The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 22, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, YEW YORK. FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1928 4 KENOSHA STRIKE GRATEFUL FOR THE* DAILY WORKER; WANTS ALL DAY MASS PICKETING By a Woman Worker Corresponc KENOSHA, Wis. (By mail).—I paper and the splendid write-ups it give We are putting up a hard fight but w our leaders will not organize mass Check Off Union Dues from Expelled Miners’ Pay, Corresponde WHOLE LOCAL IS How Fall River Mill Workers Put Over Fast One RFLIGIO POLICE STOP MEETING TEXTILE WORKERS WHY BECAUSE THE ‘(MILL OWNERS OF FALL | RIVER AND NEW BED THROWN OUT FOR OPPOSING LEWIS Coal Barons Help Tools, Get Money (By « Worker Correspondent) | BELLEVILLE, Ili. (By mail). —| Time and again cases have been cited about the activity of the Lewis ma- chine in squandering and pocketing the money of the rank and file in the | miners’ union. I do not, however, be- lieve that such an incident as the fol- lowing has ever been witnessed be- fore. In O'Fallon, Ill., Local 705 was ex- | pelled from the United Mine Workers | of America because they refused to accept the expulsion of ‘their presi- dent, Luke Coffey and other militants | in the local. Their charters was re- |} voked and now the machine is try | to reorganize the local. | The men of this expelled local are at work and since being expelled they have no connection with the U. M. Ws) of A, Despite this the machine pulled | one of the most brazen acts when the | Miners received their pay this week. | One of the machine men, Dick Taylor went to the company .and tc the checkoff from the expelled members. ; The statement, of James Mck one of the expelled memb an affords | of how y interesting picture Coal Co., St. Ellen mine. | tement shows a weekly earning of Fur down the | Statement r $1.00 dues, $2.00 special as: nent, percentage off $1.20, making a total reduction from his wage of leaving his weekly | earnings at The aud: f the machine has mever gone so far before. When Mc-| Kenna went to the company supe | tendent to ask why this checkoff was made sinte he is no more a member of the miners’ union, having been ex- Pelled, the sup replied that Dick Taylor had instructions to collect a{ checkoff from every miner working. | Such cases can be cited at will} where the machine continually pock- | ets these huge checkoffs from the * rank and file miners who have been out of work for many months. { This only leads to more dissatisfac- | tion among the miners with their cor-| rupt officials and lends further in- | dictment against these fakirs, i -ALBERT GLOTZER. Reading Cigar Factory, Cuts Wages to $14 READING, Pa., (F.P.)—Yocum’s| cigar factory has cut journeymen’s wages to $14 a week and less thru short time and arbitrary rejection of cigars. As high as 35 per cent of the men’s output is “rejected.” These cigars nevertheless are sold and the men cheated of their just wages. Communist Unity and the 1928 Election By SIDNEY BLOOMFIELD. { Our national nominating conven-} tion was the dynamite with which to | blast cur membership into election campaign a > attendance of abeut 400 r fraternal delegates, tht “American” | election campaign and revolutionary working-class spirit pervading the convention atmosphere showed that at least the active elements in the, districts were on the march. This convention spirit must not be confined merely to the delegates or permitted to evaporate. This spirit “must grip every individual who holds | @ party card. Every delegate as well | as the party functionaries must be/ rt of the gigantic apparatus that ‘will muster the entire party member- ship for this important struggie. The | _ election campaign must be conducted by the entire mass of party members, it by the leaders alone. 3 Struggle in Unions. In the various campaigns eonduct- by the party such as the miners’! trugsle, the fight in the needle! ade. etc., certain elements became | ore actively engaged in that work ii seemed to them of most im- | ‘portance. Such sectional activity is | i amewhat similar to the decrepit sys- ‘tem of craft unionism and has no lace in the Communist movement, ommunist parliamentary campaigns conducted with the purpose of ie meralizing, uniting and broaden- \ the isolated, local and sectional gies of the working class thus oliticalizing and developing the class- sciousness of the workers: As the class struggle sharpens nunist participation in the elec- campaigns become more signifi- and of as tremendous import- as a huge general strike that gular and peculiar | houses \about 10 miles northwest of this city {for greater victories. 5 the very foundations of cap- ent whole certainly appreciate your at work to our strike in Kenosha. Pers e are handicapped because picketing throughout the conducted a ers who would pursue militant tacties‘in the strike. y and be se there are a number of unskilled workers whom our leaders have not called out on strike. nally, I am getting tired of the way this ke is being 1d hope we get some real, courageous, militant lead- I agree with creasing the num THAT A REAL UNION WILL BE ORGANIZED AND A FIGHT FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE 10% WAGE CUT THEY ARE RIGHT | THE WORKERS WILL ORGANIZE AND THE WORKERS WILL FIGHT EVEN AS THE NEW BEDFORD WORKERS ARE DOING Above is the reproduction of a textile workers by representatives Enraged and alarmed that at last Textile Mills Committee, has appeared to lead the exploited textile | their masters, the Fall River mill owners had the police stop a meeting called by the T. M. C. night, the members of the Fall River Textile Mitls Committce wrote workers to victory against and printed the above call to the ambzed in the morning, as the mill work Workers Injured in Allentown Explosion | ALLENTOWN, Pa., A brilliant flare in the sky, ‘om- panied by an ear-splitting blast and seven the. 10 dynamite drying} the Trojan Powder Co., June of of exploded early today. Four night watchmen, the only em- ployes reported on the reservatios have been accounted for. One of | them, however, Alfred Frittin vas | hurled several feet, being dazed A | shocked, but otherwise uinjured. ii alist society. In the recent election ampaigns in France, Germany and Poland the Communi: parties ral- lied such huge mass support that the capital of the respective countries hecame terror-stricken and regarded! the Con.munist -victories with the fame horror as a suc strike. essful general The advantages gained by our participation in the election straggles can be utilized for the} further organization of the masses Gains in Poland. Jewish, Polish, Russian and Ukrai-| nian workers participated in the elec | tion campaigns in Poland. German ‘und French workers participate in| ithe campaigns in their respective lands. deaah ne = aS Watch For Our Next Meeting RELIGIOUS DOPE 1S BOSSES' FOOD FOR UNEMPLOYED ‘Used Revivals *Against Dakota Farmers. (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill. (By mail).—When- ever there is industr | the country, the great tribe of préach- ers and peddlers of every kind of re- \ligious bunk are always to be found ‘working oyertime. This igho accident but is part of a ‘settled policy of the ruling class to confuse the minds of the workers, to |draw their attention to “god” and |thereby help them to forget the real jcause of their hard times, In Chicago, at-the present time, we witness no end of revivals, visits of nationally known evangelists and the radio programs loaded to the limit with every kind of religious propa- ganda, even to the extent 6f broad- casting it with loudspeakers near the \parks where people are compelled ‘to |listen to it, Having - personally -witnessed « a lot of the bunk I want to describe what I saw happen in North Dakota {at the time of the-industrial depres- sion of 1920-21 and when the~Non- Partisan’ League was at the height of its power and was proving. a real jworry to the financial bosses domi- FORD ARE AFRAID WILL FOLLOW jpating that state and the country. T was at Wimbledon, N.D:, during jrian revivalist came with a company lof singers and started a series of revival meetings around Christmas. It was well advertised and altho the feeling between the farmers and busi- S men was not’ very good then, they flocked frowr*far and near to hear the “great man.” He had a magnetic personality and |put the call to Jesus over so well that handbill issued to the Fall River |& great many pcople of various denom- of the Textile Mills Committee, jinations were “converted.” He never « real militant organization, the .|failed to emphasize the need of money for his great work and, when he left, it was found out that the drought- stricken, hail-struck, deflated farmers had contributed over $700 for this preacher. He was careful in his sermons to remain neutral on political subjects but he was no sooner gone than the converts began attending churches of \their own choice where the big busi- jness-minded preachers without excep- tion preached every Sunday the rank- est capitalist propaganda. “Harmo- ny” was the watchword of the hour. Rosalsky, labor hating judge! When I travelled and studied condi- E: st year sentenced many mili-jtions in the rest of the state in the tant furriers to long terms in prison, ispring I found that such revivals had when the latter pronounced a life sen- ,been held’in many other places. teyce on him for having stolen $390 | “Harmony.” from a garage, a crime that Boylan | claimed he had not committed. “You’re a murderer! You're send- ing an innocent man to prison for | life, and you know it,” he shouted. Policemen in the court stopped him, beating him into unconsciousness be- fore he gave up struggling. Working all textile workers. The police were s eagerly read the leaflet. Claiming Innocence, Man Assails Rosalsky Sohn Boylan, 27 years old, yester- | day leaped for=the bench of Judge Otto |formed “for the purpose of bringing jinto harmony” the businessmen and the farmers. It helped a lot in mak- jing the farmers forget for a while land play |gang. Not long after the Merchants’ and |Farmers’ Bank in Wimbledon, the |farmer-controlled bank, was compelled |to close its doors thru pressure from ithe Twin City interests. The chris- jUan big boys came from the big towns and forced tae now christian in this |farmer stockholders to give them 61 country and that foreign-born | Percent of the stock before thay would and the “humble” rank and filer is ent to have the bank re-opened. not worthy of participation is a armers who had never known a lacy that must be stamped out. 1 rtgage were “compelled in some inferiority-complex p ases to mortgage even their furniture many foreign-born wolkerstis n order to save their interest in the sult of the persecution of these we nk. As the farmers were for the + he capitalist class. Like jtime: very much under the. spell of franchisement and segree: {religion there was not such an outery this blight can be overcome bulge eens. pitta, bays veer 3 by increased participation of the /Y°ar eather, : foreign-born and Neue workers in| , eae Triumph of Religion: : the’ election: eampnigns. The way. things. turned out in North a Dakota the farmers were finally The Commu Party will break |“harmonized” so completely and with down such artificial barriers. The |S0-.much assistance from ‘tgod’s” right and the duty to do Communist \¢hurches that they gave, up their work is the right and the duty of|splendid’ struggle for ‘better, condi- every worker. Even sympathetic in-|tions and became once more reconciled duct the election ca x The same is true of other! dividuals and organizations a weil }t0=let “big usiness dominate the life} ‘countries whare the workers vote. |The notion that only native and pop-|and children must be drawn into the | ‘ular comrades are ordained to con- Communist election campaign. as the working class women, youth }of the-state. ; a ‘ é Today they have a “non-partisan” (governor who announced when he ‘started serving his term that he de- May Be Paid in Monthly Installments. (FREE VISES 69 FIFTH AVENUE A Worker’s Tour to Soviet Russia TO WITNESS THE CELEBRATION OF THE NOVEMBER REVOLUTION » “EVERY WORKER SHOULD PARTICIPATE” The Group Sails October 17th on the Cunard Express Steamer “MAURETANIA” THNSLONS ARRANGED FOR TO VISIT ANY PART OF U. 8, 8. BD WORLD TOURISTS, INC. t 7 DAYS RETURN of Interesting Sightseeing in pais LENINGRAD and MOSCOW PATS $375.00 First Payment $25.00. NEW YORK CITY Telephone: ALGONQUIN 6900. , |¢lass. solidari \the winter of 1920-21 and a presbyte- | At Wimbledon a men’s clib was! into the hands.of the old| the bulletins given out by the “Young Workers League’’ calling upon the leaders to call out the rest of the Allen-A wo: Since the strike began, I notice the open-shop Allen-A Co. is in- About 50 machines are parked on the company grounds which the scabs use to.drive in to and ber of its scabs. NEWYORK SEAMEN ‘AID GERMAN GREW IN BIG PROTEST International Club Ar- ranges Meeting (By a Worker. Correspondent) A remarkable example of working- was shown by. the ow of the German steamship “Tir- pitz,” of the Hamburg-American line, when the vessel arrived in New York. The ship captain o' ed ‘the crew while in port.” The seamen refused jof 26 one dollar each for “carefare |this, as the captain did not give them 10 percent of their wages, to which they are entitled to under the German maritime law. However, conscious of the fact that the law was made by capitalist ship owners for the purpose of legally en- slaving them, the sailors organized a |mass meeting of all German seamen in the port of New York, under the auspices of the “International Sea- x.en’s Club.” Four hundred seamen attended, comprising the crews of the ¢ |“Tirpitz,” and “Berlin,” as well as seamen-from American vessels. Tir- pitz, was the speaker. dress was greeted with rounds of applau Following him many other good speakers. took the floor. Seaman “John Doe” of the International Sea- men’s Club acted as chairman. A resolution was adopted pledging \support to militant organization for American seamen in their fight for a higher standard of living on the sea and for a new maritime law which will be favorable te the men who go down to the sea in ships. JOHN STANLEY MORGAN. | | sired “harmony” and there is: plenty of “harmony” in North Dakota today. But there is no justice for the great masses of exploited and small farm- ers and workers. Governor Sorlie has kept his word! —N. D. EDITOR’S NOTE-—The Worker Correspondent who sent us the above letter is the author of the excellent letter on conditions in the Bunge Coal ,Co. of Chicago which appeared in ithe Worker Correspondence of The 'DAILY WORKER a few days ago. i He has not lived in North Dakota for jsome time, however, and while the above letter will be quickly recognized las a thoroughly good account of how | American business interests deputize |their hangers-on in the religious in- stitutions to smother revolt among | the workers and farmers wherever it |appears, we believe that the author overstates the success which the j bosses have in this work. Far from giving up their “splendid struggle,” lthe poor farmers of the Dakotas are ‘today carrying on with greater spirit \ than ever before. | / ical i DROUGHT IN PALESTINE, | PALESTINE, (By mail).—There is expected to be a serious crop short- {age as the result of the drought. In a number of cases pe: of the crops were’ saved by irrigation. == Take the DAILY WORKER With You on Your Vaeation Keep in touch with the strug- gles of the workers while you are away on your vaca- tion. This summer the Elec- tion Campaign will be.in full swing. The DAILY WORK- ER will carry up-to-the-min- ute news concerning the campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party in the various states, Daily cable news service from the World Congress of the Communist International which opens soon in Moscow. Vacation Rates | | | | | 2 weeks 65c 2 months $1.50 ; 1 month $1 3 months §2 Enclosed find $... ee ..ee LOF bis oie months subseription. weeks to The DAILY WORKER, Name “Street . city State 26-28 UNION SQUARK NEW YORK, N. Y. steamships “Stuttgart,” “Hamburg,” | DAILY WORKER - I am sure that with mass many from getting in. reai-action instead of talk. cers. from work and I should judge there are over 180 scabs employed. picketing we could have prevented so We must demand of our leaders some —A STRIKER. nt Discloses o- aa i | Ninety-seven Do and the movies and got an idea. It} is likely they did not hayé any money. | Which is not strange among artists 4—-aS Well as among workers. But they dressed their idea with some knowledge of art, added a sense of | jhumiox, ‘spiced it with a bit of satire |and turned it into a movie which they |made in a kitchen, They probably |borrowed the m@ney for the film and other necessities. ' It was worth it. The result, called “The Suicide of a | Hollywood Extra,” being shown this | |week .at the Cameo Theatre, would | ‘shame some of the movie producers | jinto going back to the clothing busi- iness—if they had any shame. | | The sets of the picture made of eard-board and whatnot, become mod- jern phantastic glimpses of hectic New | | York; at times they are Hollywood, |the depths of the sea, a rooming jhouse .. . even heaven, And why not? This is a gay little satire on a modern, futuristic background, It | | Pokes fun at the movies, the mech- | |anical production of stars and (even | tho only half-seriously) the exploita- | ition of the movie-struck extra. And | |thru it all one: senses the dynamic | speed of the life we live. | There’s nothing great about this’ |very short picture. But it’s mighty clever. The possibilities it opens for | ithe comparati inexpensive pro- | jduction of artistic movies is reveal-| Jing. Whe sets, the photography and | |the acting are excellent. The char-| jacters, like characters from “R. U.| R.” are acted by Jules Raucourt (Hol- | lywood Extra No. 9415) and Voya| Georges (the female extra). Their | |speech even is mechanical, their jaws ; {working like the bill of a mechanical | |duck, It fits beautifully into the gro-! jtesque scheme of the whole, | “The Suicide of a Hollywood Ex- |tra,” directed by Robert Florey and S. Vorkapitch, is more than a jolly experiment. It has intelligence and a sensitive artistic feeling in the story, photography and settings. It is shown this week at the Cameo as an addi- -— DRA MASS llay Art--- And Worth the Money * AN ALL-STAR REVIVAL Two artists evidently discussed art! William Faversham plays an im- portant role in the all-star revival of Sardon’s drama, “Diplomacy” at the Erlanger Theatre. Bursting Levee Floods | Large Area in Illinois METROPOLIS, Ill, June 21.—Big Bay Levee, built to divide waters from streams in Pope and Massac Counties, broke today, flooding a large area. Water is running over the new Columbia levee in the north end of Massac County) All local streams are rising from continuous rains in the last 24 hours. tion to a program which includes “The Station Master,” a Sovkino pro- duction with Ivan Moskvin of the Moscow Art Theatre, and “The Ad- venturer,” with Charlie Chaplin. And it is by far the best thing on the pro- gram. Which is saying a lot. —W. Cc. oe aes Gai Production POR GY By Dubose & Dorothy Heyward THEA. West 424 St. REPUBLIC wats: Wen. 6 SAT. Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude John Golden Then., 58th, E. of Bway Evenings Only at 5:30. | VOLPONE Anilg Th., W. 52d St. Evs. 8:30 Guild yrais Thurs & Sat 2:30 Play, | BOOTH ™** minign a0 ge 180 Mats. Fri., June 22, and Sat.; Grand St. Follie or ST. PETERSBUR 2 in’s Thea., B'way & 53 St. Hammerstein’s Tea. Bway & 5 : Twice Daily, 2:40-8:40, Prices, 50c¢ to $1.60. Eve ie to $i L All Seats Reserved. LUN, The Heart of Coney Island Batt Chatenu-Thierry Mt KY CHASER 'PAR TILT cus, Con- | th wae | and Dancing Luna's Grea Swimming Poot SUNDAY, (ALBEE sie EER. Ca CHANIN'S46th St,W. of Broadway y ;CHWAB and MANDEL'S SCHNUSICAL SMASH Good NEW Mats. Wed. & Sat. with GEO. OLSEN and HIS MUSIC” Winter Garden ®y8.,2:30- Mats. Greenwich Village Follies GREATEST OF ALL REVUES. 42nd St. CAMEO & Bway NOW American Premiere Famous Russian Artist, in ' IVAN » MOSKVIN J on : # Station Master A Sovkino Production (The Russian Last Laugh) KEITH- Are you a “DAILY WORKER” worker daily? DAILY WORKER. | CARNIVAL | And PICNIC | at Pleasant Bay Park . ~~} JULY 8th | Concert, Dancing, Athletic Exhibitions, 'Baseball, Soccer, Basketball — Refresh- ments — Games for Young and Old, ake Women and Children. ADMISSION 50c.