The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 2, 1928, Page 4

Page Four By JAMES E. TAYLOR, Miners of today who have liv under the protection of a gr @anization like the Un Workers of Amerca once v ally those who have not be and also those that did n the--mines in America fought and won the Miners’ Union Do not realize wh The p Busy wage sc wperators and th agreements a: ow ments by our own ©: trary to the funda of the U. M. W. of machines mean a ¢ duction for the oper reduced force of ¥ Two-thirds le Jobless. Thus one-third of the force the old system of work all the coal that is rec market demands. become of the m eda] industry the amount the introduction of We miners us can go ow’ other trades, f is we are not schoole in other trades. An game condition is trades. Improved n ing unemployment just as in our fc of A. Also, only are wanted by the er What are the middle aged and the old, grey haired going to do? The present of- y the ng is that the g the other iS caus- trades ~ MW. men ficials in the U. M. W. of A. have by their actions and deeds deliberately ignored this class in our membership. This shows that th ng their official positions to the operators instead of using it to help the men who have been paying their salaries. Still this set of auctioneers of the U. M. W. of A. has the nerve to say in the public press that the Save-the- Union Committee a dual organiza- tion because it is op hand policies handed down to the rank and file of the U . W. of A. by this bunch of misleaders. MINERS DETERMINED TO! OUST LEWIS MACHINE e,| their offixials “| beneficial '! family "| We will ©} Now, Lewis | clothes, and we have decided that ing the under-| s ny union man either in the Workers’ Union or out of it to e the demand of the Save-the- Union Committee and compare it with the package the men got from by signing up these sparate agreements. Ask yourself ch is the dual organization, so far as protection to organized labor is concerned and which will be the most to the members of our | union. | | Determined to Oust Lewis Gang. | We, the rank and file of the Min- jers’ Union have tried to remove this ent officials for many } years. We now know it is impossible} to do this with the ballot, so we have {taken steps to remove them, and are mined to do it. do not intend to ask Lewis, ick or any other of this official hat method we should apply do the deciding ourselves. the babies in Pennsyl- vania are crying for milk, food and me of that $12,000 per year would| fit in there vi nicely. It may reduce} th pouch of yours a little but we] k it would be best for your own that. We are sure it would be a wonderful help to the health of | the miners and their families in Penn- | sylvania and Ohio. You have left very little of our once great union, yet you have the nerve to say you are going to pull some more cards. My opinion is that you: have pulled one to many| now, and the next cards will be the| cards of the official family that will be scratched off the books of the U. M. W. of A. I have read in the papers that you claim that Soviet Russia sent over $20,000,000 and that the op- erat in the unorganized field are handling out money to the Save-the- Union Committee. Your statement is so rotten and silly that a ten year eld schoolboy would laught when he reads it. Its a wonder some of the operators don’t drop dead when they read such bunk. I suppose they consider the | Source and let it go at that. They know that they are dealing with the weakest set of officials the miners ever had at the head of their union. A Summer Camp for the Children of the Workers School will soon be over. Vacation time is at hand. Winter, with its cold winds and snows, is a thing of the! past.. Summer is here! The children of the rich can now have the time of their lives. Of course their lot was not bad during the winter. dren of the bosses enjoy the good things of life, the year round. They live in fine homes, eat the best food and attend schools where conditions are congenial. But soon there will be no more school, nothing to do all day long, but to enjoy. Away from the| city, at the seashore, in the mountains, or at country resorts the children of the rich will enjoy life to the utmost. Does vacation from school mean anything like that to workers’ chil- dren? Not at all. Workers’ children gwork hard during the winter. To con- trast workers’ homes and the homes of their ‘exploiters is needless. Wor! ¢rs’ children do not get the best most nourishing food—usually it is poor food and insufficient for good health. The schools in working class neighborhoods are overcrowded and conditions are not congenial for study. In many cases workers’ children of tender age are forced to work after | school and many do not even complete publie schoo! to leave for a shop or factory in order to help their families | to exist. During the struggles of the workers against the injustices of cap-| italist. exploitation; during strikes, leckouts, during periods of unemploy- ment, the children are the first to suf- fer. Do workers children enjoy theit vacation from school? Many forced to look for jobs du tion time. During the he summer months the im some shop, ing shoes an another alternativ ly needed pennies; w do not have much chanc newspapers is arn some bad- ers children to go to the eountry for the summer, but are left}! todo the best they can in the stifling streets of the city. - Workers children deserve a vaca- tion, ‘The bosses realize this fact and utilize it to exert their influence and propaganda on the workers’ children, The. masterclass provide charity camps and various patri and re- ligious camps of the type of Boy and| Girl Scouts Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A, camps, and their like. Here the prop- aganda of the bosses against the working class is fection and the children’s minds al ready poisoned at the schools are fur- ther imbued with mi ous and patriotic ideas to the extent that the workers’ children become ene- The ehil-| > by the Workers International Relief. | mies of the class they are a part of, the working class, | Cigar The general conditions in those {camps are far from the best in re- spect to health and enjoyment. Appli- jeation to a charity camp carries with |it also a humiliation no child would jeare to face. The sum total of the above men- tioned facts is the price the master class exacts from the workers’ child in return for a vacation. Workers’ children should not go to camps controlled by the bosses. There are a number of working-class chil- dren’s camps thruout the United | States maintained at a low cost to en- able working class parents to send |their children for a short vacation in the country. Such camps are the Young Pioneer Camps elsewhere and Workers International Relief n’s Camp for New York City ict. In these camps workers’ children learn the truth about the struggles of the working class for a better life. | Here they find themselves in a work- ing class environment and thru their everyday camp life and activities they learn devotion to the cause of the workers. To describe all these camps thruout the country would make interesting reading but space does not permit it. | We will have to content ourselves | With a description of the camp in New York. This year the maintenance of the| New York camp has been undertaken The camp site chosen is the location he former Young Pioneer Camp. rated amid the beautiful White Mountains at Wingdale, New There is a fine lake for swim- and bathing and other facilities for outdoor sports and rec: | which could not ke excelled any The children receive the best f care for building healthy bodies. The; | best Counsellors obtainable from the| | ranks of the working class, a trained nurse, s of a physician and} many other facilities, will make the W. I. R. camp for workers’ children a most up-to-date camp. The camp ns July 5th and hopes to accommo- | date at least 400 workers’ children for {short vacations. A number of strik- lers’ children and children of unem- |ployed workers will have a vacation | their Nev jHale Girls,” wl THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1928 “The End of St. Petersburg” | A Vivid Story of the Revolution “Potemkin” came from Soviet Rus- sia to startle the movie world with jits greatness. Critics, produc jactors alike gave unstinted pre |to a workers’ government for future | great motion pictures. “The End of St,, Petersburg” now; comes to” Hammer. stein’s Theatre full. filling the promise# of ‘‘Potemkin.’’ Again here is real: istie beauty, ac. tion, excellent 4 photography and | sheer simplicity of 4 story that grips one in its masterly pictorial telling < Sock. : Superb technic and Alexis Davor | direction mould it One of the chief players in the |all into an epic of the collapse of a/ Players’ Club revival of “The |huge exploiting imperial state and, Beaux’ Stratagem,” opening Mon- | the victorious emergence of the work- day night at Hampden’s Theatre. [ing class. It is all inspiring and| ‘ tremendous in sweep. The story is simple. A peasant! lexis Davor) finds existence im-j Farquhar Comedy First i Presented in 1707 |possible on the land, He comes to the| — ci He is thrown into wage slavery | A first edition copy.of “The Beaux’, which begins in his scabbing on work- Stratagem,” the comedy by George,ers on strike and his unwitting ex- Farquhar, which will be revived by posure of his revolutionary relatives the Players’ Club Monday night at, to the police. Attempting to arrange Hampden’s Theatre, has been pre-|for justice for his relatives, whom sented to the organization by George) he believes innocent, he is beaten by Barr McCutcheon, the novelist’ and| the police and thrown into prison. playwright. | Caught inthe clutches of the system, The book was published a few|the war throws him into the army. weeks after the first presentation of Slowly, under the iron heel of Czar- the play at the Haymarket Theatre,|ism, the simple peasant, suffering, London, on March 8, 1707, and just bleeding, starving, awakens with the before the death of the playwright, masses of all Russia in revolution and} which occurred in April of that same ends victorious in the Bolshevik vic-! year. Farquhar wrote the lively tory of October 1917. comedy in six weeks in the last stage{ The whole story of the Russian of an illness he knew to be fatal. In|masses is here: Oppression, exploita- the advertisement printed in the|tion, revolution. "In a contrast that book, the author apologizes for any | never allows one to forget for a faults the reader may find in the play Single moment, is the cruelty of the “which my illness prevented the! master class, their ever driving desire| amending of,” while an epilogue in| for profit, their final defeat. In one the original version, apparently writ~; respect, the sub-titles did justice to ten by a friend, has to do with this|the picture: “There is no attempt at final critical illness and was inserted, Propaganda,” the Russian Workers’ no doubt, with the purpose of inter-| government is “content only in pre- esting people in the purchase of the| senting actual facts leading up to the book. On the title page is the fol-| revolution.” lowing printer’s legend: “London—| Kerensky is the only actual figure Printed for Bernard Lintott at the|of the times pictured. He is presented Cross-Keys Next Nando’s Coffee|in ridicule as a leader of workers, House in Fleet Street.” mistrusted and finally overthrown. The, regt of the story following closely Opera Festivals Held the actual events»of the final days : jof Czarism is beautifully acted. Only At Leningrad SERIES of opera festivals was a few leading characters are profes- A given at Leningrad early this sional actors. The roles are played by workers and peasants without pre- month in which the works of Alban Berg and Ernst Krenek were featured. jvious movie training, simply, realis- | tically and in startling contrast to the The week opened with a performance of Berg’s “Wozzek.” The production usual chest-heaving ham actors we are stressed the romantic elements of the plagued with. There is a feeling of hugeness and opera, while the grim episodes deal- ing with the morasses of life were power in the presentation. Remark- able effects are obtained by the vari- lightly touched upon. Volotin, Resch- danoff and Bosse played the leading ous camera angles. The horses hoofs parts, and Donischnikoff conducted. and not the horse tell a story. The sweat rolls off the huge, haggard face Krenek’s “Sprung Uber den Schat- ten” is known in German as his most of the factory worker. The wheel stops revolving—strike. When the war is declared the ezarist govern- neglected wor! Its revival in the “Little Opera” of Leningrad was original and brilliant in its stage set- and| se to} (the achievement and the world looked | ing and oppression, but as you can sense from the very beginning, to sure, inevitable victory. The direction of the picture is done by Pedovkin, a former engineer who under the Soviets became interested in motion pictures, His work puts him at once at the side of Eisenstein who directed “Potemkin” and with him, unquestionably, among the foremost 2| directors of the world. It is a crime that much of the ,| picture has been cut to satisfy the sensitive feelings of bourgeois cen- sors. This is obvious on a number of ‘| oceasions and absolutely ridiculous in! the concluding sub-titles that on the victory of the Bolsheviks speak of a i\ victory for “democracy.” So obvious was this that whereas the audience was swept into repeated applause by the greatness of the dif- ferent parts of the picture, they were stunned silent by this ridiculous sub- title conclusion, The final scenes pic- ture the former suffering worker and his wife, gun in hand, victorious with a broadening smile of achievement after years of oppression. The men and women who gave their lives, who bled and suffered, who overthrew the Czar, who chased the spineless and treacherous Kerensky, have achieved all this for “democracy”? What sheer nonsense. It doesn’t matter, comrade. We know better. Mutilated as this pic- ture may be, it is still a rare treat for any red-blooded worker. It is rugged, strong, beautiful, and in- spiring. It recks of sweat and blood and of the farm and the factory. It is a magnificent. proletarian achieve- ment in motion pictures. Beginning today there will be added to the number of photoplays with Russian themes prevailing on Broadway a continental film product entitled “The Living Image,” which will have its American premiere at the Cameo Theatre. Emmy Lynn, Jacques Catelain and Roger Karl play the chief roles. “Fazil,” a Fox production, featur- ing Charles Farrell and Greta Nis- sen, will open at the Gaiety Theatre Monday night. The picture is de- seribed as a romance of northern Africa and Paris, based on the Con- tinental play “L’Insoumise.” by Pierre Frondaire. Two features share the program at the 55th Street Playhouse for the week beginning today, when “Ma- dame Wants No Children” with Maria Corda and “The Slums of Ber- lin” are to be shown. Production has been completed on the screen version of the George S. Kaufman play, “Butter and Egg Man.” The cast includes Jack Mul- hall, Greta Nissen, William Dema- rest, Sam Hardy and Gertrude Astor. D. W. Griffith has finished “The Battle of the Sexes.” The cast in- cludes Jean Hersholt, Phyllis Haver, Belle Bennett, Don Alvarado, Sally O’Neil, William Bakewell and John ment functions: Orders are given to tings. The characters of this opera diplomats and the army. These are supposed to be shadows of human scenes are sheer genius. Only the body and legs are shown. The figures beings, leading a life fitting their transcendental _ state. Employing are headless: (remember Bob Minor’s cartoon of the perfect soldier?) and a pointing finger gives instructions. striking rhythmical effects, and paint- The pickpocket is let out of jail to ing with dazzling colors, the composer gives an ironic picture.of life. Special devices are required to achieve un- carry a portrait of the Czar to lead volunteers into the army. War usual stage effects. Nikolai Smolish the producer, used a silver decor made Batten. The regular acts to be presented at the Broadway Theatre next week besides Ken Murray, will se Joe Young with Company; Verona and Thelma Roberts; Burt Shepard and Breen, La Bard and Barry. The fea- ture photoplay will be “A Midnight hysteria is brutally exposed. These scenes are so remarkable they are all the more effective by the skillful lighting. The changing scenes un- unforgettable, heroines. Thruout the whole the work-| folded with the quickness and pre- ing class rolls on and on thru suffer-| Adventure,” a comedy starring Edna Murphy, Cullen Landis and Fred Teen AMEN THEATRE GUILD PRODUCTIONS EUGENE O'NEILL’ PLAY STRANGE INTERLUDE JOHN GOLDEN THEA. 58th St., B. of Biway. Evenings only at 5:30 sharp. Dinner Intermission at 7:40 WEEK OF JUNE 4 and EVERY WEEK THERPAFTER A SARDONIC FARCE, BASED ON BEN JOHNSON’S FAMOUS COMEDY BY STEPHEN ZWEIG “VOLPONE” GUILD THEATRE WEST 62nd ST. Evenings 8:30. Mats. Thurs. and Sat. 2:30, EUR Y A FOLK PLAY BY DUBOSE AND DOROTHY HEYWARD REPUBLIC THEA,, West 42nd St. Evs. 8:40. Matinees Wed. & Sat., 2:40. THEATRE, B’way at 58d St. PHONE, COLUMBUS 8380. HAMMERSTEIN’S AMERICAN PREMIERE ARTHUR HAMMERSTEIN presents THE RUSSIAN FILM CLASSIC “The End of St. Petersburg” Music by Herbert Stothart—Russian Choir\Symphony Qrchestra. Nights 8:40; 50c to $1.50, Mats. Daily 2:40; 50 to $1, Incl. Tax. 00’ Thea., W. 45 St. Eves. 8:30 B TH Mats. Wed. & Sat. THE GRAND ST. FOLLIES OF 1928 Wi Eys. 8:30. Mats. Winter Garden "ys. 8:30. Mat \ | Greenwich Village Follies GREATEST OF ALL REVUES. CHANIN'S46th St, W. of Broadway Evenings at 8:25 Mats. Wed. & Sat. re SCHWAB and MANDEL'S MUSICAL SMASH with GEO. OLSES and HIS MUSIC LUN PARK —And in addition to— Charlie Chaplin =n, -7p & Sea Breezes The Heart of Coney Island Battle of Chateau-Thierry MILE SKY CHASER TILT-A- | Free Circus, Con- WHIRL | certs and Dancing Luna’s Great Swimming Pool “The Ocean in Calm & Storm” JOINT DEFENSE Athletic Meet, Carnival and Jamboree at STARLIGHT PARK, E. 177th St., Bronx SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1928 EVENTS: 2:00 P. M, TRUMPELDERS SCANDINAVIAN RED STAR 3:30 P. M. Hop, Skip and Jump 220 Yd. Dash Shot Put % Mile Rela; 8-Mile Run (White Plains Rd.) SOCCER NEW YORK EAGLES FALCONS FREIHEIT TRACK AND FIELD Running Broad Jump Standing Broad Jump Running High Jump 100 Yd. Dash SOCCER (finals) 5:30 P, M. INTERMISSION 6:00 P. M. Those participating in the program consist of teams and. athletes who are members of the Eastern District of the GIRLS’ EXHIBITION Kelsey. Arthur Hoerl wrote it. There are no individual heroes or cision of the revolving stage. The performance as a whole was a mas- terpiece of modern stage ment. manage- Broadway Briefs Se Maria Gambarelli, who ieft the ‘yY some time ago to devote her- to the training of troupes of as twe of her York bows. mby- appeared in Chi- eago and on ty “On, Kay,” played at the Hippodrome, and the “Twelve Tip-Toes” which is playing at the Broadway Theatre this week. rin United Artists announced yester- day that the first movietoned sound film to be released by them will be “The Love Song,” in, which Lupe Velez will sing a theme song espe- cially written by Irving Berlin. “La Vaiva” was the original title of the film which deals with life in the time arried out to per-|free of charge. The cost of stay in| of Napoleon Ili. William Boyd will camp is $8.00 a week. Those inter-} ested to obtain more information will apply to Workers International Kelief \Children’s Camp, One Union Square, Telephone: Algonquin 8048. The New » Plays | “THE BEAUX’ STRATAGEM,” Farquhar’s comedy, will be revived by the Players’ Club Monday all-star cast includes: Fay Bainter, Helen Menken, Henrietta Crosman, Raymond Hitchcock, James T. Powers, Reinald Wer- renrath, Lyn Harding, O. P. William Gustafson. “THE CYCLONE LOVER,” a co: actor, and Fred Ballard, author of “Believe Me, Xantippe,” will open Tuesday night at the Frolic Theatre, Harold Elliott, Emily Graham, Suzanne Bennett and Al Roberts. | | night at Hampden’s Theatre. The Heggie, William Courtleigh and medy by Charles A. Bickford, an In the cast will be }of Lorenzo Camilieri. re be seen in the leading masculine role. Music Notes=== | ‘The first of a series of three—con- certs by the People’s Chorus of New York will take place this evening at the Town Hall under the direction Marie Hous- ton, soprano, will be the soloist. Other concerts will follow on the evenings of June 7 and 14. A Beethoven Symphony cycle is an- nounced as one of the features next season of the Beethoven Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Georges Zaslawsky, with perform- ances of the nine symphonies, violin and piano concertos and other works of the composer, The peasant-hero is found by 4 Hammerstein yi) / A SGENE FROM “THE END OF ST. PETERSBURG” LABOR SPORTS UNION OF AMERICA. SWIMMING EVENTS Free Style, Bredst, Side, Back Crawl Fetching Plunge 7.00 P. M. Neck, Undress in Water, Holds and Breaks Relay Free Style Race (4 Laps) Life Saving Demonstration: Team Relay (4 Men) Carry: Cross Chest, Hair, Exhibition PARADE OF ATHLETES, PIONEERS, CHILDREN OF NONPARTISAN WORKERS’ SCHOOLS 8:45 P. M. PLATFORM EXERCISES 9:00 P. M. BOXING CALISTHENICS WRESTLING PYRAMIDS GYMNASTICS The HUNGARIAN WORKERS’ SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA will render classical program.—ALFRED KUGEL, conductor. BALLET by Children of Nonpartisan Workers’ Schools. TICKETS (complete program, including admissid¢n to Dance Hall) 50c. 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