The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 18, 1928, Page 4

Page Focr THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1928 $50 pnd il Suites for Capitalists; Workers in Ward Get Burnt Soup POOR MAN CANNOT PAY $3; DIES IN WN, Y. INSTITUTION Another Is Forgotten Five Days (Continued fr ually that four Torre, th ved a grief and f into’ the wa There Page One) lay. stopped her, sz pay $2 the hospital. a week, when h Three dol penses w next day ans. T nsferred to a city me Pretty Scene; Workers Freeze in Neighborhood _ BURNS AFFIDAVITS Fr iendly Game WASHINGTO} ‘ D. C., Jan. After a day of cheerful maneuvering and oratory,’ part of a friendly game, as it seemed to those who heard it, the prosecution in the criminal tempt proceedings against ir and William J. tes, ‘threw a | affidavits, in wh that he identified the pair who approached him dur- ing the Teapot Dome « aft trial. Juror Kidwell, who precipitated it ; jal of the Teapot Dome case by boasting to friends that he “would set an auto long as a block” £ the case the defense won, re- used to back up his affidavits when 17.--- the juror o Burns men as | hospital, to laced on the stand in the contempt treatment, The trial of Burns and Sinclair for “fix- which re Each year the cataracts of Niagara, caught in the grip of win- ing” the oil graft jury. could not 7 ter, form into a pretty setting of ice and snow. At the same time, And judge Siddons ruled em- by contril zens of New Yor! Pavilions For Rich. jobs. however, the workers of families of the city of Niagara Falls, Buffalo and other industrial towns are freezing as a result of being out of phatically yesterday that the affi- davits could not be used because they were not needed to refresh his mind. Illness is among t which the worker cz There are two classes of hospitals in New York, private or pay hospital and those operated by the city, county or state, such as Bellevue, Harlem, Metropolitan and Kings County. The latter, which are free, are intended for the workers, and the conditions he y luxuries | mot afford. fe ugs and other extras. All these add an average of $15 a week to the bill. As one trained nurse must care for an entire ward, and all hospitals are understocked with trained nurses, a serious case requires a special nurse. These must be paid directly by the patient at a rate of $6 or $7 for $12 4 aa! hours and $2 daily to the hospital for and treatment of the worst. Private) cach special nurses’ meals. Often a hospite ry from the smaller o1 patient needs both a special nurse which subsist mainly on donatior |day and night from business firms or individu A Worker’s Problem. such as Flower, Beekman Street a The wife of a porter, whose wages Broad Street, the huge, pa to are a week, was recently operated richly endowed institutions, such as on fi emoval of gall-stones, a major Presbyterian, Mount Sinai, Fifth) operation. Having himself once been Avenue, Post Graduate and St.) 4 patient at Bellevue, and valuing his Luke’s, w t great p te pavilions | life to He sent her to And here is the | wi he did not want her lenter a city hospital. |a private hospital. a} bill he received: ¥ om/ Board and attendance (fee for ward 15 to 25 patients, $6 a day for semi-| bed), 22 days at $3-a day, $66; fee for private w with 2 to dina room, | the use of operating room and an- $6 to $25 per day for the rich man’s] esthesia, $15; pathological fee (blood, private room, and from a!sputum and urine examinations), $16; day. or even more for luxurious suites. | drugs, $5; 1 day nurse 7 days Besides th fees are charged | at $8 a d ecial night nw for the operating room, anesthetic, X-;7 days at $8 a day, $56; total ho: rays, blood and urine examinations, | bill, $2 With the Young Comrades SOME INTERESTING LETTERS! , Our fathers are on_ strike and| some of us are starving, but we get | little help. Some children had a good Christm: but we didn’t.—Elizabeth Filtz, Yorkville, Ohio. My father is a miner and has been on strike for twenty-six weeks. The company here trying to destroy the union and force our fathers to work for less money in an open shop. If the workers s relief we’ll never give in—Helen Naslavaga, DuBois, Penna. These two letters were received by us in our mail. They come from two gonstant readers and correspondents of the Young Comrade Corner, one from Pennsylvania and one from Ohio. Both of their fathers are on strike against the most cruel mine owners, who refuse to pay the miners living wage. This strike has caused miners, their wives and especially | much hardship and suffering for the their children. Living in barns and tents, beaten by gangsters and po-j lice, arrested on the slightest pretext, starving for lack of food, shivering for lack of clothes, they nevertheless continue to ht on. Let us help them to continue to fight by sending them in cloth d money, whatever for the rich. $50 For Suites. ania in pay hospitals are $3 OUR LETTER BOX. Some New Friends. Success to Russia! Not so long ago, we really believed that the Rus- sian Reds were murderers because of the aristocratic tyrants. But then we heard stories told of Russian cruelty from the mouths of Ameri- cans who knew less than nothing of the facts. Now whenever we get al chance to enlighten a person concern- | ing the facts of Russia, we are will- is misled. and are very much interested in its ! progress. My two brothers and my- | self were born in America, but v sympathize with Russia and hope that+! she shows the world what “a country governed by the people, and for the } people” means.—Ethel, William and Zole Szalkay. Workers’ Children, Join the Pioneers! Dear Comrades: Does your father work hard all day? Do you have to go to work to get enough to eat? In Hartford, Conn., there is a group called the Young Pioneers. This is a group of workers’ children who come together and talk over the things that Wecan. Let ev child con- | are making their mothers and fathers tribute somet matter how | Work so hard to get enough to eat. small in orc he work- | Wouldn’t you like to come and learn? ers’ children stig hi unfortunate brother Solidarity ! with their d sisters, Send | relief! We have plays, games, a little party | or a hike sometimes to keep the mem- | bers happy. The Pioneers meet every Sunday at 2:30 p. m. at 287 Windsor Ave., Hartford. Come, join us!—A | Hartford Young Pioneer. MORE ANSW ER NO. - Mae Malyk, N. Y. C.; B. Minas- | 2 ig 5 sion, N. Y. C.; Sarah Titefsky, N. Y. What Do You Think? Cc. | Dear Comrades: One day at school PUZZLE | MORE ANSWE began to fight with another one. |“Don’t be a Bolshevik,” said the | teacher, after noticing the boys fight- | ing. The boy asked the teacher what ja Bolshevik meant. “Don’t you | know aid the teacher. “A Bolshe- jvik is a person that is always mak- ing trouble for others,” | Do you think that is a correct ex- |planation of a Bolshevik? I certain- ‘ly don’t. —Sylvia Sheffer. S TO PUZZLE NO. 4d. Henry Dreyer, Detroit, Mich. A JOKE—THE VICTORIOUS CAPTAIN. TUNY TWARYONAS. “Sir, I have the pleasure of an- nouncing a gr victory “Very well,” replied the commander | ay 2 hell gO out and congratulate | THIS WEEK’ $ PUZZLE NO. 7d. “I don’t think it would be wise.” 1 IT 2 | “Why not, didn’t they win the | fight?” 45 “Yes, but Hees needs left.” 7 % 8 | YOUNG COMRADE SUB. | ma iss ta at. | 1. A bright color, olshevik. A New Year’s Gift. 4. Raw metal. % year 25 cents, 1 year 50 cents.| 7. A number. : DOWN. Name 1, To decay; to wear away. Address 2. Before, 3. A wild animal's home. eR es). . | Send all answers to DAILY WORK- State {ER Young Comrade Corner, 33 First . N. Y. C., stating name, age, ad- dress) and number of puzzle. Issued every month. , |they revolted against the oppression | ing to prove to him how he has been | We read of Russia and its | s— struggles in The DAILY WORKER, | = as we were having history, a boy | In addition, the surgeon who opera: ted rendered a bill of $300. Workers Poorly Fed. There is a great difference between the treatment of the sick worker in the ward and the treatment of a patient in a private room. The poorest food, of the cheapest in- gredients the hospital’s purchasing agent can buy, is good enough for the ward patient. Burnt soup, a small piece of indigestible meat and rice or some other such pudding compose his usual meal. Unless a ward patient is being treated by his own tor, who demands a fee of up, he is assigned to the service of a} doctor on the staff, who, more i terested in his own patients, visit: him about twice a week, leaving the| rest to interns. The “Black Bottle.” Private hospitals are supposed to| treat poor residents of the surround- ing district free. For this they are| reimbursed to some extent by the United Hospital Fund, supported by contributions from business firms and wealthy people and by the city. A reat deal of this:-free treatment con-| sists of removal of tonsils and ade- noids in children and other inex-| pensive minor operations at reduced treatment for a serious illness or in- jury and. cannot pay, he is sent to Bellevue. Belleyue or Gouverneur, these are names: which strike terror into the heart of every worker who knows he eannot pay for accommodation in a private hospital when he or his wife or children become seriously ill. In working class districts superstitious mouths speak of a mysterious “black bottle,’ which they imagine is the cause of many workers’ children dy- ling in city hospitals. Care is By-Word. Bellevue Hospital, in Manhattan, md Kings County Hospital, in Brook- , to name a few, have been called ire-traps many times. Quite a few fires have broken out in the old, wooden portions of Bellevue. The treatment of patients there and in the other public hospitals is a by- word among those who know. The writer knows a structural iron work- jer who recently fell five stories on a job, breaking an arm and shoulder. Removed to Bellevue by ambulance, he was interviewed in the receiving ward by an intern, placed in a ward bed and quite utterly forgotten. After 5 days, during which time no | doctor saw him, he dressed himself rates. If a worker or member of his|and walked out. The authorities at family requires lengthy hospital | B ellevue did not even miss-him. NYY] PNval) RD 1 WRIT ®—— The Theatre Guild presents — JOHN GALS IK SCAP E — The PORGY Th. W. 420; Evs.g:40 Republic \ai."Wea&sat, with L. HOW Bernard Shaw's Comedy = DOCTOR’S DILEMMA Week Jan. “Marco Millions” : Th. W. 2d, Bys. 8:20 Guild — Mats'Thurs.&Sat.,2: ANTI-WAR The ENEMY B' way, 46 St. Evs. 4 Mats. Wed.&Sat. at THAN THE “BET! BAT” Theatre, B’way at 45th St. ats. | ASTOR Twice Daily, 2:30-8:30, ERLANGER’S Thea, W.44 St,Byvs.8.30 Mats: Wed. & Sat. THE MERRY MALONES with GEORGE M, COHAN Winter Garden {y° WORLD'S eee Ss Artists "Models Ua 41 St. W. of B'wa: National 8.8:30. Mts. Wed.&Sat.2: 30 “The Trial of Mary Dugan” |~ ard Veiller with Rex Cherryman | MUSIC AND CONCERTS 2 UNG IN ENGLISH Evgs. §:20. Mats. 2:20, WI AT LAST ‘WAL Ls y. PHONE COL, 1140, WEEK Sat. Mat., Faust wt Muni Wisenfrend Wen wen. Mat. Marriage eons Pah. Se Putin, Mamabi 6 Thurs. & Sat. Dye. Mme, Butterfly oe = The Executive Committee of S. S. 1AC Workers Party GREETS The DAILY WORKER as the Pravda of the U. S. A. G0 INTO BASKET Teapot Dome Case Like | ig out) | | | ak eRe IRE, "a TR era iaR aa REC RrETIAT j | | | \" After Babbitt What? Eugene O’Neill’s “Marco Millions” Flashes With Wit and Paralyzes With Poetry CLARA BOW. Y “Mareo Millions,” now flourishing for alternate weeks at the Guild Theatre, Eugene O’Neill beckons Bab- bitt to the stage and, under the guise of a Venetian tale of | six or seven hundred | years ago, by the} aid of excellent | tire and in spite of | fourth rate poetry, | transforms him into | a bundle of delicious fun. Yet no one can honestly charge O'Neill with know- ing anything about the process that produces the business man nor his significance in modern ; times. For this reason O’Neill, his} sides splitting at the antics of the; In “The Pls thick-skinned, uncultured business | thos Cate man, is himself, an object of merri- ment. He laughs at the hard headed Babbitt but he has no individual to take his place who would make us Eugene O'Neill stic Age,” showing at o Theatre this week. as our médel one whose philosophy is limited to an appreciation of moon- wont light and whose intellectual reach is fe ie jmeasured by an ability to compile O'Neill attempts to. satirize Bab- | cimiles by which such moonlight can bittry and laud an aimless aesthetic-| he identified. ism. He succeeds in showing the O’Neil is extremely annoyed over shallowness of his sentimental poesy | discovery of the fact that Marco has to the advantage of an energetic phil-| no eternal soul? by which is meant istinism. He would replace virile] ay ability to ignore all other reality materialism with poetic peurility and for the sake of an imaginative re- we may be allowed to regret such a|snonse to beauty. Yet, scientifically, purposeless feat. we cannot be sure anything is eter- Marco is a mentally alert. person|nal excepting perhaps parts of the who faces facts and accomplishes what} second act where the Princess Kuka- he sets out to do. We are asked to|chin psycho-analyzes herself out loud. laugh at this individual and accept} When Marco, one individual who is RABBIT FURRIER STRIKE LOOMING héetes Trying to Get | | Wage Reduction With the appointment of a strike committee of 11, the struggle of the Rabbit Dressers’ Locals 25 and 58 of the International Fur Workers Union to maintain their wage scale begins. The unanimous refusal of the work- ers to arbitrate the 25 per cent wage cut demanded by the Consolidated | Rabbit Dressers Association led to a | decision of the bosses to end the col- llective bargaining provided for in the | agreement. latea and interesting, is not on the stage the play seems to leave the vicinity of the Guild Theatre and we lace conscious of being presented with the thing that nature abhors, Yet the play is one that should be seen. O’Neill has loaded it with pleas- antry. The wit is a delightful change from the unrelieved barrenness of “The Great God Brown.” Marco is a vivid, long to be remembered char- acter. Many of the scenes have the compactness that is the prerequisite of delight, The production has the usual Guild perfection, the acting bringing every- thing out of the play. The settings by Lee Simonson are designed with beauty and simple gorgeousness. A promise of what O’Neill might do if he would grow up and forget his sexual preoccupations and his adolescent poetry is made in the move- ment of the porters for a few seconds at an act opening. In their weary, spirit-destroying movement flashes the whole significance of capitalism. There is more truth in their wordless action than in all the diatribes at Babbitt—M. C. H. 0% Discount NOW PLAYING By John Howard Lawson The International” HITS HARD theatre. ©The International” SPEAKS PLAINLY —has the ©The International” FIGHTS FEARLESSLY might. 6 ©The International” ; ENTERT AINS DANCES MUSIC SINGING workers, A Labor Play in a Labor Theatre By the author of ‘‘PROCESSIONAL” NEW PLAYWRIGHTS Telephone Walker 5786 40 Commerce St.—3 Blocks So. of Sheridan Sq. Sta. on 7 Av. 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