The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 25, 1928, Page 4

Page Four = = THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1928 Slaved for De BLACKLISTING FINE ART IN - POUGHKEEPSIE Telephone Plays Part In System (By a Worker Correspondent) POUGHKE + July 24, —The article the condi- tions in the De Zaval Separator Company, which was published a few weeks ago in the Daily Worker, has ben the principal object of con- yersation among us ever since. Conditions Miserable While conditions of labor in our town are on the lowest level, our daily press and the so-called labor paper, Truth, published weekly by our labor fakers, never give much thought to real labor conditions here. It was the Daily Worker that made us think. We are going to continue to fead :t and tell others to read it. Things here are really worse than ene certain correspondent men- tioned. I am working in the De Laval for four years and here is what I make for 12 months: $1,098.39. How can a man keep up his family with that miserable pay? The U. S. labor statistics say that $2,800 is the minimum. Wife Must Work My wife has to neglect our chil- dren and go to work in a factory for $12 a week. Working condi- tions for her are no better, if not worse, than in the De Laval plant. She works in a clothing factory. The average earnings of an op- erator or a presser is about $20 a vveek. There are -juite a number of clothing factories in our town where a few thousand workers are em- vloyed, as Cohn and Goldman fealled “Garter”), Regents Coat Company, Rosenthal, etc. There are also, many cloak, dress, shirt and necktie factories, in which many young girls—many under age—and women are employed. Many Sweat Shops The sweat-shop system is in full bloom here. After a day’s work clothing is brought home, where little children help their mothers. Tn some of these houses the sani- tary conditions are awful. Blacklist Widespread To cap all this, we have a system of blacklisting this town. If one tives up his job in one of these hell- holes the telephone begins to ring in a special office kept up by the local manufacturers, informing them that-émployment must not be given to so-and-so and in this way shut off all avenues of work in this town for that worker. Lately the mayor of the town, who happens to be a sort of decent fellow, brought the matter before the grand jury. But nothing came out of this, as the telephone re- ceiver cannot tell and the guilty party denied his guilt. I will write next time about how the Italian Roman Catholic “padre” helps the Jewish manufacturers and Free Mason managers to «xploit the Italian workers. A DE LAVAL WGRKMAN. Vady “Libera” Leaves Millions to family WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., July 24. ‘/(UP)—The will of the late Mrs. Wanny Garrisor Villard, wife of Henry Villard, sailroad magnate. who died at her home at Dobbs Ferry, July 5, was filed for probate in Surrogate’s Court today. The entire estate, thought to ap- proximate several million dollars was left to two relatives and friends. four servants and four institutions The residuary estate goes to two sons, Oswald Garrison Villard, edi- tor of the Nation, and Harold G. Vil- lard, of New York “AGAINST” WHITE SLAVERS. GENEVA, July 24—The League of Nations has declared that by Sep- tember it will be ready to issue a statement calling on the nations of the world to suppress the white slave traffic. Last year the League of Nations Suppressed the report of the white Slavery commission and accom- plished nothing in spite of all its promises. Now it again promises Yo pass a “model law” which it will urge all nations to adopt. For Glory of Imperialism and MacFadden -— Bernarr MacFadden, tabloid publisher and physical culture. faker, has decided that he ought not to be left out in the cold in this flight publicity. patched it with “good-will” letters of Mexico. In addition, Bernarr ‘So he has bought himself a monoplane and dis- from himself to President Calles has the satisfaction of doing a good service to American imperiaism. PROTESTS GROW IN LW. W. GASE Plan Big Conference in Washington Protests against the continued imprisonment of the Centralia pris- oners in Walla Walla, Wash., and demands for their unconditional pardon continue to pour in upon Governor Roland H. Hartley and H. B. Clausen, chairman of the Pa- role Board, from labor organiza- tions and prominent individuals. Robert Whitaker, author and for- merly a minister of the First Bap- tist Church of Seattle, and Profes- sor David Starr Jordan, president emeritus of Leland Stanford Uni- versity, California, are among those who have added their protests, ac- cording to letters received by the national office of International La- bor Defense, 80 East lith St., New York. Whitaker's Letter Whitaker, in his letter to Gov- ernor Hartley, declares: “The continued imprisonment in Walla Walla of the eight members of the I. W. W. by reason of the hysteria of the after-war period is a heavy handicap upon the reputa- tion of Washington. . . . Particularly at this time the United States is in a special need of every possible ex- hibit of the spirit of tolerance and good will. ... May I urge that your boards release these men immedi- ately and unconditionally.” Professor David Starr Jordan writes: “I understand that the eight members of the I. W. W. sent to the penitentiary from Centralia are ap- plying for pardon. It is certain that the treatment of the Centralia affair has come as a disgrace to the State of Washington. I sin- cerely hope that the proper authori- ties of the State of Washington can see their way to grant an yncondi- tional pardon to these people. I am not personally acquainted with any of them.” | International Labor Defense points out that the actions on the part of Professor Jordan and Robert Whit- aker are evidences of the depth of the mass pressure exerted by the workers egainst the continued im- prisonment of the framed-up Cen- tralia workers. Only organized mass protest of the workers in the unions, the shops and factories will, however, bring the necessary pres- sure on the lumber-trust owned State of Washington to free Eu- gene Barnett, McInerny and the others, the organization declares. | A state-wide conference of labor unions, farm organizations and other bodies in the State of Wash- ington is planned in the near fu- ture to crystalize the protest of the | workers, writes Charlotte Todes, | Seattle I. L. D. secretary, and also secretary of the Centralia Liberation Committee. MAYOR NEAR DEATH VANCOUVER. B. C., July 24 (UP).—L. D. Taylor, 72-year-old mayor of Vancouver, was reported near death in a hospital here to- day from a fractured skull sustained by an airplane propellor yesterday. Mayor Taylor was knocked un- conscious when he walked into the whirling pronellor which hod carried him on the initial trip of a passenger I~ Sattle, Vi toria and Vancouver. inet, OOD: print- ing of all description at a fair price. Let us estimate on your work. _ eACTIVE PRESS i ( NEW YORK 93 FIRST STREET Telephone ORCHARD COMMUNISTS IN GAS RATE FIGHT Cleveland District I Lead of Issue (Special to The DAILY WORKER) n SPIES EXPELLED BY MORE UNIONS IN NEW CLEANUP Much of ‘Information’ Is Not Secret WASHINGTON, July 24.—Chaun. cey Peterson, one of the labor spies employed by the steel trust and ex- posed by Frank L. Palmer in his ‘book “Spies in Steel,” has been ex- pelled from the Intl. Brotherhood of Electrical Workers by President Noonan of that organization. Peter- son operated in Duluth. He was not only active in the Electrical Work- ers but he had been elected to the state legislature by the Farmer-La- bor Party, when Palmer’s investiga- tion led to his being thrown out} of the union and suspended from the| party. | Did Not Appeal. Noonan, at I. B. E. W. headquar- ters in Washington, toldga represen- tative of the press on July 23 that jhe had received copies of reports made in handwriting by Peterson to the Silver Mining Co., a subsidi- ary of U. S. Steel, showing beyond| doubt that the man was regularly) reporting the names of men attend-| ing building trades meetings, names | Chicago I. L. D. to Aid| Relief for Coal Miners CHICAGO, IIL, July 24.—General mobilization order has been issued to all International Labor Defense branches by the local office for ac- tive participation in the week’s drive for miners’ relief and defense, July 29-August 5. All arrangements have already been made between I. L. D. and Min- ers’ Relief for the joint drive. The I. L. D. expects to mobilize every member to take part in the drive. NEW JERSEY AIDS IN MINE RELIEF Meetings Being Held in Many Cities A mass meeting which crowded the Workers Hall at 308 Elm St., Perth Amboy, gave Miners Relief and Defense Week a flying start in the state of New Jersey last Sat- urday night. A. Weary, a striking miner, told of the heroic struggle the miners are making in the face of tremendous obstacles. He stressed the necessity of supporting their | struggle now that Lewis and the United Mine Workers of America bureaucracy have come out in the CLEVELAND, July 24.—The city}of union members and alleged ac-|/open as betrayers of the miners’ of Cleveland is now in the midst of a gas fight. In the month of May. the contract with the East Ohio Gas Company expired, and the ques- tion of rates came up. The East Ohio Gas Company gets its gas from the Hope Gas Co., a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Co The East Ohio Co. demanded an in- crease in rates of the small con- sumers, but allowed a reduction of rates to the big consumers. Communists Protest. An open session of the city coun- cil was held at that time, at which a representative of the Workers (Communist) Party was present. I Amter, District Secretary of the Party, called the attention of the Council to the injustice of the pro- posals. There were tens of thou- sands of unemployed at the time. and the prospect was that the com- ing winter would be even harder on the workers. But aside from the immediate hardships to. be *imposed, Amter asked the reason for putting the burden on the shoulders of the work- ers, and lightening the load on the big consumers? Amter was supported Dy Kennedy an independent member of the coun- cil, but the council tentatively ac- cepted the proposals of the East Ohio Company, although it also drew the city manager into the con- troversy. City Manager Hopkins proceeded 0 investigate, and was forced to adopt the position of the Communist Party, that the small consumers were being compelled to bear more than their share—that the rates pro- posed by the East Ohio\Gas Co. not only should not be raised to the small consumers, but should be low- ered all round. J Huge Profits. According to his figures and an- alysis, the East Ohio Co. has more than duplicated its investment in its dividends, and has applied $8,000,- 000 of the profits to the extension of its plant. The fight is now on between the city manager and the manager of the East Ohio Gas Co. But it is to be noted that the position taken by the Communists has become a basis for the “negotiations.” Three Divorce Lawyers Suspended In Paris PARIS, July 24. — Suspension from practice for terms of two to eight months was decreed today against three of the seven French lawyers tried last week on charges of irregularities in the foreign divorce mill in Paris. Three other lawyers and one process server were “scolded severely.” The seventh lawyer and a second process server were aquitted. THREE DROWNED IN HEAT TURIN, July 24 (UP).—Three persons were drowned in the River Po today while seeking relief from intense heat. {HOW DOES YOUR {NUCLEUS WORK? What problems fronted with? What questions would you like answered? | is it con- The Communist Nucleus What It Is How It Works By M. JENKS Just off the press! Deals with and solves the prob- lems of your nucleus, A real manual for work your nucleus. Secure Your Copy NOW! 15 Cents Workers Library Publishers 389 East 125th St. New York City in tion taken in meetings. Upon get-| ting evidence, he ordered “perman-| ent suspension” of Peterson’s card | notifying him that he would have | the right ~* appeal before formal| expulsion was made. Peterson did not appeal. Inquiry in Duluth show-| ed that he had gone into the meat| business. | “This is merely one of many such cases, occurring at intervals in many industries,” said an electrical | official. “The industrial concern} pays an agency so much per day— about a journeyman’s wage—to be paid extra to the man on the job who is to do the spying. In point of fact, the company was gypped of |the money it paid Peterson, because none of the information he supplied it was really secret. And that is} true of most of this spying—the| information could be had for the | asking. We do not know whether| he caused any union men to be dis-} missed.” Another of Same Breed. Cletus L. MeMillian, formerly rec- ording secretary of Machinists’ Lodge No. 274, who played spy while in that job, has been expelled by his lodge since the expcese appeared. | MeMillan had been a foreman after getting out of his job as union sec- lretary, but he kept his union card| and watched the men who came into the organization. Another member of the machin-| ists recent]: caught red-handed as a betrayer of his fellow-unionists was a man named Mears, operating in ‘Wisconsin. He was expelled.) Davison stated, without loss of time Palmer, in his book—published at 0c by the Lanor Press, 312 Inter- state Trust Bldg., Denver, Colo mentions Vergilio Bertone, president of the Chisholm Musicians’ Union as drawing $125 a month as a spy) for steel. Luke Healy, clerk of the Hibbing Hotel at Hibbing, Minn., is described as one of the busy mem- bers of the sneaking-and-eaves- dropping squad. Others include a barber, a letter carrier, ete. Who furnished Palmer with the documents from the safe of the steel trust secret service in Duluth, there- by upsetting the spy system for a| while, has not been disclosed. As the leak occurred several months ago, it is assumed by the Electrica] Workers and the Machinists that a) new spying staff has been employed | with new code numbers, new meth-/ | ods of approach and new humbug as| |to trade union secrets. | FRENCH POETESS INJURED. PARIS, July 24.—France’s wom- | an poet-laureate, the Countess de Noailles, badly sprained her right arm yesterday when she slipped on a wax floor and fell. She was forced to cancel all engagements for |a fortnight, and is unable to write. strike. All the workers present pledged their active support in helping the miners build a rank and file union. They showed their pledge was not an empty one by contributing gen- erously to a collection. Edward S. Stanley, relief organizer of New Jersey, said that American work- ers must answer Lewis. They must support the Save-the-Union Com- mittee until the new miners’ union | is organized and Lewis is thrown out. New Brunswick followed close on the heels of Perth Amboy. Stanley also spoke at an outing of the Hun- garian Workers Club Sunday. Sim- ilar pledges were made and a large collection was taken. Workers all ever New Jersey are mobilizing this week for house to house collections and other activities to support the | miners. Newark plans a mass meeting on Friday. To Pass Kellogg Pact WASHINGTON, July 24.—That the Kellogg multilateral peace pact will pass congress with only the minimum of political opposition is confidently promised here by repre- sentatives of both the big powers. Both parties see in the much-| heralded peace treaty the oppor- tunity for the United States to arm at a rate never dreamed of before) and under an undreamed of cloak of | peace. It is believed that the treaty will) be accepted shortly after it is sub-| mitted to congress. |S OF UNEMPLOYED IN GREAT | BRITAIN Permanent Crisis i Gov't. Report LONDON, July 94 (11P).—An of- fiejal revort on the British unem- nloyment situation, in which the flat statement is made that there is a labor surplus and ‘groups of workers must be trensferred fn mass to other labor fields. was returned vesterday by the government’s in- dustrial transference board. There are about 1,200.000 unem- rloyed persons in Great Britain. and the figure is growin larger. Many of them have dependents. Growing Surolns. Tn come heavy industries, and nar- | tierlarly in coal mining. there was a yon! surplus of labor, the board re- S | ported. | “The urgent and svmpathetic at- |tention of the entire country is | needed to deal with the problem,” it was said. | Sit Warren Fisher is head of the hoard. Tt was apnointed by the min- ister of labor to facilitate the trans- fer of workers, narticnlarlv min- ers, to areas where employment | could be obtained for them. “Tt is no longer a question merely jof tiding over unemployment in these areas vrtil a crisis naeses.” |the revort said. “A new noliey is |needed. directed at the permanent | ramoval of as many workers as ns- | sible away from depressed indust: and areas tn other areas where the nrosnert of employment is more favorable.” | “Tt is a hard thine.” the renort | states, “to tell numbers of men— | whole commnnities—that unless they |leave all their familiar surroundings they will not be able to earn a liv- line. “But we should be shirking everv |inference from the facts if we did |not emphasize this as the first and strongest of the lessons our work has provided.” The renort expressed astonishment lat the “disappointing slowness” of the rate of settlement of British workers in Canada and Australia Tt urged radical simplification of the government’s migrating policy, and reduction of steamshin passage rates to a point nearer the pre-war level to facilitate overseas settle- ment, in addition to the existing em- pire settlement schemes. 2 RESCUED ON ATLANTIC. Two men who had been adrift in the Atlantic Ocean without food or | water for a week were rescued by a boat crew of the Panama-Pacific liner Manchuria and will be brought New York today, according to a dio message received here today by the line’s offices, at 1 Broadway, from the captain of the Manchuria. DAILY WORKER ANNUAL PICNIC SUNDAY, AUGUST 19 10 A. M. TO PLEASANT MIDNIGHT BAY PARK ADMISSION 35 CENTS Laval Company 4 Years, Now Earns $1093.30, Correspon By S. Malinovskaya. |()NE of the distinctive features of the village in the USSR is its extreme remoteness from the cul- tural centers owing to the weak de- | velopment of railways in the coun- |try, in comparison with other coun- | tries. In many parts of the Soviet | Union, particularly in the north, the village is cut off from the rest of the world during the winter and | autumn seasons, | Hence the great importance at- |tached to the penetration of cul- ture among the masses of rural in- | habitants, and to the organization | of the peasants’ theatre in the U.| |S. S. R. In this article we deal only with the development of the village theatre in the rural districts of the province of Moscow. | parts of the Soviet Union, particu- |larly in the Ukraine, there is also | constant development in the activ- ity of organizing rural theatrical performances. But this: will form the subject of another article. In the province of Moscow at the present time, with a population of 2,300,000, there are over 5,000 dra- matic circles in the villages. On the money realized from the perform- ances the circles purchase newspa- pers for the villages, organize read- ing rooms, etc. There were cases when the rural dramatic circles were among the first promoters. and in- vestors of rural societies for the purpose of purchasing agricultural machinery, Needless to say the circles are as yet poorly equipped in regard to theatrical means. The majority of them have no special stage, the scenery is mostly home made and of the most primitive kind. The performances are generally got up without any expert professional guidance. In localities with an experienced guide, the activity of the dramatic circles is conducted upon a proper |plan: the play is chosen, a general |study is made of the characters in | the play, and only then the produc- | tion is undertaken. The preparations for the produc- tion of a play in a rural locality are more in the nature of educa: | tional work, in which part is taken | both by the producers of the play and by their prospective patrons. The great drawback in art activity |in the rural districts is the lack of | experienced leadership, and in recent | years there were steps taken to raise |a sufficient body of experienced |rural leaders in the pursuit of tho | arts. is being accomplished by the “Pol. enov Memorial Association” at- tached to the Peasants’ Home of Moscow. The essential aim in the activ- ity of the Peasants’ Home is to sup- ply art instruction to the village. For this purpose it maintains a model theatre and a body of exper- fenced theatrical instructors. It |also undertakes to select suitable plays for production by village ‘amateurs. The Peasants’ Home ar- ranges also from time to time spe. cial training courses for rural theatrical workers, | Considerable activity is also car- In other | Great work in this direction | dent Says GREAT INCREASE Rural Theatres Popular With Peasants in the Soviet Union OLIVE BERTRAND Plays an important part in “The Connecticut Yankee,” the musical | show based on Mark Twain’s clever | satire at the Vanderbilt Theatre, ried.on by the journal “The Rural Theatre,” which enjoys nonularity among rural dramatic circles thru- jout the Soviet Union, Written in |plain and popular language. it reals |with various problems of interest |to rural dramatic circles and nub. llishes articles on various practical |aspects of theatrical activity, hints |as to sceneries. make up, the study {of dramatic characters and types, jand so on. | An experiment in the direction of |affording the means of. vienal \training to rural dramatic circles | was made by the oreanization of the |Rural Itinerant Theatre in 1927 |by the Moscow Theatrical Admin- istration. Before establishing this |Itinerant Theatre the actors who | promoted this experiment had giv- en over 50 performance in 40 vil- lages in the various districts of the province of Moscow. The nerform- |ances of the Itinerant Theatre, are |usually associated with edveational |work, Before the raisins of the jeurtain an address is delivered \giving an analysis of the play, and |after the conclusion of the per- | formance an address is given on the |rendering of the play. Usually a lively discussion ensues. in the course of which the actors take . | stoek of the views and opinions ex- |pressed by the audience. The ac- |tors then acquaint themselves with the activity of the local dramatic circle, imparting their experiences to the members, advising them on technical matters, and so on. Some- times the actbrs rehearse with the rural amateurs the play which they jhave in hand, for presentation by | the circle. | The visits of the Puppet Theatre |to villages in the province of Mos- | cow were everywhere welcomed with | intense enthusiasm, contributing to | the general activity for the spread- jing of culture in the outlying vil- lages. | The theatrical activity in the rural districts is considered by the | Soviet authorities as an essential | item in the great Cultural Revolu- | tion which is going on through the \length and breadth of the Soviet | Union. BOOTH Thea., 45 St. w. of Bway Evenings 8:30 Mats. Tuesday and Thursday, 2:30 GRAND ST. FOLLIES CHANIN'S, W. of Broadway 46th St Feetiade at 8:25 SCHWAB and MANDE MUSICAL SMASH | | _ The LADDER SEATS NOW ON SALE | CORT THEATRE, W. 48 St. | Eves. 8:30. Mats. Wed. & Sat. Money Refunded if Not Satisfied Mats. Wed. & Sat. | with GEO. OLSEN amd HIS MUSIC 8 WEEKS IN ADVANCE. With Play. The Heart of Coney Isiand Battle of Chateau Thierry LUNA May Wirth, Phil & Family PARK = in BIG FREE CIRCUS am 's Great Swimming Pool Acres of Real Fun Kite CAMEO 83,8 Brey carr H. A. “HUNTING BIG GAME IN AFRICA” THRILLING—AMAZING—REAL and “ARCTIC SEAL HUNT” REFUSE TO TESTIFY BRUNSWICK, Ga., July 24 (UP). —Two men, sentenced to death for the killing of C. A. Perry, cashier of the Bank of Kingsland, refused today to testify against Ernest Wal- ler, an alleged accomplice, ~ Be a Solidarity Demonstrator! Miners Solidarity Fair PLEASANT BAY PARK SUNDAY, AUGUST 5th, 1928 “The Most Unique Affair of Its Kind!” FILM OF MINE STRIKE SHOW—MOVIES TAKEN of ‘SOLIDARITY PARADE”—-OTHER ATTRACTIONS GALORE NATIONAL MINERS’ RELIEF COMM1iTEE—799 BROADWAY—(Stuyvesant 888)—ROOM 237 ‘s