The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1928, Page 4

Page Four v Rank and File Union The type of mendacity emitted by preachers when they tell the worker he is a lucky dog under capitalism end if he has hard luck not to worry because he'll be happy after he’s dead, is common. But the Rev. Thomas Wheipley, Presbyterian, stepped a little out of line. He hired out as a taxi driver. The capitalist press has been filled with lurid tales f incidents that were supposed to haye transpired in his cab, but which ure not believed by any except the most gullible, He told of one wo- man who jumped into his cab and said: “Drive me to Hell.” Another, who shouted: “Turn around. Turn around! Don't you hear? Go back. Damned if she'll get him. He's mine.” The Rev. Whelpley is one of the few taxi drivers who have managed to keep from starving at the business and he had to gell fic- tion to the yellow capitalist press in order to do it. ema Te Rare Byrd Above is Commander Richard E. Byrd being handed a gold medal by Captain Andre La Fond for the re- cent flight which he attended be- S. and France. There This one has ween the U. are birds and birds far more of the prudence of the hen *han the daring of the eagle. When- ever he gets a new plane he has workers test it for him for a few weeks and then when it’s proved ms safe as a godt cart with four wheel brakes he calls up the news- paper photographers and is seen to climb in. The capitalist class does everything it can to encourage avia- tion and spectacular flights so that every boy in the U.S. will want to he an aviator and, when the war comes, go out and get shot through the B. V. D.’s with a piece of shrap- nel and become a hero. Byrd’s field 'g the Arctic. He flies out into the dold, discovers some new kinds of snow and returns and tells every- hody he cut his initials in the North Pole and if you don’t believe him wou can go out and ask the ice- hergs. Se ia Queen Marie of Rumania was re- ported last week to be pianning an- other tour of the United States next winter. Prime Minister Bratianu had a short conversation with her after which she announced in the prés “Certain premature reports of her majesty’s plans are totally un- founded.” The Rumanian govern- ment doesn’t believe that the kind af publicity the queen received on her last trip will either add to her eputation or aid the Rumanian government in its torture or ex-| ploitation of the workers. | Gems of Learning Rev. Norman Thomas, archbishop of the Socialist Party—‘In contrast with the old parties and their lead- ers we have a definite program on all... progressive issues, We mean to bring about an integrated System of power development and distribution by public authorities, | federal, state and municipal, for the use of farmers and city dwellers and not for the profit of bankers and trust magnates who have success- fully made regulation a joke.” This proposal successfully makes a joke out of a well known preacher. John Wanamaker, “From the Founder’s Writings — “There are Many men and more women than men who are obliged to work too hard. But they are not to be pitied as much as the women and men who do not work at all.” If the boss of-, fers to pay you your wages and let vou work not at all, organize a strike and demand twelve hours a day. Judge Sidney Ballou, Executive Secretary of the Sugar Institute— “The only comment the sugar insti- tute desires to make ... is in refer- @nce to the statements that price changes have been made by refiners “Virtually as a body,’ ‘acting in uni- Bon’ or as a ‘joint action.’ These statements are wholly unwarranted. Neither the sugar institute nor the ‘members acting jointly exercise any tontrol over the price of sugar, That price was rade exactly as it was made before the formation of the in- Stitute, by some one refiner taking ‘the lead, either in an. advance or a decline, and the other members fol- ‘owing or not following, according ‘to their individual judgment.” Its + “just great good luck for the sugar ‘refiners that the price happens to be | uniformly the same and apiitor my | “4 KILLED IN CRASH. AUGSBURG, Germany, July 31) “i(UP).—At least fourteen persons train collided with a freight POLICE ATTEMPT TERROR TACTICS AT GATHERING McGarry ‘Victory’ Will Be His Destruction By a Worker Correspondent) PITTSTON, Pa. (By Mail). Pittston, in District No. United Mine Workers of America, has been known as the center of militancy, where miners and mine workers put up a fight against the coal companies, contractors and their servants, the reactionary union offi- cials. Cappellini came from Pitts- ton. He came to power as district president by giving lip service to the mine workers who fought for elimi- nation of the contractor system and for establishment of union .condi- tions in the mines of the Pennsyl- vania coal companies. Cappellini betrayed the miners during his per- iod as district president. He served the contractor system and the Cap- panies. The miners of Pittston once more came to the fight against the contractor syste mand the Cap- pellini-Lewis machine. McGarry became. a president of the district, elected by the insurgent convention, which declared for the elimination of the contractor system, elimination of the coal companies’ influence and corruption in the union, and for equalization of work. Miners and mine workers in col- lieries No. 9 and No. 14 of the Penn- sylvania Coal Company, in Pittston, have been on strike for the past few days, demanding recognition of the newly elected officials of the local | unions and for seniority rights of mine workers as the company began to practice giving work to the men whom it brings from other places to| replace the local miners. The com- pany practically declared a lock-out. | In colliery No. 6 (Local No. 1703) | worked only 36 days since January. This colliery is also locked out. The} miners under the leadership of the | Save-the-Union movement put up a| demand for a generalestrike under the Pennsylvania Coal Company’ to force the company to eliminate the contractor system and_ establish union conditions. A resolution to that effect was presented by James Lamarca and seconded by Charles Licata in Local No. 1703. McGarry tabled the motion. Then the ques- tion came up in the general body. It was defeated by the manoeuver of the McGarry faction. The miners did not give up: the fight and mobilized their forces once more in an effort to declare a general strike. At the meeting of the general grievance committee of the Pennsylvania Coal Company held this Saturday, July 28, delegates un- der the leadership of Sam Licata put up a stiff fight for a general strike. Hundreds of miners assem- bled in and around the hall, d cussing the matter and expressing their willingness to fight, pressing a general strike. Pittston police with black-jacks continuously dis- persed the crowd and ejected from the hall those whom McGarry dis- liked. Sergeant Tom Reddington threatened to break up the meeting, but in spite of the terrorization of the police and the McGarry faction, the miners militantly fought for their rights. The police took Licata from the front of the hall and drove him to the rear in an attempt to suppress the expression from the} rank and file delegates. Neverthe-| |less Licata, supported by the dele- gates, once more took the floor and exposed the attempts of McGarry to suppress the demands of the miners. McGarry succeeded in defeating the motion for a general strike of the Pennsylvania Coal Company, but this victory of McGarry is a “vic- tory” which will lead to his destruc- | tion as was the case of Cappellini, as the miners of Pittston are awake to the fact that McGarry is not the one who can give them leadership in a fight against the contractors and the coal companies. The miners of Pittston will mobilize their forces and under the leadership of the rank and file will succeed to get control of their union and put up a victor- ious fight against the coal operators. The henchman of the Lewis ma- chine in District No. 1, Rinaldo Cap- pellini, became so discredited and ex- posed that Lewis was forced to fire him and to appoint Boylan distritt board member from the first inspec- tion district as president of the dis- trict. This change of personalities in the Lewis machine in District No. 1 has in view to fool the miners and play for consolidation with the Brennan-McGarry group. It is al- ready reported that Edward Mc- Grone, who served as secretary of the insurgent’s convention in Scran- ton, will be appointed to succeed Boylan as district board member. This indicates that the appointment of Boylan is leading toward the gradual absorption of the Brennan- McGarry faction. At the same time Boylan promises to fight against the contractor system by taking the mattter up with the conciliation board. Taking the matter up with the conciliation board is plain to everybody that Boylan wants to show that he is trying to do some- sell-out of the anthracite miners, 1 of the; nt vAtLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WED AY, AUGUST 1 , 1928. Deman li New Colored Movies Practicable Thomas A. Edison, aged inventor, at left in picture is shown with George Eastman, owner of the kodak company which bears his name, examining the new colored movies. The colored movie is now de- clared practicable for home use. Edison and Eastman hope to add to their already immense fortunes thru the exploitation of the new GOES THROUGH FACE PREJUDICE Chrysler “Absorbs the Unable to Get Jobs; Dodge Car Lower Pay ded at Pittston Meet, TRY TO BLAME St. STRIKERS FOR ~ FOREMANDEATH Paid Press Aids Cohen Bosses | | (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail).— | The usual tactics of vicious propa- ganda thru an all too willing, even anxious press, and no newspapers anywhere can “better” the local |ones as journalistic prostitutes, are {being employed by the bosses against the strikers in the campaign now going om to organize the cloth- ing workers in this city. The foreman of the S. J. Cohen and Bros. clothing factory, at 13th and Callowhill Sts., Ermino Mattea, was killed by a speeding sedan as he was running for a trolley to go to work. Immediately the lawyers for the concern, at which nearly all the workers are out on strike, asked Assistant Director of Safety Hearn to investigate the case, charging that Mattea was deliberately run over by gangsters hired by the strik- ing clothing workers of the plant. BALTIMORE, July 31 (UP).—| (By @ Taxi Worker Correspondent) The proposed merger of the Chrys-|_ I am a Negro taxicab driver and | ler Motor Corporation and the Dodge |! want to give you a picture of the| definite proof, the tragedy has all | “Umer Season. Brothers Corporation was approved | “iscrimination which is being prac- | at a meeting of Dodge Brothers |*iced especially against us Negro stockholders here today. Over 90 drivers who work in the Harlem dis- | per cent. of all classes of outstand- | trict. ing stock was deposited with the| The Yellow Taxi Corporation, the committee under the merger plan, | largest cab operators in the east, do At the same time, Walter P.|not employ Negroes. I hack from Chrysler, chairman of. the Chrysler | the corner of 135th St. and Seventh Corporation, announced his inten- | Ave. |tion of assuming the position of |88 driver at the east 23rd St. of-| president of the newly organized |fice of the open-shop Yellow Taxi Dodge Brothers Corporation. Corporation. One of the employ-| Under plans of the merger, the |™ent bosses told me that, “We don't | Chrysler Corporation will continue ¢mploy niggers and you can go back | to manufacture the present lines of 27d tell your ‘Boogie’ friends not | Dodge cars in their newly-acquired |t0 be coming around here.” | properties, the cars to be sold by| Same Discrimination. | Dodge Brothers Corporation, a divi-|_ This is not only true of the Yel- sion of the Chrysler Corporation. [low Taxi Corporation, but of the CREA 9 |large independent fleet owners. In INDIAN PRINCES drivers are forced to work for 35 per cent, while white drivers work- ing for the same fleet owners, driv- ing the same make of cabs, get 40 per cent. | Benny Engle, who operates 125/ | Mogul checker cabs, is one of the LONDON, July 81—The Indian | fleet owners that will not hire a| don to gain the favor of the British | Nichols, who operate over 100 Para- rule against the Indian people, have | mount cabs and whose garage is adjourned their conference until Oc-| located in the heart of the colored tober. . residential and business section of order to get a job many Negro in, princes who have collected in Lon-|Negro taxi driver. Maloney & | the Lewis machine. They had been conferring with the Indian States Committee in order to | work out a government favorable | both to themselves and England. The Indian nobility feel that their position would be threatened if more power were given to the people and they have expressed their willing- ness to support the imperial protec- tor rather than to permit control by the Indian peasants. ate Anthracite Union.’ Stanley Fig- lock is put to the front to speak for it. But there is no question that the * the coal. companies and some reac- tionary officials are behind the move. Thomas Kennedy, secretary- treasurer of the United Mine Work- ers’ of America, came out with a statement against a separate union, but it is the Lewis-Kennedy machine | the white drivers had taken their | Pesos a day until service is resumed. | that is responsible for dividing the anthracite and tke bituminous min- | ers by signing a separate agreement | of the national strike of 1922, and at the present time, during the strike | of the soft coal miners no attempt | was made to support the strike by | sympathy strike of anthracite min- ers, and relief raised from assess- | ments did not go to strikers, but to | Lewis’ betrayed and sold out the soft coal miners, | broke the union and accepted the wage cut. This will have an effect | on the anthracite miners who are to- | day already under the fire of the guns of the coal operators, who are worsening working conditions, cut- ting down wages, and-increasing un- employment to 40 per cent. Many mines are shut down completely, and both administrations, McGarry and Boylan-Lewis, are not doing any- thing to remedy the situation. The Save-the-Union movement is fight- ing the idea of the separated anthra- cite union, warning of its danger coming not only from Figlock, but also from the McGarry faction, and pledge their solidarity toward the soft coal miners, The McGarry administration, at the meeting held Saturday, July 28, passed the resolution in favor of a general strike “if that is necessary” | to get recognition from Lewis, and the coal companies; The miners cannot permit themselves to be fooled. The miners are not “inter- ested in recognition of McGarry by | Lewis. They. must mobilize their strength in every local union for election of delegates to the National Miners’ Convention which will unite soft coal and anthracite under the banner of a new real rank and file miners’ union, The McGarry’s talk about a gen-| eral strike for his recognition shall be converted into a strike for in-| terests of the miners, by putting up | demands for elimination of the con- were reported killed and 20 seri-| thing for the miners, but in reality | tractor system, equalization of work, u injured today, when an ex-| he is preparing the betrayal and against wage cuts, and linking up | this struggle with the struggle for a fen Dinkelscherben and Swabia. | 4. There is also agitation for a separ- | National Miners’ Union. Harlem, is another who will have | nothing to do with colored hack-| men. Many of the fleet owners will hire a Negro taxi driver only in a| “pinch.” | One Negro friend of mine tells| of an experience he had with a fleet owner in Brooklyn. This fleet owner had advertised for day and night taxi drivers. This driver had come all the way from lower Harlem and applied for a job. | The boss, after looking over the | driver’s book, badge and police crim- | inal identification card, told the man| “ROSARIO, Argentina, July 31.—| However, practically all the plays to wait. The driver waited from 3 The city government today openly are realistic except for a few deal- p. m. to 5 p.m. While waiting he attempted to shift to the telephone ing with folk-lore and some histori- He | company the burden of ending the |—— = = noticed the cabs rolling out. asked the boss for a cab and was | told that there were no more. The boss told the driver that all | cabs out to work and that if he wanted a job real bad he could buy | one of his “loads” (cabs). The driver | explained that he had come to work | and not to buy a cab. The boss, who | was mad because of the low “book- ings” his regular men were bringing in, shouted: “Get the hell out of here you black b- - - - ~ d.” That is what we drivers who are unorganized are up against, and the | lot of the Negro workers is even) worse than that of his white brothers. COUNTY OFFICIALS KILL MAN. SHAMOKIN, Pa, July 31.—! Arthur Christ, 28, died at a local hospital last night from injuries suffered when he was struck by the automobile of Guy Oldt, of Paxton- ville, a Snyder County , Commis- sioner. He is survived by a widow and a five-months old baby. In fact David Felix, one of the attorneys said, ““While we have no the earmarks of a deliberate mur- der. We believe gangsters, hired by the strikers, killed Mattea.” The police of course obligingly supported the “murder” theory, and the newspapers of the city picked up all possible material, including pictures, and presented sensational Recently I applied for a job| stories of the strike. The reason | for the avidity with which this in- cident was handled by the press was to show the public what “bad” people the strikers are. The only recourse remaining to the strikers and to all other work-| ers wanting to know the workers’ side of this strike as well as all other news of interest to workers is to read daily The DAILY WORK- ER. Incidentally the papers make much of the police statements about. pickets at the plant, and about how well the public guard not only the clothing factories where the strike is now in progress, but also the homes of the bosses. Police details have been guarding the home of Cohen for two weeks. No workers’ homes are being guard- ed by the police, nor is their any likelihood for any such protection for the workers under capitalistic rule. —C. RABIN. BACK ROSARIO TELEPHONE C0. Officials Fine Firm for Every Day Idle strike of the operators by force by informing the company officials that the corporation will be fined 500 In reply the company stated that it ig}impossible to resume service immediately due to the fact that strikers refuse to permit strike- breakers to repair the lines. All attempts of the telephone com- | | pany to resume service have failed | to date, due to the united resistance of the strikers of Rosario. Scabs attempting to repair the telephone | wires have been effectively stopped by groups of strikers who have em- ployed all means effectively. Irritable. Bladder By M. Pavlovitch . ., Ognyov ... cae HISTORY OF THE FIRST By G. M. Stekloff ...... ILLUSTRATED HISTORY REVOLUTION ..... REPORT OF THE FIFTEE THE: C) Po 87U. 03%. Piatnitsky . 39 East 125th Street. acation-Reading SUGGESTIONS LENINISM—By J. Stalin .... FOUNDATIONS OF IMPERIALIST POLICY— DIARY OF A COMMUNIST SCHO MISLEADERS OF LABOR—By Wm. Z. Foster... ORGANIZATION OF A WORLD PARTY--By Osip WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS OLBOY—By INTERNATIONAL— OF THE RUSSIAN 1.25 NTH CONGRESS OF 60 5 , NEW YORK C. Writes Seen on Broadway This Season CIRCUS. LUNA PARK ae ALEXANDER McKAIG announces AT “" the following plays for next sea- son: “The First Mr. Fraser,” a new comedy by St. John Ervine. The play will also be done in London | next season. Mr. Ervine’s last play | to. be done here was “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary,” which Mrs. Fiske | did for Mr, Belasco. Before that the | Theatre Guild produced two of his | plays, “John Ferguson” and “Jane Clegg.” Mr. Ervine is coming to | America in the autumn to do special i | dramatic criticism for the World. Gabsemezen, | eae aaa galky a fee One of the chief features at the | wrights, who are the authors of “My| Luna Park freé circus is the fa- Public,” which has been announced | ous ‘Wirth family, including May by Brady and Wiman for next sea-| Wirth and her brother, Phil.» Pic- son. A play by Arthur Richman temporarily titled; “Dim Turning.” | Mr. Richman will also have another | play on next season, “The Hungry Wife,” which will be produced by | Gilbert Miller with Mary Boland in |the leading role. “The Racket,” | which was produced by Mr. Mce- [Kaig last year just finished a sue. j{ M,years and for children over | cessful run on the Pacific'coast. carefully tested throughout each | Ke inane na | Performance to guide the future Bernard Shaw’s “Misalliance” ‘s| productions at the Childrens Thea- | announced as the first production for | tre. Besides this all the children the Washington Square Players’|are given lists of the plays, with juestions, asking which ones they | like best and why, which the children fill out at school. “At ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’,” the director of the theatre said, “there was a real deluge of crying. And all the performance the children are most responsive. Their answers to our questions are also honest and spontaneous.” There are eight such theatres in the U. S. S. R. In Leni- grad there are also two Marionette Shows and two Punch and Judy Shows for workers’ children. The Childrens Theatres are subsidized by the government. ture shows May and her trained horse. cal plays about the French revolu- | tion, ete. The plays are appropriate |for children of three different age groups, from 8 to 11 years, from 11 * ok * The Garrick Theatre will house | the productions of Charles L. Wag- | ner this season. He will open October ji with a presentation of the old Eng- | lish play, “When the Cruminules | Played.” | * “Jarnegan,” the dramatization by | Garret Fort and Charles Beahan of | Jim Tully’s novel, is set for the | Longacre Theatre, ,September 24,! | with Richard Bennett in the princi-| | pal role. + * a ee | David Belasco has a new Molnar play ready for showing. The title John Irvine Comedy to Be FARMERS’ CROPS BURN UP; WATER RATES 100 HIGH \Cotton Mortgaged to Banks and Gins (By a Worker Correspondent) RIPLEY, Calif., (By Mail).— While the capitalist class as a whole in these United States is a bloody lot, the petty capitalists of Cali fornia are by far the most thieving. | blood-sucking set of pirates heard of since Captain Kidd was hung. In the Palo Verde Valley, which | is the chief cotton area of the state a wattr famine has set in. Thit area is farmed by irrigation meth. ods, the source of water supply be- ing the Colorado River. The crops are standing up in the field burning with drougth, and j|many a poor farmer and tenant sees absolute ruin and starvation staring him in the face. Before one can plant his crop he must, pay costly water rates and assessments to a water combine whose engines | have all winter to perfect the best |methods for raising water out of | the siver during the summer. The farmers are being constant- ly taxed for costly hydraulic ma- |chinery, dredges, suction pumps, etc. Yet here in July, when water is needed most, and the temperature ranges from 117 to 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade, very little water is to be had. Most of the farmers are tenants ton market holding firm and De. and share-croppers. With the cot- cember quotations running from 21 to 24 cents, many had planned tc migrate in the event of a good crop. It may be (this is purely a supposition) that there is some de- sign in the present water-shortage tending toward keeping these poor farmers and tenants in continued slavery another year. of the Hungarian’s opera is “Mima” and will have Lenora Ulric playing | | the leading role. Another play Be- | lasco has in mind is one written for | | Beth Merrill by William Hurlbut and | himself. * | “Revolt,” a new play by Harry Wagstaff Gribble, will come to| | Broadway early in October. The | play was recently tried out in Brook- |lyn under the title of “The Gam- | bler.” ee Thea., 45 St., W. of Bway BOOTH Evenings 8:30 Mats, Tuesday and Thursday, 2:30 GRAND ST. FOLLIES _ The LADDER Leningrad Children : Reman Eves. 8:30. Mats. Wed. & Sat. Have Own Theatre| “oney Refunded 1f Not Satisfied The Heart of Coney Island Battle of Chateau Thierry May Wirth, Phil & Family in BIG FREE CIRCUS PAR Luna’s Great Swimming Pool 50 Acres of Real Fun CHANIN’S, W. of Broadw 46th St. Evenings at 8 Mats, Wed. & Sat. SCHWAB and MANDEL'S MUSICAL SMASH Godb NEW with GEO. OLSHN and HIS MUSIO | _By CLARINA MICHELSON LENINGRAD, July 11, (By Mail). |—The season of the Childrens | Theatre in Leningrad is just ending. |Six hundred children come from} |their schools six days a week, nine| months a year, to see the perfor- CAMEO “:¢ NOW “Czar Ivan the Terrible” with LEONIDOFF & Moscow Art Players and “Potemkin” ‘ris,"cumae CURTIS IN KANSAS CITY. KANSAS CITY, Mo., July. 31 (UP).—Senator Charles Curtis, re- publican vict presidential candidate, passed through Kansas City today enroute from Washington to his home in Topeka, Kan. | mances which are given only for} children. Four new plays and about | twelve former ones are put on each | year. Among the favorites are some | |based on stories American children | know, such as “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” |and “The Prince and the Pauper.” the Vege-Tarry Inn Cos tume “GRINE KRETCHME" BEST VEGETARIAN FooD MODERN IMPROVEMENTS DIRECTIONS: Take ferries at 234 St., Christopher St., Barclay St. or Hudson Tubes to Hoboken, Lacka- wanna Railroad to Berkeley Heights, N. J. BEkKELEY HEIGHTS NEW JERSEY Phone, Fanwood 7463 R 1. 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