The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 16, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1928. HAndOuTS Nobody but a Fascist, whose brain works best when it’s running back- wards, would attempt to make the Italia fiasco seem liking an epoch making triumph and Nobile a sec ond Columbus. Yet an attempt at such an absurdity is the Italian- made fiim now showing in France. The picture was too much even for the | capitalist papers. LeSoir commenting says the _“film sh 1 and not e lost their lives t them from a voyage undertaken by a pre government, idiotic pro la and a fool- hardy c: “Every eeing the film asks: ‘Where is the Krassin?’” A Fascist is just as liable to dis- tribute films showing the Krassin as Mussolini is to distribute copies | of the Communist manifesto on the streets of Rome. * * * Miake One Yourself ™OW TO MAKE A POLITICIAN: Take one large mouth and attach iprtie bottom of a medium-sized Facuum; connect with invisible Speaking tube running to Wall “treet; select a large hand, capable of holding much graft, and join to M@_arm long enough to get down nto the barrel; strings Rechanism should run into the of- “tee of J. P. Morgan. Wind up be fore political campaigns. Loads of ‘un. The above diagram was posed by Gen. A. A. Lilly, republican. * Rich Antics SF | | “All play and na work makes Jack a dull boy” as can be judged from the above society folk members | 0 fthe large army of the mentally unemployed... They haven't anything } to do and even if they did they did they would have to get some- body else to do it for them. The so- y people pictured above are con- ly standing on their heads at high-priced summer resort, a ing they do unconsciously much the time. When the American kers get the idea a little better will. turn the passing economic item bottom side up and you will able to travel along this beach h a telescope and not one see as eae Gems of Learning Executive committee of the Na- Conference on Prohibition ement on Governor Smith: “His whole record in public life as been consistent as the servant saloon and liquor traffic in- ts and of the most corrupt | organization in the history ‘this republic, Tammany Hall.” real nature of Al Smith’s mmany Hall is getting to be as well known as Colgate’s Paste. * \ aie: | Executive committee of New York Federation of Labor: “Gov. Smith's nomination is de- lly pleasing to all wage-earners ‘New York, and they will support with enthusiasm. Gov. Smith a tried and true liberal advocate of just labor and social laws and he foe of sumptuary legislation,” He can help labor in the same way he stopped the billion dollar gas merger. —M. C. H. a Bosses Use Police —— | arbitration decision, it was Ryan | with nearly nine hundred voting. to Ke ep W. PROGRESSIVES DRIVEN OUT BY ARREST THREAT Plan Free Speech Fight in City (By a Worker Correspondent) LYNN, Mass. (By Mail).—A | mass meeting of shoe workers in| this city w stopped fecently by | the police and the speaker was or- | dered to leave town immediately. The meeting was called under the auspices of the Progressive Shoe Workers, Lynn branch. William J. Ryan and Chester W. Bixby, of | averhill, were to be the principle speakers. When Bixby arrived at Saster's Hall on Andrew Street, he found a score of police and detectives con- gregated in front of the building and he was told that the police had notified: the Saster’s Aid Associa- tion, who own the building, that the hall could not be opened or the meeting held in Lynn, Bixby was taken aside by the in- wa de Geltz out alive. orker Buried Under Rock Masses A sliding wave of rock and refuse buried Michael de Getz to the st when the huge retaining at 182 Street and Northern Avenue on which he was working gave way recently. KEEP SOFT JORS IN LOCALS 1, 463 Doran Clique Moves to| Betray Helpers | (By a Worker Correspondent) Election for all officers of the Manhattan and Bronx Plumbers Lo-| cal 463 was held recently at the La-| bor Temple, 243 E. 84th St., N. Y.| C. “The Old Familiar Faces.” Those elected were William Doran, president; John Walsh, vice-| president; William Flood, recording | secretary; Matten Moran general) secretary; Timothy Hopkins secre- tary-treasurer; Thomas McGirr,| Patrick Drew, David Holboon and} George Meaney for business agents; | John Hasset for compensatioff agent. All these gentlemen served the previous term. There was no oppo- sition to them. The progressives of local 463 failed this year to put up ja slate of their own. Other workers dug Lynn Workers from‘Union Meet, Correspondent Reports PLUMBER FAKERS ‘Michinal’, Hopkins First — Mack Play Here Monday 4 bees! first production by Arthur will be “Michinal,” a new play by Sophie Treadwell,” and is scheduled to open at the Plymouth Theatre, September 6. The play is in two acts and nine scenes, and well done by a company of 20, headed by Zita Johann. The production will have a preliminary tryout in New Haven before opening here. “The production,” according to the announcement from the Hopkins office, “which seeks to liberate the stage from the confinement of box sets, and give greater scope for lighting, has been designed by Rob- ert Jones.” Miss Treadwell is the author of “Gringo” and “O Night- ingale,” which were produced on Broadway. * J. A. Curti who has assisted George Kelly in all his productions, has joined the cast of Edward Clark’s “Relations,” opening at the Masque Theatre next Monday night. aie 5 ea | * 4 | George M. Cohan’s production of Hopkins for the current season | ., WORKERS PARTY CAMPAIGN GROWS IN KANSAS CITY See Big Industrial Struggles Looming JAMES BARTON Cerne (By a Worker Corresnondent) KANSAS CITY (By Mail).—The |Party and League organizations in | Kansas City successfully emerging from the first stages of the election | campaign that is putting the Party on the ballot is with equal success entering the next stage of the elec- | tion campaign, the spreading of | Communist propaganda among the | exploited workers. | Despite the fact that we lack ex- perienced speakers, open air meet- ings are being held throughout the | city. Not less than two mectings |a week. In two working class sec- tions the Party and League will | hold regular meetings every week. Appearing this week in Arthur |One in Armourdale, at Shawnee Hopkins’ playlet, “Moonshine,” Wednes- spector in charge and told to leave town immediately arrested. There was a conference between the committee and the speakers at which it was decided ‘that they would ‘postpone the meeting to a date in the near future at which they will be prepared for a free speech fight. By W. B. In the short period of its exist- ence, the Labor Sports Union has By eight thirty the street was | achieved some remarkable successes thronged with workers who had | in the field of sports. First, in con- come to attend the meeting. These | nection with the organization of the | were notified of the action taken| Labor Sports Union in Detroit, Jan.| L. S. U. by the committee and that there|15, 1927, a national indoor athletic | would be a meeting held in the-city| and gymnastic meet was held. It of Lynn at an early date, possibly | was the first labor sports meet of next week. The people showed their | its kind and was a big success. In resentment to the action of the po-| this meet we had 100 athletes par- lice in a very vehement manner. ticipating with 1,000 spectators. Many of them suggested that tsar-/ This laid a firm basis for the ism having been abolished in Russia growth and activ’ had been transferred to Lynn and Sports Union. the United States. Just a little over a year ago, the The Progressive Shoe Workers| Labor Sports Union held its first are now making arrangements to| track and field mect in Waukegan, pick up the challenge thrown down Ill. This outdoor meet surpassed to them by the bosses thru their po-|all our expectations. Over 300 lice department. They are going | athletes, coming from all parts of to enter a fight to determine| the country, took part. whether all free speech has been Give Lie to Enemies. suppressed in this city. The enemies of the labor move- Altho the threat to arrest was| ment predicted that the meet would | not carried out, Bixby was dogged |be a flop. In fact of all their wail- | by police detectives every step that | ings and lamentations the meet was} parts of the country and more are | he took right up to the time he took | run off in as order a manner as! coming daily. the train about 9.30 p. m. ever a meet run by the Amateur William J. Ryan is a member of | Athletic Union, the official capi- the Shoe Workers’ Protective |talist sport organization. More so, Union, Local 9, in Haverhill. He|as the spectators and the athletes,/ trucks and buses. Some will come} was the general secretary-treasurer along with the officials, showed a of that organization for about five| spirit of co-operation that cannot years. Last January when an at-| tempt was made to put over a wage | cut in Haverhill by the way of an who led the revolt of the workers and, after a 16 day strike, reached a settlement with the manufactur- ers for a return to the prices of 1927 and 1928. | Bixby is also a member of the same union, local 7, of Haverhill and was one of the original organ- | izers of his local. He has held the) office of president of District 1 as well as president of his local sever- | al times. He was the first presi- dent of his local, having been elect. ed by a nearly unanimous vote —ALLEN. CALLES REBUILDS REFORMIST BLOCK MEXICO CITY, Aug. 15.—The restoration of Luis Leon to the cab- inet of President alles as minister of agriculture is considered to be a slap in the faces of Manrique and Soto y Gama, leaders of the ex- treme reactionary wing of the Na- tional Agrarian party. Leon had previously been dismissed from the Calles cabinet on the excuse of an alleged “scrndal” with the Spanish actress Padilla. The newly appointed minister of agriculture is a close friend of Luis N. Morones, who was ousted im- mediately after the assassination of Obregon on the threatening demand of the Obregonists agrarians. The proposed general reorganization of the cabinet is taken to indicate check on the concessions which have | been demanded and usually received | by the extreme ractionary wing of the Obregonistas since the murder | It is rumored that Adalberto Te- jada, Governor of Vera Cruz, wil’ become Minister of the Interior. which is a key position controlling state politics. Te‘ado is also hold-| ing aloof from the main body of | Obregonites. It is also rumored that Gilberto Vanlenzuela, minister to England, ie returning to assume a post. Eliae Calles, half-brother to President Calles and Mexican consul in New York, is also rumored to be return- ing to assume a post in the re- organized cabinet. Roberto Cruz, who was discharged as chief of police and who is a known anti-Obregonista, was given the command of the State of Sinaloa thus breaking the Obregonist mili- | tary hold in West Mexico. At pres- |ent it is gradually becoming evident that Calles is gaining control of the | new September congress. Tuesday, August 28 at “sai HOLD LABOR SPORTS They are all typical A. F. of L. “By Request,” a comedy by J. C.| fakers. William Doran sat in jail] Nugent and Elliott Nugent, is play-| at the Palace Theatre. with “Czar” Brindell for conspiracy.| ing at the Broad Street Theatre, Union conditions are not strictly) Newark, this week. Elliott Nugent | enforced on the jobs by these offi-| is featured in the cast. FRANCE BUILDS Park and Pyle St., every | day, 8 o’clock in the evening. The |other in the Negro section of the city, at the corners of N. 5th St, and Troupe. Bethany Park will be OLYMPICS AUGUST 25 cials. The plumbers’ helpers are neglected altogether. Betray Helpers. A new agreement with the masters | be found in the bourgeois organi-|@ssociation will be signed soon. Al-| zations. | ready Doran and his clique are giv-! ing hints that they will attempt to major meets, there were held many | betsy she pelberas the new agrees | Sraaae 7. . “|ment. Everything, however does not district ‘and section | meets by the | depend on them. The American) various local organizations of the | Association of Plumbers’ Helpers) | will not allow these fakers to be-| tray them. We will fight to the last ditch. According to reports of the “inner | circle” of Local 463 there is dis- Last year, outside of these two Successful Indoor Meet. An indoor athletic and gymnastic | meet was held in Detroit last Janu- rae ae Bertram Harrison will direct “Heavy Traffic,” the comedy by} Arthur Richman, which will inaug-| urate the season at the Empire | Theatre on September 5. In addi-} tion to Mary Boland, the cast will include Reginald Mason, Jean Dixon, | Leo G. Carroll, Robert Strange and/ Herbert Belmore. | ee ror | Shortly after the premiere of! “The Big Pond,” by George Middle-| ton and A. E. Thomas, at the Bijou| Theatre, Tuesday night, Edwin H.| the third place where meetings will be held. The meeting among the Negro workers wll be held every Friday at 8 p. m. The results of these meetings prove that the worker here has been slowly realizing his position. |The audiences, when the Commu- |nist speakers explain to them the | issues and problems of the workers, Aes enthusiastically agree with them. nae sea tre ae Besides new contacts are established rage id new Party and League members the pact is virtually an alliance hee] A ‘1 7 tween the two powers and provides | recruited. We can confidentally look forward and expect that *be- for a pooling of the two navies in| fore a few short months are over a TI WAR VESSELS Follows Franco- Brit- ish Naval Pact PARIS, Aug. 15.—Attempting to ary that compared favorably, both} in regards to the participants and/ the spectators, with any meet ever ities of the Labor | held in Detroit by any organization. Steamfitters, agreement between Doran and | Leonard, the state organizer of the United Association of Plumbers, and Gasfitters of North Knopf and William P. Farnsworth! time of war, government officials will place into rehearsal “Helioga-| today declared that the pact in no| balus,” by Marcel Duvernois, It) way hindered the development of | was translated from the French by | the French navy, which is now con-| days Conference of Labor and Fraternal Organizations Lyceum 66 E. 4th St. Elect Your Delegates Now | Over 200 athletes took part. The| America. No principles of any sort | events were held over a period of! are involved. It is simply a ques- two days, with nearly every indoor! tion who should get more of the sport, including boxing and wrest-| gravy. |ling, on the program. Over 3,000/ And Also Local 1. | workers attended the meet. | In Local No. 1, of Brooklyn, there | For some time past preparations | Were also several elections held for jhave been going on for the second | ll sacar gigeeree yh | annual olympics of the L. S. U., reelected. ates is president; - ; |ward Peterson is secretary. One | a Y | | to be held Aug. 25-26 in New York| ats aly ag “detente Hoel # Z | is at Wingate Field. To date over 300 Gane rs ‘ Larry McDonough was entries have been received from all| ctected in his place. The official of | Local No. 1 sold out the plumbers | ; Worker athletes and | during the 1927 strike. For the last | their friends from the distant parts | vear and half the plumbers in |of the country are organizing par- Brooklyn are working without an) | ties to come to the meet in Fords, agreement. | Reports are current in Local No.| | by trains at reduced rates secured/1 that these officials may force by the L. S, U. lupon the plumbers an agreement! soo BAZAAR. tana DAILY WORKER and FREIHEIT Madison Square Garden Gertrude Purcell. eee ae | “Gang War,” the new Willard) Mack melodrama will open here on| Monday evening. It is due at the) Morosco Theatre, with a cast headed | by Anne Forrest, Beatrice Nichols, Robert Middlemass, Donald Kirke, | Walter Gilbert, Hardie Albright and | H. Lee Adams. this winter when the work in the building trade is slack. The bosses are preparing to attack the plum-| bers. Prepare now to repel their| attacks. Admit the helpers into the union and thus be in a better position to fight the bosses. Now is the time. CASSELL. | days Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Ath, 5th, 6th, 7th October 8 P.M, at Manhattan Every City in America, Every Labor and Fraternal Organization to Have a Booth structing 27 modern worships. Party and League organization of a respectable size will be built up in Kansas City. The Party program is meeting It was explained that France’s| With particular success among the position is “peculiar,” since she lost | Negro workers. They are realizing nearly as many vessels as British| that only the Communists are the during the world war and has to Teal champions of the workers and serap many obsolete ships. A build-| that only through the realization of ing program therefore is necessary,| the Communist prggram _ will the with a budget covering éénstruction | Negro workers be emancipated as until 1982. workers and as a race. At the same Twenty-six modern ships will be| time the eerty ie ace vely eueabon needed to replace obsolete vessels | i" the election campaign better con- before January, it was said, and 27| tact is established as result of this keels already have been laid down in| Work with the workers in the local French shipyards. industries. We can safely predict, pun eae | judging from the conditions in the FIRE CAUSED DAMAGE. | factories and the sentiments of the ROCHESTER, N. Y., Aug. 5/ workers, that big industrial strug- (UP).—Damage estimated at $20,-| gles are looming on the horizon. 000 was caused today by a fire that Particularly is this true in the swept through a warehouse at the| packing houses. Barge Canal terminal here. I BOOTH Thea., 45 st. w. it B'way ) CHANIN’! Evenings 8:30 at ws46th St. 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. —M. C. wud W. of Broadway Evenings at 8:35 Mats. 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