The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 13, 1928, Page 4

ge Four FIED Th a er xr wera ere --—-- ‘N3 THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1928. Philadelphia Storage Ba ~~) ttery Co. Runs Wage Cut kacket, Correspondent Reveals ~~ Hungry Miners’ Children at Food Kitchen FL Al ANI FLAYS ‘Russian Fil Cast Mavi. F HANaOuTS SLASH WAGES BY Caren at Food Kitchen MUST ORGANIZE ussian Films Cast Magic BN sr ty sean ARTER fee a PHILA MILITARY CAMPS Spell in Europe and America ,. and picked snobs, sons and daugh- : : 4 | ; i Bee the ee a Lenter what are , | (Continued.) without recourse to artificial 40 ‘arning this fall, according to the HOUR TIME FRAUD | GARMENT TRADE IN COURT ROOM. “Personally I never liked the mo-| tricks or any effort to please a o omputation of the U Bureau of 1 | PM } ° tion pictiire, partly because it is a!special kind of public. Money- ad Iducation. A great many more 6 | | ea art Loyang for Sheri’ pot gee peers bo Ons and daughters of the poor will! . 4». _+ - ; | : | +,,|and normal mental functions; partly| “‘Like the drama and the ballet, Voc entering factories at the same| OfficialsKnowNothing | 1/Blumberg, Weinstone,|Arrested at Open-Air'| pocause it never had any artistic or |the motion picture is medium of i cime, But- with the kind of dope wl | * * | } dramatic content, nor any cultural| cultural evolution and should not r being handed out in the colleges| Of It, Absolutely Not Morriconi Must Go | Meeting theaning. But I’ changed my atti-|be made a plain and brutal busi- these days the less college a man OY Segsaey i | tude after seeing the Soviet film,| ess proposition, as it is the cause a yas the more educated he is. (By a Worker Correspondent) (By a Worker Correspondent) | | See ontbaie (eo Mat and I began to ale myself: what was | With some producers of American " 4 2. PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).— B| PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).—| ¢, Mallet Juaties Kaa al mi showed | the secret of its unexpected appeal? |and West European films, says = 7 4 Pp = Philadelphia Storage Battery Com- The officialdom. of the Amalga- |, P' “ay He it fre t he What gives to the Soviet film its|Anatoly Lunacharsky, the Soviet © ‘ Look Pretty Now pany has set up a short-change ar- |mated Clothing Workers in this city, | ps CO” In Mie capitalist court nere. | trinsic power of curiosity—arous-|Commisar of Fine Arts. 5 i : tist, and is now working a devilish |now under the rule of Mr. Blum. | Domenick heer yorTe rraitant | ing novelty? “A rather heated controversy is ¢ 3 cut racket among its employes. By berg, opposes a militant policy to ery eet eR eh OF IB ihe, War “In order to. answer these ques-|%t Present taking place among L : means of it a state statute forbid- organize the clothing workers of | held in $800 bail together with Ep-| ot Olt oe mew tnoro study o¢(cimema workers of Russia, One EI ding women workers from being ex- Philadelphia. fees ting iain aA OL - ee Pe new Russian motion ‘cture | STOUP tries to produce pictures to s ploited for more than eight hours Dominick Flaiani, a militant | /eatine in the pence price) Pobre rete nash eins aa the | Please the sensuous or other con- —? : per day is hood-winked and, at the fighter among the clothing workers | ice Station, for the grand jury. ee ne a product g|Vential branch of the publio—like § same time the pay envelope of each | of this city, was recently removed | Flaiani was arrested July 28th) Soret are eure ond Boontantoos|some of our own films in America. woman worker is rifled of a half from the organizers’ staff for hay-| When he was, addressing about 200 | ne ens nea ee ie aoe reecianal | Another group advocates keeping of day’s wages each week. ing presented a militant policy to Workers at 29th and Cumberland | rie RECUES e see fe essional | tne pure artistic-cultural ideals of The fraud is accomplished by organize the Philadelphia clothing |St8» at an open-air meeting ar | technicians and artificial stars. With] ine founders of all revolutions. Ono making factory girls put in eight workers. Flaiani, in presenting his /Tenged by the Young Workers/a small exception, the best clnema| writer in a Russian cinema maga- and three-quarter hours, but not Setaid policy, which is the policy of the (Communist) League. | are of the nibdaci is created by a zine says: counting the fraction in the pay- Photo shows hungry miners’ children receiving a meal in a food | militant workers in the Amalga- hace Bisa ae wars had/group of racial A ene tech-|"“« «Shall our motion picture be a ® \ master’s department, so that when| kitchen run by the National Mine Relief Committee. Miners’ children | mated, exposed the Blumbergs, the |their lawyer, Jay ©, Bossard, to|nicians, actors and intelligentsia, | purely commercial proposition, like ~ Picture shows Lieut. Carloss J. Chamberlin being married at Camp Peekskill, N. Y., marching under an }can’t bear to wrench themselves a state examiner comes to look over the rolls, ail, to outward seeming, is well. often faint in, school looms for liundreds of thousands the workers because of under-nourishment. Starvation of miners ,and their families if of the United States do not rush aid at once. Naturally enough, the company bigwigs flatly deny any knowledge of the graft, were they to be ques- tioned about it. There are the books to show that the women are being paid at an hourly rate for eight hours of work. If they are so be- witched by their work that they LIMA, Peru, (By Mail).—The| away from it before getting in an domination of Peru and other oe and South American countries by extra hour or so, that is not our) 7, . apitali ea look-out. So the bosses say. Wee i lat hy atk eae esi to most miserable conditions for But here are the facts: They be-| native workmen that amounts vir- gin the grind at 7:15 a. m. and are| tually to a state of peonage. unchained at 4:45 p. m. having| A strict censorship has prevent- three-quarters of an hour for lunch. | ed any news that attempts to des-| WORKER TELLS STORY: OF SLAVERY IN PERU one is allowed to land. Women and children come out to meet the ships selling trinkets and begging for a piece of bread or some old clothes. They would do almost anything for a piece of butter or to get a shirt, no matter how old, for their hus- band. The stevedores on the docks| beg for a bite to eat. Lieastros and the rest of the or-| ganizers Sent in by the General Ex- | ecutive Board here at high salary with the intention not to organize | Philadelphia but to demoralize the clothing workers of this city. The present leadership of the Amalgamated has nothing to give | to the workers, has no policy to organize the unorganized workers, | has no policy to better the condi- tions of the clothing workers sere | and elsewhere. The settlement that the union has made with the Baroff shop in the | last two days in no way battered | the conditions of the workers of this particular shop. These work- | ers were forced to go back to work | on the same conditions that hey | |prosecute Flaiani and Epstein de- |came to the court to testify against | |heard Flaiani call Herbert Hoover | |for presideney a “capitalist” and manding their conviction or evic-| tion. | A few fascist reactionary mem-| bers of the veterans of foreign wars | Flaiani. Francis Ward, a fascist | member of the veterans testified he | a millionaire republican nominee he, Ward, heard also that Flaiani | stated that “Hoover represents | Wall Street, the capitalists, the | bankers of this country and not the workers.” This fascist stated that | Flaiani spoke “disrespectfully” of | the strike-breaker president, Cal | Cool Coolidge. Another fascist took the stand to which gives it all the natural fresh- | ness and simplicity found in folk) arts, Whereas most of our or West the publie‘wants?? or shall ‘it be a European films are produced in| clear-cut cultural undertaking, con- elaborate studios, with elaborate| aucted with an idealogiical aim in mechanical equipments, stupendous | yiow? artificial structures of castles,! «Shall we sell our souls and palaces and 80 on, those of the So-| bodies to the biggest bidders and viets’ Goskinos and private com-| produce pictures to make money, or panies are produced in natural sur-| shall we produce outspoken kultur- roundings with all the atmosphere | fms?’ and:make-up of actuality. Whether) «A yecent conference held by lead- the scene is cast in a palace, in a| town or in the country, in th eth | cha ste ue oh oe Pa y, in the noi cided that, like the Russian stage, or in the tropics, it is acted in those | music,-the ballet and literature, the surroundings, and in most cases| Russian film should keep to the with all the characters described in| highest iddals of art and life, irre- the scenario enlisted from the true spective of profit. In fact it was | racial stock. | pointed out that no great works of that of America and Western Eu- rope, run en the principle of ‘what j N i i iti i | i ‘ ‘ IL. art, for the stage or otherwise, were arch of swords of the kind he'll be|No rest petiods are allowed them |cribe the actual condition of affairs ; i jeame out. The only one that made | testify against Flaiani and he said | x ae i a : sitting on in the nezt war. Most|by the foreman, for the speed-up from leaving the country. Every) | If anybody from the ship tries to the gain is Blumberg, who will be|that Flaiani attacked bitterly the| Nasa id steed . shee hig Pa aaa Sewer s geee, soldiers join the army because |here will tot brook any let-up in| attempt to form a union, or even|‘#ix to the women or to the work-| able to collect dues to reduce the | Citizens’ Military Training Cantps |. pe TRAD ERI | Ae PAUL: CEC UC BERL Rew Ot aie they're hungry, the others because they think they look well in uniform. ee 8 “Cleveland Poor to Get $2,000,000 Under Butcher’s Will in Year 2178.) Says a newspaper headline. What may bring disaster to this program is that there may not be any poor in Cleveland in 2178, any serf, male or female, during express demands is immediately dis- the work day. Well? covered by spies and suppressed. What labor organizations do exist Of late the Philco, as it is called, | here are company unions, controlled has gone in heavily for radio parts. | and subjugated. by company offi- Little by little the, gangs of un- | cials, skilled men at first used in this! To enforce the will and glutonous work are being forced out to make | exnloitation of the American capi- place for girls and women, who, of | talists the United States govern- course, are given a lower wage for ment keeps two or three battle- ers for any period of time they are immediately told to move along either by a policeman or a plain- clothes man, BY A WORKER CORRESPON- DENT. Says U. §S. President, standard of living of these work- ers, The reasons why Flaiani was re- moved from the organizers’ staff | of the Amalgamated is because he | is a militant fighter and wanted to | better the conditions of the worgers, | because he proposed that the union | must fight for a 25 per cent in- saying that “the bosses of this coun- try are militarizing the young work- | ers of this country for the coming | war that the capitalists are prepar- | ing.” The veterans of foreign wars are very actively working to railroad Flaiani and Epstein into jail. The! judge, Roberts, stated that any| the principle used by the classic Russian ballet for more than a cen-| tury, the principle of naturalistic | realism of episodes true to life. In this respect the picture keeps a} natural tempo and normal dramatic | continuity and is not overcrowded with artificial scenes or driven at| the mad speed of the usual Holly- ing the public what it wanted’ was all bosh. “Lately the different nationalistic state film companies of Russia have begun to produce. typically juvenile pictures, and pictures with an out- spoken rural appeal. It is remark- able that in all phases of motion picture production the Russian is ieee ‘ i for th il, ii ‘ | wood productions, a speed which| not interésted in technical intrica- - the identical work. When hired Ehey ships in every port where elther Can Easily Go Into Ay a eres NASGans He CEHEASOE Goat eae nL Fah icra | sali) stanaea ® gutelinental, ctl cles ton tn watiat erect tee cae Foot Exploiters ave given to understand ‘that they copper or refining companies have) WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass,, Aug. ition of piece-work, for 40 houts | will not receive any mercy but will tly to the eye, but more so to the| in vital Lifts canmeeetag RAHA DANCING” pendent on production, with a’ slid Workers ta Barracks 12 (UP).—The president ‘of the| “eek ete., because he opposed the | be sent to jail. bats cal truths which are clearly re- If there is anything base in a human being capitalism will drag it owt and flon it on a pedestal, for instance the willingness to butter “Weer bread with human torture as do’ the promoters of marathon dances. After the tenth day the dancers: shown above lost most of their fondness for dancing and all of their affection for each other. Partners blame each other for the | thropy. ing group bonus thrown in for good at Callao an American copper measure—in some cases. Nothing is company, with offices at 26 Broad- 7 howevse, Lapse aoe extra time | way, New York City, dominates and for which nothing will be paid.| exploits the whole population. The Probably the bosses think that the workers in its mines are separated four extra. hours they force them) from the town and live in crude,| to work is a tribute to their philan- | wooden barracks that are construct-| ed by the company, where they are A shop warden was approached | forced to remain. The barracks are) recently by a new hand who had built on poles over muddy land and) found a disagreement between the | offer inadequate spores oot contents of her first pay-pouch and, tin and wind. Epidemics often) ; r her record’ of hours worked. The| Drea out here taking a, toll of) whip passed it over with this ra-| ™andrecs Dut bese id Honalization: “Well, you girls |TePlaced by more native labor which| would rather accept this prison hole spend at least three-quarters of an} than’ starvation: United States—through expansion of executive powers to recent years —<could easily plunge the nation into war by his power to provoke an act of war, Professor Edwin M. Borchard of Yale University told the Institute of Polities Friday at round table discussion. “Presidential practice in: recent years has resulted in expansion of chief executive powers,” Borchard said. “By ordering the landing of marines in foreign countries, he could effectually create a situation from which it might be extremely difficult for congress to withdraw, kind of agreement that Blumberg | and Weinstein made with the Baroff | contractor. .. The workers, the clothing work- | ers of Philadelphia, have no confi- | dence in the present leadership of | \the Amalgamated, and these work- | ers must organize under the leader- | ship of the left wing in the union | hy joining the Trade Union Educa- | |tional League and fight on until) the Amalgamated is rid of the Hill- | mans, Blumbergs, Morriconis, the | Licastros and the rest of the cor- | rupt parisites that we have now as | the “leadership” of the Amalga-| mated. | The Young Workers (Communist) League as well as the Workers) | (Communist) Party will continue to|demned the high-speed American have open-air meetings in Judge) Roberts’ division. | The workers of the section where Flaiani was arrested are aware of the actvities of the fascist legion- naire veterans of foreign wars and) they despise them. The workers will vote for the Communist ticket in that section and not for anyone ticket who do not represent the working class, as a protest against the activities of the veterans of the foreign wars and the rest of the! | flected in Slavonic pictures, no mat- | ter what they portray. Nearly all the recent Soviet pictures carry a jcertain message, even if their exe- cution drags on occasion or the staging is defective. (To Be Continued.) High-Speed Film Condemned. “Dr. Pavlov and Freud have con- film because of its abnormal pace and tempo. The claim it causes in- creasing social morony and incapac- ity of thinking. ““The effect of high-speed mod- | ern motion pictures is the cause of the ultimate downfall of our oc- cidental mind, writes Professor | Kirchoff in criticizing the film. ‘It acts like a narcotic on the minds of constant onlookers and thus leads to a kind of deterioration of normal mental function.’ Vare Recovering ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 10 (UP).—William S. Vare, sena- tor-elect from Pennsylvania, is on |the road to recovery, his physicians | said. ‘ 2 2 unless it chose to repudiate the pres- 3 capitalists and capitalist agencies. “This is exactly what the Soviet} COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., he pine SPECIE the The copper miners at Callag work! ident.” eae ME Ra neha he oes —S.R. |film has perhaps instinctively | Aug. 12 (UP).—~More than 50 air- wig r ve quivalen' ; Fe vol : bill for your beauty treatments.” for tive: pesoe pat aay eae Professor Borchard said “the | izing the Philadelphia clothing mar- avoided. planes from all sections of the fifty cents in American money. For As a matter of fact, if a woman | this pittance they, dig copper from took out that amount of time for eleven to fourteen hours per day,} recesses the “law “provides” her end if ordered, work overtime with- with, she would be canned without | out pay. Besides their “salary” they ado. This was proven conclusively are supposed to be fed by the com- recently when two young women’ pany. “Food” consists of muddy were fired for singing a few bars water called soup with some rotten of a popular song. They had dared Potatoes in it as the main dish. A to look up from their work bench. |a8ve even offered a few relishes How much the rake-off brought in by the short-change racket amounts to, an outsider cannot say, | sometimes in the form of something that the company chooses to call coffee, rice and cake. world will-justify assumption by the United States of a decree of con- trol necessary to keep order in Nicaragua because of! special inter- ests which we have there.” BIG G. 0. P. HOWL TODAY PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 12.— Two hundred and forty musicians will blare “Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here,” a crowd, ‘it is stated, will join in, and the big republican ket. It is up to the rank and file cf the union to take to its hands the | organization and rid itself of Wein- | stein and the rest of the mislead-| ers. | The Philadelphia clothing workers must organize into a committee and \lead a campaign organization to or- ganize Philadelphia. | _ The Philadelphia militant cloth- jing workers must unite to organize Philadelphia, The clothing work- TWO FLYERS KILLED. CLERMONT-FERNAND, France,| Aug. 12 (UP).—Two youthful army fliers, both 18, were killed when two instruction planes, landing simul- taneously, crashed at the airdrome here. openly today: “Blumberg must go, | Weinstein must go, Morriconi must go, the corrupt London must go, jand the rest of the misleaders of | ‘the Philadelphia Amalgamated must | “The most significant feature of | United States will participate in the the Soviet film is its sincere dra-| three-day Pikes Peak air meet matic appeal. This appéal is made|which opened here yesterday. TER AME ar ~ a <r | BOOTH haa fs St. W. of B'way | CHANIN’S46th St, W. of Broadway venings® 8:30 Evenings at 8:25 Mats. Tuesday and Thursday, 2:30 if Mats, Wed. & Sat. ne es ms = it must do the girls MEM of ‘their feet and end up| =°Pt to Bess it must do the gir by not speaking, but they have to Stick together for business reasons. After the agony is two weeks old i | SCHWAB and MANDEL’S Yellow Dogs Watch. notification howl will be in full| ©" °'8anized and unorganized, say go.” C. W. ‘GRAND ST. FO TES A ne EASE The workers themselves look a8+Swing today, when Herbert Hoover | f LI OOD NE The LADDER out of much and necessary money. * - £4 * |though they had just been: through fficially deli hi tas The average weekly pay for radio | fs * officially delivers his acceptance ne age a tremendous beating or through | speach at the G. O. P. nomination ce Mal ds : with GEO. OLSBN « part workers (females) is $12. But, | the cog-wheels of the machines that) :P°°>" fa oi REES ' old not satisfied with giving them pate Soak are This will take place (ea 2 ; Every new reader of The smart th di r | ttanols, ” < : separate the copper. Their feet are + ‘ " em | Eves. 8:30. Mats. Wed. & Sat. ‘i i pues a veetty Patt: atthe list ‘coolie pay,” the Philadelphia Stor-| swollen beyond recognition, their |‘ the Stanford University Bowl, SUPPORT THE share. Now. ON SALE] DAILY WORKER is a potential Poauirathon $25 was put up by Frank |%8°, Battery Company unlawfully | backs stooped, their hands all ADVANCE. soldier in the coming battles of the workers. forces them to work overtime, and! chopped’ up. then cheats them out of the profits ‘Around the mines and the bar- of that overtime. And, meanwhile, | racks the company police imported Campbell, an eager mortician, With Play. $100,000 Communist Take the i exe € . there hangs in the employment of-| from the United States keep a ° i — REFRIGERATED —— 42nd St. and Gems of Learning fice a tastefully framed copy of the| strict watch. They are armed and| DAILY WORKER Campaign Fund | ALBEE AMEO eee cawien state statute dealing Sn en present a formidable appearance to | S KEITH- Cc NOW i: cases, its glass cover reflecting the | dissatisfied worker. If there is With You on Your A campaign COOL AND COMFORTABLE Rey. A. Ruecker: Siente Hose SE Aah adave aan: any dis! paign to rouse the workers and poor “The church must set the pace | e@gainst war.” \ Im the last war the church set the pace in sword-rattling. Percy W. Howard, Negro national committeeman charged with taking a share of $1,500 for bringing about the appointment of a deputy U. S. Marshal :— “J have no fear of the outcome of too much interest in a conversation, |too many workers gathered at one |time, if a stranger tries to speak —N. B. 6 HURT IN AUTO MISHAP SILVER CREEK,N. Y., Aug. 12 (UP).—Five Buffalo women were/ help but be submissive—with the| injured and Walter Hagerty of Dun- kirk was perhaps fatally injured recently here in an automobile col- lision. They were all removed to a local hospital. to them, the yellow dogs perform their duty. The workers cannot company ready to call upon the bat- tleships not so very far away. The condition of the workers who load the copper ore are still worse. They receive three pesos per day, | Vacation Keep in touch with the strug- gles of the workers while you are away on your vaca- tion. This summer the Elec- tion Campaign will be in full swing. The DAILY WORK- ER will. carry up-to-the-min- * FOR Organization of unorganized. the 2. Support of the min- . ers and textile work- ers’ struggles. | farmets to revolutionary struggle against the capitalists and their government. AGAINST 1. Wage cuts, injune- tions and company unions. FILM ARTS GUILD Presents First American Showing EMIL JANNINGS «0 -tunes Foor AND IN ADDITION CHAS. CHAPLIN in “THE FIREMAN” and STARA CHER ONS WATERS”—a UFA Novelty Ree! In a Tragicomedy of War's Aftermath 2. Unemployment. , h ial i is- a $ “ apr ys concernin; vhe 3. Recognition and de- hi f the Bee end eimpartial trial in Mis AN” IYIN ind the same “food” as the others. ules news.” i fa and 4 3. Treachery of +) sissippi. No man in the nation has Seer Retard They, too, must ilve in barracks—| seat ie a pone Kenve of ; the: Soviet labor. bureauctncy: Siemcee thant to prevent any-| | ore authorities, working in the| if there is toom for them, “And it|} (rommauesss Panty = 4.4 ‘Labor Party, 4. Discrimination thing that even smacked of the pur- | Count) y Working. in the ays vat enon ther commennewitlt rious : : apilnet Naren chase and sale of public offices. interests of local mining companies, Daily cable news service from 5. For a Workers’ and Dk i i i allow them to sleep in old hulks| failed in their attempt to force the which sit hes.tound: lying abbut in| inhabitants here to buy no othe Peeks * the harbor. coal but that mined in the county. Control’ Workers’ Lines. { About thé same conditions exist | in Malliando, where the same cop-| per company has a mine. In Toco-| | pilla there are both British and| | American copper and oil refining | | companies, and both seem to be in| | competition as to who can be the | | cruelest master, | | At Paita the International Petro-| |leum Company holds complete sway | lover the lives of the workers and | their families. It keeps its em-/| ployes in shacks completely isolated | from the rest of the town. It is a} pitiful experience to come into this harbor on board a ship. The first! thing that strikes the eye is the} smoked-up plant of the company dominating all like a huge incubous | and casting a formidable shadow lover the shacks of the workers. No 5. Imperialist war. Farmers government. HELP TO PROVIDE A FUND TO Place the Commu- Furnish campaign nists on the Ballot. publicity and adver- Tour speakers and tising. organize mass meet- Publish ings. literature. “ Respond Now! — Respond Now! Send All FUNDS to ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG, Treas. October 4, 5, 6, 7 DAILY WORKER and FREIHEIT Bazaar MADISON SQUARE GARDEN - Collect Articles! . "Now, Percy, cross your heart and look us straight in the eye! the World Congress of the Communist International which opens soon in Moscow. Vacation Rates 2 weeks 65c 2 months $1.50 Cc. 1 month $1», 3 months $2 $100,000 To fight the mighty Wall Street Powers with their pillions. 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