The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 3, 1928, Page 4

dl Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1928. ALL RIVER, Mass., (By Mail). £Phe Textile Mill Committee to- night has put over its eighth public " for textile workers. We Philadelphia HANaOuTS DESPITE FINES, Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson. Matorious evangelist c Los An- geles, who some time back spent a tew week-ends with h radio op- erator and came back to town with the story that she had been kid- napped, was in a beauty parior the other day getting some needed at- tention. She was told that her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, in Seattle i issued a public state- stent iving the scandal of her tip with the radio enthusiast. Mrs. McPherson said This kind of thing n the sacredness nd But nd 3ut which belongs to mother love 1 shall suffer in silence.” These are sweet words. “A few months ago when Mrs. Kennedy was her daughter's manager, Aimee used allt the words 'n the vocabulary of an expert mule driver to get her to release her hold on the money bags. * aioe Campers have already done some- thing toward the communalizing of oropertyeif you can judge from tow- cls they bring home. ee ane It was as though papa had let mama take the family bulldog out ‘er a walk when Thomas Céchran. vartner of J. P. Morgan visited Pre- ident Coolidge at Brule with Secre- ary Wilbur in leash. * weer hae Vice-President Lyman P. Ham- ond of the Electric Bond and Share ompany, part of the U.S. power rust, in his survey report of the hilippine Islands says in effect: Let. the Filippinos revise their land ndcorporation laws so as to permit Ye introduction of U. S. capital and ‘anagement.” He doesn’t mind ow heavy the door is that the Phil- opines throw up against U.S. capi-| alists so long as they leave it un- ocked. “eat The republicans have chosen Pros-| refity and integrity as their cam- raign issues. The latter will be ottehed for by Alber B. Fall and heeformer by any member of the 5,- 00,060 unemployed. Gems of Learning W, T. Clemens, assistant secre- ew York Federation Poday all the lead- ngPniversities include courses in eligion and religious affairs on heir schedules. Columbia has been » leader in this movement under the irection. of Dr. Nicholas Murray ce During the last two years ofty courses on religious subjects have been organized om Morning- ide Heights.” The capitalists won't veglect this construction of one of ts} best weapons. Charles B. Robbins, assistant sec- etary of war:—“No one who looks with an unclouded vision on the his- tory of the world and on the pres- ent attitude of the nations toward @ach other can believe that the day of: world peace has arrived or is approaching. It is something to be hoped for and prayed for, but not Something to be expected, for many wenerations to come. With the pres- ent state of feeling of. mankind to- ward one another throughout the world, the best way to avoid war 4s to be prepared to meet it—in case it should come—but never by word or act to invite aggression.” The ‘vest way to end war is by war—the war that will free the working class from its exploiters. Nervous Nellie Kellogg, secret- ary of state: “There is nothing in *he American draft of an anti-war treaty which restricts or impairs in any way the right of self-defense. That right is inherent in every sov- ereign State and is implicit in every treaty. Every nation is free at all times and regardless of treaty mrovisions to defend its territory from attack or invasion and it alone is competent to decide whether cir- cumstances require recourse to war in self-defense. If it has a good ease, the world will applaud and not condemn its action...” All modern capitalist wars are aggressive and all can be made to appear defensive. Tf you pull your gun and kill some- you can always say you saw reaching for his hip. Roy Owen West, appointed secret- ary of interior to succeed Work: “T will familiarize myself for the great office for which I have been chosen.” Inia couple of weeks there won't be one method of graft in the great office with which he won't be ac- quainted. loseph R. Nutt, banker of Cleve- ‘and, treasurer of the G. O. P.: “Another question concerns where ittcomes from. I feel sure that irman Hubert Work will not ac- sept any improper vouchers. . No subscription has been requested rv accepted where any reasonable stion could be rightfully raised asjto the doner or the amount of the subscription.” The only money) it’s turned down is made of wood. | e G. O. P. treasurer is not that | touched another new locality and drew our crowd from the workers of nine mills that are located in the “Flint sectior There was a crowd of about 500 workers, the chief of polici patrolmen and one pa- PERSECUTION MEN FIGHT ON Alessandroni Is Called Injunction Judge (By a WORKER Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).— What happens to Philadelphia work- ers when they insist on picketing during strikes? The judges, who feel that they are possessed of dic- tatorial powers, and who ignore the very rights supposed to be given to| all “free” Americans by the “con-| stitution”—“take care” of those in-| telligent, class-conseious and mili-| tant workers struggling for their class. Recently officers and members ot | the Philadelphia Branch, No. Local 706, of the American Federa- tion of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers were arrested and brought before Judge Alessandroni, who has become notorious for his baiting cf the workers of Philadelphia. Nite Months’ Solidarity. | The union has been conducting | strike against’ the Federal Knitting Company, Cambria and James Sts., in the heart of the great Kensing- ton textile and hosiery factory dis- trict. This strike was declared on October 31, 1927, almost nine months ago, but the strikers’ have remained firm picketing the shop daily and refusing to return to work. This fact has greatly peeved not only the manufacturers, but also their faithful lickspittles, as Ales- sandroni. So when the union men appeared, Alessandroni saw his opportunity, and issued an injunction, sweeping in its nature, against the strikers. But Picketing Continued. He also lectured the strikers, warning them against this kind of alleged “unlawful” conduct such as picketing. He labelled picketing as “interfer- ence with other workers.” However, militant workers are not easily frightened by Vare gangsters of the Alessandroni type. So the picketing was continued until today, when the manufacturers saw to it that the police took action. Accordingly, Frank Dolan and Frank Murphy, two of the striking pickets, were arrested. They were taken before Judge Martin, Court of Common Pleas No. 5. Judge Martin is just as faithful to the powers that be as Judge Alessandroni. The charge against Murphy, and Dolan was setting at defiance a court injunction, and therefore contempt of court. Corrupt Courts. So Judge Martin fined each of the strikers $100 and lectured them, telling them they would be sent to} jail if they continued their “unlaw- | ful” conduct. It is such decisions as rendered in these cases by “Judges” Ales- | sandroni and Martin that makes all | workers more and more contemptu-| vi 7 and “tucker’’ (food) as pay. Land the “old pig” with some arsenic. th , that makes ail to work the more he will keep the | 2M : MS PAY. arsen sey sndetrearres™ the pees aa devil out of his mind,” laughingly, of plenty! Hungry, sick and ‘tired,, The cook was no bourgeois—like der present American “democratic” capitalistic society, are merely in-| struments for the protection of al few rich and powerful people, and | instruments for the oppression of | the workers who have to toil daily for a bare existence. —C. RABIN. | GREEK TERROR IS DESCRIBED BERLIN (By Mail).—Reports re- ceived here recently give the best picture of the unscrupulous provo- cation methods of the Greek police during the last strike. One day a rumor was spread by the press that “the stubborn strik- ers are seeking those willing to work and setting fire to their dwellings.” The evening after the home of a strike-breaker was put on fire and his wife threatened with | murder. As she called for help a night watchman and two gendarmes came, who took up the “pursuit.” Then there appeared two more gen- darmes, who did not at once grasp the situation and earnestly went after the miscreant. When the ones who set fire to the house saw that their arrest was forthcoming they shot and killed the watchman and wounded the two gendarmes who had tried to arrest | them. The first two gendarmes were not even touched. The next day the tobacco worker, K. Jordanidis, was arrested and| charged with the burning and | shooting. Although he proved that he was not there, prison. Save this copy of the Daily for | ‘ DEATH: SLAVERY: THE REAL FIGHTING TEXTILE UNION IN FALL RIVER; CITY CALLED trol wagon present. This was the first forth with his “bulls,” read a letter meeting that he received from the owner, saying we succeeded in opening and fin-|he does not wan any labor meetings ishing on the same lot. The chief! on his lots. usually terrorizes the owner at the With drawn clubs they chased the 1 minute, and then he marches crowd off. The T. M. C. organizers Hosiery Strikers Struggle 9 Lo Textile Mill Committee Formed in Lawrence ot The Ayer Woolen Mill, one of the three largest woolen mills in Lawrence, Mass., has had its own Textile Mill Committee since | before the days of the New Bedford strike. The heroic struggle of the $0,000 strikers in New Bedford has distracted attention from the gradual spread of the struggle thruout the New England textile centers. Fall River has its own Mills Committee now, and it is prob- able that the Pawtuxet Valley in Rhode Island, Lawrence and other towns in Massachusetts, and Manchester in New Hampshire, will presently tke united front against the mill bosses and the union reactionaries. join SEA AND HELL SHIPS (By a Worker Correspondent) “The times are hard the wages low— Leave her, Johnny, leave her . . . Oh, the times are hard and the wages low, Now is the time for us fo leave some ships. ee Five hundred miles south of the | Cape of Good Hope there was an-| prime—a prime choice for the ever- hungry sharks. (God’s will again!) We could have saved the sailor and made the sharks go hungry but for ae Ss " the stupid inscription: God speed the PE a aide shrine good ship Glenlni. (God was true | sounds to His word again.) The ship was man. Mournfully the chorus takes |'° : ‘ P Up the strain: “Now is the time to |Teally speeding, doing 16 knots and feave cher”) lan onion “pee-hauled” on “hard- er. tack.” The young man was left to ; fall 1 Clang. clang fal) the pawls, and die ‘behing we wearily tramp around the eap-|“, boning her” stan heaving our ship into the|_ es » /ohnny, aby er,’ wharf. In port at last! Land of | VaS not sung for no reason. “Glen- rt dobar! “Miata the land of ut” carried 18 able-bodied seamen ra ‘ Fe roe before the mast, and aloft, so neat “y), 7? vr : art plenty. that hypocritical inscriptiom was |' Sold, Betrayed. the almighty master and his two The big coal strike of eight|burly mates. Righteen men ran months’ duration has just ended.|#way—every mother’s Jack, leaving Miners were back at work; sold out, | Plenty of “jack” in the ever-greedy betrayed by their leaders. ‘here, | hands of the “almighty.” Twelve too, they had their Lewi Thom- | months’ jay at the rate of 5£ per ases and Capellinis. History re-| month was more than enough to get peating itself. drunk on those days. Ships and ships. . . . Wherever Forging Names. you look you see steamers and| app, ; ‘i : 5 4 ta “gquare-riggers.” Up tha river, © captain certainly Had to worry in forging the sailor’s signa- ture the captions “stops sold” (on |paper). Soon ali the stock at stops was sold (on paper), but it was still in the cabin ready to be sold to the next unfortunate seaman. | There were some good torgers among the masters “them days.” And if some did happen to be clumsy with the pen, there was the near the ballast ground, the “Si- beria.” Its masts and yards seemed like a forest. Sailors without number. . . . Like convicts they are working, digging like slaves, filling baskets and hoist- ing out ballast by hand. Hard work, indeed. Standing in the broil- ing sun by the hand-winch, heaving, heaving from 6 a. m. to 6 p. m., heaving till your elbows becin to creak, “Next dave you shift by, 80" the apblls ange 60, meh! of conte: ing below in the hold to shovel sand, |iut enough to-keep his mouth. shut coke or rubbish until vour back |ithe lion's share aenerally: went to ing, and the mate got his share of eries aloud in pain. Dolling 2 the owners, they were so poor and chains, hence the name “Siberia. religions! Under the Lash. After holding out for eight Sailors of all nationalities: |™onths, after prolonged hardships French, English, Norwegian, Ger-| 8nd starvation in the land of plenty man, All slave, day in day out, | —the miners are back at work under a cruel master’s lash, mas- @gain. Want and misery every-| ters who try to beat each other in Where. Seamen who deserted ships | the number of. those whom they dis- | 8%@ scouting the country for jobs. charge. “The harder he is made | No work had, not even for tobacco cynically say the captains to each | the sailor finally, lands back in port | other, while, over glasses of whis- | 28ain. Being broke whe falls into | key, they discuss ways and means the hands of a shipping master or of making their crews desert the | land shark who takes a month's | ship after the ballast is ali dis- Pay in advance for getting him a} charged. |job on a hell-ship. Of course, the | The ship-owners could easily buy | master gets his share of the ad- | steam-engines, but why need they | Yance money. A f when sailor labor is so cheap? They| ‘“Westgate” was a fullrigged ship, | can feed him anything they like. If % main sky-rail yarder, commanded | the sailor does not like conditions, bY a sky-piloting, bible punching | “to hell with him. He can desert | “Franciscan padre,” Jack D. He} the ship” and leave his hard-earned | Spoke to us like the father before | pag in the hands of the master. | Siening on. | Easy money for the ship-owners and Spider and Fly. the captain. Yes, easy, but covered | “You are decent looking’ chaps,” with the blood and sweat of the |he said, grinning broadly and show: sailor. ing his yellow, big.and ugly teeth. If the seaman demands better |“you will like my ship,” he says, food and conditions, up goes the po-|trying to smile. “They all like lice flag. A launch comes to our her,” he lies, knowing that his last ship with water patrol aboard and | crew was still in jail for meeting to Maitland jaii the sailors go, together aboard ship. chained and handcuffed like des- We came aboard. Haul out to perate criminals. With this hard- “Fare Thee Well” buoys. Set sail earned money he pays for the days for South America and hell breaks | of his “lock-up” and on the day of |joose once again. The once gentle, sailing, aboard he returns half- priestlike man begins to act very | starved, sick and broken in spirit, ungodly; he is yelling, swearing like | The Hell Ship, God Bless Her! the devil, “Main topsail halyards, | Glenhui was a’ smart looking |he roars at the top of his voice, | full rigged vessel. Its name was |loud as a bull; “come here you. painted, cut and burned everywhere; | young b————, and give her a pull.” | on bells, capstan bars, wheel, spars./ What a change. One can hardly | even on cabin crockery, knives and believe his eyes. The Franciscan | spoons, Above “all, boldly and| narde has certainly changed. Ugly, | SUB textile industry. When we succeed in organizing this place we have and many of our local live wires then had the workers and marched them to another place, gathering workers as we go and hold the meeting, with good success. This town is the sub-cellar of the union. New Bedford is already as-| the sured as the ground floor of this industrial edifice. ‘CELLAR’ The speakers last night were Jim Reid and Bill Sroka of the ‘?. M. C. the foundation for a real fighting | organizing staff, and Fred Beal of there are many mills in which it is New Hagelius, River was chairman. ng Months, Mill Correspondent Writes CEMENT HARDENS Ze Origin of the Movies--- This charmer is creating quite a hit with her impersonations in the “Grand Street Follies” at the Booth Theatre. STAGE HANDS SEEK Friday night we are scheduled to break OF INDUSTRY into the north side where Bedford also union. organizer Peter rumored that the chief holds shares Fall of stocks. “ADAM SHUTTESHUTER. in — RED HOT RIVETS. Picture in 1833. Mn ANpER LIVES ~ DOROTHY SANDS AT TRIMBLE C0. Foreman Sees Nothing So Awful in That (By a WORKER Correspondent) PITTSBURGH, Pa. (By Mail) — The W. F. Trimble and Sons Com- pany of Pittsburgh does not worry very much about the lives of their employes. The laborers are forced | té work in such places where they are always liable to get killed or | Seriously injured. | The following took place at the site of our employment. The labor- ers, while working on the ground, noticed that there were a number of workers riveting directly over }them. Red-hot rivets were being thrown to the men at work, many of {them falling to the ground, where NEW WAGE SCALE | the laborers were at work. as When the attention of the fore- ° First Motion AROUND WORKER = °° alla [7 is not impossible that some form vf motion picture was known to at least 65 years before the Chris- sy tian era wrote: Only Palms Stick Out ‘1 the vear of A. D. 130 Ptolemy, ; ace a Greek philosopher wrote a series On Finished Job of books on optics in which he not ~ only described persistence of vision, (By a Worker Correspondent) | but also a piece of apparatus in the PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail).—| form of a revolving disk with spots For the last few months all that upon it, which demonstrated- this us office help had to do was glance) Mieromenom out of the window to see our new| may have had of motion pictures, annex getting up. Slowly it grew however, is too*remote and too far from a flat foundation to a great,|huried in, the murky depths of the tall giant towering above all the| Past te be of more than momentary buildings within a radius of sca sl in the history of cinematog- | haps a mile or more. Motion pictures came to be a fact The first glance led one to be-/in 1423 when there was a social de- lieve that the building was going|mand for them. W. G. Horner, up rather slow. But upon closer| patented “Zoetrope” or the “Wheel observation one could see workmen | of Life,” which consists of a hollow below and above and everywhere, | cylinder turning a number of slots like busy bees, each one doing their | around the interior. Between the little mite. And soon we see an-/siots appear a series of pictures other story added to the last. Now the new building stands, a specimen of modern engineering and concrete wonder. Still the bosses are driving their other young sailor cut down in his|help around putting the finishing | hand, until the year 1877. touches and making improvements Within and without, A few of us clerks sat languidly smoking away the time until the whistle would blow and bring us back to the stuffy room in which we slaved eight hours per day for six days in the week. We glanced up and down’ at the | elevator shafts and machines and winches and pipes and bricks and cement. Occasionally one of us would break the silence by remark- ing about the chances that this or that workman was taking. Along comes a thick-set fellow and, seeing us, lazily edges over our way, meanwhile spitting to- bacco juice to his side as he asks us for the time. Hearing us remark about the danger of working on a construc- tion like that he says, “Well, fel- lows, we're kina brisk with this’ job here but~we only had a few mis. haps the most serious one being when that elevator shaft loosened on top and came crashing down. Gosh! you ought to. see those devils down here run!” For a while he started at a few workers wheeling cement in bar- Short of food and drinking water. On pitch dark nights we would first mate to try his hand at forg-| gather under the forecastle head | “Well, boys, accidents are bound to | and discuss means of bettering our conditions. We were-not afraid. All for one and one fér all became our slogan. Hell ship, indeed. Pig-head, as we called the priest- representing successive stages of such a subject as a galloping horse, }and as the cylinder is rotated one |sees the horse apparently in mo- |tion. The pictures were drawn by With the expiration of local agreements between the Stage Hands’ Union and Syracuse theatres on August 31, the stage hands in- |tend making a demand for an in- jcrease in wages of $10 to $15 per |__In 1872, Edward Muybridge, an| week. | Englishman, made photographs of a |race horse in motion, which were |used for theatres where the nobles |went. It is true that, compared to | motion pictures of today, the results | were crude, but they were pictures |in motion, nevertheless. e Recent years marked a complete | A committee is now working with the co-operation of the other thea- trical unions toward that end. The | new wage scale will raise the wages | of carpenters to $60 for a six-day week, with $20 additional for Sun- day work. Other workers, now re- | man was called to this terrible state jhe merely smiled and said that if a worker was killed there was nothing so awful about that. Besides the burning rivets falling down upon the laborers, planks were also pulled down after the construction of a |concrete wall. Here, too, the lives of the workers were endangered, but the superintendent was not af- fected by this danger. | This has been going on for quite |a long while and the workers did nothing to change these conditions. —A LABORER. ceiving $45, would receive $55. period of transformation to a new |era of motion pictures. At this |time we see them popularized to |such an extent that for the ruling class they become a weapon to in- sure their political, power. Because | > the motion picture is so delicate} BOOTH Thea., fi St, w. lB ver and effective a weapon it can be} Mats. Tuesday and ‘Thursday, 2:30 used as a valuable propagandist. | The LADDER | tures of real life. They must serve for the education of the masses, to} raise their cultural and moral level. hawk BOW foes wake |Our work in motion pictures in the | 8 WEEKS IN ADVANCE. |future will greatly be done not in| — oyog, CORT PHBATRE, W. 48 St. Money Refunded if Not Satisfied The Heart of Coney Island Battle of Chateau Thierry LUNA May Wirth, Phil & Family PARK tat BIG FREE CIRCUS mn: 8 Great Swimming Pool 50 Acres of Real Fun CHANIN’S, W. of Broadway ‘46th St. Evenings at 8:26 Mats, Wed. & Sat. SCHWAB and MANDEL’'S MUSICAL SMASH Godb NEW with GEO. OLSEN HIS MI | the studio, but on the field, in the | | mills, mines and factories—where With Play. \the masses live and struggle. Cc A M E eee NOW | ae |. 64 1199 Czar Ivan the Terrible . —N. M. ere hee te | rows to the mouth of a trough and | then dumping the barrows’ contents |" PRONE fi — when they would abruptly turn and * 99 The Russian and “Potem — |go for another load. At length the Film Ctassie STREET CAR MEN ORGANIZE DURBAM, N. C., Aug. 2.—Street car workers in Durham have or- ganized into a union. The street ear company is ¢harged with hiring stool-pigeons to wreck the unibn. | tobacco-spitting individual remarks, | |happen on ‘these jobs but this one | |sure was a terror. We were put-| |ting up a huge wall on a rush job ja few months’ back, and you know jhow these cement-truckers are. | Well, when we took the hoards} DAILY WORKER | proudly stood out on the cabin sky- | light: “God speed, good ship ‘Glen- lui.’ Despite this holy and stupid inscription, the “Glenlui” was neither a good ship, nor had any possible God any particular inter- est in speeding her. She was like the average “windjammer” of those days of 1910, a hell ship and conse- quently nearer the devil than the) Almighty. | In the North Atlantic, during some bad weather, two sailors, bad Jones’ locker.” ‘They cursed too | much, so Ged did not like them. And this is why they have “Fear pot-bellied man, looking for all the legs. Upturned mouth and full- mooned face, on his bald head a making cap (like the one Mussolini || wears), but only of a red color, Be- tween his tusks an ugly pipe, which ihe is smoking continually, never | taking it out of his mouth. He curses the weather, shakes his |fat fist at the heavens and shouts to the man at the wheel, “Keep the he was kept in | and bold, went overboard to “Davy | royals (sails) shaking, you son-of- a ‘ “One For All.” At sea. Soc —_— | world like a pig walking on its hind | | | | “Water, water, every- | | ene of the 40,000 traction workers. \God and obey your king” bunk on! where; but not a drop to drink.” like captain, is “very free” with the | elaine pin dicing the day aad away from the hardened concrete | a ; |darn if we didm’t see a pair of | with the gun at night. Why should | @ he fear? Hasn't he a large body- | Palms wedged into the concrete. A guard, comprising ten apprentices, | POOF devil had fallen in the chute! future ship owners, drawn from the | 24 had been buried alive in he ‘ | concrete wall!” 2 middle classes of England? He spit tobacco-juice tas ene | The ship’s cook almost poisoned | remarked, “Yep, that building had 8 living monument—and he’s still there.” Our stomachs seemed to battle dangerously with the food we had previously eaten as we gloomily walked back to the office. the captain. And he was just plain sick of him as the rest of us were. —PETERSON.. (To Be Continued). g 1852, THE SAME ADDRESS OVER 75 YEARS 1928 ETR SAVINGS BAN | carer J ASSETS EXCEEDING $29,000,000 Deposits made on or before the 3rd day of the month will draw interest S 7 from the Int “ny of the month. BAIS | POLITAN Last Quarterly Dividend paid 1 on all amounts from $5.00, 5% to $7,500.00, at the rate of Open Mondays (all day) until 7 P. M. 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