The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1928, Page 4

ey ke) | Page Four eee DAILY WORKER, =W YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1928 Illinois Coal anes Held in Spite of Official Attack, Correspondent Writes LEWIS. HENCHMAN’ = Poze cm FAILS TO BREAK | SAVE UNION MEET Fake “Progressive” Really Official Tool (By a Wor. BENLD, | Carnella, United failed in ar the-Uni The local secured a ha Is Correspondent.) (By Mail)—Joe E district 6, pre or Be ay : AR Above is the face of R. G. Myrland, el sna see nr their: tools, | | ganizer for the Military Order of GHe lied to t the World War, one of the jingo so- cities which the United States govern: him there wi ting ment h ed as a catspaw in its at- es ah fies {ea The ‘DAILY. WORKER. his orders woul Myrland was arrested by a Minne- the sheri ota butcher to whom he had tried to asa to local | pass a fuke check. The picture was chief of pol \sent to us by the Worker Correspond- The Sz ion »|ent whose letter appears below. finding the gaged another closed also. 1 over to the an ‘enthusi. closed to them, en- 1all World War Society vd moved | and held| Organizer Is Forger Joe who was fast le ing his trade | (By a Worker Correspondent) | of stool-pigeon v sheriff} FARIBAULT, Minn., (By Mail).— | again and tried h to have | An e name of R. them-stop the meet The chief had} G ed yesterday free speech (or Ed.) and r meeting unle: a little re: the size of fused to br a riot wa The only stool-pigeon chane of (oraiee different ranging in amounts from ve dollars to ten dollars, at Fari {bault and several other towns. He is | now in the Rice County jail waiting a hearing today. were is nothing strange in the Nowhere: in any bob: mere” fact of one more individual} ice find this de-, toreing checks to swell the number | And so the such .under the. “wonderful and | Joe Carnella, ea al” capitalist system, which} faker and stool-pigeon,! “gives everybody plenty.” ll Benld. | But Mr. Myrland is an organizer » the chief this part of Minnesota for the} ing he said, | Mil Order of World War Joe ¢ id they Lewis out.” of law could « scribed as. u meeting cont “progres: is now the When Carne from our open a in “Chief, are 300 up in the/| Vetera: a 100 per cent Wall Street} school gro Ss, go up and disperse jfand anti-labor organi ation, one 0 hem.” was too much for the | the societies which is instrumental in} ehief. He asked, “What are they say- | bringing indictments against The | ing?” | DAILY WORKER for espousing the | “Why,” says Joe, “they are want-|imterests of the workers and farmers. | ing to throw out Lewis.” |The arrest of this forger places the | | society in the front rank of America’s | wonderful imperialist and pa-| ic associations. A butcher named John Branden- burg, had Myrland arrested for giv- ing a three dollar check in payment! of five cents worth of meat. J immie Not ‘Worried About Unemployment | . March | the b ing him back the res Walker of New of the check in change. Myr and | ted today by Will “Harold Nelson” | signed the name of checks. and organize: on who stories tc | tel a section of the| y benefit Military Or the World War} here and in conv tion with one of | the local’ members, your Worker| year th ‘respondent was informed that him is not worried “Myrland comes with the highest} ployment situation in big town ndation: nor is the transit with what he calls years. ls cf the Order are here to| tuation interfering | hings up for Myrland. his best vacati “Defen déns of” THE DAILY WORKER) . Marqus, Elkland, ‘ Pa. . $1.00 (M, Di. az Ramirez, Mexico, D. F | ZLaebowitz, (collected) Baltimore, Mexico eos 2.15 |b re 3 4.00|J. H. Dickson, Secre Ss R. Izréal, Baltimore, Md. .......2.00 Si a, ek aa a Nucleus No. 1, Mountain View, eer M , : HBED! Ml. a California.) 0.0.0.5. - 40.00 | el . rae 31.39 D. Feroruk, (collection) Haver- iin: Bowie, ; hill, Mass. ich 1.90 | Branch No. 108, sree : ; INinois |Chas.-Carlson, Spokane, Wisc. | A. Houser, New York City ... | Urge Textile ee WORKER Chapel, New Workers to End | yf oe OY ise } 54-Hour Week. %. O’Flagan, Cleveland, Ohio . | P. Stuffers, Chicago, Ill. | \J. Stufte: y | |£. Bloom, (collected) Springfield, Mass. 22.50 | {&. C. Thompson, Oakland, Calif 5.00} | F. Barick, G apie Wieee os, +P Fireman, enton, N. J. tR. rie Beltane, Me. 00 | +4.00 1.00 | 00 | 50 | 5.06 00 00 | (By a Worker Cor PROVIDENCE, R —The mili workers of the Lons- ‘dale Co., Ann & Hope Textile Mill have just been presented by the com pany wh a reward for faithful service, 2 gift of the 54-hour week | |C. M. Bacaloff, Durand, Mich, instead of the hard won 48-hour| | M. ‘Dorangott Durand, Mich, week, to take effect Monday,| }Ch- Tanas, Durand, Mich. .. March 19th. |M. G. Ashaloff, Durand, Mich. \K. Pendaliz, Durand, Mich, The workers, however, have con- eluded that a longer day means | eae ae BS te pa io.o0 shorter pay, and eagerly read) |g y, Demetrove, Chicago, Ul. leaflets on the subject. 3 Mrs. T. C. Miladinich, Garden The leaflets called for immedi- | | Olt Beli Are. eee 5.00 ate action, inorder to prevent the | Br 77 Workmens’ Circle, Tide) instituting *f the 54-hour week in Pals eC IRR I Sine 10.00 ae mill and its spread to other) | Mrs, ..Ma W. Tine & Son, San mills. | Franci isco, Calif. .......... The after work meeting called i B. Rubin, Minn., Minn. ...... it-00 for in the leafiet is bound to |H. FE, Adams, Dresden, Ohio .00 Stimulate the fighting spirit of; |W. P. Gardner, Gardner, Mass. 20. these workers, especially when |A Sympathizer, Newton, Iowa ..1.00 they learn of the recent victory | | International Branch, New Lon- of the British textile workers in) GRR MOON eis cas Hy -10.00 forcing their bosses to continue the| |Cora P. Wilson, San Jose, Calif. 1.00 48-hour week instead of the 55%-/||J. A. Aityle, Chicago, Ill. ......5.00 hour week that the mill owners||Wm. Valenta, Grand Rapids, tried to put into force. | Michigan . 5.00 _ Textile workers organize and | Thos. Kyle, San Diego, Calif. 00 defeat the 54-hour week as the Wk'rs Party, Hartford, Conn. 100.00 i batkern: hinve::dopies Workingmen’s Sick Benevolent & Educational Federation, Cleveland, Ohio —M. WHITTIER. | sea. | trict w ‘been reported unofficia’ here, | 2 1 Co, loss of some valuable employes.” —REGULAR.” {4 Cut Lawrence Textile Wages Ten Percent (By a Worker Correspondent.) LAWRENCE, Mass., (By Mail). —tThe following notice greeted the workers in the cotton section of) the Pacific Mills of Lawrence when they came to work this morning: “As a result of several confer- ences with the employes of the cotton division of the Pacific Mills, a reduced schedule has been agreed upon. “The new schedule, effective March 19, 1928, is as high as is being paid in other Massachu- setts mills on similar products.” The wage cut “agreed” upon is * URCE CALIFORNIA, WORKERS TO FORM. BIG LABOR PARTY Exploited | Ranchers | Should Take Part (By a Worker Correspondent.) LOS ANGEL Calif., (By Mail). | —The “act of god” stuff has been in-| | jected into the flood disaster in Cali- | fornia by city attorney Jess Stephens | of Los Angeles. But in this case it |won’t work. The city of Los Angeles | is between the devil and the deep} To admit that the land of sun-| | expected to be 10 per cent. shine, flowers and fruits, unemploy-| After the 1919 strike the bosses! ment and jails is also a chosen spot} | of the Pacific Mills attempted to} | for heavenly anger in the form of} | put into operation a company earthquakes landslides, cloud bursts/|union program. The Lawrence} etc. hits the climate peddler in the} United Front Committees success- pocket-book. And with the “al-| | fully exposed this company union mighty” out of the the city will! |and the workers of the Pacific undoubtedly Mills have utterly no use for it. 00-a-year-plus “e || The American Federation of liam Mullholland, the political en-| |‘pextile Operatives have some| | gineer of the water and power] | foomfixers organized in this sec-| seta | | tion of the Pacific Mills and they| Knew Dam Was Weak. | ‘held a meeting in Loomfixers’ Hall Gc president of the} | here Sunday, March 4th, on wheth- Santa Clara Water Protectors’ dis-| | er to accept the cut or not, which to point out the| | was merely a rumor at this time, faulty construction of the St. Francis a feeler to test the workers’ spirit. dam. The Los Angeles Record} This union has a reactionary of- proves that Mulholland and other: ficial at the head of it by the name knew that the dam was dangero | of Oliver Christian. Mr. Christian “It is admitted,” Coroner Nance said, a a tag les not rea a ‘union. He advocated a compromise fo ehele Ghd the other Gra Pree | [oes per cent. Whe textile work | a oe Stree as ie is a tet hers of Lawrence and in other tex-| Ban CORR” CoE, for woh | | tile: cities in New England are | or Some-|'| showing a more militant spirit and leaking, ro ‘ ‘ | are organizing textile mill com-| | belongs to the discredited company e that the dam was Wie the et clack De || mittees, following the lead and ad- | Conference held in Boston, Sun- | | day, Mareh.11th. —FRED BE. BE! AL. offered to supply the city with| power,.. The board of water and} power, on bended knees before the} power trust, has accepted the “‘offer.”’ | The resolution passed by that body expressed “regret that the Southern | California Edison Co. has suffered the/ | Denver Workers Raise $200 for “Daily” Edison Profits. Now the Southern Edison will in- “ crease its business, make real profits} DENVER, Colo., (By Mail).—At a out of this dis: . The Southern) meeting addressed by M. J. Olgin, | California Edison is part of the $17,-|Sunday, March 11, $200 was collected 000,000,000 power trust lobbying} for the Party press. Monday, Com- around Washington trying to get con-| rade Olgin spoke at the International trol of the lives of the workers as|Labor Defense Hall. The subject of well as of the resources of the nation.| his lecture was “Whither America?” The persecuted, prosecuted andjIn a very concise talk he reviewed | pauperized ranchers in the Owen|the internal situation and our rela- | Valley, Santa Clara Valley, etc., ought! tions abroad. He showed on the one jto join with the wage workers in the jhand, all the factors which have led shops and behind the plow to form} |up to our present period of depres- a farmer Labor Party. | sion and the terrible conditions of the The crookedness, | workers. He did not forget the role jnegligence of [that the labor fakers have played in Democratic maste his: already sent too many dirt farm | and wage workers into bankruptcy, nized bread (By a Worker Correspondent.) mis lines, jails, poor| - houses and graves in the potters, CCUr between the worker and cap field talists whose offensive against the | ; Form Laber Party! workers is becoming more and more Backed by the capitalist business | S¢VeTe- On the other hand, he showed how elements, who depend on the tillers : A : our imperialist policy abroad is lead- of the soil for a living, desperate ranchers have dynamited the Los|ing us into the most frightful wars | Angeles aqueduct nearly a dozen| the world has yet known, nce 1924. These acts of vio- Comrade Olgin gave a complete re- port of the February Plenum of the Workers (Communist) Party to the members. did force the Los Angeles offi. cials to listen to reason now and then, | but the ranchers got no real benefit ! ‘from the powder smokes and gun pla: staged for years in this farm- ing community ruined by “prosperity” arcists in Los Angeles. { Why not build a Labor Party and} —H, U.Z Painter Is Killed get real results? This would be a| WHITE PLAINS, N, Y., March 20. beginning. Try some organized|—Police today were searching for dynamite on the capitalist two men men who, driving a large —L. si RD | touriig cary ran down John Gragon, |50, a painter, of 21 Orawaunum | Street here. Gragon died in the White Plains Hospital» early today. | The ear did not “Arson Ring” Said to Have Caused Fires SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Mar. 20.—|_ The tives of hundreds of workers were endangered here in a fire which the fire department believes to have been | started by an “arson ring.” The de- struction of two large tenement houses on Marshall street was the lat- est in-a series of fires, accompanied | by explosions, and in which several | jugs of gasoline were found hanes |the ruins, HONOR NOTORIOUS " GRAFTER. WASHINGTON, March-20, — That Colonel’ Charles R. Forbes, former director of the Veterans’ Bureau who served a“tetm in Leavenworth for graft i in hospital contracts was award- ed the Distinguished Service Medal, yesterday by. Secretary of War Davis. Forbés was awarded the medal on March 13,1919, Davis SPRING VACATION in Camp Nitgedaiget BEACON, N. Y. New Bungalows, Roads and Planta- tions, Theatrical Productions and All Kinds of New Recreations Are Being Prepared for the Summer Season. ONLY SEVENTEEN DOLLARS PER WEEK. | | subjection. As a result of these conditions, he} said, bitter struggles are bound to} MANY LOSE JOBS AS MITTEN FIRM CLOSES GARAGE Men Work From 9-to 24 Hours a Day PHILADELPHIA, Pa., (By Mail). —The Mitten interests have taken jover the Quaker City Cab Co., the} j\largest competitor the P. R. 1 (Philadelphia Rapid Transit) had. Saturday the North Philadelphia | [eet employing a large number | }of men, was discontinued by the’ Quaker Cab Co., throwing many men | jout of work. This again proves to the workers that the paternalist schemes of the | interests. | bosses are against their The Mitten Co. uses all sorts of fak |company unions, stock ow | | schemes, etc., to keep the workers in At present the cab drivers average | 28 a week, the mechan- ics and machinists from to 70 cents jan hour. The working conditions are \bad. Some of the garages do not use} jfans to expel the gas fumes and it| jis not unusual to see workers col-| \lapse. They work from 9 to 24 hours ja day. and most.of them. seven days a week, speeded up to the limit. The Quaker City shops are full of rumors of further lay-offs. —W. C. P * x * Police Fire on Starving Men Who Stole Bread ry f \P. { { { | (By a Worker Correspondent.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., (By Mail). | —Former Sheriff Carey, . grafting | politician « and leader of the 5th. ward, j one who is alleged to be implicated |in the murders and graft. during elec- jtion in this. section of the city, has {caused the arrest of two unemployed j homeless men. who stole two loaves |of bread from his doorstep. The police, after firing shots at these jobless men, captured them, Be- fore Magistrate O’Brien the unfor- tunate hungry men declared they could not get work and took the | bread. They received three months in \ Jail. The police again proved themselves ready to shoot the unemployed who thru hunger take bread to prevent death by starvation, while the caus- }ers of unemployment, the capitalist owners of industries steal millions in | oil lands, ete. —W. Cc. P. Labor Schools Planned NEW HAVEN, Conn., (FP) March (0.--Prospects are bright for the establishment of six labor colleges in | Connecticut and Rhode Island, ac- cording to Jack Lever, field repre- sentative for Brookwood Labor Col- |lege extension department. Lever surveying the field in southern New England for workers’ education. Labor bodies and liberals in New Haven, Bridgeport, Stamford, Hart- }ford, Providence and Newport have |signified their intention of backing Lever’s proposals for the establish- ment of classes to study local in- | dustrial problems. These would serve jas. the core for’ the labor col- | leges. | | 1 | spread | who j two year absence and struggles in jlock) whom she was to marry after excessive fees to even Laurette Taylor Back on Broadway in Weak Zoe Atkins Play TE nearest thing to a lunatic asy- lum is “The Furies” by Zoe Akins now playing at the Shubert Theatre. While the play has one of the finest easts in New York City, it fails to make serise. The play returns stars Laurette Taylor to Broadway after a vain with an unusually diffigult role. Altho the play itself is of practically no consequence, to watch Miss Taylor |makes up to a large degree for the |stupidity and boredom of the pro- duction. The story concerns Mrs. Fifi Sands, portrayed by. M Taylor, who is con- templating a divorce when her hus- band is suddenly murdered. Both Fifi | and Owen McDonald (Frederick Wor | she is freed, are in turn suspected of the crime. The scene where the dis- trict attorney quizzes the two lovers, their servants and their friends is the only sane and rational part of the play. Of course some one else is guilty of | the murder, and in the third and final act when the mystery is solved, Miss Taylor is able to put in some of the best licks of the evening. Other members of the cast who stand out are A. E. Anson, Estelle Winwood and Greta Kemble Cooper. Ian MacLaren, one of the best char- acter actors in America, is wasted in a small part. | The settings in the play are by James Reynolds who has done a fine| job. The staging is by George Cukor. —S. A: P! In “A Girl in Every Port,” the sereen feature at the Broadway The- atre this week. | __ Broadway Briefs _ John Galsworthy’s “Escape” reach- ed its 150th performance at the Booth Theatre last night. Leslie Howard and Frieda Inescort play the leading roles in the production. John Howard Lawson, one of the directors of the New Playwrights’ | Theatre has just signed a contract with the.Gates Theatre in London, |for the production of his play “Pro- |cessional” next Fall. “Maya” which has raised such a storm in New York has been playing at this theatre for 6 Months Suspension For New York Lawyer| Sey a year. WASHINGTON, March 20.—Abra- ; ham S. Gilbert, New York lawyer, to-| “Kidding Kidders,” a new play, by day was suspended from practice in}Steve Champlin, collaborator in the supreme court for six months for accepting greater fees in a New York city gas rate fight than the court al- lowed. Gilbert has returned $92,744 to the Consolidated Gas Company and other New York companies, Chief Justice Taft said in announcing the court’s action. Chief Justice Taft also “lectured” courts generally against allowing “Three Live Ghosts,” and author of “Nothing But the Truth,” has been accepted for production by a new pro- ducing firm known as Hillmas Pro- ductions, Inc. Edgar MacGregor is to stage the piece. Harry Wagstaff Gribble’s satirical comedy, “March Hares,” first here produced in 1921, will be revived by Charles L. Wagner, early next month. Richard Bird, who recently appeared in “Diversion,” will be the featured player. Railwaymen Get Raise CHICAGO, March 20.—Signalmen on the Illinois Central road have ob- tained a 3c hourly increase effective for 1 year from March 1, through their union. The clerks and freighthandlers and switchboard operators on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois won a 2c hourly TO START NEW AIR LINE. QUEBEC, March 20.—A tri-weekly air mail and passenger service, link- ing up Quebec with Rimouski, Mon- treal, Ottawa and New York City is to get under way at the beginning of June with the Canadian Trans-Con- increase for 2 years through nego-| tinental Airways, Ltd, a Quebec tiation by the Brotherhood of Rail- company, holding the contract for this way Clerks, service. 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