The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1928, Page 4

~~ Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW_YORK, TUE AY, FEBR UARY;: 21, 1928 PIER LABORERS BLED BY EASTERN STEAMSHIP C0, Show Up Lead Poison Conditions _ (By a Worker Correspondent). We would ask you as a public bene factor to send a representative to the S ip Docks, Nos, 18, Steal Workers’ Time. men are checked a m ) ten are ty minutes getting Above phite of Mt. Clemens, Mich the technique of ki 100, these planes n y be FUN a kearew of Gold's CANNON, 2 by Mike @oid at se New Pl with winter maneavers of ) Constant practice will result in perfection in x the workers for the capitalist class. ailed upon any day to rain bombs down ON COMMERCE “Hoboken Blues”’ >-he law The slugging of the Mi io has no money and no job explains | better. Likewise we “sanctions a case in pone SUBJECT AT BIG MILWAUKEE RALLY [Negro Worker Runs for | Alderman (By « Worker Correspondent.) MILWAUKEE, Wis.(By Mail).—| | Growing unemployment was the prin- ciple subject discussed at an Inter- jracial labor mass meeting at the La- Political Action as a part of the} ee ipal Election campaign to place} Negro worker in the aldermanic | campaign. Several women and chil- | dren with their parents were present. | Unemployment Grows. B. Sklar of the Labor Council, J ord, organizer of the American Negro Labor Congress and Carlos C. 2 aldermanic candidate, were “The Clutching Claw” NOTHER mystery melodrama en- titled “The Clutching Claw” is in jtown; this time at the Forrest The- | atre. The play, in a prologue and |three acts is by Ralph Thomas Ket- | role. described by its title, for if jone goes | to see “The Clutching Claw,” one sees |thunder and lightening storm an |elderly gentleman is murdered on a | darkened stage in the study of his | hor 1e outside New York. This brief }episode occurs in the prologue. | The play actually begins next |morning, when the usual up the mystery in the usual stupid ways that stage police inspectors have, until the noted reporter-crimin- At the Forrest Theatre | | te ring, Ralph Morgan in the principal | The plot of the play itself is best | stupid | ‘| police inspector has arrived to clear MERCHANTS’ PLAN FOR AID TO COAL MINERS IS FRAUD Revealed ‘as Scheme to } Help the Bosses (Continued . of his national guard. The governor is getting a lot of publicity and much public sentiment of a favorable char- e.\ and upon the workers of some Latin American country who do not like |bor Temple, Saturday evening Feb. é ia: bint A i tre ted! _the idea of being enslaved by some Wall St. banker. 11, 1928. The meeting was arranged | °*2¢tly what the title indicates. eee Bene cree in Bandy ae ips a Eee by the Labor Council for United| At midnight in the midst of a Fate Coane woveriog de" eaai VO | by the coal operators to order his |national guard to shoot down the | striking miners as was done by gov- jernor Adams in Colorado. | The object of the fake capitalist relief movements is to create the im- pression among the workers that big business is friendly to the striking miners and to create confusion in their ranks. They know that their spurious relief action will interfere | Sarwan nace arama anata armen In the cast of “Sherlock Holmes” which was revived at the Cosmopoli- tan Theatre last night. mm who s the opinion that ologist, Gordon, played by Ralph z j thern | crowded with material “The upward trend of unemploy- | Morga an anda immed : i z with the work of a bonafide work- five ee “me \cotton- fields truck | out more than is nec y, }ment is growing more serious every SE ciedtel and Pareto ane. mewe noe al the renee com-|ingclass relief organization like the a fe 3, | patches. The g changes |gives the effect of a little too much | day, the total reaching over 4,000,000 | the inspéctor with the usual comedy mitted, but who woul e mean} Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief ite night work. | wrought in them by 25 years of pro- | diffusion; though the author’s|thruout the U. S.,” said Ford. “Un-! relief enough to divulge: the outcome of a/Committee, 611 Penn Avenue, Pitts- ae in get only |gressive developmer tion | mind was packed full of incident and} 2mployment is taking on a permanent ; mystery play and thus deprive future/burgh, which furnishes relief not as fonr cents per h The men have to tr of 1,500 plank is s to the in alone bales . weight. Very so steep it’s at! k. The same jalong the lines of machinery and jaz pravide the the: the langu in his blood and can- If to the pace of the! satiric comment which mania, he could not for another play and another It seems to me also that the s of Sam’s mother, with her lynch- recur somewhat too often for character as a result of speed-up ems and the like,” the speaker vinted out. “This situation affects the colored worker more seriously since he is the ‘first fired,’ and be- Again as usual until the villain is » end of the play with every character acting as mysteri- ously and guilty as possible. Suffice it to say that in the end the arch- unmasked at t audiences of the big punch. Briefly, “The Clutching Claw” may be described as just another mystery play of the school of “The Bat” and “The Spider” waphout the orginality charity or merely to feed the hungry, but to help win the strike and save the miners’ union from destruction. Boss Propaganda. nes and factories. He gets “the|the proper balance. {cause of his low economic position pene te aa oie moors Lake of those offerings. The business relief committees, I working blues.” Loafing, dreaming, | A Proletarian Playwright. |and condition he becomes a potential seat ny e h ba das eae pues t wherever they exist, insidiously trucks that are never oiled. This state | panjo-play beer in the| But all this is by the The |element to further reduce the work-|F sy ae pcigte ls Re cera (As Se ge ae spread _strikebreaking propaganda of affairs has been going on nearly |cool Harlem nd “looking |main impression left with me is that} ing standards of all workers,” con- aha sie ee iene HEE Steen { Broadway Briefs among the strikers. They advise men eighteen months e the Eastern} for a job.” These ant occupa-|here is emerging a playwright with | tinued Ford. “The leaders of industry | 4;,. 7 P het nes to go back to work and in thousands Steamship Com amalgamated | tions fill his Jaz clouded ove ; admit this trend in American in- dineétod=.. first: on). the. shercme 8 % aha of ways attempt to undermine the richer humor and sharper wit than brother then on the heroine and a The Vardi-Yoalit Theatre Studio, aj solidarity of the union coal diggers. those piers. Of ¢ hey do what | only by the ever. demands of | the Broadway wise-crackers and with- | dustries but offer no solution insofar : * they feel like now as work is slack |his wife (who w ‘white-folks’” | out their rotten aca standardized cyn-|a8 the, workers are concerned.” sige ae Saori’ Gael laboratory theatre, will give the first] And the strikers can fight until all over. \laundry for a living) that he gets @|icism, He wants to see people happy, | “Therefore,”. concluded the speaker, eae eth Sag pay ies eer of a series of intimate performances|the victory is won, if relief is ade- Pei Laborers of Thousands. job and keep it or else “leave home|} jiying in “Hoboken,” where folks | ‘the workers of all races must unify apie ~| Saturday evening, February 25, when|quate and immediate. If their wives mass plays one of his famous police 2 LT eae Sa land rustle his own pork chops.” His | don’t. work rd, where there’s | their power in the coming elections] ; ~ : 4 : lee | it will present the “Golden Peacock,”|and children are provided with the me ek eek fhe tHe conspemp Selous Chill McGregor, the ho e-car | plenty = ie yan sie ana ee tn Sa to place a ne in the AT ice Cone atila oa a lyric drama of primitive people by|means of existence they will bravely ‘nck week for no pay. So each man /@uver, rationalizes Sam’s ways of| where both white and black are free |Couneil halls of Milwaukee to repre- Fea ee cates om excellent char.|S:Anochi, and is at 425 Lafayette|face the coal and iron police and the ican eg sie eas Pp Ss a een a | life for him and elaborates, with! and equal and all men are brothers. sent the interests of workers.” saae uthae aa ld PROERS Laie: Street. operators’. deputy sheriffs on one year. And as the company employs Bes i opie Ee FHT ereitg rane erin es eamia (0 Ree eee aU ad W. F, Of course, there is a big underly-) «yaya» a aa ae Las jae aR eect as | oe ee ‘ % Avice ee ee eee and indulgent |if it appears in his own play only as | flaya,” a play a as been| Miners’ Relie: giving Ber O0O-men ¢ and more “Horse-Car Philosophy” that fits! fantasy it is because the vehide of |] = —=—— —amam@aaHeeee | playing in Paris and London for the|clothing to over one hundred eared ‘rom total robbed ! amounts to year. these men Tom’s Cabin n comparison. | of the com- or a few days slide back. erested in the in the busy sc: ‘from these peer more than $X6,0 You k are treated atrocities We wrote the v and then let thin T guess he is more in slave-holding sharks. Of course it is easy to say why do | the men work there. No worker | would if he could get work elsewhere ;characters revolve. smoothly and lightly on the souls of m and his beer-drinking, work- ldodgink cronies. Around these two central figures the play and all its Humor and Burlesque. The play opens on a scene in Har- lem in 1903--the time of horse. 5, rag*time, beer-saloons and the tearful ballad about the dead wife in the bag- gage car ahead. the first act is the ‘revival meeting.” Here Sam’s wife, Sally, brings him by threats and main force to be * Chill ing capitalist order. Chill and Sam and the collapse of | black man, their utopia is implicit from the very | Chill McGregor which sets up against and his | this, the slow-moving south, the horse- friends belong to a by-gone age that |car and the one-man truck-patch can cannot return. They cannot cope with |lead only to the escape from reality the complex problems and difficulties |to a mythical “Hoboken” The high point, of |of the present or blaze the trail to- |ward a higher future. Booze is the only answer Chill McGregor can make | ‘preach- to the automobiles and electric trains | beginning. McGregor’s phy is at best only a dream-escape |the leather factory, from the stern realities of the exist-|the dollar-fever, the persecution and The failure of |exploitation of the poor man and the Sam horse-car philoso- | machine age; the “noise and stink of Pickens paradise but a real and free order of society. The people’s artists will play a great role in illuminating and making more bearable the workers’ path of struggle that leads to this goal. We have a right to expect that our friends of the New Playwrights’ Thea- tre will travel in this direction, and that genuine labor plays, grappling competently with the problems of the machine age, will follow those de- voted merely to social criticism and the speed-up, But the philosophy of and from |that back to disillusionment and de- feat. ‘There ain’t no Hoboken”—in this despairing ery at the end Sam expresses the failure of all those who negative conclusions. The workers can { past three years, Will be put on ‘at the Comedy Theatre this evening by the Actors-Managers. Simon Gantil- lon is the author. Ernest Boyd made the translation. Another opening scheduled for this evening is “Sh! The Octopus,” a mystery play, at the Royale Theatre. “The Five O’clock Girl’ has just celebrated the 150th performance at the Forty-fourth Street Theatre. camps. Fresh applications other local unions come in every day. More money, more food, more warm clothing are needed. Be generous and be quick about it. The fate of the miners’ union and of the American trade union movement hangs in the balance. Strike a blow for the work- ing class by contributing some money immediately to strike relief thru the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, 611 Penn. Avenue, Room $14, Pittsburgh, Pa. ed at.and prayed at” until he gets the and should help this transition b e of Jesus and work in his heart. | pee y loyal and brotherly support of the! young playwrights as well as by open |fear to face the machine and struggle for its mastery. «which have replaced his horse-car; | but evervthing is slack and so they and even “Little Joe” grows up to treating the men worse than they | lov I ; his In the midst of a riot of religious ex- TAU et ever did. r seek refuge from the strident clang | The superintendent is one great |Citement, betw of capitalist civilization in “library | A Labor Theatre. and straight-forward criticism. threats of hell ooks”’ * * | = n and poetry. The note of strug- | of an undertaker ing his | gle for the conquest of the machine business, and a heavily-built woman | js entirely lacking. There is no social |penitent, endeavoring to ap up to} | understanding or fighting faith in any Jesus,” Sam cuts and badly scared, but with soul and sins in- ac The lush humor and rolli g bur- lesque of this revival meeting scene All who try to turn the wheel of history backward come to the same climax of futility. This was notice- able in “The Belt.” The machine of the characters of “Hoboken Blues” |breakers are all reactionary and It is only with jand through the machines that hu- manity will win its way at last to a pp oneReH: that is not an imaginary’ East 14th Street. | cause of trouble as it seems that all under him are afraid of their jobs, EDITOR'S NOTE—Now, reading this you must see Ho- boken Blues. Why not make it tomorrow? The DAILY WORK- ER has secured Wednesday even- ing as its particular benefit even- ing. Get your tickets now at 108 after PES TK? Eves. 8:30. Mats. Winter Garden Pv°s, 3% ..™ WORLD'S LAUGH SENSATION! Artists * Models WINTHROP “AMES presents theatre, West 44th Street. f HUDSON 8. 8:30. Mats. Wed.& Sat. THE NEW COHAN FARCE WHISPERING FRIENDS — ||—— The Theatre Guild presents —~ and are greater slaves than the rest. Old Parties Enslave Workers. Tt is k of a “demo- I for one won't What grand to president : mote demoer Lelp do they and consequently their degeneration | therefore hopeless, and defeat was inevitable. Underneath its laughing humor the play rages at the exc but republican. the wo guess our state “democratic, invest the whole act. oe refer- a AED st bis dente RO OS a Tee oe Feet | JOHN GaLSWORTHY'S Eugene anv help to the working man? A'lot ence belongs to the rendit ae : HES C AP EB “enum {| Ske" Strange Interlude © ind, esne when you have a|ragtime song 0! e 3 ‘pe BOOTH Pigg. WA Sanya. 640 John Golden Thea., 58th, B. of B'way ‘of a sentimental ballad which in th days was a sure-fire tear puller. ‘tening to the take-off last night, w wondered if an interpretation of our nouters and “mamm: to support. The to unite and stop Evenings Only at 5:30, d s Th.,W.44 St.Bvs.8:30 Broadhurst {iit Wea @ Sat, | in THE it Tee MERCHAN? 0 oF sec DRA B'way, 46 St. Eve. 8.30 FULTON Mats, Wed.&Sat. 2.30 | “BETTER EUGENE O'NEILL'S Marco Millions Th. W, 52d St, Evs. 8:30 GUILD yiis. 7 S Extra M Feb. 27, “The Doctor's Dilemma” PORGY so Th., W. 42d. Evs.8:40 Republic yyiis Wea.&Ssat.2:40 -A DOCK WORKER. Fd.: The correspondent who sends us the above report asks us to publish it on behalf of the men whom he represents. Ae Fae Say Trade Commission Helped Bread Trust WASHINGTO Fe 20.—Abram -jand f e | peal he arrived ¢ jboken, N regor, out of his , evolved a utopian land koken, just across the river, m was to get a job in the) Accerding to Chil account as free in this great and | and of Hoboken, very little | end lots of food and beer | | he prospect ap-| i own Benefit Performance For DAILY WORKER THAN THE BAT” | ERLANGER’S Thea, W.44 Stve.s.30 THE MERRY MALONES with GEORGE M. COHAN EE Ae S35 Kar “EVGS. OF SSeS HO, y & Tomorrow 8 Keith-Aibee Acts, including NAN HALPERIN mmensely. But when real Hoboken—Ho- | he eouldn’t find the cir- e was looking around | } \Nationa] Theatre, 41 St. w. of B'way ad mer- sri YS si |the cops encountered him. Being | | Eye.8:30. Mts. Wed.&Sat.2:20 hs § | . IY bees ent Jack, broke and a stranger, he “The Trial of Mt PO OE UE EATEN ets { ary | with Hobart Bo | aroused the suspicions and hostility | vorth & Marion Nixon for fie ag Shai ie by lof the coppers, : nd with amet ypayerd Vettier, Baminittes, that Meyers They slugged the “Nigger bastard | arding-Rex Cherryman | MUSIC AND CONCERTS th clubs and blackjacks, on general | n to explain the fact that principles; and in the hospital, in d he had acquainted Federal Judge Soper |jirjum, Sam finds the lost “Hoboken of Baltimore with all the facts relaé | and the circus, too, Abe Lincoln, who ing to the bread merger case when /|+founded the town,” is there, and Sam | the decree was gr nae is elected president just like Chill had | ‘said. In fact, the place is Heaven) and like the Heavens of all men, Sam | Free Capmakers; New fashions it out of his own heart's de- | ses’ Ranks sire. This is a scene of such whim- 8) humor and poignant beauty as | jto lift “Hoboken Blues” far above the | ‘ bi | common run. The Machine Age. | he moving picture of Sam's hap- | p q piness as president has an undertone ; Fave tou heey irons the of ee from the start. It is 80 | boss line- -up and signed with the union Fat a ev cee necRe ono ene under the original contract which still |'t,i8 Ret founded on any realities of} {life in the machine age. Even at the has over a year to run, height of Sam’s power and happine At the same time 16 unionists, ar-/as “President of Hoboken” one f for disorderly conduct, were|the impending disillusionment 1 by the court. About 20 still|tragic end. 42d, W. ot ‘ Evs. 8:30. Tomorrow Night a HARRIS ? tite: Mats. Wed. ‘ LOVELY LADY: | with inn Leedom & Guy Robertson, AMERICAN OPERA COMPANY Tay ASO! NG IN ENGLISH Mats, 2:20, PHONE COL, 1140, . Tues., Wed., Thurs., at. Mat., Martha, Wed. Feb. 22 (Washington’s Birthday Evening) The locked-out Chicago capmak: union reports a double-headed ory | week. Two members of the Cap ’ Association, the Re- Yo. and the Star Hat & ; The shooting’s all over now. Still in all seriousness, but i with laughter, music, song and dance, the New Playwrights H present at their theatre, 40 Commerce Street (phone Walker 5851) at LAYWRIGHTS THEATRE Michael Gold’s New Play Hoboken Blues NEW and In the’ third act the ad- | ft face contempt charges before Judge|venture in Utopia winds up in the! 40 COMMERCE ST. Denis Sullivan. gutter of money-craze and jazz. The| - - jphantasy fades, the humor withers, ; ‘ | ON TOUR TO TRAP YOUTH. bal ga dies~-and the machine ; ‘ , For all performances, a 10% reduction will be given on BHLDON, N..0, Ped. 20--Clas |e eniceabe play has-too much che Ticke Sale at Daily Worker, 108 East 14th Street. all tickets purchased from the local Daily Worker Office ence Chamberlin, after being forced | paganda” of the obvious kind. In- | 108 East 14th Atle Phone E «: down near here, took off today on ference, hint and suggestion could be| i “his ‘flight across the country. Cham- lsubstituted with better effect in herlin will stop off at various points)many places, The explanation in to lecture on aviation and attempt to/rhyme of the policemen as they beat apture the intcrest of American|up the helpless Sam, to the effect ‘th in military aviation, that the bosses have ordered it, and resant 6584. Stuyvesant 6584 Stuyvesant 6584. Pd LP