The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 8, 1928, Page 4

Page Focr THE DAILY WORKER, } EW YORK, WEDNESDAY r, FEB. 8, 1928 State Cops Fail to Appear Against nn Mine Relief Chairman They Jailed MINERICH ARREST "css Sanis in MADE AT POINT | OF POLICE GUNS Terror Fails to Halt Aid to Miners By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. = Anthony P. Minerich, chairman of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners Relief | Committee, who was arrested on Jan-| uary Sist while addressing a large | audience of miners and other residents | of McDonald, was released by Justice | McKnight of Houston on February 2,/ when the state police failed to appear | against him. | In the course of his speech at Me- | Donald, Minerich denounced the| strike-breaking injunctions issued by | coal company owned judges to pre vent the strikers from picketing the | mines. He quoted the late Samuel | Gompers, who often announced pub-| licly that he would not obey an anti-| labor injunction. “To hell with in- junctions,” was the slogan of Samuel | hours a day for little pay. Even Fiorello La Guardia, representative at Washington, found that all reports of insufferable conditions in the coal fields were true. He is shown here inspecting the miserable tunnels in the mines at Curry, Pa., in which the miners are forced to work in darkness many WASHINGTON OK’S| CENSORSHIP ON NICARAGUA WAR Nicaragua War Protest Stamp Barred By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press). WASHINCTON, Feb, 7. —.Censor- ship of political discussion, as in-| stanced in refusal to permit passage | | through the mails of the words “Pro- |test Against Marine Rule in Nica- |ragua,” on. sticker-stamps placed on | |the backs of envelopes, has been of- | ficially upheld by Postmaster General Harry New. Without explanation of’ how the | libel and indeceney section of the fed- jeral penal code is strained to cover | | political discussion, New hands down | jhis ruling, in which he refers to the | | anti-imperialist slogan as a “Sandino | |stamp.” His letter is the signal to| |the federal prosecuting machinery in | New York to attempt to punish the members of the Anti-Imperialist League for-issuing and sending these Conditions Insufferable Gompers,” Minerich said, “And on] Troopers Point Guns. Before Minerich had a chance to continue his speech six state troop- | ers rushed up to the platform and with guns pointed at the speaker | placed him under arrest and ordered | ¢ the meeting to disperse. There was |. senientlyd no disturbance, except what was cre- |'S st ape y 4 Fae ated by the police. The audience |*ectors of operations. passed out of the theatre, where the meeting was held, expressing indigna- | * * . | which many railroad and foot traffic tion ‘against the action of the state iidges are built. While the south| F \hills side of the city is divided from | Released on Bail. jthe main part of Pittsburgh by the After spending a night in jail Min-| Monongahela River. Over this river, | erich was released on $25 bail fur- las in the case of the Allegheny, there | nished by a resident of Canonsburg.|are many bridges so situated that) Tho the police declared that the seri-| they reach the main parts of the city. ous charge of “inciting to riot” would|In the Allegheny sector of the city be preferred against him, he was | thousands of workers are located and only booked on a charge of disorderly |the same thing prevails in the south conduct. ‘ |side of the town. Up and down both | The object of the arrest was to | sides of the Allegheny and Moncnea- hinder the good.work now being done | hela rivers the most concentrated | for the striking miners and their |wealth-producing and commodity-pro- | dependents by the Pennsylvania-Ohio | ducing mills and factories are located. Miners Relief Committee, and to ter- “War” rorize the miners. Relief Urgent, he and their wives and children is ur- gently need to enable them to con- tinue the struggle. Send all con- tributions to the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners Relief Committee, 611 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. By W. J. WHITE. Plans. river is going to be one sector northern lakes wit! 10 Tiver and thru that source make up a water- carrying highway—from the Atlantic |the Gulf of Mexico. This is among {the plans of our imperialistic and |industrial masters. Of course there is a m'vhty competitive battle to |be settled between the men who have money invested in the railroads and | the industrial lords who aim to get their products to the oceans by the cheapest method of transportation. This battle must be settied between |the giants who are now definitely | locking horns in this contest in which {either one or the other will go down | and out, and the waterway to the | gulf come under the domination of \the strongest groups of capitalists. The city was recently instructed by |the department of war to raise its | bridges over the Allegheny river. The |efficials were given a certain time in | which to do this work, and if this |were not done within limit of time | set, city officials were to pay a heavy fine, for each day the bridges were |not raised. For Machine Guns. Two of these bridges are already junction, ly through the | constructed, under the orders of the injunction issued in connection with | war department, while the third has miners strike by the courts in Pitts- |the foundations for it already in the burgh and Steubenville, is becom- | river. On each end of the two brid- ing a serious menace and must be |ges already fin there is placed combatted by all organized labor in a strategic position about 250 feet since otherwise the trade union |from each end of the bridge, on each movement will be completely des- | side, a small stone building for the troyed; operation cf machine guns. “Wherefore be it: of each of the stone forts is a place “Resolved that this loca} union No, 971, U. M. W. of A. of the | The following resolution calling on the workers to “defy injunctions” was adopted at a recent meeting of Local Union No. 971 of the United Mine Workers. It has been forwarded to the DAILY WORKER from Yorkville, Ohio, under the seal of the local and signed by President Jack Bell and F, A. Nunley, secretary: Resolution: “Whereas, the employers in their determination to destroy the trade union movement of the country, do not stop at any object; and “Whereas, in their attack on the trade union movement they are openly assisted by the government, by means of injunctions, Sheriffs, Marshalls and even troops; and “Whereas, the use of injunctions has become so widespread that it constitutes one of the gravest dangers confronting the organized American working class; and Injunction Menace. “Where vernment, by in- Store Machine Guns for ‘War’ tin the use of the so-called Sandino | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 7—To the | operation of the guns. |man with a militaristic mind this city |@n each end are clear of all Shrrdes| et vatious governmental policies to | ided into three main | tions for from 200 to 250 feet, so Allegheny on/| that the machine, gun operators will | pagandize the public and to institute the north is divided from Pittsburgh | be able to pour a stream of lead into} a comparison between the refusal to proper by the Allegheny river, over|the ranks of any body of men who | permit the use of the Sandino stamp, ‘ome time in the future the Alleg- | ‘ AGE TS who do the pigtiang. for our master Machine Displaces More‘ Coal Miners" ocean coming thru the St. Lawrence | river and the Welland canal into the; Allegheny river and thru the Ohio} linto the Mississippi river and into} On top| into the future te see the ultimate | where snipers ean be placed to pick! and misled worker can no longer be | slogan stamps through the mails. Complete Approval. “The ruling made by Solicitor Don- | nelly,” says New, “against permit- | stamp on United States mail, has my entire approval. “Tt is a manifest absurdity to per- The bridges | mit political agitators and advocates eff anyone who might menace the utilize the United States mails to pro- might get it into their heads to try |and the permission to grant it in the to storm the bridge. While from the|case of those who would use it in well protected interior of the upper |the fight against the spread of tuber- story of the forts the sharp shooters |culosis is too ridiéulous to be en- ean pick off those who menace the | titled to a mo: ’s consideration. machire gun handlers from the roof| “The use of the Sandino stamp on cf surrounding buildings. United States mail will not be per- That these forts are constructed | mitted.” for the defense of these bridges from s U.S. a “Wet Nurse.” un onslaught of some foreign enemy,| Thus an arbitrary censorship | does not fall within the dreams of | against the use of the open mails by even the wildest of our jingoists and | “advocates of various governmental one-hundred-per-centers. Then why | policies”—in direct violation of the if not for the invading Jap or Anglo-|law and constitution—is sec up by Saxon, do we see all this precaution |the Coolidge administration nine end preparation on the part of our|months before the presidential elec- strategists in the war department? | tion. There is only one other solution for this question, and that is, that those tant or near, a time when the work- ers and wealth producers on these |rivers may wish to join forces in a common cause. Under the directions of the men who own the means of | wealth in these valleys, or under the CADIZ, Ohio, Feb. 7.—A new labor saving device in coal mining is ex- pected to cause a further large in- crease in unemployment in the coal regions. -A new 550-foot deep shaft mine adopted here will dispense with| dump and tipple crews. Coal is poured into the cage automatically when the elevator reaches the bot- tom of the mine. When the cage is loaded, it is brought to the surface, where it automatically dumps its load over the screens. | directions of those who do the think- ing for these men their mind has | travelled far enough into the future |to see the time coming when they | will need the protecting barrier of |forts and machine guns, and the cover of those who man these forts and guns, The Future! Already the sounds of that far or! 3 |near distant time is beginning to| kept in leash, When that day dawns rumble up and down these valleys. \ as dawn it must, then I say the own- The wealth-owning class have al-|¢'S will be very badly in need of forts |ready made up their minds to wipe @2¢ machine guns and the protec- out the protection furnished to the | tion of those slaves whom they can worker by the union organizations— | buy up with their stolen surplus aimed to help the worker to protect wealth. > his hours of labor in the mills, mines}, Verily our masters are looking in- —_—_——_————————— HEN Leon Theremin waved his right hand before an antenna proj-| ected upward and his left hand before another in horizontal loop arrange-| ment on the te verse side of the} nall cabinet and actually made} music without the aid of bow, key-| board or mouth-} ening at the En-| gineers’ Auditor-| ium, we were amazed. Everybody had{ heard that this| professor from the State Institute of Technical Physics of Leningrad had ‘proved his conten- Leon Theremin tion that music could be created “out of the ether” merely by controlling the field of static electricity. But not until the clear, pure tones of the entire audible tone-scale were actually produced, and vibration added through the rapid movement of the left hand thus con- ferring richness and color to the tones, did the reality and immensity of the invention dawn upon us. Theremin, through his interpreter Dr. S. T. Quimby of Columbia Uni- versity, explained the scientific basic principles of his discovery in an in- troductory address on “New Tra’ Blazed in the Art of Musical Cre- ation.” : Utilizing electricity, Theremin said. a field of static electricity is created about the two antenna (similar to that responsible for the raucous sound heard when the knot of an ordinary radio is turned). Since the human hand ‘is a conductor of electricity. when it enters this field around the aerial, the volume is withdrawn into the hand, thus the pitch becomes higher and the intensity of tone regu- lated and controlled by the movement of the hands to and from the an- tennae. The sound is-actually made in; the cabinet and _ transmitted through the loudspeakers. From. the annoying screech «of -eveated tones: whos: intensity ranged from the sofest and most delicate pianissimo to a thunder- ous and impressive fortissimo. The tones suggested the clarity of the violin, the richness and depth of the violincello, the fullness of a contralto human voice, the clarinet—even the tonal quality of the flageolet. With the aid of the first pupil of “ether mysic,” J. Goldberg, Theremin presented a varied program of Rim- sky-Korsakoff, Scriabine, Glinka, Saint-Saens, Rubinstein and Schubert. The Russian inventor attempted to correlate color, simultaneously vary- ing hue with his music. However. there is nothing either new or start- ling about this correlation, and the results were uninteresting. Both Theremin and his pupil do not claim to be musicians. Much of the time they played out of tune. Since the music is created through the and factories. Slowly but surely it|t? the future! ’ movement of the hands, it flows ir is dawning upon the consciousness Ae of the worker that in order to pro- | tect his living conditions and his wage } he must be organized. “Destroy the unions,” is now the slogan of the owning class in the industrial heart of the United States. | The war on these unions is now rag- | ing. The blindest can not help but see what this smashing up of the} union means to the worker, and as this consciousness dawns up on the| worker, the battle must become| ! with LESLIE sharper and sharper. The minds of | iE s C A P HOWARD those who do the directing for our) |BUOTH eete See we Hie {masters have projected far enough E . 8: Winter Garden Byer. 3:30. M WORLD'S LAUGH SENSATION?” Artists * Models WINTHROP AMES presents JOB”, CalLSWORTHY’'S Th.,W.44 St.Evs.8:30 Broadhurst Mais weatstsay ceorce A R LI SS in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE | day dawn when even the befuddled Yorkville, Ohio, goes on record in | support of the recommendation of | Pass Brothér Green, President of Ameri- *}} can Federation of Labor, to ‘defy injunctions’ and recommends that the daily rule, get together in con- ference, in order to devise ways | and means of fighting this menace to the organized labor movement. “This resolution will be sent to President William Green, Miners | Journal, Daily Worker and to the local press.” Worker Is Not Allowed| to Visit Ellis Island | | | | Lawson fa ane af the most vital a | “Mr. Lawson has picked out a officials discriminate against trade||) unionists was charged yesterday by Stephen Shalagan, member. of the Marine Firemen, Oiler and Water Tenders’ Union. Shalagan said when he visited Ellis Island Sunday afternoon to see a friend he was asked to produce an identification. When he showed the official in charge his union book he was barred while other visitors were admitted. No other reason was given for refusing him admittance. | 86 COMMERCE ST.—P. % Blocks South on 7th Ave. Tickets on Sale Now at Daily Worker, 108 E. 14th St.—10% Discount. THE INTERNATIONAL BY JOHN HOWARD LAWSON Author of “Processional” | “An honest and courageous attempt to treat a subject which t#us | far has been strictly taboo in the’ American bourgeois theatre... . wrights of this country. The play is worth seeing.” biggest that a playwright could choose.” | “Deserves the attention of those interes’ , the beaten track of the triangle and its possibilities.” DON’T MISS IT—GET TICKETS NOW! The New Playwrights Theatre | | CLOSING FEBRUARY 11. | OS RIOR eae ma RRND EEE SEV ce iutuiutintntueae | — met } Bway, 46 St. Bvs, 8.30 FULTON nats! 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However, the value of the invention must not be minimized. The musical possibilities of the instrument are unlimited. It almost seemed as though there could be no end to the range of pitch which climbed from a note lower than any yet produced by wind e last Thursday) or string instrument to such height, | that it disappeared beyond the range of hearing. In volume too, there seemed to be no limit. Theremin demonstrated how his in- strument could be harnessed to a music stand many feet from his cab- inet, illustrating that an entire or- chestra could present symphonies. While the white and black notes of the piano are separated by half tones, Theremin’s instrument is capable of such fine shading as a hundredth tone variation. What a first rate musician will be able to do with the remarkable in- vention that was developed in a uni- yersity of the Soviet Union remains to be seen. Theremin declares that anybody can -use his instrument. In fact it can be attached to the ordin- ary radio if the miscrophone is elim- inated. It is with extreme impatience that those who heard Theremin’s music await the time when genuine musi- cians, liberated from: the restrain of the comparatively awkward keyboard bow or mouthpiece, will create new music of a quality which this revolu- tionary invention made possible. The demonstration was given under EXPOSE WATER _ GRAFT SCANDAL IN LONG ISLAND Rockaway Rates Boost- ed Exorbitantly A charge has been made by Rock- away residents that the Long Island Water Corporation has’ been selling them water at $25,000 per million gallons for which the corporation had paid but $133. William Bullock, a resident of Long Island, in a letter to Mayor Walker, charged that the Long Island Water Corporation was controlled by the same financial interests, the Equit- able Coach Co., to which the Walker administration had voted the bus fran- chises for Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. 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