The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 7, 1928, Page 4

FALL RIVER MILL CLOSES DOWN ON BREAKAGE EXCUSE Unionists “Must Force | Is to Act FALL (By Mail).— Today the vr Co., whose |spirit than at any time in this fies plant has been open for business ae leiene ed ae a Me or penny Auch usual during the past week, an-| It was easy to see that the no-| montis, like many others of my nounced that they would tojaccount officials had sent men | friends and comrades. The streets of | shut down until March 8 because of |whom they had filled full of booze|°¥F city are over-crowded with work- the break ay-bolt in the boiler.}and furnished with trucks and ma- Work dering down than er the River nnot are won-| the shut- esc InBLESS A FREEZE Is Very Good’: Ww erry OF LOVE: k Ohio Striker’ Taye aune nie 3 Cort respondent.) |Man Knocked Dizzy in Fight for Work 0. (By. Mail).— oe po several meetin (By a Worker Correspondent.) PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail). — I ta a ay ork PO |alled in this district by the the-Union Committee and I have not} |heard one word said by any speaker | |that would tend to split the ranks of} |the miners, but on the contrary, 1) find the rank and file in a better fices of shops are jammed and the front of employment agencies. with} men and women hungry and cold, ady to do anything for any kind of ages, just to get off the street and to be able to buy a piece of bread or perhaps a cup of coffee for their} | hungry children. But, no work is to be had, the few} chines to try to disrupt the meeting. But when these men found 95 per nt of the miners for the Save-the- Unign movement they had quite an-| other thought. It appears that there are about 50 men there who would rather have shot of liquor than their union. | The capitalist press right now h be run if the fy ient|very good connections with the sub-| jobs that are listed with the agents, force to operate. district office of the United Mine|the workers cannot buy because of The we rs_in this mill can win| Workers and is trying in every way |the high fees that these flunkies are their demands for reinstatement of|to beat down the progressive move-| trying to press out of them. (I know their fellow workers | ment. |one man who was out of work three only by broa a strike and tile worke strike speed-up system g out the basis for city in a general wage-cut and I get The DAILY WORKER and|months, he is a clerk and receives |I wish that I could do something to| about $22 a week. He landed a job j help it. Now that I have been on|for which he had to pay $46.) Al- strike for 11 months it is next to-im-| though there is misery and poverty ble for me to do anything for | everywhere, the workers do not real- Unless the force the} it. R. |ize the necessity to organize them- hands of the leaders of the American} ReeGRa Ye |selves and the few that have courage Federation of Textile Operatives into| Lowden a Candidate enough to do so are driven off and departing from their out-worn policy = | jailed by our friendly city administra- of respectable, localized strikes, their] BOSTON, M 6.— Frank C.}tors, who are exnressing their broth- efforts will not be of much avail in|Lowden has admitted that he is alerly love towards their fellow men stopping the wage-cutting campaign| candidate for president on the re-|throuch the clubs of their blue coat of the publican party ticket. He said that/lackeys. This is “prosperity-” The e open to the work-! the filing of his name in the North} The following are some of the in- ers is a general walk-out in all the| Dakota primaries “probably makes] agents that I've experienced during mills. W. G. MURDOCK. Ime a candidate. a |the last few months: Calls the “Hoboken Blues” Class-Conscious Vaudeville By CHARLES YALE H ARRISO? I remember quite distinctly when as | a youngster I was supposed to be} studying or out looking for a job that | the vaudeville theatre held a strange | attraction for me. Many an after- noon when I was supposed to be run- ning from office to office in search of gainful employment, I would sneak into a Keith or Loew theatre and} sit throughout the afternoon wateh-| ing act after act whiz by on the bill. There was something fascinating in! the, technique of the vaudeville act. It tooX ten or twelve minutes and it mov- ed with amazing speed and dispatch. Ttawas neat, snappy and its hard ef- | figiency reflected the raciness of mod- ern American life. It mirrored the, like that I knew so well, the cheap wit- Workers lying in parks on the benches in spite of the cold weather, unable to secure employment and | without food and shelter. Workers on the street begging for a nickel to buy. n cup of coffee. Workers on the | street in the front of some shops ? | fighting, while each of them is trying funder it. The Times, the Post and to get inside first. One day last week \the Telegram were all jequally vind-| about 600 to 800 men were trying jicative. And why not? If any of |to make application at the same place, | these reviewers dared to call “Hoboken| one man was knocked ‘half-uncon- | Blues” a good play and give the | scious and walking away he left a | reason for so doing their sheets would | trail of blood that ran off his thin (have lost half of their advertising | body. One meeting of the unemployed jovernight. The big Park Row prop- | was disturbed by the police and 16 Jerties are not in business to boost’ men and women were arrested. No | revolutionary entertainment, Previous | doubt our blue coats are excellent ;New Playwrights plays were called | heroes. “radical” or “mildly interesting” or One worker I met had been out of but with “Hoboken Blues” ork four months, unable to pay his the critics called the play “boring board. His last job only brought him and tiresome”’—a lie, if ever there was ¢)5 4 week, working around acids, cd ete. He was thrown out of the house Maybe “after all, those delightful | by his own sister. The boss came out afternoons spent in the gallery of! and told us that no help was wanted, the Loew ‘and Keith houses were not} he then told me that if he doesn’t \jacked it up and wrote a “review” ticisms of the streets; the weeping | Wasted. rege ae soon ret a job Hes going: to. piel: He entimehtality of the bs ” bal- 1, | 8 lead pipe. Vhen rn) ‘im iad; the wise. kish. straw For “Hoboken Blues” = vaudeville | about the meeting of the unemployed, hats of the this was the |—‘elightful vaudeville but vaudeville, jo said, “they can't do anything any- life that I knew. Of course, as 1)Revertheless. Then, how come, that) )0.” He could hardly walk and only sat among the gallery gods, I didn’t |i" the jazziest vaudeville city in the|}4q one meal a day for two weeks, ration: in this manner—I simply | World that Michael Gold’s play should) 7 ooudn’t get very far with him be- wat and ¢ a |have been met with a vicious pees cause he was an ex-service-man, and, ss of vitriolic dramatie criticism. “Ho- | . 3 ' Then a 4 Aen I Bide home iiamen shines” a. lane Gonaciaie |of course, a oe prea i ned with a heavy heart to} vaudeville! It cracks wise, it is true,|_ These are only a few of the many the endless complaints of my mother and numerous other. relati “Did you get a job? hard?” “My God, everyone seems to bé able to tind work, except you.” I ‘mention ttendance at the vaudevi to prove that Tgam a qualif vaudevillian. Equipped as I am with a>-complet f all the in- tricate ech e dances, with an almo: e with the perf who | pelted me the neverending questions, | “Did you look | pert of things | lities of buck and wing ! cidents we come in contact with every day, but they are of no bene- fit whatever to the unemployed. Therefore, I would like to say to these men and women, iet us stop to fight jbut the cracks are directed in a deft | manner a tthe existing order. It is vaudeville with a poignant, heart- {rending lynching scene. It is fast. It} is sure. It has music. It has—yes— | leven tights. It is burlesque. It laughs, | With each other, let us organize and it crys. But always with the present |together fight our common foes, the | capitalists, and their system under which we are oppressed and exploit- ed. —F. H. economic order as the “foil.” ) At the New Playwrights one sees corked faces, but not the faithful zoons” I saw at the Keith houses ng my novitiate. Gone are the ffling old Sambos, who deferent- | ially doffed their battered hats to The Alimony Club ee a | Massa George. Gold's Negroes in their| , The divorced wite of —e nil, (for ample on sas act) vaudeville rol speak of lynchings Colby, ormer ait snd of state, ne sketch should come vefore the next- | ong police-cracked skulls. obtained a judgemen against im to- i so forth), I feel Sane |from Supreme Court Justice Dele- I car that n “Hoboken Blues” | with ana ority . In 19 any Negro (or white for| that matter) who dares to dream of a} day when the mercil exploitation | of a leather factory will be no more, is almost certain to lose his wife and children and have his head cracked by police clubs. Sam is no exception, All these things | happen to Sam in “Hoboken Blues. And with it all there is a boisterous humor, lots of music, jazz and light vaudevillian tears. But underneath the whole show lies a bitter and effective class- conscious wisecrack. “Hoboken Blues” is a glorious poke in the’ eye at a world run by get-rich-quickers, Wali Streets bankers and G. O. P. politie- ians. It is the sort of vaudeville that I should have seen in my early days. It is head-line vaudeville written by Michael Gold, based on the Com- munist Manifesto, not on sex, which explains the bitter attacks on it by the capitalist press. It is typically American. It has the guts of modern capitalist society with all its capacity and murderous exploitation condensed into two and one half hours. oe ae All of which explains why the dramatic critics of the metropolitan |you will spend, you will receive a press tore it to shreds after the open- ing night. Winchell, the wise-cracking, but emp- ty-headed eritie for “The Graphic”— led it “alleged entertainment.” inchell, a Broadway speakeasy bitue, certainly could see no enter- inment in “Hoboken Blues.” » Alexander Woolleott of the World, ‘ht of a smart crack nd then, Came the crities Walter | $16,500 alimony that the to pay. n Pickens, the non-conformist, |hanty for 1 banjo player, who some-| diplomat failed sow or other cannot get or keep a job, dr through the “play’—15 |” giving a slight appearance of continuity. Sam balks at jobs in a leather factory or in a can factory and flees terrified from offers of work for “colored; must be strong for ex- eavation work under the East River.” He dreams of a time when his race will not be exploited and mobbed and clubbed. He makes “speeches.” He tells the street children of a mythical | country that he has heatd of Hoboken—where ‘they is po’k chop) mountains, cigarette grass, soda water | rivers and where they aint no black and white.” In Hoboken, Sam has been told, you only work three hours a day and spend the rest of the days strummin’ a banjo. “Hoboken Blues” is a/show-—I re- |fuse to call it a play—that every read. | er of the radical press should see. !f| |the labor\press and its readers do not support the New Playwrights} ithen I am at a loss to know who will. | {I make this plea for support in the knowledge that the support given will not be of the self-sacrificing variety; ‘because in return for the dollar or 80 International Press Correspondence Every worker should sub- scribe to this weekly peri- odical for valuable material on important current events of world-wide interest. A Yearly Sub, $6. Six Mo, $3.50 10 Cents a Single Tsaue. Sole Distributing Agents in America: Worke S Pub 4 tibrar 39 €. 125% St. riotous jazzy evening. PLAN MILITARY PARADE. PARIS, Mrch 6.—Plans ar being made by the War Department for a huge army and navy review to take place in June and July. The ma- neuvers are expected to the maa est held in France since the world war... ‘Labor en 1s Workers’ Need in California (By a Worker Correspondent.) Los. ANGELES, Cal. (By M: One of President Wilson’s “wilful” men is in this. city today to extend |his campaign for the Democratic nomination. for the presidency, or chairmanship of the executive com- mittee of the capitalist class. He is James A. Reed, United States Sena- tor from the “show-me-state”— Missouri. In order to show the work- {ers and bourgeois element of this olden starvation state how “demo- leratie” he is, he has made the Bilt- | } | | | ye jers looking for employment, the o ~)more hotel, the finest hang-out for millionaires and other parasites in the city, his headquarters. Biltmore is just as much of a scab-joint as Alexandria,’ another center for idle members. of the “400 club,” used as headquarters by fat A. F. of L. of- ficials during the last convention of that organization. The senator will address a mass meeting at the Olympic Auditorium tomorrow night, Feb. 29, and it is ex- pected that he will kick like hell at President Coolidge and his adminis- tration. Well, being both a Missou- rian and a member of the “mule party,” he has a double reason. of Missouri mule. Not a sound from Mr. McAdoo, the “crown prince” yet. According to the capitalist press, one-sixth, or about 500,000 of the trade union membership are idle in this country at this time; and Cali- fornia has probably more than it: “just” share of starving men, wom- en and children. So what about a Labor Party for this city, state and nation? Instead of keeping up the hopeless game of rewarding friend: and punishing enemies among par- ties made up of dumb animals, ele- phants and mules, etc., organize the workers on the political. field, L. P. RINDAL. knowing the art of kicking like al - TELL OF DETROIT _ UNEMPLOYMENT _ INFORD’S SHOPS Woman Corresopndent Describes Hardship DETROIT (By Mail).—First ex- cuse me for my poor writing as I didn’t get an opportunity to go to school very much. TI went to work at 14-as all the slaves. Always Worked. I worked ever since I remember. Five years ago we lived on.a farm. We got four small children. I didn’t} have much time to help hubby so he found it almost impossible to do all of his work, he got to work day ard night. Finally we heard so much} about Mr. Henry Ford, we sold our farm and came to Detroit. Hubby. also started to work for Mr. Ford and served him faithfully four years. Now after hubby lost his job in Ford’s.for. several weeks he was run- ning up and down the streets to get work. Now we have six children, the oldest 12 years old. Finally hubby got a job in Hudson’s. Two months ago work became slack at Hudson’s and hubby and a hundred. others were laid off. We also bought a} home when we came to Detroit, and; we pay $5 monthly. Our government also protects those men like Mr. Ford as we see in the coal mining districts, but what is “Jazz, Pep’ At “Red Revue” The “peppiest, snappiest proletar- ian jazz follies ever presented in the history of the American labor move- ment”—this was the description ap- plied last night by Edward W. Royce, business manager of The DAILY WORKER, to the forthcoming “Red | Revue” to be held at the Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., Friday eve- ning, March 16. “Tt will feature,” said Royce, “sat- irical take-offs on prominent poli- tical figures nationally and interna- tionally known. Satire at the ex- pense of public men is a diversion which flourished in old England dur- ing the Elizabethan period,” declared the business manager of the “Daily.” It must now be revived, he declared. There will be a Russion gypsy | scene, feature a 14-piece Balalaika orchestra in which songs of old Rus- sia will be contrasted with stirring revolutionary songs of new Russia. “A group of working class beau- ties,” is also promised by Royce for the forthcoming event. “Their danc-| ing and singing,” he said, “will be among the outstanding features of the evening.” The Workers Theatre, under the supervision of Pauline Rogers, who recently returned from a visit to the | Soviet Union, is directing the revue which will consist of nine acts. ~ The noted Russian basso will give his final song recital of the season at Carnegie Hall tonight. Universal announces the forthcom- ing production of a chapter play titled “Terrors of the Unknown” which will feature, in addition ‘to the regular characters, an aggregation of dino- |saurs, ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, pter- jodactyle, diplodoci and other prehis- itoric monsters. done for protection of the workers —shooting them down like dogs, but | our government's constitution writes if-we’re not satisfied with our pres- ent government we got to overrule and elect another government. I) nk we should get a workers’ gov- | ernment by the workers and I tell you we won’t get a bit of justice for the workers of America till we ev a workers’ government. A FORD WORKER’S WIFE. to write to us. This would enal 32a 12 in. 1.25 ( formance. Trio No. 3212 tranquillo. 12 in. 1.25 ( Trio No. 1 in D Minor ( Edith Lorand Trio. Hon Eves. 8:30. stats. | Winter Garden Pves. 8:20. . WORLD'S Soa SENSATION! 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