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Page Four Philadelphia Worker Ts The Business of Paying THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1928. \ Five Times in One Week, Correspondent Writes ‘SOCIALISTS’ IN MILL COMMITTEE Ransom Rideout’s “Goin’ for Al Smith PHAnaOuTS PICKETING AT : COHEN SHOP IS is the street cleaning ’ > aa a“ ns rs graft inve: on before Commis- | HE Hudson Theatre will house IN NEW GARDEN FILM Sioner of Accounts James A. Hig- 7] ih} | the Brock Pemberton production, gins. The last ac rned a large | | “Goin’ Home,” which is scheduled ty payroll carr the summer | to open next Wednesday night. This on Ni Protect ¢ ¢ from a fon Paneaess a will be the first Pemberton produc- —— len tie-up due t orms. The ; é TA : tion in tw . Ra Rideout A panes SB new one is just as rhe funny- Legionnaires Active in| {Put Forward, Demand |i." cuushos of this cow deve wean Give Out Patriotic m “a this t ce Silay, Fascist Work for Strikers deals with the Negro soldiers in Leaflets who tok so we New York The best comedy now running in FORMED BY OHIO Home” Coming to Hudso France. n SABOTAGE ROLE f 4 eee (By « Worker Correspondent) (By a Worker Correspondent) The cast includes Georges Rene- READING, Pa. (By Mail) —The I ot ne) pRIRAD : : CANTON, Ohio (By Mail).—Four| vant, Barbara Bulgakov, Richard campaign to organize the unorman: SE his words with an air of sub- HILADELPHIA (By Mail).—It | sihockc Meal AON cea ‘ i | ra ? An re. fe said he was Seems (hat America is going toward hundred. chippera an grinders | Hale, Russell Hicks, John Irvin and ized workers of Reading, launched z lime confidence. said med Posen sole Sede working for the Central Alloy Steel | Ralph Collinan, ly. His Suoclalial’™ pasty ana nora & boss at the Flushing dump and '" den days of the Crarist C Ade NR BAG trike. 9 es BEMEE God a job in the post office, \ezime, ‘The air itself is oppres- tir inged Gl har ytstegallaatn Sok ss and officials of the ederated Trade BEET cvventeen hears a day, |sive. In the shops, factories, mills, This is the third time that the! Crosby Gaige puts “Little Acci- | Council, to a superficial observer BME Thc cas cuite s arind. ai | mines, the wer are slaves, ex- |men, have gone out since the com-| dent” into rehearsal next Monday. would seem as a serious attempt to Pe game time he n ithe roney, Ploited by the greedy bosses, thirsty pany has lowered their pay. The|1t is a comedy by Floyd Dell and really organize the scores of thou- ay ooo ro ar de can a: | for’ protite Mer Mean Ge meee Mayor James Walker, of New York and Tammany, recently auc- | men have organized into the Central Thomas Mitchell, based on Dell’s sand: unorgatiized v Main Reaate Stidalan Apso retin ica cag pe no liberty for the toiling | tioned off the first bale of cotton. to reach the northern market from | Alloy Mill Committee and have put|rovel, “The Unmarried Father.” ing and vicinity roe a eauihis ‘aud slept vanidty The bosses, the imperial- | the south. The proceeds went to the Smith campaign fund to the | up their demands. __ | Mitchell heads the cast. This will salVelpualltbiaest Ali Gao ‘Tor 3h urs, until 6 o'clock, when he they can, and do enjoy all sorts. ‘larger donations from the DuPont armament interests, and others On July 25, without any notice, |}. Gaige’s first production of the this “Join the union” diva, a carefnl aaa unt bp f freedom and use all methods to| ‘terested in electing Wall Street's “ace in the hole” candidate. At |the men were cut from fifty-two| season, wie Pete coe wane i ta had to get up to net to the dump : iy s " Ww. if ee i ‘oli balth alf h id that | study of the literature of the same, a by 7a. m. Here he worked until oppress the working class, and| the left, Mayor Walker, next to him is Baron Collier, wealthy ad- | and a half cents an hour plus the sacra .- lon Vepeathae MGineeR Geet é ti. m., he said. Other workers at *™ash any attempt on the part of vertising man, who bought, the cotton and it is understood engineered bonus, to forty-five cents an hour,| When he has finished getting his Emil Jannings who is appearing | the nature and purpose of the cam- si the dump testified he had never heen |the latter to free itself from slavery _ the stunt. — an: ae : jand the ‘Doras’ was ee The dolince |22™ Play, “Gang War,” ready for|at the Cameo Theatre in “Fortune's |Paign, that no real support is lent observed working there within their @"d oppression, i dropped from six and seven dollars) New York, Willard @lack will turn| fool,” a new German picture having | this campaign ana that the policy memory. If he was ever around it| In the olden days of the Czarist ( l IN: ( OOD Wi [ IN a day to five dollars and fifty cents. | his attention to “Paid Off,” his next |its first showing here. pursued is that of trailing along, > was purely in the role of spectator. regime, spies and spy agencies : ii On July 27, in a peculiar manner, | production, of which he is also the one of sabotage. Handouts Ticket could be found in every corner of the country, to prevent the organ- ization of the Russian workers and peasants. Fascist Methods, America today is employing the same methods. The American Le- gion, the eVterans of the Foreign Wars, the K. K. K, and a number of other fascist organizations are acting as spy agencies of the cap- italists against the workers, A dose of “democracy” was given to the writer of this article in the bell of liberty. But now the bell is eracked, and so is liberty cracked in this country. Saturday evening, July 28, while speaking at an open-air meeting at 29th and Cumberland Sts,, an Amer- ican Jegionnaire resented the state- ment that Coolidge is a strike- breaker, and that Hoover represents big business and not the werkers, and that the Soviet Union is the ernment, aroused by the display THE HAWAII ISLANDS HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 16.— landing of Captain Cook ing Hawaiians. The British gov- The anniversary celebration of the gigcovered that Mr, Seldon, the superintendent, raised the scale to 55 cents and as- sured the men that they would earn more than $6 a day. But what did they find? instead of They more ‘ on the than $6 they were getting only Island, in 1778, is being used here! g440 a day. That was the limit, as an occasion for the display of} and on Monday, August 6, the 500 American military and naval pow er, men walked out. that is calculated to awe all watch- The company has a plant in Mas- sillon, about eight miles from here. of One of the employment officers in- American force, is rushing three! formed the committee of the men author, * “Night Hostess,” by Philip Dunn- | ing, will be presented by John Gol- den at the Martin Beck Theatre, September 10, The cast is. headed by Marguerite Churchill, Gail De Hart, Norval Keedwell and Ross Alexander. * * ie Another Golden production, “Eva the Fifth,” in which Clairborne Fos- ter plays the leading role, will open |ISADORA DUNCAN DANCERS COMING * FROM MOSCOW | Any attempt at organizing the | workers, if it is to be successful, |must be based on the conerete js- sues and demands that arise from the very problems and conditions of the workers. | To attempt to organize the work- jers on issues that have nothing in common with the interests of the workers, as put forward in Read- ling by the “socialist” party mem- bers, such as “self-respecting Amer- |ican citizenship,” “boost Reading, Isadora Duncan’s dance school, | which she founded in Moscow in | 1920, is going to make a tour of the United States this fall, according to an announcement received from the |U. S.S. R. The group will open a | week’s engagement in November at | the Manhattan Opera House. pe Seca 15 haute Chee HoekEntin i ; t tomorrow night at Great Neck. The| Shortly before her tragic death,|for a better American city to live Free coat yee nacemerica is 2 only government that gives free- battle ships to participate in the/ that they would split the difference] piay is due at the Little Theatre, | Isadora Duncar made plans to bring | in,” “unionism means peace and har- free country. You have the freedom | dom to the toiling masses. ceremoni between the pay in Massillon and] August 28. her Russian students to America, |mony in industry,” “unionism is for of starving in this country, no | : guardmen, no policemen, not a man of the capitalist state power will stop you. If you organize and re- fuse to starve. if you fight to bet- ter your conditions, then you are This legionnaire, this rat, this fascist, made an attempt to break up the meeting, but failed. A squad of policemen from the 31st district wore called by the legionnaire and surceeded in getting me arrested has The United States governments Canton, and give them the differ- sent its More secretary of war, ence. In « 1 Dwight Davis, to bring an intimate|is determined to cut wages also in token of American “good-will” on| Massillon. the battleship Pennsylvania. In other ‘words, the company The steel workers will not stand MAY CREATE MONARCHY. BARI, Italy, Aug. 16 (UP).—A | report that Albania soon would be |changed from a_ republic to a; | The Soviet government has sanc- | tioned the tour to comply with this wish. The school was entrusted to | Irma, one of the adopted daughters of Isadora, who has been in charge the workers and not against any- jone,” and the like. This is, in re~ | ality, only bringing illusions and |confusion into the minds of the workers. Such treacherous and 5 ‘ hime ‘uns now command Honolulu har- for it, They have issued a leaflet | °° of the xtoup the past few years. |anti-working class policy of the so- Two prominent business memn|in for a dose of capitalist “demor-| fifth time within a week), charg- oe Other battleships are aleo|putting forth the following -de- | Princedom has been prone here by | y letaalite SAAelal “tends aes Teale: eli above are off a a ie davis : ane ing me wit editious utterances | pero, mands: $6 for an 8 hour day, fhe) Sarelere eine Zou, prel| Fy 3 ship can be understood when we merican voters for president am onday, July 23, got up to/|against the governmen A ie al of Mr. Seldon, the superin- | Porte a ; y 94 ° realize the fact that the “socialist” Piee-president. They are guaran-| go to the picket line of the striking |comrade came to the police station American troops, armed, parade fomovs © Ot Seem tte SOPONNS | Gent of the republic, would be| lorida Faces F lood;. | party is nothing but the third party teed to put a kick in politics and if shop of S. J. Cohen, a clothing fac- to get a copy of the charge to have through the streets as airplanes ” named prince after the constitution) Gale Sweeps Georgia they reach the white house will do the working class just as much tory located at 13th and Callowhill Sts., this city. When the angels of me released, When he arrived at the station he was detained in jail hover over their line of mare ‘g of the trouble ig the plant, and the Davis watches the marching columns |'e¢ognition of the Central Mill whose election will be completed | is amended by the new parliament, | of the capitalist class, the party |that represents the interests of . ji ATLANTA, Ga., Pek ete .| small business and professional peo- good as Herbert Hoover or Al Smith. freedom, with clubs in their hands. with the same charge. and the airplane maneuvers from pepe a tt which the men issued | Thursday. | ries of floods ee oe | ple. 3 Us + * 8 got tired of 'ooking at me they ar- For two days none of the magis- | behind the bayonets of his guard. Pi bageeds sick Bi bags med | _|bee region of Florida, in the wake Instend: we find: the, “spétatisi” The socialist party press is advis-|rested mo with five other militant | | trates wanted to sign the bail to |of a fierce hurricane today threat- |party members and the trade union ‘ Seale We é 2 * a " |to come out on strike, and tells| mined to put through its demands. | 0 i eepeud s But what with the hurricanes if you | got us released later on bail. Atling prison, UNION CITY, N. J. Aug. 16,—| ders lose the strike, wages will go|ate demands, but they realize one| hich have beat against the coast to organize on the basis of what? buy a lot in Florida you never know where you're going to find it, just as you never know where to {ind the 8. P. five o'clock, same day, 1 was again arrested for being on the picket line (second time in a day). Why was T arrested? Well, try to guess it! Until when’ will this be kept up? The workers are beginning to get tired of this kind of ‘democracy. The workers must and will organize | Despite the fact that Henry Reck-|down all round, There is no ques-| thing and that is that they must be lefs, 58 years of age, unemployed |tion of this, for as the employment | organized. and homeless, affairms that he was officer informed the men, the steel | never near 3754 Hudson Blvd,, he manufacturers’ association have de- | Central Steel Corporation of Mas- Central Alloy is a merger of the | \line of the peninsula was causing great damage thruout Georgia. A wide shallow inland sea has formed in the Okeechobee Tegion, inundating all In a leaflet, “What America Means,” | distributed at the open-air meet- ings, we read, “For one hundred jand fifty years Americanization has |meant equality of opportunity, for 3 zi A ag Pat territory bet: + * & “For breach of peace!” Isn't that |to abolish this corrupt system of has been sentenced to serve 90 days cided on the wage tesla, and evi- | sillon and the Alloy Steel Company ojeechobee ty ac 2 as | the Robe ak Well aa for tie Ge gee For Publicity’s Sake? stim’? society. Then, when that day will|in the county jail on the charge of/ dently decided that the beginning | of Canton and its policy is now to| |the worker as well as for the em- or ruoiicity s a Tuesday morning, July 24; ajcoms, these oppressors, these ex- sleeping in the cellar of that place.) must be made in Canton. | cut wages. The men recognize that BOXER HURT IN MISHAP |ployer.”. And, “Trade unionism is very nice morning, but the air was ploiters, these reactionaries of to-|No consideration was given to the| Four of the ‘men were arrested |if they do not get together in an | i \ Buality under capitalism means at no matter what job you pick can be sure of getting your of misery. For instance s girls spend half their time A campaign to rouse the workers and poor Ef0b it doesn’t last long but long |to the station the two girl leaders e : Emiough for them to listen to one| were released on ball about tyro aqdison f farmers to revolutionary struggle against the ong melody—the stage marager hours later. The captain of the| . capitalists and their government. pursing. Their beauty only lasis a|Ten and Bottonwood police station | few years and then they're thrown detained me until verv late at night. | it with the garbage. Above are. Tha hearing of the latter case FOR AGAINST * ., -_ », . | two girls in White's scan-|took place the morning after. The | i giedekinden Mee. eh $ als forced by the publicity director two girls were discharged. Even | unorganised. apg ES ica gal nfo have their ah though I was charged with the| da Ss | 5: wea Ue Seaman. 7 ane: SRO PMERY, @ row boat in Coney yhat |same charge as they were. thnt of ar rel ¥ | ers and textile work- bore cig they're afraid of is they won't have “breach of pence,” the indge liked | ere’ atragsios. 2, Unemployment. "a chance to get off before the plane to have a sepnrete casa of mine and ° | 8, Recognition and de- 3, Treachery of the starts. Lessig eguc an nied bail. ree Bae tt cke. Movies. labor bureaucracy. cS 5 A SE te bi tee nb ln . Discrimination futlonally: speaking, ‘aceordine ‘t6.| 4A Labor Party. Bek Gems of Learning nas just pT have alwa ys wanted to come. to United States. and grasp this ” instance, loans. Peter J. Maloney, broker: “Although the republicans talk temocrat gave them the Fed- ral Reserve system, a thing that has made possible the bull market of the Jast four years.” —M. C. I.) was dectared, the etty that has the | i oppressive. As soon as you get on the picket line you hear the voice of the “angels of freedom:” “Say, you! get to hell out of here.” I| ignored those orders and at eight o'clock in the morning T was again | arrested (third time). Fortunately, T was taken all three times to the | same police station, 10th and Bot- tonwood, and in the morning of day, will be given the same kind | fact that Recklefs had turned over of democracy that the workers en- | joy under their regime, DOMENICK FLAIANI. a poor woman’s pocket-book with last night for distributing the leaf- let of the Mill Committee but were some money in it to the local police; immediately released on bail. who returned it to the owner. The Mill Committee is deter- organization they will not be able to fight back, They are organizing and will fight back. | GR so BAZAAR anu BOSTON, Aug. 16 (UP). — “Rocky” Stone, Boston heavyweight | boxer, was injured last night when his automobile collided with another jcar near Park Square, to be solfsrespecting Americanism that earries over into industry the principles of democracy. That is why great Americans—presidents, | judges, clergymen, priests—believe so strongly in labor unionism.” } oes t le | Tuesday, at 9:30 a. m,, a judge tried = me, combining the three charges in| BOOTH Thea. 45 st., w. of Bway | CHANIN'S46th St.W. of Broadway one. $10 and Costs. The judge asked the policeman: | |“Why was this young fellow ar- rested?” When told for being in the picket line in front of the strik- ing shop, the judge, without ques- | tioning me at all. declared: “Ten | dollars and costs.” I made an at- tempt to speak, but two “angels of peace and order,” stationed behind me in the court room, dragged me away to the cell. Friday, July 27, the Young Pio- neers of Philadelphia organized a | picketing demonstration in front of the S. J. Cohen shop, still on strike. Banners and placards, denouncing | the terrible conditions of the Phila- | delphia clothing workers, were car- tied by the Young Pioneers. As soon as the demonstration made its |appearance near the S. J. Cohen | shop the squad of uniformed police, | stationed there to defend 8. J. Co- hen, arrested me again (fourth time) and two other girl leaders of the demonstration. When taken in- the Jaws, the judges has no right to detain snyone on $600 of bail, Rut we hare democracy and th judges uses all the democracy he has against the workers. We havo “demoeracy” in America, bnt the workers ara not rllewed to capitalist militarist inatitution for training the youth ef th'a country to become prood soldiera and stand ready for tho coming war, | T's “eedittoua” to aay that “tha | Soviet Union" is a goed countess, 9 | country whers the workers and) farmers enjoy their freedom, the trust of the revolution, In Phila- delphia {¢ 1a “sed'tious” te say that Coolides ts a strikebreakes, DAILY WORKER and FREIHEIT Square Conference of Labor and Fraternal Organizations Tuesday, August 28 at 8 P, M., at Manhattan Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th nists on the Ballot. publicity and adver- bity, givep me by my father, (8% oe igen Wenn ie Tour speakers and _ tising. t ph . Ihave s © vota for Hoover, orkers ar: ‘ d b fie that bei throating phy gega not allowed to speak againat the | ays cto er organize mass meet- Publish campaign come to us out of the United citizens’ military training eamps,a JAngs. literature. itl market hax oon hi i of"hrhry" tw tho © ll Lyceum 66 B, Ath St, Elect Your Delegates Now Fraternal Organization to Have a Booth Every City in America, Every Labor and Evenings 8: GRAND ST. FOLLI 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 Satisfied With Play, You're in the fight when you write for The DAILY WORKER. 5. For a Workers’ and Farmers government. Place the Commu- Respond Now! 43 E. 125th St., BG. SUPPORT THE $100,000 Communist Campaign Fund HELP TO PROVIDE A FUND TO Send All FUNDS to ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG, Treas. National Election Campaign Committee Evenings at 8:25 Mats. Wed. & Sat. SCHWAB and MANDEL'S MUSICAL SMASH OOD NEW with GEO. 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