The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 29, 1928, Page 4

se is Crimp Hang-out at) r. THE DATLY ESDAY, FEB. 29, 1928 MAKE LODGING FR 000 Wait. or Work at Ship Yard ; 12 Hired PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail).~— | Being a DAILY WORKER read- | er, I wish to call your attention to {the Cramp Ship Yard where over | 3,000 men have applied for work. | | I don’t believe they hired a dozen. Present ||1 only wish that The DAILY WORKER could come here and | | take some pictures or else send -— WANTS SEAMEN'S 2 INSTITUTE OPEN TO JOBLESS MEN POLITICIANS IN CHIGAGO FORM A TEACHERS’ UNION Defeat Machine (By a Worker Co | i = | (By a.Worker Correspondent) | espondent.) 1 have just stopped at the Sea-| | some of its good speakers here. SIICAC s he Wer Tactics on 35 South|'| The baper’ should “len the” pia] | CCA CO, (By Malley staat s city, and I here to| | tributed. new union has been formed in Chi- t this institution is a “hell| —A WORKER. | |¢289 since the election of our kind- for seamen. They charge you| | EDITOR'S OTR i tae hearted mayor, Big Bill, and in a very Gs BE Canta: a night foe beds k | EDITOR'S NOT Free dis-| | advantageous place, too, for someone. | tribution of thousands of copies of ; you are not in by midnight, you| | Yr WORKE vi dacthe Dubuc, school e 3 ’ the DAILY WORKER will take Political Clerks. ay y out even if you have bought) | place in Philadelphia in the next At the beginning of the year, 1 ticket. | few d g ithe This Guasch Uisatitute aa school clerks who had always been teachers of some experience, were e to Shift run by 2 sh sky pilot named| pas “i, mW Mansfield. The institute is said to Railroads Try transferred to ¢ rooms, and a re most of its mone: ") he Yaa: ec 7 * | brand-new litical set of clerks in- get most of its money from the) Cost of Flood Repairs (ciated These were gitls just out of per t n turn it could be used IGTON, Feb |normal school. The waiting list of W ASH. ty That | ynassigned teachers was so long that several railroad groups will attempt some of them had to substitute for to shift the cost of new spillways tOltwo years before getting a position. i nee sete result of: the eel These girls were told to apply for ississippi flood became known to-| werkships in the schools. This th day when a delegation of officials of |} ‘ened to do. ‘They were also told he roads operating in the flood area ~ ee £0 Ge : ey, ene also told mploy-Ivisited President Coolidge. The | shat ‘f they, were wise they woulé z bridges and other works are estimated | oat Bee ee eee of aol to cost $70,000,000. | their wards. Those who did got a sending you to, but | | slip of yellow paper, an appropriate a swell ship, a color. The maids with the yellow pa- floating paradise, by “God.” But| Insttute, from leading the seamen|pers got the positions, on condition after you get on the rat-hole, its too|who are staying at the Institute in| that they join the new union. late to do anything, for they send you}the prayers on Sunday in the big] The ‘Thompson schivdl Reale: aboard as the ship is about to sail.|chapel to thank Jesus for “all the| dently ‘believes in unions of a sort In the I. R. T. subway strike a|blessiags we enjoy.” Why shguldn’t they uphold unionism little while back, I applied at the There are more seamen out of jobs ne John {Walker of ‘the Whincis employment agency, and where do freezing along South and West) pegeration of Labor is backin, the you think they wanted to send me? | Streets than. ever before. . Every day| Thompson machine? suing To scab on the subway workers. No|a few hundred more seamen are} 3 J i $29 “Privilege.” 4 ae > seg say the Seamen’s| adde nemployed, walking - ‘i 2: wonder the seamen say the Seamen’s| added to the unemploye S\" Yes, indeed, every new clerk must rency to get crews for the and freighters of Standard and other ipping owners. The: S are so lou! d their offic so brutal that the Seamen’s Institute is the only place they can get a crew from. And even then the employ-} ment department at the won’t of course tell you what kind of | a ship they are tell you that it Oil Prostitute” (that’s what we call it),]‘he streets near the East River and}. . = pe outers ‘ ; § r join the \e is backed by big corporatio Hudson River waterfronts. What Wie ee e aen ae ep gitar Gr You can see a poor jobless seaman | say is this: Turn the Seamen’s Insti-| a tHonEh. ww total of yd 2, Bak beaten up nearly any day at the Sea-;tute over as a free shelter for the men’s Institute. But that does not| jobless seamen! stop Rev. Mansfield, the czar of the | —E Michael Gold Thanks James Cannon for Review of Play Editoy, The DAILY WORKER: Z want to thank The DAILY WORKER for printing the fine re- view of my play, “Hoboken Blues,” and Comrade Jim Cannon, for having written this review. | Th. Lvurgeois press has hated the New Playwrights’ Theatre from the \lars a year. Not one young lady de- |murred. Why should she complain? _.| The republican machine must be oiled. Just what the new political com- pany union will do remains to be jseen, It seems quite certain, how- ‘ever, that it won’t put up any fight Jagainst the republican machine, the \school board or the Thompson plan |of revenue for the schools, which is # telligent review of my play that nas}bond issue that will mortgage the yet appeare J was grateful and! schools.to the bankers for years to delighted to see how he penetrated to | come. the real theme of my play, which is} In the meantime, the Chicago Fed- an attempt to show in story form) eration of elementary teachers is con- Oe ee te posi ies tinuing a clean fight to force an jagricultural serf to a bewildered sated tote Vn relator, Sat. seseoecen! |of Chicago property. The state tax BS A WORKER. EE TO UNEMPL (Labor .Party Vital to| the | start, <r4 their so-called critics have come to all our plays in the spirit of assassins. Just as capitalist re- porters will describe a radical meet- ing by saying that all the speakers adve long hair, are wild-eyed and foam at the mouth, just so do these evitics describe our plays as childish amateur efforts. They never discuss the real merit of the plays, or the tendencies revealed in them. They try to kill us with ridicule. Anyone who has seen some of the Broadway trash that these critics pr and who has like seen one of our productions, which these critics are so scornful of, will know at once that a deep and violent prejudice is operating here—a class prejudice. The New Playwrights’ Theatre “is not Communist or even a 100 per cent labor theatre, but it has been the nearest thing to it in this City so far. The reception it met is a sample of what any other attempt at a labor theatre will meet. Just as these cri- ties d to call Jack London and John Reed and similar writers, “mere have they propagandists,” just so sought to stifle and suppr theatre with their contempt. y have almost succeeded in this. our for lieve our play eep, and in pri IT am glad the‘labor press ral- lied behm We have had critical eview but all of them hav en us seriously. Our} audiences have been mostly labor | unions and clubs, and unless the bour- | geois critics {ill us off entirely this year, we ought to have something that wi:l be closer to a real. labor theatre by ne ar. Comrade wrote the only in- of will t Very important recom Membership Meeting “PRQOLETCOS’ (PROLET COOPERATIVE STORES, INC.) Tonight, at 8 P. M. at IRVING PLAZA HALL (IRVING PLACE & 15th ST., 3rd Floor.) Directors will be taken up. |in the industrial machine. | “Hoboken Blues” was printed in the |“American Caravan,” an anthology of |modern American writing which ap- |peared about six months ago. The so- \eiology behind the play was clearly indicated in the stage directions there. |Comrade Cannon has not read the) printed version, I understand, but with Marxian insight he found his way to the real theme. Bourgeois critics don’t know how, to make these interpretations—they are trained on- ly. in surfaces and in cheap wise- craeking. Another thing I feel grateful for is that a responsible Party leader hould have taken time from his busy whirl of duties to review seriously a play. This is the kind of thing that makes one want to go on writing. There is too much of a tendency in our movement to treat literature and writers as a kind of childishness. In Soviet Russia, in Germany and Eur- jope generally the responsible Party leaders do not take literature so ‘lightly, I am glad to see there is a |change going on here, too. I wish to thank The DAILY and other friends for un- nding what I tried to do in my play. It is almost’a hopeless battle writing labor plays in America. Broadway theatre will put them on, and all those who hope for an Amer- ican labor theatre must be alert and rally to the support of any attempts that spring up in this direction, great things at first, but must give uch a_venture time to mature, to \find itself. All of us who ‘work in any field of the labor mover i this country are engaged in a pioneer task where a Hundred failures may be the be held amendations of the Board *of N. POLAK, Sec’y. And they must not expect too many | in} | commission has ordered the publica- tion of a list of all properties and owners in Chicago and the amount of taxes, in plain English, and not as before in legal language that no one could understand. | Labor Party Need. : The board of assessors is very late in making the assessments this year. {n fact they were never so late be- fore. The Teachers’ Federation and the other organizations backing up the tax fight have a block in the city which they intend to show up as a test case. The assessors are doing their best to find out its location sc they can “fix” it up properly for in- spection. They are also requesting that all action on tax matters be de- ferred for four years when the next valuation will be made. They claim that it is too late this year to do any- thing to equalize taxes, but every- thing will be O. K. four years from now. If only we had a Labor Party to take the lead in such cases! | —A TEACHER. = ————— expected in ratio to one success. We must have patience with ourselves, and faith in the future. Only one No thing is certain—that whatever hap- pens to us today, follies, mistakes and failures, our feet are set surely on the path of the future. ‘ Frater>ally yours, MICHAE JUST RECKIVED A large shipment . from England A BC of Communism In an improved and enlarged | edition | $1.00 paper Short Course of Economic Science by BOGDANOFF A new handsome edition of | this well-known book | $1.00 $1.50 cloth Order your copies from: WORKERS LIBRARY PUB- | LISHERS, 39 East 125th St. | New York City. WORK NEW YORK, WEDN OYE live Workers, Fight Boss Brutality With Your Pens More than 4,000,000 men and || women are tramping the streets | of every American -city looking for a job. The sufferings of these unemployed workers is increasing with every day of “prosperity.” Cold and hungry, with dependent families, the unemployed slink out || of the offices where the bosses in || their power have just sneered, | | “No, we don’t need you!” As new scores of workers join the unemployed ranks daily, the conditions of the workers who | | happen to have jobs grow hourly | | more insecure. The bosses use the jobless as a threat to the employed workers. Wages will be cut, hours lengthened inhumanly, shop con- ditions disregarded, and every ef- fort made by the bosses to hire the starving unemployed as scabs} to smash the organizations of la-} bor. | In “these conditions the - voice of the workers must be heard in militant protest. Worker Corres-| pondents in all parts of the coun-| try must take up their pens to de-| Scribe and protest against the suf- {ferings of all sections of labor.| Every day brings some outrage of the bosses that demands exposure to all workers. The best way they can keep track of the attacks of the bosses is thru the letters you send The DAILY WORKER. ‘A letter a week from every Corres- pondent is our slogan. Send your name so we can -keep in touch with you. We will protect it in avery possible way. Se WORKER HURT IN COLLISION UNION CITY, Feb. 28.—Raymond Gallitin, 33, of West Orange, was severely “injured when an auto col- lided with a truck of the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company which he was driving yesterday. The worker is suffering from concussion of the brain and a possible fractured skull. | | | | BRAKEMAN INJURED IN FALL. JERSEY CITY, Feb. 28.—Samuel Fisher, 31 a brakeman of New York City, received serious injuries of the spine when he fell from the top of a freight car in the Pennsylvania R. R. yards here yesterday. | | notwithstanding the low wages these D WORKERS, CORRESPONDENT DEMAN APPRENTICE IN... PRINT SHOP IS MISERABLY PAID Little Time to Learn Trade Finds (By a Worker Correspondent.) PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail).— My pogition is typical of many young workers who were compelled to leave the bourgeois schools young. Their only recourse is to apprentice them- selves to a trade or business or to such general work as running errands, etc. When you’apply for work as a jshipping or receiving clerk, employ- ers invariably demand experience workers receive and the obvious simplicity of their duties. T am now employed in a large union printing shop outfitted with several linotype machines, two large com- posing rooms, a newspaper press, and several cylinder and job presses. These presses are kept running for long hours turning out a tremend- ous amount of work. The rent is comparatively low. Without any doubt, the profits are tremendous. My employer’s contention in pay- ing my miserable wage of $12 per week is that I am afforded an op- portunity to learn the trade. I have since discovered that this opportunity is mythical, for I am kept working ‘at high speed delivering finished jobs. . But, while the low wage is the errand boy’s grievance against his employer, he has still another griev- ance peculiar to errand boys, and that is against some of his fellow workers. He is the means whereby a certain backward type of worker satisfies his stupid desire to display authority. He is carefully watched not only by the foreman, but by these workers to see that he is con- stantly busy. Suspicion is attached to every move he makes. He is given mary duties never meant for errand boys and the manner in which orders are given him is often brutal. To protest would be foolish, for the errand boy is always wrong and the foreman knows that young workers who can do his work are the cheapest and the least difficult commodity to procure in the labor market. —E. N., Apprentice. . Eves. 8:30. Mats. Winter Garden *’T 05° & Sat. wesee Petey SENSATION! 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ARMs) present at their theatre, Walker 5851) all tickets purchased from 108 East 14th Street, The shooting’s all over now, Still in all seriousness; but with laughter, music, song and dance, the New Playwrights Michael Gold’s New Play Hoboken Blues For all performances, a 10% reduction will be given on Phone Stuyvesant 6584. 40, Commerce Street: (phone the local Daily Worker Office Tchuvash National Theatre E Tchuvash National Theatre “ made its first bow to the public following the October Revolution. The pioneer in this work was the Tchuvash actor-manager, I. S. Maxi- mov-Koshinsky, ‘who onganized the first dramatic performances in Kazan under the auspices of the Soviet of the province of Kazan. Since then the theatre has grown and developed. The Tchuvash national stage now flourishes in all the towns. : An impetus to the development of the national art was given by the formation of the autonomous gov- ernment of the region. The centre of culturé and art was then estab- lished at Tcheboksaki, the Tchuvash capital. A national theatre, a musi- cal school and a central museum were formed—all within a few months. During the famine period of 1921 the theatre had hard sledding, but it soon recovered and today it occu- pies a prominent place among the theatre of the U. S. S. R., havine developed a fine group of players and making the theatre popular among the masses. The music school too has made splendid progress. Quite a number of comrades have been trained and 2 wealth of folk-music uncovered and collected. During the last two years, due to the efforts of the artist emeritus Maximov-Koshkin, four films were produced, dealing with Tchuvash his- tory and national life and struggles of the past. These have since been exhibited both in the Tchuvash re- gion and in other parts of the Soviet Union. The noted comedienne is paying a visit to the East Side, appearing at the Jefferson Theatre the first part of this week. Frederick and Fanny Hatton have written a special story for Reginald Denny’s use are “If I Were Rich,” Disturber.” Two other stories for Denny’s use are “Is L Were Rich,” by Max Marcin, and Gladys Lehman’s latest script. “Out All Night.” Paul Leni has completed his spe- cial production of Victor Hugo's classic, “The Man Who Laughs.” The film will shortly have its first pub- lic showing in New York. : “Czar Iva nthe Terrible,” a Soviet production, is to be seen at the Cameo Theatre following the engagement of the British production, “The Battles of the Coronel and Falkland Islands.” Beatrice Elliott, soprano, will give a recital at Engineering Auditorium Thursday night, February 9. ODEON Special Records—Made in Europe: LIGHT CLASSICAL MUSIC by world famous composers 3209 ( La Boheme (Puccini), Selections, Part 1 and 2, 12 in, 1.25 ( Edith Lorand and her Orchestra. 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