The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1928, Page 4

?age Forr THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1928 Bawdy House in Kenloch, Pa., Flourishes Under Protection of Company DRUNKEN SCABS’ BULLETS FLYING NEAR CHILDREN PROUDHON’S SOLUTION OF THE —_— SOCIAL PROBLEM. By. Pods ‘ ste aru Pate: 7 Proudhon. Edited by Henry Co- Constabulary Refuse to esa eet pentane Ao Protect Union Miners best review of this book ha ten. It was writ- 70 years ago by Karl Marx inued from Page One) t y took thei from Jim y, the mine a , upped t erty” of M. Proudhon, a load »f Tom Smith Proudhon’s solution quarrélling over his ladies of vir- tues and under the influence those tivo incentiv id to shoot up the “town, the nd the state Cossacks always managed to find a union miner upon whom to lay the blame for the shooting. Miners Unarmed. union mi were unarmed y by virtue of the law of the dently the high-salaried of- ficials of the Lewis machine read their scripture carefully, so when a union miner was slapped on one cheek by a seab or a coal company thug, he was advised to turn the other cheek. But apparently there is aj limit to the patience of the coal dig- gers in Kenloch. Ditch Christianity. The striking miners got tired play: ing the role of punching bags. one fine day when half a dozen scabs attacked an equal number of pickets in their shanty, the fists flew both ways and the scabs flew for reinforce- ments. One hundred and fifty scabs marched on the union barracks while most of the union men were absent. They got hold of a striker and pro- | ceeded to beat him up. Richard Nut- tall, an active member of Local Union 1230, telephoned to a state constabu- mselves 's booze and got of the oisie who, horrified by the “ex- ’ of capitalism, insists ’ reform which will eliminate ad” features and leave only property, “in- dividual initiative’—in other leave the capitalist system ly. Proudhon’s ablishment of a intact. The society of : of the “tisurious” banks by a system of free credit (“The Bank of the Peo- ple,” “Mutual Banking”). This is the of the petty artisan but it whatever in common with |utionary proletarian. . * Engels ch; ed |“solution” very aptly as “the utopia | of the ‘little man’ whose ‘honest labor’ even when it is only that of his men or that of his apprentice: loses every day more and more of | wo industry and of machinery.” It is our opinion that Proudhon has been greatly overrated by historians S list thought. He wv 1 (witness the English social- Hopkins, Thompson, Edmond: jand espetially Bray, all before Proud. Tary lieutenant, asking him to come!hon); he was densely ignorant of and protect the defenseless strikers|economics which he continually con- from the horde of scabs and coal and fused with moral and *philosophical iron police. |considerations; as a philosopher he “A Striker Not An American!” {Was very nearly a joke—Marx jest- -In the meantime Nuttall was ar-| ingly points out that the philosophers xested by the coal and iron police and| thought Proudhon a good economist at the point of a gun warned to keep | but a poor philosopher while the econ: his mouth shut. Despite Nuttall’s in- ;0mists praised his philosophy but ridi- sistence on his rights of expression |Culed his economics; to say that he as an American citizen, native-born at | W@S 4 revolutionist is ridiculous. He that, the company thugs advised him |oMtinually preached class collabora- | that his American nativity meant | 3 and hi nothing in Kenloch. A striking coal | faintest idea of the historical role of digger was an outlaw and could be | the revolutionary proletariat. - Yet beaten into pulp with impunity. | Proudhon reflected a certain stage of When the state constabulary licu- the development of the proletariat in tenant arrived, Nuttall tried to make |France—a certain very immature himself heard and with the permission |Stag¢—and he and his teachings ex- ‘Gf the trooper started to talk. A coal |€reised considerable influence over and iron thug ordered him to shut up |¢ertain sections of the French prole- and the trooper concurred. Nuttall | t@viat for some time. Therefore his was taken in a machine to the county | Works and his ideas are of importance | ‘jail with a coal and iron policeman |t0 Us but their content and their his- holding a gun pointed at his face, | torical role can only be intelligible to Nuttall was held in the Greensburg ;¥S today if they are interpreted from | jail over night and released the fol- the Marxist standpoint. lowing morning on condition that he! * ¥ would stay away from the company * Unfortunately, however, the ‘‘edi- house where his wife and children |tor” of this is precisely of a type who | were living and not to speak to any-|should never have been chosen for so one, not even to his neighbors. When | delicate a’task. As far as I can see Nuttall told the sheriff who was elect-|from his preface and his notes he ed by the miners, that he wanted to Shared all of Preudhon’s old illusions see his wife the sheriff said “you are|and none of his good points. His nothing but a damned agitator,” Nut-| economic ideas are so quaint as to be tall got out and did the right thing. laughable. He went back to the “patch,” the|ism is fairly represented in this de- company property on which the! houses are built and kept on talking. |Marx spending his time studying in That is the story of one incident. the British Museum and predicting a " Protect Bawdy House. new society in which the state would Here is another one. be everything.” While the striking miners were still in the company house even tho the |Picted in his objections to the work- Water and light were shut off and(|ers “taking hold of the means of pro- they were denied a supply of coal,|duction,” to the “cooperative owner- Tom Smith’s company house No, 7/|Ship of capital’: “It is a limitation of Was running full blast under the pro- | liberty, and thus undesirable politi- tection of the Valley Camp Coal Com-|cally; and, as the ownership of capi- pany, th te constabulary and the | tal is not the e of exploitation, it sheriff. is unnecessary economically.” Finally, One day two scab miners began|for his keen understanding of the quarrelling over one of the female in-}Class-forces at work in soc: “We mates and guns were brought into | have now learned that people are very play. The Nuttall kids were playing |Much alike, irrespective of the class on the street opposite Number 6, their /t0 which they belong.” To have such home. The children’s aunt who ran/|@ person edit and explain Proudhon's m hoarding house at Nos. 1 and 2| Writings is- verily the- blind leading rusnéd out and took the youngest the blind: child in her arms and had not time} to shut the door of her home when a} ‘ scab with a smoking automatic in his hand tried to break in, As she tried) Defeat and Darkness to shut the door in his face he aimed | a and fired, the bullet passing between |JUGGLER’S K By Manuel Kom- her face and the baby’s. | roff.. Boni & Liveright. $2.50. The scab then rushed over to the | THERE are many parts of this book | WILL HERBERG. Nuttall home and got in the back|” that I got excited about. The 20- door, still with the gun in his hand.|page court scene in the last section When Mrs. Nuttall ordered “the|of the book is as devastating an ex- damned seab to get out of her house”|pose of justice in the capitalistic he threatened to shoot her. She ran| world and as forceful an example of out on the street and got her hus-{expressionism in fiction as has ever band, who finally sneceeded in getting | been written. the scab gunman off the premises. Time and again one comes across This booze and bawdy joint was |episo&es told in a masterly manner, yun with the full knowledge of county |The story of how a great university and State officials and revenue offi-|hoodwinked students into believing cers stationed in the county were un- |that a chemical genius, kicked out of willing to raid the place tho it con-|a professor’s chair, had sung hosan- stituted a menace to the lives of the |nas of his alma mater; the job-like -miners and their wives and children, |tale of the rubb+r-planter; how Dun- Cut Scabs’ Wages. ‘dee, fearing marriage would make These are only a few instances of |him a machine-slave, left his factory- what is taking place in the strike re- | girl sweetheart, and how the rich gion. {Mrs. Caperson seduced a handsome The latest and most striking devel- |sailor and then got rid of him, are opment in Kenloch took place last |all bitterly true pictures of the world Friday when the Valley Camp Coal |today, Company cut the wages of the scabs 4 ; from 51 to $1 cents a ton and from | The entire book is written in musi- $5.10 to $4.80 for day work, The |cal prose that changes alternately Jacksonville scale was $7.50 for day \from exotic tunes to the monotonous men and 71 cents a ton, if ‘melodies of whirling power shafts. Blind Leaders of the Bli The Poverty of Philosophy,” | social | problem is the “solution” of the petty- on aj} ural” features of | words, | solution” was | small producers freed from the yoke | the ideals and aspirations of the revo- | Proudhon’s | ion and submission, and had not the | His knowledge of Marx- | cious quotation: “Thus we find Karl | His “socialism” is interestingly de- | nd bian George Bernard Shaw, the playwright, is now simply resting on his laurels. Recently he has had to resort to praising Mussolini as a means of getting ballast for his | witticisms. | OSE VES Ea eet | And occasionally Komroff epitomizes his attitude toward life in such a value thru the competition of great |Tevolutionary sentence as, “I am not | wages of its shop men for a dummy |good enough to make the monument |of aman who has slaved 40 years in ja hell-hole factory.” |several of them wild exotic ones show- jing the influence of Conrad, are not central theme. The author skips aimlessly from this thing to that, he becomes repetitious and the story ldrags like a long drawn-out, doomed, |textile strike. | The publishers say, “This novel is an opinion of victory gained after the sacyifice of one man’s life to an extra- ordinary succession of experiences and quests. The end is Victory, but in such guise that only the true of heart may recognize her.” i ‘ | The end actually is the hero’s |with the world and has lost all faith jin living. Or, as the author would |say, after he has refused to be fur- ther tempted by the juggler’s kiss, the {up ambition.” ' “The end is Victory?” \closes with a dismal pessimism that sees no hope of a better world, that |does not consider the power of the masses, or see the genuine worth- whileness of any individual. is defeat and darkness. Ce Sherwood Anderson, Dreiser, and Eugene O’Neill have lav- {ished praise upon this first novel of “one of the old anarchistic crowd.” | were more anxious to press gent a {friend than accurately estimate the | worth of a contemporars. —WALTER SNOW. |Amtorg Office Issues | Statement on Platinum | A. Linde, Director of Edelmetalle | Aktion Ges. (Russplatina) of Berlin, the Soviet platinum export organiza tion of which the Amtorg Trading Corporation is the New York repre- | sentative, issued the following state- ment yesterday “Rumors current in trading circles |that the, Russplatina is conducting | negotiations with a group of refiners | for the purpose of granting the latter a monopoly on the sale of Russian platinum in the United States have no foundation in fact. “IT am authorized to state that the sale of Russian platinum on the }American market by the Russplatina will continue on the same basis as heretofore.” Private Hospitals Have Few Free Beds, Charge Officials of hospitals here and representatives of the United Hospi- tal Fund were perturbed at charges made in the Journal of the American Medical Association that free hos- pital beds in non-municipal hospitals were disappearing. Minott D. Os- borne, director of the United Hospital Fund, and Dr. S. Goldwater, superin- tendent of Mount Sinai Hospital, a huge local non-municipal hospital has Labor Radio Thriving CHICAGO, Jan. 23 (FP). — Ac- cording to its published report of re- ceipts and disbursements the Chicago Federation of Labor broadcast station WCPL has spent $152,160.99 from its inauguration April 1, 1926 to Oct. 31, 1927. In the same period of 18 months total receipts were $165,105.- | 05, leaving an excess of receipts over | disbursements of $12,944.06. Most of | the receipts were donations and pro- | But the many episodes in the book, | woven together as necessary parts of | {death after he is utterly disillusioned | |“force that urges on life and spurs Komroff | All .of | his characters a%« found wanting. All Theodore | |This reviewer, however, believes they | UNION OFFICIALS | HIT WATSON BILL AGAINST WORKERS Fake Unions, Wage Cut Flourish Under It | CHICAGO, Jan. 23.—“The new deal | and: the goodwill about which so much | was Said while the Watson-Parker | railroad act was being put through jcongress has not brought about the | improvéd feeling that was hoped for,” | says Pres. J. G. Luhrsen of the Amer- ican Train Dispatchers’ Assn, Luhr- |sen was one of the executives of 20 railroad unions that gathered in Chi- cago Jan. 13 and 14 to consider the results of the new railroad law. None of the union officials was ju- | |bilant over its workings, All united | in a number of bitter specific com- | | plaints. y were inclined to agree | | with Luhrsen’s outright declaration that the law “has not made a single | {change in the attitude of certain rail- | {road managements toward labor or- | ganizations,” | any railroads, it was stated by | |the union executives, brazenly violate | ragraph 8, section 2 of the act, | which guarantees the right to organ- ize and select their own representa- | without interference or influ-| jence or coercion. Force Company Union on Men. Thus the Chicago & Alton is still |foreibly checking off dues from the company union that they do not want. The men are actually organized 90% jin unions affiliated with the Ameri- an Federation of Labor but cannot have these unions represent them in |dealings with the Alton road, On the Missouri Pacific, 31 machin- ists were fired simply because they | belonged to the Int. Assn. of Machin- | jists. These wrongs are not remedied | |by the new act. | A further grievance is the refusal jot the railroad manegements to agree | to regional or national boards of ad- | justment to iron out disputes between |masters and workers. The railroads insist on single system boards. The | unions declare that this is asking the | parties to a dispute to settle it after Will Rogers’ “A Texas! Steer” at the Cameo | With Wise-Cracks LA eC ANS ean take a joke—and | |** make it a national institution. Wall | Street can take it and put it in the| presidential chair—or send it to Mex- | y up what is no laughing mat | ter. | This cow-puncher | with a droll sense) of humor has pro-} gressed from aj Broadway musical stage to an unof-} ficial free lancing! “feongressman at large” and finally} official co-star with| Lindbergh in the publicity of “good will” that bodes the | Mexicans no good. | jee to His genius of timely witticism is| also the main. feature of “A Texas/ Steer,” now showing at the Cameo| Theatre. Will Rogers has written the | sub-titles and the fool things are} witty. He laughs at our Washington Follies: “Washington is a city of domes—marble, teapot and ivory”. . -} | and many more like it. There’s a good) witticisms. Some of it is sharply! barbed humor. He laughs at politic: politicians and social sanctity. But he’s a political clown who is allowed} elownish license. You will always find him supporting “our institu-/ tions” in a show-down. As he did in| helping out Morrow, as he does in the case of armaments and as he does in} “The Texas Steer.” His acting of a clown congressman | from Texas is no satire of our “rep- resentatives of the people,” and there plenty of room here for satire. Will Rogers, as Branders, congressman from Red Dog, Texas, despite what) appears as stupidity, ends up as a} hard-working honest representative, | who in the face of the Big Interests, | achieves_-victory for his constituents tho he loses his pants doing it. There’s no satire here. There is noth- | ing else but the old oil which’ would fail dismally without the mental, pic- | they have admitted that they cannot | do so. | "ADAMS ENJOYS HIS VACATION WHILE MURDERS CONTINUE | Before the strike the miners had to ‘bring’ the timbers in, and carry the rails too. You see, Rockefeller is 00 poor to pay them for this, or to | hire extra men. | The average wage of the digger is '$2.10 a day. The outside men get | about $5.52 a day. The compény | states that they have men working at | $10.00 a day. There are a few of | these men in Colorado mines, but they jare special men, not diggers. The ‘company buys dynamite wholesale, j}and sells it to the miners for $10 a | stick. Even here the miners are Ycheated, for they should pay between |$.03 and .05 a ‘stick. | When the so-called “friend of la- bor” Governor Adams, took office, he | abolished the state rangers. - As if it }made any difference to the miners | whether they were shot down by {rangers or militia! Our friend, Paul P. Newlon and his gang of murderers jare busy “peacefully” settling the strike by arresting and_ shooting | strikers. Governor Adams is quietly jenjoying his vacation and watching the murders continue. ‘om Annear, the amicable incompetent, and his \indus.rial commissioners are trying ;to compromise, with the operators. Jut it is not the executive committee, | nor the commissioners who are going to end the sirike, it is the miners themselves; and they won’t com- promise—they went out for the Jacksonville scale, and they’re going to get it. Talks on Miners’ Fight Made at Youth Affair We are supposed to be living in the “land of the free, and the home of the brave.” Here in Colorado, men have been shot and killed because they at- tempted to take their constitutional rights—the rights of free speech, free press and free assembly. Under the protection of that cor- jrupt capitalist law, the anti-picketing |law, murder has become legalized, and |the constitution has been declared un- \constitutional. Not only has this law been interpreted to mean that there shall be no picketing, but it has been | twisted till it means that there shall be no peaceful assembly. At the Columbine mine, Nov. 21, 1927 six were killed, and twenty were injured under the most prejudiced, ceeds of benefit entertainments for the labor radio. With the Young Workers Conducted by the Young Workcrs’ League torial and rope-throwing antics of | Wil! Rogers. | the .exeuse of “anti-picketing” a woman was arrested for visiting her sister with the purpose of asking her brother-in-law not to scab. If you or I, for the sake of curiosity, attend one of the meetings at a mining camp, we, too would be violating the anti-| picket law. The strikers ask for the Jackson-| ville scale and the twenty-two de- mands. Sixteen of these demands are state laws, and the companies admit violating them. The strikers want honest scales, not “doped” ones. They want a check weigh-man to make sure that 2,000 lbs is 2,000 lbs, and not 1,500 lbs. The fact has become known that the Pike View had no! scale at all. The miners want a pit | committee to complain of dangerous\ timbering and bad ventilation. They want to be paid on pay-day, and nov two or three weeks after. They wanz! no discrimination among miners—be- fore the strike a man who was active in union work was given night work, | or put on a vein that did not yield| well. | Young Workers Aid BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 23.—A large audience of young workers of Boston and vicinity showed their solidarity with the striking miners of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, ete. at a Party arranged by the Boston Young Workers’ League for the striking, miners’ representatives. Milka Sab-| lich, Ella Reeve (Mother) Bloor, and A. S. Emery are in Boston for miners’ relief work. The affair,tho prepared at very short notice, was well attended and the program was spirited. Comrade Nat Kay was the chairman of the evening. The Young Workers League members lead the songs, cheers and yells hailing the brave miners in their fight. The Young Workers League orchestra composed of Gussie Gas- man, Will Katz, Harry Rosen, Carlos Paci, Sam Silverman and other play- ers well known to Boston youths en- tertained the audience splendidly. Mother Bloor and Milka Sablich ad- dressed the youths gathered. A col- lection made by the chairman brought in $12.15, Negros to Stay Away From Billy Sunday ST. LOUIS, Jan. 23.—A group of Negro preachers have formed a com- mittee to get the Negro to stay away from the revival meetings of Billy Sunday who has been in town for the last few weeks, and who will be here for another month. Billy Sunday most biased, and rottenest piece of |\segregates the Negroes at his meet- | law-making ever produced. Under ings. sie A PY TRAVERS In Eugene O’Neill’s “Marco Mu- lions,” the new Theatre Guild pro- duction now piaying alternate weexs at the Guild Theatre. The picture is taken from the play by Chas. Hoyt which appeared many years ago and is still thrilling the gullibles in tall timber. Many situations are amusing. These, dea! of keen shrewdness in his homely | plus the sub-title sallies of Will Rog- | 8, kept the audience laughing stead- ily. Cal’s electric horse is in it. And there’s other horseplays about Cal. The humor is broad burlesque and not always successful. There is little to raise it above the ordinary in situ- ation, acting or photography. It is ancient mulligan with modern Wili Rogers dressing. Louise Fazenda gets all she can out of her part as the social climbing wife of the congressman. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is in the picture. So is Mack Swain who has done this kind of thing since the pie-throwing days, before the movies became the cinema. —wW.c. | Broadway Briefs Florence Reed in“The Shanghai Ges- ture” is playing at the Shubert-Ri- viera Theatre this week. Fred Hillebrand, lately of ‘The Studio Girl,” has been added to “The Optimists,” Melville Gideon’s Eng- lish musical which opens at the Cen- tury Roof next week. Gus Edwards is the main vaude- \ville event at Moss’ Broadway. His jlatest revue is titled “Ritz Carlton Nights,” and has lyrics by Nat and Max Lief, Will D. Gobb and Howard Johnson. The featured youngsters in “PACIFIER” OF - STOLEN CANAL TONE BURIED ‘Goethals Gets Military | Funeral for Services Major General George Washington | Goethals, builder of the Panama Canal ‘and first civil governor of the Pana- lima Canal Zone, who died Saturday \in New York, is to be buried with mili- {tary honors in West Point, as a tri- bute to the services he rendered | American imperialism in its early idrive to destroy the independence of the South and Central American re- | publics. | A Roosevelt Appointee. | Goethals was an appointee of Theo- |dore Roosevelt, during the presiden- ‘tial term of the ‘latter, and charged |with supervising the building of the {Panama Canal which was stolen from |the government of Columbia. | “Pacified” the Country. This canal cut off thousands of | miles travel to the west coast of South | America, and from the viewpoint of jmilitary strategy was invaluable to {the program of American imperial- |ism. Goethals, appointed by Wilson lin 1914 as civil governor, is credited with pacifying the country—that is, maintaining such a powerful military |apparatus that the supremacy of the | United-States could never be chal- |lenged. The result was a government leompletely subservient to the imper- jialist power of the north. |the company include: Ray Bolger, | Mildred Byram, Reynolds Sisters, | Virginia Martin and Senorita Armida. i “Ginsberg the Great” with George Jessel is the film attraction for that program. Lily Morris, the English music hall star, is leading the Palace bill this week. Other acts are: Ella Shields; Ada Reeve; Coram and Jerry; De- | Groot, violinist, assisted by A. Gibil- | are, piano, and J. Pacey, cello; Scott | Sanders; Tom Payne and Vera Hil- \liard; Fred Lindsay; Gilbert and French, and Revel Bros., and Red. «The New Playwrights’ Theatre an- nounces many theatre parties for “The International,” the John Howard Law- son. play now current at their Com- merce Street Playhouse. The pres- ent production is scheduled to close on February 4th to make way for the fourth subscription bill, “Hoboken Blues,” by Michael Gold. This means that the general public has only to- night, Wednesday and the two Sat- urday performances in which to see the production. — The Theatre Guild presents PORGY ic Th., W. 424. Ev: Republic qui Wiaesacc 20 EUGENE O'NEILL'S Marco Millions Week Jan. 30, ‘Phe Doctor's Dilemma’ . Th. W. 524. Evs. 8:20 Guild yitis.Mhuree Sat., 2:20 WINTHROP AMES presents JOHN GALSWORTHY'S ESCAPE “ihussue HOWARD Thea., W. 45St. vs, 8: BOOTH ‘wits, Sate Wear 240. Broadhurst qin wige eres in THE MERCHANT oF Ss. 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