The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 27, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKE WORKE R, NEW YORK, TUESDAY TUESDAY MARCH 27, 1928 1928 1 eS 4 RIT: a NERC TES | RNR aR oR ie Efe Si tte RAE NMR NN pit Work at Pier 26, East River, Brutalizes Fruit Carriers, Correspondent Says COTTON-GROWERS ENSLAVEWORKERS IN CALIFORNIA With Race Hatreds (By a Worker Correspondent) RIPLEY, Calif., (By Mail).—The | condition of the agricultural workers, MEN AT BANANA, Philadelphia (By « Worker Correspondent.) unemployed of this city was held to-| Conditions into t SAVAGELY TREAT Unemployed i mn Elect Council PIER; NO UNION — PHIL thes atey Pa., (By Mail) Reed ‘Mussolini Dock,")—* rer rcceestal moving of Are so Bad }day at 531 St. About one| hundred and fi people crowded | ntively vans and J small hall and listened at-| D (By a Worker Coven udent.) | Geo. who we: to peakers, roohey, d several we River, i is known along dock.” | | among tho: Mussolini } ee S| share-croppers and tenant f mers, in eve iy A SHO AREE EOnS aan thr attempting to hold such a] the cotton Delta of California is any- ms on this dock are worse than| meeting. thing bat ideal’! (the tghtening of the on any otWer pier in the city. The Fully haif of those present were| money market this year has hurled workers are exploited. | Negroes, and practically every one| many of the small proprietors into the All awork 1ired twenty registered as member of the unem- of the landless and dispos- * | ployed council, and an executive com-| se: Most | k before schedule. | minutes » working time. mittee of fifteen was chosen to work out plans for the council jfuture meeting DAILY WORKERS were ted free of ch “Glorified Over Seers Much of the land i absent jor | rge and the local agent | ing workers For th Th and call not paid se landlord system, the agents ees being interested in squeez- foremen and other 1 charg distribu work the tenants and securing a maxi- S. Gee _;made an ap to the audience to|mum of return for a minimum of ere Re EEE support this paper as far as they|outlay. Even where the landlord him-| 3 tea 2 able, it being the only one in|self is in residence he usually drives bidden to go to the toilet during v count that expresses their|the tenant and his family like slaves ing time. Eight hours a inte: since his land is mortgaged up to the Several ;men were | turbance sandwiches with | to hide and eat them in} ner. Tk who have no hes have to eat banan: nc mmething to eat. | mortgaged his land. policemen and plainclothes | last dollar of its value and the land- pr nt but made no dis-|lord is little more than a glorified in spite the fact that | overseer. no permit for the meeting had been | Much of this land was originally | applied for. filed upon in quarter section blocks by | small proprietors seeking a home in “the land of the free.” It is all | desert land and must be irrigated to lbe of any value. Therefore in order to secure water, the farmer has Hence a poor constit No time is for allowed who r se workers | u 0: ypen to h " —L. L. ny worker should happen to go} atory during working hours, he aa check an ate from| | dirt-farmer who originally possessed ve} Or, as | SCAB CAFETERIA land, but no water, now owns water | loses as muc | rights, but no land. And ownership as five ho’ : When you protest against these in- human conditions you are beaten up by the company thugs a la f. | If you complain to a cop, he tells you that it is not his business and ignores you. he police ignore all} complaints which are made by the P See Thee. 2 : | The Roy Cafeteria is locate worker - These cops. get many) East Broadway and Mie ae Ne nts” from the pier owners. The| York Giiy: The “cafeteria sare | never “embarrass the dock-| junion. The conditions in this place| To better | SE very bad. The workers work be- the buwtined's and misatoneuuine en SLO eleven and twelve hours per|‘e ‘andlord’s land. | ; |day. Sometimes they even work a| The tenant’s savings are usually |few hours extra without any pe A|exhausted about May or June and jweek consists of six working days.| ftom then on, until October, he is on lin case it’s busy the workers have to the frayed edge of semi-starvation. | speed up. For the western landlord, unlike his southern brother, refuses to “furnish” Bricks Fly in Harvard This concern is near the Forwards the tenant. These tenants are un- | After Negro Debate | building and it is patronized by many S “ x |socialists, who claim to be good organized, have no protective organi- |of land is more and more becoming ;concentrated in the hands of a few Refuse Pood Workers | big landholders and mortgage-holders, > a who resell it to the young hopefuls. Aid in Or ganizing Share-Cropping. Since there is practically nothing to| |do after the cotton is picked, the} (By a Worker Correspondent.) at | into a share-cropping proposition or! starvation stares him in the face. He} pits his pitifully small savings and the labor of his entire family against | This dock is non-union. conditions we union. A BANANA CARRIER. CAMBRIDGE, Ma March 26.-|¥nion men. When you tell any of zations, and must fight as in-} Debating with Negroes can anh | these gentlemen that the place is non- | “ividuals. a classed as an extra-hazardous oc.|¥nion, if they don’t ignore you en- These deplorable conditions are due cupation within the purlieus of dear|tirely, their usual reply is, “mind your |i" Part to the fact that a majority Pe, Bi old Harv: bearing Ku|0W? business.” Among them are or- Klux } notes, were heaved through | £anizers and intellectuals and other the windows of the Harvard Liber]| “high shots” of the S. P. Some or Club for allowing a debate with Lin-|*h¢ “strong guys” who beat up pro- coln University s Negro team. ler e workers are recruited in this coming from the south who absolutely refuse to have anything to do with Mexican or Negro tenants. Many white cotton-pickers even refuse to place. pick in the same fields with Negoes. Sometime ago the Amalgamated| The landlords are quick to take ad- The 5- -Day Week |Food Workers asked these ie iat vantage of this situation, as it keeps gentlemen for support in unionizing L Mareh 6.—{the place. They replied that they »ston to Washington the 5-day | had no use for the Amalgamated be- week is being fought for and won by ; Cause it is “too radical.” union building trades workers. Four- nis is how socialists who claim to teen trades in Baltimore, ranging|he good union’ men help to organize from carpenters and cement finishers | labor by patronizing non-union con- to sheet metal workers and steam | cerns. All progressivi fitters already have the short “ae expose them as labor fa! PHILADELP. HIA From tion in competition with each other for jobs and a chance to enter the slavery of share-cropping. Both the Negroes and the whites from the south are more race-conscious than class conscious. The owners are}, thoroughly class conscious. | —JOHN H. OWENS. week “Deftitlers ar” } THE DAILY WORKER J. Lemick, Roche: v. Kokovil, Roche Porto Rico Appeals WASHINGTON, | (FP) March 26. |—Porto Rico’s legislature has cabled | the Porto Rican Commissioner in Con- gress another appeal that a commit- tee of Congress hold open hearings on the political, economic, and social -50| conditions in that island which need --1.00|} immediate remedy. President Cool-| 4.00 | idge ently rejected a like appeal | 1,00 | to himself. 1.00 , 2.00| IMPROVE ..Op| M Ait 2.00! Radio engineers have recently P. jai ar occ 1.00| pointed out that television, because Pete A N 8.00 errtan, Ww. a -25|/of the tremendous progress it has nha eae Nl 300) 3. Sjubicuh, We ° .50| been making, will be within a year as, oe es , --1.00/S. Zoepor, Werrtan, W. Va. 50 | common a convenience as radio. -1.00) A Friend, Werrtan, W. Va. S -1.00)N. Gorelick, New York Ci H. | . Wesale, Warren 50| Nucleus GA, Tai Anal S. 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DETROIT, Mich., (By Mail).—In the foreman is known as | Whitey.” He seems to have an un- quenchable thirst for liquor, and per- mits this condition to determine his relationship with those coming under his jurisdiction. The workers fearing the stability of their employment to be of short duration seek to protect \their interests by supplying Ben with liquor and thereby winning his fa- jvor. The number of such workers is seven but the system is rapidly ex panding. A young worker spent ten hours’ time on a banana handle for the) but the job required it was completed Chevrolet car, more time before The same young worker because of} sickness was unable to report for} work the following two nights and) upon his return found that his job} was missing. Upon investigation he learned that Ben has taken the job and given it to one of his favorites (who was keeping him supplied with alcohol) who finished it in one hour and one quarter and upon Ben’s ad- vise claimed credit for the whole job. This eliminated the young worker from all credit. Consequently the young worker who was so brazenly cheated of his toil went to the gen- eral foreman, Charlie Moore, and pre- sented his grievances. The solution and adjustment made by Moore was to split eredit for the job equally between the two. KELLOGG URGED TO BLOCK LOAN N.Y; Bankers Ready to Hand Rumania Cash WASHINGTON, March 26 (FP).— Representative Emanuel Celler of New York, in a letter to Secretary of State Kellogg has challenged Kel- logg to make good his professions of sympathy with the pogrom victims in | Rumania by blocking the $60,000,000 loan to Rumania which New York bankers, headed by Blair & Co. now propose to grant. Celler informs Kellogg that the Federal Reserve Bank in New York jis expected to join in the so-called |stabilization loan to “this most bureaucratic and most madiaeval gov- ernment in Europe.” He reminds Kellogg that the state department urged the Chase National Bank not to expedite a loan to Soviet Russia on the ground that the United States government opposes the Soviet form} of government and the Soviet policy | of attempting to “subvert”-the Amer- ican government. Atrocities Cited. “Rumania, running true to its his- tory,” Celler wrote, “has made of it- | self, as a result of pogroms and mas- sacres of minority populations dur- ing the last few years, a pariah among nations. We, in America, stood aghast at the recent atrocities at‘ Kishineff—outrages which we thought the post-war treaties had ended forever,” | He quoted from Secretary Hay’s | threatening letter to Rumania in 1902 | under similar conditions of massacre |and said that Kelloge had replied to jthe Versailles Treaty made Rumania |responsible in these matters to the ; League of Nations. Celler concluded | that America could not thus evade Dept. 7, metal polish, of the Turnsed | Manufacturing Co., on the night shift, | “Ben Alias | a protest a year ago by claiming that} TAXIDRIVER IS TERRORIZED BY 1 | | i | “Steal” Day’s Earnings in Fines | Police | (By a Worker Correspondent.) Seeing that you have been print-| ing stories from taxidrivers I think I can take a chance to write one too.} In the first place I got to put in 12 hours a day to make 5 to 6 dol- lars a day. I have to work every) day, Sundays and holidays included And when I go home I always think! |that I went too early, that I could] ; have made a little more. But I have }a family and they need my attention a little anyhow. years ago there were 10,000 the city. Now there are Three in a: 0,000. a living? The cab companies can put! an as many cabs as they want to, in order to compete with each other. | and because so many. workers are out |of work they can always get enowgh |help and exploit them to the limit, of course. The companies never lose.| It’s always the drivers who get} “gypped.¢ | | This is in reference to one of onr enemies, the companies, And now Ij want to say something about another) rotten enemy, and that is the police.| After working for hours like hell,| |for no reason at all we get a ticket| and there goes our day’s wages and sometimes two and three days’ wages. Imagine how we feel then? We're | always worried about customers, and |when we get them, we got to pay |every cent to the police. There is never a day in which I ‘would not like to spit in a eop’s face. I wouldn’t mind paying the fine. I’d even borrow money to pay just for satisfaction’s sake. But you know how it is. I’d loose my license, I wouldn’t have any means to make a iving. So what can Ido? At any rate I want you to know that our worst enemy is the police. For the least little thing, most often for no reason at all, we get in an argument and if we open our mouths, there goes the ticket. " —“TAXI.” Won't Re-enter League RIO DE JANEIRO, March 26. Brazil will probably never resume full activity in the League of Na- tions, it is stated here in regards to the non-committal reply sent ‘by the Preilian government to the league’s appea! for a renewal cf league mem- bership by the Latin-American re- public. President Luiz has said that he opposes any change in policy dur- jing his administration. | TO DISCUSS IMPERIALISM. WASHINGTON, March 26. — Im- perialism will be one of the questions discussed at the eighth national con- vention of. the National League of Women Voters to be held in Chicago April 23 to 28. her responsibility, especially when by control of financial favors she can readily force the Bratianu dictator- | ship at Bucharest to mend its ways. | Minister Creziano, Celler declared is a mere “shadow,” while the dic- tator is the substance. Disapproval. no matter how harsh, has never dent- ed the intolerance of the Rumanian ruler. Coercion alone has protected minorities against butchery in that country. Accordingly, Celler urged Kellogg to pay no attention to prom- off this loan. Summer Soviet WORLD TO E. Haffen, Bklyn, N. 5.09! 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Max Reinhardt, who saw the film at an ad- vance showing, writes: “In my opinion, Terrible,’ ranks high among the best motion pictures of our times. In pictorial effectiveness, _ histrionic power and compelling truth of char- acterization it has hardly ever equaly. The historic perspectiv traordinary, the handling of the tempo may well serve as a model. Artis- tically, technically and culturally it is instructive in the best sense of the word, Anyone deeply concerned in this work of art will not fail of its ef- fect on account of the somber colors | which are implicit in its theme. His- | seri | bellishments.” | now in its third week at the Cameo} ‘Czar Ivan the! been | is ex- | the progress of screen art beyond | How can we expect to make} mere entertainment must hope that | tory has given this czar the by-name | of “The Terrible’ and thereby- has { IN SHAW COMEDY. Margalo Gillmore plays an ime portant role in “The Doctor’s Dilemma,” Bernard Shaw’s delightful satirical comedy now in its final week at the Guild Theatre. The Theatre Guild will shortly place passed a judgment which cannot be|in rehearsal a play by Sil-Vara, a usly revised by subsequent em-| Viennese critic and journalist, tenta- \tively called “Playing With Love.” European critics and the press on} |Richard Bennett will play a leading |the continent did much to bring the |role and Robert Milton will direct the film before the’ general public. ave two items of enthusiastic praise: “In ‘Czar Ivan’ The Terrible’ our} Soviet brothers again show how re- ma, them the greatest masters in work- ing with mass effects and mass rhythm, ‘Ivan The Terrible’ shows their supreme ability to create sharp- | pointed individual personalities against background of authentic and {intense atmosphere.” So writes Rote Fahne, of Berlin, of the Sovkino pro- duction. Not only has the radical press of Europe hailed this important motion picture, which possesses the unfor- gettable portrait of Czar Ivan by the great Leonidoff, but the conservative press as well has acclaimed this as one of the greatest pictures of all times and one which reaches the peaks of the art founded by “Potem- kin.” L’Humanite of Paris writes: “ ‘Czar Ivan The Terrible’ evokes: with a rare power the significant traits of the tragic and barbarous atmosphere of the Russia of the sixteenth century. The dramatic sequence is presented with a rhythmic expression and the amazing scenes project with a vigor- ous sincerity the life and time of Ivan The Terrible.” Portuguese Elections LISBON, Portugal, March 26.— General Antonio Carmona, sole “offi- cial” candidate for the presidency of Portugal has been re-elected to that office in an easy victory. Carmona seized control of the government in 1926 by a military coup. POLICEMAN AS KIDNAPPER Charles Johnson, formerly a bicycle patrolman in Brooklyn has been ar- rested charged with kidnapping Agnes Rawl, 17, on April 30, 1927. Here | play. markable can be their art of the cine- | Where their ‘Potemkin’ proved | This will be the sixth and final |production of the Guild’s current eason. Sam Lowett has accepted for im- mediate production, “The Alimoniacs,” a new play by Daniel N. Rubin, author of “The Night Duel” and “Women Go On Forever.” John Golden and Edgar Selwyn are \planning a new play for production jentitled “Fly- By-Night. ” Tt will make lits first appearance in Atlantic City April 2, “Fly-By-Night” is written |by Kenyon Nicholson and John Golden and the cast is headed by Thomas Mitchell. Robert Barrat, recently with Francine Larrimore in “Chicago,” has joined “A Lady for a Night,” the new Chamberlain Brown production now in rehearsal. Helen Chandler, now playing in \“The Silent House,” will play the role of Regina in “Ghosts” at the Ibsen memorial performance, to be held this Sunday at the Martin Beck Theatre. “A Most Immoral Lady” is the title of a comedy written by Townsend Martin which has just been bought by Brady, and Wiman. Only “Candidate” Wins) Tuesday evening at Carnegie Hall |a special concert for the benefit of the Musical Department of the American Academy in Rome and of the National Music League will be given. The pro- gram, which represents six nations, will be interpreted by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under five conductors. REED DRUMS UP TRADE. WASHINGTON, March 26—The second phase of Senator James A. Reed’s campaign for the democratic presidential nomination got under way today with Reed’s departure on an- other speaking tour. aa We AU i in the movie: ater than Potemkin. ‘A worthy picture. —HALL, TIMES, “Perfect motion pi ‘Ivan the Terrible’ outstanding production. "-—CARMON, DAILY WORK: "—GEKHARD, EVk. 42nd St. & B’way rd BIG WEEK The remarkable Russian screen masterpiece—A Sovkino Production Czar Ivan the Terrible Enacted by the MOSCOW ART PLAYERS headed by LEONIDOFF. HIGH PRAISE FROM THE PRESS eae acting rarely seen WORL D. pases ure." —EVENING TELEGRAM. ESTE SESS ESS SSeS sess eee see reeereeere — The Theatre Guild presents Eugene oxci's Strange Interlude John Golden Thea,, 58th, E. of B'way, ivenings Only at 5:30 LAST WEEK Bernard Shaw's Comedy ~ DOCTORS DILEMMA Th., W. 52d St. Evs. 8:30 ‘Guild Mats. Thurs. & Sat. 2:30 Week of Apr. 2: “Marco Millions”. LAST 2 WEEKS PORGY Republic Th., W. 42d. Evs.8:40 Mats.Wed.&Sat.,2:40 Tues, ibe Mar. and ISS FRANCES WHITE Harry J. Conley & Co.; Hunter anit Percival, Other Acts. | william Boyd in “The Night Flyer. 28th WEEK DRac Bway, 46 St. Evs, Mats, Wed. &Sat. 2.3 The Greatest Thriller of Them Allt CORT Theatre, West 48 St. B: MATS, WED. and SAT. TWRECKER “pnoroughly Entertaining Shocker,” —We: National 7 4 . of BY National Psy. wae Wea, Dap” with Ann Harding-Rex Che Lenora Sparkes, soprano, pane recital at Steinway Hall next Thura- day evening, a the Metropolitan, will give a song