The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 30, 1928, Page 4

Aen eve ey - — 4 town in the Allegheny Valley try- CIVIL WAR IN NATIONAL CHINA By Earl Browder and power plant contained in the a Te Bsipe saa noe f " -Johnson bill. Samuel S. Wyer, | i - author of a misleading attack on On- \{ The WORKERS LIBRARY fivio Hydro which was issued under | PUBLISHERS NO SHOES; NO ion ot Se lof Officials Neglect Rank jth abies and File Members [te hietd: lhe h By W. J. held St 10 and 11. SBURGH, P: ation 29.—It is | nd Wwo- min The The ktter from them is the W signed by Or- > of men spea rs of Weste miners of this end of e are|the women workers in t silently tion | depart the Kremlir conditio: g the future with! They were listening with great inter e cou Back i the { —7- = x hills wh line of travel | 5, ! Ec Inow about: these starving | & ote people go, there are literally lreds of women and chil-| men, going with clothing and PAPER FOUNDED y day and night by the necessary food Iter to keep them fit | to battle nst disease, cold and} Brophy exposure. Story after story could be} ‘ told about men battling the lockout! of the coal mine owners without shoes end wearing the vilest and most un-| nitary clothing, and t#e same can! id about the wives and childrer ot th miners. Day after day I have met childrer ag Organization Drive (By Federated Press.) PITTSBURGH, Jan. 29.—Soundi the same note,—that the soft coal {strike cannot be won unless the wa jout is extended into the non-union struggling over snow-covered roads. | fields that are now supplying the na on their way to school, with old rub-|tion’s markets,—Alexander Howatt, bers tied on their little fect, with-| Powers Hapgood, John Brophy and out stockings, and their little lips | other leaders of the progressive group blue from the winter frost and snow {in the United Mine Workers, contrib- Suff lute the leading icles to the Coal | Digger, new monthly labor paper pub- ing and starving because their fathers were denied the right to earr | Digger, ney § 5 ae +». | lished in Pittsburgt money to bay shoes and stockings Mae he with which to keep the little vietim: | ee ERE of capital grecd from suffering’. sure an ve those hu Society mus*'| 1.3 rorneeen a te US jducting the ong purely de- Rey for this which fensive lines. and Howatt sapping and \ ning the father: | ninently in and mothers -of the future. history. How- Misery, Destitution. | att, serving as ident of the Kan- ; Sas miners : till removed |by Lewis during the strike against |Goy. Allen’s industrial court act, and Brophy held the presidency of the ¢ A_ most heart-breaking «cme under my observation and this i only one out of many. It is the ¢: of a poor Slavic mother who visited “8 ; As one of her countrymen and his wife j tral eae creases olga to consult with them as to what she {Util 1926. could do to keep her family from | starving to death. This poor mother caught in the coils of this lockout case Deadlock. The strike has reached a deadlock, says Brophy. This deadlock, he as- vi eee ae 4 serts, cannot be broken, unless the bag pillarens Bat seer cada te\ miners take the offensive and shut Eee copeny house thra’ their) of the non-union coal supplies. That being evicted by the coal and iron po- lice, because the husband, who had locked-out for the past ten months was not able to find work and earn the money necessary to pay the rent of the house in which they lived Driven from the house, and unable to find shelter in the town where they had lived for the past four years, they moved away from the mine camp inte the non-union miners can be organized 1922 strike, when 100,000 came into the union, and by the Colorado walk- out now going on. Brophy sharply criticizes the union administration for its failure to take the offensive and for drifting along in the deadlock. He hits the lack of action that followed the Federation of Labor confer in Pittsburgh last November, saying there has been no real defiance of the injunction. ing in this town to find work, but not understanding any but his own language, he was unable to get work. Their little stock of money ran out “Save the Union.” weeks ago, and yeste en Tsaw} The Coal Digger is the organ of them they were withou: heat in the|the Save the’ Union Committee organ- house and they had not eaten for the |ized im Pittsburgh when delegates last three days. Their little baby hadjcame from many local unions of been poisoned from the rotten condi-}miners in the western Pennsylvania tion of its’ teeth, while the parents |and Ohio districts. The pa Were fearful of calling a doctor be- | nationalization of mines with work- cause they had no money. Its little |e’ control, organization of a labor ‘emaciated body was nothing but a party, for one national agreement for > © bunch of bones and the other children | both | anthracite, and _ bituminous were in a like condition. jminers, 6-hour di y week a 1g jand full democrac Neglected by Officials. ticitex.gipiawien a is man and father had visited the|demeanors in offi office of the United Mine Workers|counting out of his 1 ysey in end stated his case to the reactionary 1925 and Brophy in wis efficialdom. In the face of this con-}|Must Go” is one of the paper’s slo- «ition of the family they had given gans. 4 3.50. Out of thie Lise 2 ; um he had had to| p--—-===-----= 1 »ey a railroad fare of $1.32 and this | he had to deduct trom this 3.60 |4 4.New With the balance, this father, ignor|{ Book ' ait of the language of the country| | b H end not able to understand his right: | 1, } “in the local relief, is abandoned by! Scott H these officials to fight this unequal | ; ; battle with this pittance which they| eae ' grudgingly to this family of| H eight. t How many such cases there are in this strike of this kind it is and will| be impossible to find out. What silent | martyrs there are back in the hills of } Western Pennsylvania, suffering si-| > lently and left to suffer there martyr- “dom ignorant of their rights in the | remises, just as this Slavish father | and mother have been <uffering for! at months and weeks, What anguish must have ripped at the heart of this foreign-born mother as she saw her 4 little brood without food to keep them _ from the gnowing pangs of starva- fiom. She herself unable to go out | end make her neighbors understand | ~ her own'and her family’s condition | And the frony of the father going into | Pittsburgh and being mocked . with | meh a pittance for himself and his | economic in- terpretation of re- cent events in the Far East. Cloth $1.75 Read Also: CHINA: A SURVEY By Seng Sin CHINA IN REVOL? By Stalin, ete Smithsonian Institution imprint | years ago, is in charge of its phlet—writing campaign, { ' wife and children, a : b ig into action for the ‘power 1 the Ohio Chamber of Com- ree, attacking the Boulder Canyon | rs 89 E. 125 St. New York. Evicted Coal Miners CHILDREN WITH = Working Women f und she s Calls for Big| opposition to the pol- | | bagatelle like $30,000,000. | that in relief donations would win {he evidences by the history of the, tHE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JA JARY 30, 1928 age ‘ovie' ask- y of them were was over, e for In- nization for Revoluti s) nue got up and announced that she had information that the International Labor Defense cf New York arranging a be iggested that w is of greet- ing be embroidered on the towels, ‘From the working women of U. S. S. R. to the American women’.” The Rich Get Richer Ogden Armour, pictured miles because, though she never worked a tap for it, she has just received $30,000,000 more than she thought she would get. Some stock which was just lying around in the possession of her late hus- band, J. Ogden Armour, turns out to be worth that much It had been thought by him to be without value | which shows how much attention a big maire\ pays to a mere Half of the strike for the miners. PUBLIC OWNED FORESTS. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (FP).— “In order to get the maximum bene- fits of forest cover in the Mississippi ; “e ys the U. S. Forest Ser- ice in a bulletin on flood control measures, “it is essential that public of -Weste id took great part in | Lewis Agent Also Tries MOPR} of Kremlin (COSSACKS ASSAIL Send Articles to Defense: GRECHT MEETING : FOR LABOR PARTY Disruptive Tactics | (Continued from Page One) | ing the stars or Old Moore’s Almanac. A company stool-pigeon in the hal tried to without success. |two state troopers, there was a coal | and iron policeman present and aj | stenographer who took down. Grecht’s speech. In MacDonald, Pa., Grecht reported an organi of the reactionary Lewis | machine tried to break up a meeting which was attended by three or four hundred persons. Before the speak- |er’s arrival he told the workers that Grecht was going around the coun- try trying to break up the labor movement. During the course of the meeting. he arose dramatically and called on the audience to leave the ‘hall. Only a few followed him out. | but they returned shortly and in half an hour the disrupting organizer came | back. Lewis Man Defended “Cal.” rn Penn provoke the meeting ~ but | In_addition to the | ‘Another Play as the | Best People Like It N “A Distant opean? by Vincent Lawrence at the Hudson Theatre, jat all, will do so because of too much competition in its own line. It is an idealization of the ideal of middle class life—the para- site. | A pretiy good ae- tor, Calhern, takes the part of John Milburn, ex-soldier and_ ex-professional | ball player, who | Louis Calhern makes good money off his women, whom |he persuades to continue living with |their husbands, beg cash from the |husbands, and turn it over to him. | The title “Distant Drum” seems to heart beats; the gentleman begins to imagine himself in love—of course |with an heiress one Edith Reed. His first attempt to elope with her, on $50 just supplied by his present source of income, Lynu Wilson (played by |Mary Newcomb), is interrupted by the deserted woman’s confession to The speaker attacked the Coolidge | her husband, in the presence of the administration for its imperialist ven- ture in Nicaragua; its tacit aid to the |coal operators and its general reac- | tionary policy in favor of the bosses. | The Lewis henchman began. ‘to |shout his indignation against the! | criticism of Mellon’s puppet. presi-| | dent, the Mellon who owns the Pitts- {burgh Coal Company ageinet which | John L. Lewis pretends to be fight- ling. The workers from all over the! hall told the disrupter to ‘sit down| or they would give him the bum’s rush out of the meeting. He was given the floor, however, and he grew lyrical in defense of the capitalist system, the coal operators’ system. He declared that no one had a right to attack the government. He de- clared that the speaker should be ar- rested and put in jail. He-explained that John L. Lewis let down the Fayette miners in 1922 because he had no more money. He attacked the | Labor Party policy, wanted to know who was paying the speaker and wound up by saying that this was the | best country in the world. : i Miners Laughed Hoarsely. | This last was too much for the | striking miners, who have been try- ing to get along on less than one | heiress. However, the heiress (acted by Katherine Wilson in a really charm- ing manner) takes the proper view of it, as one parasite to another, and has just made a second deal for him to desert Lynn and run off to China with Edith, when the jealous husband turns up drunk enough to shoot. There is the usual affecting death | scene. Some of the acting is very good, and the author gets,about all he can out of the plot. But of course, the competition is heavy —V. S. “MAYA” NEXT PRODUCTION OF THE ACTOR-MANAGERS The Actor-Managers production of “The Love Nest” which closed at the Comedy Theatre this week will be fol- lowed shortly by “Maya,” a play from the French of Simon Gantillon, trans- lated by Ernest Boyd. Aline Mac- Mahon, who was associated with the group at the Neighborhood Playhouse. and 200 at Pursglove. The miners’ union is completely smashed in West Virginia. The union’s last stronghold around Morgantown, was wiped out in 1925. The miners, however, indi- cwnership of forests, especially in the! dollar a head per week, so’they gave |cated by the questions asked that mountains and swamps, be greatly extended. Forests have been im- paired or destroyed on millions of acres of land. entirely unsuited to ag- riculture.” MINE TAG DAY IN BOSTON. BOSTON, Jan. 29.—The Working Class Women’s Federation will hold a house to house collection for miners’ relief on Feb. 5. All volunteers should register at Morten Hall, 1165 Blue Hill Ave., International Hall, 42 We- nonah St., and 36 Causeway St. |the Lewis lackey the horse laugh. | Grecht finished the job by telling the | audience about the injunctions that this benevolent government has been issuing to help the operators smash the miners’ unions and reduce the miners to.a state of industrial feud- alism. The speaker was given an ovation and the disorganizer retired from the fray unhonored and un- cheered. Meetings in Avella, Pa. and in Pursglove, W. Va., were well attend- ed; about 300 at the Avella meeting they wanted a union, but apparently the Lewis organizers were not inter- ested. Several organizers of the U. M. W. of A. were present. What they are organizing is a deep mystery. she addressed were anxious to hear more speakers and arrangements loeals of the United Mine Workers |have not held a meeting since the be- |ginning of the strike and the mem- bers are completely at sea about how the situation stands. -LENIN-RUTHENBERG ; DRIVE | From Lenin Memorial Day to Ruthenberg Memorial Day JOIN IN A REAL FIGHT AGAINST 1, injunctions. Company Unions. 3. Unemployment. 4, Persecution of the i 5. War. » > 1. Organization of the unorganized. j 2. Miners’ Relief. onan no se Foreign Born. ment. Subscribe to the Daily Worker Read a Fighting Paper Riese . (Communist) FILL OUT THE § BLANK BELOW AND MAIL (Pull wr this blank and mail to Work Party, | rO DAILY WORKER, 23 FIRST ST., NEW YORK. 430E. 126th St, N. ¥. 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Join the Workers (Communist) Party of America Application for Membership in Workers Party FOR and Farmers’ Govern- fe pRAMA we have another play which if it fails | |be a reference to the faint rumble oi | | Interlude,” which the Theatre Guild Grecht reported that the workers | were made for other meetings. Many | JACK OSTERMAN | | One of the bright features of “Art. | ists and Models” the revue at the} Winter Garden, will have the title role. Others in the east will be Albert Carroll, Paula Trueman, Mare Loebell, Otto’ Hulett and George Heller. Agnes Morgan} will direct the production, which goes into rehearsal today and is scheduled to open at the Comedy Theatre some- time next month. Scenery and cos-| tumes will be designed by Aline Bernstein. | || Broadway Briefs _| | | | | The new O’Neill drama “Strange will present at the Golden Theatre this evening is one of the longest plays Broadway has ever seen. The performance will start at 5:15 and continue until 7:30 when there will be an intermission of an hour for din- ner. The performance will resume at 8:30. There will be no matinee per- formances of the play. “The Optimists,” Melville Gideon’s new musical show opens at the Cen- tury Roof tonight. t Nan Halperin, is the principal stage attraction at Moss’ Broadway | Theatre this week. Clark and Berg-| man will offer another important act | in the bill. For the devotees of screen | sylvania Actually Starving COMPRESSED AIR WORKERS PICKET DESPITE POLICE Organization Is Urged on N. J. Bridge BAYONNE, N. Jan, 29.~-Mem- hers of Jersey City Local 67 of the Compressed Air and Foundation Workers’ ior composed of white and Negroes. are picketing the shores of Newark Bay in Bayonne, where a feree of 150 unorganized Negroes from Harlem have been imported by the A. MeMullan Co., contractors. They were hired on caisson work in constructing abutments for the new Lehigh Valley Railroad bridge. The unerganized workers were hired at $8 a day. The union rate is $12 a d Local 67 is attempting to or- ganize the imported workers. The picketing has been peacefu! despite the fact that local papers are misrep- resenting it as “race trouble.” Poliee on Scene. heighten this impression, a To ‘strong-arm squad of Bayonne, Hudson Boulevard and railroad police is con- | stantly kept over the unorganized men. Motorcycle policemen escort them to the Hudson Tube Station at Journal Square, Jersey City, when shifts change at 2? a. m., 4 p. m. and midnight. Sandhogs, or workers in tunnels and caissons (water-tight compressed sir casings for under-water construc- tion), must work under a high atmos- pherie pressure, and are subject to the dreaded caisson-disease. Work Hazardous. This is characterized by pains ‘in the joints, paralysis, and often ends in sudden collapse, called the bends, from the stooping posture induced by it. The disease is caused by repeatedly passing between the high atmospheric pressure of a caisson into the ordin- ary atmosphere. Work in compressed air structures is among the most haz- ardous known. drama, the Broadway is showing “San Francisco Nights,” a picture adapted from the story “The Fruit of Divorce” by Leon de Costa. The cast includes Percy Marmont, Mae Busch and Tom O’Brien. ‘ Butler Davenport head of the Davenport Theatre, announces that on Sunday afternoon, February 5, the public is invited to attend a free per- formance of ‘‘The Father’s Son” a war drama, presented by the Daven- port Theatre Club. WINTHROP AMES presents JOHN GALSWORTHY’S E ESCAPE' BOOTH “htt: We" ue Broadhurst fainweadsut2: cronce A RL I SS in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE DRA Bway, 46 St. Evs. 8.30 30 | : FULTON sats’ Wed.&Sat. 2. THAN i Eves. 8:30. 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