The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 6, 1928, Page 4

Page Four “THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH Worker Correspondents Tell Abo FIGHT FRACTION OF OFFICIALDOM IN BOSTON BODY Fakers Urge Bosses’ *-— Collaboration Plan est at the request * ference (By a Worker Correspondent.) BOSTON, (By Mail).—Let no one think that the Central Labor Council means to call a real uner 2 and find some When the Central Labor L tive brought up the proposal for unemployed conference, it emph: at the CLU meeting that ence will be educa 2 dise ; e. ut the first CL ary the proposition time sl y meeting in made by the o ber of co: neers have the ference was bitterly fought f floor but was carried by a jority. Officials Ignore Workers. The CLU officials and most of the delegates are paid officials of their different craft unions and, as offi- cials, they don’t give much for the suffering workers they’re supposed to represent. We cannot therefore expect any very concrete suggestions | from them for remedying the unem- ployment situation. A good illustra-! tion of how even such a critical time the CLU officials are arranging an unemployed conference of a class collaboration character is the follow- ing. Speakers of different opinion are to address the conference, E. L. Sweetser, commis- sioner of labor and industries in Massachusetts, And J. Peters, president of the Bos chamber of commerce, Stockton mond, secre- tary of the Family § H. McCarty, representing of L. Now we come to the second part: the following men are to offer solu- tions, Ri rd A. Feiss, consulting management engineer, ex-president of the Tay Societ illiam Taufant “shades” of March 4 the A. Foster, of the Pollak Foundation for Economic Research, and S. J. Me- Bride of the Boston Typographical Union. 6 Anybody who knows anything about | the main causes of open shop drives and of unemployment will picture the chamber of commerce aiding in the fight against either of these evils. The chamber of commerce is one of the most reactionary bodies which bit- terly fights the workers. Now about the consulting manage-! ment engineers. If want to know anything about Ar elass-col- agencies, Dunn’s “Company him speak on the he American labor movement, | Less Pay, Longer Hours, We know that all these capitalist theoreticians can offer as a remedy for unemployment and the open shop) is more collaboration with the em- ployers, reduction of wages and in-| creasing of the hours of labor. | What then will be the proposals of the A. F. of L.? Well, we can safely say that the proposals will be the same as those made by “his majesty” W: m Green in the Feb- ruary Federationist, namely cla: collaboration emes laboration policies and read Robert W. Who then will make the right pro- posals for the organized and wnor- ganized workers? militant the The answer progressives. nore numerous they know nd are go ing in the inter- —S, WYNN. Radio Used in Miners’ Relief Campaign Work CHICAGO, March 5.—The Chicago} Federation of Laber radio station, WCFL, i king unusual efforts to athy and bring con- the relief fund of the nia and Ohio min-! velty in the radio-relief s the wireless benefit to be staged March 14 from 8 p. m. to midnight. A large number of vocal and instrumental performers will be at the labor studio that night. Any listener, under the benefit plan, may send in a request for a selection with| @ check from $1 up. The money will} be given to the miners’ relief? fund while one of the radio artists will) render the number together with the atinouncement that it is being given of the specified donor. —— i NEGRO SEGREGATION. SELMA, Ala., March 6.—Assistant) Secretaries of the Treasury Lowman and Schuneman have approved the or- der for segregatéd toilet facilities in the post office here. Signs have been posted designating the portion to be used by Negro and white em- ployes in the post office. Accord- ing to a statement of Lowman, “there is no cause for complaint.” | primary law for state and judicial of- |the voters of the state. ‘law which would supersede the pres- ana, | Armed Cops Run | Busses to Break CALL JAILING OF it -LABOR-BAITER IN (By a Worker Correspondent.) | DETROIT A JOKE DETROIT, (By Mail).—Eighty- | | seven bus drivers of the Star Mo- |} | torbus Co. have struck as a result | of the discharge of several drivers | who had joined the union, The | strikers also charge that the gom- | | * EN panera vachedalens force seeecall to in Prison | violate traffic laws resulting in the | | imposition of fines which they have to pay out of their wages. When the drivers attempted to | persuade the company’s office em- (By a Worker Correspondent.) DETROIT, (By Mail). — In this cracked-wide-open-town, where even to mention a union is a “sacrilege,” | ployes not to operate the buses, free enna class ie petey qraeiied: the company called the police out | |.» 2 SOSUE Au can Real Se menber to disperse the strikers. One pynen he Degelve: Gneuelye Americny Bone gee Wiea tkechend wi | Federation of Labor held their con- s . 3 | vention in this fair city, where life is a club by a policeman. Three were | | barely worth while living if you are rab hare van thucai@nmicn fait ecky enough to have a job and also a . y ». | | keep your trap shut. The clergy of. a few ae ee pecan fered the federation sneakers the use upen the many ice sof eons of their pulpits, evidently without a = Led il eae ey | consulting their masters, the Y. M | i i Pet a C. A. and the chamber of ccmmerce, | A strike committee of five is to . 4 and at the last minute refused the meet with the board of directors | | said permission. : of the Star Motorbus Co. to dis-|| During the hard coal strike, our | chamber of commerce, headed by Mr. Harvey Campbell, passed and for- | warded a resolution to the operators | that their sympathy was with them. | vant and insolent, Mr. Campbell spoke lout of turn and was sentenced to days in jail. Needless to say he did |not serve it and after being in jail a few hours and having a meal served by one of our most exclusive kote he was released on a writ. Our ham-stringing newspaper, the Detroit Times, obligingly snapped his nicture while he was smilingly eatine his “beans.” The Times claims that the people want the news and they will furnish it to them, but how much “news” is toldeto the public? The veople of this city are simply drugged hy their labor baiting daily papers. The editors like nothing better than a nice fresh murder or an execution cuss working terms. —Z. Are Killed ALBANY, N. Y., March 5.—Final adjournment of the legislature is set | for March 16, With the rules com-| mittee taking charge of all legisla- | tion in the assembly Wednesday, the | various committees will meet tomor- w to take final action on bills. It | is expected that between 500 and 700 | measures will be dumped into the rules committee. —S. T. Already the judiciary committee of | * * * the assembly, which is headed by As- | (Fditor’s Note: The farcical “jailing” of Harvey Campbell, sec- | semblyman Jenks, the dry leader, has | | retary of the Detroit Chamber of | | voted to kill virtually all of the im- portant measures recommended y the governor in his annual message. } Dwellings Law Doomed. These include the four-year term for governor with elections in the off years, biennial sessions of the legis- lature, creation of a commission to study the consolidation of the smaller counties, restoration of the direct Commerce. followed an insult made hy Campbell about Judge Edward “J. Jeffries, a former marcher in Coxie’s Army and old farmer-labor- ite, who was elected judge of the Detroit criminal court.) ate eer: Henderson Seed Co. Fleeces Employes, Farmers fices, filing campaign expenses prior to election, and a measure providing that the legislature cannot rat amendment to the federal constitution unless it has first been approved by (By « Worker Correspondent.) I was an office boy at Peter Hen- derson, 85 Cortlandt St., New York. This is one of the largest seed com- panies in the country. It has made a fortune out of selling seeds to the farmers at about twice the price any other seed firm charges. I got $12 a week for 9 hours’ work each day. We worked some of the holidays too. If you came in a minute late, they dock- ed you. The clerks make about $15 to $18 a weck. The bookkeepers make $20 to $25. The first day I was there I came back from lunch a few min- utes late. I didn’t know about their rule of deducting money, for they hadn’t told me. They docked me 20 cents. They drive the girls in the mailing and packing departments like slaves, It’s a bum office to work in. —H. Republican leaders have virtually decided to postpone action for another year on the proposed new dwellings ent tenement house law, as well as bill providing for stricter state regu- lation of investment trusts. Nearing to Attack U.S. Imperialism in Debate CHICAGO, March 5. — American imperialism in Mexico and states south will be given an airing in the new auditorium built by the Chicago Plumbers’ Union on Washington Blvd. On Saturday March 10 attor- ney Arthur Fisher, secretary of the Emergency Foreign Policy Confer- | ence, will debate with Scott Nearing | workers in the Lincoln division of the on the question, “Resolved that the | Ford Motor Co. have recently been independence of Latin-America is | laid off or discharged. doomed unless the United States be- FORD LAYS OFF SCORES. DETROIT, March 5 (FP).—Many | | Correspondents This Worker Finds Pen a Class Weapon There is a Worker Correspond- ent in Arnold, Pa., a mining town in the bituminous coal district who sends The DAILY WORKER ‘a letter a day describing the condi- tions of the workers in his district and their struggle against the bosses. This man writes from the | shops, the firing line of the class war. If his part in the struggle of the workers were known he would be persecuted. So that his name is necessarily kept secret at pres- ent and will be for many years to come. Not only does he write the most vital job news so that all the work- {ers may know what is happening in his sector of the struggle, but he is organizing a staff of Worker in Arnold which will be like a troop of highly skill- ed armed men piercing the bosses strongholds where the fight is hot- test, exposing their weaknesses. taking notice of every inch gained by the workers, heartening them at every smal! loss, calling them constantly to new struggles. This man is a rank and file worker but in the perspective of the Inbor. movement he is playing a historical role. What.are you doing for the Worker Correspondence? Take vour. pen and write and fight MELLON'S HAND INL ABOR PAPER” PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 5.—The National Labor Tribune, formerly a labor paper, is now evidently owned by the Mellon Aluminum Trust, and has decided to adopt the same method used by the A. F. of L, labor papers. Most of the central labor bodies of the A. F. of L. issue a paper in which they maintain a column of those firms “fair” and “unfair” to labor, as their chief weapon against the bosses. The Mellon owned paper is print- ing a similar list. They have recently announced that the Club Aluminum Company of Chicago is unfair to la- bor while declaring that “Wear Ever” ¢ Co., The Giswold Co., and The Wag- ner Co. are fair to labor. The last three firms are owned by the Mellon Trust, President Britton of the Metal Pol- ishers’ Union declared that the first firm is “fair” and the other three are not “fair.” Big Government Loans For Ship Builders Asked WASHINGTON, March 5. — The government would loan three-quarters of the cost of the ships of private owners, and all government shipping would be turned over to the private shipping magnates, if Rep. White of Maine has his way, according to a magazine article by White. White i the author of a ship subsidy bill now awaiting action by congress. The shipping magnates are maintaining a huge lobby in congress to obtain the passage of bills introduced to obtain government funds and ships for the magnates. comes a Communist country.” Fisher | 1 maintain that there are other | ways of maintaining Latin-American | edom, ; Debaters from the University of Chicago Liberal Club clashed with a team from the Young Workers League before a large audience on the question, “Can war be abolished under capitalism?” The liberals said it conld, the workers asserted that war is the inevitable fruit of capital- ism. Raise Your Voice Needle ‘Trades Contract Ends; Bosses Plan Gain CHICAGO, March 5.-—The 3-year agreement of -the Amalgamated Clothing Workers with the Chicago employers expires May 1. Negotia- tions are under way for a new con- tract, probably’ of 3 years also. The present agreement has a clause per- mitting the wage question to be opened by either side once in each year. Officials of the union are sub- mitting demands for changes while the manufacturers want to improve their own relative position. | Development of large-scale cutting) machinery and other labor-displacing innovations have ousted a proportion | of skilled workers. | 5 Flyers Killed SAN DIEGO, Cal, March 5.—A home-made monoplane crashed to earth here and killed 5 amateur avia- tors yesterday. An aviation pilot’s license had been recently refused tc W. E. Bird, the pilot, on account of inexperience. Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra Against:— Marines in Nicaragua Gunboats in China Five Billion Dollars for the Navy A New World War in the Making RUTHENBERG MEMORIAL MEETING Honor the Memory of C. E. Ruthenberg who went to jail fighting against the last World War Doors Open Sunday, March 1 5 ar, CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE 67th Street and Third Avenue Speakers: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER BERTRAMD. WOLFE WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE Dramatic Features Auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party, 108 E. 14th Street. ADMISSION 25 CENTS. ay 6, 1928 DESCRIBE TERROR BOMBS; COPS USE TEAR GAS BULLET Arnold Correspondent Demands Labor Party (By a Worker Corresponden’) ARNOLD, Pa., (By Mail).—The police force of our county carry with them tear-gas bombs and tear-gas cartridges or bullets to fit their guns. One of the four policemen in our town was showing us these new weapons the other day, explaining the way they work. Tear Terrorism. | The bomb is about seven inches long and weighs about twenty-two pounds. It looks like a big black-jack and has a hole at the upper end for} the discharge of the gas at a distance of from ten to fifteen feet, enough} to blind from 200 to 300 people. It} has a butten on the other end which| jis the handle connected to a small ‘battery, exactly like a search-light |which when pressed blows the gas out. It is made of brass steel and leather. ‘Lhe same bomb may be lused as a black-jack also. The bullets are of the same gen- eral form and size without any lead in them and are to be used in the {gun if the bomb doesn’t “do the | “work.” | ‘The policemen have to pay one ldoliar for every tear-gas weapon | which reduces their already small |pay from five to ten dollars out of |the $160 they are getting a month. |No wonder they are as mad as hell lat this extra expense loaded on their | backs. We are not surprised to see these barbarous instruments in the hands of our policemen. They are ‘to pro- tect the interesis of the capitalists and terrorize the workers by every oppressive means in order to prevent the mass movement from developing into-a strong militant fight against the existing slavery and misery which the working people suffer on account of the capitalists. Yor the Workers—Poison Gas. Today our policemen carry tear- gas bombs, tomorrow they will be carrying poison gas and riot’ guns. But in spite of all these things the working class is rallying behind the slogans. of a “Labor Party” and “Save the Union” and they prove it by their actions. : The gas challenges of the state and the police are answered by the workers here with a_ full swing towards a Labor Party which in a short time will scrap the capitalist political machinery and its tear gas bombs, and will fight for the interes of all the workers against low wages, against open shop conditions, against Coal and Iron police, against unem- ployment, loekouts, -injunctions and capitalist exploitation and slavery. All power to the workers! These are booksissued by © The Workers Library You will find them inter- esting, attractive and in- valuable. Good books to make better fighters for Labor. No. 1 THE TENTH YEAR — The Rise and Achievements of Soviet Russia. By J. L, Engdahl. 15 cents No. 2 THE COOLIDGE PROGRAM-- Capitalist Democracy and . 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The picture thus far has been. shown only in Moscow, Leningrad, Paris and Berlin. New York is the fifth city to see this pic- ture, which has brought more recog- nition to the cinema in Europe than| any other film. DAVENPORT WILL STAGE “THE TENTH MAN” Butler Davenport is planning to put on Somerset Maugham’s “The Tenth | Man,” never produced in this country. Later in the year he will stage A. Ball Scott’s “The Unwanted,” a new problem play; “Beau Brummel”; and “Hamlet.” which for ten weeks toward the close of last year at the diminutive Davenport Theatre on 27th St. He will also give special matinees, presenting “The Bells” and “The Father’s Sons” among others. ran Strikers to Be Evicted From 300 Houses} COLUMBUS, Ohio, March Striking miners and their families face éviction from over 300 company houses following the filing of bills with the United States District Court here by operators. Miners in Belmont, Jefferson and Harrison counties will be thrown out of their homes by the Clarkson Coal Co., Warner Collier Co., Boomer.Coal Co. and the Erie and Lake Erie Coal Mining Co. The hearing on the notices will be held March 24: 5.— Books for LL.D. Bazaar Contributions of current books are still desired for the book booth to be conducted at the bazaar. The booth is in charge of the Downtown Branch of the organization. Books should be either mailed or delivered to the New York office of the I. L. D., 799 Broadway. eee = ALEXANDER CARR. Headliner with his company of ten in “As We Were,” a one-act play at the Jefferson Theatre the first part of the week. Taylor Gordon and Rossmund John- son will give a program of Negro spirituals at the Barbizon this Tues- day night. The Beethoven Symphory Orches- - tra, Georges Zaslawsky, conductor, will give their new concert at Car- negie Hall Friday ev2ning, March 9, with Nicolai Orloff, Russian pianist, as soloist. Anna Robenne’s third dance recital, originally scheduled for March 4 at the 48th Street Theatre, has been postponed to some later date. Solomon Pinsleur, pianist and com- | poser, will include two of his own compositions at his recital in Stein- way Hall Sunday afternoon, March 15. The Russian Symphonic Choir, re- turning from an extensive tour, will make its final appearance of the sea- son at Town Hal! Saturday evening, March 17. Illinois Labor Hits Herrin Prosecutor SPRINGFIELD, Ill., March 5 (FP). —0Otis F. Glenn, candidate for the re- publican nomination for U. 8. sena- tor, has been condemned by the IIli- nois joint labor legislative board as unworthy of any worker’s vote. Glenn pocketed $12,000 in fees as special prosecutor aainst 77 union miners in the Herrin mine battle case. All the miners were acquitted. No action was taken, so far as known, on Frank E. Smith, Glenn’s rival. Cea cS = — i Eves. 8:30, Mats. Winter Garden ®vnt. °° 5.2 WORLDS LAUGH SENSATION! 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ALEXAND: CARR “AS seid ve kontby” Cast ART FRANK & WOOD Other Acts MARIP PREVOST in “The Rush Hour” sda atacte & cfeate tata et een ea ee cde ta ea ee ode cee ee cde eee oboe Ié’s..a Circus! UGGLE your finances, throw dull care to the winds—take the whole family to ‘see the circus in “Hoboken Blues.” A delightful new musical comedy by Michael Gold at the New Playwrights Theatre at 40 Commerce St, (Call Walke@? 5851.) You can get a 10% reduc tion on tickets for all performances at the local Daily Worker office, 108 East 14th Street. (Call Stuyvesant 6584.) There’s music, song and dance— and even peanuts and lollypops (it’s a cireus) in this play that ev- ery worker will enjoy. Get tickets today for f ‘Hoboken Blues FEETEP EEE PE EET ETP EE PEP ET ETE [ow ne Hh | ser eee a BEARER