The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 14, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1928. Philade HAN ¥ In America if you really want to Qin the benediction of the church, he respect of the bell-hops and the Iphia Taxi. Machinists Must Organize Strong Union, Correspondent Urges dOuTS FRUIT COMPANIES" Bree StarvaGon; Amosieas Us WORKERS MADE WORK 10 HOURS AT BOTTOM OF _ SEE | INDIGNANT BY | A DAY FOR 4 ‘Russian Films Cast Magic Spell in Europe and America mdred thousand in graft. Graft, jowever is a berry that grows on a thorny bush in the the U. S. S. R., as witness the recent Donetz trial. ‘Members of the socialist party, who "are jumping up and down in their eagerness to wipe out capitalism by whispering behind its back, are quite startled at the direct methods the U. S. S. R. is using to ensure honesty in state affairs. The child who covers Russia for Victor Berger’s Milwaukee Leader inserted the following happy para- graph in an article sparkling with unconscious humor: “The recent trial of technical experts in the Donetz basin, end- fee h of the press make a few u ing in the execution of some and the imprisonment of most de- fendants, has made a very bad impression in foreign countries which supply most of the tech- or the Russian in- nical experts f dustr’ 4 “A bad impression” is no name for it. It created a panic. All the boys with their suitcases packed who expected to go to the U. S. S. R. and do an Albert B. Fall now re- gard the Soviet authorities as ill- natured in the extreme. * Writhes for Rich Accompanying is an actress forced by our amusing system of society to writhe somewhat to give a thrill to the vulgar rich who clamber into the $12 seats in their dress suits and aggressive bellies. She will do anything the stage manager tells her because ait happens there is a line a mile long outside the entrance waiting to take her job. In, this picture she is combining b ness with a little pleasure having nicked up a touch of poison ivy be- hind her left knee. 80 si~ * * * People in the U. S. who are scam- pering around looking for happiness hould know it as a plant not in-| “iguous to capitalist soil. Economic conditions can make a prize fight eut of the happiest family. For in- stance this case. Mrs. Ethel Trom-} Sley of St. Joseph, Michigan claims she didn’t have a dime her husband treated her that bad. He left her. Mrs. Trombley was so roiled she} nut up $500 of her own money to have her husband extradited from California to stand trial for deser- tion. In doing so she uttered one, af those intimate slams that usually are only heard in the sanctity of the home. She said her husband was “a menace to society.” * * * busy at Bunk The difference betweem the U. S. S. R. and the U. S. is that the one organizes for a broad life the other for bunk. Above is Dr. Frederick Gordon drumming up interest in the proposed 1932 Washington Exposi- tion by addressing a meeting on the steps of the sub-treasury, Wall and Nassau Sts. An exposition is a scientific method of transferring the coin of the gullible to the greedy. Philadelphia has one re- cently. It wasn’t must of a success. Now if a man is tired of life in Philadelphia he doesn’t turn on the gas, he just utters the word “Ex HONDURAS FIGHT. Cuyamel and United Interests Clash TEGUICIGALPA, Honduras, Aug. 6, (By Mail).—The settlement of the boundary dispute between Honduras and Guatemala was again postponed indefinitely by the refusal of the Honduran government to submit the conflict to the Central American tribunal as proposed by the United States secretary of state when the negotiations by a com- mission composed of representatives of Guatemala, Honduras and the United States failed. Guatemala accepted arbitration by a Central American Tribunal com- posed of representatives of the six Merrimac River at Manchester, N. world, were thrown open to the w Now it is a bridge to famine. Fe However, there is hope alive even in around it. Months ago before the New Bedford, one of the present seven gates of the Amoskeag Mills, the largest of their kind the line of the stragglers shown above is called to work at the mill. Thousands of workers used to crowd across this bridge over the . H,, in the days when all twenty- the age.slaves to enter and be driven. w of the gates are open and only n the grim Amoskeag and the town textile workers had walked out in leaders of the Fall River Textile Mill Committee organized a Mill Committee in these mills also. republics, but Honduras, after wait-| ing a few weeks refused, giving as its reason that the lists of members from among ‘whom such tribunal could be selected is not final and only temporary, and consequently could not have any binding value. Instead, Honduras says that it is willing to submit to arbitration by the president of the United States, the Chief Justice of the Supreme | pe Court of the United States or any|.y other tribunal established by the U. S. government. (By Federated Press) Millions of clerks now working hind counters had better lay in a pply of tin cups and lead pencils | |if Consolidated Automatic Merchan- | |dising Corporation (Camco) suc-| Fruit Company Feud. | ceeds in ushering in the “Automatic | The American owned Cuyamel|4® of Merchandising.” Clerks go Fruit Company, very powerful in|°Ut, where Camco comes in. Al- Honduras, tried to build a railway |"cady United Cigar Stores, at 38rd | across Gutamalan territory to make | @"d Broadway, has laid off several a short route for the transport of because of clever machines which its goods to the sea. The Guatema- sell you your favorite i brand ot lan government, backed by the still Cigarettes. These machines differ more powerful United Fruit Com-| from Capek’s “robots” only in lack- | pany, also American owned, refused. ing human form. They parrot the There were armed conflicts at the|‘igarette’s slogan and end up by frontier, when Guatemala repelled/ Saying, “Thank You” in the best armed men sent \by the Cuyamel|mechanical manner for your 15 Co. from Honduras to force a pas-| cents. sage through Guatemala. When) _ And What Not! this became impossible Honduras Other vending machines carry vived an old claim to this territory. chocolates, chewing gum, postage | The American government was|Stamps, handkerchiefs, mints and asked to arbitrate. Washington did,Perfume, make change and weigh not wish to arbitrate between the|You. They are made by General interest of the two powerful Ameri-| Vending Corporation, Sanitary Post- can companies. But while the Cuya-|@ge Service Corporation, Automatic mel Co. is influential only in Hon-|Merchandising Corporation, Rem- duras, the United Fruit Company is|ington Service Machines and Scher- powerful in most of the other Cen-| mack Corporation, all of which have tral American government, who! been consolidated into Camco. consequently, in a Central American} On Camco’s board are executives Tribunal would vote for Guatemala, of the United Cigar Stores and that is for the United Fruit Co. As| Remington Arms Co. with represen- the United States remains neutral tatives of the merged firms, several in this dispute, there seems no es-| bankers, a lawyer and a merchan- cape from the present impasse andj dising expert. Camco claims to the Honduran government is talking|/have access to 50,000,000 retail lo- war as the only solution. cations. Wares will be marketed| Liggett, Union News, J. C. Penney, | McCrory, Photomaton and other re- Back of the corporation is seen| emington Arms Co., foe of the Ma- | \chinists Union, breaker of the metal | Nominee trades strike in Bridgeport, Conn.,| —_——-_ through its automatic machines in| GITLOW'S TOUR Woolworth, United Cigar, Schulte, | tail outlets. > | STARTS SEPT. 3 sas c°&'crprtin secon i Ri Communist MECHANICAL VENDERS DISPLACING CLERKS MAIL OF ‘SUNDAY WORKER’ OPENED British Police Spy on Communications LONDON, (By! Mail)—English workers’ institutions notice regularly that their mail comes a few hours late, since they first pass thru a political control in the post offices. Mail immunity is supposed to be granted by law, but the police in all lands do not seem to mind this law. | The Sunday Worker, a Commu- | nist newspaper, made a important discovery lately. The newspaper received in its mail regularly a let- ter addressed to a bourgeois firm, especially lately did these letters come every day. But it is impos. sible to locate the firm, From this fact it is evident that | SCHOOL COSTS Robbery Is Fine Art With Educators (By a Worker Correspondent) KANSAS CITY (By Mail).— There is a good deal of agitation throughout the country about the graft and general dishonesty of the Harding-Coolidge administration and of Tammany Hall, the real boss of the democratic party. But why picl: on just these two political machines of the capitalist class when similar }rraft and corrupt‘on rules in every city and state government. In Kansas City, Kansas, the board of education annually robs the poor workers out of tens of thousands of dollars. To be sure, free educa- tion is a great American principle and tradition. However, the locai politicians who sit on the board of education, posing as educators, think differently. They feel that cold cash takes preference to all kinds of principles. They have instituted a system of extorting enormous sums of money from the children for books ard school supplies. Almost every student of the higher grades has to spend from to dollars every term. To comg this may not sound as a hig sun, but the Kansas City workers find it very hard to spare 1% doi- lavs ior hooks. FParticuiarty hard is it for those workers who mak from 30 ts 50 cents an hou. Th politicians from the board of edu- cation have developed their art of robbing the public to a point cf unique perfection. In order to us- sure their steady income of graft they change the text books every year or every second year so that the same text book could not be used again. In addition, a student is compelled to buy the text books even if he proves to know the les- sons. So the principle is that one must bay books. The workers are indignant at this robbery. They rightly feel that this hold-up» must coase. The Communist Party heve has received a number of letters from working class mothers asking the Party to take up this struggle. The Party, the Young Workers (Com- munist) League and the Young Pioneers, will surely take up this | the police spy not only on political| fight, while at the same time it| organizations but also on private | calls upon the school children and firms when it has an opportunity. |their parents to organize. Some | Thru the maneuvers of the police | Workers think that they can force | officials a false letter is sent to the |Jegislation providing for real free | “Sunday Worker.” feducation. The Party makes clear | The newspaper has published the {0 these deluded workers that ets text of the letter together with a|the state and municipal legislatures | notice that the firm—evidenly a|controlled by the two old parties | (Continued.) “In regard to the question of | specific film music, which is at pres- | ent a vital problem for American | producers, the Russian cinema lead-| ers take a different attitude, keep- | ing the optical feature of the pic- ture distinctly separate from the phonetic. Although T. Sorokin fa- vors the use of mmsic, as shown in ‘his latest article in the official | | monthly Sovietskoe Kino, he speaks of natural orchestral music and not of our movietone of vitaphone types of mechanical musical accompani-| ment. Most of the Soviet film writ- ers consider a motion picture ar- tificial enough without the addition of artificial music. “* yeally well well performed and produced dramatic film does not need any musical accompani- ment, except it be an incidental case or during the intermissions,’ writes a Russian critic, ile in case of a dance or a | ballet-pantomine, music is natural, |it is rather disturbing when it is| injected into such sentimental boule- vard plays as are done by the New) York Broadway houses—plays acted in a studio which naturally require no music.’” “Like the puppet theatre of the middle ages, the motion picture to- day is a mechanical art, and the So- viet intelligentsia looks at it in that spirit. Fostered and supported by the Soviet authorities, it yet re- mains an inferior popular art—a kind of evolutionary prelude to the real dramatic stage and real living musical productions such as_ bal- lets, operas, orchestral and vocal concerts. It is thus nothing but an elementary step from a primitive to a higher culture, and thus in the Soviet terms a picture should be first and last a kulturfilm. “So far as I have been able to see the Soviet films, I prefer them to our best productions, regardless of whether they are with or wtihout musical features. To judge the new Russian motion picture justly one should see more than those few pro- letheistic pictures that have been displayed in America. Let us hope that L. Moroson, the learned repre- sentative of the Soviet films in the| United States, will enable American | audiences to see not only ‘October’ | and ‘SVD,’ bit the different na- tionalistic productions having typic- ally romantic appeal, such as “Splet- nia-Gossip,’ ‘Cherny Stolb’ (Black Post) and others.” COLOMBIA HOUSE OPPOSES MELLON Seen as Victory for British il BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug. |As British oil interests rej over the temporary defeat of the | Mellon interests when the Colom- bian senate unanimously agreed on | |a motion congratulating President the slogans insist upon the contract | Abadia for “the proper way in| | which the oil situation had been | | handled.” A preliminary motion congratu- | lating the government specifically | |on the reveal of the Barco oil con- cession, controlled by the Mellon in- terests, while meeting with favor was declared unconstitutional for | fear of insulting the United States | government. The state department at Wash-| ington made it clear yesterday that they were watching the situation carefully and would be ready to in- | tercede for Mellon in case he does | not succeed in coming to an agree- | ment with the Colombian govern- | | ment. SEVERE QUAKES IN MEXICO.}| | MEXICO CITY, Aug. 13 (UP).—| Severe earth shocks have terror-| ized the inhabitants of Zimapan,| state of Hidalgo, a dispatch to El) Universal said today. It was re- to Speak Thruout U. S. in the post-war period, and manu- facturer of guns, ammunition, typ | arsenal of the working class. writers, office machinery and va‘ ous metal products. Remington takes over the production of auto- any value comes to a man unless| matic postage stamp selling ma- |he has to put up his mits for it. I|chines, of which 20,000 are in op- | | have been reading about Gene Tun- | eration now, selling 120,000,000 |ney making two million dollars with | stamps yearly. Within five years |his gloves and winning a $50,000,-| 20,000 more stamp sellers will be 000 wife, so we farmers are think- | installed ing of putting on the gloves and | Underwood also takes over the {knocking out the capitalists.” |genius of Joseph J. Schermack, in- Ex-Wobbly Writes. ventor of the talking automatic ma- is ‘ chines which now sells cigarettes From the mining region of Mon-|and makes change but which can tana comes a letter from a former|be turned into any sort of simple | Wobbly, who now sees that political | merchandising. Schermack’s ma- action is a necessary weapon in the | chine, it has been said, | Continued from Page One “does every- s ss. He|thing but slap a man on his back hails from Anaconda, and wishes to | and ask him how his family is.” have his name omitted because he} ‘Thousands Face Elimination. believes it more valuable that he| Following the success of Scher- hold his job then get a little pub mack’s machine on Broadway, plans licity. He writes to Foster. who | are being made to place 100,000 will speak in Butte on September | (alking venders throughout the 13. | country. Two venders, it is’ esti- “Dear Bill:—I intend to be at | mated, displace one clerk, or, as your meeting in Butte on Septem-| Camco executives put it, “release publishing house—to whom the | the workers stand no chance of re-| letter is addressed, should announce | lief and that the only way to stop itself. | this robbery is to organize the school children and the parents and ‘ ‘ through their organized force’ com- | Can’t Jail Strikers |pel the school authorities to grant | free education. DETROIT, Aug. 13.—The strike- | breaking Peninsular Stove Com-| pany failed in its attempt to con- | viet nine striking iron molders here after they picketed the plant. The company recently tried to introduce non-union conditions. GIVE UP TREASURE HUNT. SAINT NAZAIRE, France, Aug. gian liner Elizabethville and her fortune in diamonds remains un- which has been searching for the diamonds in the wreck of the Elizabethville, sunk by a German Imperialist Airplane Crashes in Nicaragua | WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (UP).| |~-An observation plane piloted by | | Commander Euville D. Howard crashed at Somoto, Nicaragua, a re- port to the navy said today. Nei- {18 (UP),—The riddle of the Bel-|ther Howard nor Sergeant James F. Hill, who accompanied him, were injured, but the plane was a com- solved. An Italian salvage party | Plete loss. | ported a mountainside caved in dur- | ing the disturbance. | Pinotepa, scene of recent earth- quakes, experienced two new tem-| blors yesterday. | SHIP-TO-SHORE MAIL. (UP). — Ship-to-shore airplane mail service was inaugurated suc- cessfully today when a small bi- plane which took off from the French Line steamship Ille De France 500 miles at sea, landed at qnaea esa at 5:16 p. m. today. submarine during the war, gave up the quest today. Take the DAILY WORKER With You on Your ber 13 unless I break my neck in him for more productive efforts.” the meantime. Anything is liable Another new Remington machine to happen to a fellow here. JT used | sells gum and mints; 30,000 are in to be so much of a syndicalist that| place now and within five years | I thought you Communists were no | 220,000 will be busy selling ect | better than the democrats and re- | publicans. Well, f have been doing | (ers, & lot of reading and thinking in the Jast year. I saw what the state militia did to the striking miners in Colorado and how useful the state Sept. 3, Philadelphia; was to the mine owners in suppres- | Monessen or Canonsburg; Sept. 7, sing demonstrations, arresting lead- | Pittsburch: Sept. 9, Cieveland; ers and shooting down the pickets. Sept. 10, Youngstown, O.; Sept. 11, “T also read about the strike in| Bellaire, 0.; Sept. 12, Toledo, 0.; Ohio, Pennsylvania, and northern | Sept. 13, Grand Rapids, Mich.; West Virginia and how the state | Sept, 14, Gary, Ind.; Sept. 15, In- 3 East 125th St., New York City. Gitlow’s tour will include the fol- lowing cities: Sept. 6, officials that were elected by the | dianapolis; Sept. 16, St. Louis; Sept. | | working class votes used the armed | ;7, Springfieid, Ili.; Sept. 19, Du- | 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- ute news concerning the campaign ef the Workers (Communist) Party in the various states, Daily cable news service from the World Congress of the Communist International which opens soon in Moscow. FOR + Organization unorganized, of the « Support of the min- ers and textile work- ers’ struggles. Recognition and de- fense of the Soviet Union, A Labor Party, For a Workers’ and Farmers government. ns SUPPORT THE $100,000 Communist Campaign Fund ~* A campaign to rouse the workers and poor farmers to revolutionary struggle against the capitalists and their government. HELP TO PROVIDE A FUND TO AGAINST 1. Wage cuts, injunc- tions and company unions. 2. Unemployment. 3. Treachery of the labor bureaucracy. 4. Discrimination against Negroes. 5. Imperialist war. Vacation Rates SOVIET SPORTS FESTIVAL OPENS 150,000 Athletes in Spartakiad Continued from Page One jculture—the enemy of alcoholism, hooliganry; the friend of the new healthy life.” At the same time the press and batween the Soviet sports and the sports of the non-Soviet world. Big Program. “The bourgeois sporting organiza- tions,” they assert, “are a school for fascism and militarism.” The program indicates the follow- ing major divisions for the Sparta- kiad: Games, Football, Basket-Ball, Tennis, etc., Light Athletics: Shoot ing, Swimming. Heavy Athletics: Obstacle Races, Fencing, Rowing. _ CENTS AN HOUR Mitten Serfs Tortured By Speed-up (By «a Worker Correspondent) PRILADELPHIA (By Mail).—The workers engaged in the taxicab in- dustry here are one of the most underpaid ‘and exploited sections of the working class. There is no taxi drivers’ union here at the present time. Machinists and auto mechan- ies are forced to work under the most miserable conditions at the {Quaker City Cab Company: 10 hours per day, 7 days per week and sometimes when a storm ties up the cabs they must work many hours overtime. The speed-up that is used here is fierce. If a mechanic fails to turn out a certain amount of cabs he is fired. Mitten, of course, controls this company and this labor-hating exploiter drives the workers almost to madness. The older workers worry about dismissal continually since a couple | of workers are fired each week, The workers protest but the boss says it’s hard to get a job but easy to get new men and if you don’t do the }amount of work required you can | go. No fans are used in the place to draw the deadly gas fumes out. The workers sometimes drop faint in the shop and very often leave work with headaches. The pay is from 45 to 65 cents per hour for machinists and | mechanics. The store-keepers and tool-room attendants receive only from 60 to 100 dollars per month |for a 12-hour work day and 7-day | week. And this exists under Mitten management by Mitten men. | The only way that the older men penn get rid of the torture of having to keep up with the younger men to hold thir jobs and to get rid of |the fear of being thrown out of | work, the only way to have these miserable conditions in general bet- tered is by having the taxi-workers |in Philadelphia to organze into such |a strong union which will be able to jdo what they want and place the bosses under ther own power. W. C. P. r% use Thea., 45 St., W, of B’wa: BOOTH Evenings 8:30 bid Mats. Tuesday and Thursday. 2:30 GRAND ST. FOLLIES The LADDER Eves. 8:30, Mats. Wed. & Sat. SEATS NOW ON SALE 8 WEEKS IN ADVANCE. | CORT THEATRE, W. 48 St. Money Refunded if Not Satisfi. With Play. You're in the fight when you write for The DAILY WORKER. CHANIN’SAGth St. W- of Broadway Evenings at 8:25 Mats. Wed. & Sat. Goob NEWU,; with GEO. OLSEN and HIS MUSIC SCHWAB and MANDEL’S Keith- CAMEO 4and & Now MUSICAL SMASH Albee Bway Emil JANNINGS in “FORTUNE'S FOOL” AND CHARLES CHAPLIN in “THE FIREMAN” October 4, 5, 6, 7 DAILY WORKER and FREIHEIT Bazaar MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Collect Articles! TO ALL OUR READERS: SS PATRONIZE OUR forces of the state against the Juth, Minn; Sept. 20, Iron Range; | striking miners. Now, I notice that | Sept. 22, Bismarck; Sept. 24, Plenty- | they are doing the same thing in| wood: Sept. 26, Great Falls; Sept. | New Bedford. | 28, Spokane; Sept. 30, Sattle; Oct. | “So I am for the Workers (Com-|1, Portland, Ore; Oct, 2, Astoria; | munist) Party in this election cam- | Oct. 4, Oakland: Oct. 5, San Fran- | paign, because I realize that it does | cisco; Oct. 7, Los Angeles; Oct. 9, | not expect to emancipate the work- San Diego; Oct. 10, Phoenix; Ost. | ing class by putting a sheet of 11, Tuscon: Oct. 13, San Antonio; | paper in the ballot box. | Oct. 14, Houston; Oct. 16, Fort | “Yours for the kind of political) Worth or Dallas; Oct. 17, Oklahoma action that mobilizes the workers | City; Oct. 18, Tulsa; Oct. 19, Arma, on the industrial as well as on the | Kan.; Oct. 21, Minneapolis; Oct. 22, political field for the overthrow of |Omaha; Oct. 23 Kansas City; Oct. capitalism.” 24, Milwaukee; Oct. 26, Chicago; " Oct. 27, Pontiac, Mich.; Oct. 28, ‘un parallel with the predatory | Gitlow’s Itinerary. Detroit; Oct. 20, Reading; Oct. 30, lass.” ‘The interests of the manage-| Scores of letters like this, breath- | Philadelphia; Oct. 31, Boston; Nov. ment of the democratic party do not | ing the spirit of militancy, reuch the |1, Haverhill; Nov. 2. Fall River: ‘un parallel with those of the pre-| National Election Campaign Com-|Nov. 4, New York; Nov. 5, Provi- _ stery class, they are, © mittee every day at its headquar- | dence. | ri position” on Broad St. Place the Commu- nists on the Ballot. Tour speakers and organize mass meet- ings. Furnish campaign publicity and adver- tising: Publish literature. ADVERTIZERS Do not forget at all times to mention that you -are a reader of The DAILY WORKER. Fill out this coupon stating where you buy your clothes, furnish- ings, etc. © ‘ Name of business place Waiientestlstere rapper ta Addre: 2 weeks 66c 2 months $1.50 1 month $1 3 months $3 Enclosed find $..... pian * * , Gems of Learning ne Former U. S. 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