The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1928, Page 4

7 Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MON Y, FEBRUARY 27, 1928 “LABOR PARTY FIGHT IN MASS. UNIONS TOLD BY WORKER CORRESPONDENT GLASS POLITICAL Bosses Ensiave \TEAGHER TELLS | ACTION URGED BY PROGRESSIVES, AGnem Slovavent De-| mands Made by Leader (By « Worker Correspondent.) ROXBURY, Mass., (By Mail). Every year the Boston state branch of the A. F. of L. has its annual con- ference. At the conference held Feb. 19, the main business was the report by the legislative agent of all the bi to labor. Actua reported last the same bills were 1, the S Bill others prc ‘ding chai ing cl if passed. The Workmen’s Compensation Bill | has been deferred from year to year for about the last seven or eight years. The main factors in the fight | over workmen’s compensation were the two factions within the Central Labor Union. The Kerney faction | who fought for a bill turning over | the workmen’s compensation to the insurance companies which they call the Massachusetts Plan, and the Van- Varen-Wick faction which favored} and fought for the Ohio Plan, workmen’s compensation under direc _ Jurisdiction of the state. Both Factions Deceived Workers. At discussions during the year | on the question ef workmen’s com pensation in the C. L. U., it S | clearly brot out that both factions (| were serving the insurance one panies both the republics democratic politicians. And as tl ee went along, the workers were the | enes who mostly suffered. When fi- nally, under the pressure of some of | the workers they had to reach some | decision, both factions agreed at the | last Worcester conference to the Ohio plan. | When a drafted bill was introduced | ? the district attorney declared it un- constitutional. After several more} redrafted bills were ruled out, a bill | Was accepted that many senators and | legislators of the capitalists disliked In his report, the legislative agent | pointed out that neither the repub- | lieans nor the democrats would vote | for the bill. He said that “tho they claim to be friends of labor when a rollcall is called, they either are ab- sent or are out in the lobby.” In the discussion of the report, many delegates expressed it as their opinion that there is no use of can- vassing any more, the representa- tives on Beacon Hill. Winokur of the paper hangers, speaking on the dif- ferent bills, destroyed the illusion of some of the members in the labor movement, that the workers can get | protection, through capitalist legisla- tion. The only thing that can be suc- | eessful in getting something is to| rouse the labor movement to come to the hearings and protest, instead | of “lobbying” politicians, and kneel- ing before the representatives, who are stealing the workers’ votes by | posing as friends of labor. During the discussion none of the politicians could give any suggestion as how to go about the bills. At the same conference the help-| lessness of the state branch A. F. of | L. officials was felt. Under the new business, the president, answering a question that came from the floor, as to what the A. F. of L. branch] doeg- to remedy the unemployment } situation, pointed out everything, the causes of unemployment, the suffer- ings ‘of the worke ete., but did not} givé any sati concrete su relief. C ory answer or any Er immediate | on the unemployment didon. he that | the state branch would do just what the C. L. U. does } After the president finished the | progressive delegate, Winokur, again teok-the floor, and criticized the state branch for doing the same as the C. L. U., in other words, doing nothing. The C, L. U. has called an unem- ployment conference for March 4, and that conference will bring no re- sults to relieve the situation. He de- manded that the state branch start work immediately and bring concrete suggestions to the conference. He made the following suggestions: 1 A state fund for the unemployed formed by taxing the industria %. That a kitchen be opened for e unemployed. 3. A decrease of work- | ing hours due to the rationalization | of the machinery. 4. That the}‘ throwing out of the unemployed work- ers from their homes be stopped. Usually after a progressive stakes » stand defending the workers at the C WL. U., the officials jump right up and ignore the speaker, or proclaim hima “red.” Now they all kept auiet, not a word was said in answer ; in the legislature pertaining | The Ww orkmen’s | ;we are alive except jis very | school, {him out of school. | for {pleyes porters trying to get the job | pany. | Porters in New York Building HOW EDUCATION am a Berea in the icine FRE a on Cortlandt St. and Broad- | | way. This building has 32 stories, Weetas ‘Cider for }and about one porter for each floor. } | The porter has to clean up a whole| Capitalist Serfdom | floor, and the work is very heavy. 1 | get only $24 a week. I must mop the} | floor, sweep it, polish the brass, and| earry large loads of rubbish and other | | things. | mentally and emotionally over the I have a wife and four children.| tragic tales of the miners, the starv- jis $24 a week enough to bring my} ing children in these regions, the sol- family up? We never get a raise no} dier “brother” shooting down matter how long we work for the| cracking the skulls of those who dare | Benenson Building. {to ask for a living wage or better The owners of this building are | conditions, I came across the plain ionaires. In this building are the| tive Jetters of children complaining s of rich lawyers, brokers and | of teachers smacking ’em over the e corporations. The officers and| head for daring to discuss some of in these offices do not know) these social evils in our midst. as machines bis (By a Worker Correspondent.) While reading The DAILY WORK- ER and getting somewhat het. ur clean up after them. Education for Workers. I am unable to buy decent food for| As one who has given many years my children, and my youngest child | to the education of workers’ children. k and needs fresh country | | the treatment served out to the youns But it would cost me $24 a week|Tebels does not surprise me in th alone to send her away. I have a boy | least. What does surprise me is the who is 12. He smart boy in| indifferent attitude of the average but I will soon have to take| thinking worker to the real education My ill, | of his kid. He fondly imagines that in wa 1| education as meted out by the gov- air. is a but she has to take ng. | have been trying to get a better job|ernment is pure and unadulterated. over a year, but every place Ij Should we describe a child educa | go there are many hundreds of unem.! ted if he is a walking encyclopedis and blissfully ignorant of everyda- facts of life? A child’s, or an adult’ education must be a real part of him- jt have been on every employment } agency on Sixth Ave. but they offer| jobs at $18 for unskilled workers, and| Self—not an ornamental covering tc there are hundreds of men to even| be exhibited in a glass case. Edvea grab those. | tion means to me a means to an end —A PORTER, | and not an end in itself. If my mem- Sigh e }ory serves me well I think it was | Larfargue who said “I can promise | Miner Tells of | ; to be candid but not impartial.” Kinlock Explosion | The little school girl who was can- | did enough to express her opinion about everyday facts of life from her own viewpoint was hastily gagged because—presumably—it would dis- turb the class. She will have to learn that these things will not do in these machines of capitalistic production. and unless these young rebels curb their perturbed spirits the result will | be expulsion. ‘(By a Worker Correspondent.) ARNOLD, Pa., (By Mail).—Kin- lock mine, located on the outskirts of Parnassus exploded last night at 9 .» Mm. It is said that from 15 to 50 miners, all of them scabs, are trapped in} there unable to get out. The fumes are still coming out in great volumes. ee Rescue work is impossible. No exact No Thinking Workers Wanted. news about events or the number of| The reason for this state of affairs dead is being given out by the com-| is not far to seek for any clear think- A heavy cordon of coal and| ing worker. Our educational authori- ties, henchmen of the higher-ups, have either ignored, or, assiduously pushed aside any theory that may |} eventually mean their undoing. Can you imagine for one moment any government of the capitalistic | order subscribing to such a statement | of, say, John Dewey, the prominent | educator who writes upon the sub- | ject as follows: “In the old school the } | child is taught to remember, obey and respect both teacher and whatever is taught. In order to learn he must sit quietly and listen, that is to submit to authority.” Or this: children to think clearly, develop ini- tiative and able to take care of them- selves, is one of the best safeguards [aegis exploitation.” Tt is obvious to all clear thinking workers that no self respecting gov- ernment dare formulate its education- al program to produce a clear think- ing product. The strangest phenom- ena of all is in the fact that the or- ganized workers of all shades of radi- cal thought have some sort of devou feeling for this one governmental in stitution, having some vague notion that education is impartial and above propaganda, iron police has been thrown around the mine and its houses. i. 3mOOoOoOonw—Wnnj7ooODaSKWmmaeoweeaea—r—— More Contributions tol Ruthenberg Daily Worker Sustaining Fund Donescu, New York City ........ 1.50 James R. Jones, Brooklyn, N. Y. $2.00 A. H. Johnson, Chicago, IIl....1.00 Geo. Rupert, Salt Lake City, CUR eis chine oka dag woe Sivee 5.00 | James R. Jones, Brooklyn, N. Y. 2.00 | W. Beck, New York City .. oa BO Donescu, New York City . G. Powerman, New York City ee Menach, New York City ....... -2.75 | Kling, (collected) New York ..11.75) Kling, (collested) New York ..11.95 Ubegy, New York City ........1.75 Section No. 4, New York ......40.00 Camp Nitgedaiget, Beacon, New York os¢.cctieys soi evan Cc. L. Assn. (L. Levi), St. Faul, Minn. Lithuanian Worki:g Womens Al- We pen ssiehes 8 mi ..10.00} ,. The capitalist knows the full mean- Finnish Workers Clubs, Ontonagon, ing of this and pushe. his ideas fron Ma rte ne ooet esas ate 10.00 | ae A. Slavianudakes, New York . John Horn, New York -6.00 | Mrs. Pouse (Beck) New York ..1.00| | UCWCH No. 12 (Levine), New N Finnish Workers’ Club, feign | St. Nucleus No. 3 Chicago, Tiinois by Chas. ‘Cassell, Kalamazoo, Mich. i W. €. Bloyed, Canon City, Colo. 1.00 Carrie M Chapman, Boise, Idaho 12.00 John Partac, Long Island City ..2.00! Leo. P. Lemley, Philadelphia, Pa. .95 PALME DUTT A brilliant reply to Catherine Mayo’s “Mother India” by a champion of Indian freedom. anes A thoro Marxian analysis of India’s |], economic and _ polit- ical history. James R. Jones, Brooklyn, N. Y. 1.00 1.00 John W. Langley, New York . P. Grekin, Detroit, Mich. Section 4, New York City ‘ Int’l. Br. No. 2, Section 5, N. Y. 16.00} M. Frankal SS6C, New York .....50} Raspj—See 7, Int’l Br. No. 1, New York City ....... Ceidman, New York City . SS 2F, New York Citv C. Q. Peterson, Br. 3, Sec. York City SS3E, FD3, New York Ci |Ubogy, Int’l Br. 6A, New York 2.00 | 1B 2K, New York City . | Tonescu-—SS8B, New York City Com. Munse Per A. Ionescu, N. Y. 5.00} ;Sol Auerbach, Phila., Pa. .... Eml Peterson, pores J N. Y. 'L. Cooper, Bronx, N. 'M. ©. Vawter, Rialto, Catt 4 Stephen Pasaver, Chicago, Il. 4, New | | | | | | Correspondents, Send Your Shop News to “‘Daily’”’ Worker Correspondents, send in job news. News about your shop, what wages you get, how long you have to work for them, what your shop. conditions are, what you and your shop-mates are doing and talking about are of interest to workers everywhere and belong on the Worker Correspondence page, which is your page for exposing (and striking a real blow at your | bosses. Or if you’re out of a job you have as many hardships to tell as the worker who’s lucky enough to have one. Let us hear from you today. Make your letter as short and as full of facts as possible. Write long if you have to. And when| you’ve written one letter don’t think that ends it. There’s a let- ter at least once a week for the energetic Worker Correspondent. Send ys your name and address so that we can keep in touch with you. The DAILY WORKER takes every precaution to protect the names of its Worker Correspond- ents and will carry on all com- munication with you in plain en- velopes.. Your name will never | appear on your story unless you | want it to. Send us a story today. ‘he kindergarten to the university. | On exhibition at the Comedy a Simon Gantillon’s play, “Maya,” trans- lated by Ernest Boyd and présented by the Actor-Managers. It is a picture of a series of events trans- piring in the room of Bella, a prosti- tute on a street of a red light district leading to the harbor of the Mediter- ranean seaport, Marseilles. Her customers are workers from the dockyards, sailors of every coun- try, and some of the drags of hu- manity. One of the impressive scenes is when she talks with another deni- zen of the district about the con- ditions that drive women into the “oldest profession.” Throughout the whole performance there is the recurring theme that the woman and her customers are victims of conditions, of a social system over which they have no control. It is a cynical, pessimistic theme, without a solution. The first scene in the girl’s room reveals her teaching an- other girl how to knit. Then ensues a series of episodes, all variations of the main theme, for three acts, and in the final scene she is still teach- jing a girl to knit and saying that it “must go on and on and on.” Thus |we have hopelessness in place of a but the same cannot be said of the} organized worker particularly in the | vase of growing children. The seduc- “Teaching | ‘ive atmosphere of “prosperity” is the | ever-present shibboleth that befuddler him and of the ten children are sent to these lethal chambers of mind de- stroyers, I make bold to add that every con-/| ventional school product is a poten- tial scab or snob, well fitted for the ranks of the reactionaries, unless some incident in‘ his life opens his mind to the real state of affairs and escapes the disease of dependence upon those higher-ups who do our thinking for us, I can only reiterate the century-old slogan that the struggle for education must be made part of the great strug- gle for a complete change in the conditions of life, and that our chil- dren be prepared for its adaptation. solution. The play is well acted. Aline Mc- Mahon, in the chief role, is excellent and the supporting cast is good. | Broadway Briefs BROADWAY The Broadway Theatre, beginning today will have the following acts on the stage: Gladys Clark and Henry Bergman; Eddie Nelson; Jack and Ruth Hayes and the Dalese. “Love Me and the World is Mine,” will be the silent drama of the occasion. Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Betty Compson, Henry B. Walthall are in the cast. Another screen attraction “The Head Hunters of Ecuador” will be shown. This is pictorial record of the Ecuador expedition sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History. PALACE Will Fyffe, Scotch comedian, be- gins his American tour at the Palace this afternoon. Other acts on the bill include: Florentine Singers, —A TEACHER. thirty-five celebrated vocalists from Beauty and the Beast cycles in Literature THE PEOPLE'S INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK | announces a SYMPOSIUM ON AESTHETICS AND CRITICISM in cooperation with and at THE MUHLENBERG BRANCH LIBRARY 209 WEST 23rd STREET, NEW YORK Art and the Aesthetic Experience DR. IRWIN EDMAN (Philosophy) THURSDAYS, March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29. MR. MORTIMER ADLER (Psychology) SATURDAYS, March 3, 10, 17, 24, 81; April 7, 14. ___DR. HENRY WELLS (English Literature) MONDAYS, March 5, 12, 19, 28; April 2. ‘Fhe- Mirror of the Passing World MR. M. CECIL ALLEN (Painting) TUESDAYS, March 6, 13, 20, 27; April 3. Inherited Prejudices in Art Criticism MR. HENRY LADD (Literature and Art) MONDAYS, April 9, 16, 23, 30. Scientific Method in Aesthetics DR. THOMAS MUNRO (Aesthetics and Modern Art) THURSDAYS, April 5, 12, 19, 26, EVENINGS PROMPTLY AT SEVEN O°CLOCK 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 5351) a, Michael Gold’s New Play Hoboken Blues Bella’ s Customers Story of Marseilles Pros Prostitute at the Comedy MARY In “Love Me PHILBIN and the Florence, Italy, ductor; George Marion Murray; and Ross Himes; Helene Beth w Paul and Nino Mme. Alf Loyal. first appearance Joy Brothers & Dorothy Mackail in a new film, “Man Crazy.” day, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Coram with “Jerry;” Hal Chamber- Sendro Beneilli, con- Whiting and Sadie Burt; Solly Ward and Company with Peggy , Chamberlin ; Henry. Margo and ith Collene Sisters, Margaret Fallenius and Jay Seiler; Ghezzi, Mons. and JEFFERSON Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, on the East Side in six years of Belle Baker; Roger Im- hof, Marcelle Coreene and Company; Gloom; other acts. 1 and Jack Mulhall Thurs- World is} Mine” coming to the Broadway The- atre screen today. INSURANCE FIRMS SUSPEND POLICY ON 1. W. W. HALL Expect Companies to Back Down (By a Worker Correspondent) DENVER, (By Mail).—A trustee ;of the National Polish Alliance of | Walsenburg, accompanied by a rep- resentative’ of the state executive committee, met with the state chief | representatives of two of America’s | ‘most powerful fire insurance com- | panies in Denver recently. The topic of discussion was can- cellation of all insurances on the | building occupied by the I. W. W. and the Southern Strike Committee |in Walsenburg. Arguments advanced by the representative of the I. W. W. State Executive Committee proved clearly that less fire hazard exists in this particular building concerned than in the average building in Wal- senburg. He also noted that coordin- ate action of the two companies can- celling the insurance and others who refused to underwrite the risk at this time. ' Again the statements of these companies all showed the true reason for this unfair action. This scheme ‘was simply one more attempt to in- convenience the southern coal diggers in the carrying on of their great strike. But it failed. Temporarily the insurance policies were suspended but the matter is now before the New York offices of the two companies concerned. —COLORADO MINERS. PRS rectal Se CES DSSS ON lain and Vivian Earle in “Tomorrow at Two;” others. On the screen, Reginald Denny in “On Your Toes.” NY A TVA SP ae Mats, Thurs, & Sat “MAYA” fipee ASTS. Roger Imhof “EVGS. Mon., Tues. & Wed. . BELLE BAKER “THE INCOMPARABLE” ‘SaXte BS aL, & Co—Other Acts Dorethy Mackaill & Jack Mulhall in “MAN CRAZY” Thea HUDSON pys° THE NEW WHISPERI tre, West 44th Street, 8:30. Mats. Wed.& Sat. COHAN FARCE NG FRIENDS Artists % JOH’, BOOTH Broadhurst GEORGE A Winter Garden eitans WORLD'S Lavan 4 SENSATION! Ry 30. apis & Sat. Models| as een WINTHROP AMES een. GaLSWORT. ESCAP Thea., Mats. Wed. Ww) with LESLIE HOWALD W. 458t. E 8:40 Th. 0 Mats. Wea! & Sat, RLISS | in THE MERCHANT OF EV GNICE MUSIC AND CONVERTS Ist N. Y. SEASON, GALLO THEA, 54th, W. of Bway, MARTHA. Tues., FAUST. . Thurs. Mats., CARMEN, AMERICAN OPERA COMPANY SUNG IN ENGLISH Evgs. 8:20. Mats. 2:20, PHONE COL, 1140, Wed., Fri., Sat. Evygs., avg.’ & Wed. & Sat. COMEDY Thea., 41st St, H. of B'way,)— The Theatre Gufld presents —=- Ni rei’ exe Strange Interlude John Golden Thea., 58th, E. of B’way Evenings Only at 5:30, Bernard Shaw's Comedy = DOCTOR’S DILEMMA «14 Th., W. 524 St. Hvs. 8:20 Guild rats. murs. & Sat; 2:20 Week of Mar. 5: “Marco Millions” PORGY ‘h., W. 42d. Evs.3 Republic Foz. Wwedesacsaio prac B'way, 46 St, Evs. 8.30 FULTON “Mats: Wed.eSat. 2.30 “BETTER THAN THE BAT” ERLANGER'S Thea.W-44 St-Eve THE MERRY HALONES fale es 41 St. W. of B’way National Dysisv. mts Wed asat330 “The ial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Velller, with Ann Harding-Kex Cherryman Thea., Sa" HARRIS jhe. Mats. Wed. & Sat. LOVELY LADY with Wilda Bennett y Robertson. 42d, W. of Evs. 8:30. = Se AMERICAN LEGION ATTACKS YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE! A united front has been perfected between the Legion and the local business men’s organizations to scalp the League and the Pioneers in Warren, O. They var the militant toiling youth and their spokesmen the YOUNG WORKER-> Semi-monthly fighting young workers’ paper. Help the YOUNG WORKER get 5,000 new subs and raise $3,000! YOUNG WORKER ‘a “Il to the proposals. The conference nen Chica 1.00 48 East 125th St., ended in peace. | Ukrainia Womens Society, Cleve- New York City. . Mays Fide that’ tothe conterahbe ; ie ead aan COR aie For all performances, a 10% reduction will be given on Winslomad will-find § teibiation ta: . Maximovich, Detroit, Mich. .. all tickets pure! fi inclosed you bet: Oy SEERA AN poy my contribution # March 4, 1928, the rank and file Henry Brink, New. 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