Mintheap ae 3 ‘cs 8 ” ‘ Eves. 8:30, Mats, | Gilbert & Sullivan M k d Winter Garden ‘thurs. © Sat. 2:30. | Opera Co. in 1KadO Wed Thurs. 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