The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 15, 1928, Page 4

2 Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST, 15, 1928. yax, Emmet, Federal — ‘AnaQuTS senile socialist party could be id to sympathize with the ef- if the corrupt Amer Fed- 1¥ of Labor breaucracy in ding out once and for all” the unist influence in the trade as, a thing wh 1, theoretically as already done several dozen 8. Bill Green is as liable to mp out the Com 5 a id man is to wipe o 3@ beetle with an air he ilwaukee Leader editorially says: “The American Federation of fr executive council has our mpathy in its denunciation of he Communist pests who would fisrupt the trade union movement und play into the hands of the smployers.” In four paragraphs the editorial sfers to the Communists as pests alfa dozen times. Th a the part of Victor Berger is a agk for a we mental aralysis. But even so a pest is a gher form of existence that the mgus-like plant life represented vy members of the socialist party @he National Progressive Chiro- tactic Association in convention in Angeles is sponsoring a contest w the “perfect back.” This can aly be found in the U.S. S.R. Its te one that has managed to shake ff the exploiters. * Hollywood In From i ; Leo Guammarino, who can easily | picked out above on the right, de his horse in from the west ast in 110 days. The first thing did was buy half a dollar’s worth bunion plaster and he’s now ady to ride back. The coast to ‘ast racket isn’t what it once was d Leo wants to sell his trained nkey to help pay for the grub on + way home. The donkey is named suntain because about the only ty to move it is by a natural erup- on. * * * Gems of Learning \ po cao Pasa Sweden, news of the strike which he has| —We belong to the league of na- ions, on which we pin all our hopes. f it cannot protect the freedom of | If a wolf amnot protect the sheep they will mall nations who can?” ust have to risk their lives. * Victor Berger: “There is something American labor leaders. They seem| : © have an inferiority complex or Hays’ Movies Do Not fomething. They get blow after ilow and they bow their heads for he next blow. They learned how by a study of jocialist party tactics. Ee ae American Legion Officials Thieago Tribune: “The American Legion has mother appeal to employers to give he men who served in the war an | about the vacancies | there anything shown about her. The legion has on file 4 list of men of good character and oreved competence in the profes-| Soviet rescuers, fons and trades. Through no fault | expected from an of their own these men are now out has William Hays, member of the Many of them would have Ohio gang, at its head? opportunity to fill hat exist. any of work. wstablished themselves securely had shey not been called to the colors. This is the same legion that has | they ignore the brave deeds of the lways contended that the reason | Soviet festgseacric s te unemployed are unemployed is | “Krassin” speaks for itself. cause they are shiftless. —M. C. H. perialist British World Radio Planned | Where Wall Street Broadcast to Millions ™ “ 3) WORKERS PICKET THO MISLEADERS REFUSE TO ACT Offic ials Advocate Company Unions (By «@ Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail).—| The hosiery workers’ strike here at the Ajax, Emmett, Federal Mills, is still on. The strikers picket the mill every day: The mill is filled with scabs. The huge Stanford Stadium above, at Palo Alto, California, was chosen by Herbert Hoover, republican presidential nominee as the scene for his notification speech. Here in accepting the presidential nomination, Wall Street's other candidate broadcast Wall Street's The Ajax mills moved to Phoenix-| ville and is an “independent” union. | Picketing has not yet been alto- (But Walls Hold Class GUARD PAINTS © Knopf and Fa BIG PRISON AS | edinbeny H. KNOPF and William P. | Farnsworth, whose production of | Mills Still on Strike, Worker Correspondent Reports rnsworth Plan OSIE RY FIRM Five Productions This Season BOSS GUARDED IN EVELYN HERBERT “The Big Pond,” by George Middle-| ton and A, E. Thomas, comes to the Bijou Theatre, August, 21, with a cast headed by Kenneth MacKenna, * | Doris Rankin and Reed Brown, Jr., Fighter 10 Years have formed the firm, Knopf and EOE Farnsworth Productions, and will (By a Worker Correspondent} offer a number of plays this season. WHEELING, W. Va., (By Mail).| Following the premiere of “The Big ~—Those who wish to be enlightened | Pond,” they will commence work on on the joys of prison life have but/a new play by George Middleton, to invest a quarter at the Mounds-| tentatively called “In Memoriam.” ville Penitentiary and listen attenta-| Other productions definitely sched- tively to the fatherly talks of the uled for this season are “Friday escorting guards. Workers remem-) afternoon,” by Mr. Knopf; “The Es Moundevila Fenivensery a8 thel oo respandent!? by Andes Picard, Place where Eugene Debs was first) hor of “Teli? “and. w eetanne A REAL UTOPIA - SOCIALIST TOWN | Armed Strikebreakers | In Reading (By a Worker Correspondent) | READING, Pa. Aug. 13-—The uninitiated should come to “social- ist” Reading to learn how the bosses may real protection in a strike. Gunmen, armed strikebreak- ers, professional finks and _ stool- | pigeons, deputy sheriffs used by the employers—these are advantages in secure | tion company “union.” 9 | of woe NOBILE RESCUE nd non-understandable about some in gether outlawed here and the la- bors misleaders don’t feel partic- ularly anxious to organize mass pic- corners of the country. keting. Picketing before the scabs’ homes is not prohibited but the bureaucrats haven’t even thought about it. Mitten would never commend the writer, because he is a Communist, as he would the labor misleaders) BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug. 14. who preach coooperation with the|The afternoon session of the con- bosses to the workers. Why, these| gress of the second international misleaders went even to the extent|onened here yesterday with De- of advocating the organization of | Brouckere, of Belgium, reporting natigual-Resiety Habutectixers: 88/ for the’ commission of. political sociation and other ways of betray-| cvisoners, ‘The speaker demanded ing the workers. the They commended Belen: Mahcay cot the abolition of the death penalty. unions which are interested in the He compared fascist Italy with the |problem of the destruction of the Soviet Union. He also mentioned Sir the persecuted populations in the | This is done at a time when the Balkans, Hungary, China, Spain, Hccuars Shs cegpaged “in a fabtex| Eitatianin. the. Ucsiad (Senter aes strike against the hosiery barons;| He concluded that the “socialists” fighting against wage-cuts, speed-|can only offer the persecuted moral up, and union conditions being support at this time. A resolution smashed by the bosses. for the abolition of the death pen- The bosses very cooly send work-| alty was unanimously. adopted, as ers, who are paid miserably in the was also the report to the commis- south, to the north where the strike} sion. is taking place in order to replace aia ; the scitace’ TEs; an tia» honk sihetie ae ee fear because they know that the Albarda, of Holland, then made a misleaders will not say a word about TePort to the commission on mili- it, that. they will never put a real|tarism and disarmament. He de- fight against them. They do this, Clared that as long as capitalism of course, to break the union and) exists there is no permanent peace build up their own class collabora-| possible, but the proletariat must do everything in order to force the The bosses feel very conscious of powers to accept international ar- the fact that they must break the bitration. A new war can only workers’ union if they intend to put bring new chaos and not the revo- over a wage-cut and to continue the utlion, he said. Only through peace speed-up. The misleaders also know can “socialism” be achieved. this but do nothing about building) Dalton, of Great Britain, then de- the union because they are afraid) jivered a few general phrases. He losing the patronage of the said that the British delegation sup- bosses. So they give the workers | ,o:+eq the resolution. | “co-operation with the bosses” bunk|" Brockway, a member of thes ee and Kill @ strike by not advocating dependent Labor Party, demanded mate ere SMe De * * the organization of an international | militantstrike. ; : oa _| resistance against war. Poeney 229 Smit eet FEO! Sy enaudel’ of France. approved the ee to the strikers after the 100} ; Fre per cent walkout on the Ajax Mills, "esolution. Crispien, of Germany, the bosses moved the company to declared that the “socialists” are Phoenixville. They thought they would kill the strike by moving, but they didn’t count on the great mili- tancy of the rank and file; they thought it was enough to have the labor fakers on their side. The present Worker Correspon- dent was threatened with being beaten up by the Mitten scabs be- eause he wanted information of the strike in order to have it published in the only true labor paper in the country- in the English language, | The Daily Worker. But the rank and file saw that the Correspondent was actually one of their own, a worker like them, militant against the bosses, and so they gave him| company here put in writing. —W.C. P. HUSH RECORD OF Report Deed (By a Worker Correspondent) I attended one of the Loew's | theatres in this city. The rescue of | General Umberto Nobile, fascist ad- venturer and loud mouth, was shown in the Metro-Goldwyn and Mayer issued | News by the Norwegian flyers. Not one mentioned neither was, word “Krassin,” I was not at all disappointed for the failure to give credit to the What else can be industry which Hays and the rest of these gen-| |tlemen are badly mistaken when The action of the No applause was given when No- bile’s picture was shown on the | screen. Some hissed and still others booed. The bluffs of the black- shirts “busted” this time. | “You can’t hide the truth” for “it swims up like oil on water” as | the old Italian proverb goes. message thru a national radio hook-up that brought his words to all SOCIALISTS’ DECLARE _ REVOLUTION IS OVER only in favor of force as a means of defense. The resolution was then unani- mously adopted with the following final formulation: “It is the duty of all ‘socialist’ parties to exercise the strongest pressure, even in revo- lutionary form, upon the govern- ment which refuses international ar- bitration and declare swar.” The final session of the congress opened under the chairmanship of Vandervelde, of Belgium, and Lans- bury, of Great Britain. A mani- festo was adopted on the first point of the agenda, only one vote of the Independent Labor Party dissent- ing. “Revolutionary Process Ended.” Bauer, of Austria, then declared that the revolutionary process ended with the stabilization of capitalism. The Bolshevists alone hope for war. | The program of the Communist In- ternal increases disruption. A polemic is necessary against the Bolshevists in order to convince the Communist workers that disruption is a crime. The manifesto is an ap- peal for unity. Auriol, of France, then approved the manifesto. Lansbury, of the British Labor Party, and Dollan, of the Indepen- dent Labor Party, then polemized against the €acties of the second in- ternational toward the Soviet Union. Panken, of the United States, stressed the great unemployment in America. Henderson, of Great Britain, thanked the Belgian “socialists.” Vandervelde replied. The congress then closed. brought after his sentence and from isa . local reports I gather that the mili-, Play called “Heliogabalus,” by Mar- tant miners of this section made|°é! Duvernois, a French journalist. |such a protest against his arrest| The title of the latter play will be that it became necessary to remove | Changed, as Henry L. Mencken and Debs to the peaceful South. George Jean Nathan are the authors The writer and Carl Hacker, Ohio, °f one with the same name. There Secretary of the International Labor) iS also a possibility that the firm Defense visited the prison when|Will produce a revue called “The they learned that Alex Chessman, a| First Revue,” for which Mr.-Knopf miner, was still behind the bars due | has written’the dialogue and lyrics. to his activities in the 1925 coal teat ats tad strike. Chessman was framed-up| Elmira Lane, who played in “The on a bombing charge and sentenced | pesert Song” and the lead in to 10 years. He was the most pro-/«gunny” on the coast, has been gressive and active in his local t union and jailing him was one way to silence him and put an end to his activities. His story of how he| : | tried and how the lawyers handling) Barbara Brown will play the his case have squeezed his earnings| leading feminine role in the forth- from him show clearly the justice/coming production of “Relations” the workers get from the capitalist|that opens as the Masque Theatre, ‘courts. Chessman reports that all August 20. his friends have forgotten him ex- cept one. This friend being the In-| Clark Silvernail, who returns ternational Labor Defense, from from Europe this week, will rejoin which he hears regularly and which|«The Silent House” at the Shubert | gives him aid. Chessman has been) bert in “The New Moon.” Miter ane a ee made the understudy to Evelyn Her- | our “advanced” city quite as they are in the company owned mine * | towns. When the Noe-Equl (Princess | Who will be the prima-donna aS ; | in the new Schwab and Mandell | Royal) Hosiery Company decided | ‘ ” |to use direct methods to defeat its | operetta, “The New Moon,” due ke ae Ne hota neccnenth, | workers, now on strike, it apparently } 4 : was not at all concerned that we | have a “workers’ government” |Theatre. Harold de Becker, now|here. | playing the Chinese role of Ho-Fang, | joins the special company, now be- | ing organized. No Fear of Socialists. | Mr. Cummings, one of the owners, |did not seem to fear that the work- |ers’ police force would be called out against him. Just the opposite, he was able tc get- some of the RD. moat J | A musical comedy, tentatively hag Seapets Sash Macks |deputy sheriffs to do his dirty work. William Lennox and lyrics by Will-| And so we find that the company iam Lennox, has been bought for|'#s mobilized a young army of immediate production by Frank L./®tmed thugs, “guards” carrying Teller, producer of “Lady Do.” Mr.| loaded shotguns promenading the |Teller’s plans also include a com-|To0f and premises of the company ‘ a preps t. In addition, the company im- edy, titled “All Right,” with Maude | 2.2” F b | , |ported a certain Howard Walker, Thich will open at eee ured Players |one of the most notorious profes- CH os tember 2 tt sional strikebreakers in the indus- | Chicago, on September 2. try, to help along and take charge jcrippled, having lost an eye and es |part of his left arm in a mine ex-|ginia. We could not help smiling plosion. He said he was glad to|for we knew better! hear of the militant fight of the) Religious service attendance and miners in the present struggle and| Sunday school attendence is required |asked us to say that he wished he| of all except the warden and a few could help. Fellow workers should! officers. They already have the send encouraging letters to such a/keys to heaven. During the services militant workers as Chessman who| the prisoners are lectured to “by has spent many years behind prison | jong haired preachers” who tell how bar& for his activities on behalf of} to be good members of society when the working class. | they get out. The guard assured us | But more about the joys of prison| that the white boys would not be life. Going thru with a group of|corrupted while in prison because college students and passing for| we are going to keep them separa- such there was an opportunity to} ted from the Negroes. Discrimina- | ask a few questions of the prisoners.| tion even in prison! Three Protes- All of the prisoners complained of | tant services to one Catholic service |the food. Although the guard|is the religious mixture served the praised the kitchen as clean and the) prisoners. food as “the kind that mother; The guard explained of the op- makes” we found cockroaches, flies| portunities the prisoners get for an |and cobwebs decorating the kitchen, education. On the outside he stated |and the soup kettles. The guard as-| many were too poor and others did sured the college students that| not have time to get any education. there was no such thing as the third) He spoke the truth for the first ‘degree or dungeons in West Vir- time. Immense library. Good read- sow BAZAAR ana DAILY WORKER FREIHEIT ® Madison Square Garden days Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Ath, 5th, 6th, 7th October jof the good work. Walker had the ing of course. And all censored too,| indiscretion io get drunk and run lof course. Do they play baseball? | into a “socialist” policeman, other- |T should say so. Movies? You can| Wise he would still be at large mak- | bet all the tea in China. Everything|ing a record in this “socialist” city. that they want they can get. A * Harsh Words! Utopia found at last! This is the| ean as |impression the guard gives,the col-|,, 8° Reading Labor Advocate, lege boys. But the leon lores | the, organ of the sccialist bureau- |the boys inside show that its not|°Tat®,,complains of the danger to : bigs Lbs the “community.” The gang of mite so rosy as it is painted to be.| cikebmeakern st saya. “i a | Although the guard tells us that the| ‘t™iKebreakers, it says, “is a seri- | past is forgotten when the wate ous menace to the peace and secur- jcloses on a prisoner, yet the boys| t¥ of the law-abiding citizens of |this community.” The bosses, the have a differ story. | ant Seay paper further charges, are not help- ing to improve “the ioral tone” the of the community by importing The guard explained that at pres- jent the place was overcrowded. | Holding about twice as many as it|“such as Walker and his like into originally meant to accomodate. But | Reading.” he assures us that a bill would be} passed soon and everything will be| 0. K. in a few years. From this one is led to believe that a prison is the only place where a worker can get an education and good food. Indeed a Utopia found at last but sorry to say that high wall keeps it from our reach. i $$ MACHINIST UNION GROWS. SHERIDAN, Wyo., Aug. 14.— The newly organized Machinists’ Union here is progressing rapidly, it is reported. From three to six new members are admitted each week. It is estimated that the town |is 85 per cent organized. —F. Ho, | Thea., 45 St, W. of BY BOOTH Brenivee shor” | C=45vs46th St. Mats. Tuesday and Thursday, 2:80 GRAND ST. FOLLIES The LADDER Eves, 8:30. Mats. Wed. & Sat. SEATS NOW ON SALE 8 WEEKS IN ADVANCE. CORT THEATRE, W. 48 Money Refunded if Not Satisfied With Play, W. of Broadway Evenings at 8:25 ed. & Mats. Wi Sat. SCHWAB and MANDEL'S MUSICAL SMASH OOD NEW with GEO. 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