The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 23, 1928, Page 4

ame seatsonieat & PE nnn THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1928 Labor Called Upon to Support Servicemen S Struggles Against Military C Czars | | | ARMY DEMANDS - ARE ISSUED BY ORKERS . my ny. W. Fights for Rights of Soldiers PAUL CROUCH. Workers (Communist) n up the struggle for nd interests of the enlist- Jational Executive Com- ly is: 1 a program vieemen and all anizations are called upon to fight for the realization of these de- mands. ed me: mittee h Ss offi The League does not wish to give the illusion that any considerable im- provement of the condition of the servicemen is probable under the cap-|_ italist s m, and the fight for these immediate demands will be linked up with the struggle for a workers’ and farmers’ government which will free | both the civilian worke d those in| the military service. The demands of the Young Work- ers (Communist) League as issued by the National Executive Committee follows: 1. 50 percent increase in base pay for privates and 25 percent increase in base pay for non-commissioned of- ficers. 2. $1 a day food ration for all] soldier Election of mess sergeant |5 and inspection of commissary accounts by the men. 3. Government allotments to pendants in addition to soldiers’ 4, Tailor-made uniforms furn: free by the government. Laundry all other necessities to be free. de- pay. hed Maximum duty of 8 hours daily, ; including guard duty. 6, Abolition of K. P., civilian em- ployes to be hired by the government for this work. 7. No restrictions soldiers off duty. in passes for 8. Abolition of restricted districts. 9. Use of salute only in line of duty. 10. Soldiers not to be restricted from any part of military reservation and to have free use of all recreation- al facilities including tennis and polo. 11. No compulsory special duty without agreement of soldier. 12. Right of union men joining service to retain union affiliations. Right of specialists to join unions of their respective trades, 13. The right to vote for soldiers. 14. The right to join labor and political organizations and to attend meetings. Free Speech. 15. Free speech and the right of soldiers to select their own reading matter. . 16. Abolition of general court martial with civil trial for serious of- fenses (ex.:—general court martial applies to sentences over 6 mos.) Substitution of trial by elected jury of soldiers for summary and special court martial. 17. Regular furloughs for all sol- diers without discrimination inclusive of those in the colonies, with pay in advance. Right of soldiers in colonies ! to spend furloughs there if wishing. | 18. Non-interference of officers in personal affairs of soldiers including\ right to marry without officers’ con- sent, etc., etc. | 19. Right of all soldiers to wear civilian clothes at any time when off duty. 20. Election of non-commissioned | officers by the men. 21,- No use of army home or in the colonic Refuse to act in strik | Refuse to be a policeman for the| bosses. | Support your fellow worke in their struggles for better conditions. Refuse to act as a policeman for | Wall Street! Support the colonial, peoples in their fight for freedom! Fight the war threat against the workers’ and farmers’ government of the Soviet Union! National Executive Committee, Young Workers (Communist) League. SERVICEMEN! ie DAILY WORKER is the only newspaper in the United tes defending the interests of the!. “men in uniform. At all times The| “DAILY WORKER fights for the} Servicemen in their struggles against | ape harsh treatment they are forced o lure, and is pages are open to their “opinions, Evety Saturday, a section of The DAILY WORKER is devoted to let- hada from servicemen, articles on “their problems and news of impor-! aaa In the future, many letters} M1 be published from soldiers and lors of Great Britain, France, Ger- * many, Mexico and r capitalist ed and letters from Red Ar- soldiers will be of great interest Servicemen! You come from® the working cla Your place is in the lass struggle by the side of your fel- low workers! The DAILY WORKER belongs to both civilian workers and the workers in uniform. Read the yper of the working class and ip’ strikes at ' for its pages! and | t¢ furnished |B BRITISH SAILORS DIE {rate is 34 per 1,000. In the army the }admis: |cabins. (VETERAN TELLS | OF MURDERS IN Woes Ready for : New Imperialist | Wars |Ferced to Sign Stories | of ‘“Good Treatment” The story of how veterans are ' beaten to death, forced to sign state- | ments that they had heen well treated, j and compelled to work: without pay jare told in a letter to the Veterans’ | Bureau by Patrick Connell. | ‘The charges of Connell are admit- y the silence of the Veterans’ u, which refused to answer the In his letter Connell tells of how {wrote letters to his relatives in his name, though without his authoriza- {tion requesting money for his, return home, in spite of the law that the | Veterans’ Bureau should furnish transportation. He goes on to tell |about the brutalities he witnessed | during his stay in the hospital. The letter continues: * Pittsburgh, Pa. labor at the hospi- I was there about Above target practice of the gu of the S. S. Maryland. The sailors axe being trained for service to protect the investments of United States capitalists. rew SOLDIERS AND SAILORS TELL OF CONDITIONS | | { I was forced to |; |tal for 660 days. 690 days all told. Baines to the Veterans’ Bureau at | Atlanta, Georgia, in December 1926. | They told me.I would be allowed 60 a day while at the U.S. V. Hos- ital No. 62°‘ But T never got a penny ‘or the 22 months’ work I did there. Dr. Black, your medical advisor, vroté my attorney telling him -that I aid I was ‘treated good at that has- pital. -I was forced to write what. Dr. Editor, The DAILY WORK Your paper is the very thing we need for the sailors. I enjoy reading the letters from the servicemen, but don’t see enough letters from the navy. Why don’t you print more material Sbeae the life of the “gobs”? Now, I’ve got a kick to make® against some of your articles. Some of your writers seem to think we are enemies of the workers but that isn’t so. We have just one reason for be- ing in the navy, and that is to get three meals (however so poor) per day and a dry (sometimes) place to sleep. Will | you you please send sample copies of The DAILY WORKER to - jand to —— z I would like to tell you that some new: might interest othet sol- there soldiers from my were sent to the here with ptomaine it ifthe result of the bum food we get down here, and I wonder if the people in the United States | could do something about it. i the Veterans’ Bureau. He forced me One of my buddies, Pvt. John J,|t0 do.as he directed. Dr. Whitmeyer Schench, of the 14th Infantry, a fine |had 5 big attendants beat me up in young fellow, found conditions down | W@™ d No. 6 for refusing to labor with- that if someone was able to point the here so bad with no hope of getting | jout pay. way. Don’t tell,us what we are doing’ ; y that he put a bullet through his | —but what we should do.about He. had be down here for I also had the dates when they beat MAN. nonths—but this hell hole|up some of the patients.” And, too, y |when I saw men beaten to death. \They died after the beating they got. One man was beaten in ward No. 9 under Dr. Walton, in the evening about 8:30 M. The next morning |he was carried out dead. Now, I saw 690 days of this. You trust the doctors; they are officials. But Dr, Baines knows everything that goes on. He knows the veterans are beatén to death and he is responsible. I would sooner spend the rest of my life a prisoner in Portsmouth Naval.Prison than to be a patient in a Veterans’ Bureau Hospital.. During the war I worked in hospitals and I have an idea of how a patient should ‘be treated. FROM VUBERCULOSIS By WILLIAM RUST The RED ARMY I don’t think any of us would wi ight against our fellow worke I can’t say much for the work we are doing af present—that of play- ing war to bluff the Chin anese into .heeding™the of our masters. We would refuse to do |cember. He claimed I got him in Men Beaten to Death. in ms like a lifetime. e not permitted to go to most s in Panama, can not U. S. S. New Mexico. June 3, 1928. Editor, The DAILY WORKER: ilian clothes, and must be in I just got a copy of The DAILY] | bed before 11 o’clock. Life in the WORKER from another soldier here; | army anywhere is bad enough, I and I wish to say that the story about | gu but words can’t describe this | cur conditions here is just like con-|place. Am trying to save money to ditions. we have here. It was read/buy out and once away from this with the greatest interest by all the place, no more “seeing the world for soldiers in my company. me.” We are glad to See that at least one newspaper is honest enough to tell the truth ith about | the army. BUCK PRIVATE. Fort Davis, Panama. June 10, 1928, Yours, PATRICK CONNELL. (Secretary of Young Communist League of Great Britain.) A little known naval grievance has been just brought to light which } shows that life in the great British navy is far from healthy. Those people who imagine that “life on the ocean wave” produces boys of the bulldog | breed will be staggered to learn thate——-——_——— in the British navy, which rules the when the naval estimates were con-} waves, the percentage of deaths due sidered, they spent so much time ad- | to tuberculosis is double that among | Vising the generals and admirals how | the civil population. to improve the technique of modern } More Disease in Service, warfare that they forgot all about | : cay Whameann voicing the sailors’ grievances. In! In the navy 2.19 per thousand men fact the order which further limited | suffer from the disease and the death the political rights of sailors was is- figures are respectively .91 and .12 a by Bie ater ROT e EEN per thousand. ‘The figures for the; This order was a bad blow at the civil population are 1.52 and .17 per lower deck for it is only by means thousand. ,of political activity that bad condi- |. The number of tuberculosis cases |tions can be changed. in the navy is all the more amazing in| That there is a growing demand in| view of the fact that the tests for'the army and navy for full political4 ion to the navy are extremely rights explains the small conc ion | sev only one out of ev 10 of in a new regulation issued by the goy- } the would-be recruits are ted. ernment this week as follows Why Tuberéulosis? (a) In the event of a pérliamen- | Why is it that this dread disease is |tary elegtion every facility should b ,Pampant? Sir Bertram Falle M. P. en to officers and soldiers t was compelled to admit in parliament record their votes. that the conditions under which men| (b) No political meetings are tod had to live on board ship were con- be allowed within barracks and with- ducive to ‘tuberculosis, It would be in camps, nor is canvassing in quar-}) interesting to find out the extent of ters to be allowed. , tuberculosis among the officers. We! (c) Subject to (b) there should hel could then test the different effects 'no restriction on officers and soldiers | of cramped quarters and spacious attending political meetings in or out! ‘of uniform, whether in the vicinity of | Nat Bad Food a Faetor, ‘their quarters or no, always provided Bad food is also a factor. Medical that the unit commander may use officers’ reports state that the great his discretion to forbid officers or majority of naval sickness is due to soldiers to attend such meetings in| stomach troubles and bad teeth. ‘cases where he has reason to expect The admiralty not only does noth- | that discipline may be prejudiced, or | ing to stamp out tuberculosis, it also. urgent military duties interfered with. | FIVE. (CENTS Workers Library Publishers 39 East 125th St, New York, N. oe U.S. HOSPITAL j minous, | before’ his discharge the authorities I reported Dr. | Thomeson directed, or get killed, aft- | er E came back from Atlanta in De-| wrong when I reported Dr. Baines to | s—-—-DRA M A:~—> THE.ART OF MOSK VIN ON STAGE Wars the Moscow Art Theatre was causing critical rhapsodies here a few years ago, one’of its outstanding artists, Moskvin, came in for a ‘spe- cial share of vigorous acclaim. His. portraits ran the gamut of character- , izations from his superb delineation, of Czar Feodor and the gentle, ver-) old pilgrim in the “The Lower Depths” to the heart-wringing picture of the infinitely lowly, inade- guate, intimidating Shegiryovi in! “The Brothers\ Karamazov.” | It is too fmuch, however, to expect ; such an outstanding stage actor to contribute .anything of- merit to the Screen as it is rare for an artist in the speaking. drama to do anything first rate on the screen, but Moskvin S tact this theory with the astonish-| ing and almost perfect performance which he gave in “Polykushka”; as! one critic said of his art in this film} “he (Moskvin) says more to us with | his little finger than many actors} ean express with every part of their| body including the palate. \ It is) black magic’ to watch thé manner which the short, stumpy, fingers of this little player begin to spell out a message of cheer, despair and énun-| ciation. I believe whole-heartedly) that it_would be a, fearful. task for| Wis to match Moskvin.” 1 Now comes Moskyin with another outstanding creation in Puyshkin’s' “The Station Master,” a Sovkino pro-! duction, which is having its Amer-! ican premiere at the Cameo Theatre | His art may be generally charae- | terized as a genial “illumination of} life, full of that unseen wealth and of that passionate truth that we see in the pictures’ of Meémling and Brugge. Moskvin is not interested in the heroes of life but in its yie- tims. His yenchant is for the p who is ill-freated and insulted by existence, and particularly a man who silently bears these insults. With his remarkable naturalistic pathos, Moskvin catches all the minute de- tails of the hysterical and twitching’ movements of the soul oppressed by a series of life’s situations. His portrait of Pushkin’s “The Sta- tion Master” is brilliant in its wit and pathos, We are not treated with the usual “character achievement.” His portrayal of the old postmaster whose sequestered life is suddenly torn from its. moorings by an unforseen and seemingly harmless episode, he gives to the screen one of its most delicate portrayals of a kind, noble and simple, human soul. j Take the DAILY WORKER With You on Your = 4 é Vacation - ; Keep in touch with the Strag= gles of the workers while you are away your vaca- tion. This summé¥ 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 656 1 2 months $1.50 month $1 % months $2 Enclosed find $ for ..... months subscription weeks to The DAILY WORKER, Gi ¥ Street . City ” State DAILY WORKER 26-28 UNION SQUARH, /NEW YORK, NwY.. does its best to get out of paying a! | In clause (a) the order says “That | bara su er Pe hes ons pith ithe soldiers shall get ‘every facility.’ ” hore mag ven such an high), clauses (b) and (c) the generals Rear-Admiral Beamish | says, that there is considerable dis-| ieee pa theataaiats, Of re many ‘satisfaction in the navy with the man- ner in which invaliding out of the| I view of the approaching general ‘Service is conducted, An exceedingly election the Young Communist League | | small proportion get either pension is intensifying the campaign for full | or gratuity. Generally the Medical Political rights for soldiers and sailors | i aaa 60,000 MEMBERS IN 344. BRANCHES Survey Board makes out that the un- |fortunate victim had the complaint Ulation. before he joined up. Hundreds of men, broken in health,/ are. being thrown on the stones without, a penny recently. These facts were brought to light in the house of commons by the tory M. P.’s representing ports. They are only concerned with vote catching and now having satisfied their con- seiences nothing more will be heard from them. The labor M. P.’s are just id or even worse.” Last week, EE on equal sey with the civilian pop- Demands for Service: In the “Soldiers’ and lors’ Pro- grammes” the Communist Youth puts forward the following demend: “The right to join political par- ties and to organize branches of these parties in the army and navy, and the right to attend political meetings and demonstrations. The right of all men over the age of 21 to be elected to parliament and oth- er bodies. IN THE U.S. A. Assets on December 31, 1927, over.. etna Paid for Sick and Death Benefits, over.. - $13,440,000 Benefits in case of Sickness or Accident $6, $9, or $15 par week for first 40 || weeks, one-half thereof for an additional 40 weeks, , » or altogether $60 to $900. Sick| Benefits for Women—$9 for first 40 weeks, $4.50 forGnother 40. weeks, or altogether $540. \ ¢ Death Benetits—in proportion to the age at initiation (Class A and eo * $885 at the age of 16 to $405 at the age of 44. Parents can insure their children up to the age of 18 years against ‘dduth, WORKERS! Protect Yourselves and Your Families! For further information write to the Main Office: 9 Seventh St., cor. vhira aay Ney. gt on City, or aad whe Brame Financial Secs id-caba of yo District. CALL FOR NATION WIDE DRIVE TO RELEASE PORTER Young Workers League Challenges Militarism (Continued Pim Base One) join in the fight for the immediate release of Porter and the struggle to AND SCREEN EVA LE GALLIENNE action in the first real battle. symbolizes the struggles of the work- ing class youth. “Our fight must be carried into the ranks of the armed forces. servicemen should follow Porter’s ex- ample in joining the struggle of the workers and while learning how to shoot they must learn who to shoot in the struggle between the exploiters and exploited. They should not leave the army, however, but should. win over the masses of young workers in the. army to the causes of the workers. “Tight for the Release of Porter! “Stop the use of the army as a strike-breaker! “Unity betwen soldier and civilian workers! “A united front for the freedom of Porter—for the fight against capi- talist militarism!” National Executive Committee, Young Workers (Communist) League. | | Who will take a fling at vaudeville inext week, opening Monday after- noon at the, Palace Theatre. RESETS) SEU Universal will synchronize its pro- duction of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” The Movietone or Fox-Case method will ‘be used. ILD PRODUCTIONS =—=—=—=————— PORGY i A FOLK) PLAY BY DUBOSE AND DOROTHY HEYWARD REPUBLIC THEA, West 42nd Matinees Wed. & Sat. SS mates a . Eys. 2:40, EUGENE O’NEILL’S PLAY S STRANGE INTERLUDE JOHN GOLDEN 7! Dinner Intermission , 58th St, BE. of Bway. ings only at 5:30 sharp T2410; to 9, \ A SARDONIC FARCE, maaeD ON JOUNSON'S FAMOUS COMEDY BY STEPHEN ZWEIG “VOLPONE” SUILD THEATRE WEST 52nd ST. Label ae 2g . 30. Mats. Thurs. and S; » if oa 42nd & nd BIG C AMEO <: Srey WEEK AMERICAN PREyIERD Ivan MOSK VIN Famous Russian Artist, in a Sovkino Production THE STATION MASTER” —And in Addition— * “SUICIDE OF A HOLLYWOOD EXTRA”. Remarkable F. B. O. Novelty Film Made for $97.00 And CHARLIE CHAPLIN in “THE ADVENTURER.” ate A PETERSBURG eeu See eae Twice Daily, | CHANIN'S 46th St,W: of Broadway Ev eunee at 8:26 Mats. Wed. & 5S: SCHWAB and MA DI L's MUSICAL SMASH OOD NEW with GEO. 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