The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW_YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1928 Colo. Strike Notes, Builders’ Unemployment, Told by Worker Correspondents WALSENBURGCOAL’ MINERS DESCRIBE HARD CONDITIONS Painters Confer on Job- | lessness | (By a Worker Correspondent). | DNBURG, Colo., (By Mail).| uments pro and con on the out- “ome of the present strike are both | nteresting and educational. Many are | trifling, some prevaricative, but the | gist of one of the more constructive | mes can be summed up in one para- zraph: More than seven thousand of the | original strikers are still on strike | aftet one hundred and ten days of} strike. The coal operators admitting | chat without these men in the coal | mines of Colorado, no profitable pro- | juction can be carried on, To rep hese men would take years of train- | ng of the available slave .material. {n the meantime no fat, nor even pro- | fitable contracts may be made and the | mines must remain mostly idle—not | o forget the financial losses, both of production and mine destructive va- rieties. Yes, we realize our advan-} tageous position at the present time; | will we take full advafitage of it? Ae Y Conyersation Overheard by Observer] High Salaried Labor Faker (To Coal Operator): “Just you wait, Mr. Op- erator, I'll have them all in the mines soon, but will you surely remember me then.” | Operator: “Yes, you damn fool, I'll} always have use for you if you con- tinue to hoodwink a few working men. Beware! ! ! A fellow worker was recently asked to accept the position of relief secre- tary at Walsenburg, and replied, “Please excuse me, I went over the top eight times in France, fought the Nicaraguans for Wall Street, and was frozen in the Bering Sea for an en- tire winter, but I never take great risks. No, sir! The position of relief secretary at Walsenburg is dangerous, I lack the nerve.” , * * .To Those Who Are Weakening. You men who are going back work, stop and think, have you for- gotten that you elected your State Executive Committee to fight, for you? Are you géing to leave them i fight this battle without your back- ] ing? When your committee undertook ‘their job they knew that you would have to stand soil or they would be left in a tight position. But they had confidence in you and went ahead to} get all that was in their power for] the Colorado striking coal miners. | Don’t leave them now men, think of their position and their trust in you. Think of those who gave their lives, | those wounded and the men who went to jail in order that you and your fam- ilies would receive a better living, a} living that would be fit to labor for. * | To Those Who Have Helped the Cause | We extend the hearty. thanks of the striking coal miners of Colorado, to those who have stood’ behind us, both morally and financially. To you the miners owe the victory that they will | gain, for through your aid we are able to fight the man odds that con- fronted us. Keep up the good work fellow sympathizers, and you will be rendering labor a fuller justice. Send ali donations to the Miners’ Relief and Defense Committee, Box 93, Lafayette, Colo. —COLO. STRIKERS. * x ‘ New York Face Unemployment Issue. (By a Worker Correspondent) That the building trades workers in New York ar by the growing evil of unemployment is evidenced by the fact that a meet- ing called last week by the Inter-Lo- eal Club of the Painters’ Union to discuss the unemployment situation was attended by so large a crowd that a larger hall than first arranged had to be hired. ‘ The chairman, Dave Rappaport, briefly explained that the purpose of the meeting was to compel the of- ficials of the District Council to take steps to obtain relief for the unem- ploynient crisis in the building trades, The speakers at the meeting were: A. Melnick, a painter and Jack Paul, a member of the Carpenters’ Union. Their speeches criticized the officials of all the building trades unions for not organizing the grow- ing number of open shop jobs. They pointed out that this factor greatly contributed to the lack of employ- ment among the union men, A series of demands upon the of- ficials of the District Council were unanimously carried. They are: A demand be made for city work under union control; unemployment fund organized and controlled by the locals themselves; equal division of work; unemployment statistics to be kept by the union. . A speaker from the Unemployed Y Council was also introduced. He out- "lined the unemployment problem in the country generally. Enthusiastic applause greeted the stating of the _ demand of that organization, that no ~ jobless workers be required to pay vent when they are out of work, He {governor may be forced to call. Worker Correspondents, Send Photographs! The above shack is used to “house” striking coal miners. It il- lustrates the conditions in which the Colorado correspondents, who wrote the accompanying letter, are compelled to live. Photographs help to make your letters more interesting for all your readers. En d of Offical Lawlessness Demanded by Colo. Workers By WINIFRED R, MOOERS (Federated Press). DENVER, Feb. 13. against the Colorado mine strikers is resuiting in a strong demand by people all over the state for halt in go nmental lawlessness. Joe Whitmore is in Denver to testify in a hearing the¢ ~ | correspondent, remains in the Weld Whitmore considers himself lucky! county jail. In the northern counties to have escaped with his life from the| the health department has been cor- state police. He was arrested Jan. 30| rupted to serve the operators and is with four other miners in a raid on| forbidding union meetings on the the Walsenburg union hall where aj pretense of preventing epidemics of strike, meeting was in progress. The | disease. following evening he was released} 7 - Wi < from the jail at midnight though he} Huahapy svarderess) Wate Dice: begged to be left in his cell until} Mrs. Frances Chavez whose hus- morning. His fears were well founded. band was wantonly killed by state po- Beat Miner Senseless. | lice at Walsenburg Jan. 12 is also As soon as he got outside the jail) dead, a victim at 21 of pneumonia door three state police seized him, aggravated by grief at the murder of put a sack over his head and hand-| her husband. The coroner’s jury found cuffed him. They drove him to Laj that Chavez was unarmed at the time Veta pass, 40 miles away in an auto, of his death and that the state police beating him nearly senseless and! killed him in an “unprovoked and dumped him out. It took him all next brutal manner.” day to crawl to a lumber camp and| While all this violence is going on have his injuries tended. | the mine operators, under the domina- Marion Simovic, another striker in! tion of Rockefeller’s. Colorado Fuel & the Walsenburg jail, was also let out| Iron Co., are continuing their practise at midnight, beaten up in similar fash-| of short weighting their men and Repeated violence by Gov. Adams’ state police | es considerably agitated | ion and left unconscious on the road.} The man- Simovic has not been seen since. | Their companions have been black- jacked, and are confined in the un-| ventilated jail basement with dirty drinking water. Three strikers held since October in the Trinidad jail on charges of in- citing to riot were released Feb. 6 without prosecution. Habeas corpus writs are being sued out inf federal court for 4 strikers in the Greeley jail. Frank Palmer, Federated Press paying starvation wages. ager of the Fraker Coal Co. admitted to the state industrial commission that the railroad scales at his mines have not been used for a year. The cheating works both ways. Not only is the miner deprived of full weight in chalking up his wage but the con- sumer must frequently pay in winter for the weight of 6 to 12 inches of snow accumulated on the cars before they reach Denver, it was gleaned from his testimony. | | | concluded by pointing out the neces- sity for a Labor Party in this coun- Ty: Towards the end of the meeting a business agent of the Painters’ Union was recognized by the work- ers. Chairman Rappaport asked him to come to the platform and address the workers. He refused, saying that | he was sent only to listen and report. It was announced that another meet- ing will be held on the coming Wed- nesday at the same hall, 143 E. 103rd St. —M. W. * Michigan * °% America Exports Propaganda. (By a Worker Correspondent). DETROIT, (By Mail) —British im- perialists are hiring Americans to do their propaganda for them. Ever since the Russian revolution the propagan- dists of imperialist ‘and capitalist in- terests all over the world, particularly lin Great Britair, the oldest and larg- lest imperiaist power, have been busy | predicting the collapse of the Soviet government and circulating the most fantastic stories about the Soviet Union, China and India. There is nothing surprising about |this; for have not the same propa- gandists for the last one hundred and fifty years with equal energy and England’s exploiting mission in India, proclaiming all along with grama- phonic fidelity the incompetence of In- |dians to look after their own affairs? After the late world war, on no sub- ject have the powerful and untiring agents of the dominant classes in the imperialist lands written so rapidly and often as on the Soviet Union or the red peril. Catherine Mayo, an American lady, was hired by the British imperialists to write a malicious book against In- dia, While Mr. Ivy Lee, also an Amer- ican, and a man distinctly allied with capitalism, and a believer in the rights of private property as the basis for the future prosperity and happiness of mankind, has been employed to write on the Soviet Union. @ He was in the U. S. S. R. for less than three weeks. During this short time he formed his impressions of a country with -13,000,000 square miles of territory, with 140,000,000 people, speaking 100 different languages and representing innumerable customs, re- ligious beliefs and historical and ra- cial backgrounds. At least it is interesting to know that 100 different languages, innum- erable customs and the rest of it, need not form an obstacle to a country’s political independence. | conviction, been singing the praises of | There is the usual nonsense about vio- | lence, democracy and freedom of thought and action, in other words he suggests keeping the line clear for counter-revolutionaries, so that the | world may continue to be safe for imperialistic exploitation. —C.R. ROY. | * New Jersey EXPOSE SCHWARTENBACH SILK MILLS. (By a Worker Correspondent) BAYONNE, N. J., (By Mail)* Five hundred workers, mostly girls, are employed at the millionaire silk) mills of Schwartzenbeck-Huber Co., located at 18th Street and Avenue B, Bayonne, N. J. Nearly all these! girls are Polish girls who are staunch | Catholics and are bulldozed into being satisfied with their condition, by the Catholic priests, and that is one rea- son why our conditions are so bad here. The weavers handle three or four | looms, and get from 4% to 8% cents} a yard for their work, according to! the quality of the silk. We get $10.45 | jas a flat time wage, and never more. | We get about $23 or $24 a week on| \the average, and $10.45 of this is for | time. The company seldom pays us jon time, but usually makes us wait | 2 or 3 days for our money. We get paid twice a month, and the oman pays us by check, which is very hard} on the girls, who ge¥ very little chance to cash their checks because they are working from 7 to 12 and 1 to 5, which is 9 hours. If we are a minute late, the gate is closed on us for half a day, and we lose the pay,| of course. In the summer time we are always laid off one or two weeks. Besides weavers, there are warpers and winders. The warpers are paid about $5 a warp, which is 10 cuts of 60 yards each. They never can make that much a day tho. We have no union mills, because the girls, altho they are not treated well, are scared by their priests and are told not to form unions. —A SILK WORKER. * Chicago ; * (By a Worker Correspondent) The matter below I feel should be! printed so that the war department} doings should be followed by the pa-| per, as well as to show the poor Henry | Dubb that he is not yet living in pure democracy. All last week the car-ferry Mait-| land, which plies between Ashtabula, | Ohio, and Port Maitland, Canada, on In the last chapter Mr. Lee showed Lake Erie, was stuck in an ice-floe in the Schwartzenbeck-Huber |1 RANK AND FILE SHOE WORKERS RAP BETRAYERS [Fight Officialdom and Arbitration Scheme (Special to The Daily Worker) HAVERHILL, Mass., Feb. 13.— John D, Dolan, president of the Shoe | Workers Protective Union, resigned |from the arbitration committee estab- lished after the settlement of the last strike in which 9,000 workers were in- volved. The resignations of Joseph} Bearak, socialist attorney for the} union and James Rooney, chairman of |the District ‘Council of Shoeworkers lecals are also expected. The resig- |nation of these three who todk upon |themselves the job of representing the Haverhill shoe workers in a com- pulsory arbitration committee against which the workers fought, means the |actual dissolution of the arbitration committee. Council Hits Betrayers. © | When attorney Bearak appeared be- |fore the District Council and in- formed the delegates that he had agreed to certain “relief measures” to aid the Greenstein Shoe Company, | trouble developed. The relie measures, it was disclosed, involved the loss of conditions for which the shoe workers had fought bitterly. There- fore the Council promptly defeated the actions of the socialist attorney who was so ready to help the em- ployer at the expense of the workers. The District Council went further and stripped the committee of all power, thus declaring an open vote xf non-confidence against President Nolan and Attorney Bearak. The manufacturers association interprets this as an open move to dissolve the arbitration board which was assumed to have full power. Fight Collaboration. The shoe workers under rank and file leadership in the strike, madé no | secret of their opposition to any form of arbitration committees which, in practice, worked against the interests of workers. The action of the Dis- trict. Council shows that the workers will continue their opposition to these compulsory schemes which bind the workers to poor working conditions | and low wages. the explosives she had aboard were not effective so she sent a wireless showing that she was helpless to make |her own way to port, stating that everyone was alright aboard with lots of supplies but a little short of coal. At once the daily papers printed the news that the men did not have any tobacco, resulting in three army planes being sent out with a few cig- arettes, altho less than half of the men enjoy the use of tobacco. After | gliding around in the air twice, away they went to Cleveland and not drop- ping anything else but the cigarettes. The weather changed somewhat, which permitted the boat to put in at the port of Conneaut, Ohio, where the captain said that everyone was O. K. No one suffered from the 10 days hold-up, and not even mention- \ing that the army planes “came to their rescue.” —E, J. HEWITT. “Sunny Days” with Mu- sic by Jean Schwartz Opens at Imperial The latest addition to the mounting list of musical comedies on Broadway is “Sunny Days” now playing at the Imperial Theatre. While the present name “Sunny Days” may seem strange to the oc- casional theatregoer it is none other than a musical ver- sion of our old friend “A Kiss in a Taxi” that was a comparative success in 1925, € Altho the present e show is of no actual f > consequence, when it | Ss comes to remember- | ‘i 7, ing the -plot five} Beet minutes after the| spectator leaves the theatre (prob- ably the audience should not remem- ber the story, anyway) it undoubted- ly will bring in the shekels for its producer. As to its entertainment value, that is another question. From thé time the curtain is raised until the end of | the third act, one is constantly await. | ing the next feature. And no one can deny that the producdrs have been | liberal in fitting out the production. The cast includes many favorites of musical comedy including Billy B. Van, Lynee Overman, Frank McIn- tyre, Carl Randall and Jeanette Mac- Donald, One must not forget the chorus of pretty girls who keep on the go all evening. While many jokes are told during | the evening most of them are very | ancient and should either be replaced or left out of future performances. The music by Jean Schwartz is stimulating and undoubtedly contains some of the popular dance music for the next few months. Especially “Hang Your Hat on the Moon.” The costumes are charming, the same can be said for the settings by Watson Barrat. All in all, it is like attending a glorified vaudeville show. The book and lyrics are by Clifford Grey and William Cary Duncan, As} to the plot, that is of no importance in this or any other musical comedy. Marcel Grandjany, the French harp- ist, will give his only recital at Stein- way Hall Sunday afternoon, February 26. Alton Jones, pianist, at his recital in Town Hall on’ February 16, will play the Brahms Sonata in F sharp minor, and a group of Liszt com- positions. Solomon: Pimsleur, pianist, is sche- duled for a recital at Steinway Hall Sunday afternoon, March 25. Eleanor Blake, mezzo-soprano, will appear in song recital at the Little Theatre Sunday evening, Feb. 26. Messmore Kendall, and Gilbert Mil- ler will star Ina Claire in a revival of “Our Betters,” Somerset Maugh- am’s comedy which was, first produced in New York in March, 1917. IN IN A REAL IGHT! FOR | 1. Organization of the unorgan- ized, | 2. Miners’ Relief. 3. Recognition and Defense of the Soviet Union, 4. A Labor Party. 5. A Workers’ and Farmers’ | Government. AGAINST 1. Injunctions. 2. Company Unions. i 8. Unemployment. 4. Persecution of the Foreign Born. 5. War. please check this box. his own color. He has exposed him-jabout three miles from Ashtabula on_ self as a capitalistic philosopher. her return trip. The ice was such that Join a Fighting Party! ~Join the Workers (Communist) Party of America | Application for Membership in Workers (Communist) Party _(Fill out this blank and mail to Workers Party, 43 BE. 125 St., N. ¥. C.) If you are on strike or unemployed and cannot pay initiation fee UNEMPLOYED AND STRIKERS ADMITTED WITHOUT INITIATION and receive dues exempt stamps until employed, (Hnclosed find $1,00 for initiation fee and one month's dues.) | Winter Garden Plays one of the principal roles in “The Command To Love,” the merry Continental comedy at the Longacre Theatre. Ukrainian Moving Pic- ture Activities Reach Towns and Villages The Ukrainian State Cinema Works jare at present, devoting considerable | attention to the extension of cinema enterprises in the rural districts. Cinema establishments will be func- tioning in the remotest villages. Regular contact has been established by the Ukrainian Cinema Works with the movie fan amateurs in the vil- lages, who have been supplied with small cameras and are recording local events ard scenes, which later are incorporated in the regular Chronicle ‘of Events released by the organization. ; The films received from the local vil- lage amateurs, as a rule, are found to be extremely interesting and enter- taining, and are successfully displayed before cinema spectators in the towns. The Ukrainian Cinema Works are also working on a number of new films upon scenarios by modern authors. Margallo Gillmore is now playing the role of Jennifer Dudedat in the Theatre Guild’s production of “The Doctor’s Dilemma,” which is alternat- ing with “Marco Millions” at the Guild Theatre. Agnes Ayres will enact the role of Josephine in the Technicolor special, “Napoleon and Josephine,” which will be the third of Metro’s Great Events series. EMPLOYERS PLAN DRIVE ON WOLL’S PEACE’, UNIONISM Report Attack Launch- ed on Photo-Engravers | CHICAGO, Feb. 13.—Union-smash- ling activities of employes which the lleft wing in the labor movement for over a year now has predicted will become nation-wide, have at last in- vaded even Matthew Woll’s organiza- tion, the International Photo Engray- ers’ Union. Hides News of Lock-out. | Details of a lock-out by the Wal- \lace-Miller Engraving Co., which was | instituted on Jan. 7, have at last come |to light even though Local 5, Woll’s |own local, has tried, it is stated, to } suppress the news. Acting under what lis believed to be a well formulated plan by the employers in the indus- try and supported by the open-shop interests of the country, the firm overnight locked-out its 25 union em- ployes and announced that it would run open-shop. The firm has been selected in a trial | attack on the union, it has been learn- jed. At the same time that scabs were jemployed, the hours were increased (from 44 to 48 per week, Woll Avoids Action, Characteristically, Woll’s union has |thus far refrained from taking any | action inst the firm although it |announées that it will do something. | Woll hitherto has boasted of the suc- lcess which his policy of “harmony” between employers and workers has met. This act by the Wallace-Miller Engraving Co., it is believed, will be the means of discrediting this policy. |The firm is threatening an injunction should Woll declare a strike. It is believed that Woll will do nothing. Try to Break Capmakers With Contempt Charge CHICAGO, Feb. 13. — Thirty-five Chicago capmakers are about to ap- pear before Judge Denis Sullivan who issued an all-inclusive writ against these locked-out unionists, Sullivan will be both prosecutor, judge and jury in the contempt case., If he finds that the capmakers have been con- temptuous of his order, as he charges, he will be in position to impose either fine or jai] upon them. The injunction was issued although the employers had broken the contract they had signed with the union and which was not to expire until next year. — The Theatre Guild presents —— osci’s Strange Interlude O'Neill's Play, John Golden Thea,, 58th, E. of B’way Evenings Only at 5:30. Bernard Shaw’s Comedy % DOCTOR’S DILEMMA GUILD?) W. 52d St. Evs. Mats, Thurs. & Sat Feb. 20, “Marco Millions” PORG «4. Th., W. 42d, Evs.8:40 Republic ysis. Wed.&sat.2:40 Eves, 8:30, Mats, Mon., Thurs, & Sat. WOREDS aca SENSATION! Artists * Models WINTHROP AMES presents JOH’, GaLSWORTHY’'S E Ss Cc A Pp with LESLIE HOWARD Thea., W. 45St. Eva. 8:40 BOOTH Mat’ Mon, Wed. & Sat. Th.,W.44 St.By: Broadhurst yiuid'Mton, Wed, crorce A RLISS in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE $s “BETTER THAN THE BAT” hea. W.44 St.Hva,8.30 ERLANGER’S sits, Wed. @ Sat. Extra Holiday Matinee Monday |THE MERRY MALONES with GEORGE M. COHAN i ‘Theatre, 41 St, W. of B'way National ysMise, mts. Wed. asatz.e Extra Holiday Matinee Monday “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, with Ann Harding-Rex Cherryman ig HARRIS Thea., 424, W. of Bway. Evs. 8:80. Mats. Mon., Wed. & Sat. LOVELY LADY with Edna Leedom & Guy Robertson. MUSIC AND CONCERTS AMERICAN OPERA COMPANY ist N. Y. SEASON, SUNG IN ENGLISH GALLO THEA. Evgs. 8:20, Mats, 2:20, 54th, W. of B’way. PHONE COL, 1140, Mon, Evg. & Wed. Mat., Mme. Butter- fly. Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat. Bvg. Sat. Mat., rmen, 4 The shooting’s all over now. with laughter, music, song and dance, the New Playwrights, beginning February 17, present at their theatre, 40 Com- merce St. (phone Walker 5851) In all seriousness yet, but Michael Gold’s New Play Hoboken Blues For all performances, a 10% reduction will’ be given on all tickets purchased from the local Daily Worker Office 108 East 14th Street. Phone Stuyvesant 6584. tse aby DRACU | FULTON “asit3 Weassae 230