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

a a od \ } 'W YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1928 THE DAILY WORKER, NE (By a Worker Correspondent) PATERSON, N. J. (By mail he workers in the textile industry in the New England states are at present making an- other effort to win some decent conditions for themselves. And jobs are not good for more than six to eight months out of a why shouldn’t they It is about time they did some real organ- year, nor do they make enough to carry them thru for the year, izational work to unionize the industry. even when work is plentiful. But what about slack times? Police Fail to Prevent Local Save 'TW W ‘Leaders’ are not kept up because the union is weak and all kinds of condi- tions are put in. F The union in Paterson is planting a drive for an eight-hour day and requests all those who are conscious in the fight for the working class to co-operate and help in this issue. —SPERRY. In the city of Paterson, the “Silk City” as it is called, things are not so silky for the worke The mill workers there have never known the eight-hour day as some industries have. Their Down here the mills are mostly run from seven to six, mak- ing it a 55-hour week, Most of the work is piece-work except for those who are employed for $15 to $18 per week. Some mills run two shifts. All in all the worker is a slave here. There is very little union activity at present in the mills, so little that those shops which do not have some union conditions Union Conference, Correspondent Wnites @ SeRenOCPnE 122 MR AGREES a een \Mitten Slaves’ WATT OUTLINES VANCOUVER MINE ALL MEXICAN Se | | & | | m in Attack on WORKERS SUFFER. Stocks Worth || WORKERS WILL Nee New Plays Planned UNITY PROGRAM Miners’ Relief Weight in Ice b ds Next Season | ahi | ry Woods Nex ESPITE TERROR eee~2=cco-zs, VILE CONDITIONS | asitacces' | GE Corrssponseae yet || PHILADELPHIA, Pa, (By| F Sine sew pe i ROBERT AR} XG p i r (By Mail).—| Mail).—The Philadelphia Rapid eke te) Bune than nine new aes sed _AR I think that it’s just about time that| — | |‘Transit stockholders are receiving 1 C : 35 of for a Pea UCB Denise ea AV Oot Paidarity is Kev you know the situation as it. stands | Company Union, Terror, | |titit dividends in the form of pass Se eS NORARE Gok: Mivbeliok guncunbemeat Solidarity is Keynote of|on the Coast here. To begin with| Miler ’ .,?) [freezing cars. The workers stand] | Peasants Grows (eure Welln te eee Herminie Meet |there is a great deal of fric.ion oF Blacklisting Prevail | |and shiver as the Mitten rule is as & iB | Gis! ob tue meat ss tween the Workers (Communist is | ‘All heat off on April 15.” In The Mexican labor movement is Ganoetant: ot thiGse vanpondene) |Party and the Industrial Work of! (By a Worker Correspondent) | | spite of weather conditions there| |Still a very young movement and Bauer ease y pee (R,. Maily._| the, World. | An article in The DAILY! , NcouVER, B. C., (By Mail).—| | is no heat on the Philadelphia cars| | there has not yet-developed an. in- Mcuheadiceall Bea a = beg ete at | WORKER two or three we ago 2 pie ie past Tulse y i fin mine | tho it is:cold. Another Mitten mot- peas DR sas a - ide play in which Kath- police ; 10 W ore et wow ta ihe Coleen ae , ers have Beat suffering the most | he Jape eS recmrae lor the United “States The pea ri ae : re i h ‘i A . ‘a a § i e —W. C. P. * ie ran poate ¥ rie eClintic Bie soe ei Jing t©} is the cause of it. The Wobblie that/damnable conditions. The company ____<*__*_4 of yesterday were the revolutions of Si pease This But instead of the class struggle, th pend their time in telling the w that the violence if they| Workers (Communist) Party is in the d to the meeting} pay of Wall Str And that Com- y, the strikers were| rade Foster and, in fact, all the lead- ot te woods,|ing Communists who are organizing » muddy d ford | the workers, are ex-Pinkertons cs to | Stool-pigeons, ve- | night, alking about ith 0 ng attack against the Soviet junion has been forced upon them by |the coal operators and thru this in- blacklisting every militant miner who has participated actively in the 1913 | strik In 1 4 the meA were compelled to ~peny agreement placing Educational League: Is Called Hopeful | trolled |the peasants and of the petty-bour- geoisie, and the fruits of the revolu-, | tion have been harvested by the petty- | bourgeoisie alone. The peasants as well as the workers have been cheated | of all benefits from these revolutions. Class-Consciousness Grows For several years, and especially under the government of President Calles, the tempo of the organization of the working class has considerably Mr. Woods’ an- “Jealousy,” Florence Reed erence See" was. briefly tested having been Walter. Clintie will first act the play on the in origin. play is revealed in nouncement as which out of town early in the season. It contains only two characters, and is from the French of Louis Verneuil, | adapted by Eugene Miss Cornell and Mr. Mc- ; i e ¢ y se rat f ish i 7 Pea oe ing | a e mass meet-| Attack Workers’ Republic. the company rs spares eu increased. With this eee Coast this summer. T , : : Peete Sb bier epecnilen de °: e organizations, class-con- . . r 6 p.m. The; ‘But worst of all they make th worked. Thru a company con-|2y « Woman Worker Correspondent eae ye the Seekers de slspivery, Most of Mr. Woods’ nine are foreign John J. Watt of| most bi ' 7 Prominent among these is 2 . es : ge Ne agreement committeé, this} FARGO, N. D., (By Mail).—Condi- i veloping and strengthen- the Illinois Save-the-Union Commit-| Union. They like to tell the crowd/agreement was signed for a period OR ns Rae 9 Alegre e cetegd developing et sere Green play in ponies leurs tee, who had also been foreed to turn] that Stalin is trying to bring about | of three year: Wan eRe ie This can be seen especially in the) need wil dette cain three | With Jusyueline’ Tagan” ihe othe from the main road by state | capitalism in The Soviet Union and| Jp 1925 despite the agreement and | NO akota and Minnesota are rap- various mass demonstrations. And Thi ns in. anghai Gesture. Leopard Lady,” Rupert Julian’s film pers and s little known by-jthat Trotzky (the only real radical| without cause the company has cut|idly worsening. Farm wages are in nowhere better than on the First of is is entitled “The Secret Life,” and % found the rted when] over there according to the I. W. W.) | the/| was sent to Siberia because he started | »fore arrived ter the bonus down to 30 cents per day As a result of this cut the men hay many cases a third lower than last May, which is celebrated throughout j has been adapted by Jules Eckert | Goodman from the original of Rudolf drama of circus life showing at the Broadway Theatre this week. ey I and there are a great many|all Mexico and with each year takes |p oe e t for the gathering. to clean house. The I. W. W. says|made two attempts ean. Oso ae 3 noe i 5 ernauer and Rudolf Osterreicher. ere eae te tele depres-|that the poor Soviet Union is done eee ae ao Sean Be workers walking the highways, even pe ee outspokenly class char Another play by these authors, called Kaufman Is Dropped or ; which close it in al-| for now that Trotsky is stripped of}into 0. B, U. of Canada. Both of|this early in the year, in search of The demonstrations on May First Easy Money,” is also scheduled. From Workers Party most completely. er the tops of| pow It seems funny that the/these attempts have failed. work. This is very much as it was in| pind. the workers and peasants to- ‘A Man with Red Hair,” based on these to the| capitalists of this country agree with| In 1927 when the agreement ex-| 1914, gether. Together they demonstrate Hugh Walpole’s novel, and recently| The executive council of District 2, meeting hall son warmed | the Beeson nie im,,|Pired the miners demanded the re- R. R. Wages. by the thousands in the streets of the eel in London, is on Mr. Woods’ Workers (Communist Party, has ex- at five minutes » the meeting|_ They have openly attacked The|storation of the 60 cents bonus, but There is some railroad work “dn|towns in front of government build-| ists as are two other plays obtained] pelled Morris Kaufman from mem- started. DAILY WORKER, calling it a scab| the haa edna: era : No police were present. They the Daughters of the Revolution are also trying to crush The DAILY! WORKER, so one more organization |lining up with them won’t hurt us | much. after the meeting had pro-| Would End Relief. ceeded for an hour and John Watt} Also in regards to the Miners Re- had had ample opportunity to set|lief Conference, the Wobblies’ dele- forth the line of action laid down by gates got up at the last meeting and dent of the mine esent to spy upon Only company By an bad conditions that obtain in common railroad work in this section. At the Armour Co. packing plant A spontaneous clamor for organiza- tion arose from the rank and file. In order to pacify the workers and lull i & B them back into the slumber of the |®t West Fargo, wages are 421 cents past thirteen years a conciliation com-|#" hour for the “low” or base pay. The speed-up system is in full force. jmittee was set up with a notorious ‘ A This plant, once operated and owned ‘scab as the chairman. Mr. Joseph| c lSutton, the chairman of the commit-| by farmers, was forced into barkrupt- tee, was imported by the, company | °Y thru the management’s turning May Day in Mexico. Especially imposing are the demon- strations in the capital of the coun- try, Mexico City. The colorful masses j are masters of the streets, marching ‘through them behind their banners and placards—they are masters for this one day of the year. Two demon- abroad—*“Sadie Dupont,” a play about H. Mitchél. The remaining plays on the schedule are “Midnight,” by Samuel Shipman and John B. Hymer; “Scotland Yard,” by Dennison Clift, and an aviation story, “The Sky Can- didate,” by Ernest Neubach and Fritz Lanzer. In addition, Mr. Woods will send out eight companies in “The Trial of bership in the Party. The reasons for has been found guilty of: 1. “Most irresponsible financial irregularities tending to hurt the Party and the trade union with which he was connected in Elizabeth, N. J. 2. “Undisciplined conduct in as- suming authority not given him by the Party. 3. 3 ; n 0 y : “Kaufman’s expulsion comes the he-Union Committee for|told us that they had been instructed|from the Crow’s Nest Pass in 1913| traitor and playing into the hands Lalaadglon ia Bay Oecne Ae Mary Dugan,” and “The Shanghai| after he had been given a full oppor- the preservation of the union d'd any |to withdraw from the conference. They|to scab on the then striking miners) ofsthe packing trust in, 1920. Bee eaaein he | Gesture” will be continued on tour by| tunity to show the character of his state police anpear at the meeting. |also tried to pass a motion demand- Swinging clubs and pummeling| ing that all cans lying in restaurants e the first signals of the/and stores in different parts of presence. Though no ar |Seattle for collecting money for the rests were made unorganized strik-| eastern miners’ relief be brought in. ing miners in and around Herminije| They don’t care. whether the miners tabulated a of cracked heads|in the east win their strike or not. and bruised s as the price of|Then they have the nerve to preach in Westmoreland | solidarity of the workers. | They have been telling how slimy the Communist Party is, so now I am going to show them up. ing the course of ad warned the mi hi speech | Before the |“ on Vancouver Island. This committe: Farmers’ Educational League. has imported a gentleman by the| The farmers are farther in the hol name of David Irvie of Seattle, Wash-|than ever. A noticeable feature every: ington. In his maiden speech on the| Where is the blind faith they put in Island, he stated that he did not come] such men as Borah, Lowden, Nye and for the purpose of organizing the! Frazier. As an old time progressive miners, that he has severed his con-| farmer put it, “if only we couid elect nections with the U. M. W. A. some! enough men like Ole Olson, we would years ago, that he was here to effect |once-more make this’ country..a place a conciliation between the miners end| where the common people would get He labels himself the) due.” These farmers are sin- advocate.” |cere, however, even if their leaders i | Since then writer has learned that} | (the official trade unions), and the ther is that of the autonomous (left) |trade unions. Both are interspersed | with peasants, who stream into the | town from the suburbs. Both parades meet, however, at the principal square of the city, Zocolo, file together before Calles and then take possession of the | splendid building of the chief church | of the city. It is a peaceful conquest, |for-no one would dare to resist this mass advance. But the process of a single organization, LEONIDOFF COMPLETES NEW FILM “THE GENERAL” L. M. Leonidoff, who enacts the title role in “Czar Ivan the Terrible,” Sovkino’s latest production, now play- ing at the Yiddish Art Theatre, has Just completed another picture en- |titled “The General,” which will be released in Berlin shortly, and may work after have been previously ex- pelled from the Party for irresponsi- ble conduct,” the statement continues. “For the District Executive Com- mittee, District 2, William W. Wein- stone, District Organizer.” A Tin King Having occupied eight. suites cost- ing $20,000, Alfred Lowenstein, rich- est man in Belgium and third richest S against i “J sa? taking possession is nonetheless very hi a . 9 eae a ae Ate Bushs are not. \t B 4 come here later. Photopl: abs aT een! ane ee oe this same renegade has been connect-+ .Thé . oly-raaliv- progressive and) imposing. Quickly the gigantic au-/lists Leonidoff’s inter frre fifte 2 pee ee gba a troopers and the coal and iron police |°f the Pennsylvania-Ohio and Colo- ed. with the U. Me W. of A. ih theddatetaleie: os oh ven restern hon.| ditorium of the church is filled with| Ivan as the best perfo pretation of fifteen guests and servants has ar- “The formed sluggers of the coal| ado mine relief. Fifty per cent aoe conceal strike int anv aREGaY dae P ae e ‘he northwestern hor- | people, filling the churehlike stillness month, It sane 7 rmance of the|rived here on the French liner Ile de as piano. thee ‘von witners| 788 to go to Colorado. A thousand ae s ia izon sad meant ip the growing work: with, loud jubilant cries, triumphantly | hy, M. cae van as portrayed France. The party included four sec- have a tradition of militancy and|handbills were printed and the meet- e : SEAMAN. me SECEDE BCG TA swinging their red flags. Workers and | standing Shneactarice don oe pen eee Evo sunographers, 9 flying fighting snirit,” Watt cautioned the|W@8 te have taken place Sunday, he Coe aotees ducational League, the only really| peasants climb to the bell towers, and| screen histons> ions of the|-aptain, a private detective, a chauf- miners. “Th: hope that by using ‘ch 25. We gathered at the ap- bona fide farmers’ organization in the the city ring out the bells which, ry: feur, a masseur and a. valet. pointed place to hold our meeting, but unjustified violence against you they| Texas Leads in Oil northwest. The League has a militant! . e the boycott of the church against will suce ina 4 i no one showed up so we did not talk. program for the solution of the ever] the state, no longer ring—they are igs oe ae ibs | Then we found that the I. W. W. had] HOUSTON, Texas, April, 26. —| increasing difficulties of the small| now ringing not for the church festi- for blow. Then they will seize upon|Cel4 another mass meeting in another|-rexas has climbed to the top in oil| farmers and workers of the country|val but for the May Day festival of your self-defense as an excuse Bee pears cr pee all ie Seti production with a daily average out-|4nd is growing steadily. the toilers. _———— Reatae ‘Uondahied than Hag aves | they took in they kept to themselves. f 700,000 barrels. Oklahoma has a sp ps nogene yaaa cas aa - pyorse bloodshed than Hag ever been|T should like to know this: Did the |2U* Of 700,000 barrels. Uiaioma & jemi Madison Sq. Garden *? &,5° St. witnessed in any strike in Pe: 1-1] : : 2 the next largest output with 640.00 Ona Wwies dat th Ave. ot pny et k enns}!-| Pennsylvania and Ohio miners get any Garrela, fand: California 694,000 bar. aes Strange Interlude RINE Nistly (except Sun.) 2 ana 8 wyania, Don’t give them the chance} of this? I would like to know why le ndddecdice ta he tenet BE the ae BROTHERS sLet Ws show the bosses that our tra-| the I. W. W. is still collecti res: according: (0: 'the “Tepors: 0: John Golden Thea., 58th, E. of B'way AND Eittion of militancy |the I. W..W. is still collecting money |’, rican Petroleum Institute of New Evenings Only at 5:30, BARNUM @ fen of militancy hes us how! for Colorado when the strike is all}? aks Herat BAILEY to suffer. We will stri hack, but | over? York, an organization of the oil com- | ALL THIS WEEK : we will do so with bie: and more; And for the benefit of the gang panies. In contrast with the Sovie’ TONIGHT Including Among 10,000 M. GOLIATH, monster sea slephene Darin = regular with | here Seattle who say that the| Union where the workers in the oi! VOLPONE IBUISSION TO ALL $1 to $3.50 (ine). more en nd sment in Seattle is|fields are organized 100 per cent sua Thi W. 690 Bt. Rive, aca0.0' Male aetew Cea dren under 19 movement in Seattle 8 | the oil industry of the U. 8. is com w _ Mais. ‘Thurs. & Sat. 2:30 | |cept Saturday," Performances exe eta 3 o _ nee mega sores feck tes: or ‘ oe . yeek of Apr. 30: “Mareo Milli , powerful union f ‘ommunist Par’ rrow- | Dletely unorganized and working con Wray r 2 KEITH-ALBEE Ne eee Vater or ae ee grew’ |ditions as well as wages are amone Every good Bolshevik and Sympa eae : ere gre afraid to firht real battles for|answer to their rotten attack on the|the worst in the countr; Bitorte ae thizer will be there! Every Militant is alot ‘AMEO pate cane the rank and file.” Workers (Communist) Party and The|now being made to organize these ‘ ; : ¢ ae | 42°STEBMAY OMAN Unity. DAILY WORKER. G. | workers. Organization will be represented He Veeco TEMPTED” Solidarity was the chief plea made|)= ch. “Tam from] Mlnois,” he deci: “If any section} sof the mining industry lays back and tlets the other section be ernshed now. vit will be their turn next,” he warned “Stand by us now.” he pleaded with the non-union str . “or run th #isk of fighting your own fight later without any union and without any militant rank and file to back you.”} Prior to the meet’ng at Herminie, | ) Watt had addressed a similar gath-| ering at Yukon where 57 pickets had| been jailed earlier in the we At the conclusion of the meeting, when @ messenger arrived carrying the $1,- | 200 bail required for the release of | . the mass meeting marched to| e Vukon iail in a body to receive | ‘the 57 as they left the jail. It was| the demonstration at Yukon, which had earred no suggestion of disorder that had prompted the state police and| the deputies to throw an armed cor-| don around Herminie. Stopped by “ystete troopers on the road to Her- \ tnie, Watt and his companions were | q es. “Get right back where you came} ‘from, or we won't even bother to ar-| SOVIET All tours include a 10-day May 25 “Carmania” May 30 “Aquitania” _ -¥est you. we'll just club you out right -here and now.” INQU: “cA ep soysom «AWHOM A'TIVG,, B nek o1y | | ‘ | ALGONQUIN 6900 VISIT THIS SUMMER FREE VISES INTO RUSSIA LENINGRAD where places of historical and educa- tional interest Groups Served by Official Travel Buro of Soviet Gov. COMPLETE CUNARD SERVICE $500 AND UP. | VIA—London, Helsingfors, Leningrad. RETURN—Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin, Paris. WORLD TOURISTS, Ine. 69 FIFTH AVE. Russia | stayover in MOSCOW and April 27th | will be visited. | | | | | | | July 6 “Caronia” on Red July 9 “Aquitania” Reserve Your | i | | Place Now! IRE: | NEW YORK, N, Y. ahs at the RED Banquet at the new WORKERS CENTER 26-28 UNION SQUARE. $1.25 per plate. at 8 P.M. Square Office: 26-28 Union Sq. Bway, 46 St. Evs, $.8) Mats. Wed.&Sat. “See It and Creep.”—Eyve. Post, W. 44 St. Evs, 8:30 ERLANGER Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:30 GEO. M. COHAN (HIMSELF) S THE Picture of English Lite, Oh HUDSON Retre| Weet 44m Stree} THE ABSOLUTE HIT of the OWN WHISPERING FRIENDS: _By GEORGE M. COHAN. Nationa] Theatre, 41 5t. w. of Bway E 3C. Mts, Wed.agataae “The Teal of Mary Dugan POMEDIANS EAST SIDE THEATRES Yo YIDDISH ART THEATRE | “pand Av, & 12 St. Phone, Stuy, 7195 rect from Broadway Every day from 1:30 P.M. to 11 P.M. The Popular Player of the Moscow Art Theatre LEONID LEONIDOFF in a Sovkino production CZAR IVAN {The TERRIBLE ADDED ATTRACTION Pictures of the Tenth Anniver- sary of Russian Revolution;"ulsos “Views of Moscow.” aoe oh) Popular Prices—Aft. 30¢, Eve. 50c. een nnn nnn nee. /*4" HARRIS with Anm Harding-Rex Cherrymam Thea, 42a, W. of B'way. BH Mats, Wed. & Sat," S90 LOVELY LADY with Wilda Bennett & Guy Robertson. BROOKLYN THEATRES — ULTON ST. & (MOMART feck ef NOON TO 11:30 P. M. First Brooklyn Showing Amazing Russian Masterpiece! “CZAR IVAN THE TERRIBLE” with LEONIDOFF and Moscow Art Players, Afts. 35c,Hvs. 50c, exc.Sat.,Sun,&Hol, —— Fri, Sat., Sun. Ap - 26-27-2829 illy, Mr. & Mrs, Jimmy Barry, “Leave Me for Somebody Else to Read and Multiply My Poy ELIOT SS aS 3 - | whic! . 3 ings, where the authorities appear on |”. : t i to duty along|Paper. Of course the Keymen of|overwhelming vote, the miners have | Which aes are ee a ri pous a ne balconies in order to review the| circus life, by James Strong, and a|the expulsion, according to a Party \ to the meeting hall.| America, the American Legion and|turned down the company agreement. | ‘en DOUrS Wo ay with the usual parade of the toiling masses. comedy called “Brotherly Love,” by F.|Statement, are that Morris Kaufman & ———