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

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1928 CHARITY MONGERS PREY ON SAILORS. QN WATERFRONT Seamen’s Institute Cop Hangout (By a Worker Correspondent) On the corner of South Ooenties Slip there is a fourt building known as_ the Church Institute of New Yor the top of this building is a li eross for the guidance of the into-the arms of their mas! needless to that this In: supported by anthropists ship-owne known fe as John D. Rockefe and their others, animosity towards The skypilots andle the mast J and Cl at they claim ity for to do for t amen, aman h e receive: to pay for When everything @ seaman to the Muni other deger tions of the and you can behold six uniformed policemen (ex- Scotland Yard stool pigeons) who are there to beat up any worker that » be inclined to show signs of milit On some evenin; tellectual prostitute professor of economics telling the poor and hungry slaves about “Coolidge’s Prosperity.” But when in the guise of a the slaves and the class struggle he is advised and told to stay out or shut | up, On other evenings they have the daughters of the parasites sing to the} Seamen when they are hungry faced with the necessities of life. You are bound to find very fe seamen who have a good word to say | about the Seamen’s Institute, and the qnly reason they patronize it is that} there is no other lodging house on the | waterfront. and nearer to shipping | office. A seaman’s wages do not per-| mit him to live in the residential sec-} tions of the city. , “BLACKIE,” A SEAMAN. ‘ A ¢ CORRECTION L Epirer’s Notre: Hendersonville, | : Pa., is not in the anthracive as stated | in the head on the letter signed “A > Truthful Old Miner” in yesterday’s | DAILY WORKER. Hendersonville is a small mining village in the bitumin-} ous district. PHILA. TO HOLD — THEMORIAL MEET PHILADELPHIA, Ap, Feb. 23 i A Ruthenberg Memorial meeting w oth he the Labor Institute, 81 ast ¢ Saturday, March 3. 2, executive secretary of (Communist) Party, | Herbert Benjamin, district organi- ger of the Philadelphia district, and Clarence Miller, industrial organizer @f the Young Workers League, of | New York, will be the speakers. Several tableaux depicting mem- Grable episodes in the ¢ struggle ; in America, and a musical program bee. by the Freiheit Che and ©) Young Workers Mandolin Orchestra | 1 will be the principle features of the ; " entertainment. Page 3 Error in Estimate to Cost $1,100,000 More i E ALBANY, Feb Due to an al-| leged “error” in the original estima- tions, G mith has just learned t sast $1,100,000 mo: -of the new 32 stor g here, the cornerstone of which ll be laid next Tuesday. e k S. Greene, State ill not suffice. The handling of the construction of the state building in Mjuestion was recently attacked by piece State Architecht Jones, who signed his post, charging. un- arranted interference in his depart- mt by Greene. Waste and in- ficiency in the Public Works were ‘also hinted by Jones. HOLD ATHLETE ASSAULTER. LANCASTER, Pa., Feb. 23.—Irving Frey charged that® Prof. E. U. ‘Balsbaugh, head the science depart- and athletic coach of the Eliza- Earl M. Frey because he did not we of his behavior during the | of a patriotic song. Bals- +h was arrested on a charge of a§sault and battery yesterday, and Awas held on $300 bail. He will be rie d today by Squire Grimm. % » \/ Is, He: moti under the cloak ions were represented. The trade patriotism and sometime, blas-|union fractions are still backward in phemeu religion. It was a } | this work, . Organizers of trade er he is sent} any seaman | gets up and talks about the home of | andj | means a victory for organized labor | s a whole. These fighting men and | yar Seeds 4.95 women and children must not be al-| A Sh tinsy, N.Y. C 1.00 lowed to suffer untold privations,| S0M@ Sheptinsy, N. *. * a100 |Money will win this strike. These | Se¢-5, Br. 6 (coop), N. Y. C... 11.0 | Money will win this strike. ese lit, SS8D GFN. Y.C.... 4.50 +|brave fighters undaunted and fear-| 4. Shalit, S80 My Ne ee yO 108 less refuse to be frightened by the J. Silverman, ou sakes 2.95 terroristic methods of their vile ene-|M. Martinson, N. ake ae fais It is 2B 2F-Litvin, N. Y. C. . 12.20 Will be required in the construction | » for the building, | tthtown High School, attacked his | Miners A id Against | "Oe Bosses' (By a Worker ‘Contaneniicnl) DENVER, (By Mail).--The City} councilmen of Denver are very much | interested in passing some kind of an ordinance to prevent workers to or- ganize. They want something similar to the Criminal Syndicalism act of} California. We are told by the blab-| bering mouthpieces of Big 3 MICHIGAN: WOMEN SPEED UP WORK; NUCLEI ASSIST To Hold Bazaar Early In March (By a Worker Correspondent) s' DETROIT, (By Mail).—The that all the patriotic societies are ex-| Women’s Work Conference for Party pected to back up this new move. It | functionaries held recently at head- been said by Dr. Johnson that | quarters marked a great advance over | the conference. All the s triotism is last refuge of a previous scoundrel.” ‘This never was more | nuclei and sections have now elected true than it is t The “Ve: women’s work directors. The Interests” of this country ar jority of these were dep tapes \terested only in one thing, which is|at Friday’s conference. In the ‘the only kind of patriotism they care|!anguage fractions a beginning has anything about, namely pri They|been made. A few directors have have always hidden their real base-| been elected and three language frac- of/union fractions must see to it that the|their women’s work directors are elected before the next conference. The order of business on Féb. 3rd included an introductory talk by the Ww t thing to do, in their thinking, to shoot down miner: Columbine mine, or the defenseless men and boys at Walsenburg. the beating of men and their s | quent deportation outside of the state | head of the Wemen’s Department, s another act of business pa-|Comrade Buch, followed by an ex-| n. The wrecking of the hall/planation of the district program,| alsenburg at the outset of the|and assignment of tasks for the strike with the other wanton destruc-|units. These include support of the tion of properties and the robberies | paper published by the women’s Federation, and of the bazaar to be’ held March 9th, 10th and 11th. The nuclei are also to be active in making contacts with women working in fac-| tories, getting material from them | for the papers published in the dis- trict. Women’s sympathizers’ meet- ings are to be arranged by the sec- at the Trinidad hall a few days ago 's considered by the moneyed interests | a necessary expression of patriotism. & Patriotism how many crimes they {commit in thy name!! It is to be hoped that all liberty | loving peoples, who have a real sense {of proportion, will oppos uch a dl . % é Tine pant expression io bo: ¢ tions with a view to getting ney \legislation. Newspapers that have to| Women members for the Party. he first of thes: to be led by Section 1 on Feb. 18th, 8 p. m. at 1411 Brush Street. Party members of the sec- tion are urged to support this meet- ing and to bring in women sympa- thizers. | print something besides devoting full pages to crimes, diver or the latest scandal that will appeal to the neurotism of morons, are filling their anderous sheets with the latest re- quests of their masters to frighten |the workers. It seems that the in-| | dustrial magnates hi not learned yet that the workers in Colorado have | |refused to let themselves be brow: | | beaten by these plunderers and when} men and women have gone through | | the acid test imposed upon them in | this bloody state, it is self evident | | that any other attempt will be treated | with the proper action it deserves. | The time has come when the work-| a ’ ers are ready to use their economic|Cora P. Wilson, (collected) San | power to fight any further encroach- | Jose, Calif. . +++ 18.60 |M. L. Vawter, Ri i 00 1B 1F,—Sisotenko, New York More Contributions to Ruthenberg Daily Worker Sustaining ' Fund A. Lukaitis, Bayonne, N. J 5.00) P, Mingilis, New York City 1.00 | ment. Situation in the Strike Area. | | A careful survey of the present! op_ |strike situation shows that 13 a}: | whole the striking coal miners nave aj J, Hakola: Now York ahs i greater chance for a victorious settle-|¢4 5F—Sherry, New York . ment than ever before. With a few] By, 2 Sect. 5—Olstus, N exceptions the majority of the men|gect. 5, 16—Goruoff, Nek York are solidly out, and the coal opera-| James R. Jones, Brooklyn, N. Y. |tors are puzzled and worried as to|gRf 1f—Friedman, New York .. the next move to try to break the|Nt, Wks. 11—Kuley, New York | solidarity of the strikers. Geo. W. Davidge, Biren pg Isidore Nelson, Bronx, B. Newman, SS3D, Unit” QF New York City ..- Siegal Int. Br. SS1D, Jew York 10.00 4.50 2.00 1.25 5.00 In a few days a convention repre-| senting the miners of all the various | sections of the state will be called by the state executive committee, the en- a3 ss tire situation will be discussed in its| Unit 4, See. 5 (Com. Friedman) most minutinous details by the Exec-| New York City .. x |utive committee members and the |SS 2E FD2 (Com. Rabin) N. ¥. 14.50 | delegates of the rank and files repre-|SS 1B FD2 (Green), N ¥.C. 1.75 {sented at this convention. |1B F3, N. Y. C 4.25 Hl | Shavelson, 2A 2F, N. Ionescu, N. Y. An Appeal to Workers. Again we are appealing to all class| pyiedman, FD6 SS 2A, N. Y. C. conscious workers and organizations | Wanack, SS 2F 8D, 7 ae ced Oa |to support this strike to the utmost.| y,4n Stanley, N. Y. 3 A victory in Rockefeller’s stronghold | 55 1F (Saffern), up to you to see that soli- among men of the same clas: is nething more than a_ slogan. Send all funds to the Colo. Miners’ de . Bend, Ind 1.00 almstorm, Relief and Defense Committee, Box §. Zollinger, Chicago, Ill...... 1.00 193, Lafayette, Colo. £20. Quinsby, We: stport, Conn 1.00 gee ana araepe | Bt 4)’See.7, Brooklyn, N. Y.. 9.78 COLORADO MINERS | J. R, Jones, Brooklyn, N. 1.00 Revolution Tonight? YES—JAY LOVESTONE NO—GEO. HIRAM MANN Come to the Big Debate Tonight at 8 P. M. IRVING PLAZA HALL 15th Street and Irving Place ADMISSION 75c. Auspices WORKERS SCHOOL. | | ¢tem. INSISTS REPORT Fisher Tells of Alaska’s Slave Hells (By a Worker Eieespoiient: ) NAK -NEK, Bristol Bay, Alaska, (By Mail).—I am sending you twelve dollars, and hope it will be of use to you. I can’t send more as I have a big family. I have invested a good many dollars in the workers’. cause ever since I ran away from the Rus- sian Navy at Port Arthur. I am a working man employed by the Fish .Trust in Bristol Bay, Alaska. It.is one of the greatest slave-holes on earth. Orientals here are working 18 hours a day and get only two meals a day. They get only from $100 to $200 per season. If only all the-workers would quit their jeal- ousy.and nationalism and end hatred. Unity of all the workers is the most necessary thing thruout the world today.. Because the present system of the ruling classes is so rotten and sick it is going to break to pieces. It is time* that where. two workers meet together, ‘they should work to tear to ‘atoms the present capitalist sys- I am a subscriber to The DAILY WORKER. —FISHERMAN, ON S-4 UNFAIR WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23.— Following the order of Curtis D. Wil- bur, secretary of the navy, to the special naval court to further con- sider details of the sinking and res- cue operations of the S-4, Chairman Snell of the house rules committee declared that he thought the find- ings of the committee both “fair and) comprehensive.” TEACHERS’ UNION ADDRESS. “Free Speech and Education” will be discussed at the “Educational Pie Lunchean” of the we Union at noon this Saturday, at the Civic Club, ‘EVANS FACTION OF KU KLUXERS DROPS ITS MASK. Few Survivors of Labor | Hating Body WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. — The} faction of the ku klux klan, under Hiram W. Evans, who called himself the “imperial wizard” of the hooded [3 and masked order of “nondic, protest- ant, native-born, white, hundred per cent Americans” has abandoned the familiar regalia of the order and will henceforth appear without masks. Evans Announces Change. Evans, one of the beneficiaries of | the stupendous graft connected with the organization of the klan at ten dollars a. head and an. additional six- teen dollars for a night-shirt and hood, announced that henceforth his faction of the klan that split off from the one controlled by the former wiz- ard of Atlanta, Simmons, would change its name and hereafter be known as the “knights of the great , forest.” Some 700 survivors of the once pow- erful organization of labor-hating fan- atics feebly cheered this announce- ment. Try to Revive Graft. | The Klan sun has set. The graft| has been dwindling until it no longer | suffices to keep the fakers in habit- ual luxury, so new methods had to be devised to try to maintain a substan- | tial income from the forlorn yokels | who fell for the original swindle. The | move of the Evans faction is also} against the opposing faction that still adheres to masks and nightgowns and one of the rules of the new organi- | zation is that they shall not frater- | A s | nize with any who wear masks and |- nightgowns upon the public highways. George Arliss’ spring tour in “The Merchant of Venice,” which is now current at the Booth Theatre, will | include Boston, Philadelphia, Wash- ington, Baltimore, Buffalo, Toronto, Montreal, and Hartford. Next Oc- tober he will tour in the Shakes-/ 18 East 10th St. peare comedy to the Pacific coast. You Must 33 First Street, NAME A iit Lai ith ncn aia SEIN + Resist the Attack | | | The American Legion, the Keymen of Amer- ica, the National Security League, the Amer- ican Government have combined to destroy Labor’s fighting paper and are attempting to put its editors in jail. WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER? Save ‘The 'George M. Cohan’s “Whispering Friends” At Hudson Theatre| NEW play “Whispering Friends,” I by George M. Cohan opened at the | Hudson Theatre on Monday night. | To say that the play is light would be no disparaging | of Mr. he has Cohan’s, for built light they shivered in the mild breeze that sweeps the lane called Broadway. But in “Whisper- ing Friends,” the veteran producer - actor - and -author has failed to do what he did in “The Baby Cyclone” and other plays — turn them into fairly amusing farces by wily showmanship and an expert knowledge of the mechanics of the theatre. George M. Cohan The play is little more than a series of dialogues by means of which we are introduced into a series of com-| plications so bewildering no one car how they end. If Mr..Cohan had ex- erted his mental faculties more his play would no doubt be interesting, for he writes of the difficulties in which an insurance man, Joe San-' ford, finds himself when he marries an extremely wealthy widow, ent-day petty-bourgeois ideal. He is sensitive over the fact that people, no doubt jealous of his “good for- tune” will say he has married for | money. Which, of course, he has: Mutual friends are invited to their —or rather “her” home. Doris Craw- ford and Mrs. Sanford have a confi- dential chat. Likewise Mr. Sanford and Al Wheeler. Thus Mr. Sanford is plagued by the attentions of Doris and Mrs. Sanford by those of Mr. Wheeler with the romance of Doris and Al as a result. But even though the play itself is nothing to get out an extra of “Va- remark for a work} his | nest-egg on plays so | of fame and fortune | a pres- | MAURICE RAVEL. { ' | | The noted composer-pianist will appear in recital Sunday afternoon at the Century Theatre playing a program of his own compositions. ——————— riety” about, the excellent staging by Sam Forrest, who has worked on Broadway long enough to know what it’s all about and what’s more, why; and the diverting acting of William Harrigan as Joe Sanford, Chester Morris as Al Wheeler, and Anne Shoemaker as Emily Sanford should be well credited. Nevertheless one expects better things from a producer who has the reputation Mr. Cohan has: “the man who has made millions laugh.” Per- haps he was too occupied with “The Merry Malones” to give his opus the attention it deserves. But he has suggested a theme that might well be exploited. [ A Spoaitaone in ‘English of Tche- kov’s “The Cherry Orchard,” played here by. the Moscow jArt Theatre, will be produced here in English opening at the Bijou Theatre on the afternoon of Monday, March 5, for |a series of matinees. Mary Grey will \have the chief role. COMEDY hea. 41st st avenings § Mats, “Phurs. & Sat. 2:30. “M AY AC ; “den Eves. 8:30. Mats. Winter Garden Wed. & Sat WORLD'S epee: SENSATION! Artists 8 Pee WiNTURGP AME: JOH™, GaLSWORTHY ENED SE Beaedhocst 3 GEORGE SIRE 8. Wek é Sat. in THE MERCHANT OF VE. f Bway 0, B way, 46 St. Eva. 8.30 | Mats. Wed.&Sat. 2.30 me THAN THE BAT” ERLANGER’S Thea. W.44 St.Evs.8.30 | Mats. Wed. & Sat. THE MERRY MALONES. with GEORGE M, COHAN Theatre, 41 St. W. of B'w: Evs.8:30, Mts.Wed.&Sat.2: “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, National ay 30 Models Theatre, West 44th Street, HUDSON Evs. 8:30, Mats. Wed.& Sat. THE NEW COHAN FARCE WHISPERING FRIENDS —— The Theatre Guild presents —— Eugene pa:"* — Strange Interlude | John Golden Thea., 58th, B. of B’way Evenings Only at 5:30, EUGENE O'NEILL'S Marco Millions Th., W. 52d St. Evs,. 8:30 GUILD ynis. Thurs. & Sat. 2:30 Matinee Wednesday he Doctor's Dilemma” Th., W: 42d. Evs.8: Mats. Wed.&Sat.,2:40 Republic & sun. » inciuding |19 Giris—Direct from Ziegfeld Follies | McLaughlin & Evans—Summers & Huat C. w. Fields & Chester Conklin Phat ug Youths.” COMPANY IN ENGLISH 0. Mats, 2:20, = COL. 1140, Thurs, Wed. with Ann Harding-Rex Cherryman _ Thea., 42d, W. of | HARRIS ? i #:80. Mats. Wea. & LOVELY LADY with Wilda bennett & Guy Robertson. Daily Worker Here Is‘MyContribution tothe Defense Fund New York City AMCUNT ae Russian play entitled “Mashka,” | with Kenneth MacKenna in its prin- |ecipal role, will open at the Windsor | Theatre on March 12. The play has been adapted by John Flint. The shooting’s all over now, Still in all seriousness, but with laughter, music, song and dance, the New Playwrights present at their theatre, 40 Commerce Street (phone Walker 5851) Michael Gold’s New Play Hoboken Blues | For all aaatocitaneies a 10% reduction will be given on all tickets purchased from f 108 East 14th Street. Phone Stuyvesant 6584. he local Daily Worker Office