The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 26, 1928, Page 8

» World unity wa TH DAILY WORKER EW YORK, SATURD. AY 26, 1928 F imnish Trade Movement Advancing By N. WALLARI. AS a consequence of the latest ef Torts for the achievement of unity in the World trade union movement, the Finnish Confederation of Trade Unions has entered into the interna ional labor movement. Finnish trade Unions were represented at Co Penhagen conference oruary, Where with the Norwegian and Rus- Sian trade union the question of dled, world made This active parti unity movemer the Finnish trade Some interest, Finnish Workers The central Unions, the ( (Ammatti- Jarjesto) was or in 190 At the national congress in 1920 it was decided to tr form the federations Class Struggle. trade nized from a craft to industrial basis. Now the industrial form of organ- iation is gener Our trade union Movement is for the class Struggle and our organized labor as a Whole is ver towards the Principle of class oration, The elopme of our trade union movement, as far as the nu- merical strength is concerned, is ex ssed by following figures at the end of each ye Year Branches Federations Members 1907 470 23 1908 608 1909 601 1910 599 1911 644 19,640 1912 20,989 1913 28,031 1914 31,226 1915 30,150 1 41,804 1917 160,695 1918 Suppressed by white guardists. 1919 81 18 ‘ 18 17 he big membership in 1917 is due to the revolutionary period of that time and therefor ould be taken as exceptional. Taking into account only the so-called normal times we see that the membership is now greater than ever befo Secial Democ is due to the furious fight of social lemocr against the trade unions. They h been very hostile towards rade unions because the rank and took a revolutionary stand and 1 the veformist leaders from 21 positions of trade unions. t was decided by referen- affiliate with the Red Inter- al of Labor Unions. More than two-thirds voted for the R, I. L. U., others for independence. The Am- sterdam International has hardly 20 per cent ¢ members of trade unions as its sympathizers. But even these workers are aga affiliation with sterdam. It demanded only by social democratic politicians, who are not members of any trade union. Still they are trying to dic- tate their will upon the great masses. In order to the whole trade union movement x the political tute- Jage of the social democratic party the democrats formed in 1926 a special org ation of their own. During this y they have formed also many rival trade union organiza- tior By these they are trying either to split or captu fighting trade unions. The workers regard these organi ms, as seab organizations. No Wage Cuts sociz ar “Reducing Labor Expense” By SCOT? NEARIN¢ plant, which pay-rell piece rates, frem cepartment t and fron job to job h Thou- sands of Spr pds are making less hour and per week than they m 1 year agu or even six months aro hut there have been no wage ent The are too clever to cut “ceducing labor costs.” tbor Saving Machiaery How are they bringing this + bout? First, by the extensive introtluetion ef machinery that converts skilled workers into machinery tenders. Skil- Jed craftsmen are being replaced every day by iab ving devices The ft worker, with years of train- ing, Is hi f on the labor mar- ket, rubbing elbows with a voy di- rectly from the farm who exe the eraft worker in youth, health, vital- ty. Even where there have been no new, machines the same process of cutting labor costs is in full swing. I spoke with one die-maker whe had been earning 75 cents per hour in a Westinghouse shop. He was laid off his die-making job and shifted to another Westinghouse piant. “What work did you get in the new plant?” I asked. aay sembler of vadio sets.” id you get “ull time work?” “Yes.” “At what rate f” ) MARC LOEBELL Union | | Side by side with the social demo- erat politicians and leaders the white bourgeoisie hz against our trade unions. ften we have been denied even the most elementary | civil rights. The freedom of asso- ciation nd assembly has been in- fringed 2 and again by authori- ties. A ples may fice to show it. L Transport Strike. In M , the lumber and trans- port workers of North Finland went | on strike in order to improve their | miserable wage and working condi- | tions. Some social democratic ne s those of the bour- the strike Com members the trade well anded munistic. All executive district unions, which was in charge of the struggle, were arrested and later on sentenced even for three years |penitentiaries. The Supreme Court |of Finland approved the sentences de- claring the General Confederation of 2 Trade Unions as a criminal body.| RUSSIAN Heretofore no special action has been taken against that central body, but | the judgment of Supreme Court hangs | jas‘a Damoclean sword over our trade papers ge isie as the of body of One of the principal. the new t “Grand Street Follies sixth of | ° the series—which opens Monday | |mght at the Booth Theatre. Players Visit Us Soon Berlin is welcoming a new group union movement. The only ground|of young Russian actors, similar to for the decision of Supreme Court|the Moscow Art Players and the the above described wage con-|Habima Players, who came on from jflict. | On Augu ties arrested Moscow for a stay, and may latér fol- }low their better known predecessors |by coming to the United States, 1923, the authori- 300 organized 3rd, about | worker: 1 over the countr Among ot % those arrested were the whole execu- | These young people have establish- jtive committee of the sc st labor |ed themselves in the Theatre des |party, the parliamentary fraction (27|Wettens l al 200 seats) of | tations. medy drama—n than thei deputies of the Diet of \the same party, editors of different jparty organs and all the most active su ‘ second. The) party’ workers, All the nine party |Plays are given i sh, but make | lorgans were suppressed, party offices |¥S¢ of old Jewish stori closed and properties confi ted. In| In their latest “The Trip | jshort, the whole party was sup-|of Benjamin the they have | pr ed to combine humor and s jperb acting in the usual Russ the Superior Court | mann The compan: planning to | ) of the ac-|travel across the Atlantic, and its re-| jcused to penitentiar for terms |ception in America should be equal ranging from 6 months to 11 years. that accorded the Moscow Art} They were sentenced for high treason. | Theatre. | mani Suppress Labor Party. In June, 1924, jof Turku sentenced 1! to As the party was suppressed hun- Babe as ae dreds of trade unions that were af-| Tt WA PARK’S 25th SEASON {filiated with the p: were deprived | ~~~ See BIC cies a erie | of all the rights guaranteed in the | IN FULL SWING |constitution of the country. | lready in the autuma of 1923 the} jminister of the interior ordered the | authorities to su s all the trade jun ated with » began a gen- ve against our tra unions, {According toe the speech of Comrade Jokela, vice chairman of the General | Confederation of Trade Unions, in |parliament at the end of 1924, 400 |trade union organizations were sup- \pressed. These, of course, have been reorganized, but these persecutions |deseribe how difficult is the position jof our trade unions. And still the/ Rice Trio, clown acrobats, vied with : bes crowd, Other features include: far as militant labor movement is con-| Mexican Pete, assisted by May La cerned, | Belle, “Covered Wagon D. of the Although _ persecuted, le} Wild West”; The Mile Sky Chaser; unions have been able to carry thru | Chateau Thierry; “Thrills,” “It,” |many victorious strikes during the|«Shooting the Rapids” and the new | last three years. Especially in the | side “Tilt-a-Whirl.” | building industry the employers have | Luna’s swimming pool will open on jbeen compelled to submit to collec- | necoration Day: ;The pool will re- main open until midnight this year. Attendance for the first complete jweek of operation at Luna Park was jgood despite the somewhat ‘cool weather which prevailed, according to |Arthur’ Jarvis, general manager of |Coney Island’s amusement park. This year the park is having its Silver} |Jubilee, celebrating Luna’s twenty- {fifth anni ry. The free circus acts consisting of | \John Agee, with his trained horses {and bull, Martin and Martin with jtheir aerial act; Adele Nelson and her baby elephants; together with Bill | tI the ou |tive agreements quite favorable to the workers, But perhaps the great- jest of the struggles of recent years = | |was the outcome of the general lock-| PEOPLE’S CHORUS TO jout of metal workers that lasted for GIVE FREE CONCERTS |7 months. Locked out metal workers —— numbered 10,000. They presented to the employers demands for higher wages, which were partly won. Most of the strikes of last years have been victorious and all the workers are jconvinced of the benefits of the trade union movement. The People’s Chorus of this city, | L. Camilieri, conductor, will give three special concerts at Town Hall, on Thursday evenings, May 31, June | 7 and June 14. The features will ba singing by| units of the People’s Chorus, soloists | on the stage and from the audience, | demonstrations of simple sight read- | ing and singing methods and sing-| jing by the audience. There will be| la different program at each concert. | Admission will be free. Invitations |may be had at 41 East Forty-second , |street. | ie Mere! | “Fifty cents an hour.” Another die-maker also earning 75 cents an hour had been transferred {to another department in the same| plant. He was a die-repairer in the| new department. | Broadway Briefs Rockaway’s Playland, the new} “How much wages did you get on|amusement park, will open on} the now job?” Wednesday, May 30. The park hi “Sixty-five cents an hour.” been rebuilt on the site of what was Several other men told the same|known as Thompson Park, Rockaway story : Beach. Out of date bosses like those in — oe might cut wages. Not rmany and Russia will soon see the bosses of Springfield machine ba hi as jus 2" allet, which has just been |shops! They dealt with their work- | 7 no ‘ 5 completed by Sigmund Romberg, com- poser of “My Maryland,” and other Some walked the streets. operettas. It will be staged in Bar- J Skilled Jobs Vanish. lin this summer by Lina Marette and | Some saw their skilled jobs and) hey ballet, and by Mavion Gering at their “high” wages vanish over night.| the Meyerhold Theatre, Moscow. They joined the factory mass work-| ers, Others, laid off at and re-employed at less money in the Springf ers man by man. Vaudeville at the Broadway Thea- tre next week will include: Joe Wil- ton and Rex Weber; Abbott and Bis- land; Bert Spence and Edith True; one wage-rate another, found 7 envelope. | Id is ax open shop town.| De aes hairs reheat |The Misses Halstead and Daniel; | eich Bice ee aed Craanization £01 Johmny Herman, On the screen will] c ay turn for protection. be “Ha nan’s H ada the} While carnings have heen falling,| © “anemans House, trom moe | g L pee falM8)/ Donn Byrne story. June Collyer,| speed has increased; the pace has) parle Foxe and Hobart grown harder Hoa Seley Workers with families have bought, on the installment plan: houses, fur- \have important roles, Tha company engaged for Chan-| niture, equipment, clothing. Prices ; remain nigh. Income falls. Pay-|ning Pollock’s “Mr, Moneypenny,” in- ments cannot be met. The workers|Clude: Hale Hamilton, Donald Meek, | Margaret Wycherly, Catherine Dale Owen, Ruth Nugent, Frank Sylvester | |and Robert Vivian. y lose their purchases as well as their part payments. There have been no wage cuts in Springfield. There will be not The arc | | workers are already doing more worl:| Adams and Walling rented the | j for les: money and when the present; Frolie Theatre yesterday for their | eycle is completed ‘their standards will be definitely lowered, while the incomes of the bosses will be larger and surer, |presentation of “The Fast Worker,” | the comedy by Fred Ballard and} present next month. | done no violence) these things soar jand Frank St. Leger as musical ‘-} _|“Dorian Gray” at the Biltmore Lacks Dialectic Reasoning Ae the Biltmore Theatre they are playing David Thorne’s adaptation off Oscar ’s “Picture of Dorian Gray,” s d by Augustus Thorne Everybody else agrees that it is no good, and I do too. There are a num- ber of reasons, such as the tawdry properties, the lack of vre- hea 1 by the cast (evidenced by stumbling and forgetting of lines), the rather clumsy left-handed way that Dorian stabs his best friend, the altogether too stiff robes of the ser- aph in the quite superfluous prologue, the apparent discomfort of the actor in the title role, as though they had hurt his face g to make it beauti- minor |ful, ete. But many a play has survive] such things, and more hkewise, if it had and redeeming feature. Thorne evidently placed their faith in tious reputation of Wilde and use of his epigrams. This is where they showed a real Christian ;conviction that things are, “as they ere in the beginning, are now, and evermore shall be.” This high church thi is not true of anything, but least true of humo: When Wilde, 3 ago, said, No woman can really talk, women only talk about themselves,” “American girls cencea! their parentage as well as English women conceal their past,” “1 like men with a future and women with a past.” “All influence is immoral,” “Bad acting is the only deadly sin,” (I quote from mem but have ete. ed very devilish and witty. 1 think the main failure of this play is the inability of the Thornes to realize that time flies, and all of Wilde’s |clever observations, new in their day, been tried, theorized, in most s refuted, and the world is tired hem. Humor that has become philoscphy is detestable to the philo- sophy of humor. The theatre was full of people who were attracted by the fatal fame of Osear Wilde. They got very weepy | over the sugar-sweet religious flavor which this drama, like all thing: meant to be wicked, like Wilde him- | self, never escapes. out the Let’s not talk ab actc ies anyway. VM American Opera Com- pany to Appear in 20 Cities Plans for the coming season of the | American Opera Company will) include seasons in New York, Peston} and Chicago, with proposed engage-| iments in twenty cities between New! York and the West. The company) will be under new managerial and or- ganization direction, and a number! cf new artists are to be added to the] organizations, the announcement states. | The artistic direction continues the! same as that of last season, with} Vladimir Rosing as artistic director, rector, and approximately the same} singers, with the addition of a num-)| ber of new American. artists. An-| nouncement of the cities to be visited, | and of the detailed artistic personne} and repertoire for the 1928-29 season | will be made shortly. | There are rumors that Richard Strauss’ “Salome” will be revived at the Metropolitan next season with Maria Jeritza in the title role. Mme. Jeritza is scheduled to sing the part of Herod’s daughter in San Francisco the coming summer. “Salome” was given a single performance at the <. T|Playhouse beginning this Saturday. have a sort of suspicion most cf them|The cast, composed entirely of Chin- | were represented by their understud- | ese, | Leif Ericson’s Discovery | of America To Be | Filmed Here oe early of when the Norsemen came over |the North American coast. wil! serve jas the story of an important film now | Jered for showing in the Jlarge cities. For the past five years | Carl Stearns Clancy has been gather- ing material and collecting and con- densing Icelandic sagas. recording Leif Ericson’s v e to Vineland These will be transferred to the sereen as “The Viking Ship, a Saga of Surg- | ing Seas.” Mr. Clancy plans to produce as a road show this story of America’s original discovery by the Norsemen. Capt. Gerhard Folgero, who twe \ears ago sailed a forty-two foot open boat | from Oslo to Philadelphia and Chi- cago, will serve as navigator for the fleet of Viking ships that wiil ap- discovery Amcrica, | to} | being cons pear in the picture. He is wv in | Norway super ng the de ning | | and construction of these ships. Cnly one authentic “dragon” has been built in nearly a thousand years. Johan Bull, after six months of re- search work in Scandinavian muse- ums, has designed Norse wardrobes for the Emmet Croze: will adapt Mr. aney’s original story. “Youth Astray” will be shown for the first time in America at the Cameo Theatre beginning today. | Peter Osterm directed a cast of | Germany’s younger cinema talent in this production, alloting important {roles to Nina Vanna, Andre Mattoni jand Mary Johnson. | “Morgan’s Last Raid,” will be Tim) McCoy’s next starring picture for} Metro. The stoi is by Madeline} |Ruthven and Ross Wills. “The Veil of Happines: |ture the program at the will fea- | 55th ee | | “THE. END | 48th St. Thea. Mat ‘Waltz wea iy Hla ats <= tsi vr a | EUGENE O'NEILL'S PLAY STRANGE INTERLUDE JOHN GOLDEN THEA, 58th St., Bs Or aye venings only at 5 7:30, Dinner Intermission at \G MONDAY, MAY 28 NE O’NEILL’S MARCO, MILLIONS GUILD THEATRE W287 52nd st. Mats. Thurs. Week of June 4: “VOLPO REOPENING MONDAY, MAY 28 PORG Y A FOLK BEG PLAY BY DUBOSE AND DOROTHY related ie PTT . HEA., West 42nd Evs, 8:40. REPUBLIC Matinees Wed. & Sat., 2:40. HAMMERSTEIN’S ," B'waya Phone Col. 8380 American Premiere NEXT MONDAY at 8:40 Seats Now Arthur Hermeratein presents The Russian Film Classic of ST. PETERSBURG Music by Herbert Stothart Russian Choir--Symphony Orchestra 8:40; 50e to $1.50 50c to $1, Incl. Tax Wed. & Sat. Masterpiece Dogs RICAN SREMIERE KICAMEO Now BLAST. & SWAY Winter Garden Evs. 8:30. Mats. Tues, & Sat. Greenwich Village Follies | | GREATEST OF ALL REVUES, | | i Mats. LEONLD ANDRE of the CHANIN’S, St, W. of Broadway 46th St. Evenings at 8:28 Mats, Wed. & Sat. SCHWAB and MANDEL'S MUSICAL ASH Goop NEW The Heart of Coney Island Battle of Chateau-Thierry MILE SKY CHASER TILT-A- | Free Circus, Con- WHIRL | certs and Dancing LUN PAR is headed by Shu-Hou, Tiang- |Liang-Tchao and Jodi Li. | | Two important roles have been cast | |for | Universal’s production of “Show | |Boat2? Emily Fitzroy will play |Parthenia Ann Hawks and Alma Ru- } bens the role of Julie. i The Greenwich Village Theatre will show beginning today the Ufa spe- cial, “Decameron Nights,” based on one of Bocaccio’s tales. Lionel Bar- rymore and Werner Krauss star in the production. Olga Baclanova, Moscow Art Thea- tre importation, now to be seen as the Duchess in “The Man Who Laughs,” has been signed to a Paramount con- tract. She recently appeared with Pola Negri in “Three Sinners,” and with Emil Jannings in “The Street of Sin.” F, W. Murnau has completed his | Four Devils,” for Fox Films, Follow- ing his work on “The Four Devils” Murnau will take a brief vacation be- fore starting on “Our Daily Bread.” The role of Tarzan in the Universal screening of “Tarzan the Mighty” will be played by Frank Merrill.» This. is an adaption of Edgar Rice Burrough’s story entitled “Jungle Tales of Tar- “Stephen Trombolt’s Wife,” a novel by Hermann “Sudermann, has_ been purchased by Metro and will be filmed Metropolitan more than twenty years ago. ss under the title of “The Wonder of Women.” CENE FROM “THE END OF ST. PETERSBURG” second American made picture, ‘The | § Luna’s Great Swimming Pool” with GEO, OLSEN and HIS MUSIC "See Russia for Yourself” TOURS to SOVIET RUSSIA THIS SUMMER (Free Vises—Extensions arranged for to visit any part of U. S. 3. R.) July 6 “CARONIA” July 9 : ‘‘AQUITANIA” On Comfortable CUNARD Steamships $450 and up. VIA: LONDON HELSINGFORS 10 DAYS Of Interesting Sightseeing Trips in WARSAW Moscow—Leningrad BERLIN - PARIS WORLD TOURISTS, INC. (Agents for OFFICIAL TRAVELBURO of SOVIET GOV.) 69 Fifth Ave., New York City Tel.: Algonquin 6900 RETURN: NEW PLAYS “THE GRAND STREET FOLLIES,” (sixth edition) revue, will open | Monday night at the Booth under the sponsorship of the Actor- | Managers, The principals include Albert Carroll, Otto Hulett, Mare Loebell, Lily Lubell, Harold Minjir, Mae Noble, Dorothy Sands, J. Blake Scott and Paula Trueman. The book is by Agnes Morgan; the music is by Max Ewing, Serge Walter and others. Aline Bernstein designed the sets and costumes, “DIPLOMACY,” Sardon’s famous melodrama, comes to the Erlanger Theatre Monday evening. The all-star cast is headed by Mar- garet Anglin, Frances Starr, William Faversham, Jacob Ben-Ami, Helen Gahagan, Rollo Peters, Cecilia Loftus, Charles Coburn, Tyrone Power, Georgette Cohan, George Renavent and Antony Holles. “PORGY,” the Negro folk play by Dubose and Dorothy Heyward, will play a return engagement at the Republic Theatre opening o— JUNE NUMBER of the Alexis Davor, the peasant-hero, is brought before the police for assault- Charles A. Bickford, which they will!ing the capitalist Lebedeff. A scene from “The End of St. Petersburg,” the new Sovkino film which opens at Hammerstein’s Theatre Monday night. Monday night. The cast remains the same. Co Contents: A Programme of Action for America—by John Pepper. The Labor Movement in America—by Frederick Engels. The Mining Crisis Deepens—by Wm. Z. Foster. The Economics of American Agriculture—Richman. The Youth Movement and Six Years of the Young Work- ers League—by Herbert Zam. De Leonism and Communism—by Karl Reeve, BOOK REVIEWS. WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 39 E, 126th STREET, NEW YORK CITY. Mischa Levitzki, the pianist, re-) J. C. and Elliott Nugent, are to ap- turned last week from Europe for a {pear in their own comedy, “By Re- brief visit home. His first European quest,” which George M. Cohan tour included nearly fifty appear-|places in rehearsal next week. Re- ances and embraced England, Ger-|ports from Boston indicate’ “Fast many, Italy, France, Holland, Sweden . and Norway. Levitzki will spend part jof the summer here and will leave for Europe in August returning to this country next January for an iAmerican tour. Leonora Sparkes with Frederick Cheeswright will offer an evening of Schubert program on tour next sea- son, featuring the composer’s songs and piano compositions, = 9