The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 28, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, ULY 28, 1928 Negro Caught Twice in White Frame-Up Net By WILLIAM PICKENS OBODY who knows the south is surprised to hear that the gov- ernor of South Carolina is endeavor- ing to revoke the pardon of Ben Bess and so “save the face” of that state. A white woman had Bess Sent to the penitentiary 13 years ago, for a term of 30 years, on a charge of “rape,” although she had been living in adultery with him, under the consent of her husband, for years. Recently this woman, thinking she was about to die, con- fessed the truth and had Bess par- doned. Newspapers all over the world used her confession as a fair ex- ample, indicating how innocent Ne- groes can be convicted on the word of white people in the south. “Looks Bad.” But immediately the south was “aroused, South Carolina in particu- lar. It would néver do to let the world know that a white woman who had sent a Negro to jail on a charge of rape later confessed that she had simply been that Negro’s paramour, with the consent of her husband, and that she and her hus- band had decided to frame the Ne- gro in revenge for the Negro’s de- cision not to support the two of them any longer. No, no; it would look too bad for the “superiority” pretensions for the whites to allow a thing like that to come out. And so the state “detectives” got 4 ROWNSVILLE, Pa., July 27.—The Lilly “patch” adjoining the Hill- man Coal Company mine is perched busy. ‘They no doubt threatened to | Stilts, high above the creek. Now put this weak woman into the peni-| that the heavy rains are deluging tentiary. Finally she “confessed” | the valley, the water rises and floods again; that she only meant to “for. | the shacks. These company houses tive” Ben Bess for what he had/ te old, dilapidated, flimsy wooden “done” to her, not to say he was Shells. As the water seeps in thru not guilty. f the windows and between the board Pardon Revoked, the rain leaks from the roof cracks. Who in thunder ever heard of any| The Lilly mine was completely person looking up a judge and wit-| closed down when the strike began ness, and making a voluntary affi-| sixteen months ago. The operators davit to ‘forgive’ somebody for | have not even attempted to open the something? mine with scab labor, so there are This poor woman—we pity her "0 Picket lines there. The union ore than we pity Bess. Perhaps | Ceased sending relief to this camp ‘he governor and the civilization of | two weeks ago. Only the National South Carolina ought to be pitied | Miners’ Relief is warding off starva- 2ven more. tion. Dicmnee So, the governor decides to ‘re- 3 voke a pardon—an unheard of pro-|_ In the center of the “patch,” Jack cedure. This awful case was so Stader, a leading rank and file strik- much commented on by the whole et, lives with his family. The house world that South Garolina’s face | is bare—even the little clothing they must be saved, even if this poor | possess lies on newspapers, on the weak woman’s soul must be damned | floor. Sixteen-year-old Margaxet by another lie. | lies propped up against the wall. She No Surprise. is suffering from tubercular bones. Well, we are not a bit surprised. Eight-month-old Julius is tossing Rather have we been looking for about on a pillow, while his mother this. We wondqr how the truth attempts to stop his coughing with ever slipped by them in the firs#| home remedies. There is no money, place. We'll bet those state “de- | 80 the doctors refuse to come. There teetives” never got wind of the fact | até five other little children to take that the woman was about to con-| Care of, and feed. fess, or she'd never have got the} When Jack Srader first brought chance. his family fo West Brownsville a few A few years ago in Arkansas a| months before the strike began, he Negro was about to be hung for| bought a house-full of furniture on “raping” a white woman. But a_/ the installment plan from the Zim- few days before the execution the|merman Furniture Company. Then woman (women are superior in con-| the strike came, and when the wages science to men) repented and went | stopped coming in, payment had to to the governor and told him that stop. Last week the truck from the the whole charge of “rape” grew | furniture company carried away the out of the fact that some white| stove, chairs, beds and all. Mrs. men ran across her and this col- - —— ‘Lilly Patch’ is Disease Hole Where Miners Live : Srader cooks her rations at a neigh- bor’s home. The water around the “patch” is stagnant, and offers a most produc- | riors with bowed heads, weeping at) tive breeding place for mosquitoes. There’s no sewerage arrangements, and the stench of the creek and the swampy land adjoining the creek) makes life almost unbearable in the coal mine “patch.” Hundreds of striking miners and their families live in these huts. Since the strike began, they have been unable to pay rent. Now the Hillman Coal Comnany is offering | the shacks for sale to miners who are living for the most part on one | meal a day. ae tee “Who has the money to pay, even if we did want to be tied down to| that kind of a house?” the miners | ask. “If the houses belonged to us, | and we had to stay here, the bosses | would think they could get us to} take any conditions and as low a scale they want to force on us.” Mines are opening everywhere, and attempting to draw back their former workers on an open-shop | basis. The men insist that their| hope for organization, lies in} returning to the mines in a body. The National Miners’ Relief Com- mittee is sending as much relief as | it is able to the mining camps to) save the miners from being starved | into accepting open-shop conditions. Destitution and hunger is wide- spread; but the miners are still mili- | tant, after these months of strug-| gle. All funds sent to the National Miners’ Relief Committee at 611) Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. will| immediately be converted into flour and potatoes and rushed to the| mining camps. Dollars will fight | disease. Do your share! | ored man in the act of kissing each other, and that she had acquiesced in the charge of rape to save her own reputation—and that she and the man had been living together fdr 15 years and would have been Newspaper men writing lurid tales of how John Jones killed his wife with a rolling pin. (Sweet revenge, reversal, re- married if they had lived in a civil- ized state. Righteousness. f The governor tried his best to \<ebully her out of this confession, but ¢=the woman had been wise in that fo : * | ease; she had gone and confessed Waiting for the deadline, idly versitore.) . News Room | | Saturday at 8 o’clock at S17 13th “Scarface Al Capone enters cleaning racket.” “Mother strangles only babe.’ (Copy Boy yy, where are you hidiinng) writing; to other prominent white and col- | “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their | red people first and took a delega- tion along when shé went to confess | before the governor—otherwise she | might have been simply confined as ie r an insane person—unti! after the, Limning today, dreaming of party.” Dreaming of brimming steins at Al’s or Petes; Boozefighters because they see too much. “mananna.” execution was over. Even then the| Fingers running idle over keys giving an air of acute in- vzovernor refused to act, and the friends of civilization had to resort yy to a habeas corpus in a federal court to save this innocent man’s life. dustry, “Now is the time—.” aiting for the deadline, idly writing: —JAMES A. MILLER. GUM SHAN DING. By H. T. TSIANG. quet ticket. Ten dollars for railroad fare, Just to bid farewell To a big general, Or the nation’s ambassador. Do you know what they China? You Gum Shan Ding! You were born without conscience! You spent a thousand dollars, Appropriating to yourself A strange father. are in You spend three dollars for a ban-) Better throw your money into the water, For there at least, It will make a musical sound. Have you a brain? Use it! | You Gum Shan Ding! Smashing Articles an Photos in Labor By T. J. O'FLAHERTY,. AX SHACHTMAN, editor of the “Labor Defender,” will do it on you every time. This energetic young proletarian journalist conti- nues to improve the official organ of the International Labor Defense each succeeding issue until one gives up wondering when he is going to get out a number only just as good as the preceding one. If I were in his brogans I would worry about | the future, but then Max is not that kind of a fellow. | Be that as it may, the August jnumber is a knockout, to use the language of Dempseyiana. Leading off is the front cover photograph of a New Bedford strike scene with cops, strikers, banners and strikers’ children. Next comes the inimitable Hay Bales with his “Looking at the Month”—a page of sketches that go to the heart of current happen- ings in the class struggle with a few strokes of his pen. Bales works at the barbering trade in Salt Lake Cityp>supports"a-Targe family out of his slim earnings and sends in sketches to the “Labor Defender” | and other radical publications in his |spare time. Bales is a first rate satirical artist. * * * LIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN, veteran in the class struggle, has inspiring article on the execution Sacco and Vanzetti. “We Stand at the Grave of Two Warriors” is ‘the title. “We are not ashamed,” she writes, “to stand at the graves of these war- an f their loss, But we stand there de- | termined to vindicate them by our | redoubled efforts to topple over the system of exploitation, robbery. misery and murder that sent these guiltless ones to a horrible death.” Pictures of Sacco and Vanzetti, of workers viewing the bodies as they lay in state and of the thou- sands marching in the funeral pro- |eession go with Flynn’s article. Arne Swabeck writes about the miners’ strike, which has recently Defender’ A picture of Mooney with his wife and mother in the courtroom reminds us that it is now twelve years since this militant labor leader was put behind the prison bars. An article accompanying the picture states that the International Labor Defense plans a world wide campaign to free Tom Mooney. Pe * jae are pictures of the Anti- Imperialist demonstration in Wall Street on July 3, when several Com- munists were arrested for demon-|* strating against Wall Street’s war in Nicaragua. A short article on the raid on the Communist convention in Bridgeman six years ago. ENACM Smith writes of the eight members of the I.W.W. who have spent eight years and a half in Walla Walla prison. This is the Gastone Sozzi, Italian Com- famous Centralia case. Smith has| rendered heroi¢ service in their be-| half and the I.L.D. is pushing the} work of securing their release. Albert Weishord writes of the New Bedford strike. Splendid pic- tures accompany the article. | Paul Crouch, once a military pris-| oner, writés about the case of John Porter, who is confined in the mili- tary prison of Ft. Adams, R. I. He deserted, became vice-president of the New Bedford Textile Workers’ | Union, was arrested and given a prison sentence. Charles Yale.Harrison contributes an excellent story of the class strug- gle, entitled “Red Flag.” The lynching of ‘a Negro at Hous- ton, Texas, on the eve of the demo- cratic party’s convention, a story of the activities of the I.L.D. for six months by acting-secretary Martin Abern—a splendid record by the way, “Voices from Prison,” and other subjects are treated adequately and readably-in the Aggysf number of the “ jor Defende: The circulation of the “Labor De-| fender” is now 22,000, according to Walt Carmon, busin manager. It deserves to be 100,000 and I have no} doubt but that it will be before many years. A worker could not put a dollar to better use than by subscribing to the “Labor Defender.” The sub-| scription price is $1 a year. It is} published at 80 FE. 11th St., New| York City. been broken by Lewis after one and a half years. He urges the workers to support the National Miners Re- lief Committee and°T-L.D. drive’ for funds for the relief and’défense of starving miners. CROSS AND BATTLE-AXE Steel Helmets Must Be Led By Christ BERLIN, (By Mail).—In*Opplen that Christ is their leader, that the | it was Steel Helmet day on July 2. Steel Helmets must wear the cross. A leader of the Steel Helmets, | The Steel Helmets listened atten- . tively with their hands on their Seldte, delivered a bloodthirsty war) daggers. When the imaginative speech, thundered against the con- preacher pictured for them what a stitution and the Communists, and | fine figure Christ would make car- | prophesized a hard battle for the|rying the battle-axe on a steel hel- courageous Steel Helmets. The next met, they burst into applause. speaker was an evangelist leader of | Will it never occur to a religious the religion of the next life. diplomat to protest this use of re- Sincerely, filled with the holy | ligion? The members of the work- spirit of evangelist confession, he ing class know only too well the told the Steel Helmets that their | meaning implied by the figure of | most glorious example is Christ, Christ bearing a battle-axe! Workers, ScHool Opens $147,738,211 IN U. S. TREASURY : WASHINGTON, July 27 (UP).— Courses“In €apital WASHINGTON, July 27—The The treasury net balance for July Workers’ School in this city has 24 was $147,738,211.54. Customs receipts this month to July 26 were opened two new classes. Elementary Marxian Economics is taught every 4,234,252.62. St., N. W. The “A B C” of Com- munism” and other text books are | they have defied the state law. munist leader, who was mur dered last ‘spring in prison, under the orders of the Mus- solini regime. This crime, like the case of Matteoti in the year before, is one of many hun- dreds which the International Labor Defense jn this country is bringing to the attention of the American workers. ACTORS IN WAR ON JOB SHARKS (By Federated Press) Actors Equity Union’s next cam- paign for protection of theatre workers will be the outlawing of un- scrupulous employment agencies preying on actors. With the U. 8. Supreme Court throwing a cloak of legality about these harpies through declaring unconstitutional a New Jersey job agency law, the union has decided to make a fight on them that will center all its energy. Employment agents have de- manded 10 per cent of an actor’s | wages for his entire engagement, | despite provisions in the New York law limiting job sharks to 5 per cent of the first 10 weeks’ pay. Claiming to be “personal represen- tatives” and “managers” of actors, Ac- tors in “Abic’s Irish Rose,” which ran “for years in New York, were muleted of thousands through the 10 per cent rake-off. Producers Involved in Graft. Often the agency splits the 10 per cent fée with the producer for whom the actor was obtained. In this case the, producer indirectly cuts the actor's pay. In at least one instance the agency and the producer turned out to be one and the same person. Others demand a bonus in addition to the 10 per “Czar Ivan” Back at Cameo ‘Potemkin’ on Same Program eo a Pane IN EUGENE O'NEILL DRAMA HE Film Arts Guild announces a rettrn engagement at the Cameo Theatre of “Czar Ivan the Terrible” the famous Sovkino production starting today. “Potemkin” the epic film-record of the Russian revolu- tion of 1905, made by the same Sov- iet institution, has been selected as the companion film on the same program. “Czar Ivan the Terrible” is a col- lection of sharply etched characteri- |zations against a background of rather tense and gripping drama. |L. M. Leonidoff who is now the chief jactor of the Moscow Art Players, created the role of Czar Ivan in this remarkable Soviet film. “In undertaking the creation of the screen portrait of “Czar Ivan the Terrible,” Leonidoff said in a | recent interview, “I turned to books, lobjects close to Ivan the Terrible, | and in them I hunted for the svirit that would unite me with the char- acter and the epoch I was to create. “Up to the present time I know lof only two recreations of that | epoch—“Tzar Dedor” of the Mose. Art Theatre and the innumerable drawings of Makovsky and the stag- ings of Bolshoi Theatre. I had to approach the character with disre- |gard for the theatrical stamps that had long become obsolete. In this film “Ivan the Terrible” is not an |old man, as he usually is pictured in |plays and drawings—he is abort forty years old. Contrast betwe- unlimited power and utter lone’! ness is the most striking feature in | the creation of this character. To- |gether with this, Ivan the*Terrible lis a far-sighted proprietor, a mer- |¢hant haggling for every penny |when ‘selling flax to foreign trad- ‘ers. And during the whole life of |Ivan the Terrible brutalized des- |potie power borders with the an- |guish of dull—and unhealthy soli- tude. Having made clear to myself \the character of Ivan the Terrible, T had to reproduce it on the screen. “As a dramatic artist playing for the screen only the fourth time I encountered the same obstacles that every dramatic artist has to over- come. Here the motto of Stanislav- sky, ‘Maximum of internal, mini- mum of external,’ was of great help to me as no doubt it has been to Theatre players. It is a motto which should be adopted by every movie | actor.” |_ Beginning today the 55th Street | Playhouse will present Greta Garbo and Werner Kraus in “Streets of | Sorrow,” directed by G. W. Pabst. This film will play on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. From Tues- day through Friday, the Playhouse cent ‘for the duration of the en-/4en Paradise” with Pola Negri, gagement. These agencies point to| Adolphe Menjou and Rod La lost lists of actors seeking jobs and |Rocque. hint that the bonus will get the job- seeker preference, 7 .Equity has outlined four provi- sions to protect members: 1. Agencies dealing with Equity members must be licensed by Equity. 2. They must have standard con- tracts. 3. Agents will be limited to 5 per cent for 10 weeks. 4. The title of personal repre- sentative shall be bona fide and not agent. used. Those who are not Com- |munists are also invited to attend. A class in Leninism meets every Tuesday at the same address. All workers are urged to atiend either or both of the mentioned classes. In them they will learn how better to carry on the class struggle against their exploiters, the capital- ist class. Relieved promptly with genuine Santal Midy Effective-Harmless Workmen’s Furniture | Fire Insurance Society (Incorporated) Established 1872. ‘Main Office: New York and Vicinity. | WORKMEN'S SICK & DEATH BENEFIT FUND OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ORGANIZED 1884 60,000 MEMBERS IN 344 BRANCHES | IN THE U.S. A. Assets on December 31, 1927, over........ « «$2,830,000 Paid for Sick and Death Benefits, over. $13,440,000 Benefits in case of Sickness or Accident $6, $9, or $15 per week for first 40 weeks, one-half thereof for an additional 40 weeks, or altogether $360 to $900. Sick Benefits for Women—$9 for first 40 weeks, $4.59 for another 40 weeks, or altogether $540. Death Benefits—in proportion to the age at initiation (Class A and B), $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 death. WORKERS! Protect Yourselves and Your Families! For further information write to the Main Offic Seventh St., cor. Third Ave., New York City, or to the Branch Financial Secretary of your District. | Workers | “Beau Broadway,” a new Metro picture, co-starring Lew Cody and Aileen Pringle, comes to the Capitol Theatre today. The stody was writ- ten by Maleolm St. Clair who also directed it. ‘ leading role in Judith Anuc.von who plays the “Strange Inter- O'Neill's tense de,” Eugene drama at the John Gold Theatre. tured Tod heroine of “Sorrell and Son” will have the chief feminine role. HUGE EARNINGS FOR STEEL TRUST Horn” will be filmed on the original settings of the story, the jungles of Africa, has heen made by Metro. An expedition will leave California in the near future, bound for West Africa, where the picturization of this book will be made. W. S. Van Dyke will direct. Lionel Barrymore wil! have a fea- role in Lon Chaney’s new rring vehicle, “West of Zanzi- r.” This film will be directed by Browning. Mary Nolan, the : (By United Press) Bethlehem Steel Corporation in the majority of the Moscow Art| will show Ernst Lubitsch’s “Forbid-_ the second quarter of this year earned $1.50 a share on common | stock, compared with 94 cents a share in the preceding quarter, the company reported reeently. The regular dividend of $1.75 was de- elared cn preferred stock, payable | October 1 to steckholders’ of record September 1. No action was taken on common stock dividends. Net income for the quarter ended June 30 amounted to $4,529,328 after interest, federal taxes, depre- ciation and depletion. FOUR WORKERS INJURED MALTA, July 27 (UP).—An Fng- lish second officer, a Scottish cadet and four shore workers were ,in- Jured yesterday by an explosion eboard the Scottish steamer Arrean, enroute from Venice to Danzig with a cargo of Polish coal. APPOINT COMMISSIONER WASHINGTON, July 27 (UP).— Appointment of Harvey V. 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