The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 20, 1928, Page 4

COAL POPULATION °%% Mines MARCHES IN BODY TO DEMONSTRATE Want Labor Party in Every American Town (By a Worker Correspondent.) DILLONVILLE, Ohio, (By Mail) On Satur , March 11, mass picke the Wheeling Erie Coal . 1. About 200 scabs miners stood by the progressive} ‘Union Committee for Friendly Rela- ing under the protection of| | policy and also voted unanimously | | tions with Soviet Russia was held in| | that this mine shall not run with Bensow How, but the pickets came, | for tke call to the National Con-| | the Minneapoljis Court House As- out so tremendously cks could) | ference in Pittsburgh on April 1. {sembly Hall, where an audience of There must The miners are 160 per cent be- |1,500 gave enthusiastic reception to rn hind the progressives everywhere} |Ernyst Lundeen, former congress- 3.000 Men, Women, ® Progressive| (By a Worker Correspondent.) | MARTINS FERRY, Ohio, (By! Mail).—Rank and file mass meet-| ; of the miners were held at} airpoint on March 8, commencing | at 10 a. m., and also on the same} day at Adena at 4 p. m. Fourteen were represented at each in locals place | There were no outside speakers. Local miners spoke at both places. were adopted. The Resolutions RECOGNIZE USSR, ‘DEMAND MADE AT MINNESOTA MEET Delegates to Soviet Union Report (By a Pibrie! Cirretnonitent.) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn (By Mail) —The initial mass meeting of the | vly organized Northwestern Trade and their mothers an in eastern Ohio. --S. man from the {th District, and ally the wk © rs f ~’ |prominent Farmer-Laborite, and to s on hand, | William Watkins of the Switchmen’s There w WOMAN PLEADS {Union, chairman of the first rank Monday jand file trade union delegation which deli a |visited Russia on the occasion of the miners who are » live UNIONIZE NEGROES Tenth Anniversary Celebrations last in company hou lock-out | November, dick stuck and I had to Jos. A. Poirier of the Railroad Te- stop. “W 1 1 rde —-— legraphers Union, chairman of the he said. The order came. hat “Maite ot} “TANI7eE) Trade Union Committee for Friendly it? You can’t d: ‘ me the Calls U norganize d Men Relations with the Soviet Union, pre- Vv names of y rs.” Then he Menace sided at the meeting, stating that the y customers and ap “ overflow attendance gave evidence of Then I-asked let’ me drive in. 2s in the and you to home. load of. pic “Yes,” Is f I take my frie interest: and we are look- 4 f { 5 iond K | tig Gut for ours.” ‘The poor fish said |Wo™meN over ten years of age in the |the reports of the Selezationgl “een See). All for a aaliara: were ‘gainfully em-| ? ; da Te Lani and Watki There were three arrests on the this percentage went | PO! pas . bes rite hast ea cc thirteenth, Andy Blahoves, Alec down zo A Dear eee ie a eae avepaene aid Bardsh, and Joe Horsky. But the |Snting 1, Not in, WO eddna: wie. autmneacally ‘ x 1910 and the Negro women| Watkins was enthusiastically ap- next day they were let out charged with inciting to riot, which is not so! On the fourteenth things were a little stronger, but no arres ¥ spirit here is very good for must go. At Bradley , (and ig tal population ten years of age and five miles north of |f¢ Woman We Correspondent.) Because economic circumstances norance of consequences often egro women to accept’ the’ low- ble>wages, this grouy is a serious problem in indus- In 1910, according to the Bureau atistics, 2,013,981 Negro per cent of all the workers made up one-tenth of the to- over, For years, Negro women were not accepted or recognized in industry. Barred from factories, they were ed to stick to domestic work. Crit- Dillonville, about 50 scabs were work- | i¢s Who state that Negro women favor ing. One of them is from Dillonyille.|!¢w standards of living, are oblivious He is a blacksmith, but I don’t know why he goes on George, for goodness sake what are you doing? jto the fa strikebreaking. | lower wages because they cannot get |jobs by any other means. Don’t you see that as | faced to take what they can get in ct that Negroes work for They are many friends as you had you will now |Oder to make a livelihood. of | the friendly sentiments of the north- jwest towards the Soviet government land the importance of the work un- |dertaken by the committee. | Meeting Jammed. | | Every available seat and@hair was | filled long before time for the meet- Jing to open, while hundreds of peo-| ple stood through the evening t ar | | plauded when he stated that. in the viet Union the workers and farm- ers rule. {Watkins further said: “In America, when the coal miners of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado go on strike, they are slaughtered and shot down. They pay with their lives for having the temerity to ask for barely decent living conditions and wages. But in Russia, the workers run the country. When an unsatis- factory condition arises, their trade union committees meet and remedy it, The Russians are fell-fed and well-clothed. While they have few have enemies? You'll have to depart} Since the war, Negro women have} luxuries as yet, they have all the from this world and now how hard it migrated to the North in great num-} necessities and are secure from the will be. |bers. Employers are hiring them be-{fegr of unemployiment and starvation majority will rule } Labor Party thruout the U. S. A. I-hope to see the day that the|cause their living-eosts are cheap and | for themselyes and their families.” instead of the|tfey can work long hours for little | minority. I'd like to see The DAILY|pay. The most horrible examples of | ing reception and close attention when WORKER in every hamlet and the this are the laundries. They are due|he told of the marvellous * progress Ernest Lundeen was given a rous- THR NAMY warrcrr jat work at 7:15 A. M. and get off at! made by the Russian workers and |6 P. M. What terrible hours! Then | peasants, who had taken over a bank- |the wages they receive are small. /rupt, chaotic country covering one- None make over $12 or $15 a week.|sixth of the world’s surface and in Owing to the wet floors and constant | ten years, only five of which were F. Defenders of” ‘ In€'l Branch, Ironton, THE DAILY WORKER 2.00 Mrs. F. Lalich, Owens, W. Va. W. Chapla, Phila., P; bite Erick Sjolie, Albron, Minn. 5 Jos. Jaglowski, Rutledge, Minn, Anna Schackman, Detroit, Mich Geo. Bizonis, Denver, Colo. M. Esmael, Denver, Colo.. Victor R. Kichlins, Easton, P J. A. W., Chicago, Il. ... Chaky, Frank, Lit J. Snyder, New York C S. Zillinger, Chicago, I. . F, Newman, Binghamton, I, Rudoman, New York ( I. Ruderman, E. Orange, Ed. Hirsch, Cincinnati, Ohio. A. i. Angeli, Dul ¥ Ashtabi League, As Otto Olson, eS: M. Shipman, New York Cit Workers Youth Center, Bre ville, New York Street Nucleus N Ch Bons Mont. tsburgh.5.00 work) Salem, O Eli Medich, C A Worker, Namap, Ic Nick Hun: , Cleveland, Ohio §S. Hadina, Boston, M ‘T. Norten, Boston, Mass. . C, Ebling, Boston, Ma: Sancleau, Boston, M Russian Fraction W. P. Kansas City, Mo ay at S. Wakliure, Olympia, Wash... B. Kammer, Wheeling, W. Va. N. Zirgeino, Wheeling, W. Va. A. Huckion, Wheeling, W. Va. $. Phillips, Wheeling, W. H. Phillips, Wheeling, W 5 M. Jaiovides, Wheeling, W. Va. N, Gaynos, Wheeling, W. M. Lampathakin, i Mr. E. S., Los Angeles. Nick Borcenk, Cleveland, Ohio. *) Workers in the Community Shoe Shop of New York City... .5.50 3.00 2.00 10.00 3.00 1.00 BR, Falconi, Pustiz: D. Dovice, *¥. Komeo, G. . Giordano, D. Peolialla, L. » and Della Racon. 1.00 - 10.00 Roy Hall, Coshocton, Ohio (| W. P. Branch, Pontiac, Mich. Win. Beiersdorger, Vineland, Fla Louis Dunn, Toledo, Ohio . Anton Kamboy, Petaluma South Slavish Educational Akron, Ohio Workers Cooperative ag Ae ES Club John Burja, E. Chicago, Ind G. S. Marhow, Lafayette, Cali Finnish Section, Newark, N. J.. Central Street Nucleus, Milwau- UTM ais eel ae bideo Ames ioxnce 5.00 Carrie M. Chapman, Boise, Idaho. 2.00 Tsaae Lehrer, Los Angeles, Calif..1.0° 1.00 | atmosphere of steam, it is impossible for them to keep healthy. Non-unionized garment factories jare also employing Negro women be- |cause they work cheaper. The major- jenough to live on. auaeRMRaMaRRRsanaanKancuaKaaaraaeaeer ity of them are forced to take work home at night in order to make Then sometimes the miserable wages run out before the nex: pay comes in. The Negro is thus forced to scab in a scab shop. It would be to the interest of even the non-union white workers to co-oper- ate collectively with Negro workers in fighting their way into-the / T- ican Federation of Labor, or failing that, to form their own_organizations to demand better conditions from the employers. Only the bosses’ welfare is served by keeping the Negroes ‘segregated. And the bosses understand this! That is why, when Negro women are given work in fac Ss, ‘they are always forced to separately from the whit and to use rarate The bosses’ heighten onism between the races still Ei rat e s had no of organizing Negroes. When f unions, thru having gone out on sym- hetic strike or for refusing to seab, with the promise of receiving r conditions however, bar Negro workers. those unions admitting them now, And often fail to protect them on the job. In by BERTRA An anal efforts of various scientist Trachtenberg. ATHEISM AND EVOLUTION, ly they were admitted into | Many unions even} Ldcudabedabadaddataudadadetdcdaadscudahetaudeudasdakcancedad March “Communist” Atheism and Evolution s of the shortcomings of the pet philoso- phies of America, Empiricism and Pragmatism, and the tect religion at the expense of science. Other important articles: AMERICA AND RUSSIA, by Marx and Engéls. RUTHENBERG AS FIGHTER AND LEADER, by Jay Lovestone. THE PROLETARIAT AND WAR, by Lenin. MARX, LENIN AND THE PARIS COMMUNE, by Alexander AFTER THE CANTON UPRISING, by John Pepper. CAPITALIST EFFICIENCY ‘SOCIALISM,’ by William Z. Foster, LITERATURE AND ECONOMICS, by V. F. Calverton. ARO ALP HAAR A ARAR ANY RO MOR rei /comparatively peaceful, had made it a shining example for the workers of other countries. “The Russian | people want no war,” said Lundeen. “All they ask is to be permitted to work out their problems and to con- tinue with their program of making \their country a truly civilized one, ‘where those who toil and produce all wealth will receive the full fruits of their labor.” He ¢ited the Soviet | Union’s progress in industry, its de- velopment of hydro-electric plants, ‘its progress in science and in the bringing of education and culture to (all its people, as reasons why such a great nation should be recognized by |the United States. Lundeen said, SS | Thus, Negroes become antagonized. Negro women of today, as well as unorganized white workers, serve as a menace to organized labor by being unconsciously forced to undermine union standards. As long as the unions keep them out, either by fail- ing to see the need for organizing them or by deliberately shutting the door in their faces, they will be forced into being innocent agents of the em- and constantly available as They challenge the trade unions: Organize us! If you cannot see our own welfare at stake, at least be not blind to the welfare of the entire labor movement! FLORENCE BAKER. the M D. WOLFE s and near-scientists to pro- by Bertram D, Wolfe. Children Picket Ohio Scab Mine, | Mass Picketing | Keeps Scabs Out | of Ohio Mines (By-a Worker Correspondent.) MARTINS FERRY, Ohio, (By | | | cal press to the effect that the of-| | | ficials-of mine No. 7 in Neffs, Chio, the miners who have since been | maintaining a continuous picket idays gradually grown. Today | brought 600 men, women and chil- |dren out. The men are determined | || seabs, and are turning out daily. {| The officials of the sub-district | |are conspicuous by their absence | | since they got wind of mass picket- | ing. No attempt has been made to | |stop the picketing by force. Last | |week the president of the local union and leader of the pickets was | threatened, and given 24 hours to discontinue mass picketing. When he and the men refused, he was | | arrested the following day, tho | |later released. U. S. marshals and | |Vie Donahey’s so-called “observ- jers” are in the field. The miners jare of the opinion that these ob- | |Servers are in the field to terror- | |ize them, sent in by the so-called | |friend of labor, Vic Donahey. The effect on the men, however, is to} \solidify their ranks and to intensify their mass picketing, as the best method of keeping out the scabs, jas is proven by the ten days with- jout a man entering the mine. > | | Soviet Russia, and more and more, until the officials at Washington can na longer ignore the mighty wave of public opinion and Russia is given the complete official and diplomatic equality which she deserves. Russia} has products and markets that we| need and we have products and mar-/} kets that Russia needs. Recognition is not only necessary, but inevitable.” The audience was further interest ed in Lundeen’s revelation of his sur-| prise at discovering that Malen-| chensky, a member of the Praesidium} of the All-Trade Union Council, wa: a former Minneapolis jewelry work-* er, and that Madame Kollontai, Sov-| iet ambassadress, had made a lec-} ture tour through Minnesota some years ago. He.wen¥ on ito tell of dis- covering merchandise manufactured in Minneapolis in the city of Kiev. | “] walked intosthettarone ‘room of; the former czar’s palace in Kiev, which is now an agricultudal expo- sition,” said Lundeen—“thousands of peasants were passing through, in- specting the farm implements and agricultural machinery, and to my surprise, I discovered in the centre of the throne room an automatic sprinkler manufactured by a Minne- apolis company.” A Labor Party. Both Watkins and Lundeen stated that the Soviet trade unionists ex- pressed astonishment at the fact that jthere is as yet in the United States |no national Labor Party to function as the political instrument of the workers and poor farmers. When the Ukrainian Workers’ Chorus sang the Internationale, the 1,500 people in attendance rose as one, many of them joining in the singing. Announcement was made by the committee that further meetings would be held in all sections of the Twin Cities, so that those who could not gain admission to the crowded jhall would be given opportunity to jhear the reports of Lundeen and Watkins. Secretary Watkins stated that further delegations were being | Planned, a group being now in proc- essOf organization. he _.The following resolution was unan- imously adopted by a rising vote, and ‘the secretary instructed to forward | 1871 the 57th anniver- | sary of the Paris READ-- THE PARIS COMMUNE by Max Shachtman 10 CIVIL WAR IN FRANCE by Karl Mar« ALBUM OF THE COMMUNE. WORKERS LIBRARY PUB- LISHERS, 39 East 125 St. NEW YORK. a ae NEW var mmonaworeadon an in90 THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH'20, 1998 DOPE TO SLAVES | Mail).A recent report in the lo-| | | were prepared to run the) | mine“on the 60-40 basis, provoked | | |line, which has in the past ten| | “We must send more delegations to?copies to all Minnesota representa- (MICHIGAN TRUST HANDS GOOD TIME. Dw |Taylor Holmes in “The ; Great Necker” at the - Ambassador Ladle Out Liquor to! - Forget With | ESCRIBED as a new comedy of | modern life by Elmer Harris, “The | Great Necker,” is now playing at the (By Se Worker Correspondent) Ambassador Theatre with Taylor IRONWOOD, Mich., (By Mail)—! Holmes in the chief role. Chamber- | Very few a:ticles appear from th |town even tiough the iron ore in-| | dustry here employs many wage | ain Brown, who is busily engaged slaves. A steel trust town like this} in stock company revivals at the Cos- mopolitan, found time to offer this |surely needs publicity in a workers’ {paper. There are many iron mines around this town and on a range’ ex- | tending for about ten miles east-/| wards. These mines are not ver sefe places to work and many acci- scales will fall is difficult to predi for although the comedy is sexed” throughout, nevertheless in one of these hell holes where men slave long hours to eke out a bare/ existence. | Recently the business men of the! town together with the mining com- pany officials held a winter frolic. This was just another scheme by which the miners were shown a good | time for a few days in the attempt to make them forget their hard life and bad conditions. In the spirit of revelry which abounded, accompanied by lots of liquor drinking, the slaves of the steel trust tried to forget their low wages and poor conditions. But]and prosperity and seriously try to this was in vain for upon their return’ remedy our present state. Only by or- to work after a weekend of gaiety| ganization can we gain our ends. they found the same miserable con-| The Ironwood Comrades have also started The DAILY WORKER Sub- scription drive. The Y. W. C. L. and the Party are doirg there best to ret subs. An affair for The DAILY WORKER which will be a monster one will probably be put on in the spring when everyone can attend. Let’s keep The DAILY WORKER, the only true working class paper! with a professional Don Juan and his matrimonial interests in a girl of six teen on account of her suppose |naivete and innocence, with the usual |complications of the women of his |past affairs cropping up at inoppor- jtune moments to supply the farce situations, the girl’s love for a boy of her own age and the expose to the audience of her character not being as pure and simple as the profes- sional Lothario imagines. In the end the “great necker” is rescued into a more holy state of matrimony by a friend of his own age of long stand- ing. Additional comedy relief is pro- vided by the secondary plot—the en- deavors of a dialect motion picture producer, played by James B. Car- son, to get a picture passed by the National Board of Censors, of which the young girl’s mother, played by Blanche Ring, is one of the censors to be overcome. In short, “The Great Necker” fol- lows the tried and trusted rules for turning out a low comedy farce with little or no thought of the element. of freshness or originality. As a farceur Taylor Holmes has long been recognized on our stage. Marjorie Gateson, now apparently graduated from musical comedy, graces the role of the woman that the “great necker” eventually mar- ries, while Blanche Ring, likewise from musical comedy, does everything possible with a hopelessly manufac- tured part. Irene Purcell simpers and chortles as the bread-and-butter miss and acts natural with a boy of her own age. d ——————— ditions in the mines as were there before the winter frolic. If they thought more about their evil con- ditions they would see more of their plight, but the capitalist do not want the worker slave to see. H- must be blind and ignorant. this veil of so-called good existence tives in Senate and Congress, to the president and to the press: Urge Recognition. “Whereas, the people of Russia struggled for centuries under the despotism of the czar, suffering un- told misery and privation as a conse- uence thereof, and | “Whereas, the entire world out- ide of Russia found occasion time without number to express its sym- pathy for the downtrodden workers and peasants of that then benighted land, and “Whereas, the yoke of czars and of the feudal oppressors was thrown off by a rising of the workers in Rus- sia in the year 1917, and a govern, ment of the workers and peasants was then established, and “Whereas, the workers and peas- ants’ government of the former land of the czar represents the desires and hopes of the masses of that country, and “Whereas, after ten years of suc- BROADWAY Alexander Carr, screen star, in “Human Character Studies”; Billy Wyeth and Evelyn Wynn; Garden of Roses, a dance fantasy featuring Rosemary Deering with Gerald Fow- ler, Billy Marshall and Four Rose- buds; Jack Hewitt and Fred Hall, other acts. On the screen Victor Me- Laglen, star of-“What Price *Glory” in “A Girl In Every Port,” featuring Louise Brooks, Leila Hyams and Robert Armstrong. PALACE arce for the delectation or not of| New York audiences. Which way the | ‘ll i sug- | gestively vulgar at times and “over-| it | may fill the demands for what a sec- | dents happen. This is the town|™ " c | where over 40 men were entombed in|tion ‘of the theatre-going public | jthe Pabst mine. The same kind of an| Wants. accident (is it?) can happen any time Briefly, the play concerns itself | Comrades in Ironwood, let’s cast off } cessful operation in subduing counter revolution, repelling invasion and or- ganizing industry and agriculture, this peasant and worker government has not yet received the recognition James Barton; second week of Maestro Lerdo de Tejada and the Mexican Tipica Orchestra; Arthur Byron assisted by Mrs. Byron and This month marks || ‘|| Commune. | of the United States government, the Misses Eileen and Katheryn ad Byron in a new farce, “A Family Af. Whereas, there is’ before the fair,” by Mr. Byron; Marian Sunshine with Bob LeRoy and Howard Mott; Burns and Allen; The Colleanos; Jay Vealie; Les Klincks and John and Mary Mason. United State Senate a resolution in- troduced by United States Senator Wm. E. Borah, of Idaho, to recognize the government of Russia, therefore “Be it resolved py this gathering | of more than one thousand citizens | of Minneapolis, Minnesota, that we urge upon the United States Senate the adoption of the Borah resolution and thus bring about the re-estab- lishment of diplomatic relations be- tween our land and that of the for- mer czar, now known as the Union|f of Socialist Soviet Republics.” KEITH- ALBEE CAME NEW YORK spread | Daily Worker | { and get a new newsstand — Enacted by the MOSCOW ART headed by LEONIDO in the movies. worthy picture."—HALL, 1 The remarkable Russian screen masterpiece—A Sovkino Production Czar Ivan the Terrible “‘Ivan the Terrible’ outstanding production. -CARMON, DAILY WORKE | est cinema show of last few ‘month y Toe ee Ro [ In “Whispering Friends,” George M. Cohan’s farce at the Hudson Theatre. 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