The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 26, 1928, Page 4

1° :eepcnammam engunmee tpi ete nisi ncn THE DAILY WORKER, NEW. YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1928 NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY BOSS PILES ON AN EXTRA DOUGH BARREL IN SPEED-UP DRIVE going to be something doing there soon. So they had better watch their step. This Quinn should have been down south years ago when there were Negro slaves. He would have been a wonderful slave driver. Even the foremen in every de- partment are not on good terms with Quinn and his family because they are spi Page Four (By a Worker Correspondent.) The National Biscuit Co. was a fairly good place to work for until our slave-driving superiptendent Quinn took charge. In the first place he started to cut down , the help. Then two men had to do the work of rhres and four men. In the second place he started to put more pale in each machine on an average of two to three barrels of 97 Strike at “Dan Lukes” Mine; Worker Correspondent Tells of Tie-Up gies Miner’s Wife HAND OUT BITTER dough to each machine. more. Whenever a machine stops about five Ainutes Before time, the next day there’s another barrel of dough on the machine in case the men get done five minutes early again. Also every day Quinn comes around, like the sneak that he is, to see if a machine is getting done early. This And he still keeps putting on is so he can put on more dough. All the machines stop at the last’ minute and by the time the men clean the machines and the oven-man empties the oven, it takes about ten or fifteen more minutes. So that the men do not work eight hours but eight hours and a half. When the men kick they are told they must do it on their own time. Of course the big besses had better get things straight or there is SHEA. Deep Sea Divers Who Explored S-4 “DRAM Ae “<3 The accompanying | % | Shows Priest’s picture shows a Workers Theatre Will group of deep-sea “Relief” H : givers: abo: Se Present Plays Tont ght (By @ Woman j er Correspondent.) submarine S4, They | mir third and final performance of| ELSIE WAGSTAFF. ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Okio, (By | a8 were the first men|” three one-act plays presented by , ‘ «| Mail).—I an: le ’ V1 Qtea yet f . see the |the Workers Theatre will be shown| Seabs Ouittines CODS | WorKER allt cute Gate on Star ving Men Forced to) e. pet ea that tonight at the Triangle Theatre, a 2 eae me orror of de "Seve ° | Trample Children kind of people are arourd here. Some Thank Oppressors / it "Seventh Ave. and 11th St. All those| saan! of them are good and are not so dumb | = had overtaken their | who did not attend either of the first (By « Worker Correspondent.) jas the rest of them. But there is 2| (By a Worker Correspondent.) fellow workers in two performances are urged to be e ; rr | t “father,” as they call him. Aces present tonight, especially if they are | EHRENFELD,*Pa., (By Mail).—| me beliéve in him tnt not|. “asing slong Second Avenue at} the sunken craft.| interested in drama with a working With the posted cut in wages at the} me, I don’t believe in him. _ the corner of Houston Street, I saw| These workers are) ‘lass slart. ‘Dan Lukes” (Pricilla Coal Co.) This priest has got a lodge of his|@ big line of men standing in the| engaged in one of The present program of the Work- | mine, less than a mile from this place,}owm and every month the church | drizzling rain, waiting to get into the s ae ers Theatre is a major improvement | ‘;nd the consequent strike of some | DIPHUSTR pay are dues scr Ve dedee. National Winter Garden. I asked} the most hazardous ae Po rast aay ae baal “i ee ‘nos al]| Once in every two months he buys|,., : ‘ a lings. : Money” of two years an : 97 men (100 per cent out), brings all) or ¢ ene ant voftee, phy, [one of the men what the line was for! ae J: Worker Biggest Boob in the World.” shown she union men in their neighborhood | 454 us, “WKy don’t you belong to the | 2nd he told me that the Theatre was Correspondents oMn\last year. The improvement is all | within a radius of 8 miles out ct.}lodge? Then you will get something going to “give” the men something all American water-| along tke line—better plays, more | strike. to eat.” But we tell them that we!to eat and a free show besides, so 1 5 |finished acting and superior staging. | Less Coal Mined. i | would rather starve than to elong decided to find out for myself what’s : ros Pages ar The three one-act plays make up | This last small force to join vys|to,his lodge because you pay twice | wnat. a special effort 0) ay interesting evening in the theatre, | means that there will be a trifle Tess | aac a ‘he ee aoe ee the Bitter Black Coffee. erik Spee especially “Aftermath,” by Mary Bar- ‘ne -oduced ¢ a ls rce rare ge). S bec e we a - ni y TF - | rill, played with an entire Negro cast. 2oal Sea and = soit Ee a bout thei est. I want t, tell you! I stood in line myself and after we divers. |'The story tells how a Negro soldier | che picket line with the welcon |workers in Moundsville, West Vir-| waiting for a few hours I finally got |returns from the world war to his | d$ychological effect on the men who|ginia, and Glendale, West Virginia, to|in. The first thing they did was to} P>> ROP eae ACB OE ~ | southern home io discover that his | nave been out since April 1, 1927.|watch to whom you are ing money | drop two or three old cigarettes in W k M t father was murdered by a mob of} ‘Lt means too that we willhave more|for the relief of the Ohio mine lour hats. -They were about i year oO” ers us AM | white hoodlums. His reaction to the | This priest went to West Virgini situation that faces him after’ help- | ee state police and company gunmen to .eontend with. It also-means that we will be compelled to take care of more strikers’ families by supplying food and clcthes. The Pennsylvania Coal Co., The | Stineman Coal Co. and the Argyle Coal Co. are the ones that are bing their mines in Ehrenfeld South Fork. The writer against the first mentioned company in'their No. 3 mine which is mor? or les: vicinity. Between 2000 and 3000 are various estimates placed on the num- ber, of men this mine has hired since Oct. 1, 1927, and the report of the pickets on F'eb, 17, 1928 gave them around 140 men working at that tin «This mine’s full cqmplement of :en tis normally 500 or more. Of course ‘they are getting some operating 24 ho in the day, 7 days a week, at the expense of other sections of the mine, and at that the expense must be enormous as indicated by the fact of their continually begging the union men to break and go back to work. is st Scabs Flee Mines. The strike breakers will not stick, | that is, those who have enough | money coming to them after their ‘company store bill is taken off, for them to get out. Of.course they are compelled.to deal almost EN at the company store and it ported that one scab was buying a bushel of potatoes from a farm. Fresh-eggs sell around 40— 40 cents in the independent stores, but the company store is still charg- ing 70 cents for packed egg: The company started paying $6.10 per Company shift, of 8 hours on Oct. 1, 1927. Since then wagecuts have re- duced them to $5.00 all around with all prosp additional reductions press se mines ¢ talk among the quent maimings acd (once in Shi a killing. The original proclamation of Sher- iff Carl Steur, Cambria Company, Pa., permitted 2 in a group on the picket line, not more, groups 50 feet apart, with a few injunctions as regards what we should not say, but even at +) that time the scabs could not stand our verbal broadsides so our very obliging sheriff put the ban on all}* interfering with the strikebreakers. The pickets are as yet peaceable, a condition they are far from feeling. Ride Down School Children. The state police are as usual guilty of acts of gross injustice and par- tiality such as galloping through groups of children going to and from school, commanding men and women to move into the house from their own front porch just because they wish to parade their strikebreakers h from work. They, or the sheriff's deputies, have even stopped strikers from going to the Postoffice because the office was in the company’s store and on the company’s ground. In fact they show by every movexthat they are here to guard company property and strikebreakers and not to look after the interests of the public. We must win this fight, not only for the miners, but for unionism in general and all working people, and we call upon these same people every- where to rally to our support by send- ing money, food and clothes, and using the most direct route to the localities where it is most needed. . talking to or | for him, | only collectéd $200,but we know that \he got at least $1,600. So I am telling typical of all the others in this) ney vor-the + the fouilding barracks. coal out by} 3 or more large Ronyey OT | the for the strikers in Ohio. over $1,600. But he never showed it to the strik- | ers. |The rest of the money in the bank is I guess. He told them. he the people in West Virginia to look out good to whom they are giving kers in Ohio. dent. where they are We are going to move in next week. We have lots of | seabs working here in the Clarkson | pmine. People are not allowed to talk rto them. Lots of people are packing I live in Pro “}to inove out and the scab women are laughing but they will be sorry that | jthey,.laughed at us poor strikers. —K. MINERS PROTEST ANTLSTRIKE LAW Rally to Program of Struggle PITTSBURGH, -the-Union March Committee —The the of United Mine Workers’ Union has is- sued the following statement in ref- erence to the declaration of John L. Lewis, presidert of the union, that he would be willing to ecdoperate with certain of the coal barons in their at- tempt to put over a law preventing strikes in the mining indus “When John H. Jones, Bertha Consumers’ pany, testifying before the senate in- vestigating committee in Washington. asked that a U. S. Coal Commission be set up action taken to make impossible, John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, hastily rose to his feet to declare that the miners’ union will be willing to “cooperate” with the coal operators to work out legislation to establish “peace” in the coal industry. al Com- and some strikes Aim to Strangle Union. “Thus, while the soft coal miners suffering in hunger and misery. resisting the vicious attack of the coal operators, engaged in a life-and- death struggle to save their union and maintain their hard-won condi- tions, the reactionary officialdom o' the union, led by Lewis, are busy in Washington preparing plans to ham- string the miners’ union by putting fetters on the strike weapon thru a system of compulsory arbitration. “But while these further acts of treachery are being contemplated by the mislaaders heading the union, the “| rank and file of the U. M. W. of A are turning their eyes to the National Miners’ Save-the-Union Conference to be held in Pittsburgh April 1, where progressive miners’ delegates from every district of the union will gather to outline a program of action to win the strike, reestablish the union and union conditions, and fight any at- tempt to turn their union into an agency of the coal operators.” * * * Miners Boycott Fagan Meeting. RACOON, Pa., March 25.—When members of Local 595-of the U.. M W. of A. heard that four state troop- ers were to be present at a meeting Then Sunday his eburch mem- | | bers came to church and he told them | | the at he had to pay taxes for his house. | Then we sat down ready for the ident of | a | Jand took a small boy to go around jold and dry as wood. Next they gave with him to all the houses and collect | He collected | us a little thin sandwich that was just about enough for a pigeon to pick on, and a small container of black coffee without sugar or milk. | burlesque show. But Mr. Dalton. of the Service League told the audience that we ought to be thankful to the) management for providing us with| all this fun. Then the so-calléd| burlesque -show started. Ten girls| leame out dancing for about five} | minutes. |and began cracking a few jokes. They | jall acted as if they were rehearsing and did not care to amuse the half starved, unemployed workers. The acts lasted for about fifteen minutes |and then they ordered us out again | into. thé; drizzling rain. Force Thanks From Starving. On the day before I was handed ‘a |free ticket by a friend to a dinner |given by the “mayor” of Delancey Street. After standing in line for |about two hours I finally got inside | the dingy restaurant. The first thing we did was to get {up and listen to the band playing the | Star Spangled Banner. Then when }we sat down, a republican politician | tc old us that twenty years ago the |“‘mayor” of Delancy Street was as poor as we, but worked his way up jand that in ten or twenty years from | | now most of us might become rich too. Then they gave us a dinner that wasn’t even énough for a child. Then the republican politician went over to a young fellow at my table and told him to get up and thank the “mayor” | of Delancey Street for the dinner. The young fellow got up and thanked |the “mayor” with tears in his eyes. He could hardly stand up on his feet, he was so weak from suffering and starvation. That’s the way the politicians and| heads by giving them handouts so jthey will be grateful for the im- mediate relief and won't wake up to capitalists want to turn the workers’|_ how the capitalists cause the very un-| employment the jobless men are suffering from. The capitalists only want to keep them blind. But in spite of this the workers will come to their| senses and will do away with this) | | | i system of corruption and wage} slavery, then they will organize} themselves into a power for mass action. i —HENRY BLOOM. ! Form Own Ex- Service Body (By a Worker Corresponden*) The, other day I walked into one of" thé clubs ofthe Ameticah Legion | s city. I sat down on one of the | benches to look over the place. Tn another room two men were talk- ing-about “law and order.” police. force. is not preparec! enough incase” of -disorders. His neighbor agreed: with him end asked his opinion about a-practieal solution for the prob- lem. “Well” said the first man, “we will Fave to militarize our police force the same as General S. Butler did in the Quaker City... The present police force costs too much money.. By militarizing them. the cost will be much less and besides they will be better able to handle riots (read: strikes and labor demonstrations). “Right you are,” said the second man, “I agree with you.” Later I found ont that these men were minor officials in that organi- zation. The convorsation in itself was un- important. But let every honest work- er remember that the men who are at the head of the American. Legion are enemies of lahor.. The workers should organize their own leagues of ex-servicemen on the basis of the League of Ex-Servicemen in Great Britain. The ex-servicemen should stand by the avorkers of whom they are a part. --OAKUM. 2 Jailed for Ride SOUTHAMPTON, Mass.. March 25. Stear and Charles Mason, both were sentenced to four weeks ir jail yesterday for’ stowing away on the steamship Olympie when she sailed from New York March 17. Trainmen Injured WAYNESBORO, Pa., March 25.— Five trainmen were injured in a freight wreck yesterday near the Pennsylvania-Maryland border on the tracks of the Western Maryland Rail- road. ‘ for March 19, they decided to give Fagan’s show a dose of absent treat- ment with the result that no mass meeting took place. . Pat Fagan is one of the chief Lewis henchmen. ; * * * WASHINGTON, March 25 (FP).+- Sen. Walsh of Montana, who has led the Teapot Dome investigation, and) who has recently shown reluctance to ask embarrassing questions of Sec- retary Mellon and one or two other magnates, has openly broken with Chairman Nye of the senate public lands committee as to how the rest of the investigation shall be cou- ducted. Nye, seeing no reason for tendek Harding administration, announced that the committee would determine whether any of the Sinclair bonds went to the late president. Walsh deplored this announcement. Smith Protected, ness in dealing with the relics of the} Another point of disagreement be- tween Walsh and the chairman was thé bringing of the name of Gov. Smith into the oil scandal discussion, of Indiana, a klan politician, to say that Smith had appointed Sinclair to the New York State Racing Commis- sion and that Sinclair had contributed to Smith’s campaign fund. Walsh did not wait, for Smith’s denial to declare that Smith should not be summoned as a witness. He said: “It is singu- larly unfortunate, further, that pub- licity should have been given to some of the plans of the committee, or what individual members conceive may be its plans, and equally that there be allowed to become public in- formation-affeeting priceless: reputa- tions, until it is confirmed upon in- -quiry to such an extent. as.to war- rant the’ development of the facts | through witnesses.” Walsh a Candidate. Nye’s revolt against Walsh’s dom-| ination of the inquiry, which led to! this rebuke from Walsh, is in part) due to the conservative turn taken by Walsh since the Montanan became a presidential candidate. The fact that 'W. G. MeAdoo, who received | $100,000 from Doheny, one of the | oil conspirators, is directing Walsh’s campaign, is looked upon with. anx- One fel- | Then four men came out {low complained to the other that our | CALLED TREASON Papers Seized in Indi- ana Case (By « Worker Correspondent.) KOKOMO, Ind., March 25.—A plot to overthrow the United States Gov- ernment was outlined in papers found in the famous “black boxes” of D. C. Stephenson, former state grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, aecord- ing to the prosecution. This information was. announced yesterday by Prosecutor Homer R. Miller, He said: “This evidence may render persons nationally prominent loable to proseeution for treason.” The prosecutor was authorized by the Howard County Grand Jury te spare no effort in obtaining further evidence of klan activities and any further information in connection with the plot against the government. Cannon Talks to Record Crowds in Colorado (By « Worker Correspondent.) DENVER, Colo, (By Mail).—As part of a nation-wide tour, James P. Cannon. secretary of the International Labor Defense, addressed four meet- ings in Colorado, at Frederick, Den- ver, Walsenburg and Pueblo, Cannon reported good meetings in all four places. He was most favorably impressed by the interest shown in the mining centres. In Walsenbure, he spoke to jthe largest crowd that has come to- | gether since the strike. Cannon’s talk on the frame-up system is an excellent one and is being received with en- thusiasm everywhere, —H. U. Z. | Vaudeville Theatres | PABACE. - James Barton, musical comedy star; and’ Stanley Rogers;. Claiborne Fos- ter, in “Love Lessons,” a one-act comedy by Barry Conners; the Three Sailors: John Monroe and Tom Grant; Howard’s Spectacle. HIPPFODROME. Josef Rosenblatt;’Babe Egan and her Hollywood Redheads; Jules How- ard, accompanied by Jack Keller, Gin- erva Robert, Billy Black, Madge North and Joseph Caruso; Lou Kugel and Charles Robles; Yacopi Troupe; the Dixie Four Quartette; photoplay, “Skinners’ Big Idea,” with Bryant Washburn, BROADWAY. Peachez Browning; Jimmy Lucas with Geraldine Herbert; Billy Batche- ler with Hazel Vert; Harold Yates ‘and Cooper; Jim’ McLaughlin and | Blanche Evans, in “Back Stage,” by |Edgar Allen Woolf; Lentz-Charlotte \end Winters; Cliff and Radcliff and \Three Comiques. On the screen will be “Square Crooks,” featuring Doro- \thy Dwan and Robert Armstrong. | ————_——— | “The Big Noise” has been selected iby First National as the title for the ,Ben Hecht story previously known as “Move On”. The players are Chester Conklin, Alice White, Bodil Rosing, and Ned Sparks, Sam Hardy and Jack, * strike. climax is reached with a picket line in front of a coal pit with the strikers singing east Gordon and Martin Small |Karl Wittfogel, German by Max Geltman and Adolph brot out clearly. day. J. Warren Kerrigan, Alan Halo and Qdali Carero, soprano; Jay Brennan | ing’make the “world safe for democ- racy,” is worthwhile to every keen observer of contemporary affairs. The cast includes Charles Burroughs, Marian King and Helen McIntosh. “The Scab,” by Max Geltman, based on a story that appeared in The DAILY. WORKER about a year ago, concerns, as its name indicates, a After a weak beginning, the | The Harry | “Solidarity Forever.” includes Clara Lerner, The third play, “The Renegade,” by | adapted from the Bassen has a good idea that is not Only one actor, Michael Lenson, appears in the play, ity. —S.A.P. Martha Graham, dancer, will make her last appearance: of the season at the Little Theatre Sunday evening, | April 22, when she will present an entirely new program. lp aR | ERR eee oars ‘The Last Moment’ | “The | The film comes out like a ribbon, lies the mystery play “The Wrecker,” now current at the Cort Theatre. By ROBERT WOLF “THE LAST MOMENT” (Green- which Village Theatre, directed by Paul Fejos) is one of those much. her- alded art-arty films. I have nothing agai art—in fact I like it—but Last Moment” hasn’t got it. flat on the brush, it has no construc- tion whatsoever. Under cover of pre- senting the thoughts of a drowning man, “The Last Moment” gives flashes | from his entire life, as uninteresting and displays some fine dramatic abil- | as any other biographical novel. When will writers of biographical |novels, whether in print or on the _sereen, learn that it is the biographies lof their heroes we are fnterested in, f Broadway Briefs } and not the mere tissue of events that has happened to be encountered by the author himself? Mr. Fejos has not effected that transformation, and one feels that it simply an impertinence for him to inflict on us in this manner his own life history (or whosesoever it may be), a lite history without life, and James Cruzo's “The Covered Wag-| without depth or understanding, in on” will open’ an engagement at the short a piece of pure and simple jour- 55th Street Playhouse, beginning to- | nalism. Ernest Torrence, Lois Wilson, Tully Marshall are in the cast, The photography is however good, end so is the acting, both in the rather heavy Germanic style. KEITH- ALBEE CAME CORO | rd BIG WEEK 42nd St. & B’way The remarkable Russian screen masterpiece—A Sovkino Production Czar Ivan the Terrible Enacted by the MOSCOW ART headed by LEONIDOFF. PLAYERS HIGH PRAISE FROM THE PRESS sai the Terribl Bobet este step production. eiecnecn a RMON, DAILY WORKE a BVE.. WORLD, in the EVAL cae re “Greater than Potem ne ray worthy picture."”—H Lin ok. acting rarely seen TIMES. “Perfect motion picture."—HEVENING TELEGRAM. eeeeeeeeeEeccEees ee sae EEE — ane. ‘Thentre Guild presents “i Strange Interlude o Nell" 8 Play, John Golden Then., 58th, E, of B'way Evenings Only at 5:30. LAST WEEK Bernard Shaw's Comedy DOCTOR'S DILEMMA Th., W, 52d St. Evs. 8:30 Guild Mats, Thurs, & Sat. 2:30 Week of Apr. 2: “Marco Millions” 2 WEEKS LAST PORGY Th., W, 424. Evs.8:40 Mats.Wed.&Sat.,2:40 Republic Pr 9 *EVGS. BSS Ro ‘ues., Wed., Mar, 26-27-28 SS FRANCES WHITE . Conley & Co.; Hunter and Percival, Other Acts. Royd in “The Night Flyer.” Harry William CORT “Thoroughly Entertaining Shocker.” 28th WERK DRA Bway, 46 St. Eva. 8.! FULTON Mats, Wed. &Sat. 2.30 The Greatest Thriller of Them Allt Theatre, West 48 St. et 8 10 MATS. WED. and SA’ 3 iWRECKER —World, National Dyeise. mts Wed. asacyae “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, with Ann Harding-Rex Cherryman Le HARRIS hea. 424, W. of Bway. Evs. 8:80, Mats. Wed. & Sat, LOVELY LADY with Wilda Bennett & Guy Robertson, called by the officials of District £|Nye bad been led by Sen. Robinsonliety by republican progressives. A ve {