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| Lumber Barons Rule Fort Bragg. e Die, Five Hurt When Subway Caves _~ STRIKE UNREST Za —Everything in the lit Page Four THE DAILY WORKE EW YORK, FRIDA APRIL 20, 1928 ARMED MEN RUSH |": TO CRUSH FIRST Call Company Hospital “Butcher-shop” (By a Worker Corr 7 FORT BRAGG, © TOLEDO BOSSES FORGE LABOR TO. SUPPORT TOOLS Legion, Boy Scouts, Y. M. C. A., Benefit (By a Worker Correspondent.) TOLEDO, Ohio, (By Mail).—I am| | | '‘Sil-Vara’s Play Theatre Guil The Theatre Guild will not produce { Sil-Vara’s ‘Playing at Love” this season. The production was originally | announced for April 16 at the Republic | Theatre. Difficulties in casting are} responsible for the | decision to hold the play over until} next season, when | an extra subscrip- | —- —-DRAMA=——+ to be Done by Next Season “CZAR IVAN THE TERRIBLE” | Smash Fishers’ Union, Correspondent Says —% i | | 100 SEEK JOBS DAILY; HIRE. 57 INLOS ANGELES More Room in Potters ¥ields Than Missions (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Cal., (By mail).— The emergency free employment bu- reau, a South Spring St., was ae Ringe jenelosing one of the present Com- tion bill will be} opened by Mrs. Edna W. Rogers 3 H eee munity Chest campaign leaflets) It produced for the! weeks aco. Dw at tiie the hae pone: ine speaks for itself. I never saw such subscribers who reau has supplie for 1,200 men coercion, browbeating and intimida- are entitled to one/ and women without fee or commis- tion as has been done in the present more play on the mn, it was announced, This means a. fi campaign. The bosses have com- current season’s | daily ge of 57 persons put to 0 pelled every worker to sign a card list. | work of some sort, mostly short jobs, Murdered 4 ; (giving them authority to deduct a| Eugene O’Neil Along with the} ‘ s registrations are It isn’t safe to talk orgar Doyl, |day’s pay for this year. This com- above statement | the rate of 400 the exploited lumber worker | ow f 1 this t BS , twher rk pulsion has caused considerable re-|the Theatre Guild gave an outline of} : 57 constitutes only rn) - y es te rey es e sentment among the workers. But/its plans for next on. A new ne ‘ ee piayets an ; 14 fer cent of the job seekers at this card in a he —--— — —— ——~———-—- the baseball season is opening. Ra!]play by Eugene O Il is a noted fea-} from the remarkable pune ™inew bureau. The rest, 86 per cent, Q Ku Klux K 6 39 Ra! ture. Also a revival of a popular oe Ivan the Te: wee Lian must keep on going hungry, ragged nel “SOCIALIST” PLANKS oventan: [Ry a tm cee aaa ace SA completely. His to * * * | The productions for next season elit OR Se en ae jto sleep—unless “Brother Tom” per- ie PLEASE BOSS PRESS cts 20% sone zouye ie eliotn at Pon ie ar ear £ : eos from the Community Chest campaign |!owing plays: “The Game of Love| npxisnawN DANCERS AT PEO:|6,%, State feet in the Mi : verlooking Neer: which simpli- " a ere ; and Death,” by Romain Rolland; Lage hacia: 35a ision. Even potters fields are about perlooking poe : +2 — |leaflet for which the Holedo workers |# eee . 14, PLE'S SYMPHONY CONCERT ~\four times as liberal with space as fies the work ied aber Cons any (By a Worker Correspondent) jare being plundered give a sugges-| “The Camel Through the Necdle'a) srha! Denishawe | Dancers. 62 the |gard° ‘House’ of the Lord,” > Tf not and the Ku Klan. DENVER, Colo. (By mail).—I am sending you a clipping from the tion of the nature of “business propo- | Eve by Hritz Langer; “Wings Over) nenishawn School will appear at the snd, aouse of, ime fonds’ mene In the men work 10 hours | nenyer vening Ni a Seripps Howard newspaper. It was printed Apr. 3.| sition contained in this organized rie oa) ee ‘gor yrapcetns ‘ oe People’s Symphony Concert this even- eal Hock Bpacsein <eleepine quarters a aa Hear tunity had p I don’t think any comment is necessary, the clipping speaks for itself.| bos charity. | Robert “Nichols; SA. -Month) in’ thes, oc-ghcweahingtan. 1evihg | Senied itsel ph = ene —— own the wo: The socialist mber work- The platform, as outlined Socialist Platform. ‘ ‘ | e by Morris Hillquit, seems ring. | there | wantin the g revolutionary |Nowhere in the logging articles is a call to rebellion; in the contrary, tae | document sec even less dynamic | than the utterances which may be ted from the major parties. The socialists 1s ill con- | it appears, v them. Men|demn “the policy ion in} t sickened | Central uth Amer ecially | and died, and was used for meat for/in Nica The democr and the men. {many republicans do that already. At Ten-Mile Camp the company Byer ft the anajor partic z z | s side-step putting in the speed-up system ev N/the prohibition question, it was to be! in the camps, the crews that put out| expected that the socialists, who have | 60 carloads of logs a day are now cu‘ | nothing to lose, might at least. take | in half, but do the same amount of|a definite stand. But not so, if Mr.| work. : i Hillquit is qualified to speak for tne| But all the work ‘rs in Fort Bragg | party. The majority of members, he) are not so complet unorganized. | says, are inclined to favor the n-| Last year the en organized | ciple, but they may make recom-| into the Fisherm ruck for] mendations for some changes in en- higher rates and an reement by|forcement method So prohibition, which the canne ought from | which Senator Reed finally discovered nd won. Some}to be “a normal and not a political members of the u time ago, the lu in the ” seems to make the Social- camps, driven by i able condi ulate, too. tions, started to organ and tal Legislation to control the pra e of ssuing injunctions in labor disputes will be ‘demanded. The be expeeted to adopt strike, and the sher rushed down from Ukiah, the county seat, with a band of armed men deputized hurriedy, y for action she Q : : dy for action should a), r plank, and something of the | out. That was the end hind probably will also be considered bu » workers + “f ut the workers lat iar City. A demand for nationalization of | opera- | Mines ang railroads is the only pro- Finnish | 208ed plank which has a revolutionary tinge. $s na- ture of the pol Fort Bragg h strong tive movement built up hy the workers, which just fourth annivers: pects of inc lumber work to publish a shop-paps Lumber Worker,’ camps to h workers of N —V held it: n. Pros-| It i the announced aim of the so-| » establish a fighting | The soe: list vote} , When Eugene V. Debs, | nominee, was in ing a candid. | of the drama y and the color- ful onality of Debs, this year it wust depend largely upon the appeal its platform. And, if Mr. Hillquit’s | expectations e fulfilled, that appeal will be lacking. EDITOR'S NOTE: The Worker | Correspondent in Denyer, who sent us the abeve clipping, might have rawn ention to the sly joke h is contained in the socialist nd for nationalization of mines a measure which they carry out in a strictly * way under the capitalist The Kresge Family S. S. Kresg nate, whose wife ot from him recent! courts, is now pros suit in papers p Justice Mahoney. Mrs. Kresge demand consideration of and that he reject b and railroads. plan * proposition to | Business men of sound judge- | Sil-Vara; a new splay Country,” by Turgenev; “The Genius and his Brother,” another play by by Eugene O'Neill, tentatively called “Dynamo”; High |in this state is 100 square feet. School. The dancers have prepared a} '” i special program for this final concert of the season. The program consists Laborers, tradesmen, professional jmen and women—even a minister of the gospel—were waiting yesterday: jdress the audience will be our secre- | Martinez and the young South Ameri- peak of close to 1,000,000 | « Aid Work of Mill eae | Committees in Small Users Hit by | Textile Strike ®rooklyn Gas Rates Mail) —We wo in ficials think you should they - have gressive Textile Mil! Comm s| | arranged to make you pay--and pay have lately been aided by Young Incidentally. while is © company t peeve the », the big users or more—-are get- on a slidin e Workers (Communist) members who helped us the strike call issued by gressive Textile Miil Comr proclaiming rates small user to a fraz. 4,000 cubic fee ting r ced Over 8,000 of these calls were -, |ff one uses 200 cubic feet or less tributed. The workers accepted the, he used to pay 23 cents for it—now ealls eagerly and many volunteer-| | it’s 95 cen The felloy who uses! ed to help us in giving them out. | 10,000 cubic ised to pay $11,50, | Youth form a huge percen |the mills in New Bedford. They | were very encouraged to see Young | Workers League members help }them to make conditions better | | At the Nachutet mill many of them| | cheered: “Strike One! Strike Two!) | | Strike Three!” and were very jolly, | | about the idea of fighting the} | | bosses against their declaration of| a 10 per cent wage cut which will) | effect about 25,000 textile work- ers in New Bedford. The distribution took place very early in the morning and at noon hour reached all the mills. Now the Young Workers League must get ready to come to the aid of the | textile workers on strike. The {bosses must be beaten! The wage] | | cuts stopped thru 100 per cent or- ganization of the workers in their} | mill committees!|—MACDONALD. | but the price for him now is $9.70. ° RRP PY PEPER EKEY, wi with AREER EYE ORE RREEP PEP RE PREP PERE? Admission 75c. | the Bogalv I by a company mob, h: tr 1 ,| been or by the federal supreme in : Ke orre. ha court. Williams was killed because ea oe Correeadane) hee Sia *' he dared entér the company town and NEW BEDFORD, 3 Brooklyn Comp try to enlist the mill workers in a ‘\and officials of the company were in “IT Grobovi ce Progovoriti” Will be given THIS SUNDAY by the SOUTH SLAV FRACTION OF THE W. C. P. At 525 East 72nd Street, N. Y. C. Ten Percent of the Profit Will Go for the Miners. CLUB AIDS MAY 1 Builds Up Big Labor | Library ! (By a Worker Correspondent) Please be informed that on our| last Sunday meeting The Spanish Workers’ Club passed the following | which the workers are being forced ito pay have been clipped from the 1. It is unanimously voted and re-| Community Chest leaflet and re-| the Spanish Workers’| arranged to bring out their true} boss significance below: | gave 1,012 medical treatments. resolutions: solved that Club’be duly represented at the Span- | ish. conference of the All-America] Anti-Imperialist League, United ‘ection, to be held in this city th of April. For that purpose | following delegates were ap- pointed to represent our organization at that conference, Pablo Majtinez, Miguel Carlos Aparicio and Mariano Pablo Martinez will head the delegation. 2. Previously it was also con- sidered the duty of the membership to assist ,in mass at the May Day cele- bration at Madison Square Garden. It was also voted and resolved to have a preliminary conference on the 29th of April at our club rooms, at which various Spanish orators will speak of the significance of May First and what it means to the workers in general. Among the speakers to ad- tary general, Eduardo Machado, Pablo can poet, Miguel Cruz. Everybody is invited to this conference and no charge will be made. The building up of a working class library is now in full swing and our club has already shelved over 200 volumes donated by our members. We have almost one hundred mem- bers at present, but it is optimistically predicted by our secretary of propa- ganda and education, Pablo Martinez, that our membership will reach a thousand by January 1st. —PABLO, MARTINEZ. Loralasa MurderAward In Union Case Denied WASHINGTON, (FP) April 19.— A retrial of the damage suit against Great Southern Lumber ought by the widow of L. liams, labor organizer, after her | band was murdered in their home in} trade inion. Guards, gunmen, agents) the mob that shot him down. t A jury awarded $50,000 damages to Mrs. Willi The court reduced, the award to $20,000, after which the appellate court threw it out and or-| dered a retrial on the claim that cer- tain evidence had been wrongly ex- cluded and other evidence wrongly. included in the case. The supreme’ court upheld the appellate court. TEPPER RRR ERRRP PERERA TL AELRE RAE ARR CONCERT AND BALL Play Concert Will Start at 2 P. M. devoted months to a study of the whole problem. They have met with the representative of the forty agencies supported by the Chest. a The budget for the coming campaign has been fixed at $800,--| 000, and. there-has been added to | this, the accumulated deficit of $40,000. for the last two years, making the total $840,000. | Some of the boss: institutions for American Legion, Lucas County | Council—Devotes its entire time to problems of the ex-soldier. In 1927, handled insurance cases, ad- justed compensation, hespitaliza- tion, bonus problems, child wel- fare’ work and guardianship prob- lems in 2,351 cases, Salvation Army—In 1927, this | organization cared for 940 persons in 235 families,-‘giving material | relief; distributed toys to 125 children, reached 30,000 persons with spiritual help in 182 meet- ings; made 60 visits to jails and hospitals; supplied cheap meals to 29,508 unfortunates, lodging to 9,132. Toledo City Mission—A haven for homeless men. In 1927, ob- “Faust”. by. Goethe, in the Rawson adaptation which has already been used at the Old Vic, London; a play by Bernard Shaw, to be revived. In addition, options are held on plays by Sidney Howard, S. N. Ashe- man, Dorothy and Dubose Heyward, authors of “Porgy” and Howard Law- son. George Gaul has been signed by the Theatre Guild as a member of the regular company. Mr. Gaul re- cently headed the Theatre Guild Com- pany on tour and last season played the role of Ivan in “The Brothers Karamazov.” furnished 2,700 with free lodging, The Y. M. C. A.—Recreational, educational, social and spiritual. Operates central office and five branches in various—parts- of the city. Provided room and board for | 640 young men in 1927.; In the | year, 372,848 participated in 11,- 993 events originating in this In- stitution. Toledo Council, Boy Scouts— Character building and training in citizenship. It has 3,018 members and 950 adult. leaders. Has its own reservation. Toledo Girl Scouts—Builds health and character. It has 1,137 girls enrolled in troops. It main- tains a summer camp which 226 girls attended for two weeks or more in 1927. Its members tained employment for 726 men, dressed 150 dolls at Christmas. | GREAT Concert to be Saturday Eve., At the Large Hall of HUNTS POINT PALACE 953 Southern Boulevard, Bronx Under the auspices of NOVY MIR. Concert Program: Mme. Euphaly Hatayeva, in a unique program —Peter Bilgo’s Balalaika Quintet—Bavarian National Dancers— - Great.Finnish Band Orchestra. KO 25% op JICKETS: in advance of Proceeds for ‘Miners’ Relief. SPRING and Ball held April 21, 1928 Music by Kulick’s Orchestra. 5c; at the door $1.00. To wear Protest Ag: Support of World-wide Every progressive and militant Every militant worker—See Button! Buttons sell at: 1 to 1 100 or Order from: EVERY WORKER MUST WEAR A MAY DAY BUTTON! Every worker must show his solidarity on May Day by wearing the May Day Button Struggle Against the War Danger! Support of the Strikiig Miners! Every Party unit—Spread the buttons! Every Party member—-See that your friends and fellow- workers wear the May Day Button! all your members wear the May Day Button! DO ene National Office, Workers Party, 43 East 125th St., N. Y. C. a a May Day Button means: ainst American Imperialism! the Soviet Union! Proletarian Solidarity ! t labor arganization-—See that that you wear the May Day tended for students and workers. Ad- ion tickets are obtainable at the Escape Hotel Blaze ATLANTIC CITY, N. Ji, April 19. —Fire yesterday in the Iroquois Hotel here routed workers and guests. One worker said to have been a cook at the hotel, died at the Atlantic {City Hospital of heart disease super- induced by smoke. There were about 98 guests and 40 workers in the hotel when the fire started. Four of the guests were un- vecounted for, and six persons, in- | cluding two firemen, had ‘been in- jured. .It was reported that about twenty persons had been rescued by | Jomping into fire nets. eusael —— The Theatre Guia beer os Bugene | via”* — Strange Interlude John Golden Thea,, 58th, E. of B’way Evenings Ohly at 5:30. Eugene O'Neill's Marco Millions , WES 8:30 i 2:80 Bway, 46 St. Evs. 8.36 FULTON “Mais: Wea.&Sat. 2, “See It and Creep.”—Eve. Post: - —f. ‘ong be i 44 Street. VS. 8:30. Mats. Wed.& Sat. THE ABSOLUTE HIT of the TOWN “DAILY WORKER” worker daily? All tours include a 10-day’ tional interest: GROUPS SAILING 6 CUNARD STEAMERS: May 25 “Carmania” May 30 “Aquitania” VIA—London, Kiel Canal, Hel- singfors. 4 RETURN—W arsaw, Paris. Berlin, 00 ... more ., . 7 cents, + 6 cents, $450 AND’ UP. ALGONQUIN 6900 THIS SUMMER LENINGRAD where places\of historical and educa- INQUIRE: WORLD TOURISTS, Ine. 69 FIFTH AVE. of the following composers: Rach-|for a call to go to work. Heads of maninoff, Beethoven, Debu Mac- | families are provided for first, it was Dowell, Lane, Strickland, and ilearned. Home “owners,” especially Stoughton. These concerts are in- jof the installment plan variety, are badly hit, trying to keep both the wolf and the real estate sharks away from their doors. The U. S. employment service here will remain more or less a joke—un- til the regular employment sharks are put out of business, —L. P. RINDAL. 800 Hurt in Day SAN FRANCISCO, April 19.—In- dustrial accidents in California have increased from 500 to 800 a day during the last four years. Will J. French, state diretor of industrial relations, now predicts it will not be long be- fore the toll reaches 1,000 a day. An apparent lessening of the use of safety devices is admitted to have contributed to the gain. S a | Madison Sq. Garden 3 §, °° Sts: | | @wice daily (except Sun.) 2 and § BROTHERS A Including Among 10,000 Marvels GOLIATH, monster sea elephant ADMISSION TO ALL 81 to $3.50 (inch Seat and War Tax). Children under 13 haif price at all Aft. Performances exe cept Saturday, Sat. Apr, 19-20-21-23 y Gibbs & Co. Caits Bros., son & Dobson—Other Acts “CHICAGO” with Phyllis Haver and Vietor Varconi. EITH-ALBER ‘i FIRST TIME AT AMEO POPULAR PRICES 42 PAUL FEJOS °ST & BWAY National Theatre, 41 St. w. of B'wa wsizeg “THE r “4 Eva.8:3C0. Mts. Wed. &sat.3:30 LAST MOMEN@” “The Trial of Mary By Bayard Veiller, Dugan” with Anm Harding-Rex Cherryman | 2] Th 42a, W. of HARRIS vay. “te asc Mats. Wed. & Sat. LOVELY LADY . with Wilda Bennett & Guy Robertson, stayover in MOSCOW and ll be visited. THE ‘FOLLOWING J uly 6 “Caronia” July 9 “Aquitania” VIA—Paris, Berlin, Riga. RETURN—Warsaw, Rotterdam, London. $500 AND UP NEW YORK, N, Y. —