The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAIL Strike Spirit Fine “Among Philadelphia Barbers, HAnaOuTS One thousand million dollars. familiarly known as a billion was represented by fo men who re- cently left on the Majestic to do a little grouse shooting in Normandy They were J. P 1, Charle: Steele, partner Mellon and Wm workers who ; were left in the Un they will proba! the summer. And: The billion es where remain during Odd Job The above is a recent photograph of D. Bird of King’s Oak, England, shown working at his trade. He's @ motorcycle racer. Under capital. ism any number of workers are willing to risk their lives to win a few extra pennies to support their families. The so-called cultured classes attend the races for the thrill and go home quite irritated if some poor worker isn’t killed. Gems of Learning Thomas B. Love, candidate for lieutenant-governor of Texas: “As between chronic corruption and acute corruption I prefer the acute. I want strongly to turn the rascals out, but I am just as strongl): op- posed to turning Tammany Hall in T intend definitely to vote against Smith. . .” It would never occur to Democrat Love to eliminate cor- aption with a workers’ and farmers’ jovernment. ' Governor Moody of Texas: “I am a democrat. I do not believe in bolt- ing the party.” If the democratic platform maintained that the moon was made of Philadelphia cream cheese Moody wouldn't bolt. He’s a democrat. Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, wife of British prime minister: “A woman labor leader at Bournemouth de- elared, the other day, that the so- cialist party is out for power. I fancy that we conservative women want something which is higher than power. We want peace and good- will, and we shall never get it from a party that preaches power and warfare.” Good-will such as that displayed toward the Germans in the great war. Imperialist peace fatal to millions of workers each year. Lord Birkenhead: “Even a fem- inist must be aware that the reason. and the sole reason, why women have retained any hold on such (posts is economic. They are permit- ted to do a man’s work because they do it more cheaply.” Frank capital- ist. Most capitalists maintain they hire women for purely philanthropic reasons. To allow them to earn a little money to better support their families. Prominent Valet The decay can sometimes lan examination of the mold. Above jis @ large green chunk named Cal. t the present time he is sojourn- the Wisconsin, of capitalist society best be studied by , on income mulcted from working class, at Brule, Wwhere he is studying science at the @hurch of John Taylor (right). Cal has just learned that Jonah spent three days in the whale’s belly and was then expectorated before mas- fication set in. Cal regards the atory as quite probable. Cal, who for several years has been empty- ing spitoons Wall Street as ‘president of the United States, has gpread the belief that his silence ‘indicates intellectual depth. Inside iis unique head his brain was sup. to be too busy to bother with Today practically every- admits the great head is si- for 1 is. , ¢to BOSSES ALREADY FEEL POWER OF ORGANIZED MEN Officials Criticized Union Are (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail).— Journeymen barbers went out on strike recently against the attempt of the bosses to cut their wages and conditions to pre-war Jevel. Many of the patrons learning of the strike left the barber chairs with lather on their faces and partly shaved. Girls refused permit scabs to bob their hair. Many pickets are patrolling in front of the thousands of shops throughout the city. The bosses already begin to feel the power of the striking barbers. Some even show their intention to meet the demands of the barbers. At a conference held on June 14 with the bosses, the latter refused recognize the demands of the workers and instead stood solid for 28.00 and half over $40.00 for a 5% days aweek; also for $25.00 and half over $40.00 for six days week in the central part of the city. Higher Wage and Less Hours. Some of the demands presented by the striking barbers are as follows: That all workers should be hired thru the union. That journeymen barbers be allowed $35.00 per week and 50 per cent commission over $50.00 taken in in 5 days. That one day off a week be allowed them. In the center of the city the workers shall get $32.00 and 50 per cent commission over $47.00 taken, six dollars per day and 50 per cent commission over $8.00 taken in. Evening helners between 5 to 8 shall be paid $3.00 and 50 per cent over $5.00 taken in. That Saturday’s pay shall be $12.00 and 50 per cent over $16.00 taken in. That barber shops shaM oven at 8 a. m. and close at 8 p.m. In the centre of the city 10 hours shall constitute a day’s work. That they be given one hour for dinner and half hour for supper. To close on Saturday at 9 p. m No work on Sunday. Strikers Militant. The strikers are showing fine spirit and are confident of their power to comnel the master barbers to concede to the just demands of the union. Active rank and file members are however dissatisfied with the action of the officials. It is pointed out that union officials in negotiating with the employers gave up the demand for an increase in wages, thereby placing the union in a defensive position instead of, of- fensive. The employers took ad- vantage of this and insist on a wage cut. The militants among the rank and file consider this as little less than a betrayal and are preparing to or- ganize the progressives with a view to prevent further compromise of their demands. to » A. S. SCIENTISTS PLAN NEW INVENTIONS Experiments Being Made in Chicago CHICAGO, cake 23 (UP)—Within “bership is going thru “education on the building of shop bs ORKER, NEW YORK, TU ESDAY, JULY 24, A028 Latest Craze of Bored Parasites Members of ( r work, are finding sitting in on marathon dances an excellent way of killing time. This latest craze of the parasites helping to fill the coffers of the millicnaire promoters of the dances. Photo shows six of the 74 dancers who began a long and idio nef Island Stadium Saturday night. DISTRICTS HOLD LEAGUE MEETS New VSmbers Active th Conferences By MORRIS YUSEM. All the districts of the Young Workers Communist League are holding conferences, entirely“devoted to the consideration of the steps necessary to huild the league in the factories. At no time in the history of the league has so much attention been given to the building of the league on the basis of shon groups. Practically all districts have al- ready set the dates for the confer- ences, four have already been held and by Ang. 5 every district will have had its conference. In the course of the preparations for the conferences the league mem- an intense nuclei, factory activity, the issuing of factory naners and the recruiting of members in the factories. Enthusiastic Response. The conferences already held give evidence that they will affect the league’s activity in the period following. The Pittsburgh, New York and Philadelphia conferences show that the membershin is re- sponding very enthusiastically. New York had almost 100 delegates, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia each had about 40, representing all units of the league. An outstanding fact in the com- position of the delegates is that thé most active participants were the members that came into the league recently, during the miners’ struggle and such others in which the league took an active part. A majority of the. Pittsburgh delegates, for in- baie were such new members. It ‘as clearly demonstrated that our ae is making good headway in penetrating into the basic industries and large factories. Members Being Activized. Members who have never been drawn into active league work are being activized. Many such mem- bers find themselves in such shops as are picked by the league for the building of a shop group and are therefore thrown into intense work They are charged with the tasks of drawing up bulletins, studying the BACK COMMUNIST NOMINEES, CALL Young Workers Urged to Fight for Demands The young workers in the coming election period have many important problems to consider. Whom shall they support? Shall it be the parties of big business, the republican and democratic parties, the party of class-collaboration and industrial peace the socialist party, or the party of the workingclass, the Workers (Communist) Party. Herbert Hoover, the candidate of the republican party, is running for election on the same platform as Cal Coolidge, the platform of “pros- perity. ” Can the young workers support such a candidate? Is there} prosperity in the ranks of the work- ingclass and especially among the young workers? One has only to look to the textile industry. domin- ated by that big republican Butler to find thousands of young workers and children slaving their lives away for seven and eight dollars a week. One has only to look at the southern cotton fields and the thou- sands of child laborers. One hae only to look at the present struggle in the coal fields, and the conditions of the young workers and children in order to be convinced that when Hoover and Coolidge speak of pros- perity, they speak only of the pros- perity of Wall Street. Hoover, Smith Alike. Al Smith is no different from Hoover. He also has the support of Wall Street, those who are respon- sible for the 4,000,000 unemployed for ihe exploitation and oppression of the working class. Both Al Smith and Hoover are supporting the militarization of the workers. and preparing for future imperialist wars. Norman Thomas of the socialist party is also not to be considered | The socialist party has betrayed the workingelass, and has thrown over- board the class struggle for the slo- gan of class collaboration. It w the socialist party that helped Wil- son militarize the youth for the last | revolutionary movement grows IS STRENGTHENED BY ATTACKS ON IT Liberals, ‘Socialists Don’t Fool Workers By a Worker Correspondent.) CLEVELAND, (By organization by character of its enemies. The I. W. W. and socialists, represent the working class, no lon- ger in this city devote their atten- tion to mobilizing the working class. Their main task Communists. ., liberals, is to attack the The progress of the Communist movement throughout the world, but | particularly the activi of the Commun in the class struggle ee me United States, irritates these rals, who now see that the en- line leadership of the workers in their struggles is in the hands of the Communists. The Communists do not pay much} attention to these people, nor do even the non-party: workers.. The activity of these people consists mainly of holding meetings, at which the Communists, the Soviet Union, ete., are denounced, while the Communists are in of the struggle, workers in the mining, auto, textile industry and fighting their battles. The reports that the Communists make at their meetings are the re- ports of activity—and this activity | is under the guidance of the Com- munist Party. Good friends, Messrs. liberals, anarchists, socialists, I. W. W.-ites, instead of standing up at your meetings and attacking the Commu- nists and the Soviet Union, do a little practical work. Use a little more than your tongues—use your heads, your legs. Get out to the mining camps, go to the textile cen- ters, the auto towns. Make your criticisms there, where the workers are fighting. They will laugh at you—for these workers accept Com- munist policy and Communist lead- ership and all your criticism is froth. Despite—or one might say, part- ly as a result of these attacks—the Communist influence is growing ra- pidly. The workers. understand best when these people make their (own proposals. The Communists then have to talk little--for the workers know what the Workers (Communist) Party is and the awk- _ ward, malicious empty ears. Keep it up, friends anarchists, I. W. W., liberals, socialists. The by the action and propaganda of the Communists, in spite of you! attacks fall on TWO BOYS DROWNED ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 28 (UP).—Two boys were drowned today, one trying to save the other. Phillip Infantino, 8, fell from the 14, leaped in after him. drowned. Both were » times extremely dramatic. Mail).—One can estimate the value and impor- tance of a man, a movement or an the number and anarchists | once pretending to Worker Correspondent Reports WORKERS’ PARTY Skinning Animals and Men in AGENT OF RICH dame: Films ptain Snows’ “Hunting Big nee The Africa” there is a generous view of animal life and glimpses of primitive peoples and their customs The hunting scenes are vivid and at Various modes of travel, tribal dances and the ways of primitive man in the heart of Africa make the film worth-while, One objection is registered here. To make the film appear more dra- matic the musical accompaniment goes to tiresome extremes. One of | the subtitles advises that the hunt- lers are warned of the approach of elephants by the deep rumblings of the elephants’ stomachs. There was no need on the part of the orchestra to add to realism by an imitation of | this rumbling—or at least this was what the racket sounded like. The Film Arts Guild, however who are staging these revival show- ings at an even more interesting addition to the program in a film called “The| Arctic Seal Hunt.” The name is! | misleading. More than a seal hunt |the picture carries elements of the struggle for livelihood. Here is the meat of a future proletarian drama |The clubbing of seals to get their hides to cloak wealthy women is in- cidental. The life of the workers| who do the job each season is more | interesting. For a total of $53 in| wages, these men work for six weeks risking their lives and endur-| |ing real dangers and hardships | | Blizzards, falls into the icy water | dangers of accident and pitiful lack | of comfort are the lot of these men This is sketched all too briefly, tho the author deliberately centers at- tention to it on occasion. Getting the hides of seals is featured more | than the way in which the workers! are skinned. Thruout the film hun- dreds of underpaid men who swarm | the decks of the sealing ships are never shown in the bunks they sleep | in or at the food they are given The ships themselves suggest con- ditions which would get the author! the reputation of a Bolshevik had) he pictured them. And the pictures were all taken on a ship which was | the best of a fleet of them. It would have made a splendid story had the author gone just a little closer to reality. Because the| life of the workers is so closely in- | terwoven in the picturing of the | seal hunt, the film is extremely in- teresting. At the same time wt | are seeing the way that the hides) of seals are procured, you will better understand the old-time Wobblies description of getting a job: “Sell-) ing your hide to a master.” Here it is in action. —wWw.c. | NAME JAP AMBASSADOR | TOKIO, July 23 (UP).—Emperor | Hirohito today sanctioned the ap-/ pointment of M. Debuchi as ambas- | sador to Washington, to succeed | Tsuneo Matsudaira, who was ap-| pointed. ambassador to Great Bri- | tain. ALLEGED SLAYER. ARRAIGNED | ROCKFOD, IIL, July 23 (UP).—| Arraignment of Paul Reed, accused | of killing Vernon Plager -by plant-| ing a bomb in his automobile, on a | young Brewer St. dock and Lucini Claric, charge of first degree murder, was ‘expected today. He will be held for | the grand jury, National Miners’ Relief and Defense Week JULY 22 to JULY 29 (Inclusive) SRI EEEE I the Cameo Theatre, offer) the same laboratories which became| conditions in the shop, and such famous through Nobel prize awards | other work as helps to develop these Illinois scientists are perfecting dis-| young workers. Some of those that coveries so important that they are| Spoke at the conference were speak- likely to exert a revolutionary in-|ing perhaps for the first time in war, and today also they do nothing to fight against imverialism and the danger of another World War, Foster Workers’ Candidate. | The Most Far-Reaching Drive for Funds Ever Undertaken to at the Cameo EMIL JANNINGS. tg Star of “The Street of Sin,” | showing on the Broadway The- atre screen this week. PEASANTS FIGHT FIRE. PERPIGNAN, France, July 23 (UP).—Forest fires, reduced to smouldering embers after forty hours’ work by French and Spanish soldiers and peasants in the Pyrenes Mountains, broke out again today }on the Spanish side of the moun- tains between Cantalope and Roca-| sens. The Spanish population asked the mayor of Perthus, one of the towns hreatened, to send across the fron-| tier without the usual international formality a regiment of French Sengalese soldiers who had been! fighting the fire on the French side. | They left at once. .. BOOTH Thea... 45 st., w. of Brey Evenings Mats. Tuesday and thuteday. 2:80 GRAND ST. FOLLIES CHANIN'S46th .W. of Broadway St.¥,, Venings at 8:25 Mats. Wed. & Sat. SCHWAB and MANDEL'S MUSICAL SMASH OOD NEW with GEO. OLSE. and HIS MUSIC The LADDER SEATS NOW ON SALE 8 WEEKS IN ADVANCE, coRT gene We 4s st. Eves. 8:30, Mats. Wed. Money Refunded if Not Mantlstiea With Play. COUNTRY CLUB DUPES WORKER ‘Butcher Loses $22.30 In Train Fares (By a Worker Correspondent) Butcher workers are being duped into going to work for the Cham- plain Club, Cliff Ave., Plattsburg. N. Y. I am one who has experienced this and can therefore write from first hand knowledge. “Higher-ups” Insulting. I waa approached in New York Citv a few weeks ago for that won- |derful job of $150 per month. It sounded nice so I went: The club |is owned by a boss who is like every other boss. His name is Mr. Pleyer The chef made himself like the boss and bothered me until I had to quit. Mr. Ponti was old and very irritable and did not stop to think whether he should insult any of the workers but went right ahead and did it. Forced to Quit. Well, after two weeks of this in- sufferable atmosphere I just had to jleave and go back to New York City. I expected that the $22.30 T spent for train fare to get to Platts- | burg would be returned by my boss. Mr. Pleyer. From what was told me in the first place I thought so. But |I didn’t see a red cent. And all I | got for fifteen days of work was $24.60. The arithmetic is simple, all | that I had “gained” when I in New arrived measly J.N. York City was a et The Heart of Coney Inland Battle of Chateau Thierry May Wirth, Phil & Family in BIG FREE CIRCUS PARK Luna’s Great Swimming Pool 50 Acres of Real Fun hive CA M EO “wis tras” CAPT M.A. “HUNTING BIG GAME IN AFRICA” THRILLING—AMAZING—REAL and “ARCTIC SEAL HUNT” ALBANY, N. Y., July 23, —Wwil- iam L, Pringle, alleged treasurer of the now defunct Albany baseball pool operations in the southern or New York federal district where he was indicted, Federal Judge Frank Cooper said today. THE DIARY OF A <OMMUNIST | a a AIS [__ SCHOOLBOY aa POPPI eS AOC What does a boy of twelve think about in the land where workers rule? fluence on modern industry. If finally successful, the experi- ments will enable one to make “grain” alcohol merely by mixing hydrogen with carbon monoxide the deadly gas which issues from the automobile exhaust pipe. They also will produce a-synthetie and cheaper type of motor fuel and a new improved form of coke which would displace the present kind. A fourth contribution promised by the scientists is squeal-less radio tubes Professor Norman Krase is the man who is working upon the method for producing ethyl, or grain alco- hol synthetically. Aside from water the most universally used sol- It is the basic material in the it is vent. manufacture of more than 300 ar. ticles in every-day use, ranging from varnish to cooking flavors. Court Delays Action on Pacifist’s Citizenship No action has yet been taken by Federal Judge Carpenter of Chicaro to grant naturalization to Rosika Schwimmer, Hungarian whose right to United States citizen- ship was affirmed by the Federal Court of Apneals June 30. Judge Carpenter must act before August 1, as the appeals court, which re- versed his original refusal to grant Madame Schwimmer citizenship, re- manded the cxse back to him for final action in accordance with its decision. Since the Schwimmer decision, the Civil Liberties Union have made efforts to re-open the cases of Leslie P. Dunning, Canadian pacifist, and Mary King, Irish Quakeress, who | have been refused naturalization by ikon | to war. pacifist | their lives before a group of people It must be pointed out, however that the main task during the con- ference periods falls upon the dis- trict committees. The District Exec- utive Committes must lose no time in immediately following up the swing towards factory activity stim- ulated by the work for the confer- ences. Each unit must he assigned definite tasks, and close attention given to the acturl execution of these tasks under the leadership of the District Executive Committee. y few districts are issuing shor bi A shop bulletin is one of our main methods of reaching the workers in the shop regularly an? unless the district committees t-~ the initiative, it will be a long time before they come out. In the future the National Executive Committee will give far greater attention to this phase of our work and will issue directives to assist the league mem- bers everywhere. FOUR EXPLORERS LOST REGINA, Sask., July 23 (UP).— Belief that four American geolo- gists lost for three weeks in the Reindeer Lake country were dead was expressed todxy by Royal Can- adian Mounted Police. The four, under the leadership of John D, Fuller of Iowa, weve last seen at the lower end of Reindeer Lake by J. M. Cummins, manager of the Hudson Bay Company post at Brochet. DIVORCES NOT SO EASY. PARIS, July 23 (UP).—Certain- ty that most American divorce pe- titions to French courts will be re- jected in future arose today when a special high court tribunal gave its verdict in the case of nine men for the same reason a head of |U. 8. courts because of their oppo- | ¢harged with complicity in present- ‘ing irregular petitions. The only candidates of the work- ingclass are William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, because they repre-) (Communist) | Party, the only party struggling in| American | sent the Workers the interests of the masses. Only the Workers (Com- munist) Party and the Young Work- ers (Communist) League really fight for the interests of the young and adult workers. Instead of build- ing illusions in the minds of the workers, the Workers (Communist) Party clearly states that the work- better its condi- ng ingelass can only tions by overthr he rule of the capitalists and establishing 9 workers’ and farmers’ government The immediate youth demands of the Workers (Communist) Party are: 1. A vote for all young people over 18. Old enough to work—old enough to vote. 2. A minimum wage of $20 for all young workers 2. A six-hour day, five-da;! week for all young workers. 4. abolition of child labor under 16 and the state support of the children in- volved. Against capitalist mili- tarism. Fight against militariza-| tion of the youth for the bosses’ in- terests! | [Contributions From Workers Wanted This section will appear reg- ularly in the Saturday and Wednesda» issues of the Daily Worker. All young workers are invited to contribute. Send all articles about your, shop, your league, etc.,, to Editor Young Worker Section, care of Young Workers League, 43 E. 125th St. [Sew York City, N.Y. The complete | HELP the STRIKING COAL MINERS All workers’ organizations— EVERYBODY—from the At- lantic to the Pacific, from Canada to Mexico—MUST LEND A HAND! Hunger haunts the mining camps. Strikers’ children beg daily for just a slice of bread. Evictions continue. The terrorism of the police goes on day by day. The arrested miners, their wives and children must be de- fended, protected. Large shipments of food must be sent to the mining camps so that the miners will have strength to struggle on! Mobilize All Forces for This Big Campaign! Collect Money Everywhere and From Every- body! In Unions and Lodges; in shops and factories;.in your neighborhood; from everyone you know and meet. Enlist At Once! 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