The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1928, Page 4

Page Four ~ > ay / Police Arrest Twenty-F ive Workers of HANdOuTS FLAIANI AND FOUR Jose Manuel Casanova, president of the National Bank of Havana, Cuba, came to the United States to study methods of American bankers. His success is indicated by the fact STAND GROUND that he has just been arrested for violation of the Mann act Workers Courageous (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA Last Saturday morning at 10 a. m., 65 per cent. of the employes of the S. J. Cohen Clothing Company at 13th and Callowhill walked out be- cause the hosses of this firm wanted to fire certain workers who are in- terested in organizing the shop on a union basis. Dirty Work. Later workers were out on picket duty and everything was quite until noon. However, scores of police- men, as well as scores of private detectives from the Ross detective agency, including the big bull Ross himself, were on hand. Ross was there looking for rough and dirty work, At noon the captain of police from District No. 8, the 10th and Button- wood streets police station, threat- ened the pickets with arrest if they The je collection of the late | did not disband immediately. Rudolph Valentino, moving picture} The pickets, led by Dominick star, has been purchased by Jules|Flaiani, a militant worker and known to all workers of his trade Howard and is onpdieplay at the - ; ; = yh tea for militant and vigorous leadership, Howard Company, 54th St. and were not frightened by these threats, Sith Ave. A worker should re-|and the picket line remained firm, flect that under the capitalist sys-| despite the fact that the officials tem he has to put in eight to twelve | Of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- gic, ; age ¢ ers are against the policy of mass ours a day hard labor to buy ear-| picketing. But, of course, the rings for a movie actor. picket line was small in numbers. * * * | Threaten Flaiani. The working class must go| The captain and the sergeant, seeing that the picket line did not disband, with raised clubs, rushed brutally to Flaiani, threatening him with arrést. Flaiani did not budge at this, but stood his ground firmly and insisted on his right to picket. Upon this persistence of a militant spirit, they immediately seized Flaiani and four other pickets, B. | Palermo, C. LaSpina, Rea and Peter Succia. through a great deal of suffering before a successful proletarian revo- | lution will free it. But little things occur from day to day to cheer workers. For instance, yesterday John Magee, New York coal and railroad barch and labor exploiter, swallowed three of his false teeth. . * * A Good One Unfortunately for the police, they could not secure a patrol wagon for almost an hour. rested pickets, led by Flaiani, sang | to the hundreds of workers who had gathered and were cheering the strikers. They sang revolutionary songs as “Bandiera Rossa” Flag), “Hold the Fort,” and “Solid- arity Forever.” When the militant pickets were finally taken into the patrol wagon | hundreds of workers waved their hands and cheered them, cursing the “Mama, who's this fellow?” “He’s Good “Well perhaps he is but what's his name?” “That's it. James W. Good, west- ern campaign manager for Hoover.” “Well what's he good for?” “His job is to make every farmer who earns $200 a year think pros fort to better their standard of liv- ing by peaceful picketing. | At the station house the pickets | were released on bail, and they im- mediately returned to the picket |line, undaunted. ] 25 Arrested. At 5 p, m., when the picket line had been enlarged, the police charged the pickets and arrested 25 of them. All this time they had been threatening Flaiani, recogniz- perity’s here and the republicans | ing him as the leader and arresting brought it.” — him first, the second time in a per- “Is that why he looks so puz-|iod of five hours. Another worker |, aled?” had just left his daily work from fe “Adolph, quit eating that tooth another shop which had no connec-| { paste.” tion with the picket line. Police- wa Perugia, or it will be at the sae raeeamprmaeaer man No, 1686 came over to this : worker and asked him what he was Gems of Learning icing. ‘the worker replied" have Senator Norris—“Our (legal) pro- | The policeman viciously cracked his cedure, particularly in our criminal | face, severely injuring the utterly courts has not kept pace with the | innocent worker. hundred million dollars.” And an-| machine. other thing, senator, it will be hard to persuade a hundred million dol- leased on bail for hearing Jars to allow a change in the gov-| morning after. ernment which will ever make pos- —C. RABIN. sible the conviction of a hundred mil- lion dollars. mining, flour Dr. Louis E: Bisch—“All men are men, even among thse who do prove | plus labor, according to the U. S. dislo sake tnemselves sick first| employment service. ‘m their efforts to fight down their) —__ iran eclid inherent polygamous tendencies. . . . Byery ian should develop some in- terest outside of his work and his | DAILY immediate family.” ‘For instance stenographers. Ed. in Robert Petre, in Victor rer’s Milwaukee Leader—“Shall ™Meet any of my readers in Italy summer? If I do, it will prob- be at the Corpus Christi festi- OTHER PICKETS Philadelphia Clothing (By Mail).—| = peter Seamen Riding Sixteen-Inch Death aseees It is among types of American seamen like those in the picture that the Young Workers (Communist) League is carrying on suc- cessful distributions of leaflets and other literature. The above group are shown astride the fourteen-inch guns of the battleship Texas which are soon to belch death in the coming imperialist slaughter. PLAN BIG/ANTI- BILLINGS CALLS WAR MEETINGS FOR AID IN FIGHT Appeals to British|Workers Party to Hold Workers in Letter Demonstrations 29.—The Continued from Page One War Party anders’ Union, affiliated with the the Young Workers (Commuinst) | american Federation of Labor. Dur- League of District 15, Connecticut, |: have arranged for Big anti-war open |M& the years 1918, 1914, 1916 and air demonstrations to take place in| 1916 I was an active participant in most of the principal cities in the|many strikes—some of my own) state on the fourteenth anniversary | trade, and some in other trades with | of the outbreak of the imperialist) which 1 was sympathetic. During| war of 1914-18. | part of that time I was president of These meetings, taking place in| Local 216 (San Francisco, Cal.), of various cities between July 81 and| the Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union August 6, inclusive, will be ad- anda delegate to the San Francisco dressed by Charles Mitchell, acting | Labor Council and also to the Inter- district organizer“of the party, and | national Workers’ Defense League. Dan Grey, district organizer of the In short, I was an active progressive | league. THe dates and places of the meet-| Thomas J. Mooney, Edward D. No-| ings are as follows: New Haven, | lan and others. | Tuesday, July 31 at 8 p. m., at the) “Early in 1916 we were all inter- | « WwW ers: HAV July (Communist) | Green, Church and Chopel Sts.; New| ested in an attempt to organize the | So the five ar-| |for a successful anti-war demon-| at the intersection of two of the) (Red | | American democracy that does not| permit the workers to make an ef- | just left work and am going home.” | 0 This incident is | cal observation for experimentation advancing civilization of the world.| typical of the police methods em-| and study of the disease and its de- We are as yet unable to convict a| ployed by these lackeys of the Vare | yelopments and methods of cure, If The 26 arrested men were later re-| years he would be freed to die out- the | side the prison. DES MOINES, Ia., July 29.—Coal | condemned to death are executed by milling and meat | the old Spanish system of the “gar- re | packing offered fewer jobs in Iowa rote,” By which the condemned is tempted towards new adventures in| in June than in May, but harvest! chocked to death by an iron ring Tove. All men think about them. But demands absorbed considerable sur-| placed argund his neck and a turn] WORKER A? NUAL PICNIC Britain, Wednesday, August 1 at 8| Electric Railway Workers of San| p. m., at the Center; Hartford, Francisco and this, coupled with our Thursday, August 2 at 7:30 p. m., at| other activities, won us the enmity|reply. I gave him examples show- | tment will assume control of the cable corpora-|ing workers who labor eight hours|and wireless systems in time of war sought to|a day receive more money and are /or other emergencies. ‘The right to th to lower better treated than those who work | build stations and lines solely for Buckingham and Main Sts.; Stam-|of various public utilitie: ford, Friday, August 3 at 7:30 p. m.,/tions which subsequentl, on the Town Hall steps; Bridgeport, | remove us from, the! Saturday, August 4 at 8 p. m., at| wages and cnn gretter profits. | Bank and Main Sts., and in’ New| “On July 22, 1916, during a pa- London, Monday, August 6 at 8 p.| triotic demonstration, known at the| m., at Bank and Main Sts. time as the “Preparedness Parade,” | All preparations have been made| a bomb of some sort was exploded stration in cities like New Haven,| principal streets of the city and 11) Bridgeport and New London, the| persons were killed and 40 more in-| former two being the center of war) jured. It was a deplorable catas- industry and the latter one of the/trophe and a heinous crime, but the biggest naval bases in the country.| corporations who sought our re- In arranging these anti-war meet- moval from the field of labor lost ings, it is the aim of the Party and| time whatever in turning it to the Young Workers League to bring | their advantage, and in a very short] home to the workers of this state|time they had us all in prison) the disastrous results of the last | Charged with the crime. Five of us) world war, which cost the working | Were arrested—Thomas J. Mooney, | class of the world over ten million | Mrs. Rena Mooney, his wife, Edward | lives and untold misery and degrada- | D. Nolan, Israel Weinberg and my-| tion, and to warn against the fren- | Self. | zied preparations on the part of the imperialists for another world slaughter. CUBA JAILS FOR CANCER TORTURE Absolutely No Evidence. “There was obsolutely no evidence to connect us with the crime, but that made no difference to the cor- | porations and their private detec-| tives. They hired ex-convicts, pros-| | titutes. drug addicts, and criminals | of any and all stripes to appear as | witnesses against us, and the result | was that both Mooney and I were convicted and sentenced to life im-| prisonment. Mrs. Mooney and Wein- _THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1928. S. J. Cohen Company, _ WORKERS IN CAFE Ring Lardner Comedy ‘Elmer HIT NATIONAL Corresponden t Writes DECIDES UNION "2 Great, Here in September GUARD AS TOOL MAY BE USEFUL Amalgamated Urged to Issue Leaflets (By a Worker Correspondent) Some time ago I had a conversa-| if In the) @ course of our conversation I asked | tion with a dishwasher. him whether he was a union man. “No,” he replied, “there is no| % union in my line of work.” “Yes, there is; and the name of it is the Amalgamated Food Workers’ Union,” I told him. “Is that so? Well, I never thought of it. But can you show me a restaurant that is operated by union help?” “Yes, I will show you many.” I asked him to go over to the Co- operative Restaurant on Union Square. Besides, I wanted to show him several other places operated by union help. “That is very good,” he said, “but [I do not believe that the union can} CONTROL WORLD | better my condition and help me secure more pay.” I cited many examples to him of how workers in his trade obtained more money and better conditions That was only through having a union. I then asked him how many hours he worked per day. 12 Hours a Day. “Twelve hours a day, from 11 a. m. to 11 p.m. I get two half days off during the week.” “Well, don’t you think 12 hours is too much for a day’s work? Don’t you think that eight hours a day is sufficient,” I asked him. “T think that I am better off by working twelve hours a day. This gives me a chance to save my money, in the labor movement along with! since I have no time to go any|Panies of the British dominions, | place,” he answered. “So you're a philosopher and a human being. A horse works and sleeps, too. What’s the difference between you and a horse?” To this argument I received no twelve hours per day. Join Now. “Guess you're right. I never thought of that,” he replied. “J sure am right, lad, ‘for the union makes us strong.’ In union there is strength. Your place is in the union. Join it now.” “T’ll think it over. Anyway, your talk was worth while.” “Tf you want to know something about trade unionism, read The DAILY WORKER. You can buy it at any newsstand.” “TI shall. So long. Hope to see you again,” and off he went. This is a simple incident that shows that even workers who are hostile to trade unionism can be} won over to the workers’ cause after | proper talk, They think as they do) because capitalist society has forced | them to learn what it wished ever since they were children. The Amalgamated Food Work- ers’ Union should issue leaflets about its union and they surely will get a good response. It can be done. It must be done! 12 years that we have been in prison | and unless the spirit of the workers sc FROM “CZAR IV. EORGE M. COHAN has definitely set his first play for this season. This will be “Elmer the Great” a baseball comedy by Ring Lardner, | and will open here in September. | The play is now running in Chicago | with Walter Hous- ‘ton playing the} leading role. “By request” by| J. C, Elliott Nu-| gent, will be tried | out in Newark, be-| fore going to Chi-| cago, where it is scheduled to begin | a run on August| 20, | G. M. Cohan Other productions listed by Cohan will be a musical show for Polly Walker, who made such a hit in his| tense scene from “Czar Ivan ‘the production of “The Merry Malones.” | Terrible,” showing this week at the Two of the important players in a Cameo Theatre? The musigal comedy will have a run in Boston before coming here. Grant Mitchell, last seen here in “The| Myron C, Fagan’s new play “The | Baby Cyclone,” is also scheduled to | Great Power” will be seen two weeks | star in a new play. | in Philadelphia before its New York | > premier, opening at the Adelphi | Theatre, Philadelphia, August 27, | and coming into the Ritz Theatre, | September 10. Minna Gombell is featured. | Besides Marie Saxon, who has role in “Ups-A-Daisy,” Lewis E. | Gensler’s forthcoming musical com- | z ‘ | edy, Bobbie Perkins, the dancer who 'Huge Communications) made her debut in the “Garrick | Gaieties will also be in the produc- Merger Planned tion. | OTTAWA, Ontario, July 28—| Butler Davenport will offer a bill | of three one-act plays at his theatre on East Twenty-Seventh Street to- night. These’include, “The Affected | Young Ladies” by Moliere, “Swan | Song,” by Tchekhov and English farce “Little Toddleskins.” | The report of the Imperial Wireless | and Cable Conference of 1928, is- | here yesterday, disclosed a plan pro- |posing a world-wide merger and | control of cables and witeless by |the British government. The mer- | ger company would include all com- | The Lenox Hill Players, who have protectorates and colonies and would | taken over the Cherry Lane Theatre, control virtually all major lines of | will stage this season a posthumous | communication. | Andreyev play, “The Days of Our | The report states that British | Life.” Herman Bernstein did the |control of all the companies will be | translation. | guaranteed and that the govern-| ‘Youth of Defies military purposes is reserved by the merger company, under supervision of the English government. The merger, which went into ef- fect as of April 1, 1928, includes the Marconi, Wireless Telegraph Class youth organizations are for- Company, Eastern Extension and bidden and every effort is made to Western Telegraph Companies, the | Prevent the spread of revolutionary | Pacific Cable Board, the West In-|ideas among the working class dian Cable and Wireless system, | youth. the Imperial Atlantic Cables and all post office stations and beams. Although the Canadian Wireless Company ‘will be allowed to main- tain a parallel independent service it will be subject to immediate in- corporation into the British govern- SOFIA, July * ie Bulgarian youth movement has t been per- mitted legal existence for five years. Under the fascist rule, working |underground youth movement is very active, and at the present mo- ment has sections in about 30 places. The conditions under which the youth work is very difficult, and legal conventions are impossible. In spite of the White Terror, the ment merger in times of emergency. The boards of directors of the mergers must be approved by the English government on the sugges- tion of the cable companies. The government will thus retain com- plete control of the communications merger. On matters of policy the company will have to refer to an advisory board which will consist of govern- A conference held May 24, in which 53 delegatés took part, was raided by the police. In spite of everything, the working class youth remains active, OF OPERATORS [Point to Kenosha As Example (By a Worker Correspondent) Another exposure of the purpose | of the national guard and capitalist | militarism in general as a strike- | breaking agency comes from Keno- |sha, Wis. The city council of Kenosha re- cently sent a request for use of the | national guard in the hosiery work- ers’ strike. Unable to break the strike with the power of the local police, the national guardsmen had to be called in. Fight Against Own Interests. What does this mean? It shows the importance of the national guard as a tool of the bosses, and that many workers who enlist are used against their own interest. Workers from one industry are used against those of another, and occa- sionally against their own strikes, as happened inthe Henderson, N. C., textile strike. When the poli¢e can not succeed fh breaking a strike, the national guard is the next line of the | bosses’ strength. The answer of the governor of Wisconsin was that the efforts of the local suthorities should be in- tensified, and ‘that if again unsuc- cessful the request for the national guard should be repeated. This does not lessen the significance of the case, for the governor is re- |luctant to use the national guard when the police could use their clubs more effectively. The city council exposed itself and this matter must be taken up by the workers. Appeal to Youth. The Young Workers (Communist) League plans an appeal to youth or- | ganizations for a united front against the use of the national guard |as a strike-breaker. This case must. be used to expose militarism. The national guardsmen, who come from the ranks of the workers, must be shown the role for which they are used, so that they will refuse to be used as strike-breakers and that when called upon to fight against their fellow workers, they will use their military knowledge for their own class against the bosses. —J. B. Over 10,000,000 Out of Work Many Years PARIS, July 29.—At the recent |International Social _ Conference [held here, it was stated that at no \time during the past few years had |the total of unemployed in the | world fallen below 10,000,000. Prevention of unemployment was |declared the most imp6rtant prob- lem, and relief of unemployment was placed in second rank. Ten ey ment representatives. | The report warns against “cer- tain foreign interests to secure an! inereased share in the control and operation of world communications” GRAND St., W. of Brway 0 BOOTH Thee nin, 8:3 Mats. Tuesday and Thursday, 2:30 FOLLIES PAR HAVANA, July 30.—The innocu- | lation of cancer into prisoners as an| alternative to the death penalty has| been proposed by Cuban medical and | health officials. It is proposed that! prisoners condemned to death should be given the choice of allowing themselves to be inoculated with cancer, in which case they would re- main for twelve years under medi- the prisoner survives these twelve The proposal is to go before the Cuban congress for legislative ac- tion. At present the Cuban convicts screw, which is forced into the back | of the neck. mal Auto Race at Rome on the ” If he meets any of his work- class readers this summer it will tobably be at Liggett’s Drug store. William Green, president of the. American Federation of Labor, at Kenosha—‘Violence and strikes will | mplish nothing. Only the sane, reasoning constructive attitude of the conference room will bring’ an, end to this deplorable situation. ... Is the company afraid to submit to arbitration or is it looking only to| its own selfish ends... . Business| jould always stand by labor.” Don’t Bill, it does. Class as a bandit SUNDAY, AUGUST 19 10 A. M. TO MIDNIGHT PLEASANT BAY PARK berg were both acquitted on the self- same evidence upon which we were convicted, but that was after we had exposed the bulk of the testimony as rank perjury. Nolan was never tried at all, but was released after nine months’ imprisonment. “The high courts sustained the convictions against us and maintain that they have no power to liberate us, but that we must appeal to the governor of California for pardon. This we have done, but the governor does not seem willing to pardon us. We have asked International Labor Defense to campaign in our behalf. “On July 22, this year, it will be of the entire world is aroused, we shall no doubt languish in prison for 12 years more. International Labor defense is working for our release | in conjunction with other friends of | liberty and justice and we trust that you too will add aid and assistance to the great body of protest that is | being organized in our behalf. | “Trusting that we may depend | | upon your co-operation and support and assuring you of the sympathy and unity of American workers with the workers of Great Britain, I am, “Sincerely and fraternally yours, (Signed) “WARREN K. BILLINGS, i “No. 10699, Represa, Calif.” and says that the merger will vir- tually eliminate foreign competition. MORE JOBLESS IN BRITAIN LONDON, July 29.—The amount of unemployed in Great Britain June 11 of this year totaled 1,149,- 900, as compared with 1,028,700 on June 13, 1927. Take the DAILY WORKER With You on Your munist) Party. 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