The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 8, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1928 State Cops Aid New England Textile Bosses, Worker Correspondent Says “RHODE ISLAND'S TROOPERS CALLED DW BREAK. STRIKE Police Injzre Worker in Demonstration (By a Worker Corresponden') FALL RIVER, Mass. (By Mai Fearing the success of the W n| village strike, where the workers have succeeded in pulling out many of the strike-breakers, who had been induced to go to work, and getting them to join the union, the Parker Co. of Fall River has brought in the state police of Rhode Island an Massachusetts to aid them in the| fight. On Friday after conducted a demonst of the m when t ing escor to began their usual rorism and one tion in front bs were be- trains, the polic ampaign of ter pa, had to rece’ attention from a} doctor. He h brutally at- tackd and beaten over the head with| an iron pipe. | John Znol, another striker, has been arre i stated charg: Prepara » being made by the state police of both Massachu setts and Rhode Island to protect the scabs. The scab herders who shook with fear when they arrested peace- 1onstration in Boston, will be in their element now. Workers in the Fall R are not plants of strange to them a: re the pickets on Beacon Hill. Strike-breal is the every- day job of the sta LEGISLATURE ENDS MAROM 23.) ALBANY, N. Y., March fi.--The 1928 session of the igislature will come to an end og Mgrch 23 in- Stead of March 16 as hag been origi- nally scheduled by the”assembly. striker, Antone Pap-| ,, during the Saeco-Van-! | Bosses Behind Insurance Deal to Grab Wages | (By a Worker Correspondent.) The DAILY WORKER is a work- ers’ paper and every day I read let- ters written to it by workers from | different shops, so I thought that it | might interest you to know how in- ; surance companies try to squeeze out some more profits from the saps with the willing help of the bosses, of | course. Today an insurance agent came up jand tried to induce the workers t {take out an industrial group insur- jance. I remember a year age you ran a exposing the audulent nature of this scheme. The an “an- conditions. You pay cents weekly, and rest will paid by the company. I have a slight idea, that rest of the balance go into the pocket of one of the s as commission. If you are arged before your sixtieth year, then you lose all that you paid in, y changes its employes | |very frequently. In case of sickness they very | vaguely promise a weekly ten bucks | but you can never tell where the trick when all the conditions are very indefinite. The company lent a willing hand te the Hartford Insurance Co., which comes out with this scheme. It is one more way to make profits from {the little pittance we workers get. It is clear at the same time, because {the bosses are let out of their duty jto insure the men. Of course there is no need to have a state insurance | which comprehensively would insure jus who bear the brunt of the burden he society. What we need is state ion on the job, when you are ick or cut of a job. Of course you cannot expect such laws from the st parties of this country. We ar2 out to build a party which will fight for the workers’ rights. ja out the | 4 | agent handed hin March Eight Commemorates Woman’s LL Revolutionary Work By JEANE E. DEAN. Woman’s Day—March 8th—is set aside the world over by Communists to commemorate woman’s contributions to the revolutionary movement. It also marks the day when women of the International make renewed pledges to best serve the cause of labor fore the emancipation of the working- class. Woman who for centuries has been the double victim of the private property system, and who has there- fore lagged behind male workers, is gradually catching up to him. Mod- ern industrialism is tearing the pro- letarian woman out of the “home,” forcing her into the factory, com- pelling her to make qual strides for freedom with her male co-workers, In Industry to Stay. Woman under capitalism has en- tered industry to stay. Neither mar- riage nor maternity exempts an ever- increasing number of women from the industrial vortex. The shackles of wage-slavery binds her, they grip her, they exert a stranglehold upon hex; Woman must seek emancipa- tion from wage-slavery. end, she must traverse along th same p: as man. She too must use the same means, the same weap- ons to rid the world of s' ‘ an’s struggle an cannot march She cannot use ave feminine to road tow recogni re P » is no there is none 1. The class must include It To that} {both sexes, yet woman’s task is in- lfinitely more difficult. Our effort must therefore be redoubled. Under private property rule, man, the male, is the more favored sex. Beeause of that, his status is some- what more elevated economically, so- ciologically and culturally. Woman imust beat back the tide of centuries of discrimination, restriction and |backwardness. Woman to a consid- erable extent has-yet to catch up to her male co-workers, in order to achieve the same degree of class- consciousness enjoyed by the longer jindustrialized male. Because woman is more new to in- dustry, because of historic and physi- {ological handicaps, woman has devel- oped somewhat slower. That does not stamp her as inferior. She has not had an equal chance for cultural evelopment and therefore she is more eager to hasten the day that |will bring equality of opportunity for jdevelopment. The working woman nust be drawn into the class strug- le. It is necessary to facilitate the wakening of her class consciousnes o as to hi the DAY of emanci ion. is the meaning of ARCH 8TH. movement has |WOMAN’S DAY, for the freedom of woman, e freedom of mankind. t A. Klobucar, Cleveland, 0... J. Panek, Chicago, Ill.. L. Payes, New York City. G. A. Klar, Cleveland, O.. M. Diazich, (col.), Steubenville, ‘Ohio ~ 2. + 31.00 Wz. P. Sukut, Chicago, Il!. -++1.00 T. Santovic, (col) Wadsworth, 0.20.00) Rus: Mandolin Orchestra, Endi- cott, New York Nuc. 26, Sec. 6, Dis 8, Chicago.30.00 M. Holmau Chicago, Il. . 00 J. Sanglen, w York City......1.00 C. Eneberg, Chicago, Ill........ 5.00 L. Larsen, Couer d'Alene, Idaho. 1.00 Bulgarian Fraction, W. P., Gary, + 23.50 A Friend, Seattle, Wash.. 5.00 F, Engman, Deerwood, Minn... .1.00 Shop Nuc. 10, Kansas City, Kans.15.00 J. Kurki, San Francisco, Cal... .10.00 Br. 149, I. L. D., Frankord, Pa. .10.00 Workers’ Literary Society, Frank- ee Bi ciiie i <P ines cis aan ys 10.00 Lithuanian Working Women’s Al- liance, Branch 29, Chicago, I11.5.00 Vretta Brothers, Detroit, Mich. 20.00 A. Krotofil, Norwalk, Va 10.00 W. C. P. Nuce., Jamestown, N.Y..11.00 Dr. A. Caspe, New York City. ..5.00 C. J, Buyan, Clifton, Arizona. ..1.00 F, Baumholtz, Midvale, Ohio. ...3.00 F, Plotsky, Midvale, Ohio......1.50 A, W. Fackery, Midvale, Ohio. .1.00 G. Stokes, Los Angeles, Call... .1.00 “Defenders oS” THE DAILY WORKER . Wiener, Bklyn, N. Y..... . Heiplik, Pequot, Minn. . Stumvole, Pequot, Minn.. . Garness, Pequot, Minn. . Skroza, Hartford, Conn Ukich, Hartford, Conn. , Poskov, Hartford, Conn. . Girdovich, Hartford, Conn. . Antich, Hartford, Conn... ...2. Basich, Hartford, Conn... C. Reiss, (col.), Los Angeles. .4. M. Stresow, Central Islip, N.Y..1.00 2.66 M. Mark, Chicago, Ill.... Mrs, Katzensteiner, N. Y. C. A. M. Firey, River Forest, Tl J. W. Trepp, Minn. Minn. . C. H. Hedlund, St. Paul, Min: H. Shablin, Kansas City, Mo. L, Callegaro, Alberta, Canada. Dr. J. Brodsky, Wash., D. C.. + 2.00 5.00 Finnish Workingmen Association, Glassport, Pa.-......... S. Krasnow, Chicago, Ill... H. J. Muller, Austin, Texas. S. Kozushok, Frances, W, Va. G. Morrison, Frances, W. Va S. Kuzbko, ‘Frances, W. Va. M. Kozushok, Frances, W. Va M, Shuliak, Frances, W. Va. St. Nucleus 10, Detroit, Mich. S. Anderson, Detroit, Mich. L, San, Detroit, Mich.... -5.00 St. Nucleus 7, Detroit, Mich...10.00 J. Shopansky, Detroit, Mich.....2.00 + -50.00 -5,00 10.00 +2.00 + 2.00 5.00 1.00 -1.00 14.00 -5.00 Pa To that end the revo-| dedicated | | M, Obelobitz, (col.), Akron, O. . .12.50} CHICAGO WINDOW WASHERS IN BIC STRIKE MEETING All Pledged to Stay Out to Last (By a Worker Correspondent.) CHICAGO, (By Mail).—At a strike meeting of window washers, local 34, Chicago Federation of Labor, the strikers demonstrated a strong de- termination to win the strike. The hall, tho it is a large one, was far too small to accommodate all the win- dow washers who turned out. After five weeks of struggle against the Chicago Building Man- egers’ Association, no one of the win- low washers is for a moment con- sidering anything but the success of the strike. Every member of local 34 put him- self on record to stay out. outside the strike zone, the Chicago loop buildings, put himself on record as willing to support the strike or- ganizationally, morally and finan- cially, even tho it takes his last cent. Strikers are on the picket line, windows are still dirty. The pros- pects of winning are very good. Other organizations are coming to the sup- port of the window washers daily. Up to the present time twenty-four arrests have been made. Strikers’ meetings are held every day. —A WINDOW WASHER. Call Labor Party Conference in Arnold, Pa. (By « Worker Correspondent.) ARNOLD, Pa. (By Mail).—The working masses of this district are beginning to realize that nothing can be expected from the old capitalist parties, Republican or Democratic. They understand that the only way to get rid of starvation, unemploy- ment, low wages, injunctions, evic- tions, tear-gassing, clubbings by state coassacks, and the Coal and Iron Co. gangsters* and all the ter- rorism of the courts and judges who are turned loose to smash the unions and drive wages down and down is to build their own Party. They realize that only a Party of their own, that is a Labor Party can help them in their struggle for bet- ter conditions, for strong unions and! a better life generally. So they have called a conference at which they elected a prominent Labor Party council made up of: trade unionists, especially miners. The council has issued a call to all local unions and labor organizations to send delegates to the next general conference of the Labor Party i Arnold, Pa., where elections of can- didates to the various offices will take place. Every working man and woman is invited to attend without charge. —JI. Students Return TARRYTOWN, N. Y., March 7.—- The 200 striking students of the Ir- vington High School returned to their studies yesterday after walking out Monday in protest against the re- moval of William McClelland as su- perintendent. Decision to return was made following an appeal to the student body in executive session in | the auditorium by McClelland. Mem- bers of the faculty were barred from the meeting. sprea the Daily Worker and get a new newsstand Sympathizers and readers we ask you to speak to your nearest newsdeaier. He should order the DAILY WORKER. Fill out the coupon and send it to us. Circulation Dept., Daily Worker, 38 East 1st Street, New York City. Name of Newsdealer .. Address .. No, of Copies 0.4 .ccsc0ee0+ My Name and HAAN 60's Ciuc downs cans Buy an extra Daily Worker everyday and give it to your shop mate or fi ll Every | member of local 34 who is working} Women Strike im Umbrella Shop for Raise (By a Worker Correspondent.) Our: shop has been on strike for two weeks. We all belong to the Umbrella and Handle Makers: Union and worked at the Famous Umbrella Shop, 89 East 21st St. We joined the union years ago because we didn’t want to have to take our work home in order to make enough money to live on. In our trade we get paid by the piece and the very fastest can’t make more than $25, even though they work ten and twelve hours of the day. Most workers don’t. make more than $15, and some not even $12. Then they take the materials home with them and work until late at night in order to make a few dollars | more. In the umbrella stores, most of the workers have to work until 8 to 9 o’clock at night anyway. There are over 2,000 workers in our trade, but most of them are not organized. They work often in shops of from 30 to 50 workers, and from 48 to 50 hours weekly. There are many small shops, too. | Our shop is only a small one, just ‘seven of us, but every one is on the picket line. We came out when the boss cut our wages, and we will not go back for any lower wages than we were getting before the cut. We will fight until we get better conditions. A WOMAN WORKER iPower Trust Takes Huge Excess Profit | { | . WASHINGTON, March 7.—Judson King, director of the National Pop- ular Government League, is getting out a circular dealing with the loot | which the power trust is taking from ; the American people. King has com- {pared the price paid for electricity |in the United States, under private lownetship, with that in Ontario un- \der public ownership. He finds that for domestic, com- ymercial and street lighting, the | American people ~are~-paying $700,- |000,000 more than they would pay if the rates were the same as in On- SHEET IN EFFORT Urge Creditors to Cut Off Strikers (By a Worker Correspondent.) PENOWA, Pa.,*(By Mail).—I ar sending you a letter which has bec mailed to me by my son, a strikin miner in Illinois.. As I have not see it published in any of our papers i struck me that you. might not hay geen a copy. Here it is and it wil explain itself. Mr. Robert Fulton, 707 E. Walnut St., Gillespie, HL. Dear Sir: So you are on strike? And because you are on strike you think that we who work eight hours every day in the week should sup- port you while you lay around and do nothing. Why are you on strike? Because you are not man enough to bargain with the world on your own merit. You can not say to your employer, “I do so much work, and so much better than such and such a man and so I should have more pay,” which should be the true basis of in- creased salary. Instead you get in with a bunch of loafers who are too lazy to increase their efficiency, and say “We'll lay off for a few months, and then the boss will realize how important we are.” And while you are laying off you live on the products of the labor of others—parasite on the Nation. “Strike” is a high toned name for “Plain Ornery Laziness.” If your creditors all sue you, you will have to pay cash for everything you get—and to do that you will have to work to live. The first settlers of Virginia were gentlemen who thought themselves too good to work—the decree went out, “Those who would eat must work.” The condition is now re- versed—the laboring man is now too proud to work, and the same decree will have to be issued against them. tario.... Allowing for., taxes, interest on investment and other legitimate Creditors victimized by lazy strik- ers can put a stop to this yearly loss BOSSES USE DOPE| T0 SMASH STRIKE Clown—“The Circus” at by mercilessly closing down on each bad debtor who uses this way of avoiding payment of his just obliga- tion,” kerk He total of excess cost of elec- tricity: to: the..American people’ in HF sit abou $000,000000, 0 This explains in part the activity of :the: power lobby in Washington this winter. It also explains the ; Willingness of certain of the bigger | electric interests to make terms with organized labor, which pays much of ‘this bill. in ‘Rumor of Giant Steel | Merger in Wall Street A giant industrial affiliation which would embrace six corpora- {tions in the equipment and 8&teel in- | dustries with gross assets of over | $600,000,000 is being discussed by ; Arthur W. Cutten, of Chicago, and | the Fisher brothers, of Detroit, au- |tomobile body makers and stock mar- ket operators. According to rumors in Wall St. |yesterday the corporations involved would include |Co., Westinghouse Electric and Man- ufacturing Co. Westinghouse Air | Brake, American Steel Foundries, ; American Rolling Mills and Stand- Baldwin Locomotive} Yours very truly, ELMER RICHARDS COMPANY. (Signed) B. E. Roberts, Mgr. Legal Dept. In replying use back of this letter. Senet east 3 Editor’s Note: This reproduction of a Company letter, published by strikers and sap their morale. Here they are attempting to at- tack the strikers’ working class self respect by calling them loafers be- cause they have turned against the hell which the bosses have made of their lives, and are fighting the bosses for the right to get at least as much to eat and as good barns to sleep in as cattle get. In reality it is the boss who is the “loafer,” and it is because the worker has found this }out and is threatening to drive him from his privileged post as the true | “parasite on the nation,” that is on |the labor, and hence the life of the | workers, that the bosses are fright- ened and Will not stop at any means to defeat the workers, and whip them ! back to slavery.) Raise Your Voice ard Steel Car companies. ainst:— Marines in Nicaragua Gunboats.in China Five Billi ‘on Dollars for the Navy A New World War in the Making RUTHE NBERG MEMORIAL MEETING Honor the Memory of Spea. WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. WILLIAM W. JACK STACH. Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra Auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party, 108 E. 14th Street. C. E. Ruthenberg who went to jail fighting against the last World War | Sunday, March 11, * CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE | 67th Street and Third Avenue Doors Open At 1P.M. * Rers: BERTRAM D. WOLFE WEINSTONE EL, Chairman, Dramatic Features ADMISSION 26 CENTS. Elmer Richards in Chicago, is one of | those insidious doses of venom with | which the bosses“hope to poison the | Chaplin the Master State Theatre The passing years may have aged he old master a bit. He’s had his troubles too. But the spark of genius that lights up the face of an audience and brings out good healthy laughter is still in Charlie Chaplin. A youngster, a few seats away, howled in glee thru- out an hour of “The Circus” last night | at the Loew’s | State and a crowded theatre éof other {kids and older folls grown young again kept howling with him. Only Charlie Chaplin can do this and does persistently to confound the super- sophisticated critics who see his ge- nius dimming in each successive pic- ture, | It’s Charlie of old in “The Circus.” | The: master of slap-stick clowning in |a@ picture written, acted and directed by himself. No memorable “bits” are in this, perhaps, as in a few otb- er pictures, particularly “The Kid.” But neither are there any dull spots in this hilarious comedy. : Poor sap, he breaks into the circus in a rush, with a persistent cop be- hind him. His escape brings the cir- cus audience to hysterics and Char- jlie to a much needed job. His antics make him the hit of the circus tho boob-like he is unaware of it and he asks for a raise in pay only junder provocation. He gets locked in a lion’s cage and he becomes a |tight-rope walker. Both occasions |are unusually good comedy. He’s told to dust a gold fish bowl and does it thoroly, dusting off live fish as well. He tumbles and stumbles and with his perfect mimicry added, makes “The Circus” a lively, delight- ful comedy that will shake the wear- iness of a hard day’s labor out of your weary bones. Charlie Chaplin | A few spots of unnecessary senti- mentality do not add to the picture, but neither do they do it much harm. Charlees Chaplin in “The Circus is Charlie of old, clowning to your heart’s content, in derby, cane and old shoes and turning corners #t high speed on one leg, making children out of grown-ups. “The Circus” is not the best that Chaplin has done. A number of his films have been bet- ter. It is, however, an enjoyable good evening, with a lot of good i img in role “Whispering Friends,” George M. Cohan’s new farce at the Hudson Theatre, Plays an important JANE AND KATHERINE HEAD BILL AT JEFFERSON THEATRE Se The youthful talents of the stage and screen, Jane and Katherine Lee, head the vaudeville bill at the Jeffer- son Theatre today, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. These two little girls appear in a comedy sketch. Jimmy Lucas, author and comedian, appears on the surrounding bill assisted by J Geraldine Herbert in a_ travesty. Other acts are: The Briants, Vic Plant and Jim Galvin, assisted by May Hall; Scotty Holmes and his Highlanders; Jack and Sol Freed; Fred Hayden, Louise Manning and Tommany Hayden, and Marie Sweeny. The screen attraction is “Beau Sabreur” with Noah Berry, Evelyn Brent, Gary Cooper and William Powell. King Vidor will direct Marion Davies in “Polly Preferred,” an adaptation of the Broadway play. Vidor recently completed “The Pat- sy,” also an adaptation of a stage play, starring Miss Davies. Official pictures of the Jack De- laney vs. Tom Heeney heavyweight limination bout are on view at the Hippodrome, Broadway and Cameo Theatres. MAY AMEND NORRIS PLAN. WASHINGTON, Mar.7. — Debate over disposition of the government’s $100,000,000 Muscle Shoals project enterd its closing stages in the sen- ate today with all indications point- ing to enactment of a slightly amend- hearty laughter. And that’s rare. YY LEA . Eves. 8:30. Mats. Winter Garden Pvss. 8:30 sat. WORLD'S LAUGH SENSATION! Artists * Models WINTHROP A JOH. Galswor’ ‘SS present. . @aLSWORTHYS LIE § Thea., W. 45St, Evs. 8:40 BOOTH Mats. Wed. & Sat, dh Th., W.44 St. Bvs.8:30 Broadhurst 3:;\" Wed. & Sat. { Theatre, West 44th Street. Evs. 8:30. Mats. Wed.é Sat THE NEW COHAN FARCE ceonce ARLISS | _ WHISPERING FRIENDS in THE MEKCHANT OF ViNICB “The Trial ' ‘ H { ire, 41 St. W. of B'w: 8:30. Mts. Wed &Sat.2:30 of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veilier, a with Anm Harding-Rex Cherryman | ERLANGER?’S Thea.W.44 St.ove.s.a0 M . Groran uw. Conan © 54% THE MERRY MALONES. hebchechah hc ecece decker detect decbechdecedecded Hoboken Blues ed Norris plan. = ~ od —— The Theatre Guild presents aupene O'Neill's Strange Interlude Play, John Golden Thea., 58th, E. of B’way Evenings Only at 5:30/ EUGENE O'NEILL’s Marco Millions ilq Th-» W. 52d st. Evs. 8:30 Guild yyxis inure & Sat Bae Extra Matinee Wednesday Week of March 12: “The Doctor's Dilemma” PORGY te Th., W. 43d. BE Republic fixie Wists ACul4 DR: Mats: Wed.&Sat. 2.30 “BETTER THAN THE BAT” Uh SP SEr eer: STE 9 Thurs. Fri, Sat. & Su: le JANE & KATHERINE LEE JIMMY LUCAS THE BRIAN'TS--VIC PLANT & CALVIN The Answer to “Beau Geste” “BEAU SABREUR” with Noah Beery & Evelyn Brent. It’s a Circus! ile ae your finances, throw ~J 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 Walker 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 circus) in this play that ev- ery worker will enjoy. Get tickets today for