The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 11, 1928, Page 4

ll placa aes eae j | troops in the mountain district of| reactionary capital. i * %* : patches from Managua state. from his _ ¢apital on New Year's Day. H : i 4 i] _ to one side, saved Diaz. _ Ridge yesterday. The plane developed Page Forr THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WED. SDAY, JANUARY11, 1928 Nicaraguan Nationalists Capture Another Town from NAVY GUNS DRIVE STRIKERS TO JOB AS SANDINO WINS Home Made Anti-Air- craft Weapons One) th 1 Corinto, the isolate the re: the capital. | Confiscate The gover cently set up i Segovia by th are’ with Ge is continuing the mine properties of Am ers, reports from Man | The ne reports tell how the Lib-| eral forces seized the machine shop in one American-owned mine and be- | gan the construction of anti-aircraft guns out of iron pipes mounted on} tripods. | Marines Break Corinto Strike. Sailors from two United States bat- | tleships in the harbor, and detach-| ments of American marines have} forced the stevedores who recently | declared a ke in sympathy with} the Liberal army of General San-! “dino, to return to work. The military | officials have given the} stevedores from which there is no| appeal, tho a “s investigation committee” compos f reactionary | is re-| ported to be preparing to investigate | the case. | Leaders of the strike are said to be| in hiding for fear of reprisals on the | part of the American officials. | Nicaraguans and U. S. officers Forbid Wives’ Farewells, | CHARLESTON, Jan. 10.—No good- byes from wives or children broke the grim silence in which the three hundred marines bound for death in Nicaragua marched aboard the cruis-| ers Trenton, Raleigh and Milwaukee, this morning. The inhuman order forbidding the presence of wives or families of the enlisted men at the departure of the men is the result of fear by the mili- _tgny_authorities that photographs and news reels of the departure might in- tensify the general hostility of the country to the Nicaraguan invasion. * * * 400 Marines Fog-Bound. NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 10.—The lat- est step in the invasion of Nicaragua was delayed today when more than four hundred marines were held fog: bound on the mine-sweeper Oglala} which is transporting them to the| battlefields. The Oglala was to have sailed early this morning but a heavy blanket of fog rolling in from Chesapeake Bay made it impossible to tow the trans- port to the open water. It is not known how long the fog may last. * . 8 Join Sandino. | MANACUA, Jan. 10.—Reports per- sist of the growth of sympathy for the Liberal army under General San- dino among all classes of workers in Nicaragua. Scores of Nicaraguans on | mule on horseback or afoot are said | to be moving north to join the Liberal Nueva Segovia. | * * » 175 Marines to Managua. MANAGUA, Jan. 10—A detach- ment of 175 marines has been hur- ried here from Corinto as fear grows among the authorities that the gen- eral insurrectionary feeling thruout Nicaragua is spreading south from Nueva Segovia and may imperil the * Diaz’ Car Kills Nicaraguans. Adolfo D va conservative tool of the United States interests in Nica- ‘Tagua, is busy denying a persistent report of an attempt on his life, des- The three cars which comprised the Presidential cortege were attacked by thirty Nicaraguans carrying machetes | and knives as Diaz was returning coffee plantation to the Several Nicaraguans attempted to Stop the first of the cars which con- tained Diaz, by throwing themselves in front of the wheels, But the adroit- ness of the chauffeur, who wheeled The same maneuver was tried with the other cars one of which made no attempt to avoid the bodies and drove over two of them. It is supposed that the Nicaraguans were killed or seri- ously injured. * ’ * U. S. Plane Crashes. MANAGUA, Jan. 10—An Amer- jean marine airplane crashed to the earth in flames to the small impro- vised landing field near Sapitlla engine trouble, it is believed, while Spying on the operations of the Lib- al forces beyond the ridge, and was to the earth. Netiner the pilot { | of revolution. this open shop state. Invading Marines Window Dresser for American Capitalists ilizing the reputation which he gained as a result of his trans- Atlantic flight, Wall Street foreign investors have been touring Col. Charles A. dbergh thru the various Latin American countries. Mexico ited first by the aviator, and photo shows him sitting with Pres. Calles. He has also visited the presidents of Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua. In the latter country American marines are now bombing those fighting for the liberation from Yankee financial domination. THE MIND OF A RUSSIAN EMIGRE. RASPUTIN. By Prince Youssoupoff. Dial Press. $5. RINCE YOUSSOUPOFF was one of the chief accomplices and murderers of Rasputin, and for dafing to remove this favorite of the Russian Em- peror and Empress, he and his cronies were banished from the country. Half of the book is concerned with detailing the formulation of the plans for the murder, and the other half is concerned with calumniating the Bolshevi Life for this Russian emigre has since the revolution become an obsessive concern and hope for a return to his native land. He wishes to correct any wrong opinions concerning Rasputin, for these opinions “exert a par- ticularly harmful influence on our younger generation who are now grow- ing up far away from the fatherland but are destined sooner or later to take part in the building up of a new Russia.” The noble prince worships the tsars, and rails against tsarist crities who “ignored the inestimable services rendered to Russia by her tsars, who in the course of centuries had built up a mighty empire.” The childish faith of this prince is only equalled by the extreme egoism of the Russian aristocracy, who always maintained purity of motive in the face of prac- tically universal criticism of Russian autocracy. * * * Rasputin is one of the disorganizing forces of the ancient regime, ac- cording to Youssoupoff, and there‘ore to be classed with the general causes Consequently, he finds moral justification in having mur- dered Rasputin, and having contributed to counter-revolution. The fact that the peasants should desire such a thing as land and freedom causes him to shiver to see “the dark instincts of anarchy and a thirst, for possession.” When the brutal and oppressive landowners thirst for possession it is neither anarchy nor darkness. It is the preroga- tive of the free. The fact that the workers have managed to free Russia from the hands of the tsarist tyrants causes Prince Youssoupoff to explode. “The Soviet government has turned our country into such an inferno that any other political and social regime seems a paradise in comparison.” It is the blind anger of the dispossessed nobility, the sentiment of those j to whom a whole nation must slave to support them in luxury and dissipa- tion. The book is a mere sketchy memoir containing rancor, rage, infan- tile hope and noble despair, with Rasputin a mere undertone. —DAVID RAXON. Comment RED ELLIS’ brilliant and powerful cartoons on Sacco and Vanzeiti, drawn for The Daily Worker during the heat of the great struggle to save them, have been reproduced in many working-class newspapers and magazines in the” Soviet Union, England, France, Germany, various countries of South America, and in Mexico. Many have also appeared in capitalist papers in these countries and in the United States, especially since they were collected in book form under the title, “The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti in Cartoons.” bd | HAVE just received your letter in which you ask us to send you a copy of ‘Walls and Bars’ free so that you may review the book in the columns of The Daily Worker,” writes William H. Henry, executive secretary of the moribund socialist party. “I am certainly surprised that you men would ask for a free copy of this book from the fighting Gene Debs. I would think you would be glad to purchase not only one for review but also one for your library.” Such an attitude is remarkably provincial, even for the high priests of the socialist party. An official of that organization (who undoubtedly has had some experience in the business world) ought to know that books for | zeview purposes are never paid for, especially when they might possibly ad- vertise such an obscure outfit as the remains of the American socialist party. —SENDER GARLIN. Prince Youssoupoff is in a white rage of noble exasperation. | 10-WEEK STRIKE _ IN MINNEAPOLIS FURNITURE SHOP Workers Picketing In | Cold Weather (By Worker Correspondent) MIN. "EAPOLIS, Jan. 10.—For the last 18 weeks we have been carrying on a bitter struggle with the Brooks Parlor Furniture Company and their henchmen, the Citizens Alliance, against the terrific speed-up system, | and the even more inhuman “standard of production” under which the work- ers are forced to the uttermost limit of their endurance in order to com- plete their work within the given time. It would seem incredible and unbe- lievable to the upholstery workers of other cities, yet it is nevertheless true {that in the Brooks Parlor Furniture |Co. of Minneapolis, the wage for up- |holstering a complete davenport was $2.80, while the wage for a low chair was $1.65, Wages Cut. However, the bosses decided that {even this was too good for the work- ers—and they issue an ultimatum that those workers earning 60 cents to 80 cents an hour should continue at that scale, but those earning 45 cents to 60 cents an hour must give up 10 per cent of this amount, and those earning 30 cents to 45 cents must take a cut of 20 per cent. This means that a davenport must now be upholstered in toto for $2.25 and a low-chair for $1.38. This was the breaking point in the patience of the workers. We elected a_ committee to discuss the matter with the bosses, but they absolutely refused to retognize and deal with our committee. This left but one course open to us, and that was to fight. o2:scOut Four Months. ¢ is-now four months since we went on strike and not a single man of the whole shop has gone back in spite of -|the-terrifie storms and cold weather now prevailing in this region. Our picket line is unbroken from six o’clock in the morning until far into the night. Naturally, our bosses are no exception, and fight us with every weapon, endeavoring to jail the most active ones among us, even though it be by frame-ups—while injunctions are showered upon us one after an- other. And as this has no weakening effect on us, they try to comfort themselves by saying that we cannot stand up under the severe winter. But we say that surrender is utterly impossible. We say that our families will not freeze. to death. We say that our children will not starve to death. | We appeal at a time when help is desperately needed. If every worker will but give ten cents to our support, we will be enabled to carry on our struggle further. Negro Organization Reports 1927 Gains The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at its annual business meeting at its head- quarters, 69 Fifth Ave., elected direc- tors for 1928. James Weldon John- son, secretary, reported that aggres- sive action resulted in two Supreme Court decisions of importance to Negroes in 1927. In one decision a Texas law excluding Negroes from Democratic primaries was invalidated. In another Louisiana residential segregation laws were declared void. \O’Neill’s “Strange In- terlude” Opens at John Golden Theatre Jan. 30. O’Neill drama which opened Monday night at the Guild Theatre, success- fully set for a run, the Theatre Guild is making preparations to launch another O’Neill drama, “Strage Inter- lude,” which wilt open January 30, at the John Golden Theatre. There will be but six performances a week; the matinees being eliminated because of the length of the play. It is in nine acts. The cast of the new production in- cludes: Lynn Fontanne, Tom Powers, zlenn Anders, Earle Larimore, Helen Westley, ‘Ethel Westley, Philip Leigh, Jack Burns and Charlie Wal- ters. Philip Moeller is directing the production and Jo Mielziner designed the settings. Saturday, January 21, when the play goes on tour. The following week the theatre will be dark to permit re- hersals of the O’Neill drama. Present “Faust” at the Gallo Theatre The opening performance of the season of the American Opera Com- pany in English, was given at the Gallo Theatre, last night with the fol- lowing cast: Dr. Faustus, Patrick Kil- wally; Faust, Clifford Newdall; Meph- istopheles, George Fleming Houston; Valentine, Mark Daniels; Siebel, Edi- son Rice; Marguierite, Natalie Hall; Martha, Brownie Peebles. In keeping with the characteriza- tion of the Faust legend, the organi- zation presented two tenors for the role of Faust; one for the aged world- weary philosopher; the other for the gay cavalier. Amother innovation in- troduced last night in Gounod’s opera was the Siebel song which was pre- sented as written in the original op- era—that is, by a young man, a light lyric tenor; and not by a contralto or @ mezzo-soprano, as usually given. pany will present Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly,’ with Misses Sherman and Oelheim and Messrs. Hedley and Bust in the principal roles. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Agita- tion among government navy yard employes for a living wage standard has resulted in nominal increase of 1 to 3 cents an hour. The majority of these civilian employes will receive only 1 or 2 cent increase. John P. Frey, secretary-treasurer of the Metal Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor, is a member of the Navy Department Wage Board, which handed down the smell award. The workers in the var- ious trades in the department are far underpaid, their wage being consider- ably lower than that for similar work outside the government service. Negroes Use Libraries LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 10.—More than 7,250 borrowers used 127,566 volumes in the two branch libraries maintained here for Negro residents in the year ended Aug. 31, 1926. About 2,000,000 volumes have been borrowed from these two branches since their opening in 1905. Failing; Atheism Grows ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Jan. 10.— | Christian colleges cannot much longer face competition from state and secu- lar colleges and are doomed to ex- tinction unless revolutionary methods are soon adopted, was the opinion ex- pressed at the conference of the Coun- cil of Church Boards of Education, composed of Christian college presi- dents, yesterday. “Four billion dollars is needed to maintain our present system of Chris- tian education,” a speaker said. Atheism is growing among students at Christian colleges, Dr. R. L. Kelly, of New York declared, and atheistic clubs are being organized. Other parson-professors deplored the pre- valence of drinking, swearing, smok- ing and even petting parties on the campuses, Labor Expects Nothing | From N. J. Legislature TRENTON, N' Jan. 10.—Another session of the New Jersey State Legi lature begins at noon tomorrow. publicans have overwhelmed control of both houses, Hudson and Essex Counties, the industrial area of the state, furnisning practically all of the Democrats, members of the Hague machine. As there is not a single representative in either House who has ever evinced the slightest interest in labor questions, little or no action of benefit to the workers is expected from the Legislature, although a seri- ous unemployment problem exists in Labor. figures movement. Paper $1.25 Read Also: Brotherhood of reaction that their treasury. een a MISLEADERS OF LABOR By Wm. Z. ate new book just off the press contains revelations of a char- acter sure to astound the world of It is a complete picture of the system of control of the unions by political and financial bribery. Facts are given thru original docu- ments offering proof of the most scandalous sell-out and corruption of the organized labor movement. The exposure involves thé leading in the American Labor WRECKING THE LABOR BANKS— The Collapse of the and Investment Companies of the of Loc By Wm. Foster. sational exposure ated the policies of the railroad un- ions and have gutted the funds in 25 cents—Kive copies for one dollar, BO Foster HISTORY WORKING CL. A. Bimba THE WOMAN Cloth $1.75 Robt, W. m. Labor Banks omotive Engi- aay Lovestone The most of the meth- have degener- WORKERS On American Labor OF THE AMERICAN TRADE UNIONS Theresa Wolfson $1.75 LEFT WING UNIONISM D. J. Saposs $1.60 TRADE UNIONS IN AMERICA Foster-Cannon-Browder Be CLASS STRUGGLI VS. CLASS COLLABORATION bk. 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OKS ASS 2.75 WORKER AND THE $1.90 2he THE AMERICAN NT Se LIBRARY PUB- With “Marco Millions,” the Eugene | “Four Walls,” now current at the, Golden Theatre, will continue until ; American Opera Group) Pay Rise for Navy Yard' Workers Held Too Low’ ! | Featured in Ernest Vadja’s “Seren- ade” now showing at the Cameo Theatre. =—Music Notes==—= Sascha Ja- cobsen, violinist, Nina Tarasova, folk song singer, and Paul Althouse, tenor, will give a joint recital at the Mecca Temple on Friday evening, January |18, under the auspices of The DAILY Doris Niles, dancer, WORKER. | Alice Paten, lyric soprano, will re- | place Lenora Sparkes at the recital |of the People’s Symphony concerts’ at the Washington Irving High School on January 20, The seldom heard Beethoven trio Opus II for clarinet, piano and cello, will be played by the Stringwood En- semble at Town Hall on Tuesday eve- ning, January 24. Rita Nevo, English pianist, will make her debut here on January 19 at Town Hall. The Stringwood Ensemble will give another concert on January 24. The famous Russian Ballet, under the direction of Serge Diagileff, will appear here sometime this winter after an absence of ten years. A bal- let of modern American jazz will fea- ture the New York season. Berlin Gershwin, Kern and other American Tonight the American Opera Com-®composers will be asked to compete for the ballet. The Flonzaley Quartet will give their second concert Tuesday evening, January 17, at Town. Hall. MINER, INJURED, ~ CAN'T PRODUCE ENOUGH; FIRED Foreman Tells Him to Wait 6 Months PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 10.—The treatment that may be expected by striking coal miners should they find themselves working under open-shop conditions is graphically illustrated by the following cases brought to light at Forbes Road, Pa., by a repre- sentative of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, with head- quarters at 611 Penn. Ave., Pitts- burgh, Pa. Tony Caralli, a miner with a wife and six children, was partly incapa- | citated while in the employ of the Key- |stone Coke and Coal Company, an ‘open-shop concern. Being unable to | produce enough coal to satisfy the de- mands of the bosses he was refused any kind of work and is now marooned at Forbes Road not having the money to pay his transportation out of the place. Caralli’s oldest child is 12 and the youngest 1. Joseph Bryan had his leg broken in | mine No. 7 of the Keystone Coke and |Coal Company in the year 1928. He | spent ten weeks in the hospital and was out of work for seven months. He then returned to work for $3.60 a day. On December 15 of the same | year he was advised by the foreman that he could not use him at all be- cause of his inability to get out the quantity of coal demanded by the company. The foreman was generous enough however to suggest that Bryan hang around until the follow- ing summer when he might be given employment of some kind. He is now unable to secure a job unless he con- sents to work as a strikebreaker and Bryan would rather starve than do this. Bill Regulating Uses Of Injunction Is Up ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 10.—Backed by the New York State Federation of Labor, a bill providing that injunc- tions in labor disputes shall not be is- sued until after a jury trial, was in- troduced in the legislature today by Assemblyman Albert M. Cohen, Brooklyn Democrat. A.similar measure was defeated at the last session. Max Reinhardt’s Production of “The Servant of Two Masters” H Thea., Columbus Circle Cosmopolitan 77°43 eine Ss and. Sat. at 2:15, int Eves. 8:30. Mats, Winter Garden Thurs. & Sat. 2:30, WORLD'S LAUGH SENSATION! Artists § Models ional Theatre, 41 St. W. of Bway | National 2ysatry Mts. 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