The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 21, 1928, Page 4

r | § ae A em HO As tO HR OMAR TO Page Four Boss Agents =} HANdOuTS Warren G. Harding lands 4 among hi r s an open-handed way, his picture being completely cut f film the Hoover manager : for propaganda pu corruption that Ha can no m 2 the republice picture out ean be elim yards by A Cleveland Nutt a: | an odor stock J. R. Nutt, above, is the hard one who is treasurer of the Republican National Committee and who pleased the party by his ethical stand that no money would be ac- cepted except from those of “known probity of che - socialist acte Imagine a man appearing at republican head- quarters with a $10,000 check and being forced to go through a civil service test before being relieved of tt has ‘can coins, bread it! So far the only mo turned down has been Mea Confederate money checks. Nutt has there will be no limit on individual contributions. * and just announced * * When Norman Thor head of the religious section of the so-called socialist party arrived in Columbus, Ohio, on his oratory tour and found the city in gala attire, flags on every ‘lamp post, he was ready to believe the socialist era was at hand, and without an armed struggle. His delight was somewhat dampened, however, when a tactless attendant informed him the flags were put up to welcome the delegates to the annual convention of Eagles. Pretty Girl Pawn The secret of the publicity business is pretty girls. Miss Evelynne Cervenny, entrant for queen of the Radio World's Fair to be held in New York Septem- ber 17, alongside. ‘he radio had a lot of friends up until last week when that drink of muddy water, Herbie Hoo- wasted several accepting a which everybody knew . he would rather lose a is shown ver, hours nomination right arm than to refuse. In the U.S. S. R. the radio has made great ad- vances. You never hear a sermon over #. Gems of Learning An- speaking before Society Insti- Sir James C. Irvine, of St. drews University, American Chemical tute at Chicago: “No peace treaty or visiting com- mission can control or even detect research work designed to furnish lethal agents for the future, and this research may be going on now, @nywhere, in preparation for the mext war. As matters stand at present, the nation which possesses the most efficient chemical industry possesses also the most efficient in- strument of war. The war of the future may be declared, waged and won in a few days. You might be away on a vacation and miss it all. Come home and | find New York wiped out. © Cal Coolidge, national comedian, making jokes about the Kellogg peace pact: paremnansictpnncesteevesionte:! “While it would be too much to suppose that war has been entirely banished, yet a new and important barrier, reasonable and honorable, has been set up to prevent it. Had an agreement of this kind been in existence in 1914, there is every rea- gon to suppose that it would have gaved the situation and delivered he world from all the misery it was inflicted with by the World War.” This is the war that made the “gerap of paper famous. Andrew J. Peters, chairman of the “men’s division of the Smith-Robin- League of First Voters: “The new voters of today will be “the rulers of the nation tomorrow, end their ideals and aspirations de- mand a leader with compassion, with understanding, with sympathy, md they turn to Gov. Smith as the national leader who represents them.” ther tough bologna for young Try fo. HOODLUMS FAIL ASTORIA MEET Even Police Merely “Watch” Crowds (By a Worker Correspondent) In the heart of the working-class | section of Astoria, L. 1, held Thursday go down of a meeting evening which will in the workers’ his- tory Astoria, should sueh a vol- ume ever be compiled, as the first nite swing toward the platform, of the Work- (Communist) Party by workers heen hood- id drained by corrupt poli- vas political and economic er who winke heretofore d tricked atriots, ticians and a well-organized group n fascisti. munist meeting, which was also a protest demonstration against the breakup of last week’s meeting and assault on the Com- mnnist speakers by the representa- tives of the rear end of the Tam- tiger, was opened by Max htman, editor of the Labor Defender, at a auarter past eight before a crowd which already num- bered several hundred Queens work- ers. Long before the meeting was scheduled to open, workers began to arrive at the corner of Steinway and Jamaica Aves. to listen to the message of the Communist speek- ers. Schachtman. Schachtman opened the meeting by stating its purpose, the nature of the party under whose auspices it was held, and expressed the de- termination of that party to con- tinue to hold weekly meetings at the same corner despite the actions “of certain super-natriots ‘who will receive some small change in ex- change for their valuable political activities.” This announcement was greeted enthusiastically by the as- sembled workers with cheers and applause. After making several scathing remarks about the “police protection” afforded at the last meeting, upon which the four cops present were seen to shift their weights from one foot to the ether, Schachtman introduced Philip Frank- feld, Acting District Organizer of the Young Workers (Communist) League, the first speaker. Frankfeld outlined the aims and methods of the Young Workers (Communist) League in the class struggle, citing the League’s anti- militarist activities, the part it played in the miners’ strike and is playing in the textile workers’ strike in New Bedford, and ended with an appeal for all young lworkers of Queens to join the League. Frank- feld’s remarks. at first listened to | with a good deal of skepticism by the Astoria young workers in the candy and automobile fsctories, hit home. This was shown by the ap- plause which the Astoria young workers gave his talk, and also by the knots of young workers who later approached him with eager questions concerning the League and its activities. As Schachtman introduced the second speaker, Donald Burke, some enterprising young fascist, parked Thro One Tentacle of th Steamship lines, air routes, tel and highways are a few of the t American imperialism is winding its maw. electric drive liner, Vi News, Va. The ship is one more to the opposite corner of Steinway | Ave., much further removed from the Communist meeting. Burke spoke on the war danger, | citing preparations for war secretly going on, and denouncing the Kel- logg anti-war pact as an “empty gesture, devoid of the intention of all imperialist pow- ers to wage war on the U. S. S. R.” In his introductions to the vari- ous speakers Schachtman continu- ally reminded the audience of the “unparalleled intrepidity and brave- ness of those thirty professional pa- trioteers who with undaunted valor attacked in the name of free speech and free assemblage the six Com- munist speakers present here last | week,” implying none too subtiy that the same fascists would hesitate to attempt the same strong-arm meth- ods on the same number of Com- |munists. If there were. any brave Veterans of Foreign Wars in the crowd they maintained a discreet jand sane silence. | After Burke came Abe Harfield, Communist candidate for assembly from the Ist assembly district of | Queens. Harfield bore the brunt of |the attack last week, sustaining a severe cut on his lip which was later stitched and a beating about the head. Harfield spoke of the situa- tion in Queens, giving facts and fig- ures of the sewer specifications swindle, which gave a decidedly un- comfortable ten minutes to what- ever democrats may have heard him. Hoodlums and Eggs. spoke after Harfield, his Hall, its Miller subject being Tammany influence on democratic politics throughout the country, and the ways in which the Tammany tiger showed. its stripes. During his speech three more decaying eggs meaning except | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, w Out Communist a a : e American Octopus SS feh Asin, =) ais . egraph and cable trunks, railroads entacles with which the octopus of the masses of Latin America into The picture shows the launching of the new 34,000 ton inia, of the Panama-Pacific line, at Newport tentacle reaching out to southward. seven handred. Damning fact after |fact was cited by her, pro | big business contro! of politics; facts which renched a fruitful soil, as proven by the small groups into |which the crowd broke up after the | meeting, discussing her statements. Sell Literatur During the meeting several pam- rhlets of the Workers (Communist) Party were sold among the workers present, among them the campaign platfo of the Communist Party and “Our Heritage from 1776,” all of which was completely sold out. Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker and Communist candidate for U. S. Senator from New York, was the next and final speaker. Miner emphasized the lack of any issues as bef#ween the major capital- i and urged the rallying of to the platform and ranks of the Workers (Communist) Farty. During the Communist meeting, the Veterans of Foreign Wars were holding an alleged meeting across the street, at which several speak- ers were spreading lies and calumny about the Workers (Communist) Party. George Kemp, one of the main fascist speakers, held aloft a copy of the Communist Platform and misquoted from it. Aft ing an hour concocting lies slander about Communists, Commun- ism and Soviet Russia to the hand- ful of listeners present, Kemp sai “You may wonder how the Commu- nists are able to win the over to their party, but I it’s all'tricks of the trade. you understand the tricks asses y that Unless of the trade you may be taken in, for their | arguments are plaus‘ble. Don't pay attention to them.” Kemp has been s ven in the Work- in the UGUST 21, 1928. STRUGGLE SHOWS HARD AT WORK Owner Is Running for Wisconsin Governor (By «@ Worker Correspondent) KOHLER, Wis. (By Mail)— Good attention was given here to the speaker of the Workers (Com- munist) Party by the workers of the Kohler shops during a noon- time meeting at the factory gates recently. Vote Communist. The representative of the Party pointed out why the workers at Kohler’s shops should support the nominees of the Party in the presi- dential elections, William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow. The speaker pointed out how the Party aims to utilize its campaign in order to mobilize the workers to resist the attacks of the capitalists upon their wages and working con- ditions, against the vicious speed-up | system and the need to organize the unorganized workers. The appeal for organization ene raged some of the company stool- pigeons and other flunkeys of Koh- ler Company. Shouting that they don’t like that Bolshevik stuff, they demanded that the speakers leave the city. After the speaker insisted on the right of the Party to state its position to the workers, the agents g the|of the Kohler Company began to push the speaker from the “private property” of the Kohler Co. Spy. The fact that the Kohler Com- {pany is employing spies in its shops was revealed when, in answer to the question of the speaker, “Who gave uu the right to eject me from |here?” one of the men turned up |his coat to show a detective badge. | This fellow was dressed as a work- jer. His face and hands were dirty. | Evidently he was working, or made | believe he was working, at the same time spying upon the workers. The interference by the stool- pigeons and petty-bosses of the | Kohler Company did not stop even after the speaker went to the near- est sidewalk in order to meet the objection of being on company property. The agents of the com- pany were shouting at the speaker. The great majority of the workers who assembled took no part in the hostile actions of the agents. The latter finally grabbed the speaker and threw him on the truck, telling the driver to take the Bol- shevik out of town, that they don’t want any discontent to be spread among the workers and that they would handle the Bolsheviks rough- jly if he should not leave. The sound of the factory whistle | put an end to this uneven struggle between one Communist and a num- ber of company agents. W. Kohler, the millionaire owner of the company, owns the entire city of Kohler, W: ,at a very profitable rate to the | workers of his shops. The contracts provided, I was informed, that the company . He is selling houses | t Kohler Co., Co BOSS POLITICAL — PARTIES PROVED SIAMESE TWINS Wall Street’s Hoover, Smith, One Under Skin PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail).— conclusively prove that the differ- ence between the democrat and re- publican parties is nothing more, if not less than between tweedledum and tweedledee. Vare Investigation. | One thing concerns the final day of the investigation of the senate’s | committee of the campaign between Vare and Wilson for the senatorial seat in Pennsylvania in 1926. U. S. Senator Waterman had an exciting day. It was revealed that gunmen, liquor, fraud and forgery were the methods used by the Vare outfit and that O’Donnell, head of the democratic city committee and minority county commissioner worked as an ally of the Vare| machine. Joseph Penezak. a registrar and election board clerk, declared he had been threatened with death if he should “squeal.” Nevertheless Penc- zak testified as to what had been done in his division after having been located by a U. S. marshal and previously having been missing. He declared that many hours before the polls closed the return sheets had been made up. Liquor was stored in a voting booth and seven out of ten voters were served with drinks. Forged Receipts. | As in other districts poll tax re- ceipts were issued to all voters free of charge, the signatures required on the receipts having been forged. | Penezak said he had refused to fight the campaign with guns. How-)| ever, there were plenty of others to| be had if it should be necessary. imese Twins. As to the charges against John} O'Donnell, the democratic machine) leader of this city, he denied them| and was ready to fight. Still, it is| well known in Philadelphia that the| democrats and republicans are one} and the same, workirtg hand in hand.| The methods described by Penc-| zak are very commonly used each, election day, and are known by al- most everybody. The other event was a conference) of state leaders of the democratic party, who returned to Philadelphia’ from New York after another con- ference with John J. Raskob, Gen- eral Motors nabob. The feeling of the Philadelphia | conference can best be described by the democratic organ here, the Philadelphia Record, which says: “Governor Smith will carry Pennsyl- vania. Party lines will be forgotten in a tidal wave of admiration for the governor as ‘a man. New prece- dents will be set because the per- sonality of a presidential candidate will be a greater attraction than party affiliatton.” Thus, the presidential campaigs his political campaign. Signs “Koh- | ler for Governor” and others are to be seen everywhere, not only in Kohler, but in Sheboygan and other cities. Two things that happened recently | — a ae rrespondent Reports “The Scarlet Lady” of Moscow California Is Simply Awful “THE SCARLET LADY” is such an HORACE BRAHAM unbelievable concoction of movie drivel it looks like a sure prize-win- ner for the world’s worst movie for | 1928; also 1908, 1918, 1948, or take| any year you like. It comes as the latest of a series of “Russian” pic-| tures made in Hollywood, where ex- | generals and ex-nobles of Czarist| Russia supply the atmosphere and | former pants manufacturers, now movie producers, supply the uni-| forms. The story, according to the| program, was supplied by ‘one Bess | Meredyth. Bessie should go back) to floor scrubbing. “The Scarlet Lady,” it seems, is a| | girl who was “wild—but unsullied.” | If she wasn’t sullied it was just plain hard luck. From the very be- | ginning that poor girl’s passion was) something awful. In fact, so awful that the producers’ attempt at cheap sensatiZaalism became such a bur-| lesoue the audience snickered out} loud. But this isn’t all. Plays one of the chief roles in Communist leader, so the picture| “Relations,” Edward Clark’s new The lover is a says. About every five minutes he| Play, which opened at the Theatre gets a nose-full of Vodka and goes| Masque last night. out to shoot himself a bunch of) nobles. And yet, even this doesn’t “Sovi make the hot mamma so hot about|SU7e 0 warn vou about “Soviet |him, She still wants the noble She Propaganda.” These same critics gets jewels by the basket after the| fred to laugh at the drivel in “The revolution when the Bolsheviks| Sc@tlet Lady” do not utter a single “divide up”; she gets the noble's|Word that it is vicious anti-Soviet jhome to live in; she gets everything | Propaganda. Whata whale of a dif- |she wants. But is she satisfied? |ference a pay check will make. Not this girl. She wants her noble.| Here is.a classic example of cheap And, of course, she gets him. They | @?ti-workingclass propaganda just’ couldn't disappoint this warm. /Smothered in sensationalism, garn- | ish lady in Hollywood. So Bess gave | ished with smut and presented on her the noble. Ete vay _ Tomunately, ue lose pas . money for its producers this time. Believe it or not, that's the story. Tt js so absurd in theme, so unreal in |presentation, it is too stupid for The no-|even a tabloid mentality. “The glorified. The revolution | g, ” ite its warm ti ‘i r! Scarlet Lady,” despite its warm title was villified. The Bolsheviks were! h Nee does it matter . ji tt so hot. shown as inhuman butchers, who |e ae 5 . © slaughtered wholevale, “Scch o | that_Lya dePutti or Don Alvarado Vicious lot of absurd rot has rarely |Chouvd how hotter. Tt doesn't mat ; b t ‘ely | should know better. It doesn’t mat- been dished up in American movies.|ter even that its at the Embassy Even the New York press in gen-| Theatre, hecause it surely won't be eral found it hard to swallow. But|there for long. note this difference. When “The End of St. Petersburg” was shown a ROR ESS GEES couple of months ago, the critics 0S Capitalists On of 1928 will be Smith vs Hoover, Tour of ‘Investigation’ rather than between democrats and, republicans. The foregoing probably! SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 20.—The shows more clearly than anythin istry, made forced to praise its a \It's no wonder the audience snick- ered. But there was ‘more. bility —wW. Cc. | published here that there is no dig. | President of the Baldwin Locomo- ‘-'tive Works, Samuel Vauclain, and rethag ahr ea ata apse republi-| Morris Brockius, of the same con- Dpivir ond Gar Ga aa for cern, have arrived here from Buenos Vote tor Sintte oe Si oe ies. Aires in their tour of investigation ok you starve the/of the possibilities for economic “ |penetration into the South Ameri- | One hope remains. That is in be-! can countries. (coming a militant fighter in the! They have interviewed numerous \ class struggle, joining the Workers’) business men and government offi- | (Communist) Party and in the com-|cials with the view of gaining cer- ing elections vote for its candidates. | tain concessions and gaining busi- Foster and Gitlow. ness for the company in Latin- FER = The LADDE Eves. 8:30. Mats. Wed, & Sat. SEATS Now ON san! 8 WEEKS IN ADVANCE. CORT THEATRE, W. 48 St. Money Refunded if Not Satisfied Play. CHANIN'S, W. of Broadway 46th St. Freninse at 8:25 Mats, Wed. & Sat SCHWAB and MANDEL'S C MUSICAL SMASH in the safe vantage of a neighboring | were thrown by hoodlums, “egged” roof, threw a none-too-good cgg at | yn by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. the crowd; which resulted in an|The crowd of workers, having been angry surging of the’ assembled |iold of the flimsy pretext which workers in the direction of the of-| would be seized on by the police fending patriot. The captain of po-|to break up the meeting, stood its lice on duty warned the speaker’ round without a move. They were that if another such surging of the | determined to hear the message of crowd occurred the meeting would be | Communism, and hear it they would, stopped, thus indirectly sanctioning | despite rotten eggs and whatever the professional hundred percenter | other fruity munitions resorted to who ‘hurled the hen fruit. |by the tools of corruption. Lo, the Poor Veterans. | Just before the second speaker | ascended the platform, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the same organ- ization who was responsible for the brutal assault on the Communist meeting last week, arrived in a tour- the eggs struck the back of a police- |man’s neck and spattered its gela- his belted wais# Rebecea Grecht, resplendent gold and blue a narrow street. However, after| major capitalist parties been sympathetic Usteners who TO ALL OUR READERS: Rev mr ae PATRONIZE OUR 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, ete. Name of business plate .2....00cscccccrcvoseccdscosesseuss Address YOUF MAME ..reevccccseccscveecoccsevevovesers Address | Mail to | DAILY WORKER 83 FIRST STREET NEW YORK CITY It may be mentioned that one of tinous contents, presumably down to who last week was arrested on a framed-up charge ing car with a huge American flag | of inciting to riot at the same cor- and their organization banner in| ner, spoke next on the political sit- and | nation throughout the country, re- started to set up their platform on | minding her listeners that never be- the opposite corner of Jamaica Ave.,|fore has the similarity of the two so izing up the crowd of evidently | plainly evidenced. As she mounted | were|the platform she was greeted with | gathered about the platform of the |loud cheers and hearty applause by Workers Party, they removed them- {he workers present, who by this ers Center and particular, Workers’ Bookshop, at 26-28 Union Square, very often, snooping around for facts to distort. The shops run on a speed-up sys- It was evident at Thursday’s tem. The “Kohler Plan,” so-called, meeting that if the crowd around|is an adaptation of the feudal sys- the Communist piatform had not| tem to the present capitalist sys- been so large and demonstratively tem. Single workers are housed in enthusiastic in its support. the | houses owned by the company. The Tammany-controlled fascists would | workers eat in the lunch room which houses may not be resold to any one not in the employ of the company. “Kohler Plan.” jhave repeated their cowardly attack | is run by the company and buy ar- | | With A goose on New Year, a turkey | — on Thanksgiving, an annual Picnic, | and a little more occasional enter- | with GEO. OLSE and HIS MUSIC NAME LACKEYS TO GENEVA|S«!- CAMEO “2°* Now SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 20.—The | tainment—all paid for by the work-| Chile government has appointed as | Co nra d V e i d t | \ers themselves, out of the profits | delegates to the Lea: . gue of Nations ‘ they make for Kohler. And Kohler | at jts September meeting Enrique in “Two Brothers” and | dupes the workers by saying that it! Villegas, Luis Perto Se; ‘ = ‘ | s s ‘guro, Jorge, |is because of his kind heart that Mandeville and Pedro Felipe Ini-| «rum LIFE OF VON HINDEN he himself pays for their entertain- |, uez BER | APLIN in “EASY STREET? | ment! and CH in 3 r r 8 | But he would not tolerate = |of last week. It was evident, also, | ticles from the company store. |talk about unionizing. his plane § judging from the muttered remarks| W. Kohler is a candidate of the | This, however, is an urgent neces- : overheard by sympathizers, that the | rey Veterans of Foreign Wars are hoping | Wisconsin, that the next week’s meeting, to be held on Thursday, August 28, at the | same corner, will not have so gen- | publican party for governor of | sity for the workers of Kohler for He spends thousands of | protection against the brutal ex- dollars of the profits he squeezes | ploitation of the oppressing indus- from the sweat of the workers for trial baron. SUPPORT THE —B. 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